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The Accident	By : SplendentGoddess Category: InuYasha > Het - Male/Female > InuYasha/Kagome Views: 9181 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter 3 - The Vengeful Miko
The next morning, everyone got up and spent a good part of the day preparing gift packs for Kagome.
Shippou made her several drawings with his crayon set, while Kaede and Inuyasha gathered herbs in the field, the elderly miko instructing him on how everything should be prepared once he had them in Kagome's time. Miroku used some of his blank ofuda slips and drew out an assortment of prayer wards for a fast and healthy recovery, as well as protection against evil, should a youkai from her time truly seek the shards. He made sure the wording of his protective sutra was very specific, so that none of them would accidentally cause any harm to Inuyasha, who would be carrying them through the well. The houshi had made his wards to only protect against evil, and while their hanyou friend was many things, 'evil' was not one of them. Using a sheet from Shippou's modern-day sketchpad, Miroku also put to paper a personal letter that Shippou dictated to him, the kitsune not knowing how to write, himself. Sango could write, and prepared her own letter as well from another blank sheet from the kit's sketchpad. Inuyasha had agreed to play mail carrier, stating that he would return briefly every few days or so, so that everyone could exchange letters. He was sure Kagome would want to write to them, as well.
It was while Inuyasha and Kaede were just finishing up in the herb fields that Kikyou's shinidamachuu suddenly made their presence known at the edge of the forest.

Crap, this is bad timing. Inuyasha thought, mentally cringing. Sorry Kikyou...
Kaede saw the unholy serpents as well, and asked the hanyou in that moment, "Inuyasha, do ye intend to answer my sister's call?"
Inuyasha's ears lowered a bit at her question, though he could understand the elderly miko's concerns. It was with conviction in his voice and honesty in his eyes that he met Kaede's gaze with his own before answering, "Not now, no. I've gotta get these things to Kagome, and see how she's doing." He paused, then added... "If you see Kikyou after I'm gone, tell her I'll be back in a few days. We can talk then."
Kaede nodded in understanding, hiding the fact that she was actually surprised by his decision. To her knowledge, Inuyasha had never before put Kagome's importance before her sister, though under the circumstances, perhaps it wasn't so surprising, after all. To her knowledge, Kagome had also never before been injured during any of the times that Kikyou had summoned him.
Ignoring the shinidamachuu, Inuyasha made his way back with Kaede to her hut, where the others were already waiting with their gift packs for him to take with him through the well. Kaede took a moment to properly package the herbs they had collected, and then added that bundle to his load, as well.
Gathering everything into a saddlebag, Inuyasha thought in passing... I should have brought Kagome's backpack with me. Oh well, it would be something he would make sure to do next time.
Heading out of the hut with the promise that he would relay all of their messages to Kagome, and that he would be back in a few days with her messages for them, it wasn't until Kaede presumed the hanyou was most likely out of earshot that she hesitantly informed the others of Kikyou's sudden appearance. Just as Inuyasha had developed an unsettling feeling in the pit of his stomach when he had subconsciously become aware of Kagome's disaster in her world, Kaede could now not shake the sudden unease she felt at the notion that Kikyou had appeared and was summoning Inuyasha. It was simply too great a coincidence, and the elder miko feared what would be her deceased sister's reaction should the undead miko realize that the hanyou had every intention of ignoring her summons.
The simple fact that Inuyasha had decided to ignore Kikyou's summons was enough to startle Miroku and Sango, and in that moment they immediately shared in Kaede's concerns, making their own way to the well, if for no other reason than to assure themselves that he had successfully transcended time unscathed.
Said hanyou was nearly at the well when Kikyou's shinidamachuu made their second appearance, coming out of the trees to slither around him eerily. Looking around, it wasn't long before his gaze caught the miko herself, as she approached him quietly.
"Kikyou...this isn't really a good time." he started in that moment, explaining quickly, "Kagome's hurt and I have to take some things to her. I'll be back in a few days, so if you want to hang around the village, we can talk when I get back."
He attempted to move towards the well, but her soul collectors stopped him in that moment, as they slithered around him, holding him in place.
What the hell...? he thought in exasperation. I don't have time for this...
Looking back in the undead miko's direction, it was in that moment that Kikyou finally spoke, as she held his gaze while stating, "I have not come merely to talk."
"Then what do you want?" he asked impatiently, trying not to sound too harsh.
It had become more and more difficult to deal with Kikyou since her resurrection, and not for the first time the hanyou found himself thinking how that never should have happened...Kikyou never should have been brought back to life. He knew she wasn't really the real Kikyou, but that false shell of clay and graveyard soil did possess her soul, or at least part of it.
Kikyou's true soul resides inside Kagome, because she is her reincarnation, although she's not Kikyou...
Yes, Inuyasha knew that Kagome was not Kikyou, that she could never be Kikyou, and the more he got to know the strange girl from the future, the more he found that he actually liked her just the way she was.
"Is it not obvious?" Kikyou asked coldly in that moment, in answer to his question of what it was that she wanted. "I have come for you, Inuyasha."
The way she stated it, so matter-of-factly, left no room for doubt as to what, exactly, she was referring to.
"You can't be serious!" he stated in shock. "You know damn well we haven't found Naraku or completed the fucking jewel yet!"
"Tsk tsk, language, Inuyasha." she replied, asking patronizingly, "Whatever happened to the well-mannered hanyou who would've never dared speak to me with such disrespect?"
"I..." He paused, planning his words very carefully.
Kagome's never reprimanded me for my language, except around children... his mind helpfully pointed out, but ignoring all thoughts of Kagome in that moment, he addressed the woman before him with as much courtesy as he usually bestowed upon her as he stated, "Kikyou...you know I cannot die with you until after your death has been properly avenged. Until after I see to the destruction of Naraku, and the Shikon no Tama is put back together properly, so that it can be removed from this world as well."
"Is that the real reason you hesitate?" she asked him skeptically, eyebrow raised, and his composure immediately dissolved, once again revealing the brash adolescent he only ever tried to mask while in her presence. Everyone else accepted him for who he really was...especially the girl currently lying bedridden on the other side of the well, awaiting his arrival.
"What's that supposed to mean?" he snapped, not caring any more if she thought he was being rude.
"You run to my copy from the future, do you not?" Her voice was unaltered, though her eyes were pinched into tighter slits, revealing the anger she truly felt.
Inuyasha felt a little angry himself at her comment. He had stopped comparing Kagome to Kikyou a long time ago.
"She's not your copy." he spat, before doing his best to calm down as he added... "And yes, I'm going to her. Kagome's hurt." he repeated, hoping she would let him go without further argument.
Instead, Kikyou raised an eyebrow, and commented offhandedly... "I see. Pity she didn't die."
That comment sparked anger for Kikyou that Inuyasha had never felt before, not even when she had pinned him to the Goshinboku fifty years ago.
"What?" he asked quietly, almost a whisper. "How could you say something like that?" he demanded to know.
She wasn't fazed, and instead of answering his question, she posed him with one of her own. "When will you realize she is only a cheap imitation, and that I am the real thing?"
Inuyasha wasn't amused; she had picked the wrong time to bad mouth Kagome.
"You're not the real thing..." he stated calmly, practically realizing it himself as the words left his mouth. "You died fifty years ago, and this body you have now is made from bones and dirt, and feeds on the souls of others."
His ears lowered in shame as he saw her expression briefly contort in pain before she could restore her mask of indifference. It hadn't been his intention to be cruel to Kikyou, but why was she suddenly being so cruel? She truly wasn't the Kikyou he used to know. He understood that now more than ever.
"So..." she asked after a moment, in a tone of voice that suggested she already knew the answer. "Do you recant your promise to me, then?"
Inuyasha hadn't been expecting that, and he didn't know what to say in response. Somehow, Kikyou always managed to get under his skin, he realized, as he suddenly found himself babbling like an idiot.
"What? No, Kikyou, never. I..."
Pausing, he took a deep breath, and suddenly realized that trace hints of Kagome's scent still lingered on his person from when he had spent the night before last on her bed. That sweet, calming scent... He knew he needed to make a decision in that moment, and thanks to Kagome's scent, he knew he was making the right one.

"I know I promised I would protect you..." he began again, adding, "But Kagome needs me right now, more than you do." He pleaded with his eyes for her to understand.
"Kagome is a waste of time." Kikyou spat instead, adding, "She is my copy. It is I whom you truly wish to care for, not her. She and I are the same."
Okay, that's it...
Inuyasha's ears swiveled backwards for a moment, catching the sound of their audience, but he was grateful his friends hadn't come forward yet. This was a confrontation he needed to have by himself. Suddenly, he didn't feel any hesitation to say what needed to be said, even despite the fact that he was now being watched.
"She's not your copy, and you two are not the same!" he shouted, making sure the whole gods damned village could hear him. "For one thing, Kagome would never say she wished you were dead..." he threw in her face, "...even though my running off to see you hurts her feelings."
He paused at his own words for a moment, guilt for all of the times he'd hurt Kagome over and over again suddenly flooding his soul. He breathed deeply once more, relishing in the lingering traces of her calming scent on his clothing. He remembered her promise in that moment, the one she'd made when she'd vowed to always stay with him, no matter what, even though he could never forget about Kikyou. Kagome truly loved him unconditionally, he realized in that moment, remembering the words she had muttered during her dream. While he had suspected her feelings for him went beyond mere friendship, to hear her say it aloud... But he was losing track of his focus. There was a very real obstacle standing in the way between him and Kagome, an obstacle that needed to be removed.
"Even despite that..." Inuyasha continued in that moment, "She's never forced me to choose." he stated matter-of-factly, adding, "And she's also never tried to manipulate me into thinking that she was really the same as you, or that my feelings for her are the same as my old feelings for you."
"So..." Kikyou said in that moment, raising an eyebrow in amusement. "You have feelings for her, do you?"
His eyes didn't widen in shock at her words. He hadn't confessed his feelings for Kagome accidentally.
"Yes, I do." he confirmed in that moment.
"I see..." was Kikyou's answer.
Smirking, the undead miko almost seemed amused at the concept, her expression clearly indicating how she believed Kagome couldn't possibly return his feelings. He was, after all, a filthy, lowly half-breed.
Inuyasha had no trouble reading Kikyou's face in that moment, her opinion of him quite clear, having seen that same look on the faces of nearly every human he'd ever met in his entire life, save for Kagome and their ragtag group of friends.
"One more thing..." he added in that moment, his voice calm and collected. "Kagome accepts me for who and what I am. She's told me straight to my face that she likes me as a hanyou." He emphasized the word. "You, on the other hand, tried to change me. You wanted to be with me, but only if I became something I'm not, only if we used the Shikon no Tama to make me human. You never really loved me, you only loved half of me...the other half you wanted dead."
Unexpectedly, Kikyou sighed in that moment, and her face actually softened the smallest bit, as if revealing for just a moment the woman she had once been, before her hard mask of indifference was firmly back in place.
"So, you choose Kagome, then." she stated. It wasn't phrased like a question.
Inuyasha sighed as well in that moment. Kagome had never forced him to choose, but... "Kikyou..." he spoke softly. "If...if you're really going to force me to choose...right now...between going to Kagome's side or going with you into Hell...then yes, I choose Kagome."
There was no room for apologies in his statement. She was the one who had forced his hand in this. If she could only have accepted the fact that he needed to dedicate himself to Kagome during her time of need, that he needed to be able to be there for the future-born-miko at least until the conclusion of their mission, then she could have very likely gotten her way in the end. Now, he would not be joining her in Hell, in that moment, or at all.
"So be it." she stated simply, her voice neither hostile nor forgiving.
With those last words, Kikyou moved forward to close the distance between them, and commanding her shinidamachuu to release him in that moment, she gently wrapped her arms around him, before softly pressing her lips against his own. It was a goodbye kiss, and he allowed Kikyou that last courtesy, not really returning her kiss, though not pushing her away, either. After their lips parted, she smiled at him, a genuine smile, which made her look like the Kikyou he had once loved half a century ago.
Slowly, an unnatural energy began forming around her, just like when she had previously tried to drag him into Hell with her, only this time, he was not engulfed in the energy himself, and his mind was still clear. Inuyasha couldn't help the faint whimper of "Don't go..." that escaped his lips as he saw the cloud consume her, but he felt her soul speak to him in response, as her body began to disintegrate...
"Inuyasha...in the end, I wanted only for you to choose whom you loved. If it is truly Kagome who now holds your heart, then go, be with her. My soul can rest knowing that you are happy."
As Kikyou's essence began to fade from this world, Inuyasha spoke one last sentence to the miko he had once loved. "I promise I'll avenge you..."
Kikyou's body was gone in a flash of light, the separate lights of her imprisoned souls suddenly becoming visible, as they swirled around the spot where she had once stood, before slowly floating off into the sky. All but one... One of the souls flew straight past Inuyasha and down into the Bone Eater's Well.
What the hell? he thought frantically, taking only the briefest of moments to turn in the direction of the forest where Miroku and Sango stood quietly, nodding in their direction that he'd known they were there and appreciated their silent support, should Kikyou have thought to do something dastardly. Then he was gone, leaping after the vanished ball of light, as the lights of time consumed him.
Staring back in the direction of everything they had just witnessed with eyes wide in amazement, Miroku was the one to break the silence as he commented, "I believe we have just witnessed a miracle." The statement was meant in reference to the fact that Inuyasha had actually managed to choose between the two women in his life.
"I'm just glad that it's over, and that he chose Kagome." Sango commented, feeling tremendous relief. Too many times had Kagome cried to her during a soak in a hot spring. It took breaking her leg, but it looked like the miko's wish for Inuyasha to love her in return would finally be granted.
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