Forbidden Love

Chapter 2. Beginning of Beginning- How They Met

Forgive me for the much delayed update. I'll provide you with a suitable excuse as soon as I think of one. But for now, let me point out that there were many many mistakes in last chapter that I either didn't catch because I forgot to read it over or left it as it was to fix later and totally forgot to do so.

On with the story!


Damare- shut up

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The others looked confusedly at each other. Finally Sango spoke up. “Kagome... what’s going on?”
“Get out of the way before I make you. I’m finishing what he started,” Inu Yasha snarled. “Move, Kagome!”
“Damare! Damare! You’re the one who killed him! Isn’t that enough? Do you need to rub it in my face? Can’t you at least give me this?”
Angry, Inu Yasha stepped forward with an outstretched claw, intending to push aside Kagome by force if he needed to. He was stopped by Miroku’s hand on his forearm, who gave him a warning look and turned back to Kagome’s form on the ground.
"Naraku... wake up..." Kagome touched his cheek. He didn’t move.
“Lady Kagome, we need to know what’s happened.”

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"Inu Yasha! Inu Yasha!" Kagome stomped her foot in frustration and ventured further into the forest. It was a fine autumn day. The afternoon sun shone brightly through the canopy over her head. "Inu Yasha, where are you?"

She heard some rustling noise to the right of her. "Inu Yasha?" Kagome walked around a large tree obscuring her view and found him. Kagome's breath caught in her throat.

He was on the forest ground, completely naked. Under him was none other than Kikyo, also nude.
"Mn... ah... Inu Yasha..."
"Kikyo! I... love... you..."

Kagome saw enough. She turned and left them to resume their love making, if it could even be called that. Tears were brimming in her eyes. "Inu Yasha... how could you?" She suddenly bolted and ran as fast as she could in a random direction, not knowing where she was going due to the tears blinding her. It was a long time before the moans and screams of Inu Yasha and Kikyo stopped.

Kagome ran until she thought her lungs would burst, and by then she was in an unknown part of the woods. She slowed down to a walk, hugging herself. "Ah!" She slipped down a sharp, long, wet descent she hadn't seen, tripped over a tree root and fell flat on her face. She didn't bother to get back up. Instead she lay there and cried, biting her lip.

She didn't know how long she stayed that way, but suddenly Kagome felt very tired and cold. 'I should get back to the others. They'll be worried,' she thought. But Kagome couldn't bear to see Inu Yasha after that... she didn't want to see him. How could he! The man obviously was a two timing jerk, like her friends from the future always said. Fine then, let him choose Kikyo. He could rut with her for all it mattered. She didn't care... Not one bit...

"Why...?" Kagome sniffed. She felt so uncomfortable on the earthen floor with the jutting rocks and roots digging into her skin and the wet ground soaking through her shirt. She needed to get up, but her body felt enormously heavy. She couldn't move her right ankle, which felt like it was on fire. She shivered. Her entire body felt sore from rolling down the hole. Kagome looked up. Indeed it was much like a hole, a huge one at that. The sides were very steep and slippery from the wet leaves and grass and mud. Kagome sniffed again. She was feeling absolutely hopeless, as if she hit the rock bottom. She was cold, hungry, and weak, in pain (it felt as if she pulled all the muscles on her way down to wallow up in the ditch) and to make matters worse it was getting dark. It couldn't be night yet, but the big, ancient trees filled the gaps between the sky with their branches and leaves, so that a dark, hazy green light was all that got through.

Kagome clenched her eyes shut as she got a familiar prickling feeling at the back of her neck, which could mean only one thing: there was a youkai nearby. 'What do I do? I can't move... ouch, my leg! This is bad...' Her body stiffened as she heard the crunching sound of someone- or something- walking on leaves and twigs. It sounded like it had four paws... a dog? There weren't wild dogs around, were there? Then... a wolf? Kagome shivered. The thing, whatever it was, sniffed the air, then howled. ‘Yup, it's a wolf alright. Uh oh...’

Poor Kagome realized at once that the lone wolf was calling for the rest of his pack. She had seen familiar behavior with Kouga's tribe... 'Wait! Koga! May be it's him?' Kagome grew hopeful, but squashed the thought at once. Koga's wolves knew her, and if it was one of Koga's pack it would have come down to where she was and stay with her until she could get help, for after all, they all though she was going to be their new queen bitch. And there would probably be Ginta or Hakkaku or someone with it. Besides, she could hear the wolf circling at the top of the ditch, as if stalking its prey. 'Oh God, I'm going to be its next meal.' At the moment, she would have been happy to see even Koga and his confident, cocky smile appear out of nowhere.

Sure enough, she could hear many more paws clawing the earth as they ran to their dinner. Kagome turned her head sideways. She could see the edge by lifting her head a little... She gasped. They were definitely wild wolves. "Inu Yasha!" Kagome said aloud. Big mistake. At the moment the words left her mouth the wolves ran at her. A big white one was in the lead, and the others began to run in different directions. It leapt, its jaws open wide, aiming for her throat...

Kagome screamed and covered her head with her arms and waited for the sharp teeth to tear her apart.

It never came.

"H-huh?" She lifted her head out of her arms. Something dark and furry flew by. Kagome shut her eyes. She heard some shuffling, yelps, thuds, felt something heavy land directly in front of her, and all was still. Kagome slowly opened her eyes again, and screamed. An inch away from her face was the nose of a large, black and white wolf. It was dead. It's jaws, wide open, was bleeding and there was a bloody hole in its chest. Its yellow eyes looks so menacing Kagome panicked for a moment. 'Whew, it's dead. Thank goodness.' She scooted away from it. It still looked as if it might pounce any moment.

She scuttled back on her hand and feet, the back of her skirt dragging on the ground, when her back hit something rock hard. She jumped. Kagome calmed a little and scolded herself for being so jumpy. 'It's only a tree...’ She relaxed and tensed again. ‘If there’s a youkai nearby, and these wolves are ordinary wolves, then what…?' Trees, however, didn't wear clothes, and Kagome could see dark cloth from the corner of her eyes. And trees weren't hard and soft... they had rough barks... ‘And who killed all the wolves?’ To answer herself Kagome slowly tilted her head up.

She saw something she really didn't like. Looking down at her, part of his chin resting on his chest, was Naraku. His pitch black hair billowed about him and his dark, empty looking eyes drew Kagome in, freezing her on the spot. Just as she opened her mouth to scream, he leaned down, a hand outstretched towards her face, and everything fell into darkness.