Lost Souls by Anaknyte

Prologue

I don't own Inuyasha. Trust me, if I did, it never would've been finished.

~Ana

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"Kagome, ' Inuyasha started, holding out a hand towards her. 'It's not what you think!"

Instead of taking hold of his hand like she wanted to, she balled her hands into a fist and glared at half naked woman lying on the ground.

"Oh, really? So you want to tell me that you weren't just about to mate her?"

The half demon opened and closed his mouth, unable to come up with something, ANYTHING, that would help him without hurting either female. I mean, it's not like he purposely HURT Kagome or anything, but he had to make sure the jewel shards could be found.

"Well, what do you expect when you're gonna be useless?"

As soon as the words were out of his mouth, he mentally slapped his head. Out of all the things he could've said, why did he have to say she was worthless? And as her eyes narrowed and the temperature dropped, only one word went through his mind. Shit.

"Sit! Useless? USELESS?! Sit! God Inuyasha, I needed you by my side today! More than any other day in the past four years, but you weren't there. I always knew that you'd end up with Kikyo, you picked her, and I don't care anymore, but I thought you'd at least act like my friend! But no. My entire existence is about to change, and you're out here exchanging saliva! This time, Inuyasha, you made it painfully clear just how unimportant I am to you."

A tear raced down her face before she could stop it, and she knew she needed to leave before she completely broke down. Turning around, she squeezed her eyes shut, and hung her head.

"I'm for a walk. I'll be back before nightfall, and I'm taking my bow and arrows."

Just as she started to walk away, her arm was grabbed in a viselike grip, and she was forced around to face the half demon. The sight of the girl's anguished eyes made him let go, and had to rush to say what he wanted before she started walking away again.

"No you're not. You can't protect yourself, and once you start changing, we need to make sure you're here so we can protect everyone from you."

Without blinking, or showing any hint of emotion, she brought her spiritual powers to her hand and slapped him, making Inuyasha yelp and hold his cheek.

"No matter what happens to me, I'm still ME, and I won't hurt people! Maybe if you actually did your job and protected everyone from an actual enemy, like, I don't know, maybe NARAKU, we wouldn't be having this problem in the first place!"

His anger spiked and he took a threatening step closer to her.

"Don't try to pin this on ME, wench! If you hadn't shattered the damn jewel in the first place, he wouldn't be so damn powerful! Kikyo never would've been so stupid!"

"If she's so perfect, why don't you just have her take my place in the group, and let me go!"

"Fine! Go on your stupid walk, and when you come back, don't even THINK about begging me for help, cuz I won't! You can just go and get yourself killed for all I care!"

Instead of sitting him like he was expecting, the priestess just turned and walked off, leaving a stunned couple behind. Just before she was out of hearing range, she let the command for a certain half demon exit her mouth, and was slightly satisfied as the crash floated down to her. However, as the anger and hurt slowly left, thoughts on what was sure to befall her started coming to the surface, and memories of what happened to her on her 18th birthday came with them.