Alive
"NO—KAGOME!"
Flames licked at trees nearby, craters indented into the exploded Earth. The sky was purple with miasma. Massacred lower-level demons littered everywhere in random patches. This was war.
Kagome stood there, trembling in both agony and fury. She paid the distressed yells behind her no mind. Her eyes soften, and she smiled weakly. Blood was splattered over her school uniform. Her face was black and blue, as was the rest of her body. Cuts and scratches could not mar her beauty, even near death.
Kagome barely showed her wince as more attacks came from the low-class youkai that Naraku sent her way. They charged at her powdery pink shield, weakening the barrier with each blow. It was slowly draining Kagome's miko ki, in turn killing her. However it was worth it, to save her best friend, sister, brother and son.
"Enough."
The monsters from hell relented a moment, backing away at the evil hanyou's order.
"Ka-go-me." He cooed, floating forward in his own strange shield. Naraku's inky black hair idly swayed around his face. "Wouldn't you rather give up? Be evil, let hate consume your heart, and I promise you'll be free from this torture." He urged darkly.
She stared intently at him, until slowly, her chocolate gaze went dull and blurry. Without her barrier dropping, Kagome staggered forward to stand in front of Naraku, unprotected. Her traveling companions yelled warning and protest to her, and once again Kagome ignored them.
"That's a good miko." Naraku smirked, smug that his mind manipulation had finally worked on the wench.
Suddenly Kagome lunged forward, and Naraku's dull-scarlet eyes widened in shock. Her priestess energy burned and destroyed the shield he'd created. She ended up embracing the enemy.
"Keep your friends close." She whispered gruffly in his ear. "And your enemies closer."
With that spoken Kagome sapped the last amount of her power- her will- into her arms, and Naraku along with his mutations and followers were cremated into dust.
Kagome's protection for her friends dropped with a zapping noise. They all started racing towards her, Sango's dark eyes whelming with tears, Shippo trying to hold back his own, Miroku's worried face and Inuyasha's stressed.
Kagome smiled and murmured, "I love you guys." before falling backwards in an immortal sleep. Her big, caring heart had stopped beating on.
She wasn't alive anymore. She was dead.
Disclaimer: Rumiko Takahashi is the creater and owner of Inuyasha, I am not. I don't gain any profit from writing this.