Unrelenting

~ Chapter One~

Hauntings Behind Closed Eyes

By Inuyashas Youkai

The air filled with parts of the shaking earth falling into place as it settled. Through blurry eyes,the bright light dimmed,as the coming dawning sun approaching. The ethereal sight ,although somewhat hazed,became clearer as the moon and the sun finished their trade off ,when nightfall overcame the days position on earth.

Looking at their current surroundings from the spot their bodies lay,from the out roar that the battle brought ,within the darkness that consumed them ,laid seven forms ,peaking through the shadows. Trying to move to stand but with the extreme pain shuddering from within their bodies,and the great fatigue pulling at them , prevented any movement.

A voice soon bled through through the numbing silence in the form of a hushed whisper. Along with the obvious destruction surrounding them ,the enormous amounts of blood overwhelmed the scene in it's wake. Shaking to clear the persistent throb shooting through it's skull ,one turned attention to the voices passing through,to clarify what was being said .It seemed the voices were calling out for their attention.

~Kagome & Inuyasha~

"Inu...yasha?" Kagome gasped

"Ka..Ka ..Gome?...Where are you? Are you alright?" Inuyasha called out worriedly

"I am right here"

"Where? Keep talking so I can find you"

"I don't know what to talk about except that I am tired and I hurt .Inu I can't breath ..

"Dammit! It don't matter what you do..Sing if you want so I can get to you,somehow."

"Okay..." Kagome whispered after feeling a hand grasp

" Got ..cha Kag..ome ..There that's bet..ter" Inuyasha brokenly replied once the hanyou struggled to bring both forward ,with their injuries,until she was wrapped within his arms.

"Did we..kill Naraku?"Kagome breathed while gazing at his pained smiling face

"I don't know Kagome ,though I think so " Inuyasha said while trying to search through his blurred vision to look into her eyes.

"Inuyasha?"

"Yea?" Spoken softly from the crook of her neck.

"Thankyou.."

"Huh? Why are you thanking me?"

" For being nothing but Inuyasha, this journey wouldn't be the same without knowing you.."

"Agreed , same goes for you, but don't go thinking this is goodbye wench,you can't get rid me that easily.."

" Inuyasha ,I don't.." Kagome slowly muttered before the hanyous lips landed softly upon hers

" Kagome ..I love you .I will find you again ,I promise..If we don't make it ..I will look until I find you ..I won't forget you.."

" I love you too Inuyasha, I will be waiting .."

Snuggling into each other,with the newly found love ,Kagome and Inuyasha,held onto one another,before taking their last breath.

~Miroku & Sango~

"Miroku?"

"Sango?"

"I am right here next to you?"

" May I hold you Sango?"

"Sure.."

"Sango?"

"Yea?"

"If there was one thing in my life that I would truly miss loving it it would be you..."

"Miroku ,I love you too"

"I 'll never forget you Sango "

"Neither will I my love"

Like their friends before them ,Sango and Miroku succumbed into their newly found one single and last moment ,with the one they loved when the last breath was taken and their souls were no longer on this earth.

A few paces from the tragic scene within the lovers embrace,two pais of eyes lingered their gazes from their deposited position ,on the unforgiving ,cold ground. One was of love while the other bore hatred .

Shippo gazed at his parents and his friends with a gleam of happiness, entangled with the sorrowful regret of how things ended up. From his spot ,Shippo curled further into a already passed on Kirara seeking lost comfort .With one last look and his eyes fluttered closed, following the path of his family before him.

The second pair glaring with unbridaled hatred ,with the growing frustration of not being able to move from her spot to interfere before the gates of hell broken through the hardened soil,from where she laid next to her sister Kaede. A moment later with the threat only just passing her lips, the body which Kikyo held the lost souls within,and imprisoned that which belonged to her pathetic copy,Kagome, disappeared from the spot where Kikyo once inhabited. Releasing the souls into the night sky ,to return where they belonged ,and carried the threat to the wind as a hushed whisper..

"When I find a way to return ,I will come back to take back what's mine ,and finish what fate took away from me in time.."

TBC..