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InuYasha watched as Naraku stood there about to wish on the jewel.
"We do this for Kagome you guys."
He said as his friends behind him nodded, all three of them remembering that dreadful day.
(Flash back)
Kagome had reached the river and sat down on a rock, her mind and her heart blank as she looked at her reflection, her face flashed to one of her true past lives, however her soul was the same as it had been back when she first lived, her body however was the one thing that was different. She felt his tentacles pierce her body as she stood.
InuYasha finished up with Kikyo as he held her dying in his arms, once she was gone and he picked up on Kagome's blood scent he gathered the rest of the group and watched as Naraku absorbed there friend, the only being that could stop him.
(Flashback over)
InuYasha watched as Naraku threw a couple tentacles at them only to stop suddenly. The presence in Naraku was breaking free.
The group watched as slowly Naraku withdrew to leave only to have every part of his body minus the head turned into a pile of ash, the Jewel rolled on the grown and over it.
The air felt weird as the presence, finally became whole again, slowly, like a fern unfurling, slowly came up out of the ash. The group stood ready for battle if they needed it, as the figure stood it became apparent that it was a girl, a well developed girl. As the girl stood up the ash clung to her like cloth and her kimono was formed around her, her shadow began to twist and turn as it finally split in half. One shadow was a normal human shadow, but her other shadow…her other shadow was that of a full grown dragon.
She reached up and ran her hands over her hair; the ash fell as she exposed her pitch black hair from underneath.
"Kagome" InuYasha whispered as she let her arms down and turned her head towards him. He watched as she tilted her head back, her hair started to float all around her as she began to hover over top of the air.
Everyone in a hundred mile radius of the site was knocked off of their feet as her power spread throughout the world: the White Dragon has been re-awakened.
She fluttered down to the grown and she sent her dragon shadow off to find the head of the, has been kumo hanyou.
"Tell me Kumo Hanyou, where is it."
She said as her shadow dropped the head into her awaiting hand.
"!"
Was all he said as she noticed it, her movement snapped the group out of there hypnosis, and not thinking (but when does he ever think) InuYasha released Wind scar onto the poor girl.
"Wind Scar!"
All she did was turn and open her eyes for the first time and looked at him, his eyes went wide as his eyes meet hers: he released wind scar on Kagome, his Kagome.
Once the dust settled they watched as Naraku's head floated over top of the grown well at first glance it would seem that was had you not looked at the grown to see the dragon shadow holding the kumo by the hair.
But there she stood getting the dust from the attack off of her.
"Was that supposed to hurt, InuYasha, son of that rapist inu hanyou Touga."
She said calmly as she dusted herself off but she could feel the elevated levels of InuYasha's youki trying to destroy the being that insulted his blood. Kagome stopped dusting herself off and saw the jewel in front of her. As she stood up the jewel started to move on its own accord and hovered right above her palm after it floated over to her. She tilted her head back and slid it into her eye socket.
InuYasha watched as she did that, it was the same thing as his father's black pearl.
"How dare you speak about my father like that!" he growled she walked over to him and her dragon shadow started to beat upon his shadow, causing him harm as well.
"Ah but it is true, InuYasha, had Izayoi not taken his actions upon herself, you would still be a hanyou, but a dragon inu hanyou. Tell me InuYasha have you ever wondered why Touga and Ryuu where in that battle? Well let me tell you. Your father had dishonored his youkai blood by forcing himself upon another's mate. His death was justified."
The next thing that she knows she sees his arm through her chest. Calmly she puts her hand over his wrist and clamps down on it shattering every bone in his arm. She walked away from him and took to the skies, but not before she left a message with him for his older brother.
"InuYasha, tell your brother that he's next."
Then she flew away with her dragon wings sticking out.
(Beware the eye)
Miles away Sesshomaru stopped and took a look up at the sky, and squinted his eyes, he knew that youki signature…but… no it… it could not be he killed her himself, he melted her body with his acid. Then he threw her bones down the bone eaters well.
He remembered that day well…
(Flashback)
The girl in his hand was fighting to breath, the girl gasped for breath and she looked at him in the eye. Her gaze held disgust, rage, and a promise of a most painful death.
"You will…die by…my hand…mutt."
She said in between gasping for air at the insult Sesshomaru tighten his already tight grip on her neck and allowed his poison to drench her body eating away at the flesh. Once his poison had done its work he flew to the bone eaters well and tossed her in.
(End Flashback)
Sesshomaru looked at his ward, and silently prayed to every Kami he knew that Kagome would spare him for Rin's sake.
(Of the white)
Kagome made her way to the spot that her mate had been sealed to using her violator's claw. She could feel his soul within the rock, now scattered due to her…humanity. She stuck Naraku's head in a barrier so that he would, could, not escape while she fixed Ryuu's final resting spot.
Her arms went wide in front of her and her hair floated around her as the rocks moved to their original state. Once the rocks were in place she reached up to where InuYasha had injured her earlier and placed the palm print of his blood that she had gathered and placed it where Ryuu's heart was.
'One down, two more blood prints and a sword to go, but getting Sesshomaru's blood may be a bit harder then what I had thought. The sword I know exactly how to get it'
She turned round and walked away; still leaving Naraku's head still in the barrier at the sight of Ryuu's waiting spirit.
She had not even taken three steps when a scared arrow pierced her shoulder… before it disintegrated under her touch.
"What do you want Kikyo?"
She asked as her shadow brought the little half being over to her.
"My soul you filthy bitch youkai!"
Kikyo screamed out loud, when Naraku: or rather the rest of Naraku laughed at her and her foolishness on her own part.
"You are so dead…you just signed your own death warrant"
He squeaked out as her soul stealers started to swarm dangerously around Kagome.
"Ironic,"
"What Youkai?"
"My life was destroyed by that pathetic Inu Hanyou before you were born, and yet I find part of my soul in love with my, would be son."
She said calmly passing a shocked still Kikyo before she spoke again.
"And when you die it will be in front of the quarter breed."
And she just kept on walking.
(Dragon)
Sesshomaru meet up with his younger brother and his group the third day after the pulse went through out the land.
"Hey Lord Fuzzy, we have a problem. This chick that came out of Naraku says 'you're next'. Any idea what that means?"
Sesshomaru was quietly thinking up different ways to kill his little brother…until he heard the words 'you're next'.
"Can you describe the female in question?"
"Yha, the chick is about as tall as you, only she looks human."
"Is that all?"
"Hell no! But here's the kicker, the chick has two shadows, one looks like a normal shadow, the other is a dragon."
InuYasha watched as his brother the stoic ice lord of fluff, the most emotional-less being on this side the planet show shock.
"So it is her."
He said, trying and failing, at keeping his voice the same stoic even that he did before, but with her last words echoing in his head.
"You will die by my hand mutt."
"And what I said is true Sesshomaru, or should I call you Lord Fluffy."
They looked up to see Kagome, or the un-named girl with the dragon shadow. The soul collectors swarmed around a Kikyo who was really pale.
Kagome just stood there, well flew there, no not even that, she hovered above them and slowly came down onto the grown with a light tap of her feet touching the grown.
"I hope that you are ready to say good bye to your 'mate' InuYasha. I figure one mate for another, since your father, the pathetic hanyou, took my mate away from me. And, ironically you are his reincarnation…"
She trailed off to Sesshomaru's anger.
"I would watch what you say."
He snarled at her. She just flexed her aura…and the golem named Kikyo was no more. Her soul returned to its rightful place. Just then another aura, a more powerful aura breezed through the air, she closed her eyes and arched back smelling the air.
'Ryuu'
The smell of power reached her nose, along with the tangy smell of mango, roses, and a faint bit of ocean air attached. Her mate was watching over her.
"Why Mutt? Because it is true? Your father was born to a bitch, a mortal inu bitch."
That set him off in three seconds flat in Sesshomaru's place stood a three story dog Kagome was ready, in her sleeves she had two giant glass bottles in which to gather his blood up with. Then all she needed was the sword of resurrection then she was set.
Sesshomaru charged blindly at her only to stop with a yip when her dragon shadow bit him on the tail causing him to turn around to see what had bitten him. It took only one drop of his blood in that form to completely fill the two bottles. She slid them back before Sesshomaru changed back, angry at himself for acting like a pup.
Once he was fully human she just walked by him, humming a song from her home.
Every one watched her as she moved, and no one saw her human shadow take the sword from Sesshomaru and took it a different route back to the final resting place of Ryukotsusei.
(For if you look)
She placed the bottles of blood on the grown near Naraku's head, she placed a bowl of water to the south of his head, a branch from the sacred god tree to the west, a piece of obsidian to the north, and she dug a small hole to the east. She walked over to the floating head of the has-been kumo and picked him up by his hair…and the barrier disappeared around him.
She took the bottles of inu blood from around him and walked to the side where the hole in the grown rested. Naraku just watched as she placed him down on a rock and popped open the bottles of Sesshomaru's blood, and set them down on the grown.
He watched with eyes wide as the blood in the bottles began to spring up out of there containment's and circle high above the four items on the grown. The first bottle of blood made a circle around the outside of the items and then the second made a circle in the center of the circle and made squiggles to the four items.
He watched as he was once again, was moved only this time he was moved to the center of the circle in the middle of the circle. She stood there and fell onto her back on the rock below her and just looked up at the sky, and began to sing.
Kagome got everything in place now all she had to do was wait for night to fall before she did the second part of the spell, a spell that was ruling her instincts, and that scared her.
Once she laid down on her back she began to sing,
"Guarding yourself from the love of another
Left you with nothing tonight
Why does it sound like the devil is laughing
Leaving me haunted tonight, you did decide
Now I want you, when you're gone and now it's like
You're holding something just in front of me
Well then, I can't allow this to become another
One of those times that I'm left in the cold, dead
There's no compromise just another tie I know I need to sever
Guarding yourself from the love of another
Left you with nothing tonight
Why does it sound like the devil is laughing
Leaving me haunted tonight, you did decide
Ever haunted, by the trappings of this life
Sweet redemption, just in front of me
Well now, it seems once again that I've lost another
One of the one's that have broke through the wall
Damned fate won't compromise, I have sold my soul
And now the devil's laughing, you did decide
You were bold and strong, and ready to begin your life
All for nothing, you were sacrificed
You began alone and so it will be when you die
All for nothing, will you be remembered? You did decide
Guarding yourself from the love of another
Left you with nothing tonight
So now you know why the devil is laughing
He left you with nothing tonight, you did decide"
And she just kept singing.
"Give into me
[Verse 1:]
Two worlds are warring in me
Killing us now
Raging inside
Measure the horror in me
Remove the sickness
Plaguing my mind
Two worlds are warring in me
Killing us now
Show me the light
[Chorus:]
Two worlds collide
Whenever I step to the front
I look for a new place to hide
While tearing my color away
I swallow my pride
But never forget what I want
Starting to long for a time
I bury the war in my mind
[Verse 2:]
Two worlds are warring in me
Both sides are losing
Patience has died
Blood of the martyr in me
Drowns my conviction
Regions divide
Two worlds are warring in me
Killing us now
Show me the light
[Chorus:]
Two worlds collide
Whenever I step to the front
I look for a new place to hide
While tearing my color away
I swallow my pride
But never forget what I want
Starting to long for a time
I bury the war in my mind
[Bridge:]
Give me a sign
Tell me when it's time
Show me the light
Tell me when it's fucking over
[Chorus:]
Two worlds collide
Whenever I step to the front
I look for a new place to hide
While tearing my color away
I swallow my pride
But never forget what I want
Starting to long for a time
I bury the war in my mind
I stand on the brink of your mind
Living inside a nightmare from which I just cannot awaken
Stand on the edge of your life
Just give me another moment from which I will never awaken
Stand on the brink of my own demise
Fallen again for another
Mistress of burden to idolize
Hoping that one of them will decide to let me in
To stand on the edge of the knife
Cutting through the nightmare from which I just cannot awaken
Stand on the edge of the night
Living inside a moment from which I will never awaken
Stand on the brink of my own demise
Fallen again for another
Mistress of burden to idolize
Hoping that one of them will decide to let me in
Look at what you've done to me
You've become my enemy
Poisoning the world for me
Take away my everything
Weakened as I am
Never awaken
Stand on the brink of my own demise
Fallen again for another
Mistress of burden to idolize
Hoping that one of them will decide to let me in
My mistress, decide to let me in
My mistress, decide to let me in"
By that time the moon has risen and it sat on its curve with the crescent points pointed upwards. Instead of its bright silver glow, it glowed a fiery red. Kagura and Kanna both showed up in the air watching what was happening.
Kagome pushed herself up off of the rock and went to the circle, and placed her hands palm down on the circle of blood. She closed her eyes and concentrated.
Kagura and Kanna watched amazed as Naraku's head began to hover before a new body formed, but that was not the end. Kagome pushed her powers to the limit and stood up holding the sword of resurrection in her hand as she allowed her dragon to partly form. Her skin turned into scales, her nails turned into talons, her face elongated and turned into a snout from the tip of her nose to about half way back the scales were a light pink fading back into her skin tone.
She reached up and grabbed him by the throat and forced him to the grown….well his soul at least. Then she took the sword and pined his body to the bloody hand print on the rock wall before jumping back and landing on the outside of the circle.
Her power fluxed and the ring of blood began to glow brightly under the moon. A beam of light shot down from the sky nearly blinding the two in the sky, that action sent Naraku's soul to the deepest depths of hell. The four objects's turned into liquid and went to where Naraku's head was only earlier, and covered the form on the rock. The dragon shadow on the rock, the soul of Ryukotsusei merged with the liquid covering his new body… before it turned to ash. The moon had reached its peak and the red glow began to be reflected on the pile of ash on the grown.
Kagome turned back human and went over to the pile of ash just as it began to move. She knelt down and brushed the ash off of Ryukotsusei's back as he slowly came up in his human form. She ran her fingers through his hair as he slowly faced her bringing his head up to look at hers.
"Ryuu?"
She asked as he slowly stood up; the ash clinging to him in a form of pants. He stood straight but nearly collapsed for his human legs were not use to supporting his weight. She caught him as he nearly fell, that was when he saw her for the first time
"Ka…Kag…Kagome."
He managed to choke out, for he had not used his human for quite some time either. He but his hand up to his head as a multitude of images invaded his mind, all of them, showing his mate being buddy-buddy with her rapist's son. He pushed her away as he tried to sort out the images in his mind.
"Ryuu?"
Kagome said as she watched the love of her life tear at himself so she went over and took both of his hands and intertwine them with hers. And he looked at her…before he ripped his hand from hers and slashed her across the face.
Kagura and Kanna both gasped as blood started to trickle down Kagome's face, Kagome just looked at him standing still as he continued to swipe at her with his claws, hitting her each time.
Kagome was a bloody mess once he was done, she had several talon cuts on her upper body, one going over each shoulder and making its way to her sides. Every part of her looked like a criss-cross of cuts, no place on her was spared, he worked around her and her back was a bloody mess, no not bloody, a nearly fleshless mass as the bone poked through. It all ended when Ryuu snapped the lower part of her spine before he took wing and went back home using a short cut.
Kagura lowered them on her feather as Kanna watched the half dead being weakly breathed. Kanna walked to her and placed her hand where the end of her spine was broke off at.
"Kagura I can heal her spine but you need to help her to the hot spring that is just beyond those trees." She said in her void voice. Kagura walked over to her and lifted her half way up off of the grown as the spine healed. Slowly Kagome placed her feet beneath her and slowly walked with Kagura to the hot springs.
(for if you look)
Ryuu flew through the time gate and reached his home. It was completely destroyed; corpse littered the grown like leaves and the stench of metallic residue surfed the air. Everyone and everything that was remotely dragon was gone. He saw the beasts feast upon the fallen flesh of the dragons gaining their abilities and there human form. He flew to the cave of the ancient one: the oldest dragon in existence and saw that he was safe.
"Where is your mate?"
The ancient one asked of Ryuu and he just sheared as he looked away.
"she took another."
The ancient one growled and turned to head back into the heart of his cave.
"come"
Ryuu fallowed the ancient one to a small crystal pool, deep in the earth and it was surrounded by crystal as well.
"the pool of the dragon tells no lies Ryuu, look and see if it tells you that your mate is truly faithless."
(into her eyes)
Kagome slid into the water as Kagura kept her grip on her so she would not fall in the water. The moment that she touched the water she held her voice as the water stung the cuts all over her body. It looked like she managed to go through a meat grinder and managed to come out whole. The dried and congealed blood slowly flaked and slid away from her, and despite the fact that Kagura had seen her get the wounds she would have said that Kagome would have died from the blood loss. But her heart kept beating. The leaves rustled and the slayer came out of the trees. She and Kagura looked at another before getting into their battle stances.
"Stop..."
They heard Kagome say as she leaned back on the rock the slashes on her face making her look more human then when she was. Sango made her way to her friend and stopped on her knees in front of her sister/friend.
"What happened Kagome?"
"It's a long story Sango. I'll have to go back to the origins of the dragons. Of mine and his origins. I was raised in a village surrounded by trees ages ago the trees were planted so many feet away and they grew to tall highest but the further you go out not the forest the wildest it became and the more danger it had. No one, not even the oldest of those at the time knew where I came from. Well we first met one night...