Blossom

Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha...I ask him everyday but he still hasn´t agreed

I´m her reincarnation, everybody tells me how similar we should be but actually we are totally different. The only thing we have in common is our love for Inuyasha but now he´s dead... What shall we do?

(I ´d like to point out that the heading does have a deeper meaning... )

Pairing: Kagome x Inuyasha x Kikyou, Sango x Miroku

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Chapter One: Losing you

Silence hung all over the place where once a castle stood, now the only things one can see are the ruins and a lot of corpses. Youkai-corpses. The earth is soaked with black blood - because of the terrible miasma Naraku always brought everything within one km radius was dead - well, almost everything.

Kagome Higurashi lifted up her head and couldn´t avoid a little whimper. One of Naraku´s last attacks missed Inuyasha but caused several stones to fly towards her and one of them knocked her off for a good while. Now that she was awaken the battle seemed to be over. The wound on her head felt nasty and her hair was strangely heavy because of the dried blood, but she was alive and able to move.

She was nervous. Something was wrong. Inuyasha!! Where is he?!

Looking around the place she tried hard to find the flame-red spot that would be Inuyasha. Though she forced herself to think that everything was right she knew that it was not, because otherwise he would allready be with her, questioning about her injuries with worried amber eyes. Inuyasha... I can remember you being hit by a poison spine, Naraku´s newest invention, just before I was hit myself. Inuyasha, I was not able to fight with you because I lost consciousness...You are injured. You could not come because you are seriously injured... Please, please be not...

She didn´t dare think further. It was terrible.

Kagomes eyes started to fill with tears while she walked around the battlefield, now also concerned about her other comrades. Where are Sango and Miroku? And Shippo?

Suddenly she heard something. An enemy? Kagome turned around fast, reaching for her bow but only to find out that it was broken. Plus, she didn´t have any arrows anymore. She threw the now useless bow away and concentrated on her hands, trying to accumulate her purifying power there. She still was not very good at this, but if the opponent was not too strong it should be enough.

All this took no longer than two or three seconds, then she heard another sound. A wimpy mew, something you would expect from a hurt cat.

Kirara! And more important, if Kirara is here, Sango and also Miroku shall be nearby. Kagome ran in the direction where the sound came, soon she noticed something that supposed to be dark brown hair and a pale hand. She had to move a dead Youkai from the Taijiya who really didn´t look good: Dried blood covered her face, the hand she noticed earlier laid in a strange angle. Kirara who laid next to her was poisoned because she bit those disgusting moving flesh-parts Sango cut off from Naraku.

"Sango! Sango! Can you hear me? Sango!" Kagome checked the body of her friend for further injuries and was relieved when she found none.

"Ka...Kagome-chan?" Sango whispered.

"Hushsh...Don´t talk. You´re injured. Your left wrist is broken and you´ve lost plenty of blood. Try to relax, Naraku has left, we are save now." Kagome tried to convince Sango. And herself.

"Miroku...Houshi-sama? Where...?"

"I still don´t know where they are. When I woke up all of you seem to be disappeared, I only could find you because I heard Kirara. Now try to relax, I have to go and look for them. I´ll be back soon."

Sango was too weak to protest, though she really wanted to look for Miroku herself - the person she cared for most in this world except Kohaku. Fortunately, she didn´t have to wait long. Only five metres away Kagome noticed something that reflected the scanty light of late afternoon: It turned out to be the houshi´s staff. Miroku had a deep wound in his stomach and he was conciousless... Seeing his wound she had to ask herself if he would ever wake up again.

With everybody hurt like this...Inuyasha please be allright...Kami-sama please...

Kagome could not hold back the tears any longer when she finally found him.

The poisoned spine she remembered has only just missed his heart and it has been able to make the poison spread in his veins. Inuyasha was barely breathing and very, very cold, his cheeks have never been this pale before.

...Quiet, girl, be quiet and think. He´s poisoned right? Yeah I know it´s spreading but it´s only miasma right? You have the purifying power of a miko don´t you? So stop being pathetic and concentrate!

She wiped the tears away, then she closed her eyes, searching for the pulsing power inside her. Having found it she imagined the purple ball of light flowing to her hands until they became warmer.

When Kagome felt that she would collapse if she went on with this procedure she slowly laid her now brightly shining hands on Inuyasha´s chest.

"INUYASHA!!!"

Yelling his name she forced the gathered power to flow into him, fighting off the venom. It was difficult, she felt like being poisoned herself when the spine started to vanish but she thought that it would be done soon because his breath became more regular and he even regained conciousness after some time.

When Inuyasha finally managed to open his eyes...... the surprise Naraku planned for them started to work.

The spine was a cage. The venom it radiated came from a small and very, very poisonous black snake kept prisoner inside. When Kagome managed to vanish the spine the snake was set free, and it was not pleased from being captivated this long, so it was only a natural reflex to bite the nearest thing.

Which was Inuyashas heart.

He immidiately stopped breathing.

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Ibara-hime: Ah, first chap finished! Please R&R!! I really feel like this is going to be interesting.

I have a vague plot but some things turn out to be surprising. If anybody has an idea

how Kagome could get her friends back to Kaede´s village please tell me´cause I´m

really desperate...

Kirara: Mewwwww! Miaumiau miiiiiiiiiiiu!

(Translation: Yeah, but it´s only because you baka made me also being injured!)