Heh, just a kinda side-story I've put together while I'm typing up the next chapter of "Ato Nasai".

(I'm kind of obsessed with the InuYasha anime and manga at the moment, especially InuxKag A/N: I can't help it they just make such a great couple! Sango and Miroku do aswell. So sad I know...)

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I do not own InuYasha or the songs used.

Sweet Sacrifice

It's true, we're all a little insane

but it's all so clear

now that I've unchained

I was running. Running faster than I had ever ran before. My shoulder throbbed with pain, crimson blood flowing steadily out of the wound. The wound he gave me.

You'd think this wound would slow me down a little, but it doesn't in the slightest. If anything, it increases the incredible longingI have to be at his side.

I have to reach him, before anything else happens. Fear is piling up inside of my heart, fear for my friends, the villagers...

But most of all, my fear for him. For his well being.

Why?

Fear is only in our minds

taking over all the time

fear is only in our minds

but it's taking over all the time

Though the blood is pouring down my shoulder, I have finally caught sight of the village. A death coloured sunset is cast over it, covering the small village in a blanket of shadow.

In the distance, I can hear the terrified calls of distressed villagers. Wives screaming. Children crying...

I have to get to him.

You poor, sweet, innocent thing...

I can feel hot tears building in my eyes. Why did it have to come to this? It shouldn't have happened! It shouldn't have been this way!

...dry your eyes and testify

you know you live to break me - don't deny

Sweet Sacrifice

When we entered the Shikon-no-tama's spiritual presense...this shouldn't have happened...

One day I'm gonna forget your name

and one sweet day,

you're gonna drown in my last pain

...But it had happened.

Fear is only in our minds

taking over all the time

fear is only in our minds

but it's taking over all the time

The jewell's sacred aura was too strong, too powerful for him to handle.

All me and my friends could do was watch, as his human heart was shut away from the world.

All we could do was stare helplessly as his eyes turned that dreaded mix of reds, as his claws extended...

All I could do was reach out a hand, call out his name softly, plead with him.

" Please...don't give into it..."

" Get-Get away from me Kagome! "

Too late.

You poor, sweet innocent thing...

I tried so desperately to reach him. Really I did.

He pushed me away though. I think, maybe even in his demon form, he may have known who I was.

He could have sliced me to shreds as if I were a paper towel.

He merely struck me on the shoulder. The worst he could give me.

It still hurt like nothing had before though. Not just physically.

...Dry your eyes and testify

and oh how you love to hate me don't you, honey?

My friends escaped unscathed, running after his retreating form, hoping to catch him before he got back to the village.

They were too late.

I can feel my strength leaving me now, the blood loss is too much.

With my last few ounces of strength, I push my body through the entrance to the village. He's there, my Lord Monk friend is in his crutches, held by the scruff of his kimono, high in the air.

His sacred sutras didn't work.

My demon slayer sister, my adopted kitsune...

They could do nothing but weep in protest and he got ready to deliver the Monk's death blow.

I can't let this happen!

I draw my bow and arrow, taking aim. I don't intend to hurt him, but maybe if I can just purify him...

His brilliant red eyes are on me now, and he drops the Monk to the ground with a distinctive thud, my slayer sister at the Monk's side immediately.

He sniffs the air around me. For a moment, I think I can see recognition in his eyes. They definately...flicker.

" Wench..."

No!

" InuYasha! "

I let go of the arrow. It pins him to a tree behind him, but only by the cloth of his haori. I could never truly hurt him. Not even in this state.

The magic from the arrow is working. His golden eyes are returning!

I would smile, but...

My friends eyes are all on me now. They can see what's happening to me now truly for the first time.

I still hold the bow in the position where I released the arrow, my eyes glazed over.

I collapse to my knees.

Even in my pain, I feel relief at the sound of my half-demon's true voice.

" InuYasha..."

" KAGOME! "

I'm your sacrifice.

One last plea from him, and my world goes blank.

I only just hear the sounds of my friends calling out my name in despair.

As darkness finally consumes me, I find I don't care...

...as long as I have InuYasha back.

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Okay, personally I think you can either love or hate this story, you make the decision.

Song: Sweet Sacrifice, by Evanescence.

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(A/N: I've gone back and edited this, corrected a few spelling mistakes here and there, as I hope to do with all of my fics some day.)