Chapter One:
This can't be Kagome thought, her heart racing, and her body numb. Inuyasha crouched, panting, blood streaking his cheeks and his yellow eyes glowering. Kirara, the two-tail was bristling, her white fangs gleaming as Sango and Miroku looked on, bemused. Shippo was crouched, watching intently beside Miroku's feet. Sesshormaru, now as a full-fledged dog demon, was snarling over his younger half-brother, his white fur shinning and one leg a scaled leg. The demon's eyes however, generally calm and golden, were instead blood red, glowing in the moonlight.
There's something wrong with him, Kagome thought, dread aching at her stomach and she turned to Miroku, the monk also seemed to be pondering the same.
"Inuyasha!" He called, and the half-demon twitched one silver ear in acknowledgement, who drew his sword. "There's something wrong with him, don't-" But Inuyasha had leaped off the ground, and the wolf demon roared with anger and lunged his paw down on Inuyasha. The giant claw tore through the red cloth, and Inuyasha dodged, landing on the ground and cracking his knuckles.
"Yeah, it's that damn Naraku." Inuyasha said, growling and stiffened as he spotted the back of his brother's back. A wide, huge scar in the form of a spider stretched over his shoulders, the eight narrow lines stretching to his chest. "What about that Jaken?" He mumbled to himself, sniffing the air and he rammed his ears forward as the dog lunged down to him, his jaws open.
"Inuyasha!" Kagome called, taking a pace forward as the dog crashed into the crowd, a plume of dust slashing up off the ground and blowing her raven-black hair as the sand blinded her. Inuyasha felt his Tetsusaiga being slammed the the ground by a huge paw of Sesshomaru, and he rolled over, letting go of his father's blade.
Sango leaped forward, clutching her Hiraikotsu on her shoulder as Kilala called, crouching swiftly as the demon slayer jumped onto her back. Grabbing Kagome by her shoulder, Sango gritted her teeth and the demon rushed over the earth, and Kagome brushed back her hair, looking for Inuyasha.
"Miroku!" The monk had jumped for the two-tail as Sango spotted him through the dust, and had shakily nodded that he was alright to the demon slayer.
"What's that light?" Shippo asked, the fox demon holding onto the scruff of fur on Kirara's neck and blinking.
As Inuyasha landed on the ground, he spotted Kirara snarling as Sesshomaru's true form growled and an aura of bright pink glowed on the center of his forehead. "The jewel!" Kagome shouted to Inuyasha, and he turned, nodding. He leaped away from another slash from Sessomaru and landed on the branch of a tree, panting.
"Damn," Inuyasha whispered under his breath, touching lightly over the bloody slash on his chest, which was staining his cloth and he formed his hands into fists. Sesshomaru was almost guarding the blade, a riveting snarl on his face and he arched his back. Inuyasha grimaced, watching the other's ride on Kirara, avoiding the cloud of dust as he wiped of a streak of blood from his face. He felt a feeling overcome him, and his mind seemed blurred, as he stiffened, growling. That familiar scent was surrounding him, and a faint voice chuckled in his head.
It's was hard, Inuyasha. Naraku's voice echoed through his head, and Sesshomaru growled, digging his claws into the ground and bounding to the tree where the half-demon was crouching on the branch. Subduing your brother to come to me, I broke his spirit. The jewel shard I placed inside him was tainted. Inuyasha gritted his teeth as the painful throbbing of the booming, cold voice.
"What's wrong, Inuyasha?" Shippo asked frantically, leaping off Kirara and blinking, noticing Inuyasha's stiffened body and gritting teeth. "Are you in pain-wah!" Sesshomaru's paw nearly landed into the earth beside him, tossing the fox demon into Miroku's hands.
Sesshomaru's teeth tore into the branch, barley missing Inuyasha as he leaped away, writhing through the air, and landed on the ground, his silver hair shadowing his eyes.
What's the matter, Inuyasha? Naraku hissed in his head, and Inuyasha could nearly see the red eyes and face of the demon, his face fixed in a smile. My powers can bring out the full demon you've always dreamed off. The slick words were dripping with menace, his voice testing him.
Kagome prepared to jump off Kirara's back, but Miroku pulled her back by the cloth school uniform on her shoulder, and she turned to face him, eyes defiant. "Let me go, Miroku!" She struggled, but eventually faltered as Sango turned her head and nodded, sighing. Kagome noticed with a jolt Tetsusaiga was thrown on the ground, and had returned to it's febble, worn state. She glanced at Inuyasha, thoughts thundering in her head. Inuyasha would never just leave Tetsusaiga!
"He's right, Inuyasha will be fine." Sango tried to reassure her, but her voice was unsteady, and she gripped Hiraikotsu on her shoulder, her eyes dark and angered. It was Naraku who took her brother away, who killed her clan. Him. It was all his thoughts flowed through her head as she jumped off Kirara, and ignored as Miroku called her name. She felt all the acts of anger on her shoulders, remembering the graves of the fallen warriors of her village.
She saw through her eyes blurred tears forming, and she fought back, cursing Naraku and flinging Hiraikotsu to the wolf's demons body. It slashed into his godly, white fur and the possessed Sesshomaru paid no heed, and it was then when Kagome saw he was intent on killing Inuyasha.
"Sango!" She called, and tugged on Kirara's fur as the two-tail demon rushed to her master's side, her paws flaming bright orange flames and her fangs glistening in the moonlight. She felt a tug at herself somehow, and was thrown off the demon, painfully meeting the surface of the earth as it lurched forward to her shoulder. A sharp rock slashed through her shoulder, blood staining her white uniform.
She felt Sesshomaru, or all that was left of him, fighting the jewel shard and Naraku, trying to break through the barrier in her head, and clutched her shoulder as blood flowed heavily.
Kagome fought back tears, and picked herself off the dusty, hard ground and looked as Inuyasha called her name, though her ears were silent with whispers- dark whispers.
Inuyasha lunged forward by a sudden hunger for blood- for death, and slashed his claws into the shoulder of Sesshomaru, blood lapped at his checks and stained his claws, and he felt his heart beat quicken. His claws grew, slipping past his knee's and he felt a part of him fade away, replaced by a hungry, lustful, true demon.
Inuyasha found himself as if in a cell, unable to move himself, only speak, as the demon inside him cracked his knuckles, which were caked with drying blood. This is what he always wanted? This could not be.
Kagome found herself recovering, and Sesshormaru had turned back into his original form, a slender, beautiful man with flowing hair like his brother's. Three long slashes were in his chest, he seemed to be struggling for breath. She turned, desperate, spotting Inuyasha, sitting silently, his face covered by the breeze ruffling his hair.
She was shocked to see his body covered in blood, who's blood?
"My Lord!" A shocked, mournful cry of a young girl came through the wood's, and the small girl, who must have been no younger then 10, wearing an orange flowered kimono, with the green demon Jaken rushing behind her, and raven hair in a pony tail.
She crouched, crying over the body of the demon and tugged at his shoulders. "Oh my lord, please be okay!" Jaken was raving, running around squaking, and Sango and Miroku were watching as Kagome looked to Inuyasha.
"Who's that?" Shippo asked, leaning from Miroku's shoulder, blinking his blue eyes.
Sango approached unsteadily to the child and the demon, as Kirara regained into her smaller demon form and took an unsure pace forward, tilting her head. As Rin spotted her coming, she clutched Sesshomaru's clothing harder and defendingly looked up. Sango gulped, and tried to use the same voice she used for Kohaku.
Kagome watched Sango, and felt the jewel shard had fallen onto the ground, and that Naraku's presence was gone. "It's okay." Sango said in a comforting, soft voice and Kirara coaxed herself under the left hand of Rin, who found herself involuntarily petting the soft fur of the demon. "Are you hurt?" Sango asked, bending down and the girl shook her head, tears forming in her brown eyes.
"Get away from Lord Sessomaru!" Jaken said, leaping in front of the demon slayer and shaking his stick aggressively in front of her. Sango found herself smiling weakly, and turned to spot Kagome.
Miroku slammed the bottom of his staff into the ground, shacking the golden rings and he called to Sango. Rin smiled as Sessomaru woke up, his yellow eyes looking around. Sango took weary paces backwards as the demon rose. Kirara weaved past Rin's hand, padding swiftly back to Sango and jumped into her cupped hands.
"My lord?" Rin asked unsteadily, her happiness not hidden.
"I'm fine Rin." He told her in his calm voice and turned to spot his brother, frowning. He did not hide his loathe for Naraku as Sango looked at his clenched fists.
"Wait, Kagome!" Miroku called to her as Kagome began to slowly walk to Inuyasha, still feeling pain from the cut on her shoulder. He did not move, nor twitch a ear, as she approached him. She crouched down to him; his silver hair covered his face.
"Inuyasha?" She whispered, cocking her head, her brown eyes worried and asking if he was okay. She stretched out a caressing hand uncertainly.
Inuyasha whispered something weakly that she could not make out, and found her hand almost brushing past his silver hair to touch his cheek, when his claw suddenly lashed out, grabbing her wrist. It dug painfully in, they had grown quite a length, and she gave a weak cry.
"I said get away from me." He hissed in a firmer, cold voice, but Kagome flinched and heard a desperate tone hidden in the voice. He looked up, his eyes blood red and his fangs growing over his lip, and she stiffened, her body numb for a moment.
No, this can't happen again! She thought fear pulsing through her body as his claws released the harsh grip on her hand, revealing bloodly marks where they had dug into her flesh. Sango gasped and rose to her feet, and Rin gripped her master's cloak in fear, and Miroku called to Kagome, attempting to warn her.
From the shadows of the tree's, Kagura watched, her red eyes intent on the half-demon, her eyes scorching over the battlefield. This had happened before, with Kaguya, she recalled the act the mortal had made to save Inuyasha from being torn apart by the demon inside. She knew that her master was stronger than that witch, which she was grateful for. The mortal had kissed the half-demon in order to stop the transformation. She grimaced as she remembered Naraku's return, and sighed. She touched the soft feather to her cheek, her eyes dark, and flew off in the wind. Naraku will be pleased, she thought cunningly, thinking to her elder sister Kanna, and smiling.
"Kagome?" Sango asked, looking away from Rin and the demon, and stiffening.
She did not hear them. "In-Inuyasha?" She asked, standing up as he stretched out his claws, her red blood dripping from them. Her voice was frail, a whisper.
She couldn't save him again.
