Inuyasha: Power Of The Soul

Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha and I would like to though.

Chapter One: Seperation

"Watch Out! Inuyasha!" Kagome screamed, as the demon of the day lunged toward a rather distracted half demon. Inuyasha snapped to attention at the sound of her voice and the scent of her worry in the wind, dodging the potentially fatal of instinct he turned to check on Kagome. She was holding her own, firing arrows against the onslaught of demons backing them all up to the cliff, purifying handfuls of the demons at once.

Assured of her safety, Inuyasha returned his attention to the larger demon commanding the hoards attacking his friends. In his momentary distraction the beast was able to land a severe blow to Inuyasha's uninjured arm, which necessary shattered the bone; this thing could send waves of crushing force through an opponent with the slightest contact.

Stifling his cry of pain Inuyasha switched the tetsusaiga to his less injured arm, which was hardly an improvement since the deep gash on his forearm depleted him of much of the strength necessary to wield his sword effectively.

"Inuyasha!" Cried Kagome in high concern, firing an arrow towards the foe closing in on the half demon. The large demon cried out as the sacred arrow embedded itself in the demon arm. Its flesh twisted and sizzled as it was purified, the arm falling away from the torso, only for the surrounding troops to converge and merge together forming a new limb for the demon

"Oh no," Kagome said, slightly embarrassed for having increased the big demon towards Kagome

"Get out of my way weaklings" The half demon ordered, gathered his remaining strength to use the wind scar, with only one hand it wouldn't be very powerful but hopefully it would be enough to refocus the demon's attention away from Kagome

Just as the newly regenerated demon arm shot towards Kagome who had destroyed the previous one, Inuyasha brought down the tetsusaiga with as much force as possible sending a weak wind scar spiraling at the fiend. Weak as it was the blast was able to offset the youkai's balance just enough to divert his aim away from the Kagome, and causing the giant demon to collapse on it own, sending tremors through the ground.

Inuyasha raised his glance to Kagome visually reassuring himself that she was unharmed, their eyes met briefly and she smiled her thanks. His answering smile was abruptly cut off when he realized exactly where she was standing.

The demon army had successfully driven the gang to the cliff's edge and the miko stood there on the very ledge, bow in hand, her quiver empty, and with a demon able to shatter bone with a stroke, within three feet from her, who was now stirring into action. All thoughts of the fight disappeared as his mind went into rescue mode, ignoring the wounds in his limbs and torso, he charged towards the Kagome.

Confusion graced Kagome features, at this sudden change in demeanor. She took a moment to gage her surroundings for the cause if the trouble, but it was too late, the deep booming of the demon's wave power was drowning out all else.

The cliff crumbled as the demon pressed his hand into the earth at her feet. Inuyasha watched as if in slow motion, her chocolate eyes filled with realization as she fell back into the cavernous abyss, his legs seemed like jelly as he ran, and they refused to increase their speed to save Kagome

"Sango, Miroku, hurry up with those demons!" he yelled back to the youkai surrounded demonslayer and monk. Reaching the cliff he thrust out an arm latching onto the falling miko, as she disappeared from view. His clawed and bloodied hand grasped the girl's forearm, unable to pull her back to safety due to his various injuries, but only prevent her from falling to her death.

"Always getting into trouble, Kagome" Inuyasha grumbled to the women clutching onto his bleeding arm his blood staining her ivory skin scarlet. Weakly he pulled, only to wince as a hiss of pain escaped his lips, and his wounds protested burning in agony. She noticed, "Inuyasha," she whispered, a note of sad seriousness coloring her voice, then so softly he could hardly hear her, "Let me go Inuyasha"

The half demon stared at her as she if she had grown a few extra heads in a second, before realizing her seriousness and shouting, without care of the demons his other companions were battling. "Are you crazy Kagome, no way a human like you could survive that fall!"

Without hesitation or fear Kagome snapped back at him viciously, "Inuyasha with those injuries neither can you! You can't even pull me back over you're in so much pain." Her voice grew softer as she spoke of his pain.

"Feh! Not a chance Kagome, you're not gettin' off that easy!" The girl rolled her eyes at the hanyou supporting her as if she wasn't hanging off a cliff. He turned away from her to shout, and hide his wince of pain as she slipped slightly in his grasp, "Miroku hurry the hell up!"

"If you haven't noticed, Inuyasha we're a little busy ourselves!" shouted the monk in reply, oblivious to his friend's situation, as he smashed in an demon's head.

"Damnit," muttered Inuyasha as his fingers around the girl's arm started to loosen without permission. Kagome examined her friend's face noticing his furrowed brow of determination and his slackened grip, she knew him well enough to know what would happen, If I don't do something soon, she thought, he'll end up going over the cliff too.

"I'm sorry Inuyasha, it's my only choice," she whispered before pulling her arm out of his slackened grip.

Fear latched onto Inuyasha as Kagome fell deeper and deeper out of his reach, her school uniform fluttering around her body. "NO!"

Her lips moved in response but no audible sound accompanied her order, as she plummeted downward.

Inuyasha cried out with a with pain deeper than that of his wounds as he watched helplessly the women he had once sworn to protect fall, wearing a whimsical smile on her delicate lips.

"KAGOME!" the voice of a desperate Inuyasha