"INUYASHA!"

Kagome cradled the fallen hanyou, her legs soaked in the blood that surrounded him.

"No, no, no. InuYasha, please wake up! PLEASE! We NEED you!" Tears cascaded down her face, leaving streaks in the dirt and grime that covered her.

"iI/i need you.."

Kagome closed her eyes, burrying her face in his chest. Grabbing his haori in her fists, she whispered so quietly, even the Demon Lord next to her barely heard her.

i"I love you."/i

As grief overcame her, the sounds of battle faded out. Her mind was numb. This wasn't happening. It was just a dream, a nightmare. Nothing more. Any moment now, InuYasha would wake her up and everything would be okay. She would wake up and everyone would be okay. Sango would smack Miroku for groping her and then she would offer to go with her to the hotsprings to talk. Miroku would try to follow, and InuYasha would knock him out. Everything would be okay...

Even as those thoughts flew threw her mind though, she knew she was lying to herself. InuYasha would not be waking her up. Nor would Miroku or Sango or Kohaku. They were dead. All of them. They had died fighting to rid the world of Naraku, to save the world from his evil...

And they had failed... They had all failed. One by one, they had fallen. Naraku's face growing more and more smug with each gruesome death...

Naraku...

This was his fault. All of it. If it weren't for Naraku, InuYasha would still be alive. Her friends families would still be alive. Miroku would not be living in fear of his Kazana. Everything would have been fine if not for him.

It was sickening. How idare/i he! Playing with people's lives, as if he were one of the Kamis himself! All the death and destruction, the chaos... Images of the villages they had seen decimated, the mutilated bodies they had buried and the pieces of those that were unidentifiable, the greif stricken faces of families that had been torn apart.. It was all because of him. This could not continue, iwould not/i continue. She would not let it. Kagome was not angry, she was ifurious/i! She wouldn't let it...

Rage filled her, filling her very blood with righteous anger at the innumerable acts of evil he had commited.

iWhmp...Whmpmp.../i

It was almost inaudible, yet it rang through the battlefeild like a single gunshot. The very air around them pulsed. All eyes turned to the little miko, laying over the dead hanyou.

ibWhmpmp/b../i

The air vibrated again, the miko's aura pulsing around her stronger and stronger with each beat. The wind rapidly picked up speed and intensity, a physical display of the storm that raged within her. She stood slowly, head down, arms at her sides, her whole body shaking with rage.

ibWHMP-uPMP!/u/b/i

"biNARAKU!/i/b"

A feral scream tore from her lips, her once-brown eyes shot open, revealing nothing but white as her aura exploded from within her, rippling across the ground at an alarming speed.

Up above, Sesshomaru was in shock. Sensing the Miko was loosing control of her powers, he and the neko had hurridly gathered her fallen comrades before flying high above the battlefield. He and Naraku watched, stunned, as everything around the tiny miko disintagrated in the blast. Boulders, trees, grass... even the ground under her. Everything was decimated. It was then that Sesshomaru noticed Naraku was making his getaway, but before he could make a move, a large pink dome blocked his way, surrounding the dark hanyou.

Naraku hissed in anger and pain. So much power was radiating off the barrier the air itself burned his skin. They watched wide-eyed as the miko walked up to the barrier. Or she appeared to be walking, her feet moved forward as they would when one walked... except there was no ground. It had been blown out from beneath her as a large dust cloud, creating an enormous shallow crater.

Fists clenched at her sides, her aura continued to whip around her, causing her hair to thrash and dance about angrily, her eyes still that same solid white. Tears continued to stream from her eyes, her face contorting with the pain and anger coursing through her. They watched her 'walk' up to and then through the barrier, as if it wasn't even there, as she continued up to the evil being it held.

Blood red eyes locked on the approaching idare/i she! He was so close to fulfilling his desires. So close to being the most powerful being alive. All his work and planning, undone in the blink of an eye, by a hanyou's miko wench no less. During all his calculating and planning, he had never really taken her into consideration. Up until now, the extent of her powers had been purification arrows and barriers, moderate at their best. Not to say they weren't painful. They were strong enough to deter most youkai, but for someone like him they weren't life threatening. The death of the hanyou was supposed to break her, not awaken the power that lay dormant within her. He had underestimated the little miko and it would cost him his life, but he wasn't going down without a fight. Determined, he began his assault, shooting several tentacles towards her.

Kagome never even flinched. She continued her walk towards him as each tentacle was purified the instant it came into contact with her aura. Panicking, Naraku slowly backed up until he was painfully reminded of the barrier. He hissed again as several layers of skin burned away, purified on contact. Frantic, Naraku continued his assault, his desperation rising as she grew closer and closer. He screamed in agony as her aura made contact with his body, slowly purifying it. Burning it away layer by layer.

As if he wasn't even there, Kagome reached out with her right hand and plucked the complete Shikon no Tama from Naraku's chest. Both were instantly purified, Naraku's body no longer able to resist against her powers without the aid of the jewel he had used and abused for so long.

The dome disappeared and Kagome opened her hand, the brightly shining jewel momentarily resting in her palm before it rose into the air. The two demons watched as the jewel hovered infront of her heart before slowly merging with her body, it's purity flowing through her veins.

Then, it was over. It was finally over. As her aura died, Kagome colapsed to the ground below, exhaustion taking over.