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For the One She Loves

By: Sparrow's Mistress

Chapter 1: The Final Battle! Or is it? Part 1:

Inuyasha's True Feelings

"Naraku!" Inuyasha yelled as he unsheathed Tetsusaiga and it transformed in to the fang. "Come on out and fight!"

Inuyasha and the gang were in front of Naraku's castle. All of them ready and waiting for battle, their tensions high. This was what they've been waiting for. The moment that was always in the back of their minds. The final battle with Naraku. They were ready to take back the shards and end this once and for all.

Everyone was there except for Shippo who Inuyasha told to stay behind.

Flashback

"Come on Inuyasha! Pleease! Can I go? I promise I'll stay out of trouble." whined Shippo. They were all in the hut, ready to leave.

"Feh," said Inuyasha. "You'd only get in my way. With you I'd have to make sure two people are safe. And I can't fight Naraku with worrying about Kagome and you!" Inuyasha crossed his arms.

Kagome's eye started to twitch. 'What! Does he think I can't take care of myself?' "Excuse me Inuyasha? I hardly think I need you to look after me."

"Wench, shut up and let me protect you!" Inuyasha said getting in Kagome's irritated face.

Kagome closed her eyes. "Inuyasha?" She opened her beautiful chocolate brown eyes and smiled. Inuyasha took a step back knowing that he had said the wrong thing.

"Kagome... Now wait a minute here... I know that face. Kagome please don't..."

"Inuyasha, SIT BOY!" Kagome turned her back on the big crater in the middle of the hut. And after what seemed like 3 minutes later, the spell wore off and Inuyasha was finally able to get up. He opened his mouth as if to say something.

'Go ahead Inuyasha, make my day... again.' Kagome thought, her eyes twinkling.

Inuyasha quickly shut his mouth and walked outside. "Let's go already." Everyone walked outside of the hut. "Get on Kagome," said Inuyasha, as he bent his knees.

Kagome looked at him surprised. 'He'd give me a ride even after I sat him?'

Inuyasha saw the look on her face. "Come on, I don't have all day!"

Kagome got on and rested her head on Inuyasha's back. Kagome loved when he carried her. She found safety and comfort.

Sango and Miroku got on Kirara and Shippo silently got on too without anyone noticing. Inuyasha chuckled to himself. 'He thought I wouldn't notice? He should know better.'

"Shippo what did I say?"

"Awww, Inuyasha!" Shippo whined again giving Inuyasha a sad look.

'Will this kit ever learn?'

Kagome looked to Shippo sadly. "Shippo even though Inuyasha put it in a very insensitive way," she said looking in Inuyasha's way, "He's right, and he's only looking out for your well-being." Kagome said to Shippo in a very motherly tone. She kissed him on the head and telling him that it was too dangerous for him and that they'd be back as soon as possible.

Shippo walked back to the hut with his head down pouting and Inuyasha gave her a weird look. Kagome looked back and saw him staring at her curiously. "What?"

"It's just... you hardly ever agree with me. It's nice."

Kagome smiled at him and he felt his heart melt. "Now lets go." He said as Kagome held on tight and he took of running as Kirara followed.

"Inuyasha, how nice of you to come and visit me." Naraku said as he appeared from the front doors of his castle. He's facial expression amused and as evil as ever.

"Like hell Naraku! We've come for the rest of the jewel shards you hold in your possession." Inuyasha and the gang had collected the entire jewel shards except the ones that Naraku held. Kagome wore the almost fully completed Shikon No Tama around her neck on a chain. "Why don't you play nicely and just hand over the jewel shards and I'll promise your death will be quick." Inuyasha said as he cracked his neck and flexed his claws.

Naraku laughed maniacally which sent a shiver down Kagome's spine. Kagome looked around at her friends' faces.

'Everyone here has a reason to be here. Miroku because Naraku cursed his family with the wind tunnel.' She stared at Miroku who thought about releasing his cursed family trait but then saw Naraku's wasps flying about and decided against it.

'Sango's here to avenge her father and brother Kohaku. It had been terrible for Sango when Naraku controlled Kohaku and made him kill their father.' Kagome looked at Sango's face and found traces of pain and a need of vengeance. Sango gripped her Hiraikotsu ready to throw it at Naraku at any second now.

Kagome sighed. 'And Inuyasha, you're here for Kikyo. For how Naraku turned you against each other and how he was the reason she died. Your first love. If you only knew how I felt about you. I know you still love Kikyo but I'm here beside you and I'm not going to turn my back on you.'

Kagome left her thoughts behind as she turned her focus and Naraku noticed his minions starting to surround them. Sango looked at her for a moment and Kagome nodded.

"Hiraikotsu!" Sango yelled as she released her bone boomerang. It sliced seven demons before Sango braced herself for its return. Miroku started swinging his staff and bringing it down upon the demons. Kagome pulled an arrow out of her quiver and notched it. She released it and a bright pink and white light flew through the sky and skewered two demons, which quickly turned to dust.

Inuyasha was already heading for Naraku, killing any of the demons that got in his way. After finally getting rid of half of the demons, he finally reached Naraku. They looked at each other with spite and pure hatred.

"WIND SCAR!" Inuyasha yelled, but before it could do any real damage, Kagura jumped in front of Naraku and blocked Inuyasha's attack, which sent it flying back to him. He flew backwards and his red haori sporting little rips by his own attack. "Damn you Kagura!" He cursed.

Kagura closed her fan, stepped back into the woods surrounding the castle and continued to watch the fight. Naraku had made it clear that Inuyasha was his to deal with. Unless he summoned for her services.

Inuyasha charged at Naraku but his tentacle grabbed him around the neck and lifted him from the ground suffocating him. Inuyasha dropped Tetsusaiga and tried to pry the tentacle loose.

Kagome purified four more demons then looked around for Inuyasha. She found him lifted into the air by one of Naraku's tentacles. "Inuyasha!" Kagome yelled. She took a step forward then paused.

"Kagome... stay... back!" Inuyasha made out as he gasped for air.

Naraku looked at the young miko. "Well I guess I should thank you for bringing the jewel to me and saving me the trouble of tracking you down and taking it from you."

"STAY AWAY FROM HER NARAKU!" spit Inuyasha as blood started to drip from his mouth.

Naraku smiled at the hanyou coyly. "Inuyasha, can it be that you have fallen for Kikyo's reincarnation?" He asked, the smirk on his face getting wider.

Inuyasha growled low in his chest and stared at Naraku with hatred. 'How dare me ask that!' But Inuyasha glanced at Kagome who was blushing. "Kikyo and her might share the same soul but they're completely different!"

Naraku laughed. "How pitiful Inuyasha, you can say that all you want but even your enemies can see your weakness for the young miko!"

Inuyasha stole another glance at Kagome, her bow at her side, realizing that a battle field was no place for her to be.

'He's right. I am always putting my feelings first because I like having her at my side. But it puts her in danger.'

Naraku clicked his tongue and mused, "I will say this Inuyasha she is very beautiful, just like Kikyo. What I wouldn't do to get..." Naraku didn't have a chance to finish his sentence because Inuyasha reached out and slit his throat. But was surprised when Naraku's miasma sprayed him in the face.

Naraku laughed and released Inuyasha letting him fall to the ground gasping for air. Naraku left Inuyasha's side and darted in Kagome's way.

She gasped. 'No! He's coming right at me!' Kagome was frozen in fear.

A/n: These used to be two different chapters but because they were so short I decided to combine them. Do you think that is better? This second part is called Kagome's True Powers.
Kagome closed her eyes, awaiting the attack and the pain that would follow, but it never came. She looked up and saw a panicked face that belonged to Inuyasha. Who, had bounded into the air and tackled Naraku to the ground. They were both on the ground wrestling with each other. "Kagome, run! Get out of here!" Inuyasha yelled as he struggled with Naraku's tentacles. But Kagome couldn't just leave him.

Inuyasha got up, turning his back on a wounded Naraku and faced Kagome. "What are you waiting for wench? Go alrea..."

Inuyasha eyes went wide and grunted in pain. He looked down at his chest and Kagome followed his gaze. There they saw one of Naraku's tentacles wiggling through his chest. Inuyasha looked up at Kagome with anguish in his eyes, his face contorted in pain. He grabbed at his chest and fell face first into the dirt.

"INUYASHA!" Kagome screamed.

"Now for you young miko." Naraku said as he looked over to her.

Something in Kagome snapped. She raised her bow and screamed. "NARAKU YOU WILL PAY FOR THIS!"

Kagome closed her eyes as she felt an enormous rush of power wanting to be released from her body. All of a sudden there was a bright blast of miko light surrounding her. Her shirt moved around her body and her hair floated above her head as if she was underwater. Kagome was glowing pink and white and it made her look like an angel. An angel that was about to condemn somebody to hell and back again, several times.

The strange power fought inside her, looking for any outlet to put itself into. It wanted out. And Kagome felt obliged to give it what it wanted. She was over come with anger and desperation. Naraku had wounded Inuyasha and he would pay.

She finally opened her eyes in a flash and startled Naraku. Kagome smiled evilly as she saw fear in Naraku's eyes. She then aimed her bow and Naraku and drew back on the bow string, hard.

Sango and Miroku stopped fighting at stared at Kagome in awe. Never had they seen so much power before. Inuyasha also lifted his head when he sensed a great power near him driven by love and anger, surprised when he saw Kagome, surrounded by the light.

'So much power. That alone could kill me in seconds several times over.' Inuyasha thought then grimaced. 'Remind me to try and not get Kagome enraged like that.'

As soon as Kagome's smile had appeared it disappeared and her gaze went cold. "This is for all the people you manipulated and killed!" Kagome yelled, as she allow the strange power inside her to find an outlet and sent all of it into the arrow and released it, letting her arrow fly through the dark miasma that covered the air.

The arrow hit Naraku with such a force that it pierced right through him and sent him flying backwards into the trees.

A shadow in the trees scowled. She snapped her fan open and covered her face. "Damn you Naraku. I though that once you died I would be freed from you. But it seems that if I do not do something, you'll come back for me."

Everyone's attention was still in the other direction. Where Naraku had been blasted back into the forest. And Kagura smirked as she saw the perfect opportunity to cause more damage. With that, Kagura ran up behind Kagome, who was just standing there dazed and a little wiped out from the sudden power burst. She opened her fan and dragged it deep alongside Kagome's back. And before she realized what just happened Kagura flew off on her feather.

Kagome felt the warm gush of blood first. She took her hand and touched where she felt it originate from. She then drew back her hand, and saw it covered in crimson liquid. That's when all the pain rushed over her body. She looked up at Inuyasha's astonished face, who was lying on the ground several feet away, and fell to the ground. She saw Inuyasha's eyes go wide as he forcefully got to his feet, winced in pain, and ran to her side.

"KAGOME! IIE!"

Hearing the panic in his voice as he called her name put her at ease and she gave in to the darkness.

Inuyasha was on the ground when Kagome shot the arrow at Naraku and he watched as he flew backwards into the woods. He looked back at the miko that he loved so much but would never tell, and was just blown away by her power. But she was just standing there looking at him with empty eyes then look down at her hand. He saw her eyes flutter and then she fell to the ground. At first he didn't understand but then he saw the massive amount of blood that soaked the back of her shirt and forced himself to stand up despite the pain screaming in his mind.

'Come on you damned body of mine. Kagome's hurt.' Inuyasha almost fell down again but regained his balance and leaped to Kagome's side.

Sango and Miroku were also in a confused daze but quickly snapped out of it when they saw a blur of red run to Kagome. Inuyasha reached for Kagome and examined her body. It look like she had a deep gash in her back and he was mystified to what had caused it. But nonetheless he took her in to his arms and buried his face in her hair.

Sango and Miroku reached Inuyasha and Kagome and knelt down beside them. Sango had tears in her eyes and Miroku was solemn.

"Inuyasha you must get her back to Kaede quick. Sango and I will stay and take care of things here." Miroku said as he put his hand on his shoulder.

Inuyasha looked up at Miroku and Sango and nodded. He stood up and ran as fast as his legs could carry him in the direction of the village.

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