This is my first Inuyasha fanfic so please be gentle! I hope this ends up being a Labyrinth crossover but I haven't decided yet!

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Chapter 1: The Final Battle

For years, an evil demon named Naraku had been collecting fragments of the sacred jewel in order to gain ultimate power that all demons or evil humans seeked. Inuyasha and Kagome along with their three other companions, went in search of Naraku and the sacred jewel fragments so that they could help put the jewel together and ensure that no other evil hands got ahold of such incredible power. At long last, with the aid of an allience with Kouga, Sesshomaru, and Kagura, Naraku was defeated by a combined attack of everyone's strongest power.

Sighing in relief, Inuyasha watched as Naraku finally fellm swallowed up by his miasma. But in the process, everyone was thrown back by a huge explosion!

As the bright light faded, the air filled with cheers of celebration as the nearly whole jewel plunged to the ground. Inuyasha watched in shock as Miroku grabbed Sango and started making out with her; and she wasn't doing a thing to stop his perverted acts!

Kouga's tribe was already celebrating while their leader's thoughts matched the creature he called "mutt-face". Everyone was ok, but there was no sign of Shippo or Kagome.

"Kagome!" Inuyasha cried out in alarm, panicking when her couldn't trace her scent in the air. Everyone else paused, realizing that their companions were in fact missing, then began to search the battle field for them.

"Kagome!" Kouga cried out. He even had Ayame, his supposed "fiance" panicking at the sound of her love's voice.

"INUYASHA!" Cried a familiar child-like voice from afar.par tab Inuyasha already knew why the small child sounded upset and panicky for in that moment, he caught the trace on Kagome's blood.

Almost immediantly following the scent came Shippo from out of nowhere and was hugging, clinging to Inuyasha's chest as he were being attacked.

"Oh Inuyasha! You have to hurry! Kagome's hurt really badly!" Shippo cried into the hanyou's chest.

"What! Where is she Shippo?" Inuyasha asked, his heart feeling as if a rope was tighting around it at the very thought of Kagome being injured.

Shippo then jumped off the half-demon and began to lead the herd of creatures through the rubbish, far beyond where the battle had took place.

Inuyasha was the first to arrive at the scene and nearly collasped at the site. There, Kagome hanged on the sacred tree, pinned by one of Naraku's tentacles in the exact spot he had been pinned to by Kikyo for fifty years.

And yet, he rushed to her side when he saw that she was looking at him. The scent of death clogged his nose and he immediantly tried to pull out the tentacle. Blood covered her uniform and some slid out from the corners of her mouth. Her face pale and ashen as well as cold as death itself.

"Inu...yasha." Kgaome spoke, her voice raspy.par tab Kouga and the others showed up at this point and tried helping the hanyou the best they could at trying to pull their friend off the tree.

"It's...useless." Kagome stated, her eyes feeling rather heavy.

"No! Don't you dare give up on us Kagome!" Sango shouted as she pulled with all of her strength, pulling on the tentacle that held her dear friend, nay her sister.

"Damnit! None of us can use any of our weapons without hurting Kagome!" Inuyasha stated.

"Please," Kagome begged, "put the jewel in my hand...with the remaining pieces."

Kouga handed over his jewel shards, Shippo handing over the nearly whole jewel he had gotten from the field, and some fragments that Kagura had stolen from Naraku and Kohaku before Naraku could get his hands on them once again.

Inuyasha placed these in the woman's pale hand. Pulling her only usable hand up over her heart, Kagome closed her eyes as a pink light aluminated around her body.

Opening both eyes and hand, she revealed to them a fully completed sacred jewel.

"Inuyasha...take it." Kagome commanded, her hand shaking terribly.par tab "What!" Everyone exclaimed.

"You're handing over the Sacred Jewel to that stupid mutt-face?" Kouga aske, quite disgusted by her decision.

"It...is my...final...wish." Kagome said, the jewel slipping out of her hand as she slowly passed out.

"Kagome!" The group cried out.

Ignoring the jewel, Inuyasha ran over and cupped his dear friend's face in his hands.

"Please Kagome! I don't want the stupid jewel anymore!" Inuyasha begged for the first time in his life, tears forming in his eyes as he felt her heartbeat slow down. " Please Kagome! Don't leave me! Don't go where I can't protect you!"

The smell of death became stronger for the demnons, even Inuyasha. Sesshomaru could already see the spirits coming to claim the mortal's soul. If he could, Sesshomaru would have used Tenseiga to save his younger brother's wench but because of Naraku, his father's fang was broken. If it were not for this girl Sesshomaru would not be standing because it was she who had used a sacred arrow to block a fatal attack from Naraku. He could only watch and pity for his brother.

"Kagome please don't leave us!" Inuyasha screamed, her heartbeat almost gone forever. "PLEASE! I LOVE YOU!"

With his statement, Kagome's heart completely stopped, never again allowing her to say her true feelings to this hanyou that had professed his own love to her. Inuyasha fell onto the woman's chest, crying like a small child. After all, it had been over a hundred years since he cried and that was when his own mother died. All friends bowed thier head in grief.

Inuyasha saw a light from under his kimono and turned to see that it was coming from the jewel.

Kagome's body started pulsingas did the jewel, this caught everyone's gaze as a form of a young woman emerged from the radiating jewel.

"Lady Midoriko." Miroku stated in a gasp as he kneeled down. All humans did so but the demons remiained as they were as they watched the dead preistess turn and lool at Inuyasha and Kagome's lifeless form.

She made a move towards them but stopped when Inuyasha snarled at the her.

"Inuyasha!" Miroku gasped, crying out in alarm at his friend's actions. It was dangerous to even challenge a preistess, dead or alive and this was no ordinary preistess.

"You will not touch her!" Inuyasha growled putting himself between his friend and the glowing soul.

"You are in love with her, are you not Inuyasha?" Midoriko asked.

"What's it to you?" Inuyasha hissed.

"Are you no longer claiming your feelings for the preistess Kikyo?" Midoriko questioned again.

Inuyasha stopped growling, pausing about her question. Kikyo had been killed by Naraku for the second time over a year ago but he still felt some kind of connection to her.par tab "I...don't know." Inuyasha admitted.

"How can you not know you stupid mutt!" Kouga yelled. "Kagome puts a lot of trust in you if she's willing to give YOU, of all people, the SACRED JEWEL!"

"Aye Inuyasha. Now that your revenge for Kikyo's death has ended, what will you do?" Midoriko asked.

"I don't know. I was going to help purify the jewel but I didn't want-" Inuyasha paused not wanting to finish his sentence as he was overcome by grief.

"Kagome. She was very talented in her skills, perhaps even more so the myself." Midoriko stated. "That is Naraku's doing is it not?"

"Yeah. And none of us were able to pull it out of her in time." Inuyasha explained.

"Aye." Midoriko understood. "Yet, Kagome is not dead."

"What?" Everyone exclaimed.

"Inuyasha, have you not yet realised that she is exactly where you were for fifty years?" Midoriko asked.

"Yeah, so?" Inuyasha replied feeling hopeful at her questioning.

"Naraku sent that tentacle out towards her on purpose. he's placed a curse upon her." Midoriko explained.

"What kind of curse?" Sesshomaru asked, fairly intrested.

"When Kagome awakens again, and she will, Naraku will return and so will the jewel." Midoriko answered.

"What do you mean?" Inuyasha asked.

"I can tell you no more then the information I have already shared. I will take my leave. I hope to see some of you again the next time we meet." The preistess stated as she and the jewel vanished into a bright light.

"No wait! Come back!" Everyone yelled, trying to stop her but the jewel was gone and Kagome was asleep. The battle was far from over.

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