Chapter Two: The Final Battle and the Miko Forever Changed

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She had only been five when her little brother had come into the world. A daddy's girl through and through, but her brother had changed all of that. It was no longer her that her Daddy bragged about or took places. It was always Souta.

"Momma? How come Daddy doesn't have any more time for me?" The six year old little girl asked one morning as she sat down at the kitchen table for breakfast with her momma. "Did I do something wrong?"

"No Kagome, you haven't done anything wrong. Your father is just really happy to have a son to call his own." Internally the mother was struggling, she didn't know what to do. How could she tell her baby girl that her father wasn't really her father, and that he was over joyed to have his own child?

"You think Daddy will get tired of being with Souta soon? I really miss him." The mother just smiled a sad smile.

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Kagome had turned ten years old just a few months ago. Her father had completely forgotten and worked all day long and deep into the night. Today was her little brother's birthday, but he hadn't forgotten. He called home just a few moments ago letting Souta know he was on his way home and that they would go out and celebrate together.

It had been five years since Kagome had considered herself a Daddy's girl. She knew he didn't care about her. Souta was his favorite and as far as he was concerned, only child. Kagome was rather bright for her age, she knew her eyes didn't match her mother's or her father's. Her wasn't like theirs either, Her hair was black with a bluish hue while theirs were lackluster in color. It was this day, as her little brother was getting ready to go out that she decided to confront her mother.

"He's not my real father is he?" She spoke quietly as she poured herself and mother a cup of tea. "Are you my real mother?"

"K…Kagome, what makes you say that?" Her mother had stuttered, and Kagome took that as confirmation.

"Who's my real father and mother? Why did they leave me?" Kagome calmly took a sip of her tea. This hgad been weighing on her mind for a long time now, and she had already come to terms with what could be the truth, and she believed she was ready for the answers to her questions.

"I'm your mother!" She defended with a heavy heart. "But you are correct. Toshio isn't your real father. Your real father, Logan, is an American and he didn't want us but Toshio did."

"No mother, you're wrong. Toshio only wants you and Souta. To him, I am nothing but a burden." Kagome grabbed her cup of tea and went to her bedroom. She would not be around the man if he didn't want her. Her love for him died the moment he traded her for her brother.

Thirty minutes later her mother received a phone call. Toshio would not be returning home. An accident had occurred.

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Kagome woke up with a start. She hadn't had dreams in a long time, and she had never dreamed about her step father before. He had become such a distant memory to her, she was surprised she could even recall his true name.

Wiping the sleep from her eyes, Kagome glanced around to make sure her companions were safe.

She felt Shippo, her little fox kit, snuggle deeper into her side. She smiled down at where he laid under her sleeping bag. He meant the world to her. There were multiple times on her journey where she had felt the need to just give up and go back to the future, but he stopped her every time. IF she left, there would be no one left to take care of him, and she couldn't just abandon the little guy. He was her son in all but blood.

Glancing to her left, she saw Sango and Miroku snuggled up together. If her camera had been charged, she would have taken a picture. They go to sleep in different spots but every night, somehow or another, they would end up curled into each other. When the time comes for the whole camp to wake up, they would be in their previous spots. Kagome shook her head to herself. She didn't know who they thought they were fooling, everyone in camp knew.

Lifting her gaze up and away from the two love birds, she caught the gaze of their protector. Inuyasha, her best and most loyal friend, sat on a branch of a tree keeping silent vigil as the humans slept. Once upon a time she had been madly in love with the rough half breed, but the years they spent together fighting had turned that love into one of family. He was like her older, more annoying, brother now. She sent her eyes into a darting motion towards the sleeping lovebirds, cracking an almost evil grin. Inuyasha grinned back and nodded his head before disappearing into the forest.

Kagome giggled to herself as she slowly got out from her sleeping bag, making sure not to wake up her son. When she got to her feet she was met by her favorite half demon, who grinned in greeting. He carried a bowl full of water in his claws, which he held out to her. Flashing him a smile, she took the bowl and made her way stealth fully over to her two sleeping companions.

"Wake up Love Birds!" She proceeded to dump the bowl full of cold river water over the heads of her two newly awoken teammates.

"Kagome!" Sango squealed as she pushed Miroku away from her, wet and embarrassed.

"Since you two lazy butts are up, we can get a few miles in before the sun comes up. Lets go!" Inuyasha grinned when his human companions started complaining but packing up camp.

He had been alone just about all of his life, and having met Kagome changed everything. At first he had hated her, but that quickly changed. She gave him his pack, and he would forever be thankful to her for it. An Inu was nothing without a pack to protect, even one with just half the blood. They were rather social creatures and an INu left by itself could and would eventually go insane.

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A full day of travelling saw the rag tag group of sharp hunters setting up camp for the night, though something was amiss. The group seemed more tense than normal.

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Night was only a few hours away and Kagome knew that it was not a good thing. The attacks from their dreaded nemesis had been coming more frequent, and tonight would be the group at its weakest. It was the night of the New Moon, which meant that their strongest member, Inuyasha, would be turning full human once the sun finally set.

"Are you sure your brother will be here in time?" Kagome asked taking a seat next to her irritated friend.

"Why should I give a rat's ass if he comes or not? Even if I'm human I can still kick anyone's ass who's stupid enough to attack us. Why you had to bring it up to him, I'll never know. And he's my half-brother!" Inuyasha huffed as he folded his arms in his sleeves. Sure he saw why she had done it, but that didn't make it any easier to accept. He hated his brother.

"For goodness sakes Inuyasha! Half or not, he is still your brother." Kagome grumbled to herself thinking about Souta. He was her half-brother, not that he knew it, but she never viewed him as such.

"Hn" Lord Sesshoumaru wasn't sure why he had agreed to help the human priestess out, he couldn't stand to be in the presence of his half-sibling but a few minutes. A whole night was something he was not looking forward to.

"Sesshoumaru-Sama!" Kagome jumped up from her spot next to Inuyasha. "I'm so glad you came."

"Hn."

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The attack came in the dead of night, but the group was not caught unawares. The battle lasted for hours as the friends and allies fought side by side against the monstrous army that Naraku had created. With Inuyasha turned to human the group didn't stand much of a chance. Even with Sesshoumaru striking down enemies by the hundreds, they were still drastically out numbered.

It was about an hour before the sun would rise that Naraku made his entrance. Appearing from the middle of the demons on a cloud of miasma, he sneered down at the battle worn humans that had been a thorn in his side since the jewel first became shattered. With a flick of his wrist, he motioned for Kagura, the wind witch, to keep Sesshoumaru busy as he dealt with the human pests himself.

"Kukuku, look at the mighty Inuyasha now. Nothing more than a pathetic human who can't even pick up a sword." Naraku completely dismissed Inuyasha as being beneath his notice, because a human Inuyasha was a human and could not even think to harm one such as he. Naraku's attention was on the half-dressed human priestess, the incarnation of his beloved Kikyo.

Sending out two of his tentacles, he wrapped one around Kagome's waist and pulled her to him, while the other one knocked her companions away.

"What will you do now Ka-Go-Me? Inuyasha can't come save you now, and you're too weak to do anything yourself. You should be a good little human and just do what I tell you too. I might even decide to spare Inuyasha's life if you make me happy." He held her in front of himself, her back touching his chest. He had wrapped one of his arms around her middle taking the place of his tentacle, his other hand was slowly making it's way down the front of her night shirt teasing her.

"Get your slimy hands off of me you pervert!" Kagome raged against him, kicking her feet out behind her hoping to make solid contact.

"Have your own way then!" Naraku growled as one of feet made a solid hit on his body. A tentacle came shooting out of his body and towards Inuyasha as he tried to get back on his feet. It wrapped around Inuyasha's neck and pulled him, dangling, in front of the Miko and Naraku.

"Inuyasha!" Kagome cried out honestly afraid for her friend. She struggle anew to get out of the evil hanyou's grasp. "Put him down you overgrown spider!"

Naraku laughed as he hugged her body closer to himself. "Once I kill this trash, there is nothing keeping the jewel and you from my claws. I'm going to have fun taming you Miko, you'll be begging for more once I'm done with you." He whispered in her ear.

Kagome stilled in the evil hanyou's clutches. A growl seemed to rumble from her chest. Kagome wasn't Kagome anymore, she seemed to have snapped. Gnashing her teeth together Kagome went wild.

Naraku's howl of pain made the battlefield stop as everyone turned to him. Kagome stood a few feet away from him, blood dripping from three long blades coming out of her knuckles.

"DO NOT TOUCH ME!" Kagome growled out as she walked up to Naraku's bleeding body. Taking her claws, she drove them straight into his head successfully killing him, but not before her stomach was pierced by one of his tentacles.

Kagome fell to the forest floor holding her stomach, while her comrades watched in awe as the blades disappeared back into her knuckles. Shippo was the first one to snap out of his confusion and run to his fallen mother. Only to watch her wound slowly start to heal itself as his mother fell unconscious.

"What are you Momma?"

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AN: I'm not going to lie, I've read only a few of the x-men comics, not nearly enough to write a story and make sense. So I'm going over a ton of Wiki's so I can have a basis of what I want and need. So If I get things mixed up (Yes I probably will) don't get to mad at me… just go with it. And yes Ro0 I plan to use Daken… just not sure how yet…

I'm kinda iffy about how this chapter ended up… It served it's purpose ... but I suck at writing fighting scenes…