Hello everyone! I'm sorry for the very late response, but I started school and ya know how that goes. This chapter is a bit shorter, but a lot happens in this chapter. I hope you enjoy it!

It was the next day and Kagome was sitting by the campfire, which always had a nice view of the sunrise. She was wearing a white evening dress. She had a rose quartz necklace on, her hair as black as obsidian, her eyes as blue as sodalite. She had a lot on her mind. Olympus, Zeus, the Earth, and even with everything that happened, Inuyasha and Kikyo ran races through her head more than anything else. She rubbed her temples to try and cease her aches. She heard the hut door slide open and Inuyasha walked out.

"Good morning." Said Kagome with a smile. Inuyasha smiled back. He sat next to her.

"Yeah, you too." He said. He closed his eyes and took in the scent of the morning, along with the goddess next to him.

"I don't remember you ever sleeping when I was here." She said with a giggle.

"I don't either." He said. "I felt safe with you." He blushed. Kagome smiled she looked into his golden orbs, looked at the life behind them. Before she realized her true power, she couldn't see what she could see now.

"I really need to talk to you about something." She said. Inuyasha nodded. "How long will you see Kikyo?" she said. Inuyasha looked down. She picked his head back up so he looked at her. "Look me in the eyes." He nodded.

"Kagome…I don't know. I really don't know." The minute he began to say that, it began to rain. He looked at the shattered eyes she wore and his heart did the same.

"I know you don't. I just thought I'd give it a try." She said. A tear fell down her cheek.

"I'm sorry." He said. By his tone she knew he was feeling her pain.

"It just seems as if no matter how much I show you I love you, she's always in the picture." She said. "I've given you everything, and she's taking it from you." She said.

"I…I don't know what to say."

"It's fine. You don't have to say anything."

"But I do. I don't want you feeling like this. I want you to be mine and only mine. I don't want anyone else. It's just that, she keeps dragging me in and it's not right. It's like I don't have a choice." He said.

"I love you." She said. Her hand cupped his cheek.

"I…I love you too." He said back. A tear fell from her eyes as she hugged him. He hugged her back and when they broke the hug. He kissed her. She kissed back. It was so full of love and longing. They broke the kiss and she smiled. He kissed her neck.

"I need you. Don't forget that. I don't need her." He said. Kagome smiled.

"Thank you. I needed this conversation."

Without a warning, an arrow shot between them and cut both of their abdomens. They looked down and looked at the shooter. It was Kikyo.

"Kikyo…what the hell?!" he shouted. "Put the bow down!" he shouted again.

"No." said Kagome.

"W-What?" he asked.

"If she wants a battle, I will give her a war." She said. Inuyasha tried to pull her back, but she broke free. She walked towards her. Kikyo shot another arrow straight for her heart.

"Kagome!" shouted Inuyasha. He was scared for her life until he saw her catch the arrow. Kikyo gasped.

"I warned you not to come back. You disobeyed me." She said. Kikyo shot another arrow, Kagome slapped it out of thin air. She raised her hand to the clouds, as if she was gaining energy from them. Thunder clashed and lightning struck Kikyo and threw her to the ground. Kagome raised her hand palms up from the ground and the ground began to shake below Kikyo. Kagome walked towards the dead priestess and grabbed her by the throat.

"Your time on Earth is done. You have done nothing but become a burden to everyone in your life." She said. Her eyes were calm, but they were gold. No pupils, not retinas, her entire eye was gold. It shook Kikyo to the core.

"I'll do anything. Don't do anything! Please!" she begged. Inuyasha was shaken, but he knew this had to be done. Kagome's aura began to become visible to the human eye, and it was gold and white. She raised a finger in the air and shouted:

"HADES!" she screeched. The ground below her begun to shake. A whole revealing a staircase in the ground appeared behind Kagome. A tall bald man with a beard wearing a long black robe walked up from the staircase.

"Sister. Blessed be thee." He said. Kagome threw Kikyo to the ground in front of Hades. Hades looked down at the girl, and laughed. "I have been waiting for you. You escaped long ago, child." He said. Kikyo looked up and saw his face.

"N-No. I know who you are! You won't take me again! I can't go back!" she shouted.

"You have escaped from my grasp, therefore, you will be sent to Tartarus, where you will live your greatest fear, for the rest of eternity." He said. He picked her up and threw her down the staircase. He followed and the staircase closed.

Kikyo awoke and she was in a very time hole, filled with water. Every time she was about to die, she would receive a bubble of air, just to keep her going until she was almost dead again. She had to live this for the rest of eternity, in payment of cheating death.

Kagome looked at the ground and back at Inuyasha. He saw her gold eyes slowly turn back to normal. She walked to him and saw he was very nervous. She hugged him and began to cry.

"I'm so sorry." She said. He hugged her back and kissed her head.

"You don't have to be sorry. It's your job to do that. It needed to be done." He said.

"But you loved her." She wept. Inuyasha held her tighter.

"No, I love you. Only you." He said. She looked up at him and kissed him. He kissed her back and picked her up bridal style.

"You're not mad at me?"

"Of course not. I love you." He said. Her heart was so full. He not only said it to her, but he said it plenty of times in the past hour. She nuzzled his neck as they walked to forest to visit the God Tree.

"One day you'll be my wife. I promise, Kagome."

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