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Personalities of author talking, point of views, poems, and songs are in Italics. Bold lettering for the beast of the youkais.

Styxx- "Finally, Noa's chapter. After this, one more to go."

Noa's Tears

Noa knew from the day of her birth that she was different but she never knew why until she needed to know. She could do anything under the sun and stars. From the simplest things of moving things with her mind, to more complicated things of turning off her emotions, and finally to the hardest things of killing everything in sight, be it plant or animal. She could do just about anything. Hell, she even knew the future. She just didn't know her own or she would have stayed inside on that day.

She had been walking to home from work. She already had problems with her health and a recent boyfriend who had been an unknown rapist; she really didn't need any more. She knew this but she didn't think twice about walking. She'd done it before. Kagome had recently told them of the federal era and of the fact that she had the Shikon no Tama. She had her mind filled with things and didn't hear the gun click back.

The last thing she could remember was the pain and the darkness.

Kagome's P.O.V.

She sighed as she wrung out her hair. She was expecting a phone call from Noa, who was planning on taking her to the river today. It would be just the two of them and Kagome needed the break. The phone rang and Kagome knew that her mother would answer the phone for her. After about ten minutes, she knew that it wasn't Noa and continued getting dressed. Then the frantic cry that was ripped from her mother had her hurtling down the stairs, uncaring of the bumps or bruises.

"Kagome, honey, Noa's been in an accident; they don't think she's going to make it. Your grandfather is going to call Anya and Kimari while I take you to her." Kagome nodded through the tears and the pain and just ran out to the car.



Somewhere else

There was darkness all around her. She heard hospital equipment and voice but she couldn't understand what they were saying. Noa knew she was in trouble then. She knew that death was on its way for her once more but it should have known by now that Noa was a fighter. She would fight death if she had to and had done it once before. She wasn't scared to do it twice. Noa began the fight for her life, a fight that she did every day that had given her a weapon against death. Love and laughter was the key, and she remembered all the times with her friends and family while trying to awaken, to try and restart her own heart.

Kagome's P.O.V.

Kagome raced into the hospital with her mother, Kimari, and Anya right behind her. They found out where she was and walked over to her room. There was a glass panel that they could see through and Kagome knew what her friends would do for her after they were told that a limit of three had been placed.

"Kagome." Anya's voice had Kagome looking at her friends and mother with tears in her eyes. "Go on. We can see her in a minute. You need to be alone with her."

"Kay." Kagome replied and walked into the hospital room. Noa was lying on the bed with equipment running through her. Kagome already knew what to say to her long time friend and she was going to speak her mind.

"Hey, wolfie. You know me. C'mon Noa." Noa gave no response as Kagome took her hand. "I know you're tired and I'm sorry for that. I know I haven't made things much easier for you and I know that you've already had a hard life. But you're the warrior wolf. You can't give up without a fight. You just can't, it's against everything you are…and I need you. You hear me, wolfie? I need you right now, probably more than ever. If it wasn't for you, I wouldn't have been able to survive in two lives. You've saved my butt so many times, I can't count them. But I still need you. I promise, when we're both really ready, I'll let you go. But not a minute sooner. I need you, please, Noa. You're the only one I can trust anymore. I still need you."

Noa's P.O.V.

She heard her friend and knew that every word was the truth. She heard the last words the hardest. She began to fight for someone else and not just to exist. She was needed and she had sworn an oath to be there. Be damned if she was going to break her word for the first time in her life. She wasn't going today and she flipped death the bird as she ascended back into her time and her world.

She stirred for the first time and slowly, ever so slowly, sat up.

"I hear you." Kagome's gasp was audible and Noa felt arms wrap around her waist. She didn't understand why she couldn't see but she hugged her friend back. "I'm back, Kagome."

"I noticed. How's Death?"

"Not so good. Not only did he lose me again, but I flipped him the bird as I got the hell outta there." Kagome laughed and hugged her friend hard. The others ignored the doctors as the three of them barged in.

"Grump!" Noa heard as Kimari launched herself at her. Noa caught her and never even flinched. The doctors were in awe of the miracle preformed and the celebrations of the four friends rang on all night long with Kagome's mother supervising the whole thing.

Two days later

Noa opened her eyes slowly and saw the darkness again. She knew she was in her own apartment and all her things were near her but losing her eyesight took some getting used to. Luckily, she had taught herself early on to fight blind so that wasn't an issue. For the first time in her life, when she realized this, she was grateful that she had been a fourth blind before. Sometimes her eyesight was taken away from her but she was fully blind now. If she had been human.

Even still, it was going to take a lot for her eyes to heal and it wasn't going to happen overnight. She already felt the stretching and a slight bleeding in the back of her eyes but she paid it no heed. She could see air ripples which would definitely help her when she was in battle.

She stood up and pulled on her black sweatpants along with a black spaghetti strap shirt. She yanked on her black combat boots and grabbed her keys. She locked the door on her way out after grabbing her walking stick. She clipped it onto the band of her pants and she watched the cars going by. She walked towards Kagome's home, where the celebration of her being out of the hospital would happen. She knew that she would be the first one to arrive, Kagome and she had arranged it that way.

She walked in without knocking, having sent Kagome a text message along the way. She heard yelling and knew one voice, which was Kagome, but the other was unknown to her, a young male. She took a sniff of the air into her lungs and knew he had demon blood.



"And I say we need to find more jewel shards!"

"I told you, I can't leave today. I promise I'll be there tomorrow."

"No, wench, you're coming now!" Noa decided that now was as good as ever to interrupt.

"Hey, Kagome." Both of them whipped around to face her and she wanted to smirk. "Sorry to interrupt but I was wonder where to set my sight stick down."

"Oh, it's no problem. Um, here, I'll take it; if you're sure you won't need it."

"I know your home as well as my own, I won't need it." Kagome sent her a smile and accepted the stick. She set it down on the table next to the doorway.

"Um, Inuyasha, this is my friend, Noa. Noa, this is Inuyasha." Noa then understood thee whole thing about Jewel shards.

"Oh. Guess we were going to meet eventually. You still want me to come with you, hon?" Kagome smiled at her again and nodded.

"How many times do I have to tell you? I need you right now." Noa looked over her shoulder and gave Kagome one of her small and rare smirks/smiles.

"So you keep saying. I'm still not so sure if you need me to help you kick this demon Naraku's butt or to beat Inuyasha over the head with my stick." Kagome thought for a moment and then said with a smile.

"Both would be good." Noa shook her head and then looked around. "Inuyasha went up to my room to sulk. He doesn't know that you three are coming with me yet."

"Ah, I see."

"Said the blind man."

"Literally. Hello again, Inuyasha." Inuyasha harrumphed at her and Kagome turned around, not having seen him.

"How is it you can see more than I can?"

"I didn't see him, I smelled him. Even with my nose being plugged up with blood, I can still smell the scent of wet dog, though I really don't want to know why he smells like that." Kagome laughed and Inuyasha glared at her. "By the way, Inuyasha, Kagome's staying here today. I'll make sure she goes with you tomorrow but we are celebrating today and Kagome's needed here."

"You think I care, wench?" Noa stiffened and then gritted her teeth.

"I have a name, you damned male, and you can use it or do not speak to me. It's up to you how you want to spend the last three seconds of your life." Inuyasha glared at her and Kagome stepped in between them.

"Noa, please calm down. Inuyasha, she's right. You can say her name or you don't speak to her or I'll use a certain word that you don't like." Inuyasha growled but left. "I'm sorry, Noa."

"It's okay. It's something I have a problem with."

"I didn't know that."

"Vincent called me that when he was raping me. Not something you want to talk about."

"Talk about what?" Kimari and Anya had arrived and were standing right behind them.

"Why I don't like being called 'wench'." Kimari smiled as she set down the wine bottle and Anya nodded, understanding silently.

The barbeque lasted for quite a while and Inuyasha didn't show back up. The girls talked for hours until Kagome's mother finally told them to go to bed. The girls complied and went to bed with full stomachs and running mouths.

Four hours later



Kagome got up, knowing exactly where Noa was. She walked down the stairs and went to the porch area in the backyard. Noa was sitting there. Kagome sat back to look at her friend. The moonlight highlighted Noa's revealed scars and her red highlights gleamed in the night like blood. Her eyes looked completely white even though they had a touch of blue, silver, and red.

"See something I don't?" Kagome shook her head and walked over to sit by her friend.

"You look tired."

"You noticed. I am tired, in more ways than one." Kagome leaned her head against her friend's shoulder and looked up at her friend's face. She knew that Noa's eyes were healing but she had let the blood out of her eyes again. She did it right before she went to bed and when she woke up. In the darkness of the night, the blood from her eyes looked like tears. "They are tears, Kagome. The only ones that I can cry right now."

"One day, you'll be able to cry. I hope I'm there to help you." Noa looked at her friend.

"I hope so too." She saw the same star that she had seen as dawn approached. The shooting star that always appeared right before dawn did. She once again made the same wish she always did on the dawn star.

A wish made over and over, four girls who held together may just be the ones to change everything anyone ever thought of. Darkness crept closer to the darker girl but it was ignored for the light of love.

Styxx- "I know, that last paragraph didn't make much sense. Last chapter will be up soon."