ITS MY BIRTHDAY! So as a present for myself…I'm posting a chapter for you!

If You Could Only See

Chapter 10

Warring States Era: Approx. 50 years after the well closed.

The sun was sinking low over the horizon, and a few stars were popping up in the quickly darkening sky. Inuyasha watched impatiently as he drummed his fingers on his knee in anticipation.

'Hurry up!'

There would be no moon in the sky tonight, and for the first time ever, Inuyasha wanted it to come, as quickly as possible.

He took in a deep breath through his nose, inhaling the scents all around him.

'I shouldn't be able to smell this far still…my senses are usually almost dead by now.'

Suddenly a familiar scent drifted lazily to him. Growling he stood to his feet and faced the direction it was coming from.

'Fucker always shows his muzzle at the worst times!'

He gave a quick over his shoulder at the setting sun. If his theory was correct, he wouldn't have anything to worry about, but if he was wrong…

Then it would be one hell of a night.

A twister of air swirled and spun, drawing closer and closer. And with a great gust of air, the young leader of the wolf demon tribe stood before Inuyasha, teeth bared and a murderous gleam in his eye.

"Dammit, Kouga, what the hell do you want now?" Inuyasha growled.

"Same as always, dog turd. I want you to tell me where the hell my woman is! I know you know where she is, and I know you know how to get to her! So tell me before I fucking rip the answer from your filthy half-blood throat!"

"We've done this before, Kouga," Inuyasha said calmly, placing a hand on the hilt of the Tetsusaiga. "I've told you what I know, you can't get to her, she's gone. Fucking deal with it. Everyone else has. There ain't anymore to tell. You can fight me all you want, but you know I'll just wipe the floor with your ass. I always beat you Kouga, what makes this time any different?"

The corners of Kouga's mouth twisted into an evil smirk. "Cause I found out some interesting shit the other day," his mouth kept curving more into a smile. "Apparently hanyous turn human for one night, did you know that?"

Inuyasha growled low in his throat and tightened his grip on his father's fang.

"Can you imagine?" he continued, beginning to circle the dog like a wolf about to tear apart it's prey. "HUMAN, for a whole night! Weak and vulnerable, and completely defenseless."

Inuyasha pulled out his sword and pointed it at Kouga, following the circling demon with the tip of the Tetsusaiga. He glanced at the sun, it was almost about to set. He knew that Kouga wouldn't be as kind to him as he had been to Kouga. If Kouga won this fight, Inuyasha would end up dead. End of story.

He had to get rid of Kouga as quickly as he could, before the sun set, or he'd be putting his life in greater danger than he ever had before.

"I've been waiting around here for weeks, watching for the one night your blood smelt more human. Once that sun goes down, you will tell me what I want to know. You don't have anyone here to save your ass; that fox shit is kami knows where and the humans are too weak to do anything to help. "

"Why do you think the humans are weak?" the dog demon countered. "We ended Naraku over 50 years ago! All of them, Kohaku, Sango, and Miroku, They've grown old, they had children, and their children grew and had children of their own! Their bodies won't carry them in this world much longer, because they're human! Kagome was human! Do you think she's still the same as she was? By now, she's lived her life and is ready for the next world, if she hasn't passed into it already. Her life wasn't meant to be lived here! It was a fluke that she came here; she was allowed to stay until she helped fix the jewel because the jewel was a part of her. The jewel sent her home when it was completed, you can ask anyone that was there and they'll tell you."

"Don't lie to me!" Kouga snarled. "There's something your not saying, I can feel it!" The distance between Kouga and the tip of the great fang was getting smaller and smaller as the circle Kouga was tracing with his footsteps spiraled slowly to meet the hanyou in the middle.

Inuyasha knew he should attack now, before he lost his chance, but pain was beginning to settle in. The transformation from hanyou to human was always a bit painful, but it had never been this bad before. His joints were aching, and his heartbeat was week and sporadic. His arms were shaking with the effort it took just to hold up his sword.

"What's wrong flea bag? You don't look so good!" Kouga sneered. He was very close now. "You tell me what you've been hiding, and I wont kill you."

"There's nothing more to tell!" Inuyasha shouted, with great difficulty. His breathing was labored and shallow, and the world was spinning around his eyes.

To Kouga, Inuyasha looked like a man on his death-bed. His usual white-silver hair was dull and almost gray looking, and his eyes held no light behind them. His skin was pale and clammy and he was trembling from head to foot.

'Easy victory,' the prince thought.

"Fine then! We'll just have to do this the hard way."

Kouga lunged at Inuyasha, easily sidestepping the great sword and made an attempt to seize his throat, but at the same time, Inuyasha took a great, shuddering breath and collapsed to the ground. He screamed in pain as his body shook and pain shot through every cell on his body.

"Shit!" Kouga yelled at the hanyou on the ground. He didn't know what to do, were the transformations to a human always like this? Somehow, he didn't think so.

Inuyasha writhed on the ground. He had never been in such pain before. Surely, this was what it felt like to die. He felt like his very life force was being drained from him as he struggled to get some kind of control over himself, but he couldn't to anything but scream.

Kouga was entranced. Never before had the half dog demon shown any sign of pain, even with a hole in his gut. Whatever pain was making Inuyasha scream like this was far past his imagination. He felt like he should look away, but he couldn't. He stared, horrified as the hanyou's body convulsed on the ground, the Tetsusaiga lay next to him, abandoned.

Only a sliver of the sun was visible now, but it was disappearing fast. As the last traces of sunlight faded from the ground, the hanyou's heart stopped beating all together.

Inuyasha opened his mouth wide in a silent scream, and his back arched lifting his torso off the ground. His eyes closed and he fell back to the earth, and was still.

Kouga stared in shock at the body that lay before him. He couldn't believe what had just happened. Whatever had happened, wasn't supposed to. Inuyasha had looked perfectly fine before, but now the stench of death filled his nose.

Kouga walked to the still body cautiously. If he really was dead, then Kouga could never get the information he wanted from Inuyasha he needed.

"D-damn!"

He couldn't understand what had just happened. What had caused Inuyasha to suddenly drop dead like that? He supposed it had something to do with the fact that Inuyasha had been a half demon. Usually hanyous were killed before now, in fact Kouga had never even heard of another half demon living as long as Inuyasha had.

The stench of death was sickening, and he raised his arm to cover his nose, when a faint scent hit Kouga hard.

'What…what the hell? There's n-no way!'

The body on the ground began to pulse, a golden aura shining faintly around it. Kouga stared at the face of Inuyasha and watched as his skin got back it's color and the dull hair seemed to shine like it had just been cleaned. Finally, from behind his hair, two red stripes slowly appeared on his face, one on each cheek.

Inuyasha's eyes shot open, and they glowed bright in the dark as he gasped, filling his lungs with the cool night air.

Kouga took a step back in horror, because Inuyasha's scent had changed. He no longer smelled like a dog demon mixed with human, the human scent was completely gone. Inuyasha now had the scent of a full blooded dog demon. What was more, his aura had changed as well. The sheer power emanating from him was intimidating and frightening, and it far overpowered the wolf demon's aura.

Breathing heavily, Inuyasha slowly pushed himself up into a seated position on the ground. He was very confused, he couldn't remember what had happened. He just recalled the sensation that he was dying, but now he felt perfectly fine. In fact he felt better than fine. He felt better than he had in his whole life! He felt stronger, and his senses all seemed heightened, and it was a bit overwhelming.

He looked down at a clawed hand and stared, astonished, at the claws that now looked thicker and sharper than they had before. He was even more amazed when he noticed green poison dripping from underneath them. Standing, he experimentally swung his claws in and arc at the trees, causing a whip of green light to lash out making 6 trees melt and collapse.

"Y-your…!" Kouga's eyes were wide with disbelief.

"Full demon…" Inuyasha whispered breathlessly. "I guess I was right. My human nights have been getting shorter and shorter for the last few years, I wondered if that meant my human blood was fading…"

"But how?" Kouga demanded.

"How the hell should I know?" Inuyasha snorted. He raised a hand to his face and cracked his knuckles before looking up at Kouga. "I believe you wanted information? Well I've given you all the information I know. Kagome's far away and you can't get to her. She's gone. Forget about her."

Kouga growled, rage filling him again. "How dare you! How fucking dare you! You treated her like shit! Always chasing after that dead bitch and leaving her unprotected! She probably saved your ass millions of times and you don't even care! You may not give a shit about her, but I still love her!"

"Don't you DARE suggest that I don't care about Kagome!" Inuyasha's eyes began flashing red as the poison began to drip from his claws again and his aura spiked, causing his hair to blow around him as if caught in a breeze.

Kouga hadn't ever been able to beat Inuyasha when he was hanyou, and now that he was youkai, Kouga knew he had even less of a chance at beating Inuyasha.

"I loved Kagome, more than a piece of shit like you could ever under stand!" Inuyasha snarled. "That's why I gave up. You were right, I did treat her like shit, and I regret that everyday. This is my way of apologizing for it. I'm letting her have her life back. You should give up too, Kouga. Find some wolf demon and let her bear your pups, because Kagome is back where she belongs."

Kouga slumped his shoulders in defeat. "But…Kagome…" He clenched his fists together and screwed his eyes shut.

"I'm s-sorry, Kouga."

Kouga looked up at the stutter in Inuyasha's voice, and saw a tear roll down his cheek as he stared at the stars blinking in the sky.

Okay, so apparently your not supposed to put review responses in the chapters…oops. Gomen! Didn't know! I'll just send them in messages from now on!

Haven't had this beta'd yet…I wanted to post it on my birthday ^-^ I'll get it beta'd and fix it later, Gomen. ^.^

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!

~Lions Heart 獅子の心 (ROAR! ^-^)