The deep, monstrous bay to the sky of the fearsome and terrible beast would forever hold a place in Kagome. In a language with no words that she could understand, this note that shredded its way into her eardrums communicated outright fury. Sesshoumaru's sane self and had been forcibly quarantined by his basest instincts as they had been let free by the magic of the evil sorceress.

Now, the only thing that registered in the mind of the great Western Lord was pure, unadulterated loathing for the black-robed, violet haired, and blackest of black eyes of the sorceress Leiko were somehow bright in wicked elation.

Though the howl lasted just mere seconds, ringing in Kagome's ears would not stop, and the bestial call endlessly echoed itself off of the walls of the midnight-haired girl's skull. Through the pink haze of her own holy barrier that was protecting her from the harmful youki, Kagome watched Sesshoumaru's next moves.

Quicker than should be possible for a form that was as big as a house, the sorceress was now caught in the poisonous jaws of Sesshoumaru. Green acid harmlessly dripped around the form of Leiko as she protected herself with her magic.

Even from within jaws of death, Leiko laughed, "This is so much more fun!"

Before the strength of the maw could descend on Leiko, she disappeared in one last thump of magic . Angered that his prey had gotten away from him, Sesshoumaru released a ferocious growl and lunged at his next closest enemy, Kagura.

Kagura, already seriously injured in the side by Matsu, tried in vain to get the rampaging demon away from her. A sweeping wave of her fans, and a whirlwind sprouted up around Sesshoumaru, which was utterly useless as now even hurricane-force winds could not have thwarted him.

Matsu, smart enough to realize that his lord was unstoppable at this point, dashed out of the way and appeared near the fallen Kagome, whose protective holy energy was still surrounding her and not letting Matsu get any closer.

Kagura, struck down by sharp claws, stared at the wall of razor teeth hovering over her, acid dripping. Feeling poison droplets hit her skin; Kagura gave a sharp cry, the glowing flecks eroding through the layers of skin to the bone.

Slowly, as the last moments of your life tend to go, Kagura's red eyes saw the razor teeth opening, and heard a roar, then her moments ended, and all she felt until the blackness hit her was incisors tearing through her.

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A/N: First, I would like to clear things up. It's been getting really confusing switching from energy, aura, power, and other such adjectives to describe three different types of energies/auras/powers/etc… For Leiko, as a sorceress or an enchantress or witch…, she uses magic. Kagome, as a priestess or miko, uses holy energy or reiki, as I have seen in other pieces of work. And Sesshoumaru, as a demon or youkai, uses demonic powers or youki. So…yeah. Hopefully it will make things simpler for you to read, and me to write. :D