Words can not begin to express how sorry I am for the delay in update. I would like to say it was for a good reason but for those of you who don't particularly like un-anime related fan fiction it wasn't lol. I am trying to get to my original stories (which these are) but also my newer ones. Well enough of my excuses on with the story! Please let me know what you think in some loving reviews, you wish to motivate me those are the key!

Oh before I forget, it has come to my attention this story may be a tad on the 'M' rated side for more than just sexual situations. It also has no shortage of gore, which I am told can be offensive to some. So if you have a weak stomach or prefer not to read about blood and guts ect.. I suggest to shy away from this particular and upcoming chapters! Thank you very much, love always!

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Chapter Fourteen

Crossed

Voices are deafen

Ring loudly with no one to hear

Hollow words fade

To what end do they come

Screams

Demonic energy all but surged through the thick towering mountain air its unwanted electric like pulse filling the fast approaching forms with lingering dread.

Kagome fisted her hands tighter against Kilala's fur her spiritually honed body visibly on edge from the corrupted atmosphere engulfing her.

The journey to the demons lair known as Rygo had taken a full day even with Kilala flying as fast as she could hours had ticked by like minutes to Kagome her mind clouded with worry and fear of what she was getting herself deeper into.

After all nothing good had come from this demon only despair and pain he had been the one to curse Kouga, to send that demon rat into their village that stated all of this chaos. All this suffering was his doing and Kagome would make it end, now.

"Kilala" Kagome whispered into the felines pointed ear her eyes fixed on the small opening at the peak of the black rocked mountain.

She knew with a certainty she could not explain that this was Rygo's home, Kagome swallowed hard she was afraid but her fear would not get the best of her she would face this demon no matter what!

Kilala did as she was secretly commanded flying down towards the mouth of the towering cave allowing Kagome to come within reach of the slightly flattened floor.

Kagome did not hesitate a rush of spiritual energy surging through her as she leapt from the safety of Kilala's back to make contact with the stone.

Her thick bow braced tightly in her hands her dark eyes scanning the blackened cave for any form of life, she saw nothing. But the overwhelming surge of demonic power coursing in the air kept her high on guard.

"Rygo!" Kagome shouted her fearless voice carrying loudly through out the cave echoing loudly from the surrounding stone.

There was an ominous silence only the faint vibration of her hard tone ringing back at her leaving her motionless at the cave opening.

The below air from the cliff face swirling upward making her raven lock fly wildly, the fabric's crimson shade of her priestess attire rustling below her as she stood sternly.

Kagome quickly peered behind her the sun was not far from rising but currently the darken sky remained a constant shade of grey and black.

Then ever so slightly the cold voice of another pierced through the silence of the cave.

"Young priestess" The dark voice called from the shadows of the stone walls.

Kagome's eyes fixed on the blackness ahead of her unable to see through the blinding dark but her body was all but pulsing with sacred energy preparing herself for an attack at any moment though she wasn't sure if one was to come.

"You know me?" Kagome asked her tone flat and sharp could this demon see her through the shadows is that how he knew she was indeed a priestess or could he feel her spiritual power surge through the cave as she could.

"Yes, very well we have watched you for some time" The sound of his voice was almost gentle but Kagome knew better.

She would have asked what he had meant by 'we' but she was not naïve to this she remembered Kaede's words all to well about the two demons sharing one body. But which demon was she currently facing, she could only recall the day and night shift. She couldn't remember which one possessed the body at this time.

"Then you know why I'm here" Kagome snapped regardless of who she was facing she wasn't about to drop her guard if this demon made a wrong mood she would purify him without a second thought.

Then silently the shadows parted the morphed incoherent body of Ryga floating through his crimson eyes gleaming with what would almost pass for a sympathetic stare.

His surprisingly handsome face carved into a solemn mask of unreadable emotions, his darken eyes his only window of almost human appearing weakness.

Kagome felt her pent up powers slowly begin to ebb away knowing no true ruthless demon could hold such a gaze, this was Ryga the lesser of the demons two evils.

"You seek aid for the wolf" Ryga spoke his tone soft and almost apologetic it was beyond confusing for Kagome.

Could this demon really have such a ruthless other half? A half completely opposite from the one she was currently standing before.

"Please change him back, make him like he was before." Kagome begged she was more than prepared to come into this cave and purify this demon into submission until he agreed to return Kouga to normal but she hadn't expected this. To face dowm the lesser of Rygo's form killing him seemed almost cruel even after all his other half had done.

She watched as Ryga's stone like face shifted slightly into silent surprise.

"You would wish him cured after all he has done?" He asked his crimson eyes almost glowing brighter as the words parted his lips.

He had seen the hell the wolf demon had unleashed on the human world and yet their was a human right before him willing to beg for his life regardless.

"Kouga didn't do anything and you know it! Whatever is inside him made him do those things!" Kagome defended taking a daring step forward

The Kouga she knew truly knew would never hurt anyone the way she had seen, he was better than that better than any full demon she had ever met.

Ryga glanced back towards the shadows of his cave his crimson eyes leaving her without a response.

"I can not help you priestess" He spoke lowly leaving no hint of misleading.

Kagome shook her head in protest she wouldn't accept that! She couldn't!

"There has to be a way! I wont leave him like that, I can't!" Kagome demanded the threat of tears beginning to sting her eyes. She didn't want to appear weak before this demon least of all but she was terrified!

If Ryga couldn't help her then who could? What hope did she have left that she could save Kouga?

Suddenly Ryga was before her his clouded body of black smoke swirling mere inches before her his handsome face so close to her own their noses almost touched.

Kagome felt her breath leave her lungs instantly, her preserved spiritual energy flooding away helplessly. What was this demon?

His crimson eyes scorched into her own the unfallen tears she held escaping her hold rolling down her heated cheek with a bright gleam.

"Shedding tears for a demon out of love, this is strange to me" Ryga whispered down at her watching as the last of her tears fell away.

Kagome couldn't move she couldn't find the strength to even breath his eyes held her prisoner as if tearing into the very fabric of her soul revealing everything that she was or ever would be, it was torture.

Then as swiftly as he had approached her he wafted away finally allowing her taken breath to return the spell of paralyzation she had found herself under broken.

He turned from her his eyes hidden from sight much to Kagome's relief she wasn't sure she could peer into them again after such an assault.

"I can not save him priestess, but maybe you can" He spoke softly towards the lingering shadows of the cave.

"How?" Kagome whispered finally recovering from his gaze her mind once again consumed with fear and worry for only one demon.

She watched as he turned towards her once again bravely she didn't look away, she would endure anything to save Kouga.

"Please" she begged once again feeling tears form though she desperately tried to force them away.

"There is power in you, I can see it even now" Ryga's voice carrying towards her almost threatening to invade the deepest parts of her all over again.

So that was what he had done. Searched her inside for power? Why?

"Use your strength against him" Ryga said softly for the briefest of moments his gaze shifting towards the slowly almost rising sun in the distance.

Kagome didn't understand what power could she possibly use against Kouga? She had watched him reduce entire villages to ash in mere hours.

Even if she did fight against him her power was to purify demonic energy if she did use it against him, it would undoubtedly kill him.

"What do you mean?" Kagome shouted in frustration if it had been that simple she would have done it long ago.

Ryga could see the uncertainty inside her but she was not mistaken in her concern, she was right the power of purification was deadly to most all demons but if he had learned anything in this time Kouga was a better demon then most.

"Purify him, purify the beast dwelling inside him force it back into dormancy" He shifted slightly his unformed body slightly retreating deeper into the shadows of the cave. Secretly trying to escape the fast approaching dim rays of the rising sun.

"I-I don't know how" Kagome blatantly admitted the only form of purification she had ever used on a demon before was to destroy it fully, never had she tried to use her sacred powers for a healing method.

"It is something only you can do, it is your only hope to save him" Ryga said coolly uncertainly was no longer a luxury the girl before him could afford, Kouga soul strong as it might be could not fight off the darkness building inside him forever. Soon enough it would devour him fully if not stopped in its quest.

Kagome starred uneasily at the crimson eyes of the demon floating before her and she knew his words rang true. This had all fallen on her, the person who had created this nightmare of a situation was now the only person with a prayers chance of making it right once more.

She didn't know how but she would save Kouga no matter the cost, she owed him that.

"A warning priestess, forcing your spiritual energy into another is no easy feat. Should you use too much power against him, he will most certainly die" Ryga whispered darkly making sure his words reached the silent priestess before him.

Kagome felt her breath hitch in her throat, she could actually unintentional as it might be kill Kouga? No.

Ryga watched as the all to readable look of fear spread over Kagome's face, and he knew his warning had sunk in deeply.

"Use to little though and his once conscious mind will be locked away, he will forever be trapped the way he is now" His voice was sharp and unwavering he did not want to aid in the suffering his other half had created but this girl needed to know the risk she was taking.

There was no room for grey in this area it was black and white, either she healed Kouga fully or condemned him to death or darkness, it was the burden she now had to bare.

Kagome felt a cold jolt run up the length of her spine making her shiver with a deathly lingering chill feeling. Kouga's life was now completely in her hands and it terrified her.

How could she live with this? She could actually lose Kouga forever, and it was all her doing. How could she live with that weight on her shoulders? Knowing her selfish choices could tear him away from her.

She looked to Ryga who appeared to read her horror stricken face openly, even in her unsteady state she could see he had given her all he could, all the rest was now hers to carry alone.

"I have told you all I can priestess, now go before it is too late" Ryga said his voice almost a sympathetic whisper as he turned from her towards the darkness awaiting him in the shadows of the cave.

Ignoring the growing ball of panic rising in the pit of her stomach she heavily turned back towards the mouth of the cave where Kilala still hovered over the stone ledge. It was clear Ryga had nothing more to give and she now knew time was not on her side.

Kagome fisted Kilala's golden fur tightly as she climbed onto her awaiting back preparing to put as much distance between this accursed place and her as possible.

"Priestess" She heard Ryga's cold voice call after her from the darkness of the caves shade.

Kagome looked to the shadows seeing only deepened crimson orbs glowing back at her through the darkness.

"If you truly wish to save him, give him a reason to fight" His words seeped through the howling wind swirling around her before sinking into her very core.

Holding Kilala tightly she looked away from the cave mouth feeling even as the colossal feline began to sore away the lasting effect of Ryga's words.

Her brown orbs burned brightly as she flew into the waiting darken sky. She would fight for Kouga in any way she could but what could she give him to resist the darkness taking over him?

Even now as desperate as she was for answers, she truly did not know.

Ryga watched as the form of the human girl vanished into mountain air invading his shadowed cave.

Then softly a small smile crept over his handsome lips as a single thought began to cross his hazed mind.

A human willing to fight for a demon, perhaps the world held more light than darkness after all.

"What the hell do you mean she left!?" Inuyasha's voice exploded like a burst of thunder making the thin wooden walls of the hut around him vibrate from the shock.

After returning from his overly delayed errands around the village which Kaede had all but forced upon him, holding him away from the aged priestess hut for what seemed like countless hours. He had finally managed to gain the time to check on Kagome's well being, only to find Sango in her place with desperately unwanted news.

"What I just told you, she left Inuyasha-" Sango sighed heavily, her own physical condition wasn't in the best of state to be receiving an ear full from the screaming man at her side.

"And no before you ask I don't know where she was going" Sango added hurriedly cutting the enraged half demon off before he could begin roaring again. Worried as she was for the woman she considered her best friend in this world, she didn't want to know that information would undoubtedly be used against her in this very situation, and in no way did she want to aid Inuyasha in his quest for blood.

"You just let her go?! You didn't try to stop her!?" Inuyasha boomed through clenched fangs, wounded as the current bed ridden demon slayer was he was in no mood to show her any sort of mercy.

After everything both of them had endured, she had allowed Kagome to sneak away knowing he would never have allowed it had he been there to stop either of them.

"Inuyasha try to clam down" Miroku pleaded in the fuming half demons shadow.

Furious as he knew he was Sango was not the person to take his anger out on, not after everything she had already survived.

"I don't have time for this!" Inuyasha hissed with venom laced in his every word.

Miroku's gentle words did little to nothing to calm the rampaging beast that was now Inuyasha as he spun towards the hut entrance shoving the unsuspecting monk aside roughly in sheer rage.

"Inuyasha!" Miroku called after him a touch of his own anger rippling through at the half demons brutish behavior.

"Miroku?" Sango questioned afraid this situation was about to become a whole lot worse than it already had.

"What?" Inuyasha snapped over his shoulder not an ounce of apology in his harsh tone.

"I'm coming with you" He stated firmly, anger consumed as he knew the half demon was Kagome's safety wasn't just his problem alone. Even though no part of him wished to leave Sango's side he knew deep down if Inuyasha was to confront Kagome as he was now no good would come of it.

He doubted his presence would aid in any way but he was willing to take the risk in order to preserve the half demon and priestesses long relationship.

"Just don't slow me down" Inuyasha threaten, as he was now he would have now second thought about abandoning the monk should he get in his way of tracking down Kagome.

Without so much as a further glance to either of the pair staring after him he sprinted out of the small hut entrance into the waiting grey village ahead.

Miroku peered over his shoulder reassuring Sango with a solemn glance before following after him in full force desperate to catch up.

Sango watched motionless as they disappeared into the thickly rain scented air leaving her there alone with only her thoughts to comfort her. Balling her soft hands tightly around the covers bundled over her curved form she whispered a soft murmur into the cooling breeze.

"Kagome, please be safe." She prayed.

Crimson red reflected brightly the darkening sky above, the sent of rain clinging to the thin air swirling in pointed ears listening to every dull sound humming around them.

Kouga's devilish smirk widened playfully sinister as the low but unmistakable sound of thunder rumbled all around him. The hard vibration thumping through his bare chest filling him with its booming melody.

The cliff peak he currently stood on top of towered over the surrounding land giving him an unreachable view of the thick grey sky that hung above him.

It was undeniable, a storm was fast approaching and judging by the chill that lingered in the air a colossal one. Just the thought of being surrounded by cracking lightning and roaring thunder sent a wave of excitement rippling through his heated blood.

Nothing was more chaotic than mother nature unleashing her fury and he eagerly awaited her arrival.

"What are you planning now?" A cautious voice asked from behind the partly mesmerized wolf demon's shadow.

Kouga peered a hellish red eye over his naked shoulder to the raven fur covered wolf approaching him from the shade of the towering trees at his back.

"Isn't it obvious" Kouga smiled wickedly staring back ahead to the darkening horizon below him.

Nestled on the rim of the distant mountains a mere few miles ahead was yet more unsuspecting villages. At this range it was difficult to see just how many but at first glance he would say at least three. Three crowded villages with busy streets and innocent lived just ripe for the taking.

The wolf brazenly approached the glaring wolf demons side knowing all to well where this look had led them in the past and he could not be more eager.

"Which one?" He asked hungrily his muzzle already dripping with drool from his growing anticipation.

Kouga's massive gleaming fangs flashed wide as his smile grew even more devious.

"All" He promised.

The ground surprisingly was an unwelcome feeling swelling under Kagome's feet as she unsettled herself from Kilala's imprinted back.

The ride towards Ryga's mountain had been unpleasant but not so much as the return journey towards the center of the unfamiliar forest she now emerged herself in. Until now she had not allowed her whelped covered body to phase her but now it couldn't be ignored any longer.

She had yet to use an ounce of her spiritual energy and yet already her body felt drained as if she had endured a weeks worth of Kaede's rigorous training.

Kouga and his hell wolf had done his job well on weakening her body, even if it hadn't originally been his intent.

Unable to stable herself on her own to feet she leaned against Kilala for support which the fire demon realized. Turning her massive head towards the heavily breathing priestess she hissed softly against her palm in concern.

Kagome rubbed Kilala's soft muzzle appreciatively knowing how the mute demon must feel seeing her in such a state.

"It's alright Kilala" She tried to reassure her companion with another soft stroke of her palm.

Bracing herself off the messed fur of the hell cat she forced herself upwards fully now applying her weight on the curved wood of her thick bow jammed into the damp earth at her feet.

This is where their journey came to an end, it was faint but unmistakable a horrid demonic aura clung to the cool air around her, an aura she had come to know all to well.

Kouga was close and judging by the electric like surge in the air dangerously so.

This was it, all the chaos of the past weeks had come down to this. Her strength would be the deter of this approaching battle and she would not have it any other way.

Taking an uneasy step forward she eyed the gaping forest ahead, shrouded in darkness from the absence of the fading sun above this is where she would begin her decent.

Turning partly back to the waiting feline at her side she faintly smiled.

"Take care of the others for me okay?" She asked softly but hoping her silent command would be obeyed.

This weight was hers to bare and no one else's, she wouldn't share her pain anymore with the people and demons she cared for most.

She could tell her words reached Kilala even through her animal appearance she could see the flash of concern spread of the fire cat's face.

Heavy hearted Kagome turned from her towards the waiting forest ahead, there would be a time for sweet reassurance but this was not it. She had a job to complete and she wouldn't rest until she saw it done by her own two hands.

Fading away into the shadows of the trees she submerged herself into the blackness all around her until sight was becoming all but impossible with the thick canopy overhead.

The pull of Kouga's demonic presence was flooding through her like a toxin, a toxin which she allowed to guide her willingly through the marsh of trees and undergrowth, until his frightful power was all she could feel.

Yes, she had gone far enough to begin her preparation for what was fast approaching.

Forcing herself straight she braced her heavily carved bow firmly before her positioning herself perfectly in the center of the blackened forest.

Sealing her eyes tightly she began to chant feeling the familiar pulse of her spiritual energy surge through her purposely. The bow clenched in her palm began to heat quickly as she poured her sacred essence into the sculpted wooden ark.

It flooded through her body like a channel of rippling electric water unit it began to take solid form like glass. Glass that she merged and manipulated into a perfectly round orb, then expanded it passed her body further and further until it engulfed the pull of Kouga's aura along with her own.

Gently Kagome's eyes parted the flood of energy she had just released partly receding back inside her. It took a mere glance above to realize her spiritual powers had succeeded in their purpose. Unaffected by either the towering trees above or the increasingly cold wind around her a thick layer of rounded spiritual energy gleamed above.

She had created a seemingly flawless barrier around this entire area.

Kagome breathed heavily such manipulation of her powers hadn't come without a cost, a faint feeling of numbness flooding through her soon after.

Kagome clenched her bow tightly trying to force the feeling away back into dormancy, she couldn't afford to feel weak in any way not right now.

She had done only the beginning stages of her plan to retrieve Kouga, to make sure he didn't escape and that neither of them were interrupted by another.

Knowing full well by now a certain half demon would undoubtedly be hot on her trail in search of her.

Kagome eyed the darkness at her back briefly wondering how Inuyasha would possibly react to the situation she had unintentionally forced him to endure.

She shoved the thought away, she couldn't make herself think of him, it would only distract her mission. Her mission that she vowed to cling to with every fiber of her being, to find Kouga.

Find him and regardless of the outcome be it good or horrible, stop the rampage of death and destruction he had caused once and for all. This she vowed.

Thunder roared in the distance, black heavy clouds closing the quickly fading lit sky. A cool chill hung in the air filled with an electric like surge of brute power. Just the soft touch of the slowly approaching breeze was enough to set Kaede's aged skin tingling with the threat of danger.

The air was charged with demonic energy even at this great of distance from its source its lasting jolt could be felt regardless.

Kaede gripped the chipped and worn arch of her bow tightly as she eyed the distant clouds swirling in an unnatural vortex. This was no ordinary storm it was all but fueled by demonic essences mixed with that of a potent spiritual lure.

The vast hills of the outer rim of the village swayed uneasily in the alerting breeze. As if the weather itself was waging war on the flood of battling energy's.

She could feel it now even in her bones the brew of the menacingly seeded powers.

It was unmistakable the amount of light and dark flooding through her, something pure and filled with good was charging something horribly dark. And though she wished with all her might to deny the truth she knew what was transpiring hundreds of miles away.

The familiar pulse of the sacred energy churned with the dark was impossible to mistake, it was Kagome's aura building so strongly around the area.

Kaede's one visible eye narrowed in concern, never before had she allowed her prodigy to face such a terrible aura alone, but it seemed she now held no other madness was causing this storm of raging essences was coming to its breaking point, war was in the air.

"Dear Kagome" Kaede whispered dryly as another charged gust of surging wind coiled around her.

"Hold strong" She prayed clutching her aged bow just a bit tighter to her side.

Lightening cracked loudly echoing like cannon fire over the smoldering village below. Tall well built huts now reduced to melted ash, fallen to the hell fires Kouga and his wolf had brought upon them mere hours ago.

Now all that remained of the now desolate streets were the fallen bloodied corpses of the massacred villagers who had lived in this once peaceful village.

It wasn't but moments ago the entire mountain sides surrounding this small village had been lit with the glow of their blazing homes, ringing with the echoes of their screams of terror and horror.

Now only silence remained, their unheard cries for mercy faded into the now falling rain.

The thick mud covered streets ran red as the rushing water fell onto their lifeless bodies washing away the crimson that stained their chard remaining cloths.

In the center of this hell like scene Kouga stood motionless staring up at the rumbling black sky. His tan skin coated with thick muck from his chase through the village streets as he mercilessly hunted down each villager.

His lips tainted crimson from the countless throats he had ripped out with his gleaming over hanging fangs. Soundlessly he watched through his burning azure eyes as the blood, sweat and mud trickled away with the fresh shower of rain water tracing over him.

His raven locks and remaining fur pelts thickened as the moisture soaked through, washing away all traces of the massacre he had just moments ago delivered on this unsuspecting village.

Only the lifeless bodies of his victims remained laid scattered around to remind him of the chaos he had brought so mercilessly upon them.

Even now as he stood surrounded by their bloodied forms he felt nothing but solace in the death he had created. Ripping apart each one of them had brought him nothing but delight, his only regret now was that there was no one left to devour.

He breathed deeply the rain scented air listening as the countless droplets echoed around him. The deep pools already formed around him intensifying the sound as each drop hit the surface of the blood and mud swirled puddles.

It was almost like a lullaby, the beating of the shower pouring all around him humming against his drenched skin.

Only when something unharmonious to the beat falling at his side reached his ear did he peer away from the black sky above.

Even through the soaked air the wafting scent of cherry blossoms flooded through. Kouga turned to the shaded forest mere feet from where he stood breathing deeply the all to familiar scent.

Parting through the curtain of rain a curved figure stepped forward from the shadows the distance provided.

Soaked raven hair curled to porcelain skin, drenched white and crimson fabric visible through the shroud of water rushing all around.

Piercing through the rain unnaturally bright a pair of chocolate eyes burned at him making his very blood heat with their harden glow.

Kouga stepped forward unable to fight the sinisterly wicked grin that spread over his handsome lips.

"Kagome" He whispered darkly a nerving twist of joy laced in his voice.

Kagome took an unshakable step forward into the thick crimson muck deep at her feet. Her eyes never leaving his as she soaked in the sight of the fallen bodies laid out so carelessly around them.

A single drop of clear water trickled from her swollen pink lip as she breathed sharply steadying her solid body further.

With one single motion her tense hands lifted from her side arching the perfect curve of her thick bow straight ahead.

Kouga froze in his thickly imprinted tracks the leering smile he held so carelessly now washing away with the flood of water running down his harden face.

The curtain of rain falling between them parted in a broken spray as she lined a flawless arrow along the string, its gleaming dagger like tipped aimed directly towards the now motionless wolf demon ahead.

"Forgive me" She pleaded, as her stone like fingers drew the arrow held in her grasp back strongly.

Kouga watched silently as she aimed the steel tip at his bare chest, seemingly at his very beating heart.

Then without a single word, he grinned.

Nooo! Why!? Why? Must it come to this, a battle on a rainy battle field come show of hands who saw this coming!? Well anywho that's all for now but I hope to have the next chapter up soon so not to keep you all waiting so long as last time.

But then again my other stories may take up my time again, *sigh* why can't there be more hours in the day? Oh well, I hope you all enjoyed the update and look forward to more. Unitl then like always.

See ya Soon!