Disclaimer: I do not own, " InuYasha". But, I do own InuSasha, Azuko, Momo and all stories I write.
A/N: This is the sad one, folks. Who will die? Who will live? What will happen to the Inu-Gami now? Read and find out!
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Chapter 15: The Ultimate Sacrifice!
Momo watched them talk, her superhuman hearing allowing her to hear them and their plan. She growled, putting her staff to rest in the cloud and grabbing her sword.
" Oh, you all aren't planning against me, are you? Well, just in case… RUBY BLOOD FLOW!" She yelled, swinging her sword and releasing about a hundred slashes of ruby red light at them.
Everyone was able to dodge in time, except InuSasha, who got hit in both arms, and her stomach. She flew into a tree, a low branch going through her stomach. She gasped, her eyes wide and pure white in fear. She put her hands to her stomach, putting them around the bloody branch, the brown wood covered in her crimson blood. She trembled, knowing she wasn't going to die, but this was Momo's attempt to kill her or, at least make her too weak to fight on.
" InuSasha!" InuYasha yelled, running to her. He grabbed the branch and pulled it out, catching her as she fell. " InuSasha? INUSASHA! Speak to me!" He yelled, shaking her. She coughed, blood falling near InuYasha's feet. " She's alive…" He said softly, feeling the pain she was in.
Kagome ran to them, helping them. " Are you okay?" She asked InuSasha.
InuSasha coughed, nodding. " I'm alive, but I'm really weak. If I use the Rose Lash Wave, I know I won't make it…"
InuYasha shook his head. " No. Don't say such things. You will make it! You will! You're going to be the one to defy the curse of the Roseuiga!" He said, trying not to cry. If InuSasha died, he wouldn't be able to live with himself.
She nodded, getting up. " Thank you both. If I do die, I will watch over you all." She said softly, getting her sword ready. Wind swirled around it and she scowled, panting.
InuYasha nodded, getting his sword ready. Kagome got her arrow and the others got ready as well. InuYasha and InuSasha exchanged sad gazes. " I'll miss you, know that, InuSasha…" He said softly, his eyes trembling at the tears he tried to suppress.
InuSasha began to cry then, hot tears falling down her face. " I'll miss you too, InuYasha. Remember that when I'm gone…"
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Azuko let her hands down, the black light disappearing, her all knowing gaze to where she knew the fight was. Kaede let her hands down as well and stood next to the glowing spirit. " Is she dead?" She asked softly, weakened by the barrier.
Azuko shook her head. " No, she is not. She has sucked as many souls as she can, for now, anyway. Soon, she will be defeated by the Rose Lash Wave…"
Kaede gasped. " But, isn't that the attack that-"
Azuko nodded, tears in her eyes. " It is… If InuSasha uses this attack, she will die, and she knows this…"
Kaede began to cry. " She is giving up her life for all of ours… She cannot do this! I have to stop her!" Kaede was about to make a dash for the battlefield, but Azuko stopped her, grabbing her shoulder and making Kaede suddenly feel so calm. " Azuko…" She said, looking into the spirit's eyes.
" You cannot stop her. This is her destiny and she needs to fulfill it… You, me, nor anyone can stop her…" Azuko said softly.
Kaede sighed, knowing Azuko was right. InuSasha had to do this; it was the only way to defeat Momo. But, was it really worth her dying over? Kaede knew that, yes, to InuSasha it was, but, the girl didn't know of all the people that would miss her, how she would be mourned after once she was gone. InuYasha wouldn't be the same, not even Kagome would be able to help him. Kagome would mourn too, so would Sango, Miroku and Shippo. Kaede would mourn as well, but she knew, InuYasha would be in the most mourning. InuSasha was his twin sister, the only true family that still cared about him that he had left. With InuSasha gone… The lives of the Inu-Gami wouldn't be the same…
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Momo felt, for the first time in so long, fear. The look in InuSasha's eyes, the pure hatrage and the pure determination to kill her, was stronger than anything she had ever seen. But, there was also a slight fear and acceptance in her eyes. And, Momo knew what it was for. InuSasha was going to die in this battle, and she was accepting it. She was accepting that she was going to die for the sake of others. A powerful demonic aura surrounded InuSasha and her sword and Momo knew, only one of them was going to come out alive.
InuSasha felt like crying. She knew she was going to die and yet, she was accepting it. She just wanted to help InuYasha and his friends, to make their lives better, even if it meant she wasn't around. She really was willing to sacrifice herself for the lives of others.
Momo smirked at her, shaking the thoughts of fear from her head and giving InuSasha the most evil glare she could. " So you all think you can defeat me? I doubt it." She said evilly.
InuSasha smirked. " Just watch! Now! ROSE SCAR!" She dropped her sword down, sending an attack at Momo.
InuYasha did the same thing. " WIND SCAR!"
Kagome shot her arrow. " SACRED ARROW!"
Sango let Hirikostu go. " HIRIKOTSU!"
" SACRED SUTRAS!" Miroku yelled, throwing glowing sutras at Momo.
" FOX FIRE!" Shippo screamed, letting out a large attack of fox magic.
Momo smirked more, lifting her hand to send the attacks back. When she did, she suddenly saw it. Both InuYasha and InuSasha had the same look on their face. Momo had walked right into their trap.
InuYasha lifted his sword high above his head, tears in his eyes. This was it. He was about to lose his sister forever. " BACK LASH WAVE!" He yelled, sending the Back Lash Wave at Momo.
InuSasha lifted her sword up as well, the sky seeming to open when she did so. A bolt of lightning came and hit her sword, making her seem to float, her hair floating off her shoulders. She got engulfed in a powerful light, rocks around her floating off the ground. She opened her eyes, the sky now a rose color, her eyes light pink. Her sword got covered in three swirling lights, black, white, and green, the colors representing Heaven, Hell, and Earth. She levitated off the ground, everyone watching her in awe. She swung her sword down, releasing an attack similar to InuYasha's, but all the colors of the world in it, as well with a rose colored light. " ROSE LASH WAVE!" She yelled, the attack flying towards the shocked face of Momo…
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The villagers pointed to the sky, the sudden change of color shocking them. They saw a large different colored attack shoot out, the attack so big; it was like a giant ball, many able to see it.
Kaede took a step forward, tears falling down her eyes. The light of the attack played off her eyes and off her tears, the light shining as her tears fell to the ground. She put her hands in front of her, praying.
" Let this pure soul live… If not, let her find peace in the afterlife…" She finished praying and watched as Azuko began to fly away, crying at the sacrifice InuSasha had now made. But, she flew back down, knowing she had to do something first.
Azuko knelt down, to honor InuSasha and her memory, sensing that it was going to set off a chain of people who knew InuSasha doing the same. Kaede knelt as well, all the villagers around them doing the same…
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Seeshomaru stood on a cliff, Rin at his side, Jaken on Ah-Un's back. " Milord… Isn't that the attack of your younger sister, InuSasha?" Jaken asked, seeing Seeshomaru looked even more emotionless than normal.
The wind blew Seeshomaru's sleeves around with his tail and hair, his eyes glistening. Rin saw this and knew Seeshomaru was close to crying for his sister. " Yes, Jaken… It is… She is using the Rose Lash Wave to give her life to all those she loved… To protect us from the wrath of Momo…" He said simply, not knowing of how pained he sounded. He knelt down to honor her, Rin, Jaken, and Ah-Un following suit.
' InuSasha… You are such a fool… Giving your life away to protect people… I pray that you will join our father and watch over the world in the after life…' He thought, closing his eyes, tears flying into the wind…
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Totosai stood there, Myoga on his shoulder. He watched the attack from his home on his cliff, his eyes filled with sadness. Myoga shivered from Totosai's shoulder, tears in his tiny eyes. " Milady… She is using the attack that can only end in death, to save us all from death…" He said, a sob coming out of his throat.
Totosai sighed. " We can only pray, Myoga, that, by some miracle, she will live… We must pray for a miracle that she will defy the prophecy of the Roseuiaga… If she does not… We will pray that she finds what she was searching for in the after life…" He said, tears in his eyes.
Myoga looked up at him. " And, what is that, Totosai?" He asked.
" A life she felt she didn't deserve…"
Both stayed silent after Totosai's words and knelt on one knee to honor her, quietly weeping for the loss of InuSasha…
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Kouga looked up into the sky, seeing the change. Ayame stood next to him, both in a cave, surrounded by wolves and wolf demons. " What is that?" She asked, seeing a large ball of light and power.
Kouga said nothing, knowing what it was. Myoga told him when he saw InuYasha searching for InuSasha. He then looked at everyone around him, knowing that that girl, the angel he saw pinned to a tree, was giving her life for everyone in Japan, to spare them the pain of death and loss.
Ayame saw Kouga's look and nodded, knowing it was something bad to make him this quiet. Suddenly, he knelt down, his eyes closed peacefully. " To Princess InuSasha…" He said softly, all wolves and wolf demons around him kneeling and bowing. Ayame knelt by Kouga, seeing demons around them do the same. Everyone was kneeling to honor InuSasha, knowing she was giving up everything for them…
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The Inu-Gami felt overwhelmed by what they saw. Kagome began to cry, kneeling on the ground. " Kagome? What are you doing?" Shippo asked.
Kagome looked at InuSasha. " I am kneeling to show my respect for her, to honor her and all she is doing for us…"
Sango nodded, kneeling as well. Shippo knelt by Kagome and Miroku knelt by Sango. Kirara bowed her head, whimpering.
InuYasha saw that, all around was kneeling to InuSasha, to the princess. He closed his eyes, seeing her smile, seeing her get mad at him, seeing her cry, seeing her hug him, seeing her training with him. He watched as she grew up in his eyes, he saw when he got her back, when she came to Kagome's era, when she sang, when she turned into a demon, when she cried for death, when she came back after running away. But, what he saw the most was something that no one else saw.
InuSasha sat in a meadow of flowers, on her knees in the middle, a purple rose in her hands. She looked at him, throwing it at him gently. In his mind, he reached for it and grabbed it, the rose turning black when he looked to see her gone.
InuYasha opened his eyes, kneeling to her, tears falling freely from his eyes. " I will never forget you…" He said softly, his bangs covering his face…
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Kikyou realized it too late. The attack was coming and she couldn't stop it. Momo had paralyzed her, so she couldn't run. But, Kikyou didn't want to. She knew she had done terrible things; her death was her punishment for them. She closed her eyes, watching her life flash by, knowing she was ready to fully die and go to the afterlife, just to be able to live in peace.
' I want to live in peace and the only way to have that, is to go to the after life and stay there… I lived a full life and, I only regret things I would never do, if I were me again… Thank you, InuSasha, for setting me free…' Kikyou thought, seeing the light get brighter from under her eyelids...
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Momo watched in horror as the light, now mixed with InuYasha's Back Lash Wave, came towards her. This was it. She was going to pay for what she had done. She killed her sister and many innocent people, she tried to turn the most powerful hanyou in the world against her family, and she tried to destroy the world. She was getting what she deserved.
She suddenly began to cry. " No! I don't want to die!" She screamed, the light coming to her and Kikyou, destroying them, their bodies seeming to degenerate in the light's power. " I'm sorry! I'm sorry, Azuko! " She cried before disappearing forever…
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InuSasha fell to the ground, all around her turning normal. She laid on the grass, hearing birds in her ears. She was proud of herself. She proved to everyone that she cared about them by giving them the only thing she could, her life.
The Roseuiaga fell out of her hands when she was in the air, and now it was in the dirt by her, no longer transformed, it was just a rusty piece of junk. InuSasha took a shuddering breath, someone picking her up. She looked and saw InuYasha, sobbing as he held her. All around him, her friends were kneeling by her, all crying. InuYasha held her close. " InuSasha…" He sobbed.
She put a hand to his face, blood covering her. " Big Brother… Live happy and never forget how strong you are… No one can make you any less or more of a man than you are…" She said softly. She coughed, blood coming out. " Kagome, Sango, Miroku, Shippo… Kirara… I will never forget you…"
Sango nodded, Miroku holding her close. " And we wont forget you…" Miroku said, sobbing.
Shippo nodded. " I wont forget you! I loved you a lot!" he sobbed, hugging her.
She closed her eyes, letting out a small laugh. " I loved you too, Kiddo…"
Kagome sniffled. " I hope you find happiness, InuSasha…"
InuSasha looked at her. " I will… And I will protect you all… In spirit…" She looked back at InuYasha. " Don't mourn me… Live to keep my memory alive…"
He nodded. " I wont! I wont forget you! I'll fight to keep you alive in spirit!" He vowed, sobbing.
She nodded. " Goodbye, everyone…" She said, fainting.
Everyone was silent. InuSasha was now dead…
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A/N: That actually made me want to cry. I killed InuSasha! Wah! (Sobs) But, the question is, will I bring her back? Will I make a chapter called, " A Miracle" and bring her back? Its up to YOU! The Reader! Tell me if you think I should, so I can have our sequel happen! Tell me! Arigoto for reading and Ja Ne! Hope I didn't make anyone cry!
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Kagome4455