angelstar ~ ahaha I would gladly give Kikyo's body over to you however, it'll have to be after I'm done with her…then Kagome, so hope you can be patient! And with Sesshomaru, yes it's great that he even thought about apologising, huh? And you'll see what happens to Kagome in this chapter ;)

kagome love inuyasha ~ aww well, I'm glad your sister likes what I did. And thanks! I'm so happy I'm your favourite story so far!

As for the rest of you FANTASTIC people, thank you so much for everything!

Now for the twentieth chapter! Sorry it took so long!

Chapter 20

The rain continued to fall in sheets, the lightning split the sky, and the thunder shook the earth to its core.

Funny, it was almost like the night Kagome ran away.

Sango had been wandering aimlessly around the house, moving from room to room fidgeting endlessly. Every clock she passed, her eyes would flicker to its face ticking away painfully slow.

But before she knew it, four hours had past since Kagome's departure.

Sango sat by the window in the waiting room staring intensely into the gloom of the wet outdoors.

The whole house was deadly silent; as if it harboured the dead. Since Kagome left and the door to the grand house closed shut, everyone felt depressed…and empty. Without a single spoken word, they floated off to an unknown destination around the house.

When Kikyo returned, everyone had gone up to her eagerly for answers.

"She has entered the Dark Forest. Her fate is in her hands now," she had said.

And that was all. She had disappeared somewhere throughout the house after that.

Sango had noticed that Kikyo had a certain…satisfying air around her since her return. It gave Sango a very uneasy feeling. Not to mention with the fact that the fate of the Taisho family was in a single person's hands was nerve-racking.

'Kagome, you promised to come back alive.' Sango could do nothing more but let her heart beat hopefully as she stared in the direction Kagome was suppose to come from.

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"There's no use running. You're trapped in my web and you can't escape. I'll let you free only when I'm finished with you."

She continued to run.

"Do you really want to kill me, Kagome? Do you even think you can kill me?" He was laughing.

Kagome tripped as a slimy tentacle caught her and wrapped itself around her ankle. Already scraped, bruised and injured, the girl panted hard as she struggled to get free. Her body shook with exhaustion.

The tentacle started to pull her towards the source, dragging her on her stomach. Kagome attempted to dig her fingers into the ground but she continued being dragged.

The girl reached behind her to try and retrieve an arrow, but ended up empty-handed. Instead, her hand waved around the empty quiver, heart racing in panic.

She had run out of arrows.

Weaponless, and desperate for a chance to escape, Kagome rolled onto her back and reached over to stab at the tentacle with the end of her bow.

It squished disgustingly as it withered loose.

But the moment Kagome ran free, more tentacles shot past her, sharp as arrows and coated with miasma. When they missed their target, they didn't stop but instead, stretched further and further until they were stopped by something in the darkness.

Kagome glanced at a tentacle stopped by a tree. It started to melt the trunk it was lodged in.

'He's trying to poison me by shooting the miasma into me,' Kagome thought.

She felt one zip past her ear with a 'whoosh'. It ran itself straight into a tree, killing it instantly. Her heart jumped anxiously at the close-call.

Still running, Kagome jumped above bushes, ran over rocks, slipped on moss and stumbled over roots. The terrain was becoming dotted with rocks varying in shape and size so Kagome thought of this as a perfect place to rest and hide for a while.

Just as Kagome was about to side-step and take cover behind a boulder, a tentacle slashed her waist and whirled into the darkness, carrying her blood with it.

Preventing herself from screaming out in pain, Kagome bit down on her tongue and braced herself behind the rock. She examined her wound in pain and tasted the rusty taste of blood in her mouth.

Her shirt was ripped and so was a layer of her flesh. Stinging beyond the feeling of pain, Kagome felt the poison of the miasma flow into her system. Blood was spreading across her white, dirtied shirt and Kagome clutched her side in pain. The pain was blinding.

The effects of the poison were quick to take effect. Even thought it was nothing but a fairly deep cut, Kagome felt her vision start to blur and her breathing grow haggard. Her body felt cold but her skin burned hot. Her whole body shook and shivered so violently, she barely noticed how quiet the forest suddenly was.

The tentacles had stopped shooting and the one's already shot were still and straight in mid-air, resembling banisters. It was too quiet.

Not even a snap of a branch or footsteps on top of leaves, the silence was deafening.

"You think you can hide my slave?" His voice suddenly resonated cruelly around the area. Kagome was shaking in fear and physical stress but her mind raced to find a way to escape.

Suddenly, all those tentacles that remained stretched through the trees came to life.

They came too fast for Kagome to dodge them.

From within the darkness, the few dozen tentacles, thick as ski poles and surrounding Kagome's boulder, came rebounding back.

Parallel on both sides, they caved and curved in from up front like an "M" pattern, pointed at Kagome's position. Not even combining into one fat tentacle, the few dozen needle-pointed spears of flesh dug themselves into Kagome's body.

They entered with a sickening sound.

Kagome screamed. She had no reason to hold back now.

Her face, slightly splattered with her own blood, looked down in horror at her body. Naraku had purposely missed her heart with stubbornly kept beating.

She cried out in pain as the tentacles pumped miasma into her body. She gritted her teeth and tried to use her purifying powers to push the poison back. But taking her exhaustion and the massive amount of miasma being pumped into her body into consideration, Kagome was quickly defeated.

Kagome felt her limp body being lifted into the air and rotated to face the source of her suffering. Her bow slipped from her hands, soiled with her own blood.

Still hanging in the air, supported by those few dozen tentacles running through her gut, Naraku brought her close enough so she could smell the stank of his breath.

He chuckled darkly. "Without you, I can get back my powers without fail," he whispered. "That hanyou son of my brother isn't going to do much and Sesshomaru is a human thanks to you. Without anyone left to defend the Stone, I can wreck havoc upon this village that has so kindly shunned me."

Thunder roared above the trees as Kagome let the rain consume her. But was it the rain or her pain-forced tears that blurred her vision? Her eyes were barely open as she fluttered over Naraku's face, still pale and flawless as ever.

His black, long hair flowed down his back and his red eyes glimmered with content. His lips curled into a cruel smile.

Kagome wanted so badly to just slip into her unconsciousness so she wouldn't have to suffer through the pain so much. But life didn't work that way.

She coughed and her blood splattered to the ground, staining the grass below in red. She felt her heart thump lightly in her chest. Her vision was fading and her breathing was becoming shallow.

Naraku smile grew. "Seems like you can't hold on much longer can you? Well, we don't want our little house-warming present to be dead on arrival now do we?"

Kagome couldn't say or do anything in return except glower at him, unresponsive.

Now moving, she was taken somewhere further along the edge of the forest, still hanging from Naraku's tentacles.

Kagome saw the trees become less and less crowded and the earth start to even out through her blurred vision. Then, they arrived into a clearing.

Just beyond those hill was the mansion. Was the house this close in the first place? If it was, it was strange how Kagome wasn't able to escape in the first place.

Almost as if he read her mind, Naraku said, "You were trapped in my little web and could not escape until I allowed it. So in other words, you were running on an endless path." He chuckled. "The moment you entered the forest, you were caught in my trap."

"Hm," Naraku smiled. "How fortunate for me that the Butterfly flew into a spider's web."

Kagome felt the tentacles withdraw from her body as she fell to the ground below, knocking the air out of her. More blood escaped her mouth.

"Now go back to the house. Warn them of my presence. Arrive as you are and I'll be watching as their cries for your death ring through the air," Naraku commanded, the hint of a smile etched into his tone.

Kagome tried to stand up.

"Pity," the demon laughed. "I was hoping I would make you watch your loved ones die before you. But considering the circumstances, I think it'll be best for them to watch you crawl back to them and have you dying in their arms."

Kagome finally pushed herself up and while clutching her chest, she turned towards Naraku and spat in his face. She watched as her blood impacted his cheek.

Kagome seethed. "It will be you who dies today, Naraku. I am no longer your slave nor am afraid of you. I'll be the one to watch you suffer and have my revenge once and for all."

Naraku's smile contorted into an ugly scowl. With a harsh push of a tentacle, Kagome went flying down the hill and painfully stopped at the bottom. Her shirt, although being drenched with the rain, was soaking up her blood just as hungrily.

Naraku wiped his cheek and flicked his wrist away in disgust. He narrowed his eyes.

"Don't be so confident at my death, slave. I'll watch happily while you die."

With that, he disappeared into the darkness of the forest.

Painful tears dripped down Kagome's scratched and bloodied face. Her head had impacted the ground after rolling down the hill harder than she expected and a gash had appeared somewhere on her head. Kagome could feel the warm and sticky blood drip down her face.

With one arm still clutching her chest and upper body, Kagome limped towards the house.

'Somebody…help me.'

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Sango shivered. It wasn't because of the draft or even the weather, but her whole body's skin crawled with an eerie sensation.

"How long have you been here?"

Sango turned to meet the golden eyes of Inuyasha. His face was serious and slightly grey with worry of a certain someone.

Sango sighed and turned back to the outdoor view. "Ever since she left."

"Well, my mom's made some things to eat…you should get something to eat," he said.

Sango shook her head. The weight of depression was too heavy on her shoulders to activate her stomach. It's not like she wasn't used to the lack of food anyway.

"Well…do you know where Miroku is? Mom's making me find everyone to ask." Inuyasha's voice had obvious irritancy within its depth. Even he would rather sit and mope rather than act as host in his house.

Sango gestured to the floor above. "I think he's in the library. He told me that he's trying to find more research that might help Kagome."

The moment her name was said, Inuyasha's ears drooped and his eyes dimmed. But he kept his eye contact.

"Alright…thanks." And he turned to leave.

Sango watched the depressed half-demon climb the stairs as her own depression grew. His lack of optimism wasn't exactly helping her own.

Sighing, Sango turned back to the window. Was Kagome ever coming back? The time seemed to have dragged on and on but at the same time sped up to a point beyond recognition.

But wait…what's that?

A figure, blurred by the rain, was moving towards the house, barely visible.

But that figure…those features…they all seemed too familiar to Sango as she squinted at it.

'Oh Kami…'

It was Kagome.

Sango sprang into action.

"Inuyasha!" Sango didn't know why but his name slipped past her lips the moment her mind pieced everything together.

In a second, right as Sango jumped to her feet, did the dog demon bolt down the stairs. His eyes shone with hope and panic all at once. He stared at her eagerly for answers.

Without even the breath to explain, she could only hope he would understand as she slammed open the door and flew out into the rain.

But Kagome was no longer standing. Instead, she was collapsed on the ground, unmoving.

Inuyasha flew ahead of Sango with ease and arrived by her side in no time. By the time Sango arrived, Inuyasha had Kagome rested against his arms as he cuddled her body to his chest. He was calling her name.

But with no response.

"No…no, no, no, no, no, NO, NO!" Sango cried as she kneeled by Kagome's side, opposite of Inuyasha.

Sango, with one quick scan of Kagome's body, wanted to hurl that very instant. The damage was too much for Sango to bear and it was beyond what either of them had ever been through before.

Multiple holes were ripped through Kagome's flesh and her t-shirt was almost soaked with blood. There was a gash on her waist that bled to the puddles of water below her and her whole body was soiled with dirt and blood. Bruises made her pale skin dark and cuts and scrapes endlessly bled her out. On her forehead was a gash that ran across her temple and blood flowed down from her hair, undoubtedly from an injury somewhere on her skull.

Sango could see the white of Kagome's bone through a puncture hole. She felt her stomach heave.

It wouldn't be long until Kagome would die from blood-loss.

"Kagome!" Sango cried. Her voice cracked with panic and she felt her throat tightening in fear. She looked at Inuyasha for maybe some type of reassurance.

He wasn't doing any better.

Not only can he see the wreck Kagome was in, but he could smell it too. He could smell the overwhelming odour of her blood and it made his insides flip inside-out. The sheer amount of it flowing constantly out of her body was making his mind fuzzy and his heart race (and not in the good way).

He joined Sango's cry. "Goddamnit, Kagome, open your eyes!"

Still nothing.

"She's alive, right? Inuyasha?" Sango yelled over the rain.

"She's alive, don't worry. I can hear her breathing. It's faint but she's still alive."

"Oh thank Kami."

"But go get help, you idiot! You sitting here isn't going to help!" Inuyasha yelled at her.

Sango didn't even retort back but instead nodded and ran back to the house, tripping along the way.

Inuyasha turned back to Kagome with haste, still calling her name. His eyes stung and it felt like it was burning. The smell of salt water wasn't coming from Kagome after all.

He gently shook Kagome. "Please, Kagome, wake up! Wake up!"

Her body felt cold to the touch and it wasn't only because of the rain. Her skin was becoming paler than normal and her lips were turning blue. Most of the blood was washing off but some continued to flow through the openings of her flesh.

Inuyasha gritted his teeth at the horror in his arms.

He hugged her tightly to his chest. "Kagome!"

"…Mas…ter?"

Inuyasha's ears picked Kagome's whisper. Pulling her away from him, just a little, he looked into her eyes, barely open.

"Kagome!" Inuyasha gasped.

Kagome smiled. "I'm sorry…Master…I couldn't…defeat…Naraku…" Her voice was barely audible and it shook with exhaustion. Yet, she continued to smile at him.

Inuyasha shook his head. "It doesn't matter! We can work together to defeat him! Geez, why did you push yourself to this state?"

"I had no choice…Naraku planned…he was waiting for me…I was trapped in his web…Kikyo…" Her voice drifted off as her eyes started to close.

"Kagome!" Inuyasha shook her as gentle as he could, trying to suppress his urgency to keep her with him. "Don't close your eyes! What about Kikyo?"

Kagome's eyes opened a slit again. Her breath was laboured. "Kikyo…tricked me…she was working…with Naraku…they wanted…"

Kagome coughed and blood trickled down the side of her mouth.

"They wanted to kill me."

Inuyasha felt his heart stop.

"Kikyo…wanted to kill you?" Inuyasha stuttered it out stupidly.

Kagome didn't reply but just stared into Inuyasha's eyes, serious. That itself was enough to confirm it all.

Inuyasha felt the hole in his stomach grow. But in a way…it wasn't surprising. Her jealousy could go to very high lengths.

But when Kagome groaned in pain, Inuyasha turned his attention back to her in panic. Examining her wounds, he realized that those holes going through her body were lined with poison, rotting the surrounding flesh and burning her dirtied shirt. The smell was disgusting to breathe in as the miasma seemed to float into the air like smoke.

"Master…?" Kagome whispered.

Inuyasha swallowed thickly and forced himself to look alright as he looked down at Kagome. "Yeah?"

"It's getting dark and…my body feels cold…You won't leave…right?" Kagome asked.

"Yeah," Inuyasha croaked out. He took a shaky breath. "Don't you dare die, Kagome. You promised me…you promised that you wouldn't die, remember? But…" he laughed a little. "You just had to go and be such an idiot, didn't you?"

Kagome smiled a little, but it dropped just as fast; as if smiling took too much energy. "I wanted…to protect all of you…"

"You're so stupid, Kagome. It's not like killing yourself was protective."

"Heh…I guess that means I wasn't strong enough, huh?"

"Survive and you will be."

Kagome smiled and closed her eyes again; unable to keep them open any longer. Inuyasha swore and looked towards the house. He could see his family just making it outside the door.

He looked back at Kagome, still in his arms. Her breathing grew faint and her colour continued to drain.

They weren't going to make it in time.

"Kagome?" Inuyasha called out. She wasn't responding. "Kagome?"

"Hn?" Kagome was shaken back awake.

"Don't close your eyes, damnit!" Inuyasha yelled at her. "Promise to stay with me. Don't tell me that when you said you wouldn't die that it was all just a lie!"

"…Ok…I'm sorry…"

The rain was falling less harshly now but the sky remained grey and thick. The humidity of rain was suffocating but at the same time, refreshing. Without Kagome, there was no sun.

"M…Master?" Kagome huffed out.

"What?" Inuyasha grumbled miserablely. His grip on Kagome's body tightened as he brought her cold body slightly closer.

"Remember how…Kikyo said that…in order to…get stronger…I needed…to lose my fear?" She was panting. She couldn't feel the pain anymore but she focused on Inuyasha's damp hair tickling her face.

His beautiful, silvery hair.

Although her vision was fading into darkness, it was blinding as well. Her body felt heavy but her soul felt so light…like she could fly away right there and then.

Inuyasha nodded. "Yeah?" He was clutching her to his body now.

The light was overwhelming for Kagome. Did the sun come out?

"Master…I'm…I'm not scared anymore," the girl whispered into his ear. "I'm really not scared anymore."

"Inuyasha!" It was Izayoi's voice calling him in the distance. Everyone was running towards them.

"Hurry!" Inuyasha yelled back. Then he quickly turned to Kagome.

"Hey, look! Everyone's coming. So just hang in there!"

Kagome's eyes moved a little as she tried to look at his face. "…I'm sorry, Master, but…I'm so tired. Can you…can you just let me sleep for a while? Please? I'm just so…tired."

"Wait, Kagome," Inuyasha pleaded. "Not yet, okay? Just…not yet." He was crying now. "Please, Kagome, they're almost here!"

But Kagome was silent. Eyes closed and body still, she didn't respond.

"Kagome?...Kagome!" Inuyasha yelled, shaking her. He placed his hand on her cheek. It was ice-cold.

He hugged her into him. "Kagome!"

"…Inu…"

A mere whisper. A breath.

Inuyasha lifted his head and turned quickly to the dying girl in his arms. "Kagome?"

She lifted a shaking hand to touch it to his cheek. Although it was cold, her touch was warm and gentle.

Her eyes quivered as they struggled to stay open. She smiled as her final tears rolled down her face.

"Inuyasha…"

…

"I love you."

Then the Butterfly's heart…beat no more.

'Where…am I?'

Surrounded by white light and not a single object in sight, Kagome walked around in a daze.

Without an end…or a destination.

"Kagome?"

'A name…such a familiar name…'

"Kagome?"

'This voice…this name…It's my name…it's…my mother's voice.'

The sudden fog has been lifted and Kagome was transported to the place she had met her mother twice before.

Unchanged, the setting was no different than that of before.

The grass, lush and green as ever; the sky was blue and clear; the breeze was sweet and warm…it was like paradise.

"Mom…"

The woman sitting on the hill looked down at her standing daughter in surprise.

"Kagome?"

The girl walked uphill and sat down beside her mother. "Hi Mom," she greeted.

"Kagome…I didn't expect you to be here so…so soon!" Her mother looked really startled.

Kagome chuckled. "Well, I'm an idiot after all. I got myself killed earlier than I would've liked so…"

"Oh no, my dear," Kagome's mother giggled and shook her head. "You being here early is something special! I was just surprised, that's all."

"What?" Now Kagome was really confused. If her mother was there with her then that could only mean that she was dead, right? Or…what it because her mother was happy she was dead?

"Mom…what are you talking about? I'm -"

"Dead?" Her mother guessed. "No, sweetie. Far from it, in fact."

Kagome frowned. "I…I don't understand."

Her mother smiled her warm and kind smile. "It's complicated really but…what's really happening is you're on your final step to releasing your true powers."

"My true powers?" Kagome's confusion wasn't being solved so she just stared blankly at her mother, hoping for answers.

Her mother laughed and placed and finger to her chin, thinking of a way to help her clueless daughter.

"Well," the woman started. "Have you found your wings?"

Kagome pouted at her. "Mom," she whined. "Not this again."

"I'm serious, Kagome," Her mother insisted, even though she was giggling at her daughter's expression. "Did you find the one?"

Instead of confusion, this time, in this dream, Kagome smiled to herself.

"Yeah…I did." But Kagome's smile dropped and her face became sad. "But I'm dead…so I can't be with him anymore."

"But you see, Kagome. That's where you're wrong," her mother said.

"What do you mean?"

"In order for a Butterfly Priestess to find her wings, she needs to find the one only meant for her. Once she has decided, she falls into a somewhat dream-like unconsciousness. That's why you're here with me right now."

"So I'm not dead?"

"Well, your situation is a little unique because you fell into your unconscious state right before your death. So technically, you're body is unresponsive at the moment. But don't worry! You'll be revived."

Kagome sighed in relief.

Her mother smiled at her. "So what's the name of this special man?" Her tone took on the voice of a mother who's having a loving chat with their child.

"Inuyasha," Kagome sighed happily. "It's strange because…I was so…scared to admit that I loved him but…as I was dying…I felt no regrets and no fear what-so-ever. My heart felt so light back there when I told him. I wasn't even afraid to die."

Kagome suddenly came up with the question. She turned to her mother in wonder. "Is that…how you met Dad?"

Her mother was caught off guard. Her eyes gave a very distant look and shone with sadness.

But then she smiled. "Well, Kagome. You have to remember that I met your father before the stone was created; before I was even a priestess."

"Did you love him?"

"I loved him just as much as a Butterfly Priestess would love their only one. That's also why I couldn't defeat Naraku. I never could release my powers."

"So…" Kagome debated whether to ask or not. "Why did Dad leave after Souta was born? You never did tell us."

Her mother shook her head. "He didn't leave us, Kagome. He was murdered."

"!"

Her mother looked Kagome straight in her eyes.

"Naraku was the one who murdered your father."

The shock Kagome felt was overwhelming. "I don't understand…"

"You're father and I were very happy and we lived as any other normal family would. We first had you, then Souta and lived happily together. However, there were rumours about a man who had gone mad and started killing innocent people. I begged your father not to go to work but he insisted that he would work for our sakes…But that night…he never came back home."

Kagome moved closer to her mom and put an arm around her as she continued. Her mother was already shaking.

"The next day, I went searching for him. I…" Tears started to run down her face. "I found his body hacked to pieces by the forest."

Kagome could do nothing but listen to her mother's anguished sobs.

"So," her mother choked out. "A few days before I was marked as the Butterfly Priestess, the whole village find out that the man who was killing everyone was part of the Taisho household; in particular, Naraku. That's when they demanded the help of Inu No Taisho to flush him out."

She looked to her daughter. "And you know the rest," her mother said. "So I had no choice but to tell you and Souta that your father had left. I'm sorry that it caused you to hate him."

Kagome remembered her scratching out her father's face in their picture. The picture that was somewhere in her bedroom…in Inuyasha's house. Those feelings of hurt and hate were born from her father. Hearing her mother's sobs at night only made her heart harden.

She had blamed her father for everything. For why her mother had to work so hard and why Souta had to grow up without a father. She blamed him for everything.

But it was never his fault after all…was it?

Kagome wasn't looking at her mother but had her head ducked so low that her bangs covered her eyes. Her free hand clenched tightly.

"Mom?"

"Yes, Kagome?"

"I'll be revived in time to defeat Naraku, right?"

"Of course, why do you ask?"

Kagome stood up defiantly.

"Because I'll be the one to kill him."

She looked down at her mother. "Tell me what I should do, Mom. How do I get out of here?"

Her mother smiled at her but her words were off-topic. "I'm so proud of you, Kagome, you know that? You've grown stronger than I could have ever imagined."

Kagome couldn't help but smiled at her mother's kind compliment. She knelt back down and hugged her mother gently. "I know, Mom. And I'll continue to make you proud."

As they pulled away, Kagome's mother was wiping the remains of her tears away. As she looked at Kagome, her face turned serious.

"Kagome…are you certain that you're ready for this?"

Her daughter nodded without a single second of hesitation.

Kagome watched as her mother's expression saddened. Her sudden silence was scaring Kagome as she watched her mother's eyes scan over her with a very melancholy look. Then her mother's eyes dropped to the ground.

"Mom?" she asked uncertainly.

Her mom's expression didn't change. When she flickered her eyes back to her daughter, Kagome felt her heart jump.

"Kagome…there's something I've never told you before…about being the Butterfly Priestess," her mom said.

"So what is it?" Why was her heart thumping so rapidly? Why was she so scared of what her mother's unspoken words will be?

"Once you discover your wings…there's also a sacrifice that you must make in order to awaken your powers," her mother said solemnly.

Kagome didn't say a word but only let the suspension slowly eat away at her. The air was thickening and swallowing her whole.

Then Kagome's mother said, "You must sacrifice your memories of your only one in order to defeat Naraku."

Kagome couldn't believe it.

"Kagome?" her mother called out to her, concern on her face when her daughter made no response. "Do you understand what I said?"

Kagome knew…but she couldn't believe it. Her body froze in horror and her heart was tearing in two. She couldn't see anything in front of her as she stared right through.

"So…" Kagome whispered; her voice cracking. "The bottom line is…once I defeat Naraku…"

She couldn't finish. Her mouth ran dry and her throat hitched. She couldn't breathe and she was shaking.

Kagome's mother dropped her eyes to the ground at her feet. She finished for her.

"Once you defeat Naraku…"

"You won't remember who Inuyasha is…or his existence in your life."

"You won't remember him…his time with you…his love…or even the love you felt towards him…"

"...They will all be forgotten."

"So, Kagome…are you willing to do that? To lose your memories of Inuyasha in exchange for Naraku's death?"

"These are your only two choices…"

...

"So Kagome…what will you choose?"

Gah! Even I got my own heart pumping from this!

ATTENTION EVERYONE! It will be some time before I post the next chapter because I will be away in Chicago for a week starting Thursday.

When I come back, I will rush to finish the next chapter. Sorry so much but I hope you can be patient for a few weeks!

Arigato!

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