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Chapter 21

Sango, Miroku, Shippo, Koga, Ginta and Hakkaku were all outside the hut. It was completely quiet and no one moved. Koga was lying on a mat due to his condition. Kagome had really damaged him. The force of him thrown against the tree broke a few ribs. But he didn't even care about it. His thought were all on Kagome.

'Damn. She took me by surprise. I didn't think Kagome would ever...could ever do that to me. Then again she was being controlled by that bastard Kitashi. If I ever see him I'll rip him to shreds for what he's done to her...'

Ginta and Hakkaku were on each side of Koga. They were just as bewildered as Koga by Kagome's actions.

'Sis really did a number on Koga.' thought Ginta.

'Koga must be lost in thought, thinking about Kagome.' Hakkaku thought as he looked at Koga's blank face.

Sango was thinking thoughts about her best friend as well. ' Oh Kagome. You've endured so much...as have we all...but you made that sacrifice...you saved us from...from yourself...' Sango sighed. Kagome was but a girl.

'A girl with that burden on her shoulders. She took the road in which she could at least save her friends.

By ending her life.'

Sango blinked to shake her thoughts away. 'Stop thinking like that.' Sango told herself. 'Kagome isn't dead...she can still make it...even thou she is on the brink of death at that very moment...'

Miroku sat next to Sango. His thoughts were slightly better. 'Kagome...of all this time I've known you, and become friends with you, if I've learned one thing, I've learned this: There is always hope.'

Miroku looked up into the sky. 'Kagome, through my journey's with you, I've learned not to give up...so don't give up now. You...you never gave up on me ridding myself of my kazaana...so please...don't give up on your life her...with us.'

And Shippo, the smallest of the group, sat thinking to himself as well. 'Kagome...when I found you after the thunder brothers...killed my parents, I looked to you, and you took me under your wing. Please, I can't loose another parent...not again...' Shippo let a few tears escape his eyes, but he didn't dare break the silence. That wa the least they could give to Kagome.

Kaede sat inside the hut with Inuyasha. He wouldn't let her leave the hut, and wouldn't let anyone into the hut. Currently, he sat in the corner next to Kagome.

'It is a miracle that she's still breathing.' Kaede commented silently in her head. She glanced over at teh unconcious miko, barely clinging on to life. Her chest took longer to rise and fall than normal. Her wheezing was also a sign of irregular breathing.

And all the while that stubborn hanyou was by her side.

He thought to himself. 'kagome...I'm by your side now...just as you have been by my side though everything we went through...you cant...you cant die now...you cant...you just cant...' Inuyasha started sobbing uncontrollably.

'This is the second time this week I have been by your side when you were hurt. WIll it never end? Will you always be succeptible to harm associating with me?' Inuyasha was hurt. Deeply. This time...

...he didn't know if she would make it.

Kagome was in her own mind. Everything was dark. She couldn't feel anything, see anything, or hear anything. She was just suspended in space.

Then she saw it...well she saw them. Two white lights. She was drawn to them, but she didn't know which one to go after.

"Kagome..." There. She heard something. A whisper. A name. But whose?

"Kagome..." She heard it again. This was distracting her concentration on the lights. Someone was whispereing. A name. Was it...hers?

"Yes." she said to herself. She was the one called Kagome. Bu who was calling her?

Then a flood of memories came crashing down on her. She saw everything on her memory...the heartache...the pain...the agony...

This made her weep. She felt tears. She felt her body forming. Why did she even live that long with s much pain?

But then more memories came. Ones of love...and laughter...and happiness...

That's why. That's why she lived. But why was she here, and where was "here".

Then she remembered the last moments she remembered. Her protecting the ones she loved. She wouldn't let Katashi control her into killing the ones close to her heart. She used that determination to break his grasp for but a minute. That was all she needed.

And she ended the suffering.

It broke her inside to hurt her friends...Sango...Koga...even Inuyasha...

No. She wouldn't hurt them ever again.

And now she called out to the voice. "Where are you?"

And she saw a woman walk out from the darkness. She glowed, emitting the only light in the pit of floating darkness. She walked solely on air.

"Do not be afraid." the voice soothed.

"I am not afraid." 'I am curious thou...'

"Kagome, it is not your time. Use your miko powers to heal your wounds, even the ones in your heart."

"I can't go back. Not after what I did to them..."

"Kagome, they need you now more than ever. You musn't give up hope. "

Kagome closed her eyes, and thought. She reopened them and spoke. "What do I do?"

The woman smiled, obviously proud at Kagome's determination. "Follow the light to your right."

Kagome nodded, and the woman spoke again. "Believe in hope, Kagome. That is what you were brought back in time for. You brought to guide the others. You are hope."

And with that, she started to turn away. Kagome was confused...How did she know about Kagome traveling back in time?

"Who...who are you?" she called out to the woman.

Right before the woman dissapeared into the shadows, not even stopping to look at Kagome, she whispered.

"I am Izayoi."

Inuyasha stared at teh limp girl on the mat. She didn't move. She hadn't moved since he brought her here.

He was about to speak when Kagome gasped in a large breath. And stopped. She didn't let it out. She wasn't breathing.

"Kagome!" Inuyasha screamed. He leaned over her and shook ker. "No Kagome...don't you die on me..." She still wouldn't breathe.

Kaede shook her head at teh sight. That girl was filled with so much promise...she knew it killed Inuyasha inside to see Kagome like this. It was a sad sight indeed.

The others came rushign in, even Koga. "What's wrong?" he asked.

Inuyasha kept his eyes on Kagome, and didn't speak.

"She stopped breathing." Kaede explained. Everyone gasped and sank to the floor.

"She's...she's gone." Miroku said.

"She's really gone." Sango breathed. The grief was overwhelming.

Until it happened.

A bright light blinded everyone inside the hut. It...it was coming from Kagome! Out of her eys, ears, mouth, fingertips, and toes a blinding white light emitted from her. She let out a yell.

And she rose.

She started levatating higher and higher. The light was less blinding now and everyone could see what wa going on. She rose to the roof and passed through it!

Everyone stumbled outside and saw Kagome's form horizontaly lifted into the air, and she was still sreaming.

"What the..." was all Shippo could say.

And then the light stopped. And Kagome no longer had blood on her face or any visable wounds.

"They're...they're all gone!...All her wounds are gone!" yelled Miroku.

"Well would ya look at that..." Koga said smoothly.

And Kagome stayed there, suspended in the air. She looked like a goddess.

But the law of gravity wont let up forever. Kagome's form began to drop...

And no one could move. They were too mezmerized by the sight of this wonderful blessing they all had encountered.

But right before Kagome hit the ground, Inuyasha juped under her and caught her in his arms. She fell lighly into his embrace, but she still wasn't awake.

Then people started moving. They surrounded the hanyou and everyone watched Kagome.

She opened her eyes. And moved her head side to side. No one knew what to say.

"Ahhhh...I've got a kink in my neck..." she said.

And everyone let out a nervous laugh.

"You just died and your complaining about your neck?" Inuyasha replied. Everyone started talking all at once, till a figure in the dark shaddows spoke up.

"Well, well, well. Look who has revived. Ready for some more fun, Kagome?"

Kagome's eyes widened. 'Not again...' she silently prayed.

Note: WOA! THAT WAS LONGGGGGGGGG.

But I HAVE to end it there. You see, what happenes next...well...

...someone dies.

And they don't come back to life.

(Me widens eyes) Oh no! You know too much!