Gomenasai! It's been way too long since I've made an update for this fiction. Hopefully I can pump out the final chapter faster than this last one. Regardless I hope you all enjoy.

Disclamier: I do not own Inuyasha or Romeo & Juliet

Claimer: Raiden and Izumi are mine :)

Chapter Twenty-One: Blood Ties Gone Bad Blood

A sickly sweet aroma rising from the uncapped vile, young Capulet watches as the amethyst liquid churns slowly. Bubbling up from the bottom and swirling to the top of the glass tube, a light smoke rises into the air. Covering her mouth, Kagome coughs into her palm as the mixture makes it's way down the back of her throat settling against her lungs. Glancing up from the peculiar concoction, the princess cocks a brow at her father.

"Father, what be that vile concoction there?" Kagome questions wheezing into the bend of her arm.

"La Cantarella." Raiden replies corking the vile once again.

"La Cantarella?" Kagome asks as she takes the thin tube between her fingertips.

"Yes," Raiden answers with a small nod moving a potted plant in front of the cavern the mixture had been stored in. "A powerful poison crafted by most skillful of hands."

"Poison!" Kagome exclaims suddenly mortified of the item held within her tender grip. "Father, I thought I was to be delivered from death not offered unto it."

"Listen, my darling." Raiden whispers gently taking her hands into his own. "Large amounts prove fatal, a single drop creates distorted imagery to the human eye."

"I don't understand." Kagome sighs starring helplessly into his tired eyes.

"One drop, bestowed on the tip of thy tongue, will deliver thee to a world of sleep." Raiden explains conversing softly as the green house door is shut.

"What you mean to say is I shall appear dead, but in truth, my heart will still have a beat?" Kagome muses finally putting two and two together.

"Yes," Raiden nods as the enter sleeping quarters once more. "Should ill fate find thee, swallow but a single drop. Soon after Master Montague shall come."

"Does my lord know of "La Cantarella" ?" Kagome asks glancing over at the shut door of her lover's room.

"That is what I had hoped to speak to him about before the break of dawn," Raiden answers opening the iron hinged door softly. "Rest easily for now, my child. Departure shall be for the morn."

"Aye," Kagome whispers kissing his cheek softly as she finds her way back into her beloved's bed.

The door closing behind her, Princess Capulet searches blindly in the darkness. Skin soon brushing skin , her hanyou lord groans lightly as he casts an arm around her petite waist. Drawing Kagome close to his beating heart, she rests her head down on his flitting breast. Watching soft shadows race across the room, she soon finds a haven of rest with the Prince Montague.

Like sudden thunder rolling against the hills of a grassy plain, a deafening roar sounds throughout the tiny church. Awakening to the sounds of shattering glass and climbing flames, the tiny wooden barrier is broken open exposing stark naked and tangled forms lost within the sheets. Soldiers cloaked in black reach out grasping on to the princess's ebony mane. Dragging her across the crystalline encrusted floor, her mate rises to his feet only to be blocked off by two monstrous blades and a muscled embrace. Struggling as Kagome cries out for him, Inuyasha fights against the bodies attempting to make a hostage out of him. Eyes turned over to the color of blood and nails sharpening like daggers, the hanyou prince combats against his attackers. Managing to break free of the chaos, darting out into the hallway, Inuyasha passes the fried corpse of Pastor Raiden. His rage fueled even further, Montague bursts through the church doors out into the open night.

"INUYASHA!" Kagome screams from center of a circle surrounded in brightly lit torches.

"Kagome!" Inuyasha exclaims making a daring leap over the encompassing masses.

Surrounded by familiar faces, distinguished features that had thrived in their homes, Capulet and Montague desperately cling onto one another as the enemy draws closer set by step. Face tucked against her lover's neck, Kagome shakes violently in her Inuyasha's embrace. Eyes scanning across the crowd, her mocha orbs connect with the most well-known sight. Marching towards her, expression as hard as the stone underneath her collapsed body, is Kikyou and the man she had been betrothed to since her birth.

"So this is where you have been." Kikyou snarls taking in a sight she had long since seen.

"It is not Hojo that I love!" Kagome retorts clinging onto the silver haired demon who was now her mate. "I told thee before I would not wed a man I did not love!"

"And yet you would betray the people of Fair Verona for this?" Kikyou laughs as Inuyasha curls his upper lip into a snarl. "You are despicable."

"It is not I who is despicable, it is you!" Kagome bellows kissing her mate passionately. "You do not know of the love held in these eyes. You lied to me sister! Not all youkai wish to bring demise to those who bare flesh instead of fur. You are not capable of understanding the intense passion passed between the sheets when Montague and Capulet become one."

"You ungrateful wench!" Kikyou clamors as her face becomes a infuriated fuchsia. "I, the one who raised you after mother was torn apart by these demons you claim to be infatuated with, shall not be made a fool of. Have you forgotten you place, little sister?"

"I have no place under your hierarchy," Kagome fumes as her grip on Inuyasha's shoulders becomes more intense. "Not as long as this dispute against the Montagues continues."

"I have had enough of this foolishness," Kikyou growls turning to the soldiers. "Seize her!"

Only one chapter left! What will the fate of Capulet and Montague be?