----The Power of Love----

--------Chapter 4--------

Inuyasha could see just enough of Kagome in her to have faith that his plan would work.

"Kagome don't you remember the Bone-Eaters Well? Don't you remember breaking the Shikon no Tama? All those tests you have to take? Your spell books?"

No response. She continued to try and attack him, and he was really quite beat up at this point, as he wasn't really trying to stop her.

"Don't you remember the future? With your annoying little brother Sota? Your mother? Your grandfather?"

The shade of red that was covering her eyes began to lessen.

"Don't you remember Sango? Miroku? Shippou? You're practically that little runt's mother. All your friends really care about you Kagome."

The redness on the outer rims of her eyes were shrinking towards the centers as if it were being eaten away.

"How about your Miko powers? Naraku? Kikyo?"

The red seemed to grow at the mention of Naraku, and she yelled at him: "I'm not that witch's reincarnation!"

'Was she even aware that she said that?' He continued on, "Do you remember Kaede's rosary and 'Sit'?" He ALMOST laughed at this point. 'Feh! Even if I could, now I wouldn't take these stupid beads off for all the world.'

There was only a rim of red left around each eye.

His voice was almost inaudible now, "Do you remember me? I really care about you too."

Her eyes flickered as she just stared at him. It looked as if the red were fighting the calm brown. For how long they just stood there he didn't know.

"Kagome don't leave me alone, not now that realized how I feel about you. Please." More silent tears. And with every tear that he shed, he remembered something about her that he had overlooked with a shrug in the past.

Something in her snapped. She could still feel the need to kill him, but it was being ebbed away, by love. Then it all made sense. She let him guide her back, him reminding her of everything she should never have forgotten. She bent all the human thought she had left on him. She remembered first tweaking his ears, and then wanting so badly to help him overcome Naraku. Their shared memories wrapped around each other, becoming a rope that led her back to herself.

--FLASH--

And then her eyes were back to normal.

"Inu-yasha?" she cried out faintly before falling to the ground.

He caught her, and held her against himself, rocking her in his arms until the sun came up.

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THE END!