On the Way to the End

By: ParisOutlaw

Disclaimer: Shhh I am gonna let you in on a little secret ok... whispers now this is just between you and me ok? So don't tell any one and try to act surprised when I tell you.......Here it is .... my secret is: I don't own any of the Inuyasha characters.giggles Isn't that good bet you had no idea right? Huh ... what do you mean you know that already? Well if you are so smart and knew that the only thing I have rights to in this story is the plot line then why in the hell are you reading the fucking disclaimer for? I mean it's not like it is hours of wholesome family fun! Loser well now you have ruined my fun of telling you a secret so you might as well just read the story.

*Kagome's dream changes there is a touching moment and she decides to take matters into her own hands.

*(A/N)* Kinda short and little more dialog the normal but it was important

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Chapter 2 : Into the Beginning and on Her Own

An arrow , someone's hand, was that a tail? Inuyasha, there he was. Inuyasha no , move , move he'll get you he is going to .. going to ... why can't I move? What's holding me here no I have to move I have to move now I have to help .... God no no don't ... Must move .... I .. .... I have to save him I have to save him!....... NARAKU! "Hahahahahahahahahahahaha"

"NNNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Kagome yelled as her very soul cried out from fright and bolted upright. Two arms were around her at once as she wretched from sobbing and she was drawn in to a warn failure embrace. The dream had changed, no not the dream, the words had changed the last words. Naraku no longer spoke to her, he was laughing at her! She looked up to see Inuyasha's face and cried more; her heart pounding in her ears and her face burning from salty tear drops as she clung to the hanyou "No , no no no... not now it's too soon." She whispered

"What's too soon Kagome." She couldn't look at him she was too embarrassed as it was, never was she so emotional. No she could not do this any more let Naraku do this to her in her dreams. Kagome was sick of it and she was sick of herself for waiting this long for something to happen. Those Dragons had not chosen this village at random, it was because of her being

there and now inocent people were dead and her friends had all been put in danger.

'And Inuyasha ...' No she would not think about it, she knew what she had to do.

"Kagome," Inuyasha's protective voice broke through her thoughts."Please, tell me." It was soft how he said it almost pleadingly as he hugged her to him. She closed her eyes, letting herself be held by him and she enjoyed their moment together.

"Tea, I could use some tea" Kagome said pushing away. Inuyasha nodded and paused a moment before getting up to join her. He had never seen her so frightened before. What was it that caused her so much torment, didn't she know how horribly it was killing him inside to see her like this and to not know what was behind all of it? They sat next to each other outside and sipped the tea Kagome had made gazing up at the stars of the late night.

"Kagome please tell me." He said not looking away from the twinkling orbs of light. Kagome's eyes closed for a second and she exhaled gently , what to say?

"I don't quite remember any more, you know after so many years of seeing so many demons .... it was probably something crazy."

"You're lying" There hadn't even been a second between their words and now Inuyasha broke his gaze from the heavens to look at Kagome. Her beautiful dark hair shone in the moon light and her skin seeming a glow looked flawless with the exception of a few exquisitely fine drops that had fallen from her eyes. He took his hand to her cheek and with a light touch swept them away letting his fingers caress her face. "I know you remember, I know you aren't telling me and it is killing me to see you in so much pain and not trusting me. Please, Kagome trust in me."

"The jewel it is nearing completion you know." She looked down letting a few more drops run down before wiping them away herself. All she needed to do was distract him for a little longer. "Each time we collect a new shard I can feel how much closer we are , Naraku can too. That is why he isn't putting them in his demons any more, he won't risk the chance of losing one to us , that is why they aren't as hard to defeat."

"Is that what the nightmares are about? Naraku and the jewel?"

"He'll be coming for them and for me."

"Kagome you know I ... WE would never let him get you , we'd protect you till the very end you know that." Damn it why couldn't he just say how he felt.

"I know that Inuyasha, and you know I love you all very much..... that is why I hope you understand why had I to do this." She looked at a small timer watch and she had in her hand and looked back at him. His look was one of confusion.

"What do you ..." It hit him then, an amazing wave of dizziness, his eyes blurred and his scenes shook. The tea! He smelled it now closly, there had been some thing in the tea, she had drugged him! He looked at her with disbelief and betrayal and he struggled to stand letting the tainted drink fall to the floor and spill.He moved back from her taking weak shakey steps and he continued to look at her. She didn't move not an inch she didn't even glance over at him, just stared into her lap."Kagome, why..?"

"You must know that now it isn't about you any more it is about me and shards. You Sango Miroku Shippo all those people in the village today, that was all in attempts to get to me and these." She said holding up the vile of sparkling fragments. "I won't have any one else hurt because they came between me and him."

"No... I won't ..let...uhhhh..." He fell to his knees now trying so hard not surcome to the powered blackness that over whelmed him. Kagome looked at him now and got up crossing the distance between them. Getting to her knees now so she would be level with him Kagome pushed away his bangs and layed a sweet kiss on his forehead.

"I know you wouldn't, that is why."Looking into his fiery amber eyes she longed to say it, but not like this as a goodbye.

"Always...." She spoke to him laying a hand on his cheek. "Just remember that ok. Always." The eyes that were struggling so hard to stay open gave in to the drug and closed. His last vision of her blurred but her words rang clear 'Always'. Kagome got back up to her feet,laid Inuyasha on his back and went back inside. She emerged with her backpack and a blanket and covering up the unconcouis hanyou, she said her farwells. This was her fight it had been all along even since she had first broke the Shikon no Tama. She had been to weak to fight it on her own at first but she was much stronger now and wouldn't risk her friends to fix her mistake.

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From the eyes of a demon puppet he had positioned near by Naraku watched the girl run off. He gave a triuphant smug smile, it was perfect all was comming to plan. He tilted is head back and went over all the trouble he had gone through for this moment, all of it was worth it and would be more worht it if this girl's dream was correct. That damn human brat had been a pain in his side since day one. He could have killed her when she shot and injured him with that arrow of her's but he had needed her for her ablity to see the shards. Not any more. Dream-breaking why hadn't he thought of it earlier, it was the perfect way to tear her from those snivling pathetic freinds of hers that always seemed to casue him a great inconvience. Once it had become clear to him that the only way of getting the jewel from Kagome was to set her alone, the rest had simply fallen together.

It had taken him a while to be able to break into her psychic dreams, a miko's power was some thing to never be under-estimated, but finding the right one and adding a little comment to it had been child's play, all to easy. And when all was ready it had only taken a small change to set off the chain of events he had carefully been planning on for years. How would poor Inuyasha react when he saw that his beloved Kagome had drugged him and left him to meet her death? As wonderful as it would be see he had more pressing things to do and could not waste any more time waiting there; he had a girl to hunt.

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Author: Oh bad me drugging Inuyasha like that ...But I swear it all has a good reason andwill make scnce real soon. Hope you enjoy!