Inuyasha ran as fast as his half-breed legs would carry him. Dodging trees, houses, the occasional demon, and fences, he tracked downhis brother to a small forrest in the Eastern region. Rin was there, and Jaken was toiling behind them, obviously out of breath.

"Sesshomaru!" Inuyasha growled. Sessy's eyes grew wide at the unexpected appearance of his brother.

"Rin, turn around and go to that cave we saw a ways back."

"Why Shessy?" Rin asked innocently. Inuyasha's eyes bugged out from holding in his laughter.

"JUST GO."

"K!"Rin skipped away, Jaken following tiredly.

"Now, little brother, what could you POSSIBlY want to annoy me with now?"

"Sesshomaru, I need to know the ingredients for a specific type of potion to cure a broken heart."

"Oh? So why don't you run off to your little Nikita, instead of bothering me with such triffle matters" (Pompy mcPomp ne?)he sneered.

Inuyasha looked at the ground and sadly mumbled "Nikita's gone brother. She's dead."

"Oh. Well, then, I guess you have no one to turn to now do you except for you dear older brother" ~Who can I turn to, if No body Needs me?)(( OKAY, alter ego, shoo!)) (why, hmm? don't you love me any more??) (( that would be selfish to love you... I can't.)) (I don't like sand its rough, and dry and irratating, not like here, everything here is so soft... and SMOOTH.) ((No!I cant...)) (I'm... Sorry...)

Moving on...

"Sesshomaru just tell me the potion!" Inuyasha snarled. He was wasting precious moments that he could be helping Kagome, so he could put Kikyo to rest. Yes, he finally knew what he was going to do with the shikon jewel when it was whole. Put Kikyo to rest forever.Silence that blood lust and that wandering soul. The only question was, without Kagome, could he do it?

"Do you honestly think that I am just going to give you the cure to your little filly's heart? Really, Inuyasha, I thought you knew me better than that. "

"What are you playing at?"

"Nothing, all I wish is a simple trade."

"OH? What can I give you? You can't handle the tetsusaiga? What do I have of value for you?"

"If you want your wench to live, then you will give me part of your humanity"

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"If you want Kagome to live, you must give me a part of your humanity."

"What?"Inuyasha gasped.

"Its an obvious gain. With enough humanity in me, I would be able to take Tetsusaiga in a fair fight, and, after I have taken the sword, the demon blood in you would make you kill your little friends faster if you have less humanity to battle it."

"You'd be a half-"Inuyasha began, but Sesshomaru cut him off.

"I would not. I would still be a demon, but with a little... human in me."

"you don't know what you're risking. Humanity isn't just being able to wield a sword. Its reason, logic, emotions... remorse. All those people that you've killed or wronged, you'll feel that remorse. It's agonizing."

"Oh, please. I have never felt remorse for anything I have ever done, why would a little piece of humanity do that to the great Sesshomaru? Now, are you willing or not?"

Inuyasha did not hesitate. He nodded.

"So, how does this process work huh?" Inuyasha mumbled.

"Simple, I just touch my hand to your soul and you have to willingly give up some of your humanity, then there's some excruciating pain, and voila. I'm able to wield the tetsusaiga"

Excruciating pain? "Fine." Inuyasha looked to away as Sesshomaru touched his posion hand to Inuyasha's chest. There was a blinding light, and Inuyasha was hurled into darkness.

The pain was so great, Inuyasha was sure he couldn't move. He screamed,but did not fidget as some of his humanity creeped out of his body.

"I"m doing this for Kagome. Kagome. "

"Don't you mean Kikyo?" came a nasty little voice inside his head.

"What?"

"In all honesty, Kikyo's the one you love more, and you can't accept that. Even though she's done nothing but make youre life a living hell for the past year, you still can't let go of her. She's DEAD. That body walking around is clay and grave soil. You know you shouldn't love her. but cha can't can ya? You'll love her until it kills you."

'But... Kagome... She... changes me." Inuyasha's eyes opened and he saw Kagome. She was smiling, laughing, holding him...

'Yeah, I love Kikyo. I can't stop that, but Kagome... When she touches me I feel. Safe. Warm. '

Kagome: "Inuyasha, you're not alone anymore"

'Kagome... I think... I think...'

Nikita appeared as she once had. Beautiful, lively, honest, wise.

"Without blood, we are nothing. Blood is everything. It is our will, our emotions, our life. Without this blood, we would be empty shells. Plant life, barely capable of feeling. We would not have love. Love itself is a powerful emotion. It can send someone to suicide, yet make someone feel so complete. It's intoxicating, its deliberate. Its subtle, yet somehow pronounced. Love is what makes us who we are. Its what seperates us from the animals that roam the forrest. Love is our humanity...

The blackness fell away, and he was back in the clearing, Sesshomaru standing before him.

"Excellent." his brother mused. " I can feel it already all that filthy human blood in my veins, why it makes my skin crawl."

"Good bye Brother."

"Don't you want the cure?"

" I think I've already got the cure." Inuyasha smirked, and ran off into the forrest.

Nikita was in the cemetery. This place was a santuary for the Mediae and all who loved them. Buried here, was her human lover and half-breed child.

She fingered the carvings on their tombstones lovingly.

Dereck... Aada...

Such beautiful memories.

She had another child... but his wasn't her blood.

"NiKiTA!!!!!!!" a small Inuyasha appeared in her memory, then an adolesant Inuyasha, and finally, the INuyasha of the present day.

"I know I'm alone Nikita. But, I dont'feel that way when I'm with Kagome. Somehow, I feel... Full. Like I might burst into flames if she brushes against me, or touches me."

"Inuyasha..." Nikita sighed. The Nikita then had firm skin, auburn hair, glowing green eyes. Now, she was like the forrest. Dark eyes, bark hangin loosely from her frame (bark=skin) her hair dead, and black. She lay down next to Dereck's tombstone.

Let me rest

let me find peace

I have stayed so long

in this realm

Let me rest here

For a while

Let me die here

Let me rest here...

for... a...while...