Author's Note: Never fear, my darling readers/reviewers! I have recaptured Miroku, and securely tied him to my bedpost! I win! In that period of time, I also drugged Sessomaru, so now he and Inuyasha are fighting hysterically over who gets to sit next to the window. Heh heh. Life is good! Well, I'm gonna go on with the review responses now... THERE ARE NONE!! Wahhh!
Oh, well. Who cares. This story is close to being done, so I continue!
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha. What do I own of him? All of the English mangas... the PS1 game... pictures... candy... Any who! All Inuyasha characters except Mirosha and some demons belong to Rumiko Takahashi, so DON'T sue!! Thank you.
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Inuyasha ran, following the scent of the blood. His mind was made up. If it wasn't Kagome, he would assume she was dead and go back to kill that snippy demon that had assumed place in Kagome's body. He followed the scent, unhopeful and dejected that the one girl who liked him just the way he was, was doomed.
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Kagome sat in her tree, someone else's blood dripping from the numerous slashes on the chest of someone else's chest. She figured she'd be dead soon. Her two fights and fleeing for her life because of a lack of someone to protect her had tugged heavily on this body and her own mind.
::I left Inuyasha in a battle to the death...:: She thought mournfully. ::I shouldn't have left him there! It's my fault I'm like this. He's probably dead...:: Tears fell from her eyes and spilled, mixing with her blood. ::I should go with him. Maybe we'll end up together in the end...::
Kagome let her head fall, ready to die. Only running steps away, a large scorpion-demon felt her resolve for death, and started towards her in the lumbering way only an insect could successfully accomplish.
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Inuyasha smelled salt mixing painfully with the blood. Whoever this dog-girl was, she was crying. ::Maybe... No, it can't be Kagome. I'm just going to check out who... who is so injured. Kagome always wanted to do that. Help people. I'll do it for her.::
He kept on running, the scent getting stronger, and the distance shorter. Suddenly, the reek of blood increased, and with it a sense of first fear, and then relief. ::The wounded wants to die!:: Thought Inuyasha stupendously. ::Maybe I shouldn't help...:: A thought occurred in his head, suddenly and without warning. ::That smells like... Sessomaru!:: A flare of rage went up through Inuyasha's body. If someone thought they were going to kill a wounded half-breed, than they had another thing coming.
"There are so few of us! You won't murder us all, brother!" Inuyasha sped up, plowing through bushes and disregarding the rain that began to fleck his face. "Great. Just what I need, a something to dull the scent..."
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Kagome sat still in the tree, her vision blurred by the excess pain caused by her wounds. She distinctly smelled Inuyasha on his way to her, but did not care. She felt dead. Her body was too far gone for thinking, and even the thought of the man she loved coming to her aide wasn't enough to make her stir.
At the same time, Sessomaru and the scorpion demon burst into the clearing. At first, the giant arachnid was confused at the sight of the bleeding girl and armored man, but he quickly recovered and soon charged the one who seemed to him weaker.
Kagome clenched her fists in the branches at her side, ready to receive anything the two demons had to throw at her. First the scorpion lunged with its pincers, knocking Kagome's body from the tree, continuing to bloody her to its best extent. By now she was nearly dead. All expression had left her eyes, her pupils becoming large and dilated. Finally, she closed them, giving up.
Sighing, she opened her eyes for the final time. The scorpion's blows had not ceased, but they had become numb, and she no longer even cared. A flash of red illuminated the air before her, and she passed out.
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Miroku glanced upwards, staring at a star suddenly flashing red.
"Come on!" He snatched Mirosha's arm, pulling her down from the tree she had sulkily perched in. "Kagome-chan and Inuyasha-sama are in trouble! We're leaving!
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******************"No!" Inuyasha gasped, the sight of a limp hanyou being continuously beaten by blunt pincers was too much for him to bear. His rage was furthered by the sight of Sessomaru leaning innocently against a tree, ready to jump in if there was any chance of the girl surviving.
He drew the Tetsusaiga, poised it above his head, and brought it down swiftly on the hard exoskeleton of the large arachnid. It split neatly down the middle, and fell in two pieces on either side of the girl.
"Ka... are you alright?" Inuyasha stepped forward, stupefied. The girl was alive, but barely.
"She'll be dead soon. And in deservance of it, too. She attacked my daughter who is young, harmless, and unarmed because of her pacifism. These are the laws of Karma, Inuyasha. Learn them." Sessomaru turned quickly and left the clearing noiselessly. With the girl dead who he wanted to take vengeance on, there was no reason to stay.
Suddenly, the girl sputtered, and coughed up clots of blood. Her hand groped at her side, and Inuyasha took it. "Inu... That you?" She was still blind. Her eyes had turned the milky color of death.
"Yeah... Kagome?" Inuyasha looked down at her. So different from the Kagome he had learned to love. This was the first human he had ever truly trusted; even Kikyo in the end he lied to. It was impossibly difficult for him to let her go.
The girl nodded, slowly, once again choking on blood. "Go... be happy with... Kikyo..." In her Kagome-like fashion, she had read his thoughts, but not correctly.
"No! Never! Kagome, I... I love you..." Inuyasha looked down, ashamed that he had taken so long to tell her the one thing he had always wanted her to know. "All those times I called you 'stupid,' or an 'idiot,' I really didn't mean it. I didn't know how to deal with you! You're so weird!" Inuyasha stopped. Insulting the woman he loved on her death-bed wasn't exactly something he wanted on his conscience.
"Shh... I love you too. I'm glad you told me this, Inuyasha. I'll be OK. Don't worry." A smile cracked Kagome's bloody lips, and she slowly closed her eyes.
"Don't... die. Please?"
Kagome's smile broadened, showing pointy teeth. "That's the first time you've ever asked me for anything nicely... alright. I'll try my best..." Kagome's voice faded, and her breathing regulated. Shallow, but even, she fell into a dangerous sleep.
For the second time that week, he took off his jacket to form a tent over the women he loved. Only this time, it was something more precious than her heart.
This time he protected her soul.
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A/n: Well? This is the second to last chapter. The next will wrap it ALL up, I swear. I'm thinking there will be a surprise visit from Kikyo, but I really DO hate her, so she might have to die... Ooohhhhh well! Now I need to feed the Inu-men and Miroku. They keep complaining that dried cheerios isn't good enough to keep up their warrior's sustanence....
Miroku: IT'S NOT!!
Any who! They'll have to get by on... salad? I'm a vegetarian. I suppose I can give them raman?
Inuyasha: Yay! Ramen! That stuff is gooood!
Errr... rrright. Ramen it is!
Sessomaru: No. I wan't fish.
Inuyasha: Deal with the ramen, I like it!!!
::Inuyasha and Sessomaru start to kick and bite each other on the arms while Mara the magicsprite continues to make their ramen.::
Oh, well! Guess I can't have everything, can I?
::Miroku shakes his head.:: Miroku: You can't seem to get Kouji, now can you?
ACK! I promised to get him from his manga! Be right back! I'm off to the land of Fushigi Yugi!
Miroku: Mara-chan would like to apologize for her sudden absence. Please leave a review so I may say that it was thanks to me. Maybe I'll get an orange! Yummy!
Oh, well. Who cares. This story is close to being done, so I continue!
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha. What do I own of him? All of the English mangas... the PS1 game... pictures... candy... Any who! All Inuyasha characters except Mirosha and some demons belong to Rumiko Takahashi, so DON'T sue!! Thank you.
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Inuyasha ran, following the scent of the blood. His mind was made up. If it wasn't Kagome, he would assume she was dead and go back to kill that snippy demon that had assumed place in Kagome's body. He followed the scent, unhopeful and dejected that the one girl who liked him just the way he was, was doomed.
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Kagome sat in her tree, someone else's blood dripping from the numerous slashes on the chest of someone else's chest. She figured she'd be dead soon. Her two fights and fleeing for her life because of a lack of someone to protect her had tugged heavily on this body and her own mind.
::I left Inuyasha in a battle to the death...:: She thought mournfully. ::I shouldn't have left him there! It's my fault I'm like this. He's probably dead...:: Tears fell from her eyes and spilled, mixing with her blood. ::I should go with him. Maybe we'll end up together in the end...::
Kagome let her head fall, ready to die. Only running steps away, a large scorpion-demon felt her resolve for death, and started towards her in the lumbering way only an insect could successfully accomplish.
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Inuyasha smelled salt mixing painfully with the blood. Whoever this dog-girl was, she was crying. ::Maybe... No, it can't be Kagome. I'm just going to check out who... who is so injured. Kagome always wanted to do that. Help people. I'll do it for her.::
He kept on running, the scent getting stronger, and the distance shorter. Suddenly, the reek of blood increased, and with it a sense of first fear, and then relief. ::The wounded wants to die!:: Thought Inuyasha stupendously. ::Maybe I shouldn't help...:: A thought occurred in his head, suddenly and without warning. ::That smells like... Sessomaru!:: A flare of rage went up through Inuyasha's body. If someone thought they were going to kill a wounded half-breed, than they had another thing coming.
"There are so few of us! You won't murder us all, brother!" Inuyasha sped up, plowing through bushes and disregarding the rain that began to fleck his face. "Great. Just what I need, a something to dull the scent..."
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Kagome sat still in the tree, her vision blurred by the excess pain caused by her wounds. She distinctly smelled Inuyasha on his way to her, but did not care. She felt dead. Her body was too far gone for thinking, and even the thought of the man she loved coming to her aide wasn't enough to make her stir.
At the same time, Sessomaru and the scorpion demon burst into the clearing. At first, the giant arachnid was confused at the sight of the bleeding girl and armored man, but he quickly recovered and soon charged the one who seemed to him weaker.
Kagome clenched her fists in the branches at her side, ready to receive anything the two demons had to throw at her. First the scorpion lunged with its pincers, knocking Kagome's body from the tree, continuing to bloody her to its best extent. By now she was nearly dead. All expression had left her eyes, her pupils becoming large and dilated. Finally, she closed them, giving up.
Sighing, she opened her eyes for the final time. The scorpion's blows had not ceased, but they had become numb, and she no longer even cared. A flash of red illuminated the air before her, and she passed out.
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Miroku glanced upwards, staring at a star suddenly flashing red.
"Come on!" He snatched Mirosha's arm, pulling her down from the tree she had sulkily perched in. "Kagome-chan and Inuyasha-sama are in trouble! We're leaving!
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******************"No!" Inuyasha gasped, the sight of a limp hanyou being continuously beaten by blunt pincers was too much for him to bear. His rage was furthered by the sight of Sessomaru leaning innocently against a tree, ready to jump in if there was any chance of the girl surviving.
He drew the Tetsusaiga, poised it above his head, and brought it down swiftly on the hard exoskeleton of the large arachnid. It split neatly down the middle, and fell in two pieces on either side of the girl.
"Ka... are you alright?" Inuyasha stepped forward, stupefied. The girl was alive, but barely.
"She'll be dead soon. And in deservance of it, too. She attacked my daughter who is young, harmless, and unarmed because of her pacifism. These are the laws of Karma, Inuyasha. Learn them." Sessomaru turned quickly and left the clearing noiselessly. With the girl dead who he wanted to take vengeance on, there was no reason to stay.
Suddenly, the girl sputtered, and coughed up clots of blood. Her hand groped at her side, and Inuyasha took it. "Inu... That you?" She was still blind. Her eyes had turned the milky color of death.
"Yeah... Kagome?" Inuyasha looked down at her. So different from the Kagome he had learned to love. This was the first human he had ever truly trusted; even Kikyo in the end he lied to. It was impossibly difficult for him to let her go.
The girl nodded, slowly, once again choking on blood. "Go... be happy with... Kikyo..." In her Kagome-like fashion, she had read his thoughts, but not correctly.
"No! Never! Kagome, I... I love you..." Inuyasha looked down, ashamed that he had taken so long to tell her the one thing he had always wanted her to know. "All those times I called you 'stupid,' or an 'idiot,' I really didn't mean it. I didn't know how to deal with you! You're so weird!" Inuyasha stopped. Insulting the woman he loved on her death-bed wasn't exactly something he wanted on his conscience.
"Shh... I love you too. I'm glad you told me this, Inuyasha. I'll be OK. Don't worry." A smile cracked Kagome's bloody lips, and she slowly closed her eyes.
"Don't... die. Please?"
Kagome's smile broadened, showing pointy teeth. "That's the first time you've ever asked me for anything nicely... alright. I'll try my best..." Kagome's voice faded, and her breathing regulated. Shallow, but even, she fell into a dangerous sleep.
For the second time that week, he took off his jacket to form a tent over the women he loved. Only this time, it was something more precious than her heart.
This time he protected her soul.
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A/n: Well? This is the second to last chapter. The next will wrap it ALL up, I swear. I'm thinking there will be a surprise visit from Kikyo, but I really DO hate her, so she might have to die... Ooohhhhh well! Now I need to feed the Inu-men and Miroku. They keep complaining that dried cheerios isn't good enough to keep up their warrior's sustanence....
Miroku: IT'S NOT!!
Any who! They'll have to get by on... salad? I'm a vegetarian. I suppose I can give them raman?
Inuyasha: Yay! Ramen! That stuff is gooood!
Errr... rrright. Ramen it is!
Sessomaru: No. I wan't fish.
Inuyasha: Deal with the ramen, I like it!!!
::Inuyasha and Sessomaru start to kick and bite each other on the arms while Mara the magicsprite continues to make their ramen.::
Oh, well! Guess I can't have everything, can I?
::Miroku shakes his head.:: Miroku: You can't seem to get Kouji, now can you?
ACK! I promised to get him from his manga! Be right back! I'm off to the land of Fushigi Yugi!
Miroku: Mara-chan would like to apologize for her sudden absence. Please leave a review so I may say that it was thanks to me. Maybe I'll get an orange! Yummy!
