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SOOO, another chapter is upon us. I hope you guys are used to my writing style, its very descriptive and open ended. Please review after reading it, and any suggestions for the future is widely appreciated.

What It Takes To Be Whole

Chapter 2: Tear of the Beast

The wind blew the scent of demonic blood and human tears into the sky. Kagome sat cradling Inu Yasha's motionless body in the tall lush grass. She gently caressed his battered, blood-stained face and prayed that his eyes would open again.

'What happened to you?' she wanted to ask him. But she knew that she would have gotten no response. She continued to stroke his cheeks when she noticed that his forehead was burning intensely. Kagome looked all around her for help, and seeing only a small stream close to where she awoke, decided to gather some water for a compress. She kissed Inu Yasha's forehead and laid his head down, while she walked over to the stream. Kneeling by the bank, she tore a piece of her sleeve off to soak in the water. The sun was hot as it beat down on the back of her neck, shining itself off the crystalline river. She was so flustered with worry that she did not realize that a shadow was being cast on the torn fabric.

"Kagome…" spoke the shadow. Kagome let out a whelp as she fell over from the shock of the sudden voice. She shielded her eyes as she tried to distinguish the face of the silhouette that stood looming over her.

"Hey WHAT's the big IDEA?!" she yelled.

"Hmph, you're in a cheery mood," it responded. She recognized the voice, she could recognize it anywhere.

"Inu Yasha!" she cried. "You're okay!" The figure knelt down, and it was indeed who she thought it was, just very wet. But again, something was off. This Inu Yasha had no blood on him, and when she left him a few minutes ago, he was stained in it. Once again his hair was its sleek silver colour and his face was marked with elegant purple scars on either side. This is what Inu Yasha looked like when he transformed!

"Inu Yasha, your hair," she stuttered. "What happened?"

"I think I look pretty good," he responded. "What are you doing?" Kagome realized she was dripping water from the sleeve onto her skirt.

"Oh, you, had a fever," she said. "I was just getting some water otherwise I wouldn't have left you in the meadow," She put the rag in the dirt and stood up.

"Meadow?" asked Inu Yasha. "I wasn't in the meadow," Kagome looked at him puzzled and pointed over to where he was laying.

"Yes you were, you were just…" Kagome paused. Inu Yasha was still laying where she left him.

"Who's that?" Inu Yasha asked. She was speechless, because she had no answer.

"It's… you…" she muttered.

"What are you talking about?" he asked angrily. He didn't pause for another moment, as he sprung high into the air. He landed beside the black-haired stranger on the grass. The thing that Kagome noticed, is that Inu Yasha jumped really far, even for him. Actually, it was more like he flew.

"HEYY! Check it out Kagome!" he yelled. His playful attitude was light and airy in midst of everything that had happened. Kagome, still in shock, was taken aback by his lack of care for everything that had happened. She ran over to where he stood. She looked down, trying to determine what had happened.

"Inu Yasha, This is your human body, isn't it?" Kagome asked Inu Yasha. He knelt down beside himself and shook him. To both their wonderment, the unconscious body began to open its eyes. It slowly came to focus on Inu Yasha and Kagome leaning over him.

"What the…hell?" mumbled the half awake Inu Yasha. He sat up at looked directly at the purple scarred boy in front of him. "You look like me!" he exclaimed.

"Duh," Inu Yasha responded. "Where's Tetsusaiga?" Kagome pointed over to the unsheathed sword protruding from the ground. He turned around and walked toward Tetsusaiga. Kagome knelt closer to the black-haired boy.

"Are you okay?" she asked him. He nodded. "What happened?" He took another and then looked into Kagome's eyes.

"I don't remember much," he began. "But I do remember before the pain. I held the Jewel and focused on the thought of becoming a full demon…" he stopped in mid thought and opened his hand. The Jewel rested in his palm.

"AHHH!" A scream pierced through the air in the distance. Inu Yasha was thrown onto the floor.

"Inu yasha!" Kagome screamed and ran toward him and Tetsusiaga. "What happened?" Inu Yasha gritted his teeth in anger.

"I can't touvh Tetsusaiga," he whispered. Then he started to laugh. Laugh with pride and arrogance as he jumped up into air. "I'm a full demon!!" he yelled. Kagome stared in disbelief, but she finally realized what had happened. She turned around and looked at the boy sitting on the ground.

"You're fully human aren't you!" she yelled. 'Yes,' she thought. 'The Jewel must've separated Inu Yasha's human and demon form into two separate people…' The Human Inu Yasha stood up, blood still caked on his face.

"I remember.." he whispered. "I know who I am."

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"I am the human side of Inu Yasha," he continued his story, while Kagome intently listened to his every word. "I was inside you, and I felt the Jewel reach into your soul, trying to kill me," he clenched his hand into a fist. "I refused to die, I refused to let myself be erased from here,"

"Ho!" Kagome and Demon Inu Yasha gasped at the story. Human Inu Yasha walked over to Kagome and held out his hand. He dropped the jewel into Kagome's.

"We are the pieces of the same whole, if either of us die, the other will share the same fate. We need to be one to survive. We will both die because the Jewel will not sustain us both, and it is the only thing keeping our hearts beating," The joy of the demonic powers melted off Inu Yasha's face and he quickly jumped back to the ground.

"So do I get to stay Full Demon?" he asked.

"That or full human, but the decision muct be made,"

"How long do we have?" Kagome asked. The human Inu Yasha wiped his face of the dried blood and spoke melancholically.

"Till tomorrow, at max," he whispered. And that was that.

Man! Cliffhanger! Cliffhanger! I like those, cause only I know what's gonna happen!! Anywayz, thanx a lot for reading through this chapter, and I'll update soon, so PLEASE review!