Author's Note: Well this is it you guys. My story is finally coming to an end. There will be no sequels, sorry guys. Hope you'll like this chapter.

Thanks again to those who stuck with the story and waited patiently for me to update. And thank you so much for giving this story a chance and telling me what you thought of it. I guess it's really weird I'm finishing it so soon, but I had this planned for a while and I'm not going to change my mind. This is it, THE END!

Disclaimer: Come on guys haven't we been through this?

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The Story of Two

Chapter Ten

No More Nightmares

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Inuyasha's past flashed before his eyes. All the important memories rushing past him, making him remember who he was, he had become, and what he was about. It was as if his life was flashing before his eyes, that death awaited for him on the other side.

"Inuyasha! Where are you? Come on your father and I have to go to the party and we won't be home till late, give mommy a kiss before she has to go." A little boy of five ran to his mother, smiling. She bent down so Inuyasha could kiss her on the cheek. He gave her a kiss on her cheek and whispered in her ear "Come back soon." His mother laughed. "I promise." She stood up and waved bye to Inuyasha while his father patted him on the head.

That was the last he had ever saw of them. His father and his mother never did come back home.

He felt pain and sadness in this memory, it hurted him so.

Then another wave of white flashed before his eyes. It landed on another memory.

"Today on Tokyo News, Inuyasha Taichi became an over night success with his booming and very promising business corporation. He is currently Japan's richest man at the age of twenty." Inuyasha saw himself turning off the TV and leaning back against his couch. "If only they knew how unhappy I was." He whispered.

This memory brought him depression.

His mind was spinning again making sure he remembered everything before he had to go. This memory however tugged at his heart, it was one of his better ones.

"Come on Inuyasha! Where is it? I know you put it somewhere." Inuyasha glanced at her over his shoulder while he was running. He laughed and picked up his pace, trying to escape from her. "What are you talking about? I don't have it!"

Kagome caught up with him once they reached a dead end. It was a cliff. "Give it to me!" She demanded. He pulled out the necklace out of his pocket. "Oh this? Why do you want this?"

Kagome put her hands on her hips with a smile on her face. "Someone special gave it to me, and it means a lot to me." Inuyasha twirled it around his finger and looked at the necklace. "And who might that be?"

Kagome put on a playful pout. "Like you don't know..." He shrugged "Well I think I do but I would like to hear it from you." He came closer to her until he was close enough to see her clearly. He put the necklace on her and leaned in closer. His hands reached out to her and... Tickled her on the ribs.

Kagome fell on the grass laughing. "Stop it... You... Know that... I'm ticklish..." She kept laughing, her face turning red. Inuyasha shook his head continuing to tickle her. "Not till you say it." She nodded. He stopped only to capture her into a deep and warm embrace, his arms circled around her preventing her from running away. "Well the man that gave it to me is very special because he loves me and I love him too."

He nuzzled his face in the crook of her neck. "Is this man amazingly handsome?" He whispered jokingly, his breath tickling her neck, Kagome shivered. She nodded "Yes he is." Inuyasha's fingers walked down the length of Kagome's arm, just playing with her, enjoying her company and the peacefulness that surrounded them. He was drawn to her and it was refreshing that he didn't have to face his problems by himself anymore. He had her.

"Is it me?" he said while his fingers now combed her loose silky hair. Kagome turned her head around so that she could see him. "Of course." She whispered looking at him affectionately. "There is nobody else."

Inuyasha smiled. He knew right then and there that she was the one.

He felt depths and depths of happiness and love.

It was her. He chose her over death.

Then it became dark. There were no more flashbacks. No more white.

His eyes fluttered open. He had made his decision on the last memory. He couldn't go. He couldn't leave her.

He saw the nurse on his left. She turned around and jumped when she saw that Inuyasha was awake. "Oh! I didn't think you would be awake so soon."

Inuyasha looked down at himself and saw that his stomach was freshly bandaged. The nurse walked over to him. "We thought you weren't going to make it when they brought you in, but you fought it out till the very end. We just finished bandaging you." She explained. Inuyasha cleared his throat. "Can I be admitted out today, there is something important that I have to do."

The nurse nodded. "Yes but you have to fill out a form before we let you go." Inuyasha nodded. The nurse left to go get the papers only returning shortly with them. "Here you go." Inuyasha quickly scribbled his signature on the places required and looked up at the nurse while handing her the pen. "Now?" The nurse laughed. "Yes now you can go." She pointed to the chair where there were his clothes, but they were different from the ones he had worn before.

The nurse seeing his face explained. "Your clothes were beyond repair. Your friends were kind enough to bring in some fresh new pair of clothes for you. They even brought in two sets of everything just incase." He nodded again, understanding now.

The nurse closed the door on her way out. Inuyasha quickly changed and headed outside.

He had to get to her.



Sango and Miroku played with their food waiting for the nurse to come back and tell them it was okay to see him now. That was three hours ago and still no nurse.

Sango dipped her fry into the ketchup and bit half of the fry off. She threw the half-eaten fry down and looked at Miroku. "I can't do this anymore. We've been waiting for so long. Where is that nurse, because when I get my hands on her she'll wish that she had never been born."

Miroku had finally finished picking off all of the sesame seeds on his Big Mac bun. There was a rather large pile of the sesame seeds sitting next to the uneaten burger. "We have to be patient." He said, though his mind told him otherwise to screw it and go see Inuyasha.

The nurse came into the waiting room. Miroku and Sango stood up. Sango with fists on either side of her. Miroku placed his hands on her shoulder and whispered. "Calm down now, this is a hospital after all."

"Can we see him now?" Sango asked impatiently, uncurling her fingers. The nurse smiled and nodded. "Yes I gave him a few minutes to change, you may go see him now." Miroku had a look of surprise on his face. "He woke up?" The nurse nodded. "Yes he did, in fact I admitted him a few minutes ago, and you can take him home."

Sango and Miroku 'thanked' the nurse and ran to his room. Miroku pulled the door back and Sango gasped. The room greeted them with emptiness. Sango looked at Miroku. 'I don't believe it." Miroku looked at Sango. "What?"

Sango walked over and picked up his boxers that laid on the chair. "He picked the briefs over the boxers, fork over the money lover boy." Miroku gritted his teeth thinking 'Damn you Inuyasha' while pulling out his wallet out of his back pocket.

Luck was just not with Miroku today. He handed Sango a twenty dollar bill. Sango smiled at him smugly. "Thank you." She said and placed the money in her pocket. She kissed him on the cheek seeing that he wasn't too pleased with his loss. Miroku smiled when his hands found what they were looking for, he gave it a slight squeeze.

SLAP! Sango looked at Miroku while shaking her head. "I can't believe you." She said and Miroku shrugged while rubbing his cheek. "Hey I had to do something to make me feel better."



Kagome stood on top of the cliff where she had confessed her love for him the very first time. The day he pushed her off a cliff. Her shoulders shook in laughter recalling the memory. The wind whipped at her hair and blew so that the cold air chilled her. But she never moved.

She stood there looking down at the roaring waves crash onto the rocks. The waves gently slithered back and repeated all over again. A single tear drop joined the waves below. She cried knowing her source of pain was gone.

There was nothing to keep her awake at night anymore. He was dead. He was gone for good. It was that relief that gently coated her heart with warmth.

She couldn't believe it, how he managed to died but at the same time hurt her in ways she thought she would not experience again. But she did, when she saw him lying in that hospital bed there was nothing that could even begin to describe what went through her. It was as if someone had taken out her heart and actually stabbed it. Over and over again, leaving it to mend for itself.

An open wound that would not close. Not till he was alright. She waited for him by his side everyday. She looked down at her hands.

Kagome held her necklace in her hands. They were weaved around her fingers she looked at it and saw that the color was full and rich. The color had came back. She brought it up closer to examine it.

Were her eyes playing a trick on her? A few moments ago the pearl was fading so much that it was almost white. Now it was pink and glowing again. A smile tugged at the corner of her lips as she played with the necklace. He was going to make it after all.

She put on the necklace and closed her eyes letting her happiness take over.

Everything was going to be alright.

She could feel it in her heart.



Inuyasha ran, he ran so fast that he could hear the blood pounding in his ears. He saw a white house on the corner, he ran up the steps and rang the doorbell.

Ayumi had answered the door. Her eyes widened when she saw who it was. "Inuki?" She said surprised. Suki had ran over and her jaw dropped. "Oh my god! Inuyasha! You're awake! What... How?..." Inuyasha smiled watching their faces get even more confused.

"Is Kagome here?" He said. Ayumi shook her head and Suki's face confirmed Ayumi's answer. "No she left a few hours ago. She said something about needing some time to think." Suki said helpfully. Inuyasha nodded "Okay thanks guys." He jumped down the steps and ran thinking where she might have gone.

But in his mind the answer was clear.

He saw the beach and the pathway that led to cliff where he and Kagome had jumped months ago. He ran up the pathway, then he saw her. She stood there her hair blowing back, her skirt whipping around because of the cold gusty wind. She was glowing even thought he sun wasn't out. He smiled happily as he saw her there, she was awake and alive.

She was waiting for him.

He walked up closer to her and saw her. Her eyes were closed as if she was thinking. He wrapped his arms around her and spun her around. Kagome's eyes flew open and laughed when she saw that it was Inuyasha. "I knew that you would find me." She said.

Inuyasha set her down. "I think that was the hardest decision of my life." Kagome tilted her head and knitted her brows together. "What do you mean?" Inuyasha looked out to the sea.

"When I was unconscious all these flashbacks of my life came dancing in my head. Some stood out more than others but for awhile all of it came back to me. I just saw all this pain and sadness flooding in my past life. I saw unhappiness and depression. The pain was so intense that I wanted it to go away. To release the pain and give into it." He paused still remembering the pain, it was still fresh in his heart.

"But the last memory changed my life. I remembered why now that I struggled so hard to stay alive and not go join my parents up there. It wasn't time for me yet. I still had one thing let that was unfinished." Inuyasha looked back at Kagome. "It was because of you."

Kagome put hand over his heart and looked into his eyes. The eyes that she fell in love with. "What did you see?" She whispered.

Inuyasha's face broke out into a happiness grin. "I saw everything. I saw myself living my life with you. Spending each day with you. We would have kids and a beautiful house by the sea, where we lived happily ever after. And there the sun was shining over us, because there was nothing anymore to run away from. There were no more nightmares for us. Just long happy days in the arms of each other. What I saw Kagome, was us growing old together, fighting our battles together, hand in hand, side by side."

Kagome smiled. "Do you mean..." Inuyasha nodded. "Yes, yes! That's what I mean." He picked her up and spun her around once more. "I meant every word. I meant everything that I've ever said to you. Everything."

Kagome wiped away her tears and looked up at him. "So where do we go from here?" Inuyasha pulled out a black velvet box and went down on one knee.

He opened the box and looked at Kagome's eyes. He wanted to see her face when he asked the question. "Where we go from here is up to you. What I'm asking for is your hand in marriage. Kagome Higurashi will you marry me?"

Kagome smiled and her heart beating so fast that it hurt. But it was a good kind of pain. "Yes, I'll marry you Inuyasha." She watched him put the ring on her finger, he stood up and kissed away her tears. "Don't cry." He whispered.

Kagome cupped his face. "These are my tears of happiness Inuyasha. They're for you only." Inuyasha tucked a loose strand of her hair back and stared at her warm chocolate eyes. They stood there together enjoying their new life they would start together.

The winds had stopped blowing and the sun crept out form the clouds, beaming down on the couple.

It was the beginning of a new chapter in their lives. Where there lied no shadows and dark secrets. There were no more nightmares to dwell on. Just the road of starting a new journey and happier days.

They would be together until the day they die. But they would be together even then.

The story of two was now the story of one.

THE END.

AN: There you go, it's over. I hope that was good enough for you guys. Cheers!