I'm depressed. oh well, not like you want to know or care.

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Darkness.

This is the one word to describe what she saw.

Her body ached, and she felt wet, and uncomfortable. But there was warmth, everything was dark, but she felt warm.

'Am I dead?' She asked the darkness.

There was no response. She tried to move her body, but something was holding her still. She tried again, but this time she felt a searing pain in her chest. Her ears pricked. People were talking, and she could smell the acrid odor of tears and blood.

Someone was shouting, but it sounded muffled and hoarse.

"No! She's not dead! You're lying!"

'Inu-yasha!?' She screamed to the darkness of her mind.

Someone replied, a woman's voice.

"Inu-yasha, you know just as well as I that there is no heartbeat. She was impaled!"

"No..." This time, the male sounded scared.

'Inu-yasha!' Kagome screamed again. 'Help me...'

"Inu-yasha... there is nothing we can do... she should be buried along side my sist-"

"NO!" He screamed. "She's not dead! She's too strong!"

Kagome struggled to move again, and not in vain. She stopped suddenly when an echoing beat rang her ears. Someone gasped, and she felt the bindings tighten around her.

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"Inu-yasha?" The older woman asked apologetically. "What is it?"

"A heart beat..." He said in wonder, "But very weak."

Kagome felt a clawed finger poke her side.

"Wake up!"

"Inu-yasha!" Keade scolded. "Do that, and she will die!"

Inu-yasha looked up at Keade. "Can't you help her?" He said, stroking her cheek gently.

"I'll do my best."

Sango was clutching onto Miroku's clothes, sobbing. Miroku was sitting, dazed, with a comforting hand on Sango's back. Inu-yasha was in the middle of the room, a bleeding Kagome in his lap, and he was stroking her cheek with his finger.

His nose twitched. Something was different about the air... He looked down at the stains in his Haori-Hakama, and he noticed the dry blood on her large t-shirt. He glanced around to see if anybody was looking, lift up her shirt and took a good long whiff. Youkai blood. He put down the shirt and looked back at Kagome's peaceful face.

"Nani!?" He jumped, and set Kagome on the floor. Miroku looked up from his depressed position, and gaped in shock.

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The darkness of her own soul cleared slowly, and the deafening pulse got louder and faster.

'What's happening to me?!' she cried out, as she slowly felt her consciousness leaving. 'what...'

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Inu-yasha leaned over and examined her as Kagome's hair turned white, and two dark red stripes lined her cheeks. Her dead, open eyes became red, and her hands clawed.

She blinked, and sprang to her feet, snarling. She glanced around the room with non-human eyes, and lunged suddenly at Inu-yasha.

He jumped backwards, but was caught off-guard, and one of her red-striped hands grazed his shoulder. She fell to the ground at the post-attack in her weak state and snarled and whined in pain. She spotted Inu-yasha again and charged. This time he was ready. He dodged the attack with trouble, and landed directly behind her, clutching his wounded arm.

"KAGOME!" He shouted, and dodged another blind attack.

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Kagome stirred. Someone was calling to her. She looked through her eyes to see Inu-yasha, wounded and haggard.

'Inu-yasha!' She cried desperately, tears brimming, clouding her vision.

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Kagome paused, but for only a moment, and lunged again, this time nearly tearing off his arm. She spun around, and dust rose. Inu-yasha watched in horror as his pure, loving Kagome staggered to the side, leaning to a tree, her eyes red, and her claws flexed.

"You¼ " She growled. "I hate you. You and your brother."

Inu-yasha flinched. Those words coming from her mouth was the most painful thing he could imagine. He dropped to his knees, and glanced back at Miroku and Sango who were watching in awe at the torrent that they had caused. Trees were knocked over, great cracks in the ground marked where Kagome had blindly missed Inu-yasha, and they averted their gaze to Kagome, bleeding in her chest, her clothes ripped, exposing some of the bloodied swimsuit she had been wearing. Inu-yasha himself was tattered almost to bits, his good arm gripping his injured one. His Fire Rat robes were reduced to shreds, and his breath came in sharp gasps. Even for Inu-yasha, this was difficult, forced to fight the woman you loved.

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'NO!' Kagome screamed hopelessly, clutching her tresses, and pulling the locks over her eyes. 'No¼ I don't hate you! I LOVE YOU!' She wailed miserably, and sobbed quietly, all the while whispering under her breath. 'I love you¼ I love you.'

She closed her eyes and cried silently, when a memory struck her at that moment.

*Flash Back*

Inu-yasha stood in the middle of the villiage, his hair billowing, and blood dripping from his talons. He was full demon, and he had slaughtered the bandits. Sesshô-maru emerged from behind a hut and faced off with the furious Inu-yasha. Kagome watched silently from the sidelines as Sesshô-maru drawled his usual tone, and Kagome sat and listened in shock at what was to come of her love.

"The Yôkai blood that is coursing through my younger brother's half breed veins¼ " Kagome leaned forward with anticipation, as Sesshô-maru paused dramatically. "Will disintegrate his human mind and soul. He will soon become the demon you see before you. Only permanent."

*End Flash Back*

'No..' Kagome found herself muttering. 'No¼ I¼ Will¼ NOT!' She yelled to herself. 'I am Kagome! No one else!'

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Miroku and Sango watched the two demons face off, but one of them was different. Kagome stood, clutching her head, and she wailed horribly, as confusion swept through her. She hated Inu-yasha! What was this inside her telling her other wise? She screeched again; her head felt as if it were splitting in two.

Inu-yasha sweat dropped and watched as she started muttering to herself, and hitting her head on a tree.

"No… I hate him… leave me alone… get out of my head…" She whispered into the tree. "I… Hate… Him!"

"Kagome?" Inu-yasha asked quietly, "Are you alright?" Kagome spun her head in his direction, as if just noticing him for the first time.

"You…" She hissed. "I am NOT Kagome!" She let out a long, mourning cry, and took off into the trees.

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'Kagome…' someone whispered into her ear. She spun around only to come face to face with Inu-yasha. 'Kagome…' He said again, his eyes and face unreadable. 'I'm going to go to hell, and stay there with Kikyô, like I promised. I can't break my promise.'

Kagome blinked a couple times, and he was gone. But his voice was replaced with a cold, feminine one.

'Kagome, you know you can't win…' The words reverberated around her head. 'You know I'm a part of you, and you know you will loose to the Yôkai blood you so willingly let into your body.'

'I will not loose!' Kagome argued back. 'I'm me! And I will not loose to you, or that monster!'

A new voice added in with Inu-yasha's and Kikyô's, and it was smooth and icy. '…Will disintegrate your human mind and soul…'

'NO!' Kagome covered her ears desperately, trying to block out the voices. 'Let me alone!'

'I love Kikyô, Kagome, and I always have…' Inu-yasha was before her again. '…you are nothing to me… you are nothing…' his last words echoed again and again around her head, and she could feel the effect they were having on her soul.

She backed away slowly, only to find that there was no exit, and he would not get any farther away.

'Please, Kagome…. Understand… for me…' He took a step closer, and embraced her lightly, but Kagome could not feel a thing. The warmth was gone, and all she could feel was a stabbing cold.

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^_^ I'm evil again! Don't you LOVE how evil I am? Well, I hope you enjoyed this chapter, It took me so long. I'm sick from school today, so I had extra time, not to mention the fact that we had a 4-day weekend (5 for me) love ya!

Ja ne