Disclaimer: I know. It's not mine. It sucks. Why?

Sesshomaru: Didn't Inuyasha and Miroku tell you why already?

Reaka: I forgot!

Sesshomaru: Because you'd kill everyone but me within ten episodes.

Reaka: Oh...Anyway! Thank you, reviewers! To all of those that hate me now for killing Inuyasha and the others, (Wait! That's everyone that's read this!). I'm sorry. Blame Naraku! He's the one killing everybody! Kagome thinks a lot in this one. So you know the drill for that. I know I didn't get to thank you in the last few chapters, so I'm taking this time to thank you now. Let's have a moment of silence for Inuyasha and the others.

(Moment of silence)

Now that that's done and over with, here's another chapter of Too Late!

Chapter 10 – Dagger

Kagome held the dagger in her small hands and glanced at the little girl sitting at the foot of her bed. Rin smiled at her, oblivious to what Kagome was thinking about doing. Silent tears fell from Kagome's eyes.

"What's wrong, Kagome?"

"Nothing."

"Did something bad happen to Inuyasha?"

She stared at the little girl.

/Sesshomaru must've told her about what's happened to me. She doesn't know he's dead./

"Inuyasha's...passed on."

"Oh. I'm sorry, Kagome."

Kagome looked down at the dagger again. The blade was sharp enough to penetrate her skin as if stabbing through butter.

/I could end my pain very easily. Would I feel any pain? Could I do this while Rin's watching me?/

She looked up again, and her heart almost stopped. Rin was not alone with her. Standing behind the little girl was Sango. She held Miroku's hand, and Kohaku was on the other side of her. Shippo was perched on Miroku's shoulder. The four of them stared back at her, smiling.

"My friends!" Kagome whispered. "You're all here!"

"Kagome," Sango said, "you did it! You destroyed Naraku."

"You all died because of it!" Kagome said. "How can there be victory in what I did?"

"Why do our lives matter?" Miroku asked. "Look. It's okay now. See? Sango and I are together here."

"And my brother and I can be siblings again," Sango said. "Death isn't so bad."

"Why don't you come with us, Kagome?" Shippo asked. "Won't you?"

Kagome looked to her friends, then to Rin. Rin stared at her, wondering whom she was talking to. She didn't see the ghosts of Kagome's friends.

/What should I do?/

She saw two figures moving towards her from her other side. Inuyasha and Kilala came to her. Inuyasha came to Kagome and put his arms around her.

/His embrace feels so cold./

He noticed the dagger in her hand and looked at her.

"What are you going to do?" he asked her.

Her friends gave her one last look then faded away as fast as they came.

"Wait!" Kagome called. "Inuyasha! Miroku! Sango! Please wait!"

She gripped the hilt of the dagger tighter.

/I will go with them. They won't leave me alone again! I will die, but I don't want to die alone.../

She looked at the little girl standing beside her bed.

"Come here, Rin. I want to show you something..."

Sesshomaru: You're going to end it right there?

Reaka: Yup.

Sesshomaru: You little bitch.

Naraku: All right. I'm here, now where are the cookies I was promised?

Reaka: Oh Naraku! You're just in time!

Naraku: Time for what, exactly?

Reaka: PISSED OFF FANS ATTACK!!!!

(Pissed off fans attack Naraku and kick him around. Naraku screams until he falls unconscious)

Sesshomaru: Done?

Reaka: Yeah. Wanna do closing statements?

Sesshomaru: Sure. It was short, but I think you get the idea of what might happen. Read and review, please, so I can keep my job here. It all depends on you! Please? I don't want to be her love slave that desperately! Help!

Reaka: I will kill you...