Title: Nightmare
By: EVL5011
E-Mail: EVILWITHAGUN5011AOL.com
AN: In the last chapter, Sango is forced to repeat the same horrible nightmare. In this chapter, InuYasha will have a nightmare too. It starts the same as the last one.
Chapter 3: Losing the one you love
A loud explosion echoed outside, InuYasha shook his head and looked around, a bolt of lightning struck a nearby tree. Setting it on fire and lighting up the dark section of forest around it. Kagome and Sango were both examining the jewel shard that was left behind. InuYasha rubbed his eyes and approached the two young girls. "What's wrong InuYasha? You don't look to good." Asked Kagome. Unsure on what he was experiencing the hanyou focused his sight on the remains of the Akurei. With a sharp throbbing pain in his head, InuYasha leaned against a wall. "I'm not sure, but my head hurts like hell!" The two girls took the hanyou's arms over their shoulders and got him out of the rain. They entered the undamaged section of the house and had him lay down on the hardwood floor.
InuYasha rested for five minutes and finally got back up on his feet. With a strange feeling in his gut, he rubbed his temples and sighed. "That seemed to easy." InuYasha examined the interior of the room and felt as if something was terribly wrong. The small house began to shake as the storm raged on. InuYasha walked around the small poorly lit room and looked outside. Something caught his attention almost immediately; it was a large swarm of Naraku's poisonous flying insects. InuYasha moved away from the window and warned the two girls about the impending danger. The three protagonists moved far away from the wall and took cover.
The wall exploded sending dust and debris at them. The flying insects entered the room and completely surrounded our three heroes. Sango and InuYasha quickly leapt into action killing over two dozen of the flying insects, but for every one they killed four would take their place. "Naraku must be near somewhere." InuYasha blurted out. The hanyou performed his "Iron Reaver-Soul Stealer" attack, clearing a path for them to make their escape. InuYasha grabbed the two girls by the waist and leapt through the swarm of insects.
Once they got to a safe distance a bolt of lightning struck the house that they were hiding in. It exploded into thousands of small pieces killing Naraku's insects. "Where the hell is he? Show yourself, you coward!" InuYasha unsheathed tetsusaiga and looked around for Naraku. In the dark cover of the forest emerged the evil hanyou. His hair was soaking wet and covered the front of his face. "Naraku!" InuYasha stepped forward and gritted his teeth.
"InuYasha why don't you just have Kagome hand over the last of the jewel shards. You know that eventually I retrieve them from her." Naraku laughed as he completed his little speech. "We'll never hand them over to the likes of you. I still have a debt to settle you. You're responsible for Kikyo's death. And, you'll pay for tricking her into pinning me to that fuing tree!" InuYasha squeezed the handle of the phantom sword as tightly as he could and leapt at Naraku. The evil hanyou raised his hand and shot forth a dozen tendrils. InuYasha was thrown back, sending him crashing into the side of a house.
Sango quickly threw her boomerang at Naraku and struck his tendrils, slicing them clean off. Naraku plunged his fist into the ground and five tendrils grabbed Sango by the ankles. Her boomerang was returning to her and she was caught off guard. The massive weapon struck her across the head, causing her neck to snap back. "Ugghhh…" The female youkai hunter fell to the ground. The trauma to her head caused a large amount of blood to spill onto the muddy ground. Kagome ran over to help her, but was stopped by the hidden tendrils underneath.
InuYasha opened his eyes and noticed Sango lying on the ground. He soon realized that Kagome was in trouble too. He picked tetsusaiga off the ground and ran over to Kagome. He raised the phantom sword in the air and chopped off Naraku's inhuman appendages. InuYasha picked up Kagome and Sango off the ground and ran as fast as he could. He leapt into the air and kicked the door off a small house. He set the two girls on the floor and realized that Sango was barely breathing. "Kagome help Sango, she hemorrhaging. Try and stop the bleeding." The hanyou ran out of the house and noticed that Naraku was gone. InuYasha cautiously walked around outside, and felt cold as the rain poured down on him. The hanyou looked around and came across the severed tendrils on the ground. He stopped and bent down to pick up Sango's weapon, which had a small amount of flesh of the edge.
InuYasha thrust the boomerang deep into the ground and heard Kagome scream. "InuYasha! Help!" The silver haired hanyou ran back to the small house and entered. Sango lay on the wooden floor motionless; she was dead. The trauma to the head was too severe and she had expired. "Damn you to hell Naraku! I'll kill you, if you hurt Kagome!" InuYasha raised tetsusaiga and destroyed a large section of the house. The hanyou jumped back outside and heard Naraku's maniacal laughter in the distance. InuYasha followed the sound of and ran into Kagura. She hid her face behind her large fan and slowly lowered it.
"Poor InuYasha, couldn't help Sango, and now she's dead!" Kagura laughed at the hanyou's misfortune and pointed her fan towards him. A massive volley of light shot at the hanyou, cutting him multiple times across the body. InuYasha withstood the attack and swung the phantom sword at Kagura. The wind sorceress didn't expect InuYasha to react as quickly as he did and was severed in two. Her upper torso fell to the ground and she attempted to drag herself away from his rage. InuYasha walked behind her and thrust tetsusaiga through her back, pinning her to the ground. The wind sorceress gave out a silent cry as the hanyou pulled tetsusaiga from her back. Her blood saturated the wet ground and she died where she lay. Kagura's corpse slowly turned into ash and was blown away by the strong winds of the storm.
InuYasha breathed deeply as he followed the scent of Naraku in the air. InuYasha walked through the large village and caught a glimpse of something in the shadows. It was Naraku and he had Kagome in front of him. The young Miko was barely conscious. "How disappointing, I spent so much time on creating Kagura and she was defeated in a matter of seconds. Maybe next time I'll create someone more reliable. That just leaves you, me and Kagome." Naraku ran his fingers through the young girls long hair. It would be a shame if something horrible were to happen to her." With an evil smile on his face Naraku placed his hand behind Kagome.
"If you hurt her in any way, I swear I'll…" abruptly interrupted InuYasha watched as a sharp tendril pierced through Kagome's shoulder. The young girl woke up with a loud scream as Naraku pulled his tendril out of her. ""You'll WHAT!?" yelled Naraku. "You fail to acknowledge that I possess the completed Shikkon jewel and I hold in my hands the very person you hold dear." Naraku gently caressed Kagome's head and gently ran his hand through her hair once more. The young girl turned pale and fell unconscious in the evil hanyou's arms. "In case you're wondering, a large amount of poison has entered her body. You have a matter of minutes to save her." Naraku released Kagome and let the young girl fall onto the wet ground.
"You Chikushoume! I tear you limb from limb!" yelled InuYasha as he jumped towards Naraku. Naraku raised his arm and his tendrils shot forth, knocking InuYasha backwards. Before he smashed into the side a nearby house, the dog-demon used the momentum to jump forward. With his speed, he raised tetsusaiga and swung the massive blade at the evil hanyou. Naraku was unable to block the sharp sword and was cut across the arms, as he tried to repel the attack. Naraku blocked the majority of InuYasha's attacks and found that he was tiring. InuYasha stopped for a second and Naraku knew all to well that the dog-demon was preparing to use the "Wind Scar".
With the storm raging on, thunder struck the wet ground behind Naraku, sending an unknown amount of electricity throughout his entire body. Momentarily stunned, InuYasha used this to his advantage and swung tetsusaiga. A bright burst of light shot towards Naraku, the evil hanyou disappeared in the intense light. The ground around Naraku exploded and shredded the evil hanyou's body into multiple pieces. InuYasha examined the ground in front of him and found what remained of Naraku.
Naraku's body lay scattered all over the muddy ground, and InuYasha approached what remained of his enemy. "Hahahahaaa…" Naraku's upper torso was torn from the rest of his body, as he looked up at InuYasha. "It seems that you've finally managed to defeat me. You've gained only one thing and that is the completed Shikkon jewel, but you've lost something too." InuYasha kneeled down in front of Naraku and picked his mutilated body off the ground. "Yeah, and what's that?" asked InuYasha, while looking his enemy in the eyes. Naraku turned his head and looked over into distance. "Kagome…" The evil hanyou chuckled with a gleeful look on his face.
"You bastard! Where's the antidote?" InuYasha grabbed Naraku by the throat and pressed his thumb into the evil hanyou's neck. "I-I'm sad to say…there is no antidote. There never was, I had no intention of letting her live." InuYasha shut his eyes and tightened his grip on Naraku and tore his head off. Naraku's head rolled onto the muddy ground and disintegrated into ash. The rest of his body followed, leaving the completed Shikkon jewel behind.
InuYasha stood up and ran over to Kagome who was staring up into the sky. "Kagome…hold on a little bit longer." InuYasha looked around the empty village and shouted out for help. His cries echoed throughout the empty village, he looked at Kagome and hugged her tightly against his chest. The dog-demons heart was filling with sorrow, he knew that he was going to lose another person that he loved. "I-InuYasha? Why are you crying?" asked Kagome in a weak voice. "Because I failed to protect you. Kagome…there's something I've always wanted to tell you. I can't live if you're not by my side. You complete me. I-I'm lost without you…" InuYasha wiped the tears from his face and listened to Kagome's heartbeat slow down. "What I mean to say is…I love you, and now it's to late…you'll never know how I've felt about you" InuYasha looked at Kagome and noticed that she had died in his arms.
The hanyou laid the young Miko on the ground and remained on his knees. With the rain still pouring down on him, he raised his head slightly and looked over to where Naraku died. The Shikkon jewel rested on top of his ashes, the hanyou stood up and walked over the jewel. InuYasha picked it up and held it tightly in the palm of his hand. The hanyou dropped tetsusaiga on the wet ground. Just as his sword hit the ground, the strange red mist began to appear out of nowhere. "What the hell?" InuYasha looked around and realized that it was the same mist from earlier.
InuYasha stood up and watched as Kagome's body disappeared before his very eyes. He quickly picked up tetsusaiga and pulled it out of its scabbard. The hanyou opened his hand and took notice that the Shikkon jewel had turned into black ooze. The young dog-demon looked around and the Akurei appeared a few feet away from him.
"What the fu? Sango destroyed you. I knew that something was wrong!" InuYasha unsheathed tetsusaiga and waited for the eerie spirit to get closer. InuYasha placed his feet firmly into the ground and watched as the Akurei drew closer by the second. "I don't know what's going on, but I'm going to find out." InuYasha swung tetsusaiga into the air, cutting the Wind Scar, and engulfing the Akurei in its force. Just as the light cleared the Akurei remained untouched by the attack. The evil entity stopped a few inches away from InuYasha and a partially rotted head emerged from inside of it. The head flew towards InuYasha, while screaming, and exploded upon hitting him. InuYasha was deafened by the loud sound and everything went blank. With the sound of the moaning dead in his head he opened his eyes, only to find himself standing in front of Kagome and Sango.
"InuYasha are you okay?" Kagome approached InuYasha and looked him in the eye. "Kagome…Sango, you're both okay?" InuYasha examined the two girls and looked around. He was standing inside of the partially destroyed house and the ashes of the Akurei lay on the ground. "Kagome…I-I…forget it." InuYasha walked back inside the small house and sat down on the floor. Sango and Kagome both followed the hanyou inside and sat down beside him. "Are you sure you're okay?" asked Sango. "To be honest with you, I'm not sure. Maybe the Akurei fumes gave me some kind of bad dream or something." InuYasha stood up and walked over to a nearby window. Just as he watched the storm outside, he heard the ominous sound of Naraku's flying insects.
"No, it can't be. I got to be dreaming." InuYasha moved away from the window and the two girls behind him wondered why he was acting so strangely. He then realized that nothing had any scent, suddenly, the wall exploded and the flying insects entered the small room. The poisonous insects surrounded the three protagonists' and InuYasha was frozen in fear. Everything slowed down for the hanyou and the cries of the dead began to echo throughout his head. "It's a dream. No, it's a nightmare…." With the insects around him, InuYasha dropped tetsusaiga on the floor and closed his eyes. "It's only a dream, it's only a dream…" He repeated to himself. The screams of Kagome and Sango rang through his head as he blocked everything out. He desperately wanted it to be a terrible nightmare.