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Twenty-six Days

Chapter 10

Inuyasha stared at Shippou's unconscious body. Given he was a really annoying kid, but he didn't deserve to be abused like this. Inuyasha glanced around for the attacker, his hand slid to the hilt of the tetsusiaga.

Kagome was the only one he saw. Her eyes were red, none of the brown remained. They glowed, giving the forest a hellish tint.

"Kagome, what happened?" he asked, releasing his sword. She didn't answer. "Kagome? Did-did you do this?"

"Yeah, what are you going to do about it?" Her face looked wicked.

Inuyasha stepped forward. How could this be Kagome? He thought. She reached forward and pulled the tetsusiaga from its sheath. The metal was dull and rusty hiding its true power.

"What the hell are you doing, Ka-" he was interrupted by a sharp pain in his stomach.

She ran the tetsusiaga through his side, and held him up with it. "What gives you the right to tell me what's right and wrong?" She pushed the sword further into his gut. Inuyasha moaned, wanting nothing more than to fall to the ground.

"My whole life until I was 15 was FINE! Then you, with your stupid Shikon Jewel RUINED IT! And what the hell is with you and Kikyo? Pick her or me! I can't live my life loving someone who doesn't love me back!" as she spoke the words she twisted the sword, inflicting more and more pain on Inuyasha. "I used to think that I would enjoy this adventure, but with you it is all crap. Everything is about that soulless bitch Kikyo! How can you love someone without a soul?" she realized something. "I don't like being a backup girl! I deserve better! I'm going to leave you here to DIE alone! You certainly deserve it, mutt-face. At least, Koga is enough man - no sorry- demon enough to tell me he loves me!" she turned to leave after wrenching the sword from his bleeding body.

Inuyasha's eyes glazed over in pain. "Kagome." He whispered before the blackness crashed around him.

"Sango, I think its time to meet Inuyasha, Shippou, and Ringhali." Miroku said. This journey was a lot more difficult than he had thought. When he told Inuyasha that he didn't want special treatment, he hadn't meant that he wanted to rough it. "Oh well." He sighed.

"Probably, it has been a while." She said walking toward their meeting place.

When they arrived, Ringhali was waiting.

"Well, at least you didn't leave me!" she laughed.

"Uh-yeah. Has Inuyasha been back?" Miroku asked.

Shippou suddenly ran into the clearing, a bruise emerging on his forehead. He looked dazed. "Sango, Miroku! Inuyasha is dead! He's dead!"

A.N. Hee hee. The end of that chapter! Find out what happens next. Did Inuyasha REALLY die? R&R plz.