Bwahaha! I am very pleased to know that I have scared someone in this fic! But to the other readers...you haven't seen anything yet! Just wait and see what happens to them...Onto Red Eyes chapter 11!

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"Shit!" Yami cursed as he desperately tried to reach Kagome so she could help Inuyasha. But with Naraku lashing out with that miasma whip, he couldn't even get near the dragon's back! He was too slow...and the only thing weighing him down was Inuyasha's dead weight. He didn't have any other option open. Hoping for Kagome and the other's safety, he began to descend to the forest below, leaving the humans at the mercy of Naraku.

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"Miroku, watch out!" called Sango as she tackled the monk to the dragon's back as one of the winged vampires swooped down with a katana drawn, nearly lopping his head off. Even Shippo was forced to fight, his kitsune magic only a distraction rather than a threat. They couldn't even stand up without almost falling, so how could they much less protect themselves?

Kagome just happened to look to her side, searching for Yami and Inuyasha. She gasped as she saw the two retreating away from the battle...leaving them. Why? Wasn't Yami supposed to be strong enough? That bastard! He up and ran as they were in danger! He had betrayed them all...what was worse, what was he going to do with Inuyasha? Unless everything he had told her was a lie...

"YAMI!! COME BACK!!!" she called out in a desperate attempt to bring his sorry hide back to the battle. But in the blink of an eye, he was gone. Now she was mad. How dare he leave her and the others with Naraku of all people!? When they got out of this, dead or alive, she would show no mercy on that backstabbing vampire!

With this final note, she gathered up her anger and charged an oncoming vampire.

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He hated himself. Oh, how did he absolutely loathe his existence at that moment. 'Please be safe, please be safe Kagome..' he chanted inside his head as he searched for a safe place to rest Inuyasha. Hopefully, it wasn't six feet under the ground...

He leaned over Inuyasha's mouth. He sighed in relief as he felt his warm breath on his furry ear. At that moment did Inuyasha wake up.

"Y-Yami...? What...where-" Inuyasha hissed in pain as he tried to sit up. Yami gently pushed his back down on the ground.

"I don't have time, Inuyasha. I need to rescue the others. Stay here." He turned to leave, but was stopped when he felt Inuyasha's grip on the end of his pant leg.

"You're taking me...bastard...you left them alone!?"

Yami wouldn't look his counterpart in the eyes. Instead, he bent his knees and kneeled down.

"I can't take you with me. You're too heavy for me to carry if I'm going to get everyone else at once. I've already made sure you're safe, so there's no need to worry. I'll return." With that, he leapt upwards and burst through the treetops to find Naraku's dragon. He looked to see that it hadn't moved yet, just staying there. He torpedoed his body straight as the dragon's throat just as he heard Sango scream out Miroku's name. Turning swiftly, he looked to where Sango was pointing.

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"You like that, eh human?" taunted a vampire as he lashed at Sango and Kagome with long claws. Kagome's face was dribbling with blood from minor cuts. The vampire laughed and dove at Kagome, seeing the jewel shards in her pocket. Miroku, however, was able to tackle the vampire off of the dragon's back, causing them both to fall to the ground below.

"MIROKU!!!!" Sango screamed for the fallen monk as she saw his and the vampire's forms disappear into the forest below.

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Miroku didn't care what happened to him now. There was no way he could survive the fall. But now Kagome wasn't in much danger. He swallowed his fear of falling to his doom and ran his staff through the vampire's heart, causing him to turn to dust. He heard Sango scream his name, but it was very faint. The ground was closing in on the falling monk.

The ground suddenly became farther away as he felt a sharp jerk on his robes. Looking up, he saw Yami squinting to try to target the red dragon. He flew up to a sobbing Sango and dropped Miroku next to her, decapitating the remaining vampire as well. Kagome looked over to Yami, her head hanging low. Naraku looked back, a scowl on his face.

"The night has only begun, vampire." Naraku then took out a demon puppet, crushing it. The dragon howled in pain and began to collapse to the earth, its flesh disintegrating into the air. Naraku chuckled. "And so has our little battle. Remember your vampire friends? If you want them to remain in this world, you will follow me to my lair. Follow the Siamyosho. Farwell..." With his announcement, Naraku became engulfed in miasma and flew away.

No longer caring how much weight he could hold, Yami grabbed everyone in his arms and flew off the falling dragon puppet. He couldn't fly very far though, as his wings broke from carrying so much weight. They all plummeted to the ground, with no way to stop themselves.

"Crap! Everyone on my back, I might be able to take the fall if I land on my hands and knees!"

"What if it doesn't work?"

"Then at least you'll be able to walk, now come one and move!" Yami was barely able to put his arms out in time as they impacted with the ground. All that was heard was a piercing scream of agony and the sound of bones shattering.

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It hurt to do anything. It hurt to breathe, it hurt to move. That dragon had done a number on his body. He could feel the blood dribbling out of his mouth as he struggled to move to where he saw Yami and the others fall. The only thing to keep Inuyasha from falling down was the Tetsusaiga, serving as a cane to lean on. He thought back to when Yami rescued him from that dragon.

'So maybe he saved me. So what? He left Kag-I mean, the others alone with Naraku! If he survived that fall, I'm gonna kill him!' Inuyasha thought, until he heard the painful cry that echoed throughout the night. With worry in his brow, he hurried as fast as he could to meet up with them.

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The pain was unbearable. Yami had tears in the corners of his eyes as the full weight of everyone on his back and the force of gravity pulling him back down to the ground crushed his body. His arms and legs were unable to hold up the slamming weight, causing them to break and shatter all the way up to his hips and collarbone. He had suffered flesh wounds, but this...even Sesshoumaru himself would cry out in pain if this happened to him.

Everyone immediately removed himself or herself from Yami's back, easing the weight and pain to some extent. Yami cried out in burning pain as he felt some splinters of his bones dig into the soft muscle tissue, tearing them and making them bleed internally. Even he couldn't handle this much pain. He whimpered and tried to move. All he did was jab a longer piece of bone through his skin. He bit down on his lip, making it bleed.

Miroku gently placed a hand on the writhing vampire. "Be still. If you keep moving, even your healing powers won't help you. I'll see if there's anything for the pain. And in the meanwhile, where'd you drop off Inuyasha?"

"I'm right here, you lecher." Inuyasha hobbled his way towards Kagome, who placed her arm around his shoulder to help hold his body up. The human version of our favorite hanyou looked to Yami's direction, about to brutally lash out at him for leaving his friend in danger. But the sight of his deformed limbs and the tears threatening to spill out of his eyes was too much. He had been suffering long enough. He didn't need anymore stress than he had now. Instead, he collapsed beside his counterpart, his body exhausted and weary.

"You knew that this would happen..."

"What...."

"You knew that you'd injure yourself if you took them all at once. If Kirara had transformed-"

"Then we would have crashed to the ground, and they'd be in worse shape than I am now." Yami bit back a sharp cry, then continued. "It would have taken too long. Besides, wouldn't you have done the same thing?"

"..." Yami was right. It didn't matter if he himself was dragged through hell, had been impaled and stabbed, then burned alive, he wasn't going to let it happen to the people he cared about.

"Just like the pathetic hanyou he is," came a deep, cold voice that could only belong to one person. One demon only.

It was Sesshoumaru, Inuyasha's older brother.

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Gomen!! Gomen!! This was so hard to figure out how to write....EEP!! dodges rotten fruit being thrown I'll write more!! I swear!!