*Disclaimer: I do not own Rumiko Takahashi's work, Inuyasha.

A/N: Okay this is the last chapter before the new finished chapters. I'll try my hardest to keep up with your fandom needs. I have been thinking a lot of the fic and I've made it longer and better (in my head anyway, not on paper)! Yay! In fact, I may have a sequel to it too. How cool is that?! Enjoy this chapter. Believe me, it's about to get more dramatic.

Naraku's Revenge and Kagome's Suffering

Chapter 8: Kagome's Desire

Kagome felt lighter than air. She opened her eyes and gasped. Nothingness surrounded her as if she were stranded and floating in a starless night sky with no view below but only blackness. Her body trembled with fear, "Inuyasha? Sango? Where am I?"

The pitch-blackness disappeared in an instant and Kagome was back in the feudal era. "That was weird," but she began to think of the event and said, "Something's not right."

Trees and bushes of some forest that looked vaguely familiar surrounded her. The trees were swaying in the wind and the bushes rustled. After feeling the wind and sun on her she sensed jewel shards.

"Coming from behind me," she said to herself. She turned around to face the oncoming visitor with the shards walking backwards and saw a red figure with little dog ears and silver hair.

"Inuyasha!" Kagome called out, but he didn't reply. She tried again, "Inuyasha, can you hear me? Or are you trying to ignore me? Don't make me say the 'word.'"

Inuyasha was still running toward her. He lifted a small object in his hand, and Kagome recognized it right away. "It's the Jewel of Four Souls!" But how did it become whole? She thought to herself, Did Naraku gather all the shards already? Right from under our noses?

Now Inuyasha was getting too close to Kagome, "Inuyasha, stop." She placed her arms and palms out to signal him to do so, but he never slowed his pace. She backed up a little and prepared herself for an immediate collide, for she knew it was too late to move, and she wasn't fast enough to dodge.

Kagome felt his presence. She opened her tightly shut eyes and saw Inuyasha run right through her body!

"What's going on?" she wondered out loud.

She turned around and saw the tree. Inuyasha leaped and with sudden accuracy was halted by an arrow. The Jewel had fallen out of his hands, thanks to the impact.

Kagome turned around again to find the source of the archer.

It was Kikyo!

"Kikyo--," Kagome began, but instead she heard Inuyasha's voice.

"Kikyo, I thought…"

As fast as the forest appeared, it suddenly disappeared just the same. Kagome looked around trying to see if she could find what made the forest disappear and reappear like that. As she did this, she saw Inuyasha where she last saw him in the mirage-like forest, but there was no tree that he was pinned to, nor Kikyo's arrow. He was just in mid-air dangling.

Kagome walked closer to him, but her step came with a sinister laugh. A deep, slight cackling laugh. It only belonged to one person.

Then Kagome woke up. She began to cry. She knew what happened to Inuyasha in her vision or dream or whatever it was. The tears were now a river instead of a stream down her face.

She sat up in bed.

"Kagome!" She could hear her mom and grandpa's voices.

Kagome's mom embraced her so the teenager's head was on her chest. "It's alright, Kagome. It's okay," her mom said as she stroked her daughter's head.

"How do you feel, my dear?" Kagome's grandpa asked.

Kagome couldn't bring herself to answer. She just wanted to be with Inuyasha.

"Here," Kagome's mom said, "You just lie down and I'll go fetch a doctor to let him know you're awake."

Kagome reluctantly let go of her mom's chest, for she wished it was another's.

Once she placed her head back on the pillow, she felt something hard against her scalp.

"Why is this pillow hard as a rock?" Kagome asked. She sat up again and padded and fluffed the pillow to discover something was underneath it. Gliding her hand around, she found the source. She knew what it was by the feel of the sheath material. Pulling out the sword from under her pillow, Kagome's grandpa gasped for he never seen anything more mysterious.

"Kagome, hand the sword to me. It's possessed and has caused the doctors to give up hope on your recovery," Kagome's grandpa insisted to her!

"It's not possessed!" Kagome yelled at him, which he then backed away a little. She also ignored the fact that he mentioned the "doctors giving up hope" on her.

Kagome, then, sensed three jewel shards coming from above! "Where's Inuyasha? Is he here?" Thinking her dream or whatever had something to do with it.

Sota replied with a nod, "He and some other people with a big cat headed toward the roof. The demon almost came into this room, if he didn't show up."

Kagome was shocked. He's here, and he's alive, she thought to herself.

She hovered Tetsusaiga in front of Sota's face. "Listen carefully, Sota. Go to the roof and give this back to Inuyasha. Tell him not to worry about me. I don't care what happens to me. I just don't want him to die."

After giving the message to Sota, Kagome gave the sword to him. Sota was just stupefied. What did she mean by 'dying?' He didn't ask any questions, for Kagome was glaring and pleading to him. All he wanted to do was retreat away from those eyes.

When Kagome watch him leave the room, she began to feel like someone just pulled the life out of her like a jolt of electricity.

"Kagome!" her grandpa exclaimed when he saw her whence in pain.

Kagome's mom and the doctor ran in the room, breaking their conversation.

The teenager's body was floating like someone was picking her up with one arm under her body. Her eyes were half closed and glazed over. Kagome's body was limp in midair!

"What's happening to her?!" her mom cried out.

To Be Continued…

A/N: I want to apologize again for the delay. It's getting close to finals and it has been difficult to write for fun. I tried to make it up to you by submitting more than one chapter, but it wasn't meant to be. College life can do that to you, you know?