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sniffle this is the last chapter, I enjoyed writing this, and sorry if he ending sucks if it does just say so lol...

Chapter 12:

"Frozen in time, never to return to hurt us again. I wonder what's going through his head right now!" Kaede explained to a young child, "Make sure you don't go near this tree, or touch that arrow..."

Kaede was only a child herself, but she was given the responsibility of a priestess, as her sister had.

A few months had passed since Inuyasha had been laid to rest on that tree. All the villagers now called it the Sacred Tree. For that was the tree that the hero Kikyo had clung the villain Inuyasha too. Kikyo had died right after that due to a wound to her shoulder, which Inuyasha had apparently caused. The Sacred Jewel that he was after was then burned with Kikyo as she died, as to stop the trouble that it had been causing from happening.

This was the story that the villagers would tell for 50 years.

The newly created half-demon strutted through cities cursing under his breath.

"Damn Kikyo, and her damn problems... why the hell did she take the jewel to hell with her? Why? My plan was working so perfectly!" he mumbled to himself.

He had been the reason Kikyo had turned on Inuyasha. His name had been Onigumo, a thief. The 'villain' Inuyasha had injured him terribly until he was beyond repair and Kikyo had tried to heal him to the best of her ability. Onigumo fell in love with Kikyo, and as Inuyasha had as well... he decided that he had to corrupt the jewel so he came up with a plan. "Demons devour my body, but in turn create me a new one!" he had screamed that day. The demons obeyed and he had a new body, as a half demon. There was little trace of Onigumo left, except for a huge spider on his back, which symbolized the small tattoo he had, had on his shoulder when he was a thief. The rest of him was consumed by Naraku; the half demon.

He was looking for guidance and the only thing he could think of was going to a monk for help. Damn Onigumo and his damn ideas that I can't damnwell get rid of... DAMMIT! Naraku thought impatiently.

((A/N: I know I'm making him say "damn" a lot but he is very upset over what happened and he needs to get it off his chest.))

He came across a village with a huge temple at the front. There were monks all over the place. He went to the 'reception desk' to find a monk dressed in a purple robe, he had dark brown hair and seemed to be middle aged. There was a staff leaning against a wall behind him.

"Hello, how may I help you?" the monk asked, "do you need some spiritual guidance?"

"Erm, yes I do..." Naraku answered.

"Very well sit down..." the monk explained.

"Where do I sit?" he asked.

"On the floor," the monk answered.

"Do you expect someone as high ranked as myself to sit on the floor?" he inquired.

"Yes I do," the monk said sternly.

"I'd rather stand!"

"I insist you sit!"

Naraku shook his head, "No really, I prefer to stand..."

"You must sit or we cannot start the spiritual cleansing."

Naraku sat on the ground reluctantly. If this guy doesn't give me some good advice I swear I'm going to kill him... or worse... Naraku smiled at that thought.

Naraku explained to the monk in every detail what he had done; without giving him any real names, "Well you see, I WAS a human my name was... uh... Speaks With Demons... so uh I got permanently injured by a dog demon named Fido..."

Heh heh heh... Fido... man I'm insulting a dead man, I am so cruel... Naraku thought as he was speaking.

"So is this Fido your father?" the monk asked.

"No, this Fido is an evil half demon who likes to sleep on trees and steal lovers!" Naraku replied.

"Tell me about your mother!" the monk commanded.

"NO! Let me continue my story! Okay so this Fido meets up with a girl named uh... Shikonjewelkeeper... yes quite a long name I know. So they fall in love and Shikonjewelkeeper takes me in and tries to nurse me back to health. Pathetic girl that she was never gave up on me, that was probably why I, Speaks With Demons, fell in love with her. Now keep in mind this wasn't me, this was my human half. So eventually I decided to corrupt the jewel that she had seemed to care so much about. So I came up with this evil ploy to corrupt the jewel, or in terms you can understand... make it evil!"

"I understand the term 'corrupt' just fine. You have too many run on sentences though, you should add more semicolons," the monk continued.

"I'M SPEAKING, I CAN'T USE SEMICOLONS!"

"Hm, you would like to think that wouldn't you?"

"What the hell? Okay anyways... So I asked the demons to devour my body, and in return give me a new one. They did as I had asked and then I became a half demon. I could shape shift and so I decided that the only way to make the jewel truly evil would be to turn Fido and Shikonjewelkeeper against each other. I shape shifted into Inuya- Fido and I injured Shikonjewelkeeper and told her that Fido never wanted to become human. Then I shot arrows at Fido's little friend. They turned on eachother according to plan. Fido stole the jewel with becoming demon at heart, which began to corrupt the jewel and then Kikyo killed Fido. All was perfect until..."

"Who is this Kikyo? Is she your mother?" he interrupted.

"NO! She is Shikonjewelkeeper... this was her nickname, because her name was so long. MY MOTHER IS NOT IN THIS STORY OKAY?"

"Lower your voice!"

"NO! LISTEN! All was perfect until Shikonjewelkeeper from the injury I gave her started to die. Instead of wishing herself back to life she burned herself with the jewel. Now I can't become a full demon and I don't know where to go... what is your advice?"

"Patience is the key..." the monk replied.

"WHAT? PATIENCE? THAT IS IT!" Naraku screamed.

Naraku cursed the poor monks hand. He blasted a hole through his hand that would take anything in its path straight to hell; a terrible burden for a holy man to bear. It would eventually suck him up; killing him. This would be passed down from generation to generation.

50 years later Naraku realized that the monk had told the truth. The jewel had returned in time. Of course Naraku, the arrogant man he was would never admit that. He just decided the man had deserved this burden, it was a curse for something evil he had done in his life; of course this was a lie.

The image of Kikyo keeps replaying in my head, why had she killed me? There was a girl also, she seemed of great importance to me, she died right in front of me, but I have seen so many die that it doesn't seem to faze me anymore. She was probably only a villager anyways. I have frozen, become cold, become everything that I despised in my brother, and it was love that caused it all. I seem to be clouded by hate, and it's all because of her; Kikyo, my one love.

Everything that I have seen is nightmares, all the things I hear seem to be about how evil I am. I hear things from the outside world sometimes; I heard they aren't even allowed to even touch me.

A few times I have had other dreams, dreams of happiness. They involved butterflies and peaceful things, they involved a dog toy and the only birthday someone seemed to care about. They involved everything happy that happened in my life. No matter how few and far between it was. Maybe I haven't become complete ice. Maybe I've thawed a little... in the center of my chest; where my heart used to reside. I think the arrow saved some of those memories; the arrow shot at me in pure hatred may have saved the human side of me.

Wait a second, I can feel something touching my ears; it must just be an animal or something. No one would ever touch the 'evil scary Inuyasha.'

Time goes so slowly here, I don't even know when days pass. I think I've run out of dreams, sometimes my dreams are just of me sitting on a rock thinking, like how I am now. It's strange really, it's like I'm conscious, but I'm unconscious in the same way.

I dreamt that I would live again also; I dreamt that I wouldn't be asleep forever. I guess that's all you can dream about when you're in a situation like me. Hmmm what would the gods do in my situation? Have any gods even been in my situation? Holy Shit am I the only one? Wow I'm the unique evil villain... oh so now you believe you're a villain? Wait who am I talking to? Me! Who are you? I'm Inuyasha. Oh my, I've even started thinking I'm two people... I'm going to be an insane snorlax without a pokeflute, yay how much good will that do you? Did I just quote Pokemon? Oh my... wait I can hear something... is it my heart? It's actually beating! It's kind of hard to explain... I was dead, but I wasn't dead.

I opened my eyes slowly, I was very cranky... I mean who wouldn't be?

"I can smell the girl who killed me!" I exclaimed.

Kikyo was running through the forest towards me, I could see a demon behind her. She was running away hysterically. She was right in front of me.

"Hey Kikyo! Why don't you kill it like you killed me?" I asked evilly.

She was pulled away from me and then the demon wrapped around the tree so we were close together.

I sniffed her scent. Then I realized... this wasn't Kikyo.

"My name isn't Kikyo, it's Kagome! KA-GO-ME!" She yelled and then the centipede like demon began to pull her a way. She grasped onto my hair.

"Ow! What the hell are you doing?" I asked. Then she blasted the centipede away with her hand, what kind of priestess was she? The demon bit her and the Sacred Jewel came out of her side, the demon swallowed it and then Kagome released the arrow from my heart. I was free! Even though I didn't know this person I decided I might as well help her; after all I could even get the sacred jewel in the end! I defeated the demon and then tried to get the jewel. Of course the pain in the ass Kaede had to put a rosary around my neck. You know normally a rosary would be fine, but all Kagome has to do is say "Sit" and I fall flat on my face. Talk about crappy. Then I found out Kikyo was dead, I know I hat Kikyo, but I couldn't feel anything but sorry. She was my true lover at one point in my life.

A couple of days after that the girl, Kagome, killed the jewel! Yeah that's right, SHE KILLED IT! Shattering it into a gazillion pieces, for pity's sake can't she do anything right? But this girl is different... she doesn't seem to be as strict as Kikyo was. Despite her looks Kagome is completely different. I feel different around her, warm... maybe I can trust humans after all...

(A few months later)

Sesshomaru was hurt badly this time. In all the fights he had been in it had never hurt so much. He lay on the ground, not able to move. There was a fidget in the trees and a little girl who seemed to be running from something tripped and fell right in front of him.

She looked at his wounds and tried her best to nurse him back to help. She ran away and came back to him with food, also with bruises on her face. She offered him the food that she had gotten for him.

"No, it's okay... I don't eat human food. How did you get those bruises on your face?" Sesshomaru inquired.

The little girl smiled, and she ran away from him yet again.

Sesshomaru thought about this smile she had given him. This girl seemed familiar to him, in some strange way.

Sesshomaru's servant, Jaken, emerges from the trees to find Sesshomaru on the ground. Sesshomaru, who is on his feet, smells blood in the air. He goes to check it out with Jaken and finds a little girl who had been killed by the wolves. He was about to walk away when he realized something.

This was the girl Inuyasha had been with that day. It's not exactly her, but she's like a reincarnation. Maybe she was brought back to life by someone, I don't see any parents. They may have died here, or maybe they died back 50 years ago. I can't leave her here dead. She helped me out and though I despise my brother so, I cannot help but resurrect her. She died too young, Sesshomaru thought.

Sesshomaru used his Tensiaga to resurrect her. The little girl's name was Rin and she was an orphan.

Is this little girl Lila's reincarnation? Is she Lila but with a different name? Or is this all just a coincidence? Sesshomaru thought, but he would never know the answer.

That's the end folks, I hope you enjoyed this story. I was going to make it longer but I didn't see the need to. Everything was filled in better this way anyways... I hope you liked it... R&R... o and thanx to all the people who read this story and to the people who read it and reviewed.

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