Chapter Five.

A poisoned, battered, bleeding, and dieing Inu-yasha stood in his human form looking over the body of his enemy. Naraku was dead at last. Slain with the blade of his own sword, which Inu-yasha had broken with his might, and had taken himself beyond the limits of his powers. Now he had no more power. The sun had set on the bloodiest of days for Tokyo. There was no moon in the sky and no way for Inu-yasha to call upon his demonic powers to save his life. He stumbled to walk out of the battlefield. His vision was blurred, his breath was chilled, and his whole body hurt with an indescribable pain.

"Kagome." He said wondering forwards like a zombie for he was in fact half dead already.

"So valiant an end for you, eh little brother?" Sesshomaru asked him as he came from out of the shadows, his sword drawn for battle. Inu-yasha gripped the Tetsuseiga and strained to see.

"You." He managed. "Alright then, finish it." Sesshomaru leaped down and held his blade against Inu-yasha's neck. Then looked at his brother and realized how pathetic would be to kill someone who was dieing already.

"No." Sesshomaru said. "I don't think this is the time. We will meet again little brother." He dashed off into the night then and left Inu-yasha to die in the streets. Which is where he fell, unable to go on, and unable to know the greatest extent of his victory. He would never come to know about Kagome or the baby. He would never know the son he'd died to protect.

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Kagome sat in her room the next morning with her new baby son, nursing him, when they finally let Eri and the others back to see her. Sango was the first through the door. Her face was ashen and full of tears.

"Oh no, what's wrong?" Kagome asked. "It's not Hojo is it?"

"Hojo's alive," said Songo, "He's going to loose his arm but he's going to live." She didn't know how to tell Kagome the real trouble though.

"Then what about Miroku?" Kagome asked.

"Just fine, he grabbed my ass when I went to see him earlier." Eri replied. "But we…" She too could not find the words.

"Kagome." Shippo came wondering into the room then. He was crying like a baby. "Oh Kagome it's so horrible!" He cried and leaped up onto the bed to hug her.

"Come on guys you're freaking me out, now what's wrong?" Kagome demanded. "Wait where's Inu-yasha?" She realized then that he wasn't there. "Why didn't he come to see me? Doesn't he know all the pain I went through to give birth to our son?" She was angry now, and a little scared. Why hadn't he come back from fighting Naraku. Sango realized that the only way to tell Kagome was to turn on the news and let her watch.

"This is Allison Sky with Channel 63 News." Said the Anchorwoman. "I'm standing just outside of ground zero in Tokyo where the battle between city police a murderous maniac took place just last night. The scene is a chilling one folks hundreds of people have been killed, amongst them over four dozen of Tokyo's finest including a lone vigilante who Police are hailing as the savior of Tokyo." When Kagome heard this she gasped.

"Inu-yasha?" Then the showed the news footage of when they had brought the bodies out. It was gruesome to see how many people were killed by Naraku's rampage but the worst was yet to come. When they had finished bringing out the policemen's bodies they brought out the body of their hero. The lone warrior brave enough to challenge the forces of evil.

"This is the sword we found at his side." Said one Police Official. "It looks like a rusted old piece of junk but it shall go down in history as the weapon that stopped a madman when bullets, guns, and grenades could not." Kagome screamed.

"INU-YASHA…NO!!!"

To be continued.