Myriadragon: I am so sorry about this, but all my inspiration for this has flown away with the dodo bird. So I regret to inform you that this will be the last chapter of Double O Demon. I know I said there'd be about five more, but I have to end it. I just can't have this hanging over me anymore.

Plus my tarot cards have been yelling at me to finish this and move on to something else…

DISCLAIMER: I've been forgetting this…anywho, me no own, you no sue, let's make Inu wear new shoes! Yay I can rhyme…

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hahaha: I think I'm gonna delete your reviews if you don't start logging in…am I not worth the effort it takes to click on 'login'? On second thought, don't answer that…Like I'm gonna tell you what Miroku was thinking. Even I don't know…you and your perviness probably have a better idea than me –grin-. Kirara said –ahem- "You shouldn't be doing that" and then either "You were enjoying yourself" or "You have an insatiable sexual desire for that man". Take your pick –evil evil grin-.

Kokuei: hee hee, glad you liked it! Me tries! Good ol' Miro-kun…

Tievel Turiel: Evil Horde of Spork-Weilding Plushies of Doom (not TM). Right. Excuse me while I place a call to Jullie's mental institution…Tell Stevie if he's going to translate Vulcan blessings into Spanish he could at least get the translation right… "I live much and to prosper" is NOT CORRECT. What he wants is "¡Viva! y prospera" (but whether or not you want to tell him that is up to you –grin-) God I had so much fun writing Kirara…And yeah, sulking is impossible. Evil Naraku! Very Evil! But not as evil as the Cyberkitties of Doom (also not TM)…anyway, sorry, can't take Lear boy, got me own bundle o' trouble to worry about.

Inuchanluver1: Thank you for they eye colors, no one else responded to my plea! Thank you for liking my story…And here is more, though unfortunately this is all you're getting. Time to be done with this beast.

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Double O Demon

Chapter 18: The End

"Right. Getting out. Any ideas?"

Sango rolled her eyes. "With Kirara here, yes. Take off your shoes."

Miroku gave her a funny look. "Why?"

"I need to throw them through that window," Sango said coolly.

"Um…right." With another look suggesting she was crazy, Miroku sat and unlaced his boots.

"Thank you," she said as he handed them to her. "Kirara, get down." The neko mewled in response and disappeared. Sango began to twirl the boots by the laces until she hand them going in a circular blur around her right hand. "Miroku, get back," she instructed, shielding her face with her free arm and letting his footwear fly at the window.

There was an impressive 'kchchchch' as the glass broke, followed by a set of thumps as shoes and shards hit the ground. The lack of a yowl told Sango the Kirara had avoided the glass as it fell. "Alright girl, come in." Seconds later Kirara vaulted through the hole made with Miroku's boots to land in Sango's arms.

"So. Now that we've lost my shoes, gotten that furbag, and alerted the guards that we're up to something, what do we do?" Miroku asked testily.

Sango rolled her eyes and Kirara give him a superior stare. "It's just shoes, monk. It's not like the world is going to end because your socks are getting dirty. As for what we do, Kirara breaks down the door."

"And you think the guards won't notice that?!"

"No, I know they will. We don't really have a choice."

Miroku sighed, rubbing his face with his hands. To think that just moments ago he'd been kissing this woman… "Fine. But if we get killed I'm blaming you."

"You do that."

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"Well, hanyou?"

Inuyasha cursed as Naraku's silky tones penetrated the stuffy air of the warehouse. "Well what?"

"Have you gotten the jewel for me?"

"Um…" he stalled, trying to buy time. I have to decide now, before it's too late…

Naraku's face darkened. "You have not. Need I remind you the fate that will befall your precious woman if you refused to remove it?" He reached into his pocket, pulled out a marble and closed his fist around it. When he opened his hand all that remained was glittering glass dust.

Inuyasha's eyes widened. Of course! Why didn't I think of it earlier? His excitement faded. But it will take far more than one demons' fist to break it…

"I grow tired of your stalling, hanyou!" Naraku spat. "Remove the Jewel, now, or I will kill you both!"

Inuyasha bit his lip. I just have to hope she wakes up…Carefully he pressed his hand to her chest. Here goes nothing…

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Everything was dark…so dark…

Kagome groaned. Why was it always dark? Couldn't her subconscious be somewhere nice, like a beach in Cancun or her grandmother's kitchen?

A burst of red energy shot through her mind.

Scratch that last bit. I'll take darkness over pain any day.

Kagome!

Inuyasha?!?!

His next thought was accompanied by another burst of pain. Kagome, you have to wake up!

It's not that easy! She retorted. And stop hurting me!

I can't, he said quietly, and there was a rather awkward pause. Listen, Kagome, you have to wake up! Naraku's making me take the Jewel out of you, and if he gets it no one will be able to stop him!

What do you mean, you're taking the Jewel out of me?!

I mean I have my hand in your chest and my fingers wrapped around the blasted thing! Kagome, we don't have time for this! As soon as you wake up, hit me with a blast of your power.

But—Kagome gasped as she felt her heart torn from her body.

The Jewel was out.

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Inuyasha stared at the Jewel in his palm. His hand was clean, cleaner then it had ever been, but his brain superimposed rivers of dark blood over his lightly tanned skin. He had heard her cry out when he removed the Jewel, not just in her mind but out loud as well.

"Are you awake?" he whispered.

No response.

"Inuyasha!" Naraku said sharply. "Bring me the Jewel!"

He turned, rising from his crouch as slowly as he could. Come on, Kagome, wake up! Wake up, damnit! There isn't any more time!

Naraku smirked. "Come, hanyou, no need to be so slow. What can a few seconds do?"

"Plenty."

Startled, both Inuyasha and Naraku turned to Kagome. She sat up and rubbed her head. "What a headache…and now that I have your attention—"

Whatever she had to say was cut off in the rush of pink miko light coming from her body straight towards Inuyasha. He sidestepped, leaving Naraku in the face of the blast, tossing the Jewel between the demon and Kagome.

Naraku panicked, raising a shield of dark energy.

Inuyasha smiled grimly. Bad move.

Plum and magenta light met in a swirl of color that quickly grew to blinding white energy.

And caught in the middle of it was the Jewel.

The energy pulsed, swirled towards the ceiling in a typhoon, twisting the Jewel tightly in its fibers.

And then the Jewel was gone. No sound, no cracking, no breaking, no nothing. Just gone.

And now for Naraku…Inuyasha seized Kagome's hand and pushed it against the writhing white maelstrom.

Come on…He pushed against the thing with all of his energy, and felt Kagome's energy flare beside him. Naraku, distracted by the Jewel's disappearance, had no time to react. The inferno engulfed him, and when it died, there was nothing left to suggest that he had ever been there.

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Kirara burst through the door, Sango and Miroku hot on her heels and ready for a fight.

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"Weren't there guards here a minute ago?" Miroku asked.

"I thought there were too…" Sango replied, looking around her in confusion. "Kirara?"

"Rrrrr mow vreow," the fire cat replied, shaking her head towards the door.

"She says they left that way…"

"...So we should go that way?"

"I guess…"

"…This is weird…"

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Kagome collapsed against Inuyasha's chest with something between a sigh of relief and a moan of pain. "I don't think I can stand…"

He led her over to one of the shipping crates and sat her down. "Are you all right? I didn't hurt you, did I? I didn't mean to hurt you, I just—"

She groaned. "Don't talk to me. My head hurts too much to think."

"Sorry," he said quietly. Come to think of it, he was pretty sore too. The aftereffects of spending so much energy would leave them both drained for at least a week.

"Inuyasha! Kagome!"

Inuyasha looked up as he heard Sango's call. "Took you long enough," he grumbled, but not so loudly that they could hear.

"Are you all right? Where's Naraku?" Miroku demanded, coming to a halt in front of them.

"Dead," Kagome said tiredly. "And the Jewel with him."

Sango blinked. "You mean…"

"…we missed everything?" Miroku finished.

"Sounds about right, yeah," Inuyasha said offhandedly. "Can we go home now?"

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Myriadragon: And so it is OVER. DONE. FIN.

You have no idea how good it feels to be done with this thing. And now my Tarot cards can yell at me about something else for a change.

In light of the disaster this thing was, I have made a pledge: I will not post any story unless I have a rough draft of it already written. That way I can be sure to have some way to end it, even if it is really crappy.

The exception is 10Y, which will be my pet project—something I write on when I have no inspiration for anything else.

I think my next project will be a short piece called 'Kittens'. It's going to be a lot darker than DOD, and hopefully better written. It has a sequel that will come after it ('Mothering'), and a cross-over with that sequel ('Daughtering'), and then stories about the second generation, and maybe even an AU of the second generation…depending on how much inspiration I have and what you all think of it. The point is really to have a bunch of short (no more than 10 chapter) stories that I can write and post without running out of creative juices.

And as penance for my evilness, I have written a one-shot MirSan. You can all read it knowing that you will never have to wait three months for an update, because there will never be one! And it's nice and fluffy, too.

One last time, though I really don't deserve it:

REMEMBER THE ELEPHANTS!!!