i am soooooo sorry about the late update. slap me please... brother comes in room and hits authoress with a foam stick... ouch... you know, those things hurt... well i was working on my new fic... a naraku&unknown fic... please read. oh yes it is agast... and yes after you read this chapter you will discover my little obsession with naraku... (eyes go wide and stare at me) well it is interesting. (begs audience) enough with me...

Chapter 15

Naraku chuckled as the little miko fell for his inuyasha appearance and kissed him.

He had to admit it, this miko was as beautiful and intriguing as her dead reincarnation, kikyou. Maybe he should consider keeping her for his own pleasure after inuyasha and his friends were defeated.

His deal with kikyou for her love was that he would allow her to bring inuyasha with her back to hell for repayment. Though later she did admit that she helped him for his love more then the deal she made with him. So he would be without his mate after this was all over.

What better way to conclude the hanyou's torture, then by keeping his lover?

At naraku's laugh kagome awoke, eyes lolling open. Naraku was too distracted by his ingenious plan to realize that she was awake and listening to the part of his plans that he didn't mean to tell her.

Her vision was blurred from the spell cast over her but she could hear his words as if over an over speaker.

Slowly her vision cleared and she was confronted by the real naraku without the pelt and miasma. She stared at his dark purple eyes as they drowned into her, but saw nothing. She hated to admit that he was deathly handsome in a black and lifeless sort of way. She couldn't move even though his second spell on her had worn off.

Naraku finally came to as his second spell on kagome wore off.

His eyes didn't close but focused instead on her. He reached up and touched her warm cheek with his icy hand. He wanted to kidnap her now and dress her all in black. She would look good that way. But he had a plan to execute and she wouldn't get in the way.

Finally kagome realized what had just happened, and what he just said.

He tricked me, taking the form of inuyasha. And he... the memory was too disturbing even to tell herself the truth.

And then I heard him say that after he killed my friends he would take her as his... ewwwww! She almost said this aloud but stopped herself.

My friends I must warn my friends... inuyasha... miroku... sango... shippo...

"No."

she said this aloud, but quietly.

She started backing away from naraku.

But he seemed to stay inches in front of her face. His clawed hand came up and caressed her porcelain cheek.

"You are too late to help your friends, but you will be mine little miko, I promise you that."

He kissed her again but she stayed stiff.

She winced as his tainted tongue swept through her mouth. And as if on instinct she brought her hand up and slapped him hard on the cheek.

She gathered her courage like a black cloak and replied.

"No, you are wrong naraku. I will never be yours as if I were property. I have all the information I need, I will save my friends, and destroy you. The only one that will be able to say that I am his is inuyasha. I have given him my heart, even killing him will not break the bond that I share with my friend, protector, and only love."

Naraku's face twisted into a malevolent smile.

"whatever you wish my dear..."

he said and chuckled as he and the current vision in front of her disappeared. But instead of finding herself back in her classroom she found herself in hell or close to it.

It was in a small clearing in a forest. She was off to the side closer to the trees. Blood soiled the once beautiful clearing.

She closed her eyes after what she saw.

This time she knew what naraku was showing her and it was not something she wanted to see.

Stop being nieve, see what he sees and you will have the advantage.

Forcing her eyes to open she looked around.

Through the darkness directly in front of her was a huge hole, slowly she stepped up to it, knowing what was inside but not wanting to see.

With her focus totally on the uninviting hole in the earth, she barely noticed the dead human lying in a fetal position on the ground.

Falling silently onto her hands, she cursed her clumsiness, and turned to see what she tripped over.

As the light shifted as if on its own accord, she gasped and her eyes widened and then shut.

I can't take this... I can't...

leaning over her best friend she encircled her arms around sango and tried to hug her without moving the girl from her position.

As kagome's hand stroked the bloody back of sango's armor she felt something sticking out of it at an odd angle.

Needing to know the reason of death, kagome sat up and looked at her dead friend. The object was a sickle, also known as sango's brothers sickle, which took the lives of her father and old comrades.

Looking up and back around the forest in front of her kagome gasped and ran towards yet another pile of dead friends.

Kohaku, was finally dead, the shard removed, but it seemed that his death came too late to save poor shippo as he was also dead by kohaku's sword.

Tears sprung into kagome's eyes as she looked at what she considered her pup.

This is not real, it is just an illusion.

Repeating this over and over, kagome wiped the stray tears from her eyes and turned to crawl towards the hole and what would be a dead monk.

Large rocks lay in close proximity to the hole and kagome had to force herself over them in order to catch what had happened inside.

Almost as she expected there was sango's monk, poisoned voided hand lying carelessly above his head naraku's insects scattered around his limp body.

Abandoning her chant about this only being an illusion, she murmured a prayer as the tears fell from her eyes.

Quietly she turned and moved away from the crater knowing that this could only go from bad to worse. She knew that she would see inuyasha next, and that he would never end up in her arms even in death.

Kagome prepared herself for the worse, but one of the most plausible endings for her beloved hanyou never crossed her mind.

As she screamed out his name, falling to her knees, she knew that this was as far as her mind would allow her to go.

She wouldn't, couldn't take any more.

And as the flames engulfing inuyasha and kikyou rose, kagome saw them kissing.

Decending into hell, kikyou blessed inuyasha with her deadly kiss, cursing him to live with her in complete damnation.

Leaning over the dry crack in the earths crust, kagome screamed out to him swearing by all the gods that she would never do that to him.

That love shouldn't do that to him.

The simple fact that she could never seem to get across in words, but only in actions that he never seemed to paid any attention to.

That she loved him, that her only wish was for his happiness.

Voice finally growing horse, she reduced herself to tears and a frequent whisper of his name, as his form grew small in the distance.

But this horror was not over with.

There was still one member of the company left.

The one who started it all.

Herself.

Kagome closed her eyes.

Once again reminding herself that this was all an illusion and that she just has to see what happens to herself before it is over.

With a newfound strength she stood up keeping her eyes closed.

Just one glance and then my misery is over.

Turning on her heels, she bit her lip not even wanting to guess her fate.

As she opened her eyes and took in her fate she gasped, mouth going dry.

Her hands flew to her face just as she sent out a blood curling scream that could have been heard from miles around had this not been an illusion.

The only one who heard her was her puppeteer, naraku.

He had to smile and laugh at his brilliant plan.

And as he watched his kagome fall to her knees in a dead faint, he laughed harder.

Tears almost brimming in his burning red eyes.

"kagome, love, you are mine."

And indeed she was for as her 'fate' told her she was the only one left alive.

Encircled in his miasmic barrier, she was locked in his strong embrace and passionate kiss, as if nothing else in the world really mattered.

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wow... that was a really long chapter... i love the last sentence... (repeats it to herself) ...as if nothing else in the world really mattered... if the whole chapter was a blow out then that would be the only good part. whew...

i am going to be gone for a while and might not have any internet connection... but i will hopefully have two more chapters...

(walks in circles and mutters things about touring scenes and visiting relatives)

hope you like it... R&R