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Title: Unlike Dreams, Wishes Come True

Disclaimer: I am only doing this once and only once. I own nothing!! Only Rumiko Takahashi does and the end!!

Rating: R (just to be safe, I guess)

Author: Yours Truly, Lyn

Summary: Kagome wants to actually be able to help InuYasha fight instead of always getting in the way. During a battle, her wish is granted by someone...=) She helps them defeat the demon and everything but then, what's happened to her?! She's a demon?! (= InuYasha and co. don't know it's her and don't believe that it really is Kagome. Soon, everyone gets to know her as "The demon queen." Sesshoumaru is looking for a mate, hears about her, and is intrigued. What'll happen...?

Chapter 11

I Can't Believe You...

Sango leapt in, not knowing what would come next.

InuYasha was in great pain but tried not to show it. He "knew" that Sesshoumaru had lost but he couldn't help but wonder why Sesshoumaru had even listened to Kagome. Nevertheless let him go.

"Kagome..."

Kagome shushed him. She couldn't bandage him with him moving around so much. In her heart she knew that she had once loved him, she always would, but she felt further apart from him than ever.

She looked away from his eyes, trying not to make contact with his eyes, trying to avoid talking to him at all costs. By now he had to have seen what she had done, he had to have known how she felt for him.

He didn't.

"Is he going to be alright?" InuYasha asked, trying to change the subject as much as he could.

"Who are you talking about? Souta? Or grandpa?" Kagome replied, still looking away.

Though it caused him great pain, he grabbed her face to force her to look at him. Kagome fought the urge to slap his hand away. She couldn't hurt an injured man, even if it was InuYasha. The one who broke her heart.

"The little brat."

"InuYasha, how dare you say that about him? You know, he looks up to you, wants to be like you, does everything he can possible to help you. And yet, you dare call him a brat?" Kagome said angrily.

"Yea, well sor-ry," he said sarcastically. "But doesn't that make him something like a stalker?"

Kagome slapped him, aware of his pain, the hurt look on his face, the blood on her hands. InuYasha now had a cut on his left cheek. Kagome had done it to him. Kagome had done everything possible to him. He looked up, hoping to see her face, a shocked face, one that showed she hadn't meant to do what she had just done. Too bad for him.

What he saw when he looked up, was no more than an imitation Sesshoumaru. No, more than just an imitation; the exact same thing. Her eyes were as cold as ice, glaring hard at him, just like a demon would. Her face; expressionless. Nothing but the anger showing. Nothing at all.

She had meant to do that, she had meant to cause him pain, any kind of pain she would have settled for. She would have done anything to do to him what he had done to her. Cause him the pain he had given. Give back what was given. No more.

Kagome couldn't take it. She couldn't do what was right anymore. She couldn't fight the darkness brewing in her heart; her soul. She couldn't, she wouldn't, she would let the darkness take over for once.

This must have been how Kikyou had felt, hurt, betrayed, not wanting to hurt him but taking pleasure in it. She never wanted to relate to Kikyou, the undead miko-- but then again, this was how it was. This was how it would always be. Second place to someone who was dead to begin with. How could she compete with that? A beautiful priestess, dead, undead, all of the above. Number one in InuYasha's heart forever.

She felt it overcome her heart. The fear, the pain, the everlasting stab of betrayal. What could she do? Nothing. What did she want to do? Nothing. She felt it all disappear. Everything. Darkness wasn't such a bad thing after all. After all she did to darkness, to evil, she realized it wasn't so bad.

It comforted her. It helped her. Her heart, the sadness, all her fears, gone. Poof. They weren't exactly gone but they didn't bother her as much as they were supposed to. Normally they overwhelmed her. Kagome embraced it, embraced the darkness.

"You bastard. Leave me and my family alone."

InuYasha was stunned. Kagome, the sweet innocent and once kind girl he had once knew, betrayed him? That was all he could think about at this moment. She betrayed him. He never once thought about what he had done to hurt her. He just thought about how she had hurt him. He didn't care if he was being selfish. Even if he was selfish, he wouldn't have known. This is how he always was.

Kagome didn't know how hard she had actually hurt him, she didn't know how hard she had actually bruised his ego, his pride, his heart. If she knew what she had done, she might have felt the least bit of pity for him. But no, she would never.

He held his hand to his face, looking at the blood that had dripped from his cheek to has hand. Slowly, InuYasha got up, staring at her, still not believing what he had seen, what he had felt.

Sango was disappointed, worried, anxious, and scared at the same time. She had jumped, and she couldn't get through.

What if something had happened to Kagome? What if Sesshoumaru had killed Miroku? What if she was going to go crazy with all these 'What if's'?

Sango climbed out of the well, one last look at what could have been.

"Argh!"

It was Miroku.

Jumping into the well with one last look, InuYasha decided on one thing. He would get Kagome back. No matter what. Kagome watched InuYasha leave, not knowing if she should follow him. Not out of love, but because she wanted him to feel real pain. She sensed his sorrow, but it wasn't enough.

"Mom, I'm going."

Before anyone had a chance to stop her, she jumped in the well.

Sesshoumaru was surprised by the scream. He thought Miroku was a man. But what man would scream like that?

"Calm down, you pathetic human. It's not like I'm going to kill you or anything. Unless you have a death wish," Sesshoumaru said.

There was a cowering Miroku on the floor.

"Uh huh, and you tripped me, pushed me, and kicked me to the floor, just to not kill me...?"

Sesshoumaru said nothing.

"In case you didn't notice, I'm bleeding here, and this was all just to not kill me?!"

Pretty soon, Jaken showed up with yet another two headed monster. Sesshoumaru literally hopped onto the monster and gave Miroku one last look. Sango showed up just in time to see Sesshoumaru leaving.

"Houshi-sama! Are you alright? What'd he do to you?"

"He did all this," Miroku gestured to his body. "Just to not kill me! What a jerk!"

Sango eyed him suspiciously. "And you want to be killed...?"

Miroku froze. What Sango said was very true. It was better to have cuts and bruises altogether rather than just die.

"You're a smart one, Sango-sama."

Sango just called Kirara over.

"Pick up Houshi-sama, Kirara."

Kirara's tails picked Miroku up and put him on her back. They soon arrived at the village and went straight to Kaede's hut.

"Aw, Sango-sama, and here I thought you were going to bandage me up yourself," Miroku pouted. Sango blushed fiercely and turned away, going into Kaede's hut.

"Kaede-sama? We need help."

"Have you heard from Kagome or InuYasha yet?"

"No, but it seems that Sesshoumaru was able to go through and back from the well. Miroku chased him but he's now injured."

Kaede wasn't prepared for that. She thought Miroku was dead; killed by Sesshoumaru. Sesshoumaru wasn't well known for letting his victims go.

"S-Sesshoumaru didn't kill him?" Kaede stuttered.

"Apparently not. Miroku?"

A few moments of talking and Miroku's "tale of terror" was told.

InuYasha burst into the hut, not caring about who or what was going on at the moment. He just flopped down and laid on his back.

"InuYasha!" they all shouted at the same time.

"What?" he asked, a little surprised. He was too busy thinking and didn't notice that anyone else was in here.

Kagura was walking as slowly as she could. She was trying to think of what Naraku wanted with her. She hadn't done anything wrong had she? Finally, she reached her destination.

"Kagura!" Naraku shouted sharply.

"What?" she replied disobediently.

"What have you been doing? Nothing! And why is that?"

"Because you haven't told me to do anything!"

"You should do things on your own! Look for InuYasha! That's the number one priority right now! What if he finds all the shards? Then what'll happen? Out!"

Kagura looked at Naraku confusedly. Since when did he get so edgy? Kagura left, now knowing who to search for. Knowing whose help she needed. Sesshoumaru. He had declined her once, but now, this was a whole new game. He couldn't refuse her. She had heard rumors. She knew things. Now was the time. And maybe, just maybe, she could get the help of the so-called Demon Queen as well.

Another rumor was that wherever Sesshoumaru was, she wasn't far behind, and the other way around as well. Smiling, Kagura set off to find either one of them.

A cliffy! This is almost the end of the story. Around 5 - 6 chapters left to do! So...have fun!