A/N: Well, I know its been a while, but it took me longer than I thought to edit it.

My Favorite Color

(A song-fic to Chevelle's "The Red")

By: Yabou

Part 6 – In Death's Embrace

When asked, what made it show…

"Inuyasha?" Kagome placed her hands on his shoulders and shook him none too gently. "Inuyasha, wake up. You're shaking."

His body convulsed sharply against her own and quickly jerked away. She frowned and pressed the back of her hand against his forehead to find it hot and damp. 'What's wrong? Shouldn't the process have worked by now?' Her mind reeled to remember some extra scrap from Kaede's lesson, but there wasn't any more to be found.

"Inuyasha?" She nudged him again.

"Hn?" he grunted and tried to curl in on himself.

"No." Her fingers gripped his arms and slammed him flat onto the cold stone floor. "Inuyasha." She tried to keep her tone firm and unwavering.

He growled at her and scrunched his eyes shut.

"Oh, no you don't." Slipping one of her knees on either side of his thighs, she leaned against him and put her lips to his ear. 'Please Kami, let him wake up!' "Inuyasha!"

Whimpering, he slowly opened his eyes. "W-what?" his voice was weak and the harsh tones rushed across her face like a stale gust.

Tears threatened to pour at the sound of his voice collapsing with every heave of his chest. "I-Inuyasha?" she couldn't help but whisper back.

He blinked and gave her a confused look, obviously wondering why she was only an inch or two away from his face. He grunted. "What?"

She couldn't take it. There was only so much stress one person was meant to take, and her limit was far beyond overdue.

Her heart leapt into her throat and refused to be tamped back down. Her arms wound their way through his hair as she pressed against him and began to weep sloppily into his chest.

"K-Kagome?" The shock was overly obvious when he remained frozen beneath her.

"What?" she cried.

"Uh…"

"I can't do it, Inuyasha. It's not working!" Her hands weakly accented her words by digging into his back.

Slowly, he wrapped an arm around her back and wondered what to do in the situation he had awoken to. "Um…"

"What else am I supposed to do? Kaede didn't tell me anymore!"

"Sshhh." He whispered, silently hoping that she would get a little farther away from his exceedingly sensitive ears.

She sniffled a little and drew back to look into his eyes. "Do you remember, Inuyasha? Do you remember what happened?"

He frowned at her and tried to think back to the day before. Flashes of Kagome's face and trees passed through his mind. Then, he saw a branch, and he remembered going to sleep beneath a tree. 'Kagome.' He looked into her eyes, silently pleading that it wasn't true.

He turned his head away in shame. There were tears in her eyes, again, and he had been the one to put them there.

Again.

"Inuyasha." He didn't quite understand how her voice could be so soothing and so annoying all at the same time. He didn't want the sadness that he knew she felt for him. He didn't want her to feel obligated to comfort him like she didn't.

He didn't want her to feel like she had to do anything.

But she did.

"Keh." He refused to look at her. He knew that one glance into those endless blue-gray orbs would be the end of his black heart. He had already let her go to far. She had managed to find a crack that was still left behind from his mother's gentle care and had deepened it for all she was worth.

And she was worth a lot. 'The world.'

"Inuyasha." She leaned her head against his shoulder, her arms still tangled in his silver tresses. "Do you remember the ivy youkai?"

'Youkai?' He looked over her body for any sight of injuries and unintentionally locked himself in her stare. "Oh."

Kagome suddenly felt the strong urge to gulp down gallons of air, but she found her body unable to respond. Her eyes slowly trailed over the small sweat trails trickling their way down his forehead and into his eyes. Unconciously, she brushed a few away before they got a chance to sting such precious amber orbs.

Inuyasha shivered violently beneath her. Something felt…wrong. "Kagome?" His hand slipped away from her back and clenched tightly at his side.

"Inuyasha?" She quickly pressed her fingers against the pulse point in his neck only to finding it racing unsteadily. "What's wrong?"

"Nnn," his head snapped sharply to one side, and a cold sweat broke out against the surface of his forehead.

'No. What did I do wrong?' Crawling off of his body, she could only stare at his shaking form.

The truth he can't send to most…

"Kagome?" Inuyasha called out into the vast distance of monochromatic abandon. "Where am I?"

A force of air abruptly pushed him off to one side, sending sickening chills up the base of his spine. "Calling for your little, concerned friend, Hanyou?" A booming voice rang out from the gust.

"What the fuck?" Inuyasha twisted his head violently for any location of a body attached to the sound. "Who are you?" His hand sought out the hilt of his sword against his hip, only to find it missing.

"Now, now." The voice chastened. "There is no need for violence, Hanyou. Simply turn your weak body over to me and all shall be well."

"Like hell I will." Instead, he cracked his knuckles and prepared his claws for action.

"That won't be necessary either." Another gust of wind wrapped around his body and began squeezing tighter and tighter, until there was barely any air left in his lungs.

"You," Inuyasha let out a whispery gasp. "It's you, isn't it? You're that ivy demon that attacked me."

"Well, you aren't such a stupid Hanyou after all, now are you?" He could feel a set of eyes burning through his skin even as a giant

So lay down, the threat is real

"Inuyasha?" Kagome's voice was weary and heavy. He had laid, unmoving, for the better half of an hour.

"Grrr." A low, eerie sound reverberated throughout his chest and sent chills down her spine. That wasn't a noise she had ever heard him make before.

"Inuyasha?" She reached out to touch his forehead but was stopped with a clawed hand grabbing her wrist.

"Bitch." The voice continued.

"Inu," a slap sounded as the transformed demon slammed her against the cave wall.

"How dare you try to get rid of me."

Kagome moved to speak, but she merely gasped at what she saw. The hanyou now held the features of his full demon form, but a shocking set of forest green eyes replaced his own.

"You are inferior," he paused to scent the air and continued with a demonic smirk. "Miko."

"I-I…What have you done to Inuyasha?"

"Done?" He laughed. "I have killed him, bitch."

Heavy tears began to roll down her cheeks. "No!"

"Could you expect any less from a hanyou, Miko? Why place your trust in such a lowly creature?" The possessed began to stalk his way toward her; trapping his prey in a corner.

"No…No, it's not true! Inuyasha wouldn't leave me!" She cried out.

"Oh, but he had no other choice. I infected his veins and destroyed his soul. He is no more. I am far to powerful to be defeated by one such as yourself. I know the ways of the spiritual ones." He placed a hand upon her cheek and caressed it with his thumb.

"You could be great, Miko. Do you not see the insignificance of your existence now? I could show you great things. You are a pretty one. Such weak power as you have is wasted. You could have much more."

"I won't be taking anything from you. Thanks." She gritted her teeth and slammed one knee into his ribcage, silently praying that it didn't hurt the real Inuyasha.

He doubled over in unexpected pain and let out a loud roar. "How dare you threaten the great one!"

His hand lashed out to claw her face, but he paused in mid air and began gasping for breath. "No," he hissed. "Die hanyou! Die!"

"Inuyasha!" Kagome screamed and launched herself at the attacker. "Snap out of it, Inuyasha!"

A slow stream of green blood began to roll out of the demon's mouth.

"Inuyasha! Inuyasha! Inuyasha! You let him go you…you, bastard!" Her tiny fists began to glow a vibrant blue as she pounded against the collapsing youkai.

When his sight goes red again…

The green ooze began to stain to a dark red. His eyes shined with a vibrant shade of crimson.

"K-Kagome?" The word was slow to form and weighted on his lips.

"Inuyasha!" She sobbed, throwing her shaking body into his chest.

One armed wrapped carefully around her as the other touched his blood stained mouth.

Seeing red again, seeing red again

-A/N: One more section to go…I posted this the other day, but it wouldn't come up…oh well, doing it again…. I'll post the second section in an hour or two. (EPILOGUE)

-Yabou