Chapter Six
There's Nothing Else I Can Do
(Kagome's point of view. She finally enters the clearing, only to find everyone she once knew close to death. Miroku looks very bad as well.)
Oh my God… this can't be happening… Say this isn't happening…
Fairie: But it is, Kagome-san.
Kagome turns to see the fairie.
Kagome: What are you?
Fairie: You must be the little snit that the pervert loved. Good move, rejecting him and all. He's just going to die anyway.
How heartless… I need to save these guys somehow…
Kagome draws her bow and arrow. She shoots it swiftly at the fairie. The fairie collapses, dropping the Shikon Jewel on the ground. Kagome rushes to pick it up, and when she does, a huge explosion of darkness flies out of the still incomplete Shikon Jewel.
Kagome screams
What's this dark light? Oh… it hurts so badly…
Kagome collapses
(Shippo's POV. He comes back to the clearing after hearing Kagome scream.)
Where's Kagome-chan? Miroku-kun? Anybody…?
Shippo sees the blood and the madness, which, if I described, would send you barfing or weeping.
No…
Shippo tries to wake Kagome first.
Kagome! Wake up! Please… wake up, Kagome… please…
Shippo shakes Kagome. No use. He pulls his hands away and sees blood on them.
She's dead… is she dead…? She can't be dead! They're all dead! They're all gone! No!
Shippo tries to wake Sango, Miroku, Inuyasha, and even the Fairie. No one moves, no one breathes, and Shippo begins to cry.
Guys! Come back! Come back…!
Shippo sees the Tetsusaiga lying on the ground. In his immense sorrow, he picks it up off the ground…
Good-bye world. Goodbye, my deceased friends. I hope that you find peace with Kami-sama…
If I only had the words to tell you how depressing this is… and there's only one choice left…
Shippo plunges the Tetsusaiga into his chest, and so tragically ends his life along with his comrades.
But someone stirs in this mire…
(Miroku's POV)
What… what happened here?
He sees that everyone around him is dead.
Dead… all of them…
This is my fault… They're all gone! All of them! Dead as flesh…!
Miroku becomes a bit teary as he tries to revive everyone in turn. He gets to Sango.
Maybe… Sango-san… Sango-san…
Miroku kisses Sango lightly, but nothing happens.
Sango-chan…
Miroku looks upon the carnage. He begins to weep.
No… no! I can't move on, not without them!
Sango stirs. Or so Miroku thinks.
Sango-chan!
Miroku realizes that nothing happened.
(A few hours later, Miroku is preparing to bury the dead when one person moves.)
Oh my God…
Inuyasha stirs. He opens his eyes and sits up.
Inuyasha: …what's happened?
He's alive…!
Miroku hugs Inuyasha. Miroku begins to cry again.
Miroku: Inuyasha-sama!
Inuyasha: What happened?
He's still here…!
Miroku: They're all dead, Inuyasha…!
Inuyasha turns to his dead comrades. He takes the Shikon Jewel out of Kagome's hand and starts to murmur. A blinding light appears from the Jewel, and Miroku is surrounded by it, as are the dead. Miroku collapses.
(An hour later, when Miroku wakes up. Still Miroku's POV.)
Is everyone…?
Kagome: Wake up!
Sango: His eyes are opening!
Shippo: Yay! Miroku-kun's back!
Inuyasha: I said he'd be back.
They're… alive. Alive!
Miroku sits up.
Miroku: …Everybody!
They're here! They're here! Alive and well…!
Kagome slaps Miroku.
Kagome: You dork! What were you thinking?
Sango: It is your fault… but I won't hit you.
What?
Sango: Kagome-chan will.
Kagome: HI-YAAAAAAAAAAH!
Run…! Run for your no good life…!
The EndDISCLAIMER: I don't own Inuyasha.
A/N: This was the second ending I wrote. I think it works better than my first. Hey, maybe if you guys want to see the other ending, I'll let you…
Maybe…
