It was getting late. The sun started to slowly sink below the mountains, and the light became more dim. A gentle mist started to settle across the land, and there was a slight chill in the breeze. The dungeon that Inuyasha had been placed in began to get colder, and he started to shake. The poison was still surging through his body. He knew he didn't have much time left.

If only I wasn't human....

He started to cough and blood trickled down off his lips. He was writihing in pain, and a tear rolled down his cheek, because he knew he would never see his wife again, and that he would never get to see his child. This made his heart beat quickly, causing the poison to run it's course more quickly. He closed his eyes. He couldn't take it anymore. As he coughed one last time, the blood continued to roll from his lips, and his lungs would no longer allow air to enter into his body. He couldn't breathe. He lay there, ready for the death that would take him at any moment.

Kagome......

With his last dying breaths he whispered gently, "I...Love...You..... Kagome..."

His heart stopped.

He died there, in that cold, dirty, dungeon, lying in his own blood. He died, without the ones he loved. He died there, alone.

He stood there, in the darkness. He looked around him, not knowing where he was. He looked at a figure at his feet. It was a body. A dead body.

That's strange.... how did I get here?

He wasn't sure he knew this person. It was obviously a person, a very familiar person, but he couldn't place who it was. He reached down and tried to touch the person's face. His hand went right through. This scared him. He continued to try and touch the man, but he just kept reaching through him. He moved to the other side.

I must be dreaming....

As he moved around to the other side of the man, he got a better look at his face. He jumped back suddenly. The body in front of him was his own. He was dead.

He sat down at the sudden realization, and buried his face in his hands.

I'm sorry Kagome... I failed you... I never deserved you anyway.... I don't know why you ever loved me. I've done so many bad things... so many things I'm ashamed of. I couldn't save Kikyo, and I couldn't save you. I've failed. I deserved to die....

Inuyasha heard a noise. He listened for a moment, and then realized that it wasn't a noise exactly, not as much as something he could feel. It was music.

That's strange....

In the darkness, he felt a light shining on his head. He raised it out of his hands, and slowly looked up where the light was. It was a man, glowing, and floating in front of him. He had never seen this man before. He did look slightly familiar though.

"Inuyasha-aisei."

"Who are you?"

"That's not important. Right now you've got to get to Kagome."

"I can't. I'm dead. I've failed her."

"You haven't failed until you give up."

"What can I do?"

"It's not your time yet. You are not leaving Kagome-shoujo alone to raise a child. She shouldn't suffer like her mother."

"Even if it isn't my time, I'm already dead."

"Inuyasha-aisei, you've never given up before. You have proven yourself worthy of Kagome. Only you can help her complete her task. Without you, she will die."

"Look, if you could bring me to life, then I would do everything I could until the day I died.... again.... to protect her. But we both know that's not gonna happen."

The man smiled. It was a smile that he knew he'd seen before.

"Alright, I'll do it."

"Do what?" Inuyasha asked.

"Get ready to live again."

"Can you do that?"

"Why not? I'm dead too, but I have special rights, powers you might say."

"Why is that?"

"I have a special connection to you and Kagome, I have permission to do this."

Inuyasha smiled.

"I hope this works."

The man smiled at him.

"It will. You ready?"

"I ain't getting any deader."

"It's this behavior that made me question you before. I see past your sarcasm now."

Inuyasha looked up at the man in confusion.

"Who.... are you?"

The man looked intently at Inuyasha.

"I want you to take extra special care of your wife and baby. If anything happens to my grandchild, I can always bring you back here with me."

"You... you are--"

"Hiroshi Hirugashi. Kagome is my daughter. But now you really must go. You'll be a hanyou again soon, then your body will be able to heal itself, and you might have a chance of finding Kagome before Sesshomaru."

"I... I don't know what to say. Why are you doing this?"

"My daughter loves you."

"Thankyou..... "

Hiroshi nodded.

Inuyasha grunted in the darkness. The pain was incredible. Had it been this bad before? Inuyasha reached up and touched his face. He could feel it.

He went to speak and ended up coughing up blood.

He smiled.

"I'm back."

He rolled over and his hair fell into his face. The little white strands tickled his nose.

White hair?

He looked at his hands. CLAWS!

I'm really back now.... Watch out Sesshomaru. I'm coming.

A/N: Okay, this chapter is a bit weird I'll admit, but in my defense, it's not my fault. It's Inuyasha's fault for dying, and Hiroshi's fault for making me bring him in. Okay, so the future chapters will (hopefully) be a bit more normal, and not so psycho. It's that lack of sanity in my brain that takes over sometimes. Okay, you got me. MOST TIMES. I also apologize for grammatic errors, mispellings, and any punctuation problems. Also, is having issues formatting things correctly.

I didn't really know what to do in this chapter because I don't want to end the story yet, so I'm stalling getting to the next point with Kagome and the other in it. So I figured that if Inuyasha would die for a while it might help me out a bit. Maybe this chapter is so cheesy because I was watching Sailor Moon in English while writing this. No offense to SM fans, but it is rather cheesy, even more so in English, but then again, I think most anime is cheesy in English. We Americans just go and ruin it with our bad translations and voice casting. I mean, who ever heard of a Japanese teenager with a New York accent? Or a Japanese waitress that sound like she's from Texas? Sorry.... Just my silly rantings. I tend to pick at the technical details if you hadn't noticed. Anyway, I feel like I'm getting the characters a bit out of character, and I think this is due to the fact that I haven't had time to watch Inuyasha in months, and my dad has all of them at his house anyway. So if I do have the characters out of character, please let me know so I can fix it. That's what you guys are for right? You tell me what you think in the reviews. Anyway, I apologize in advance if it takes a while to update, especially in the future, because I am going to start a program so that I graduate HS with my Associate of Arts Degree. That means roughly over 16 credit hours a semester. OY! I'll do my best to update any chance I get. Please let me know if I do things OOC or you think things are getting a bit off the main story line. ï