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The full moon was at it's zenith in the sky, shining with the sun's borrowed light. The stars seemed to dim in it's surrounding beauty. Under it, the sounds of a ravaged hanyou could be heard in the otherwise quiet forest. Behind him, a large cat demon carrying two other people followed tirelessly.

InuYasha ran ahead, his mind consumed by only one thing; Kagome. He couldn't feel the brittle stones that crossed his feet, he didn't listen to Tessiaga's pulsing, telling him to calm down, that this dark fury that he was holding inside of him would only harm him in the end. InuYasha had controlled his anger so far, knowing that it was there, in his heart, in his mind, in his soul. At first this feeling had been directed at Kanaye, but it had taken a different turn. He now felt angry at himself, at his stupidity, at his blindness. "I was, a fool to leave Kagome alone. It's my fault that…all this happened. Why do I continue to fail her, by not being there to protect her? Is my eagerness to see Kikyo so great that I leave to search for her at the very mention of her name? I promised to Kagome once that I wouldn't leave her again, yet I've gone back on my word, I lied to her. I am not worthy of her trust ever again…the only thing I can do is save her, and destroy Kanaye. After that…"

He didn't want to think about it. He knew that it would break his heart to do so. So he continued, following Kanaye's scent through the thick forest, ignoring everything else.

Suddenly he got a smell of someone else's scent. He stopped, sniffing the air for a second. "What's wrong, InuYasha?" asked Miroku, Kirara landing on the ground. InuYasha's eyes grew wide for a second. "It's…"

He was cut off by the sound of the bushes rattling. Miroku stood up, holding the pearls around his kazaana tightly. Sango quickly grabbed her boomerang defensively, but stopped as something collapsed out of the bushes. "Shippo!" exclaimed Sango as she hopped off Kirara to tend to the poor kitsune. She picked him up, cradling him carefully in her arms. Shippo lay unconscious for a few seconds, scratches over his face and a bit of blood stained his furry vest. After a few seconds, his eyes flickered open. "Guys…" he croaked, trying to sit up. Sango smoothed him down again, "Shippo, relax for a second, and tell us what happened." Shippo nodded, and shut his eyes for a second. He opened them again, and started.

He told them of hiding with Kagome, and seeing her taken to the 'prison', and escaping to go find InuYasha, and Kanaye finding him instead, and stealing the Shikon Shards from him. "After that, I went to try and find you guys…and…here I am…"

Sango opened a small flask of water and gave it to Shippo who drank greedily. The poor kitsune had been through enough.

InuYasha then spoke. "Shippo, you know where Kagome is being kept, right?" Shippo looked up at him, and nodded. "You have to show us where she is, are you strong enough to do that?" InuYasha growled quickly. Shippo nodded again and said, "Don't worry, I left a trail of my mushrooms to lead us back." and stood up, wobbling slightly, from Sango's arms. He quickly climbed up to InuYasha's shoulder, and pointed him slightly eastward. "There, that's where I left my last mushroom." InuYasha looked at him from the corner of his eye, and said, "You're pretty brave, for a squirrel." Shippo opened his mouth to yell at InuYasha for calling him a squirrel, but then realized that he had come to about as close as anything to having a compliment out of him.

"Are you guys ready?" InuYasha said sharply, looking back at Sango and Miroku, who were back on Kirara. "Yes," came the reply. InuYasha turned to look ahead of him, the day beginning to wake up slowly, the first few rays of light appearing slowly, spreading a golden light around everything. InuYasha felt the heat on his face, and a new sense of confidence and hope rise up in his heart. "Let's go!" he yelled, and started running again, readying himself for the battle that was about to come.

Kikyo woke up, feeling a sharp pain emitted from her shoulder. She looked down, and saw an arrow piercing her shoulder. She tried to move to take the arrow out, but she couldn't move her arm, she was paralyzed. She looked around herself; she seemed to be lying on a table of a sort, 4 pentacles surrounding her, almost hovering in the air. She tried to use her spiritual powers to unbind her from this spell, but she felt weak, she didn't have enough energy. "Where's Kagome?" she thought, knowing that it was Kagome's arrow that piercing her skin, holding this spell against her.

She closed her eyes, and tried to concentrate. Because they both shared the same soul, they had a connection that Kikyo knew could be used to break through to her. "Kagome…" she thought. "Kagome, listen to me. I know your soul is still inside of you; Kanaye has not been able to rip that out. You can fight him, you have to, or else everything will be destroyed. You have to take control of yourself again. You are strong enough to do that, I know, I have felt your power. Your soul is so pure it cannot be broken and controlled like it seems it is. It's inside of you, waiting for you to realize your true potential. You have to reach deep inside of yourself to do so, but it can be done. You have to wake up, and break free of Kanaye, lest everything in this world is doomed."

She couldn't feel if there had been contact, everything was too hazy. "For the first time, Kagome's soul seems to be confused." Kikyo thought. Suddenly she felt a dark presence stand above her. "K-Kanaye…" she said, hate boiling up in her chest. "Heh, you still manage to speak, I'm surprised. And wow, you even managed to flinch at my voice; I see your powers didn't get affected as badly as I'd thought." Kanaye smirked sarcastically.

Kikyo could feel her fingers trembling with anger, and could almost sense movement in them. Kanaye moved his spear above her, and said quietly, "It's about time for you to die Kikyo; you've annoyed me ever since you came back to life. Well, now with your powers, the Shikon Jewel will surely be complete, and my power will be unsurpassable."

Kikyo could feel the jewel beginning to drain her power out of her, bit by bit. "If I could just purify the jewel…" she thought. Suddenly she felt her arm move slightly, and taking advantage of it, shot it up and grabbed the jewel in her hand. Instantly, the jewel started to lose the darkness clouding inside of it, a bright pink light surrounding it. Kanaye yelled angrily and wrenched it out of her hand. Kikyo noticed that he seemed to be bleeding from his stomach; a small patch of blood stained his kimono at his midsection. "That's his weakness," she realized.

"You bitch…" he said with a calm fury. Kikyo could feel almost her entire body become free of the spell, and stood up, steadying herself against the table. She didn't have her arrows, but that didn't matter. Her spiritual powers could just be enough to destroy him. "You think you can defeat me so easily? Heh, we'll see about that." Kanaye said, pointing his spear at her. He gave it a swing, and 10 dark daggers were shot out, heading straight for Kikyo. Kikyo quickly placed her hands together, and looked straight at the daggers. Just before reaching her, a pinkish force field appeared, blocking them off.

Kanaye grimaced and lifted his spear, a cloud of smoke escaping it, which quickly turned into the crimson snake that he had tried to use against InuYasha once before. The snake rushed towards Kikyo, opening its jaws wide and narrowing its dark eyes. Kikyo looked at it calmly, crossed her hands quickly at the wrists, and then separated them with a great force, sending two streaks of light at the snake. The streaks cut the snake in its middle, and caused it to disappear in a cloud of smoke.

By now Kanaye was furious. "How can this woman have so much of her spiritual power regenerate itself! I thought Kagome's spell would bind her completely!" he thought.

Kikyo stared at him, waiting for his next move. Though she didn't look it, she was almost exhausted from her efforts. She knew that she could barely block off another attack.

Kanaye could sense the miko's weakness. He smiled sadistically. "Growing tired, are you?" he asked tauntingly. Kikyo stared at him, breathing slightly heavily, but otherwise saying nothing. He raised his spear above his head, and 3 dark balls formed out of nothing. "Heh, see if you can block this." he said, sending them straight to Kikyo. She closed her eyes, waiting to use the remainder of her energy on creating a barrier. After that, she didn't know if she would be able to hold her own again…

Suddenly the wall crashed down. The dust cleared, and InuYasha, Sango, Miroku and Shippo could be seen. "InuYasha…" thought Kikyo. "You BASTARD!" snarled InuYasha, raising Tessiaga in the air and yelling "KAZE NO KIZU!" Kanaye looked back just in time to see the 5 familiar streaks of light formed by the attack being shot at him. He jumped out of the way, soaring into the air for a second but not putting his back to Kikyo. He stayed up in the air for a second, smirking. "So, you've come to save your dear Kagome, have you?" InuYasha growled ferociously and yelled, "WHAT THE FUCK HAVE YOU DONE WITH HER?" Kanaye smirked and landed on the ground, setting his spear in front of him.

"Why, you don't have to ask twice." he said, and gave a small swish with his spear. Suddenly, Kagome materialized in front of them.

"KAGOME!" yelled InuYasha. Kagome stared at him almost lifelessly, the light and buoyancy normally seen in her eyes gone. Kanaye pointed his spear at InuYasha. "Kill him." he said.

Kagome took her bow and aimed.

Wow, loooooong one! I hope you liked it, I'm sorry I couldn't get it up yesterday, I was at my sister's ballet show and I was dead tired when I got home.

I liked the long mono dialogue bits I put in. It's nice to hear what the characters are thinking about from time to time. And (surprisingly) they were fun to write…00. haha.

Anyhow, we'll see what happens next TOMORROW! Sorry, but I can't write forever. Buh-bye for now.
-DragonofDoom3-