Chapter 1
Her voice was frantic. "Inuyasha!" The look in his eyes when she saw him last tore at her. She tried to reach him, really she did, but the hands holding her back were too strong. "Let me go, Miroku!" She shrieked as she clawed at his arms.
"Inuyasha!" His eyes turned on her, and she gasped. His golden eyes swirled with crimson, clouding his vision. "Inuyasha!" She repeated, struggling out of the houshi's grasp. "Kagome! No! Stay back! He's dangerous!" Miroku's warning repeated in her head. 'Dangerous?'
Flinging herself at him, she looked up at his face. Purple lines etched their way onto his face. 'Fading fast…' Panic swept across Kagome. 'But…he has tetsusaiga! He shouldn't be transforming! Why is this happening?' "Inuyasha?" Tears welled in her eyes. "Can you hear me?" She asked, ready to give up her life for his.
Sango skidded to a stop as she caught Hiraikotsu. 'Kohaku…' Her eyes scanned the area as she readied for another attack. A slight movement to the left caught her eye. She whirled around and blocked the scythe just as it was about to hit her.
"Kohaku!" He dropped out of a tree, and stared blankly at her. Words clawed their way up his throat. His vision blurred and he dropped to the ground.
"Kohaku!" Sango exclaimed as she knelt down at his side. He squeezed his eyes closed and clamped his mouth shut as screams echoed off the walls of his mind. "…Get…away! Run…aneue…!" He gasped out as tears cascaded down his face.
His eyes widened as a sickening thud sounded. Naraku's blood-stained blade shimmered in the dim moonlight. With a strangled gasp, Kohaku closed his tearful eyes as his breathing slowed to nothing.
With a war cry, Sango lunged at Naraku, unarmed. He disappeared before she could reach him.
His laugh echoed off the trees of an empty forest, where an empty boy had died from an empty life.
Miroku watched as Kagome ran toward the almost fully transformed Inuyasha. Kagome had paid his warning no heed.
He looked over to his right to see a frightened kitsune. Miroku reached for Shippou, but the kitsune jerked away, tearing his eyes away from the scene in front of him to look at Miroku. His emerald eyes shone with un-fallen tears. He slowly shook his head, and backed away.
"It's happening again…my family's dying!" Shippou sobbed and ran off into the darkness of the forest.
A jolt of pain shot through Miroku's hand. He groaned and doubled over. 'This is it…' He thought. 'We're all dying…this is the end…'
