And now was acknowledged the presence of the Red Death.

He had come like a theif in the night,

And one by one dropped the revellers in the blood bedewed halls of their revel.

And the life of the ebony clock went out with the last of the gay.

And the flames of the tripods expired.

And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all...

A lone figure stood before a flowing river and look down into the reflection in the water, the wind whipped around this figure and moved the clouds to allow the moonlight to glow upon him.

He was dressed in dark black robes, his hair was waist length and silver, his skin was fair color and reflected the moonlight slightly.

But it was his face that was the most frightining of all, the cheeks were lined with blue scar-like lines, his eyes were crimson red and the pupils were a deep blue, they shone with pure hatred and the murderous intent of a true beast.

The face that stared up from the water was that of the former half demon, Inuyasha.

That is to say...he was no longer the being he once was, he had abandoned that persona only hours ago.

Inuyasha had lost the part of him that was human, the part of him that was once so loved had been removed from his mind.

He had accepted the dark temptations of the Black Shikon Jewel, he had consumed the darkness of the world just for the chance to exact his vengence.

Kagome...the love of his life...the only one for him...had been murdered.

Inuyasha lost everything in that single moment, in that one moment he had failed everything he had promised her, she had died while he stood by and watched.

He had nothing to lose, and everything to gain.

It didn't matter if he had lost his humanity, it didn't matter if had become a blood thristy beast, all that mattered was that long standing wish of becoming a full demon had been fufilled.

Now this power was his, and now he cared for nothing...nothing except himself.

All thoughts of Kagome and his former life had been erased from his mind, in their place was a savage bloodlust, a thirst for violence and gore.

But there was still a part of him mind that had managed to stay intact, a small part of his conscience that still lived in thrived within the great beast.

The part of him that Kagome had loved still existed, even if he had little control of his new form.

Inuyasha didn't know that he would be transformed into this bloodthirsty beast, but then again...he didn't care.

Kagome was lost...or so he thought.

Kagome had somehow survived, even after being stabbed in the chest and several minutes of bleeding, she had survived long enough to see her Inuyasha.

For a brief fleeting moment, Inuyasha's human side had pulled through, it had pulled through long enough to stop him from commiting unspeakable acts. He had gained enough power to stop the demon from killing his dear friends.

But know the demon was back, and it was hungrier than ever.

Demon Inuyasha knelt down beside the river and stared at the face that looked at him from the water, he stroked his hand against his left cheek, and winced as one of his claws scratched the flesh into a long scratch.

"My name...is Inuyasha..."

Inuyasha silently spoke to himself, he watched as the face in the water silently mouthed the exact same words.

"I...remember...something...there is something I have to do..."

A sharp pain in his chest suddenly appeared right over his heart, Inuyasha grasped the area and coughed as the pain increased, he cringed in pain as he thought about what he had to do. The more he thought the more the pain would increase.

He glimpsed at the face in the water as he held his chest in pain, the face seemed to smile reassuringly to him as he felt the pain suddenly diminish.

"Voices...who are these in my head..."

The face in the water smiled even more, it seemed to try and be saying something, something he couldn't quite make out.

The voices seemed to grow louder and louder, two of them could be heard distinctly now, they began to talk to him as if the knew him for a long time.

The face in the water...or should he say...faces.

The face had now split into two, two faces who were very different.

One of them was young human male, with long black hair and a kind face he seemed very sad, as if a great tragedy had befallen him.

The other was of hideous demonic being, his long silver hair and red eyes were filled with anger, but what was most suprising was that he looked exactly like Inuyasha.

"Are you always this weak or is it just this idiot?" The demonic face jeered at the human face.

"Who are you..." Inuyasha asked the faces within the water.

"We're you...or rather...your mind..." The kind human face replied.

"My mind..." Inuyasha stared even deeper into the rushing stream, straining to hear the voices words.

"I can't belive that you were ever a part of us! Your so damn weak!"

"I can't believe that we ever wanted to a monster like you in our mind!"

"Hehehehehe, like he could ever use you. He needs me to provide what he needs to survive!"

"Survive..." Inuyasha's mind was torn in two as he listened to those voices, they seemed very familiar to him as if he known them his entire life.

"You couldn't kill anything even if you wanted to! Your weak and unnecessary! GO AWAY!"

"I won't go away that easily!"

"How do you know me?" Inuyasha asked the faces, although it was dubious question. He didn't even know he was, but he knew he had to find out.

"Hmmmm, so you still haven't figured it huh? I guess the jewel transformed your mind as well."

Which would explain why we are talking to him...Inuyasha you used the jewel to..."

Suddenly a sharp pain rung out into Inuyasha skull, he grabbed his head and dunked his head in the water to try and dull the pain.

"Shut up! He doesn't need to be reminded of what he used to be!"

Then, just as soon as the pain appeared it disappeared, he pulled his head out of the water and wiped the water out of his eyes.

"You don't need to worry about how you were born or where you came from. All you need to know is how to kill..."

"Kill..."

"Shouldn't he know why he killed! We killed Naraku already! Our fight is over!"

"It's never over! We'll kill and kill until their is nothing left!"

The voices battled it out in his head for an untold amount of time, he could only sit and listen to the voices in his head.

"Vengence is why we kill! Naraku stole from us and now we have nothing left!"

"He...he killed Kagome...he killed the one we loved..."

"Love..." Inuyasha whispered to himself, this word sounded so familiar and warm, although he didn't even know what this strange world meant.

"Love! HA! What do you know about love!"

Where the human voice had always been low tone and somewhat weak sounding it know responded with anger and strength.

"I KNOW WHAT IT IS TO LOVE!"

"And...I will love...again..."

The voices grew silent the instant the sentence was finished, the faces in the water melded back into his own demonic image.

Inuyasha stared into the water as if the faces would return and answer his questions, but the water only reflected his face, the voices remained unspeaking within his mind.

Images of the past events flashed before Inuyasha's mind, that demon named Naraku whom he felt such hatred for, the undying hunger he felt as he stared at that young woman with the boomerang, and the face of that girl that had caused him to run away in shame.

He clutched his head and writhed with pain as he tried to remember what happened to him before that fight with Naraku, but nothing came to mind as he searched his past.

All he felt was pain...pain and hunger.

The moon shone down upon this pitiful creature who had caused himself so much pain, this creature who had given up so much that he had lost his own memories.

Lost his only love...

"Kagome..."

Meanwhile Miroku, Sango, and Shippo were gathered around a fire and tended to their wounds, they were badly hurt and confused about what had happened earlier that day.

Shippo was busy changing the wet cloth on Kagome's forhead, he grimaced as her breath came out in rapid gasps, her wounds were grave and it was a miracle that she was still alive.

"Please Kagome..." Shippo said as he replaced the dry cloth with a wet one, "Please be okay..."

But the likelyhood of Kagome surviving through her wounds was low, she had a hole in her chest that was 6 inches in diameter, she was losing blood at an alarming rate and would probably be dead by the end of the night.

Miroku looked over at Shippo and Kagome and sighed, as much as he wished he could there was nothing that he could do for her, all he could do was pray that her soul could find peace.

He directed his attention back to Sango and wrapped her arm in yet another layer of bandages, her wounds were not as serious and her strength would pull her through this tragedy.

Sango was awake now although she hadn't spoken a word since they left the castle, her eyes portrayed a look of utter dismay and confusion, it was no wonder though.

She had killed her brother and watched him be dragged down into hell, the last of her clan had been erased and she had been the one to end the bloodline.

Miroku meanwhile sat back and looked up at the moon, it shone with a magnificent brilliance and comforted him in this time of need. It was nice to know that no matter what happened in this world, their was still something that would stay the same and unchanging.

He left hand unconciously went to his right hand and began to feel where the hole had once been, Miroku smiled to himself as he felt that the hole had completly disappeared. That hole was of course the cursed Wind Tunnel, upon the destruction of Naraku the curse had been lifted.

Miroku was free of that terrible curse that threatened his very life.

But the cost for this relief was very high indeed, Kagome was on the verge of death, and Inuyasha had become a blood thirst demon.

"I wonder where he is..." Miroku thought to himself, he glanced at Sango and Kagome to make sure they were still alive and went back to thinking of old friend.

Inuyasha had consumed the Sacred Jewel an fufilled his long standing wish to become a full demon, but his demeanor had drastically changed.

Most high class demons prefer only to eat animals and leave humans to themselves, it was common knowledge that only low weak demons prefer the flesh of men. It was obvious by Inuyasha's actions and words that he intended to devour Sango, but that was confusing because it was also obvious that he transformed into a high power demon.

It was all very confusing, what power did the demonic side of Inuyasha hold? What happened to the Inuyasha they once knew, what stopped him from killing them in Naraku's castle.

"It's a miracle she's alive..." Sango's voice suddenly broke his train of thought, he saw her looking over at Kagome who still lay unconcious several feet away.

"Sango..." Miroku caringly said, "Are you feeling alright?"

"Yeah..." Sango said lifting herself up to lean against a large rock, she winced as the bandages squeezed against her abdomen. After awhile she became comfortable enough to stop moving, she continued to keep looking at her friend Kagome though.

"My wounds are nothing compared hers..." Sango whispered sadly, "Not just physically too..."

Miroku gave a quizicall look, she noticed the look and directed her glance back towards him.

"I only lost my brother..." Sango tried to hold back the tears "Kagome...she lost the one she loves..."

Miroku could only nod in agreement to this statement.

Kagome's heavy breathing could be heard from even their distance, it cut through the silence between them and reminded them of how little time she had left.

"Kagome..." Sango could do little to hold the tears back, they came forth in heavy streams now.

"The...the only reason she's alive...is for...him..."

Sango's injured body shook with tears, she was weeping for her friend who had lost her love, and her friend who had given up himself for her.

Inuyasha who was once so kind and loving to his friends. The man that had pledged everlasting love to the human girl who had opened up his cold heart.

Where was he now?

"Inuyasha..." His name slipped out of Kagome's lips, her breathing was becoming more and more labored by the minute, and yet she still had enough strength to speak of the one she loved.

What could be going through her mind as she thought of her dear Inuyasha?

What would she think of him now?

Inuyasha stumbled along a path that lay adjacent to a rushing river, the moonlight lit up the path before him as he dragged his feet across the beaten earth. His eyes were half closed in dreamlike state while his gaze was directed to the ground before him.

He didn't know how long he had been walking along this path nor did he care, he had just been walking this road for some time while he tried to sort out the memories within his head.

Only faint memories of faces and voices drifted in and out of his mind, only pieces of the life he was once had existed in his mind, a life that had been a but fogotten.

But one of the strongest memories was that of raven haired girl, everytime this girl's face would appear in him mind's eye he would feel a strong tugging at his heart.

Unfourtunatly any further effort to try and remember who this girl was would result in a sharp pain running through his head. No matter how hard he tried to remember what he was before that fight with Naraku he could not bring up the memories of his own past.

He walked on and on through the fields and the meadows, clutching his head in pain while the memories refused to surface. He tried to keep his eyes as wide open possible as if they could help him see who or what he was in the past.

The voices his head would come in and out of present mind, sometimes they would speak words of comfort, other times they would scream as to how much they hated him.

Right now...the demon was speaking to him.

"What are you trying to do? The past doesn't matter...all that matters is now."

"How...how are you speaking to me?" Inuyasha spoke softly, "How are you in my head!"

"Me?" The demon chuckled, "I'm the one who is going to help you through all this..."

After this the voice fell silent, Inuyasha called out for it several times before giving up. He walked onwards towards the horizon, he had no destination but at this point in time it didn't matter.

That demonic voice that was talking to him, that voice often spoke a lot more than the human voice, it also sounded stronger. Inuyasha could remember the call of this voice when he had fought Naraku, this voice had resounded in his head while he slain that weak half demon.

The human voice on the other hand often sounded weak and distant, like he was on the verge of death and could fade away at anytime. The demon voice had said that Inuyasha should discard that persona, that the human side within him was the only thing holding him back.

Inuyasha was a full demon, and because he was a demon it was no wonder that he felt he should cast off that human side of him. Although Inuyasha did not remember his half demon years a small part of him had been saved in the corners of his mind, a part of him that couldn't be erased even through the powers of the Shikon Jewel.

The human side of him also refused to be destroyed from Inuyasha's mind, whenever Inuyasha thought of getting rid of the human side it would always bring up her face.

Kagome...

His memories of her had been lost, but the love for her had not been diminished in the least bit. He just could not bring himself to lose the human part for fear of losing the memory of that girl, all of which was to the disdain of the demon.

"Who are you?" Inuyasha said as he tenderly thought of that girl's face, "Why do I feel this...this

feeling within my heart..."

Inuyasha's love had survived even the dark powers of the Black Shikon No Tama, just as Kagome's loved had survived even the grips of death itself.

But would they ever feel the warmth of each others touch again, would they ever feel the love that blossomed between them, how much tradgedy must they face before seeing each other for at least one more time.

Inuyasha's crimson eyes began to leak tears of sadness as he thought of his dear Kagome, he knew not who that girl was or why he cried for her, but he knew that the sight of her face brought him both pain and joy.

Suddenly his ears twitched as heard a sound coming from ahead, he wiped the tears from his eyes and focused the forward to see what had made the sound. He could see a large male walking along the beaten path, he held up a torch to light his way and a bundle of supplies was slung over his shoulder.

He was likely to be a wanderer or perhaps...

Inuyasha's nose picked up the scent of humans wafting from the north, the man had likely come from that village and was on his way to some unknown destination.

The demonic voice now spoke out in glee.

"You haven't eaten all day you know..."

"Eat...a human...what do you think I am?"

Normally an advanced demon would not eat humans, as most of them prefer to stay out of the sight of the human. Only the most basic and primitive of demons would bother to eat human flesh, but the demon part of Inuyasha was different from most demons.

Throughout years of pain and slavery brought on by humans had enraged the demon part of Inuyasha, he had shoved all that pain into a corner of his mind where is grew and festered while fueling the rage of his supressed demonic mind.

Inuyasha's eyes grew wide with hunger as he listened to voice inside of him, a evil smile quickly spread over his face while he continually kept his eyes on the approaching person.

His delicate ears could pick up the sound of the person's blood running through his veins, Inuyasha passed his tounge over fangs.

"Yeah...why shouldn't I eat them..." Inuyasha's voice changed slightly as he cracked his knuckles, it had taken on a more evil and sinister tone than before. He could feel the adrenaline rushing through him his as his mind became more and more possessed with evil, a dark power was welling up from inside his chest and began to slowly spread all over his body.

His nose flared as he took in the scent of the human, his ears twitched slightly at the sound of each footstep, his crimson eyes began to glow in the darkness of the night. In only a short amount of time the savage demon within him had become the sole possessor of his present mind, it was if he was lion slowly stalking his prey.

"After all, there only a bunch of stinking humans," Inuyasha growled malicously, "They should be honored to be food for a demon such as I!"

Inuyasha stepped out from the bushes and onto the path that the villager was walking, his black robes blended perfectly into the darkness but did little to hide the reddish glow of his eyes.

The villager sung a little tune to himself as he travelled along the path, little did he know of the fate that would soon await him. While he walked along the beaten path he began to slow down as he saw two reddish orbs only a few feet away from him.

"W-Who's there?" The villager yelled out into the night, he held up his torch higher in a effort to illuminate the area.

"Be you man or beast!"

Inuyasha stepped forward into the light casted by the torch, the villager stepped backwards in fear as he gazed upon Inuyasha figure.

At first the man was confused on what Inuyasha was exactly, while he stood only a few feet shorter than him the strange boy seemed to exude with power. He was dressed from head to foot in dark black robes and his white hair descended just below his waist.

While he appeared human at first glance it didn't take long to recognize his demonic features, dog like ears, sharp fangs and claws, and crimson eyes that peered into his soul.

After a moment of suprise the man regained his composure and reached within his own robes, he pulled out a large knife and held in front of him in a effort to scare the demon.

"S-Stay from y-you..." the man searched for words to say, "Y-you...whatever the hell you are!"

Inuyasha smiled so wide that it showed off how sharp and long his fangs were, his stomach growled with anticipation as he listened the rapid heartbeat of this doomed traveller.

"You humans..." Inuyasha chuckled as he took several steps forward, "You humans disgust me!"

The man stumbled backwards to try and get away from the approaching Inuyasha, his hand shook and he desperatly tried to keep his composure. Inuyasha was walking slowly forward and the man began to wonder what this demon would do to him.

"S-Stay away you here me!" The man screamed in terror, "Stay away or else!"

Inuyasha chuckled some more and raised his hands towards the man, the moonlight glinted off the sharpened claws and scared the man even more. Inuyasha laughed out loud as the man shook all over with fear, he was throughly enjoying the fear that this man felt and the fear helped increase his hunger.

"Ahhhhhhhhhh!" The man screamed as he ran towards Inuyasha swinging the knife wildly, there was flash of gold and the villager felt something warm and wet splash onto his face.

He looked down onto the hand that was holding the knife, and screamed when he realized that hand was no longer attached to his arm. The blood spurted from the stump of his arm and the tears streamed from his eyes, all of sudden he felt the ice cold hands of Inuyasha wrap themselves around his face.

Inuyasha laughed with glee while he squeezed the man's head harder and harder, he could hear his skull began to crack and could feel his hangs digging into the man's flesh.

Inuyasha's insidious laugh and the man's horrible screams mixed with one another in the darkness of the night, the torch he had once held was dying out and the light began to recede. He could feel the life slipping out of him as death's grip closed down and crushed his skull.

"I want you all...to just die!"

The laugh of Inuyasha and the villager's screamed was quickly silenced by a loud snap, the traveller's thrashing body ceased all movement and Inuyasha dropped the corpse down onto the ground.

He looked at his blood covered claws and began to laugh like a madman, it had become an amusing game to Inuyasha, to see how long it took before this man had died. He had killed for more than just a demonic hunger, he had killed him just for the pure pleasure of it.

"I killed that man...I killed him and I like it..."

"Yes Inuyasha, it's you...it what we wanted."

"I actually enjoyed it, I attainted fufillment from killing him?"

"It's what we do! That is our purpose, that is our meaning to live?"

"Purpose? Meaning to live?"

"It's what we were born to do. I was born from you, and now you can finally become me."

"Is it my purpose to kill? To kill...humans?

"Yes! Lets kill those filthy, disgusting humans!"

"But that girl...K-K-Kagome..."

Suddenly Inuyasha doubled over in pain, images began to flood forward into his mind, images of him being beaten and tortured by humans. All thoughts and fragmented memories were pushed out by the horrible images of his childhood, images of him when he was on the brink of death.

"Those humans! They deserve to die! All of them, every stinking one!"

The pain slowly began to subside after a time, Inuyasha gathered his strength together and stood up slowly. He raised his head up to the moon and smiled at it, he raised his hands to face and smeared it the blood of the human he just killed. With a loud and determined voice he declared his dark intentions.

"I won't stop...I won't stop until every human it dead. Even that girl, that...Kagome."

Deep within corner of Inuyasha's mind the human part of him wept, wept for the life of his dear, dear Kagome.

The sun rose from behind a large snow covered moutain, sunlight filled the valley and highlighted a tiny village that sat nesseled in large valley, the people within the village were simple and enjoyed a life of farming and fishing from the adjacent river.

The residents of the village stirred and began to awake to do their chores, the men went about to tilling their crops and fields while the women took care of the children and kept clean their homes.

They had all lived in their tiny little village for years and had grown to love the simple life.

But their was one resident of the village who had not been living there for years, she had only gotten their several weeks before, but in those few weeks she had helped the villagers many times.

Her name was Kikyo.

Kikyo, the priestess who had at one time be the lover of Inuyasha. Kikyo who had died was resurected, who had sworn undying revenge on Inuyasha.

She used the souls of dead madiens to fuel her body of dirt and clay, her soul collectors would gather these lost souls and implant their lifeforce into her artificial body.

But right now she was busy tending the wounded people of the village, she would go about healing their wounds and sickness without accepting any money or help.

At the present moment she was walking towards the abandoned house she had found, it served as a makeshift hospital where she would heal the wounded. She had been walking around all night, occasionaly stopping to accept a soul that a soul collector had brought. She never slept or ate so walking for hours on end never bothered her much, it was all she could while the night went on.

As she approached the house she noticed that a brigade of villagers were making their way towards the house, it quickly became apparent that they were carrying the body of one of their own. It wasn't very suprising that one of them had become injured, wounds were common when working with sharp tools in the fields.

"Lady Kikyo!" One of them children ran forward from the crowd and towards her, the child's clothes were torn and covered with dirt, her face was smeared with mud and a reddish substance that was soon understood to be blood.

"Lady Kikyo!" The young girl ran up to Kikyo and grapsed her robes tightly, "Lady Kikyo, a demon is attacking the village!"

Kikyo looked over in the direction the village lay, a large plume of smoke that she didn't notice earlier was lifting up slowly over the trees, her delicate eyes picked up the souls of the villagers lifting up along side the black smoke.

The procession of villagers ran towards Kikyo while holding onto their wounded village leader, as they walked up beside Kikyo he weakly grasped the sleeve of her robe. His wounds were grave and deep, it was hard to tell if he would live through the rest of the day.

"You musn't return to the village Lady Kikyo!" The chief weakly said, "You'll be killed!"

Kikyo gave a quick reassuring smile to the village elder and then instructed the other survivors to tend to each others wounds inside the hut, after telling them that she would be fine she took her bow and arrows and headed towards the burning village.

The souls of the villagers who had died were growing quickly in number, they floated around her and the voices of the dead warned her to not go any further, warned her of the demon who had killed so many of their own.

Kikyo ignored the cries of the slain innocent and procedded onwards towards the village, soon the bluish glow of the villager's souls became masked by the thick black smoke of burning rubble. She pushed through the thick smoke as if it weren't even there, her powers as a preistess protected her through the poisonous smoke and searing heat.

After a short while she began to recognize the familiar sights of the village, homes and fields that lay within the village boundries were still there, except now they were covered in flames. She soon picked up the spirit energy of the villagers, as well as the spirit energy of a particulary powerful demon.

"Such power this demon has..." She spoke to herself, "It's...familiar. But where have I encountered such a demon, I'm sure I would've dealt with it..."

Kikyo walked towards the demonic power that continued to send the souls of the villagers towards heaven, the black smoke began to dissipate as she walked into area where the fire had not yet reached. As she walked out of the smoke she was astonished to see what or rather, who...the demon was.

Inuyasha.

But he was not the Inuyasha she had once known and loved, his lovely hazel eyes were now a deep crimson red, his face was lined with blue colored scars, his entire countenance had dramatically changed from the person he once had.

Kikyo could only stand in astonishment as she stared at the demonic Inuyasha, luckily his gaze was directed at the right and he didn't notice that she was there. Kikyo's hand shook as she stared at Inuyasha, her mind screamed out to grab her arrows and strike him down but her body could only shake with fear.

"How can this be!" She silently screamed to herself, "I must exact my revenge, I must kill Inuyasha!"

Inuyasha's cold expression suddenly changed as he curled his frown into smile, his eyes stared off into the distance while Kikyo struggled to keep her legs from failing. Suddenly from the right their came the cry of many voices, several of the villagers had banded together and were intent on attacking Inuyasha.

They charged forward weapons raised in a attempt to strike him down, but Inuyasha effortlessly dodged their strikes with only a few quick motions. Kikyo's eyes could only just make out the motion of his hands as he raised them, then all she could she see was streaks of lights as his arms became blurs of tan skin and lights.

The men's war cries stopped abruptly, they stood their with mouths gaping wide open, their eyes nearly popping out of their heads. Their bodies then exploded in cloud of blood as their wounds suddenly popped open, body parts flew in every direction and the ground was soaked red with blood.

Inuyasha's arms were covered all the way up to his elbows in their life blood, his black robes were splattered with spots of blood and flesh. Slowly Inuyasha brought his hand to his lips and procedded to clean the blood from his palms, he savored the taste of blood in his mouth and lipped his lips hungrily after he was done.

"W-W-What is this!" She thought to herself, "What has happened to him, this cannot be the Inuyasha I know!"

That's when it struck her, the Shikon Jewel!

"Did he use the jewel to become a full demon!" She thought, "What hideous strength is has been given to Inuyasha!"

"Well, well, well...I didn't know such a pitiful village would have a priestess..."

Kikyo was brought back to the real world when she heard his voice, her whole body began to shake with uncontrollable fear as she looked at his terrible form. "Why am I shaking like this?" She screamed inside her mind, "Why can't I kill him!"

"I gonna enjoy eat-..."

Inuyasha stopped short when he glanced upon the woman's face, instantly his heart began to ache with some unknown feeling while he looked into that woman's beatiful eyes. His lips began to tremble and his heart was beating so fast that he was sure it would burst out his chest. Images of Kagome began to surface in his mind while he looked at her, the demonic anger burning within was slowly began to die down as the woman's face calmed the beast.

Their they stood, two long lost lovers in a field of death of flames. Two hearts who had at one time loved one another so much, two hearts who had then be forced to kill each all due to the plot of one evil demon. So much time had passed since the day that they had killed each other, they had both changed in some many drastic ways since that fateful day.

Kikyo had become a living dead priestess who fed on the souls of the dead, Inuyasha had transformed into a bloodthristy demon. Both of them lived off the dead of others, both of them had become tragic souls who doomed to punishments of hell. Now both of them stood in burning village, surrounded by the bodies of the dead, now they must pitted against each other like so long ago.

"Kikyo...It's...Kikyo!"

"Shutup you! We don't need you or her! We only need ourselves!"

The voices in Inuyasha's head began to scream at each other, he grasped at his head and pulled on his hair while the volume of their screaming only increased. The pain in both his head and his heart was more than any demon or human could take. Desperatly he tried to supress the images of Kagome, distant memories of her voice, her smell, her touch. All of these slowly began to surface along with the pain he felt when he saw her supposed corpse, the pain grew stronger and stronger as memories of the woman before him also began to resurface.

"Don't you remember the love we once shared Kikyo! Kikyo we love-"

"Shutup! Just shutup! Love? Ha, love only makes you weak! What we need is power, and more of it!"

"K...Kikyo..." Her named escaped Inuyasha's lips, "K-Kikyo...who...what..."

The pain in his head was indescriable, his heart was pounding so fast that it was close to exploding. The voices were only making things worse with their constant screaming, Inuyasha could only pull his hair in frustration while the pain wracked his body.

His eyes peeked open only to see an arrow pointing right as his forhead, Kikyo had strung an arrow to her bow and was now pointing it as Inuyasha. The arrow shook while Kikyo desperatly tried to hold of it, her bottom lip was trembling with fear while she tried release the arrow.

Inuyasha's glance went from wide open with suprise to furrowed with anger, his crimson demonic eyes bore through Kikyo's heart and struck her with fear. The voices in his head slowly began to reside as the demonic anger slowly began to rise again, his eyes could see the blood pumping in her veins and his delicate ears could hear her heart rapidly beating. He gritted his teeth and got up of his hands and knees, his eyes were constantly set on the arrow as it lifted up with him.

"Are you going to kill me?" He smirked as he stared at Kikyo, "Why don't you shoot?"

There they stood, Kikyo with her arrow pointed right between his eyes, Inuyasha smirking at his past lover. Two tortured souls who would kill one or the other, two people who's loved at had been killed over 50 years ago by the demon Naraku. Now it was only a matter of time before one of them killed by the other. The smoke whipped around them and the flames drew nearer encroaching on their own little battlefield of emotions.

"Inuyasha!" Kikyo screamed aloud while tears streamed down her cheeks, "I don't know what happend to you, but I do know that I cannot forgive for this!"

Inuyasha smirked as Kikyo drew her bow backwards, the arrow was slowly filling up her own spirtual energy, it glowed with power as Kikyo prepared to strike down Inuyasha.

"At last Inuyasha!" Kikyo screamed at him, "We can both finally die together!"

Inuyasha eyes grew wide as she prepared to released the arrow, suddenly everything went into slow motion. More and more images of the past flashed through his mind at blinding speeds, his face twitched with emotion at the sights and sounds. Kagome's and Kikyo's faces filled up the his vision and mixed forward into one and then split apart just as fast, no amount of words could describe the colors and images that flashed forwards into his field of vision.

There was a blinding flash of light and Kikyo released the arrow, it streaked forward towards Inuyasha and for brief moment her eyes were blinded by her own power. She couldn't hear the sound of her arrow streaking off into the distance so she assumed that it had hit it's mark, she breathed a sigh of relief now that she was sure that he was dead.

After all the pain and torture they had gone through it had finally end, after all the death and destruction that had surronded would no longer have to be suffered. Now that she had killed the love of her life she was prepared to send her ownself into hell, into hell were she would be with her dear Inuyasha for all eternity.

For a few seconds she blinked her eyes in an effort to clear the blindness, after a while her vision came back into focus and she could finally see the damage that she had done.

Her eyes met with the most hideous thing she had ever seen, her eyes were filled with the image of Inuyasha's scarlet eyes staring deep within her own eyes. Immediatly her body was filled the fear of death, her knees began to wobble with weakness, her hands were shaking so hard that she could barely hold onto to her bow, she could barely stand as she stared into those terrible red eyes.

She managed to take a couple steps backwards before falling backwards, the sleeve of her robes caught on a sharp piece of robe and ripped, blood began to pour from large gash. She grasped at her wound and stared up at Inuyasha, his robes were in perfect order, not a scratch or even a stain marred his perfect robes. Not a wound could be seen on that beautiful yet terrible face.

In his right hand he held the arrow that had been shot at him, steam rose from the arrow as the spirt energy built in it was dispersed. He grasped the arrow tightly and the wood quicky snapped under his grip, his face was completly emotionless as he stared at his ex-lover. His mind was completly blank as he stared at the face of the woman he had loved so much a one time.

"H-How could he block my Sacred Arrow..." Kikyo thought to herself, "What has happened to him, I had no idea that the Shikon Jewel could grant such dark power..."

She had no idea of what evil had been unleashed within Inuyasha's body, she had no idea that the darkness within his own heart had been finally awakened. No idea of how the evils of the world had been placed within his body and had ignited the demonic instincts within, of how the evil had cleansed his mind of all memories of love and happiness. How could she know of all the tradgedies that had taken place in his life? Losing Kagome was just what pushed him into the final step towards darkness.

Inuyasha's eyes suddenly grew wide as he stared deeper into her brown eyes, more and more images of the past flashed before his eyes. More and more memories of his dear Kagome became mixed with the memories of his past love Kikyo, his head began to hurt once more as he stared on into the those twin pools of memories, memories that brought so much pain.

"We love her!"

"We hate her!"

"Inuyasha..." Kikyo stammered as she stared up at his face filled with painful emotion, "What has happened to us?"

"We love Kagome!"

"We hate her! Hate her forever!"

"Inuyasha...are you alright!"

"We have to stop, we have to stop for Kagome's sake!"

"Fuck Kagome! Fuck all the damn humans, fuck 'em and kill 'em!"

"Inuyasha..."

Inuyasha clawed at his head in a effort to remove the screaming within, it was too much for his brain to handle. The screaming and painful memories, the saddness he felt in heart when the thought of Kagome and Kikyo, of the pain that their images brought to him. He locked his deadly crimson eyes onto Kikyo's face and glared, no matter what he could not get the image of Kagome's face out his head when he saw her. Giant tears began to well up in the corner of his eyes as he stared on into her eyes, a sadness that went beyond description was growing ever faster in his heart.

"Inuyasha..." Kikyo's own eyes began to grow with tears as she stared at her lover, "Why are you in such pain?"

Inuyasha stared at with his crimson eyes wide open, the sadness within him began to boil and rise up into a profane anger. Seeing her face only created more and more pain for him, and the demonic voice told him that sadness and love had no place in the heart of true demon. Kagome had no business being in his thoughts or heart.

"Why..." Inuyasha said under his breath, Kikyo leaned forward slightly so that she could hear his heart wrenching words.

"WHY DO YOU REMIND ME OF HER SO MUCH!

Kikyo's eyes flew open as she felt Inuyasha claws rake over right shoulder, blood quickly spurted in all directions as Inuyasha attacked. She fell over backwards and stared up into the smoke filled sky, her hand weakly reached up the wound to feel the blood pouring out. How ironic that the wound was in the same exact place that it had been dealt to over 50 years ago, 50 years ago when she thought she had been killed by her only love. She now understood what hideous strength had been bestowed upon Inuyasha, he had given up everything that she had loved so that he could become more powerful.

But despite what he had done, despite the demonic power that he had been given, despite her immenent death. She loved him.

Deeply and truly she loved him, despite all of his faults and all that had happened between them she still loved him with all her heart.

"Inuyasha..." Kikyo coughed up blood as she spoke, "I love you...I love with all of my heart...forever."

Inuyasha stepped over her dying form and stared at this strange priestess, the priestess who had reminded him of that girl Kagome. While he stared at that woman as she declared her love for him he felt yet another pulling at his heart, tears began to well up once more in his eyes. But he quickly dismissed the sadness and weakness and it was soon replaced with anger, anger for this woman causing him pain and making him feel so weak. He was angry because she made him reminded of a past that he no longer wanted to acknowledge.

A past he no longer wanted.

"Kikyo..." Inuyasha hissed, he raised his claws above his head and grinned evily, "Just die already!"

With that Inuyasha brought his claws down onto Kikyo's dying body, he procedded to claw up her body. He began laughing with insanity as he clawed up her now dead body, blood splattered all over him as he carved up the women he had so much emotion for. Her death was like he was actually clawing up his own painful memories, it was as if he destroying all the pain and emotion, like he was killing...Kagome.

"Die! Die! Die!" Inuyasha screamed at her lifeless body, a body that no longer resembled what it once was, "I want all you filthy humans to die!"

After a few more minutes of clawing he stopped, there was nothing left for him to claw. He looked at the gore on his body and smiled at the thrill of the kill, for a few minutes he had lost all memory of Kagome.

But soon the images and memories of Kagome flooding back into him mind, no matter what he did he could not shake the image of Kagome's face from his mind. The sadness in his heart could not be healed now that Kikyo had reminded him of her. He began to crave for that feeling he had when he was killed Kikyo, that feeling of pure abandon and totally forgetting Kagome's loving face.

His eyes scanned the distanced and they soon picked up the sight of several humans huddled in a group, his nose could smell the fear and the blood of the wounded. His demonic instincts began to rage and lash out within his fractured mind.

"I understand know..." Inuyasha hissed, "I'm will kill all these stinking humans...kill them all..."

His expression was wild and desperate, his breathing was coming out in gasps as he thought of what he must do to forget the pain in his heart.

"I'll keep on killing until all humans are dead! I'll kill until I can finally forget Kagome!"

With that decleration he bounded off towards the group of villagers that had managed to escape his massacare, he was intent on killing all the humans so that me finally forget the girl he loved so much.