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Chapter 10

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Kagome

With a blinding flash of white light, Kagome burst from the land of the dead to the land of the living. She coughed and sputtered like before, being in a tube of blackness with little air. 'Where am I?' she thought and felt around. She realized she was buried beneath the ground and was suffocating because of little oxygen. She stirred and attempted to sit up, but the weight of the dirt was pushing her down.

She tried again and some of the earth shifted, allowing a small peephole to form. She glanced around with her pearly eyes gleaming. Her teeth clenched when she remembered what had happened. She growled low as her brain screamed, 'REVENGE. BLOOD. HATE. KILL, KILL, KILL!'

The peephole revealed that she was on the outside walls of Naraku's castle, though she was within the barrier. She smirked fiendishly, her fangs poking out of the sides of her mouth. They seemed to grow as did her nails while her azure eyes flashed red with hatred. Her tail swished back and forth rapidly and she hissed in rage. The ground around her erupted and she stood up, fully charged with furious adrenaline.

The hanyou crept to the sidewall and hopped up onto the roof stealthfully. She peered down hearing Naraku cackle with delight.

"Now make her slash his shoulder!" he shouted at Kanna, whom was controlling Sango, Miroku, and Koga with her mirror. Sango's lifeless stare looked toward Miroku as she shattered his right shoulder with her hiraikotsu. Miroku's face dripped with sweat but he didn't mutter the slightest moan of pain. He swiped at Koga with his staff, landing a rough blow to the face with a loud snap, breaking his nose. Koga sprung back up and charged along side Sango as they teamed up against the houshi.

Kagome looked down with a pale face and bit her lip. She tried to shout out but nothing but crude gargling noises came out and she winced in agony. She may be back to life but her vocals haven't healed yet. Kyoko looked up and saw Kagome, her eyes wide with fear.

"She's back from the dead!" she shrieked and backed up slightly. Kagura and Kanna looked up and spied her then looked at Kyoko in disgust. Naraku chuckled some more as Kanna made Miroku, Sango, and Koga stand in a line to stare at the inu hanyou.

"Kyoko you, superstitious imbecile, stop being so cowardly. It's a shame I created you without thinking of that as your fear," he seethed and looked up at Kagome. "Well, well, well she's right. Welcome back to life, Higurashi. And what is this? Your scent is youkai."

Kagome did nothing but glare. She hated him at that moment more than she ever had in her life. She wanted to grab him by the ears and rip his body in half. She wanted to do it slowly so she could hear his echoing screams throughout her ear as she cackled with delight. She wanted to devour him while he sat there groaning in agonizing pain. She wanted to kill him. Kill him. Kill him.

Her blood red eyes flashed in rage as she looked at her friends. Sango's hand was at an awkward angle as well as both her ankles and her jaw was slacking to the side. Miroku's shoulder was hunched over and his knee was bend backward in the wrong direction. Koga's face was completely covered in drying blood from his broken nose and several gashes on his head. His tail wasn't even on his body; it was sliced off and on the other side of the courtyard. Other than that there were only small slices scattered around his body.

Kagome noticed Miroku flinch slightly to the side, his soul trying desperately to fight the power of Kanna's mirror. The hanyou glanced at her opponents and noticed Kyoko was nowhere in sight.

"Kanna, attack the Higurashi girl with her friends. This should prove to be entertaining," Naraku's voice murmured and the little girl nodded. Miroku stopped moving on his own and stood up straight beside his comrades. Kagome attempted to growl but her vocal cords were still severed. She jumped down and faced Naraku with her friends behind her back.

'You are going to die,' she thought as her tail swished back and forth. Naraku smirked fiendishly.

Without her noticing, Miroku and Sango grabbed her by the shoulders. She jumped and jutted forward, getting them off quickly.

'I don't want to fight you,' she said in her mind. 'Stay away please fight it!'

With no response, Koga jumped over the two humans and pummeled down toward the hanyou, aiming for her face. Kagome backed up and Koga landed smoothly on the ground in front of her. Miroku and Sango had run behind her during this and had her hands behind her back.

'STOP THIS!' Kagome shouted inside her head and struggled against their tight hold. Koga charged forward and backed his fist up, slamming it into Kagome's stomach. She flew backward and hit a pillar, sliding to the ground. She held her stomach and attempted sitting up, but slumped back down. 'Naraku knew I was coming back. Koga still has the jewel fragment in his arm,' she thought and breathed in and out quickly. Koga charged again and she rolled over to dodge but ended up at Sango's feet. The demon exterminator slammed her bone boomerang into Kagome's gut, making her gasp and wince in extreme pain.

Miroku grabbed Kagome's feet and held them firm as he dragged her into the middle of the clearing. She sat up and kicked him off, whacking him in the face and stunning him temporarily. He dove back at her and she rolled out of the way again, standing up and still clutching her stomach. Koga rammed into her and knocked her over with Sango swinging her hiraikotsu into the girl. She attempted to scream but still couldn't and landed harshly on the ground, tumbling to a stop. Her youkai energy ran out and she turned back into her hanyou form, forgetting about Naraku for a moment as she tried to catch her breath.

The battlefield was quiet for a second as the dust cleared. Footsteps were heard approaching the fallen girl as Koga, Miroku, and Sango surrounded her. She opened her eyes and looked at all of them. Each had a sorrowful look on their face. Sango was crying. They reached down and picked her up, bringing her over to Naraku.

Setting her down, they backed up and watched the two hanyou. Kagura looked down at them as Naraku smirked wryly.

"You should have stayed dead; what you will endure is a fate worse than death itself," he murmured and rose his hand over her stomach. She blinked at him, fighting back tears. She wouldn't let him have the pleasure of seeing her in pain. She wouldn't let him kill her again.

Naraku's fingertips grew long, pointed claws and he flexed them threateningly. Before she could say anything, he pierced her stomach. She gasped and grabbed onto his arm, trying to get it out of her but it wouldn't budge.

Blood began to trickle from the corners of her tightly closed mouth. She opened it up and coughed up as the blood filled her lungs the second time that day. He smirked in pure bloodlust as the warm liquid splashed his face. He clenched his hand then held it open several times, ripping up the organs inside of her as she continued to cough and sputter. Miroku and Koga began to tear up. Sango couldn't stop crying.

Kagome's eyes began to get bloodshot and the gash from her throat popped open and began to spill out blood. She clenched her hands hard on Naraku's arm; scratching his flesh but that didn't stop him. Her mind raced with thousands of thoughts. Where was Inu Yasha? Is she going to die? What could she do? What could she do?

Kagura looked away from Kagome's body, hiding her stark white face behind her fan. "I think you should stop now," she muttered shakily.

"I don't think she gets it yet," Naraku said with a wild smirk on his face, his eyes wide with excitement and pleasure. Kagome looked away from Naraku's face in disgust and gave a pleading glance to her friends. They just stared with eyes full of tears. Her body jutted back and forth as he shook his hand inside of her stomach, turning her organs into a blended bunch of mush.

Kagome took one final glance at her best friends and breathed out. Her eyes became glazed over as she lay still with the exception of Naraku's movement.

"She's gone, Master Naraku. Stop it," Kagura murmured and looked back at Kagome's lifeless body. Naraku stopped and breathed out in a pleased sigh.

"Such a pity, really," he said, standing up. He wiped his hand on his blood-soaked haori and turned to go inside. He stopped at the door and glanced over at Kanna. "Kill the humans and wolf. I don't need them anymore," he said to her and she nodded.

"NO!" Miroku shouted, standing completely still. Naraku looked back at him and walked, stopping right in front of him. He snatched the katana from Sango's side and held it in front of his face. Miroku's eyes were still under a trance, yet his soul started pouring from the mirror.

"You don't like my decision?" he said and lowered the blade. With a quick movement he slammed it into Miroku's stomach. He kept the same look as blood cascaded from his mouth and dotted the ground. Naraku twisted the sword then pulled it out. He then walked into the mansion and closed the door; his footsteps fading deep within the palace.

Kagura looked at the monk who was still standing there with a stock, placid look. She changed her glance to her sister and turned to go inside. "Let the monk's soul out. Let him die free," she said and disappeared into the castle. Kanna did as she was told and released the houshi's soul. Without knowing it, she let out a small bit of Koga and Sango's soul as well. She walked into the castle to gather herbs for the spell she was to cast to kill Sango and Koga.

Miroku fell to the ground and coughed harshly, his whole body screaming in pain. He looked up at Kagome and crawled up two steps and lay beside her.

"What an awful mix up this all was," he whispered and stroked her silvery bangs from her face. The bits of Sango and Koga's soul hovered over her body and waved over her body. Miroku reached into his robes and pulled out a piece of sutra paper and a calligraphy pen. His hands quivered as he wrote out a spell in kanji.

"Our souls-s-s...into-to her-r-r..." he stuttered out. He took another sutra piece out and wrote again. "Our health-th...in-into her..." he finished. With his last ounce of strength, he slapped the sutras onto Kagome's wound and collapsed.

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