Chapter Ten: Can't Tell Your Heart Who to Love

Hey loyal fans to the Fanfic Can't Tell Your Heart Who to Love. This is what you've people have all been waiting for all these ten chapters. The dramatic conclusion to CTYHWL, the chapter that will finally answer all you guys' question: whom does Kagome truly love? Well you people will find out in this chapter! For this is the ending Chapter to: Can't Tell Your Heart Who to Love.

Recap:

Inuyasha lay exhausted on the floor, chest heaving. With both the hanyou and wolf prince incapacitated, Naraku who was waiting for the prince and hanyou to leave the helpless Miko's side: attack just at the moment of impotence. Naraku ran to the sickened Miko, grabbed her by the waist and took flight.

Kouga only now gaining his sight, caught a glimpse of Naraku carrying away his beloved away on an invisible track to most likely an abandoned castle. Inuyasha extremely exhausted caught Naraku's visual as he took a moment to look to that part of the sky. Both ran after him. Kouga's jewel shards weren't reacting correctly, forcing him to run along side the distracted hanyou.

The blowing whipped at Kouga's bare chest, creating airdrag. The forceful wind pushed Inuyasha's arms back, the wind tearing at his face. At the current speed that both the men ran was extreme, the pressure was so immense it forced back the loose flesh from their bodies. The frigid air struck the runners. The cold breeze made the half-naked Prince shiver.

Kouga screeched to a halting stop, engraving his foots' trails in the cracked surface of a plateau. He coughed with the dusted occupied atmosphere. Inuyasha landed to the floor roughly, crushing the rocks around his feet. "So do you smell them?" The hanyou asked with anxiety, waiting for chance to beat the crap out of Naraku. "Yes, this direction!" He pointed to the north before he sped down the plateau. "Okay!" Inuyasha leaped after the departed Kouga.

Again the wind tore at the hanyou and demon's bodies, whipping them in place where there was open flesh. The harsh breeze stung his face in the various cuts and nips. Still even with the pain he continued to run as fast as his demon legs would take him, not nearly fast enough for him. Kouga leaped across a lake, he didn't have enough speed when he tried to accomplish the impossible. Thus, he crashed into the liquid surface of it. Unfortunately with the water absorbing fabric of his the jeans he wore currently, he ran slower than he had previously. He jogged till the frigid air pressure had partly dried the water soaked jeans. He sped on.

Finally after miles of running both arrived at a desolated castle that reeked of Naraku. Along with that Kagome's scent drifted in once in awhile. Inuyasha was to first to attempt to break through the barrier, unarmed of course. He slammed it with his shoulder and as an obvious result the strength of the barrier pounded back with added force, throwing the oblivious hanyou.

"DAMNIT!" Kouga cussed. "We can't break through!" He punched himself in his armor covered chest. "That's what you think..." Inuyasha smirked, unsheathing the most powerful Tetsusigia. With all his demon strength he forced the Tetsusigia to transform to the proclaimed Red Tetsusigia, famous for it's barrier breaking ability. Inuyasha thrusted it forwards, pointed directly at the barrier. He raised it back, the deathly sharp point nimbly touching the earthy surface.

With in an instance Inuyasha had stuck the powerful barrier, diminishing it with Red Tetsusigia's barrier breaking power. "There!" Inuyasha stepped through the open, welcoming door of the void castle. Kouga soon followed.

They toured themself around, glancing at every corridor till the one that reeked of Naraku's fresh scent was found. They walked in the cramped quarters, their shoulders brushing against the stone walls. Spider webs Extended over the blanch corners of the castle's walls, giving it that horror movie look. Kouga peered around the cramped corridor, skeletons of fallen men lined the ways. Even after death the men still shackled along with a blade by side, covered in crusty dry crimson blood. Fear crept up Inuyasha and Kouga's spine, tingling them, embracing them tightly so that they might turn away and forget all about Kagome..

As they approached the near by last chamber, the sound of their feet knocking against disengaged bones, the wolf Prince caught a glimpse of a waterbowl. A large crucifix was from which it hanged. Finally! Kouga though. The stinging wrath of his eyes would finally be washed out by the clear, limpid water. He rushed to the hazy figure of the waterbowl. He thought nothing about the crucifix hanging over it, he just thought it was a decoration. He was wrong. Just as he dipped his middle finger and index finger in the limpid water, a sizzle and smoke came from the water. He jolted his hand back at the burning sensation. "Holy water?" The prince said out loud to himself. "What would Naraku be doing with holy water?" There was now time for such questions, now was the time for battle. Now was the time. Even so the two persisted on, as they approached the last chamber anxiety, fear, and passion for the battle soon to come inhabited their hearts. They were ready for anything, so they thought...

Inuyasha barged into the room, Naraku sat upon a chair, an unconscious Kagome in his arms' embrace. He sat awaiting their arrive. "Finally!" Naraku arose, Kagome fell like a drifting leave by his side. "Now, it wouldn't be fair to fight two against one, now would it!" His hand reached for a adjacent blade as the wolf Prince arrived. The demon Naraku dispersed a paralyzing spell over the over anxious Prince. "Kagome..." kouga called out through clenched teeth and a frozen jaw. A impaired arm reached to the unconscious Kagome, no notion from her unconscious form.

"KOUGA!" Inuyasha ignored his rival, bad mistake. Naraku clutched the hilt of his blade, airborne he forced the blade through the hanyou's abdomen. Blood gushed from the life-taking wound. "You see!" He licked the crimson fluid from his lips and face. "You are just another sin against nature!" Naraku crushed Inuyasha's ribs with a haymaker shot. Forcing him to bend over, falling to his knees in the unendurable pain enveloping his venter. "What do you mean!" He asked, clutching his crushed ribs. "You are a sin against nature!" He licked hanyou's blood clear from his precious blade. "You were born between a human and a Dog demon. Two creatures that were meant to tear each other apart, that was God's will!" He lectured to the pain ridden Inuyasha, knees still upon the floor.

"You're parents went against God's will, Demon aren't suppose to love and be friends with humans. No, it's quite the opposite. Demons kill humans and humans obey their demon lords or attempt to overrule them by destroying them with special groups of humans. Such as Demon Slayers and Ninjas occasionally... That was God's will. When you're mother gave birth to you, she committed the greatest sin against God. She went against nature, the greatest sin." He pounded Inuyasha's back with a bony elbow, thrusting the hanyou back down to the floor. " I wouldn't be talking if I was you!"

"Hmm, yes just like you I myself am a hanyou!" He sighed heavily, the tepid currant of his breath hit the furious hanyou on his face. "You see that's way I need that miko's life force and the Shikon-no-Tama," He raised the blade of his face, touching it lightsomely with the nimble tips of his velvety fingers. With the slightest touch, a slender stream of crimson blood flowed from a slender cut. "I need the jewel to purify myself and I need the Miko's life force combined with Shikon jewel to purify this tainted Earth."

"YOU'RE CRAZY!" Inuyasha rose, jabbing him in the side with the hilt of Tetsusigia. "So hanyous like you won't taint this beautiful Planet." Naraku continued, even with the hilt thrusted into his body's side. "I will rid this world of halves and substitute it with Pure breeds! Making it Perfect! That is God's will!" He shouted up to the heavens, like a insane man. "I will make this place perfect!"

"Naraku you're crazy!" Inuyasha charged at Naraku with Tetsusigia in hand, he side swept the blade. The demon sword's blade didn't become defiled with Naraku's youkai blood, no instead Naraku held the blade in his boisterous palm. "No I'm not!" His blood boiled, with all his demon strength he thrust the blade back. "I am a visionary. I see the world as it should be, pure!"

The Prince still paralyzed with the magic, heard every word the demon spoke. Instantly came the words of the fallen Miko. 'Pure is unpure, unpure is pure.' Now and only now did he realize the meaning of the words before him. Naraku a half-demon wish to purify himself by becoming a demon, a creature that in the bible was known despicable and dishonored. But even so Naraku spoke of purify the world by ridding it of halves. Attempting to only leave it with demons, a creature that wasn't pure in the least bit of ways. Even so he spoke it as God's will that humans un-inhabit this Earth and that only demons remain. "Pure is unpure..." His frozen lips caused him to stop. "And unpure is pure!" His frame bonded frozen, the magic reacted forcefully to his lips' movements.

"What did you say!" Naraku clutched the full demon prince by the shoulders thrusting him back and forth. "He said Pure is unpure and unpure is pure!" Inuyasha attacked with windscar to Naraku's turned back. "Windscar!" Immedatly at the hearing of this Naraku turned to the attacking hanyou, with a reflection gesture. He tripled the Windscar's strength and sent if fly back at the airborne hanyou. "HERE, HAVE A TASTE OF YOUR WINDSCAR!" The wave of energy hit the perturbed Inuyasha right on. He flew back; in his faintness he granted the fully transformed Tetsusigia to fly free from his hands. Inuyasha crashed into the granite flooring, leaving a trail of damaged rubble and coursing blood as he slid harshly against the flooring.

Unexpectedly Tetsusigia, still fully transformed and fully powered, lunged into Inuyasha's already injured abdomen, blood flew. It splatted against the walls and dripping it's way of out of the hole in his venter which Tetsusigia had caused. As he spit blood that had pocketed in his mouth, Tetsusigia untransformed and fell out of the wound, laying bloodstained and unprotected by the near-death hanyou. Anger formed in the paused Prince's heart, Inuyasha had fallen with out even a fight. HOW COULD HE! Kouga roared internally. HOW DARE HE! IS HE JUST GONNA LET KAGOME DIE WITHOUT EVEN A FIGHT! I WILL NOT FALL WITHOUT DEFEATING NARAKU FIRST! Kouga promised himself. I WILL NOT! IF NOT FOR MYSELF THAN FOR KAGOME! The Prince's ire finally allowed him to brake free from the paralyzing spell, ready to take Naraku on.

Kouga ran for him, claws bearing and speed maximized. With every ounce of blood pounding in his bleeding heart, he attacked. Naraku stopped him dead in his track when he attempted to gain air, his claws embedded in his tender neck. Trapped blood flowed free from the cuts. Along with the equal amount of ferocity he forced Kouga back. Kouga slammed against the wall hard and painfully, chipped rubble knocked against his ringing head. This pain was nothing, he charged once more, Naraku biffed him with a haymaker. Flying him back to the wall, this time his body's fame engraved in the eternal rock wall. Bigger rocks thumped him on the skull, still he stood, like the stupid idiot he was. Blood poured from the multiple busts on his skull, dripped from his nasale passageway and flowed from his partly open mouth. Staining his glossy fangs in the process. "Fool," Naraku laughed at his pitiful attempts. "You can't defeat me!" Naraku grabbed him by the shoulders, with all his strength he thrashed Kouga's injured body against the wall. Allowing a rockfall to occur, Kouga still alive was buried in the descending rocks. "Ha, ha, ha," Naraku laughed maniacally with the so thought defeat of the wolf Prince and near-dead hanyou.

"I will purify this world!" He shouted to himself, rather than to the so though dead rivals.

"YOU'RE CRAZY! YOU KNOW THAT!" The undead Prince exploded from the death bringing rockpile. In the swiftest movement he thrashed forth, his claws bared and teeth shining. Naraku surprised by the sudden attack drove a demonic forced arm into Kouga's chest cavity. "Uhh!" His chanting call was dry and dry with pain, blood swarmed from the wound. Like a waterfall the lambent blood cascaded out of his chest. "..." He splatted pooled blood from his mouth, it gushed over his lips, intoxicating his hair with the thermal blood. His hair pushed against the nape of his neck, flying like a raven's wings around his head and neck. Now Naraku was sure that he had defeated both, Inuyasha lay on side bleeding almost to death. And Kouga now rammed against on of the castles crooks, sitting still, hands blood stained and trembling held the still blood steaming waterfall that was the wound to his chest.

Naraku, confidently paced to the unconscious Kagome, still laying like a fallen autumn leaf. "Kagome, awake..." His voice wasn't forceful in any way, almost silent, like it was trying to fall upon death ears. Neither the less, she awake from the induced sleep. In her hasty awaking her blind eyes visualized the blood immersed before. Not a second after her eyes came upon fallen copse of her comrades, submerged in fresh blood from head to toe. Completely Submerged in it...

She didn't know which to run to first, which one to grasp in her arms even though death had claimed both. She didn't dare step forward in anyway direction, she couldn't, she wouldn't.

"Well Kagome, as I am informed of you have been practicing a healing power." At the hearing of there's words she know what she was about to be told and she didn't want to hear the words was to be told. She didn't want to hear it, in her heart she pleaded for the ability to blockout Naraku's malevolent voice. The ability didn't come...

"I have gave you the power, the ability to heal the dead!" He laughed, Kagome did as well. "The only catch is that you can only heal one," His fingers pointed back and forth from the Hanyou and Prince. "Only one!" Naraku laughed, clutching his sides in the process.

Only one? Kagome jolted back and forth, trying to decided which to choose. Even memory since the first day she had laid eyes upon Inuyasha, the day Kouga had kidnaped her and said those magical words: "I love you!" But the most vivid of the memories was those of just a week ago. The words spoken, the dramatic scenes. Some of them being: "Kagome, if I'm not there for you in your time of need, how will I expect you to be there when I need comfort." Kouga's comforting words. "But... I though you loved me!" Inuyasha's unbelievable words. "No one will ever bother you to . . . no one." The Prince's words echoed. And finally Inuyasha's lustful words,"I SHALL MAKE YOU MINE!"

Every word, every passionate word came to mind. And now she had to choose between them. Who to choose, who to choose, who to choose? The question echoed in her subconscious, breaking her concentration. Who to choose? Both the miko and the despicable Naraku asked themself the same question. Who to choose?

In an instance, she decided, the one who she truly loved was... was... Kagome sprinted towards her love, still clutching the wound to his chest. She dived onto him, his body still cornered. Her hand's massaged her lover's wound, tenderly and accordingly. The only way she had ever know to bring someone back to life was mouth to mouth. From her class as a lifeguard, she gave her Prince the kiss of life. Kagome gave Kouga the Prince of Wolves the kiss of life. "Ahh.." Kouga breathe for the first time in his resurrection. "So he lives! I almost thought you were dead!" Kagome embraced her resurrected Prince. In the way she held him he could tell that she embrace him so tightly in the because she feared that she lose him once more. That from this day, was her greatest fear.

"GOOD CHOICE, KAGOME!" After saying these proclaimed words Naraku diminished, not a trail left, not even a scent. "GOOD CHOICE, KAGOME!" The words echoed throughout the stone realm, as if leaving a reminder of his presence. Kagome finally undistracted rushed to the collapsed hanyou, dead or nearly dead. "Inuyasha!" She screamed into his dog ears. "INUYASHA! WAKE UP!" She screamed even louder into his sensitive dog-ears. Inuyasha awake, golden eyes shining, brimmed with limpid tears. With blood stained fingers he combed her raven hair, embedding his claws in the forest of her hair. She knew exactly what he was thinking, she was as well, and Kouga alone by himself watching over her, was thinking the exact same words.

The thought was, "I guess you really Can't Tell Your Heart Who To Love..."

I'd like to say they all lived happily after but I would by lie now wouldn't I...

THE END

Okay dramatic right! OMG that was a long chapter. I hope you guy have enjoyed the story, May God bless you all and may you read craptastic stories that don't have as many cliffhangers as mine! Peace out my hommies!

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Author: Krystal Cardona: Kc

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