Chapter 14

Authors Note: Wow I'm moving along rather quickly? Right? Right? U.U; well I thought I was, Read and Review

Rin's POV+

Kagome-sama hadn't taken Inuyasha away, she had run away and her companions had run after her. Why? Why hadn't she taken Inuyasha away? And why was his body twitching? He he was on the ground and he looked so utterly helpless and it worries me how Kikyou leans over him. Her eyes are filled with concern and she's holding him almost screaming his name in fear repeatedly.

He looks like he's in terrible pain this person called Inuyasha. He keeps groaning a few seconds ago he was just screaming. I had never seen anything quite like it; in fact I was rather scared. I would never want to suffer such pain.

"Rin, Rin-chan, Please go get Sesshomaru quickly"

I hesitate for a few seconds staring towards Kikyou almost as if she's speaking a different language and then I turn and run off in towards my lord's home. My feet slap the cold floor and it almost leaves a painful sting each time.

"Sesshomaru-sama! Sesshomaru-sama! Sesshomaru-sama!" Each time I screamed his name it came louder then the first and each step I took came much faster then the last. I was running so fast at one point at one point I didn't think my speed was human. Sure enough, he had been running towards me and I had almost ran right past him, he stopped me though with a clawed hand as I rebounded backwards just a bit.

I must have looked a bit confused after that, in fact I felt a bit stunned unsure of what I had been doing, quite honestly. Then it came back at me, his body twitching on the ground in pain, his loud groaning and painful screams.

"Lord Sesshomaru! Inuyasha…he! Kikyou-sama needs you!" I spat out. My eyes felt huge and wide with fear, they felt so dry and so tired. He ran passed me in a quick run speeding down the hall I had just come from. I'm not sure how he looked, he didn't look concerned in fact he actually did look neutral about the whole situation, not only outside but on the inside too, there were no secrets behind his mask…not this time.

I turned around running after him, I knew he'd get there before I was he was probably already there. I ran down the halls and there he was leaning over Kikyou, she was still holding his head in his lap. The twitching had seized but he was still moaning in pain, his breathing was heavier and a bit slower and from where his hands had grasped his neck there were red lines.

They were talking quietly the two of them, I couldn't hear what they were saying but they both looked deadly serious. That…scared me.

Some of the most beautiful things are deadly…

Like Kikyou

Like Sesshomaru

Like…Inuyasha?

For some reason I was really scared looking towards the half demon. I was so sure he was dying lying in Kikyou's lap with the pain he had been in or even how it had happened. Looking at him I feel such relief as in… now's our chance. Now's our chance if he doesn't wake up he'll be fine. Rin was no killer and having these thoughts scared her even more, but she knew somewhere, perhaps you could call it instincts…if humans have instincts….that if Inuyasha had never woken up, that a lot more people would be alive.

You know what the scariest thing of all was? She was right.

End Rin's POV+

Naraku's POV+

(OMFG I CAN"T BELIEVE IM DOING ONE IN HIS POV! EWWW! Oh well it will be short. VERY short.)

A smile grazed my lips as I looked into the cool glass of Kanna's empty mirror. Inuyasha was on the ground and in an incredible amount of pain. He had savored every moment of his blood curling screams to his motionless moans, to the very twitch of his body. He adored his pain with such pleasure he couldn't think of anything more well in life.

Kanna's mirror had sadly cut off shortly after the torture the hanyou had to suffer through. He had seen the majority up until the point Sesshomaru and Kikyou had placed him in one of the beds in Sesshomaru's 'castle'.

To bad I couldn't see what Kikyou had planned to do, he would be fine knowing Inuyasha the hanyou wouldn't have been smart enough to figure out how Naraku had planned to control him. I had just placed him under a spell and I know Inuyasha never be smart enough to figure it out…maybe. Kikyou could and that would be his only precaution that I had to take, that Kikyou DIDN'T find out how to break it, better yet if she didn't find out he was even cursed, spell bound.

"Kanna…the baby…?"

"Hai….Naraku-sama…." Her eyes were black as coal and in a strange way that amused me. She was stuck in a child-like form though she was no child. I couldn't figure out why 'nothing' as Kanna one had taken a child-like form and then when I think about it.

"Children are nothing. They're all nothing. Isn't that right…Kohaku?"

"Hai…Naraku"

His voice is still empty but in his eyes there no longer the eyes of the controlled. They are the eyes of the wounded, the trapped. The boy honestly expects me to believe that he doesn't know that he's remembered everything? He hesitates…yes but he mainly does as told and when he doesn't I'll kill them just as easily as I had killed Hakodoushi and Kagura.

For now…this was enough and when I'd had Kagome's shards the only shards needed…would be the imbeciles Koga's and of course the boy's. I find myself smiling again. It was such a twisted smile.

End Naraku's POV+

(Thank god that wasn't NEARLY short enough)

Kagome's POV+

I should have taken Sango's offer to bathe with me but I couldn't bear for her to see me cry. I felt so pathetic, Inuyasha he had been god only knows what he had been. He was with Kikyou and he almost died because of her AGAIN.

Okay…Well maybe it wasn't directly but…. Kikyou still had stopped the arrow, the arrow that would have put an end to Sesshomaru's rampage for forever. He'd never have killed anymore so what could she possibly be thinking!

Kagome sighed drastically sinking lower into the warm water, and still there's Inuyasha? Why? Why is it at this second am I so…so afraid? It's such a bad feeling.

Flash+

"Inuyasha!" Kikyou screamed her arrow poised towards him as he jumped into the air looking towards her as she called his name out in anguish once more "Inuyasha!"

Flash+

What was that? My hand ultimately presses to my heart it gives off a loud slap sound and it almost burns. My hearts racing so quickly. Why did I see Kikyou shooting Inuyasha just then? It was the past…it was only….

Flash+

"Why…Why again? Why did you make me do this to you again?"

"K-K…."

Flash"

Again? Inuyasha what are you going to say? Kikyou? What about her! What did she do! What is she going to do to you Inuyasha? What is…?

Flash+

"Kagome" His eyes shut tiredly and blood trickles down his mouth. He's not just sealed, he's dead.

Flash+

Kagome? He got us confused again! No… he didn't get me confused with her… he got her confused with me? So what does that mean…Wait a second was that flash…was that person really…?

Flash+

Kikyou's clothes, trembling hands, teary eyes, hair…down.

Flash+

It wasn't Kikyou…It was me. Dear god, what is this? What are these images is this real? What is it trying to tell me? Am I….going to….? No! No I would never….I would never

Flash+

Sango's body, torn and tattered…and bloody. Miroku's body ripped to shreds. Shippo's body…is…is that Shippo's body?

Flash+

No..No!

The sobs came so quick from my throat and the tears so fast, I was hardly aware that I was crying until my head became a throbbing pain and my cheeks were stained with red and my eyes so tired I couldn't keep them open.

How long I had cried there I'm not sure, all I know is that by the time I got out, my hands were so pruned I couldn't bend them and that the sun was no longer in the sky.

Authors Note: do you know how pruned your hands have to be til when u can't bend them? That's along time, anyone ever heard of the Seagull Century? It's a bike ride that you can do that either goes from 100 or 63 miles. Try going 63 miles in the pouring rain (non-stop) I did and my hands were so pruned I thought they'd never move again! EVER! That was last weekend though (10/8/05). Well, hope you like it, love ya everyone review!