Chapter 17

Authors Note+sigh+ I didn't get flames but they weren't exactly…positive reviews. Guys, I said that was the turning point and you don't even wait to see what was going on with Inuyasha. And you're so bad at finding foreshadowing.

'But then it wasn't clear any longer, I flicked into my insanity and I stayed there, that's the last thing I remember.'

What does that sound like to you? What Inuyasha character from the series? Keep that in mind as you read this chapter please. +sigh+ I do thank you for not flaming me and bashing the hell out of me, just remember my intentions ARE noble. Sometimes you just have to wait for them. Now on with the story.

Sesshomaru stood there in complete and almost utter shock, the ten year old girl looked like a rag doll drenched in blood, tattered and torn. His eyes were scarlet and his claws beared, if Rin were in her conscious she would have been frightened by her lord if not terrified. A loud growl rose in his throat and was growing into a bone shattering roar.

"Inuyasha!"

Kikyou stared in disbelief her brown eyes filled with unshed tears. A nightmare of her childhood had happened to someone as dear to her as her own sister. The fear the little girl must have felt was impossible to imagine. And then there was that sense of over powering guilt, because even after all that, she didn't want to believe it was Inuyasha. She didn't want Inuyasha to die, but she DID want Inuyasha to be punished.

All common sense had shed from everyone's mind. If they had took the time to think about it, they would have remembered the curse, and then they would have known it was a little more then just a demon Inuyasha.

"Sesshomaru"

"I'm going to kill him."

"What!"

"I just wanted you to know. I'm going to spill his blood just like he tore Rin's virginity from her. He's going to drown in his own blood"

Kikyou looked to the side, what could she do? For once in her life she had no idea what to do in a situation such as this, it had never even crossed her mind that she could get into a situation like this. She knelt by Rin's body, picking the child up in her arms.

"The first thing we should do is tend to Rin, before you spill anybody's blood"

"No, you do it" His eyes were becoming more red, like every ounce of control the demon lord had had disappeared.

"She'll want to see you"

"…Not anymore"

"Why don't you think so? She loves you!"

"She doesn't speak anymore."

"What?"

Sesshomaru paused looking down towards Rin in Kikyou's arms and his eyes seem to flash golden, in and out of his rage cupping the girls cheek, then looking up towards Kikyou.

"When I came…running in, she was on the ground…she was trying to sit up and when I called to her…she…she smiled." His hands were shaking now as he looked up towards Kikyou almost with a begging need of support. "She smiled and she mouthed 'You came'" She didn't say it and she didn't think I'd come"

"You didn't come tried your best" Kikyou whispered silently.

"No…I'd notice if it wasn't for you for the other things on my mind" Sesshomaru said calmly, he couldn't face the miko.

"We don't have time to blame our self, let's go take care of Rin"

"No…I'm going after him…I have myself under control and that's all I needed…thank you."

"But! …for what?"

"I won't be able to enjoy his pain if I'm insane"

"Sesshomaru do you…could it really be him? It's not like Inuyasha to…ever be like this, I mean never could he have, he just doesn't!"

"He's not the man you knew 50 years ago. I wouldn't not kill him even if you begged me not too."

Sesshomaru left then walking calmly, but his footsteps were hard and forceful. Kikyou watched holding the girl walking to the bath house to clean Rin up….

With Inuyasha+

"What happened to me?" He screamed hitting the water, his fist slapping so hard it left cuts on knuckles, and there were tears in his eyes.

'I don't remember anything' Inuyasha thought to himself, 'I was undressed and on top of …that girl. I raped her…? WHY?'

He hit the water again in a fierce rapidity; looking down to his reflection he saw it. He saw a monster, his hair was mangled in blood, and his entire body was stained in it and besides the fresh cuts on his hands the blood wasn't his own. He reeked of blood of thousands of different demons. It made him sick.

"It's nice isn't it Inuyasha?"

"Go away!" Inuyasha said loudly screaming towards the voice.

"Who are you talking to Inuyasha? I'm in your head."

"Naraku?"

"That's right, aren't we a genius for a hanyou?"

"You…you did this?" Inuyasha's voice seemed to tremble with relief and horror, the terror of Naraku being so close and not being able to touch, Naraku being so close and able to touch him. To breathe in and exhale his every thought.

"Now don't get me wrong Inuyasha…this was your doing indeed….with my help of course"

"What did you do to me! Get the fuck out of my head!"

"Now settle down hanyou…it's just a curse. You turned a demon on your own, your demon form wanted to kill Sesshomaru and with that wish the curse took into play. It made it so that Sesshomaru would suffer and you would have your revenge, but in order to keep your filthy hanyou heart out of the way, you were shut far far away. Like Onigumo pursay? "

"I'm like…you?" Inuyasha whispered out loud. 'Oh Buddha, I can't be like him…this has to be a mistake….this has to be his doing….'

"No Inuyasha no mistake at all, your more like me then you ever could imagine. And no matter what you do, that little girl will be haunted by you every night and you will always remember that you too lost your virginity to a 10 year old child, even if it wasn't your fault. YOU still did it and I don't' think Sesshomaru will care if it was you or not…do you?"

"You're wrong!" Inuyasha said rising to a stand then, shutting his eyes and looking towards the ground his hands clenching into trembling fists, "You're wrong! YOU did this? You did ALL of this!"

"Inuyasha…who are you….talking too?"

He turned sharply as he stared towards the girl from the future. "Kagome… what are you doing so far from camp? It's late"

"I had a dream…when you didn't come home tonight…I dreamed that you….you turned into a demon Inuyasha and you…you never changed back"

"Kagome…" his voice was a bitter hurt whisper, looking to the ground and he felt Kagome's hands wrap around his waste.

"I was so afraid Inuyasha…I was so afraid you'd never come home again" Kagome said bearing her head into his chest, tears rolling down her cheeks in a steady stream. His eyes widened in such pain and fear, he had to grip Kagome tighter to hide his trembling his hands. His strong hands that embraced her so tightly.

'In the end…I wasn't even loyal to YOU Kagome…' He shut his eyes so tightly that it hurt, because the tears the brimmed behind his eyelids would pour if he dared open them.

"Inuyasha…did you…with Kikyou?" her voice was a whisper and he pulled back slowly, squinching his eyes and then slowly opening them.

"Did I what?" He said returning the whisper.

"Did you decide to…be with Kikyou again?"

"No…Why?" He said quietly, his voice a bit hesitant.

"Because if you did…I just wanted to say congratulations" Kagome said staring towards him, her brown eyes shining as bright as her smile. She looked gorgeous. "Even if I do love you, you'd be happy and I thought about it and…Inuyasha? That's all I've ever really wanted. I'll always be jealous; I understand that but…no matter how jealous I am…I want you to be happy." Kagome smiled towards him, her hair pillowing over her face and her cheeks dusted red with embarrassment. "That's all I wanted to say"

He broke suddenly, his heart screaming in pain as he grasped for it, almost crying. "Kagome!"

"You don't have time for this Inuyasha" Sesshomaru's voice echoed in a deathly cold tone that made Inuyasha flinch and Kagome shiver.

"Sesshomaru! What are you doing here?" She said boldly and when Inuyasha didn't say anything, she wondered if Inuyasha already knew.

"Sesshomaru…" Inuyasha's voice seemed to tremble a bit, "It was Naraku"

"It doesn't matter who did it Inuyasha. You were to pay from the beginning and so your time will just come a little sooner then I intended it" His voice was calm but in his golden eyes there was a world of hurt…a world of unimaginable hate. His voice seemed to drop then to a low whisper his bangs covering his eyes. "I'll never forgive you."

Inuyasha turned his head in shame, his hair blowing to the side. "I understand"

Sesshomaru looked up towards him disgust in his eyes. "Prepare to die Inuyasha"

Naraku's POV+

It was decided then, my plan worked perfectly even more beautiful then I thought. Inuyasha had tortured Sesshomaru in a way I had never dreamed of. Sesshomaru will do the dirty work for me and kill Inuyasha leaving Kagome unguarded.

"You bastard! What are you planning on doing to Kagome?"

"Be quiet you mutt"

I smiled as I watched the wolf demon twist and squirm in pain, he was truly nothing without the shikon shards in his legs, poor Kouga and he had intended to come into my fortress and destroy me single handedly? Oh yes, emotions were the cause of acting irrationally. I smiled looking towards Kohaku in the corner. He is on his knee the chain sickle poised amongst his knee, his head bowed down. The boy will be the last shard that's left once I retrieve Kagome's few. I can't help but to think how the slayers face will twist as the memories pour into her brother and the life is sucked out of him. Kohaku is a difficult boy to read, I can't tell if he truly recalls his hideous deeds or not but I suppose it doesn't matter for surely it will come soon.

"Kanna?"

"Hai…Naraku-sama?"

"You and Kohaku are dismissed; please make sure the baby is secure."

"Hai Naraku-sama…"

Her feet pads against the floor like nothing. Kanna was indeed one of my smarter reincarnations. Totally loyal, not disobedient at all and smart enough to accomplish the assignment given to her. Indeed she was a smart move as well as Kohaku. How many times have I had the slayer betray her companions? Each time it was bitterer and too delicious to pass up.

I stared towards Kouga in a sort of amusement to watch the blood run down his face, rattling his chains to the point where he was just hanging there limp. I walked over towards him calmly grabbing his pony tail and twisting it into one huge knot, forcing his face towards mine.

"Dead already?"

He grunted by closeness, his eyes looked tired and sweat poured down his face in endless droplets of water.

"Is it painful to know 'your women' is perhaps going to die? Or is it painful to know she's going to die because of the man she loves? Do you think why couldn't she have loved that way it would never have happened?"

"Kagome doesn't love that dog shit! And even if she did, Inuyasha wouldn't lay a hand on her! Even he can beat some damn curse put on by you!"

I smiled towards him slightly, slowly pulling his hair out and letting the sweaty mess fall over his shoulders.

"My dear Kouga, why fight it? Kagome doesn't have the heart to kill Inuyasha like Kikyou did, she will surely die and you…will watch every minute of it, and with that…..I will have the entire jewel."

"What do you plan to do?" He looked away in defeat as if he didn't know. But I knew he knew, everybody knew what was going to happen, they knew once I had the jewel, no one could stop me. All the lives I've taken, all the people I've deceived, all the puppets, and counter parts have made, no one will be able to stop me. Not even Kikyou.

The baby will die, my human heart will seize to exist and Kikyou as promised you will be the first I kill, you and that cracked body of yours…

"Not telling you will allow your body to toss and turn in your grave."

Kouga growled.

With Rin and Kikyou+

"Rin-chan…" Kikyou whispered quietly in a hurt voice, what could she do? This child…the tears welled up into her eyes and realization had hit her like a cold slap. It was Inuyasha; it had been Naraku's curse. Inuyasha was still in deep control of it, and it wasn't broken yet. Dear god, more people will die and the next one on the list is to be Kagome. Someone's going to kill Kagome and Naraku plans to make Kagome die will the same feelings of hate…he's trying to repeat the same process some how and Sesshomaru….

Rin was asleep in the bed a fresh youkata, eyes closed she looked peaceful, she looked dead. Her eyes slowly fluttered by Kikyou's faint voice as she stared up towards her weakly and Kikyou felt herself breaking and their was a sudden recalling of Kohaku. The slayers brother she believed, he was a teenager now wasn't he? Rin was 10 so he must be…what? 16! Had it been that long? Had they failed that many times?

"Can you…speak Rin-chan?" Kikyou's voice had come out shakier then she had intended it too. Rin seemed to only stare blankly and then look to the side. She shook her head.

Kikyou fell to her knees at the child's bedside, bearing her head in her lap. She began to cry, hating Naraku, hating Inuyasha, hating Sesshomaru, hating herself. She had changed so much, and this girl, this one child if she had only been better if she could only get rid of her emotions she would be…just like Naraku. She almost screamed at the thought, crying into Rin's lap as the small child placed a hand on her head gently. There were tears in her eyes as well.

The two hugged each other for what seemed like an eternity, lying in each other's arms until they felt that almost comforted feeling.

"…You cried for me"

"Rin-chan…?"

"I was…so afraid Kikyou-sama…he didn't stop…he wouldn't stop…he wasn't Inuyasha…he was…he was" Rin's sobs began again placing a hand to her mouth, trying to stop them from trembling.

Kikyou looked towards her cupping her cheek, "I don't know what to do…I just don't know"

"Stop him Kikyou-sama"

"…Inuyasha?"

"Naraku."

"Yes, I'm worried about Sesshomaru-sama…and Kohaku-kun"

"Kohaku…kun? Rin are you fond of this boy?"

"He knows you Kikyou-sama, he respects you very much. He told me one day soon he was going to die…he told me…he wasn't going off to his death…he told me he was going to defeat Naraku."

Kikyou looked down in vast disappointment, 'The right thing to do is to save Kohaku's soul…but….we need his shard….'

"Would you…not tell Kohaku" Rin said quietly "What Inuyasha did…if you see him"

"Rin…chan…"

"I can't hate Inuyasha…I just can't bring myself too… I'm scared very scared of him. But, thinking about it, I remember everything he did….everything I did…I feel terrified and it's hard to talk…to even breathe. But…I just can't hate him Kikyou-sama…I just can't!"

Kikyou slept restlessly that night, thinking about it she realized that they were all older now, and time was slipping away. Rin was growing, Kohaku was growing, Inuyasha and his companions, Sesshomaru and she were all…growing older. And at a point she knew they would die, and that feeling of being dead again was scary and it was even scarier if she they were to be brought back to a world where Naraku ruled, every human was dead, everything was Naraku's.

Meanwhile…Inuyasha and Sesshomaru fought, and somewhere in her subconscious, she wondered who was winning and would Sesshomaru be home in the morning?

Authors Note: hahahahaha o Better guys? See it was planned from the start at least that chapter. The next chapter will be pretty interesting; we have some Kikyou and Sesshomaru stuff coming up so keep your eyes pealed!