A/N: Hey peoples! I'm glad that you liked the last chapter. I know that I haven't updated in a while, but that was because I was on vacation. I rode this new roller coaster at Busch Gardens while I was gone. I think it's called Sheikra or something. Anyway, that has nothing to do with my story, so here's chapter sixteen.

Disclaimer: I keep forgetting to put this here. Hmmm..uh. Anyways, I don't own InuYasha.

Kagome stared at her newborn children with loving eyes. The voice was still plastered in her mind as well as the fear of its words. What would she do if its warning was to be fulfilled? She held the babies closer to her. Now that she had them she didn't know what she would do without them. She hadn't even named them yet. They hadn't had a chance to live. She couldn't let anything happen to them.

"Kagome," Sango said from a corner of the room. "What's wrong? You look really nervous."

Kagome looked toward her friend, putting on a fake smile. "I'm fine, Sango. There's nothing to worry about."

Sango sauntered over to Kagome. "They're so beautiful," she said, admiring the children. "I just can't believe two people from our group are already parents." She paused to ruffle the small strands of hair atop one of the tiny heads. "You're very lucky, Kagome."

"They will soon be mine."

Kagome jerked her eyes away from Sango, timidly glancing around the room for the faintest sign of a source that the voice could have projected from. Fear-enveloped eyes met worried ones as she looked back at Sango.

"Are you sure you're alright?" Sango asked.

Kagome said nothing, as her body began to shake violently. She no longer could feel her own presence. Her eyes darted back and forth, scanning the room for the only thing she could feel was the essence of the very words that haunted her every thought.

"I will take them. I will take them. You can't save them."

"Kagome!" Sango screamed frantically, taking the babies from Kagome's quivering hands. "What's going on?" She hurried toward Miroku, shaking him awake.

He groaned groggily as one of the twins was forced into his arms. "Sango?" His eyes wondered to his fiancé, who was trying to calm Kagome's shaking body. "What's wrong with Kagome?"

Sango forced Kagome's arms to the floor, hoping to lessen the motion. She explained to Miroku the sudden seizure that occurred, while balancing Kagome's son in her arm. "I don't know what else to do," she cried out. "Kagome could die." She tightened her grip on her friend.

Miroku tried to comfort her. "Nothing will happen to Kagome, and if by chance something does, you can't blame yourself."

"For what?"

The couple turned to see Koga staring at them with curious eyes. It was the first time he had spoken since they entered the castle. Shippo, Hakaku and Ginta were standing behind him, clearly drowned in lassitude from their lack of sleep.

"Kagome just started having some kind of seizure," Miroku explained to the group as Sango sobbed quietly behind him, unbeknownst to the fact that Kagome's heart beat was slowly decreasing.

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InuYasha searched continuously through the castle, unable to find a trace of Naraku. He sniffed the air frenetically. 'His scent has completely disappeared! Maybe that means he's abandoned the castle,' his mind rationalized. 'Either that, or this is another one of his tricks.'

InuYasha's eyes suddenly averted to his arms. 'What the hell?' he asked himself as they started shaking. 'I can't stop them from moving.' His breathing increased rapidly, his knees collapsing under him. 'I don't even feel alive anymore, but I have to save Kagome. I can't let her disappear.' His despair transformed into determination. He slowly began to regain strength in his body and was able to stand up. He took a step forward, almost losing his balance under still weak legs.

"Naraku! Come out you coward!" InuYasha yelled into the abyss of the hallway, not knowing what else he could do. He had been in every room, every corridor. There was still no sign of Naraku or Kikyo.

"You're wasting your breath, InuYasha," a voice spoke from behind him. "Naraku has left. I told you that I had already won, and that there was nothing more you could do."

InuYasha glared at the figure behind him. "Kikyo," he addressed her under his breath. "What do you have against us anyway?" He was staring at her with an intensity that rarely flickered across his eyes. "Kagome didn't do anything to you. Why bring her into this?"

Kikyo smirked. "I cannot possibly bear no ill will towards her because, you see, she has what I want."

"Is that what this is all about? Envy? Is it one of those, 'I can't have it, so no else can,' things? That's not a motive, that's greed, Kikyo. If you think I'm going to just stand here and watch you torture Kagome like this, then you're sadly mistaken."

Kikyo let out a soft laugh. "So you really have chosen her, then?" she said. "You will suffer for your mistake."

"Nothing Kagome and I ever did was a mistake," InuYasha countered. "I realize that now, so I have nothing to suffer for." (A/N: Just to clue you in, think back to the beginning of the story. That will help you understand the significance of what he just said, if you don't already. I know most of you probably get it, but there are slow people out there.)

"Don't act so insolent, InuYasha," Kikyo sneered. "Kagome's life now rests in my hands." Her body faded away from his view, but her words seemed to echo in his mind.

"I should have just killed her," InuYasha said to himself. "I have to get back to Kagome before anything happens to her." He headed back to the room where she lay slowly vanishing from the physical world.

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"Do you think she'll be ok?" Shippo asked, standing over Kagome's still body.

"Yes, I'm sure she will," Sango assured him, secretly hoping his innocent wish would come to pass, avid to the very idea. Her eyes moved toward the door as InuYasha came running in breathing harshly.

"Is Kagome alright," he questioned immediately, rushing to her side.

"She was fine a while ago," Sango explained. "Then she just started to shake, and she wouldn't stop. We did our best to stop it, but now she's unconscious."

InuYasha grasped Kagome's hand, leaning his head against her chest. He reminisced, realizing that he had the same event occur to him moments ago. His head abruptly jerked up. "I can't feel her heart beating," he said, urgently looking toward the group.

"What do you mean?" Miroku asked, quickly eyeing his friends.

InuYasha leaned his head down again. "She has no pulse! Kagome, you can't die on me now! Come back!" He could feel tears beginning to form in his eyes, but he didn't care. "Please don't die," he pleaded. "I need you with me!"

Kagome's eyes fluttered open. "InuYasha," she whispered.

That was the last time she saw him.

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"Then what happened, Daddy?" a young boy who looked no more than four asked, his two black dog-ears swiveling absentmindedly.

"Tell us, Daddy," a girl with silver hair, who was pushing her brother aside, chirped. "I want to know what happened to the lady."

InuYasha looked at his two children honestly. "I don't know."

A/N: Muahahahahahahaha! That's right, the first sixteen chapters were just the prologue! Now, the real story will ensue. I know I'm evil! Vacation does that to me! Don't worry the story will not be ending anytime soon. As long as I get my reviews! YOU BETTER REVIEW! Lol! Ok, I done being scary.