Inuyasha closed his eyes; he didn't want to feel pain anymore. He wanted nothingness; for once he envied Naraku's daughter Kanna. She felt no emotional pain and she couldn't react to physical pain. She had complete peace. A soft, cooling light reached the bleeding hanyou.
"Inuyasha, Inuyasha, wake up."
Inuyasha ignored the voice talking to him. The woman in front of him was getting very ticked off. She took a deep breath to calm herself down. Then she took an arrow out of her quiver and shot it at one of the chains effective breaking the chain. Inuyasha jolted up from the shock the Miko's power gave him.
"Kikyo? But… Naraku…how?" Inuyasha stammered. Kikyo giggled.
"Inuyasha, I am neither damned nor blessed. I am death. My boss wants to talk with you."
Inuyasha just nodded at that point. What else did have to lose?
"Kikyo? Exactly how did you become death?"
"I took the souls of deceased women when I was resurrected and guided them to peaceful places while they energized my clay body." Kikyo answered.
Inuyasha just nodded, he was in too much agony to do anything else. Kikyo laid out her hand for him to take. He slowly reached out to her and she pulled him up wrapping her arms around him so he wouldn't fall. Then she surrounded them both with a soft blue flame.
Inuyasha didn't know what was happening he would have panicked if Kikyo didn't look so calm and happy. Then Inuyasha realized something, Kikyo was actually happy for the first time in fifty years. Whatever happened was a good thing for her. Then they stopped. It was dark and….they were in Kagome's living room!
"Kikyo but…why…I mean" Kikyo put her finger on his lips.
"My boss was to busy to talk with you so I went ahead and just gave you your life back, he'll just have to wait a few centuries but it doesn't matter to him. I must be going now," before she walked away she turned to Inuyasha. "It's ok to love someone else besides me, make Kagome happy. You've already given her enough heartbreak." Then Kikyo vanished completely.
Inuyasha stood there for a few minutes, trying to grasp what happened. Kikyo had told him she had given him his life back, which meant he had a body again.
"I did not expect that. Thanks Kikyo, I owe you one."
Then a voice came strait from the air.
"Call it a late Christmas present."
Inuyasha walked quietly up the stairs so he didn't wake anyone up. Slowly he opened Kagome's door and laid down next to her underneath the covers.
"I will never hurt you again Kagome." He whispered in her ear as he wrapped his arms around her waist. Boy, was she in for a surprise when she woke up.