Never Again Chapter 10

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"What are we going to do?" Miroku asked.

"Well, I'm supposed to meet InuYasha tomorrow and tell him whether or not I'll be giving him the jewel shards and everything. So I guess we'll just have to wait until then. Besides, I'm too tired and shocked to do anything right now." Kagome said. Miroku nodded showing that he understood.

"Let's go down to dinner. We can tell the spirit detectives this then." Sango said. Kagome and Miroku nodded in agreement and the three of them walked down to dinner. Kagome didn't eat much, she didn't really feel hungry. Dinner was ramen. "InuYasha's favorite." Kagome thought. She thought about InuYasha. He hadn't really meant any of the horrible things he said. He only did it out of love. That was so sweet. But now he was possessed by Naraku. What were they going to do? He was a powerful fighter and although Kagome didn't doubt the abilities of the spirit detectives, she knew that they would probably have to go through InuYasha before they could get to Naraku. Then the image of a certain short fire demon popped into her head. "Hiei..." Kagome thought. "He's so much like InuYasha. But yet so different. Maybe I should be with him instead." Kagome shook her head to clear it of those thoughts. She had vowed to never fall in love again. The vow didn't mean that she had to be cold and freeze her heart to keep from caring about anyone, but love was too much trouble. Sure, the reason she had made the vow was because of what InuYasha said, and know she knew that he didn't really mean it, but the thought of having to harm InuYasha to get to Naraku was too much for her to bare. And then there was Hiei...

"What am I thinking?" Kagome sighed. Shippo noticed and asked her what was wrong.

"It's nothing, I'm just tired." Kagome responded. She looked over at Sango. She was currently talking to Kurama. Their expressions looked grim. Kagome assumed Sango had just told him about InuYasha. She then turned her gaze on Miroku, who was talking to some pretty young girls. She wondered how Sango could deal with Miroku's womanizing. She knew that Miroku loved Sango, and that she loved him, but it must be so hard on her to have to watch him do that. For the rest of dinner everyone just left Kagome alone, which she was grateful for. After dinner she turned to go into the hallway and back to the room that she was sharing with Sango when Hiei appeared in front of her.

"What's wrong? You didn't eat and you barely talked." Hiei said. Kagome looked into his ruby red eyes for a moment and remembered what she had thought about during dinner. "I do have feelings for him. I can't help it He's just like InuYasha, only...nicer." Kagome thought. Then she remembered that Hiei was a telepath and started blushing. Hopefully he hadn't been reading her mind just then "Well it doesn't matter anyway. I doubt he has feelings for me too." Kagome thought again.

"Are you going to answer my question or are you just going to stand there?" Hiei asked snapping Kagome back to reality.

"Oh, I'm fine. I just had a long day that's all. I'm going to bed now. Good night." Kagome said quickly. Before Hiei could respond or try to stop her Kagome quickly walked down the hall to her room. She opened the door and found that Sango had already changed for bed and was sleeping. She changed into her pajamas and got into her own bed. She tried to fall asleep but there were so many thoughts in her head she couldn't stand it. She kept worrying about Naraku and InuYasha. What would happen? And it didn't help her any that she kept thinking about her conversation with Hiei. "He must think I'm so stupid." She thought.

"Hey Kagome, you awake?" Sango asked.

"Yeah, why?" Kagome asked.

"I can't sleep." Sango said.

"Yeah me either. There are too many things to think about." Kagome responded.

"Yeah, I know." Sango said quietly.

"So what's on your mind, Sango?" Kagome inquired sitting up and looking at her friend.

"Well, after we thought you left to go to your own time and InuYasha left to go get Kouga's jewel shards Miroku and I talked a lot. We decided that it would be better for both of us if we decided to be just friends. In case one of us made it and the other didn't in the fight with Naraku. I think he still feels that that's the best thing to do now and I kind of have mixed feelings." Sango finished. (A/N: In chapter 6, I think it was, the scene where Miroku put his arms around Sango while she was having a mental argument with herself over who's better Miroku or Kurama was what made her think that Miroku still has feelings for her)

"Why?" Kagome asked.

"Well, I still sort of love Miroku and I think he feels the same way about me, but then there's Kurama..." Sango trailed off.

"Does Kurama like you?"

"Yeah, when we were looking for the demon in the house of horrors we talked a lot to try and keep ourselves awake. He told me about his life in your time, and his life as a demon. He's actually a fox demon. I told him about Kohaku being possesed by Naraku and everything. He was suprisingly easy to talk to and I really like him." Sango said. Kagome couldn't tell, but she thought that her friend was blushing. "Tonight at dinner he asked me if I'd like to live with him in his time after Naraku is defeated." Sango said after a long pause. Kagome let this sink if for a moment before she replied.

"So are you going to?"

"I don't know." Sango answered. The two of them just laid there in silence until they eventually fell asleep. Kagome woke up the next day to knocking on her door. She got out of bed and opened it. It turned out to be Yusuke.

"You better get ready, Kagome. You're supposed to meet InuYasha soon." He said.

"Oh, right." Kagome responded. She then shut the door and got changed. She ran down to breakfast and ate hurriedly. After everyone was done eating she walked out of the inn to go meet InuYasha. She hadn't gone very far when Yusuke yelled,

"Hey Kagome, wait!" She turned around and waited for the others to catch up.

"Are you sure you don't want one of us to go with you when you meet InuYasha in case he tries somethin' funny?" Kuwabara asked.

"I'm sure. I can handle this one my own, really." Kagome replied.

"If your sure..." Miroku said.

"I'm positive." Kagome assured them. With that said she walked off to the place that InuYasha had taken her to the day before. When she got there he was already there.

"So, have you thought about what I said yesterday?" InuYasha asked getting right to the point.

"Yeah, I did." Kagome said.

"And?" InuYasha prodded.

"I've decided that I'm not going to hand over the jewel shards." Kagome said bravely.

"Well in that case I'll just have to take them from you." InuYasha said. before Kagome could react he grabbed her and started flying.

"InuYasha put me down! Where are you taking me?" Kagome cried desperately.

"To Naraku." Came InuYasha's answer.

Half an hour later with the spirit detectives
"Where is she? She should've been back by now." Sango said in a worried tone.

"Your right, she should've returned by now." Kurama said. "Hiei, can you try and contact her through telepathy?" Hiei said nothing but he closed his eyes.

/"Kagome, where are you?"/ He asked.

/"InuYasha captured me and he's taking me to Naraku now. I'm not exactly sure where we are but I think we're a village just north of the one your at."/ Kagome answered.

/"Hang on, we'll be there soon."/ Hiei said.

"Well?" Yusuke asked.

"InuYasha got her and he's taking her to Naraku in a village just north of this one." Hiei responded.

"Well then let's hurry up and get there." Yusuke said as he, Kuwabara, Sango, and Miroku all climbed on Kirara. Kurama turned into his demon form and used some plant leaves to make a pair of wings for himself, while Hiei ran on the ground.

"Don't worry, Kagome. We're coming." Hiei thought.

With Kagome and InuYasha

InuYasha landed in front of a large castle. He didn't put Kagome down, much to her annoyance, but instead he carried her inside the castle. He walked down a hallway until he reached the room he wanted. He didn't even bother to knock on the door he just walked in. In the room sat Naraku, looking as smug and confident as ever.

"I brought the girl with the jewel shards." InuYasha stated simply.

"Good. Now Kagome, why don't you hand over those jewel shards." Naraku said.

"I'll never give them to you!" Kagome said breaking free of InuYasha's grasp. She pulled out one of her sacred arrows and shot it at Naraku. He put up his barrier (A/N: aka his gay pink bubble thing like the one the good witch in the Wizard of Oz has) and it deflected the arrow.

"Oh man, I'm in big trouble." Kagome thought.

With the others
"Goddammit! We don't have time to deal with this!" Yusuke shouted at the giant cyclops demon that was blocking their path.

"SHOT GUN!" He shouted firing his spirit gun and sending the demon flying.

"Hiei, how much further until we're there?" Kurama asked. Hiei took off his bandana and his Jagan glowed.

"It won't take us long. Just a few more miles and we're there." Hiei said. And he was right. A few minutes later they were at the village gates.

"Where do we find Naraku?" Kuwabara asked.

"Well, he's probably at the castle here." Miroku said. Sango nodded. They all ran into the town and didn't stop until they reached the doors of the castle. Miroku was about to pound on the door when Yusuke kicked it in.

"Hey! You can't do that!" Shouted some guards.

"You bet your sorry asses we can!" Yusuke said quickly beating up the guards. Before long more guards came rushing at them. Sango threw her Hirakotsu at the guards while Hiei was slashing threw them with his katana, Kurama with his rose whip, and Kuwabara with his spirit sword. When they had defeated all the guards Miroku shouted,

"C'mon we better get going before more come!" With that said Sango, Miroku, Shippo, Kirara, and the spirit detectives rushed into the castle. They followed Hiei until he suddenly stopped in front of a door.

"She's in here." He said kicking down the door. They found Kagome being held by InuYasha while Naraku tried to take the jewel shards.

"Naraku! Let Kagome go!" Miroku shouted. He got ready to use his wind tunnel when Naraku's poison insects flew in.

"Dammit." Miroku cursed. Naraku took this oppertunity to shoot one of his legs at an unspecting Yusuke and Yusuke narrowly avoided it. Naraku shot more of his legs off at the rest of the spirit detectives. InuYasha was so engrossed in watching the fight that he had forgotten about Kagome. She easily escaped him and shot one of her sacred arrows at Naraku from behind. Naraku turned around just in time to see it and dodged it. Kurama tried attacking Naraku with his whip but it wouldn't penetrate the barrier. Then Kuwabara jumped up in the air and came at Naraku with his spirit sword but that didn't work either.

"Damn it, that barrier of his deflects everything." Yusuke said.

"Well I'd like to see him deflect this! DRAGON OF THE DARKNESS FLAME!" Hiei shouted launching his most powerful attack at Naraku. For a moment you couldn't see anything from the smoke.

"Yes!" Hiei shouted. Then the smoke cleared and Naraku stood there in his pink bubble, perfectly unharmed. Naraku shot one of his legs at Kagome and she was so busy watching the detectives she didn't see it come at her. It was aimed straight at her heart.

"No, Kagome!" InuYasha shouted breaking free of Naraku's control on him. He pushed Kagome out of the way and Naraku's leg went straight through his heart.

"INUYASHA!" Kagome shouted. A tear dripped down her face. She reached into her quiver and pulled out Kikyo's arrow. It was responding to her now. She shot it at Naraku and it hit him right in the heart. His barrier broke and he turned into just a mass of flesh, but he was still alive.

"SPIRIT GUN!" Yusuke shouted blasting away the pieces of Naraku.

"I think we've finally killed him." Miroku said. Everyone turned to look at Kagome who had run over to InuYasha and was now cradling him in her arms.

"Kagome...I'm sorry...I-I...I love you." Those were InuYasha's last words as he died in Kagome's arms.

And that's how where the chapter ends. This is the last chapter of Never Again so I made it extra long. This isn't totally the end though. There's going to be an epilogue which I'm going to try and put up today.

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