Okay, I decided to continue the story. I don't think it's really fair to the one person that is reading this if I just deleted it right in the middle of the story- I know I wouldn't like that if it happened to me. Here's chapter 6, though here's a warning- this chapter contains a lot of angst and drama, only a little fluff so read with caution.

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"No…how c-could you…" Kagome whimpered from her spot on the cellar floor, tears staining her cheeks and refusing to stop their endless flow of sorrow. Naraku loomed over her badly beaten body, his pupil-less red irises gleaming brightly against the dark surroundings of the cell.

"Now that we've gotten that taken care of, I'll need that pure heart of yours to bring me that much closer to everlasting power." Another orb of darkness appeared beside him, widening into a black portal of empty abyss. It dissipated, revealing Aka once again. Kagome whimpered once again from the floor.

Aka smiled coldly, sliding his sword out of its sheath resting the tip of the blade against Kagome's chest over her heart.

"Hasn't this happened before, love? I could swear this is history repeating itself." Kagome would have growled in disgust, but the rawness and burning in her throat prevented her from making any noise more audible than a whisper. How could he joke like that about her life being in his hands? He had no right!

"I'm sorry it had to end like this love, I really am." He added a bit more pressure to the blade though not enough to puncture her flesh just yet, whether to give her a chance to retaliate to his disgusting and over confident remark or to prolong the time she had left to possess her heart was uncertain. Her eyes narrowed slightly her pain temporarily forgotten.

"You won't get my heart. I won't let you." She whispered hoarsely against the scratching in her throat. Aka laughed coldly at her remark just before he stabbed through her heart with his blade, though no blood was shed, no puncture wound in her flesh created, no scream of death, only a soft pink light that encased Kagome's limp body as her eyes grew wide, their pupils contracting triple their rightful size.

"That's what the last four said, Kags."

"Over there, Inuyasha!" Shippo cried from Inuyasha's shoulder, pointing to a stone shack about three yards off of the side of the dirt path. It was practically on the verge of breaking down by the looks of it, and Inuyasha couldn't help but cringe at the stale scent of the place, as if no one had inhabited the area for a long time. He turned around just as Kirara was landing behind him, looking from his comrades to the shack and back with skepticism.

"You sure you wanna stop here for the night? It's so dilapidated I don't even know if it'll hold up for much longer." Miroku nodded dismounting Kirara.

"I sense a strong spiritual aura encasing this area, so if there's anywhere that we'd be safest, this would be it for tonight." The hanyou nodded half-heartedly just before walking over to a tattered, worn out beige cloth that served as a makeshift door. He brushed aside the cloth with his elbow before he entered the tiny building, his friends all in tow.

The space provided enough room for the five of them mainly because of the fact that it was completely empty, albeit the five current inhabitants. Sango, Miroku, Shippo, and Kirara all looked around the left side of the area while Inuyasha inspected the right though for what reason was still a mystery to the hanyou.

"There's something about this musty place…" Inuyasha turned his head to the right and almost jumped in surprise when Kagome walked over. She walked past him with her arms linked behind her, a warm smile gracing her beautiful face. Inuyasha was in a trance even from her simple movements though he wanted nothing more than to run up to her and embrace her tightly. Yet he simply watched as Kagome stopped to stare out of a small moss-covered circular window.

"It reminds me of the Shinto Shrine back home, where you would always drag me back to this time…" She turned to face him, her warm hazel eyes glittering brightly, so bright Inuyasha swore she lit the space up. Her smile…it sent him higher than the heavens when she smiled like that.

"…remember?" Gods, how could he not remember? That happened more times than he would care to count. His breath hitched in his throat as he tried coming up with an intelligent answer for her. He swallowed the growing lump in his throat as best as he could before he managed to find his voice.

"Kagome," He whispered taking a shaky breath as he stepped toward her, reaching a hand slightly out to her, his soul screaming for her warmth, her comfort. His heartbeat quickened as she still had not moved, her bright eyes shimmering lovingly at him, her smile never leaving her face.

"Inuyasha…?" Shippo asked from behind him. The hanyou reluctantly turned to his friends, who were all looking at him in sympathy, as if to offer him their comfort. He turned back to look at Kagome again, but his eyes widened when she wasn't there. 'Now I'm hallucinating, gods why do I torture myself with this? Why does this happen to me even when I don't want it to…?' He thought sadly his ears drooping to flatten against his skull.

"Just…just thinking…l-let's set up camp." He said quickly as he grabbed the blankets, tossing one to each of his friends from one of Kagome's backpacks; she had always left a few here, just incase something happened to her yellow one. Just as he was reaching in to toss out one to Shippo, his heart almost crushed at the sight of two blankets- a red one and a navy blue one- that were still left after he handed out the last of the needed items, bringing back a memory of one of the more recent times Kagome had offered him one of the blankets…

"Come on, Inuyasha just take the blanket. Even if you don't use it, at least take it to make me feel a little better, please?" Kagome pleaded, offering him the red blanket from her pack.

"Feh, I don't need it so why bother taking it?" Inuyasha huffed from his spot in the tree, crossing his arms.

"Because it'll make me feel a little better knowing you at least have it, now will you please take it?" She offered politely.

"I said I don't need it, wench." He said in a growl, though he put no force behind his argument. Kagome's eyes filled with tears.

"Why you, you insensitive jerk- OSUWARI!" The hanyou was thrown to the ground face first just as Kagome stalked over to her spot on the ground.

"I don't know why you have to be so rude, but goodnight!" She said bitterly as she lied down on the dirt floor, wrapping herself in a navy blue blanket.

It took all Inuyasha had not to pull out the navy blue one and bury his face in it, just so that he could still breathe in Kagome's scent, so he hastily shut the pack and threw it aside, taking his place beside the door, Tetsusaiga at his side resting against his left shoulder. Mumbling a good night to everyone, he closed his eyes, pretending to be asleep. His ears listened carefully as the rest of his friends settled down and all started to fall asleep.

He waited until all he could hear was everyone's steady breathing before he let two slits of his amber eyes show in the pale moonlight that streamed from the small circular window. He looked over at the grayish backpack just to his side that he had thrown over there only a few moments ago. Even without actually holding the blanket that contained Kagome's scent, he could still pick up her gentle aroma emitting from inside the pack.

He stared at the pack for the longest time while his heart recalled upon many memories against his will of Kagome always searching through her huge yellow pack, whether it be to bandage him up after a major battle or to get food out for everyone whenever they stopped, or sometimes pull out her "school books" from her time to study late at night when she thought no one was watching her. He didn't want to have all these flashbacks, but it was like his heart was willing him to never forget a single detail of her beauty, her laugh, her smile, nothing about her at all.

He tried fighting it, oh gods how he tried fighting the urge to pull the blanket out and bury his face into it, but he couldn't help it; the slight whiff of her scent was beginning to tease him, coaxing him into actually and deeply inhaling the scent. He gingerly leaned Tetsusaiga against the wall beside him before he reached a gloved hand to grip the handle of the grayish pack and pulled it to himself so he could pull out the navy blue blanket. It appeared black in the dark, but he could tell that it was the one he was looking for- her scent was caked all over it.

He folded up the blanket and rested it on his knees before he hugged them to his chest tightly. He gently rested his head atop the blanket, his arms encircling his knees, hiding his head from the world. He buried his nose into the soft cloth of the blanket, trying to let all his heartache go at the memory of Kagome's premonition that had appeared before him tonight. 'Why do I keep doing this to myself? Why am I adding injury to a pain that I never wanted to experience?' He thought in despair, managing to cover his eyes with his bangs just before a single teardrop trailed down his cheek and became soaked up into the blanket.

He pulled himself together enough that he didn't shed anymore tears, but it didn't heal his heart; no matter how hard he tried, the pain was still there, ever powerful, ever haunting his every thought.

He leaned back against the wall, bringing the blanket with him, hugging it closely to his chest as he shut his eyes. Her lingering scent enveloped him in a serene state of limbo between consciousness and sleep, and for the first time in almost a week, he fell into a deep slumber and almost swore Kagome was snuggled up against his chest rather than a blanket with a remnant of her beautiful rose pedal and vanilla scent. That's how he would have rather had it, but he knew that it would be that way soon enough.

"That's it, love- hand your heart over. Give into the darkness…" Aka cooed darkly to the pinkish glowing miko before he drilled his blade a little deeper into her, causing her to shudder slightly though she remained paralyzed. She shut her eyes tightly, focusing all of what was left of her energy into finding Inuyasha.

Inuyasha…

She felt a heartbeat other than her own begin to beat soundly from across a vast distance, and she knew all too well that it was Inuyasha's heart complying with her silent request, even if he didn't know it yet.

An amber glowing orb the size of a softball floated out of her chest, its white center whirling with a pure and innocent essence. Before either of the villains could stop it, white swirls of light encased the heart, suddenly beginning to dissolve away into a dust-like existence.

The soft pink glow dissipated from Kagome's body as her heart left the realm of darkness, and the two villains could have sworn that just before she let her heart go, she wore a small smile on her face.

"Damn that girl, must she make everything so complicated?" Aka demanded before his fist clenched, connecting with the cell's stone wall beside him out of pure fury. Naraku paused for a moment, his face clouding over in thought before a dark grin found its way onto his face.

"If anything, she's just making it easier on us." He said in a low voice. Aka turned to him arching a crimson brow in skepticism as he lowered his fist from the wall he had taken to beating.

"Now that Inuyasha's and Kagome's hearts have combined, it will make it even easier for him to track us down, and once we've lured him and his companions in…" He punched his fist into his opposite palm, his grin only growing more sinister at the very thought of knocking two birds with one stone.

"…we can destroy both Inuyasha and his damned friends. Once they're out of the way, we can continue collecting the other two priestesses and opening the door that shall lead us into everlasting darkness.

Shippo opened one eye groggily a moment when he heard Inuyasha faintly whimper in his sleep, though the kitsune kept his back to him. He was somewhat surprised but did nothing to wake the hanyou. He understood, even in his young age, that Inuyasha was missing Kagome terribly, even more than everyone else. It didn't take all that much thought for the kitsune to realize that Inuyasha was in love with Kagome and feared her safety, so he wouldn't insult or remark what he had witnessed here and now- he understood the pain Inuyasha felt, if only a little bit of it, and figured to let it alone; once they had rescued Kagome she would head his wounded heart as she had done before. With that thought, the little kitsune closed his eye again, snuggling into Kirara's fur a bit more before he fell back into sleep.

Of course, had Shippo managed to stay awake, he would have seen what Inuyasha didn't- the spot on the hanyou's chest over his heart glowed a soft pink for one small instant before the small light left him without a trace, leaving only a warmth that brought a smile to the subconscious Inuyasha's handsome moonlit face.

Kagome…

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For those of you who played the game know what just happened, but for those of you that didn't (AND WHY DIDN'T YOU? j/k) I'll explain a little later in the story. R & R peeps!