The Breakdown: Life After Death Chapter 7

Author's Note: Well, this is gonna be the last chapter. I tried to make it pretty long. I hope you like it!

Disclaimer: I don't InuYasha or Yu Yu Hakusho

Last Time:

"Do you still have feelings for me, Kagome?" He asked. Kagome was stunned slightly by his question. Her first reaction was to say no, but then she gazed into his golden eyes and remembered when she had kissed him because Kaguya had almost turned him into a full demon and her kiss was the only way to bring him back. She found herself wanting to kiss him again. "No, what am I thinking? InuYasha had his chance and he blew it, besides, I have Hiei now." But Kagome didn't try to stop InuYasha as his face got closer to hers and then-

Now:

Kagome raised her hand to push InuYasha away when suddenly she saw Hiei stand behing them watching the scene. Turns out the koorime hadn't been able to fall asleep and he had gotten down from the tree to talk to Kagome. Now Kagome had raised her hand to push InuYasha away, but to Hiei, it looked as though she was going to put her hand on InuYasha's face to kiss him back. Hiei ran off into the woods without a word. How could she do that to him? She had been so torn up when InuYasha had left her for Kikyo and hadn't he been the one who comforted her? Hadn't he held her and helped her get over it? Hiei didn't know where he was going, but he let his feet carry him to wherever he felt like.

With Kagome and InuYasha.

Kagome slapped InuYasha right across the face. "InuYasha, you jerk! How could you do that? You know I'm with Hiei now!" InuYasha looked stunned at being slapped but he nodded in understanding. So she didn't have feelings for him anymore. "Hiei! Hiei, come back!" Kagome called into the woods. She didn't get answer. "Hiei, please, it wasn't what it looked like! Hiei!" Kagome fell to her knees and started crying. InuYasha knelt down beside her and put his hand on her shoulder. Kagome knew he was only trying to make her feel better, but she was mad at him right now. If he hadn't tried to kiss her this all would've been avoided. If she had just said no right away when InuYasha asked if she still had feelings for him everything would've been fine. But no, she had to go and remember her kiss with InuYasha. Now because of her foolishness she might lose the most important person in her life.

"SIT BOY!" Kagome yelled taking her frustration out on InuYasha. She remained on her knees crying. When Kurama came back he saw InuYasha laying face first in the dirt, Kagome on her knees crying, and Hiei nowhere to be found. He ran over to Kagome.

"What happened, Kagome?" He asked. Kagome explained to him what had happened, except she left out the part about her wanting to kiss InuYasha for a split second. "Oh dear." Kurama said after she had finished.

With Hiei

Hiei kept running thinking about how unfair this whole thing was. First his sister dies, the one time he isn't there watching out for her and she dies, then he finally learns to love and trust someone and what does she do? She cheats on him. He saw an ugly looking demon just a little ways ahead. "Perfect." He thought. He needed to take out his rage on something and this weakass demon was just the thing. The demon turned around sensing that Hiei was coming and before he could even try to attack him, Hiei had cut him in half with his katana. He sighed. He still had a lot of rage left and he sure as hell wasn't going back to camp. He kept running straight for what seemed like hours until he reached a village. "This is the village that that demon is supposed to be. I might as well kill him so I can get the hell out of here and go home." Hiei thought. He ran into the village and in no time he was at the castle. He was sure that Naraku had to be here.

With Kagome and the others

"Kurama, is there any way you can contact Hiei and tell him to come back here?" Kagome asked.

"Well, I can try contacting him through telepathy. I can't guarentee that he'll listen to me though." Kurama said.

"Please try, Kurama. Your the only one who can reason with him now." Kagome pleaded.

"I'll do what I can." Kurama answered. Kurama then tried to contact Hiei. "Hiei?" He asked telepathically. For a moment, nothing happened. Then he got an answer.

"Hn, what is it, fox?"

"Hiei, where are you?"

"What does it matter?"

"Look, Hiei, I know you think Kagome hurt you, but what you saw, or what you thought you saw, isn't what really happened. She told me what really happened Hiei."

"So is she cheating on me with you, too?"Hiei asked angrily.

"No Hiei! It's not like that!" Kurama protested.

"Whatever. I'm going after Naraku, and I don't care if I die or not." Hiei said and then he closed the link.

"Kurama, what's wrong? What did he say?" Kagome asked worriedly. Kurama had now gone very pale. Just then Kouga, Kouga's clan, and Yusuke returned with their arms full of firewood.

"Hey guys! We got the firewoo-" Yusuke stopped in midsentence noticing the expressions on Kurama and Kagome's faces. "What's wrong?" He asked.

"Hiei's gone after Naraku on his own." Kurama said grimly. Kouga and his wolves dropped the firewood they were carrying.

"He did what? Is he crazy? There's no way he can handle Naraku on his own!" InuYasha exclaimed.

"I'm sure Hiei will be able to take care of himself, don't worry about him." Yusuke said although he didn't sound too convinced of that himself.

"Hiei is powerful, but I don't think he'll be able to take Naraku all on his own. He also said he didn't care if he died or not." Kurama said worriedly.

"Well then what the hell are we standin' around here for? Let's go help him!" InuYasha exclaimed.

With Hiei.

Hiei was busy slashing through all the guards who had come to keep him away from Naraku. When he had finished them off he ran up to the castle door and pounded on it with his fist. Suddenly, more guards came up behind him. Hiei unsheathed his katana, turned around, and cut through the guards all in one fast motion. "They really believe he's some kind of great king. Crafty spider." Hiei thought before turning around to hit the door again.

"Naraku! Come out here and show yourself!" Hiei shouted. For a moment, nothing happened. He pounded on the door harder. "Come out here or I'll break this damn door down!" He shouted. He was angry. He needed something to take his anger out on and he was growing impatient.

Naraku heard Hiei calling him and he wondered what this little fire demon would want from him. He sensed that Hiei was very strong though. It had been awhile since he had a good fight and he was getting tired of this village anyway. It was time he showed the villagers his true form.

Hiei waited impatiently for the spider demon. Suddenly, the door opened and Naraku came out. He had his barrier up. "Naraku!" Hiei shouted. He unsheathed his katana and started slashing away at Naraku's barrier, but his attempts were in vain. He couldn't break through the barrier with just his sword. Naraku chuckled evilly. (A/N: Is it possible to chuckle evilly? Oh well it is now I guess)

"You won't be able to break through my barrier, you know." Naraku said. Hiei smirked.

"I don't care." Hiei said as began slashing at the barrier with his sword again.

With Kagome

Kagome was on InuYasha's back since it would be faster that way. InuYasha was flying through the air will everyone else was running as fast as they possibly could. To Kagome, minutes seemed like hours, hours seemed like years. "We have to get there in time! I'll never be able to forgive myself in anything happens to him. Ooooh this is all my fault! If I hadn't been so stupid none of this would've happened.!" Kagome thought.

With Hiei

Naraku eventually got tired of Hiei slashing at his barrier and he shot one of his legs at him. Hiei hadn't been expecting this and the leg sent him crashing into a hut and the hut toppled over right onto him. Naraku laughed evilly thinking that he had killed him, but he soon realized that he was wrong as he saw Hiei, who was bleeding slightly, get up from the pieces of the fallen hut.

"You just don't give up do you? I admire your spirit, but now I'll have to finish you!" Naraku said shooting another one of his legs at Hiei. Hiei quickly dodged it but he didn't know how much longer he could keep this up for. He didn't really care if he died but he just couldn't give up on a fight so easily. This time Naraku shot two of his legs at Hiei, and Hiei dodged one but couldn't avoid the other. The leg slammed him down hard into the ground. Hiei could barely move now. Suddenly, he saw a group of people running towards. "Stupid villagers. they'll be killed." Hiei thought. Then he realized that the people running towards him weren't villagers at all. It was Yusuke, Kurama, Kouga, and Kouga's band of wolves! He saw Kagome riding on InuYasha's back and a he was filled with hatred.

"Hiei!" Yusuke called as Naraku shot one of his legs at Hiei again. Everything seemed to be going from in slow motion from there. Kagome jumped down from InuYasha. She had no idea what she was doing. It was almost like someone else was controlling her actions. She pulled Kikyo's arrow out of her quiver. She didn't know how she knew it would respond to her this time, but she did. She shot it directly at Naraku. She realized that her arrow wouldn't reach Naraku in time to save Hiei and Hiei could barely move much less dodge another one of Naraku's legs. Kagome ran over to him and pushed him out of the way. She was hit full force by the leg and was sent flying into the air. She landed hard on the ground a few yards away. The fall broke her neck and she died almost instantly. Shortly after she died, her arrow hit Naraku, but he wasn't dead yet. Pieces of his flesh were still floating around in the air and he could easily reassemble himself.

"Oh no, you don't!" InuYasha shouted. He used his wind scar attack before Naraku could escape and killed him. After Naraku died everyone ran over to Kagome except for Hiei, who was in shock.

"Kagome! Wake up, Kagome!" Yusuke shouted as tears poured down his face. "Dammit why did she have to die?"

"Why did she save me?" He asked more to himself than anyone else.

"Because she loved you, dumbass." Kouga said. His clan was crying for Kagome and one lone tear fell down his face.

"No she didn't. I saw her about to kiss InuYasha." Hiei said angrily.

"She wasn't going to kiss me! I tried to kiss her and she raised her hand to slap me, but to you it looked like she was going to kiss me back! Do you have any idea how hard she hit me?" InuYasha said. Hiei said nothing for a moment and let this sink in. InuYasha hated him. He wouldn't lie to him just to avoid hurting his feelings, so what he said had to be the truth. He had loved Kagome and Kagome had loved him, but now, because he had been too stupid to trust her, she was dead. He felt a tear fall down his face and then crystallize into a gem as it fell on the ground. Everyone stood in a sad silence for a moment.

"There's still a way we could save her." InuYasha said suddenly. From the look on his face you could tell that he was thinking.

"How?" Yusuke asked.

"My half-brother, Sesshomaru, has a sword that can bring people back from the dead. He won't revive her for nothing though. He wants my sword, the Tetsusaiga. I wouldn't give it to him normally, but now it doesn't matter. I doubt I could go on living my life like I used to anymore, now that I know what it's like to love someone and to have friends. My sword is of no use to me anymore." InuYasha said.

Epilogue

After days of trying to track Sesshomaru down they finally found him. InuYasha explained everything to him and Sesshomaru agreed to revive her if InuYasha gave him the Tetsusaiga. Both of the dog demons kept their end of the deal. When Kagome woke up Hiei embraced her. Kagome was a little confused but embraced him back. After that they went back to Kagome's time and to the Makai where they find the place where Kuwabara and Yukina had died. When they did they found the their corpses were still there. They found the demons living in a cave a little ways away from where they found the bodies. Hiei told Kagome to wait outside and he killed the demons with his Dragon of The Darkness Flame. After he killed them, he burried Yukina in the snow and placed a flower over her grave.

"Wouldn't it be better to burry her in the ice world where she's from?" Kagome asked.

"No, Hiei said after a moment, where she's from outsiders are not welcome. And besides, she had no real family there. She was alone in the world like I was." Hiei said solemly. Kagome nodded. They took Kuwabara's body back to the human world. When Kagome knocked on the door it was Shizuru who answered it. Shizuru didn't recognize Kagome but when she saw Hiei she let them in immediately. Hiei set Kuwabara's body down on the table. He had wrapped it up in bandages so that Shizuru wouldn't have to see all his wounds and because you couldn't just walk around the human world carrying a dead body or there would be trouble.

"Your brought his body back?" Shizuru asked through tears.

"Yes, so that you could give him a proper burial." Hiei said.

A week later they all attended Kuwabara's funeral. With everyone's deaths avenged Kagome and Hiei could now live in peace together for the rest of their lives.

Author's note: That's the end. I hope you enjoyed this fic! I will be posting some new ones soon. The only fic I have going right now is Yu Yu Hakusho Goes Xanga but I have plot bunnies for a lot of new fics. I'm going to be posting a fic called InuYasha Idol soon so be sure to read that when it's up!

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