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Recap:

Kagome's body became limp and her eyes iced over in haze. Her slanted eyes closed for the final time.

InuYasha watched as the tentacle finally released itself from inside her body; it came out wet with blood. He couldn't believe it…she was dead.

Her father took the tentacle and rubbed the blood of his dead daughter upon his cheek. His sinister tongue lashed out to lap up the red smears. InuYasha stared in sickening disgust; he fell to his knees and started to slam the dirty ground, which was moistened with blood.

Chapter 19:

Fateful Fight

The next thing InuYasha remembered was walking up in a cold sweat.

His back was very sore from falling when he passed out; he could feel his bones shift under his skin uncomfortably as he stood to get up.

That was by the far the worst nightmare he had ever experienced! He glanced around at his surroundings and noticed it was like his dream; dusty patches of ground everywhere. Turing his head around frantically, InuYasha noticed another similar scene that was in his dream.

He nearly panicked when he saw Kagome laying flat on her back at the opposite end of the dugout cell. She was very pale and had sweat dripping from her brow. She was moaning helplessly in her sleep and her breathing was very labored.

InuYasha rushed over and held her in his arms; he didn't care if he had startled her into waking up by his actions; he was still beyond shaken from the nightmare.

Kagome woke up quickly and saw that InuYasha was holding onto her tightly. She looked around to take in the filth that surrounded the two.

"InuYasha…what's going on?" she stated lightly, tears falling from her face. She instinctively hugged him back quickly; she had experienced a horrible dream and was beyond glad that he was still alive and with her now.

To her surprise, she wasn't the only one crying now. InuYasha closed his eyes in complete relief as the reality of her being alive sunk in. Kagome tried to wipe away his tears; it hurt her to no end to see him cry like this.

"Kagome…I love you so much! Don't you ever leave me!" he sobbed out, holding onto her for dear life. She stiffened uneasily at his words; thinking of her horrible dream. She brought his head up so she could look into his wet eyes.

Hesitantly, at first, she placed her lips upon his. InuYasha had stopped his sobbing after a moment's pause and kissed her back, being careful not to hurt her with his fangs. They sat in their lip lock, both forgetting their worries.

"InuYasha… I would never leave you, I love you too much," she confessed as they broke apart. She thought of her nightmare; it had been different from InuYasha's…but none the less horrifying.

The battle between her father and InuYasha had been decided; InuYasha remained completely unharmed, but Kagome was not as lucky…Without remorse, InuYasha had moved to Colorado, where he lived out the rest of his life in pure happiness.

He had found another woman; he had fallen completely in love with her and she had his children. InuYasha didn't even visit poor Kagome's grave; his life was simple and happy.

Kagome had watched as his life went on easily without her; he was so happy without her and didn't need her or her chaotic life. It had been a heart-breaking dream!

As she sat there, embraced by her love, it made her miserable to think about how she had brought all these horrid problems for him. They couldn't even go three months without something life-threatening happening to them. She was amazed that he hadn't broken up with her a long time ago.

InuYasha released her to look into her eyes lovingly. Her eyes held so much sorrow and misery from remembering her terrible dream. He kissed her forehead lightly, hoping it would all go away. As if reading her thoughts, he began to comfort her again; perfect timing as always.

"Kagome, I'm so glad you're in my life… I love how you make me feel…I love the way how you spice up my life and make it worth living…no one has ever had that effect on me before. But most of all, I love you like no other. You're so kind and generous, so selfless and gentle. I want to be with you always," he admitted as he laid his head on top of hers, inhaling her captivating scent.

Kagome felt happiness spring to life within her once more. She practically melted into his embrace, so glad that he had made all her troubles go away.

As if the InuYasha's dream came to life, the moment was shattered by the creaky door opening. They quickly turned to it to see a woman enter.

"Kikyo!" Kagome blurted out. Kikyo look beyond pissed off as she glowered at the two of them holding onto each other.

"Father will be down in a little bit," the woman declared viciously. "Hope you're ready to die…" she sniggered. Turning her attentions to the silver-haired demon, she spat out; "Half-bread, get up…you can leave…he doesn't need to kill you."

InuYasha growled dangerously and glared at her. Kikyo scoffed lightly and turned to leave.

"Suite yourself then, mutt," she finished and left, shutting the door loudly behind her. The lock was heard clicking into place.

"InuYasha, why didn't you go…you could have gotten away," she said with great guilt.

He looked down at her with surprisingly calm and gentle eyes. He looked very confident; she didn't know why though.

"I have something planned for your old man," he said with a smile.

Kagome gasped lightly. 'Is he going to k…kill him? Can he kill him?' she thought to herself.

"InuYasha! He could kill you!" She knew that her hanyou was strong…but so was her father. Even if InuYasha was going to die here, she would be ready to follow him.

"Keh! I won't get killed. I know what I'm doing…mostly." Even that last part held much confidence; which made Kagome smile with hope.

They waited in dead silence for her father to come running through that door. As the hours past by, Kagome had regretfully fallen asleep in his arms. The quiet was getting to InuYasha, too, as he held onto her sleeping form. His eyes began to blink in drowsiness as well.

Before the peace of sleep could claim him, the door had burst open. In came none other than Kagome's demonic father.

"What the hell are you still doing here, half-bread?" exclaimed the angry man from the door. InuYasha quickly got up, after gently placing Kagome down on the ground.

"That's none of ya damn business, ass-wipe!" InuYasha retorted loudly. The demon father just stood there, twitching in anger.

"How dare you insult ME, you filth! I will take great pleasure in tearing you apart!" he sputtered. Both his arms began to transform into their vine-like spears.

He shot a limb to InuYasha's torso, but he quickly dodged. InuYasha charged at him, dogging the tentacles that whorled around them.

Extending his demon claws, InuYasha rammed two sharpened nails into the monster's left eye. The man screamed out, giving the hanyou a brief chance to pin him along the wall. He let out an inhuman scream of pain from loosing his eye as the hanyou retracted his hand from the bloodied socket.

InuYasha yelped out as his shoulder had just been impaled by a flailing appendage. The blood poured down, much unnoticed by the hanyou, whose aim was to focused upon this monstrosity.

InuYasha let the gory chunk of eye drop from his crimson covered talons to the floor in a sickening plop. Kagome had woken up now; her eyes wide in terror as the fight played out before her.

"InuYasha!" she screamed as her tears flowed.

"Stay back! I've got this under control!" he yelled back as he clawed away at the limb still imbedded in his right shoulder.

InuYasha snapped apart the vine in him, making the demon scream out again. Another vine whipped out; its pointed end aimed straight for InuYasha's heart.

In a slow paced motion, the vine was ready to make contact with the hanyou.

Kagome couldn't let her love die; in a brief instant, the jewel around her neck emanated a brilliant light. It was brighter than ever before and a powerful surge of power blasted out at the demon.

The light from the gem blasted out around both InuYasha and her father. The light didn't seem to affect InuYasha at all; it only left him with a warm sensation as the power certainly damaged the demon.

With a quick flash of his claws, InuYasha dug a nice dent into the neck of the creature. It coughed up some blood and fell to the floor, writhing in pain. The magenta lights died down once the creature was grounded down.

No main veins were severed in the claw attack, but the pain of both attacks left her father completely immobilized on the dirty ground, now stained with raindrops of blood.

"Kagome…" it whispered out between staggered breaths. "You worthless little bitch…just like your damn mother…" those being his final word, his breathing evened out into unconsciousness.

InuYasha walked over to the bleeding form.

"He isn't dead," he told Kagome. "But now I can carry him outta here so he can go to jail to rot for the rest of his life," InuYasha stated blandly.

-----------------------------------------To Be Continued---------------------------------------------

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