Code Name: Dark Angel

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14- Fears

Previously

They lay there for a while, catching their breath. Inuyasha pulled his canines from her skin and crawled off her. He covered them both with the blanket. She cuddled against him and he wrapped an arm around her protectively.

Long after she had fallen asleep, he continued to lay awake, pondering over their actions. He glanced down at her and his eyes flashed red with heated desire and the need for vengeance before dying away to amber. He stared at the marks that he had made on her neck with his fangs.

"What did I do?"

Now

Inuyasha opened his eyes to find that impenetrable darkness was all around him, consuming him. He extended his hands out in front of him, frightened of what he might find, and groped around in the blackness. "Kagome?" He called weakly. Where was he? Wasn't he just sleeping in his hotel room, Kagome laying by his side? How did he end up here, in this dark, desolate place? Who had brought him here? Why was he here?

He brought his hands back and rubbed his face. There were too many questions and no answers. He dropped his hands back down to his sides and tried to focus. Normally, with his canine eyesight, he would have easily been able to see in darkness such as this. Why couldn't he do it now? "Kagome? Kagome…Where are you? Can you hear me? Kagome?"

He began walking slowly, his footsteps echoing dully as he did so. He extended his hands once more, desperately hunting for a way out of this hellish place, or for someone he knew. Kagome, specifically.

As he went on, he soon noticed a dim light, focused on a womanly figure standing in solitude, her back to him. "Kagome?" The figure turned slightly and he instinctively raced for her. As he approached her, he began to make out all the details of her body. Her long, raven colored hair which shimmered beautifully in the dim light, her dark, leather outfit, complete with the large boots, her gun, and her mask, and the knife that was sheathed on her thigh. Soon, he was less than a foot away and gasped at what he saw.

She peered up at him with sharper eyes that glowed with animal like ferocity. Her gentle hands had fingernails that were much too long to be called fingernails, and her canine teeth were somehow sharper. Triangular dog ears sat atop her head. She was a hanyou! He had made her into a half demon like himself!

"Kagome?"

She smiled kindly at him, her fangs catching some of the light and reflecting it. She placed a hand on the side of his face and he noticed the sharpness of her claws. Her ears moved gently, listening for any other sounds around them. He looked her in the eyes and saw that they had an amber tint to them, and blazed with the same kind of instinctive animal behavior that his obtained. As he stood there, examining Kagome, he couldn't help but wonder one thing.

What had he done?

"Inuyasha, I've been looking all over for you. Where have you been?" She waited expectantly for an answer.

He opened his mouth to reply, but found that he didn't have any explanation.

When she saw that he had nothing to say, her smile faded and she dropped her hand. "You were with Kikyo. You went to see her in secrecy, didn't you? You were planning on trying to talk her into leaving Naraku and you were going to run away with her. Right?"

"What?" The subject of Kikyo seemed so unnatural, so ludicrous. To hear her bring it up so randomly like that, it shocked him. It surprised him to think that she was accusing him of going to go see a woman who meant nothing to him anymore after he had just transformed Kagome into a half demon. "No!"

Her eyes lit up with fury. "Don't lie to me! You were just with me and then you suddenly disappeared!"

Inuyasha placed a clawed hand against his head. Nothing was making sense! What was going on?

He didn't have time to ponder about it for Kagome had just let out a scream of pain. He jerked his gaze up and saw that something had plunged through her chest, through her heart. It suddenly dislodged itself from her and disappeared into the darkness around them. Kagome collapsed to her knees and Inuyasha caught her before she fell to the floor. He placed her head into his lap. "Kagome? Kagome!"

"Inuyasha…" She managed to push her eyes open and look up at him. "Help me," she rasped.

Inuyasha felt his heart miss a beat. "Kagome…Hang on!" He tightened his grip on her. Blood was pouring from her wound and already there was a large puddle of crimson surrounding them. Her eyes were glazing over as death forced its hand around her soul tighter and tighter. A tear slid down her cheek.

"I'm so scared," she choked out. "Don't leave me."

Inuyasha was appalled to hear her say that she was scared. She had never been afraid of anything, especially Naraku. She hadn't ever appeared to be afraid of dying, either. "Kagome, I'm not going to leave you. I'll always be right here. Just hang on."

He saw her force a smile and she brought a hand up to his cheek as more tears fell from her glossy eyes. "I'm sorry," she rasped. Impetuously, her hand dropped and her head fell to the side, her breathing ceased and she was gone.

It took a moment for things to register, even though none of it made sense. But Inuyasha clenched his fists and growled in anger and grief, realizing that the only thing that made sense was that Kagome was dead. "Kagome!"

He continued to cradle her body, not willing to believe that the last thing in this world that he loved was truly gone.

A sinister laugh coming from the darkness around him cause him to look up in anger and curiosity. "Who's there?"

A figure appeared before him and soon the dim light brought out the identity of the intruder.

Inuyasha gasped, "K-Kikyo?"

The woman smirked malevolently. "Inuyasha, I thought you would rejoice when you saw me. However," she sneered at Kagome's lifeless body, "it appears that you're more occupied with that wench."

Inuyasha felt anger rush through him. "Are you the one who killed Kagome?" He yelled.

"Not I," she replied. "It was Naraku." She dropped her gaze to the floor. "Inuyasha…I thought you had said you wished to be with me."

Inuyasha opened his mouth to say something, but held back.

"But it is this girl that you desired to live the remainder of your life with." She pulled a gun out of a holster. "Now that she is dead," she said slowly, "it seems that you must die to stay with her in hell for eternity." She lifted the gun and aimed at his head. Inuyasha looked into her eyes before dropping his gaze to Kagome. He then closed his eyes and Kikyo pulled the trigger…

"Inuyasha! Inuyasha, wake up!" Kagome shook Inuyasha frantically. She didn't want to look at her hands again, or even her reflection for she was too afraid of what she might end up finding. And Inuyasha appeared to be having one hell of a nightmare. "Wake up!" She tugged on his dog ear and he awoke with a start, completely toppling over into the floor. She couldn't help but laugh at him.

His head popped up on the side of the bed. He appeared horrified from his dream but when he caught sight of her, he looked puzzled. "Kagome?"

"What happened to me?" She demanded. "I'm…" she trailed off and looked up at him before rushing to the bathroom and flipping on the light and looking at herself. She cut the light off and came back into the room with him and said, somewhat dazed, "I'm like you."

Inuyasha had climbed to his feet but as images from his nightmare rushed back to him, he collapsed onto the bed. He covered his face with his hands and let out a sigh.

"Inuyasha?" Kagome sat beside him on the bed. "Are you okay?"

"Fine." He brought his gaze up to meet hers and was astounded when he saw that she looked identical to the hanyou that was in his dream. Her eyes were brown with an amber tint, her hair was the same with black dog ears atop her head, sharp fangs and claws. She was wearing an oversized T-shirt, which he recognized as his. Suddenly, he remembered what she looked like as she was dying and he had to avert his eyes.

"Inuyasha," her voice was soft. "What happened?"

"When we were…you know…" He couldn't get the dream out of his head. He couldn't quell the feeling of dread in the pit of his stomach, or erase the uneasiness he had in his chest. "I bit you. So now, you're my mate, and you're a half demon. I don't really get all of this myself, but all I know is that when you're someone's mate, you stay that way forever."

He was almost positive that she would freak out by this or something of that sort. Instead, she was quiet and took it in and then said, "All right. So I have the strength and abilities of a half demon?"

He merely nodded and it grew quiet.

At length, she asked, "That's a good thing, right? I mean, it makes us stronger as both a team and as individuals." She paused, tilting her head to the side just as a curious dog does when it hears a strange sound. "It should help us in the fight with Naraku."

It grew eerily quiet in the room once again. The only difference this time was that the air was thick with tension.

"No," Inuyasha said suddenly, breaking the silence.

"Huh?" Kagome looked at him, bewildered.

"Kagome," he released a deep breath. "It puts you in even more danger. You're my mate now, and I have to protect you. Things are going to get much harder; Naraku will treat you different now that you're a half demon. Plus, you're not used to being a half demon. You're going to need practice doing the stuff that I can do."

Kagome smiled. "I know. But I've got you here to help me. You will, right?"

Inuyasha glanced at her for a moment and nodded before averting his eyes again to the floor. "I guess I'm just…afraid of what might happen to you."

Kagome's smile dissipated slowly as she examined him. "Inuyasha, what happened in that dream of yours?"

Inuyasha flinched violently and turned to look at her. He couldn't focus on her due to the images he kept seeing. He saw Kagome smiling at him as he stared at her, transfixed by her new appearance. He saw her as she lay in his lap, her eyes glazed over with death, tears streaming down her cheeks, blood pooling around them both. He saw Kikyo, bringing the gun up and aiming at his head. Then he heard the stentorian gunshot as Kikyo killed him.

"You…Naraku killed you." He said slowly, softly. "You were dying in my arms. And after y-you died, Kikyo came and killed me."

Kagome encircled her arms around Inuyasha tightly. "It's all right. Nothing like that is going to happen to us. I promise. We can pull through this."

Inuyasha turned slightly so that Kagome was against his chest and embraced her back. He couldn't help but wonder how it was that he was the one who needed comforting, not Kagome. He was the man, he was the cold hearted half demon. Kagome was supposed to be the mortal, the scared woman. He was supposed to be telling her everything that she was now telling him. But it was the other way around. They were both half demons, neither of them cold hearted. He was the one who was afraid for her life, and she was the one who was consoling him.

'I need to get rid of this tension,' he thought. 'I need to forget about all of that for now. When the time comes to face Naraku, I can worry then. But not tonight.'

He pulled back and gently grasped one of her dog ears and rubbed it. She gave him a puzzled look, but let him continue and soon appeared to be enjoying it. When he stopped, she looked disappointed and reached up to grab one of his. He pulled out of her grasp and shook his head violently, as if he didn't like it very much. She smiled and pushed him down onto his back, reaching for his ears again. "Stop!" He said, holding her upper arms, smirking slightly.

"Why should I?" She pulled out of his grip and rubbed one of his ears before he pulled away again. She stuck her tongue out at him and sat on her side of the bed.

After a while, Inuyasha asked, "Kagome, are you mad at me?"

This took Kagome by surprise. "Huh? No, why? Why would I be?"

"For turning you into a half demon."

She smiled and cuddled up to him. "No, of course not. I'm glad to be like this, and to be your mate."

Inuyasha smiled and wrapped his arms around her tightly. "We'll work on getting you ready to fight Naraku tomorrow, all right?"

Kagome nodded and soon she was asleep. He lay awake for a while longer and soon drifted off to sleep, as well. And this time, he didn't have any nightmares.

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