: Chapter 10 :

: Started: July 2, 2006 :

: Finished: July 3, 2006 :

Aki got to the training grounds and already Ceci was beaten up, Aki sighed and walked over to Sesshoumaru.

"How's it going?" she asked, though she already knew the answer. Ceci was bleeding in several places but there wasn't anything she could do about that at the moment.

"Not very well, as you can see. She needs to up everything from endurance to speed and agility. In other words she's just good for cleaning and not even most of that." Sesshoumaru explained. Aki sighed and took a deep breath.

"Hey Ceci! I'm gonna go hurt Rin now! Try to stop me!" Aki said, she started to walk to the castle but Ceci stopped her with strings.

"You wont touch Rin!" Ceci growled at Aki with a newfound power, Ceci was a string user to 'Swift Death'. "Move and your head will get chopped off." Ceci added, Aki smirked and extended her claws, she cut the strings towards Ceci, Ceci started moving the strings around and soon Aki was pinned to a tree with the strings at her neck.

"Very good, but the enemy's not going to be as nice as I will be." Aki disappeared from the strings and appeared behind Ceci. "You're too slow. You need to get your speed up." Aki said. Sesshoumaru walked over and strapped 30-pound weights to each of Ceci's limbs. Her arms fell to her sides and her legs didn't want to move.

"Come with me, we're going to do 50 laps around the castle." Sesshoumaru said as he started walking to the starting point. Ceci looked at him like he was nuts.

"There's no way I can do that!" Ceci said, Sesshoumaru glared at her, immediately she shut up and looked at the ground.

"Yes, you can. Those weights are there to make you faster, once you can run and keep up with me we'll be done, this will also strengthen your reflexes, Aki will hide in the bushes somewhere and when we pass she'll attack you. You are to fend her off, if you can't the count starts at zero again." Sesshoumaru explained, Aki could see that the demon plane was getting to him now. Sesshoumaru and Ceci took off and Aki went and found a nice place to hide while she waited. By the time night came Ceci still hadn't finished her laps and Aki was leaning up against Sesshoumaru sleeping. Her head was on his shoulder and Ceci was still doing her 49th lap. Then she came around again.

The last lap! Ceci thought. Sesshoumaru watched Ceci, suddenly his ears perked up and Aki opened her slitted eyes. They looked to the East.

"The war is upon us and all too soon." Aki said as Sesshoumaru nodded in agreement, they took off inside the castle and woke all the generals.

"Prepare for battle! No one sleeps!" Sesshoumaru yelled, the authority clear in his voice.

"Let's move it you lazy bags of sand!" Aki yelled. The whole castle was in an uproar and Ceci ran to Rin's room, while Aki got her half of the troops organized, war had come and all too soon. This was going to be a long night. "HURRY UP!" Aki roared to the troops, they were afraid of Aki since she was more prone to kill anyone than protect her troops. She was suddenly turned around and kissed, it was Sesshoumaru.

"If either of us don't live through this I want you to know that I love you." Sesshoumaru said, Aki smiled.

"I love you to and neither of us is going to die, we're too awesome for that." Sesshoumaru laughed and returned to his troops. "At least I hope not…" Aki added when he was out of hearing distance, soon the troops were outside of the castle and waiting for battle, thousands of demons were lined up haphazardly but they look strong. Death stood at the front and he wore a smile on his face that made Aki mad, she just wanted to kill him to wipe that disgusting smile off his face.

"Surrender now and you can live, if you don't surrender you'll all die." Death called. Aki and Sesshoumaru growled, the other lords and ladies were in armor and ready to attack.

"We will NEVER surrender to the likes of you! We'd rather die!" Aki growled at him.

"So be it, you'll die and then I'll rule with Nyx by my side." Death said. "ATTACK!" he yelled.

"LEAVE NONE ALIVE! CHARGE!" Sesshoumaru and Aki yelled in unison as they charged in. Aki lost herself in blood lust and started killing the enemy as fast as they neared her, Death was watching from above and laughing at her.

"Heheheheheheh, you'll never win, you're to nice to win." Death muttered to her Aki looked up and glared.

"Get down here coward! I swear, I'll make in painless as I rip your heart out." Aki said, Sesshoumaru was watching, when he noticed that Aki was lost in her blood lust he thought it was a good idea, he closed his eyes and then charged at the enemy with more power than usual.

"Oh no, I'll come down and finish what my army starts, they worship me and they'll not loose." Death said, Aki growled and attacked all those around her, her sword cut into flesh, severed arms, legs, heads, fingers, hands, anything that came near it was lost to the sharp steel. Soon she was covered in blood.

"I have to thank you Death, this is the best fun that I've had since Naraku let me out the first time. Once I'm done with these small fry I'll come up there and slowly kill you, don't worry, I'll make your death especially painful!" Aki said as she laughed. So far no demons had gotten to the castle, nor would Aki or Sesshoumaru let them. "TIDAL FLAME!" Aki yelled, she curved her hands to look like waves and shoved them out at the enemy, it was black flame and anything it touched was destroyed. The battle dragged on for hours. When the last minion was felled Death stood and growled.

"H-how could this be?" Death growled, then Nyx's spirit appeared.

"This is possible because you're fighting with hatred while those two, are fighting with true love. You will lose Death." Nyx said. She disappeared and Death descended to the ground.

"Finally Death, you're against me now." Aki said she held out her sword, it stopped two feet away from his face. Death summoned Sounga and held it against hers, Aki made the first move, throwing his sword aside and running at him. He parried her sword with amazing speed.

"AKI! NO!" Sesshoumaru yelled, Death held his hand out and daggers appeared, her stomach was open and he used a force to shove them deep into Aki's fleshy stomach. "Damn!" Sesshoumaru growled, he had attempted to get in the fight but there was a shield preventing anyone from entering. The battle between Aki and Death slowly dragged on, no matter what Sesshoumaru couldn't take his eyes away. Death collapsed to the ground as Aki kicked his feet out from underneath him, she was about to stab Death in the heart when Rosaline appeared there to stop her. Rosaline found Aki's sword through her chest.

"I-I didn't say k-k-kill him…I s-said s-stop him." Rosaline whispered, Aki removed her sword from Rosaline's chest and let her drop to the ground.

"You leave yourself wide open when there's a distraction, and you never finish the job." Death whispered in Aki's ear. There were piecing stabs of pain all over her, needles were all over in her skin on her back, it was painful just to move. "Now I'll hurt you even more." Death added, he kicked Aki in the side and rolled her over onto her back.

"Ahhhhh!" Aki screamed, Sesshoumaru banged on the wall.

"AKI!" He yelled desperately. Death stepped on her stomach driving the needles in further.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Aki screamed again. Sesshoumaru growled and punched the wall; it was hard enough to shatter it.

"Get away from her!" Sesshoumaru growled. He punched Death to get him away from Aki, Aki was panting and in a cold sweat. "You ok?" Sesshoumaru asked, Aki opened on eye and looked at him.

"I've been better." Aki admitted, as she was lost to darkness. Sesshoumaru growled and attacked Death.

"I'll kill you!" Sesshoumaru growled, Death smiled and let Sesshoumaru knock the sword out of his hands.

"Nn…" Aki said, her eyes opened and she noticed that Sounga was sticking out of her chest. "Th-that was-wasn't there b-b-b-before." Aki said as she coughed up her own blood onto her front, Sesshoumaru's hand moved so fast as he reached out to grab Death's heart, he pulled it out and looked at it.

"Don't!" Death said, Sesshoumaru beheaded the dragon and Death was dead, Sesshoumaru ran over to Aki.

"Aki." Sesshoumaru whispered. Aki's eyes fluttered open and she looked into Sesshoumaru's deep amber eyes. "Don't leave me Aki." He said.

"There's n-nothing m-more I can d-d-do here." Aki managed as she gasped for air. "I l-love you an-and no-noth-nothing can c-change that." Aki added Sesshoumaru held back the tears that were threatening to flow freely. "I'll come back, don't worry, pl-please wait for me…" Aki said, her eyes closed, they were never to open again, and he couldn't do anything to hold them back anymore. Kagome's eyes watered and she buried her face into InuYasha's chest, Sango's eyes held a deep sadness, the tears started to flow down her face and Miroku pulled her face to his shoulder to comfort her.

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Oddone: There's the end! One more chapter than the other.

Aki: …

Oddone: Neither of us owns InuYasha.

Aki: …

Oddone: Yeah, I don't think many people liked this one but whatever.

Aki: …

Oddone: I have an idea for a third one!

Aki: …

Oddone: Bye bye!