And now out of popular demand, I present to you:

Explanation of Inu's dream:

Darkness.

Everywhere he looked was complete and utter darkness.

He growled at it, as if in a challenge, and the darkness accepted, reaching out its icy fingers and wrapping around him in an embrace close to that of death.

Obviously, the whole thing starts out where Inu can't see anything. Bing bing bing! Just like little Jiko's dream. So yeah, he doesn't like it, and growls at it, and the darkness suddenly makes him freeze to death. Personally, I think it sounds better in fancy talk.

Then, pain blazes through his forehead and feels like it's being ripped out of the side of his head. Yet again, a connection with Jiko's dream. Which means, Inu-baby's dream starts the way Jiko's ends, except Inu can't see what the heck is going on and Jiko's not there.

"Wake up . . ."

A juvenile voice called through all the blackness and agony to reach his delicate ears, seemingly entering his body and touching his soul.

Inu closed his eyes a little while before all this happened, and out of nowhere this little girl's voice calls out to him. Desire.

Seeing as it's such a sweet voice and it affects him in weird ways, he listens, and all the blackness has magically turned into whiteness. So now Inu-baby's sittin' in a big space of whiteness with nothin' in view but this tiny red speck that he really doesn't give a damn about at this point.

Of course, naturally the hanyou will want to know who the heck this girl is. He looks left, looks right, no one's there. Big surprise. Then she tells him to 'go to her' and not seeing anything better to do, Inu does just that.

What he came across was completely opposite of what he had thought would be something that he'd want to see. He completely forgot about his pain as he merely stood with wide eyes, staring at the mass of black, white, and red.

He wanted to speak, but his voice was still gone, and his body trembled so much that he doubted that he could anyway.

What Inu comes across is none other than Kagome after Jiko's daddy finished with her. However, when he gets closer to her, the blood from her wounds seems to stain the whiteness the color of blood, and when he touches her, the whole place goes crimson.

It's at this point as he looks over her wounds that he's overcome by so many emotions that he can't express any of them, so he just picks her up and buries his face in her hair.

Now I shall explain the literal translations of everything Desire says:

"Sad, isn't it?"

Inu: "Are you the one that did this to her!"

"Yes. Yes I did." (It was her desires that did this to her.)

Inu: "Then come out you coward!"

"She could've escaped him, that she could, but I made her stay. Isn't it such a heartbreaker?" (She could've escaped Jiko's daddy, but her desire to protect Jiko made her stay. Isn't it sad?)

"You shouldn't get so mad. It's what she wanted, after all. She'd've died anyday for me." (You shouldn't get mad about it. She wanted to protect Jiko after all. She'd've died anyday to protect him.)

Inu: "What're you- !"

"Tsk tsk, little hanyou. Look what you're doing now." (Geez, now you're hurting Kagome cause you're so pissed.)

Of course, Inu realizes what he's doin' and freaks out, gently setting Kagome down on the ground and just staring at her.

"You shouldn't get so angry next time. Such things often happen when one lets go of their rage." (People do that kind of thing a lot when they get too angry.)

Inu, getting absolutely terrified by what he had done, suddenly can't take it anymore and runs away from her body, Desire follows him, saying what I think are rather straightforward lines about how he did that a lot when he was a kid. Then she suggests that he should go cry into his mother's arms.

Before the voice answered, however, he felt the blood from his wounds start to retreat back inside of him. His clothes soon felt incredibly loose as he felt his hair shorten and the deep rasping of his breathing heighten.

"What are you doing to me!" he said in a small squeak of a voice, now running out of the endless red into a serene orchard, one that he recognized.

…gasp… IT'S BABY INU! …screams, running over to him and huggling him…

Anyway, what's goin' on is that Desire has changed Inu back into a kid again, sending him back to the place he grew up as a kid. In fact, his mom is there! And boy does Inu-baby like that! So he runs over to her, practically on the verge of tears and starts saying that Kagome's dead over and over again, though more like "She's dead . . . She's dead and there's nothing I can do . . ."

Inuyasha gasped slightly in surprise. It wasn't his mother's voice anymore . . . it was . . .

"Who?"

He looked up into Kagome's eyes, shining with motherly empathy.

So while Inu was hugging Izayoi, she magically transformed into Kagome, isn't it sweet? Kagome hugging baby Inu . . .

And they're now in an abandoned hut somewhere in the red plain, by the way. Just wanna help paint the picture.

'Mommy?' Inuyasha looked back up at her, but this time, a bit of messy red hair fell in front of his eyes. He blinked at it, then tried to twitch his ears, but found them to be point little appendages on the sides of his head. 'What the hell did that girl do to me!'

And now Inu's in Jiko's body too! Can you just imagine how weird that'd feel for poor Inu-baby? Here's the woman he loves treating him like her son!

So anyway, being his somewhat mother now, Kagome goes on her way putting him to bed, and then there's a little scene change where we see what's happened to Kag. Evil conniving bastard Jiko's daddy!

Then we go back to Inu's dream, which everyone obviously missed part of, seeing as dream Kag's now asleep. Inu's pretty damn pissed at Desire at this point, and after making sure that Kag's asleep, he runs outside to find her.

After he was sure that Kagome was asleep, Inuyasha got up and ran outside, trying to find the damned girl that had stuck him in Jiko's body. "Where are you! Show yourself you coward!"

All that reached his ears was a slight giggling, and a white ball bounced by. Soon after came a little girl with auburn hair and emerald green eyes in a short light red kimono.

And so Inu-baby has finally laid eyes on Desire. Sure she looks innocent enough, but I doubt innocence can stop a vengeful hanyou like Inuyasha. This is especially true after he hears her talk and finds out that she is indeed the same girl that had been tormenting him. Most of her lines are straightforward at this point, but there is one that is kinda confusing.

"You can't kill me. As long as you're around, I'll be too. Even Kagome tried to kill me, but she also failed. Such sadness it is . . . why would anyone want to kill me?" (You can't kill your desires. As long as you (or anyone else for that matter) live, you'll still have desire. Even Kagome tried to rid herself of her desires for you, but she couldn't do that either. It's so sad . . . why would anyone want to kill their desires?)

Confusing much? Anyway, she and Inu have a little bit of dialogue in which Inu-baby tells her that he wants to be himself again so that he can talk to Kagome in his normal form. Enter another confusing line by Desire.

"Doing so will help me, that it will. I'll happily do it!" (Changing you back to normal will help soothe her overwhelming desires. I'll happily do it!)

For some reason, I have her talking like Kenshin through this whole thing. I'm surprised I didn't have her say 'Oro?' once or twice.

Anyway, enter fluff. I hope nobody needs an explanation for that, but if you do, just e-mail me or chat with me on AIM (Overobsessy) or YIM (inuyashafreak9889), and I'll explain.

So yeah, on to the confusingness. After Kagome and Inuyasha exchange a little half kiss, Kagome magically disappears, and Inu-baby finds himself back in the red plain. I actually think that Desire's line is pretty funny here.

"That's enough fantasy for you."

And then we all get to enjoy a lot more confusing dialogue.

Inu: "You're dead, girl!"

"Don't you get it, little hanyou? You can't kill me. Besides, you won't remember that meeting anyway." (Don't you get it already? You can't kill your desires. Besides, this is just a dream, and you won't remember what happened anyway.)

Inu: "I won't?"

"It's just a dream, silly."

Inu: "Just a . . . dream?"

"Isn't it obvious? You sure are strange, little hanyou."

"Will you stop calling me that! You're the little one around here!"

"No, I'm not. I've been around since the beginning of time. This is just one of my forms." (I'm not really a little kid. Desire's been around as long as there have been people around. I'm just in the form of innocence right now.)

Inu: "Who the heck are you!"

"Hmmmmm . . . I don't know." (This one's hard to make a literal translation for. So let's just say that Desire really isn't a person, but an idea, so therefore, she really has no name.)

Inu: "You don't know your own name!"

"I have no name. I don't know who I am. I know what I am, but that's not what you asked, now is it?" (Yet again, she's an idea, not a person. Ideas fall under whats instead of whos.)

Inu: "Then what are you?"

"Ganmou, vouloir, begehren." She started to slowly walk towards him, growing taller with every step, maturing with every breath. "Appetitio, deseo, bramare."

"In a language I can understand, please!"

She stopped, and the hanyou blinked, staring at her new appearance. It seemed now that she was a drop dead beauty. In fact, that was an understatement. Her deep, reddish-brown hair fell in little curls just below her shoulders. Her absolutely dazzling green eyes blazed with a determined fire. Every single curve of her body moved just the right way as she started to approach him again.

"Desire . . ." She brushed a hand over his cheek and pressed her lips to his in an incredibly soft kiss.

Basically what she says in her first line there is "Desire, desire, desire, desire, desire, desire." Of course, it's not what she says that matters, it's the fact that she's changing into a much more adult form. But because of what she is, she's extremely beautiful. After all, when desire's not innocent, it's beautiful, or . . . ugly . . . in some cases . . . but that's for another form.

Some people might be confused about the kiss, but she explains her motives in her next line.

"Of course . . . what Kagome desires . . . is you . . . consider that from her."

She only kissed him cause that is one of the things that Kagome truly desires with all her heart. That and her want for Jiko's safety.

Then comes yet more dialogue in which Desire states where Kagome is and that she's hurt pretty damn badly, but that she really didn't need to tell him cause he wouldn't remember anyway. Inu, of course, wants to remember, and he also wants to know what the hell happened to her.

"I want to remember!" he yelled with desperation.

"You can't. If you remember this dream, all that she has worked for will be destroyed."

"What?"

"Should you remember this dream, what you experienced will come to pass."

Inu really needs to learn to heed warnings when they're given to him. But basically what Desire says here is "Should you remember this dream, Kagome's secret will be tossed out into the open and what you dreamt will come to pass." In other words, little Jiko's dream'd become a reality.

So Inuyasha tries a different tactic, asking her to at least let him remember that Kagome loves him. After considering this for a bit, Desire agrees, but says that she must tell him something else. All the while, she's creating this huge aura with her hand that is even removing the red from the floor and making it hover in the air!

"Know this." The woman's voice had split, and her eyes glowed red. "All that Kagome desires now is the safety of her son. For this reason, you must not learn the truth. Should you learn of it, it will cause her suffering. Should the boy learn of it, it shall cause even more suffering. Should both of you learn of it . . ." She clenched her fist, and the aura was silent and still for a moment. "It will destroy her. Should either learn, the other will as well, and her death would be inevitable."

So Desire goes all freaky on us, and basically says that if Inuyasha or Jiko find out the truth, Kagome will suffer because of it and then die. She also makes a point of somewhat telling Inu-baby to stay away from her as 'all that Kagome desires now is the safety of her son.' In other words, Kagome has put off her desire for Inuyasha out of concern for little Jiko.

And with that, there is a blinding flash of white and red, and Inuyasha wakes up.

Hope this helped.

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