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Chapter nine.

" CHOOSE INUYAHSA! CHOOSE NOW!". The words kept repeating themselves over and over in Inuyasha's head. What was happening? This surely wasn't. Time stopped for Inuyasha. He just stared as the two he most loved plummeted towards their death. They were both drifting apart from each other. There was no way he could catch both of them. He had to choose. There was no way around it. It was all so utterly confusing, frustrating, and so damn wrong. Naraku's pale form was drifting in the air above him. His eyes were gleaming of pleasure, his lips turned up in a smug smile, he looked most repulsive. This man, this demon, this person, had ruined so many lives. He had played with them for his own pleasure. He was doing the same with Inuyasha. Inuyasha was a part of the play Naraku was running. He was a puppet in his show. He was doing his bidding. It sickened him to no end. He was so angry, so exasperated. He turned his attention from his rage to what was happening around him. Both the bodies of Kikyou and Kagome was falling and moving away from each other. Kikyou's eyes were closed. Kagome too was unaware of her surrounding. The scene was hard to watch. He wanted to shun the world and close his eyes to reality. He just wanted to be at peace. Why did God punish him so? Why did everything have to be so complicated? Kagome, or Kikyou? He couldn't save them both. He couldn't. He had vowed to protect them. Both Kikyou and Kagome. He had promised that he would protect them. But now he himself had to let one of them die. This was not done. This most certainly wasn't. He was at loss, his mind was telling him something, and his heart was telling him the opposite, and in the end his thoughts were totally nothing.

This is not happening. This is not happening. Naraku you devil. I cannot do this. I cannot. The decision. It's not that tough. I can just choose Kikyou, Kagome is not… oh my god! Kagome! Kikyou! Please someone help me.

As if God heard his mental plea, everything stopped. And that meant everything. He turned around confused. Inuyasha was still in the castle; he looked behind him and vaguely saw figures of his friends running towards him. But they weren't running. It was as if they had been stopped, they were still, and they weren't running at all. It was like a still shot. He looked above him and saw Kikyou and Naraku, but Kagome was nowhere to be seen. This aroused panic. He didn't care that he could save Kikyou now and then look for Kagome, (he isn't the brightest, we all know that) he started to call out her name, " KAGOME! KAGOME! WHERE ARE YOU?" he started to scream his lungs out, and he would have nearly missed the voice had it not been for his sensitive hearing. He heard the soft whisper of his name and everything around him turned black. He could see nothing now. He was in a black void. Nothing was there. Just him and the stillness around him. He had no clue as to what was happening. He was sure that he had been fighting with Naraku a minute ago, but where was he now? This was confusing, and Inuyasha being as he was, started to get impatient. He started to run to his right, then his left, but he wherever he went, all he saw was darkness. Emptiness.

Where the hell am I? I don't have to be here. This is not the time. Where is this place anyway? And why wasn't Kagome there when everything stopped. The thought of her missing brought worry to his heart. Kagome, Kagome, where are you? I want you? I have to protect you.

I need you, I… I… I… I love you.

As soon as this thought crossed his mind, bright light filled the void. He looked above him, and what he saw was unbelievable. He saw Kagome! She was wearing a white gown that went till her knees, her hair flowing all around her, an unearthly glow surrounding her. She floated down to him. He had his mouth open. He just kept looking at her. She looked so beautiful. But he didn't know who she was.

" Who are you?"

" I am who you most desire."

" Who are you?"

" You just thought of me."

" Kagome?"

" Do you think I am her?"

" I.. I don't know. You look like her, but…"

" I am her."

" How?"

" Where are you Inuyasha? Do you know?"

" How am I supposed to know that?"

" Hn. this is what's left of me. I am going to die soon. I depend on you."

" Speak wench. I can't understand what the fuck you are trying to tell me here."

" Be patient my dear, answer me this, why am I still alive. Why is Kagome still alive. Shouldn't she be dead now that most her soul is gone? Now that Naraku has her?"

Inuyasha had been going over the same topic himself. Kagome was just a human. She couldn't survive long. But still she did, it was not as if he wasn't glad, it was just that it was very odd.

" I don't know."

" Ah! But you do. Remember Kikyou telling you she couldn't get a part of my soul? Remember?"

" I do."

" I am that part Inuyasha. I am the one. I am here to help you. There were some things that I wanted to let you know before I die. I wanted you to listen and when you called out to me I knew how." Inuyasha opened his mouth to speak, but she stopped him, " Please don't interrupt. I know that you are confused, and maybe I am making this even worse for you, but forgive me I had to do this. As soon as I have said what I want to you will be returned to your own time. You'll have to choose between me and your former love. I don't know who you will choose, but I do know that somehow my surviving this long had to do with you. I am the part that loves you Inuyasha. I belong to you alone. I wouldn't give anyone, this part, you are the only one I'll let in. I am the part that is only for you. I am you. I am the heart that beats within you. I am… Kagome. I love you. I love you with all my heart. I know this will be hard for you, but I just wanted you to know that whatever, or whoever you choose, I won't mind, I won't regret. I love you and that's all that I need. I'll always know that when I died you thought of me. I'll always know that I was a part of your life. I'll always know that I was yours, and you were mine. I'll always be with you. Forever. Even if I die, I will be a part of you. I will always be there. I love you. I want you to be happy."

She stopped and closed her eyes, then said, "Its time to go now. Choose whomever you wish to be with, I won't regret, I wont be sad, and I won't be mad. Just do whatever your heart tells you to."

Inuyasha was about to speak but his words were taken away from him as Kagome kissed his lips and then vanished into thin air.

He was back. Back where he started. Naraku above him, his friends running towards him and the life of two hanging in balance.

Kagome.

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