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I updated in less than two weeks; that means that people can't throw stuff at me! Well, I barely made the deadline. Thanks to the past reviewers and the new ones for reading and reviewing my story. Don't have much to say this time (except that this title is very long, gotta shorten it on the chapter title…), so here's your chapter.

Chapter 16: Your Suffering Is My Suffering, Your Happiness Is My Happiness

"Just hold on a little longer Kagome. If there's no other way, I'll have to use that," Inuyasha said.

"Inuyasha…" Kagome said weakly.

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As night time passed, Inuyasha stayed up the whole time, deciding whether he should find another way or not, while Kagome was asleep and this time, Kagome saw something else instead of what she usually saw.

"Who's there?" Kagome said as she heard lots of noise coming from outside.

"You're not getting anywhere near Kagome!" somebody shouted.

"What? Who's that? Inuyasha?" Kagome asked as she got up and took a look outside.

"Damn you!" Inuyasha shouted as he jumped to attack a human-like demon.

"I will kill the priestess! She's too much of a threat to us!" the demon shouted as it attacked Inuyasha with all of its strength.

A blinding light came from the explosion caused by the clash between Inuyasha and the demon. "There's no way a mere demon like you can stand up to me!" Inuyasha shouted.

"Too bad for you, cause I'm not a mere demon!" the demon shouted back.

"What!" Inuyasha said.

The blinding light covered the whole area and nothing could be seen.

"Inuyasha? Inuyasha!" Kagome called out blindingly.

As the light passed by and the dust from the explosion blew by, blood splashed all over Kagome. "W-what? I-it can't be… NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Kagome screamed as loud as she could after seeing the sight.

"AH!" Kagome quickly got up. "These nightmares… T-they have… to stop… but, this one was different…it was something worse… much worse… there's… no… way… it…"

Kagome quickly fell back to sleep as she was too drowsy to stay up or think.

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"Okay," Inuyasha said as he finally made up his mind in the morning. "I'm gonna do it. I'll go later today and will make Kagome feel better."

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"Guess what I heard!" Shippo came running towards Sango and Miroku.

"Something's going to happen?" Sango asked.

"Yeah! Someth-" Shippo was interrupted.

"You do seem like in a good mood, so something good should happen, right?" Miroku interrupted.

"Something that's real-" Shippo was once again interrupted.

"Well, if it's something really good then tell us already Shippo," Sango interrupted

"I WAS TRYING TO TELL YOU TWO!" Shippo shouted.

"O-oh… please continue…" Sango said.

"I heard that Inuyasha's found a way to make Kagome feel better!" Shippo exclaimed.

"What!" Miroku said. "Someway to help Lady Kagome?"

"Looks like he really found a way. There he is over there walking looking very determined," Sango said.

"Oh really?" Miroku turned his head towards the direction where Sango pointed and saw Inuyasha.

"He does look very determined," Shippo said.

"Let us hope that it is not too late to help Lady Kagome," Miroku said.

"Don't curse her Miroku!" Shippo scolded.

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"Kagome…" Inuyasha thought.

Now!

"What?" Inuyasha said.

We attack now!

"That aura… It can't be! At least it's just some small fry. But why now!" Inuyasha said as he ran towards outside of the village.

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"Do you sense that?" Miroku asked.

"Sense what?" Sango asked.

"Hey look, Inuyasha is running towards outside of the village," Shippo said.

"I was right," Miroku said.

"Now that you mention it, you're right," Sango said.

"What is it?" Shippo asked.

"Demons. Not strong ones, but there are a lot of them," Miroku answered.

The three of them ran in the direction Inuyasha was running in.

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"Damn. Why are there so many of them?" Inuyasha asked.

"Inuyasha!" Miroku called as the three of them came closer.

"Took you long enough to get here!" Inuyasha shouted.

"That's a lot more demons than I expected," Miroku said.

"It's like an army or all of the demons in the world," Shippo said.

"They're heading towards the village it seems. We have to stop them," Sango said.

"I'm way ahead of you! WIND SCAR!" Inuyasha shouted as he pulled out Tetsusaiga and swung it downwards.

A shockwave was shot from Tetsusaiga and sliced hundreds of demons. The four of them continued to fight off the demons.

"There's… no end to them…" Sango said as she breathed heavily.

"We can't win against that many!" Shippo exclaimed.

"You're not even helping!" Inuyasha shouted. "Huh?"

As everyone continued fighting, Inuyasha felt something fly by him very quickly. "What was that? Was there even something there?" Inuyasha thought.

Time passed, but the demons didn't even seem to decrease in number. "No… way…" Sango said.

"It's almost as if we didn't even kill one yet," Miroku said.

"It's like these guys are only here to buy time… But then they wouldn't be advancing towards the village…" Shippo said as he fell to the floor.

"Buy time?" Inuyasha asked himself. "The thing that flew by! It couldn't possibly be… You guys keep on going! I think something's going on in the village! Just hold on for a bit longer!"

"You think they might… We understand Inuyasha! Go!" Miroku answered.

"We do?" Shippo asked.

"Just keep on fighting for the village's sake!" Miroku answered.

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"What is that!" Inuyasha shouted as he saw a giant circle where in the middle were what seemed to be souls of demons. "What's going on here!"

One last demon came by and it's soul was pulled out of it and was collected in the center of the circle with the rest of the souls. Then a dark orb surrounded all of the souls. "What is that? Some kind of ritual?" Inuyasha asked.

"You guessed right half-demon," the voice sounded like it came from the dark orb.

The orb soon exploded and a human-like demon appeared. "What are you?" Inuyasha asked, and then he leaped towards the demon. "… YOU! YOU STINK OF NARAKU! THAT BASTARD'S SUPPOSED TO BE DEAD!"

"You're half right!" the demon repelled Inuyasha with a barrier. "I simply am many demons fused together, borrowing a bit of that Naraku's power."

"Looks like Naraku's pretty popular," Inuyasha answered.

"Enough talk. I have some business to attend to," the demon turned around and faced Kaede's hut.

"What! What are you going to do to Kagome!" Inuyasha shouted.

"You catch on fast. I'm going to eliminate this annoying priestess. She could be bothersome in the future. There's too much sacred power coming from her, so we must get rid of it, and in order to do that, I have to kill her," the demon answered.

"I'm not gonna let you!" Inuyasha shouted as he jumped in front of the hut.

"What is this priestess to you?" the demon asked. "She is a mere human. You want to have power don't you? If you come with me I'll make you a whole demon and give you power beyond your dreams!"

"You wanna know! I love her you bastard! You got that! I kept a promise to her! And I don't want to be a full demon! Especially if I have to go with an asshole like you! You're not going to remember anything I just said though because I'm going to kill you now bitch!" Inuyasha shouted.

"Be that way! DIE!" the demon shouted.

"Backlash Wave!" Inuyasha shouted and the attack pierced the demon's barrier. "That barrier can't stop me!"

"It doesn't matter!" the demon shouted as he continued to attack.

"Damn you!" Inuyasha shouted.

"What!" Kagome was crying a lot a few seconds ago, but her images and nightmares all stopped as she felt a jolt in her head, she can now barely even remember the details of their argument. "Why do I feel better all of a sudden? It's like I'm cured…wait! Inuyasha said… noise outside… Inuyasha!"

"I will kill the priestess!" the demon shouted.

"KONGASHUHA!" Inuyasha jumped and shouted as millions of sharp diamonds came shooting out of his sword.

"That won't stop me!" the demon's arm extended and transformed into a blade, piercing Inuyasha's body and creating a huge hole as the diamonds pierced his own body.

"Wh-what?" Inuyasha said as he coughed up tons of blood and blood flowed through the giant hole in his body.

"If I'm going to die, so will you! If the priestess won't die, then her lover will just have to!"

"Gah!" Inuyasha noticed that the demon's arm pierced his heart and the hole was where his heart partially was.

"D-damn… This can't be happening can it?" Inuyasha asked himself. "I'm sorry Kagome…"

"Inuyasha!" Kagome shouted.

"Kagome?" Inuyasha answered Kagome's call as his body fell fro the sky. "You shouldn't be out of the hut yet, you're not… better…"

"But I am! I feel much better! All those bad things are gone! Please tell me you're okay Inuyasha!" Kagome shouted.

Inuyasha's body fell and Kagome caught him and fell to the ground. "You're… really better?" Inuyasha said. "Damn… when Kagome gets better, my heart gets pierced… I won't be able to last long…"

"Please! Please tell me you're fine! That's a small would for a demon like you right?" Kagome asked as she began to cry and notice the blood leaking from Inuyasha's wound.

"I'm sorry Kagome… This is some wound really… I can't believe it did this much damage to me… I guess I am pathetic after all.."

"No… You can't really be…"

"I'm sorry…"

"No…"

"You've had your turn to suffer… and… now… it's mine…"

"Inuyasha… Please… don't…"

"When you suffer… I should suffer too… when you're happy… I should be happy too… Your suffering is my suffering, and your happiness is my happiness… so…"

"I-Inuyasha…"

"So… no matter what happens… to me… you must live… and live a happy life… If you're happy, I'll be happy, no matter where I am……"

"Don't say that kind of stuff! You'll be fine! We still have so much to live for! And what about your promise!" By now, a lot of blood has flowed down Kagome's knees and to the ground, creating a little pool of blood.

"My promise?... I never… forgot… about it… I'm sorry… Kagome… I'm glad though…… that we…… could be… together… that we met……………" Inuyasha's eyes slowly closed.

"Inuyasha…… It can't be… I want to be with you longer… please……… INUYASHAAAAAAA!" Kagome screamed as loud as she could as she was crying.

The chapter ends here. I hope you liked the chapter. And I'll be sure to do my best to write the next one as soon as possible. Thanks for reading and reviewing for everyone who has reviewed!

Next Time: You Were Everything To Me…