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"The smell of blood has filled this room. If I could do it all again, I would change most every single thing. I would let you kiss me, kill me. Your kiss is torture. But killing me would be too easy. Kiss me, you're all I'm wanting. Kill me, this feeling's haunting."

Aitou grinned and then looked down at Sango. "My power, however, I can induce dreams are more than one person at a time. While Dosakusa is busy with your little miko lover, I will toy with the houshi and tajiiya."

The blue eyes of the boy flashed and his body turned into nothing but what seemed like a flash of steel light. His body then flew into Sango's head and then jumped back out and flew to Miroku's. Both of them instantly grimaced and tumbled in their sleep. Aitou bounced back out of Miroku and curled up in the corner of the room to watch both his and his sister's works.

While Kagome was dreaming of her worst nightmare, Sango was reliving her worst nightmare. She was back at Naraku's castle with her father and fellow demon slayers. Kohaku was beside her, his head down. She was forced to relive attacking the giant spider demon and then turning to see Kohaku's sickle in her father's neck, splattering blood everywhere. She could only watch in horror as he turned his attacks on her.

Shippo was over at Sango's side in that instant, shaking her awake. Of course she did not stir, but she mumbled his name and then rolled over, her face contorted into one of intense pain.

Kagome was running out of breath, her heart was heavy and her throat and side hurt from her exertions. But now she could feel Inuyasha's hot breath on the back of her neck and the fear for her life is what kept her going. Then she heard the sound of claws slicing through the air and she knew she had no chance of ducking in time. His long nails cut right through her school blouse and ripped through the tender skin of her back, causing her to scream out in agony. But she did not slow down an iota. In fact, her speed increased as the pain in her back did.

Inuyasha not only smelled but saw the slices on Kagome's back suddenly appear and heard her agonized scream as blood flowed all over her clothes and sleeping bag.

"KAGOME!" he howled, scooping her into his arms. "Dammit all, Kagome, wake the hell up already! Please!" He looked at Shippo, whose bright green eyes were so blurry with tears and called him over. "Shippo, get Kagome's first aid kit, we're going to do our damndest to clean her up."

Shippo, who wasn't so distraught that he missed the tears in Inuyasha's own amber eyes, nodded eagerly and dug through her yellow backpack to fetch what the hanyou had asked for. When he received it, Inuyasha and Shippo worked quickly to try and ease Kagome's apparent pain, but with each passing second, her heart rate increased and her breath shorter.

Of course, not only were Sango and Kagome having nightmares, but also Miroku was in the middle of a very desperate time in his life. He was only a child again, living at Master Moushi's with his father. He was in the house, looking out at his father as he stood in the middle of the field, observing his right hand. Miroku could watch as the Kaza Ana that had been passed from his grandfather explode and suddenly begin to swallow his dad alive. And Moushi certainly did nothing to help, he merely held Miroku back as he tried to go and help his dying father.

Inuyasha looked around the room at Sango, Miroku and Kagome and realized that there was nothing that he can do. Someone calling out their names does not break the sleeping spells cast on them by the twin demons. Of course he saw that when Kirara pawed at her mistress's face, Aitou's eyes suddenly grew worried.

"Inuyasha, look at the demon's face," he whispered for his ears only. Inuyasha looked down at Kirara who was desperately mewling and pawing Sango's cheek. It was then that the tiny cat demon licked her face when Sango began to stir. All four demons in the room looked in shock at the demon slayer opened her eyes and sat up.

"Inuyasha? Shippo-chan? What happened?" she asked hoarsely.

"You were under Aitou's control," Inuyasha explained. "Kirara was the one who broke your spell…"

"Kirara?" Sango looked down at the cat that was sitting loyally by her side. Sango reached out and picked her beloved demon up and held her tightly. "Oh Kirara, I…I saw father and Kohaku being killed over and over again…"

"How did Kirara manage to wake up Sango when we couldn't?" Shippo asked Inuyasha. "Why could Kirara reach her?"

Inuyasha looked over at Aitou and saw the boy snarling soundlessly at Kirara, his eyes flashing red. He looked more like an animal than boy at that moment.

"What's wrong, demon?" Inuyasha asked him. "Kirara ruin your plans?"

"How did…Kirara?" Sango looked down at her cat and then back up to the demon boy who was fuming before them.

The air in the room suddenly switched. It seemed that Aitou could manipulate the air too, for Shippo and Kirara shuddered and ducked behind Sango. The scent made Inuyasha cringe and bear his teeth at the young ghost, who was hunched over, shaking violently. "Something wrong, half-demon?" he asked pleasantly.

"What the hell are you doing?" he asked as Shippo and Kirara toppled over. "Wake them up!"

"Fools. You're all damned fools. Don't fuck with me!" he shouted.

Inuyasha snarled and dove at the boy, knocking him to the ground, pinning him by his shoulders. The boy frowned as Kirara and Shippo stirred again. Sango picked Kirara up into her arms and held her tightly.

"Tell me how to wake Kagome up!" Inuyasha ordered darkly, his fangs shining in the dim light.

Aitou raised an eyebrow. "Like I would really tell you that!"

"Sango!" Shippo cried. "Kiss Miroku!"

"WHAT?" everyone asked at the same time.

"What if Sango kisses Miroku? Maybe he'll wake up," Shippo suggested.

Sango looked at both of them and then back to Miroku. "He's under the spell too?" She released Kirara and rushed over to his side and knelt down by his head. Her hands stroked his hair as she watched him thrash under the futon cover. What could he be dreaming of that shook him so?

"Miroku-sama, wake up…" she whispered to him. "It's me, it's Sango. It's all right…"

He did not wake and Aitou smirked to himself. Like there was any way that that stupid demon slayer could break the spell…

But it was Shippo that called out the answer. "Sango, kiss him!"

"Kiss him? Are you sure?" Her cheeks went red.

"Yes! I just said that! Kirara licked your cheek and you woke up! Try kissing Miroku!"

It was Inuyasha's turn to blush after that, because he knew what Shippo would ask of him after Sango woke Miroku. The kit would ask him to kiss Kagome in order to awaken her. But he wouldn't do it, not in front of all of them.

While Inuyasha was distracted with his own thoughts, Aitou managed to slip out from underneath him and disappear. The hanyou swore and looked around the room, but the boy was nowhere to be found.

Sango, ignoring the hotness in her cheeks, looked down at Miroku's pained face and set her resolve. Picking his head up in her arms, she bent her face down to his and pressed her lips very lightly against his.

Shippo ducked behind Inuyasha with embarrassment but watched as Miroku's eyes fluttered and his lids slowly peeled back to see Sango's cheeks stained with tears and her lips touching his. Inuyasha looked away when Miroku closed his eyes and kissed her back and focused on Kagome. She was still crying and still panting as though running. He knew what he had to do, but knew that he couldn't.

Meanwhile, Kagome was quickly losing the speed she had had in the beginning of the chase. Her side was screaming in protest with every step that she took and she had to duck every few seconds so Inuyasha didn't slash her head off. She wondered why he didn't just cut in front of her and attack her but she came to the conclusion that he liked the chase and would continue to chase her until she collapsed.

She wasn't sure how long she had been running until she reached the Bone-Eater's well again. Cursing her lack of direction, she tried to jump into the well but a strong hand grabbed her forearm and pulled her back.

Wanting her to wake now that she was huffing like she was having a heart attack and screaming at the top of her lungs, Inuyasha grabbed her arms and pulled her into a sitting position. He knew that Sango and Miroku weren't looking, they were too immersed in each other's misery to realize what he had done. Shippo looked on but did not speak a word to the half-demon.

Aitou glared darkly in the corner at the group. He inwardly cursed at the fact that they had figured out how to break his spell. Of course, the kiss of someone who loved you would wake you from his nightmare…something peaceful and happy unlike the spells they cast…but Dosakusa's was a bit more difficult to be woken from.

"You won't wake her, Inuyasha," he called out to the hanyou. "Last time I checked, Kikyo was your true love and not Kagome."

"What?" he asked, cocking his head.

Sango and Miroku exchanged worried looks and stared down at Kagome's tormented face and realized that Aitou was right. Inuyasha could not wake Kagome as long as he still loved Kikyo more than her. Unlike with them, they were the most important things to each other and it even went for Kirara and Sango. It hurt Sango to think that Inuyasha's heart did not love Kagome enough to save her.

Aitou merely smiled and his eyes began to flash the brilliant sky blue color that they had turned before he invaded the dreams of Sango and Miroku. With quick as lightning flash, he had dashed into Kagome's head to join his sister.

"NO!" Inuyasha screamed, shaking Kagome. "Wake up! Don't let them both get to you, Kagome!"

Kagome watched as her dream began to shift slightly. While the full demon Inuyasha was still glaring menacingly at her and holding her arm, she saw Kikyo in the background, looming behind a tree.

"Kikyo!" she shouted to the other miko. "Kikyo, Inuyasha's turned into a full demon!"

Kikyo's mouth turned upward into a small smile as she walked slowly through the forest and into the clearing where she and Inuyasha stood. She ignored Inuyasha for a moment and took out an arrow and fired it at Kagome, grazing her cheek and creating a giant hole behind her. Kagome looked down as her feet gave way to the hold and she fell into it, causing Inuyasha to release her arm.

Unlike the time that this had happened before, she could see Inuyasha and Kikyo on the ground meters above her. She watched as Inuyasha, even in his full demon state, reached out and took Kikyo in his arms and held her to his chest.

"I'll protect you from Naraku," he said huskily to her.

"Inuyasha!" she shrieked out to him, jumping to her feet.

Inuyasha jumped when he heard Kagome scream his name and touched her cheek when he saw a tiny scratch appear there. What on earth was going on that was causing all of this?

Suddenly a memory flashed through his brain, a memory of that same scratch on Kagome's cheek…back when Kikyo had been alive, way before Sango had joined them…

Kikyo had taken Kagome's jewel shards and given them to Naraku, not after she had tried to kill the poor girl first, however. He realized with a strong pang of regret in his heart that Kagome was reliving that moment in her life.

"No, no, not that…" he whispered as Kagome lay limp in his arms.

Kagome could only watch in horror as Inuyasha bent down to kiss the woman that he had loved first. She could only sit in her hole and sob as they began to walk away from the hole that she was forced into.

"Inuyasha…" she sobbed. "Don't leave me…Don't go with Kikyo…"

The real Inuyasha realized now that something else was going on in her dream for she had mentioned Kikyo. Why would he go with Kikyo? Unless her dream was shifting again to another time, a time when she thought that he would go to hell with Kikyo…

"Shit! Stop that!" he shouted to the twins inside of Kagome. "Don't force her to relive that!" The last thing he wanted was Kagome to experience that pain again, the pain of her realizing that he loved Kikyo more than he did her.

"That's not true now!" he howled. "It's not, Kagome! Don't believe anything that you see, I swear it's all a lie!"

Kagome looked up out of the hole and realized with determination that she would have to climb out of the hole if wanted to escape. Weak from blood loss, she gripped a part the wall of the hole and tried to hoist herself up. It was no use; however, her body was too tired from running and anemic from the wound in her back. She slid down the wall until she hit the floor again and curled up into a ball and began to sob.

"I should've never have come here," she wept. "There's no room for me in Inuyasha's heart…I'm just second place."

"Kagome!" she heard someone scream her name. She didn't realize that it wasn't the dream Inuyasha that had walked off with Kikyo, but the Inuyasha that was desperately trying to wake her up.

"Inu…Inuyasha?" she asked softly.

"That's not true now! It's not, Kagome! Don't believe anything that you see, I swear it's all a lie!" she heard him shout.

"Why would you say that to me after you walked off with Kikyo? What kind of person are you, toying with my emotions like that?"

"They're lying! You're not really there, Kagome! Wake up!"

"No," she moaned. "I am! You left me! Go away!"

"Dammit all, Kagome!"

A sudden rush of air caused her to open her eyes and look up. Inuyasha was kneeling before her, only he was back to his half-demon state, the state that he had been in when this had all started. She looked at his hip and saw the Tetsusaiga was safely in its sheath.

"You're dreaming, Kagome!" he growled at her. "None of this is real! You have to believe me, I would never leave you."

"No!" she yelled again. "You tried to kill me, Kikyo tried to kill me! You left me in this damn hole to rot!"

"No, no, Kagome. It's the twins! They're doing this to you…I swear."

"Get away from me," she ordered as his arms wound around her, pulling her in closer to him.

Of course, while Kagome dreamed up this conversation, it was really happening between her and Inuyasha. While she mumbled in her sleep, Inuyasha was talking to her, trying with all of his heart to wake her up from the nightmare. His arms held her tightly to him as she screamed and cursed subconsciously at him. But he didn't care at this point. All that mattered was freeing her.

His hands stroked either side of her face as she began to thrash against him. Tears spilled out of her closed eyes and she began to punch his chest with her fists, trying hard to fight him off.

Inuyasha brought her face close to his and breathed on her face gently. She relaxed slightly but still protested their closeness. Her hands pushed on his chest, begging to be released. He knew what he had to do now, and in his heart he knew it was the right thing.

"Come back to me, Kagome," he murmured, his breath tickling her lips.

"Inuyasha…No," she sobbed in his grasp.

Please don't throw things at me! -jumps under computer desk- I'm fully aware that I left it like that and it's mostly on purpose. Need to keep you interested, don't I? hehe (don't hate me, I'll be back before you even realize I'm gone.)

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