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When You Wish Upon A…!

(Hikari: "Stop singing that song!!")

"You're gunna WHAT?!?" Hikari wailed, a pathetic Naraku rocking on his haunches and foaming at the mouth. "But I haven't even lost my virginity yet!"

"… Well, we're going to make everything all happy!" Reiki stated, keeping a secret. "We just need Naraku, and then it'll all be done!"

"I'm yours," he said gratefully, latching himself to her leg and keeping a wary eye on Hikari.

"Done deal," Reiki replied, walking off as Naraku still clung to her. Hikari tagged along curiously. "The show's about to begin!" Reiki announced to the world.

(off in some random direction)

"Why am I doing this again?" Sango questioned, slapping signs onto random trees which pointed in a certain direction. They said, 'Portal to Hell, Inu-Yasha's waiting.' She heard something and hid behind a bush, the targeted crowd approaching. Sango was surprised to see a smiling Kikyo walking towards the meeting ground, her spirit skimmers in tow.

(At the foot of our favorite tree)

Inu-Yasha woke up bound and gagged with a gray substance he had never smelled nor seen before. He was sitting propped against the Tree of Ages, and be began to try to wriggle out of his bindings.

"Nay, waste not your energy," Kaede advised, thoroughly hidden. Not even Inu-Yasha could find her, save for by following her voice. He started searching frantically for the bitch, thoroughly enraged by being tied again, but it was then that Kikyo emerged from the woods.

"Inu-Yasha…" Kikyo cooed eerily. "I'm glad to know that you have finally decided to come with me to hell instead of remaining here in the realm of the living with my reincarnation."

Inu-Yasha paused and stared at her dumbly. "I did?" he thought, trying to recall through the haze in his mind. As far as he could remember he hadn't made a promise to meet Kikyo here … but who the hell knew what was going on these days with the Americans being there…

"Of course you did!" Kikyo continued her monologue, sounding touched. "I doubt that anybody else would go through the difficulty of posting signs of your whereabouts. And you were so thoughtful as to tie yourself up and disarm in case you changed your mind!"

Inu-Yasha blinked at her. Twice. "Kikyo, what the hell are you talking about?"

Kikyo tilted her head to the side. "I'm not certain as to why you taped your mouth shut but I'm sure there's a good explanation for it."

Naraku was suddenly shoved into the general area, and Kikyo's eyes went wide.

"That was just too sickening!" Kagome yelled. "Up with the walls everyone!"

Miroku, Kagome, and Kaede, forming the three corners of an off-center pyramid, activated the barrier. They had the shards of the Shikon Jewel divided evenly amongst themselves, glowing in their hands, and from them there emanated barriers. Kikyo and Naraku were trapped in a shiny pink pyramid.

"No!" Kikyo, the stubborn bitch, cried out. "I will have Inu-Yasha!" With that she notched an arrow and shot it upwards to dissolve the shield. Reiki then, from in the Tree of Ages, threw Inu-Yasha's sword into the pyramid barrier and it split the arrow and landed upright in the ground.

"Alright!" she cheered, jumping down as the sword transformed to a large and white glow. "Now everyone, seal it! We'll have this done in thirty seconds flat!"

"And Kikyo will be gone," Kagome thought, unconsciously grinning as the pyramid shrunk, closing in on their prey. Inu-Yasha was automatically excluded from it, his collar glowing neon purple as the pink wall went over him. "Along with Naraku… And the events will end." She then became saddened. "Then I'll go home, because there will be nothing for me to do here anymore…"

"Ten seconds to go!" Reiki announced, the barrier nearly fully sealed. Inu-Yasha stared with a mortified expression. Kikyo was screaming, her souls escaping and seeping through the pink shimmering walls where her skimmers caught them again, and died with purification. It was simply beautiful to see her suffer.

"But I don't want to go," Kagome continued with her sappy internal dialogue. "I want to stay here, with everyone; with Inu-Yasha. I only wish that the journey just continued, with everyone smiling, and everyone happy... We'd have what we want, but still have a common goal..."

"This is such a done deal!" Reiki laughed, noticing Inu-Yasha's torment and giving him some sarcastic reassurance. Kikyo and Naraku were actually being drawn into Tetsusaiga's blade, creating a type of vacuuming effect with the atmosphere.

"Inu-Yasha!" Kikyo called out in an almost demanding voice. That voice disappeared with both her fake body and Naraku, and as the sword became tainted with their presences, the barrier enclosed it as a purifier.

As our own ditsy Kagome went on with her train of thought… "That is my wish…"

"… Hm? Hey!" Reiki yelled, observing something go wrong with her scheme. "What are you three doing? Sleeping? What's this reaction!"

Everyone, save for Inu-Yasha who couldn't, shielded their eyes as the shards activated and sent the whole area aglow. It was at this moment that history itself forked in its road of fate and went to the darker side.

(End of SHORT chapter!)

Hikari: "How does anyone come up with this sort of thing?"

Reiki: "HIKARI! My fingers are aching and I'm too tired to think straight! Can I please go to bed before my ass fuses to this chair? PLEASE!"

Hikari: "Hah! Hurting fingers and exhaustion are no excuse! They actually seem to help you write! Keep at it!"

Reiki: -sobs- "But… It's been three straight days!"