The next morning, Inuyasha woke to a horrid odor filling his nostrils. "UGH! What the hell!" He sat up quickly and rubbed his sensitive nose. "That is disgusting!" Thats when he noticed the dripping red liquid, dripping from his claws. "Huh?" He sniffed it, then reeled back from the stench. It was blood. "When the fuck did I get blood on my hands!" Inuyasha vented, so confused as to where the blood actually came from. "Ugh, thats so gross!" He decided to jump down and go sit beside Kagome, where he knew there was a much nicer scent to smell.
He could still smell the horrible scent when he landed. "Yuck! Smells like rotting flesh...who the fuck died?" He lept from where he'd landed to where Kagome was still asleep.
"Kagome? Hey, Kagome?" She didn't answer. Inuyasha looked around, and saw that Sango, Miroku and Shippo were still asleep as well, Kyrala, though wasn't anywhere around. "Hm? Where'd the cat get to now?" Inuyasha sighed, and decided to let his friends sleep. He figured, they had been traveling for nearly five days nearly without rest, so he decided to let them all have a good rest.
He, himself, though, wasn't able to sleep anymore, so he went searching for shard carrying demons to slice up, leaving his friends to enjoy their sleep. Not noticing the darkness of the blood on each sleeping bag.
"Ha, ha! Got three of them!" Inuyasha praised himself. "I didn't even need Kagome's sight either...huh?" He walked into camp an found that his friends were still sleeping. "Huh! I thought for sure they'd be awake when I got back. Maybe not Sango or Miroku, but Kagome and Shippo, I thought for sure." He 'feh'd' and went over to Shippo's bag. "Yo! Small fry!" He said sternly and gently kicked the kid's bag "Time to get your butt out of bed kid." Inuyasha waited for a moment, but Shippo didn't make a sound nor did he move at all.
"Alright! Kid!" Inuyasha opened the sleeping bag, and went to grab the boy. "You've slept long enou..." Inuyasha stopped what he was saying as he lifted the young boy's decapitated head from the sleeping bag. He dropped it quickly and pulled back the entire bag, that revealed the kid's body, that had been slashed apart. Inuyasha backed away from the corpse.
"What the fuck!" He turned to Sango and Miroku and Kagome's bags and a terrible thought went through his mind and all he could say when he saw the blood stained sleeping bag of Kagome's was, "No."
Inuyasha sat, his back against a tree, vomit beside him, Kagome's head in his lap.
He'd gone to each bag and the result had been the same. His friends had been sliced to pieces. The only one who was still breathing had been Kagome, and even she was close to death, and Inuyasha knew this. The thought of loosing his friends had been hard enough, but knowing that he would soon loose Kagome too, that was enough to cause him to shed some tears.
He had no clue what had happened. All he knew was that his friends, his only friends were gone. A monk and a demon slayer, just starting their romance together, a young kitsune child, who had been taken in by Kagome and Inuyasha. Soon, the young woman who'd flown through time, befriended him, showed him that there was more to life then power and wanting to be someone other then himself. She'd taught him that there were people he could confide in and trust, her being the only one he ever would trust for the rest of his life. Now all, all of what he had been given; friends, trust, care, and love, all of that would be gone very shortly. He grasped Kagome's head close to his chest. "I'm sorry." He cried, tears slipping to the ground from his face.
"I...Inu...Yasha..." Inuyasha heard the small voice and looked down at Kagome who'd opened her eyes and had called his name. "Kagome!" She smiled lightly, "Inuyasha...please...whatever you come to think happened...did...did..." "Did what?" "Inuyasha...it...it...it wasn't...you..." "Huh? Wasn't me? What do you mean?" Inuyasha asked, then noticed that the girl's body had gone lifeless and was turning cold. Inuyasha held the body of the woman he'd come to love, but had never told he loved her, he held her body to his. He sniffed her hair, trying to keep as much of her precious scent in his head as possible. "I'm sorry Kagome...I...I love you." He cried into her ear and tears now streamed down his cheeks as he held the woman's body in his arms.
Inuyasha had finished burying his friends and now sat beneath the sacred tree. He'd carried all the bodies back to the village. Keade had helped clean them up and some of the village men had helped bury them.
He sat looking up at the setting moon, trying to figure out how a massacre had happened so close to where he slept, then it came back to him. The blood that had dripped from his claws earlier that morning. It had been a mixture of human and demon blood. Inuyasha's eyes went wide as he looked at his hands.
"No...NO! There is no way I could have done it! No!" He began shouting, then roaring angrily. "I would never have hurt them! Let alone kill them the way they were killed! No! I...I didn't do this! I couldn't have! NOOOOOO!!" Inuyasha buried his head in his hands, then whipped them away from his face. He thought of one possible way that he could have killed everyone, he decided that he had turned into his demon self and had gone on a killing rampage. That was the only thing he could think of and that realization made him even more torn apart. He jumped to where he'd buried Kagome's body and lay down next to the dirt mound. "I am so, so, so, so sorry...my friends...Kagome...I'm sorry." He kept saying the words 'I'm sorry' until he fell asleep. There he stayed asleep, next to the buried body of the woman he still and would always deeply love with his whole heart.