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Chapter 1:

(Dreams...)

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'Is it really over?' Inuyasha thought as he looked in front of him at the torn up valley that served as the battlefield, now scared with marks of the Wind Scar and Naraku's poison. Inuyasha looked upward toward a stormy sky that was red as if bleeding. He then turned his attention to the carcass of Naraku laying on the ground about 30 feet ahead of them, and very much dead. He looked around at his friends, trying to size them up.

Sango was sitting down reapplying bandages to her left leg with her one good arm, the other one seemed to be broken, Inuyasha watched as a small puddle of blood formed below her.

"Are you okay?", Inuyasha asked trying and failing to hide his concern.

"What this?, Sango looked up at Inuyasha then back down at her leg, "This is just a flesh wound..." she said with a smile.

Inuyasha looked to her right at Miroku, who was in far better condition, only a few scratches, maybe a few broken ribs, he was standing up staring at his right hand.

"I can't believe it...", he said with a gaping mouth, "The Windtunnel, it's-- it's gone, just like that, I didn't even feel anythi ..." Miroku began to smile, "If I didn't remember to look I would have never noticed!"

Shippo was safe on Inuyasha's shoulder smiling to himself, 'You didn't even have to fight did you?', Inuyasha looked at the kitusne on his shoulder and smiled. Shippo turned to Inuyasha and gave him an odd look, "What are you looking at?", he said with bewilderment. "Just a little runt of a demon...", Inuyasha blurted out, although he could tell Shippo knew it was more of a compliment than an insult. Inuyasha looked himself over. He himself was in great condition, 'Wow, I feel great...', he thought to himself looking himself over, was he even hit during the battle? He couldn't remember.

'Seems like Naraku didn't even put up a fight...', he thought to himself. 'In fact, this was easy! We did it!' Inuyasha allowed himself a rare smile. "It's over!", he yelled, he felt like this could be the best moment of his life, everything was going perfectly.

"Not quite!", he heard Kagome yell behind him where Naraku's dead body lay. Inuyasha let out a small growl, 'I don't care if he is dead or not, the thought of him even near her is so disgusting, it makes me want to puke!' Inuyasha looked closely at Kagome. 'I wonder if she will take me in now that Naraku is dead, I want to be with her, the question is: Will she let me live my life out with her?', he thought to himself. 'Will she accept me as a hanyo, can I love her if she is a human?', he had been wondering that for a long time. 'Yes, I can!' he decided happily, he would live out the rest of his life with the woman he loved.

"Here!", Kagome ran to him holding out something shinny. "The COMPLETE Jewel of the Four Souls!", she said proudly. Inuyasha picked up the jewel and stared at it like it was the most alien thing he had ever seen, 'So much pain just for this...' , he thought while thinking about all the people that were hurt in Naraku's search for it. He thought about Kikyo and what she would do now that Naraku is dead. 'How am I going to explain me and Kagome to her?', he thought to himself. He felt something touch his hand and realized that Kagome was holding it, looking at him and smiling. 'I could go to hell and back just to see that smile...', he thought to himself as he began to smile too. His smile stopped when he suddenly felt a jolt of pain run through him... He was couldn't move, not even take a breath, he thought he was going to pass out.

'You didn't think I would die that easily did you?', he heard a voice say in his head. "RUN!", he tried to yell, but he could not move his mouth, he only stared blankly at the jewel in his hand which now seemed to turn black. Kagome simply looked at him oddly, "Are you alright?"

His body started to breathe again finally, at first he was relieved but then it seemed to move by itself, shifting his gaze from the jewel to Kagome to the rest of the group. "IT'S A TRAP!", he tried to yell, but had no control over his body. Inuyasha heard himself body start to laugh, being painfully aware of what was going on, and heard Naraku talk through him, "So monk, you despise your curse eh?", just before it turned around and sliced off Miroku's right hand.

Inuyasha screamed to himself as he saw blood flow from freely Miroku's arm before slicing at his throat and killing him. He heard Sango scream from behind him, his body turned itself around and sliced at her with his claws cutting down the head and down the body, his felt a smile on his face. 'No, THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING!', Inuyasha wanted nothing more than to scream as he watched the two halves of Sango's body fall to the ground.

His face then turned to Kagome who was watching him in horror and had not moved from the spot when she had asked him about what was wrong. "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!?!??", he heard Shippo scream in his ear. His body still being controlled by Naraku made a smirk as if only now realizing that the kitsune was still on his shoulders.

'Just run!', Inuyasha mentally screamed. His hand reached over and took the kitsune by the neck his arm moving to hold Shippo out in front of him. "Why are you doing this!?", he saw tears in the kitsune's eyes, before his hand tightened and crushed the young demon's neck. Inuyasha tried to close his eyes or look away but he couldn't as he watched blood flow out of Shippo's mouth.

'NO, no no no no no no no!', Inuyasha was going insane, he couldn't believe this was happening, he partly liked what he was doing, and that scared the shit out of him... 'Why do I partly enjoy this!?', he thought, 'WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH ME!?!??!?', he screamed to himself wanting to kill himself before he did any more harm. His body threw down the corpse and once again looked to the young lady in front of it. 'Why won't you move!??!?', Inuyasha mentally yelled. Kagome who was watching in horror had not moved a bit, she did not even seem to breathe, she seemed completely frozen. Inuyasha felt his body move forward and look directly at the woman that he loved so much.

"Are you going to kill me too?", Kagome breathed. His body now smiling, Inuyasha heard himself speak, "My dear, there are far worse things than death." Inuyasha felt his arm shoot out and throw Kagome to the ground before his body started to take off his fire rat robes and untie his Hakama.

'This has to stop, why is this happening!?', Inuyasha cried. He knew he had promised he would never let Kagome get hurt.

"Please, forgive me...", he felt so much pain he thought he was going to die.

'This has to stop!', he mentally screamed.

'Stop stop stop stop stop stop,' "STOP!!!" Inuyasha woke up screaming.

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"How are we doing Ryu?", Ayane looked over to her brother. "I'm fine.", the young boy said quiet as usual.

"Hey, we can do this...", she walked over to the boy, giving him a fake smile.

"I'm okay, I just don't know if I can see him again..."

"I can't ask you to be strong...", Ayane didn't know what to say.

"Heh, so you two ready to meet your parents again?", Ayane heard a familiar voice behind her.

Sighing, she turned around to face the kitsune behind her, "Ready as I will ever be..." she commented.

Ayane looked around at her surroundings, the old well house shrine she was so fond of as a child, the now abandoned walls were soaked with water and the wood rotting, the decaying well itself looked as if it could collapse at any moment.

"This used to be a special place you know...", she said aloud.

"I know, don't forget I was here before you were, when I was a child I used to play in this place...", the kitsune frowned, "This did used to be a special place..."

"But that was before Inuyasha...", he couldn't continue for fear of hurting what was left of his family.

"Changed.", Ayane quickly said.

The kitsune gave a nod.

"So, is it ready?", the kitsune turned to Ryu.

"Yes... It should work now...", the young boy said with a depressed face.

"Here.", Ryu said handing the kitsune a bead.

The kitsune walked to opening of the well and jumped up to the edge, but then turned around.

"You know what to do if...", the kitsune stuttered the last bit.

"If you don't come back, yes.", Ayane said with a smirk, "But that won't happen."

This made the kitsune smile, "Thank you." "Bye."

The kitsune looked around at what was left of his family, spread his arms out, and fell backwards into the well.

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:D Revamped with Zaddy, I hope you like this, it is just going to keep getting better and better, I am sure it will change for the best next time you read it, special thanks to Zaddy for the revamp with me because he pwns. And IUJ, I will probably use your name somewhere in it, at least as an easter egg. REVIEW! REVIEW! REVIEW!

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