I have nothing to say, really... Except that this chapter probably is gonna be really fun for me to write. I hope it is. The title actually comes from an online friend of mine, who goes on a forum that I do. :3 He he.

Save Me From Myself

Chapter Fourteen: Elegant Bleeding

I now know how InuYasha felt whenever he transformed. I had no control over myself, I can't even remember transforming, though. I don't know what was worse, not remembering the deeds I've done and being blamed for them, or the prospect of remembering anything that I did as a youkai.

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InuYasha ran through the forest at speeds that he hardly ever used. For once, his emotions ran rampant, and he couldn't help but admit that he was worried. The dog ears on top of his head were flattened against the wind and his hair was almost straight out behind him.

He could smell the village ahead of him, and the scent of a youkai reached his sensitive nose. No, not a youkai, a human... Kagome, InuYasha thought, clenching his fist.

Damn that Naraku, InuYasha thought, glaring into the distance.

It only took him a couple minutes to arrive to the village where Kagome was. He could hear her laughing in the distance, and villagers screaming. No doubt she was flying above them, holding her claws out for them to see.

InuYasha broke through the tree line and saw Kagome doing just that, laughing and flying above them, torturing the humans.

"Kagome!" InuYasha shouted as he ran towards where she floated in the air. He looked up at her and glared. "You've got to stop this!"

"Never!" Kagome shouted, her grin as wide as ever. "You have no control over me anymore! You can't stop me! Not unless you fight me!"

InuYasha's eyes went wide. "What?" he hissed.

Kagome's eyes flashed. "You heard me," Kagome said.

"You can't do this! These are innocent people! You don't want to kill them!" InuYasha shouted at the possessed miko.

"How do you know what I feel?" Kagome shouted out.

"Because I know how you are! You're unselfish! You care about others! You're Kagome! You aren't a youkai, and you don't want to kill them!" InuYasha shouted out.

Kagome's eyes narrowed. "Sorry, hanyou, but your words will have no effect on me this time. I have no idea what sort of magics cause this feeble human soul to return to what it once was, but I'm not going to fall out of control any more! Hanyou, prepare to die!" Kagome shouted, showing her fangs and claws to InuYasha.

InuYasha jumped back as Kagome lunged at him, her claws elongated and aimed for his neck. She ran into a building by the sheer force of her attack. Kagome rose from the rubble, smiling still.

"You're faster than I expected. No matter, I'm still no match for you, even if you did use your full strength," Kagome taunted.

If InuYasha got angry, he didn't look it. He just looked slightly scared, and concerned for what would happen to Kagome.

The humans of the village hadn't left yet, though a few had fled to the woods, like the children, some women, and the elderly. The villagers looked like they were ready to fight, but InuYasha held a hand out towards them, stopping them in their tracks.

"You stay back. She's possessed, and can't control herself," InuYasha explained simply.

"Possessed? Possessed! You think I'm possessed? Ha! I'm far from possessed! I'm a youkai, and I'm gonna kill you!" Kagome yelled, running towards InuYasha, her claws ready.

While passing him, Kagome swiped her long claws at him, using power that could go through steal. InuYasha took a hit, but nothing more than a scratch.

Kagome stopped and went back to him, ready for another attack. She sent her fist at him, which he stopped with his hand. Kagome was a little taken back by him resisting, but quickly got over it and used her free fist to punch him in the stomach and used her claws to attack him while he was in the air.

"You're done for," Kagome said, jumping up and kicking InuYasha into the ground, making a small crater reminiscent of the holes made by the enchanted necklace that the hanyou wore.

Kagome landed next to him, and crouched down, ready to strike the last blow to his unconscious form. Her clawed hand went straight for his neck.

Only a small trickle of blood seemed to come from InuYasha's neck. Kagome hadn't touched him; she hadn't even finished the blow. Her hand stopped right when she touched his neck with her claw.

"Why... can't I kill him?" Kagome asked herself, anger flaring around her.

She growled and stood, glaring at the unconscious boy in front of her. "No matter. I'll just have to kill something else," she said, her voice dark and malicious.

Red eyes landed on the villagers that were trying to get up the nerve to fight her, and she smiled.

"This is gonna be fun," said the possessed miko, before lunging towards the humans.

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Miroku didn't even think about reaching for Sango's butt while they flew through the sky on Kirara. Shippo sat on his shoulder, and he watched as the scenery went by.

"I think we're almost there," Sango said grimly.

They had been held back by Naraku's puppet, but they made up their time by going as fast as they could on Kirara.

InuYasha had said that Kagome was going to a village, so that's where they were going. With Kirara's nose leading them to InuYasha, they had to find them soon.

"I feel a bad aura," Miroku said, cringing slightly. He recognized that aura, it was Kagome's when she was transformed. No one had that much power within Miroku's sensing range.

Sango nodded. "I do too. We're getting closer to Kagome-chan," Sango said, stating the obvious.

"Let's hurry," Shippo suggested, surprising everyone with his bravery.

The screams of humans could soon be heard to even those with human ears. Sango gripped Kirara's fur a little tighter.

Kirara landed on the outskirts of the village, which was almost indistinguishable from the middle of the village because all of the debris.

The new arrivals gasped at what they saw.

Kagome stood on top of the largest pile of wood and buildings, a few chickens cut up on the ground near her. Littered all over the ground was bodies and blood, and Kagome was covered in the blood of others, grinning madly. She held onto the clothing of a human still alive, squirming under her gaze and tears streaming down her cheeks.

She pulled back her hand and stuck it through the human's gut, piercing through numerous organs. Blood covered Kagome's hand and started to slide down her arm. There were hardly any spots on her clothes not covered in blood, and it dripped all over her body. The sleeves on her shirt had been ripped off, and you could even see through the holes that had been made in her shirt. The woman with a hand in her stomach started to cough up blood, which splattered on Kagome's still grinning face.

Kagome whipped her arm so the human flew off, blood flying all over the place.

Sango and Miroku looked around, and Sango gasped when she saw a familiar hanyou with white hair laying on his back. "Oh! Is he...?" Sango couldn't finish her sentence.

Miroku looked at InuYasha carefully and said, "I don't think so..."

Kagome noticed the newcomers and grinned. "I remember you. You're the exterminator that managed to cut me before," Kagome seethed, smirking a bit. She walked towards them, her bloody claws held up for them to see.

Strong arms snaked themselves around Kagome's waist and stopped her from moving. Her wings slowly folded in, to reveal the hanyou holding on to her, trying to get her back to normal.

"It won't work... this time!" Kagome said, trying to turn on InuYasha.

Slowly, she faltered and returned to normal, falling unconscious once more, blood seeping down her body.

InuYasha picked her up so she would be more comfortable on both of them, and walked over to Miroku, Sango, Kirara, and Shippo, who all took a couple steps back. The hanyou's eyes saddened, but it was hidden by a glare.

"She's harmless now, guys," InuYasha said, his voice harsh.

"Yeah, but how long will that last?" Shippo asked, the fearsome realization of that statement striking everybody to the core.

Chapter End