A/N: Thanks to all of you for reviewing, those who did! Now I hope you will find this interesting (and slightly confusing) just as I did. AND I now have a general direction in which to steer this story. Which is thankful, to say the least.


CHAPTER 5: Full Revolution

A straight line was 180 degrees, and a full revolution was 360. Another useless fact popped into Kagome's head. Though it wasn't irrelevant; out of nowhere the two arrows, as if they were in fact one straight line, started spinning around in a circle on the spot, faster and faster, of their own volition, till they were a blinding circle made of priestess-magic shining in the air.

At this point Time seemed to desert that area completely. Birdcalls and sounds were coming from far away, but nearby there was nothing to be heard.

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Kikyo wondered if she was the only one to notice that the arrows were spinning anticlockwise. Is that an omen?

Her Soul Stealers were now frantically jerking and twisting, no longer the calm streamlined selves they once were. Their bodies twisted and contorted, until finally each and every one popped into a million shining fragments.

Meanwhile the arrows were still spinning, going faster and faster.

The landscape around the group began to change and twist, just as the Soul Stealers had. Strangely enough, with all this magic flying around, the actual group of demons and humans and half-breed remained unchanged. The two arrows could no longer be made out. They were spinning so fast it looked like there was only one circle, motionless.

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Sango shuddered. Everything was happening so fast. It had only been half a minute before that the two arrows had been shot. And now… everything around them was disintegrating. Why? Her eyes drifted back to the circle, hanging, now motionless, in the air. It too, started to change just like everything around them.

But it didn't do so for long. Now it jerked one way, towards Kikyo, and then jerked the other way, towards Kagome. Finally it seemed to make up its mind, and separated into two arrows again, each heading for a different archer.

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What???

This was too weird. First her arrow stopped, then it started spinning, and now the two separated again, and one was flying straight towards her! Kagome didn't have time to scream, only time to shut her eyes at the coming bolt of light.

Kikyo stood, slightly dazed, as Kagome's – she could tell – arrow headed straight for her. As it penetrated first her robes, then her 'heart', she could feel a strange sort of… warm-ness… that she had only felt before when she was alive.

She didn't notice this, because she was busy being shot through the heart, but her beloved Yasei was nowhere to be seen. Silence reigned.


A/N: I KNOW this chapter was short, extremely confusing, and a long time coming, but I promise there IS a point to all this.

And to all those questions, dear reviewers, I'd just like to say – what happens next won't explain everything, but it can try.

And also, to all those people thinking Yasei is evil – he's NOT!!!! He's just really cute, mysterious, and way smarter than anyone else in this story. Yep. That's all at the moment.