I should probably admit I'm alive, ne? Last couple of days have been simply infuriating, so I'm in kind of a testy mood. But hey, that just helps me make this fight scene all the better. Read and enjoy, and thank you all for reading and reviewing, your comments really help.

"Say hello to Taizan Fukun for me." The twisting tornado barreled at them at an incredible speed, Sango's Hyoretsuzan not helping their current situation. Neither Inuyasha or Sango saw it coming when their plan backfired in more ways than one. Kouga, being the stubborn fool he is, leapt into the eye of the tornado where Sango's boomerang twisted. He placed his foot on the blunt side as his flesh was being ripped and torn, and pushed. Her weapon spun in the opposite direction, causing Inuyasha's winds to slow increasingly. This bought the others enough time to move out of the way, Miroku carrying Kouga's torn form from the twister and Kagome diving out of the way, a broken leg her only wound.

"Grrrr. You foul pieces of undeserving filth. I'm going to devour you and leave the remains to a rat." Inuyasha said threateningly as his eyes turned entirely crimson and his nose began to bulge. Luna ran forward and grabbed Kohaku and Shiori's hands while she did, pushing Sango onto Inuyasha's back."Everybody get on!" She said lightly as Inuyasha's spine arched and his body began to grow. Not many minutes later, Inuyasha stood there, huge and malevolent, looking down onto the others. He opened his jaw up and a bright black orb began to form in his mouth, purple electricity crackling within it and a black flame surrounding his feet. he bit down and the orb shot out at Miroku. The monk leapt out of the way but the blast still sent him about ten feet forward and into a tree. Sango reached up as her Hyoretsuzan finally returned to her, landing in her hand. She saw Kagome running to help Miroku and launched her weapon.

Kagome turned from Miroku just in time to see a purple blur flying at her. She grunted in annoyance and nocked an arrow. She paused, then released it. With much effort and much more luck, the arrow hit the boomerang point blanc and caused it to veer off course. Shippo leapt over the boomerang and landed, not knowing to fight against his father or with him. He lifted both of his hands and summoned all of the strength and magic within him. "Fox Fire!" a large wall of Shippo's blur fire blasted in between the fighting groups, stopping the onslaught. Shippo shouted. "Why are you guys fighting?" Inuyasha paused, then spoke. When in dog form, hsi voice was very deep and had a sort of repetative growl. "That blasted wolf demon Slew my adoptive mother. Those two protected him, so in turn they will be slain." Kagome blunk. "Adoptive...mother?" Shippo spoke once more. "Why can't we just calm down and Talk about this?" For once, the fox demon was the smarter one of the group. Inuyasha paused, growled and then closed his eyes as he began to revert to his original form. Kagome sighed in relief and lifted her hand to pull herself into a sitting position beside Kouga and Miroku, her broken leg throbbing.

She yelped when a blue light flashed around the three of them, and Inuyasha stood in the distance, his claws still glowing blue as her leg felt good as new. "Once again I heal you, and once again I wonder if I am to regret it." Kagome was still a bit awestruck by Sango's appearance so resembling Inuyasha's. Miroku scowled as he began to awake, but Sango's looks was all he needed for a rejuvenator. "SANGO!" he leapt upwards and ran at her to be embraced. A black and tan blur was all he saw before he flew back and landed on the ground, his cheek stung heatedly. Sango waved her hand after the slap and spoke. "Keep your distance." Kagome rolled her eyes and sat down against the tree as Shippo made his way to them. "Brave move Shippo, and a wise one at that. One of us would have been dead had you not done that." Sango complimented the fox with a smile as the young demon beamed.

Inuyasha nodded in agreement and sat down in a cross legged position, his sword against his shoulder. Sango took her seat beside him, her hand touching his behind his back so Kagome Miroku and Kouga did not see. Kouga was watching from behind Kagome, Akitoke didn't seem to be too trustworthy of kouga so he had his arm around Kagome's shoulder. Miroku stood up and wiped his chin as blood dribbled from the slap wound down to his chin. "What have you done to Sango Inuyasha?" "HE has done nothing. It was my choice." Sango replied lightly, smirking behind the single bang in front of her face. Miroku and Kagome's eyes both went wide. "Sango..your teeth..." Sango blunk once. "What about them?"

Inuyasha lifted his hand and drew his blackened blade. If not for it being so well polished, she wouldn't have seen the two long fangs growing from where her canines had been. "The physical transformation has begun. Painless, and unnoticable." Inuyasha whispered to Sango and she noted to discuss that with him later. "It's the physical transformation from my darker aura." "Darker...?" Kagome asked in confusion. "You wretched DEMON!" Miroku shouted, pointing at Inuyasha. "You brainwashed her didn't you?" Sango stood up. A whooshing sound was heard as her Hyoretsuzan flew and landed against the tree, miroku in between the two sides so he was pinned by his neck. Sango walked up to him and spoke in a hushed whisper so only they could hear. "Listen to me monk. You have no right to call Inuyasha anything other than lord compared to what you and your lecherous ways have done." Miroku grunted. "I meant nothing of it. It was a matter of..." the conversation heated up more as Inuyasha took Kagome's attention from it.

"Kaede?" "She's fine. We thought she had been hurt, but she's fine." "Mm." "Inuyasha...why...why are you like this...why didn't you try to go back to normal when your aura became tainted?" "My aura's not tainted." "...Yes it is, it's dark-" "Tainted, and dark are not the same thing. Tainted is one majority of dark or pure being given a taste of the opposite. My aura is dark, pure dark. Not tainted." Inuyasha lifted his sword and set it horizantally in between them. "Tensuuga is my proof." Kagome paused, then shook her head. "Inuyasha...i used to love you. Did you know that?" Kagome asked in hopes of this being the beginning of purifying him. "Do you wish to continue your lying or stop here?" "..What?" "Love me? Tch. You didn't even LIKE me." Kagome shook her head. "That's a lie Inuyasha." "No, actually. You disliked me ever since I was freed from that tree. You put up that front so I would help you find the shards and then get home. And then you met Akitoke, Miroku, Sango, and Shippo, the reasons you stayed. You hated me for my being so spiteful. You were always a kind person, and you hated those who caused violence. I was number one on your list." "..." "Speechless huh?" Inuyasha said lightly. By now, Shippo, Sango, Kouga, and Miroku were all concentrated on their conversation. "How...?" "How did I know? I've known all along. I thought maybe I had found a companion. But subconsciously, your scent of my distaste was driving me insane. I could practically feel your waves of detestment."

Sango furrowed her brow, pausing, then shook her head, eyes closed. So, Kagome and Inuyasha never had gotten along after all. Sango removed her Hyoretsuzan from Miroku's neck and turned to Inuyasha. This time, they could see the feelings they had for each other. Sango sat down behind Inuyasha and leaned forward, sliding her arm around his neck and placing her cheek against his. Kagome and Miroku both gasped. "You two...?" "All along." Inuyasha said in the same tone as before. "Sango, unlike you Kagome, can be merciless, can defend herself and her loved ones, and has a fighter's mind and body. Where as you, need someone to protect you, couldn't harm a fly even if it assaulted you, and have the reflexes and build of a dead cat." Inuyasha said as if it were the time of the day, and stood up, Sango leaning on him, her Hyoretsuzan on her back with one hand lazily. Kohaku, Shiori, and Luna were all giddily watching as Inuyasha's tail began to twist and change color. "We're leaving. Every other time I've seen you, I've spared you. The wolf is dead. He is. Embrace it, accept it, and make it your own. I will leave him here...for now. When I find him, however, mourn him, for his head will adorn my fire." Inuyasha swiped his hand as everyone in his party accompanied his tail. "Goodbye." The tail twisted in place and began to fly off.