Chapter 19: The Battle

Inuyasha slept in a tree with his mate, as usual. Morning came and they were all tense. They just lounged out by the river, trying to keep calm. Shippo was swimming; Inuyasha lay on a rock in the river; Kagome and Sango were at the river's edge dangling their feet in the water; Miroku was pacing around.

"Why can't Naraku attack already? This is boring!… And you're not helping monk!" Inuyasha remarked.

"Well, you usually go find him." Miroku told him.

"Fine, I'll go find him!" Inuyasha told them.

"NO! You stay here. I have a feeling he's coming. I do want to get this over with, but we have to wait. Naraku will come. I know he will." Kagome yelled at him. He sat down obediently at no.

"Feh, fine I'll stay." He told her; she jumped over to the rock he was sitting on and sat down with him to keep him under control.

"Don't get so worried mate." She reassured him. "If anything, it should be me that's worried. Look, after this you can have me al you want tomorrow if your up to it. I won't stop you at all. Does that make you feel any better?"

He perked up immediately and kissed her passionately. "Yes it does mate."

"Then no sulking, ok?" She warned him.

"Hey, I know a way to piss Naraku off." Kagome said after a while.

"How?"

"Act like you know his every move. Like you saw a vision of the whole battle and you know exactly what he's going to do."

"That could work."

It was late afternoon when they could feel the aura close by. They got ready to attack.

Naraku should up shortly after. Kagura and Kanna were with him, so was Kohaku.

"So Inuyasha, I see your ready for me."

"Damn right I am Naraku."

"Well lets see how you handle my new power." He transformed into a giant spider.

"Ha, nothing new!"

"Inuyasha, his back, its a weak spot." Kagome called out to him.

"Yea, I'm going there first."

Inuyasha attacked with his Wind Scar, but it was no good. Kagome transformed her Katana into a bow.

"GO!" She yelled as she let a arrow go. This one was not it's usual pink color. This one was bright yellow. When it hit at first it did nothing but then everyone went flying.

"AH! What the hell happened?" Inuyasha asked.

"Toutousai didn't say anything about that kind of attack. And if it was my real attack then it would probably be blue. But yellow works too." Kagome told him.

"I don't care what damn color it is! Why did nothing happen to him?" Inuyasha told her.

"I don't know! Don't ask me!" Kagome yelled.

"Fine!" Inuyasha replied.

"Dance of the Dragons!" Kagura said, the wind went towards Inuyasha.

"Backlash Wave!" Inuyasha yelled and sent it back towards her, still nothing happened.

Meanwhile Kohaku was being controlled. He was fighting Sango. She was dodging it, pleading with him to come back. Miroku finally came back behind Kohaku and threw his weapon away from him. Miroku stopped him and he came back.

"I'm sorry sister." Kohaku said.

"Its not your fault. You were under Naraku's control." Sango told him.

"Kagome, hit him another time. In the head." Inuyasha called out.

"Right… GO!" Kagome used a lot of spiritual power on this one. Trying to drain it. It hit in the middle of his eyes, Naraku roared and it exploded again. As a last resort, Naraku opened his mouth. His fangs glowed brightly and shot a beam of light at Inuyasha. Kagura stopped fighting Sesshoumaru and looked at Inuyasha.

"NO! INUYASHA!!" Kagome yelled. The Tetsusaiga was blown out of his hand as he came flying back. Kagome ran up to him.

"Inuyasha!? Inuyasha!?" She went looking for him. "No… No… Inuyasha! NO!" She yelled when she found him. He was lying on the ground. Kagome was crying, though knowing he wasn't dead and what was about to happen she backed off.

"Hiraikotsu!" Sango yelled almost hitting Kagura.

"Fool! Dance of the Wind!"

"AHHH!" Sango screamed getting cut by the blades.

"Sango! WIND TUNNEL!!" Miroku yelled out and tried to suck up Kagura but failed.

Inuyasha's eyes opened. Kagome saw them, they were blood red. He growled and ran up to Kagura. He cut her arm so she couldn't use her fan. Kanna was hit like that the same way, except her mirror broke and it threw her backwards. Then he went onto Naraku. He was affected by his last attack on Inuyasha. Inuyasha took a few cuts to him before it got to him, then he collapsed.

Inuyasha turned around and saw Kagome, he had hatred in his eyes. He calmed down though when he saw her. She started to back away when he came towards her.

"Mate?" He said in a rough voice.

"Inuyasha, no. Turn back. Turn back! Please!" Kagome screamed frightened. She backed as far up as possible and ended up against a tree, unable to escape.

He didn't understand why she was frightened and continued to walk towards her. He put his hands on her shoulders to hold her still.

"Mate." He said again, looking at her seriously. He ran a hand over her cheek and held her face in his hand to show her he meant no harm. She looked at him with fear still in her eyes. He kissed her as soft as he could manage. She struggled still and accidentally pierced his skin with her claws. He threw her to the ground.

'This is it.' She thought. "Kouga! No-AH!" He had clawed her stomach open. Her clothing repaired immediately but she didn't. She was loosing a lot of blood, fast.

Kohaku saw the jewel and thought of the shard in his back.

"Sister, give this to Kagome. She needs it more than I." Kohaku said and pierced his back with the weapon.

Sango turned and saw what he did. "KOHAKU NO!"

"Take care of Kagome. I was already dead Sango. Don't cry for me-" Kohaku said as he disintegrated to dust. Sango picked up the shard and held it in her hand and cried.

Kouga came over and got the shard from Sango and ran to Kagome he gave her the three shards.

"Please Kouga,… just long enough for me to do this. Hold him off of me." She said that and started to pray, the shards fused with the jewel. She held it in her palm. 'I wish me and Inuyasha were inu-youkais so we could have more control over our blood.' With that, she opened her eyes and everyone stopped what they were doing and looked. It looked like the jewel shattered again, except there were only two lights. One shot into Inuyasha the other, Kagome.

Inuyasha grasped the place where his heart was and fell to his knees crying out in pain. He changed to normal. Kagome stood up, she was still wounded but not as much as before. Inuyasha picked up the Tetsusaiga when he got off the ground.

"I'm sorry Kagome." He told her and took the Tetsusaiga and tried to pierce his heart, but he didn't get that far. Kagome had materialized an arrow and shot it at the sword to stop him. The sword flung out of his hand once again. She ran to him and embraced him hard.

"Inuyasha, NO!" She yelled. "Please! I couldn't stand it if you died. I would have to kill myself as well! You are a youkai now. You have more control over your blood!" She told him crying, he cried with her. Embracing her as well.

"I… I just… I couldn't stand it. I hurt you! Almost killed you again!"

"I know, and I don't care. I want you here with me." She stopped crying and looked at him. "Please don't kill yourself. You don't want me to live with Kouga, now do you?"

"Hey, I heard that!" Kouga yelled.

"Well, do you?" Kagome asked him.

"No."

"Well then don't die. I can't go for thousands of years without you."

"Me either. I don't know how father did it."

"Hey, can you transform into a dog now?" Kagome asked.

"How?" Inuyasha said.

"Try and let your blood go." Kouga told him.

"Yea, think of Sesshoumaru or Kouga get to you." Kagome told him.

"HEY!" Kouga yelled again.

"You do get on his last nerve, I can tell. His eyes used to flash when you were with me." Kagome told Kouga, he growled.

Kagome backed up to let her mate have some room knowing he'd need it. After a minute Inuyasha's eyes glowed red and his face started to form into that of a dog's. When he transformed all the way He was a good 35' tall.

"Wow mate! You're huge!" Kagome told him.

"Little brother. Don't you be rash here." Sesshoumaru told him

Inuyasha sent out a line of barks that meant "You're not the boss of me. I was just checking anyway." Inuyasha started to shrink. But when he turned to normal, he was different. He had longer claws hair and fangs. But he still had his dog ears and amber eyes. He also had a crescent mark on his forehead, it looked like Sesshoumaru's but it was silver. He had a purple stripe on each cheek. He looked like his youkai form with amber eyes.

Kagome started to back up when she saw him but Kouga stopped her.

"Kagome, I promise. If he hurts you I'll hurt him. He just went through the transformation you will soon."

"Inu…yasha?" She asked.

He nodded. "It's me Kagome, I swear." He held his arms open.

She ran into his arms. "I'm sorry…. So sorry! I'm still afraid of what happened I guess."

"Well you don't have to be anymore. Now I'll turn into a dog, not a vicious youkai and kill everyone. I love you. Nothing can change that."

She nodded. "I love you too Inuyasha."