Mysti-Reious: Hello! It's me again! (Please hold you applause)

Inuyasha: Yeah right, applause…

Mysti: EXCUSE ME?
Inuyasha: Oh, nothing…

Mysti: You better hope not, I could kill you if I wanted to.

Inuyasha: But you don't.

Mysti: But I could.

Inuyasha: But you won't.

Mysti: Whatever, I don't own Inuyasha, R&R!

Chapter 4:

Til Death Do Us Part

Kasumi approached her helpless victim, ready for the kill. She put up her hand and caught another one of Kagome's arrows.

"Enough with the freaking arrows!" She scolded.

Sango, Miroku, and Shippo quickly thought up a plan while Kagome thought, There must be some weak link in her, but where? Meanwhile, the others started to attack. Sango tossed her Hirakotsu, but Kasumi hit it with her whip, making a crack in the structure, throwing the huge boomerang off balance. Shippo tried:

"Fox Fire!" and threw little flames at her. Kasumi rolled her eyes and simply put out the flames with her water whip. Shippo pouted, but Miroku stood in front of him and removed the prayer beads from around his right hand,

"Wind Tunnel!" Kasumi used her wand to create huge icebergs that were sucked into his hand. He quickly covered his hand with his beads,

"She plugged up the Wind Tunnel!" He reported.

"It's like she's one step ahead of us…" Sango murmured.

Shippo nodded, "How could she know all of our powers and weapons though?"

Kagome was infuriated. This girl had badly injured Inuyasha, and she wouldn't let

Kasumi take the jewel shards. Kagome looked at Inuyasha, lying on the floor in his own

blood.

"Kasumi did you," she choked back a sob, "kill him?" Kasumi blinked and looked at the too still half-demon,

"I don't hear breathing…" she murmured. Kagome's tears rolled down her face, burning with anger. She felt a flood of emotions; anger, loss, grief, revenge, worry, fright, and, burning the strongest, uttermost care for Inuyasha. Kagome blinked through her tears and glared at her new worst enemy, but Kasumi's face caught her off guard. She was staring at the floor, grief and regret dancing across her face, her eyes were shaking, and her knuckles were white from holding her wand so tightly. A single tear dropped to the ground with a sad, musical, splash.

"It wasn't supposed to come to this." She whispered, falling to her knees. She took a shaky breath. "I never wanted to be a killer." She sobbed to herself, wiping the tears with the back of her hand. She looked up and noticed all eyes were on her. She got up and put on a normal face, "A…a moment of grief." She quickly lied, "But now I'm ready for my reward." She held out her hand, "The shard."

Everyone could see through her, she was full of remorse.

"Give it to me!" She shrieked, raising her water whip high above her head, and she pulled it down at Kagome who screamed in panic. Hearing Kagome in trouble, our favorite half-demon fought off death and came to the rescue, pulling out Tetsaiga and cutting the sorceress' back, but not deep enough to kill her. Kasumi lost her concentration from the pain in her back, and the whip returned to water, harmlessly splashing Kagome. Kasumi finally collapsed, focusing on the pain.

"Inuyasha…" Kagome gasped. He weighed his sword on his shoulder and smiled weakly. Kagome ran towards Inuyasha, surprising him. Is she going to hug me or something? He thought, a hint of red spreading across his face. Instead, Kagome fell to her knees next to Kasumi, lifting her head, "What have you done, Inuyasha?!"

He was puzzled, since he was unconscious when Kasumi grieved over what she had done to him, "What? Didn't she try to kill you…?"

Kagome sighed, "She was confused, and she never meant to wound you so badly!"

"Oh, so should I be THANKING her?!"

"No, but you didn't have to kill her!"

Inuyasha looked down and sure enough, she was drenched in blood, dying.

Mysti-Reious: How do you like THAT?!

Kasumi: You promised that Inuyasha wouldn't kill me!
Inuyasha: I make no promises!

Mysti: I don't own Inuyasha, only Kasumi!

Kasumi: You don't own me!
Mysti: Oh yes I do! Push-ups! 20! GO!

Kasumi; Ha, like I'd really—

Mysti: NOOOOOOOOOOOW!

Kasumi: Ah! -falls down and pushes up- 1! 2! 3! 4!

Mysti: Don't forget to R&R! FAAAASTER!