Chapter Seven

Under the skin of what was Tamashi came a hideous creature. Kagome had thought she killed the demon, effectively cutting her in half. That wasn't the case. What emerged from her broken body was something to be feared. Bright whole white eyes stared at Kagome, her wrinkled nose was flaring sniffing in Kagome's scent, and her ears grew to a curved to a point. The demon's mouth reached her ears with large razor sharp teeth growing past her bottom lip. Kagome couldn't move and all her senses seem to fly out of the window. It smiled sniffing in her fearful smell.

This thing was no longer Tamashi, but a full seven-foot tall soul crusher, one of the most feared demons to live in the after life. They steal souls to try to make their way back to the living. This one clearly reached its goal and was wreaking havoc and eating more human souls to sustain it's life here and bring others with it. The worst part? They are almost impossible to be rid of once they come back to earth, since this was the only successful soul crusher to ever come back no one knows how to get rid of them.

Kagome stared at it trying to decide what she could do. No one was here to save her this time, Inuyasha was gone awaiting her return, Sango and Miroku with their family, and Shippo at Kit school. She was alone. Priestess powers alone couldn't save her and she already fought with her demon half, she was out of options.

Still frozen the demon roared and ran full speed at Kagome sending her frail looking body into a trunk of a tree. She screamed out in pain knowing this thing probably broke about three ribs already. The demon took Kagome's arm in her mouth and threw her again. Kagome's demon blood was working hard to protect and heal her but it wasn't enough. With it's latest attack her left arm broke. Her priestess powers started to kick in as well, trying to form a barrier around her. The demon was punching, kicking, and biting at the barrier trying to get at the woman who ruined all its work stealing souls. Kagome started crying and screamed, she didn't know what else to do, she wasn't a fighter. Yes she had powers that could not be measured in any form but she knew nothing of how to kill this thing. It frightened her, Naraku she could deal with but a creature that was suppose to just be a myth? Not so much.

Pulled out of her thoughts by the wretched demons voice calling out her name.

"Ka-go-meeee, come out and playyyyy…I won't bite… MUCH."

With each hit to her barrier she took she became weaker. Suddenly a bright pink light appeared and she was in a vast of field of flowers, recognizing it as one of the places she's seen Modoriko and Inugami. With that thought they emerged from the lake by her side.

"Kagome, why do you run? You are the most powerful being in all the world yet you hide like a coward!" Inugami screeched. Seemingly embarrassed that her reincarnation wasn't living up to her full potential, she was going to unlock it the best way she could, anger.

Modoriko just stood there with her head down looking disappointed, if this what it was going to take to get Kagome to unlock her true powers she was going to permit it.

"Please, please help me, I can't do this alone, it's too powerful, I need help!"

"You need nothing but yourself, all you've done is whine, you need to get your ass back up and fight with pride! You are embarrassing! This demon has you cowering like a fool! I cannot believe you! Where is Kagome? The woman I chose to give my power to? A waste!"

"I am right here, I am not a waste! This thing is too strong, it's devoured too many souls to count, and it was just suppose to be a mythical creature yet here it is! No one knows how to defeat it not even yourself!"

"You are a fool to think this thing would have been able to defeat me. Look at yourself! Pitiful."

Kagome did as she was told and twisted her injured body to face the lake. She was covered in blood from the gash on her arm, tousled hair, but what she noticed most was her eyes; they were glowing with an emotion she barely felt, anger. Thinking back to Inugami's words, " Where's Kagome?" She heard a voice in her head say, "You are here, and you have always been here."

"Where is the Kagome I know hmm?"

Staring back at her reflection her eyes started bleeding red. The Kagome she knows? Who is the Kagome she knows.

Knowing what she was thinking she retorted, "The Kagome I knew was a fighter, a pure spirit, strong, passionate, and loving. Knowing all that I know she would do anything to keep the ones she loved safe at all costs. This thing is getting stronger and trying to call for backup and once that happens there will be no stopping the force that will be unleashed upon thousands of people including the ones you love!"

"No."

"It can and will happen if you don't get off your scared ass and fight. Listen to the voices in your head Kagome, they have been telling you the whole time what to do, but you have been to damn scared to listen! They will all die if you do not do something!"

"No! I will not allow this dammed thing to take away the one's I love. Not Shippo, Sango and Miroku. Especially not MY DAMN Inuyasha, he is MINE!"

Kagome's head twisted back to Inugami and Modoriko, her eyes were red with slit black pupils, fangs and claws grew but had priestess powers glowing around them.

Kagome felt her demon and priestess powers swirling and working together, before she was using one or the other, it all made sense now. She always separated her two forms, using one or the other, but now feeling her body heal and return with a strength of ten fold she new they were suppose to be used together, in harmony.

"Andddd she's back, took you long enough!" Inugami smiled.

"At a girl, show them what we're made of!" Modoriko chimed.

"Thanks, now return me, I have unfinished business." Kagome smiled an evil smile for the first time but laced with good intentions. She was sending this bitch back to hell where she came from.

Inuyasha I'll be home soon.