"You bitch!" Naraku roared as his claws met with Kagome's sai.
She growled back at him and smirked, "Well I learned cold ways from the best." She dropped one hand and stabbed at her father's side, when he suddenly vanished. "Where'd he go?!"
Everyone, including Sesshomaru, looked at a lost for words as they scanned the battle field in search of Naraku. An eerie silence settled over the field as a dense fog rolled in. Before long, everyone was separated from one another.
"Sango! Sesshomaru! Inuyasha! Miroku! Inu Papaaa!" Kagome called out as she frantically looked around trying to see her friends. She heard a laugh that came from nowhere, but was everywhere at the same time. "Kukuku." She walked carefully through the fog. She heard the laughter again, then Sango's voice rang out. "Hiraikotsu!" The fog cleared enough for both Kagome and Sango to see who her large boomerang hit.
"NOO!" Sango and Kagome screamed in unison. "The fog stopped Kagome from running to her fallen comrade, but allowed her to watch as Sango crumpled over Miroku's severed body. Kagome watched in horror as her best friend screamed and clutched Miroku's top half to her body repeated screaming "no."
Kagome angrily wiped the tears from her face, "This isn't about them, you coward. This is about you and me!" She tried to run to her friend, again, but was knocked back by a searing barrier. She looked at her friend and watched her transform into her true form and roar. "Sango! No! He's baiting you!" Sango snarled and hissed when Naraku easily passed through the fog and up to Sango. She pounced at him and he dodged her with ease.
"Now now, little kitten. Is that anyway to behave?" he asked her condescendingly with a smug smirk. She snarled and attacked him again. "I would think Kagome taught you better than this." He lept out of her way and onto her back. She began to buck like a bull in an effort to remove him from her person, but to no avail. "He thrust his arms into her back and poured his miasma into her body.
"NOO! STOP IT! SHE DIDN'T DO ANYTHING TO YOU!" Kagome screamed and pounded on the barrier. By the time Sango dropped and started to change back to her humanoid form, Kagome's hand were blistered from the barrier. She watched as Naraku removed himself from her person and walked back into the fog laughing. Once he was invisible, the barrier dissolved and she ran to Sango. "No. No no no no no no." She pulled Sango into her lap and hugged her tightly. "Please. Sango. Please don't go. Don't leave me. This is just a bad dream. I'm gonna wake up and you're going to be at Miroku's apartment, and I'll be at Sesshomaru's. This can't be real." She cried into Sango's hair.
"Ka-" Sango wheezed.
"Shh sh," Kagome said shakily between her sniffles. "You need your strength to heal. You'll be fine." Kagome brushed Sango's hair with her hand.
Sango sobbed, "I won't be ok, Kags," she hiccupped. "I killed Miroku," she allowed more tears to fall.
"It wasn't your fault Sango. Don't think like that. Everything will be fine."
Sango's eyes lit up and a smile graced her face between the sobs. "He- He's here." She looked into space at something Kagome couldn't see. "He says he forgives me," she cried a little more and reached her hand out in the direction she was looking. Kagome watched her best friend reach out.
"It's ok, Sango. Go with him."
She took in a shuddered breath and looked up at Kagome. I'm sorry I failed you."
"Shh," Kagome gave her a watery smile. "You have done more than I could have ever asked of you." She hugged Sango close to her body. "I love you Sango."
"I.. love you... Kags..." Kagome watched as a pained expression crossed her face that she tried to hide with a smile. She saw the last of Sango's breath leave her body and the light go out of her eyes. A sob made her entire body shudder as she closed Sango's blank eyes.
"That's. So. Touching." Naraku's voice sounded around her like his laugh did.
With tears still in her eyes, she stood and shouted in no direction in particular. "You want me! Leave them alone!"
"Oh. But, in order to break you, I have to remove the people you love. In front of your eyes." The voice faded and Kagome saw Inuyasha appear through the fog.
"Kagome?!," he called out. "Is that really you or another hallucination?"
"It's me, Inu!" she called to him as she walked in his direction, not trusting that Naraku would let her touch her brother figure. She tentatively reached for his hand, and when she felt Inuyasha's arm she hugged him tightly. "I'm so sorry for getting you involved with all of this." She buried her head into his neck and inhaled his scent.
"What are you talking about, Kags? We're gonna kill this bastard, then-"
"Aagh," Kagome screamed. There was an extreme pain in her right trapezius muscle. Then there was a warm liquid spreading on her chest and back. She felt Inuyasha's arms tighten around her. "No. Not you, too," her voice broke.
"He- he hit- my heart. I'm dead when he removes this tenta-" he was cut off when Naraku removed his tentacle and pulled his heart out in one swipe.
Kagome felt the tentacle leave her body and something solid roll off of her chest after Inuyasha fell, lifeless. She slowly looked down and screamed in agony when she saw Inuyasha's still heart in the grass. "AAGGHHHH! WHY?! STOP IT! PLEASE, STOP IT! NO ONE ELSE HAS TO DIE! YOU'VE DONE ENOUGH!" She screamed hysterically, "I'LL COME BACK!" She dropped to her knees and shakily crawled to InuYasha's lifeless body, pulled his head into her lap, and rocked back and forth as the tears rolled out.
"I thought you'd want a souvenir about a time when you were happy.'" He faded into the fog again, "One more life, and I'll lift the fog. Kukuku."
"I'll just kill myself, then. No one else will die because of me." She whispered as she stopped rocking and stared into the distance. She started to go into shock. Suddenly there was a searing pain where the hole from his tentacle impaled her.
He stuck his hand into the wound and spread his fingers relishing in the agonizing screams she let out. "What makes you think I'd allow you to do something like that?" And just like that he left her with her friend's dead body. She stared at Inuyasha with tears in her eyes.
"Please. Kami," she whispered. "Let this end."