InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Redemption ❯ redemption14 ( Chapter 14 )

Kagome knelt on the ground, Naraku's head in her lap. He was bleeding badly. Inuyasha fought with the dead, while the demon, made his way towards Kagome and Naraku.

"Heh, heh, heh, like I said before miko, today you die, as do your friends, that includes the ones on the outside, for they are not far enough away from the entrance to be safe." The demon approached.

"Kagome! Get away from her!" Inuyasha ordered, as several dead attacked him. "Damn! For the dead they still have some kick in them!" Inuyasha sliced through four of them, then heard a scream. "KAGOME!!" He whipped around, to see Naraku standing on what Inuyasha guessed were his last legs.

Naraku stood with Kagome behind him. "Oh, so you still have some life in you do ya? How wonderful. Having a victim die instantly is no fun. I love to play with the injured before they loose their souls and are nothing more then decor." The demon came closer.

Though he was in excrutiating pain, Naraku continued to stand between the demon and Kagome, who was concerned about the amount of blood Naraku was loosing just standing there. "You need to lay back down!" "No." "You're loosing far too much blood!" "Thats does not matter to me." "Ah..." Kagome didn't know what to do. Both Inuyasha and Naraku were up against foes, all to protect her.

she scanned the area, and suddenly spotted a bow and a quiver of arrows. "Yes," She inched closer to the bow and arrows. "If I can just get to them..." "Kagome! Look out!" She heard Naraku shout and turned, to see the demon coming fast upon her.

"No...I wont let this disgusting, vile thing get the better of me...just a bit more..." Inuyasha saw what Kagome was heading for and used the adament barrage, causing the dead attackers to be sliced with ademant shards. Both he and Naraku now stood between the demon and Kagome who had just reached the bow and arrows. She strung and arrow quickly and aimed it at the demon.

"Oh? So, the miko can handle a bow? Interesting, but not good enough, that bow was once a woman's and she is no longer breathing, hence neither will...ARGH!!" "Shut up! You filthy, disgusting, vile beast!!" Kagome shouted and fixed another arrow.

"Impossible! No human has that kind of power!" "Ah, in case you forgot, she's a miko, and they do have power like that." Naraku nodded, "However, none have been as strong as this before." "None?" "None." "Oh."

"Wretched wench! You will share the same fate as that woman!" "I don't think so." Kagome fired another arrow. It hit the demon's arm, lopping it off. Which had been the worst thing to do.

"Ugh..." Kagome coughed and coughed. The demon smirked. "How do you like my last resort? The stench will flow through you and cause you to be nothing more then a bloody mess." Kagome doubled over in pain as blood began to drip from her nose.

"Kagome!" "Now, you boys can watch the miko's pain, fore the stench is not lethal to half breeds, not even if the half breed was not one in the begining."

"This is it! This is the death that you have chosen for yourself miko! You could have been sliced with my knife, but now you'll die the most painful and excrutiating death I have ever given!!" Kagome gripped her mouth as she coughed and spewed blood and what looked like flesh.

"Kagome..." Inuyasha wanted to run to her and hold her, but the demon's holding spell had been placed upon him and Naraku, so neither could comfort the dying woman.

"What a gruesome way to die...even I would not have done that." "Really?" "I may have been evil, but not like this demon." "May have been?" "Theres something special about her, something that just makes one's heart soar, and their soul become enlightened." "Hm...yeah there sure is..." Inuyasha sighed.

"Perhaps we should fight?" Naraku suggested, and Inuyasha nodded. "Lets fight. I didn't survie this long in life not fighting when under this kind of spell." "Same here...so, you go left," "You go right."

The demon was far too engrossed with Kagome's dying, that he didn't even realize that his other captives had broken free. Until, both were standing before him.

"How did you..." "We're half breeds like you said, so we know how to get out of those kind of spells." "Now, you filthy demon, prepare to fight the two of us and loose!" "Heh, heh, heh! Wonderful, while the bitch dies, she'll watch while I run you through." "With what?" "This."

Kagome's eyes shot open wide as she watched both Naraku and Inuyasha get run through by nearly 50 spears. "NO!!" She screamed and fixed two arrows to the bow and fired at the demon, this time with so much power, that it disintigrated the demon right before her eyes.

She dropped the bow and ran to both men. The spears had vanished, as had the dead soldiers. Inuyasha and Naraku lay on the ground, blood seeping into the ground. Kagome instantly knelt beside both.

Tears fell from her eyes as she touched both faces with her hands. They were cold and getting colder. "Please! Please! Wake up! Both of you please wake up!" She cried and cried.

"Ka...Kagome," She heard both speak. "You two! Fools! Thats what you two are! Fools!" "Maybe we are." "I suppose I should prepare for the torture that I am to endure in hell..." Kagome's tears fell onto both faces.

"I'm sorry," "For what?" "I said I'd help you earn away into heaven...but now...all this has happened...I..." "There is nothing that you need to be sorry about. You showed me, that even for someone who has done what I have, there is still a way to change, even if it doesn't earn me heaven." Kagome wipped her eyes. "Kagome, in my opinion, you were heaven to me. You, someone I never thought would even attempt to take on such a task."

Suddenly a light shone brightly. "Huh?" "Come along now Naraku, Inuyasha, the gates cannot stay open forever." "The gates..." "Mhm, of heaven, of course." "I...I don't understand..." "Naraku, true your past actions would have granted you a first class pass to hell, however, the courage and devotion that you have shown since your journey began, has had the kamis thinking, then they all agreed that you desearved heaven." "What? When?" "When you sacrificed you life for another's." "Then...then..." "Yes, Kagome, you have succeded in helping Naraku redeam himself, he has achived redemption." "I'm so glad, yet, sad of course." "Hm...come along now boys..." Inuyasha didn't move from where he stood. He just stood there looking Kagome in the eyes.

"Kagome, I'm sorry, for the way I've treated you, but I want you to know that even though you may have womdered, I do love you." Kagome cried even more now. Inuyasha embraceed her and he wrapped his arms tightly around her.

Naraku saw the look in both's eyes and asked the woman of the light a secret question. "Hm...you can request only one thing Naraku, are you sure thats what you want to request?" He looked at the pain in both Kagome and Inuyasha's eyes and sighed. "Yes. It is the request that I want to be done." "Very well." The woman approached Inuyasha and Kagome.

"Inuyasha, you have been given a gift." "Gift?" "Yes, you see when one sacrifices themselves for another, they get one request, and that request can be anything." "Hm?" "Naraku has requested that you live, Inuyasha." "What..." Kagome looked at Naraku and smiled as she ran to hug him. "Thank you." "Consider it my thanks to you Kagome, fore without you I'd have never achieved redemption. So thank you."

"Let us be off now." Kagome reluctantly let go, and was pulled into Inuyasha's arms. They watched as both the woman and Naraku assended to the heavens.

"Well now...that was unexpected." Inuyasha had not in a million years expected Naraku to request him to live, but then again, he hadn't thought that Narkau was anything, but evil, and that had turned out to be false too. Kagome gripped the hanyou's arm. "Lets go." "Are you alright?" "Hm? Yeah, the pain is gone as is the blood," "I'm glad...and I meant what I said. I do love you." Kagome smiled, "I love you too. Now lets get out of here, the others are probably worried sick." "Yeah, lets go."