InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Demon You Made Me ❯ All Ends In Death, Right? ( Chapter 9 )

Chapter 7: All Ends In Death, Right?

Inuyasha watched in horror as the flaming bullet whizzed past his head, scraping the side of his cheek, and going behind him. `she fought it still?' he thought with a new found hope. That hope quickly vanished as he heard a scream of agony sound behind him.

He quickly turned to see what had caused the sound, and his eyes went wide at the sight before him. Naraku knelt to the ground, a giant hole apparent in his chest. Naraku looked up at kagome, "foolish girl." He said, and inuyasha and shippou watched as their most feared enemy was rendered to ashes before their eyes.

Reality hit inuyasha hard as he spun back around to face kagome. She gave a weak smile before collapsing to the ground. "kagome!" inuyasha screamed as he ran to catch her. Kagome fell limp in his arms, and forced her eyes to open. "its all I can do to keep my soul from letting go inuyasha, I don't want to die again, not so soon." She whimpered.

** Hold on to me love, you know I cant stay long**

Inuyasha's eyes frantically ran over her face, his mind trying to memorize every curve and tone. "no kagome, why? Why'd you do this? You could have shot me, and you would still be alive! I deserve this more than you, why not let me take my punishment?" he asked her as tears quickly formed in his eyes.

"because inuyasha…because I love you. No matter what has happened in our past, I will always love you. I know now that what had really kept me alive all this time, was the hope of seeing you again, not revenge. Be happy for me inuyasha, I got my soul back before I died again. I felt love and compassion for one last time. I remember now, I remember how it was to live, and I will always cherish that feeling." She whispered to him, stopping to cough up a little blood as her body began its descent into death.

**All I wanted to say was I love you and I'm not afraid. Can you hear me, can you feel me in your arms, holding my last breath. Safe inside myself, are all my thoughts of you**

"kagome, please don't talk like that. you can make it through this, there's gotta be something I can do to save you!" he cried out to her a her eyes fluttered, trying to stay open. She nodded her head `no', and inuyasha punched the ground with his fist. "no kagome, I cant except that this is the end, I cant let you go, not again. I love you kagome, I always have." He said as silent tears ran from his eyes.

Kagome smiled at him again, "that's all I wanted to hear inuyasha, that's all I ever wanted to hear from you. Thank you, inuyasha." She continued in a cracking and forced whisper. Inuyasha leaned down to her, and stared her closely in the eyes, before descending his mouth to hers. kagome used all her strength to return the kiss. Inuyasha's body shook in sobs as he kept his lips to hers, feeling her pulse quickly fade.

Kagome sighed into the kiss, and he knew she was gone, but refused to move away, not wanting to look upon her dead form.

**Sweet raptured light, it ends here tonight**

shippou watched from his distance, unable to move. Tears flowed uncontrollably from his face, and his jaw was slack in shock and horror. `no, okasan, no…not again…" he said out loud to himself.

upon hearing the little foxes voice, inuyasha raised his head up to look for the fox that he hadn't seen in over a year. "shippou-Chan?" he called, his voice raspy from his sobs. Shippou flinched at the voice, and turned his eyes from Kagome's limp form, to meet Inuyasha's sorrowful eyes.

Shippou felt the rage in his heart subside when he saw his sorrowful eyes. "I'm sorry shippou, I did this to her, I took her from us again. please forgive me shippou, I never meant to do this, I never meant to take her from you." Inuyasha pleaded.

Shippou closed his mouth, and his lower lip began to quiver. Without replying to him, shippou let out a wail and bounded over to inuyasha. Inuyasha held the boy close and let him cry on his shoulder. Inuyasha looked over the child's back and let his eyes rest on the still face of his dead love. "if I could do it all over again, I promise you kagome, I would have done it right."

**I know you hear me, I can taste it in your tears. Holding my last breath, safe inside myself are all my thoughts of you, sweet raptured light it ends here tonight.**

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Sango continued to cry while rocking Miroku back and forth in her arms. Suddenly, she felt a strong wind surround her, and her eyes locked on his hand. Purple air was rushing around it, and she watched as it was swiftly sucked into in the void, and the wind ceased.

Miroku shifted in her arms, and she gasped in shock. "Miroku? Miroku what happened?" she asked.

He shook his head, and held his right hand out infront of him. He kept silent, although his eyes were wide. Shaking, he slowly removed his prayer beads, and moved the purple cloth away from his palm. All that was left where the void once was, was a small circular scar, nothing more.

Sango smiled and laughed happily as she realized what had happened. "kagome must have slain Naraku, and the curse has been lifted!" she said happily, as she hugged Miroku tightly. He smiled at her and kept his hand out infront of him as he admired it.

"kagome! We have to go see kagome! I cant wait to congratulate her!" she said cheerfully, and Miroku nodded, still too shocked for words. "Kirara!" Sango called, and the cat demon leapt from her hiding place in the bushes.

The neko transformed, and Sango helped Miroku up onto the animal. The closer they got, the larger Sango's smile grew, but the larger Miroku's frown grew, and brow furrowed. `something isn't right, I still cant sense Kagome's spirit, but I can sense inuyasha. His aura is greatly distressed, as is the other youkai, most likely shippou. What has happened to Lady Kagome?'

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Sango continued to cry for at least two days after she found kagome dead. Inuyasha had gathered kagome in his arms, and carried her back to the village. Miroku and inuyasha had buried her body at the base of the Sacred Tree, and erected a small monument to her. Inuyasha himself, had stayed in the branches of the tree since then, and the rest of the group had given up on trying to feed or tall to him.

**I miss the winter, a world of fragile things. Look for me in the white forest hiding in a hallow tree (can you find me)**

inuyasha kept to himself, his eyes void of the light of life, and his mind couldn't register anything except the pain of lose. His only thoughts were of kagome, and he replayed his memories of their time together. He remembered the way she smiled at him, the way she laughed. He remembered the many times he made her cry, and the way she would always return to him with forgiveness in her eyes.

Even though many of these memories tore at his heart, he found himself unable to cry any longer. He knew he would die if he continued to mourn like this, but at this point, he simply didn't care anymore. `without her here, there's no reason for me to continue living.' He told himself.

**Closing your eyes to disappear, you pray yours dreams will leave you here, but still you wake and know the truth, no ones there**

finally, one day, he leapt down from his perch, and stood face to face with the monument. He had never dared to read the words there, for fear it would only increase his pain, but now, he felt he couldn't hurt any more.

He knelt down, and brushed away the leaved that had fallen onto the stood.

"Here Lies Kagome Higurashi. A Friend, a Mother, a Miko, and a Legend To This Time. Here Lies Lady Kagome, the Life and Love of Inuyasha, She Will Be Forever Missed"

Inuyasha's heart twisted painfully as he completed reading the tombstone. He fell forward, and leaned his head against the cold stone, and wracked sobs he swore would never come. "kagome, I miss you so much. Why'd this have to happen? Why couldn't things be easier? Why did I have to be such a moron for ever letting you go?!" he asked the tomb.

"I swear to you kagome, if I could take back all the things I did to you, all the stupid things I ever said, I would. I would start with a clean slate, and never let you go." He continued, and then pushed himself back away from the stone, to sit on his haunches.

He never took his eyes off the engravings there, as he punched through the wooden base of the tomb, and grabbed at something he knew must be there. He wrapped a hand around it, and pulled it out. He stared down at the weapon in his hands, the same weapon kagome had caused her own demise with, her shotgun.

He took off his fire rat kimono, and folded it neatly. He moved some of the broken wood out of the way, and placed his clothing ontop of her own clothes and possessions. He positioned to cold metal to his chest, the barrel pointed over his heart. "at least I can follow you in death, the death that was meant for me. I know that no matter where I go, I will always love you, my kagome." He said sadly out loud, as he pulled the trigger.

The bullet killed him in an instant, destroying his heart with that one shot. His body fell limp over the tomb, and his blood quickly saturated the soil there. But at the moment he had pulled the trigger, he was happy. He finally realized that kagome had still loved him even as she took her last breath, and he could only be happy, knowing he was doing the same.

**Say goodnight, don't be afraid. Calling me, calling me as you fade to light. Say good night (holding last breathy) don't be afraid (safe inside myself) calling me calling me (are all my thoughts of you ) sweet raptured light, it ends here tonight**

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two teenagers walked down the crowded hallway of Shikon High, head phones blaring. The songs that rang through their ears, was the same song they listened to at the beginning and ending of everyday, for the past two years.

**Baby in another life, I could find you there. Pull away before you're time, I cant deal its so unfair. And it feels and feels like heavens so far away, and it feels yeah feels like the weathers bone cold now that you've gone away.

Even flowers on your grave show that I still care, black roses and hail Mary's cant bring back, what's taken from me. I reach to the sky and called out your name.

And if I could trade, how I would. And it feels and it feels like, heavens so far away. And it stings yeah it stings how weathers so cold now that you've gone away. Gone away, gone away, gone away.

I saw your soul, whoa yeaahh.

I reached to the sky, and called out your name. Oh please let me trade, how I would. And it feels and feels like heavens so far away.

And feels yeah it feels like, the weathers bone cold now that you've gone away, gone away, gone away yeah yeah yeah yeah.**

The 18 year old, black haired, violet eyed punker listened to Offspring - Gone Away, his eyes focused on nothing as he listened to the familiar lyrics.

"You don't remember me but I remember you. I lie awake and try so hard not think of you. But though cant decide what they dream and dream I do.

I believe in you, I give up everything just to find you. I have be with you, to live to breathe, you're taking over me.

Have you forgotten all I know and all we had? You saw me mourning my love for you and touched me hand. I knew you loved me then.

I believe in you. I'll give everything just to find you, I have to be with you, to live, to breathe, you're taking over me.

I look in the mirror and see your face, if I look deep enough. So many things inside that are just like you are taking over.

I believe in you, I'll give up everything just to find you, I have to be with you, to live to breathe, you're taking over me

I believe in you, ill give up everything just to find you I have to be with you, to live to breathe, you're taking over me. (taking over me) you're taking over me (Taking over me) taking over me."

And the 16 year old chick, with black haired, silver contacts, sporting the `I'm-Gothic-But-Don't-Even-Know-It' look going on, listened to Evanescence - Taking Over Me, the same empty look in her eyes.

As the two continued on their way to their first class, still lost in their own thoughts when…"OMPH!"

The young, and very attractive man rubbed his head as he picked himself up off the ground. "hey you stupid wench, look where you're going." He said as he opened his eyes. The girl formally known as `wench' picked up her folder and stood up, cringing at the ache in her forehead. She lifted her head up and opened her eyes to look at her offender.

As they're eyes met, so did the world around them. Both were overcome with the strangest feeling of Dejavu, and didn't know what to say. `if I could do it all over again, I would do it right.' Were the words that sounded in both their minds.

But as fast as it came, the feeling vanished, as Dejavu usually does. "gomen, I'm kagome by the way."

"Feh, damn straight your sorry. Inuyasha."

`My names kagome! ka-go-me! Got it?'

`No! inuyasha!!'

Came the memories, from where, neither could recall. Neither were even aware, that their little `accident', would change their lives forever. They had both wished to overcome the powers of fate, and their wish, had been granted.

Two blue eyes watched from his place in the hallway, eyes locked on the pair of new acquaintances. `at least I know you found peace kagome. I only hope that you are happy with you're decision, clearly, destiny has bound you two together, and there's nothing even I can do to change this. Just know that there will always be apart of me that will yearn for you. I will always love you, even if I will never be able to tell you again.' the man thought, and he quietly turned, and disappeared in the crowd of teenagers.

Suteki: there you go, the last chapter. I hope everyone enjoyed, although it was pretty short. I also hope you liked the way I chose to end it, I spent many nights trying to figure out the ending, and the Kouga part was never planned. But I realized that I forgot to give him some sort of closure. I just know I'm gonna get flamed for this, lol.

I greatly enjoyed writing this story, and I loved all of the reviews I got, thank you to all my readers! I also want to thank those who helped me decide on the ending, Taishou, sorry I ended up going with this one, lol, I couldn't figure out how to make the other work. And thanks to Bunny who put this on her site www.celephaneb.tripod.com (check it out!) so, I end this story, sorry I wont be continuing it with part 2. BUT if anyone would like to take this story, and make a part 2 themselves, let me know and I'll give the okay after I talk with you! hehe. Okay, till next time! Ja ne! (waves and blows kisses to everyone) ;)

Lyrics: songfic done to "Holding My Last Breath - Evanescence". Also, "Gone Away - Offspring", "Taking Over - Evanescence"