Toying With Innocence

Disclaimer: I don’t and want ever own them T.T

A/N: Thank you to my Betas, Reiver Vicious and Laura

Chapter 3

Naraku dragged Kagome out of the castle, and into the courtyard were a very pissed off human Inuyasha stood in his human form, with the others. Kagome looked at him as Naraku pulled her to the side of the castle. “Help…please.” she whispered to him. Naraku locked the chain that held her arms to a bolt on the wall.

“Let her go!” Inuyasha yelled as draw Tetsusaiga, which remained useless were it wouldn’t transform because he was in his human form.

Naraku just laughed. “And what do you plan to do Inuyasha? You don’t have a chance against me as a human with nothing but a rusty sword to fight me with.” He then lunged at Inuyasha with his own sword, which Inuyasha just barely managed to block the attack with the dull blade of the Tetsusaiga.

As Sango and Miroku tried to step in and help but were cut off by a demon puppet. Shippo managed to slip by undetected and headed for Kagome. He climbed up to where her chains were locked to the wall, but just as he was about to reach them Naraku spotted him. “Good try…But not good enough!” Naraku said with a laugh as sent a group of his tentacles at the kitsane.

“Shippo!” cried out Kagome as Shippo fell to the ground, badly wounded. Tears running down her face, she turned back to look at Naraku. “You bastard! How dare you!” she screamed at him.

Naraku ignored her as he turned his attention back to Inuyasha, who was starting to tire from the fight, and his wounds were not helping any. Inuyasha was starting to get careless as he attacked, wanting to get the fight over as soon as he could. As they fought Naraku stabbed Inuyasha, when he had left himself open in a desperate attack. Inuyasha’s eyes went wide with both shock and pain. Naraku pulled his sword out of him and, he gave a sinister laughed as Inuyasha fell to the ground. Miroku and Sango, who had finished off the demon puppet just moments before, caught him before he hit the ground. Kagome watched in horror, slowly she fell to her knee’s screaming. “NO! Inuyasha…no, please…please…get…u…up…” she trailed off as she started to cry. Sobs shook her body as the laughing Naraku walked over to her. He was holding a bottle that seemed to appear out of thin air.

Miroku stood up and looked at Inuyasha and Sango as Inuyasha rasped out. “Please Miroku…save Kagome.”

“I will, don’t worry,” Miroku replied. He then looked at Sango. “Do what you can to help him. Its still a long time before the sun comes back up.”

“Already working on it.” Sango said as she was ripped up some old cloths into pieces for bandages for dressing Inuyasha’s wounds.

Miroku headed towards Naraku, who had his back turned to him as he tried to force the potion that was in the bottle down Kagome’s throat. Kagome did her best to fight back, but the effects of shook had started to set in. After a moment he easily got the bottle to her mouth.

He started to pour the liquid into her mouth when Miroku forcefully placed the end of his stuff to Naraku’s neck. “Let her go!” he said, “Or I will have no choice but to use my Kazana on you.”

Naraku just shook his head as he smile a crocked grin back at Miroku. “Your already to late, Monk!” He waved the empty bottle at him.

“What the hell was in that?!” Miroku yelled alarmed as he grabbed Naraku around the neck and pulled him up, so that he was facing him.

“It’s just a little potion,” Miroku threw Naraku away from him and unleashed his Kazana. “I’m not that easy to get rid of.” And at that Naraku disappeared into a dark, swirling cloud before the Kazana could take its effect on him. Miroku cursed under his breath as he closed off his’ Kazana before going over to Kagome, who had pulled herself in to a ball on the ground as she cried out of the shock of what she had see. Miroku managed to break the chains that held her wrists; then helped her to stand up. As he did so, he noticed a change in her aura, but he couldn’t quite tell what it was.

Sango walked over to them. “I did what I could for Inuyasha, but he’s lost a lot of blood,” She then turned to Kagome with even more concern. “Are you ok?”

“I will be soon.” She replied, as she pulled away from Miroku and staggered towards Inuyasha, tears still running down her face. She fell to her knees beside him and her tears fell into her lap. “Inuyasha….please, wake up!” She placed her hands on his chest. As she did, it felt as though a shock run through her body.

Sango looked shocked for a moment when she looked over at Inuyasha and Kagome. “Miroku, why are they glowing?!”

“I don’t know.” he replied as he walked towards them and as he reached out to Kagome, but he reserved a shock that run up his arm. “There seems to be a barrier around them.” He then noticed, again, that there was something different about Kagome’s aura, but this time he noticed that it seem Inuyasha’s was slowly changing as well. ‘Why is that happing?’ he wandered.

~*~ In Kagome’s dream~*~

Kagome found herself standing alone in the middle of a big field, the wind was blowing. She looked down and saw that she was wearing a white sundress but there were patches of blood all over it. She went to touch one of the spots of blood, as she did; she noticed that her hands were covered in blood as well. She brought her hands up in front of her face and as she looked at them the nails slowly lengthened and turned into claws. She let her hands drop to her sides in shock, and then panic set in. Thinking that she might have hurt someone, she started to look around her. At first there was nothing there but as she moved she started to see her friends lying on the ground. Sango, Miroku, Shippo, and Kirara were all dead. She stumbled away from them when she saw the gashes that covered their bodies, or what was left of them any way. She sunk to the ground crying, when she heard a voice behind her. “So you killed them and now you cry over it.” She started to shake all over as she recognized the voice. “You make me sick…and to think I cared about you.”

She turned around slowly. “Inuyasha, I swear…”

“Shut up. I don’t want to hear any more of your lies!” he said as he glared at her. He was holding one of his arms as it bleeds from a huge gash. Kagome slowly stood and went to walk to him, but he held up a hand. “Don’t come near me!” He growled at her.

“I’m so sorry.” She said as she cried

He continued to glare. “I said no more lies!”

She again walked towards him ignoring his warnings. “Inuyasha, I didn’t do this. I…” She was cut off as he slashed at her but when he was going to cut her down, then everything just faded to black.

~*~ Back to reality ~*~

Kagome woke up sometime later, and felt very odd but ignored it for the moment as she looked around noticing that the sun was just up over the tops of the trees. She looked around some more as she stood, but stopped when she saw Inuyasha. “What the…?!” She stammered out of shock that he was still human. Sango and Miroku were by her side in a second. She turned to them. “What happened? Why hasn’t here turned back to normal yet?!”

“Well we really aren’t sure yet but we now that what ever the reason, it effected you as well,” Sango told her as she handed her a mirror. “We do have a good idea that it was caused by the potion Naraku forced on you.” Kagome looked into the mirror and nearly dropped it when she saw her reflection. She looked more closely this time and saw that her hair changed to a light red colour with white streaks through out it, she also now had a pair of reddish dog eyes on her head. She also noticed that her eyes had changed to a fiery orange and there were two small jagged red streaks on her face. She handed the mirror back to Sango and as she did so, she saw that like in her dream, he nails head turned in to claws. Her mind raced as she tried to figure out what was going on.

She walked over to Inuyasha, to see that blood was starting to seep through his bandages. She knelt down by him and her hands started to glow a light purple colour as she set them on him. The glow slowly seeped over all of his body and then his wounds started to heal. After a few moments Kagome stood and stepped back to reveal that his wounds were completely healed.

~*~ In Inuyasha’s dream ~*~

He felt a searing pain running through him as he lay on the ground. He soon opened his eyes when he heard foot steps coming towards him. He forced himself to sit up and look to see who it was. He jumped to his feet when he saw the scene before him. Kagome was lying on the ground bleeding and crying in pain. Sango was holding Miroku to her, even though it was obvious he was already dead. Then he saw that the foot steps had belonged to Naraku. He growled. “What the fuck have you done!?”

Naraku just laughed in reply then charged at him. Inuyasha went to use Tetsusaiga, but found it was not there. ‘Where the hell did it go?!’ he thought as he quickly looked around as he dodge Naraku’s attacks. It wasn’t long before he was on the ground again, bleeding. Naraku held him there with his foot on his chest.

“Finally I will have you out of my way.” Naraku said to him as he raised his sword to finish him, but Naraku failed to notice that Inuyasha was changing into his full demon form.

Inuyasha threw Naraku off of him and slashed at his chest. Naraku just dodge the attack then disappeared into the trees near by. Inuyasha went to go after him but stopped as he caught the sound of crying again. As he realized that it was Kagome, this pulled him back to his normal self. He ran over to her and pulled her to him. “Kagome, I’m sorry,” he said as he looked at how badly she was hurt. He hugged her to him as he tried not to cry…but his eyes shot open as a knife was stubbed into his stomach. “What…?!” he said as he looked down and saw that it was Naraku he was holding and as he started to fall to the ground he saw that Kagome was lying dead not far from Sango. “Kagome…” he trialed off as darkness took him.

~*~ Back to reality ~*~

Inuyasha slowly opened his eyes, and started to sit up, bringing a hand to his head. “Fuck, I feel like shit.” Then it hit him why he felt like this. “Kagome!?” he said as he looked around quickly, making his head swim as he did.

“I’m ok.” Kagome said. Inuyasha got up and looked at her, shocked at the change in her looks.

“Kagome…is that really you. What the hell happened to you?” He looked down as he tried to process all of this, as he did; he saw strands of black hair fell in front of him. “What the hell?!”


Miroku explain to Inuyasha what had happened after he had passed out. Inuyasha was far from pleased from what he learned.

“Naraku…you have crossed too far over the line this time!” Inuyasha said through gritted teeth.