When Lives Cross

Disclaimer : I do not own Inu Yasha or YuYu Hakusho.

"..." Talking

'...' Thinking

~*~*~*Place Change

#^~#^~ Time change in same place

(A.N. This is my first fanfiction I have ever written so BE NICE!! I would like any feedback and/or help you can give. Also please tell me how you like the story. The parings are as follows: Kagome/Kurama, Sango/Miroku, Inu-Yasha/Botan, Yusuke/Kiko. Thanks ;) and enjoy the story)

Chapter One

Sango sat in a clearing away form the battle field watching her friend who now seemed more like a sister. Thinking about all that happened and all that would. 'Kagome would probably return to her time now that Nuraku had been defeated, after three years of fighting, it was over. Inu-Yasha the baka Inu-Hanyou that Kagome had loved was upset he had lost Kikyo. Lucky Kikyo was killed with Nuraku in the last moment. I don't think she loves Inu-Yasha anymore. Miroku's wind tunnel had disappeared as soon as Nuraku had drawn his last breath, though the fighting had hurt him badly he stayed awake long enough to tell Sango he loved her and wanted to marry her.' Sango still blushed at the thought. 'I also got my brother back thanks to the miracle that was Kagome.' She remembered the fight all to well.

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They had been walking around for hours following a faded path in the dense forest while the sun hung high overhead. When Kagome stopped and turned her head to the west. The rest of the group, (whom consisted of Inuyasha, Miroku, Sango, and Kagome), stopped.

"What is it Kagome-chan?", Sango asked, while trying to doge a hand that would soon belong to a dead monk.

"I scene a lot of jewel shards coming from the west, and I think- I think that it's is all of the shards not in our possession. It couldn't though could it?", Kagome said a little fear creeping into her voice.

"But Kagome-sama wouldn't that mean that all the shards, even Kouga's have been collected?", Miroku asked as his hand tried yet again to show his appreciation to Sango's body. He was almost there….'almost, just a little further' he thought 'there!!'. He had just placed his hand on her backside when the same instant her hand came flying to meet his cheek in a painful slap.

"HENTAI!!!!!", Sango's scream echoed across the land where the people that they had encountered shook there heads in a knowing way.

"Hey wench, be quite!! Do you want who ever is out there to know we're here? Feh, go ahead and get killed what do I care. Well maybe a bit more than I care about that wench over there at least you would last longer in a-", Inuyasha's ranting was cut off by a screamed,

"Osuwari!!!!" followed by a dozen or more. By the time Kagome ran out of breath and looked a little blue, there was a huge crater in the ground.

"Ku Ku Ku Ku Ku….", A menacing voice, that made most people who herd it, blood run cold, came out from the trees where Kagome had felt the shards, "My miko is strong. That is good that makes her even a more worthy mate. I am surprised though how easy it was to get this close to you Hanyou. I would have thought you were more capable to protect your pathetic group than this. I am yet again proved wrong in how stupid you can be."

"Nuraku", Inuyasha growled and crouched down to attack. Miroku got into a fighting stance with his staff out, as he started to untie the prayer beads that held his wind tunnel. Sango prepared her hiraikotsu. Kagome notched an arrow and took aim. Kagome was glad Sango and her had left Shippo and Kirara with Kaede.

Soon after they were prepared the youkai came, tons of them of all types from as far as the eye can see. The fighting started then and they were somehow all backed into each other. Inuyasha was out in the middle charging Nuraku while cutting down any youkai in his path.

When Inuyasha finally made it to Nuraku his eyes had a red tint to them. They started to battle, and Nuraku shot his tentacles out at Inuyahsa while he dodged and tried to strike with the Tetsusaiga. The rest of the group were cut off from seeing the rest when the youkai overwhelmed them. Kagome was shooting purifying arrows. Sango was using her hiraikotsu. Miroku was sucking in as many youkai he could without sucking in the hell wasps.

Kagome felt over whelmed and a little afraid. There were just too many youkai. As soon as one was gone, one hundred took its place. The ground was getting slick with all the blood flowing from the wounds. After she notched her last arrow and fired it into the waves of youkai, she chanced a look around. What she saw chilled her to the bone. She had been cut off from her friends. Sango and Miroku were back to back fighting the youkai desperately, while the circle they had was getting smaller. They were heavily wounded. They were also tiring fast and becoming sloppy in their fighting. She knew if something didn't happen soon they would die, and with them, part of the last hope to save the world from the evil that was Nuraku.

She glanced over at Inu-Yasha. What she saw there made the chill settle in her bones even more. He was trying to slice off Nuraku's tentacles. Kikyo, whom had entered sometime when they could not see, jumped in the line of fire, Inu-yasha would stop his attack at the last moment. In that moment Nuraku would charge Inu-Yasha. Inu-Yasha would refuse to attack his past love, so Nuraku used it to his advantage.

Kagome felt herself feel a little helpless, as she saw what was becoming of her friends. She wanted to help so bad that a pain came to her chest. Her eyes blurred and she felt a warmth spread through her. She moved her hands towards the warmth and touched the Shikon No Tama. It pulsed beneath her fingers. Her miko powers hummed beneath the pulse of the Shikon. Then, as if time stopped around her, the fighting creased and a white light marbled with wisps of blue surrounded the field in waves from the Shikon. When the light cleared the massive amount of youkai had vanished without a trace. The once bloody battle field was turned into a meadow. It smelled of spring. All eyes turned to where the light had come from. All watched the Shikon, as if the Shikon had a mind of its own. The necklace broke from Kagome's neck and hovered an arms length away. It pulsed again as if calling something.

Nuraku let out a scream as pain racked though his body from the spot where the Shikon No Tama was located on his body. He watched though hazed eyes as it was ripped from him and flung to the rest of the Shikon. When the pieces neared each other there was another light not as big as the last but blinding all the same. When it ended they saw the full Shikon No Tama float its way back to Kagome. It encircled around her neck once more and pulsed. As it pulsed Kagome's aura grew and her miko powers increased. Power came off her in electrifying waves, each larger than the last. When it stopped, Kagome looked up with pure blue eyes with streaks of blue. It looked like the sky with clouds. Her hair had grown to waist length with blue and silver streaks in it. She grew an inch or two taller. She filled out more and her body became more toned. Her nails grew longer and sharper. Her ears pointed a little. She looked like a youkai, a powerful one at that.

Kagome, then lifted her hand and a bow appeared out of thin air. It was formed from something pure and innocent. She drew the string back and an arrow formed. Right before she fired she said in a cold tone that scared Nuraku,

"Enough, I have had enough. You, Nuraku, have caused too much pain. The earth cries from all the evil you reeked on it. The people shudder from all you have done. The youkai feel distaste from you. You will have no more chance to seek redemption. Even those who could never hate would turn their backs on you. You can not stay on this earth any longer. I, I will not allow it. Good bye."

The arrow struck its target and exploded. A enormous white light crackling with energy from life and blue energy from miko powers filled the sky. When the light died down they all saw Nuraku standing there with a smirk on his face. His smirk turned wicked when he spoke,

"You were wrong Miko. You cant destroy me, I, Nuraku am the most powerful-"

,he was cut short when a sting made him reach down his hand to his chest. There he fount a hole rapidly growing bigger. He looked down in horror. There forming where his heart should be was a black hole. Soon it was engulfing him.

"No, No, this wasn't supposed to happen. I was-", he stopped and turned to Kikyo pulling her towards him ,"Fine, then I wont go alone."

With that said his black hole eloped him. He was gone, never to return with Kikyo screaming, demanding for him to let her go, by his side.

When the last of the couple had been swallowed the hole disappeared.

"Kikyo, no….", Inu-Yasha whimpered. His eyes searched the ground for any sign of her. When he came across nothing he turned to Kagome who still looked like a youkai.

Kagome looked to all her companions, she then met amber eyes and whispered,

"Sorry"

After that she fell to the ground her power fading back into her, she then looked like a human agian. Inu-Yasha tried to run and catch her but his legs wouldn't move. His knees bent and he came crashing to the ground loseing the battle to keep awake.

Sango and Miroku stood there forgotten. They looked to one another and a small smile broke onto their lips. They both thought the same thing, 'Its over'. Then Miroku too followed his friends into sleep after he told Sango he loved her and wanted to marry her. Sango stood there frozen to the spot the smiled at the monk on the ground. She then moved over to her brother whom she had not even seen come into the battle. She gasped when she saw he was alive and healthy, somehow, and she had a feeling it had to do with Kagome. She then fell to the ground in tears of joy, silently thanking Kagome.

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"Yes, it will all be ok." ,Sango muttered before she fell asleep in the meadow.