Chapter 10.

"Cold, everything's so... Cold"

A warm flash suddenly, on her skin, like a touch, confusing noises, somebody was calling her name, but she couldn't recognize his voice or what he was saying.

"I can't... Anymore"

SO much brightness, she couldn't see anything. Not anymore.

Her eyelids were heavy, she could barely open her eyes.

Her sight managed to adjust at the brightness of the place, but she did recognize the silhouete in front of her. She was lying on a futon. She tried to get up, but the pain was too much.

-Ahh...- she moaned in pain.

-Stay calm, you're not completely recovered yet-

She looked at him. He was different. He did not look at her in the eyes, he seemed... Concerned?

The he did. He looked at her.

-What's wrong?-

-Naraku you... Whar happened? Why am i still here? Alive.-

She looked at her wound. Her skin had been pierced by that sword, infested with Naraku's miasma, she should be dead by now. But that wound seemed healed, as if someone had took all of the miasma out and then sealed the wound.

"But... A great power is required for something like that. Kagome is the only one that can do that, but i didn't feel her purifyin me."

-Tell me, what happened!-

He closed his eyes then, and a let out a sigh.

When they saw Kikyou there, lying on the ground, paler than usual and not even moving, they stiffened.

-Ki... Kikyou- was the only thing Inuyasha could say.

He got closer to her, he wanted to take her in his arms, but it'd be better not to move her.

Naraku was perplexed, he wouldn't accept that, he woul not lose her again.

"She can't die!" And then, he thought about it. He could be able to absorb the miasma from her body.

-Step aside!- he yelled to Inuyasha.

-Are you insane? Isn't enough for you to wound her like this? I won't let you finish her!-

Those words were like hundred of knifes on his chest.

-I'm saving her.- he said, looking straight at the hanyou.

Inuyasha couldn't believe it, Naraku was trying to save her, he was actually concerned about her, He did have feelings. Despite the urge to kill that bastard, he was the only one that could save Kikyou.

-Do it!-

"Resist Kikyou"

He put his hands above the woman's wound, and started sucking the poison out, he could feel the miasma running through his veins, burning. Having the miasma inside of him, was a torture. He could live in it, but not with it inside of him.

Despite the horrible pain, he didn't stop. Her wound was being healed. Instead, his strenght was getting weaker and weaker, the miasma he put into that sword was to finish Inuyasha once for all, and Kikyou absorbed all of it.

-Almost...-

Naraku's hands were shining, while the wound was closing slowly.

Once it was completely closed, Naraku fell to the ground almost powerless.

-That's why you're presence is so weak. You... You saved me, you almost died... for.. me-

-Well... Ha... I injured you.- there was suchcontempt in his voice.

It felt good. Because she was not just some price to him after all.

But a short flashback invaded her memory. Inuyasha's words.

-Inuyasha, where is he?-

-He...-

-You're leaving?- asked Naraku when he saw the hanyou getting up from the place he was sitting.

-I'll be useless here, right? After all, she made her decision. I would just... Bother her-

Naraku was confused.

-She picked you, didn't she?-

The hanyou let an ironic little laugh, full of pain and resentment.

-I don't think so. I understood perfectly, and.. I lost her. Naraku, you better take care of her. Take it as a threat, if something happens to her i... i swear i...- and his voice broke.

Inuyasha didn't turn around and started walking, he knew that if he turned around, he would never be able to leave, to leave her. He clenched his fists so hard that his nails hurted his skin, tears falling down his cheeks, he couldn't stop them, even though he wanted to. He knew he would regret his entire life, he knew he would never be the same, but he also knew Kikyou, and she made her choice. She'd be happy after all, despite his pain, he wanted her to be happy.

He kept walking straight, leaving his heart behind him.

Kikyoy had a sad look, so that's how all happened, that's how Inuyasha and her... Ended. She loved him so much. Despite everything, she realized; a part of her, would always remain in love with him, she would always take care of him, even if he didn't know.

"Inuyasha... I will never forget you"

She smiled slightly, while remembering those little moments with Inuyasha.

"Always in my heart"

-Is that true?- he asked curious, interrupting her thoughts.

Kikyou looked at him. She didn't understand.

-what do you mean?-

-You picked.. me?-

She closed her eyes and smiled. Her hand took his soflty.

She nodded.

She felt his warm lips on hers, kissing her slowly.

-Forever-

When he took her hand, he felt peace, something he never felt in his entire life. And he knew, she was the only person who would ever make him feel that way. Because she was his now.

-Forever-

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Ok, so i'm NOT happy at all with this.. But i'm sooooo sorry if you didn't like the end, honestly, i was with my finals, so i wasnt really into this! :( Still, i think it's not like SOO bad...
Thanks for reading you guys!