IT WAS OVER...

THE BLOOD HAD BEEN SHEAD AND THE DAMAGE DONE WAS IRRAVERIBLE. THEY HAD LOST.

SLOWLY SINKINGING TO HER KNEES KAGOME, WITH EMPTY EYES STARED UP AT THE CLOUDY SKY . EVERYTHING WAS OVER, ALL THEIR HAD WORK WAS REDUCE TO COMPLETE CARNAGE IN A MATTER OF A FEW HOURS.

SANGO AND MIROKU LAYED MOTIONLESS BY THE REMAINS OF THE ONCE POWERFULL FIRE NEKO, KIRARA. SHIPPOU WAS NOWHERE TO BE SEEN, LOST WITHING THE SMOLDERING REMAINS OF INUYASHAS FOREST. INUYASHA... INUYASHA LAYED IN A MESS OF POOLING BLOOD AND RAIN AT HER FEET.

NARAKU HAD WON, WON EVERYTHING, THE FIGHT, THE JEWEL, AND HER LIFE. AT LEAST SHE WOULD SEE THEM ALL SOON, AGAIN IN AOTHER LIFE. ALL SHE COULD DO WAS GIVE UP AND SURRENDER HERSELF TO NARAKU AND THE FATE THAT AWITED HER.

"MOM..., SHOUTA, GRANDFATHER... IM SORRY. IM SORRY, SO SORRY." SHE WOULD NEVER SEE THEM AGAIN AND SO SHE CRIED. SHE NEW THE PAIN THAT THEY WOULD FEEL WAITING, WAITING FOR HER RETURN ONLY SHE WOULD NEVER COME. "IM SORRY"

NARAKU STOOD AT THE FRONT OF THE PILE OF WHAT WAS ONCE THE BONE EATERS WELL AND WACHED THE AMUSING SIGHT BEFORE HIM. WATCHED AS THE POWERFULL MIKO WAS REDUSED TO A SHAKING FIGURE OF SORROW BEFORE HIM SURRENDURING HERSELF TO ANY FATE HE DECIDED TO BESTOW APON HER.

SHE EXPECTED DEATH, PERHAPS NOT SWIFTLY BUT SHE STILL EXPECTED DEATH.

NO NOT FOR HER, DEATH WOULD BE TO SWIFT. TO KIND, FOR HER HE HELD OTHER PLANS.

'MIKO!' WATCHING AS SHE SLOWLY LOOKED TOWORDS HIM HE COULD NOT HOLD BACK THE SMILE AS HE SAW HOW ABSOLUTLY PITTAFULL SHE LOOKED AT THAT SECOND' MIKO YOU SEE TO EXPECT THINGS TO END, AND I MUST SAY THAT YOU ARE MISTAKEN. TO LONG YOU HAVE FOILED MY PLANS, CAUSED ME TO LOSE WHAT IS RIGHTFULLY MINE. YOU WILL BE THE FIRST OF THE SERVENTS TO WORK IN MY HOUSE, A SALVE WHO WILL AWNSER MY EVERY BECK AND CALL. TAKE A GOOD LOOK AROUND YOU GIRL, FOR THIS WILL BE THE LAST TIME YOU SHALL EVER SEE THE OUT SIDE WORLD KUKUKUKU'

TEARS ROLED DOWN HER CHEAKS AS SHE REGESTERD WHAT HE HAD SAID. A SLAVE, SHE WOULD BE A SLAVE. A CAGED BIRD IN THE HOUSE OF NARAKU, DEATH WOULD HAVE BEEN EASIER TO DEAL WITH. DEATH WOULD HAVE BEEN WELCOMED WITH OPEN ARMS AS SHE WHOLE HEARTEDLY EMBRASED IT. NOW SHE WOULD SUFFER TO THE END OF HER DAYS WITHIN IN THE DARKNESS, ALONE.