A New Beginning... Or is it A New End? by Purotekuta-Shikon no Tama

Remembering

Well, here is the first chapter of now titled 'A New Beginning... Or is it A New End?'.

Enjoy.

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In the Western lands of Feudal era Japan, in a hut south from 'Inuyasha's Forest', a 17 year old woman packed her belongs into an overly sized yellow pack inside an old hut.

*sigh* 'I hope that as soon as I get back I can take a nice hot bath and be able to convence myself that this was all just a long horrible nightmare.' She thought knowing that what she said was just ludicrous and would not work like that.

"Heh. What am I thinking to just forget about it" The woman scolded at herself as finished puting the last belonging into the large pale yellow pack. As she finally strapped it tight, something glitered at the corner of her left eye. She looked toward it and found it came from the fouton at the left corner of the hut. She then walked toward it and sat down on the fouton. She reached over to it, grabbed it, and examined the pink round objected as it glowed in her touch.

Another sigh escaped her lips as she thought about the rare gem, what it meant, and how much harm it has done since it came to be. She suddenly engulfed the pink gem with her palm and tightened her hold as though holding to it for dear life. She choked back a sob as a flasback came to mind and stayed.

*^*^*^*^*^*^Flashback(Woman's POV)*^*^*^*^*^*^*^

I groaned as I forced my beat up off the cold bloody war ground. I examined the parts of my body that came into view. Only being able to geuss the shape the rest of my body by the shocking waves of pain I felt.

My legs had numerous burns and scratched caused by many youkai claws and blasts. Moving up I could see that the worrior pants that Sesshoumaru had supplied for me were in tatters. Only leaving bits of cloth tho cover my lower body.

My upper body was even in worse shape. My stomach was exposed with a deep slash across it. Most of the blood that leaked out came from it. Only a peace of the hakama that Sesshoumru also gave me was hanging by one or two threads on my right shoulder as a small portion was wrapped around my chest(Well, enough to cover it so that nothing was exposed). My left arm hung limply broken as my hand clutched onto my bow. With scratches burns. My right hand clutched onto my left arm trying to stop the electrical pain shot through it. The right was not broken but it was scratched and burned too.

While the rest of my body I could only guess depending on the pain. But I knew one thing. I had two deep gashes on my back in shape of an 'X'. For the reason that I could feel as the acid burned because the youkai that made it used a similiar poison claw attack like Sesshoumarus'.

Just as got to my trembling feet, an electrical shock wave of pain went through mlegs and I collapsed onto my knees. Tears weld up in my eyes but I refused to let them out as I tried agian. Only this time the shock wave didn't go through.

"Argh. I have to... get to... Shippo!" I grunted to myself as I toke my first few steps forward. As I moved along, trying to find Shippo, pasted many dead bodies. Many were the youkai who joined Naraku's side. I looked at their fallen bodies with sypathy in having to die like this. But some were the hanyous', humans, and youkai that joined our side to defend Japan from Naraku. I gave a mental prayer as I past all of them.

A little more ahead was Sango all bloody and lifeless being held by an equally bloody Miroku. I ran(or tried to) to where Miroku and a dead Sango were. As soon as I got to them I collapsed on the other side of Miroku. I grabbed her from him gently and hugged her tight to my body with my movable arm. I sobbed into her bloodied hair. Pleading for her to not be dead that I just would not let her die. But I knew that it was helpless. She had died before I got there.

As I continued to sob/plead to Sango to not be dead I heard a loud *thud* on the other side of Sango. Miroku had fallen too. I gently lowered Sango and crawled over to a slightly alive Miroku.

I grabbed a hold of one of his shoulders and shoke him violently. Relieve flowed through the pain over my body when he slightly opened his eyes.

"Please Miroku," I pleaded him as once agian tears swelled up in my eyes, "don't leave me too."

A shakey hand came up and cupped my right cheek. "I am *cough*," Miroku coughed out blood as he tried to speak.

"Please Miroku don't talk." I urged worried he too would leave me.

Slowly he shoke his head. "sorry for the harm that I have *cough* caused to Sango." he said in a hoarse voice.

"No!" I semi-screamed as I shoke my haed. "You never hurt Sango. Because she loved you."

"No," he said agian, "did harm her. I promised her that we would win and that after this we would get married and have many children of uor own." Miroku then turned his head to the side to face Sango. He then inched his way toward her now chalk white cold hand. "And now look at her." Once agian tears sprang out from his eyes. "Now she's dead! And it's all because of me!"

He then looked up at her. With almost soul-less eyes. "Now," he began, "she is waiting for me. Good Kagome-sama." He slowly closed his eyes and his hand limped agienst Sango's.

"NOOOO!" I screamed. As I agian shoke him. But this time he didn't repond.

"K-Kagome?" a small voice called out a few feet away from her. 'Shippo!' Kagome thought before she quickly but painfully got up and rushed toward him.

As soon as I got to him I collapsed and held the horribley battered up kitsune to my chest. I then put him on my lap to look at him. 'No.' I worriedly thought.

Shippo's small body had the worst of engeries and because his size was the reason why. He looked tom have broken four ribs. Two on each the left and the right side. Two large and deep....

(To be contineud)