InuYasha Fan Fiction / Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Through your Heart ❯ WAR- Naraku VS. InuYasha ( Chapter 22 )

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Through your Heart

Chapter 22: WAR- Naraku vs InuYasha

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When the wind finally calmed down, Kagura detangled herself from Usagi's hold and backed away slightly, eyeing her hands. Nothing had changed about them, so why did she suddenly felt so liberated?

Kagome gave a sigh of relief when all this little display was over. "Thank God that's over! I thought for sure Usagi would be dead by now!" The miko gave a short nervous laugh.

Katsura remained silent, serious and pondering on something. 'I thought so too, for a short moment, but this doubt remained… I never met someone as confusing as this woman before.' His eyes narrowed as Kagura laughed and walked again in the direction of the blonde, who looked slightly winded.

"Ha! Ha! Ha! I don't know what you did to me but it certainly worked! I've never felt this relieved in all my life! Thank you so much!"

Kagome nearly choked and Katsura reeled back a little in surprise when the demoness hugged Usagi tightly with a big smile. Kagome was stunned into silence when her senses went on alert. "I sense many jewel shards coming this way! I think it's-"

But she was interrupted when they all heard a menacing laugh. "Ku! Ku! Ku! So you have betrayed me, Kagura! I should've killed you sooner but I admit manipulating you was fun, though your incompetence and rebellious attitude, I could've made without."

Naraku appeared in front of Usagi and Kagura, his baboon pelt down his shoulders. Kagura tensed and moved in front of Usagi protectively.

"Kagura's wish has been granted." Everyone turned to the little Kanna who walked beside Naraku. Her mirror was slightly glowing and she remained as emotionless as ever.

"Kanna! Your wish could be granted too!" Kagura tried to coax her 'sister' to be on her side.

Naraku sneered, not giving Kanna any time to answer. "You fool! You're as disgusting as the half-breed InuYasha, Kagura! A dark youkai turning good; how despicable!" He spat out in anger.

The demoness took a step back but still smirked mockingly even if her head was on the line. "Don't forget Naraku that you are also a half-breed! Worse; you were a human before when InuYasha, at least, was born as a true half-demon! You're the disgusting one!" As soon as she uttered those words, Naraku crushed her heart in thousands of pieces right in front of everyone's eyes.

He was seething! Kagura gasped as she felt a pull in her chest and she fell on her knees, panting and clutching her chest. Naraku's eyes widened in disbelief as his creation stayed alive after her heart was destroyed and he got pulled back to reality when he saw movement in front of him.

"Kagura! Hang on! Kagome! Take Kagura and get out of here!"

Naraku watched as the blonde woman he had seen in Kanna's mirror helped Kagura on her feet. She turned to him, daring him to come closer while Kagome hesitantly touched Kagura's shoulders, and then support the demoness fully.

Her mouth set in a thin line, she spoke up to the evil hanyou as he eyed the retreating miko and traitor. "Naraku. You will never be able to subdue Kagura ever again. I will help her regain what she has lost by your hands and there is nothing you can do about it."

Naraku eyed the daring girl from head to toe and smirked. Not even a second later, he was in front of her and looking down at her with an expression she didn't like one bit. Naraku was about to cup Usagi's chin when he dodged on the side just enough to get out of Hiraikotsu's way. He growled dangerously low in his throat at the annoying distraction ad cursed the Taijiya's ardor.

As they came, Naraku threw something on the ground in Sango's and Miroku's direction. The earth shook a little and huge vines sprouted from the ground and captured the monk, the Taijiya, her still unconscious brother and the now de-transformed Kirara.

Sango dropped her weapon with a surprised shriek and Miroku couldn't activate his Kazaana, his hands being restrained at either side of his body.

The small neko youkai struggled but as soon as she started to transform into her bigger form, the vines tightened around her, making Kirara mewl in pain.

Kagome looked on in distress at her bound friends and in a reflex she took her bow and prepared to shoot a purifying arrow towards the vines.

Naraku, however, wouldn't have any of this and he snapped his fingers. Another vine cracked the ground open and Kagome shrieked in fear as it wound itself around her waist and wrists. The purifying power in her arrow dispersed around and the now useless arrow fell on the ground.

"So much interference, it's beginning to get annoying." Naraku stated, his blood red eyes darkening with impatience. He disappeared and reappeared in front of Usagi again and gripped her arm with one hand, the other forcefully lifting her chin up to meet his dark gaze.

'He's fast!' Usagi thought while an alarm started to sound in her head. Nonetheless, she stood her ground and glared at him defiantly. The evil hanyou was tempted to wipe that glare off of her face but he smirked instead. "You have a fiery spirit, woman. I'll enjoy breaking you." He licked his lips and Usagi grimaced in disgust.

"YOU WON'T BE BREAKING ANYONE TODAY, NARAKU! SANKONTESSOU!" With a deep cry, InuYasha tried to put his claws through Naraku, without success. At least the dark hanyou backed away from Usagi with a snarl towards InuYasha.

"Still alive, I see." Naraku sneered while glaring daggers at the other hanyou. InuYasha merely smirked back arrogantly to piss him off even more.

"Yes, and he certainly isn't the only one."

Naraku looked behind InuYasha and the new voice belonged to no other than Lord Sesshoumaru himself. Both brothers looked a tad ruffled and bloody, InuYasha the most, but they had made it through the thick raging crowd.

Naraku was about to mock the Inu Lord but he quickly tensed. The way the usually so in control Sesshoumaru was looking at him almost made him freeze. He had never seen such an expression of loathing on the Lord's face, even when he had given him the human arm to be able to touch Tetsusaiga without being singed by its Kekkai.

"Hey Naraku! Leave Usagi alone! Release Kagome and the others or I'll-"

Naraku's attention went back momentarily to the shouting InuYasha and he narrowed his eyes. "Or you'll do what, InuYasha?" He taunted the other hanyou, knowing that InuYasha always took the bait.

Before the youngest Inu brother could respond, Sesshoumaru zipped past him and tried to strike Naraku with his poison claws. Being so surprised that Sesshoumaru would be the one to attack without warning, Naraku didn't have enough time to fully dodge and he got a scratch infected with poison on his shoulder.

By the time Naraku's body counteracted the poisonous substance, it had already done some damage to his shoulder. He hissed at Sesshoumaru but the latter simply growled back.

When the Lord had jumped backwards after his strike, he had landed just beside the relieved looking blonde. Naraku's gaze hardened and began to get calculating as the oldest Inu youkai gave a look over at the mysterious woman. With his advanced hearing, he could discern a faint; "Are you alright? I'm sorry I couldn't be here sooner."

The evil hanyou's eyes widened slightly when he heard the gentle and caring tone of voice the Ice Prince used towards the human woman. He was even more surprised when said woman smiled and lifted herself on the toes to kiss his cheek lovingly.

'Hmmm…This is interesting. The Taiyoukai seem to have a soft spot for the human. I admit she is rather eye-catching.'

"I never thought I'd see the day when the great Lord Sesshoumaru would be interested in a human's wellbeing. Oh right, if I remember correctly, it's that pathetic human child you always seem to journey with who first started to make you weak!" Naraku mocked the Lord.

Sesshoumaru looked at him with murder in his golden eyes but smirked right after. Naraku found this unnerving so he expanded his senses, and just in time, unfortunately, to avoid being cut in half by Tetsusaiga's sharp blade. InuYasha looked back at him with a smirk resembling his brother's and he swung his father's sword towards the vines that held Kagome captive.

The miko yelped but she didn't fall on the ground as InuYasha caught her in his arms with an arrogant look. Kagome hugged him firmly and kissed him for all she was worth in the spur of the moment. However, when they finished and when the silver haired hanyou put her back on the ground, she put her hands on her hips and set her lips in a pout. "OSUWARI! What took you so long, InuYasha?!"

When the hanyou finally could lift his body off the ground, he growled and held himself from yelling at Kagome, understanding what she had felt while waiting for him. Yet, his hands twitched, along with his eyes. "Kagome…" He warned lightly, not really meaning it. She only looked back at him with a wide smile and he sighed. 'Sit' really was a way to vent all of her anger, it seemed.

Naraku watched all of this with bored eyes and when InuYasha finally turned away from him fully, his gaze darkened and he decided to strike.

"INUYASHA!!! WATCH OUT BEHIND YOU!"

Hearing Usagi's warning cry, the hanyou turned around and got slammed into the ground by Naraku, claws imbedded in his stomach. InuYasha let out a whoosh of air and bit his lips, intent on not showing the dark haired hanyou the satisfaction of seeing him suffer.

But Naraku made a mistake by getting near InuYasha by this extent; the Tetsusaiga pulsed violently because of the nearness of the threatening evil power and it catapulted Naraku back until he just landed on his feet a couple of meters away, having regained his balance before he fell flat on his butt.

Naraku clutched his stomach for a few minutes; Tetsusaiga had tried to literally grill him! InuTaisho's kekkai was really damn strong and its power never decayed over the years.

Naraku growled dangerously but as he was about to launch another attack on InuYasha, an exact growl echoed back at him. When he gazed at the silver haired hanyou, it wasn't golden but wine red eyes that looked back at him.

"That was a mistake you wish you never made" came the now warped and raspy voice of the demon InuYasha. He cracked his knuckles and moved to his knees, his claws digging in the ground with impatience and anticipation. His fangs showed slightly when he smirked at the feeling of being free from his human side. "Come on! Let's get on with it!"

InuYasha got up and threw himself at Naraku, his pace way faster than usual. The problem was that when he transformed, he became reckless and forgot everything around him to destroy whoever was in his way.

Naraku blocked the fist coming his way but felt the force of the blow. 'I never fought him when he is in this state of mind before. He is rather fast…' Naraku thought before throwing a black orb at him.

InuYasha knew that Naraku would try to take advantage of their closeness and he dodged without difficulty. The once gentle hanyou landed not too far away from Sesshoumaru and he eyed his brother with a dangerous growl, now moving in front of the Lord.

Sesshoumaru stepped in front of Usagi and unsheathed Toukijin, pointing it at the hanyou turned demon. "Do not forget your place, InuYasha." The Inu Lord said as a warning and the crazed hanyou seemed to snap out of it slightly.

"Ahh, the Toukijin. You have something that belongs to me, Lord Sesshoumaru" cackled Naraku.

Before the Ice Prince could understand what was going on, Toukijin began to pulse and burn his hand. Sesshoumaru's eyes narrowed and he threw the traitor sword at Naraku, who caught it with a smirk.

The golden eyed Lord didn't seemed fazed by all of this, knowing that one day he would have to part with it; Usagi didn't like that sword anyway and if she felt threatened by it then he would rather loose the sword than her.

The demon InuYasha took another step towards Sesshoumaru; without his damned evil sword, his brother would have some difficulty to fight him in this state.

"InuYasha! Please don't attack Sesshoumaru! It's Naraku who's your enemy!"

InuYasha froze when he heard a desperate cry that sounded familiar. He turned toward a black haired girl claws at the ready, but when their gazes clashed, he blinked out of his daze. "Ka-go-me?"

The beast within him instantly stopped when he identified this girl as his mate. The ragged marks on his cheeks stayed but his eyes went back to their previous golden hue. The Tetsusaiga pulsed again, somehow allowing InuYasha to stay in this form. He smiled softly at Kagome, which reassured the miko, and he unsheathed his father's fang. "Naraku, today we end this war! You'll pay for all that you've done!"

The 2 half-demons met in the air, swords clashing and pulsing against one another. They just continued to strike each other for a while until InuYasha concentrated and used the Bakuryuuha in a desperate attempt to kill Naraku, or at least make him back off.

Naraku's gaze became serious and he fed Toukijin more of his own energy, rendering the sword even more evil and powerful. The blast from Tetsusaiga destroyed 100 youkai right behind Naraku, who stood there untouched as he used his own sword as a shield.

With an almighty swing, the Toukijin retaliated against InuYasha and he was sent sailing on the ground roughly. The hanyou tried to get up from the hole he had inadvertently created, but he groaned and his head fell back on the ground with a small thud.

"INUYASHA!!!" Kagome cried out as Naraku prowled dangerously around InuYasha but as he was about to deliver the final blow, an unknown Ki rose from the side. His head shot up just in time to see the mysterious blond woman cry out in anger.

"MERCURY AQUA RAPSODY!!!"

Sesshoumaru took a few steps back when he felt the rabbit's Ki shot up. She had showed him her past, true, but never had he felt, or seen, something quite like this before. A water harp formed in her hands and she manipulated the liquid with grace as she shouted her attack. It went straight for Naraku and forced him to back off as a wall of ice formed around the fallen InuYasha to protect him.

'I won't let InuYasha be killed. I won't let anyone I care about be killed ever again in front of me, not when I can help it!' Usagi thought fiercely. Without waiting for an infuriating reply of the dark hanyou, she attacked again with deadly aim.

"JUPITER OAK EVOLUTION!!!"

A bolt of lightning shot down from the already dark sky and formed a small shining leaf in her hands.

The suddenness of this made a couple of youkai shriek and Kagome all but fell on her rear with a yelp. Needless to say that Sesshoumaru wasn't beside her anymore but beside Katsura and Kouga, who had now joined them even if he was limping slightly.

She threw the glowing leaf at him rapidly, not leaving him any time to dodge. Naraku's eyes widened and it hit him square in the chest. A huge burst of lightning engulfed him and his cry of pain was stifled by the sound of the cheering crowd.

When the lightning subsided, nothing was left of the evil hanyou except a small spot of ashes. Usagi relaxed while everybody continued to cheer lively, Kagome jumping up and down in glee. Miroku and Sango were looking very relieved and Sesshoumaru began to walk back to the blonde.

All of a sudden, a pair of hands appeared at her sides and grabbed Usagi forcefully around her stomach, bringing her against someone's chest with a bruising force. "Hello there. Miss me?"

Usagi's eyes widened a fraction when she got grabbed and they narrowed in disgust when a familiar voice whispered lustily near her ears.

Shippou started screaming and hid in Kagome's hair again while everyone else just stood there flabbergasted that he would still be alive after such an attack. Naraku took off in the air with a jump and stabilized himself above their heads, still holding the struggling rabbit.

The looks they were giving him made him chuckle, then go out in a full grown maniacal laughter. Try as she may, Usagi couldn't get out of his vice like grip and she shivered at the closeness of the evil power seeping out of his pores.

Naraku's eyes took on an almost black hue as he smirked darkly at Sesshoumaru. "You are so foolish, all of you. You've been fighting me for years and yet you have forgotten that I almost never fight myself. I must admit she did a pretty number on my wooden puppet there. It's a shame you weren't more cautious around such a lovely creature, Lord Sesshoumaru!"

He cackled evilly and to further prove his point and mock the Inu Lord below, he bent his head and stroked the junction between her neck and shoulder with his nose, as if he was taking in her captivating scent. "Hmmm…Just lovely! I'm thinking about making you my personal slave, girl. Your power would come in handy too. I think I would enjoy breaking you very much!"

Usagi shivered again and grimaced in utter repugnance, struggling in his grasp with even more ardor. "Get your hands off me you bastard!" She spit out in fury.

Naraku only chuckled more darkly and tightened his hold. Usagi squeaked when one of his hands came dangerously close to her chest and Naraku laughed. "Your struggling is music to my ears, beautiful! She really is a rare gem isn't she, Lord Sesshoumaru?" Naraku moved his gaze downward where the people had backed away from the Inu Lord.

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His hand bled because of the force he had used to close his fist. He was trembling, but it certainly wasn't out of fear. If anyone had to be afraid here it was Naraku, because the growl that emitted from Sesshoumaru's throat was the most inhuman thing anyone had ever heard.

Bleeding red eyes looked back at the mocking hanyou with an unrivaled abhorrence. "Naraku…"

InuYasha's eyes widened from his position on the ground, Kagome not being too far away from him. Never in his entire life had he heard Sesshoumaru's inner beast get the best of his brother. He wasn't the target of this hatred and nevertheless, he could feel his body tremble with fear.

His brother's beast was free… and uncontrolled.

'God help us all…'

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