InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ A Love Found After Centuries: Part 2 ❯ Chapter 9 ( Chapter 9 )

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Without any adieu, I give you… the final battle…

Chapter 9: The Battle To End The Wars

By: Inumaru_Rapture

Kagome stood slightly behind her mate and best friend as both males protected her from the onslaught of demons. She shot arrows, one after the other, into the hoard, but for every line killed, five more took it's place. Sango slashed at the demons surrounding her and Miroku, the boomerang being used as a shield. Miroku wielded his staff, spinning and slashing at the demons as more and more came. Naraku's pitch of a laugh filtered over the chaos as Kagura soon joined the fight, sending the dead souls to attack them. Sesshoumaru felt his blood boil towards his true form. If Kagome wasn't already hurt, he would have run off to take care of the demons already.

-flashback-

The allies came face to face with the black cloud that was Naraku's army. Naraku's kukukuing was heard over the roars as the demons surged forward, angered by their want of the remaining two jewel shards.

Kagura was on her feather above them, Kanna in a tree, and Kikyo no where to be seen. Miroku and Inuyasha leapt forward into battle as the still recovering Sango, and Sesshoumaru and Kagome stayed behind protecting their rear. Sesshoumaru did not leave a 5 foot area around his mate, his fear of loosing her stronger than any other emotion he has ever felt. Kagome shot off arrow after arrow into the warding demons. Nothing seemed to phase them.

A large snake demon shot venom at Kagome as Sesshoumaru was preoccupied with a bear youkai trying to attack her from the other side. A red blur cut across Kagome's vision and sliced through the venom, killing the snake youkai as he went. Kagome smiled thankfully to Inuyasha before killing a little flying gerbil thing that was aiming to attack his head.

Kagura flipped her fan, bringing fourth dead humans to fight. They attacked with the demons, some pulling kamikaze stunts into the attacking demons as they flew aimlessly towards the humans. A demon flung itself into the hoard and was catapulted into Kagome, sending the both of them sprawling and clawing at each other. The demon hissed, flashing fangs as Kagome struggled to keep its head away from her. Sesshoumaru tore raging at the demons in his way as he leapt at the demon on top of his mate and all but snapped it's spine in two as he wrapped his hands around it and pulled it off his mate. With an earth shattering snarl, Sesshoumaru threw the demon into the onslaught, making about 1/4th of them disintegrate with shooting green poison. Panting, he drew his mate close and licked her face wound.

"You hurt badly, love?" He asked softly as the demons paused in their fighting long enough for the humans and hanyou to gain an advantage. She nodded, grimaced in pain, then cleared her face. He smelt her pain, smelt her strength, smelt her forming pup…shit….why didn't he notice before?! He growled softly and hugged her fiercely to himself as he used his poison whip to take out all demons trying to attack them. He had to protect her and his new pup before anything else.

-End Flashback-

"YOU SHALL NOT WIN!" Naraku's laughter filled the air as a giant youkai burst from the ground, taking Sango and Miroku with him.

"MIROKU!" Inuyasha cried.

"SANGO!!!" Kagome's shrill voice cried out. Sesshoumaru was gone from her side, flying up and pulling Sango and Miroku from harms way while Inuyasha ran to guard Kagome. She was a tough woman, but with all these demons, who could be careful?

Inuyasha killed off a herd of sheep-like demons, aiming at the middle of them and letting his energy flow. Suddenly, a black blur whizzed by him and Kagome's startled gasp turned his blood cold. A centaur youkai was carrying a screaming, kicking, and punching Kagome towards Naraku. Sesshoumaru was preoccupied on the other side of the battlefield with the giant demon, Miroku and Sango were busy helping Sesshoumaru by warding off smaller demons from attacking him. Inuyasha leapt into action, only to be pulled down to earth by none other than Kikyo.

Inuyasha stared dumbly at the dead miko as her soul searches pulled him back down to earth, squeezing their hold on him. Her laugh pierced him deeply. She enjoyed hurting him. With an enraged cry, he ripped free of his restraints and aimed his claws at the woman he once loved. Her scream mingled with his as she didn't move fast enough. She was thrown back into the demons hoarding, her soul searching following. A howl of pain ripped through the night as the demons suddenly all vanished, being sucked into Naraku. Kagura and Kanna stood together in the distance, Kagura's puppets being pulled away, out of her control. They stood silently, unwilling to be forced back into Naraku.

"YOU WILL DIE NOW!!!!" His enraged scream shook the earth as Kagome was thrown into a tree, her kidnapper being pulled into the hanyou's body. The ground shook something fierce and Sesshoumaru took a shaky step towards his mate, only to be thrown back by a last ditch effort of the large youkai he had been fighting before it was sucked into Naraku. Sesshoumaru wiped blood from his lips as he vaulted himself towards his mate. Kagome held onto the tree next to her as she felt her soul being torn from her. She needed help… she couldn't hold on. Her insides felt like they were being forced through the pours of her skin. With a pained cry, her arms scraped across the tree as she was pried from it and thrown into the hurricane that was creating the large form of Naraku.

"SESSHOUMARU!" She screamed for her mate as she was thrown into the clawed hand of the full-bodied demon, Naraku.

With a triumphant laugh, Naraku stood, standing a height of about 13 feet, demons trying to escape his skin, their faces embedded into his pasty white. Kikyo stood by his side, bleeding from the wounds inflicted by Inuyasha.

"Give me her soul, beloved!" She called up to him. Naraku held a finger nail to Kagome's throat.

"No." A cold voice broke above the laughter, drawing attention to the red-eyed demon before them. Green mist swirled around him as he tried to control himself from turning into his demon form. Naraku smirked and pierced through Kagome's neck, her mangled cry cut off as her head rolled off her body and fell to the earth. Sesshoumaru stared in disbelief as Inuyasha caught her head. The soul left Kagome and filtered to the dead miko.

The air suddenly became frozen, the night tense as brick as something inside Sesshoumaru snapped and his demon form exploded from the ground. With a pained howl, Sesshoumaru attacked Naraku in one smooth movement, biting through his arm, poisoning him with green acid. The arm fell, hand still clenched around the headless body of Kagome. Sango, Miroku, and Inuyasha worked to free her body from the tainted poisoned hand of Naraku as Sesshoumaru attacked, blinded by fury and pain. He couldn't lose her again… He refused to believe she was dead.

A pink light suddenly illuminated the darkness. Tension grew as electricity flowed through the air, the pure energy of the once living miko was now freed. Kikyo laughed as her soul fully entered her body. The pink exploded, all black turning to white, all night turning to day, all lives renewed. Inuyasha felt a force tug at the head in his arms and it was launched from him back to the body it once adorned. Miroku, Sango, and Inuyasha fell back, covering their eyes from the brightness as screams filtered through the night. Miroku held tightly onto his wife as they ducked for cover as a large explosion met their ears. Things pelted around them, but never fell on the three huddling friends. When the light cleared, Inuyasha looked up and saw his brother laying on his side facing away from them. Naraku laid in pieces, his blood everywhere. The only person standing was Kikyo, who was pinned to a tree with a fang from Sesshoumaru in her middle. She was slowly dying, the blue of Kagome's soul leaving her breath slowly. Inuyasha stood, shakily, looking at Kikyo's destroyed form. With soft steps, he picked up his tessaiga (spelt wrong, I know..) and went to her.

"Look what you've become, Kikyo…" Kikyo growled at him. "A life for a life…" He muttered and swung tessaiga around and beheaded her.

Miroku helped his wife up, hugging her close, looking over at the body of Kagome. She laid on her back, head attached to her body. The blue was covering her, returning to her body once again. Her hand was clenched around something that shone pink, and her chest moved slowly, rhythmically to her breath.

Sango hurried to her friend's side and felt for her breath.

"She's alive!"

~**~**~**~

Inuyasha sat by the bedside in a chair he had dragged over. Kagome lay silently on the bed next to her mate, both of who were in coma like sleeps. A smile graced Kagome's lips, and he wondered what she dreamed of…

-Inside Kagome's head…

It was dark, so dark. There was so much tension in the air. Blue eyes opened and saw an eruption, a giant dog attacking a large man. They eyes were drifting over the air, an arm fell to the ground, a headless body in it. There was tension growing from inside the body that was barely noticeable as the eyes drifted into a different body.

-What am I doing here? I need to be with him-

"Not any more you don't. I have your soul now, You can't ever get it back." A voice spoke to the eyes. The blue eyes took on the shape of a young girl, her hair flowed beautifully. A red figure stood before the blue, the red hair looking like the flames of hell.

-Why do you do this, Kikyo?-

"You took everything from me! You took away my life, my Inuyasha, my jewel! I want it back!"

Kikyo lunged at the blue figure, a sword forming into her red hand. Kagome stepped aside, a bow forming from her hands to block the red attack. Kikyo cried out in anger as she brought the sword down again and again onto the blue bow, trying to cut through it or around it to get at Kagome. Kagome fell back with one of Kikyo's blows, both colors swirling into a mix as a real cat fight started, the weapons traded in for sharp fingernails and fangs. Blood turned black as it trickled down the forms of the souls.

A bright pink light suddenly illuminated into the darkness, turning it white. The red figure screamed in pain as it sizzled in the light. The blue figure stood, taking no hesitation in drawing her bow and piercing the red figure through the stomach.

-You took everything from yourself, Kikyo. Don't take away my right to live a full life with my mate just because you were tricked so long ago. You should have listened, Kikyo… But you went to the enemy and bore his child. Now you are tied to his fate. You shall die as well.- Kagome held the beaten red figure of Kikyo at arrow point as she waited to be let free.

-Inside Sesshoumaru's head… (Sesshoumaru's pov)

I was blinded by rage… my anger was so overwhelming at the loss of Kagome. This man…this hanyou turned youkai would be in pieces before he died. I would be sure of that. But first thing's first… to get my beloved's body out of his grasp. I didn't even notice I had turned youkai, but instinct took over and I bit his arm off. His scream was pure bliss in my ears as I attacked him, clawing at him, biting him. He was foul in my mouth, and the taste of his blood was poison on my tongue. I didn't care. He had to pay bit by bit. I wasn't about to sit idly by while the murderer of my beloved Kagome lived on.

I don't know how long I was attacking him, but before I knew it, I was engulfed by pure light. It felt so warm, so caring, almost instantly, I felt as ease, I felt control returning… but not before I felt Naraku's sharp punch across the face. I felt a tooth fly out, and the pain stinging into me. But just as soon as the pain was there, it was gone. The pink cotton surrounding me healed me into my human form, and I drifted off to sleep to heal myself, confident that the last screams and explosions I heard was the death of Naraku.

Inside my head as I slept, I saw a blue woman's form holding a red woman at bay with an arrow. I went to the blue woman, unaware I was just a form like they were. The woman looked at me, her face materialized into Kagome's and she ran to me, hugging me tightly. I returned the embrace, eyes locked on the red woman, who's head was dropped into her chest, black falling like rose petals away from a hole in her middle.

-Don't worry, love. She can't move… She's dying.- Kagome's voice drifted to my ears as she smiled at me, her lips still. I couldn't resist the urge to kiss her, so I kissed her. I don't know if she was really alive… or if that was her last effort as a guardian to rid the world of the last evils… but whatever it was… I hoped I never had to wake up.

Soon, the red figure faded, and my blue Kagome smiled to me.

-I will see you soon, beloved.- Her body floated up, and she was gone. Soon, I was alone inside my own head, without any knowledge of why I still slept, or if I ever would see my beloved mate again.

~**~**~**~

Inuyasha looked up as Sesshoumaru stirred. His eyes opened slowly, and he stared at the ceiling. Inuyasha walked over to his brother's side of the bed and gave him a glass of water.

"Here…" his gesture was simple, but it was an awkward show of caring from one brother to another. Sesshoumaru turned onto his side after taking the cup and drank the contents of it. Inuyasha caught the glass as it slipped from his brother's hand as Sesshoumaru sank back down into the sheets, pain riveting off his aura like a tidal wave. Inuyasha held a small smile of condolences to his brother. Kagome really was in good hands if she could change this hard brick of a brother of his into a caring man.

"Sesshoumaru…" There was no intention that the youkai lord was listening, but Inuyasha knew he was. "I thought you were this great taiyoukai… but you can't even feel someone laying beside you in bed." Inuyasha chuckled softly as the taiyoukai's eyes burst open and he placed his hand under him, turning to look at the sleeping angel beside him.

"She's….She's… She's alive…" Sesshoumaru sat up, his head spinning. He could vaguely hear Inuyasha's small chuckle as he reached out and gently touched his mate's cheek. Her eyes fluttered open and she looked up at the tear-filled eyes of the taiyoukai above her. She smiled to him.

"Morning," she said softly, almost as if nothing had happened. Sesshoumaru let out the breath he didn't know he had been holding and collapsed into her, his head buried in her chest as tears of joy escaped his eyes. Inuyasha softly closed the door to their room, giving them some privacy. Never before had he even heard of his brother crying… but with this woman named Kagome… everything changes.

>End Chapter<

Author's comment:

I'm sorry It's taken so long. I just got home from China the day before yesterday, and I had the sudden urge to write today…. So I finished this chapter! ^_^ I hope you likey. I know I suck at writing battle scenes… I had this awesome one written out on my other computer but I had to delete it when I returned it to the school… ^^; yea… shush. OKAY! I believe the next chapter will be like and epilogue, and then…..PART THREE will be started soon…. a story all about the kids! `Cuz you know I gotta have something adding on with a certain bunch of people still with ties unmet.

Woot! I hope you liked it! Please Review! ^_^ LOVE MUCH!

Inumaru_Rapture