InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Foreign Exchange Orphan ❯ The Final Showdown, Inuyasha vs. Naraku ( Chapter 23 )

Foreign Exchange Orphan

Chapter Twenty Three:

The Final Showdown, Inuyasha vs. Naraku

A.N.: *sigh* Only three more chapters left. I'm going to miss this story so much, but thankfully, I have others, The Eternal Curse, nine chapters long, An Unrevealed Secret, A Hidden Past, 15 chapters long, Decisions of the Heart, 23 chapters long-COMPLETE, and Silver Firelight, three chapters long. Plus, once I'm finished with those, I have ideas for four more stories. So, if you are suffering once this story is over (which I sincerely doubt) then you can read some of those. They really need reviews!

Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha so just shut up and leave me alone!

Warnings: This chapter is medium length. Mild language and lots of violence. Confusing, but if you've seen the second movie then you'll get the final battle scene.

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Everything was silent. Everyone stared at the intruders, and Inuyasha hopped up from Kagome's lap, golden eyes wild with rage. Naraku grinned at them, revealing jagged yellow teeth, and uncurled his hand to show them the completed jewel.

"Kagome, Kagome, Kagome. Your intelligence greatly surpassed mines for quite a bit, until I realized that you, you lied to me. Took back your promise. This jewel is not complete." He twirled it in his outstretched palm, showing them a small sliver of the jewel was not in place. "You took it while the fusion was taking place. I had pondered on my wish, and when I continued to yell out my desires, without any occurrences, I examined it, and was shocked to find a piece missing. You care about this filthy half-breed so much that you would throw away you own life?" As he continued to speak, Inuyasha lowered himself from the bed, while Kagome searched for, and found her bow and quiver. "Despicable. If you can survive my demons, come to me, find me, and I will show you what I can really do. Attack."

As soon as those words fell from his cracked, dry lips, the demons, of all shapes and sizes raced towards them. Inuyasha took out Tetsusaiga, glad that the room was so big. Sango and Miroku continued to slice at the ones approaching them, but they merely regenerated. I have to save everyone. I can't let my friends, or my Kagome die. C'mon Tetsusaiga, let's see what you can really do! Inuyasha closed his eyes, feeling the sword pound, and beat, as if it had a dull heart, and it transformed in the enormous fang. He brought it crashing to the ground, and gold light came from it, and collided with the oncoming demons, but they regenerated as well.

I have to believe in my sword and myself. I want to kill! I need to kill these demons! Suddenly, a surging power ran through him, and he began to vibrate.

"I CAN FEEL IT!" Inuyasha brought down the sword again, and white light materialized from it, in high, thick waves, and smashed into the demons, making them dissolve into crumbs(crumbs, lol). Part of the roof was deteriorating and some of it fell to the ground from the intensity of his power. The cold morning air whipped around Kagome's bare legs, she shivered. He tucked the sword behind his shoulder, and stared at it with wild eyes. "I guess my old man did give me quite an heirloom." He chuckled for a bit.

"Inuyasha…that was superb! Absolutely amazing!" Miroku gushed, eyes wide.

"Shove it monk! C'mon, let's go get Naraku!" Everyone followed his lead out of the room, but they stopped in their tracks, when a girl about eight years in age, with a pale, round face, small beetle black eyes, and short white hair appeared from the shadows, carrying a small, circular mirror framed with expensive gold.

"Another one of Naraku's minions!" Kagome gasped.

"Give me your souls," she said in a faint whisper. Everyone around her, except Kagome began to fall, and large, flowing white clouds escaped their lips. Their bodies went still.

"WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY FRIENDS?" Kagome hollered, her voice echoing around the empty, musty corridors. The girl looked at her placidly, showing Kagome Inuyasha's face in the mirror. He seemed to be in distress. She looked at his lifeless body on the floor.

"Their souls have left their bodies. You can either leave them like this to face Naraku, or give me yours to set them free."

"You're all the same!" she cried, knocking an arrow into place. "Always scheming! How will I know that my friends will be sent free after you take my soul?!" As she was talking, she let her arrow fly with a small zip. A large, black bubble-barrier surrounded the girl, and at first, Kagome was afraid that her arrow would not penetrate it, when suddenly, it began to glow a blue light, and it zipped through and cracked the mirror. More than one soul came from it, but four particular ones found their ways back into her friend's mouths.

The mirror dropped and the girl dissolved. Was she dead? Kagome heard groaning and turned to help a weak Inuyasha stagger to his feet.

"You alright?" He rubbed his pounding head.

"I'll be fine," he told her. "Where's Naraku?" Kagome shrugged.

"I dunno, but I think I defeated that creepy girl." She grinned at her bow.

"Next we have to whoop Kagura's ass." Back to his old cocky self. Kagome patted him on the back and he winced.

"Sorry. Now, she's got to be around her somewhere…." As if on cue, two swirling tornadoes smashed into the walls, making everyone tumble backwards. The only reason Kagome didn't go hurdling down the hallways, was because Inuyasha had grabbed her by her collar, and held her close to his body. She blushed when the wind finally died down.

"Kagura!" He whipped his sword from his sheathe.

"You killed my sister," she said in a slightly trembling voice. "You will pay!" Kagura flicked her wrist, waving the fan, now send thin razors whizzing for them. Inuyasha blocked with his huge sword, making them reflect, but she dodged, and they got lodged in the wooden walls behind her. She shook her head. "You haven't much skill with a blade!"

"You shouldn't be talking!" Then, something strange happened. Some red waves began to ripple around her body, while his was swathed with blue wind. "What the hell?" There was a flickering, jagged gold line separating them. I wonder what would happen if I hit it? With the powerful sweep of his sword, Inuyasha sliced through the wind, sending a blinding white light rushing from it, to crash into Kagura. She screamed in pain. He grinned. This sword just keeps getting better and better! Another chunk of mansion(a bit of the wall) was blasted out, and now cold air whipped around everyone. Kagome shuddered, and rubbing her hunched shoulders. Inuyasha put a protective arm around her, and suddenly more white blades came for them, and Inuyasha sliced through them.

"What the fricking hell!" he screeched. Kagura shakily stood up, brushing some dust from her clothes. She looked awful. Her kimono was torn, and was hanging limply off her body, there were several welts among her face, her usual perfect hair hung in sweaty strings pasted to her forehead, and part of her fan was severed.

"You…you…"

"Save it Kagura, you're dead!" The waves of red and blue light collided again, and just when he was about to finish her off, she swung her fan, making them disappear. "Holy hell!"

"You forget. I am a wind sorceress. I can control all wind and air your Wind Scar is no different."

Wind scar? Crap. How am I supposed to kill her now? I want to get this over as quickly as possible so I can get Naraku. What I need is someone who can combat her powers…

"Inuyasha?" That's right!

"Kagome, do me a favor. Shoot at Kagura," he whispered.

"I'm not that good, she will dodge, I'll miss." But, nonetheless, she slipped an arrow into her bow.

"Not for her body. Near her feet."

"Huh?"

"Just do it already!"

"Okay." Inuyasha flashed her a thumbs-up as she aimed. He had better know what he's doing! She released her arrow, engulfed in cerulean light, and it got implanted in the boards below. Kagura cackled. Inuyasha found where the two waves met, and brought his sword down. She tried to avoid that, and found that the shimmering arrow at her feet was preventing her, but it was too late. Another wave of bright light came sprinting, and it collided with her, making her explode into a glittering pile of dust. Her fan settled on top of her. Inuyasha smirked.

"Serves the bitch right."

"Time is ticking Inuyasha, are you ready?" came Naraku's cold, steady voice. He sniffed.

"He's changing direction guys, he seems to be going down a couple of floors," Inuyasha said. "Follow me!" Everyone hopped on Kirara's back, and she started dashing behind Inuyasha. The thudding of their heavy footsteps disrupted the serenity of the hallway. "He's in the dungeons!" He followed his nose to a heavy steel door, and flung it open.

Two torches let an eerie passage way down the slimy, moss covered stairs. A bat screeched. Kagome clung onto Inuyasha, who couldn't suppress a grin. Of course, my girl would come to me. She kissed his cheek and he blushed. Kagome smirked as they stepped down the stairs, their steps echoing through the tight nit path. They finally arrived at the bottom. It seemed be miles long and was lit with bright fluorescent lights, but only in one or two areas. The floor was made of cement.

He could see Naraku's hunched figure looming in the shadows. The jewel's light cut out a small orb in the darkness. Everyone stood still, until they heard the abrupt slicing of wind as Sango hurled her boomerang across the room and followed it. Hiraikotsu came flying back towards her and she caught it with one hand.

"Dammit!" She snatched her knife from her sheathe, and ran towards the circle of light, and sliced. Something that looked remarkably like a giant spider leg rolled into the small, dreary pool of light made by the lamps.

"Sango outta the way! I'm going to use Kazaana!" As he began fiddling with the prayer beads that bound his hand, Kagome stopped.

"No! The Jewel is with him. If you got it in you, you could be corrupted!" she told him, so he stopped. Then, something really odd happened. Naraku began transforming. He had been previously wearing a snowy white baboon skin, but legs, thick and tan emerged, and soon his cape was ripped and a huge spider emerged, with red eyes and a jagged, blood red mark down his back.

"Shoot! I'll just have to attack!" Inuyasha pounced forwards.

"KIZO NO KIZU!" As his attack made with the cement, it sent large chunks flying towards them, but they dodged. Inuyasha on-looked hopefully, praying that it would slam into Naraku, but instead, when it hit, it merely dissolved, as a black, bubble-shaped aura covered him.

"Damn! He has a barrier! Kagome, you think you can shoot through it?"

"I'll try." She squinted on eye, as she arranged her arrow, and released the string. It was swathed in a small ray of blue light as it penetrated the barrier, only to slam into the spider-Naraku. The arrow sliced his head off, and his regular human one popped up from his torso.

"Miroku! Give me your staff!" The monk nodded, throwing Sango his golden staff. She caught it, and tied it to her boomerang. She twirled around and finally let it go(it was now Frisbee shaped). It hit Naraku by the torso, making his upper body fall off just as Inuyasha tried another Wind Scar. With no barrier it raced towards him unscathed and Kagome shot another purifying arrow. It reached him first, putting a hole through his chest, just as golden light hit him, making his body disintegrate entirely.

The dungeon was filled with a blinding white light. Inuyasha held Kagome close to his body, and Miroku did the same to Sango, without even trying to feel her up. With it finally died down there was a huge crater where Naraku had once stood. Miroku peeled off his cloth that covered his hand, and his Kazaana slowly shrunk into nothingness.

"Sango!" he cried with glee, then latched himself on her, doing something very unexpected. He kissed her. Inuyasha and Kagome closed their eyes, thinking that he was in for a big *whack* but instead, she kissed him back.

"EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!" Inuyasha cried, sticking out his tongue. Kagome stood on her tip-toes and kissed his nose. He pouted, and cutely I might add. "Why so formal?" She shrugged, giggling, while petting his velvety ears.

"I dunno, my little Inu-chan." He suddenly perked up, as if remembering something, then his eyes got all sad. "What's wrong?"

"I forgot about Kikyo. I have to go get her."

Not really a cliffie, but I promise the next chapter will be in later today or tomorrow. You gotta give me a break! Between Friday and Saturday, I wrote like three chapters! Sorry, only three chapters left. Well actually two, followed by a totally kawaii epilogue that I'm sure everyone will love. But, I'm not writing a sequel, gomen. I have three other fics to finish, along with four new ideas that I got. They all need reviews. Well, I'm getting ahead of myself here, so Aloha!