InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Stormy Knight Seduction ❯ The Final Showdown ( Chapter 22 )
[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]
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A/N: Sorry in advance to those who hate long chapters. This chapter is extra long because so much happens in it. Also to those who have weak stomachs… this is about to get pretty gruesome and… well, outright vicious. So read at your own risk.
XOXOXO:
The Final Showdown:
The chained weapon flew through the air whistling before it sunk into the enormous demon bone boomerang with a thud. "Hello sister."
"Kohaku?" Her hand tightened on her weapon and her legs spread further apart as she moved into a horse stance. She grunted as his sickle sunk into her weapon. "Do you… recognize me?"
"Hai." His lips spread into an evil smirk. "I won't miss you a second time." He retracted his weapon and spun it over his head like a cowboy with a lasso.
'No.' Sango's heart squeezed painfully and her eyes filled with a deep sadness. "Why are you doing this Kohaku?"
Miroku's eyes widened. 'He recognizes her and yet he's still fighting her?' His hand tightened around his staff and he braced his shoulders, moving to back up his fiancé if needed.
Kohaku grinned. "Aw, what's the matter sister? Am I not what you expected?" His eyes glittered with malicious intent. He chuckled evilly. "I'm going to make you watch while I destroy everyone that you care about."
Sango's heart sunk into her stomach and her stomach lurched. The bitter taste of bile invaded the back of her throat. "What happened to you Kohaku?"
He laughed a wicked sound and shrugged one shoulder. "People change."
He spread his feet several inches past shoulder width apart and swung his chained sickle around faster.
"I'm going to savor every painful cry you make as I slaughter them all." His eyes gleamed with malice as he sent the sickle through the air towards her knowing that she would deflect it.
She blocked the attack and it jerked to the left, slicing Miroku's leg deep enough that he stumbled and held his profusely bleeding thigh.
Sango gasped. "Iie, Miroku!" She sent her weapon flying again and drew her sword with her free hand. Tears filled her eyes. She blinked them back and forced her vision to remain clear. "Stop this now Kohaku, before it's too late."
Miroku's eyes widened as she tossed her weapon, sending it through the demons around them and spun to face her brother with a look of determination. "Sango, there has to be another way!"
Her heart sank. 'I wish there was, but it looks like I'm going to have to be the one to stop him.' Her hand tightened around her katanas hilt as she caught her weapon deflecting the next attack sent toward Miroku into a tree. She sent her weapon sailing through the air with renewed strength and sprinted towards her brother.
On the other side of the field Inuyasha grunted and deflected the mirror shard swarm directed at him and Kikyo.'Fucking merc better be right about this.' He pulled his sword to the left slicing the glass statue on the chest where Kikyo's arrow sunk into the demon, cracking it open.
Light glowed and the wound vanished. Behind the statue, still guarding Hakudoshi Kanna's chest developed a crack in the same spot where the statue was struck.
Inuyasha's eyes widened. 'I'll be damned. It appears that good for nothing bastard was telling the truth.' He grinned. "Kikyo, aim for the same spot and give me all the power you've got."
She blinked and then nodded and notched an arrow.
Before she could fire Kanna raised her arm. "Windscar."
The glass statue lifted its phantom blade into the air and sent a more powerful version of the windscar towards Inuyasha and all of his friends.
"Shit!" He held Tetsuiga up fending off the attack and cutting it into two smaller ones that sailed past him.
Despite her sacred arrow canceling out most of the energy, Kikyo was struck with the end of the first half of the attack and fell back with her shoulder and chest ripped wide open. Her borrowed souls slowly spilled from the wound.
"Kikyo," Inuyasha's chest heaved with barely controlled rage as something deep inside of him snapped. A deep, throaty growl ripped from his lips and he foamed at the mouth. His eyes turned pure blood red and his body vibrated with the intensity of his emotional outrage.
His voice was so cold that it actually sent chills down Hakudoshi's newly forming spine. "Fucking bitch, I'll kill you for that."
He gripped the sword and allowed his instincts to take over as powerful energy, much stronger than anything he'd ever felt before, flared through him and surrounded the sword. The air around the sword and Inuyasha sizzled, gathering around the sword and then thinning out to form shapes like many finely sharpened razor blades. He lifted the swords blade into the air and jerked it down with a vicious snarl.
"Fangs of vengeance."
Million of energy razors flew towards the large glass statue and everything behind it. The statue cracked over the entire body and then shattered, with Kanna mirroring the statue's fate. She fell black closing her eyes and a single word passed her lips. "Free."
Inuyasha watched with little satisfaction as Kanna, her demonic counterpart and Hakudoshi were all ripped into billions of tiny pieces.
Hakudoshi's head reformed and he chuckled. "Baka! I told you, I will never die."
On the other side of the field Miroku managed to fling himself to the ground before the attack struck. "Sango, duck!"
She hit the ground and her eyes widened as she watched in slow motion while the other half of the attack smashed into her brother. He fell back screaming as the mimicked windscar shredded his flesh nearly off the bones of his arms and ripped his chest wide open.
"Kohaku!" Sango jumped up and grabbed her weapon and went into a murderous rage destroying every demon that dared cross her path as she raced over to her brother's side.
She dropped to her knees by her brother's side and reached for his boney hand, with tears clouding her vision. "Oh Kohaku, Iie." She held his hand to her chest, crying. "Don't leave me Kohaku, please."
His eyes fluttered open clear and soft brown. His stared into her eyes. "Sister… please forgive me." He stared into the sky with an empty look and his hand went limp in hers.
Sango's tears flooded her cheeks as she rocked back and forth cradling his hand against her heart and released a keening wail that could have put Kouga's howl to shame.
Miroku slowly crawled over to her side and sat beside her, wrapping his arms around her waist and rocking with her. "I'm so sorry Sango." He bowed his head and closed his eyes just holding her.
She continued rocking back and forth and wailed until her throat grew sore and her voice hoarse. She couldn't stop the moisture falling from her eyes.
The sky clouded over and let loose with a torrent of rain and whipping winds as Sango felt her entire world crumbling in around her. Only Miroku's strong arms and soothing words kept her from shattering completely.
XOXOXO:
Miles away Naraku stood in the middle of the forest facing his run-a-way charge.
"Kagura."
"N... Naraku, what are you doing here?" She eyed him warily.
He sighed heavily. "You've become quite a disappointment." His eyes flickered with mischievous intent as he held up his hand. "Do you really want your freedom so bad that you would defy my every order?"
Her spine stiffened. "It was pointless staying there when everything came to such a standoff."
Naraku clucked his tongue and sighed heavily. "As I said, you're predictable." He held out his hand. In his palm was a writhing purple mass of flesh. "Take it."
She stared at him with wary eyes.
He chuckled evilly. "What's the matter? Don't you trust me?"
She blinked and reached for it taking an unsteady step forward. The heart vanished and beat within her chest.
Her eyes widened and her hand covered her heart. 'It's beating… It's really beating.' She closed her eyes and for a moment everything in the world felt right. Peace filled her mind and her body. A smile crossed her ruby red lips.
One of his tentacles stretched from his back to wrap around her waist, closing around her like a snake constricting around her body. He jerked her up into his face and two other tentacles wrapped around her legs pulling them wide apart.
He held her up in front him and smirked as another tentacle shoved up between her legs piercing her very womb. Spikes spread from the tip, like the quills of a porcupine. He moved the appendage up and down impaling her skin with the spikes as he violated her body in every form of the word.
She cried out and her body writhed as he pumped massive amount s of miasma into her body from the tentacle ruthlessly invading her body while shredding her innards.
Pain seared her body burning her from the inside out as she felt a cold stream flood into her. She stared into his eyes with pure shock. "Why?"
She cried out as he roughly withdrew the tentacle and claimed her mouth with a purely dominant kiss, pouring more miasma into her body.
She gagged trying to fight him off but to no avail.
He pulled back and licked his lips enjoying the absolute torment in her eyes as he watched her body twitching in anguish.
"This is what happens when you betray me." He dropped her body to the ground like a piece of trash and cackled.
She stared at him, her mind wracked with agony as her body convulsed before the miasma actually kicked in tearing her body down slowly.
He stood over her. "You will never be free of me, Kagura." He smiled wickedly. "In fact, I will be the last one to ever touch you and the last one that you see as you die."
A neon pink flash of energy, with blue lines and sparks sailed towards Naraku causing him to jump back from her body just as her eyes clouded over.
She gurgled and foam gathered around her lips. Her body hissed as it melted into a pile of goop and her feather lifted into the air carried off by the wind.
"That's low and twisted, even for you."
Bankotsu stood ten feet in front of the trees with his weapon in hand and his jaw clenched. "Are you so pathetic that you have to force yourself on an unwilling woman?" His eyes nostrils flared and his chest heaved.
Naraku smirked. "Took you long enough." He turned and faced the mercenary fully. "Why are you alive again?"
"Is that the best you could come up with? A few spikes and a large eye in your chest." Bankotsu scoffed. "Pathetic."
"Where is your little girl friend?"
"Bastard! You'll never touch her." Bankotsu sent another Dragon Hammer attack towards the demon. "I'll kill you first."
Naraku smiled calmly. "Oh? We will see."
Bankotsu charged forward. His amulet threw up a spiritual barrier around him whenever Naraku tried to attack him.
Naraku blinked. "New toys, eh?"
Bankotsu smirked. "Something you'll never have."
Naraku scowled as the latest attack shattered his barrier and shredded a third of his newly formed body. "How the hell did you shatter my barrier?"
Bankotsu smirked. "I have much more than that in store for you." He charged forward and continued hacking away at Naraku's tentacles as fast as they emerged.
Behind the trees Kagome sat Indian style with her eyes closed and Kirara keeping guard over her. They were wrapped in an invisible barrier that shielded their very presence from all of those around them. Her hands were on her knees.
She gathered her energy around her and her mind replayed the ancient chant Midoriko had given to her. She rocked back and forth humming as the energy formed into a silhouette in front of her. The silhouette's hands stretched to the sides as it flashed and then shot like a lightning bolt into the cave behind the combatants, appearing to them as no more than a powerful gust of wind.
Inside the cave the silhouette stood in front of the bundled infant with pale skin and froze as its form finalized. Kagome spirit form stared at the child and her heart squeezed painfully in her chest. 'He looks so innocent.' Her hand faltered as it hovered over the baby.
She took a deep breath and closed her eyes, chanting in a language as old as time. A keen ball of pure miko energy formed in front of her palm. Her amulet glowed fiercely causing the slumbering infant to jerk awake with wide eyes.
Kagome took a deep breath and sent the ball of miko energy into the infant's body purifying him from the inside out before the flesh of the tiny body faded into not even the smallest trace. Back by Kirara Kagome's body slumped forward and her breathing turned shallow. 'Now, Bankotsu.' Cupped between her palms lay the complete Shikon jewel.
Bankotsu stabbed his blade into the ground flipping upside down as he pushed off into the air. He held his blade into the sky and smirked. "Try this one." The energy gathered around his blade sharpening into fine eclectic currents as the clouds roiled above him.
Naraku smirked and rose into the air before the mercenary only twenty feet in front of him. "I know all of your moves, remember?"
Bankotsu chuckled. "Not this one." He smirked and sliced the blade in front of him. "Dragon Protection Lightning Flash." His amulet glowed fiercely and some of Kagome's miko energy flowed from the blade into the pelting plasma bolts, slamming into Naraku's body, rendering him to pieces repeatedly.
Naraku's eyes widened and his body wracked with pain. Every time he managed to regenerate a part of his body, it too was ripped apart. His horror filled cries ripped through the air. "Impossible!" Fifteen minutes passed before Naraku was completely destroyed, during which time all of the pain and horror he'd inflected on others was returned to him a hundred times over.
XOXOXO:
Hakudoshi's eyes widened as indescribable pain filled his body and the pieces trying to mend, fell apart again. 'What?' His anguished cries filled the air, pulling Inuyasha from his angry haze as he watched the demon fade into oblivion.
Inuyasha blinked. 'What just happened?'
XOXOXO:
Bankotsu placed Banryu against his shoulder and smirked as he floated to the ground. He ran over to Kagome's secluded place and scooped her into his arms. "We did it babe." He kissed her brow and then frowned when she went limp in his arms.
Midoriko appeared before the couple wearing a smile. She picked up the jewel and smiled as she placed it back into her chest. Light flashed and the wound closed. She smiled and nodded to Bankotsu.
"The balance has finally been restored. You two have proven yourselves to the powers that be."
"She's unconscious." Bankotsu frowned and brushed his hand against Kagome's cheek.
Midoriko knelt beside her descendant and placed a kiss on her forehead. 'Your request shall be honored.' Her hand hovered on top of Bankotsu's and he fell to the side also unconscious.
Kirara mewed and stared at the apparition. She smiled and pet the neko, scratching behind her ears. "Take me to the others."
Kirara mewed and allowed the apparition to climb onto her back.
XOXOXO:
A/N: I warned you that it was going to get gruesome and vicious… So please don't whine at me about it. Anyways, the next chapter will be the final one. Let me know what you did and didn't like.
A/N: Sorry in advance to those who hate long chapters. This chapter is extra long because so much happens in it. Also to those who have weak stomachs… this is about to get pretty gruesome and… well, outright vicious. So read at your own risk.
XOXOXO:
The Final Showdown:
The chained weapon flew through the air whistling before it sunk into the enormous demon bone boomerang with a thud. "Hello sister."
"Kohaku?" Her hand tightened on her weapon and her legs spread further apart as she moved into a horse stance. She grunted as his sickle sunk into her weapon. "Do you… recognize me?"
"Hai." His lips spread into an evil smirk. "I won't miss you a second time." He retracted his weapon and spun it over his head like a cowboy with a lasso.
'No.' Sango's heart squeezed painfully and her eyes filled with a deep sadness. "Why are you doing this Kohaku?"
Miroku's eyes widened. 'He recognizes her and yet he's still fighting her?' His hand tightened around his staff and he braced his shoulders, moving to back up his fiancé if needed.
Kohaku grinned. "Aw, what's the matter sister? Am I not what you expected?" His eyes glittered with malicious intent. He chuckled evilly. "I'm going to make you watch while I destroy everyone that you care about."
Sango's heart sunk into her stomach and her stomach lurched. The bitter taste of bile invaded the back of her throat. "What happened to you Kohaku?"
He laughed a wicked sound and shrugged one shoulder. "People change."
He spread his feet several inches past shoulder width apart and swung his chained sickle around faster.
"I'm going to savor every painful cry you make as I slaughter them all." His eyes gleamed with malice as he sent the sickle through the air towards her knowing that she would deflect it.
She blocked the attack and it jerked to the left, slicing Miroku's leg deep enough that he stumbled and held his profusely bleeding thigh.
Sango gasped. "Iie, Miroku!" She sent her weapon flying again and drew her sword with her free hand. Tears filled her eyes. She blinked them back and forced her vision to remain clear. "Stop this now Kohaku, before it's too late."
Miroku's eyes widened as she tossed her weapon, sending it through the demons around them and spun to face her brother with a look of determination. "Sango, there has to be another way!"
Her heart sank. 'I wish there was, but it looks like I'm going to have to be the one to stop him.' Her hand tightened around her katanas hilt as she caught her weapon deflecting the next attack sent toward Miroku into a tree. She sent her weapon sailing through the air with renewed strength and sprinted towards her brother.
On the other side of the field Inuyasha grunted and deflected the mirror shard swarm directed at him and Kikyo.'Fucking merc better be right about this.' He pulled his sword to the left slicing the glass statue on the chest where Kikyo's arrow sunk into the demon, cracking it open.
Light glowed and the wound vanished. Behind the statue, still guarding Hakudoshi Kanna's chest developed a crack in the same spot where the statue was struck.
Inuyasha's eyes widened. 'I'll be damned. It appears that good for nothing bastard was telling the truth.' He grinned. "Kikyo, aim for the same spot and give me all the power you've got."
She blinked and then nodded and notched an arrow.
Before she could fire Kanna raised her arm. "Windscar."
The glass statue lifted its phantom blade into the air and sent a more powerful version of the windscar towards Inuyasha and all of his friends.
"Shit!" He held Tetsuiga up fending off the attack and cutting it into two smaller ones that sailed past him.
Despite her sacred arrow canceling out most of the energy, Kikyo was struck with the end of the first half of the attack and fell back with her shoulder and chest ripped wide open. Her borrowed souls slowly spilled from the wound.
"Kikyo," Inuyasha's chest heaved with barely controlled rage as something deep inside of him snapped. A deep, throaty growl ripped from his lips and he foamed at the mouth. His eyes turned pure blood red and his body vibrated with the intensity of his emotional outrage.
His voice was so cold that it actually sent chills down Hakudoshi's newly forming spine. "Fucking bitch, I'll kill you for that."
He gripped the sword and allowed his instincts to take over as powerful energy, much stronger than anything he'd ever felt before, flared through him and surrounded the sword. The air around the sword and Inuyasha sizzled, gathering around the sword and then thinning out to form shapes like many finely sharpened razor blades. He lifted the swords blade into the air and jerked it down with a vicious snarl.
"Fangs of vengeance."
Million of energy razors flew towards the large glass statue and everything behind it. The statue cracked over the entire body and then shattered, with Kanna mirroring the statue's fate. She fell black closing her eyes and a single word passed her lips. "Free."
Inuyasha watched with little satisfaction as Kanna, her demonic counterpart and Hakudoshi were all ripped into billions of tiny pieces.
Hakudoshi's head reformed and he chuckled. "Baka! I told you, I will never die."
On the other side of the field Miroku managed to fling himself to the ground before the attack struck. "Sango, duck!"
She hit the ground and her eyes widened as she watched in slow motion while the other half of the attack smashed into her brother. He fell back screaming as the mimicked windscar shredded his flesh nearly off the bones of his arms and ripped his chest wide open.
"Kohaku!" Sango jumped up and grabbed her weapon and went into a murderous rage destroying every demon that dared cross her path as she raced over to her brother's side.
She dropped to her knees by her brother's side and reached for his boney hand, with tears clouding her vision. "Oh Kohaku, Iie." She held his hand to her chest, crying. "Don't leave me Kohaku, please."
His eyes fluttered open clear and soft brown. His stared into her eyes. "Sister… please forgive me." He stared into the sky with an empty look and his hand went limp in hers.
Sango's tears flooded her cheeks as she rocked back and forth cradling his hand against her heart and released a keening wail that could have put Kouga's howl to shame.
Miroku slowly crawled over to her side and sat beside her, wrapping his arms around her waist and rocking with her. "I'm so sorry Sango." He bowed his head and closed his eyes just holding her.
She continued rocking back and forth and wailed until her throat grew sore and her voice hoarse. She couldn't stop the moisture falling from her eyes.
The sky clouded over and let loose with a torrent of rain and whipping winds as Sango felt her entire world crumbling in around her. Only Miroku's strong arms and soothing words kept her from shattering completely.
XOXOXO:
Miles away Naraku stood in the middle of the forest facing his run-a-way charge.
"Kagura."
"N... Naraku, what are you doing here?" She eyed him warily.
He sighed heavily. "You've become quite a disappointment." His eyes flickered with mischievous intent as he held up his hand. "Do you really want your freedom so bad that you would defy my every order?"
Her spine stiffened. "It was pointless staying there when everything came to such a standoff."
Naraku clucked his tongue and sighed heavily. "As I said, you're predictable." He held out his hand. In his palm was a writhing purple mass of flesh. "Take it."
She stared at him with wary eyes.
He chuckled evilly. "What's the matter? Don't you trust me?"
She blinked and reached for it taking an unsteady step forward. The heart vanished and beat within her chest.
Her eyes widened and her hand covered her heart. 'It's beating… It's really beating.' She closed her eyes and for a moment everything in the world felt right. Peace filled her mind and her body. A smile crossed her ruby red lips.
One of his tentacles stretched from his back to wrap around her waist, closing around her like a snake constricting around her body. He jerked her up into his face and two other tentacles wrapped around her legs pulling them wide apart.
He held her up in front him and smirked as another tentacle shoved up between her legs piercing her very womb. Spikes spread from the tip, like the quills of a porcupine. He moved the appendage up and down impaling her skin with the spikes as he violated her body in every form of the word.
She cried out and her body writhed as he pumped massive amount s of miasma into her body from the tentacle ruthlessly invading her body while shredding her innards.
Pain seared her body burning her from the inside out as she felt a cold stream flood into her. She stared into his eyes with pure shock. "Why?"
She cried out as he roughly withdrew the tentacle and claimed her mouth with a purely dominant kiss, pouring more miasma into her body.
She gagged trying to fight him off but to no avail.
He pulled back and licked his lips enjoying the absolute torment in her eyes as he watched her body twitching in anguish.
"This is what happens when you betray me." He dropped her body to the ground like a piece of trash and cackled.
She stared at him, her mind wracked with agony as her body convulsed before the miasma actually kicked in tearing her body down slowly.
He stood over her. "You will never be free of me, Kagura." He smiled wickedly. "In fact, I will be the last one to ever touch you and the last one that you see as you die."
A neon pink flash of energy, with blue lines and sparks sailed towards Naraku causing him to jump back from her body just as her eyes clouded over.
She gurgled and foam gathered around her lips. Her body hissed as it melted into a pile of goop and her feather lifted into the air carried off by the wind.
"That's low and twisted, even for you."
Bankotsu stood ten feet in front of the trees with his weapon in hand and his jaw clenched. "Are you so pathetic that you have to force yourself on an unwilling woman?" His eyes nostrils flared and his chest heaved.
Naraku smirked. "Took you long enough." He turned and faced the mercenary fully. "Why are you alive again?"
"Is that the best you could come up with? A few spikes and a large eye in your chest." Bankotsu scoffed. "Pathetic."
"Where is your little girl friend?"
"Bastard! You'll never touch her." Bankotsu sent another Dragon Hammer attack towards the demon. "I'll kill you first."
Naraku smiled calmly. "Oh? We will see."
Bankotsu charged forward. His amulet threw up a spiritual barrier around him whenever Naraku tried to attack him.
Naraku blinked. "New toys, eh?"
Bankotsu smirked. "Something you'll never have."
Naraku scowled as the latest attack shattered his barrier and shredded a third of his newly formed body. "How the hell did you shatter my barrier?"
Bankotsu smirked. "I have much more than that in store for you." He charged forward and continued hacking away at Naraku's tentacles as fast as they emerged.
Behind the trees Kagome sat Indian style with her eyes closed and Kirara keeping guard over her. They were wrapped in an invisible barrier that shielded their very presence from all of those around them. Her hands were on her knees.
She gathered her energy around her and her mind replayed the ancient chant Midoriko had given to her. She rocked back and forth humming as the energy formed into a silhouette in front of her. The silhouette's hands stretched to the sides as it flashed and then shot like a lightning bolt into the cave behind the combatants, appearing to them as no more than a powerful gust of wind.
Inside the cave the silhouette stood in front of the bundled infant with pale skin and froze as its form finalized. Kagome spirit form stared at the child and her heart squeezed painfully in her chest. 'He looks so innocent.' Her hand faltered as it hovered over the baby.
She took a deep breath and closed her eyes, chanting in a language as old as time. A keen ball of pure miko energy formed in front of her palm. Her amulet glowed fiercely causing the slumbering infant to jerk awake with wide eyes.
Kagome took a deep breath and sent the ball of miko energy into the infant's body purifying him from the inside out before the flesh of the tiny body faded into not even the smallest trace. Back by Kirara Kagome's body slumped forward and her breathing turned shallow. 'Now, Bankotsu.' Cupped between her palms lay the complete Shikon jewel.
Bankotsu stabbed his blade into the ground flipping upside down as he pushed off into the air. He held his blade into the sky and smirked. "Try this one." The energy gathered around his blade sharpening into fine eclectic currents as the clouds roiled above him.
Naraku smirked and rose into the air before the mercenary only twenty feet in front of him. "I know all of your moves, remember?"
Bankotsu chuckled. "Not this one." He smirked and sliced the blade in front of him. "Dragon Protection Lightning Flash." His amulet glowed fiercely and some of Kagome's miko energy flowed from the blade into the pelting plasma bolts, slamming into Naraku's body, rendering him to pieces repeatedly.
Naraku's eyes widened and his body wracked with pain. Every time he managed to regenerate a part of his body, it too was ripped apart. His horror filled cries ripped through the air. "Impossible!" Fifteen minutes passed before Naraku was completely destroyed, during which time all of the pain and horror he'd inflected on others was returned to him a hundred times over.
XOXOXO:
Hakudoshi's eyes widened as indescribable pain filled his body and the pieces trying to mend, fell apart again. 'What?' His anguished cries filled the air, pulling Inuyasha from his angry haze as he watched the demon fade into oblivion.
Inuyasha blinked. 'What just happened?'
XOXOXO:
Bankotsu placed Banryu against his shoulder and smirked as he floated to the ground. He ran over to Kagome's secluded place and scooped her into his arms. "We did it babe." He kissed her brow and then frowned when she went limp in his arms.
Midoriko appeared before the couple wearing a smile. She picked up the jewel and smiled as she placed it back into her chest. Light flashed and the wound closed. She smiled and nodded to Bankotsu.
"The balance has finally been restored. You two have proven yourselves to the powers that be."
"She's unconscious." Bankotsu frowned and brushed his hand against Kagome's cheek.
Midoriko knelt beside her descendant and placed a kiss on her forehead. 'Your request shall be honored.' Her hand hovered on top of Bankotsu's and he fell to the side also unconscious.
Kirara mewed and stared at the apparition. She smiled and pet the neko, scratching behind her ears. "Take me to the others."
Kirara mewed and allowed the apparition to climb onto her back.
XOXOXO:
A/N: I warned you that it was going to get gruesome and vicious… So please don't whine at me about it. Anyways, the next chapter will be the final one. Let me know what you did and didn't like.