InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Fate of Love ❯ Naraku's Last Stand ( Chapter 1 )

Nikki Kelly

Disclaimer: The magnificent world of Inu Yasha is the sole creative masterpiece of Rumiko Takahashi ~ NOT ME!!!

A/N: Inuyasha, Sesshoumaru, and Kouga have put aside their differences, and have joined forces against their common enemy: Naraku. The archetype villain will not go down easily, however, for he now holds the power of almost all the shards of the sacred Shikon Jewel. The battle ensues, and when our scene opens, both Sesshoumaru and Kouga lie in bloody heaps, their fates unknown. Kagome, with the aid of Shippou, has dragged Miroku and Sango, both too injured to move, off the battlefield, and now can only watch helplessly as her beloved hanyou confronts Naraku face-to-face.

Oh yeah:Italics~> Thoughts

"Quotations"~> Dialogue (duh)

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Chapter One ~ Naraku's Last Stand

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"Damn you, Naraku" Inuyasha growled, the anger inside him boiling to an unsurpassable level. The self-made demon was chuckling to himself as he looked upon the unmoving and blood-soaked bodies of his two most recent adversaries.

"Do not fear, Inuyasha, you will soon be joining them." he replied, a smile touching his lips as he raised his hand to call forth the power of the jewel within himself.

Inuyasha, determined not to give him the chance to strike first, lunged at Naraku, Tetsusaiga poised to slice straight through him. But he was simply not fast enough, and Naraku froze him in mid-air, drawing on the tainted energy, and slammed the hanyou to the ground with the slightest movement of his index finger.

"So hasty to meet your end," he mocked in a slightly amused tone.

Inuyasha pulled himself off the ground, wiping his haori for show. "Keh, Kagome has sat me worse than that!" he sneered, and swung at Naraku again, trying to catch him off guard.

But, yet again, Naraku was too quick, and this time Naraku flung his opponent against a nearby tree, and the hanyou made a large crack in the trunk before falling straight into the briary underbrush. He lowered his hand as he laughed yet again, his face lighting up with satisfaction. This time it was a few moments before Inuyasha emerged, blood trickling down his face from the small scratches of the thorns. He heard Kagome's breath catch when she saw him, and gave a small nod to reassure her. The distraction was fleeting, however, and he immediately turned his attention back to Naraku, the growl rising low in his throat, his eyes narrowing in fury.

"Shall we continue like this, or would you rather meet your demise now, half-breed?" he asked, lifting his hand once more in question. "Either way would be pleasurable for me."

Inuyasha sneered, knowing where he could finally hit his foe. "Who are you, to call me a half-breed, when you are one yourself, Onigumo?!"

Naraku's eyes widened with shock upon hearing the hated words, then immediately filled with rage. He cried out a loathing roar as he picked up Miroku's nearby fallen staff and hurled it with the force of a thousand tsunamis straight at Inuyasha's body. The staff struck Inuyasha like a blade through paper, going straight through the center of his being, and then burying itself deep in the earth behind him. Inuyasha staggered for a minute, gurgling on the blood rising in his throat, before collapsing in a flood of black-red liquid.

So this is it, this is how it ends... he allowed himself to think, his arrogant, self-righteous nature now defeated.

So many things left undone...so many things left unsaid... He tilted his head with effort to gaze at Kagome, who was now running towards him, tears pouring from her eyes.

Stupid girl, she'll get herself killed that way...

Naraku's grin widened as he made to finish-off the hanyou before the girl could reach him, as if he was playing some sort of idle game. But even before he could lift his ill-intended hand, an arrow struck him through the back, piercing directly into his evil and long-frozen heart. His eyes looked down in horror to see the sharpened end sticking straight out of his chest, and some-sort of purple substance oozing out of the wound. He made to grab at the gash, but quickly wrenched his hands away, as the flesh around the arrow began to burn with a feral intensity. He screamed in pain and self-pity, knowing that he had been struck at the core of his power and life, the nearly complete Shikon Jewel. He whipped himself around in disbelief, meaning to destroy his assassin before his departure into the nether-world.

And there stood Kikyou, a beautiful purple light surrounding her, but a furious expression drawn on her normally placid face. "You are the cause of all of my pain, Naraku," she stated with disgust, finally admitting the truth to herself. "And now you shall die." With lightning speed her hand drew back her bow and released another arrow. Her accuracy was dead on, and the impact of another shot of the miko's power knocked Naraku to his knees. He vocalized his anguish with an animal-like screech, and reached up to the heavens as if pleading with the gods he had long since forgotten.

"Quickly girl!! The jewel!" Kikyou commanded Kagome, knowing that even her power wouldn't last long against that of the jewel.

Kagome looked back down at Inuyasha, who was now gasping for the air of life. He gazed at her all the while, his eyes seeping with unspoken emotion. I can't leave him, not now... She sobbed uncontrollably, grasping his robes, until her knuckles whitened to the shade of nothingness.

"Do it now!!" Kikyou screamed from her spot on the battlefield, a few yards away from the writhing Naraku. Her eyes were filled with an urgency unlike any other, and the spark in them was so akin to Kagome's own, that she finally realized what she must do. With a final glance down at Inuyasha, she left his side and rushed to the place where Naraku lay.

Kagome hesitated only slightly at the twisted and melting form, and reached straight into the heap of purple ooze at the center of his body, grabbing for the source of the growing light only she could see. She seized the jewel, purifying it with one touch, and wrenched her hand away in one quick motion, watching as her hated enemy slowly dissolved into nothingness. She paused only for a moment, not really being able to believe it was actually over, before jumping to her feet to run back to her fallen hanyou.

She was stopped dead in her tracks, however, by the icy words of her soul's former owner. "Now give me the jewel, girl, so that Inuyasha and I can finally return to hell...."

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To Be Continued...

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Dun-dun-dun...sorry to leave it hanging like that, but I really want to hear people's response to this, cause if no one likes it then I'm not gonna really bother. If you do, though, I'll post the next chapter right away, so give me your feedback!!! Oh yeah, I'm sorry if anyone seems a little out of character, or something seems too simple, I'm not really good at writing action scenes ......................... I like romance much better ............... foreshadowing?? Well I guess we'll just have to see, won't we??? ................ :)~~~~~~