InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Tomaru's Story ❯ Chapter 2

Chapter 2

 

While the battle with Naraku continued, the real battle was just beginning elsewhere. Kikyou, a resurrected priestess who once loved Inuyasha, and Kagome, Kikyou's incarnation from the future who also loved Inuyasha, were watching Kanna, a pale white-haired little girl who was Naraku's first incarnation, who was holding their target: the baby.

 

Kagome and Kikyou exchanged a glance, where Kagome nodded. Kagome knocked an arrow, aimed it at Kanna then let a purified arrow fly. The pale little girl turned to the side just as the arrow missed her, but the distraction had done its work. Kikyou was near Kanna's side in an instant, her stronger purified arrow headed straight for the baby in Kanna's arms.

 

Kanna gave a brief gasp of surprise. She was Naraku's incarnation, representing the Void and was able to see everything in her mirror, but the two priestesses had caught her off guard with their distraction ploy. The arrow pierced the baby and passed into Kanna. The two creatures of Naraku were frozen, looks of shock and disbelief on their faces. Then Kikyou rushed to Kanna and the baby. She looked back briefly at Kagome, who had emerged from where she had hidden in the trees.

 

“Take care of Inuyasha for me.” Kikyou smiled sadly. She turned back to Kanna and the baby, placed her hands on both heads, closed her eyes and concentrated. There was a great glow that blinded Kagome, and then a strong pulse of energy blew Kagome over. The energy pulse radiated out to where Inuyasha and his friends were battling Naraku.

 

As the pulse hit Naraku, he froze, his pupils receding to pinpoints. Inuyasha, Miroku, and Sango all paused, looking at Naraku as he stood there. “NO… how… could you? Ki…kyo… Ka…go…me… you've killed me!”

 

Inuyasha took advantage of Naraku's immobility. “KONGOSOUHA!!!” He brought his Tetsusaiga, his father's fang-sword, down on Naraku's body, hoping to annihilate the evil demon once and for all. Diamond shards flew out from the Tetsusaiga as it hit the ground, fanning out across the landscape. As Inuyasha grinned triumphantly, his smile was suddenly erased as his eyes widened in shock, his pupils contracting into pinpoints. Naraku chuckled weakly as his final attack lay Inuyasha's body open, fatally wounding the hanyou. Inuyasha flew backwards, covered in his own blood. Naraku's body was now in disintegrating pieces, which Miroku now saw as his opportunity to finish the job.

 

“KAZAANAAA!!” Miroku pulled the rosary beads that sealed his right hand off and opened his hand, revealing a black hole in his hand that proceeded to suck everything in front of him into the void. Naraku himself had placed the Wind Tunnel curse on Miroku's grandfather, which in turn had been passed down to Miroku's father and then to Miroku himself. The Wind Tunnel grew with every passing year, until it finally sucked the bearer into the void itself. The only way to remove the curse was to destroy Naraku once and for all. Ironic then, that Naraku's blasted and battered remains were now being sucked into the very Wind Tunnel he had cursed Miroku's father and grandfather with.

 

Naraku screamed and wailed as he was sucked into the fathomless void. Sango had dug her Hiraikotsu into the ground and held on, while the wind whipped her hair toward the deadly Wind Tunnel. Sesshoumaru, too, had to abandon his usual confident stance to brace himself against the pull of the void. Kirara landed behind Sango, digging her claws into the ground to help brace the Demon Slayer.

 

As Naraku's last piece disappeared into Miroku's palm, the wind tunnel began to shrink. Miroku fell to his knees and turned his hand around to look at his hand. The hole got smaller and smaller, until it disappeared completely, leaving Miroku's right palm whole and normal once more. Miroku fell forward on his hands, tears falling from his eyes. It was over. It was finally, finally over.

 

Sango looked up as the wind died. Miroku had fallen on hands and knees and was crying. Inuyasha… Inuyasha! Sango remembered how badly Naraku had wounded him. Was he still alive? Where were Kagome and Kikyou? Sango jumped to her feet and ran for the still form on the ground that was Inuyasha's battered body.

 

“No,” she whispered as she saw the tragedy in front of her. “Inuyasha, no! Hold on! We'll find Kagome… she'll know what to do!” Sango quickly leapt to her feet, running to Kirara and jumping on her back. “Miroku!” She called as they flew away. “Try to stop Inuyasha's bleeding! I'm going to find Kagome and Kikyou!”

 

Miroku shook himself out of his shock, then hurried over to where Inuyasha lay, bleeding profusely from a series of deadly wounds that left his body almost sliced in half. His golden eyes were open wide, staring and beginning to glaze over. “No, Inuyasha!” Miroku yelled as he pulled off his kesa and tried to bandage Inuyasha's mangled torso back together. “You cannot die on us! Kagome will be here soon. You must hold on, for her sake at least!”

 

Sango and Kirara flew swiftly through the sky, following Kirara's keen sense of smell to find where Kagome and Kikyou had fought their battle with Kanna and the baby. Kirara landed next to a circular burnt out area of terrain, where a young black-haired girl in a green and white modern Japanese school uniform kneeled on the ground, her face frozen in shock. “Kagome!” Sango yelled down to her. When the young girl didn't answer, Sango jumped off Kirara's back, landing next to Kagome in a graceful crouch.

 

“Kagome? Inuyasha…. He's been…” Sango trailed off as Kagome continued to stare vacantly at the center of the burned out crater. “What happened? Where's Kikyou?”

 

Kagome turned her head slowly and looked up at Sango, her eyes gradually coming into focus. “She's… gone. She gave up her life in order to seal away Naraku's heart and evil forever.” She turned her gaze back to the burned out circle. “She told me to take care of Inuyasha for her…” Her brown eyes filled with tears.

 

Sango remembered why she had come. “Inuyasha is why I'm here, Kagome!” She grabbed Kagome's shoulders and forced the younger girl to look at her. “He's severely wounded, maybe even dying! We need you and your medicines!”

 

Kagome's eyes opened in shock as her heart hit her stomach. “Inuyasha?! He's hurt?” She grabbed her bow, arrows, and her backpack and jumped up. “Let's go!” Sango nodded and the two women mounted Kirara, who had landed nearby for easy access. The two-tail cat leaped into the air, flying as fast as she could back to where Miroku was standing vigil over the dying hanyou.

 

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Sesshoumaru gazed at the monk, who was trying to save his pathetic brother's life. What had he hoped to accomplish? Saving a useless hanyou from his much-sought after death? He turned away, intent on leaving, when something… something… stopped him. A feeling of pity? Concern? He was not sure, but he knew that there was some reason for him to stay.

 

 

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