Rurouni Kenshin Fan Fiction / InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ A Feudal Fairy Tale ❯ Chapter 7 ( Chapter 7 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

Final Chapter in A Feudal Fairy Tale and I still don't own any of this.


Kenshin was back to back with Inuyasha as the things surrounded them. He had heard Sano scream and Shippo, Yahiko, Kagome and Kaoru crying while the things ate his remains. It hurt him to his core to loss another friend, but he couldn't worry about that now. If he did it would mean the end of all of them.

His left arm still throbbed where the first one had grabbed him, and it was bleeding pretty badly. He wasn't sure how he got away but right now he didn't care. Inuyasha had already lost his sword and tried to fight them off with his claws but they kept knocking him down.

As they stood back to back Kenshin felt Inuyasha growl, and knew he was about to try another attack. Inuyasha charged the one who had killed Aoshi and attempted another one of his red claw attacks. This time the monster didn't even bother to dodge it, it put up a massive hand and caught Inuyasha's wrist. When it did that, Kenshin rushed forward again to blind side it.

Without even looking at him, the thing ducked his sword attack and in the same motion threw Inuyasha at him. The impact sent Kenshin sprawling and when he landed he hit a pile of burned wood. When his head hit the control on his inner Battousai lessened again. Each hit so far had managed to lessen his control on himself.

Both getting up Inuyasha roared and charged again, but this time Kenshin didn't join his attack. Kenshin saw that Inuyasha was attacking in blind rage and if he kept it up he too would be dead. As Inuayasha's attack was again met with a counter attack a scream tore through the air.

"Kaoru!!" he heard himself cry. One of the things had Kaoru from behind and was holding her up with her arms pressed to her sides. He could tell from the look on her face that it was squeezing pretty hard. He was about to do something when he heard a sound that almost broke his heart... the ear splitting sound of ribs breaking.

Kaoru screamed as loud as she could since she couldn't take a breath. Yahiko had his sword out and was ready to attack, Kagome had an arrow knocked and was aiming for it's stomach, away from Kaoru and Shippo was about to toss another useless Fox Fire attack.

All that didn't matter because as soon as Kenshin saw the blood start to soak through her kimono, he lost it. His last little bit of control of the bloodthirsty demon inside him was shattered and it rushed forward taking over his body with a feeling he hadn't fully felt in over thirteen years.

His eyes flashed from purple to golden, his muscles tensed, all feeling became distant. The only thing he felt was the need to kill. Flipping the blade so when he attacked it was with the sharp edge, the Battousai rushed forward in a full on sprint. He reached Kaoru before Shippo even started to say 'Fox Fire'. Time seemed to slow and he was able to get Kaoru out of the vice-like grip before the thing could react.

Setting Kaoru down he attacked the left leg of the beast, hopeing to hinder it somehow. But with surprising speed for something it's size, it side-stepped the attack and got out of range. The Battousai set Kaoru down where she was having a lot of trouble breathing through her shattered ribs.

Turning to the others, "Take care of her. If she dies under your care, I'll kill you." there was no mistaking the threat in his voice, and he got up without even waiting for thier nods. As he got up he found the one who had Kaoru lounging like it had nothing to do. It even yawned, but the Battousai knew that this was just something to get him angry.

Looking to his left he saw Inuyasha throwing a flurry of slashes at his beast, but it was blocking every single one. How was beyond him, even to his eyes, Inuyasha's attacks were just red blurs but this thing was blocking them like they were in slow motion.

"Narg not kill you. How about you join us." The Battousai turned when the thing spoke to him. It was in a voice that seemed unsuited for human speech, but was still understandable.

"You join Narg and Ba'alzamon. Have much fun killing. Narg smart. Narg can tell you like killing as much as Narg does."

"Blades of Blood!!!",Kenshin looked over as Inuyasha put a claw in one of his wounds and when it came out it was covered in his blood. He swung his arm out like an attack and the strings of it solidified into red blades. When the blades came at the thing with feathers, it let the attack hit it, then back-handed Inuyasha who was sent flying into yet another building, this time coming out slower than last time.

"He is stupid." Narg said as he too watched Inuyasha." He strong yes. But no match for a Trolloc."

"What's a Trolloc?" asked the Battousai.

"I am Trolloc. Gher is Trolloc." he pointed to the one with feathers." We are all Trollocs. We servants of Ba'alzamon. When he free again, there be much killing. Join us in the killing."

Again the Battousai looked at Inuyasaha, but this time when Narg looked he jumped in the air.

"Never will I join you! Ryu Tsui Sen!" With sharp edge first, his attack would cut Narg clean in two. Still looking at Inuyasha Narg caught the Battousai's blade in his hand. Shaking his head he looked at the Battousai.

"Narg wrong. You are stupid. Just like other. No matter. Narg rather eat you than kill with you." with his final word he punched Kenshin and sent him flying. He was just about to hit the ground when he caught himself and flipped. Landing on his feet he used his god-like speed to reach Narg five seconds after the punch.

Narg swung again but Kenshin dodged it." Ryu Sou Sen!" when the Battousai screamed his attack, Narg unsheathed his curved sword that still had dried blood on it. With all his power behind every hit, the Battousai used the same attack he defeated Sanosuke with. But each attack connected only with Narg's sword. It was impossible, every one of his hundred attacks had been blocked. With the last hit he jumped back, "So Ryu Sen!" he hit the sword to the ground and let loose some of his ki.This caused rocks, boards and even some with embers still lit to fly straight at Narg.

"Enough!" bellowed Narg. The attack hit him and did absolutly nothing. "Aaaahhhhh!!" Inuyasha screamed. The Battousai looked and saw that one of the other Trollocs had Inuyasha's face to the ground with his left arm in a very unatural position.

"Narg is bored and hungry. First kill you then eat you then Narg get reward." It put it's sword in his left hand and rushed at the Battousai. Again time seemed to slow,'This is it,' he thought 'My last chance. If this dosen't work it will all be over. Time for the ultimate technique of the Hiten Mitsurugi Style.(Note: I can't say it and I can't spell it and I haven't been able to find it so I won't even try.)

Sheathing his sword, the Battousai set himself and with a final breath charged. Each step he pushed himself faster and faster, the faster he goes the more damage the attack causes. Two feet from Narg he started unsheathing his blade, in three more steps he would be going fast enough to use the Battoujetsu and one step beyond that, his final attack.

Narg raised his sword for a powerful swing, and then one... two... three........four. With the fourth step he completely unsheathed his sword and hit Narg right in the side, completing the swing to bring his sword up over his head. They both stopped facing away from each other, one panting the other staring straight ahead.

The Battousai was waiting for Narg to fall, it was a direct hit and with the sharp edge too. But instead he heard crackling, he looked up and saw cracks all along the holy sword, the original reversed-blade sword. It cracked more and more and finally shattered. As the pieces fell they showered him with tiny chunks of steel some staying in his hair, on his shirt or in his skin. But it didn't matter, it was broken.

"Narg told you. You should have listened. Narg smart. You stupid. But not anymore. Now you dead." The Battousai turned, he wouldn't go down without a fight. Even if he knew only a little of hand-to-hand combat he would still die trying. As Narg rushed foward, the Battousai set himself ready to do anything in his power, but Narg hadn't even gone three steps before...

"GET DOWN NOW!!!!!" a voice from the sky screamed. A blast of air accompained the voice and pushed the Battousai to the ground and turning him back to purple-eyed Kenshin. When Kenshin hit the ground he heard an interesting noise and then one of the Trollocs screamed out with a death-cry.

Kenshin looked up and saw Narg looking over Kenshin. When Kenshin looked back he saw that one of the Trollocs was missing. Again he heard the sound but this time Kenshin saw a beam of light hit one of the Trollocs and disintigrate it. The Trollocs all had their weapons out now and were looking up. He heard Shippo scream and Kenshin turned to see one of Trollocs right over him about to kill him with a spiked club.

While the club was still raised the Trolloc's head flew off in a fountain of blood and before it could fall on Shippo something hit it and the body flew into one of the wrecks that used to be a house.

Kenshin crawled over to Kaoru's body were he saw that she was still pale and taking much shallower breaths. He was starting to worry, Kaoru was his life. If she died he had no idea what he would do. Another Trolloc cried out as it died and then another. Soon Narg was screaming but then he too was cut open by the invisible force. Then finally the last one died cut clean in half.

Kenshin looked up and saw the last one die and when it did, a person appeared right before it. He was average, only a little taller than Kenshin, with clothes Kenshin had never seen before. He had short gray hair and a sword that was bloody, and appeared finely made but a type of sword that Kenshin had never seen before.

The stranger wiped his sword of on a Trolloc and put it in the sheath that was strapped to his back, that too Kenshin never saw before. All sheathes he saw were on the hip. When he finished he turned to look at them, and then started coming toward them. When he took his first step, Kenshin felt power coming of him in waves. Waves of pure, raw, unbrideled energy. In fact Kenshin wasn't surprised when the air crackled around him.

As he got to them he looked down at Kaoru and said something that Kenshin didn't quite catch, something about history and prophecy.

He looked at Kagome and said, "Kagome, I need you to hold her down for me. You, Shippo and Yahiko. I'll try to heal her but if she moves to much she might die from the shock."

Surprisingly they listened and Kenshin understood why, if he had meant any harm he could have killed them before they even knew it. As they held him down he reached into one of his pockets and pulled out a small white something. He put it over her ruined ribs and broke it.

When he did a feeling of purity flowed over Kenshin. A kind of calmness that managed to revive him alittle like a cool spring breeze. At the same time Kaoru sat up straight gasping like ice water was thrown over her, and a second later she was back down on her back breathing a lot easier than before. Kenshin felt her ribs and found that they weren't broken anymore.

Kenshin looked up as the stranger broke another white thing over Inuyasha. Inuyasha reacted the same way Kaoru did and when he stopped he sat up and moved his previously broken left arm. The stranger came to Kenshin next and when he broke it over Kenshin he felt like he was plunged face first into a frozen river. The water rolling over him and through him chilling his very being causing him to gasp for air. It strecthed on for what seemed an eternity and when it was done he felt that all his wounds were healed, even the small ones.

"Good,"said the stranger.

"Not to be rude," said Kagome," but who are you and how do you know our names?"

"Before I answer that tell me, which one is Kenshin and which one is Inuyasha?"

"I am Kenshin."

"And I am Inuyasha."

"Good I found you. You two are to come with me and we need to leave immediately. You others don't have to come but you can if you want to."

Kenshin stared at him, this guy just came in here and announced that they would be leaving with him. The others didn't have to but it looked like Kenshin and Inuyasha had to.

He was just about to speak but Inuyasha got there first.

"Who the hell do you think you are?"

"I think I'm the person who just saved your lives." he said.

"I know but what do you mean we have to come with you, we don't even know you."

"My name is Trunks and I'm a Saiyan warrior fighting against The Dark One. I'm from the future and was sent back in time to get you two, Kenshin and Inuyasha because you are mentioned in prophecy as warriors who could help our cause. I know your names, Kagome, Kaoru, Shippo and Yahiko because you are mentioned in our history books. There, now tell me you four, because we only have a thirty minute window to where we can return to my time, wheter you're coming or not."

Kenshin was stunned speechless by this,'Future? Prophecy? Him and Inuyasha?' he had no idea what it all meant and neither did the others it appeared. But strangly Yahiko was the first of them to over come his shock.

"So you were the one who destroyed those things, right?"

"Those things are called Trollocs and yes I did kill the Trollocs."

"Okay, say that you are from the future and we go with you. Do you think you could train us to be as strong as you?" that was hardly the question Kenshin expected but he had been secretly wondering the same thing.

"Sure could, with the proper training you might not be as strong as me, but you could get strong enough to hold your own against a Mryddraal at least."

"What's a Mryddraal?" asked Kagome, who had sat up when Yahiko started speaking.

"A Mryddraal, to explain what they are first I have to explain how Trollocs were made. To put it simply, a Trolloc is human mixed with an animal. We have seen all kinds of combinations over the years, like bears, horses, goats, birds, wolves, etc. But for some reason we believe that there are only mammal and bird mixes, no reptiles or fish. But when the two parts were mixed, our enemies used the evil of the Dark One to twist it into something evil, so every Trolloc carries a taint of the Dark One.

"Every once in a while, the human side will resurface but still be twisted by the taint. When that happens a Mryddraal is born. They all look the same, tall, pale, and they all wear a black cloak that dosen't move no matter how much the Mryddraal moves. But most of all they have no eyes, and even though they have no eyes they can see better than human or demon in light or darkness. All Mryddraal are blademasters and if you are cut with one of their blades you will die unless there is someone to heal you that second."

"What is a Saiyan warrior? You said you were a Saiyan warrior fighting against the Dark One."asked Kaoru.

"I am a saiyan, saiyans are or were a race of people... there's no time. As soon as you come with me all will be explained. So make your choice."

Trunks went of to the side to give them time to think. "Well?" asked Kaoru.

"I think he's telling the truth. Maybe we should go with him." said Kagome.

"To the 'future'? Are you kidding me!? How are we going to get there?" said Inuyasha.

"When the portal opens in five minutes," Trunks had come up while they were talking."we'll all be able to go. That is if you've made up your minds to come with me."

They all looked at each other for a minute, then finally decided, "Okay we'll go with you."said Yahiko. Everyone turned to look at Yahiko but he had a set look to his face that said he would'nt change his mind. He turned to Kenshin, "This is my chance to finally get strong enough so I won't need your help."

"The rest of you agree?" asked Trunks. They all shook their heads."Alright now just wait for about four more minutes and the portal should be opened by then."

They all sat down except for Kenshin and Inuyasha. Kenshin was examining the hilt of the reverse-blade sword, all the pieces of the blade were on the ground where his attacked had ended. Inuyasha was looking for the Tetsusuiga, the Trolloc that had grabbed, and destroyed it had tossed the hilt behind it.

"Don't worry," everyone looked at Trunks,"when we get back to my time, we'll be able to make you new swords. We have this old blacksmith who must have...." he trailed off and jumped to his feet, unsheathing his sword as he came up. "Damn. I should have known."

"Known what?" asked Kagome who was starting to get alittle nervous. Trunks looked over her head and then vanished. Kenshin didn't even have enough time to wonder where he went before he heard the sound of two swords hitting right behind Kagome. Kagome ducked, covering her head and Inuyasha rushed toward her. The sound came from the sky, then the left and then the right. It seemed to be coming from everywhere at once.

The sound of feet skidding turned everyone's head to the west where Trunks had reappeared. Trunks was facing away from them and was looking at a man clothed in black from top to bottom with armor plates that made him look like a snake. As soon as he appeared Inuyasha and Shippo started growling. It was a ferral almost rabid kind of growl and Inuyasha's eyes started flashing red.

"What's wrong?" Kenshin asked Kagome.

"It's that guy. He has a really bad, powerful aura around him, like pure darkness. Inuyasha and Shippo probably smell something that's not right, and that's why they are acting like this."

"Who is that?" asked Yahiko.

Right when Yahiko asked the question, Trunks spoke to the man, "What are you doing here Fade?"

"I could ask you the same thing, saiyan." The Fade looked at Trunks' sword. "Of all the warriors, they had to send you, Trunks."

Kenshin suddenly realized what the thing was. "Oh God, It's a Myddraal."

"Oh man we're dead." said Yahiko.

Everyone stood and watched as the two warriors stared each other down. Neither of them moved, at least that Kenshin could see. They stood staring at each other for a few seconds longer and they both dissappeared again in a cloud of smoke. The sound of steel on steel seemed to ring everywhere at once. The fight had started again but they couldn't see anything.

As the battle raged, Kenshin began to grow nervous. He had no idea where the Myddraal was and sometimes Kenshin feel the wind move as one or both of them flew past him. Every so often the clang would sound just over Kenshin or Inuyasha's head, like the Myddraal attacked them but Trunks blocked it with his sword.

A loud smack sounded overhead and Kenshin looked up and saw the Myddraal floating overhead with it's arm strecthed out. One of the buildings collapsed but before Kenshin moved his head, Trunks was back in the air facing the Myddraal, his clothes a little scracthed and he had a smudge on his cheek where the Myddraal had hit him.

"There's no way you could be Trunks," said the Myddraal, "I heard that he once took on and defeated three of us at once. You can't even touch me, maybe you just look like him. Rumor has it he is a Super Saiyan."

"Tch, it's no rumor." Trunks let loose a shout and at the same time his hair changed from grey to gold and started sticking up instead of hanging in his face. A blast of air coming from Trunks knocked down a couple more houses and the group at the same time. By the time they got back up Trunks was no where to be seen, but the Myddraal seemed to be fighting an invisible enemy.

It was moving it's sword to block attacks Kenshin couldn't see, but each time it moved it's sword to block something would hit it and the two swords would spark. With every invisible attack the Myddraal was forced back, it kept floating backwards. It's defenses were beginning to slack, every so often a cut would appear on it's clothes and blood would spill. The Myddraal started to sweat and then with a audible slash, it's head flew off.

When this happened Kenshin gasped, the head hit the ground but the body didn't fall with it. The sword arm and the one with no weapon kept swinging. They were attacking the air at random but it was obvious that it wasn't attacking anything in particular. Trunks had reappeared, still glowing that golden color, off to the side when that Myddraal started it's blind attacks.

"Why is it not dead?" asked Inuyasha, staring up at the still attacking Myddraal.

"It is dead. But with Myddraal, it always takes time for them to completely die."

Brfore Kenshin could ask his question, Trunks put his hand up and a big beam of light came from his hand. It hit the Myddraal and it disintigrated like the Trolloc that was hit with the same attack.

Letting out a breath, Trunks was just about to sit down when a slash of light appeared in the air not to far from where they were. Pausing halfway to sitting down, Trunks stared at the light like it was something deadly.

"What's wrong?" asked Kenshin.

"Everything's wrong, I really didn't expect one of them to be here. I couldn't even sense him." He looked at their blank faces and then said," One of the Forsaken is here. These guys are the strongest warriors on the side of the Shadow. Only a handful of our fighters can stand a chance against one of them, and I'm not one of them."

He looked at his wrist,"Still have three minutes. Hopefully I can hold him off that long."

Kenshin watched with fear as the light turned or widened, he couldn't describe it, and formed a doorway. When it finished widening, three men stepped out; a tall man in fancy clothes, a man in purple robes with long dark hair, and Shishio. He heard Inuyasaha and Shippo start to growl and heard Kagome gasp, one of the other two had to be Naraku.

Trunks had stood up again and had taken a defensive stance. The man in fancy clothes looked at him calmly, like he had all the time in the world. But Shishio was eyeing Kenshin with a look of pure hatred, and Naraku was looking at Inuyasha the same way. The two groups looked at each other for a while longer, but it was the tall stranger who broke the silence.

"Ahhh! I'm surprised to see you here Trunks. Last time I saw you, you were badly hurt, almost dead from what I hear. Oh wait, I didn't hear it, I did it didn't I Trunks. I must have forgotten, I had killed so many of you that day. But what's really funny was that you thought you could hurt me with your Super Saiyan 2 powers." he chuckled but it wasn't out of amusement.

"You think that's funny? You humiliated me that day, and then said I wasn't worth killing and so left me to die. It was that day that two things happened, first I swore that I would be the one to kill you, Sammael, and two my new ability was unleashed." Trunks curled his arms up to his side and set himself.

"Aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!" Trunks started to shout. It started quiet but started to increase in strength."Aaaaaahhhh!" The longer it went the louder it got. Kenshin felt the ground start to shake and the aura of energy around Trunks started to grow. At the same time, his hair was beginning to grow."Aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!!" This time rocks and dust and bits of wood and anything, including Kenshin and the others, were blown away from Trunks with a powerful blast of air. "Ha!" Another blast of air hit Kenshin, stronger than the first one, and a cloud of smoke surrounded Trunks. When the dust cleared it revealed Trunks with a powerful golden aura around him and his hair was down to his waist.

"Super Saiyan 3" he said in a quiet serious voice. "Kenshin." he tossed Kenshin his sword. Kenshin caught it out of the air and was surprised at how heavy it was. "You'll need that to defend yourself. Just stay alive for three minutes, all of you."

"Three minutes?" said Sammael with a slight smile on his face, "they'll be lucky if I don't decide to kill them now. I already had Saito killed, killing them would be just as easy."

"Saito's already dead." said Kenshin in a disbelieving voice.

Sammael looked at Kenshin," He is now."

"Enough." said Trunks, "Time to die." and he rushed Sammael.

"Battousai, revenge is at hand. Now that you have no friends to help you it's just you and me." Shishio looked at him and unsheathed his sword.

"Half-breed, time for you to die." hissed Naraku.

"You'll have to go through me if you want to kill my brother."

Everyone turned to the voice and Kenshin saw a man dressed just as finely as Sammael. But from his face to his long silvery hair, his claws all the way down to his feet it was obvious this guy was Inuyasha's brother.

"Sesshomaru?!" said Inuaysha half glad, half angry. "What are you doing here?"

"I smelled something wrong in the winds coming from Kyoto, so I decided to come check it out. And who should I find but Naraku and three other strong fighters. So tell me little brother, what's been going on here?"

"No time Sesshomaru, just know that the guy in bandages and the other one dressed that vanished are enemies too." said Inuyasha quickly.

Sesshomaru unsheathed one of his swords and Kenshin saw that it was a sword like Trunks' but different but it was definetly not a katana.

"Yahiko, Kaoru, Shippo, Kagome, stay back. We'll handle this." said Kenshin.

Inuyasha put his claws up, Kenshin shifted the sword and held it the way that Sesshomaru was holding his, and Sesshomaru looked at Naraku and Shishio. Sesshomaru looked back at Kenshin and saw that he had no idea how to use the sword he got from Trunks. He positioned himself in front of Kenshin so Shishio would have to go through him to get to Kenshin.

They started foward slowly, hoping to throw their enemies off guard. Shishio's eyes were locked onto Kenshin's, and the same for Naraku. None of them noticed that Kagome had an arrow pointing at Naraku's head and that Yahiko, Shippo, and Kaoru seemed on the verge of charging the two themselves.

Suddenly, Kagome's arrow was loosed right at Naraku. As it traveled through the air a powerful purple energy swirled around it, with enough power to take off any part of Naraku's body. As soon as the arrow had left the bow, Kagome had another one ready to fire, but not before Kaoru, Yahiko, and Shippo charged Shishio and Naraku.

"No!" shouted Inuyasha and Kenshin at the same time and Sesshomaru called them fools. The arrow flew through the air with a howl of deadly power behind it. Right before it hit it's mark, it veered off course and hit the ground with an explosion of purple energy.

Naraku rushed at Kagome instead of Inuyasha. Inuyasha charged after him, his eyes flashing red again. Kagome dropped her arrow in surprise but as soon as Naraku had rushed forward, Shippo had rushed forward to put himself in Naraku's path.

"No Shippo! Get out of the way!" Inuyasha screamed at him. Shippo held his ground and shot a Fox Fire at Naraku, right at his chest. Naraku lept out of the way and landed right behind Shippo, at the same time Shishio met with an attack from Sesshomaru.

Shippo tried to turn around and face Naraku, but before he even started to move, Naraku put one of his hand on Shippo's back and let loose energy into the young fox's body. Shippo fell to the ground, shuddered a little and was still, with blood trickling from his ears.

"Shippo! No!" screamed Kagome. She fell to her knees holding her head, crying over the death of yet another friend. Inuyasha let loose a scream of rage and lunged at Naraku, who had his back turned. Instead of Naraku counterattacking though, it was Shishio who jumped in the way this time.

"Iron Reaver Soul Stealer!" Shishio brought his sword up to block the attack just as it was inches from his face. Smiling into the eyes of the enraged Inuyasha, Shishio ran his sword over his gauntleted hand. When the sword scraped against the gunpowder stored in his glove, the explosion hit Inuyasha square in the chest.

The explosion sent Inuyasha flying backwards and he hit the ground and skidded. When he stopped he couldn't move, he groaned and feebly tried to move his arms, but couldn't move. There was a big hole in his clothes where the blast hit him. When Inuyasha cried out Kagome looked up through her hands and saw him hit the ground with smoke rising up from him. Again she started crying but not about what happened to her friends, about what was happening to her. Her head was pounding and her priestess powers felt like they were on the verge of ripping her apart. She just wanted to die, for it all to end.

Kenshin watched as Shishio despatched Inuyasha easily and, with the wicked grin still on his face, started for Kenshin. At the same time as this was all going on, the fight between Trunks and Samael was also raging. Trunks was barely holding his own, but the Forsaken wasn't even breathing hard. At least ten times he had to stop Samael from eradicating everyone on the ground beneath them, but it was getting hard enough keeping hisself alive. 'Only have to hold on for one more minute.' he told himself. One more minute and maybe just maybe the gateway will open. If it didn't he was going to die.

Yahiko was knocked to the side and Kenshin was also knocked to the ground. Sesshomaru had tried to use the Tensuiga to bring Shippo back, but Naraku stopped him and Shishio had joined in the attack to double team Sesshomaru. Kagome was still wimpering holding her head but Inuyasha had managed to crawl over to her to try to calm her down. It wasn't working she just kept muttering over and over that she wanted to die.

"Kagome listen to me." he got to his feet and brought her up with him, but she didn't seem to hear him. "Listen!" he shook her but she was still wimpering. "Kagome you have to be strong. We have to beat these two, for Sango, Maroku and Shippo. Come on Kagome and I need your help, no we need your he..."

"Shut up half-breed." Naraku had come up behind Inuyasha while he was talking to Kagome. Kagome looked down and saw Naraku's hand sticking out of Inuyasha's stomach. He pulled it out and Inuyasha fell to the ground, face first. Kagome looked behind Naraku and saw Sesshomaru on the ground not moving, she also saw Kenshin trying to fend off Shishio's attacks but not doing very well.

When her eyes went back to Naraku he smiled at her, "You were a good adversary, wench. Nice and strong. Smart and good-looking. Because of this I will grant you a quick death, like the one I gave Shippo." he waved his arm over Shippo's unmoving form, "Now hold still so it can be quick."

Kagome saw his hand coming toward her and she knew what it meant. At least he was true to his word and at least she would see Shippo and Sango and Inuyasha and the rest on the other side. In that light she knew she would be happy. So in the last few seconds of her life, for what seemed the first time, she surrendered to her fate, surrendered completely.

"Impossible!" came a voice from over head. But Kagome couldn't hear, for when she surrendered the raging power inside of her calmed into a peacful tranquil river. Quiet and flowing with an unbroken surface, she fell into the river of power that flowed inside of her. As soon as she got it she tried to control it, but it started acting wild again so she let it control her, surrendered to the flow of the power. And then she understood.

"Naraku, get back now!" She looked up into Naraku's surprised eyes and let the power flow foward on it's own accord. A ball of fire erupted from her and engulfed Naraku and at the same time Shishio in a ball of swirling fire. A couple seconds later Samael appeared and the fires went out leaving Naraku and Shishio panting heavily but badly burnt. Trunks appeared still surrounded by the power of Super Saiyan 3 and stood in front of Kagome, sheilding her with his body, although he looked ready to drop on his feet he still looked prepared to give his life to protect her.

"Leave now Samael, or I'll leave her to as she would. You know as well as I how dangerous an untrained channeler can be. Do you seriously want to stand around until she finds out how to unleash balefire?" Samael spat to the side and smiled, but his eyes looked fierce, "Okay I'll leave you for now, I think we've caused enough damage for one day," He looked around at the fallen fighters and really smiled when he saw Inuyasha face-down in the dirt with a hole in his back. "Until next time young Saiyan." He created the line of light behind him again and when it formed into the doorway, he stepped through with Naraku and Shishio limping behind him.

As soon as the gateway closed, Trunks lost his golden aura and fell on the ground panting. After he layed there for a few seconds he got up and saw the real extent of the damage and also saw that Inuyasha was close to dieing. Jumping to his feet, he reached into his jacket for another capsule, but before he could reach it the purple gateway opened up not to far from where he was. 'Thank God!' he thought.

"Come on, we have to go. Grab everyone and bring them, they can still be saved." Yahiko and Kenshin grabbed Inuyasha, Kagome picked up Shippo and Kaoru helped with Inuyasha.

"Are you ready?" asked Trunks, who had Sesshomaru over his shoulder and his sword back in it's sheath. Everyone looked at each other then back at Trunks and nodded. "Okay. Let's go!" And they jumped into the swirling gateway of purple energy.




Chapter 7 Complete! Took me much longer than I thought it would have so for that I made this one my longest chapter. The story will be continued, but first I have to introduce my next series into the fight against the shadow. I'm only going to give you a hint though, it will be under the games category. Just look for me GohanFC!! e-mail me and please review. Thanks and good night!