Disclaimer: yeah whatever, don't own…. Blah you get what I mean…
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Naraku towered before them in his full form. Everyone had arrived, it was the final showdown between Naraku, Inuyasha, Sango, Miroku, Kagome, Kagura, Kouga, and Sesshoumaru. It was not to be an easy bout. They had encircled him, but that posed no real advantage for them, as he was capable of attacking in all directions.
The battle had begun and none of them were making any progress against the demon of the abyss. He had set a barrier around his body.
"Feeble, that is what you are, all of you. You can't expect to defeat me, you couldn't even defeat each other, what makes you so foolish?" Naraku said obviously trying to dishearten them, make them crumble under stress.
"I'm not the fool here, you and the hanyou Inuyasha are the fools." Sesshoumaru yelled slashing with Tokijin.
"I'll show you the fool Sesshoumaru!" Inuyasha shouted running in and swinging madly at Naraku.
"Don't worry about him, Inuyasha, focus on Naraku!" Kagome argued, firing a sacred arrow at the beast.
"You should listen to your wench, Inuyasha." Sesshoumaru said from the other side of the menacing demon between them.
'All is going well, they are distracted, fighting amongst themselves…' Naraku thought merely enforcing his barrier and occasionally swinging at them.
"She is not my wench!" he growled back, "Kaze no kizu!" he shouted slashing away a hole in the barrier.
Kagome heard this and stopped, slightly saddened by the words of her comrade. Regaining composure she shot another arrow through the hole at Naraku. 'I know that's not what he meant, but…' she thought.
Kagura and Kouga were circling in opposite directions around the barrier, Kouga on the ground and Kagura in the air.
"Trying to distract me? It won't work, not if you can't agree on what to do…" he mentioned as they drew the attacks away from the others.
"What he says is true!" Kagura shouted above the sounds of battle, "we have to focus, we have to cooperate!"
"Like anyone's gonna listen to what you say wench!" Inuyasha yells swinging Tetsusaiga at the barrier once again, opening the hole up more. He runs in attempting to cut Naraku directly, but is forced back by Naraku's huge fist, as he flies back through the hole he crashes into a second barrier.
"We're trapped in, he must have known we might not be sure of ourselves!" Miroku screams, "He's not going to allow our escape!"
"That's a nice trick Naraku, but I can do better! KAZE NO KIZU!" Inuyasha yells running back into the storm of battle. Naraku deflects the attack with his arm. "No way…" Naraku grabs Inuyasha through the barrier and smashes him on the barrier's ceiling, and lets him drop 30 feet. As he hits the ground Sango rushes over to block further attacks and give him time to recover. "I-I can't…" She looked down at him, she was surprised at what she saw. He was wide eyed looking up at her.
'He's terrified…' She had never seen the hanyou show even the slightest bit of emotion other than anger, in battle, and yet he looked genuinely horrified. "Don't say that Inuyasha! You say you can't, when I say I can? I'm only a mere mortal aren't I Inuyasha?" His eyes narrowed slightly.
"You're right, thank you Sango!" he stood up and grabbed the Tetsusaiga, "Are you ready for round two Naraku?" He shouted, running into the skirmish.
Naraku had turned his back on them, they were no threat with Inuyasha frightened as he was. But he was mistaken slightly as Miroku ran through the barrier.
"KAZAANA!" he yelled lifting the rosary that sealed the void in his arm.
"Foolish monk! If you pull me in you'll die, the poisons of my body alone will end you."
"You say I'll die, but so would you! I don't care anymore, I couldn't think of a better way to go, than killing you in the process!" but it was too late, Naraku had ended the threat by bashing him against the barrier, luckily he'd slipped the rosary back on before he could absorb anyone.
"Listen to me! We have to attack as one, he can't counter us all at the same time!" Kagura shouted flinging wind blades at Naraku.
"I think… for once she has a point!" Kagome shouted
Inuyasha had been staying a safe distance from the hole he'd made in the barrier, still a bit afraid. "You are fools to think such a thing, I am absolute, you can't possibly believe you can win." Naraku said with a cold menace in his voice.
"He's just stalling, he is beginning to weaken." Sesshoumaru said in an average tone to him. "Perhaps what Kagura says is true."
"Well, it seems that the only thing stopping us… is the barrier then, right." Inuyasha said with hesitation.
"Don't think about it Inuyasha! Just do what you always do, run in and swing around!" Sango yelled over to him, deflecting projectile claws from Naraku away with the hiraikotsu.
"What are you even here for Inuyasha?" Naraku questioned, "The Wolf fights for the miko, she fights for the future, the taijiya fights for her brother, your brother fights for his pride, Kagura fights for her freedom, and the monk fights for freedom of the curse, but why do you fight?"
"What am I… fighting for? Why? Why… does it matter? I-I'm fighting… because I… because I want to." He said unsure at first, "And because it's the least I can do to thank you, you're the reason I have friends like them. Like Sango, and like Miroku, Shippou, Kagome, and maybe I can even put up with Kouga, Kagura and my brother now because of you." He finished with anger showing in his eyes. "And also… for revenge. KAZE NO KIZU!" he broke the barrier with one final strike.
'My barrier… this is not good… I'd better get my heart away from this place… but first, a distraction.' Naraku thought to himself, not showing any sign of concern. "Kohaku, why don't you entertain them for a while, I'm getting bored." He jumped down form the perch he'd taken on Naraku's shoulder earlier.
He began running almost randomly around the area, attacking whenever he got close enough. This went on for a good while, no one was able to stop him, he would just fling himself in a new direction at any sign of attack. But then he stopped in front of Sango, spinning his scythe on its chain at his side. "Sister… you have to fight…"
"No! I won't fight you Kohaku!" came her reply.
"You, will, fight. You must fight. You must kill…"
"I won't, I can't" she was beginning to shake.
"Then it would seem things are looking up for us then…" he said motioning toward Naraku.
"Looking… up?" she said in confusion, what did she have to do with his plans… 'Looking up? Wait, he's trying to tell me…!' She looked away from him, into the sky, "I understand now Kohaku!" she said raising the hiraikotsu.
"What are you doing, if you kill him all you worked for will be in vain!" Kagome said.
"Sango what the hell's wrong with you?" Inuyasha shouted, "You can't give up now!"
"It's the only way… HIRAIKOTSU!" she let it fly from her hand. Kohaku dove out of the way. As it flew it began to curve upward.
"Attempting to kill me while off guard? It didn't work…" Naraku said easily dodging the bone. Kagura watched as it flew past Naraku, she saw what the target was. It hit its mark, the ball of light began to fade and disappear.
"What have you done?" Naraku screamed with surprise. Kohaku fell to the ground uttering the words, "Sister… thank you…" The barrier collapsed around them, and Naraku's body was decomposing itself, turning to ashes and blowing away lightly in the breeze.
Everyone was watching as he disappeared from their lives, everyone but Sango. She had collapsed, she was sobbing. She cradled the body of her little brother. When the hiraikotsu embedded itself in the dirt inches away from her, she didn't even flinch. She just sat there crying.
"Sango… We should go, the battlefield is no place for a funeral." Inuyasha said slightly out of character to his normal non-caring nature.
Kagome turned and looked across the crater, she had tears in her eyes as well when she said, "All of you, Kouga, Sesshoumaru, and Kagura… Thank you…" She turned back and she walked slowly to where Inuyasha and Miroku were trying to comfort Sango. "We… we should go… and tell Shippou and Kirara we're alright." she said slowly, "and I'm sorry…"
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AN: Yeah so my fight scene sucked, and it lasted roughly four pages… it was only the beginning though. Review, suggest, etc.
AN: Also I guess the whole single group instead of everyman for himself thing was a bust huh… if I screwed up anything tell me.