yeah not really sure how this story is gonna turn out. hope its good.
Disclaimer: Inuyasha is not mine.
The Weapon and the Sheath by Kibou7587
Prologue
This wasn't right. Everything was the same, but so different.
Naraku stood, surrounded by demons, Kagura in the forefront controlling the corpses of the dead. Saimyosho hovered all throughout the battlefield rendering Miroku's kazaana useless. Demons stood at the ready to bombard Inuyasha, Sango, and Kagome (and Shippo with her). Kouga and Sesshoumaru were there as well ready to tear apart the spider hanyou and anything that stood in their way.
The stances were typical, the circumstances were not. Naraku had sought them out. He had tracked Inuyasha and his companions. Everyone was in their customary battle stance, but no one knew what to expect. This was undoubtedly new. Typically Naraku ran and Inuyasha pursued. No one really knew what to do when their roles became reversed.
Naraku relaxed his battle stance. Inuyasha tensed his further. "Do you know what the one thing stronger than the Shikon Jewel is?" he asked, dark eyes taunting them with a question only he knew the answer to. Slowly he strolled to the front lines—this was also new. He usually stayed hidden behind his minions.
He was up to something, this much everyone knew. Unfortunately, no one knew what he was up to.
"What are you playing at, Naraku?" Inuyasha roared, growing impatient and uneasy with each passing second of the stand-off. He hated this part, the waiting—the long stupid speeches before the battle. He wanted to fight—he knew how to fight, he was good at it. He didn't know what to do when his prey stopped running away from him and ran toward him.
Continuing as though never interrupted, Naraku stopped his saunter to stare down the group of fighters. "The one thing stronger than the Shikon Jewel," he spoke, shifting his gaze to Kagome, deadly intent clear in his eyes, "is that which is able to contain it!"
And he dove.
And all hell broke loose.
Forces collided and all at once everyone converged around Kagome—some to attack, some to protect. And then the ball of confusion suddenly exploded. Demons flew all around and Sango and Miroku immediately set about disposing of them.
Inuyasha stood between Kagome and Naraku, Koga at her back, Sesshoumaru at Naraku's back.
"What the hell are you talking about, you bastard?" Inuyasha didn't understand what Naraku wanted. Not true, he knew Naraku wanted Kagome, what he didn't fully understand was why.
"Poor Inuyasha," the spider hanyou taunted, "always so slow on the draw."
Inuyasha growled and tensed to attack. "Don't Inuyasha!" Kagome finally spoke from behind him, "It's not really him. He doesn't have any Jewel shards."
Once she said that Naraku was speared through the chest with Sesshoumaru's arm. "Little miko," the disintegrating doll spoke, "Smart and powerful. I will have you. Then I shall truly be unstoppable…"
After the false Naraku crumbled, Kagura fled, and the remaining demons were easily slain. No one left the battlefield. They had won, but it was hardly anything to celebrate. Naraku hadn't tried to win. And no one understood what he had planned.
"Everyone alright?" Inuyasha spoke, Tetsusaiga still drawn in case any demons lingered or came back for more. He did a quick scan of his comrades, no one sustained any severe injuries. Miroku, Sango, Kirara, and Kouga gathered around Kagome, in an unconscious move to protect her from any impending danger.
Finally deciding they were safe Inuyasha de-transformed Tetsusaiga and sheathed it. As the hilt guard hit the sheath Kagome sucked in a sharp breath. All eyes were instantly on her, even Sesshoumaru's, although he looked from beyond the cluster of friends.
"'That which is able to contain it,'" she gasped out, with a dry laugh. Her companions eyed her uneasily.
"What is it, Kagome-san?" Miroku asked carefully. "What are you thinking?"
"What is the purpose of a sheath?" she asked no one in particular.
"To hold a sword," Inuyasha answered immediately. "So what?"
"No," Kagome said, in the same hopelessly enlightened tone, "not just to hold a sword. What was So'unga's sheath for?"
This time Sango spoke, "To contain its power."
"In order to contain its power, the sheath must be what?" Kagome finally looked up into Miroku's eyes. He had gone silent and still. He understood.
"The sheath must be stronger than that which it contains." Kagome looked down again. Miroku turned to Inuyasha and everyone else in turn, "Naraku wants Kagome because she is the Jewel's vessel. She is more powerful than it because she can contain it. He wants that power."
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