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)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Chapter One ~ Naraku's Last Stand ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Damn you, Naraku" Inuyasha growls, the anger inside him boiling to an unsurpassable level. The self-made demon is chuckling to himself as he looks upon the unmoving and blood-soaked bodies of his two most recent adversaries.
"Do not fear, Inuyasha, you will soon be joining them." he replies, a smile touching his lips as he raises his hand to call forth the power of the jewel within himself.
Inuyasha, determined not to give him the chance to strike first, lunges at Naraku, Tetsusaiga poised to slice straight through him. But he is simply not fast enough, and Naraku freezes him in mid-air, drawing on the tainted energy, and slams the hanyou to the ground with the slightest movement of his index finger.
"So hasty to meet your end," he mocks in a slightly amused tone.
Inuyasha pulls himself off the ground, wiping his haori for show. "Keh, Kagome has sat me worse than that!" he sneers, and swings at Naraku again, trying to catch him off guard.
But, yet again, Naraku is too quick, and this time Naraku flings his opponent against a nearby tree, the hanyou making a large crack in the trunk before falling straight into the briary underbrush. He lowers his hand as he laughs yet again, his face lighting up with satisfaction. This time it is a few moments before Inuyasha emerges, blood trickling down his face from the small scratches of the thorns. He hears Kagome's breath catch when she sees him, and gives a small nod to reassure her. The distraction is fleeting, however, and he immediately turns 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 asks, lifting his hand once more in question. "Either way would be pleasurable for me."
Inuyasha sneers, knowing where he can finally hit his foe. "Who are you, to call me a half-breed, when you are one yourself, Onigumo?!"
Naraku's eyes widen with shock upon hearing the hated words, then immediately fill with rage. He cries out a loathing roar as he picks up Miroku's nearby fallen staff and hurls it with the force of a thousand tsunamis straight at Inuyasha's body. The staff strikes 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 staggers 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 allows himself to think, his arrogant, self-righteous nature now defeated.
So many things left undone...so many things left unsaid... He tilts his head with effort to gaze at Kagome, who is now running towards him, tears pouring from her eyes.
Stupid girl, she'll get herself killed that way...
Naraku's grin widens as he makes to finish-off the hanyou before the girl can reach him, as if he were playing some sort of idle game. But even before he can lift his ill-intended hand, an arrow strikes him through the back, piercing directly into his evil and long-frozen heart. His eyes look down in horror to see the sharpened end sticking straight out of his chest, some-sort of purple substance oozing out of the wound. He makes to grab at the gash, buts quickly retches his hands away, as the flesh around the arrow begins to burn with a feral intensity. He screams in pain and self- pity, knowing that he has been struck at the core of his power and life, the nearly complete Shikon Jewel. He whips himself around in disbelief, meaning to destroy his assassin before his departure into the nether-world.
And there stands 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 states with disgust, finally admitting the truth to herself. "And now you shall die." With lightning speed her hand draws back her bow and releases another arrow. Her accuracy is dead on, and the impact of another shot of the miko's power knocks Naraku to his knees. He vocalizes his anguish with an animal-like screech, and reaches up to the heavens as if pleading with the gods he has long since forgotten.
"Quickly girl!! The jewel!" Kikyou commands Kagome, knowing that even her power won't last long against that of the jewel.
Kagome looks back down at Inuyasha, who is now gasping for the air of life. He gazes at her all the while, his eyes seeping with unspoken emotion. I can't leave him, not now... She sobs uncontrollably, grasping his robes, until her knuckles whiten to the shade of nothingness.
"Do it now!!" Kikyou screams from her spot on the battlefield, a few yards away from the writhing Naraku. Her eyes are filled with an urgency unlike any other, and the spark in them is so akin to Kagome's own, that she finally realizes what she must do. With a final glance down at Inuyasha, she leaves his side and rushes to the place where Naraku now lie.
Kagome hesitates only slightly at the twisted and melting form, and reaches 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 seizes the jewel, purifying it with one touch, and retches her hand away in one quick motion, watching as her hated enemy slowly dissolves in nothingness. She pauses only for a moment, not really being able to believe it's actually over, before jumping to her feet to run back to her fallen hanyou.
She is 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...."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To Be Continued... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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??? ................ :)~~~~~~
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)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Chapter One ~ Naraku's Last Stand ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Damn you, Naraku" Inuyasha growls, the anger inside him boiling to an unsurpassable level. The self-made demon is chuckling to himself as he looks upon the unmoving and blood-soaked bodies of his two most recent adversaries.
"Do not fear, Inuyasha, you will soon be joining them." he replies, a smile touching his lips as he raises his hand to call forth the power of the jewel within himself.
Inuyasha, determined not to give him the chance to strike first, lunges at Naraku, Tetsusaiga poised to slice straight through him. But he is simply not fast enough, and Naraku freezes him in mid-air, drawing on the tainted energy, and slams the hanyou to the ground with the slightest movement of his index finger.
"So hasty to meet your end," he mocks in a slightly amused tone.
Inuyasha pulls himself off the ground, wiping his haori for show. "Keh, Kagome has sat me worse than that!" he sneers, and swings at Naraku again, trying to catch him off guard.
But, yet again, Naraku is too quick, and this time Naraku flings his opponent against a nearby tree, the hanyou making a large crack in the trunk before falling straight into the briary underbrush. He lowers his hand as he laughs yet again, his face lighting up with satisfaction. This time it is a few moments before Inuyasha emerges, blood trickling down his face from the small scratches of the thorns. He hears Kagome's breath catch when she sees him, and gives a small nod to reassure her. The distraction is fleeting, however, and he immediately turns 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 asks, lifting his hand once more in question. "Either way would be pleasurable for me."
Inuyasha sneers, knowing where he can finally hit his foe. "Who are you, to call me a half-breed, when you are one yourself, Onigumo?!"
Naraku's eyes widen with shock upon hearing the hated words, then immediately fill with rage. He cries out a loathing roar as he picks up Miroku's nearby fallen staff and hurls it with the force of a thousand tsunamis straight at Inuyasha's body. The staff strikes 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 staggers 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 allows himself to think, his arrogant, self-righteous nature now defeated.
So many things left undone...so many things left unsaid... He tilts his head with effort to gaze at Kagome, who is now running towards him, tears pouring from her eyes.
Stupid girl, she'll get herself killed that way...
Naraku's grin widens as he makes to finish-off the hanyou before the girl can reach him, as if he were playing some sort of idle game. But even before he can lift his ill-intended hand, an arrow strikes him through the back, piercing directly into his evil and long-frozen heart. His eyes look down in horror to see the sharpened end sticking straight out of his chest, some-sort of purple substance oozing out of the wound. He makes to grab at the gash, buts quickly retches his hands away, as the flesh around the arrow begins to burn with a feral intensity. He screams in pain and self- pity, knowing that he has been struck at the core of his power and life, the nearly complete Shikon Jewel. He whips himself around in disbelief, meaning to destroy his assassin before his departure into the nether-world.
And there stands 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 states with disgust, finally admitting the truth to herself. "And now you shall die." With lightning speed her hand draws back her bow and releases another arrow. Her accuracy is dead on, and the impact of another shot of the miko's power knocks Naraku to his knees. He vocalizes his anguish with an animal-like screech, and reaches up to the heavens as if pleading with the gods he has long since forgotten.
"Quickly girl!! The jewel!" Kikyou commands Kagome, knowing that even her power won't last long against that of the jewel.
Kagome looks back down at Inuyasha, who is now gasping for the air of life. He gazes at her all the while, his eyes seeping with unspoken emotion. I can't leave him, not now... She sobs uncontrollably, grasping his robes, until her knuckles whiten to the shade of nothingness.
"Do it now!!" Kikyou screams from her spot on the battlefield, a few yards away from the writhing Naraku. Her eyes are filled with an urgency unlike any other, and the spark in them is so akin to Kagome's own, that she finally realizes what she must do. With a final glance down at Inuyasha, she leaves his side and rushes to the place where Naraku now lie.
Kagome hesitates only slightly at the twisted and melting form, and reaches 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 seizes the jewel, purifying it with one touch, and retches her hand away in one quick motion, watching as her hated enemy slowly dissolves in nothingness. She pauses only for a moment, not really being able to believe it's actually over, before jumping to her feet to run back to her fallen hanyou.
She is 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...."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To Be Continued... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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??? ................ :)~~~~~~