Give Me a Break

A Fan Fiction by Tifa Tyndal

Chapter One/Prologue- Finest Moment

Summery: The 'final' battle has come but not all goes as planned. Fed up, Naraku decides to take a vacation while the Inuyasha gang is left to pick up the pieces.

Disclaimer: Oh! Oh! I now own a chapter story! Yay! Um.. but I don't own Inuyasha. At least I don't think so...

Spoiler Warning: This a bit of a parody so honestly, none of these things are spoilers. No, none of these events happen in the series. I can't be certain about the manga though since I haven't gotten to far in it. I don't think I'm that good of a guesser though.

Author's Note and Time-line: This half humorous, half 'dramatic' parody-like fan fiction takes place during the time period when Naraku has most of the jewel yet doesn't have a barrier... does that time period exist? If it doesn't then let's just imagine it does, 'kay?

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This has got to be it! Kagome's mind screamed as she notched her last arrow. They had been fighting for hours and had gotten nowhere. This had to be the final battle. There was no escape for anyone.

Carefully, she observed her surroundings. Inuyasha was sending Wind Scar after Wind Scar at Naraku while Sesshomaru rose any dead humans (he'd already risen Sango three times, Miroku twice, Shippo eight times, and Kagome four) and fought off the lesser demons by the hundreds. Miroku couldn't use his wind tunnel so was killing any demons that came back to life (via whatever means they usually did). Sango was on Kirara and fighting Kagura who was fighting back half-heartedly. Shippo was hiding with Myoga as they thought of ways that they might be useful even though they didn't plan to exit their hide-out. Koga and his wolf-demons were protecting Kagome valiantly. No demon could even touch her. Since she was the only one living that could purify the jewel she was vital to everyone thus an entire tribe was assigned to protecting her.

Kagome took a deep breath. After using up all but one of her arrows to kill any demon that snuck up on various members of the wolf tribe she was ready to finish the battle. She secretly reveled in the moment before she would yell something threatening and fire her arrow at Naraku. This is going to be my finest moment. I'm actually gonna kill the killer.

"Naraku!" That effectively made everyone turn and forget all the demons that they were fighting. Time seemed to stop. "You will no longer hurt my FRIENDS!" Yep, that was valiant enough. Kagome aimed for Naraku's heart and let the arrow fly.

The arrow glowed pink as it streaked through the sky. It was aimed perfectly. All eyes watched it as it flew to Naraku's heart. Naraku's own eyes were growing wider by the second. He seemed to think that it was all over. Kagome smirked in satisfaction. The second that the arrow took to reach its' target seemed like eternity until finally it...

Pink light streamed from where the arrow hit and a cracking sound was heard. Kagome and Inuyasha both gulped collectively. They had only seen and heard something like this one other time. Everyone else seemed to think that it was killing Naraku when in truth...

The jewel shattered.

Shards flew everywhere somehow missing every demon that they could had embedded in.

Kagome tried to force herself into denial even though the scene before her was almost an exact replica of that fateful day...

Inuyasha's heart dropped to his stomach... he was so close. So close. He couldn't even bring himself to be mad at Kagome.

At least we can still beat Naraku, The ever logical Miroku thought as he turned his eyes to where Naraku... stood. Hey... where'd Naraku go?

A low growl broke the silence. All eyes turned to person responsible: Sesshomaru. Once Sesshomaru was certain everyone saw him he rolled his eyes and gracefully exited. The forgotten Jaken scrambled after him.

All the lesser demons fled, seeing that their master had retreated taking Kagura and Kanna with him.

Shippo and Myoga carefully exited their shelter.

Kirara landed gently to let Sango down.

Koga shrugged, stretched his running legs, gave Kagome a peck on her cheek, and took off into a run, his wolves trailing behind him.

Kohaku just looked confused.

A collective sigh was let out as Inuyasha looked around at his companions.

"What now?"

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Naraku stormed into a castle, a look on his face that clearly read 'I have a monster headache, leave me alone'. "Kagura," His voice boomed as he threw himself down on a cushion. She was sent ahead to prepare the castle grounds for him (AKA get rid of all the petty humans).

Kagura appeared, shaking a few stray dogs off her arm, "What do'ya want?"

Naraku blew his bangs out of his eyes and stared at the ceiling. "I think I want to take a vacation."

Kagura's eyes grew big. "A-A vacation?"

Naraku nodded. "I'm sick of this. I'll let Inuyasha and Kagome find all the jewel shards then I'll come and take them all. I still can't believe that after all my trouble she shattered it. I hope her stupid conscience pokes and prods at her for the rest of eternity."

"Oh, yeah, that's cruel," Kagura muttered sarcastically under her breath.

"Anyway, I'll be leaving tomorrow morning to search for a good vacation spot. I'm leaving you in charge," If Naraku had heard Kagura he made no indication that he had.

Kagura was taken aback, "You're leaving me in charge?"

"Why not?" Naraku shrugged, handing Kagura a piece of paper. "Here's the list of all you need to do while I'm gone. Don't go into the late castle lord's study. It's now my room. Go in it an I will lop your head off."

Kagura mumbled something incoherent and took the paper.

"Good!" Naraku exclaimed. "I'm going to take a well deserved rest before departing tomorrow. Go'way." And with that Kagura left and Naraku laid down to sleep.

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End Chapter One/Prologue

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I know this chapter was a bit short but I hope that the rest of the chapters will be longer... much longer. I already have the whole thing outlined out but if anyone has any last-minute suggestions leave them in a review or PM me; I will read them and consider them carefully.. I left some wiggle room in my plot. I hope you liked this and don't feel like throwing tomatoes at me for breaking the jewel again! I'm not fond of tomatoes... try strawberries. : ) -The Author