I felt so utterly useless. I could see what Naraku was doing, divide and conquer, but was powerless to stop it. I sank to my knees, face in my hands.

"Master Jaken!"

My head snapped up to see Rin and Shippou run out from the barrier. How? How can they get out?! My powers began to surge as the barrier started to warp around me. It pulsed once, twice, I would bring it down! I ripped Tenseiga from the ground and pushed every ounce of spiritual energy I had into it. Then I heard HIM.

"Ku ku ku, little priestess is this what all that effort is for?"

Right before my eyes he pulled Shippou and Rin into the ever evolving folds of his body. They screamed and clawed at the appendages, but couldn't free themselves. I could see their tears. The tears of my sweet, beautiful children.

"Mama." Was the last thing I heard before they were enveloped.

I raised the Sword of Heaven above my head and slammed it into the barrier. It shattered on impact, shards of barrier falling to the ground only to turn to ash. I could feel the flames of my purity licking my body, swirling around me. My clothes and hair billowed and ebbed as my energy pulsed. I was the eye of the storm and was bringing the hurricane.

I spoke in a voice that was not my own. "You will return what's mine!"

Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha continued to push through to Naraku, fighting with claw and Fang. Chunks of flesh fell away as Sesshoumaru's Bakusaiga flashed green. Inuyasha released the Wind Scar at the same time, sending bits of demons flying. Their blades rang true through the demons and devils sent their way. Naraku however seemed not the least bit phased.

I could hear the brother's blades as they sang out to the sword I now carried. I dragged the tip across the ground and slide it forward. A flame of purity burst from the ground making a hole to Naraku. We would do this, I thought.

The remaining wolves from Kouga and Ayame's armies howled and cried as they were overwhelmed, joining their masters. Tears flowed down my cheeks. I grit my teeth. No, I couldn't let my focus wane. It had to all be on him. Naraku. The brothers flanked me on both sides and we pushed forward.

We were close enough for me to see the red on those devil eyes when I felt her...Kikyo…"No!"

"I told you not to interfere!"

That was the only warning Inuyasha received as Kikyo loosed her arrow. He howled.

"You idiot!"

Quicker than my senses could register Sesshoumaru was there. In an uncharacteristic act of sacrifice he had taken the arrow for Inuyasha. I ran to remove it from his chest. I tugged as the shaft of the arrow burned my skin. A pale clawed hand came up and grabbed my wrist.

"Leave it." Again he grazed my cheek with his knuckles. Turning his attention to Inuyasha. "Only she matters. Get her to Naraku."

"Brother."

"Now Inuyasha!" He roared.

Jagged purple stripes began to mar Inuyasha's face as his eyes began to bleed red. I stepped behind him as he crouched down, a signal for me to climb on his back. I gave Sesshoumaru a final glance as he closed his eyes and the rain poured down. I tilted my head to the sky, drops falling on my face. The Gods cried with me. I leaned forward to Inuyasha. "Go."

We took off in a burst of speed I had never felt from Inuyasha. Kikyo continued her volley, aiming and missing over and over again. All these years as a golem had soured her heart...or what was left of it. Inuyasha feted left then right, over and sliding under and around everything Kikyo could throw at us. I ignored everything else but Naraku. He would be mine before the sunset. I knew we could end this if we could just get to him. I leveled my arrow at him over Inuyasha's shoulder.

"Just a little closer."

I nudged Inuyasha forward squeezing his sides with my thighs. My fingers edged back off the string, then nothing. We fell to the ground, Inuyasha and I tumbling over one another. Kanna? Where did she come from? She had absorbed and deflected Kikyo's tainted arrow. As Inuyasha lay gasping for breath he reached to gingerly weave his fingers in my hair.

"Ka-gome." He smiled, his hand dropped, and he was gone.

I broke.

I stood and turned to face Naraku, my face devoid of the emotional turmoil that at any moment might come up to strangle me. It was the calm before the turbulent storm that raged inside. Lifting my hand towards Kikyo I pulled with my purity, with my very being, and beckoned what little of my soul she still carried within her to return. I would no longer let her interfere, not again. As my soul left her body she returned to the ash and grave soil she came from.

Naraku's shock could be read on his face as I charged him with all I was worth. He called for Kanna to steal my soul. What a coward he was. I raked Tensegia, the sword that could not kill, across the Void demoness pushing my purity through it once again. She broke just like her mirror as it hit the ground. Now there were no detachments, no one else to sacrifice, just me and the devil.

Both hands on Tenseiga, energy pulsing, body on fire, I unleashed everything. The pain, the anger, the hatred for everything he had caused. The Sword of Heaven called to its brothers as they sang out in a destructive chorus, filling the sky with light. Energy flowed around me as I reached Naraku's disintegrating body. A floating head and a dangling jewel on a chain were all that was left.

I stretched my glowing hand out to cradle his ashen face. "It is done," was my simple statement as his face turned to ash. And blew away in the wind. I caught the purple-black orb in my hand, using the last of my energy to purify it.

In a last ditch effort I stumbled towards Inuyasha, dragging Tenseiga with me.

"Please!" I begged.

And Tenseiga shown with an ethereal light…

...as my world went dark.