Chapter 11: The End of Naraku: Part 1 of 3: Zoey Kidnapped! Kohaku Regains His Memories!

The party appeared in the Chamber of Sages. Reina, Nanael, Risty, Yukinari and his friends and Fukuyama's group looked around in shock.

"Where the hell are we?" Risty gasped in awe. "This…" Zoey grinned. "is the Chamber of Sages." Suddenly, the Water Circle glowed with blue light and out risen of it is Ruto. Fukuyama's eyes turned into hearts.

"We meet again, my fishy beauty, how about you and I go-Aughhh!" Link punched Fukuyama in the gut, causing him to kneel on the ground, also giving him hives due to being afraid of men.

"Link…" Ruto smiled. "I would have expected no less from the man who would be my husband." Link twitched. Fukuyama shot up with a "WHATTT!" "What about Zora's Domain?" Reina asked, changing the subject.

"Zora's Domain and its people will eventually return to their original state. As a reward…. I grant my eternal love to you." Ruto giggled. "Y-Y-Y-You're kidding….?" Link moaned.

"Well, that's what I want to say, but I don't think I can offer that now." Link sighed in relief in secret. "You have to guard the Water Temple as the Sage of Water, right?" Zoey smiled.

Ruto nodded. "And Link is searching for the princess of Hyrule, Zelda?" Ruto asked. "H-H-How did you know?" Link gasped in shock. Ruto giggled again. "You can't hide it from me. Zelda is alive, I can feel it… so don't be discouraged. I can tell nothing can stop you and your friends from bringing justice and peace back to Hyrule. Please, take my Medallion of Water… Take it respectly!" Ruto smiled as she raised her arms and out fell a blue Medallion, Link grabbed it with a smile.

'Only two more to go…' Link smiled as a white light engulfed them. 'If you see Sheik, give him my thanks…' Ruto's voice stated.

Back to the others…

"Raise ya one hundred." Corina smiled as she tossed a 100 yen coin in the pot in the center of Kagome's picnic towel. "I'll fold." Bridget stated as she laid her cards down. "I'm calling." Inuyasha tossed an 50 Yen coin into the pot

Inuyasha smirked as he laid down two jacks and two queens. "Beat that!" Inuyasha grinned. Renee just smirked as she laid down her cards, it was…

"A royal flush!" Kagome exclaimed. Inuyasha stuttered. "What the… How did you…" Inuyasha stammered as Renee placed her earned loot into her knapsack.

"I usually am a ace at poker and other card games back from where I'm from." Renee simply stated. "That's our Renee!" Kikki closed her eyes and grinned.

"I wonder what's taking Link, Zoey, Reina and Nanael so long?" Miroku then asked. They all then heard a thump off to the side. They looked and saw Sheik standing on the platform, and he walked up.

"Link, Zoey, Reina, Nanael and their new friends will arrive shortly. In the meantime, take a look at the lake. Something wonderful is happening.

They all turned around and looked out, to the Inu gang's surpise except for the four Mews and Sheik, they began to hear a giant rushing of water and the lake started to gradually fill back up!

"Whoa! What going on?" Shippo then asked.

"Link, Zoey and their friends just destroyed Morpha, the monster in the Water Temple and the one responsible for the Zoras' troubles. All is returning to as it was here in the lake." Sheik said as he walked in front of them to carefully survey the happenings himself.

"Does that mean Zora's Domain is unfrozen too?" Kagome then asked.

"Not yet. That will take time to happen, but the ice will start to melt over the next few days." Just then they heard a whirring sound, turned, and saw a shaft of light descend upon the platform, and Link, Zoey and their friends descended from the sky.

"Welcome back, guys." Renee smiled. "Take a look at the lake." Kikki smiled as they, minus the Girls Bravo gang who are confused right now look at Lake Hylia restored to its former glory.

"What about Zora's Domain?" Link asked Sheik.

"The ice will begin to melt over the next few days, but it will be maybe three or four weeks before the rest of the Zora will be unfrozen. That curse was extremely strong and it will take time for the effects of it to fade. In the meantime Link, I direct your attention to that tombstone over there." Sheik then pointed to a tombstone that the others had noticed earlier and looked at, but had not paid much heed to. Link then walked up to thetombstone, the others following. Link noticed that the tombstone was directly in line with the setting sun. He looked down at it and read the Hylian inscription on it:

"When the lake refills, shoot for the evening dusk." he read out loud.

"Heed its words." they heard Sheik say. Link then got his bow out, nocked an arrow, and fired at the setting sun. As the arrow flew, something began to happen. A strange, yellow beam of energy then flew from the flying arrow into Link, and Link suddenly began to glow.

"What the…?" Link said as he started to look at himself.

"What's going on?" the others minus the Mews asked. The light then faded, and Link now strangely felt a new magical presence within him, unlike any he had felt before. His instincts then urged him to do something, and he raised his bow back up, nocked another arrow, and tapped into this newfound magic. The others and himself then took on a look of amazement as the arrow then began to glow with a yellow-orange light. Link fired the arrow, and the arrow continued to glow then started trailing fire behind it shortly after it left the bow!

"Link, you can use Fire Arrows now!" Navi beamed. "Yeah… Sweet." Before Link can thank Sheik, he was gone like usual.

"Once again, that little sneak disappears without warning." Inuyasha snorted. "Hey, at least he helped us." Sango told him. "Let's set up camp here." Link told everyone.

Night has fallen and the party were around the camp fire on top of the island where the Water Temple is, enjoying their dinner. Fukuyama was happy to be around more girls, but was pwned by Link and Miroku for trying to score with Sango and the rest of the females. Zoey was absensed, but not far from the group.

"Hey." Kikki smiled as she took a bite out of her rice ball. "Now is a good time to tell more about ourselves, our lives is a secret till futher noticed."

"Okay." Kagome nodded. "I'll go first. In our world, my friends are from the Fedual Era, a era where demons are mostly feared. I myself am from the future and is the recarnation of a priestess named Kikyo."

"Who's she?" Renee asked. Inuyasha and Renee looked down. "I'm sorry… Maybe I shouldn't have asked."

"No, it's alright, Renee." Kagome told her. "We should tell you about her and Naraku, our arch enemy in our world." The Inu gang begin explaining about their past.

"You guys seem to really hate him. How bad is he?" Risty asked, talking between bites with her chicken.

"Yeah. I think it's time you told us about him." Bridget added. "Why is this Naraku person doing whatever he's doing? Is it for fun, for spite, revenge? I don't see a motive. And is he worse than Ganondorf, but almost worse?"

"It's because of Kikyo." Kagome answered.

"Who?" Nanael raised an eyebrow.

"She was a priestess who could purify the souls of demons." she said humbly. "...She was also Inuyasha's first love."

"Wow." Koyomi blinked.

"Anyway, she once cared for a badly injured man named Onigumo. He must have been jealous of Inuyasha for being in love with her. Onigumo resolved to sell his body to demons and became the lowly demon we all came to hate. He then orchestrated this huge betrayel where Kikyo and Inuyasha would fight each other over the Shikon Jewel."

"That's cruel!" Reina growled, her anger rising.

"And he didn't stop there..." Miroku continued. "You know how I got the Wind Tunnel? My grandfather was a monk like myself. He was pretty much like me-"

"A lecher!" Sango interrupted, sounding disgusted.

"Yes, he was." he continued. "Anyway, Naraku tricked my grandfather, and lured him into a trap. Naraku disguised himself as a beautiful woman to get close to my grandfather, and then cursed his right hand. My grandfather started the wind tunnel, which in time, destroyed him. As you grow older, the hole of the wind tunnel grows larger and larger. And in time, destroys the person as well. My father died when I was still pretty young, and I'm really the last..."

"So that's why you're like that with women." Renee frowned. "You don't want your family line to die."

"That's still no reason to be a pervert though!" Kirie growled.

"So what about you three?" Link asked Sango, Kagome and Shippo. "What did he do to you?"

"Nothing to me." Shippo said quickly. "My father was killed by the Thunder Brothers. Inuyasha and the others help me avenge him and now I'm sorta paying my debt."

Sango, however, had a tear run down her cheek. "I have a younger brother named Kohaku. He was really kind and gentle, but he tried his best at being a demon slayer nonetheless. One day, we were sent on a mission to exterminate some demons at a castle. It was a trap set by Naraku and Kohaku was controlled by him. " Sango cried, Miroku comforted her, while not rubbing her butt.

"No…" Bridget tried to held back her tears.

"And you?" Corina asked Kagome.

She looked down a little. "Kikyo... was my ancestor."

Everyone was silent. "But your friends come from the past in your world, right?" Kikki asked. "You speak of Kikyo as she was-"

"Dead? She is. Naraku killed her. He is not the same man who lusted after her anymore."

Link closed his eyes in thought and opened them with a hint of anger. "Looks like Ganondorf will have to wait. If Naraku is here in this world, he might both seek the Shikon Jewel and Triforce, but even if he seeks the Triforce, Ganondorf will make mince meat out of him. So taking care of Naraku is our top pirioty." "Yeah!" Navi nodded in agreement.

"Ya sure?" Inuyasha asked, raising an eyebrow. "Naraku is a master of deception, hell he even used a puppet on us!"

"Don't doubt us." Reina smirked. "We had our shares of painful battles. So let's put that aside for now. I'll go first. I and my friends came from a world which is almost like Hyrule, without the pointy ears of course."

"Me next! Me next!" Nanael waved her arms excitedly. Reina sighed and nodded. "In our world, there is a tournament called the Queen's Blade which is held every four years. In that tournament, only women, beautiful and young may enter and fight to become the Queen of the land."

"Impressive…" Hayate asked amazed.. Fukuyama was drooling at the thought of women in Reina's world.

"So why did you three entered it?" Renee asked. Reina blushed and looked down. "Well uh… I just wanted to test my skills and all, not to be a fancy queen and all that jazz." Reina slowly smiled.

"But you would make a great Queen if you did win the tournament, Reina!" Kikki encouraged her. "H-Huh?" Reina gasped in awe.

"Yeah, the kid's right. If you did win the tournament, you would make a great Queen. Hell, it will be nice to have a Queen like you to help me with the kids. I told you that during our travels together." Risty smirked.

"Plus, you can help people with that status, if I was a Queen, I will do whatever I can to help the world!" Corina beamed. "Same here." Kagome nodded.

"Hmm…" Reina closed her eyes in thought for about 20 seconds then opened them with a smile. "Okay. I will win the Queen's Blade Tournament and become a well loved Queen!"

"That's really, great, Reina!" Nanael smiled.

"So what about you, Risty?" Navi asked her. "Me? Well, I'm a bandit. I steal from the rich. But the reason I do that is because I'm helping kids who lost their parents due to wars back in our world." Risty simply pointed out as she puts her hands behind her head.

"So let's move on to Yukinari and his friends." Link turned to Yukinari. "Ruto said you got hives when she touched you. Care to explain why?" He asked politely.

Yukinari looked down. "It's because… I'm allergic to girls…" "Eh?" Kikki gasped.

"How come?" Corina asked. "When I was little, girls used to pick on me, and that developed my allergies to girls." Yukinari explained sadly.

"How sad…" Sango looked down in sadness. "But that's where I went to Seiren, a planet full of girls." Yukinari smiled slightly.

"A planet full of girls?" Now Miroku was interested. "Yeah. In Seiren, the girl inhabitants are boy crazy. And that's where Yukinari met Miharu." Kirie smiled.

"But what about your allergy to girls?" Navi asked. "For reasons unknown, when I touched Miharu, I didn't get hives. That created a bond between us." Yukinari closed his eyes and smiled.

"Yes. I was very lucky to meet Yukinari-san and went to his world, it's a very nice place. That's where we met Koyomi , Tomoko and Ebi. Speaking of Ebi, where is she?" Miharu asked.

Tomoko smirked. "Knowing Ebi, she'll come to us eventually." She boasted.

Link smiled. "Well, I guess that covers every-" Before Link can finish, a perverted laugh that made Koyomi clinched occurred.

"Are you forgetting someone!" For strange reasons, lights appeared around Fukuyama. "The number 1 ladies' man, the richest and handsomeness man in our world and soon all of Hyrule, Kazayama FUKUYAMA!" Fukuyama struck a pose.

"I am rich, wealthy and healthy and handsome! Girls like it when I touched them inapprotely and soon, all the ladies in Hyrule will dig m-ACKKK!" Link punched him which sent Fukuyama into the water.

"Too much information…" Link said angrily.

"As for me, I'm the sister of Fukuyama. I'm skilled in black magic, Kosame and Hayate are my bodyguards and Yukinari…" Risa's eyes started to sparkle. "is my destined soul mate!"

"Um…" Corina and Nanael smiled nervously. "Yukinari still has his allergies, so you can't become his fiancée if he still has them…" Renee folded her arms. "Hmph!" Risa puffed her cheeks.

"Hey, where's Zoey? Her food's gonna get cold." Shippo stated. "I'll go get her." Link volunteered as he got up and went to where Zoey is. Inuyasha's ears perked up.

"What is it, Inuyasha?" Kagome asked in concern. "I hear something… Like the sound of a saimyoushou…" Inuyasha stated seriously. "You don't think…" Sango gasped.

(With Link…)

Link crossed the bridge and saw Zoey. He took a closer look. Zoey was practicing on her ocarina, the same ocarina that she got from her birthday which started this whole adventure.

Link and Navi listen really closely, Zoey was playing Supernatural, and to Link's surpise, it was actually quite good. Did I forget to mentioned at the start of the story that Zoey's ocarina is pink?

Zoey stopped playing and looked up to the night sky. She was in thought. "Elliot…" She whispered sadly.

Link walked up to her. "Rupee for your thoughts?" Link smiled. Zoey turned to Link and smiled slightly.

"Hey Link…" "What's wrong?" Link asked her in concern.

Zoey was silent. "It's alright if you don't want to tell me. But sooner or later, you have to get it off your chest." Link assured her.

"Um…" Zoey pressed her fingers nervously. "Well… I was thinking of two people from my world. One is named Elliot and the other is Mark. At first, I thought I loved Mark, but then, I started thinking of Elliot. Now I'm stuck between choosing who to love." Zoey looked down to the ground in sadness.

Link placed his hand on Zoey's shoulder. "If you really loved this Elliot, you should let what your heart choose. If I were you, I would go for Elliot. He seems like a pretty nice guy." Link smiled.

"Link…" Zoey begin to cheer up. "Thanks…"

"Any time." Link smiled, but then, his sharp hearing begin to hear some buzzing.

"Hear that?" Link got his hand on the hilt of the Master Sword, Zoey heard it too and gripped her hilt of her sword.

Suddenly, a swarm of brown bugs appeared around them.

"W-What are those!" Zoey gasped in shock. "Greetings, Hero of Time…" A femmine voice said coolly. Out of the bug swarm came two people, it was Kagura and the brainwashed Kohaku.

"Who are you?" Link demanded as he unsheathed his Master Sword. "My name is Kagura, a servant of Lord Naraku. And this is Kohaku." Kagura smirked evilly.

Link and Zoey gasped. This woman is a servant of Naraku and that must be Kohaku, Sango's brother.

"What do you want?" Zoey demanded. "Simple, I want the Hero of Time to give me the Master Sword and I want you to come with me to Lord Naraku." Kagura stated.

"And if we refused?" Link frowned as he got into his battle stance, Zoey followed suit.

"Otherwise, we would have to kill you! Kohaku, attack!" Kagura ordered. Kohaku mindlessly nodded as he got out his chain sickle and got into a battle stance.

"Zoey, get back! I'll handle this!" Link shouted as he rushed towards the battle. "Be careful, Link!" Zoey shouted worriedly.

'I cannot kill Kohaku… But what would I do?' Link thought worriedly to himself as he used his shield. Kohaku didn't hesitated to lash his sickle at Link, he blocked the blow. But Kohaku didn't stop there, he warped and tired to hit Link with his sickle, but Link did a backflip to dodged it. Kohaku lashed his sickle at Link again who blocked it. But Kohaku kept on going, lashing his sickle at Link, sparks fly as the sickle collided with the Hylian Shield. 'What should I do? Nayru, please, aid me in this time of need!' Link thought frantically.

Then, as his prayers have been answered, a beautiful and touching tune was playing, but from where. Kohaku gasped as he dropped his sickle. Suddenly, memories of his family and sister, Sango came flowing back to him. He held his head and screamed in agony as the dark aura around him begin to vanish.

(Meanwhile…)

"What!" Naraku gasped, he sensed that he is losing his control over his puppet slave, Kohaku. He tried to concentrate hard, but it was futile, he saw in Kanna's mirror that Kohaku's dark aura vanished.

"Damn that Hero of Time…" Naraku growled angrily. "It seems he is far more powerful than me and Inuyasha…"

(Back to Link…)

Link saw Kohaku kneeled to the ground. Then, all of a sudden, the saimyoushou swarm disappeared. Link blinked. What just happened? He went over to Kohaku to see if he is alright. Unknown to him, Sheik was watching from afar.

"You have done well, Link. But Zoey is in grave danger. When you were busy fighting Kohaku, Kagura kidnapped her. You must rescue her imeddinatly." Sheik said calmly as he disappeared by flash ball.

"Hey! You alright?" Navi asked Kohaku. "Y-Y-Yeah… Who are you?" Kohaku asked weakly. "I'm…" Link just realized something.

He looked around. There was no sign of Zoey! "Zoey? Zoey! Zoey, where are you!" Link looked around for her, but no luck. Then he realized something, Kagura must have sntached her away while he was fighting Kohaku.

"Naraku…" Link growled angrily.

Can Link and the others rescue Zoey in time with their newest member, Kohaku now that he has regained his memories?

To be continued…

Next time: The End of Naraku: Part 2 of 3: To Naraku's Castle! The Wolf and the Guardians of Love and Justice!

A/N: Next time on part 2 of this saga, the party team up with Koga and the Sailor Scouts to rescue Zoey from the cluthes of Naraku, so see ya then!