"What are you doing here Naraku? I would have expected to find one of your puppets or detachments rather than you," Inuyasha said staring at him.

"What are you not happy to see me? And after all we've been through," Naraku replied smirking.

"Heh! Don't kid yourself." Inuyasha drew his sword. Like before the rusty blade transformed into a bigger one. Naraku still had his slick smile on his face.

"You know that temper of yours is really something."

"Shut up!" Just then, Inuyasha's friends caught up with them.

"Naraku!" Miroku called out to him. Naraku glanced at the monk, but didn't say anything. Miroku then turned his eyes on me. "Its that girl again," he said.

"Look, I don't have time to waste. How about I kill you right were you stand," Inuyasha cried swinging his sword to the ground. "Wind Scar!" Like before, the Tessaiga sent out waves of light and they were headed for Naraku.

"Look out Naraku!" I cried, hoping that he would move, but he just stood there. A pink bubble began to form around him and it deflected Inuyasha's attack. Was that the barrier that he was talking about?

"Hunh. I should have known that you'd put up a barrier," Inuyasha said scowling that his attack didn't work.

"Your puny sword is no match for me," Naraku said with a smirk.

"Oh yeah, we'll just see about that." Just then, the blade on Inuyasha's sword began to turn bright red. Close to the color of blood. Inuyasha came charging at Naraku and jumped in the air. He came down on Naraku as hard as he could, but once again a barrier formed around him. "Damn," Inuyasha growled, "he's gotten stronger." Naraku let out an evil laugh.

"Face it Inuyasha its useless. I am way too powerful." Inuyasha then turned towards me.

"Well since I can't harm you, I'll do the next best thing."

"What? You would harm a mere human girl. You really are pathetic."

"Knowing you, that girl is no ordinary human. She must be evil to hang around the likes of you."

"Come now Inuyasha, you got it all wrong. You should really be focusing on me, not on her. Besides you cannot harm her anyway."

"Like hell I can't!" He came running at me. In a panic I reached for an arrow in the bag behind me and placed it in the bow. I shot at him, but only grazed his arm. There was a soft glow of light when I hit him. "What the hell? Another sacred arrow?" he said looking at his arm.

"Yes. Like your wench Kagome, Tayo here has priestess powers," Naraku grinned, "I wouldn't mess with her or she'll purify you. Her skill is at great levels." I positioned another arrow in my bow ready to strike, but Naraku shook his head at me. "No Tayo, I want to tell Inuyasha what I know first."

"What you know? What do you mean?" Inuyasha said. Naraku turned and looked at him. Another sneaky smile formed at his lips.

"I know your little secret, Inuyasha."

"What?!"

"Ahm hmm. Yesss, your very precious secret that you never wanted me to find out. Oh, but I know. I know everything. I know how you lose your powers and become human on the first night of the new moon." Inuyasha's eyes widened and so did the eyes of his friends. "Yes, that's right. I know all about it."

"How in the hell did you find out?!" Inuyasha snapped.

"You have to remember that I have eyes everywhere, Inuyasha. You really are foolish for letting your guard down. That night when you were fighting your brother, Lord Sesshoumaru, near Mt. Hakurei. Yes, that's the night I found out your secret, through Kanna's mirror."

"So what are you gonna do now Naraku? Are you gonna take me down when I'm weak? Cause that is the only way you can defeat me."

"Nonsense, I can do that now," Naraku said. He sent a wave of light through his barrier. "Now Tayo!" I took the arrow once again and positioned it to strike. I sent it flying in Naraku's wave of light.

"I don't think so!" Kagome suddenly yelled with her own bow in her hands. She then released an arrow.

"Backlash wave!" Inuyasha yelled. A wind wave came out of his sword and conjoined with Kagome's sacred arrow. Their attack met up with ours and it began to push our own attack backwards. Soon, both attacks were coming at us. I looked around me, but there was no way to escape it. This was it, I just knew it. Just then, Naraku jumped in front of me and put a barrier around us, but the attack still hit him, although it didn't hit me. I had closed my eyes, awaiting the impact, but since it never came, I opened them again. I gasped to see that Naraku's body had been blown apart, with only his head remaining.

"You win this time Inuyasha," he growled, "but rest assured that I will return for you." The barrier that held us began to rise in the air and soon we gone from Inuyasha and the others.


A/N: Oh no. Is he okay??