Chapter 13 –

Kagome growled in irritation at the sight. She might have miscalculated the enemy by a couple of thousands! She would have guessed he had found a new playmate or made a new minion like Kagura and Kanna, but this… was bad… even with the legendary swords. Kagome picked up her bow and arrow and notched it, readying herself for battle. She heard her friends doing the same, by the sound of their weapons. Naraku smiled wickedly down at them from his miasma cloud

"Kukuku… Well done. I wouldn't expect any less from this group, but I must say the hero of the moment came as a surprise…" he smiled venomously at Kagome

"You, my dear priestess have surprised me beyond belief today… You have been a naughty girl keeping secrets like that Kagome" he then said with the biggest grin on his face. Kagome paled a bit, while still trying to keep her mask intact. But she couldn't bring herself to say anything

"I don't know what the hell you are talking about you filthy bastard! But today you are going down!" she heard Inu-Yasha scream, she turned and saw he had already finished the two other burdens, one pulverized and one down unconscious, then she saw Inu-Yasha rush into battle with his sword high over his head, screaming from the top of his lungs

"Wind scar!" A big and massive wave of raw power, bigger than she had ever seen it before, smashed through the scene, taking more than a hundred down in that one swing. That one swing had also been what had set it all in motion. They all started fighting. Sango held herself good, and even if she would have been injured, she wasn't thanks to Kagome's protection spell. It was the same with Miroku, and thankfully he used the Wind tunnel, since he had realized that the whasps didn't get in with the lowlife youkai's, thanks to Kagome's spell. Inu-Yasha and Sesshoumaru fought as they usually fought, thankfully still not hurt. She couldn't risk it yet, she couldn't risk exposure yet.

Kagome had a small barrier around her, shooting arrow after arrow, taking out 10-15ish lowly youkai's in one single shot. She had to find a way for Naraku to get the jewel shards. But her attention was stopped in shock when she felt an aura coming closer to Naraku, one that she thought she would never have to feel again. Kagome, slowly began turning towards Naraku, still with her mask on, though it was hard, and it almost fell when she looked in total disbelief at the newcomer emerging

'No way… I was only joking all those times… This just cannot happen!' Next to Naraku stood Lord Kyo. Yes, Lord Kyo, who DIED, from the other era? Who was supposed to have been dead for 550 years? Kagome took a closer look. He had been revived like the band of seven! And he had around 10 shards in his neck, from where Tashio had decapitated his head. Now it was clear why they were in the east! He had found Lord Kyo's grave!

'But why? He can't possibly have known about me and Sesshoumaru? How did he come to know of Lord Kyo?' She was in shock inside, but she turned and stole a quick glance at Sesshoumaru who was standing far away, but he was also looking shocked, then angry at Lord Kyo. She could hear his growl from where she was

"Hello pup. I was told it has been a while, and this time I will be the one to separate your skull from your neck!" Lord Kyo hissed in anger to Sesshoumaru

"What is this blasphemy?!" she heard Sesshoumaru growl out, looking in disgust and disbelief.

"Oh, I had heard the whispers of the great enemy of the West. He single-handedly stood up against both the mighty Lord Inu no Tashio and his great son Lord Sesshoumaru. I thought the two of you could have a great reunion and help me out at the same time" Naraku answered while smirking big

"He has jewel shards in his neck! He was revived like the band of seven!" Kagome exclaimed to the group so they knew where to hurt him, and! To give the explanation Sesshoumaru seemed to need. Lord Kyo turned his gaze from Sesshoumaru to Kagome. He got a pissed of expression on his face

"YOU!" Kagome took a step backwards unconsciously, but had put a surprised look on her face to hide her rising fear. They would need to kill him… fast… otherwise her plan could go a-wire. Lord Kyo glared at Kagome before returning his gaze to Sesshoumaru

"I see you are still with the miko Lord Sesshoumaru" he said with disgust and drew his weapon

"I will make sure to kill the bitch before you close your eyes for good pup!" He then spat and rushed towards Sesshoumaru. Kagome went back to her own fight(s). She notched an arrow and kept getting rid of the lowlife youkai's, but still kept an eye of for actual danger, like Naraku. Fortunately, he was currently occupied with Inu-Yasha and his mighty sword. Kagome's hand went to grab another arrow when she only met air. No more arrows. Well, she could see no harm in using her spirituality to form an arrow. She had done it before, and right now she just had to fight these things off until Sesshoumaru had killed Lord Kyo and when Naraku had taken her shards. She kept shooting her arrows, taking out a lot more lowlifes than her normal arrows

"Kagome!" Kagome stood frozen, shocked when she heard Sesshoumaru call her name. She knew he would only do that at a time like this, if her life was in danger. And when HE called her name, then her situation was bad. She had only turned in time to see Lord Kyo crash through her barrier with an enormous power (he had help from over 10 jewel shards!), claws out with poison, ready to strike. Kagome jumped to the side trying to avoid his claws, but he got her on the side of her waist. Kagome gasped in pain, and held a hand over the wound. She looked up to see Sesshoumaru standing before her in a flash, his back to her

"So, what happened to her pup? Why is she human again?" Lord Kyo taunted. He of course had not known where she had been from, so he did not understand the situation. Kagome slowly got up on her feet, creating another barrier around her. She could feel the poison in her system, working slowly to take effect, but she needed to be done with her task before she could succumb to it. Sesshoumaru went on to battle Lord Kyo, fighting him with his Tokijin with great ferocity and his power swirled around him furiously. Kagome, slowly due to her injury, and because her powers couldn't heal her from the poison (The same poison as his daughter) She needed to get out of Lord Kyo's range, whom she heard hiss in anger and then scream in rage. She looked for her bow, but saw it destroyed some feet away by the lowlife youkai's. Kagome was about to make her spirituality bow and arrow when she heard Sesshoumaru's familiar

"Dragon's strike" she turned just in time to see a surprised Lord Kyo before he was hit by the force. Kagome slowly walked towards his body, knowing he was dead since his heart did no longer beat, but she would have to hurry. The shards in his neck could change that. She knelt beside his head, lifting it up. She then placed a hand on his neck, purifying the shards. She took one of the Lords daggers and slashed his neck open, retrieving the shards and putting them inside her necklace with the rest. Kagome lid up in a small smile. His was dead. Again

'Thank Kami' she got to think, before she got surprised by her barrier being destroyed in a second and the pressure she felt, that erupted from her back through her chest. Kagome gasped in pain, and looked down to see what had just transpired. A tentacle had pierced through her chest and grabbed onto her necklace with her jewel shards

'This was not the way I expected to give them to him' she thought, a little disoriented. Her thoughts were starting to get cloudy, and her vision like she was under water

"Kagome!" she heard the screams around her. She gasped in pain again when the tentacle retracted itself, going back to its master with its price. Kagome fell to her knees. Watching how the two Inu brothers and two human friends frantically tried to get rid of Naraku and retrieve the shards before it was too late, even though she wanted Naraku to have the jewels, or her plan wouldn't work.

"Oh I am so sorry, but she was no longer needed… Not when I finally have this… Kukuku…" Naraku held up the necklace with the jewel shards, pulled them out and laid them on his hand, putting his own down on it too, while he was keeping her friends distracted with his tentacles and lowlife army. Kagome coughed some blood up, having trouble staying on her knees… Even conscience, but she was waiting for the crucial moment… Naraku then fused the jewel back together in his hand, and when he opened his hand again, there was the jewel, whole and all black. He started laughing evilly, believing he had finally won, when he in fact had lost without knowing it. He then pushed it inside his body with his power, and that was her cue. Kagome asked the air to help cloak her, and she felt the air's power going through her veins, and in a second she could no longer be seen, not that any was looking at the moment anyway, they were too busy. She then dropped her appearance cloak, since there was no longer any point in having it up after this, and it was just waste of energy. Kagome then looked up and saw Sesshoumaru in trouble, surrounded by several tentacles. Kagome hold in a breath to keep herself from screaming, and closed her eyes when she stood up, gathered her power, activating the blood protection spell

"Ligo Cognatus ab Dominium, Praesidium Cognatus, Vascellum Accepts!" she felt the spell activating, and she opened her eyes just in time to see Sesshoumaru getting impaled by multiple tentacles. Naraku screamed in agony, and Sesshoumaru's eyes widen in realization and looked around the battlefield, which she presumed was for her, but because of her cloak he couldn't. Kagome then grabbed her enchanted necklace and crushed it in her hands, restoring all of the power she had kept sending into it since she made the spell. Kagome felt a rush of power travel through her body, and slowly her chest wound started to heal.

Yes, she had put the blood protection spell on the two fake jewel shards, one with each of the Inu brothers blood merged with it by her power, so it had been Naraku that got the blows from his own tentacles, not her… She had learned from that experience. The necklace she had used just now, she had used to keep storing her own power, small amounts each day… hour… okay second, which was also one of the reasons she had been so tired lately! And now that immense amount of stored power flowed through her. She had never felt this powerful before, despite her wounds and the poison that was still trying to weaken her body and then kill her. Naraku's scream set her into motion

"What is this?! Why am I the one being wounded when it should be you!?" she saw him looking frantic around

"Where is she? It must have been her!" Kagome ran with youkai speed up towards Naraku, avoiding every lowlife youkai on the way, since she didn't want to give her location away, and she knew her friends were safe for the moment. She ran straight up to him and threw a hard blow filled up with massive purification energy into his chest, and said the last incantation to finish him off, activating the purification spell, that would affect the entire jewel and help the spell with powering it

"Expurgo Malefactoris" Kagome retracted her hand, dropping her cloak and dropped to her knees from exhaustion. The poison had taken a big toll on her. She watched as Naraku screamed in pain from being purified inside out, and when Kagome hit the ground, no longer having the strength to keep herself up, Naraku exploded into a dust of pink glitter. The jewel landing where he had been standing before, al purified. Kagome closed her eyes and coughed, then hissed in pain. She heard her friends call for her, and then felt hands lifting her up and pulled her into a warm chest. She opened her eyes weakly and smiled sadly at Sesshoumaru who was looking down at her worried and confused

"I…" Kagome gulped some blood up, coughing the rest up

"I am so… sorry my love" Kagome whispered, tears travelling down her cheeks. It was all she could say at the moment because of the pain; the poison was affecting her

"Tell this Sesshoumaru what to do, and he will do it… for you…" Kagome raised her hand slow and cupped his face. Taking in everything that he was showing her. Concern. Confusion. Longing. Love…

"I need… your poison… Sesshoumaru…" she whispered through pained breaths, blood running down her lips. The poison had been too long inside of her, she could only hope his poison would be strong enough to beat it. Sesshoumaru's eyes widen when he realized what she was saying, and searched for her wound with a sniff from his nose. He found it at her waist, and he looked at it disgusted. He moved his hand to her wound and looked her serious in her eyes

"Do not dare to die on me Kagome" he said, holding her head gently with his other hand. Kagome smiled a little reassuring smile at him, which disappeared and was replaced with an open mouth that screamed in pain and agony, from Sesshoumaru injecting his poison, but that pain was nothing to the one that started when his poison began attacking the one that attacked her body. Kagome kept screaming, feeling Sesshoumaru hold onto her tight, and when she couldn't take anymore she fainted.

Author's note:

I am sorry for the wait and the short chapter. Used the most of the day trying to come up with something great from Naraku's side in this battle… Hope it was a nice little detail to bring in… Anyway, I will try to write the next chapter as soon as possible! Thank you all, for all of your wonderful reviews, they make me so happy when writing this story : )

The Latin incantations, roughly translated from English to Latin:

Ligo Cognatus ab Dominium, Praesidium Cognatus, Vascellum Accepto

Protect the blood, the vessel accepts

Expurgo Malefactoris

Purify the evil

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CayaC