SailorStar9: Chapter 23 and only 1 review? Come on guys, you people were the ones who wanted me to continue this fic.

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Chapter 24: Destroy Naraku with the Adamant Barrage!

Sesshomaru and Naraku resumed their battle, Sesshomaru attacking first by firing off a wave of blue energy from Tokijin.

"You're better than Inuyasha?" Naraku snorted, the barrier holding out. "I'll say that much for you."

"Even the immense force of Sesshomaru-sama's sword could not break through Naraku's barrier?" Jaken was stunned.

"At this rate, the shard will soon be assimilated into the tainted Sacred Jewel shard." Hōsenki warned. "Before that happens, slay me. In order to break through Naraku's barrier, slay me."

"Sesshomaru, do you wish to strike me that badly?" Naraku taunted, his shield deflecting the sword. "Well then, I shall grant your wish."

"Naraku has exposed his body outside the barrier." Jaken gaped, Naraku's tentacles were extended outside the shield. "Sesshomaru-sama!" he warned, the teethed appendages reaching out to attack.

Sesshomaru dodged the pending attack and sliced the three heads off.

"Sesshomaru-sama!" Jaken gasped, the miasma then exploded out from the severed heads to engulf the Daiyokai. "What is that?" he blinked when the miasma flooded over to the cave.

"Kagome!" Sango pulled Kagome deeper into the cave, Chie had already activated her own barrier to block out the miasma.

"As if this miasma would affect me." Sesshomaru snorted.

"Even if it doesn't affect you," Naraku scoffed. "What will you do, Sesshomaru? Every time you cut me, the miasma will increase. And everyone in this area will die eventually."

"Naraku," Sesshomaru voiced. "Is that all you have to say? I'm not so sentimental that I would hold back my sword for the sake of humans." And continued cutting up his opponent.

"So, it doesn't matter if everyone dies from my miasma?" Naraku chuckled. "You are a true demon, after all, Sesshomaru."

"Prism Ice Barrier!" Chie's watery turtle shield now solidified into ice shards which reformed into hexagonal pieces that arranged in a shield-like barrier to block off the miasma.

"So, it doesn't matter if everyone dies from my miasma?" Naraku chuckled. "You are a true demon, after all, Sesshomaru. Your heart is made differently."

"That has nothing to do with it." Sesshomaru corrected. "Naraku, I, Sesshomaru, will defeat you. That's all there is to it."

"Woman, drop the shield!" Inuyasha demanded. "Wind Scar!" he blasted his attack at the incoming miasma the second Chie released her barrier. "This is…"

Even if he uses his Wind Scar to destroy the miasma… Naraku snorted and was shocked when a rain of adamant crystal shards bombarded against his barrier. What is this? The Adamantite Spears of Hōsenki?

"Naraku's barrier is dispersing." Jaken exclaimed.

"Tenseiga has…" Inuyasha blinked when the blade was covered in adamantine.

"If you had raced forward with greed, desiring only to strengthen your sword, that shower of adamantite shards would have taken your life." Hōsenki explained. "Inuyasha, keep that spirit of a hanyou and inherit the Adamant Barrage." He gave Inuyasha his blessing, a crack forming on his skull.

"Naraku, I won't let you escape!" Inuyasha snapped. "Adamant Barrage!" he let his newest attack loose.

"What?" Naraku was immediately speared to the chest. "Why you…"

"I see that you no longer have the strength to put up a barrier." Sesshomaru remarked, closing in to end the battle. "That arrogance of yours will be your downfall. I, Sesshomaru, will deliver the finishing blow." With a sweep of his Tokijin, he shredded Naraku. He's disappearing. He mused, the pieces of Naraku stared vanishing.

Kikyo's arrow… Kagome looked at the pulsing arrow. There's a shard embedded in his flesh. She spotted the tainted shard. Does this mean I should use it now? I can shoot this arrow. She drew the arrow and fired it.

"I won't let go." Jaken swore, clinging onto Mokomoko-sama as Sesshomaru took off towards the exit, with Inuyasha's group following closely behind.

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