This should be the last of the conflict with Naraku... 'course, if it ain't, note that this was written before I worte the chapter. Thank you! Enjoy the story!

My name is Mori. I am fifteen and a half years old.

I am now a fairy of the Charmix level.

I obtained my Charmix when I finally confessed my love for Bankotsu.

However, I was very angry with him when I confessed. He still acts so distrusting to me, and, because of this, I have left him to handle Renkotsu, who has just killed Jakotsu, and I've gone to search for Naraku.

Every time I got close, though, the presence I was following moved.

I'm back in my human form to preserve my magic, but, I'm tempted to trasnform, and use one of the homing attacks I had learned recently to hit this thing.

However, they would do no good. I had no idea what my target looked like.

Suddenly, I heard running.

I could feel... a youkai? No, it's human. Wait a minute... it's a hanyou!

InuYasha? I didn't have the time to deal with him!

I drew Kokoroha from it's sheath.

The silver-haired dog-boy ran right infront of me, stopped, and looked at me.

"What the hell are you doin' here?" InuYasha asked. "This place is much too dangerous for a mere human, like you!"

Right! He knows I'm friends with Kagome!

I re-sheathed Kokoroha.

"A friend of mine is under Naraku's control." I said. "I'm here to set him free. What about you? This place is rather dangerous for a hanyou as well."

He looked around.

"So, Naraku is here?" InuYasha asked.

I shrugged.

"It's a scary jaki, that's all I know." I said. "My friend seems to think he's here, too, so..."

I felt a huge Shikon no kakera somewhere above us.

"I need to get going." I said. "Mata ne!"

I ran across the path he was taking, following the one that crossed his.

I looked around for some way to go up.

All of a sudden, the roof caved in front of me.

I hopped back out of the way.

Dust filled the tunnel.

I felt the pressence of nine shikon no kakera.

They were all dark. There was a human presence in this mix.

"Onii-san?" I said.

The dust began to settle.

Bankotsu was the one who had fallen through the ceiling.

He was looking at me with a very serious look on his face.

"Tch!" I scoffed. "Baka! Naraku's up! You're going the wrong way!"

"'Tch' yourself!" Bankotsu spat. "I'm going after InuYasha! He's this way from what I've heard."

We glared at each other.

Seeing the hate in his eyes... My chest and throat hurt.

I tore my gaze away.

"You were right about Renkotsu." Bankotsu said. "But, I'm not proud of that. Don't think, even for a second, that I'll congratulate you for this!"

I glared at the ground.

"'Course not!" I said. "Your brother turned on you... why would I want to be congratulated for telling you so? It's horrible news!"

I shook my head, and took a deep breath to keep myself from crying.

"I-InuYasha passed me on another path back there." I said, jerking my thumb back over my shoulder. "Follow this path back, and hang a right. You'll be right on the path with him."

I couldn't see Bankotsu's expression. I was un-willing to raise my gaze to his face, though.

"So, that's where that Saimyousho went." Bankotsu said. "Imouto, take me back up."

I pulled my attention over to his feet. I still couldn't look up.

"Hai. Onii-san." I said. "Magic Winx."

I transformed, and kept my eyes closed as I took hold of Bankotsu, and flew with him into the tunnel above.

Once there, he ran down the tunnel, going in the direction InuYasha had gone.

I followed him.

All of a sudden, he slammed into the wall on the left, and broke it down.

InuYasha was on the other side.

Before I could even think about it, a battle broke out.

I couldn't pick a side to fight on. InuYasha was a friend of a friend. Bankotsu was the only man I'd ever had a crush on. Sounds like Bankotsu wins, right? Well, I still wasn't about to help kill my friend's friend.

So, I just went back to human form, and raised a barrier around myself.

I wasn't going to get into this fight. Not unless I could save them both.

Eventually, I think they both noticed that I wasn't helping either one, and put two and two together.

With that, I knew I had to get out of there.

Otherwise, one of their attacks was going to 'miss', and I would be hurt, or worse.

I quickly, and carefully wormed my way around their battle, and followed the thickest jaki down a certain tunnel.

I began to feel a very sly aura, even through the evil jaki.

Was I being led into a trap?

I stopped, and looked around.

Hasume came out of my bag.

"I feel water..." She said. "There's water soaking into the mountain! Rather quickly, too."

"Oh, crap." I said. "Naraku knows! He's going to drown us all!"

"It's not quite that much water." Hasume said. "It feels more like the water in a body. Like blood, and other such fluids."

I looked at her.

"Are you telling me that... this whole mountain is Naraku's body?" I asked.

"That seems to be the only answer." Hasume said. "He's going to eat everyone in this mountain."

I looked back, and saw the walls changing.

I could feel InuYasha and Bankotsu moving up, not trying to strike each other.

Bankotsu's aura felt calm. Calmer, even, than when he sleeps. Much too calm.

Horror struck me.

"No! Magic Winx!" I said.

My clothes reformed slowly. But, as soon as my wings were big enough to keep me off the ground, I was flying.

I took out Kokoroha, and aimed it straight ahead, as I flew straight through the now fleshy walls of the cave, headed straight for Bankotsu.

Finally, I broke into a huge cavern, and saw Bankotsu, seemingly unconscious, wrapped up in enormous tentacles, being carried upward, toward the jaki I had been following.

"ONII-SAN!" I screamed.

I followed him, as he was taken higher, and higher, toward the source of the jaki.

I heard dark laughter, as the tentacles finally stopped.

A face appeared on the shadow-covered ceiling.

It had hair that was darker than black, skin paler than that of a corpse.

And it's eyes... such an evil red color. I could see every one of my possible deaths in those evil, ruby-red eyes.

There was no question. This was Naraku. The beast Bankotsu wanted me to kill was now glaring down at me, with a triumphantly boastful leer.

"Ah! Bankotsu. Such a naughty boy you are." Naraku said, mockery lacing his every word. "Bringing a Miko to kill me. And I gave you a second chance at life. How ungrateful..."

I glared at him, but, I couldn't find anything to say to him.

"And you... He asked you to protect the Shichinintai." Naraku said, directing his mockery at me. "Now, they're all dead. Obviously, he made a pitiful choice, picking you as the Miko to save him, and his comrades."

Those words went straight to my heart, strangling it, as tightly as if he had it in his hands.

It was my fault. I had failed to protect them. I was always somewhere else. I was always doing something else. I was never there for them.

Tears soaked my face in seconds. I let my gaze fall on Bankotsu's face.

He was gone... I had lost him. And I was the reason he was gone. Because I wasn't there to help him when his battle with InuYasha got out of hand.

I put my hand on his face. "You never promised me... Did you know?" I asked. "Did you know I wouldn't make it? Did you have such little faith in me?"

My tears began to drip down onto his face.

"You jerk..." I said.

"You are not the one who should be crying." Naraku said. "They're the ones who were let down."

I looked up at him.

There wasn't any reason to kill him anymore. The Shichinintai were free, in a way.

Yet... I still had a promise to keep. Bankotsu never really told me to protect anyone, except for Jakotsu. He told me to kill Naraku. I told him I would find a way to revive the Shichinintai.

These were my only promises. I felt bad that I hadn't been there to protect them. But, I had broken no promises.

I saw a tentacle coming down toward Bankotsu's arm, where a single Shikon no Kakera remained.

I put one hand over Bankotsu's arm, and poked the tentacle with the first finger of my free hand.

With what little power I was using, the tentacle disintegrated.

"Touch him and you die!" I growled.

Naraku watched me in amusement.

"Protecting an empty shell." Naraku mocked me. "How funny you are. I see the real reason Bankotsu brought you with him!"

Before I could blink, another tentacle came out of no where, and went right through my hand, and into Bankotsu's arm.

I screamed in pain.

Naraku wiggled this tentacle more than necessary, causing me more pain as he pulled the Shikon no Kakera from Bankotsu's arm.

With the shard gone, Bankotsu's body turned to dust and bone.

The sight was heart-breaking.

I waved my good hand, and his clothes and remains were gathered infront of me.

"Hasume-chan, take care of Onii-san." I said.

She took hold of the pile, careful to keep everything from falling.

"Mori." Hasume said.

"I got this." I said. "I made some promises to Bankotsu, and I'm sure as hell going to keep them! Charmix!"

I'm cutting it here, because I think I've made this chapter a little too long. Oh, well... Please, review!