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"Oh, come on, Sango. Just this once," Miroku harassed, as he leaned in to hug her and give her a kiss.

"Miroku…get away…" started Sango in a frustrated voice, as she moved away from the advancing monk.

"Just this on—" He never got the chance to finish his sentence, for something very strange happened right then.

A blinding flash of light filled the room, and the two humans yelped in surprise as a tingling sensation crept across their bodies and they lost sight of each other in the intense brightness.

((Change of focus))

Fortunately for Inuyasha and his gang, Kagome had complete and total faith in the Jewel of Four Souls. And because of her undying faith and pure hopes, her wish was granted.

"Impudent wench! For that you shall die!" Naraku seethed, referring to his severed hand and stolen jewel. Although he was willing and ready to kill the time traveler, however, he didn't exactly get the chance; something very unexpected didn't fail to catch him off guard.

A wormhole type thing ripped open the sky above Dark Kagome, and four screaming figures fell awkwardly out of it. As they jerkily tumbled through the air, they rapidly picked up speed.

It happened so fast, and Kagome's clone hadn't had time to react. So the four beings plummeted to the earth, and their cusion turned out to be the thing that was directly beneath them. Dark Kagome.

First Sango landed, forcing Dark Kagome to the ground along with her. Then Miroku came upon them, causing the clone to make a fairly deep body shaped indent in the rock hard soil. Shippo and Kirara landed next, finishing the job.

Despite the fact that Dark Kagome's body was made almost entirely of pure demonic energy, it couldn't withhold the stress that it was under. Under that massive amount of pressure Dark Kagome's body broke, in many places and many ways; too many to describe.

The gang members that had just fallen from the sky scurried up from the ground, revealing the newly crippled body of Dark Kagome.

Naraku saw that his the evil clone had no hope of getting up, let alone attacking its enemy; its body was twisted in unnatural ways that would make a normal person's stomach churn, and was very clearly near death. It was obvious that if Naraku kept it alive, it would weigh them down more than anything.

So with the snap of his fingers, Dark Kagome turned to dust, and was carried away on an air current that was making its way through the area. Soon there was absolutely nothing left of Kagome's clone.

Losing one of his minions to Inuyasha's group of weaklings really pissed Naraku off, and he decided to leave Inuyasha and the gang a few gifts before disappearing to work on his next evil plan.

"Kagura, attack that sword once more with your strongest attack. When you're done come back to the castle; your assistance here won't be needed after that," he hissed. And with that he generated a new barrier and flew off over the treetops.

As soon as her master was out of sight, she followed his orders, though she also disobeyed them at the same time. With a flick of her wrists she yelled, "Fujin no Mai!"

Whitish colored blades of wind emerged from her fans and made their way to the Testusiaga that Kanna was holding. Dozens of scratches appeared on the original as soon as they made contact, and were replicated on the one Inuyasha was holding.

Kagura had done that for a reason. Disobeying a direct order and using her weakest attack, that is. She thought that if Tetsusiaga broke Inuyasha would have next to no chance of surviving against his clone. And if he lost, she could never truly be the wind.

"Damn you, Naraku! Get back here and fight me! Stop being so cowardly and forcing others to do your dirty work!" Inuyasha called after Naraku. He knew that it would never happen, though, so he took his pent up frustration out on the evil half-demon's minions instead.

Inuyasha's Testusiaga pulsated, and a crystal-like substance crept over it. Soon the blade was engulfed in crystal, though the pulsating continued. Once the fang was ready for an attack, Inuyasha gathered all his power for what may possibly be his last attack.

Kagura knew what was to come and knew that she had to flee before she got mutilated. She ran to Kanna and pulled her to the treeline. She was rough in the execution department, and the original Tetsusiaga slipped from Kanna's hands when she was yanked violently from her stationary position.

Kagura swiftly took a pure white feather from her high ponytail, and it timely transformed into her flying feather ride. She pulled the little nothingness demon onto the feather and then climbed onto it herself. The two flew off after Naraku, leaving Hakudoshi to fend for himself.

"Good luck, Inuyasha," the wind demon whispered, as she rode the wind that she had created away from the scene of the epic battle.

By the time Inuyasha was ready to attack, Kagura and Kanna were long gone. Seeing that Hakudoshi was the only one left that he could take out his rage on, Inuyasha attacked that little bastard with all the power he could muster.

"Kongosoha!" he yelled, as he swung Tetsusiaga out in front of him. Hundreds, if not thousands, of razor sharp crystal fragments detached from Inuyasha's fang and flew through the air.

A sickening squishing noise erupted into the air as she crystals pierced Hakudoshi's body and emerged through his back. He froze, unable to make the parts of his body that were still in tact so his bidding. He realized that staying and trying to fight would be futile at the moment, so he called for a distraction.

Hakudoshi quickly made himself a barrier to prevent all his severed body parts from floating away randomly, then played his wild card. As he rose into the air to follow the others, Entei galloped out of the forest to take over and buy the villains some time.

Entei neighed loudly, and a large fireball flew from its mouth. The ground where the ball of fire landed lit up instantainiously, and spread until there was a wall of fire between the evil guys and the good guys. The Inuyasha gang stepped back a few steps when the flames spread to avoid getting singed.

"K-Kagome…Inuyasha? What's going on here? What's happening?" Sango asked. This was confusing for her, and the others as well. Randomly falling from the sky into the middle of a battle could do that to a person.

"I'll tell you later. Just look out! You're clones may be coming after you soon," Kagome explained hurridly, as she intently watched the flames. They were raging in a firey blaze of red and orange, but other than that everything was calm until—

A very large boomerang passed through the flames suddenly. Sango and everyone else managed to dodge it, though only barely. As it was flying through the air and toward the one who'd thrown it, five figure's shadows became visible among the flames; Dark Kirara, Dark Shippo, Dark Miroku, Dark Sango, and Entei.

Up until that moment in time, the four clones had just stood at Naraku's side, dormant. They hadn't attacked, or even moved at all. Kagome guessed that activating them to take care of the Inuyasha gang and help to destroy the good guys was one of the "gifts" that Naraku had left behind for them.

The rest of Inuyasha's group that had just arrived got ready for the battle that was unavoidable. They still didn't know exactly what was going on, but they did know that they had to fight the evil beings that were posing as them.

Sango whipped out her boomerang and expertly hurled it at the impostors while yelling, "Hiraikotsu!"

The boomerang made of pure demon bone sliced through the air at high speed, and almost hit its target. Almost.

Just as Sango's boomerang was about to hit her counterpart, Dark Sango leaped into the air to avoid getting hit. Amazingly enough, the clone landed perfectly on the speeding boomerang, and rode the giant hunk of bone until it returned to its owner.

Sango's face seemed to conform to the shape of Dark Sango's fist as sit was very forcefully shoved into the demon hunter's flesh. Dark Sango had wasted no time in the matter, and had put its attack into effect as soon as it was in range.

Sango fell to the ground from the force of the punch. She shakily got up, and felt a small but steady stream of blood trickle from her mouth and nose, gathering at her chin and dropping to the ground.

"Shit," she muttered, as she wiped away the blood from her face. Dark Sango took the same actions, though she wiped Sango's blood from its knuckles.

After whittnessing such a powerful first attack, Miroku and the rest of the group concluded that one very fierce battle was about to take place. Kagome, of course, had already known that for some time now.

The rest of the evil beings stepped forth from their places in the now raging inferno, and advanced on their opponents. The malice in their eyes was very clearly visible, and sent shivers running up and down Shippo's spine.

"No…no! This can't be happening! I can't fight those things! I'm only a kid, you know!" the fox demon whimpered, as he ran and hid behind Miroku's leg.

And with that, the battle commenced.

Luckily for them, however, the fight would soon be cut short.

((End of chapter 24))

Yes! It's finally done! ...Not the entire fanfiction, just the chapter...lol!

Well, life is good. I have a job to support my many obsessions, though it does greatly cut into my writing time...but oh well...give a little to get a little, I suppose.

Still haven't started chapter 25...I just can't think how to start it. I know what's going to happen, but I just can't find the right words to make it start off good. One thing's for sure, though: Sesshomaru's going to return in the next chapter!!

I think after this chapter, there'll only be one or two or three more chapters. We're really getting near the end of this, and I'm desperately trying to figure out a good way to end it. There won't be a sequel to this...I kinda sorta used up all my ideas for an entirely Inuyasha fanfiction...I have one more idea for another one, but it'll have nothing to do with this one.

I've also been working on my other fanfictions a little. Slert is on its way, though it only has a few paragraphs so far. Ninja in a Demon's world is going alright as well; I'm randomly working on the third chapter for that one. And I have a few one-shots that I'm going to post up here once I'm done this fanfiction. They're mostly parodies, and one even involves feeding a prep to some sharks! Yes...the preps must die...

And if you could spare the time, please check out my deviantart account! It has lots of pictures that I took, and lots of things that I made as well (including fanart)! I may not be too good at the whole drawing thing right now, but I'm getting better. And I have a picture of the shuriken that I made on there too:)

Sooo...that's about it for now! Stay tuned for Chapter 25, hopefully coming next week:)