Chapter 16: Tetsusaiga Dagger
Kikyo stood off to the side with her bow drawn. She looked over at Inu Onna with an evil smile, "Sorry Naraku, but I've already promised Inu Onna she'd have the first blood spilled on your knife."
He smiled and handed Inu Otoko to her. Kikyo smiled evilly at Inu Yasha, "Don't you move, Love. I'm still a master at the bow, understand?"
Naraku started over to the dog demon girl. Inu Onna glared at him and said, "Hey, Naraku? Remember that wish I made? I wanna change it!"
"Good for you," he said as he approached.
Inu Onna shouted, "I wish, that when you stab me, that my blood spurts onto you and burns you to death. Then the power of my soul to be used to save my friends and family."
The dagger flashed again. Naraku raised it and said, "Die, you stinking hanyo!" the incisor knife flew and Inu Onna closed her eyes. The dagger paused midway and gave a loud ringing cry that sounded almost like a woman's scream. Naraku looked at the weapon confused. It seemed that even he didn't know what was going on. Of course Inu Onna was just as confused. She looked up at the blade and thought she heard a pulsing heart.
Naraku tried again but it only stopped even farther back then before. He had lost control of his own weapon. The dagger threw his arm low to the ground, then came soaring back up to cut the ropes holding Inu Onna's wrists!
Well Inu Onna didn't need to be told what to do next. She balled her right hook into a fist and cracked the knuckles. She hit him right in the center of the abs. Even though Inu Onna was a child, she had inherited demon-like strength. She was strong enough to knock the wind out of Naraku. When he doubled over, she cupped a hand over her ready made fist and smashed it over his back, sending him to the floor. He would be up in a few seconds, and Inu Onna's feet were still tied. She looked up at the tetsusaiga dagger sticking out of the wood of the post. She reached up and grasped the hilt. She felt like a light had just flashed in her face. In a split second, all that she needed to know about using the tetsusaiga dagger had flown through her mind. She yanked it out of the poll and cut the ropes holding her feet. She thrust the dagger in his direction but he jumped back. What he didn't know, was that he had given her enough room to unlock tetsusaiga dagger's true identity. She held it up and charged him. "Tetsusaiga Dagger Addition!" she shouted. The dagger glowed, then grew into a sword as wide and long as the real tetsusaiga. She swung the sword at Naraku in a crescent shaped flash of light. He dodged a couple of swings then jumped back onto the post she was tied to. Naraku laughed, "Kukukukuku, just because you can use the dagger, doesn't mean you have the advantage." Inu Onna's ears twitched as she heard a familiar clicking sound approaching. There was so much clicking it was similar to the sound of rain. Then from out of the darkness of the woods came the scorpion demons, and there were hundreds of them. They lined the large clearing, completely surrounding them. Inu Onna looked at them all, and then at her friends. The parents all stood around each other, the feudal era's best, holding there weapons, ready to protect their children and each other. Sango shouted, "Go ahead, Inu Onna! We can take care of these insects!" Inu Onna looked a little hesitate, she had to keep her priorities in line: Steal back her brother, use the power of the tetsusaiga dagger to defeat Naraku, make Kikyo's smug little pretty woman face not so pretty, protect friends, impress Musuko by being the heroine and looking cooler then Hachimitsu... "Oh, yeah," Inu Onna whispered aloud to herself. "This WILL be worth it!" she charged Naraku with her new sword and swung. Naraku drew his long sword and blocked it. The scorpion demons came scuttling into the clearing making that creepy crawly clicking sound with their eight black legs. Naraku's other minions, Kagura, Kanna, and Kohaku also jumped into the fray. Everyone was so busy fighting, they didn't notice Namida go running from the clearing. The scorpion demons tried to get Inu Yasha, but they never had a chance. He cracked his knuckles and lashed out at them. "SANKON TESSOU!!" Sango had gone way above the average level of regular demon exterminators, able to take out twenty-three scorpion demons with the fling of her boomerang. Kagome pulled arrows from her case and purified as many demons as Miroku did with a single spell scroll. Then Sesshomaru jumped into the fray. He tore apart the scorpion demon that was trying to sneak up on Inu Yasha. Inu-kun gave him an irritated look and asked, "Where were you?" Sesshomarou flicked his hair and tore open another demon. "Being fashionably late!" he said. Ao Cho flew over the clearing, followed by Rin, who was wearing some kind of armor and carrying twin swords. Namida came jogging back from the castle. She hopped up onto a post. "Inu Yasha! Catch!" she shouted. She tossed the tetsusaiga to him. Naraku, whom had temporarily lost Inu Onna in the midst of the scorpion demons, glared up at her. She hoped back down and pulled out her own little knife. She started cutting the bondages of the other children, when someone came up and smacked her aside. Namida fell into the grass ungracefully and looked up at her attacker. Naraku looked down at her angrily. Namida looked back with a light of fear in the back of her brown eyes. "Naraku!" she said. He held his hand in the air and squeezed something invisible. Namida grasped the spot where her heart was and coughed hoarsely. "Namida, I'm disappointed in you." He said calmly. "You disobeyed me by helping that dog child, didn't you?" But Namida couldn't answer, she curled up into a ball in the grass and tried to endure the suffering. Inu Onna had finally caught sight of Naraku and saw what he was doing. Naraku continued to press on the little girls circulatory system. "When a child behaves badly, they must be punished." He said and squeezed a little bit harder. "LEAVE HER ALONE!" Inu Onna swung at him. Naraku was able to jump out of the way, but his baboon pelt was ripped in half. He gave Inu Onna a despicable smile and said, "Why worry about some nobody child when your close friends are in danger?" Inu Onna turned her head and saw six scorpion demons coming at Musuko. Inu Onna's mind raced and she ran to save him. Then Miroku turned around and shouted, "Musuko!" he tossed the plain black staff that Musuko always carries around over to him. Musuko caught in then through his robes aside. Underneath, he wore an exterminator uniform. He took the staff in both hands and slammed the base of it against the ground. With a loud SHING! A long scythe blade popped up on it. Within seconds, he sliced the scorpion demons into nothing. When he was done, he stood panting in front of the mess. He turned around and saw Inu Onna staring at him in bewilderment. "What?" Musuko asked. She just sighed and went back to looking for Naraku. Miroku hit a couple more demons with his staff and turned to look at his wife. "Hey, Sango! How many demons have you mowed down so far?" She smiled and hit another one, "Forty-eight, and that one makes forty-nine!" "We're tied then!" he said. He looked over at Musuko who was slicing off the heads of the scorpion demons. "Musuko-son!" he called. Musuko glanced at him. "Yeah, dad?!" "How many have you destroyed?" Oh, um," Musuko thought as he cut another one down. "I wasn't keeping count." "Take a guess!" Sango shouted over the sound of screaming demons. Musuko went to blocking for a few seconds to figure it out. "I think, sixty!" Miroku and Sango both looked up at the same time, "SIXTY?!" "No way!" Sango shouted. "Yeah!" Musuko shouted back. "Twas easy!" "How did you do it!?" Miroku asked. "Well, the heads are hard to split down the middle, so I started going for the necks, it's faster and easier! And I also get the stinger first!" They thought about this logic then Miroku smiled and said, "Isn't he smart?!" "I'm so proud of him!" Sango shouted. Rin jumped in between three demons and did a spinning attack, killing them all. She usually tried to imitate the ways she saw Sesshomaru fight in the past. She saw her sister Ao Cho and hopped over to her. "Hey, sis! These scorpion demons have black blood!" Ao Cho smacked another one away. "I know, Rin." She said. "And they are twice my size!" "I know, Rin." "And they have sharp things at the end of their tale that drip smelly goo!" "I know, Rin." "And did you know that they got white eyes when they die?!" Ao Cho looked at her slightly annoyed. Then she pointed. "Oh my god! Rin! Look at that!!" "Where?!" Rin looked around as if confused. "Those two over there!!" she refered to Kagura and Kanna who were minding there own businesses at the moment. "They're about to go hurt our dad!" Suddenly, Rin took on a new angry air. "WHAT?!" she went running off. Ao Cho went back to stabbing a scorpion demon to death when she heard loud agonizing screams coming from yonder direction of her sister. She looked up in time to get hit by a tidal wave of blood. Ao Cho's eyes widened in wonder, then she went back to her work. "Wow! Those two never had a chance!" Kagome fired another arrow, she had to keep running because, unfortunately, being an archer was only good for long distance attacks, and she had gone too close to getting bitten and stung. Then one jumped out in front of her like a skier in front of a boat. She screamed and it was sliced in half by a crescent light. Inu Yasha stood next to her and looked her over in concern, "You're okay, right? You've been fighting alone ever since we got here!" Kagome nodded then looked over his shoulder and her eyes grew wide. Inu Yasha turned around too and saw Kikyo. She stood a few feet away, bow raised, arrow drawn, pointing right at them. "Kikyo, wait!" Kagome held out her hand. Inu Yasha was just kind of speechless with shock that she was still alive. Kikyo let go of the arrow. "Inu Yasha, watch out!" She grabbed him and pulled the both of them out of the arrow's path. Kikyo was already readying another arrow when they heard Inu Onna give a battle cry. Kikyo glanced over at where the dog demon was about to cut Naraku in half. Kikyo was in a great position at the moment. Inu Yasha and Kagome, both pinned into the corner, defenseless at the greatness of her evil miko power. But there was the matter of the death of a certain hanyo child. Kikyo turned the direction of her arrow and let it fly. "NO!" Kagome screamed. Inu Onna turned her head in time to see an arrow come flying at her. Luckily, it didn't hit her. It bounced off her sword. The tetesusaiga dagger changed back into the small dagger it started out as. Inu Onna was so busy trying to figure out why it did that, she didn't see Kikyo reload her bow for the final blow. But Inu Onna had more luck, for as Kikyo was doing this, Kagome got up and slapped her hard across the face. The arrow flew of aim and grazed Inu Onna's cheek. Kikyo reeled but was fast at recovering. She used the force of her power to knock Kagome into Inu Yasha, and t he both of them into the mass of scorpion demons. Kikyo went over and grabbed Inu Onna by the sides of her arms. Then with suprising strength for a 90 pound slut/witch/demon, she lifted her off the ground and against a tree. "You little bitch!" Kikyo hissed at her. Inu Onna looked down at her. Kikyo's hair was messed up and wild all over her face. She looked up at Inu Onna with an insanely evil glare. She gripped her arms tightly sending little jolts of electric shock through her. "You ruined everything! I was going to have the perfect revenge! If you had been a good little girl and died when you were supposed to, you wouldn't be where you are right now: about to die from a slow and painful death!" the waves intensified a little. "When you die, I will kill you're weak mortal mom first, then your sad father. He should have stayed with me, but if I can't have him then nobody can!" Inu Onna threw her head back and cried out a blood curdling scream like no one had ever heard before. "Screaming will get you no where now. I'm not as soft as your sad parents!" Kikyo said. Inu Onna closed her eyes in pain and her voice wavered. "I'm aware of that." Then she tilted her head forward and smiled. "You think you're so smart, you haven't even figured out what I just did!" Kikyo looked at her slightly suspiciously. She was probably just going crazy from the shock treatment. As if the great and powerful priestess Kikyo could be fooled by a child's white lies! All of a sudden, the ground started to vibrate. And there was a far off growling sound. Then hundreds of stray and domestic cats came flooding into the clearing, jumping at and attacking the scorpion demons. "Big deal! A bunch of mangy cats!" Naraku said. Inu Onna's smile didn't fade. As the cats came flooding in, so did many demon cats. Then the five white cats from the first chapter came and circled Kikyo. She looked down at them. "Get away from me, you filthy beasts!" Then they all changed into cat demons in human form. Some with ears and some with tails. A tall, thin black haired teenage boy, who was in the circle flexed his claws and sliced Kikyo in half. The priestess didn't bleed. She crumbled. She stood there with a shocked expression, then started crumbling like a dry clod of dirt from the middle-out. Inu Onna slumped in front of the pile of dirt breathing heavily and rubbing her arms. Then a silky white hand appeared in front of her. She looked up at a beautiful white haired woman with cat ears. Inu Onna took her hand and she helped her up. "Thanks, Kunnifer!" Inu Onna smiled. "We said we'd help you if you ever needed it." Kunnifer smiled at her. "We'll take care of the rest of the scorpion demons." "Alright!" Inu Onna smirked like her father. "And I'll get Naraku!" the cat demons started helping in the battle. If you could imagine a fight between hundred of scorpions, hundreds of cats, mortal or not, a couple of dogs and humans, that was what was going on. Soon, the only ones left standing where Inu Yasha, Kagome, Miroku, Musuko, Sango (who was carrying the twins), Kohaku, Hachimitsu, Rin (Drenched in blood), Ao Cho, Musisaki Cho, Sesshomaru, Kouga, and Naraku, who stood alone on one side holding Inu Otoko. The baby cried loudly. "Let the kid go and except death, you basterd!" Kouga said. "You're obviously out numbered!" Then Kagome looked around. "Where's Inu Onna?" Naraku looked over his shoulder to see a little girl wearing a panda pelt come out of the bushes. She dragged beside her the body of Inu Onna by a clump of hair. The half demon child had a shocked expression on her face, almost betrayed. Her eyes were blank and glazed over, staring at absolutely nothing. A small trail of blood dripped from the corner of her mouth. Everyone stared in shock as she stood feet away from Naraku. The baboon clad villan laughed vilely. "Kukukukukuku, Namida, you have done what I have wanted the whole time. You've made your father proud." The girl said nothing, dropped the corpse on the ground, and went over to stand next to Naraku. They all looked at Inu Onna's body then at Naraku. "What do you think of that Inu Yasha? No more obligations for you." Naraku said. It had been different with the other children when he thought they where dead. They weren't HIS children, so he only felt sympathetic. No parent should have to see their child die before they do. Inu Yasha clenched a fist and growled at Naraku. "I'll kill you!" he whispered angrily. He drew tetsusaiga and charged him. Inu Yasha was thrown back by the misma that erupted around Naraku. "Come, Namida." He said. He went sailing off into the sky on a cloud of misma, with the panda girl behind him. Kohaku collapsed on the ground. Inu Yasha went over and lifted the lifeless form of his daughter up into a sitting position. Her head tilted back and she didn't move. Kagome hugged Inu Onna's head then hugged Inu Yasha. He rubbed Kagome's back and looked down at his daughter. Why her? The worst things always happened to the wrong people. Inu Onna might have acted like a spoiled brat and smart mouth at times, but in was only a front. Being a dad and knowing her so well. He knew that deep down, Inu Onna was a shy and scared little girl unsure of her identity. She only wanted attention and love. That's why she pulled so many stupid stunts and fought with Hachimitsu. She wanted acceptance. "Why are you hugging that thing?" All heads turned to the small girl who had just come out of the bushes. It was Namida without the baboon pelt! She was wearing the priestess outfit, but her hair ribbon was gone and like Kikyo before death, her hair was also wild. "You!?" Inu Yasha shouted. Namida strolled forward but stopped when everyone stood up and faced her. "Please trust me." She said with a slightly sad expression. "Why should we?" Sango asked. "I knew Inu Onna, and would never hurt her." Namida said. "You didn't?" Inu Yasha asked with anger in the back of his voice. He stepped aside to show Inu Onna's body lying on the ground. Namida held up her hands and slowly started to walk forward a little. "I'm unarmed. I am in peace." Musuko looked at her then tugged at Miroku's robes. "Father, I think she's telling the truth!" Miroku pushed Musuko behind him. Namida stopped when she was six feet away from them. She put her hands down. "I won't hurt you." She said. "I never want to hurt again." The strange thing was, that Inu Yasha was starting to believe her. This demonic child looked so sincere and sorrowful. It was like looking at an adult Inu Onna, ten times more powerful then she had been. Then he felt his feet shuffling and his body weight shifting to step aside for her. Namida went over glancing at all of them. Then she looked even sadder and said, "Inu Onna sure has a lot of friends." She kneeled next to Inu Onna, grabbed a single strand of her silver hair and yanked it out. Inu Onna's body was vaporized immediately. Instead, there was a wooden doll on the ground. And Namida held up the hair for all to see. "This doll, this hair, and dragon's blood, are all it takes to make a golem of your style and choosing." "What?!" Everyone looked at her perplexed, and Namida seemed to enjoy the attention she was getting. Kagome looked up into the sky where Naraku had disappeared. "But if you're here, then who-?"
On Naraku's misma cloud, they sailed high over the land. Naraku smiled and said, "Well, it was a great plan while it lasted. We were able to kill one of his children and kidnap the other." The small girl next to him said nothing. "The next thing we do, won't be as long term and elaborate. It will do just fine thought. Just imagine the look Inu Yasha will have on his face when he sees the corpse of his son hanging from the tallest turret of his castle. Little Inu Otoko was still crying. Then he looked over and noticed the panda person standing next to him. He started to laugh and gurgle happily. Naraku looked down at him. "What's his problem?" Then Narkau heard a familiar cackle behind him. The shape changing poisonous demon's blood ran cold. He heard the click-pop that Inu Yasha's sword would make when he popped the tetsusaiga from it's sheath. Then he heard a girl's child-like voice. "Ohhhh, Narakuuuuuu....." The demon turned around and the laughing Inu Otoko smiled and shouted, "Ne-chan!" She pulled back the hood of the panda pelt to show the brightness of long white hair. Inu Onna smirked and held the transformed tetsusaiga in front of her. "You're head is mine!" and with the strength of the newfound confidence she had, she did what the characters were unable to accomplish for so long. SHING! SHING! SHING! Naraku finally died from the death of his foe's daughter.
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BLING BING!! Not over yet, bay-bah! Stick around for the final chapter!
Kikyo stood off to the side with her bow drawn. She looked over at Inu Onna with an evil smile, "Sorry Naraku, but I've already promised Inu Onna she'd have the first blood spilled on your knife."
He smiled and handed Inu Otoko to her. Kikyo smiled evilly at Inu Yasha, "Don't you move, Love. I'm still a master at the bow, understand?"
Naraku started over to the dog demon girl. Inu Onna glared at him and said, "Hey, Naraku? Remember that wish I made? I wanna change it!"
"Good for you," he said as he approached.
Inu Onna shouted, "I wish, that when you stab me, that my blood spurts onto you and burns you to death. Then the power of my soul to be used to save my friends and family."
The dagger flashed again. Naraku raised it and said, "Die, you stinking hanyo!" the incisor knife flew and Inu Onna closed her eyes. The dagger paused midway and gave a loud ringing cry that sounded almost like a woman's scream. Naraku looked at the weapon confused. It seemed that even he didn't know what was going on. Of course Inu Onna was just as confused. She looked up at the blade and thought she heard a pulsing heart.
Naraku tried again but it only stopped even farther back then before. He had lost control of his own weapon. The dagger threw his arm low to the ground, then came soaring back up to cut the ropes holding Inu Onna's wrists!
Well Inu Onna didn't need to be told what to do next. She balled her right hook into a fist and cracked the knuckles. She hit him right in the center of the abs. Even though Inu Onna was a child, she had inherited demon-like strength. She was strong enough to knock the wind out of Naraku. When he doubled over, she cupped a hand over her ready made fist and smashed it over his back, sending him to the floor. He would be up in a few seconds, and Inu Onna's feet were still tied. She looked up at the tetsusaiga dagger sticking out of the wood of the post. She reached up and grasped the hilt. She felt like a light had just flashed in her face. In a split second, all that she needed to know about using the tetsusaiga dagger had flown through her mind. She yanked it out of the poll and cut the ropes holding her feet. She thrust the dagger in his direction but he jumped back. What he didn't know, was that he had given her enough room to unlock tetsusaiga dagger's true identity. She held it up and charged him. "Tetsusaiga Dagger Addition!" she shouted. The dagger glowed, then grew into a sword as wide and long as the real tetsusaiga. She swung the sword at Naraku in a crescent shaped flash of light. He dodged a couple of swings then jumped back onto the post she was tied to. Naraku laughed, "Kukukukuku, just because you can use the dagger, doesn't mean you have the advantage." Inu Onna's ears twitched as she heard a familiar clicking sound approaching. There was so much clicking it was similar to the sound of rain. Then from out of the darkness of the woods came the scorpion demons, and there were hundreds of them. They lined the large clearing, completely surrounding them. Inu Onna looked at them all, and then at her friends. The parents all stood around each other, the feudal era's best, holding there weapons, ready to protect their children and each other. Sango shouted, "Go ahead, Inu Onna! We can take care of these insects!" Inu Onna looked a little hesitate, she had to keep her priorities in line: Steal back her brother, use the power of the tetsusaiga dagger to defeat Naraku, make Kikyo's smug little pretty woman face not so pretty, protect friends, impress Musuko by being the heroine and looking cooler then Hachimitsu... "Oh, yeah," Inu Onna whispered aloud to herself. "This WILL be worth it!" she charged Naraku with her new sword and swung. Naraku drew his long sword and blocked it. The scorpion demons came scuttling into the clearing making that creepy crawly clicking sound with their eight black legs. Naraku's other minions, Kagura, Kanna, and Kohaku also jumped into the fray. Everyone was so busy fighting, they didn't notice Namida go running from the clearing. The scorpion demons tried to get Inu Yasha, but they never had a chance. He cracked his knuckles and lashed out at them. "SANKON TESSOU!!" Sango had gone way above the average level of regular demon exterminators, able to take out twenty-three scorpion demons with the fling of her boomerang. Kagome pulled arrows from her case and purified as many demons as Miroku did with a single spell scroll. Then Sesshomaru jumped into the fray. He tore apart the scorpion demon that was trying to sneak up on Inu Yasha. Inu-kun gave him an irritated look and asked, "Where were you?" Sesshomarou flicked his hair and tore open another demon. "Being fashionably late!" he said. Ao Cho flew over the clearing, followed by Rin, who was wearing some kind of armor and carrying twin swords. Namida came jogging back from the castle. She hopped up onto a post. "Inu Yasha! Catch!" she shouted. She tossed the tetsusaiga to him. Naraku, whom had temporarily lost Inu Onna in the midst of the scorpion demons, glared up at her. She hoped back down and pulled out her own little knife. She started cutting the bondages of the other children, when someone came up and smacked her aside. Namida fell into the grass ungracefully and looked up at her attacker. Naraku looked down at her angrily. Namida looked back with a light of fear in the back of her brown eyes. "Naraku!" she said. He held his hand in the air and squeezed something invisible. Namida grasped the spot where her heart was and coughed hoarsely. "Namida, I'm disappointed in you." He said calmly. "You disobeyed me by helping that dog child, didn't you?" But Namida couldn't answer, she curled up into a ball in the grass and tried to endure the suffering. Inu Onna had finally caught sight of Naraku and saw what he was doing. Naraku continued to press on the little girls circulatory system. "When a child behaves badly, they must be punished." He said and squeezed a little bit harder. "LEAVE HER ALONE!" Inu Onna swung at him. Naraku was able to jump out of the way, but his baboon pelt was ripped in half. He gave Inu Onna a despicable smile and said, "Why worry about some nobody child when your close friends are in danger?" Inu Onna turned her head and saw six scorpion demons coming at Musuko. Inu Onna's mind raced and she ran to save him. Then Miroku turned around and shouted, "Musuko!" he tossed the plain black staff that Musuko always carries around over to him. Musuko caught in then through his robes aside. Underneath, he wore an exterminator uniform. He took the staff in both hands and slammed the base of it against the ground. With a loud SHING! A long scythe blade popped up on it. Within seconds, he sliced the scorpion demons into nothing. When he was done, he stood panting in front of the mess. He turned around and saw Inu Onna staring at him in bewilderment. "What?" Musuko asked. She just sighed and went back to looking for Naraku. Miroku hit a couple more demons with his staff and turned to look at his wife. "Hey, Sango! How many demons have you mowed down so far?" She smiled and hit another one, "Forty-eight, and that one makes forty-nine!" "We're tied then!" he said. He looked over at Musuko who was slicing off the heads of the scorpion demons. "Musuko-son!" he called. Musuko glanced at him. "Yeah, dad?!" "How many have you destroyed?" Oh, um," Musuko thought as he cut another one down. "I wasn't keeping count." "Take a guess!" Sango shouted over the sound of screaming demons. Musuko went to blocking for a few seconds to figure it out. "I think, sixty!" Miroku and Sango both looked up at the same time, "SIXTY?!" "No way!" Sango shouted. "Yeah!" Musuko shouted back. "Twas easy!" "How did you do it!?" Miroku asked. "Well, the heads are hard to split down the middle, so I started going for the necks, it's faster and easier! And I also get the stinger first!" They thought about this logic then Miroku smiled and said, "Isn't he smart?!" "I'm so proud of him!" Sango shouted. Rin jumped in between three demons and did a spinning attack, killing them all. She usually tried to imitate the ways she saw Sesshomaru fight in the past. She saw her sister Ao Cho and hopped over to her. "Hey, sis! These scorpion demons have black blood!" Ao Cho smacked another one away. "I know, Rin." She said. "And they are twice my size!" "I know, Rin." "And they have sharp things at the end of their tale that drip smelly goo!" "I know, Rin." "And did you know that they got white eyes when they die?!" Ao Cho looked at her slightly annoyed. Then she pointed. "Oh my god! Rin! Look at that!!" "Where?!" Rin looked around as if confused. "Those two over there!!" she refered to Kagura and Kanna who were minding there own businesses at the moment. "They're about to go hurt our dad!" Suddenly, Rin took on a new angry air. "WHAT?!" she went running off. Ao Cho went back to stabbing a scorpion demon to death when she heard loud agonizing screams coming from yonder direction of her sister. She looked up in time to get hit by a tidal wave of blood. Ao Cho's eyes widened in wonder, then she went back to her work. "Wow! Those two never had a chance!" Kagome fired another arrow, she had to keep running because, unfortunately, being an archer was only good for long distance attacks, and she had gone too close to getting bitten and stung. Then one jumped out in front of her like a skier in front of a boat. She screamed and it was sliced in half by a crescent light. Inu Yasha stood next to her and looked her over in concern, "You're okay, right? You've been fighting alone ever since we got here!" Kagome nodded then looked over his shoulder and her eyes grew wide. Inu Yasha turned around too and saw Kikyo. She stood a few feet away, bow raised, arrow drawn, pointing right at them. "Kikyo, wait!" Kagome held out her hand. Inu Yasha was just kind of speechless with shock that she was still alive. Kikyo let go of the arrow. "Inu Yasha, watch out!" She grabbed him and pulled the both of them out of the arrow's path. Kikyo was already readying another arrow when they heard Inu Onna give a battle cry. Kikyo glanced over at where the dog demon was about to cut Naraku in half. Kikyo was in a great position at the moment. Inu Yasha and Kagome, both pinned into the corner, defenseless at the greatness of her evil miko power. But there was the matter of the death of a certain hanyo child. Kikyo turned the direction of her arrow and let it fly. "NO!" Kagome screamed. Inu Onna turned her head in time to see an arrow come flying at her. Luckily, it didn't hit her. It bounced off her sword. The tetesusaiga dagger changed back into the small dagger it started out as. Inu Onna was so busy trying to figure out why it did that, she didn't see Kikyo reload her bow for the final blow. But Inu Onna had more luck, for as Kikyo was doing this, Kagome got up and slapped her hard across the face. The arrow flew of aim and grazed Inu Onna's cheek. Kikyo reeled but was fast at recovering. She used the force of her power to knock Kagome into Inu Yasha, and t he both of them into the mass of scorpion demons. Kikyo went over and grabbed Inu Onna by the sides of her arms. Then with suprising strength for a 90 pound slut/witch/demon, she lifted her off the ground and against a tree. "You little bitch!" Kikyo hissed at her. Inu Onna looked down at her. Kikyo's hair was messed up and wild all over her face. She looked up at Inu Onna with an insanely evil glare. She gripped her arms tightly sending little jolts of electric shock through her. "You ruined everything! I was going to have the perfect revenge! If you had been a good little girl and died when you were supposed to, you wouldn't be where you are right now: about to die from a slow and painful death!" the waves intensified a little. "When you die, I will kill you're weak mortal mom first, then your sad father. He should have stayed with me, but if I can't have him then nobody can!" Inu Onna threw her head back and cried out a blood curdling scream like no one had ever heard before. "Screaming will get you no where now. I'm not as soft as your sad parents!" Kikyo said. Inu Onna closed her eyes in pain and her voice wavered. "I'm aware of that." Then she tilted her head forward and smiled. "You think you're so smart, you haven't even figured out what I just did!" Kikyo looked at her slightly suspiciously. She was probably just going crazy from the shock treatment. As if the great and powerful priestess Kikyo could be fooled by a child's white lies! All of a sudden, the ground started to vibrate. And there was a far off growling sound. Then hundreds of stray and domestic cats came flooding into the clearing, jumping at and attacking the scorpion demons. "Big deal! A bunch of mangy cats!" Naraku said. Inu Onna's smile didn't fade. As the cats came flooding in, so did many demon cats. Then the five white cats from the first chapter came and circled Kikyo. She looked down at them. "Get away from me, you filthy beasts!" Then they all changed into cat demons in human form. Some with ears and some with tails. A tall, thin black haired teenage boy, who was in the circle flexed his claws and sliced Kikyo in half. The priestess didn't bleed. She crumbled. She stood there with a shocked expression, then started crumbling like a dry clod of dirt from the middle-out. Inu Onna slumped in front of the pile of dirt breathing heavily and rubbing her arms. Then a silky white hand appeared in front of her. She looked up at a beautiful white haired woman with cat ears. Inu Onna took her hand and she helped her up. "Thanks, Kunnifer!" Inu Onna smiled. "We said we'd help you if you ever needed it." Kunnifer smiled at her. "We'll take care of the rest of the scorpion demons." "Alright!" Inu Onna smirked like her father. "And I'll get Naraku!" the cat demons started helping in the battle. If you could imagine a fight between hundred of scorpions, hundreds of cats, mortal or not, a couple of dogs and humans, that was what was going on. Soon, the only ones left standing where Inu Yasha, Kagome, Miroku, Musuko, Sango (who was carrying the twins), Kohaku, Hachimitsu, Rin (Drenched in blood), Ao Cho, Musisaki Cho, Sesshomaru, Kouga, and Naraku, who stood alone on one side holding Inu Otoko. The baby cried loudly. "Let the kid go and except death, you basterd!" Kouga said. "You're obviously out numbered!" Then Kagome looked around. "Where's Inu Onna?" Naraku looked over his shoulder to see a little girl wearing a panda pelt come out of the bushes. She dragged beside her the body of Inu Onna by a clump of hair. The half demon child had a shocked expression on her face, almost betrayed. Her eyes were blank and glazed over, staring at absolutely nothing. A small trail of blood dripped from the corner of her mouth. Everyone stared in shock as she stood feet away from Naraku. The baboon clad villan laughed vilely. "Kukukukukuku, Namida, you have done what I have wanted the whole time. You've made your father proud." The girl said nothing, dropped the corpse on the ground, and went over to stand next to Naraku. They all looked at Inu Onna's body then at Naraku. "What do you think of that Inu Yasha? No more obligations for you." Naraku said. It had been different with the other children when he thought they where dead. They weren't HIS children, so he only felt sympathetic. No parent should have to see their child die before they do. Inu Yasha clenched a fist and growled at Naraku. "I'll kill you!" he whispered angrily. He drew tetsusaiga and charged him. Inu Yasha was thrown back by the misma that erupted around Naraku. "Come, Namida." He said. He went sailing off into the sky on a cloud of misma, with the panda girl behind him. Kohaku collapsed on the ground. Inu Yasha went over and lifted the lifeless form of his daughter up into a sitting position. Her head tilted back and she didn't move. Kagome hugged Inu Onna's head then hugged Inu Yasha. He rubbed Kagome's back and looked down at his daughter. Why her? The worst things always happened to the wrong people. Inu Onna might have acted like a spoiled brat and smart mouth at times, but in was only a front. Being a dad and knowing her so well. He knew that deep down, Inu Onna was a shy and scared little girl unsure of her identity. She only wanted attention and love. That's why she pulled so many stupid stunts and fought with Hachimitsu. She wanted acceptance. "Why are you hugging that thing?" All heads turned to the small girl who had just come out of the bushes. It was Namida without the baboon pelt! She was wearing the priestess outfit, but her hair ribbon was gone and like Kikyo before death, her hair was also wild. "You!?" Inu Yasha shouted. Namida strolled forward but stopped when everyone stood up and faced her. "Please trust me." She said with a slightly sad expression. "Why should we?" Sango asked. "I knew Inu Onna, and would never hurt her." Namida said. "You didn't?" Inu Yasha asked with anger in the back of his voice. He stepped aside to show Inu Onna's body lying on the ground. Namida held up her hands and slowly started to walk forward a little. "I'm unarmed. I am in peace." Musuko looked at her then tugged at Miroku's robes. "Father, I think she's telling the truth!" Miroku pushed Musuko behind him. Namida stopped when she was six feet away from them. She put her hands down. "I won't hurt you." She said. "I never want to hurt again." The strange thing was, that Inu Yasha was starting to believe her. This demonic child looked so sincere and sorrowful. It was like looking at an adult Inu Onna, ten times more powerful then she had been. Then he felt his feet shuffling and his body weight shifting to step aside for her. Namida went over glancing at all of them. Then she looked even sadder and said, "Inu Onna sure has a lot of friends." She kneeled next to Inu Onna, grabbed a single strand of her silver hair and yanked it out. Inu Onna's body was vaporized immediately. Instead, there was a wooden doll on the ground. And Namida held up the hair for all to see. "This doll, this hair, and dragon's blood, are all it takes to make a golem of your style and choosing." "What?!" Everyone looked at her perplexed, and Namida seemed to enjoy the attention she was getting. Kagome looked up into the sky where Naraku had disappeared. "But if you're here, then who-?"
On Naraku's misma cloud, they sailed high over the land. Naraku smiled and said, "Well, it was a great plan while it lasted. We were able to kill one of his children and kidnap the other." The small girl next to him said nothing. "The next thing we do, won't be as long term and elaborate. It will do just fine thought. Just imagine the look Inu Yasha will have on his face when he sees the corpse of his son hanging from the tallest turret of his castle. Little Inu Otoko was still crying. Then he looked over and noticed the panda person standing next to him. He started to laugh and gurgle happily. Naraku looked down at him. "What's his problem?" Then Narkau heard a familiar cackle behind him. The shape changing poisonous demon's blood ran cold. He heard the click-pop that Inu Yasha's sword would make when he popped the tetsusaiga from it's sheath. Then he heard a girl's child-like voice. "Ohhhh, Narakuuuuuu....." The demon turned around and the laughing Inu Otoko smiled and shouted, "Ne-chan!" She pulled back the hood of the panda pelt to show the brightness of long white hair. Inu Onna smirked and held the transformed tetsusaiga in front of her. "You're head is mine!" and with the strength of the newfound confidence she had, she did what the characters were unable to accomplish for so long. SHING! SHING! SHING! Naraku finally died from the death of his foe's daughter.
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BLING BING!! Not over yet, bay-bah! Stick around for the final chapter!