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Let the pain begin...

Chapter 5 Dark purple mist surrounded the clearing in the dank, dark, and demented forest, a disgusting stench in the air. A stench of death. Deep in the mist stood Naraku, flanked by Kana and Kaugura. He wasn't wearing the white baboon pelt he usually wore, which meant one thing: this was the end. There would be no more games, no more illusions. The Shikon was complete. It was a fight for the jewel. Nothing would come of this battle except for death of one of the parties. Just death, nothing more. It would be one or the other. One or the other...

Kagome stood by her friends, all ready for their last battle. Inuyasha had his transformed sword out, ready to slice Naraku to ribbons. Sango had her boomerang out in front of her, ready to throw it at a moments notice. Miroku had his staff in one hand, ready to drop it and unsheathe the air rip if need be. Kagome had an arrow strung in her bow, tense for battle. Shippo had several nuts and acorns ready for some illusions. Kirara was transformed into her larger self. A tense air hung about the clearing. Naraku erected a barrier around himself to prevent any harm from coming to him.

Then they came. In mass they attacked, ready for blood and destruction. Demons flooded the field, pouring from the mists, converging on one spot: the location of the group. Miroku unleashed his void, sucking the monsters deep within his void. Inuyasha used the cutting wind to dispatch as many as he could. Sango assisted by flinging her boomerang at any demon that got too close. There was no end to the onslaught. Wave after wave, demon after demon, monster after monster, hideous beast after hideous beast, kept coming and coming and coming. Inuyasha was tiring from all the swinging he had to do, and Miroku had sucked up many demons, much more than he had ever before. The diamond shards in Inuyasha's cutting wind helped remove the demons that weren't destroyed by the cutting wind, but they still kept coming. It was as if Naraku had discovered a well of evil and had opened it up upon them.

Then it stopped. Miroku sheathed his void. Inuyasha stopped his mad swinging, and held his sword in front of him, positioning for the next attack. Naraku chuckled, then burst into many tentacles, some burrowing into the ground, others heading straight for them. Inuyasha barked an order for Kagome to stay with Sango, then charged right at the tentacle nearest to him, and sliced it down the middle with Tetsusaiga. Airborne, Kagome shot whatever tentacle came too close to Inuyasha for her liking. Miroku sucked up tentacle, and unintentionally some of the poisonous bugs that were concealed inside the tentacles. Inuyasha was nearing Naraku, when a blue arrow shot out and stabbed Kagome in her leg, knocking her balance off, sending her plummeting to the forest floor below. Sango called out for her friend, but was distracted by the sickle that came her way. Kohaku was flying on the feather, heading straight for her. Long suppressed feelings and fears welled up inside of her, threatening to consume her. It took all of her will to prevent herself from fruitlessly trying to save Kohaku, and sacrificing herself in the process. The two landed, not to far from the clearing, and faced off.

Kagome landed on a pile of dead leaves with a thunk. Shippo, who had transformed into a bubble, floated down to her. With a pop, he transformed into his normal self. He asked if Kagome was all right, but never got an answer, because of the arrow sticking out of his chest. Kagome could do nothing but stare in shock as she felt his presence snap out of existence. When she turned to look at who had killed her friend, and sort of adopted son, she met with the visage of Kikyou. Kagome gasped, and tried to get a word out, but nothing came. She tried to stand up, and succeeded, though she was shaky, and went for her arrows. She never made it to her arrows though, as two arrows pinned her shoulders to the tree behind her. The sharp pain in her shoulders would never compare to the pain she was about to receive though. She tried to mouth out the word why, and was greeted with a most horrible sight. Kikyou had stepped aside to give her an unobstructed view of her friends. Sango on the right was battling Kohaku. She had several wounds, but still was going strong. She was doing okay, until a blast of wind struck Kirara, sending her into a tree. Sango looked back, and called out to the fire cat, but was silenced by the sickle that was now sticking in her neck. It was violently yanked out, covered in dark red blood. It returned to its user, then thrown again, decapitating Sango. Kirara stood up shakily, but was suddenly impaled by tentacle of Naraku, going cleanly through her midsection. Kagura's blades of wind finished her off. All Kagome could do was stare in shock as she witnessed her friends death. Nearby, Miroku had witnessed Sango's death, and shrieked in pain. He ran over to her body, sucking up anything in his path. As he got to her, his hand pulsed, then exploded, beginning to suck him to his death. Miroku reeled in pain, the torment evident in his face. He sucked up the remains of Sango, and Kirara, which produced a look of pure pain on his face, as another tentacle burst up from the ground, traveled through Miroku's stomach, and into the void. Kagome watched on with horror as the monk was sucked into the void, slowly and painfully. The last thing that went was his head, with a permanent face of pain stuck on it. A large crater was all that remained of her friends. A large explosion caught her attention. Inuyasha was right on top of Naraku, and had brought Tetsusaiga down right on top of him. The Tetsusaiga pulsed red, then turned hard and crystalline, and broke through, destroying Naraku. Inuyasha gave a yell of triumph, but was cut short by the tentacle sticking through his stomach. Kagome screamed his name, but nothing came out. Kikyou had left her side and approached Inuyasha. She aimed her bow straight at Inuyasha's heart. A look of pain and fear, then of indescribable pain came across Inuyasha's face. "You are mine Inuyasha." Kikyou silenced any response Inuyasha might have, destroying his heart; the one Kagome had fallen in love with. Inuyasha slumped to the ground, his last breath exhaling from him a cold fog. Kagome regained control of her voice and screamed for Inuyasha to wake up. "He is mine," was all Kikyou said before putting an arrow into Kagome's heart...