Chapter 16
The New Naraku

As Hakudoushi's spear was about to cut Kagome's throat; Hakudoushi heard someone yell out "Mars fire surround!" Hakudoushi was engulfed by a series of fireballs that hit him from out of nowhere. Kagura was hit by someone yelling "Mercury aqua illusion!" Kagura tried to evade the attack, but her arms were caught in the attack and thus they were frozen solid.

Kohaku was hit by Sailor Jupiter's thunder attack. The cavalierly had arrived as the Sailor scouts appeared on the scene and did one of their entrance poses. Kagura watched them do their pose. A thought came to her mind which was "who the hell do these women think they are? Do they think their poses will intimidate someone or are they just stupid? Teenagers these days go figure."

Kagura was struggling to get her arms free as Ami ran over to Sango to help her up as Rei helped Miroku up and Makoto stood ready to take one of Naraku's detachments down. "Nice to see you girls what took you so long" Inuyasha asked. "We ran all the way from the palace to where you guys were" Rei said. "Hey wasn't Koga with you" Ami asked. As if on cue Koga was sent flying past them as Koga hit the wall of building that was near by.

Hotaru appeared as she sent another wave of dark energy at Koga which was crushing his body. She stopped her assault when she noticed the scouts with Inuyasha and the others. "Ah Sailor scouts we met again" Hotaru said. "Sailor Saturn; stop this madness at once" Ami demanded. "You are not in a position to be giving me orders" Hotaru replied coldly.

At that moment on Nemeses the crystal Naraku was cocooned in blew apart and a large sphere of energy was flying out of the palace and heading for earth. While back on Earth; Kanna had teleported away when the scouts appeared on the scene, so Kikyo rejoined the others. Kikyo, Inuyasha, Kagome, Rei, Ami and Makoto were ready to take Hotaru on, but suddenly the gang was hit by a powerful storm of dark energy.

Hotaru, Kagura and Kohaku were able to hold their ground. Hakudoushi had escaped the area after Mars burnt him to a crisp. "What the hell is going on here" Inuyasha said as he stabbed Tetsusaiga into the ground to use as an anchor to keep him self from getting blown away by the storm. Kagome and the others had to grab onto Inuyasha to keep them selves from flying away.

"I am sensing a lot of shards of the jewel and its heading this way. It's Naraku" Kagome said as she saw a sphere of dark energy heading straight for them. "Whoa what a power; I never felt anything this evil. It's like a whole new Naraku" Rei said as the energy sphere landed a few feet away from them as it was creating a dust tornado where it sat.

"You're right Sailor Mars it's a whole new Naraku. Through the power of the sliver crystal and the energy your friends used to destroy the resurrected Ryukotsusei I have been reborn. Like the reincarnated princess Serenity calls herself Neo-Queen Serenity I have been reborn as Neo-Naraku" Naraku told them as the energy sphere vanished and the new Naraku stood before them.

Naraku was in a form that was similar to his demon transformation, but there were some differences. One all of his boney extensions were all crystallized and the colors of the crystals were black. The light blue coat Naraku wore was now black with the light blue stripes were replaced with purple as the new color. The yellow belt he wore was purple as well and on his forehead was the mark of the Negaverse.

"Behold and tremble thanks to the power of the crystal and Pluto's power over time I was able to absorb the powers once held by Queen Metalia and Wiseman after they passed on, now I am what you might say is the source of all darkness and evil in the universe now. I am no longer a demon or a half demon. I have transcended to a new level of power and a new level of existence. I am a being of pure darkness. No force in this universe can stop me" Naraku said as he started laughing.

"Naraku I think all that power you have has made you crazy and more reckless than usual" Inuyasha said as he held up the Tetsusaiga ready to attack. "Inuyasha do you think that pitiful sword with hurt me" Naraku said as he smiled. "Lets find out" Inuyasha said as he jumped at Naraku with Tetsusaiga ready to cut him in half. Something happed just as the sword was about to come down on Naraku's head. Naraku's eyes glowed red as out from his eyes shot out a pair of violet colored beams of energy. They hit Inuyasha right in the chest and they went right through him.

Inuyasha was thrown back as he landed on the ground near Kagome. Inuyasha wasn't moving. "Inuyasha" Kagome cried out as she ran to check Inuyasha. She checked his neck to see if he had a pulse to confirm if he was still alive. Kagome noticed that he still have a pulse. It was weak, but he was alive. "Naraku you bastard try taking me on" Koga yelled as he had quickly got back to his feet to fight Naraku. He was charging at Naraku with a punch ready to knock Naraku's teeth out.

Naraku grabbed Koga by his neck so quickly that the wolf demon didn't see it coming. "Koga how kind of you to bringing me your jewel shards" Naraku said as he used his free hand to take Koga's shards. Afterwards he threw the wolf demon into the air as he blasted him with his eye beams in the shoulder. Naraku assimilated the jewel shards into his body. Naraku looked at the others with an evil smile.

"Mercury Aqua illusion" Ami yelled out as she attacked Naraku. However her Aqua illusion attack was blocked by a force field. Mars and Jupiter attacked Naraku with everything they could muster, but their attacks didn't even penetrate Naraku's force field. Naraku laughed and said "fools I am too powerful for any of you to defeat!" "I don't think so Naraku" Kagome said as she and Kikyo fired an arrow at Naraku. They weren't bounced away from his force field they just bounced off his body harmlessly.

"Oh shit this anti good" Kagome said as the others knew they were in deep shit. Naraku could kill them on the spot with very little effort. "You there is one among your group who I have wanted dead for a long time why don't I just take care that person once and for all. OR better yet I will just take you all out. Now die" Naraku yelled out as he fired a powerful sphere of black energy at the others bent on killing them. There was no where the scouts or the others could run to. This was it, they were done for. Before the attack hit them everything was engulfed by a bright light. "What happened?" Ami asked.

Comments from the author: I am mean aren't I? If you guys think Inuyasha and the gang along with the scouts are dead then you are wrong. Find out how next chapter when the final talisman is revealed.