Title: The Nightmare
By: EVL5011
E-Mail: EVILWITHAGUN5011AOL.com
AN: If you've followed the story closely, our three heroes are now in a sleep-like trance. First character to have his/her nightmare is going to be Sango. Each one will "awaken" in his/her nightmare by a loud thunder.
Chapter 2: The lost sibling
A large bolt of lightning crashed against an enormous tree, startling Sango, and bringing her out of her trance. InuYasha and Kagome both stared at the young youkai hunter. "Are you okay?" asked Kagome. Sango was uncertain, she felt light-headed and was still a bit dizzy. "Yeah, I'm sorry. I don't know what happened." Sango replied. Sango looked on the ground and examined the fine black. Just as she was about to touch it, a rattling chain was heard nearby. She stood up and before them stood Naraku and Kohaku. Sango was surprised to see her brother again.
"You've destroyed my minion, it doesn't matter. You have something that I want, and your going to give it to me." Naraku and Kohaku both moved forward. InuYasha and Sango both took a defensive stance, holding their weapons tightly. "So are you going to talk, or fight?" yelled InuYasha. "Always the arrogant hanyou. All I need are the remaining shards that Kagome has in her possession. One way or the other, I'm going to take them from her." Smirked Naraku.
"Kagome stay back. This won't take long." InuYasha looked at Sango and tightened his grip on tetsusaiga. "Sango, you ready?" he asked. Before Sango even had a chance to reply Naraku shot forth a large amount of brown tendrils from within his sleeve. The strange appendages struck InuYasha knocking him against the wall. Sango threw her boomerang at Naraku and severed the tendrils. Naraku darted back and avoided being hit by the returning weapon. Naraku continued his assault and Kohaku stood a few feet behind him. As Naraku continued his attack, InuYasha and Sango easily repelled it.
Naraku seemed frustrated by the two and looked at Kohaku. "Kohaku…why don't you entertain our two friends, while I retrieve the Shikkon jewel shards from Kagome." Naraku summoned forth a large swarm of flying insects to protect him while he escaped. InuYasha and Sango killed the remaining insects and stood face to face with Kohaku. The young boy began to swing his chain and moved forward. InuYasha knew that he couldn't hurt Sango's brother and looked Sango in the eyes. "Do you think that you can take him? Because if you can't, you know that I won't hesitate to kill him." InuYasha and Sango both moved back towards the destroyed wall and jumped onto the wet ground. "Keep him busy, I'll try and restrain him." Sango moved away from InuYasha and circled behind her brother.
Kohaku followed InuYasha's every move and threw the chain at him. The hanyou jumped over the attack and watched as the sharp blade cut down four nearby trees. Sango lunged at her brother and was struck by the large radius that the chain covered. The young demon hunter was thrown back and noticed that she was injured. "Kohaku, stop! Don't you recognize me? I'm your sister!" Sango's pleas fell on deaf ears, and her brother turned to look at her. His stare was completely blank; he was under Naraku's complete control. InuYasha ran at Kohaku at top speed and raised tetsusaiga in the air. Before he could even swing, the young boy jumped over him and landed behind him. Tetsusaiga missed its intended target and nearly hit Sango who was close by. InuYasha nearly struck Sango with his phantom sword and stopped in mid-swing. Just as he turned around, the sharp blade on Kohakus' weapon cut across the air, flying in front of him. The blade sliced across the unsuspecting hanyou's neck, fatally injuring him.
Sango was in shock to see her friend inured and caught him, before he fell to the ground. InuYasha released tetsusaiga and stared at Sango. She felt the hanyou's warm blood dripping onto her lap. Sango tore a piece of clothing from her sleeve and wrapped it around InuYasha's neck. She lay him on the ground and stood back up, holding her boomerang in one hand. Kohaku looked at her with his blank stare. "Kohaku…I'm sorry it has to be this way." With all of her strength she threw the boomerang at her brother. The young boy jumped into the air and avoided the attack with ease. While in the air, the young boy swung the chain and threw it down towards his sister. Sango caught her returning weapon and blocked the attack from brother. Sango had the chance to strike him down, but hesitated. It was her younger brother after all. "Kohaku, I'm pleading with you. Stop!" A single tear emerged from her eye as she repelled the unfaltering attacks by her brother.
"I see that InuYasha has fallen victim to your loving brother." Naraku walked out from the shadows and held Kagome by the wrist. "This would've been much easier, if only you three would've given me the jewel shards." Naraku gave an inauspicious smile and threw Kagome onto the ground. Kagome fell next to InuYasha, who was bleeding to death. The rain continued to pour down on the ground, and Kohaku stopped his attack. Sango fell to her knees and dropped her weapon. Naraku laughed in the background, as the two girls were unable to continue, all was lost.
"Kagome…I'm sorry, that I've failed to protect you." InuYasha smiled and held Kagomes' hand tightly. The young hanyou was near death. Even with his strength and resilience, he couldn't survive his fatal wound. Kagome held back tears and watched as her friend, her protector died in her arms. Sango had enough and she stood back up with her weapon in hand and gave Naraku a long cold stare. Even with the rain pouring down on her she approached him. Naraku smiled in confidence and a sharp piercing object cut across her back. Sango fell on one knee and turned around, Kohaku caught his weapon as it returned to him. "To get to me, you have to kill your brother." Naraku walked away from Sango and stopped next to the partially destroyed house. The hanyou took shelter from the rain underneath the roof of the house and watched from a distance.
"Don't…I don't want to hurt you." Sango pleaded with her brother. Kohaku continued swinging his chain and sickle and threw it once more. The sickle was blocked by Sango's boomerang, but her weapon cracked by its impact. Sango blocked all of her brother's attacks and continued pleading with him. Sango's weapon eventually broke in two; it couldn't take any more punishment. Now defenseless, Sango stumbled onto the ground, next to InuYasha and Kagome. Sango knew that Kagome was in shock after losing InuYasha. She had to find a weapon and she then noticed tetsusaiga on the ground. It was next to InuYasha. She grabbed it off the wet ground and stood back up, even though it was in its weak state, she could use the scabbard to block Kohaku's attacks.
Sango stood up and began to advance on her brother. Kohaku swung the chain with such force, that a loud whirling sound began to echo throughout the village. Sango ran at her brother and lunged at him, he threw the chain and sickle at her, the chain wrapped itself around the scabbard. Sango stood right in front of her brother; she looked into his blank eyes and took a deep breath. Kohaku released his weapon; Sango had thrust a dull tetsusaiga into her brother's chest. The young boy collapsed onto the muddy ground. He remained perfectly still, when Sango kneeled down beside him. "Sango? Where a-am I?" Kohaku asked. Sango picked up her brother in her arms and held him tightly. "I'm so sorry Kohaku, but I didn't have a choice." Sango looked at her brother and realized that he was dead. Sango lowered her head and heard Naraku laughing hysterically at her misfortune.
"Had he killed you, he would've still been alive." Naraku walked out from underneath the structure. Sango remembered that Kagome was in the middle of the two of them. Kagome was traumatized from losing InuYasha; Sango grabbed Kohaku's chain from the ground and slowly got back up. "Kagome, you're going to have to be strong. You need to get up and get to safety." Sango noticed that Kagome wasn't listening to a single word. Naraku walked over to Kagome and picked her up by her hair. "Its unfortunate that she has to die." Naraku lifted Kagome up in the air and looked her in the eyes. The large tendrils underneath Naraku's sleeve wrapped themselves around Kagome's neck. They slowly tightened and the young girl began to gasp for air. Naraku laughed as Sango watched, the hanyou was taking great pleasure in torturing her.
"Enough!" Shouted Sango. She launched the chain and sickle forward, striking the evil hanyou in the chest. His eyes widened as he looked down at the protruding blade. In a last act of revenge he crushed Kagome's neck and killed her. "Kagome! You bastard!" Sango pulled on the chain and the blade returned to her hand. She immediately threw it back with at Naraku. The blade struck him in the face with such force that his head split down the middle. The vile hanyou fell to the ground and released Kagome's lifeless body. Naraku's body convulsed violently before finally dying and burst into a thick, black ash.
The completed Shikkon jewel lay on top of Naraku's ashes. Sango fell on her knees and began to cry. She had killed Naraku, but at the cost of all those that she loved and cared deeply for. Wiping the tears from her face she stood up and approached the sacred jewel. Sango held it in her hand and gripped it tightly. "Was it really worth it?" she thought to herself. Sango looked around and stared at the bodies of her brother and her friends.
Just as everything looked bleak, it stopped raining. Sango looked up at the sky and noticed that the moon wasn't in the sky. Sango knew immediately that something was wrong. There weren't any stars in the sky, not even a cloud. Sango looked around and noticed a red mist coming up from the ground. The Akurei materialized ten yards away from her. "It's not possible!" she thought. "How? I destroyed you!" Sango looked around and noticed the bodies on the ground dissolving into black ooze. Its black mist didn't hide the Akurei anymore; it revealed its true form.
It was a sphere of flesh, bone, and the faces of its victims, all whom cried out in a symphony of pain. Sango was stricken with fear and had no idea what was going on. The Akurei drew closer and a skeletal face detached itself and pinned itself to Sango. The young girl closed her eyes and heard the wailing of the dead, and then it became silent.
Sango reopened her eyes and noticed that she standing in front of Kagome and InuYasha. "Sango are you feeling okay?" asked Kagome. Sango looked around and noticed that it was raining, was it all some bizarre dream. "I don't know." Sango trembled with fear and heard Naraku's laughter behind them. The evil hanyou stepped out from the shadows, with Kohaku behind him. Her nightmare was repeating itself, and she was going to have to go through it, again, and again, and again, and again….