Naraku's mangled corpse moved and he laughed, the horrid sound making the vines move from him.

"It's not that easy to kill me, Sesshomaru." he whispered, his voice cracking.

He stood, slowly and braced himself against a tree as his body automatically healed.

"Kagome, you cannot escape me, i will make the jewel mine. You seem to forget that i have half of the jewel." he laughed.

He pulled a hair from his head and poured energy into it.

"Jeromaru, come to me." he demanded and the white haired feral demon appeared.

He looked at him and just breathed, the muzzle pouring blue steam.

"come, let us go." he commanded and they flew off.

Kagome was on a bunch of furs in the darkest corner of the cave surrounded by wolves.

She petted one and watched as it wagged it's tail in response.

She grinned and scratched it behind one ear and wached in childish happiness as the wolf's tail thumped.

Inuyasha was outside, standing near the wild cherry tree.

Sesshomaru was on the ledge above him, and Kouga sitting on the ledge below.

Inuyasha smelled a scent that he recognized, one that should not be there.

He cursed.

"Naraku."

Looking toward the north, toward the well, he cursed under his breath as he spotted what looked like a fast moving black cloud move across the sky.

Whistling high, he caught the scent of someone that would really be of help.

Kagome came out of the cave and looked at him.

When he nodded toward the north then he glanced at the forrest below, kagome took off toward the forrest toward the scent of Sango and Miroku.

When she landed, she was tackled by a ball of fur.

holding him at arms length, she smiled.

"Hey, shippou." She said, then turned to the two others.

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Naraku was almost upon them and They were ready for him.

Miroku unravled the prayer beads that sealed in the black hole in his hand.

lifting his hand into the air, he sucked in Naraku's insects.

When Kagome signaled, he stopped and Naraku and Jeromaru were the only ones left.

Kagome, sesshomaru, INuyasha and Kouga jumped into the air and attacked Naraku.

He disentegrated.

They finished their attacks on Jeromaru, and the demon ran away.

When they set foot on the ground again, kagome had the gut feeling that this wasn't over.

She sensed a prescense behind Inuyasha and immediately charged in that direction.

Inuyasha, thinking that she was charging him, bared his teeth and drew his sword.

When she attacked the space just to the left of his head, he spun and saw Naraku behind him.

Suddenly, they were surrounded by Naraku.

they were back to back, hacking and slashing at the demon puppets surrounding them.

Miroku was trying to clear them a path with his wind tunnel, but the dolls were poison and he would die if he took in any more.

"Miroku, stop!" Kagome yelled, Ducking as Sango swung her Hirokotsu at a puppet.

Kagome sensed somehting odd about one of the narakus and focused on finding the sensation.

She left her body and her spirit zeroed in on the source of evil.

She kept him in her sight as she went back into her body.

She knocked an arrow and launched it at the demon.

The arrow hit home.

Suddenly all of the Naraku's writhed and all but one turned into wooden dolls.

Naraku clutched the arrow in his neck as it sizzled his skin.

When he was dead, she picked up her arrow and stuck it back in it's quiver.

locking eyes with Inuyasha, she just shrugged.

Miroku was collapsed on the ground as Kagome arrived at his side.

She sighed and closed her eyes.

Pouring healing energies into the monk, she searched out the poison and drew it into her where it would be harmless.

He opened his eyes and looked up at her in confusion.

"Just relax, i'm not done." she whispered, her voice unusually hoarse.

He closed his eyes and they both glowed with the same blue light.

Then something black went between the two and the aura disappeared as Kagome fell over the monk.

Inuyasha and Kouga lifted Kagome carefuly off of the startled monk and layed her on her back.

"Is she?" Miroku asked.

"No. she's just exhausted. She'll be okay once she gets some rest." inuyasha hoped.

Kagome shifted as he spoke and grabbed his hand, holding it to her heart.

He tried to gently pull his hand away, but quickly realized that, without breaking her wrist, he couldn't get away.

Shifting into a loose ball, she snuggled into the soft grass.

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Aww, let us leave on this light note and say goodbye.

Thanks for all your support during the days/weeks that i couldn't get any access.