Action Chapter!!!!!!!!! This fight might not seem to last long, but you guys are prolly getting really tired of all the angst, which I'm sorry for. I just like to keep people on their toes. And when I leave you with a cliffhanger, I am pretty sure you will all tune in to find out what happens. Sorry if you're not liking that style. Again... no one is making you read this (unless you are Rebecca, because I'm making her –evil laughter-)

"Finding Your Heart" by Inu Faceness

Chapter Fourteen: Purified

Screeching tires echoed through the outside world just before the thunder like sound coming from the pistol in Naraku's hand.

The flash of the shot made Kagome scream. She heard two different grunts; one was most defiantly from the man that was now falling to the ground beside her. Without thinking she knelt down beside him. His hand had subconsciously gone to the wound as he fell and she removed it. Blood had seeped through his fingers and onto hers as Kagome lifted his hand. A purple-ish rim lined the bullet hole on his shoulder.

She ripped his shirt to expose the wound to her. His skin was paling and getting colder; pain filled breaths racked his body. Kagome bundled up his shirt and pushed it onto the hole, trying her best to get the bleeding to stop. She spared a sharp glance to Naraku. She hadn't even noticed Sesshomaru.

Both he and Naraku were getting up from the ground. When Sesshomaru had seen Naraku point the gun at his younger half brother, he had moved to the man's side and knocked him over. He threw all his weight into Naraku's side, throwing his aim off. Sesshomaru stood and regained his balance.

Naraku sent a weary eye up at the inu youkai and quickly looked over at his gun. It had spun from his hand and out into the street. It would take too long to go and get it. As he got up, his right hand brushed across his ankle. As Sesshomaru wobbled on his feet, Naraku swung his arm, now armed with the knife. Sesshomaru howled in pain as the blade cut into his gut.

The others arrived just in time to see the strike upon the inu youkai. Rin screamed and tried to run to her husband, but was held back by Sango and Miroku. Tears spilled from Kagome's eyes as she saw her brother-in-law be slashed by a purple blade.

"Sesshomaru!" She and Rin screamed in unison.


Inu Yasha cracked an eye open despite the pain he was in. Seeing Sesshomaru get hit was like a glass breaking in an empty room. The sound echoed through his head. 'S-Sesshomaru...' He sat up, holding Kagome's hand as it applied the needed pressure on his shoulder. She looked over at him; astonished he had recovered that quickly.

"Inu.... Inu Yasha..." she sputtered. He used her shoulder as a crutch, standing up on his own. His eyes rolled to the back of his head as the purification bullet lodged in his shoulder began to take its toll. Inu Yasha stumbled to keep his balance.

"Damn..." he grunted. "Not even one day from the hospital..." He saw his brother fall, holding his damaged stomach. Wiping his face of the cold sweat forming on his brow, Inu Yasha started toward Naraku.

"You truly are a fool, hanyou." Naraku got a better grip on his weapon, now shining with the blood of Sesshomaru.

"You are forgetting," Inu Yasha stumbled slightly, "You're a hanyou too." 'God... Sesshomaru's down.... What chance in hell do I have?' Inu Yasha kept closing in on his enemy, getting slower and slower because of the bullet.

Blood dripped from Inu Yasha's fingers, falling onto the soft green grace. His eyes closed slightly as a wave of pain washed over his body. Sesshomaru heard his brother grunt and fall to his hands and knees. Holding the bleeding, burning cut, Sesshomaru tried to make his way toward his half brother. Naraku laughed, walking up and kicking the harmed inu youkai.

"Don't think for a minute I'd let you and Inu Yasha team up. I'm too smart for that one." His foot came into contact with the middle of Sesshomaru's gut. His eyes widened at the pain and he hissed with the throbbing. He flipped onto his back, giving Naraku full access to his wound. "Thanks," he said as he stepped on the blood red section of the shirt Sesshomaru wore.


Inu Yasha crawled a little way, watching as Naraku kicked his older brother. Attempting to stand, he struggled over to him when Sesshomaru flipped over. Cracking his knuckles as he stood behind the evil hanyou, Inu Yasha spoke.

"You...are pathetic..." He sliced into Naraku's back. He screamed when the sharp nails came into his flesh. Swinging back with amazing strength, Naraku backhanded Inu Yasha, sending the poor, injured man onto the pavement. He lay, not moving on the heated street.

Sango and Miroku watched as Inu Yasha flew flimsily through the air and crash into the black ground. Their grip on the angry woman slackened and Rin ran from their arms, following Kagome, who had just gotten over her shock. They ran together, ignoring the calls of their friends, the grunting of the man coiled in pain on the ground. Their main focus was solely on Naraku.

Sesshomaru's eyes slowly drifted to Rin as he slipped in and out of consciousness. He could no long see Inu Yasha and everything around him was getting blurry. 'What kind of a way is this for a man like me to die? An inu youkai...killed by an evil hanyou?' he felt the purifying taking place in his belly, the white-hot feeling swimming through his veins. He was too tired of fighting the losing battle against the wound to scream in pain. He just wanted to sleep...


Naraku brought the knife out in front of him as the two girls ran for him. He thought again, lowering the blade and thinking of the most pleasurable way to kill the enemy's mate: torture. Quickly tossing the blade into the ground beside him, he waited. Kagome ran ahead of Rin, her hands fisted and ready for combat. When she was close enough to Naraku, he grabbed her flowing hair and yanked it, bringing her to her knees hard.

Rin followed the same fate, being knocked down by a pull to the head. She screamed at the top of her lungs as her nails dug into his hand in a last ditch effort to make him let go. He refused. Kagome's soft cries were barely audible over his low chuckle. But what cut the air more than everything else and made everyone stop dead in their tracks was the sound of four gunshots.

Inu Yasha brought himself to a reclining position, resting on his elbows as he squinted his eyes to focus on his yard where this previous guardian attacked his friends. He watched as Kagome and Rin ran blindly toward Naraku; he watched him throw the weapon to the ground; when he saw his wife and sister-in-law crumble to the ground in agony, he knew he'd sat back to recuperate long enough.

What he needed was something he could hit Naraku with from a long distance. With his now clear vision, Inu Yasha looked around, not seeing anything...until he looked behind him. Sitting not two feet away, Inu Yasha spotted the long forgotten pistol. Picking it up and standing with all the strength he had left, he checked the clip, seeing it was filled with purification bullets.

Without another thought, he lined up his shot and fired four times, watching through the white smoke billowing from the barrel. Naraku fell to his knees and to his side, inches from where Sesshomaru lay. Feeling as if he was about to die from exhaustion, Inu Yasha said one thing that would make Naraku kill him before falling back onto the 'oh-so-friendly' concrete.

"I win."

END CHAPTER

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