Their house had burnt to the ground. Her husband had died trying to defend his family. Now it was just this mother and her son, running from the raging inferno of Gyouka and Fuyuka. She and her son fled, as did many other people. However, more than half of the village's population had already been slaughtered. Fuyuka's wolves and Gyouka's bats were tearing into the bodies that littered the carnage. Some of the people they were eating were still alive too.

"This is too much," Fuyuka laughed as he ripped his claws through an innocent man. "I can't believe Yura and them didn't want to do this!" He stopped and looked around. He smelled her scent. "Ah, Sekka's come to join us. She must have destroyed the Syee-tree-neen-tie... or whatever the fuck they're called..." He sniffed again. "Or maybe not..." The giant man-tank was crawling over to him. It had four passengers: a giant of a man, two kids, and ... her? "Sekka!" he exclaimed, "What's the meaning of this?"

Ginkotsu stopped and Sekka jumped off. "I have a rather large bone to pick with you, wolfy," she growled. Fuyuka looked at her confused, but decided to listen. "I know."

"What?"

"I said I know."

"You know what?"

Sekka closed her eyes as they began to tear up. "I know," she began, but her voice broke. She sniffed, and regained herself. "I know about you and those assassins." Fuyuka's eyes went huge. How the hell could she possibly know that? Did Frostbyte tell her? "I know you hired them to murder Hiten. I've always known..."

"Sekka-"

"Shut up!" She blasted him with a large ball of ice that sent him flying a few feet back. "How the fuck could you do that to me?" She blasted another blast at him, belting him right in the face. "I loved him! I know you knew that! So why the fuck did you do it?"

"Sekka," Fuyuka stuttered, "I wanted to be with you. I've... always wanted to be with you..."

Sekka giggled angrily. "You've always wanted to be with me? My dear Fuyuka, we've been friends since the time I rescued you from that pit that your little brother pushed you down. You've had plenty of time to tell me since then!" She blasted him again, but instead of letting himself get hit, he jumped out of the way and dashed towards her. He stood right in front of her and grabbed her arms tightly.

"Stop doing that!" he growled. "You don't wanna hafta have me teach you a lesson, do you?" He bared his teeth. "'Cause you know I can do that very... very well...-"

"Gishi." A loud crashing sound occurred, and a strange device shot from the man-tank. It was a steel wire attached to a metal disk. It struck Fuyuka in the forehead, causing him to loosen his grip on Sekka and fall back wards. The steel wire then wrapped him up, disenabling him to move. Sekka looked back at the remnants of the Shichinintai and smiled. Ginkotsu retracted his wire, pulling Fuyuka closer to them. "Move," he whispered, "and I'll tighten the wire, chopping you up into tiny slivers."

(That was Jakotsu's idea, obviously... gishishishi.)

Fuyuka was now subdued, but there was still one more person they had to deal with: Gyouka, general of KooriKisaki's army. The head honcho. The numero uno. The big cheese.

(Those Pizza Cats beat me again! I think I'm gonna explode here, waa –BOOM!–)

Shirakiyo and InuYasha stared down the giant front door to Kuronigori's citadel. "So your sister's just in here, huh?" InuYasha muttered. "Stand back then." Shirakiyo took a step back as InuYasha performed his signature Scar of the Wind on the door, reducing it to pieces. "Feh, after you." Shirakiyo nodded and ran into the chamber, followed by InuYasha. Along the way up the many flights of winding stairs they met with very little turbulence. Really it was just a few doors that stood in their way. Either Kuronigori had a lot of self-confidence in herself, or she was a complete moron. Soon they reached the top of the tower and there stood one final door. InuYasha once again performed the Scar of the Wind to knock it down. They entered the chamber.

A giant window overlooked the battlefield, and to the right of it was Midoriko's body, resonating with evil magic. Other than that, the room was pitch black. InuYasha sniffed the room and caught a scent immediately. "What?" he said confused. "Why do I smell Naraku?"

"That's probably me you're smelling," a female voice said from within the shadows. Kuronigori's visage appeared before them from the dark corner of her room with a big grin spread across. "You see, I am a detachment of Naraku, so that's why I smell like him."

InuYasha's eyes twitched. "What did you just say?" He looked over at Shirakiyo. "She's a detachment of Naraku?" he exclaimed. "But I thought she was your sister!"

"Oh," Shirakiyo smiled, "she is. So I think that even you can figure the rest out for yourself, dog-boy."

InuYasha growled. "You fucking bastards. This was a set-up all along, wasn't it?"

The sound of applause came from the shadows. "And the last horse crosses the finish line," Naraku's voice taunted as he came into view. "Shirakiyo and Kuronigori are born of me, like Kanna, Hakudoushi," he paused, and then an evil smile crossed his face, "and Kagura." He held up the Shikon Jewel. It was covered in blood. Wolf blood.

InuYasha felt some of his strength leave him when he smelled it. "Kouga?" he stuttered.

"Ku ku ku," Naraku giggled. "He's enjoying a nice quiet ride down the river Stix-"

"Um," Kuronigori muttered, "Isn't that a Greek thing?" Naraku shrugged.

"Bastards!" InuYasha growled again. "You'll pay for this!" He unleashed the Scar of the Wind at the three demons in front of him. The blast cut through all of them and the window, blowing it and the entire tope floor to smithereens. Kuronigori perished in the attack, but Naraku and Shirakiyo managed to make it out in time.

"My fellow white angels," he boomed to his companions, "It is time to go to the next step of the plan." He looked down at Kagome and sneered wickedly. The white angels turned their attacks from the black angels to InuYasha's party. Juuroumaru looked at the sight in horror and glanced at Akizuki, who seemed to be just as stunned as he was.

"You traitors," he growled softly.

"What?" Akizuki said, taking a step back, "I don't know what's going on!"

Juuroumaru glared at her, then back to the battlefield. "Shit."

InuYasha leapt from the explosion of the late Kuronigori's citadel and landed right by Kagome, Miroku and Sango. "What's going on?" Kagome stuttered. "Why are the white angels attacking us?"

"Shirakiyo," InuYasha muttered angrily, "That son of a bitch. He's a detachment of Naraku. The thing is... why doesn't he smell like Naraku?"

"Perhaps it was part of the trap," Miroku suggested. "If he smelled like Naraku from the very beginning, we would have known about the whole thing."

"There's another thing," InuYasha whimpered. "Naraku... murdered Kouga."

Kagome gasped and fell to her knees. InuYasha helped her back up and held her in his arms. She started to cry softly. "Kouga's..." She pushed away from InuYasha gently and took an arrow from her quiver. "Where is Shirakiyo?" she asked, wiping the tears from her eyes. InuYasha pointed up into the air, where Shirakiyo was hovering. Kagome held the arrow and purified it. "His incessant flirting was really annoying," she muttered as she aimed the purified arrow at him. She readied the bow and –twang!– let it fly. Shirakiyo wasn't watching, unfortunately for him, and it pierced him right in the heart. He looked down at Kagome, still in the position of just having fired the arrow.

"Ka...gome?" he stuttered. His wings disintegrated and he fell to the ground. He landed a few feet in front of Akizuki and Juuroumaru, who came running over to him. He lay there, still alive, and looked up into her eyes.

"You betrayed us," she whispered. "I thought we were friends..."

"Heh," Shirakiyo smiled, "I never said we weren't friends, Akizuki." She turned her back from him as Kagome and InuYasha joined them. Shirakiyo looked up at Kagome and smiled. Kagome did not return the jester however. "I really do like you, Kagome," he said sweetly. "I wish things had been different."

"So do I," Kagome muttered. Shirakiyo closed his eyes. "So do I..."

Meanwhile, Miroku and all the others were busy trying to take care of the black and white angels. If only those damn Saimyoushou weren't there; then Miroku could suck up the whole lot of them into his air void. Suddenly, a gust of wind crashed down upon the battlefield. The Saimyoushou were all instantly chopped up into tiny pieces. Miroku looked back to see Kagura floating on one of her giant feathers. "Monk," she said, "Suck them up." Miroku nodded and unleashed his air hole, sucking up all the black angels and all the white angels, save for Akizuki who was actually on their side.

Kagura flew over to InuYasha. "Kagura," he said, "I'm really sorry about..." he trailed off.

"It's time we put an end to Naraku once and for all," she answered back. "Agreed?"

InuYasha nodded. "Juuroumaru, he's your dad too. You want in?" Juuroumaru nodded. "Okay. Kagome... I want you and everyone else to go back to the village for safety."

"But-"

"Please," he said, taking her hands in his. "I don't want you to get hurt." She nodded.

"Be careful," she said, kissing him.

"I will."

InuYasha, Juuroumaru and Kagura looked towards the citadel. Naraku was standing on top of it. He leapt backwards and started fleeing. They glanced at each other, nodded, and then took off after him. Kagome and Akizuki were joined by Kanna. "Come," she whispered. "Let's get back home." She smiled. "I'm sure they'll be alright."

"But," Kagome began, "Will the three of them be enough to stop him?"

"Not three," Kanna said looking into her mirror. She showed Kagome a picture of Jakotsu riding Kazan. He was only a few minutes ride from the battlefield. "All four of them... will definitely take him out. Come, let's go." And with that, OmegaNihon and ChikaraEki left the battlefield to get to the safety of their village, and to reencounter with Kikyou at Tsuyu's place. The final battle was about to begin, but all they could do was watch in fear.