Author's Note: Ok, in this chapter, Inuyasha and his clique…lol. (shakes head) clique…Anyways, yeah, they are fighting Naraku. Now I know he's a half demon like Inuyasha, but he doesn't change on the full moon like Inuyasha does….right? Did I mix that up? Well, let's all just pretend like Naraku changes into a human on some other night. Mmmmk? Do we all understand the concept?.....I hope so….Please read and review!! Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha

Chapter: ten

Kagura watched from where she was hidden the dark trees and smirked, 'they'll pay for everything. Finally their deaths will arrive.' She thought wickedly and awaited for her time to appear again.

Naraku laughed at them. "Your all so foolish! You can't win!" He shouted as few of his opponents made a move to attack again.

Kagome went to Kikyo quickly and Sango went to Miroku. "Are you alright guys?" Kagome asked looking at them both. They nodded and stood up. Kouga, Ayame, and Inuyasha held off Naraku the best they could as they waited for the others. They didn't know how Naraku was so strong now, how did this happen?

Miroku stood up and healed himself, as did Kikyo. Kagome gave some of her arrows to Kikyo that she retrieved in the hut earlier. Miroku grasped his staff, "Let's go!" Everyone agreed as they charged Naraku with the other three that were trying to hold their own for as long as they could.

Poor Shippo stood by the doorway and watched, very frightened. "Kilala, should you and I go help them?" He asked shuttering. Kilala seemed to think about this for a second and decided to help when her mistress was injured. Shippo appeared to understand and went back to Kohaku. He still slept. 'Sango must have hit him really hard or he's just plain exhausted.' Thought the little kitsune.

Naraku cursed under his breath, 'I can't bring that boy back under my control. One of them must have healed him and put up some kind of barrier to ward off any evil.'

Kagome and Kikyo stood side-by-side, firing arrow after arrow. They were careful to keep track of how many they had and used them wisely.

Miroku smashed the tentacles with his staff, Sango attacked with Hiraikotsu, Kouga punched them, as did Ayame, and Inuyasha tried his best to block the attacks that came his way. He couldn't just pull out his sword. The blasted thing wouldn't transform! Inuyasha cursed his human form for the moment and barely dodged an oncoming hit and rolled away.

They continued on for about an hour. Miroku saw a tentacle whip towards his legs from the ground, it was going to trip him, but Miroku jumped up and and dodged it. When he came back down he slammed his staff through it and it was destroyed.

Sango put Hiraikotsu in front of her as a shield to block Naraku's attack. She then swung it up in the air and threw toward three blasts coming her way and sliced them in half. She watched them vaporize in the air.

Kouga and Ayame just punched and kicked at whatever was a threat to them.

Kikyo fired an arrow that vaporized five blasts in a row and purified them. Kagomwe saw two blasts heading toward Inuyasha who was already kneeling down from his last attack. "Inuyasha!" Kagome called to him. As he looked up he saw the blasts speeding toward him. He stumbled to get up and block it, but Kagome dove in front of him and held up her bow horizontally high in front of her with both hands. "Kagome!" The blasts came and they were destroyed once they made contact with Kagome's bow.

Inuyasha looked at Kagome in front of him in amazement, 'her bow is similar in defense as Tetsusaiga's sheath is!' He watched her turn around to face him with a smile. "What, you thought I was gonna die or something?" He just looked away sort of embarrassed made a little nod. 'Hell yeah I did! And that scared me to freakin' death!!!' He screamed in his mind. "Well, if it meant protecting you, then of course." He would have hugged her just now. But there was a life and death situation going on not too far away.

"Ahh!" yelled Sango in pain as a blast hit her from behind. Kilala now charged and attacked. She roared loudly and kept attacking till three blasts took her down.

"Sango!" Shouted Miroku as he went to her while dodging attacks at the same time. He helped her sit up and then she thought of something. "Miroku, don't you have any sutras or wards with you that you could use?" She coughed a little. "That could be a puppet, you have to use one of them." Miroku nodded and laid her back down. 'How could I have forgotten about something so important?' he asked himself as he stood up with his hand getting a sutra and having it at ready, waiting for the right moment.

His heart skipped as he saw his chance and took it. He jumped up behind Naraku and slapped a sutra or demon ward thing on it and slammed his staff on it afterwards. When he landed the baboon identity shredded into nothing and the real Naraku was emerged from it and unharmed. What? How could this be? Everyone thought he would send a puppet first, like the coward he was and then attack when they were all worn out!

Kagura also came out once the damage on her was healed. She smirked evilly and flicked her wrist to open her wind fan. Naraku was surrounded by a dark tornado that formed when his baboon suit was always destroyed.

And they were shocked to discover that it was the actual Naraku before them and not some crappy puppet thing.

"Once I have the jewel from the girl, the shard in that brat's body, and the two in the pathetic stupid arrogant wolf's legs. The world will come to its knees." Said Naraku smirking as he stated his lust for conquest for the world to hear.

From afar, they all heard a defensive, "Hey!" from Kouga, and the majority of the group rolled their eyes.

Kagome held the jewel in her hand protectively and seethed with anger as she stood next to Inuyasha and the others. 'We need Inuyasha to transform back into a half demon already. It looks like victory is not on our side just yet.' By this time Kikyo has regained her strength. Sango stood back up with Kilala going back to her post in front of the hut as her mistress ordered.

Miroku jumped up and swung his staff at Naraku, but he backhanded him out of the way. Miroku landed with a heavy thud far away against a tree trunk. "Miroku!" Yelled Sango desperately. She was about to assist him, but Naraku sent an attack her way and she landed further away from him, 'Miroku, I have to get to you.... My weapons are all damaged. The only weapon I have left is Hiraikotsu.'

Ayame and Kikyo stood a few feet apart, getting ready for any attack. On there right, Inuyasha and Kagome were helping each other and Kouga was attacking now. Naraku punched Kouga to where Miroku was and hit his back against a tree trunk just like Miroku. They were trying to get up, but with a lot of difficulty.

Sango got up and ran to Kagome, almost limping, once she regained her strength. "Any bright ideas?" Kagome shook her head; neither of them looked at one another. Naraku sent a powerful blast toward Kikyo as he did Inuaysha. At the same time Kikyo fired an arrow and the blast disappeared. Inuyasha wasn't having so much luck. It hit him with out Kagome having enough time to fire her arrow and defend him.

Naraku held his arm straight in front of him and it stretched! The hand soon grabbed Inuyasha by the neck and pulled him toward Naraku very quickly before anyone could react. Once he was in front of Naraku, the powerful demon lord punched the hanyou in the gut. Inuaysha's eyes went wide in pain as Naraku threw him to where the injured wolf prince and monk were. Naraku turned to them and fought the already injured men. 'Why is he attacking them and not us?' Kagome thought.

"I will be the one to kill you young ladies." Said Kagura in her oh so mesmerizing voice. She put her fan at ready, "Dance of blades!" The girls did their best to dodge the blades but Kikyo and Kagome couldn't shoot their arrows at them faster then they came. Kikyo tried to jump out of the way but a blade managed to slice her shoulder and front of her chest. Kagome dodged them; she was fast now from all that running away from demons for the past few years. Kagome turned around to look for anyone who was injured.

"Kikyo!" Kagome called as she dodged blades while getting to her. "Are you alright?" She helped Kikyo into the hut next to Kohaku, "Kikyo, heal yourself the best you can, we need you." Kikyo nodded as Kagome left to fight alongside Ayame and Sango.

Naraku attacked Inuyasha, Miroku and Kouga with a sickening laugh. Miroku landed painfully next to Inuyasha as Kouga next to them tried to stand up but couldn't. Miroku coughed, "It seems Kagura is attacking the girls. We have to fight Naraku and help them." Inuyasha only nodded and held his bleeding left arm while gritting his teeth so hard that he thought they'd crack against each other.

"You're such a fool Inuyasha, you will die like you were suppose to fifty years ago." Said Naraku evilly. As Naraku got his energy blast ready, the men braced themselves for death.

"Dance of blades!" Ayame, Sango, and Kagome did a good job of dodging the blades of light so far, but managed to get a few scrapes and gashes. Kagome landed on her side as she rolled away from an oncoming blade. She stood up, 'There has to be a way I can fire an arrow at her fan without her waving it all around like a stupid idiot.' Sango seemed to read her mind and so she ran the opposite direction of Kagome so Kagura will attack her. Kagome nodded her thanks and got an arrow ready just as Kagura was about to attack Sango.

As Kagura raised her fan, her back to Kagome, She prayed to the gods to give her an accurate aim. Kagome waited...

"Dance of -ahh!" Her fan was shattered. She turned around to see Kagome in her same stance as she fired that arrow, and then she brought her bow down and smirked. "Dance of ahh?, That's a new one." Said Kagome as she aimed another arrow at thw ind sorceress. Just then, Hiraikotsu hit Kagura from behind and Ayame landed on the ground next to her, squatted down and kicked her across her shins, tripping her. Kagome fired her arrow at the fallen woman and watched her vaporize with a blood-chilling scream.

"C'mon! Let's go save our guys!" Said Kagome determinedly as all three girls stood up and nodded. They ran toward where the boys were. But they were worried if they'd be too late and stumble upon their worst nightmare, the loss of their loved ones.

Naraku was about to unleash his powerful attack and the men braced themselves, as their death was about to come.

Just when the blinding blast was coming, the guys watched speechless, as Kagome and Sango came out of the trees on their left and Ayame came out from the right. They stood in front of them as they readied their weapons at the same time to block the attack. Inuyasha, Miroku, and Kouga couldn't believe what they were seeing. The girls just came out of nowhere and stood in front of them.

Sango threw her Hiraikotsu, Kagome fired an arrow and Ayame formed some sort of fireball thing in her hands to block the attack from going any further, and it worked!

Kagome's purity arrow shattered the blast in thin air and met Naraku's displeased face.

Just then, when the girls prepared for more oncoming attacks. They noticed the sky was a dark blue; they followed the gaze to the sky where the lightest of blue was. They stood in silent appreciation.

The break of dawn was coming...