Chapter 12 The Last Battle Part l
"Can you stand?" Kagome asked getting to her feet.
"What about you?" Inuyasha asked getting up as well. Sango and Miroku met them up at the hill, along with Shippo bouncing behind them.
"You guys ready?" Sango asked.
"Yes are you?" Miroku asked lecherously, as his hand started to move towards Sango's bottom. At this, Sango gave him a death glare, and Miroku snatched his hand away feeling stupid.
"Let's get him!" Kagome said balling her hand into a fist.
"Right!" Inuyasha said confidently.
Sango handed Kagome her bow, and her quiver of arrows, and they walked into the cave, waiting for Naraku's reaction. They were disgusted at the site, throbbing demonic arms and organ type things were all over the cave. But all of these led to one area, a hole in the tall ceiling of the cave.
"The bastard is probably hiding up there!" Inuyasha said as he started heading towards the opening.
They all followed, walking into the dimming light of dusk, to find Naraku, who was merely his true form: his upper body, with putruding demonic arms, and tentacles of some sort. Naraku, had a balcony seat to the whole ordeal at the cliff, and had an amused expression on his face.
"Inuyasha, I must say, you put on quite a show down there, thrashing that hunk of lead around at my minions." Naraku taunted.
"Yea well we're here to finish you off, you slime." Inuyasha said, grasping the handle of tetsuaiga.
"You? A weak half breed, a companion to a useless mortal girl? And Sango over there, you are nothing but a useless mortal driven by your hatred of my cunning trap to destroy your family and friends, and to keep your brother by my side, as a killing slave," Naraku paused, and looked over at Shippo and Miroku, "and you two, are indeed more worthless, than all three of these combined, Shippo, you are but a useless one-tail fox, only clinging on to Kagome as your false mother, and Miroku, you are only here to avenge your dear departed grandfather from your family curse, how stupid" Naraku taunted and taunted untill Shippo couldn't stand it.
"Grr KNOCK IT OFF! The reason we are here is to kick your butt! And so what if Kagome is like a mother to me? It's not any of your buisness!" Shippo said angrily, while he leapt at Naraku's bulging throbbing tentacles and dug his sharp pointy teeth into it, holding onto him as a crab does to it's prey.Naraku , picked him off as if he was a flea, and formed a purple and pink barrier, electrifying anyone who comes near it.
"Shippo!" Kagome cried as she caught the tumbling ball of orange fur that fell from the sky.
"TETSUAIGA!" Inuyasha roared hurtling himself and his blade at the buzzing sheild.
"What's THIS?" Naraku asked aloud in astonishment, "I can't believe it, a half breed breaking through my barrier?" He said as his eyes grew wide in amazement and his body froze with tension.
Inuyasha's sword came clashing down to Naraku's body, but before it peirced his flesh, Naraku darted away. As this continued, Sango and Miroku began to creep into the cave, in hopes of finding Sango's younger brother Kohaku. They stepped into the cave, who's walls were basked in luminescent light, emmiting from the spring. This light flickered and danced and made shadows dance on the wall. But amongst these flickering faries of light, they saw two larger shadows, over in the corner. One was the form of what looked like a young girl, and the other, almost 6 inches taller than the first shadow, a boy.
"Kohaku..."Sango whispered. Miroku looked at his hand that began to twitch, and was tempted but he amazingly hesitated. The girl type shadow lurched behind a large boulder that was nearby and dissapeared from sight.
Kohaku turned, but his big brown eyes gre even larger, to the size of grapefruits, at the sight of the woman. That...lady...her face...Kohaku crunched forward clutching his skull, almost digging his nails into his skin.
"N-n-nooooooo" He cried as he fell to his knees. The small girl crept out from behind the rock. She was a small slender girl, wearing a orange and pale yellow dress, that ran down to her knees. She had pitch black hair, that was layered and so toussled (A/N spelling?) and stuck out either side of her head. Her eyes, took form of a deer's, stunned in the headlights, as she watched the boy fall.
"Rin? What are you doing here?" Miroku asked taking a step forward, his staff jingling with him as he walked.
"Huh, Oh well...um...you see that Kagura lady took me while I was collecting flowers...and she brought me to a big castle," Rin said as she threw her arms up in the sky, to describe how huge the castle was, "and then they put me in a room with Kohaku, and then we fell asleep and when we woke up, we were here..." ..."Yeah that's about it..." Rin said as she counted the events on her fingers.
"What do we do?" Sango whispered to Miroku covering the side of her face with her hand incase Rin could lip-read.
"We can't just leave her here...Bet you anything Sesshomaru is finding out right now by Jaken..." Miroku said as he glanced over at the child who was helping Kohaku to his feet.
"Rin...um...why don't you come with us?" Sango offered, bending down to the girls eye level.
"Oh..." Rin spoke as her eyes gleamed with happiness.
"damn you!" Inuyasha hollered at the fleeing demon.
Naraku ignored this remark and flung one of his tentacles at Kagome and Shippo, seperating Shippo from Kagome, and wrapping his ugly throbbing arm around her small body, lifting her high in the air and slowly constricting her. Kagome bit her lip and grunted, and tried not to show much pain as the monster squeezed.
"KAGOME!" Inuyasha screamed.
Kagome tried to smile, trying to make him not worry.
"Attack anymore Inuyasha, and the girl dies, if you flee, she dies, but..." Naraku taunted with a grimace growing on his face.
"But What?" Inuyasha yelled up at him, still looking at Kagome who was struggling trying to get the arm off.
"If you hand over your life, I may let her go..." Naraku sneered.
Inuyasha growled, and looked up at Kagome.
"No Inuyasha! Don't do it PLEASE!" Kagome shrieked.
"Fine!"Inuyasha said as he layed down tetsuaiga, and backed away a few steps. "Do with me what you want, but let Kagome go free." Inuyasha spoke, looking down, one of his sharp fangs, coming over his bottom lip.
Naraku, laughed as he dropped Kagome. The girl ran towards Inuyasha trying to grab him and run, her feet merely skating across the ground. Naraku laughed again and swiped her out of the way.
He wrapped his arms around Inuyasha, covering every area of his body except his face, but did let his ears poke through some of the constricting arms.Kagome ran over to Shippo and got one of her arrows out and pulled back and shot at Naraku, purifying some of his arms, and watching them shatter, but then watched and gasped in horror, as Inuyasha was constricted by Naraku. Naraku stared at him, Inuyasha showed no sign of fear or struggle, he just stared right back.
"Monk Look!" Sango half whispered to Miroku, who was getting the two young children out of the cave.
"Oh no...this does not look good," as he looked down from behind a large boulder inside the cave. He saw, Inuyasha held high in the air, and Kagome still standing near the scene. Inuyasha must have saw them, because he lip spoke, "Get Kagome out of here" To Miroku and Sango. Sango just looked at him once more, and nodded. She got Kirara who was in her kitten form, and beckoned her to turn into her demon form, which she did, and she got the two children on her back along with the monk and herself, on board along with her Hiraikotsu. As Kirara lept from the cliff and soar through the sky, Sango thrusted her Hiraikotsu at the demon's arm, the arm that was holding their dog eared friend. Kirara dove and caught Inuyasha on her back, still wrapped in the straight jacket formed arm, which was still wriggling. Kirara roared and flew away from the scene, followed by Kagome, who was perched on Shippo's pink bubble form of a balloon.
(A/N I could end it there, but I think you should get more for your money!)
Kirara pawed at the air a few times, but then turned around and went right back to Naraku.
"What? Were g-g-going back?" Shippo asked floating behind them.
"Yea stupid, we're here to finish Naraku off once and for all." Inuyasha shouted back at the pink bubble, who was shaking in his boots.
"O-o-ok" Shippo said uneasily, still following them.
"NARAKU!" Sango said as she flung her weapon at the demon, cutting off a few of his arms.
"Nnngh." Kagome grunted as she drew backa and fired her arrow at the demon.
"Inuyasha!" Miroku protested, as Inuyasha slipped off of Kirara's back purposely.
"I need to get my sword you idiot!" Inuyasha pointed at tetsuaiga which was where he had left it when he surrendered to Naraku.
Inuyasha ran with lighting speed, and grasped tetsuaiga firmly, watching it transform into a giant fang.
"Naraku, I'm here to take you down." Inuyasha said sternly as his hair blew in the breeze, standing in front of the demon, who was now 40 times bigger than Inuyasha.
"And he's not going it alone!" Kagome said as she stepped up next to Inuyasha, drawing back an arrow, and aiming it at the demon. Inuyasha glanced at Kagome and smiled, she in return.
"And me as well." Sango said as she readied her Hiraikotsu.
"RIN! WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?" Jaken Squealed as he started to take Rin off of Kirara's back.
"That Kagura lady took me, and Kohaku and I were at Naraku's castle, and then we went to the cave and then that lady rescued..." Rin began but was then cut off by Jaken.
"Never mind that Rin, if I don't get you back in time, Lord Sesshomaru will kill me for sure!" Jaken said shakily but urgently.
"Sesshomaru is there?" Rin asked her eyes gleaming.
"Yes now come on!" Jaken said pushing Rin towards the two headed demon that they often rode.
"Wait!" She cried as she picked three colorful flowers and handed them to Kirara, "Please, give this to that lady who helped me." She said as she gave one final courtsey, and hurried off with Jaken.
"Same here," Miroku said as he got out some of his scrolls out, followed by Shippo, who hid behind Mirkou.
"How touching, you all want to die together" Naraku snickered as he glanced at them.
Kagome bit her lip, and began to reach back for one of her arrows, but noticed that her usual quiver wasn't there. She gulped, and looked around to see where her bag was, she couldn't find it but amongst her scan, she saw one of her arrows, from before when she was shooting at Naraku, unfortunately, it was on the other side of the clearing, she looked at Inuyasha, who was already hacking away at Naraku, and ran. She closed her eyes, as she ran underneath Naraku, closing her eyes in fear of knowing that her death may be just a few steps away.
"Kagome!" Inuyasha screamed as he jerked his head in her direction, while defending himself with tetsuaiga against one of Naraku's claw type arms.
Please, Inuyasha, Kagome thought as she bent down reaching for the arrow, Just let me do this by myself, I'm the only one who can, it's my turn She thought as she picked up the arrow, attached it to the bowstring, and pulled back with all her might. Pink light began to wrap itself around her, from the tip of her arrowhead, flowing back to the tips of her hair, her pleated skirt blowing with the power and force of her miko (priestess) powers.
"This is it." Kagome thought as she closed her eyes,pulling back just a little harder. She then opened her eyes and aimed for Naraku's bare chest, looking straight at him with confidence in her eyes.
She shot it.
"It...it..." Kagome thought as she looked up with fear streaked across her face.
She thought with guilt in her mind, missed.
A/N I am SO sorry it took so long to get this up...I even had to make it a part 1 and 2 thing cuz I'm so lazy! But anyway I hope you like it...I know major cliff hanger! haha...deal with it glare