Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha.
Everyone has their day
Kagome couldn't sleep. She didn't know why, but she seemed to have a nagging feeling that something was wrong. The others had settled in for the night but the bond fire was still going. Not satisfied with not sleeping, Kagome quietly got up to take a walk.
Still not sure why she couldn't sleep, Kagome walked until she found a small stream near the camp sight. Without really paying attention, Kagome didn't notice the energy field ahead of her and walked right into it…sending her flying back onto the ground.
"What the…?" was all she could say as she got to her feet to investigate. Yup, in was a barrier all right. But what was a barrier doing in the middle of no where. Unless…. "Oh no…" Kagome proclaimed as she started to sense the sacred jewel somewhere on the other side of the barrier. She also felt a definite presence of two individual shards. Which meant… "Kouga!"
Kagome immediately headed back to camp running as fast as she could, not even noticing the feeling of the large jewel breaking up…
Kouga was very calm, and he should've been. He had jammed so many shards into him that he felt like he could run from here, back to his home cave in the west and back in no time at all. Although Kouga didn't really count, he had 10 shards in each leg right then. He also had 6 shards in each arm, 3 on each forearm and 3 on each bicep. With two shards also in his neck and four in his chest, he should of felt strong right then.
And Kouga still had a few left over shards and that half size peace. With Naraku trapped inside of his own barrier, with no way to get out. What could go wrong?
Naraku was pissed. And Naraku didn't get pissed very often. All he really wanted to do was jump on his horde of demons, fly back to his castle and plan more evil plots.
But, he couldn't. Due to his own arrogance, Naraku had trapped himself inside his own barrier, stuck with someone obsessed with killing him. And to top it all off, he had lost the jewel to him.
Naraku was so mad with himself he didn't even notice Kouga walking up in front of him, looking rather confident.
"You killed my people," Kouga stated with deadly calm. Naraku shot his head up to look at the wolf, anger in his eyes. "You've tortured so many others," Kouga even more calmly. Naraku couldn't stand his confidence. How could he talk that way to him? Too mad to think better of it, Naraku mustered a large amount of his miasma poison gas and enveloped Kouga in a thick could of death.
Naraku, satisfied with himself at his attack, eased a little. No one could withstand that much miasma, no matter how strong they were.
…Which is why Naraku froze when he heard that deathly calm voice again.
"You've done too much evil in this world to be forgiven, Naraku. It's time for you to die." Kouga said as he slowly took a fighting stance. Naraku still was in shock that he could even talk let alone stand and make threats. Even if he had been aware and concentrating on the fight, he probably wouldn't have been able to dodge Kouga's nect attack.
With a strong push off with his legs, Kouga hurled himself at Naraku with such velocity their was a slight sonic boom from how fast he was going. With miasma streaming off him, and in the instant it took Kouga to travel the distance between him and Naraku, Kouga gave one very hard swinging kick to the stomach of Naraku, sending him hurtling head over heels backwards, snapping through trees and bushes in his wake. The only thing that stopped Naraku from flying any further was the barrier, which, even with it's strength, nearly broke from the pressure of the flying body. But it held….barely.
Kouga had stopped immediately after kicking Naraku, somewhat shocked himself at how fast and hard he had just kicked that bastard. Looking down at his hands, trying to grasp the power he now had, Kouga slowly lifted he is head to see Naraku propped up against the far side of the barrier, barely moving.
Naraku was just starting to regain some of his senses. It didn't take long for him to realize that he had at least a few broken ribs. Checking again, he realized it was most of his ribs and grimaced at the pain that came from them. And his left arm probably shouldn't be bending that way. His hand shouldn't be bending that way either. Naraku was actually amazed at what he was feeling. He had never, in his life, been beaten up like this before and it was quite and experience. Also a very painful experience…
"I see your still alive. 'No matter really, just means I get to toy with you more'…" Kouga sneered as he quoted his adversaries words that he had only spoken to him not so long ago when Kouga was on his back. However, it made Naraku even more furious and he pulled every ounce of energy he had in him to form his good arm, his right, into a tentacle and swung it at Kouga with blinding speed. Kouga could of easily dodged the attacked, but decided to play a few head games with his prey.
As the tentacle made contact with Kouga, even with it going so fast, it came to a screeching halt as it hit Kouga. With every muscle in Naraku's body telling him to give up, Naraku pressed harder with his right arm to try and throw Kouga aside. Kouga, in turn, merely raised his left arm to grab the tentacle. With a squeeze and a yank, Kouga threw Naraku over his should driving him into the ground.
The impact from the throw was so strong it created a large circular creator around Naraku's body. Naraku was in serious pain now and Kouga had not released his grip on his right arm. Kouga smirked at the pitiful site in front of him. But the smirk quickly turned into him gritting his teeth as he put his foot against Naraku's body for leverage. With a strong pull, Kouga ripped Naraku's tentacle arm right out of its socket, with purple blood spraying out as soon as the arm came off and drew an immediate scream of pain and agony from Naraku.
Kouga actually liked what he heard. He didn't think that he would have this much pleasure from this, but it was invigorating. Naraku's arm had now turned back to it's normal form and Kouga merely tossed it aside. Kouga was enjoying this a lot, but it was almost time to finish this good for nothing ass hole off.
Inuyasha, Kagome, and the others ran as fast as they could to where Kagome had found the barrier. Kagome had noticed that the shards seemed to be concentrated on only one of the beings. Fearing the worst, that Naraku had taken the shards from Kouga and was now using them to kill him, Kagome told everyone to hurry.
"Why'd that stupid wolf have to be so stupid?" Inuyasha yelled as they all ran as fast as they could to the stream. "I mean, why does he have to go and get himself killed like that?"
"You almost sound concerned for him, Inuyasha." Miroku panted as they continued onward.
"Concerned? About that mangy wolf? Hell no! I'm more worried about Naraku getting his damn shards then him getting killed." Inuyasha stated flatly. Although he wouldn't admit he was somewhat worried about that stupid wolf. They had developed quite a rivalry since they had first met and there seemed to be a mutual, unspoken respect between the two of them. Of course he wouldn't admit that to anyone besides himself. And even then he wouldn't admit it to himself.
"I think I see something up ahead!" Kagome yelled as the began to slow their run to a walk then finally a stop. What they all saw shocked them.
It was unbelievable.
It was impossible.
It just couldn't be.
But despite what they all thought, their eyes didn't lie. Kouga was standing over a mangled Naraku, barely alive, with Kouga raising a clinched right arm to finish Naraku off.
Is that the end? Well, you'll have to wait and find out next time. RR, tell me what you think. Personally, I like it. J