Chapter 13

From the Heart

Everyone looked up to see Chione, swinging her glaive on a balcony above. Her friends and partners were beside her, wearing looks of disgust as they looked down. Shinji opened a power box and flipped some switches up. The lights came on, giving sight to everyone. All nine girls jumped off the balcony and did a flip before landing smoothly on the ground.

Some of the girls were sporting several cuts and bruises on their body. While Kikyo, Inuyasha, and Kagome were in the room with Naraku, that's what must have happened outside. Hiroshi was sporting several cuts on her body and a black and blue cheek. Kameko had a dark bruise on her right shoulder while Chione had a bleeding cut on her left cheek.

"Where is Naraku!" Sango demanded.

"He's in the door behind us, getting ready to escape. Reishi's with him as well." Chione answered.

"How come she's not here, getting ready to fight with us?" Miroku asked.

"Because she's Naraku's favorite minion. Not to mention that she resembles Naraku's deceased wife CK." Hiroshi replied. She held up her weapon, twin kodachi blades. "Enough talk."

Sesshomaru held the gun up. "Inuyasha, get your friends out of here. Kagura and I can take care of these bitches." He ordered. Kagura unraveled her tessen, its sharp blade glinting in the light. Inuyasha and his friends were about to leave through the door but Kesshou and Kameko were blocking the door. To the right of them were Chione and Shinji and Sayo, Kinbari, and Megan to the other. Aki and Hiroshi guarded Sesshomaru and Kagura from getting to the door Naraku was behind.

"None of you are going anywhere." Kesshou replied.

"We'll have to see about that." Inuyasha answered. He rushed at Kesshou, claws outstretched. Kesshou sidestepped and swung the back of her fist at him. Inuyasha ducked and tackled the ferocious cat demon to the ground. She lifted her feet and kicked the hanyou off. Kesshou stood up and held up her claws, which were shining a poisonous green. Inuyasha rushed at Kesshou again. She drew her hand back and poison emitted from it and headed directly for Inuyasha! He ducked again but the poison hit his shoulder. The pain began to rip through his skin. The hanyou winced but didn't need telling twice. He ran to Kesshou again and she created the poison again. Inuyasha jumped over it and landed in front of the cat demon. He swung his claws at her but she defended herself by doing the same thing. They kept attacking and defending with their claws until Inuyasha tripped Kesshou to the ground. He landed a punch on her chest and then her stomach, knocking her out.

Sango and Chione swung their swords at each other but ending up missing since they each moved out of the way. Sango swung the katana on each side so Chione couldn't escape. She ducked and rammed her shoulder in Sango's stomach. Chione pushed her far enough to swing her glaive at her enemy. Sango jumped back and parried. Sango had some training with swords but not enough to master it. She thrust the katana at Chione but Chione jumped to the side and grabbed Sango's wrist. She swung her leg over Sango's arm and then brought her other leg to kick Sango's cheek. Both spun in the air for a second and then their body met with the hard ground. Both got up and resumed veering their swords at each other. Sango rammed her shoulder to Chione like she had done before and then brought her katana up, knocking Chione's glaive out of her hand. Chione lay on the ground, the blade of a tool for death right at her throat.

Miroku swerved the baseball bat at Kameko but Kameko was able to read his mind earlier for his move. She ducked and karate chopped his hand making the bat roll away. Kameko began to throw punches at Miroku. Remembering the way Sango used to punch him, Miroku dodged all of the attacks. When she realized she couldn't touch him, (A/N: Can't touch this! Dun dun dun dun! I'm joking! Continue reading…) she lunged for the bat on the ground. Miroku realized her move so he went down for the baseball bat as well. Kameko's palm enclosed on the handle but Miroku slammed his fist on her hand. Kameko angrily picked up the bat again and tried to bring it down on him. Miroku rolled away and stood up. Kameko pretended to swing the bat so Miroku would move to the side. She thrust it at him and the moved to she was directly behind Miroku. She grabbed the other end of the bat and began to choke Miroku. He elbowed her in the stomach so she was winded. When Kameko was, Miroku head-butted her in the head knocking her out.

Shinji held up her hands, revealing steel nails creating iron claws. Kagome eyes it wearily. She was no match for Shinji, so how could she defeat her? Shinji brought her steel claws on Kagome and the young miko jumped back. Kagome had nothing to defend herself with. Shinji smirked, seeing the miko defenseless. Shinji began to claw Kagome. She kept moving back, seeing how she couldn't do anything to stop her attacker. Shinji grinned evilly as she kicked the miko's feet making her trip. She was about to bring her steel claws down again when Kagome held up her hands. Her miko powers created a shield and threw Shinji back. Shinji bound back, obviously mad. She ran to Kagome, about to slash her claws again when Kagome lifted her hand as she did before. Her miko powers were stronger the second time around so they hurled Shinji onto the floor.

Koga and Ayame held up their fists as Kinbari and Sayo got in samurai fighting stance with their swords. Just as quickly as they got ready, Kinbari and Sayo rushed at Koga and Ayame. They moved at the same speed and swung at the same time. Koga and Ayame moved out of the way just in time. Kinbari and Sayo turned around so they were in opposite places. Kinbari and Sayo turned around in a full circle and turned it in a sword thrust. Koga and Ayame spun around to avoid the blades but ended up being cut on across their left arm. As their clothes were soaking up the blood, Sayo and Kinbari attacked again. Koga ducked when Kinbari thrust her sword, so he elbowed her in the stomach. Then he knocked the sword out of her hand. Ayame turned when Sayo thrust her sword. She swung her arm back and hit Sayo in the neck. Then Ayame kicked her in the back.

Aki used her super speed to run to Sesshomaru. He hastily reloaded the gun. Before Aki could raise her claws to strike, Sesshomaru shot the gun's round at her. The cat demon moved to the side each time the bullet came near her. She pushed the gun down and socked the youkai in the face. With the gun's round was gone, Sesshomaru threw the gun at Aki. She tried to sidestep but not fast enough. The gun hit her and fired a blank bullet her, penetrating her skin. He ran over to Aki and began to throw punches nonstop. Some punches hit Aki but she dodged the rest. She then scratched Sesshomaru across the face. She moved back a little and hissed at him. He faked slashing at her and then punched Aki across the cheek. Then he hit the spot in her neck that immediately put her in deep unconsciousness.

Hiroshi twirled both her blades in her hands. Kagura held up her tessen fan to cover half of her face. They both circled each other slowly, trying to make the other one start the fight. At the same time, they swung their weapons at each other. Kagura spun her tessen blade at the 17-year-old girl with each slash. Hiroshi parried with each blade alternating with each one. She then started crossed her arms and slashed. Kagura snapped her tessen close and parried. She used her closed weapon to hit the kodachi blades out of Hiroshi's hands. Then Kagura unraveled her tessen and held it at the girl's throat.

Kikyo outstretched her hands and a bow and an arrow appeared in each hand. She held fitted the arrow and took aim at Megan. The younger girl smirked and began to run in zigzag direction. Kikyo tried to take aim to shoot her arrow but she couldn't. Kikyo unfitted her arrow and got ready. When Megan was in range. When Megan was in range, Kikyo swung her bow and hurled Megan back.

Meanwhile, Naraku was getting ready to have Reishi and himself escape. When the escape shuttle was ready he turned to Reishi. "Reishi, get in now. It's time to go." He ordered.

Reishi nervously looked back at everyone fighting. "Is it ok to escape with your other minions, my friends, and leave them to die?" she asked.

"Who cares! Let them die! They were useful to me when they were scouting those brats." Naraku answered harshly. Reishi stared at him with surprised eyes. "Now get in the goddamn shuttle CK!" he yelled.

Reishi glared at her master. "What did you call me? My name is Reishi!" she said, her voice getting highly dangerous.

"I don't care what your name is CK!" he answered. "Get in!"

Reishi's hand went up to her tinted shades. "My name is Reishi!" she screamed. "You only want to save me because I remind you of your dead wife!"

Inuyasha burst into the room able to see the argument between the two. "Naraku!" he shouted. Reishi turned to look at Inuyasha and quickly tore the glasses away from her eyes. Her brown and green eyes glinted in the light, making Inuyasha lose control of his consciousness. He was under her spell.

"Inuyasha, kill Naraku!" she commanded. Inuyasha slowly advanced on Naraku. Naraku tried to escape past Inuyasha but he grabbed the demon's throat and slammed him against the wall. The hanyou's claws dug into Naraku's throat. Naraku gasped and struggled but only increased Inuyasha's power. "Finish him off now!" Inuyasha dove his clawed hand into Naraku's stomach, blood staining his hand. Then he threw him into the escape shuttle and dispersed it. Naraku was dead.

Reishi turned to Inuyasha. "Now, you half-breed, give me the Sacred Jewel." She commanded. Kagome ran into the room and saw what was going on. She ran up to Reishi and outstretched her hands. Her miko powers blasted Reishi back. She slammed against the wall and passed out.


All ten girls were placed in one of the vans. Everyone was in the hideout's parking lot. Koga closed the doors and turned to the others. "I guess that this is it." He replied.

"I guess so." Ayame said slowly. "So where are you gong to go know?"

"We might go back home…stay there for a while." Miroku suggested. "Now that Naraku is dead, we can move freely again."

Kagura and Sesshomaru were hugging their daughter, Rin. "Rin is happy! Rin is happy to be safe again!" she said joyously.

Kagura turned to the others. "We're going to be going back home and spend some time together." She answered.

"So what are you going to do with those girls?" Kagome asked.

"I'll bring them to a place where they can be able to control their powers." Inuyasha said. Kagome nodded awkwardly.

Miroku outstretched his arms to Sango. "Don't I get a hug?" he asked.

"So you can touch my ass?" Sango asked.

Miroku laughed. "No, seriously. I won't this time." He begged. She rolled her eyes and hugged him. When they broke apart, she stared at him with disbelief.

"You really didn't touch my ass!" she laughed. He shrugged and laughed.

"You stay beautiful ok?" Miroku ginned and go in the car. Koga and Ayame hugged each other and lightly kissed each other. Inuyasha and Kagome went forward to each other awkwardly.

"You still have a job to finish." Inuyasha commented. Kagome nodded. She placed both hands on his heart and began to concentrate hard. Again, as if like magnets, the Shikon No Tama was tearing through Inuyasha's heart and into her hands. He kept the pain silent and to himself though it was unbearable. Finally, it was over. The Shikon No Tama was in her hands, shining brightly with purity.

"It's now over…" she whispered.

Inuyasha smiled. "Keep the Jewel Kagome." He proposed.

"What?"

"Keep it. I don't have any use for it. Wish for something good." He replied.

"No! I don't want it!" Kagome denied. Inuyasha just shook her hand and went over to his other friends. He smiled at her and then got in the car.

"Come on Kikyo!" he called. Kikyo looked at him and then at Kagome. She walked over to her.

"Inuyasha must really love you if he gave you the Jewel." She commented.

"What?"

"There's a part of the legend that's not very common. If a man gives the Jewel to a miko to keep, then that means he loves her." Kikyo explained. "Well, I have to go. I hope we can be friends sometime. Nice to meet you Kagome." Kikyo ran over to the car and got in. Two of the cars drove off as Sango, Kagome, and Ayame watched.


A/N: W00t! This is the second to last chapter! That means...Yup! The story is coming to a close! This story was fun to write. Absolutely. I may put in a sequel but I'm not so sure. Anyway, please review!