Author's note: Okay it really has been forever since I updated this story, which is actually quite a shame because it is doing so well. I have some good news and some bad news. The good news is, is that I'll update right away if possible and the bad news is that this is the second last chapter of this story. I'm still debating if there will be a sequel or not but you'll just have to wait and see. Anyways here's the new chapter!

Inuyasha pointed Tetsusaiga towards Zuri. He let a low, feral growl rise from his throat and up out his mouth. He made sure that Kagome was safely behind him and stood in a battle stance.

"Zuri you're going down! For all the trouble you've caused to Kagome and any others!"

He charged towards the snake demon.

Zuri hissed and easily moved out of the way, or so he thought.

Inuyasha quickly turned around before Zuri could react and brought his Tetsusaiga down upon the snake youkai with one clean sweep.

"Damn you Inuyasha!"

Zuri twitched in pain, his body going limp from the sheer force of the mighty blade. He let himself fall to the ground then wriggled around and stopped shortly after.

Miroku turned towards Sango.

"Do you think he's dead?"

"I don't know, somthing as strong as that doesn't go down so easily."

Kagome began to run towards Inuyasha. She walked past Sesshomaru knowing that he was still alive. Just then she got a bad vibe. The hair on the back of her neck was dying to stand up and her body completely froze. She turned her head slowly towards the fallen snake youkai.

An eye suddenly had a lively look in it.

Kagome wanted to take a step back, to run anywhere possible, but found out that she couldn't.

Zuri lept up and towards the defenseless miko, who was frozen on the spot. He beared his sharp fangs and aimed them straight towards her neck.

Kagome opened her mouth to scream but no sound came out. She wanted to kick herself so badly right now.

Zuri smirked and moved in for the kill.

Suddenly his fangs were knocked out. He stopped, his body just a few feet away from Kagome. Zuri looked to the side and saw that bothersome taiyoukai standing there with his claws glowing a soft yellow.

"One more move and it's off with your head," he warned, his voice empty and emotionless.

"Do you really ttthink that a patthhhetic youkai of the likesss of you could defeat me?" Zuri sprang upwards into the sky and landed behind Sesshomaru, who was clearly aware of where he was.

Zuri opened his mouth and a huge ball of acid came rolling out. He hurled it towards Sesshomaru who simply dodged it by side stepping.

"You fool do you honestly think that you can kill me with poison when mine is much more stronger?" His claws began to glow green, the poison coursing through them.

Zuri didn't pay much attention to Sesshomaru's poison. He dashed towards the taiyoukai but was met with a painful feeling in his tail as Sesshomaru's claws made contact with it, melting the scales and flesh right to the bone.

Zuri thrashed his tail back and forth in pain, trying to stike Sesshomaru in the progress but failing.

He did, however, manage to strike Kagome and sent her flying.

Haivng been freed from her former state, she let out a loud ear-wretching scream that echoed across the land adn through everyone's ears.

She expected to be thrown to the ground but something stopped her fall. She looked up to see Inuyasha staring down at her with his amber eyes.

"You okay?"

"Yeah."

Inuyasha set Kagome down and looked towards Zuri and Sesshomaru. He glared at them both but he knew that now was not the time to be dealing with his elder brother, it was Zuri that had to die today and he was intending to do so right now, right here.

"Zuri you bastard!" He raised Tetsusaiga and gripped it tightly.

"Wind scar!"

The powerful attack went crashing towards its target. Zuri darted into the air and landed without a scratch.

The wind scar had missed.

Now Inuyasha was really angry. His lip curled up as he snarled. He brought Tetsusaiga up to his shoulder and pointed it towards the ground. He called forth a great amount of his strength and swung the blade towards the ground, hoping that it would befall Zuri.

"Wind Scar!"

This time Zuri had nowhere to go because the ground had broken and fallen beneith him before he had any time to react. He felt his body give away. Zuri's body was headed straight to the bottom of a very large crack formed from Inuyasha's Tetsusaiga.

The snake demon let out a scream before he hit the bottom.

Several parts of his spine had been broken, but he had inherited some of Naraku's reforming powers. The bones healed back quickly but that did not mean that he was unhurt what so ever.

Zuri hadn't realized that when he had fallen he had caught a part of his body on a craggy ledge. It had ripped a giant gash on his left side.

Deep black blood oozed out from the wound. The bone was clearly visible to the naked eye and no even his skin tissue could repair the damage. He was lucky that the ledge hadn't ripped open something major.

Zuri looked up and saw five figures gathered around the outside of the crack. He opened his mouth and sent a massive amount of poison towards them. The demon cackled when he saw then dart away like a terrifyed ants. Then he checked to make sure that he could still move about or at least manage to get out of the crack. He bunched himself up, muscles ready to spring. He pointed his head towards the openening and leaped out of the crack.

Sango threw her boomerang at the demon and caught him just below his head. She smiled but stopped when the skin tissue reformed and looked like normal once again.

Next Miroku tried to suck Zuri up in his wind tunnel.

"Wait!" Kagome said from her safe spot behind Inuyasha. "Look!"

She picked up a rock and chucked it into the near by bushes. A gigantic swarm of Naraku's poisonus insects rose up. They made a loud humming noise as their wings fluttered in harmony. They were all watching them and Zuri. Naraku was watching too, from a safe place of course.

Zuri coiled himself up and placed his gaze on one after the other. He smirked when he saw Kagome and Inuyasha. Playing tricks on them was so fun. He then remembered the last time that they had met and how Kagome had refused him. A scowl graced his features.

He knew what to do to make the hanyou mad, mad enough to mindlessly charge at him. He would surely teach the hanyou a lesson.

Kagura watched them battle it out with Zuri from behind Naraku.

They were soaring towards their location, using Kanna's mirror to detect them. They watched in silence as Zuri began to taunt Inuyasha.

Kagura had no doubt in her mind that Inuyasha would eventually defeat the bothersome demon. She was never quite fond with the likes of him and refused to be. She was still wondering why Naraku hadn't finished the snake youkai off himself once he lost control of him.

"What is it that you're planning Naraku?" She asked.

She was only answered by a light chuckle.

Naraku smirked from behind his baboon mask. He looked over the side of Kagura's feather to survey the land. Once they reached their destination the hanyou planned to just simply watch the battle between Inuyasha and Zuri. He knew that the hanyou would eventually screw up and get poisoned then he could finish Inuyasha off himself without any trouble.

"Naraku," a quiet voice said. It was Kanna.

He turned around and glanced into the mirror. A devious smile formed on his lips.

"So the great Lord Sesshomaru as showed up too, looks like I wont have come after him after all. And look he's injured too."

Kagura rolled her eyes in disgust. She didn't want to be a part of this and didn't care about Naraku's foolish plans. She opened up her fan and began to lazily pick invisible particles out of it.

"You know," she said to Naraku. "Zuri doesn't stand a chance with all of them put together, even with his healing powers. They'll eventually fail."

"Now, now Kagura there's no need to fret. This was part of the plan after all."

"And what plan would that be? The one you never told me about?"

Naraku smirked and then turned around once again.

Its obvious what he intends to do. Kagura thought. But Sesshomaru and Inuyasha will eventually finish Naraku off themselves, along with the others. That fool. She huffed, blowing her bangs up in the air when she did that. Maybe then just maybe-

"Something the matter Kagura?" Naraku snickered.

"Heh."

"You know you can't hide anything from me."

"Give it a rest," she snapped.

"Don't get all smart on me. You know what will happen if you do." Naraku opened his hand and showed the wind demoness the little ball that was her heart. He laughed when he saw fear fall upon her facial expression.

Kagura quickly hid her fear. She didn't want to die, not yet. First she wanted to see Naraku get what he deserves from everyone that had a reason to want to kill him. And maybe she too, could get some revenge upon the hateful hanyou trickster that had twisted and bent so many lives.

"Kanna what is going on with the battle?" Naraku ordered.

The souless girl turned her mirror towards her master. She stared blanky at him with her dull eyes.

Zuri had lost most of his tail and there was a large gash on his side that not even his healing powers could fix. The snake youkai was staring down Sesshomaru, Inuyasha and his companions. His broken fangs were bared and a smirk was plastered on his face. He was up to something.

"Where are located at the moment," he ordered again.

Kanna's mirror went black then showed Naraku where they were and where Inuyasha and the others were located. They were almost there.

Naraku turned towards Kagura.

"Just incase you try anthing out of order, I will have Kanna with me at all times showing me exactly where you are and who you're with. So watch yourslef."

"Hmm."

"Do you think betraying me is going to get you anywhere?"

"It will bring freedom."

"There is no such thing Kagura, and you know that. You'll never be able to escape from my grasp, never."

"Is that so Naraku?"

The hanyou opened his hand once more and tightly grasped on Kagura's heart.

The pain was tremendous. She clutched for her heart, gasping for air as the blood circulation was being cut off.

"N-Naraku s-s-stop i-i-it," she wheezed.

"And why should I?" He grasped it even tighter.

Kagura wrenched out a pain cry. Her eyes became wider and wider as the pain increased. She clutched her arm painfully. She needed to escape, escape right now.

Naraku laughed and released his grasp. He watched as Kagura began to breath heavily and move away from him as far as she could.

"There is no escape."

Kagura literally drank the air. She looked down at the hillsides and the lushious forest that lay below.

Maybe, she thought, Maybe one day I will be free...

"Kagome why don't you change your mind and come with me, leave that worthless hanyou behind. He is nothing but the scum of the earth," Zuri hissed.

Kagome's eyes became like fire balls. Her hands were clenched into fists at her sides. She had enough of Zuri.

"Never! I'm not going anywhere with you!"

"Well it's too bad that I frankly don't care what you say."

Zuri launched himself forward, towards Kagome. He coiled himself around her and smiled when he heard her scream in pain.

Inuyasha ran to the snake youkai. He put Tetsusaiga back and raised his claws to Zuri's body.

"Tsk, tsk Inuyasha. Don't be so quick to think that I would let you tear at my body." He tightened his hold on Kagome, causing her to scream in pain once more.

"Inuyasha stay back! He'll hurt you. Don't worry about me I'm okay."

"Like hell you are!"

He dashed towards Zuri, who moved out of the way. He rolled out his tounge and began to stretch it towards Kagome.

Inuyasha jumped up and sliced it off with ease.

Zuri's tounge fell on the ground, blood getting all over Kagome.

The snake youkai dropped the miko and Inuyasha quickly caught her. He jumped back to where Miroku, Sango, Shippou and Kilala were. Inuyasha placed Kagome gently down then brought Tetsusaiga out.

"Die!"

He raised his sword to use the wind scar but something was in the way.

It was Sesshomaru.

"Get out of the way!" Inuyasha yelled.

Sesshomaru turned calmly around.

"You obviously can't finsih this weak demon off so I advise you to get out of my way."

"In you dreams!"

Inuyasha darted forwards. He saw Sesshomaru jump into the air. He didn't see Zuri's boney tail as the demon whipped it towards him.

Inuyasha went flying back and into the ground several yards away. He coughed as the dust caused by his impact filled his lungs. The hanyou stood up and glanced to the side to make sure Kagome and the others were still okay. Then he let his anger get the better of him and rushed back to Zuri.

Sesshomaru drew his sword and pointed it at Zuri.

"Your poison is weak. Did you think you could befall me so easily?"

He jumped at the snake demon and delt it one powerful blow with his sword. Zuri fell back and landed on the ground, shaking it with his heavy body.

Inuyasha charged towards Zuri, he raised Tetsusaiga to finish the snake youkai off when he sprang to life and struck Inuyasha in the side, ripping a hole open with his blood spilling everywhere.

"That won't stop me!" Inuyasha straightened himself back up. His foot steps slowed down until he was just barely walking. His eyesglistened with pain, and were starting to lose their color.

He had been poisoned.

Zuri's lip curled up as he smiled at his work.

"Not even you can resist my poison."

"Go to hell," Inuyasha snarled while he stood against his sword for support.

"I can't believe that even you would be injured from that youkai's poison." It was Sesshomaru and he was standing beside Inuyasha, his sword still pointed at Zuri. "It just proves how weak you truely are."

Kagome began to run towards the hanyou but Miroku and Sango held her back. She struggled for a moment then stopped. She waited until she felt their muscles relax, then she broke away.

The miko ran and grabbed her bow and arrows that lay forgotten on the ground. She quickly turned back and went to where Inuyasha and Sesshomaru were standing. The miko ignored Inuyasha's orders to go back and stood in front of both of the brothers. She put an arrow to her bowstring and pulled back on it.

"If they can't finish you off, then I will!"

Kagome let go of the arrow and watched as it soared through the sky with a pink glow.

Zuri turned around to make a run for it, but the arrow had hit him. Kagome's aim was true.

"Kagome are you crazy? He could've hurt you!"

"But-"

"She hit him straight on didn't she? Stop your bickering and stand up you unworthy fool," Sesshomaru ordered.

Inuyasha growled. He stood up and made sure that Kagome wasn't injured or anything, then he turned to his brother and began yelling his head off.

"Go away Sesshomaru this is our battle, not yours!"

"You cannot order me around, brother."

This made Inuyasha even more enraged. He charged towards Sesshomaru, but was stopped by a simple 'sit' that Kagome muttered out of the side of her mouth.

Kagome turned towards Sesshomaru next.

"You should keep your big mouth shut for now." She watched as disgust crossed over the taiyoukai's face. She knew that he wasn't used to being ordered around, especially by a human. "We will just have to work together!"

"Screw that," came a mumble from the ground.

"Sit boy!"

"Hmph," Sesshomaru said before he turned around and began walking away.

The ground started to rumble. Inuyasha was quickly at Kagome's side, Tetsusaiga drawn, waiting for the snake youkai to attack once more. All thoughts of fighting with Sesshomaru had vanished.

Zuri stood before them with an injured side, a hole through his chest, and nothing left of his tail except the bone. His broken fangs gleamed in the sun light before he closed his mouth to glare at the three who all had their weapons pointed towards him.

"Fools, I'll kill you one by one. Kagome first."

He lunged towards the miko but Inuyasha grabbed her out of the way. He set her down on the opposite side of Sesshomaru and growled.

"This is it," Kagome said.

She put another arrow to her bow because the one that had been in there previously had fallen out. She pulled back on it and looked towards Inuyasha. He nodded then she looked to Sesshomaru, who did the same. She narrowed her eyes and focused on her mark which was Zuri's heart.

Sesshomaru raised his sword, and Inuyasha his.

"Go!" Kagome yelled.

She let go of her arrow. Sesshomaru and Inuyasha both sent tremendously powerful blasts of power towards the snake youkai. They all watched in silence as the three forces met with their enemy.

Everyone was engulfed in a bright blue light.