Author's Note:

I dedicate this chapter to Bakura's Girl88 for some of Hikaribatou's attacks, abilities, ect. If you get any ideas that you want me to write in my next chapter tell me about them... and I'll try to fit them in my story.

Chapter Eight: Hikaribatou's ability, and A New Weapon.

Seeing the women he loved dead… InuYasha had nothing left in his life… and as his rage consumed him he realized that he couldn't save her, but he could avenge her. Blinded by the rage his rage took over, releasing the true demon within, but this time, his transformation changed. After his transformation was complete there stood InuYasha, claws longer, eyes golden, his face with the markings of a true demon, and his ears were elf-shaped. As Inutaisho saw his son transform he tried to stop his son transforming by telling him that they could revive her, but he wouldn't listen… only one word kept echoing in InuYasha's head as well as the laugh of that person… Naraku…. Naraku…. "Ha! Your lover is dead"…. That was all the echoed in his mind… Before anyone could stop him he ran off in the direction Naraku took off leaving an astonished Sesshoumaru, Miroku, Shippo, Rin, Jaken, Totosai, and Inutaisho. However Sango, hadn't really gotten a good look for she was mourning over her lost brother Kohaku… without any shard of the Shikon no Tama, his body would rot, and then he would be gone forever… However before she could get up and go after InuYasha, a dagger tapped her on the shoulder… it was Hikaribatou… the Light sword. Before Sango could even utter a word Inutaisho swung the blade down right across Kohaku's chest… as seconds passed Inutaisho knelt down next to Sango, and lifted Kohaku up…but all of a sudden Inutaisho felt something… bah dump… bah dump… Kohaku opened his eyes, but still weak thought he was being attacked by a demon, but as he saw Sango, and heard her voice, he realized that he was alive… and ok. Kohaku tried to stand, but the demon, who later revealed his name to be Inutaisho pushed him back down and told him to rest.

"Sango, keep your brother lying down… he needs rest," said Inutaisho as he got up and went over to where Kagome lay… Seeing what Inutaisho had just done, nobody tried to stop him this time because they all knew he was about to revive Kagome, however before he got a chance to, an arrow shot into his shoulder… and the dagger dropped from his hands..

Back with InuYasha who is still in his full demon mode:

"Naraku…. Where in the seven hells did that bastard go…" thought InuYasha who just kept running and running. Finally, he found Naraku's scent again, and began chase… but not too long later, he lost the smell again. Where he lost the scent was near a waterfall. There InuYasha sniffed again and again, until he faintly caught it going behind the waterfall. As he went under the rocks and behind the waterfall he found a cave entrance. As he was about to enter… when his nose hit something hard, and he fell back… a barrier. The place that InuYasha had just found must have been Naraku's new home… but as he reached toward the sash that held the scabbard, it was gone.

"Strange," thought InuYasha as he remembered it always being there until… until while transforming the sword must have flown off his side because it couldn't contain his transformation any longer… but InuYasha himself felt fine, not in that mood of just killing everything in his sights… except Naraku. However before he could go back and get his Tetsaiga, there stood Naraku… holding then new and improved Helsaiga.

Back with Inutaisho, and the group.

Before their eyes stood Kagome's reincarnation… Kikyo, her bow still at ready, and her hand moving towards her stock of arrows.

"Do not revive her… now that she is dead, I can take back the rest of my soul and live an eternal life," said Kikyo loading the next arrow and aiming it at Inutaisho's heart. However before she could fire her arrow something silver whizzed past her chopping her bow in half, but then the silver weapon came back spinning past Kikyo and into someone's hand. As everyone looked at where the weapon landed… it landed into none other than Sango's hand.

"I can't let you kill him Kikyo… he saved my brother, and now I owe him my life," said Sango as she unsheathed the other blade boomerang. She held one up and noticed how light it was actually for the first time.

"Totosai, really is a magnificent swordsmith," she thought as she threw one of them at Kikyo. Kikyo with no weapon to defend herself was instantly cut in half. As everyone watched the two pieced of the priestess, Kikyo turned to dust. As the souls escaped from the dissipated body they went up to the heavens. Inutaisho then pulled the arrow out of his shoulder armor , and went back over to Kagome, but as he picked up the dagger from the ground his armor was instantly repaired, and his wound gone. However, as he slashed Kagome across the chest, she glow brightly for what seemed like minutes, which than turned into hours. As the light clear Kagome was definitely healed, but she wasn't wearing the same cloths she was wearing when she died, but a kimono. Her face had markings of a true priestess. Her kimono was red on the bottom, but white like Kikyo's. She was also wearing armor… very old armor that a traditional warlord would wear. She also had two weapons beside her… a sword, that was double-edged and was wrapped with black leather… and finally the same weapon she usually had… her bow and arrows. As she opened her eyes, they weren't very focused, but after a few blinks she saw her friend, and she realized that she was alive again… however as she raised her head, she felt dizzy, and a voice told her to go to sleep again… so she did.

Back with InuYasha who is about to fight Naraku.

"So InuYasha, wemeet again, you half breed," said Naraku as he twirled the reforged Helsaiga in his hands.

"Do I look half to you, or did you also forget you are a half bred yourself, you hypocrite," yelled InuYasha as he ran at Naraku with his claws extended. However Naraku merely moved his arm sideways so the sword was guarding his front. InuYasha then calculated his jump as he jumped as far as he could onto a side wall and bounced off the walls to that he was coming at Naraku from an angle…

"Iron Reaper Soul Stealer," yelled InuYasha as gold light slashed out of his claws, but as he made contact with Naraku's shoulder his blade met InuYasha's other shoulder. Both were knocked down as they tried to get back up. InuYasha was first up because his anger got his blood pumping. However that only got more blood to spew out of his shoulder… or is that what InuYasha wanted. As InuYasha laughed, Naraku looked confused…

"InuYasha was bleeding more, has the loss of blood gotten to the demon already," he asked himself. Unknown to Naraku, InuYasha dipped his claws into his shoulders. Ignoring the pain, InuYasha squeezed his shoulder… allowing more blood in his claws. Finally, when he thought the time was right he waved his claws, and at the same time yell, "BLADES OF BLOOD!" Red waves of energy blood flew towards the Naraku; Naraku, surprised by the attack instinctly put up his sword to defend his body, but one of the blades got by Helsaiga and cut his side… At this time InuYasha took his chance to attack his opponent again with Iron Reaper Soul Stealer. However he was blocked by Helsaiga and sent sprawling… he landed unconscious.

Going back to Kagome, and the rest of the group:

As Kagome opened her eyes and got up a worried Sango, rushed to her immediately… but as she got up she saw the armor… the kimono… the sword… heck, even asked Sango for some water… but as she looked into the water's reflection… there was her face, the same face she had until she saw her forhead. Feeling her forehead she didn't feel anything until she picked up the sword. She finally remembered what had happened when she had died… Seeing Naraku coming she quickly broke, one of the shards off of the jewel… but before she could put it somewhere on her body, she was slashed, and the shard remained embedded in her hand. In her dream of death she found Kikyo and Midoriko sitting beside her as they dressed her like a priestess. As they finished Midoriko took off her warlord armor and placed it on Kagome knowing that the time had come for the end of the Shikon no Tama. Then Kikyo offered her bow and arrows, while Midoriko offered her sword. Then Kikyo who was finished left, and only Midoriko remained.

"Priestess of the future time… "She dully said, but continued … "the time has come for you to finish the curse of the Shikon jewel… or in other words my crystallized soul.

"Go and destroy it or tame it within one of your friends…" she said as her body disappeared with glowing light, but as the light glowed though she felt a shock of pain. Realizing the pain she woke up, and found that InuYasha was nowhere near… as a look of pain crossed her face she realized that InuYasha was in trouble. Before anyone could stop her she ran off following the marks that InuYaha had left while running, at the same time she also found something that belonged to InuYasha, that was on the ground… Tetsaiga. As she followed she kept thinking "had InuYasha done this all for me?" Her question was answered as she heard a bark, but it wasn't a bark like a normal dog in her time…

InuYasha's view:

As Naraku had finished his assault he went over to InuYasha, his kill, but before he could even do anything a claw raked his shoulder, and he fell to the ground noticing that InuYasha had only looked unconscious while he really wasn't.

"Let's finished this outside," said InuYasha with a smirk, as he ran out.

"You half-breed… I'll get you," said Naraku following. However as Naraku got outside he noticed something very different about InuYasha. He was glowing scarlet, as his eyes turned red as well. However the glow didn't last long as InuYasha leaped into the air, and then came back down… InuYasha had finally succeeded in unveiling his true form. His true form was magnificent… his body fur was the same usual silver of every dog demon transformation, and his ears were floppy like usual, but something was different about InuYasha's transformation… as before he had not fluff, but if you were battling now you could distinctly tell that he was starting to grow one. As InuYasha looked at Naraku through his true from Naraku leaped up and tried to slash Helsaiga at InuYasha, but InuYasha merely jumped away. As InuYasha jumped he came back down… and just like Sesshoumaru he realized that his teeth were also poison in his transformation. However, InuYasha knew he couldn't win this battle… his transformation made him bigger, but it also made him slower, and he didn't know how else to reverse the transformation so he kept fighting. However it didn't last long as Naraku swung Helsaiga at InuYasha, and blew him away complete. Battle scared from the battle… InuYasha tried to get up but couldn't… as he feebly barked he thought of one thing on his mind, "I'm sorry Kagome….. I failed you." As his eyes close he saw something whiz past his ear, an arrow. Looking over to where it had been shot from, he saw Kagome from her scent,but in very different cloths, and immediately his anger ceased, and was left with nothing but happiness. As his anger dwindle and his love for Kagome became greater then ever, his body transformed back into his human form, but as it became his human form again someone else had joined the party… the fluff. It had started growing and winding around his left shoulder. As Kagome got closer she saw a InuYasha, but noticed how much he had changed, she was about to leave when a hand grabbed her shoulder… InuYasha's hand.

"Kagome… I was so worried about you," said InuYasha as tears fell down his face. He embraced Kagome in a hug as she accepted it. For a brief moment they saw a priest and a demon hugging, but then the happy moment was interrupted as they heard a grunt from behind them. There stood Naraku still whole, but his armor had protected him… and as he pulled the arrow out he threw it to the side… laughing at Kagome.

"Stupid wench… I thought I had killed you, "said Naraku with glee in his eyes… "but seeing you die was quite entertaining, I'll just kill you again and watch how entertaining it is…" At these words InuYasha growled, but before he could run up to Naraku and attack him, Kagome stepped in front of him so he couldn't go.

"I'll handle this one myself…" she said drawing her sword… "go back and get the others while I deal with him."

"Fine, but you better leave something for us when we get here," said InuYasha, running back to the group. As InuYasha got there his father's face told him a few thing in his mind.

"You idiot, I could have simply revived her with Hikaribatou," said Inutaisho, but looking at InuYasha, as he playfully punched his son's shoulder, but he said more, "but if it was your mother I would have done the same." Sesshoumaru also heard and gave his father a look of disgust.

"Don't worry Sesshoumaru, your's to," said Inutaisho, and Sesshoumaru's face changed into smirk on it.

"Well, I hate to break it to you, but Kagome's over there fighting Naraku, " saidInuYasha pointing behind his back. This alerted everyone, and as some people ran, mainly Inutaisho, Sesshoumaru, and InuYasha, others flew like Kilala with Miroku on her back seeing that Sango was still helping Kohaku recover, and Ah Uhn had Jaken seeing that Rin was going to help with Kagura and Kanna. As everyone got there they saw quite a battle.

Minutes after InuYasha left.

"Naraku, you are going down… "said Kagome as she traced the blade of Midoriko's sword with two fingers. As she did her sword started glowing, and feeling the power of good, and light enveloping the sword Naraku fled, but before he could Kagome threw her sword down, reloaded her bow with an arrow and shot it at Naraku's unprotected back. Pang! Went the string as the arrow hit true, but before Kagome could shout in glee at her good aim, her arrow exploded right between Naraku's shoulder blades. As partial of Naraku's body was destroyed Kagome watched as Naraku tried to get up, but couldn't. Instead Naraku was scheming an evil plan. As the hole in Naraku's body got bigger he seemed to be laughing…

"Why's he laughing," thought Kagome, but then as she saw the horror the two piece come off of one another. Half of Naraku was lying on the ground, and was still laughing, while the other half was still standing. As Kagome kept watching reloading her bow with another arrow, the bodiless legs started sprouting a new body. Kagome merely cried out in terror as Naraku's legless body started growing new legs. Finally, before she realized it, Naraku had just regenerated his legs, and his legs had regenerated a body. In front of her stood Naraku, and a new incarnation Ukaran…. his arms were like that of a gorilla, strong, buy heavy, his face had three scars on his left eye. His eyes were funny because one was red, and the other was black. His hair, was white, but at the ends of his hair was tinges of black. His cloths were mainly a black kimono, with a silver breast plate. However as Kagome fired her arrow Ukaran lifted up one of his massive arms, and deflected the arrow up into the sky. As it came back down the arrow landed with a thud into the ground next to Kagome's foot. As Kagome placed her bow and arrows down, she drew the sword from the ground. As she charged with the sword in her hand a fist caught her in the stomach, and she landed unhurt, but unconscious.

End of Chapter

Author's Note:

Sorry, if you didn't like what I did to Kikyo, but you know she's already dead… lol . Hope you enjoyed the chapter as well as all my previous ones. Please review, and if you think the name sucks then review and tell me what you think ok? If you thought it really really sucked then I may rewrite from all the critiques. Thanks again.

Note: This is not the last chapter.