Well, I feel sorry for making you all wait and I don't feel evil today so…here is the last chapter. YES! Now for the wonderfulness.

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"Well now," began Naraku, "which one of you to kill?" Naraku stepped up to the two and eyed them both. He lifted Miroku's chin and looked into his eyes. "You betrayed me monk. It seems fitting for me to dispose of you however I fell that doing so isn't enough. Perhaps I should kill Sango instead." He said turning to Sango. A thoughtful smile crossed his face but it faded. His hand reached down and touched her lower abdomen. She stayed still and looked into his eyes. "You're pregnant with Miroku's child." He said sensing the microscopic bit of life that had just begun to develop.

"So what if I am?" yelled Sango.

"Well, I can't have my curse end with the monk. I suppose I'll just have to kill him instead." He replied turning to Miroku. Minami tied Sango to the steak then walked over to Miroku with a chain whip and began beating him with it. The force of the chain tore off pieces of clothes and flesh as it struck the monk. "As you can see monk I don't take lightly to betrayal." Naraku smirked as Miroku was slowly being beaten to death. Miroku coughed up blood and Higashi disappeared into Miroku's body. The monk screamed as the shadow entered and exited and Sango's eyes widened. "Every time you seem about to die Higashi will keep you alive so that you can suffer."

Miroku began to receive harsh beatings from Minami as he coughed up more blood. Every so often Higashi entered Miroku in order to keep him alive. Minami then picked a spear from a collection of weapons that was placed nearby and lifted Miroku up in the air. Miroku looked at the spear and saw that there were two rings of retractable spikes. The youkai grinned and threw the monk in the air and stepped back. He threw the spear at the precise moment so that Miroku was pinned to the stake. He felt the first ring retract as it entered and then hit the stake as the second ring entered him and opened when the spear ceased to move. Pain exploded through him as he felt his insides being ripped to pieces by the extending spikes and he screamed in agony.

Higashi entered his body again as the monk slumped over nearly dead and gave Miroku more life. Miroku didn't have time to look up as two wakizashi's pierced through his shoulders and pinned them up against the pillar. Miroku could hear Sango's anguished sobs as he was slowly being tortured to death. He looked over and saw her blurred figure fighting against the ropes that kept her away from him. He smiled. "Don't worry," croaked the monk. This only caused Sango to throw a greater fit.

It was now Naraku's turn to cause him pain. He picked up a katana and ran at Miroku. Blood spurted out of his mouth as the katana sliced open his abdomen. Naraku dropped the sword and wrapped his hand around Miroku's neck squeezing tightly. Miroku gasped for breath and whimpered as his struggling body seared with pain from the spear and wakizashi's that held him in place.

Naraku laughed as he placed his hand on the open wound in Miroku's abdomen. His hand entered and felt for the monk's liver and Miroku began to tear in pain. Miroku managed to scream through the suffocation as he felt his liver being torn from his body. Sango's screams seemed to have faded and he felt Higashi give him more life. Higashi gave him enough life to last him hours and the monk began to sob as the pain increased with the life he was given.

Miroku released yet another scream as Naraku ripped through his diaphragm and followed his esophagus to his heart. Miroku could only whimper now as his still beating heart was ripped from his chest. Sango screamed as she saw the throbbing organ being taken from his body and squeezed into a bloody pulp right in front of Miroku's face. Blood sprayed everywhere as the chambers collapsed under the pressure of Naraku's fingers and the remnants of the heart and liver were placed back where they came from.

Naraku then unsheathed a knife he had and slit Miroku's throat open. Naraku calmly walked over and set Sango free. He then stood back and watched as Sango removed the wakizashi's and contemplated for a moment as to weather or not to remove the spear. She decided for it and ripped the spear out. Two rings of opened spikes went through and out of Miroku. The second ring held splinters from the stake where it rooted itself and the splinters lodged themselves in Miroku's abdomen. Organs and flesh were ripped out as the spear was removed and Miroku fell shaking.

His borrowed life was still flowing strong even with all that he had gone through and he slowly began to take the beads off of his right hand. He pointed the exposed wind tunnel toward Naraku as Sango held him tight. Naraku's insects began to fall in as well as Higashi and Minami. Miroku screamed. Naraku meanwhile wandered off out of the range of the wind tunnel. Sango watched with utter loathing and despise as Naraku laughed. His laugh, however, was cut short and a scream replaced the cackle. Sango stared in utter amazement, as Naraku seemed to be sucked in to another wind tunnel coming from the trees and bushes.

When Naraku disappeared Sango stared in utter bewilderment at what seemed to be a Miroku dressed shirtless in a black jacket and tight black pants. She watched as he took a piece of extra cloth from the jacket and covered the wind tunnel then wrapping the beads around his wrist. "Miroku?" asked Sango bewildered. In her harms was a dying Miroku dressed in his robes while in front of her was another Miroku dressed all in black. Sango looked down again and noticed something that was in fact very peculiar. Most of the smaller wounds were already completely healed and most of the other wounds were healing by the minute.

The Miroku she was holding smiled and pointed at his head. At that moment two black fox ears appeared and Sango gasped. She then went back to the conversation they had about Miroku's friend and everything made sense except one thing. "But then, who was I with last night?" she asked the two of them. The fox rolled over and slowly got up pointing at Miroku.

"Don't worry. It was him." Gasped the fox.

"We switched when you were asleep Sango," said Miroku, "He copied everything about me. He even had to fake a heartbeat and copy the wind tunnel. I have to admit, Kuma is quite skilled. "

"I told you I was skilled," said the fox to Miroku. Sango, however, was still confused.

"How can you even stand up though?" she asked. The two laughed.

"I have jewel shards in my body. I heal faster and since I was given borrowed life, I've been given borrowed time," explained the fox, "I'll be okay. My heart and other organs are reconstructing themselves."

"How many jewel shards do you have?" asked Sango.

"Sixteen to be exact. I told Miroku I owed him a debt for what he did so I've spent these past few years searching for a way to kill Naraku for him. I found a way and have now repaid him. I have to admit though it was painful. I'm going to drop this image now and take a break."

"You know," began Sango, "seeing you tortured like that and then act like it was nothing is just strange. It doesn't fit." She looked at the fox lying on the ground and now that it was just lying there it looked pitiful. "Miroku." Said Sango as she walked up to Miroku. A well place slap shocked Miroku and he looked back at Sango. "You spend one incredible night with me then switch with a fox and scare me half to death thinking that I was going to loose you then reappear dressed like this and completely confuse me as to who I was with last night. What on earth were you thinking? Miroku laughed nervously.

"Well, I did save you didn't I?"

"ARE YOU TRYING TO TELL ME THAT YOU SPENT LAST NIGHT WITH ME JUST TO SAVE ME?" yelled a very angry Sango.

"No! That wasn't the plan at all. I was afraid that if things went wrong I would loose you. I wanted to make sure that whoever survived had a lasting memory of the other. Really, I was just afraid I would never see you again." Sango fell into Miroku's arms.

"Well, it did save me," she said smiling. The two were startled to hear Inu Yasha's voice.

"There you guys are! What's going on? And where's Naraku?" yelled an obviously angry Inu Yasha.

"Oh, he was destroyed with my wind tunnel," answered Miroku in a calm tone.

"YOU WHAT? I WAS SUPPOSED TO KILL HIM YOU IDIOT!" Inu Yasha attacked Miroku and began to yell several profanities.

"Well, it seems everything's back to normal." said Kagome approaching Sango. "And who is that?" she asked referring to the sleeping fox.

"Oh, that's Kuma. He helped us destroy Naraku. He has to rest though. He's been through a lot."

"I can see that," said Shippo astonished, "how could he survive?"

"He has sixteen jewel shards. He was being tortured but Naraku had his men give hi extra life so that he could suffer. The thing was, that just helped him," explained Sango.

"Wow, that's one tough fox." Kagome went over and picked Kuma up.

"WHAT ABOUT THE JEWEL SHARDS NARAKU HAD HUH? WHAT HAPPENED TO THOSE? DID YOU SUCK THOSE UP TOO?" continued Inu Yasha.

"No! Kuma has them!" replied Miroku. Kuma woke up and assumed his true form. He was back in Miroku's robes except his physical appearance was completely off. He had very long raven black hair and shocking gold eyes.

"Sorry about that," said Kuma, "follow me. I quickly transformed into a flea and slowly switched the jewel shards with fake ones. The fake ones seem to have the same power as the real ones but once someone tries to use them they quickly find out that they aren't the same," explained Kuma as everyone followed him into a room. He walked to a rug in the middle of the room and lifted the edge. A barrier was set around the sacred jewel shards. "I used some of them and they're in me right now. I had to make sure Naraku didn't know about them."

"Wow, you really outdid yourself!" said Kagome.

"Well, a fox should know his trade. My plan was perfect."

"How come you aren't sick if you took in all those insects?" asked Inu Yasha.

"Simple. I don't have it anymore do I? By the way Sango, I already freed Kirara in case anything went wrong. She's waiting outside somewhere."

"Thank you."

"Well," said Miroku, "I think it's time we head off but first my friend we need all the jewel shards."

"Of course," said Kuma, bowing. He reached into his arms, legs, shoulders and everywhere else he had stored shards and handed them to Kagome. "I suppose I'll be off then as well."

"Do you need a ride?" asked Sango as they headed off to look for Kirara.

"Yeah, I think I could use one."

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