Author's notes: Hey guys what's up...well you see it's been awhile since I gave out the last chapter...I haven't gotten very many reviews for my story though...I don't mean to bitchy but you know...I like to see my work is apprectiated.
Oh, once again sorry if my spelling is off or I forget a word or two. My computer doesn't have spell check and I'm about to try a new way of uploading the story.
So if at first you read this and the format is all messed up, don't worry, I'll fix it soon...
But you know what...let's just get to the story...enjoy.
Through me, the way to the suffering city...
Through me, the way to the eternal pain...
Through me, the way that runs among the last...
Justice is urged on my high articifer...
My maker is devine authority...
Before me, life was forever...
Before me, only eternal things were made...
And I endure eternally...
To those who enter here.......know ye this...
"...Give up all hope..."
This was it...this was the end...
Inuyasha could feel the sweat building up on his brow, he grasped his Tetsusaiga tightly and licked his dry chapped lips.
Miroku still grasped the beads on his right arm, the tug of the Wind Tunnel pulling against him. His entire body quivered with fear and anxiety as he quietly plotted the defeat of Naraku.
But Naraku...
Naraku continued to stand there, a look of victory splayed across his face. From his body emitted a dark aura, his body seemed to be brimming with power.
Inuyasha could feel the essence of Naraku all around him, his presence was so thicky and heavy it nearly choked the air out him.
He once again readyed his Tetsusaiga, moving it into a more advantageous posistion. He winced as the straps on the hilt rubbed against his callosued palms.
"Naraku!!" Miroku's voice suddenly broke the silence, "Today is the day that you die!!"
Miroku's forehead was covered in sweat as he glared at Naraku, his legs shook weakly as his anxiety was built every second.
Yet Naraku still stood unwavering, exuding his dark presence all over the castle. The entire area was not just Naraku's territory, it was a part of Naraku himself.
Miroku took one step forward and prepared himself to use the Wind Tunnel, he felt the pull of it growing even stronger as he pulled at the beads once more.
His right hand ached as he pulled at the beads even more, the area before him was already being pulled forward. He squinted his eyes as the pull became stronger and stronger...
"Wind Tunn--!!" Miroku yelled as he ripped away the prayer beads, but his attack was quickly thwarted as Inuyasha charged forward, he rushed towards Naraku wildly swinging his sword.
Naraku had only but to move slightly to the right in order to evade Inuyasha's wild charge, his face displayed no emotion as he fluidly moved left to right in order dodge the blows.
Inuyasha still persisted in his slaying of Naraku, but it was obvious by the ease at which Naraku dodged Inuyasha's barrage that Naraku was much stronger.
"Damn it, Inuyasha!!" Miroku cried as he pulled back his Wind Tunnel, he growled with frustration as he watched Inuyasha frantically try to slay Naraku.
Though despite Inuyasha's desparate attempt to attack the foul being, Naraku simply sidestepped each and every sword swipe directed at himself.
Inuyasha's breath came out heavy and exhausted as he continued to slash left and right at the despicable Naraku, his attacks were in vain though...
Naraku wasn't even sweating as he seemlessly dodged the powerful slashes of Inuyasha's Tetsusaiga, his body seemed to move fluidly from left to right...it was as if he was a ghost...
"Inuyasha..." Naraku quietly said, his voice remained unchanged despite the fact that he and Inuysha were engaged in combat.
"Inuyasha," Naraku quietly said once more, "You truly are a fool...how very amusing..."
Inuyasha quickly halted his attack and glared at Naraku, his lungs gasped despartly for air as he lowered his sword.
"W-W-W" Inuyasha struggled to speak, "W-What a-are you t-talking a-about!!"
But there was only silence as Naraku stood before the exhausted Inuyasha, the silence was quickly broken as sweat slowly drickled down Inuyasha nose.
Drip...Drip...Drip...
Inuyasha's breathing became heavier and heavier, his heartbeat growing much louder now, his anxiety building by the silence.
Drip...Drip...Drip...
"Come on!!" Inuyasha suddenly bursted out, breaking the silence, "What the hell are you talking about!!"
Naraku's face remained emotionless at Inuyasha's sudden outbreak, his dark presence remained at a constant rate as it unfolding around the room.
Small wisps of poison gas unfurled from beneath Naraku robes, they lied in a slim film of gas covering the floor.
"Inuyasha..." Naraku said in a voice so low that Inuyasha had to strain to hear, "Do really think that you'll be able to defeat me?"
Inuyasha could feel his lungs tighten up from the lack of air, his breathing become more and more labored even though he wasn't moving.
His eyes grew wide as he realized that the poison gas around him was growing more and more thicker, he coughed several times as the poisonus gas entered his lungs.
Naraku's form was now barely visible as he became enveloped in the pitch black smoke, his poison gas growing thicker and thicker by the moment.
Inuyasha charged forward and wildly swung his sword wildly about, he struggled to not pass out as his lungs became filled with poison gas.
The deadly smog filled the entire room that Inuyasha and Miroku were in, he coughed even more as he breathed in more of deadly smog.
"Inuyasha!!" Inuyasha could hear Kagome's voice ring out through the darkness, her voice gave him the power to ward off the poison for a short while.
He squinted his eyes through the thick smog, he desperatly tried to spot the insidious Naraku. "Naraku!!" Inuyasha screamed aloud, "Show yourself, coward!!"
Naraku's laughter filled the room, it cut through the smoke and the darkness and assaulted Inuyasha's senses.
"Mwhahahahahahahaha..." Naraku hissed, "Foolish Inuyasha..."
Inuyasha could feel the darkness closing in on him now, there was no other sound than that of his own coughing, his lungs becoming filled with poison.
He put his hand over his nose and mouth and coughed weakly as the poisonus gas surrounded him.
Naraku smirked as he peered through the black smog, he could see Inuyasha struggling to breath. He could feel Inuyasha's strength slowly sapping as the poison became wrapped around him.
Naraku quickly looked around in search of Miroku, he expected to see him sprawled on the floor, dead from inhaling the deadly smog.
But Miroku was nowhere to be seen...
"Wind Tunnel!!" Naraku quickly turned around in suprise as he realized that Miroku had managed to get behind him and unleash his Wind Tunnel.
He could feel the incredible pull of Miroku's right hand as it began to draw him into the tunnel, the poison gas that had filled the room was quickly sucked into the Wind Tunnel.
Miroku squinted his eyes as the wind around him whipped his body in fierce gust, the black smog that had once threatened their lives was now almost gone.
Naraku's robes were whipped backwards as the gravitational pull of the Wind Tunnel grew stronger and stronger, he glared backwards as he watched the monk struggle to keep his balance.
Even though he wasn't dead, Naraku's poison had weakened him to the point at which Miroku could barely control his power.
"Come now..." Naraku extended his mind to the one he intended to speak to, "Now, my puppet...."
A flash of silver...an evil laughter...and then there was pain...
Suddenly, it was if someone had just shut off everything...the noise...the screaming...everything....
Miroku grasped his right hand, the Wind Tunnel had mysteriously stopped without warning, now his hand writhed in pain as he grasped it even tighter
"Ahhhhhhh!!!" Miroku screamed in pain, his face covered in sweat due to the pain that had begun to encompense his whole body.
"Naraku!!" Miroku managed to weakly called out, "Naraku!! What did...you...do!?!"
Naraku stood up from his crouched posistion and dusted his robes clean of debrie, he glanced at Miroku and smirked.
The pain was immense...no words could describe the intense feeling of pain that now crippled poor Miroku, his screaming filled the entire area.
"Foolish Monk..." Naraku said slyly, "Did you think that I forgot about you and your curse..."
Miroku lifted his head up and glared at the despicable Naraku, his winced once more as a new wave of pain washed over him.
The evil laughter that Miroku heard just before his Wind Tunnel stopped once again filled his ears, he could feel...something...something inside him move around.
"W-What the hell is in me!!" Miroku screamed, he looked down at his chest as he felt the...thing...move once again.
It was like a bubble of skin just raised up out nowhere and started moving, it moved up and down his abdomen and settled once more near his stomach.
The pain was almost unbearable, Miroku's screams cut through Kagome and Inuyasha like a knife and chilled them to the bone.
"Mwhahahahahahaha..." Miroku suddenly heard a voice, this evil, filthy, muffled voice eminatted from...his abdomen...
"Greetings monk..." The voice said with an evil laughter, "I will be the last thing that you ever feel or hear..."
Naraku smirked as he glanced down at the pitiful monk, Miroku lay on the floor rolling around in pain, his screaming growing louder as well as his pain.
"Miroku!!" Kagome cried aloud, she set Sango on the ground and got up to help him. "Kagome! No!" Inuyasha managed to yell out, he coughed several times and managed to weakly stand up.
"Naraku!" Inuyasha yelled between coughs, "What happened!! What did you do to him!?"
Naraku turned around and looked over at the weakened Inuyasha, his grin grew wider as he heard Miroku's screams grow in intensity.
Inuyasha coughed several times more and tried to hold himself upright, he plunged his sword into the floor and used it as a prop to help him stand.
"I haven't done anything...." Naraku said slyly, Miroku continued to scream in pain as he felt whatever was inside him move around.
Suddenly their came a small noise...so small that Inuyasha could barely hear it.
He looked around weakly in search of the noise.
It sounded like...like...a whimper...
A whimper so faint that he didn't know whether or whether not he heard it, as if it was his imagination.
Where was that sound coming from?
Naraku's grin faded as he looked past Inuyasha, he knew what that sound was. But he was suprised that she was still alive...
Inuyasha suddenly pinpointed the sound, it was, it was, it was right behind him! He quickly turned around to see what was causing the noise.
A small figure appeared out the darkness, once again there came a whimper as the figure slowly came into view...
"Oh my god!!"
Kagome screamed out as she saw what Inuyasha was looking at, she could feel her stomach heaving up as she clasped her hand over her mouth.
It was Kanna...
Her lower abdomen was covered in blood, the blood stained her once perfectly white kimono a deep crimson red.
The blood dripped on the floor below her, they could see the trail of blood as she walked more and more into the room.
Kanna leaned herself up against the far wall, she let out yet another faint whimper as she sat herself on the floor with her back leaned up against the wall.
"Kanna..." Naraku said, he walked past the weakened Inuyasha and approached his dying incarnation. "I'm suprised to see you still alive..."
Kanna glanced up towards her master, her lower lip trembled as she bled continously from her lower regions.
"M-M-My c-c-child..." Kanna managed to say, she pressed her hands up against her abdomen in a desperate attempt to stop the bleeding.
Naraku only smirked as he watched his pitiful incarnation slowly die, "You are no longer usefull to me..." thus Naraku quickly took a knife out of his robes and stabbed Kanna in the heart.
With a cough of blood and another slight whimper, Kanna died....
"Bastard...." Inuyasha gasped out as he barely managed to stand up, "How could you do that...she was your own incarnation!!"
Naraku's smile left his face as he turned around to face Inuyasha, behind him Kanna's body fell over as she let out her last breath of air.
"Don't you understand...." Naraku frowned and approached Inuyasha, "She was nothing more than a vessel..."
Inuyasha winced as he painfully inhaled some fresh air, he glared at Naraku as he started to regain his strength.
"What do you mean a vessel!!" Inuyasha yelled, he could feel his strength slowly coming back as he breathed in fresh air.
"Inuyasha!" Kagome screamed towards him, "What if it has something to do with what's happening to Miroku!!"
Inuyasha looked at Kagome and nodded his head, he turned back to Naraku who stood only a couple feet ahead of him.
The only sound that could be heard now was Miroku's faint cries of pain, he could barely stay awake as his energy was slowly being drained.
"Well! What did you do to him!!" Inuyasha huffed, he pulled his sword out of the floor and was once again ready to fight. He was the only one of their group left to fight..
The only one left...
"Hmmphhh..." Naraku said, he closed his eyes and smirked, "Well, Well, Well...Why don't I tell you..."
"Kanna...Kohaku..."
Suddenly two small figures appeared from the shadows and knelt before their dark master.
One of them was a young boy with jet black hair, he wore about him the air of an deadly warrior and their was a certain soulessness too his eyes.
The other was a young girl with snow white hair, she wore a perfectly white kimono and she too had a type of soulessness in her eyes.
One was Kohaku...
The other...Kanna...
Their dark master was none other than the evil Naraku, his dark aura filled the area around them, his power...unstoppable....
In his hand shone a small pinpoint of light, this light cut through the darkness of his aura and shone even in the midst of all this evil.
He rolled the Shikon jewel across his palm and smiled as it glew even brighter, "Soon...Soon..." He thought as he slipped the jewel back into his robe.
"My children..." He said as he stood up and placed his hands atop their heads, but Naraku held no feelings of love for these lost souls, they were merely puppets to him.
He smiled to himself as he pushed his hands threw their hair, in his mind he carefully plotted his dark plan.
A plan to stop Miroku's Wind Tunnel...
How was he to know that the curse he had placed on a monk years ago would come back to haunt him?
That damned monk's grandson had joined Inuyasha and his group in the effort to defeat him...
How foolish...
He took his hand off the two and quietly plotted his evil plan, this monk would know that he could never be defeated.
"Kanna...I need you to give yourself to Kohaku..."
Naraku looked down at the young demon girl, her face showed no emotion as she was given the order.
Kohaku's eyes showed not feeling when he heard the command, he would follow any order given to him by Naraku...any order...
The two stood and turned towards each other, Kohaku's face still remained deadpan as he stared into the emotionless eyes of Kanna.
Kohaku slowly put his hand aside Kanna's cheek and lifted her face to look at his, he slowly descended his face onto her's and caught her lips into his own.
Naraku smiled to himself and turned around, soon his plan would be put into action, there would be nothing to stop him now.
Kanna would become impregnated with Kohaku's seed, and the birth of evil would become assured.
Naraku's evil knew no bounds...
He could hear Kanna's kimono hit the floor, she cried out in pain as Kohaku procceded to have his way with her...
His grin grew wider as he walked out the room, all was going according to plan, his puppets would soon create an evil greater than both of them combined.
"Naraku..." Came Kagura's voice, Kagura appeared out of the shadows and glared at her creator. Naraku's smile faded as his most impudent incarnation appeard before him.
"How could you do that to her!?" Her glare became even colder as she heard Kanna cry out, she was disgusted by what Naraku had ordered her too do.
After all...Kohaku was a mere human.
How revolting of him to force her sister to bed with that pitiful human boy...
What was he planning? What purposed did it serve to have her impregnated with the boy's child!
A cursed child...a half demon...
"Remember this Kagura..." Naraku said quietly, "You are my tools, my puppets, nothing more..."
Kagura bit her lower lip in the attempt to stop herself from saying something she'd regret, how she longed to escape his evil grasp...
But this last action...this last action was almost a deathsentence to her freedom...
Naraku would do whatever he wanted with them...even if it was to kill them...
Naraku closed his eyes as he walked steadily down the hall, soon...soon he would be complete...soon his power would become totally unstoppable...
He would be free of the remanants of that pathetic human, the human that had sacrificed his soul to become the great demon Naraku.
Free of Onigumo...
And all that was heard was Kanna's cries...
Kagome covered her mouth after hearing Naraku's story, she could feel her stomach heaving even more after she heard Naraku's story.
"H-How could he do that??" Kagome stuttered, she took several steps backwards almost tripping over Sango's unconscious body.
"Mwhahahahahahahahaha...." Naraku leaned his head backwards and laughed deeply, his cold laughter chilled Kagome down to her bones.
His laughter cut through the darkness of the castle, but it was quickly interrupted by yet another voice.
"Why!! Why did you do that to Kohaku!!"
The voice was that of Sango's, she had managed to regain consciousness during Naraku's story. She had heard of the horrors that Naraku forced poor Kohaku, she heard of what Kohaku had done to Kanna.
"You killed him!!" Sango cried, she was of course talking about the good part of Kohaku, the part of him that was left behind when he became a servant of Naraku.
"Now tell me!!" Sango cried out, she desperatly tried to sit up but failed due to her massive injuries. "Why did you did that to my brother!!"
Naraku looked over at Sango, she lay prone on the ground, her wounds disallowed her from moving. How easy it would be to kill her right now...to cut her throat and silence that pitiful child...
"Poor, poor, poor Sango..." Naraku turned to face the motionless Sango, "You still don't understand..."
"I needed Kohaku's evil..." Naraku said to her, she stared at him with hate in his eyes. "I needed his dark soul to mix with the blood of Kanna's..."
Naraku laughed once more as he recalled how he had forced Kohaku onto Kanna, how he stolen Kohaku's soul and how he had corrupted his own incarnation.
Inuyasha glared at the laughing Naraku, his hatred for that despicable demon was growing more and more
by the second.
Inuyasha could smell the blood all around him now, Kanna's, Sango's, Miroku's, and his own blood all mixed into one.
He almost was overwhelmed by the smell of blood and death that surronded him, the smell of evil that was literally reeking off of Naraku.
But nothing would break his focus...
He would kill Naraku...not matter what...
"You bastard!!" Inuyasha screamed, his strength had returned to him after he had breathed in some fresh air.
Inuyasha charged forward and swung his sword down onto Naraku's head, but just like last time Naraku fluidly dodged his blow.
Inuyasha desperatly tried to strike down Naraku, he swung his sword from side to side, hoping to kill Naraku.
But it was all to no avail, Naraku barely seemed to care as he dodged each and every blow. His eyes were closed as he sensed to unsteady movements of Inuyasha's sword.
"Damn it!!" Inuyasha yelled aloud, "Hold still!!"
To Inuyasha's surprise Naraku did indeed stand still, Inuyasha decided advantage of the moment and quickly brought the Tetsusaiga down onto Naraku right shoulder.
But almost as soon as the sword hit it was instantly repelled, sparks flew in all directions as Naraku pulled up his demonic barrier.
Inuyasha winced as the sparks struck him in the face, after several minutes of trying to cut through the barrier Inuyasha pulled back his sword.
"Shit!" Inuyasha whispered to himself, "The Tetsusaiga still isn't strong enough!!"
Naraku smirked and opened his eyes, before him stood Inuyasha readying his sword for yet another attack, beyond him lay an unconscious Miroku, Kagome stood outside the hut cradiling Sango's head.
Everything was going according to plan...all was going just the way he wanted it...
The pieces were falling into place...just as he saw them all those years ago...
"Inuyasha..." Naraku quietly said, "I think it's about time I reveal the truth to you..."
Inuyasha took several steps backwards and pulled his sword back into a ready posistion, "What are you talking about!!"
Naraku was only silent as he once again started to extend his presence over the area, this time he would kill Inuyasha and would use the Shikon No Tama to become a full demon.
Naraku's silence was more than the nervous Inuyasha could handle though, his anxiety had peaked to the point where Inuyasha's nerves just broke.
Quickly Inuyasha charge forward swinging his sword with complete and reckless abandonment, this was an attack with no planning or strategy whatsoever.
But Naraku only had to move slightly to avoid the pointless attack, he pulled his hand out of his robes and roughly grabbed Inuyasha's face.
"Hmmphhh..." Naraku huffed as he tightened his grip on Inuyasha's face, Inuyasha's movement was paralyzed as Naraku slowly unleashed a numbing poison gas.
"It's time Inuyasha..." Naraku whispered to Inuyasha, "Time for me to show you your past..."
Flashback
It was a time of love...
A lavish mountainside castle deep within a forest...
Nobles from all over the land travelled to see it...
Within was a collection of nobles and ladies, each of them clothed in the finest silk in the land, they were truly the beautiful people of the land...
Their laughter echoed throughout the confines of the castle, several of the male nobles were playing with a ball, they bounced the ball back and forth between them and their laughter continued on.
Suddenly their circle was broken as young child bursted through their ranks, this boy was adorned in red clothes, his silver hair fell all the way to his waist.
He quickly grabbed the ball off the ground and looked up the nobles, their laughter died down as they looked at the child.
"Can I play?" The young child asked hopefully, he looked at the nobles as they laughed at his absurd request.
"Hahahahahaha..."
"How amusing..."
"Hahahahahaha..."
"Half breed..."
Slowly the nobles and their ladies turned and exited the courtyard, their laughter echoed throughout the halls as they left the child in the courtyard.
"Half breed??" The boy asked quizingly, he raised his eyebrows as the nobles left the court. He had no idea what a half breed was, much less as to why they wouldn't play with him.
He looked over at the pond in the middle of the castle's courtyard, his mother sat by the edge of the pond twirling her fingers in the sparkiling water.
She was a young girl in her early twenties, her lovely black hair fell all around her, she wore a magnificent robe which told that she was part of the higher noble class.
The boy quickly dropped the ball and ran towards his mother with arms wide open, she lovingly enveloped him into her arms and held him close to herself.
"Momma..." The boy whispered burying his face into her robes, "Momma...What's a...half breed??"
The mother could feel the tears welling up in her eyes as she heard what the others had called her son, she knew what it was...she knew of the hardships he would face in his life.
She clutched the small's boy's body closer to herself, oh how she whished she could prevent all the pain and suffering he would endure.
She silently thought of the young boy's father...this great demon who had appeared before her in a human form...this demon who had bestowed her with this precious gift...
Her child...Inuyasha...
From only a few feet away a dark figure watched the mother and child from the safety of the shadows, he moved deeper into them when he heard the sound of footsteps approaching.
"My lord..." Suddenly a male vassal turned the corner and approached the dark figure, he nervously wrung his hand as he looked at the young prince.
The prince lifted himself up from the shadows and looked down onto the nervous vassal, his cold glare pierced right through him.
"My lord..." The vassel quietly said, "The priestess...she has arrived..."
The prince lifted his view up from the nervous vassal and once again looked at his sister, she still held that cursed child in her arms, cradiling his head on her shoulder.
The prince frowned and look back at the vassal, "Very well then..." The prince said slyly, "Tell her I will meet her later tonight..."
The nervous young vassel nodded and bowed his head, he quickly turned around and made his way back into the castle.
The prince now lifted his view back to his sister, but her eyes were no longer closed as she held the child close to her, she now glared at the prince with a suspicious stare.
The prince's face was still deadpan as he watched his sister rise and take her son by the hand, that child...that child...he hated that child...
But that child...all he did was smile as he followed his dear mother into the confines of the castle, slowly the young prince receded himself into the darkness...yet he still kept his sight locked on the two...
The mother looked behind her as she walked into the castle, "Brother..."
Her brother...her estranged brother who had for such a long time been watching her and her child. It seemed as if he was watching them more and more now...
Her eyes squinted as she frowned with thought, "Brother...What are you plotting..."
Her younger brother whom she had known for almost all of her life...her brother who had only just recently adopted an air of evil around him...
Her dear, dear, brother...
My dear brother...
Onigumo...
Author's notes: Oooohhhh, I kinda left you on a cliff hanger there huh? Betcha just freaked when you saw that, Mwhahahahahahaha!!! God I hate my life...
Oh, for those who don't know...(Probably everyone)...The lymrick or poem or...whatever it was. Yeah, that was the writing on the Gates of Hell...Yeah, that was really kinda creepy huh?
I also bet that some of you hate me now, you know for doing that to Kanna. But you know, I just wanted to make something that would freak most people out.
And I bet that did freak you out huh? Pretty weird shit going down in Naraku's castle huh? Yeeeeaaahhhh...
At first this chapter was much longer buuuuttttt....I kinda got tired of writing so I decided to cut it in half.
It'll be a while though before I get the next chapter up, I like to take my time when I write stories. But one thing bothers me, you see I use the same type of wording for my sentences.
You know, I write very similar for all my stories. Personally I don't think my writing is all that great, what I mean is that my story ideas are great, but the way I write sucks...
But then again I just may be insulting myself...
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