Chapter 28

Castle interior

Sesshomaru and his mother still continued battling one another as the two clashed against one another with their swords. Since her mother was using two weapons against him he had to stay on the offensive. When the two got too close to one another Sesshomaru kicked his mother away with one foot so he could have room to attack.

The female dog demon jumped forward trying to kill her own son by decapitating him with her swords. Sesshomaru repelled her attack by sending an energy shockwave at her. Sesshomaru's mother jumped to the side to avoid the attack, but the demon lord jumped forward and used his sword the Tentseiga to review the animal furs that his mother wore.

The creatures that were killed just so Sesshomaru's mother could wear them returned to life and attacked her. While she was distracted with the resurrected animals Sesshomaru killed his own mother by using Toukijin to behead her. After looking at the fallen form of his mother for a few moments Sesshomaru silently puts away his swords and walks away towards the castle.

Meanwhile inside of the castle itself Naraku was sitting in his throne watching the events taking place through a crystal in front of him. A few moments later his son Marik entered the chamber and he quickly approached his father. He handed Naraku Hotaru's Star Seed.

"Excellent work Marik." Naraku said with a smile as he took in the Star Seed into his body.

"Thank you father. Father I should inform you of something Hakudoushi told me." Marik said as Naraku eyes suddenly showed a gleam of interest.

"Go on." Naraku replied.

"Father...Kanna has been given a soul of her own by the little red haired girl traveling with our foes, and to top it off she has purged all evil influence from her body. Now she fights with the Sailor Senshi. This child had done the same thing to my creation Mouryoumaru. Father I think she may be the light of hope you are looking for." Marik informed his father.

"I have noticed what you mean about the child called Chibi Chibi; I think she may be the one." Naraku said as he turned his attention to three figures hiding in the shadows. "Go and capture the child called Chibi Chibi and bring her to me alive. While you three are at it bring me some star seeds. Now go!" Naraku commanded as the three figures disappeared. After they left Marik was still confused about helping his father.

Meanwhile outside of the castle Inuyasha and Kagome were still locked in battle against the Shichinin-Tai. Kagome was pinned down in a small pile of ruins by Jakotsu, Mukotsu and Renkotsu. Kagome only had her arrows to keep the deadly mercenaries at bay, but the young teen was starting to run low on arrows.

Inuyasha was even in a worst situation because both Ginkotsu and Kyokotsu were holding Inuyasha as Bankotsu was busy punching Inuyasha in the gut multiple times while Suikotsu was sitting near by enjoying the sight of Inuyasha getting beaten to a pulp by their leader.

"A few more blows and that should be the end of him." Suikotsu shouted.

"I'll am going to stretch this on as long as possible. I am loving this." Bankotsu said with a smile as he hit Inuyasha in the gut one more time.

Inuyasha coughed up some blood and said "I am not going to die that easily Bankotsu!"

"Look around you Inuyasha. No one here is going to save you!" Bankotsu informed Inuyasha as he grabbed his sword and he was preparing himself to kill Inuyasha.

Suddenly out of nowhere a beam of light hit Bankotsu's sword and sent it flying out of his hand. Bankotsu and the others were shocked by what happened. Bankotsu turned his head to see how had knocked his own sword out of his hand. It was Sailor Moon and the others. Sailor moon was holding up her staff. It turns out that she used it to knock the sword out of Bankotsu's hands.

"Why you little!" Bankotsu was shouting, but he was cut off when Sesshomaru appeared on the scene as he sent a wave of energy from his sword and it hit the group of resurrected mercenaries knocking them all to the ground. Soon everyone including Sailor Moon, Sailor Mini Moon, Neherenia, Chibi Chibi, Mouryoumaru, Kohaku, Kagura, Kanna, and Sailor Kakyuu arrived.

"This can't be good for us." Suikotsu said with a look of worry on his face.

Sesshomaru attacked the group again as he used Toukijin to send another wave of energy at them. The group of Shichinin-Tai that were attacking Kagome was sent flying off their feet and was sent crashing to the ground below. Before the mercenaries had a chance to get up they were attacked again by Sailor Kakyuu when she sent a large fire ball after them. The members of the Shichinin-Tai were all barely able to get out of the path of the raging fireball before it could incinerate them.

"To hell with this we're out of here." Bankotsu shouted as he and the rest of the Shichinin-Tai vanished, but in their place stood five of Marik's super soldiers.

Sesshomaru and Mouryoumaru jumped forward to attack the soldiers, but were soon followed by everyone. Sesshomaru cut two soldiers in half with his sword Toukijin by cutting through their waists. While Kanna bounced the energy blasts of the soldiers right back at them as Kagura finished two more of them off with a volley of wind blades. The last soldier was proving to be hard to hit as it jumped around from one place to another voiding everyone's attacks.

However just as Mouryoumaru stabbed the soldier in the heart with a tentacle the solider fired a yellow beam of energy at Sailor Kakyuu, but the beam was blocked when Sailor Star Fighter threw himself into the path of the blast.

"Seiya!" the fireball princess shouted as Seiya vanished leaving only his Star Seed behind. Before Kakyuu could pick it up it disappeared into a small mist of Miasma.

With the death of the last solider the others were shocked that they lost the last member of the Starlights. Sailor Kakyuu broke down into tears at the thought of her friends were now gone.

"Princess we have to keep moving." Sesshomaru told the fireball princess. Kakyuu looked up at the demon lord with tear filled eyes.

"I am sorry Kakyuu he's right. Naraku's Miasma will soon engulf the earth and kill everyone if we don't hurry." Sailor Moon said with a sad expression.

"Don't worry we will get your friends star seeds back one way or another." Inuyasha said as he stood up recovering from the beating the Shichinin-Tai gave.

Kakyuu nodded her head as she stood up and she followed by everyone else was about to head into the castle when Kohaku started turning his head to look for someone. "Hey shouldn't we wait for the others?" Kohaku asked with a concerned look.

"He's right. The others haven't arrived yet." Chibi-usa said with a worried expression.

"Where is everyone?" Kagome asked.

"They are gone." A voice spoke. Everyone looked up to see a misty image of Naraku's face. "One by one they fell and I have claimed ownership over their star seeds. You twelve are all that is left." Naraku said with an evil grin.

"Oh no!" Kagome muttered out in fear of what happened to Sango, Miroku, Shippo and the others.

"Naraku you bastard!" Inuyasha shouted as the image of Naraku's face disappeared while Naraku was laughing.

"Naraku I'll kill him." Sesshomaru said as his blood started to boil over the thought of what happened to Rin and Jaken. Sesshomaru ran up to the doors and he kicked them open. Everyone else followed Sesshomaru inside bent on destroying Naraku once and for all.

In another part of the castle the Shichinin-Tai were resting after their brief encounter with Sailor Moon and Inuyasha's friends. While they were resting Marik appeared and he walked up to Bankotsu.

"Would you bunch please inform me of what happened out there?" Marik asked.

"We were getting our asses kicked." Jakotsu replied.

"I see. Well the next time you see them I want them destroyed and." Marik was saying, but he noticed some of Inuyasha's hair was on Bankotsu's armor. He grabbed the hair and he started looking at it. After starring at it for a few moments a twisted smile appeared on Marik's face as he suddenly vanished heading back to his lab.

At the same time in the throne room Naraku is holding all of the Star Seeds he has acquired in one hand, but for some odd reason he is feeding dark energy into them. Elsewhere Sesshomaru, Sailor Moon and the others were cautiously walking up the stairs heading up looking for the throne room.

"Do you know where Naraku is?" Kohaku asked.

"He is in the throne at the top of the main tower." Kanna replied.

"I am surprised Kanna is on our side now, but I am wondering how that happened." Kagome asked.

"I helped her." Chibi-Chibi replied.

"You know kid there is something odd about you. When this battle is over I want to know what it is." Inuyasha said as the group continued walking up a spiral stairwell until they reached a room at the top.

The group entered the room they found it to completely dark and empty, but the group wasn't aware of the three figures in the room with them. The three figures sent by Naraku to find Chibi-Chibi attacked the gang from the shadows. The figures stuck Sailor Moon and Inuyasha while Sesshomaru and Mouryoumaru fought off the attacks, but everyone was having a hard time seeing due to the fact that the room was dark.

"Princess Kakyuu a little light would be helpful." Kagura shouted.

The fireball Princess lit up the room using one of her fireballs. Once the room was lit Inuyasha and Sailor Moon were shocked to see the identity of their attackers. The first one that attacked them was Tsubaki the dark priestess, Musou the face stealer and Queen Metalia.

"Oh crap!" Inuyasha said as he knew those three were going to be trouble.

A/N: sorry if the chapter was shorter than the last one, but I wanted to get the next chapter up especially after I got a little lazy with this fic, but I am not giving up on this fic.