Very Important Authors Note: Okay, I'm going to finish this story, but I need some people (You know who you are!) to back off a little, okay? STOP PRESURING ME! Many other authors have said this, and every author feels the same way, and I know that you guys have felt this way, so I can't believe that I have to say this but I do. I write fan fiction because I want to and because I like to. I don't have to do this, and if you guys don't back off a little immediately then I will delete this story. Don't think that I won't, because I will. We can joke around all we want but in the end when it comes to this story I'm the one with the power and you know it. You guys have never seen me truly angry, but if this doesn't stop right now I will become so. It won't be Jenny who will be yelling at you, it won't be Moga, it will be me. SO CUT IT OUT. There's a reason why so many people keep telling you guys not to get me pissed.

My apologies to everyone for that, but it had to be done. I also would like to apologize to She-Who-Is-My-New-Character, for her name is spelled Lia, not Lea.

Sammy-Sama: Wow…hello! I've read both your fics and they were so good! Everyone who bothers to read these things, this is my newest reviewer, everyone give her a nice round of applause! Since you reviewed and since you haven't before, this chapter is dedicated to you!

Remenescent: Read author's note if you haven't already, lass. And I've already apologized too. Grr…

Al: I'm not speaking to you. Read author's note if you haven't already. Grr…

Disclaimer: (To the tune of Climb Every Mountain, which I don't own either.)

Climb every mountain

Ford every stream

Do what ever it takes

To have you belong to me!

Hey…it's the lawyers…RUN!

Inu and co. aren't mine and never will be.

Naraku III

By Pwalefriend

Dedicated to Sammy-Sama

Read on…

"Inuyasha! Inuyasha!" Kagome's cries rang through out the clearing now, a desperate hint that was so powerful that it was almost to the point beyond belief sounded in them. The stark terror that contaminated her very aura now penetrated even Naraku and Jenny's concentration as everyone turned to see her pulling Inuyasha all the more closer to her.

Sango blinked at her best friend, her honorary sister, her pack member. She had heard Kagome sound desperate before, but never had she heard anything like this. This…this went beyond worry, this went beyond fear, beyond horror and mortification, beyond anything that Sango had ever heard before.

Her cries continued, bringing Miroku out of unconsciousness. He stared in horror. The monk couldn't even begin to believe what he was seeing.

"It can't be…" Al muttered, staring. "He can't be…"

But Inuyasha, to all appearances, was breathing no longer.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Kagome screamed. And then she screamed again.

"That is the sound of ultimate suffering." Blake muttered, his eyes wide. "My heart made that sound when…" But even Blake couldn't bring himself to make fun of the media after hearing the sound that was ripping, clawing and scratching it's way out of Kagome's throat. It was just too horrible.

(See, if you guys had pressured me to update and more then you already have I would have just left it off there.)

"Al! Lia!" Jenny screamed suddenly. "Take over for me!" She ducked a blow from a startled Naraku, who had been snapped out of his gleeful daze by her worried announcement.

"Jenny, what the hell do you think your doing!" Snapped Sesshomaru, projecting his voice over the battle field.

"I'm not gonna let Inuyasha die!"

"Then let me-"

"No!" Jenny turned back as she ducked another blow from Naraku. Only this time Lia sort of…how do I say this…she kinda burned Naraku's arm off just by glaring at it. Which got many stares of shock and morbid awe from all but Jenny and Sesshomaru, and Kagome. (And Inuyasha, but he's dying at the moment, he CAN'T be amazed by Lia's most awesome skills.)

"Way to ruin the angst right there." Muttered Blake.

"Yeah, well…they were getting way too cheesy." Said Mario. "They sounded like characters from some stupid…soap opera!"

"I thought that we'd established that this IS a soap opera!" Said Blake.

"It is not! What soap opera do you watch that has a Moving House, characters more powerful then the gods themselves and waging an eternal war with a Bureaucratic group of traitors just because their leader refuses to take the her rightful throne!" Mario demanded.

"That's just the point!" Blake snapped back. "I don't watch any soap operas! Who needs to when I'm part of this group!"

"It's not a soap opera!"

"It is too!"

"Is not!"

"Is too!"

And so Mario and Blake began to argue and forgot entirely about the battle waging around them, as they tended to do. Al, who was watching them from above merely rolled her eyes in exasperation.

If Miroku or Sango or Shippo or even Kagura (Kagome wouldn't have cared and, like I said, Inuyasha is kinda out of it at the moment.) had chosen that moment to look up at that moment they probably would have gotten one of the biggest shocks of their life.

Not because Al was aiming a golden arrow in a golden long bow at the back of Naraku's head, though the way that it illuminated the space around it was pretty interesting. But because Al was in air, about twenty-five, maybe thirty feet up in the air. For those of you who don't know, that is about the height of a telephone pole. And Al had suddenly sprouted wings. All in all, this left dear Kanna rather confused, since Kanna was the only relatively sane one in the group and had thought to keep an eye on the skies above.

Meanwhile Jenny had just given up arguing with Sesshomaru. She didn't have any time to waste, and knowing him as she did he would go on for hours just to win, not caring even if the forest burned down around his ears as long as he could win the argument. And she just didn't have the time.

"Kagome!" She said, kneeling down next to the stricken miko. Kagome turned to her, her eyes full of grief and yet Jenny saw a tiny flicker of trust shine behind the more present emotion. Jenny felt her resolve to help strengthened even more then it already was. 'I've got to help them.' Jenny thought. 'I've failed only twice before. But I will not fail now.'

"Jenny…help him. Bring him home…" Kagome whispered her request. And even though it lacked the volume every one her heard her broken voice found it even more moving then her earlier screams of emotional pain. But Jenny shook her head.

"I won't." She said. "We will." Taking Kagome's hand called once over her shoulder, "KK!"

"Uh-huh?" KK said quietly.

"Watch my back?" Jenny asked, matching his tone.

"Okay…" KK suddenly looked worried. (You guys may not have picked up on this yet but KK being worried is a pretty big thing.) "Hey, be careful, okay?"

Jenny smiled at him sweetly. "Don't worry, I'll be fine sweetie." She said. "Just make sure that no one attacks either me or Kagome in this world, 'kay?"

"'Kay."

Jenny smile became a little softer until she turned around and it became a determined frown.

She closed her eyes and moved a little bit until she was facing Kagome across Inuyasha's red-clad, momentarily fragile body. Then she began to chant.

"Piyer nu gi tsu lypxu iv luyxu mav huj. Piyer nu gi Sytsu."

Even in her grief-stricken state Kagome's slightly addled brain processed the words over and over in the short several second time span that it had to do so. And each time it came to the same conclusion. 'I have no idea what the hell she just said.' Kagome thought. 'And I probably don't really want to know. As long as it'll help bring my Inuyasha back to me. Besides, I know that I can trust Jenny.'

In The Place Of Peace And Rest…

Inuyasha was just sitting still in a tree. He didn't recognize the tree, nor did he know the forest that he was looking out across. Below him sat all his friends and Kagome, but he knew somewhere deep in his unconsciousness that they weren't really there, so he didn't even bother trying to talk to them, he didn't even bother to look at them. Then suddenly he was back in the dark place, but still he didn't even blink an eye, he just sat there and thought. He didn't think about anything in particular, he just sat and he thought about his life and the lives of the others around him. That's really all you can do when faced with such a situation. Then he heard her voice.

"Inuyasha! Inuyasha!" She shouted out, her voice piercing through the darkness like a beacon through the mist.

"…Kagome?" He wondered aloud. Suddenly, there she was in front of him. She stared down at him for a moment and then gave a cry of joy. Kagome threw herself down to his level and hugged his desperately.

"Ka-Kagome…?" He said again. At the sound of his voice Kagome began to cry in relief. "Hey!" He said, startled. "Don't cry! You know that I can't stand it when you cry…please don't cry my love…" He whispered, rubbing her back with his large hand. His fingers were making gentle circular motions that Kagome found remarkably soothing.

"But I thought that I'd never see you again…" Kagome said. Inuyasha was confused. 'What's she talking about?' He thought to himself.

"What are you talking about?" He asked aloud. "We were able to reopen the well and I got to you in time…" unconsciously his arms that were draped around her delicate framed tightened slightly. "And now we're…now we're…"

"Fighting Naraku." Kagome finished for him. "We need to go back Inuyasha, but first we have to find Jenny. I thought that she came with me…" Kagome looked around, trying to peer through the abyss around them as she noticed for the first time the absence of their friend.

As if on cue she saw Jenny jogging toward them through the darkness, her feet seeming to run on the blackness itself. And unlike Kagome and Inuyasha, who were just clearly set in the black, like they had been painted in, Jenny seemed to give a slightly wavering light to the dark around her. Slightly like the wavering air above a campfire.

"Thank the gods I found you guys." Jenny said as she ran up next to them. She bent down half-way, bracing herself on her knees as she panted. "We've gotta go. Apparently those in limbo don't like the living much…can't imagine why…" She trailed off and avoided their eyes. Choosing instead to look over at her right, at least…Kagome thought that it was the right. She couldn't really tell anymore.

"Never tell me." Kagome stated simply, before forgetting about it. Some of the things that Jenny had done where just to confusing for Kagome's mind to grasp. "How do we get out of here then? Do you have to do another chant?"

"Not really…" Jenny looked at Inuyasha pointedly, and he nodded once. He knew what he had to do. He had made his decision.

Inuyasha stood up and held Kagome tight to him with one arm, the other he felt Jenny latch onto like some sort of leech. He could have sworn that he heard both Jenny and Kagome mutter "Glomp." Under their breaths but he didn't stop to consider it at that moment. He merely looked out into the abyss, and he knew that She was listening.

"I choose to live." Inuyasha said, loudly and clearly.

Back At The Battle-Field…

Naraku chortled horribly as he looked down at the bashed and battered Gaurdians. Well, except for Blake and Mario, who were still arguing.

"IT IS NOT!" Mario shouted.

"IT IS TOO!" Blake shouted.

Neither of them noticed that they were kinda loosing the battle at the moment. And even if one of them had noticed he would have probably just shrugged and said, "The battle may be lost, but the war is far from over!" And then gone back to arguing.

So while they argued their female counter-parts (who paid them no mind by the way, they were used to this kind of behavior.) were in serious trouble and were wishing for Jenny to hurry up and get back so that KK and Sesshomaru would stop fretting and get off their lazy bums to help out with the fight. Neither of the girls would have minded a loan from Tetsusaiga either…

Lia winced at Naraku's laughter, to her it sounded more like gurgling then laughter, and more like gurgling blood then just plain old gurgling. Not the most pleasant of sounds. And Lia and Al were definitely starting to feel a little bit panicked. Jenny had made it clear that they couldn't use their full powers, but still! Now they knew why this guy had given the Inu-Pack so much trouble!

But then some help came from a source that they hadn't expected to see back in action for some while. Or three sources, as the case may be.

"WIND-SCAR!" Inuyasha shouted, standing up and attacking with Tetsusaiga, the blade glowing red as it came swinging down in the normally fatal blow.

"THROW THE POISON! NOW!" Sango shouted to Miroku. The monk nodded and they both threw one of Kagome's blanket, stuffed to the brim with Sango's demon poison, at Naraku's hideous form.

"This is the end of the line Naraku." Screamed Jenny, coming up behind him.

"There's no escape this time."

"You'll die today."

"I'm gonna make you wish you'd never been born from that piece of filth you bastard!" (Three guesses who said that.)

"IT IS NOT!"

"IT IS TOO!" And still Blake and Mario argued, completely unaware of the turn of the tables. As usual.

But still Naraku kept on laughing. In all honesty their valiant show amused him too no end, as it would any self-respecting villain. He was so amused that he didn't notice Sesshomaru swipe Tensaiga not one inch from the spider shaped scar on his back, nor the unconscious man who appeared on the ground behind him. He didn't even notice when KK picked up the man and disappeared with him. But Kagura did.

'Muso…' She thought to herself. 'What on Earth could they want with Muso?' But out loud she merely said…

"Kanna. I'll be here with you."

"You BASTARD!" Inuyasha was still threatening Naraku. By now the others had stopped the taunting and where just watching the hanyou bellow, waiting for him to be done. Naraku just continued his disgusting gurgling "laugh".

But then something happened the not even Jenny could have foreseen. They got help from the most unlikely source imaginable.

Naraku suddenly stopped laughing. His face paled and he reverted back to his more human form. His eyes were widened with shock and then it seemed and if he was being sucked backward for a moment. And then…he just disappeared. His face showed pain beyond pain for a mere second, and then…he was just gone. The tinkle of broken glass falling was the only sound heard besides the shocked laboring breath of our hero's.

Everyone looked at Kanna and Kagura, who were examining Kanna's broken mirror, the shards of which lay on the ground. If you looked at it long enough it would seem to take the form of a Spider…

"…I think that I speak for all of us when I say, what the FK JUST HAPPENED!" Jenny screamed.

"The mirror was one of Naraku's creations…" Miroku said. Kagura glanced up at them all and nodded.

"Yes." She said. "When turned against him all the elements that made up him were suddenly thrown apart. Like ice when you unfreeze it."

Miroku, Sango, Shippo, Inuyasha and Sesshomaru didn't understand this explanation, but the members of the group who had been to Science class (and who were paying attention.) sure did. And they didn't like it.

"…Ewww!" Jenny said. "Now there are nasty little Naraku molecules floating around! I wanna get out of here!"

"I can not say how much I agree with you just using words, because there are no words to explain just how much I agree with you." Al said, very seriously. The others groans of disgust paused at that.

"…Should I even bother trying to figure out what she just said?" Kagome asked curiously.

"No…" Lia said. "…Unless you want a headache, then go right ahead!"

"Hey, Jenny?" Mario asked suddenly.

"Yeah?" Said Jenny.

"Is our life like a soap opera?"

"…"

"…"

"…"

"…excuse me?"

So? How did you guys like this chapter? It was very long, to make up for my short chapter last time. And you should all feel very blessed about it too! I was tempted so many times to give you guys a truly evil cliff hanger…sigh. But even I know my limits.

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STOP LOOKING AT ME LIKE THAT!

Well, please, please review. Your reviews give me the motivation that I need to write the next chapter! Just think hoe heartbroken I would be if no one reviewed!

Until Next Time (And only one or two more chapters left, by the way.)

Pwalefriend.

P.S. The chant means, if you can't see the footnote (I don't think that you can.) "Lead me to the place of rest and peace. Lead me to Death."

 In English this means "Lead me to the place of peace and rest. Lead me to Death."