Naraku's Demise

by Sesshoumaru8106

A fanfict that takes place right where the anime left off and takes you through a battle to finally defeat Naraku. Also orginally the first chapters of my fict that I will rewrite, The Legacy of the Inu no Taishou.

6. Final Battle Begins

Author's Notes: It seems as though I have two new reviewers now. Although I would like to announce your names individually and thank you, my computer is running horribly slow right now because I am in the middle of downloading Naruto eps, but I'll be sure to get your names up here and thank you more personally next chapter.

Also, sorry for the wait. Most authors don't really write as much as I do, and few who do, also write as much as I do. I've been having a little trouble at my home. So this chapter's been a little delayed because of it.

Now it's time for Inuyasha!

Chapter 6: The Final Battle Begins

"We've been searching for Naraku for a long time now," Kagome narrates. "What started as a hunt for the shards of the Shikon no Tama, turned into an ongoing battle with Naraku. He has been collecting the shards for himself so that he can use them, and so far he has collected all of the shards, but two, including one that was located between this world and the next.

"Along our journey, we ended up meeting some friends, who for one reason or another joined us in our search for destroying Naraku. Sango joined us to avenge her family and also to get back her little brother whom Naraku had been manipulating for his schemes. However, he managed to live through having the shard taken out of his back. It seems as though he has healed while the shard was in his back to the point he didn't need it anymore.

"Miroku, along with his lecherous personality, inherited a curse from his father that was placed on his family by Naraku. Although it has been his greatest weapon, it has also been his greatest fear. It gets bigger and bigger until one day it finally sucks him in like it did his father.

"Even Inuyasha has a reason to kill Naraku. A long time ago, 50 years before I met Inuyasha, Naraku tricked him and Kikyou into betraying each other. Ever since, Inuyasha has been continuously pursuing her, and sometimes it is really hard to tell whether or not he really cares about me since he is so obsessed with Kikyou all the time.

"Shippou and I are the only ones who don't have our own reasons for vengeance. Although we have been there throughout every battle Inuyasha has had with Naraku, we have nothing to take revenge for on Naraku. However, I will keep on fighting along side my friends, and I will take vengeance for everybody else that Naraku has hurt. For my friends and everyone hurt by Naraku's evil schemes, I will continue on and fight!"

"Huh? Did you say something Kagome?" Inuyasha said turning around with a confused look on his face.

"Uh, no. It must be your imagination," she replied with a slightly embarrassed look on her face.

"Let's keep on going then," he said to her.

Then, something came from over the mountain tops not too far away. "Naraku!" Inuyasha shouted with a growl. "Common!" They hurried along, chasing after Naraku in the direction he was headed. Kouga and Sesshoumaru were headed after him too, having seen him come over the mountains as well.

At this rate, instead of being at an advantage, Naraku was going to be at a complete disadvantage.

Kagura, finally having a strong ally, decided that she would continue to assist Kouga by letting him fly with her on her feather after Naraku. At the same time, Sesshoumaru was flying after Naraku in the same direction. Eventually, their paths met.

'It's him again,' Sesshoumaru thought, approaching Kouga and Kagura whom were flying together on Kagura's feather. 'Isn't that woman that incarnation of Naraku who was going to betray him? Perhaps she has finally broken free from Naraku. This means that Naraku doesn't have any more minions to use as shields. And now that his heart is gone, he will die for sure.' Sesshoumaru began to speed up in excitement of catching up with and finally killing Naraku.

"It's you again!" Kouga shouted as he saw Sesshoumaru approaching. "Are you going after Naraku as well?"

"Don't get in my way," he said as he drew out his sword and slashed at Kouga, which released a half circle of yellow energy. Sesshoumaru flew on, as Kagura took evasive action and moved out of the way of the attack.

"You wanna play dirty do you?" Kagura said, mostly to herself. "Let's play dirty then." With a wave of her fan, they sped up, matching Sesshoumaru's speed. Sesshoumaru was obviously annoyed. He didn't like to have annoying challenges while he was in the middle of accomplishing another goal.

"Go away if you want to live," he told her.

Inuyasha and the others were also beginning to close in. However, they were on the other side of the mountain, closing in from the other side. They could still see Naraku. He appeared to be trying to get far away, as though he were afraid that someone would attack him. "Heh, he must be losing his confidence," Inuyasha observed out loud for the other to hear. "He's running away with his tail between his legs."

"Yes, that's the way it seems," Miroku agreed. "It seems as though what Kohaku told us was true. Naraku's heart has finally been destroyed."

"I hope he will be okay until we get back," Sango said with a sigh. "He seems pretty badly injured."

"Don't worry," Miroku assured her. "My barrier I set up definitely won't be broken by any of the youkai around here. I haven't sensed anything strong enough to break it, except Naraku, and he's heading the other way."

Sesshoumaru slashed at Kagura again, trying to make her fall so that she wouldn't bother him. In doing so, he also sped up again. He was determined to get to Naraku first, and he wouldn't even think that his half-breed brother would have even noticed Naraku coming over the hills. He of course didn't know that Inuyasha was actually on Naraku's trail as well.

"Attack at me, will you?" She said coming back on a steady course after dodging Sesshoumaru's attack. She raised her fan up again and commanded three crescents to fly at Sesshoumaru. However, Sesshoumaru found no difficulty in dodging the attacks and even managed to keep a steady course while doing so.

"Don't underestimate this Sesshoumaru," he said to her. "I won't be defeated with such feeble attacks." Without even looking, Sesshoumaru turned his blade toward Kagura again and shot blades of blue energy at Kagura, the same way that he had when fighting Inuyasha transformed for the first time.

Finally Kagura had lost it and had fallen off of her feather, which transformed back to normal size. Kouga and Kagura went falling toward the ground. Of course, Kagura had no fear, she simply commanded the wind to slow her to a stop on the ground. Kouga however, had no such luck. He didn't have any kind of power dealing with the wind. All of his strength came from physical attacks and his speed. Neither of those things could help him here.

However, he saw one chance of surviving this uninjured. As he was falling, he could see a tree approaching growing larger by the second. As approached the ground, he had to quickly locate a branch and grab hold which would effectively stop him from being dropped into the ground really hard.

For a while he thought that he wasn't going to be able to locate a branch he could grab onto. All of the branches were either misaligned or too small to have any big effect. Then finally, he saw one and readied himself to grab on. As he finally got close enough to grab it, he reached out to grab it, but he missed it just by a few seconds. 'This is bad,' he thought, but just then he saw another branch and quickly grabbed on.

While nearly breaking the branch right off of the tree, he did a few rotations around to branch, and using the momentum from the fall and rotating around the branch, he let go and started running faster than ever. As usual, a tornado formed around his entire body from his immense speed, this time larger than any time before. "Hey, thanks for the lift!" he shouted to her, as he sped off.

"Hey! Where the Hell are you going?" she yelled after him. Before she could even get it out, he was gone. It seemed like she would be traveling alone from now on.

They had all traveled really far by this point. They could tell just by how far they had gone that Naraku would soon find a place to land. As though they had control over it with their minds, Naraku had just then began to descend into a rocky pit where he could have the most advantage. He had already caught on to the fact that he was being followed. And since there was so many of them, it would become hard for them to attack him without attacking each other. They would become each other's opponents and eventually start fighting each other more than they were actually fighting him, and they would all be weakening each other. This was Naraku's last chance to come out victorious.

Sesshoumaru would be the first to reach him. Although Kouga was fast, he couldn't outdo Sesshoumaru's speed, especially when Sesshoumaru had the advantage of flight, which eliminated tediously climbing up and down hills and canyon walls.

The battle began as soon as Sesshoumaru arrived. Without time to even look to see where Naraku was, Naraku's assault had begun. He shot a tentacle at Sesshoumaru, which Sesshoumaru easily dodged, by stepping to the side; however, Naraku had already anticipated that happening. So he swung it at Sesshoumaru, attempting to throw him into one of the canyon walls, but Sesshoumaru was too quick and witty to have something so simple cause him any bit of trouble. Sesshoumaru just pulled out Tokijin and blasted right through Naraku's tentacle and then sent another blast directly at Naraku, which Naraku blocked with his barrier.

"Did you forget?" Naraku said arrogantly. "You cannot penetrate my barrier. And if you can't break through my barrier, there is nothing you can do to hurt me."

"Don't take this Sesshoumaru so lightly. I may not have broken through your barrier the first time you used it, but there is no way I would lose to an inferior youkai." Having said that, Sesshoumaru immediately began his next attack. If his kenatsu was not enough to break Naraku's barrier, then perhaps Souryuuha was. Sesshoumaru charged the tokijin with his youki. "Ougi, Souryuuha!" Blue energy that appeared in the shape of lightning now surrounded Sesshoumaru completely. "Die!" With the command of his sword, he sent the energy directly at Naraku.

The same cockiness that Naraku had before was quickly starting to deplete. He didn't know if he had enough strength to repel it. The blast hit Naraku's barrier, and for a moment it looked like it wasn't going to hold up. However, he couldn't manage to send it back at him. "Heh, amusing trick," Naraku taunted. "I have to admit that it's more than I expected. Unlike Inuyasha's Bakuryuuha, I wasn't able to repel your Souryuuha. However, it will never be enough to defeat me."
"Don't compare this Sesshoumaru to that half-breed."

Inuyasha and the others could tell they were getting really close to where Naraku had just gone. "Sesshoumaru's already there," Inuyasha told them.

"Sesshoumaru?" Miroku mimicked.

Sesshoumaru prepared for another Souryuuha. He did the same as the last time, charging tokijin with his youki. "I will teach you not to underestimate this Sesshoumaru," he said as lightning began to once again circle around him. However, this time he did something different. While the energy was still surrounding Sesshoumaru, he placed his blade up, facing the point toward Naraku, and charged him.

The lightning circled Sesshoumaru in weird patterns as it connected back to the sword every now and then and continued to engulf Sesshoumaru with lightning. 'What's he up to?' Naraku thought.

As Sesshoumaru got within the last couple of feet of Naraku, he drew his blade back and thrust in into Naraku's barrier. There was a sound of clashing powers at war with each other. A battle between the tokijin's energy and the energy of Naraku's barrier. "Souryuuha!" The energy surrounding Sesshoumaru exploded through the blade and blasted Naraku's barrier head on.

'What an incredible power,' Naraku thought as he fended it off. However, Naraku eventually managed to repel the energy and with a bright flash, it dissipated. "Useless," Naraku said. However, as his vision came back, he observed that Sesshoumaru was able to break through the barrier himself with the added force of his Souryuuha. Sesshoumaru's arm was ripping right through the barrier, and had just barely caught Naraku short of a fatal blow. And after taking such a blow, Naraku's barrier was no longer able to stand. However, the battle was just beginning. "I underestimated you, Sesshoumaru, but you'll have to do much better to defeat me."

"Aren't you forgetting about someone?" a familiar voice called, that was starting to become rather annoying to Sesshoumaru. The voice belonged to no other than Kouga. "Thought you could hog all the fun, did you, Sesshoumaru. I have a score to settle with you for making me nearly plummet fifty feet to the ground, but first…" He directed his attention toward Naraku. "I'm going to take care of you, Naraku."

Sesshoumaru didn't seem very pleased by recent events. He had gained an ally, but he seemed more upset by it then happy. "Don't get in my way," he said as he sliced the canyon walls above Kouga, causing an avalanche that Kouga had to tediously avoid. However, since Naraku was so far down, he could easily predict the fall of the rocks and move out of the way. "I will take care of Naraku myself."

Sesshoumaru rose his blade again readying another Souryuuha, and right after he released it and sent it at Naraku, Kouga had his revenge on Sesshoumaru for his underhanded tactics by kicking him in the back. Immediately after, he went after Naraku who didn't dare to try and resist Sesshoumaru's attack with another barrier and had just dodged the Souryuuha. He used the momentum of his fall and swung a spinning kick at Naraku, which was charged with youki. Naraku found it easy to dodge, and Kouga attacked again by rebounding off the wall.

"Stay out of my fight," Sesshoumaru threatened, as he sent another attack in the direction of Kouga, causing the place Kouga had just left to crumble.

Kouga's next attack hit Naraku, but Naraku just took in the blow like it was nothing. Although it was charged with lots of youki, the attack could still only cause a small cut. Now it was Naraku's turn to attack. Naraku teleported behind Kouga and stabbed him through his stomach. Immediately after, he teleported over to Sesshoumaru, who was always a little more aware of what was going. However, it was too late. When Naraku teleported, he was already in the middle of a kick, leaving barely enough time for Sesshoumaru to realize what was going on and partially move out of the way before the kick knocked him back into the side of the canyon.

"Not bad for someone who never does any of his own work," taunted another familiar voice. This time it was Inuyasha. He had decided to go on ahead of everyone else since he was faster, but he didn't waste anytime making a big entrance. Right as he had said that he was falling toward Naraku at an amazing rate. "Koun Gou Sou Ha!" he called out as he was almost to Naraku. He swung his blade downward and released spikes of diamond that pierced through Naraku and a shield he put up to guard himself. Immediately after, as he was still falling, he sent a kaze no kizu at Naraku who now had no shield.

Inuyasha had landed the first blow on Naraku, and Naraku was not pleased. The battle was becoming slightly more difficult for him by the second and he really was starting to worry whether or not he was going to be able to beat all of them, especially at one time.

Sesshoumaru was quick to recover from the attack Naraku had done on him. It was nothing more than some scrapes and bruises from being slammed into the wall. He was only winded for a second and then was quick to follow-up Inuyasha's attack with his own, sending a blue orb of energy at Naraku, which Naraku managed to dodge. However, Sesshoumaru hadn't expected it to hit, instead, he quickly darted toward Naraku, using the walls to push off and go faster from one side to the next, and he used his Dokacho to pierce through Naraku's side, which sent miasma everywhere. Sesshoumaru quickly retreated into a ready stance.

Naraku had already taken quite a beating, and there were still more on the way that he had to battle, he had to form some sort of plan to defeat them, but it kept getting harder. He had already taken more attacks than he had delivered to any one of them, and was now starting to feel the effects of it, as well as a real fear that he might be defeated.

Kouga had finally recovered from the hit he took. Although he had been pierced through the stomach, it didn't go in too far, so the whole wasn't very big. To him, it was no more than being barely cut by a sword. He retaliated by making a swing at Naraku. Naraku moved out of the way, and the rocks where he hit fell down in a small avalanche, which Naraku also had to dodge. Then he quickly spun off of the wall and did a dragon kick at Naraku.

Immediately after, Naraku found himself dodging barrage of attacks, executed in a seemingly flawless order, including Inuyasha's kaze no kizu, Sesshoumaru's kenatsu, and even now Kagura's wind attack as she arrived to the fight and not too long after was joined by everyone else as well who were throwing their own attacks at Naraku.

Now his advantage had finally began to set in. Everyone was there, and now it would be hard to coordinate attacks. He knew that Sesshoumaru didn't care about hurting any one of them. So he had to pay just as much detail to Sesshoumaru as before. Kagura could care almost equally as little, but she would still try to avoid attacking Sesshoumaru, Inuyasha and Kouga, at least until he was dead. So he could ignore her a little bit more. Kouga would try and avoid hurting anyone of Inuyasha's companions, but he wouldn't hesitate to hurt Inuyasha if he got in the way, and Inuyasha and his companions wouldn't hurt each other, nor would Kagome hurt Kouga if he got in the way.

Regardless of this disadvantage that Naraku had cleverly set up, the barrage of attacks continued. Kagome shot off a purification arrow, which Naraku had to make sure he dodge for certain, and then Sesshoumaru sent off Kenatsu again, both of which Naraku managed to dodge. The blue energy orb smashed into the wall behind Naraku, causing Sango to have to quickly move out of the way, as she threw her haraikotsu, and Kagome's purification arrow nearly caught Inuyasha on the shoulder, but he moved out of the way, as it singed his fire-rat kimono. "Watch where you're shooting Kagome!" Inuyasha shouted.

"Sorry, but we just don't…" Before she could finish, Naraku struck the side of the canyon, 'causing rocks to fall down over her and Miroku. Inuyasha quickly jumped over and sliced through the rocks, but it gave Naraku a perfect opportunity to strike Inuyasha.

Inuyasha found himself falling and hitting a ledge. "Damn, he's strong. We have to find a way to beat him."

"Haraikotsu!" Sango shouted out as she through her weapon again. Miroku aided in her attack too, throwing his charms at Naraku. Naraku deflected the haraikotsu and was struck by three of the charms. They burned his flesh and disappeared, but they didn't do any real damage to him, nothing more than a good punch would have done.

Kagura used dance of dragons on Naraku, which got Miroku caught in it, throwing him against the wall and hurting his shoulder. "Miroku!" Sango called out, throwing her haraikotsu at Kagura.

"What are you doing?" she screamed as she blocked it with her wind attacks. "I'm on your side now!" Sango looked a little confused.

"Believe it or not," Kouga said. "Kagura is actually helping us this time."

In the confusion, Sango didn't see Naraku attacking her. His elongated arm tentacle knocked her off of Kirara and into the wall. Kirara retaliated on her own by biting into Naraku's arm, which released miasma. However, Kirara kept holding on.

Kouga quickly took advantage of the situation and landed a high powered punch in Naraku's stomach. Miroku also decided to take advantage of the opportunity to slice off his arm completely with his staff, which caused miasma to spill everywhere.

Naraku was starting to gain another advantage. His miasma was filling up the cavern, making it hard to breath and causing a complete cloak of where he was. There was a few reckless attacks from Kouga and Inuyasha of them confusing each other for Naraku, and Naraku to advantage of the situation by knocking down rocks that even hit Sesshoumaru, even though he guarded against it so that it didn't do anything.

Next, Inuyasha used his kaze no kizu toward what he thought was Naraku. However, Naraku moved out of the way, and now knowing exactly where Inuyasha was inside of his own cloak of miasma stabbed him right through the leg.

'I have to do something,' Kagome thought to herself. 'Maybe I can clear away this miasma by shooting an arrow, but what if I hit someone other than Naraku?' She reached back and grabbed an arrow. 'I have no choice. Please, hit your mark!' She pulled back the string and released the arrow as well aimed toward the top as she could.

Her plan worked. The miasma soon began to clear out, but in light of this, Naraku's next target became her.

Naraku teleported down to where she was at and shot his newly grown tentacle toward her. "Inuyasha!" she screamed in terror as she clenched her bow tight in her hands.

"Kagome!"

Fueled by his desire to save Kagome, Inuyasha's speed seemed to have dramatically increased as he darted off of the canyon walls back and forth to quickly get to Kagome. He managed to go so fast as to get down to where Kagome was and intercept Naraku's attack, which ended up stabbing him in the shoulder.

"Inuyasha!" Inuyasha's companions all shouted in unison. Inuyasha began coughing up blood.

"You alright Kagome?" Inuyasha asked as he turned around and smiled at her.

"Inuyasha, you saved me." She embraced him in her arms.

"Fools," Naraku said as he prepared another attack.

"No you don't!" Miroku yelled at him as he opened the air void.

"Miroku, the Saimyoushou!" Sango called.

Miroku didn't care, he had to save his friends. He kept his kazaana open until he couldn't take it anymore, but to no avail. Naraku hadn't moved an inch. Although he was able to give Inuyasha and Kagome time to collect themselves and saved them from Naraku's attack, Naraku effortlessly held himself back from being absorbed by Miroku's attack.

"Did you really think that you could beat me so easily with the curse that I gave to you?" Naraku said to him arrogantly. He shot out a tentacle toward Miroku, but Sango stepped in and deflected the attack with her haraikotsu.

"Enough of this foolishness," Sesshoumaru said, putting his tokijin away. "You're battle is with me, Naraku." As fast as Naraku himself could teleport, Sesshoumaru flew down to where Naraku was and punched him in the face.

Naraku flew back, and Sesshoumaru flew right behind him and kicked him in the other direction. Naraku flew back, but managed to catch himself in mid air. Then, he had just enough time to dodge Sesshoumaru's next combo of attacks that started with a punch and when into a backwards slash with his claws, a spinning roundhouse kick, another punch and then he reached for tokijin and resolved the combo with kenatsu.

Naraku retaliated by throwing a few attacks back at Sesshoumaru which Sesshoumaru dodged and then struck a punch in Naraku's stomach.

While the others threw an attack every now and then whenever they saw an opening, Naraku and Sesshoumaru took turns throwing blows at each other and dodging each other's attacks. It eventually became so fast, that the only way to be sure who you were going to hit with your attack was by attacking close up.

Soon the battle flared again. Fighters were moving in and out of the action jumping in to take a few strikes and jumping back out to get a nice darting speed at Naraku by using the walls.

Inuyasha came in with a kaze no kizu, and Naraku moved out of the way and then hit Kouga as he came in. Then Sesshoumaru came from behind with a kenatsu, nailing Naraku in the back. Then Sango would come by and slash him with her wakasashi. And the battle continued on in the same manner for quite some time. Blows going back and forth and different fighters taking blows and giving blows. Soon, everyone was warn out and getting tired.

The battle suddenly calmed down again as everyone stopped and rested for a minute ready to join back in fighting at a moments notice. Even Naraku was warn out, and although he kept his strong posture and menacing look, he really was taking quite a beating, and it was finally having quite an effect on him. He didn't know how much longer he could go on.

'There has to be some way I can gain an advantage over them and defeat them.' He looked around to each of their faces, full of anger, hatred, and determination. Everyone's face was the same except for Sesshoumaru. Although he had used up a lot of his energy, especially after using so many Souryuuha in the beginning of the battle, his expression never changed. Cold, emotionless, empty.

Naraku's mind got lost in Sesshoumaru's eyes. 'They are the same as mine,' he thought. 'No. They're different. They're colder, much colder. His expression hasn't changed one bit, while my eyes reveal everything about me, and his eyes reveal nothing about him.'

By this point, Miroku was ready to join back in the battle as well. His hand had absorbed a lot of poison, but it wouldn't matter much if he could finally kill Naraku and himself of the kazaana in his right hand. 'I must go on,' he thought.

Each person had only hatred in their minds. They all had the thoughts of anger and malice for Naraku trapped in their heads, eternally recycling itself and playing over and over again.

'Damn him. I'll make him pay for everything he's done,' thought Inuyasha. 'I will avenge Kikyou. I will get my revenge for tricking me.' He brought his focus to Kagome. 'And most important of all, I will protect everyone!'

'I will get my revenge for my village and for making Kohaku suffer. I won't let him live after everything he has done,' thought Sango as she clutched her wakazashi in one hand and her haraikotsu in the other.

'To avenge my comrades, I will make sure you die,' Kouga thought while he clenched his fists.

'To finally be free from your hands and to permanently sever our ties, I will destroy you.'

'This Sesshoumaru will kill you with his own hands.'

'I am the only one who is here fighting Naraku without vengeance or malice,' thought Kagome. 'I am here fighting Naraku only to defend my friends, to aid them in fulfilling their vengeance. I am the only one who doesn't have a reason to kill Naraku. So my reason will be so that I can avenge those who couldn't live to avenge themselves and to protect the world from Naraku's evil. I will fight to protect my friends and to prove that I am strong!' She reached back and grabbed an arrow out of her quiver. "Naraku! I will kill you to protect those I care about!" The arrow became enchanted with a power deep inside of Kagome that had never been seen before. It was a very powerful miko energy, which made a larger purification arrow than she had ever made. "Die Naraku!"

The arrow flew through the air, straight for Naraku. It moved at such a rate that Naraku had no chance to avoid it, and it pierced right through his body.

'This can't be!' Naraku had to do something fast. 'Of course, I will absorb Kagura again, and she will give me enough youki to revitalize myself back to new!' All the flesh that had originally been removed from Naraku's body came back to life again and instantly engulfed Kagura.

"No you don't!" Inuyasha said as he tried to slice through it, but it had enough flesh that it didn't do much.

Naraku's body managed to come back together just like it was before the battle even began. And now that everyone had already been weakened, he was at a huge advantage now.

Author's notes: Yay! My first real cliff hanger. I decided to make this into a two part battle since it was like THE battle you've been waiting to see for the WHOLE ENTIRE SERIES! And since I really couldn't write for more than two chapters worth (about twenty pages) on just one battle, I think that I will conclude this battle next chapter, unless I get REALLY inspired and continue on to yet another chapter. Just stick around because soon it will be getting to the best part, the part where I start introducing the Inu no Taishou and his awesome legacy into all of this. It will be SO FREAKIN' AWESOME. You'll have to see it.

On the next chapter:

Inuyasha's voice:

"Naraku, you bastard! I'm going to cut you in half!"

Kagome: "Inuyasha!"

Inuyasha: "Whatever, next episode is the exciting conclusion the battle with Naraku. He's finally got his strength back to normal, and now we're all at a disadvantage because we're all worn out. How're we going to get through this one? (cause you know we will)

"Join us for the next exciting chapter of The Legacy of the Inu no Taishou!"