Author's notes: I started writing this fanfiction immediately after I had finished downloading and watching the anime series. However, it left it off in an awkward place that made it seem as though they were going to make more. However, at the end of the episode, they made it quite clear that they were ending the production of the episodes for one reason or another (or at least it seems).

Shortly after completing the last chapter, I had done a google search and found the manga. As my suspicions detailed, the manga does in fact carry on passed the point where the series left off. However, in the manga, after the series left of, there seems to be quite a lot of notable changes that take place, as you of you probably know. In fact, there were even many that completely contradicted what I had written myself so far.

Therefore, this is going to be the last chapter of this fict. Not only that, this is no longer going to be called "The Legacy of the Inu no Taishou". However, I do plan on rewriting that fict, except for this time assuming what happens to Naraku in a short part of it, which can easily be changed as I read more since it will be so short, explain the things I have read so you know how it got to that point, and jump write in to the good part of this story where the Inu no Taishou finally starts to play a big role.

I'm sorry that it had to be this way for those of you who really wanted me to continue on with this fanfict, I was hoping I wouldn't have to modify this, but I' will make sure that this fict ends as well as it started out, and I hope that you all will read my new Legacy of the Inu no Taishou fict when I start writing it.

Now it's time for Inuyasha!

Chapter 7: Conclusion to the Great Battle with Naraku

Naraku began laughing menacingly. "You see? I cannot be defeated. I will show you not to underestimate me."

It was Naraku's turn to return all of the blows they had landed on him. Now that he was at full strength, he had a big advantage over the group. First, he was going to take revenge on Sesshoumaru. He would be most bothersome since Sesshoumaru always managed to conserve the most energy.

Sesshoumaru was standing with his tokijin out. He was on guard and closely keeping an eye out for Naraku. 'I can't let him win,' he thought. 'Naraku will die by my claws.'

'It appears that this isn't going to be easy,' Naraku thought. 'Even though I've regained my energy, Sesshoumaru will still be a challenge.' Naraku had devised a plan to defeat Sesshoumaru, but he had to time it right, or Sesshoumaru may just defeat him instead.

Something began to twitch and move behind Sesshoumaru. This trick had already been used on him once; he knew what it was already. It was Naraku's flesh. It seemed as though Naraku was going to try and absorb Sesshoumaru again, but Sesshoumaru wasn't going to fall for the same trick twice, he thought.

Naraku's flesh kept twitching and he knew that it would soon try and absorb him, but what was Naraku waiting for? Finally, the flesh sprung off the sides of the wall and all started coming toward Sesshoumaru. Sesshoumaru quickly took his blade and sliced through the flesh, but as he did, Naraku teleported behind him and struck him through his chest.

"Damn you, Naraku," Sesshoumaru screamed as blood trickled from his mouth. Sesshoumaru turned around, slicing through the air at Naraku, but Naraku just teleported out of the way. Then Sesshoumaru was barraged with flesh.

"I can't let you do that!" Inuyasha shouted and used his kaze no kizu. The blast flew through the air and toward Naraku, but Naraku put his barrier back up and blocked it from reaching him.

To this, Naraku shot a tentacle at Inuyasha, causing him to jump, and then shot another tentacle to where he was about to land. Inuyasha landed on a ledge, but as soon as he did, it collapsed underneath him, and he began to fall. 'That will subdue him for a while,' Naraku thought.

"Inuyasha!" Kagome shouted. Sango and Kirara flew down after him.

Naraku continued his assault, ignoring the rest of his opponents. It seemed like he finally had Sesshoumaru in his grasps, and after he absorbed him, he would be unstoppable.

Sesshoumaru began breaking away from the flesh, only to get bombarded with even more flesh. Immediately after, another tentacle pierced through him. He was starting to feel weak and exhausted. He had used too much of his youki and needed time to rest, but the assault continued.

Naraku teleported in front of him, and Sesshoumaru saw his chance. "I won't lose to an inferior youkai," he said to Naraku, and slashed his tokijin straight through the right side of Naraku, severely damaging him.

"You bastard! Stop resisting!" More flesh began piling on Sesshoumaru, completely enveloping him in Naraku's pulsating flesh.

"No you don't, Naraku!" shouted Kagome as she shot an arrow that barely missed Naraku, which burned his flesh anyway from the arrows intensity. Naraku knew it was now or never. He had to absorb Sesshoumaru.

The mound of flesh suddenly flew toward Naraku and started to fuse with his body. "Damn, this isn't good," Kouga thought out loud. In a matter of minutes, Sesshoumaru completely fused with Naraku.

Naraku's attention quickly turned to Kagome. He couldn't risk being hit by one of her purifying arrows. It he was, he might lose both Kagura and Sesshoumaru because they were far from being fully absorbed. If he were to be hit by her arrows and lose the two youkai he absorbed, he would not stand a chance for sure.

Naraku attacked her without hesitation as he teleported down to her and knocked her away, causing her to drop her bow and arrows, which he quickly swept out of her reach. 'Now for the kill,' he thought.

Naraku shot his tentacle toward Kagome. It was headed straight for her heart to kill her instantly. 'This is it,' Kagome thought. 'If Inuyasha doesn't get back soon, I'm going to die, and tenseiga is inside of Naraku. So I can't be brought back to life.'

Naraku's tentacle was quickly shooting toward Kagome, but right before it was about to hit, Inuyasha shot up from the bottom of the canyon and sliced Naraku's arm off at his shoulder. "Damn you, Inuyasha!"

Inuyasha landed on the platform with Kagome. "Inuyasha, you saved me." However, when Inuyasha turned his head to look back, Kagome was suddenly frightened. Inuyasha had transformed into a full-blooded youkai. 'He must have dropped Tetsusaiga when he fell,' she thought.

Naraku was faced off with a new, powerful opponent. However, Kagome knew that she had to retrieve Tetsusaiga or Inuyasha would kill all of them once he was done with Naraku.

"What the Hell is that?" Kouga said in amazement. "That's Inuyasha! But…" He sniffed the air. "His blood is completely different. It's as though he's a full-blooded youkai now."

Everyone knew they had to get out of there. They couldn't risk getting in the way of Inuyasha's fight now, or he might not hesitate to tear them open.

Naraku began to laugh again. "So this is your henyou transformation Inuyasha. I had been expecting to run into it sooner or later."

Kagome ran off to the side of the ledge. "Shippou, I need your help," he told him. Shippou, frozen from fright nodded slightly. "I need you to take me down to the bottom of this canyon to retrieve Inuyasha's Tetsusaiga and my bow and arrows. Shippou was too frightened though. He was frozen stiff. "Shippou! Snap out of it! You have to be strong, remember!" Finally, Shippou had the confidence boost he needed.

"Okay, Kagome. Transform!"

The battle between Inuyasha and Naraku waged on. Naraku was now more powerful than ever, having finally absorbed Inuyasha's full-youkai brother, Sesshoumaru. And now that he had Kagura back, he also had a lot more youki to use.

However, the battle started out with a surprise. Inuyasha appeared instantly in front of Naraku and hit him downwards. Naraku hit into the canyon wall, causing a huge avalanche. Inuyasha immediately followed this up by darting after him and throwing him into the opposite wall, and then landing a horrifying kick in Naraku's gut.

Naraku got up and scoffed. "If that's the best you can do, you won't be able to defeat me," Naraku said, wiping the blood away from his mouth.

Down below, the avalanche had reached Kagome and Shippou. Shippou began to scream and move back and forth trying to dodge the rocks, but to no avail, as one of the rocks landed right on his head, almost hitting Kagome.

Shippou continued to fall, knocked out and untransformed, and Kagome managed to grab onto a root sticking out of the canyon wall. "That was close. Shippou! Are you okay?" There was no response.

It was Naraku's turn to retaliate against the transformed hanyou. He began filling the space with his miasma, completely concealing his position.

Inuyasha looked around and tried to find him, following his killer instincts ready to pounce at the moment he saw him, but he couldn't be seen through the thick miasma. Even in his transformed state, Inuyasha could only smell miasma and couldn't even locate Naraku with his nose. However, Naraku knew exactly where Inuyasha was.

A tentacle suddenly sprung out of the miasma and caught Inuyasha in the stomach. This was planned to have been followed up with his other arm piercing through Inuyasha, but instead, Inuyasha, angry, even for his transformed state, grabbed hold of the tentacle sticking through him and bit right through it.

This didn't really matter much since Naraku's arms seemed to be the most expendable part of his body. However, Inuyasha followed the retracting tentacle right to where Naraku was hiding. He powered up his youki, causing a red aura to form around Inuyasha's entire body. Then he dashed at Naraku and began an assault of bashing him with various attacks, punching, kicking, clawing, and biting Naraku, causing him to bleed everywhere.

Meanwhile, Kagome began scaling down the side of the canyon wall, actively keeping an eye out for Shippou, the Tetsusaiga, and her arrows. 'I can do this,' she told herself. 'It's just like climbing one of those rock walls, except on a rock wall you have a safety rope, and if I fall on this…' She glanced down into the darkness, which caused her to nearly slip. 'I just need to keep focused.'

Then, on the other side of the canyon, she could see Shippou knocked out. "Shippou! Shippou, can you hear me?" she called, but he was still out cold. She decided she was going to have to make it over there somehow. So she began looking around for anything she can use. Of course, as luck would have it, there was nothing. So she had to make a leap of faith. She jumped off of the wall side and toward Shippou.

As she quickly began to descend toward Shippou, she realized that she wasn't going to make it. So she did what any person would have done, she began to scream franticly as she tried to reach onto the ledge. Luckily for her, Shippou had finally awoken to the sound of her screams and had just enough time to grab her hand.

"Shippou, you saved me!" Kagome said with a big smile. However, Shippou was too small to be able to hold her up, and he too fell off the side of the ledge, plummeting toward the ground. So Shippou transformed again and caught Kagome a few yards away from the ground.

Naraku had been badly wounded by Inuyasha. Both warriors had lost a lot of energy, and they were both breathing hard, but Naraku had another trick up his sleeve. "Go ahead and attack me as much as you want, Inuyasha. You will only be causing your brother to die more quickly." Naraku began leeching energy from Kagura and Sesshoumaru to replenish his own.

The battle continued as Naraku struck Inuyasha again, flinging him into the wall, and then followed up by stabbing him in the shoulder with his newly grown arm. Inuyasha used his claws to tear through the arm and launched himself, head first into Naraku. Then, Inuyasha sliced Naraku on the shoulder and then on his stomach. He continued ruthlessly slashing up Naraku with no regard for his brother's safety or the safety of Kagura, and in this state of mind, only had the words "death" and "kill" burned into his brain.

Just as Naraku began draining energy from the youkai he absorbed, there was a turn of events. An arrow from the top of the canyon fired down and went directly through Naraku. He looked up to see who it was to reveal that Kikyou had come and joined the battle.

The arrow that Kikyou shot left Naraku as nothing more than a floating head, and Kagura and Sesshoumaru were released from Naraku's grasp. And from below came a familiar sound. It was the sound of Kagome's voice. "Osuwari!" Inuyasha was slammed into the ground and brought back from his transformation. "Now Inuyasha!" she said, tossing him Tetsusaiga.

Inuyasha unsheathed it and it immediately transformed in his hands. "This is it Naraku! Bakuryuuha!"

"Don't get in my way Inuyasha; this is still my fight! Souryuuha!" The power of each youkai's sword combined together and met with Naraku and a barrier he created to preserve his last ounce of life.

"It's still not enough to defeat me," Naraku taunted, using every last ounce of energy to hold the barrier. Then, Kagome fired one of her arrows in the middle of the power struggle, causing a massive explosion, leaving Naraku as nothing more than a few pieces of floating flesh.

"It looks like it's time for clean up, Miroku said, rejoining the battle. "Kazaana!" He opened his wind tunnel and sucked in the remnants of Naraku. The battle was finally over.

With the passing of Naraku, Kikyou no longer had a reason to stay alive. She was finally ready to return to the place she was supposed to have stayed, but Inuyasha couldn't let her go so easily. "Kikyou!" he shouted after her. "You can't leave now. I don't want you to leave!"
"Inuyasha, your place is here with Kagome. She is the one you should be thinking about. So forget about me and go be happy with Kagome. Naraku is dead, and you don't need to protect me from Naraku anymore. You have to move on, Inuyasha."

"Kikyou…" Inuyasha said with a look of compassion in his eyes. "Thank you Kikyou, I will always remember you, just as you will always remember me. There's no helping that. You're right though, my place is here with Kagome, and your time here is done."

"I will miss you, too," she told him, and walked off to find a suitable place to die.

"Inuyasha…" Kagome said and then stopped. Inuyasha was crying, even though he tried to hide it. "I'm sorry Inuyasha; I know you wanted to be with her." A sad expression came across Kagome's face.

Inuyasha looked back at her and smiled. "Don't be ridiculous, moron. I want to be with you."

With that, the two embraced each other their arms.

Later, Kagome and Inuyasha continued traveling together, exploring the world for more people who needed their help and Inuyasha never stopped trying to get stronger.

Kouga and Sesshoumaru continued to be Inuyasha's rivals, as they too kept trying to get stronger as well in a never ending quest for power.

As for the shikon no tama, it was returned to Midoriko's grave and put back inside of her so that she could finally rest in peace and move on to the afterlife, despite Inuyasha's protests. However, he declared the even without the shikon no tama, he would find a way to become full-blooded youkai no matter what. Kagome just giggled at his determination.

Miroku and Sango ended up settling down and having twenty children. After all the women he asked to bare his child, Sango finally did. Shippou decided that he would stay behind and help Miroku and Sango take care of all the little children, and he would join up with Inuyasha and Kagome again when he became stronger.

As for Kouga, Kagome finally got the nerve to tell him that she was not interested, but he didn't take it so hard, since he kind of already knew. And since the shikon no tama was completed and disappeared with Midoriko, there really wasn't any reason he had to search for the jewel shards either. So he finally confessed that he remembered his promise to Ayame and ended up marrying her like her promised.

Later, Inuyasha and Kagome went to Kikyou's grave and said a prayer for her with Miroku's help. As they were about to leave, Inuyasha grabs something from his kimono and put it on the grave. "What was that you put on Kikyou's grave?" Kagome would later ask him.

"Nothing really," he replied.

At the base of Kikyou's headstone sat a small container of Inuyasha's mom's makeup that he had given to Kikyou around the time they first met.

Author's notes: Well, I hope you liked the ending. I didn't really want to have to throw this one away (like all of mine in the past), but I wanted to make a fanfict that was accurate with the storyline. So that's why I'm ending this one here and rewriting The Legacy of the Inu no Taishou starting from after Naraku's dead.

I might do a sequel to this one, though, as long as I have enough support from my fans. We'll see how it turns out though.