Chapter 18-Choices we make
"I...CHOOSE...FREEDOM!" yelled Inuyasha as he turned and swung vertically down at Naraku who was force to block with Tokijin.
"What? You choose freedom? You have betrayed me Lord Inuyasha for the first and last time!" said Naraku as the two great demon powers clashed for who would be the last person standing.
"You betrayed me...former master. I'm just returning the favor!" said Inuyasha as he pushed Naraku back with such force he crashed through the rice paper door.
Naraku was a little surprised by this show of force. Naraku had never expected Inuyasha to have that much power and use it against him. "I see...well in that case I can no longer hold back. Now you will see why I am the master and you were an apprentice," said Naraku as his demon energy began to increase as he rose from the ground.
"And I will show YOU...former master on why I am who I am with my power and what I can do with it...once I'm free," said Inuyasha as he unleashed his demon energy.
"I taught you well my boy. Perhaps...I trained you too well with someone of your defiant nature. However, it's nothing a little...obedience cannot fix. When I'm done with you not only will you be broken, but I intend to remove your defiance of my authority. Don't think I haven't seen it in you earlier. The way you wanted to kill your brother, pretending to be him to help Rin sleep, and probably the most effective act of defiance that started it all...the kiss you gave Kagome that sparked the goodness in your heart to come alive," said Naraku as the two beings once more clashed with their swords sending intense demon energies to scatter around them like an unholy lightning that destroyed all they touched.
One bolt of demon energy it Kohaku who was sent flying into the wall behind Kagome and the others. The sacred jewel in his back was probably the only thing that prevented his body from being destroyed as well as dying at all. "Kohaku!" said Sango as she tried to check on her little brother despite the restraints.
"Just because the good in my heart is alive doesn't mean it has any effect on my...decisions!" said Inuyasha as he force Naraku to block his sword attacks to the right while he gave his former master a kick to the ribs.
Unfortunately, Naraku raised his knee high enough to block that attack as well. "Oh really? Well then...after I break you I will be forced to make certain adjustments on how you make judgmental decisions after I'm gone," said Naraku as he was able to force Inuyasha back several feet back.
"You are right about one thing Naraku...you will be gone. One way or another," said Inuyasha with a smile as he leaped into the air and swung down on Naraku who once more blocked Inuyashas attack with Tokijin.
"A little overconfident are..." said Naraku, but was cut off when Inuyasha a bicycle kick right out of the room and into the tranquil garden passed the corridor walls.
"Perhaps you should focus on fighting me then talking to me!" said Inuyasha who instead of pursuing went over to his friends and freed them one by one.
"Inuyasha!" Kagome said after Inuyasha freed her and she hugged him.
However, he did not return it. "Run. Take Kohaku with you and run away from this place," said Inuyasha in a faint and almost dying voice.
Kagome looked at him with concern and for the first time during this entire ordeal saw the good in his heart reach the surface. However, it was weak, faint, and dying as she stared into his eyes. "Inuyasha..." said Kagome, but couldn't speak another word as Narakus power became apparent by the earth around them shaking causing different parts of the castle to fall to the ground around them.
"Don't argue. Just...run," said Inuyasha whose eyes when he spoke were gold amber surrounded in white.
Only now as Inuyashas closed his eyes and reopened them they were covered in blood red and the gold amber was now blackened with darkness as he got up and turned to face the monster that was his former master as a fire slowly spread throughout the castle. "We don't have time for this Kagome let Inuyasha take care of Naraku. He can take it we can't," said Miroku who with his left (none broken) arm and grabbed Kagome by the wrist and pulled her away from Inuyasha.
Koga grabbed a bleeding Sesshomorru and put him on Kilala along with Rin and Sango as they busted through the castle walls and left the two forces to do battle. Inuyasha waited as Naraku appeared in the flames with a very angry look in his eyes. "You said you wanted freedom so why did you let them go? They are what are preventing your freedom!" said Naraku as a piece of burning wood from a support beam above clasped in front of them.
"No...former master. They are not preventing my freedom. They never have and they never will. When this is over I will disappear from their site until I feel I have had enough freedom. When this is over I will no longer be the apprentice you had hoped for. I will be my own master because I will not use what you gave me to achieve it," said Inuyasha pointing to the spider amulet on his head.
Naraku merely laughed. "You fool! You think you can just remove that from your head. Do you even know what the repercussions of such a thing will do to you? Even I don't know what the ramifications of removing the spider amulet from your forehead would do. All I know is that it will cause an immense explosion of unfathomed proportions. The only thing that would survive is the sacred jewel and even that is not a high possibility in itself. You would never survive. All that I have given you and all that I made you would be destroyed in an instant. And for what! Freedom? Your friends? Friends that turned on you without even explaining what they did and why? You're more of a fool then an apprentice if you remove that thing from your head," said Naraku who raised Tokijin in a fighting stance.
"Maybe. But...at least I be my fool. Not yours," said Inuyasha as he grabbed the spider amulet with his left hand and started to pull at it.
"NO YOU FOOL!" said Naraku as he tried to stop Inuyasha, but was too late. The energy released by the spider amulet as Inuyasha pulled and screamed in pain from was so much it had turned almost into a protective barrier that prevented Naraku from getting near Inuyasha.
"This...is...the...end...my...former...master!" said Inuyasha as he pulled even harder ignoring the pain and the screams that left his mouth as he pulled even more at the spider amulet as its dark energy tore at everything around it...even the one pulling at it.
Naraku watched in horror as his perfect apprentice destroyed himself and 'he'...his master force to watch as blood came from Inuyashas forehead as well as other wounds form previous battles. "Stop this you'll kill us both," said Naraku who knew that even if he could run now he could never escape the explosion after Inuyasha removed the spider amulet.
"In the name of my father, my mother, and all my friends and family. HEAR MY WORDS EVIL JEWEL...I CAST YOU OUT!" said Inuyasha who finally pulled the spider amulet from his forehead and crushed it in his hand causing an intense explosion of immense magnitudes that consumed them both in a blinding light that was neither good...nor evil. It was both blended together perfectly like Inuyasha wanted to be.
When Kagome and the group saw the intense explosion they feared the worse. Inuyasha was...no more. "INUYASHA!" Kagome screamed only to have them drowned out by the sound of the explosion as tears fell form her eyes as the others watched in horror at what had happened.
However...Sesshomorru as he lay their on Kilala with Miroku supporting him in the back and Rin in the front with his eyes closed barely conscious thought he heard a voice that was not Kagomes or anyone else near him. "Sesshomorru," said the faint voice as if it was far away.
Sesshomorru's eyes opened halfway when he recognized it. "Inuyasha," he mumbled in surprise.
"I...live," said the faint and familiar voice that was Inuyashas voice.
"Inuyasha!" said Sesshomorru, but stopped moving to find he was wincing in pain as he tried to move.
"Did you say something Lord Sesshomorru?" said Rin as she found it increasingly difficult even with the monks help to support her Lord and master
"Is Inuyashas really alive or is my mind and my ears playing tricks on me," thought Sesshomorru as he mustered the strength to look back at the battlefield one last time before Kilala started to descend into some trees.
(A/N: Is Inuyasha alive? Maybe maybe not. Only your reviews can help you solve that mystery. Were on the home stretch boys one more chapter to go. But for that to happen I need reviews. LOTS AND LOTS OF REVIEWS! HAHAHAHAHA! Seriously though I want a lot of reviews fo this.)