Yay! Another chapter! The big battle! Why am I excited? I hate writing battles! Grr... Oh, well... It has to be done. And I'm sorry that this chapter is so short!

Anyway, I've got good news! I've been chosen to voice act a character in the flash anime that Andorea-Chan is making! You can look her up on deviantART; it's called Neko Crisis. I play Megumi, a younger student. I don't have very many lines, but I don't mind.

A Change in Our Future

Chapter Seventeen: Naraku's Battle! Part I

Koga kept up the pace easily (not that I was surprised), and soon the tainted jewel was so strong that I could hardly stand it! OK, I could stand it... and it wasn't nearly as bad as Naraku in the future. Thinking about Naraku in the future made me determined to kill him once and for all.

Hey! Now that we've got Koga with us, I could persuade him to give the jewel shards to us when (and if) we defeat Naraku! Perfect.

Anyway, we traveled quickly towards where we knew Naraku was going to be, and soon enough InuYasha did catch his scent.

"The Samiyosho!" Sango shouted, pointing to a few poisonous insects flying nearby. InuYasha jumped over to them and sliced through them with his claws.

"Naraku must be nearby," InuYasha said, getting back on the trail of Naraku. I could feel InuYasha tense up a little bit, and I knew he was angry.

Soon enough we were standing in front of Naraku's fortress. I stood next to InuYasha and Koga stood next to me. Sango and Miroku were next to us as we stood in front of the huge stone castle. I swallowed the lump in my throat and clenched my fist around the bow I was carrying.

InuYasha led us inside the building and the rest of us followed, running as fast as each of us could go. Koga and InuYasha were the first ones in the building, and they were the first to get to Naraku. The rest of us followed, but Sango was stopped by Kohaku! I glanced over towards Sango, hoping that she would be all right, but I had my own problems to deal with. Miroku was stuck fighting Kanna, who isn't much of an offense, but is hard to strike.

I had the hard one. I was stuck fighting Kagura.

I knocked an arrow and pulled it back. "Hit the mark!" I shouted as I let it fly towards Kagura. Kagura pulled out her fan and destroyed my arrow with her Dance of Blades. I hardly had any time to run out of the way of her attack, and the one blade that did come towards me was slowed down by Shippo.

"Nice work, Shippo!" I shouted to him as he kept up his fox fire, which had slowed the attack. I ran out of the way of Kagura's remaining attacks, but then she threw another one at me.

"DANCE OF THE DRAGON!" Kagura said as she swung her fan around. ((A/N: that's the correct attack name, right?)) Many tornados formed and started to come straight towards me. I tried to dodge some of them, but it was hardly any use.

"Ah!" I shouted out as I was hit with some flying debris. I pulled out another arrow and shot it at Kagura, and her attack dissipated, though it didn't hit her.

Kagura threw another round of her Dance of Blades at me, and this time it hit! My quiver was thrown off my back, sending my arrows flying all over. I gripped my bow tighter as Kagura blinked a couple times, looking at me carefully.

Kagura sighed. "That's all you've got?"

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Meanwhile, Miroku was having his fair share of troubles too. Every time he threw something at her, she would block it, and every time he tried to use the Wind Tunnel, the poisonous insects would come. Miroku glared at Kanna and ran towards her, his staff drawn.

"You can't get through my barrier," Kanna said in her emotionless drawl of a voice.

"Can't I?" Miroku said before hitting the barrier. On his staff were two sacred sutras, and they both hit the barrier directly.

Suddenly the barrier disappeared and Kanna blinked once, probably her way of showing surprise, even though her face didn't change at all. Kanna took a few steps back when Miroku tried to hit her again, and suddenly another barrier shot up, and it sent Miroku's attack back at him. Miroku groaned and glared at Kanna.

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"Kohaku! Stop it!" Sango said, tears in her eyes. Her cheeks were red as she thought of the pain that Kohaku went through.

Every so often she would see a flicker of emotion go through Kohaku's eyes, though it was gone as fast as it came. She would shout things to him and he would start to look like the old Kohaku again, but then he would go back to Naraku's slave and attack her.

"Kohaku!" Sango shouted as she held up her Hiraikotsu to block an attack from her hypnotized brother.

Kohaku took another swing at Sango and she dodged it. "KOHAKU! SNAP OUT OF IT!" Sango shouted. Tears started to fall down her face and onto the ground. Suddenly Kohaku managed to knock Sango's Hiraikotsu away from her, sending it towards where I was fighting Kagura. It was out of reach for everyone, so no one would be able to help her.

Kohaku threw his chain sickle at Sango and it grazed her cheek and went past her. Blood started to slowly trickle down her face and she tripped over a rock behind her. She fell to the ground and in front of her was Kohaku, intending to kill Sango if it was the last thing he did.

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Koga punched his way through the endless amount of tenticles in his way, sprouting up from no where. He dodged a tenticle as it sped towards him and he bounded up towards Naraku's body.

Koga was scratched up pretty badly, his legs were bleeding, and he had quite a few scrapes on his face.

InuYasha wasn't doing much better. He swung the Tetsusaiga at anything that came his way, but when he got rid of one tenticle, two more took it's place. He glanced at Koga and obviously was thinking that if the two of them couldn't do it together, then they weren't going to have much of a chance.

"I'm not going to let Naraku win!" InuYasha shouted to himself, boosting his confidence a little bit. InuYasha brought up his sword and then hit the ground hard, shouting out, "Wind Scar!"

The attack sped towards Naraku and cut through his tenticles, but they quickly regrew.

"Dammit!" InuYasha shouted as he cut through more limbs.

Koga was thrown back and landed near InuYasha. Koga growled and stood up, ready to fight some more.

"We aren't doing to hot, mutt face. You have any guess why?" Koga said, kicking through another group of tenticles.

"Keh. If I did, wouldn't I have done something about it?" InuYasha said.

"Fools!" Naraku said, towering above them, his gruesome body spitting out more tenticles and miasma by the minute. "You really think that you could defeat me?"

"Yeah! I do!" InuYasha said, growling.

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I didn't know how we were going to defeat Naraku... or if we ever would.

Ugharagar! SO SHORT! This is shorter than Edward Elric! GAR! -is attacked by Ed-

I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I didn't mean it! Quit trying to pull my head off, Ed!

Anyway, I'm sorry for the short chapter. I wasn't going to make it any longer. I wouldn't be able to. It was impossible.

Next Chapter: The conclusion to this short (short, short, short, short, short) chapter is next, and you find out how this horribly written battle ends! Next, Naraku's Battle! Part II