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Chapter nine: Victory

Kagome walked outside into the desert and looked around. It was totally barren. There was no sign of life. Kagome spun around and landed on her but, looking at the sky. She had no clue what to do. Kagome sighed and looked to her left. She saw there was a big cloud of dust building up, so she decided to go check it out.

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Inuyasha and Sango mourned for their friends, and Shippo tried to cheer them up, with no luck. Shippo was about to give up, when a dark aura filled around them.

"Naraku…?" Inuyasha asked, standing up, "I guess he really is still alive after all…"

Sango got up too, "yea, looks like it…"

Shippo hid behind Sango, "oh great, perfect timing too."

Inuyasha frowned and pulled out tetsusaiga as a big cloud of dust filled their vision.

"Look out!" Sango called out to Inuyasha as she saw a big figure rush toward Inuyasha with a weapon.

Inuyasha spun around and swung his sword randomly. He couldn't see anything but dust. A second later, and Inuyasha was thrown back. Blood flew through the air and

Inuyasha landed outside the cloud of dust. He could now see clearly. As he got up, he saw Sango and Shippo. The dust was thinning out. Moments later, and Naraku appeared with a smirk.

"It seems that have found you.." he said with a nasty grin. And before anyone could say 'I', Naraku was grabbing hold of Inuyasha by the neck. Tetsusaiga fell to the ground, and Inuyasha was being choked.

Sango threw her weapon, but it just bounced off of Naraku like a rubber ball.

"Dammit!" she exclaimed, as her own weapon hit her instead.

Shippo ran over to Sango, who was now conscious while Inuyasha was being suffocated.

"Good bye, Inuyasha" Naraku said, "you'll die just like your buddy Kikyo…"

Inuyasha gasped and knew it was the end…

A bright arrow came out of nowhere and hit Naraku in the back. He let go of Inuyasha who immediately grabbed his tetsusaiga. Naraku looked around and saw…

"Kagome!" Inuyasha exclaimed, as he saw a girl approach him with a bow in hand.

"There you are!" she called back, and they embraced. Naraku, on the other hand, growled with anger.

"You stupid wench!" he yelled out, coming forward to attack her. Inuyasha didn't let him, and threw a wind scar at him.

He howled in pain while something pink came off him…

"The Shikon Jewel!" Kagome said, running to catch it. She did, and smiled.

Shippo rushed over and cheered, however, it wasn't time to celebrate just yet…

Kagome and Inuyasha got ready. Inuyasha held his sword tight, and Kagome aimed her arrow. At the same time, Inuyasha shot out a windscar and Kagome shot her arrow. The two attacks mingled and hit Naraku, totally destroying him. This time, for real.

A mass of guts and blood spilled all over and Inuyasha; holding Sango, Kagome and Shippo ran. As they got far enough away, they entered a forest. They sat down and Sango was beginning to wake up. Inuyasha told her what happened and Kagome told everyone what happened to her. Apparently, when Kikyo died, the soul was returned to Kagome.

"I'm so glad." Inuyasha said, hugging Kagome again.

Kagome frowned, "wait, where's Miroku?"

They stopped hugging and Sango sighed, "he got sucked into his wind tunnel while battling with a demon…"

Kagome gasped, "no way!"

Everyone nodded, but Kagome continued, "we have the Shikon Jewel now, right? We can get Miroku out of his hand now! Plus, Naraku is dead, the curse will be lifted!"

Sango perked up, "that's a good idea!"

Inuyasha did not like that plan, "I was going to use it to become full demon and protect Kagome…"

Kagome frowned, "no way! You can't do that! We have to save Miroku! He would if he was in our shoes!"

Shippo nodded vigorously, "and we spent so much time together, we're like family!"

Inuyasha sighed, "fine. Let's do it."

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