The Final Battle

"Naraku! Show yourself you coward!" Inuyasha yelled at the castle. "I'll blast your new castle to PIECES!" and he drew the Tetsusaiga, preparing to swing.

"Inuyasha, DON'T! Kagome is more than likely still in there... You bring down the castle, you'd be bringing it down right on top of her!" Miroku stepped in front of the dog demon.

"Brute strength won't find her, Inuyasha. We need to be more careful!" Sango added...

"Fine..."

"Well Kagome, it seems that Inuyasha has found my castle... he must be here to finish the job he started a week and a half ago... I WON'T let him hurt you, love."

It took very little time at all for Inuyasha to make his way to the center courtyard of the castle, where Malhavoc was waiting, with Kagome at his side... Mal had his cloak on, hood up... and Kagome was wearing that robe again...

"Who are you!" Inuyasha shouted, hand on the Tetsusaiga. Malhavoc laughed, and threw back his hood.

"I am known as Malhavoc, the Shadowlord, and you, Inuyasha... Must DIE!"

"Try me!" Inuyasha pulled out the Tetsusaiga, and charged. Malhavoc Sneered... "Baka Hanyou." He drew his longsword, and pointed it at Inuyasha... "Chaos Beam!"

The Elf channeled Chaos Magic down the blade of the sword, and fired it at the Dog Demon. Inuyasha barely had time to block with the Tetsusaiga.

"What the-" He blinked, for suddenly there were five Malhavocs, sneering at him with blades raised. The Demon smiled... "You idiot... I can still SMELL YOU!" He leapt at the real Malhavoc, who chuckled and shifted his blade to intercept the attack.

"Hmph... for a Hanyou, you have some skills" Mal smiled warmly, and Inu growled...

"Bastard... fight me for REAL!"

Malhavoc shrugged... "If you insist." and he started tracing circles in the air with his left hand, while slashing repeatedly at Inuyasha with his quick blade. Inuyasha ducked and weaved, barely avoiding the blows... finally, he knocked the blade to the left, exposing Mal's flank.

"You're MINE!" He slashed at Mally's side, smiling at the hit... and it bounced off the cloak. "What the hell!" "Hah! Too slow to react, demon!"

Malhavoc had finished casting his spell. A black circle appeared in the air in front of Inu. "SHADOWFLARE!" The circle exploded, catching Inu in the blast and sending the demon flying back several feet... First blood went to Malhavoc. "You fool... you can't win, Inuyasha..."

"That's what you think! Blades of BLOOD!"

Malhavoc was startled, and while he was able to block the brunt of the attack with a quick Shadow Barrier spell, some of it got through. Malhavoc winced... "Argh... Damn you!" But then he stood up straight, and lifted his hand. There was blood on it... The elf licked it off his finger...

"Blood! My blood!" He laughed, not sinisterly, but in a jovial, mirthful way. "It has been SO long since anyone has caused me to bleed my own blood! Oh yes, this is an enjoyable fight!"

He snapped his fingers, and his scimitar, the Shadowblade, appeared in his left hand. "But I fear that your time has come to an end, demon... so sorry, but I must Kill you!" With that, he Teleported behind Inuyasha and slashed at his back... The Demon was quick, but not quick enough, as the Blade bit deep into his left shoulder. He kneeled "Bastard..."

Miroku and Sango entered the courtyard then, and came to the conclusion that Inuyasha needed help. Miroku began to unwrap his hand, when Malhavoc appeared Next to him. "Stay out of my way... I do not wish to harm either of you, but if I have to, I will not hesitate..."

Something in his voice convinced them to stay out of the fight... It may have been to gentle tone he used, it could be the sudden appearance... or maybe the Charm Person spell had something to do with it...

"Hey... Pay attention to ME!" Inu swung the Tetsusaiga "KAZE NO KIZU!" The Wind Scar was aimed straight at Mal, who smirked and swung the Shadowblade.. "Shadowwave!"

The two attacks met and stopped cold, and as the smoke cleared, Mal could see Inuyasha running towards him... "Baka" The Elf blocked the Tetsusaiga with the longsword, hacking at Inu's ribs with his scimitar. A hit, as Inu's blood flowed more freely. He thrust into Inu's belly, and Inu cried out as the Blade pierced into his gut.

Kagome heard Inu's cry, and saw him bleeding... A sudden wave of compassion and love came over her..

"INUYASHA!"

Malhavoc was about to land the killing blow, but the Raw emotion in Kagome's voice stopped him, and he stopped the blade just short of Inu's neck.

'She still Loves him! No! How could that be! Nooooo... Then there is only one thing to do...I must do this...'

Malhavoc Leapt away from Inuyasha, and summoned a Large sphere of Black energy... "It's over, Inuyasha... SHADOWBALL!"

He launched the Ball at inuyasha, who just sneered "You're right! BAKURYUHA! Inuyasha used the Backlash to send Mal's attack back at him... Malhavoc seemed at peace as he let the attack hit him, and he connected with Kagome's mind... whispering "Aishiteru, Kagome-chan...I hope to... see you...again"

He then went silent...

'At least... Kagome... will be happy... this way'

Malhavoc collapsed, and Kagome stood there as Inuyasha ran up to her...

"Kagome! I have you back!"

Kagome nodded, looking at Mal's still form, "yep... I'm back..." She turned to Miroku... "Keep Inuyasha out of trouble while i was gone?" SHe winked, and the monk laughed.

She turned to once again look upon the unmoving body of the man she had come to love. He was Gone! No Body! She smiled softly, then walked towards the door, clutching her robe tightly...

Suddenly, the ceiling began to rumble... The castle was collapsing! No longer having the dark magic that was keeping it up to sustain it, it could not remain standing...

The group quickly made their way to the exit, Kagome on Inu's back, Miroku and Sango on Kirara. As they made it out, the castle collapsed, and quickly faded into dust...

"Hm... glad that's over.. sure was a pain..." Inuyasha stretched...

"Yes... It's an experience I won't soon forget..." Kagome sighed... "Sayonara... Mally"

Epilogue

It had been two weeks since the incident at Mal's castle... Kagome was in her time, sitting at her desk in her room... she was thinking about Malhavoc, as she had been doing often since she met him...she was almost certain that he must have gotten away... he was still out there... somewhere... suddenly, she caught something out of the corner of her eye... she looked out the window, and saw a black cloaked figure, standing on a nearby roof-top... she blinked, and he was gone...

was she just seeing things?

End?

Authors Note: I rather enjoyed writing this story, and I hope you enjoyed reading it... This story actually started as the result of an RP I ws doing with some friends in which Mally (my D&D character) came to the Feudal Era and kidnapped Kagome, because everyone kidnaps her at least once, and he just wanted to be popular (lol) SInce Mally is a D&D character, I tended to use a lot of Spell Names (he's a wizard) in italic. I also used Italic for the thoughts and such. You may also note an abundance of basic Japanese words and that most of Inus attacks are in their Japanese names... this is because I despise the english names (didnt remember what blades of blood was) and prefer saying the original way... the chapter marking within the story are based on it's original posting on a now dead forum, so while this will only take up five chapters, the first two are two short ones each. The commercial break between 3 and 4 was kept mostly because it was informative (remember his cloak in ep 6 is Glamered?), but also because i enjoyed doing it... I may eventually finish the sequel, should my writers block go way...