I do not own Inuyasha or One Piece
Itachi: or Naruto…
What the hell!? This isn't a Naruto fic!
Kisame: It's not? Man are we lost…
Enough with the random cameos!
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Scroll Eleven: Destruction of the Forest of Love, Part 2
Axe sliced his way through the demon horde easily with his giant stone axe, taking out numerous demons with each swing. "Where the hell did everybody get to? There's something's seriously wrong here…" The captain felt a chill in the air that hadn't been present before, even after the demons attacked.
"Arrrrrrrg! You! I'll kill you!" A large demon shouted towards him.
"Get out of my way!" He split the demon down the middle easily and continued running.
Whatever's going on here… it's going to get worse soon…
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Herman managed to punch his way through a small group of demons and reach a small lake on the edge of town. "Where did everyone else go? They were right here a minute ago…" He curled up into a ball and propelled himself like a cannonball through another string of demons.
"Lost little fishy?" A childish voice came out of the mist.
"Who's there?" Herman uncurled himself from his ball and looked around. Through the purple haze he could see a small boy, maybe in his early teens. The odd thing about this child was that everything about him was white except for his purple eyes, even his clothes were almost pure white. "Who are you child?"
The boy grinned and twirled the naginata at his side. "I am Hakudoshi, I think everyone deserves to know the name of the person who will kill them." He stopped his naginata and pointed it into the dirt.
"I-I don't want to hurt you." The cook's eyestalks fixed on the boy and didn't stray an inch.
"Trust me, you won't be able to…" Hakudoshi disappeared and reappeared behind Herman, striking his shell softly as a warning.
The lobster chef jumped slightly and turned around to face the boy. "What are you?"
"I am Naraku's incarnation, you could say that he is my father, even though I did not come directly from him." He took a slow step forward.
Herman took another step back as he approached. "What do you want with these people? What did they do to you?!"
Hakudoshi's eyes turned to the trees off to their side as a man approached them. "Warrior! Thank heavens I have found you." Kabaji kneeled in front of Herman, out of breath from running.
"They are merely… pawns." Hakudoshi closed his eyes and stepped towards Kabaji and Herman, lifting the man by his collar effortlessly. "They are worthless vermin and will be destroyed.
"Warrior! Help me!" Kabaji pleaded/
"Shut up fool…" Before Herman could make a move towards the boy he stabbed his naginata through Kabaji's chest.
"Headman!" The lobster's eyestalks widened in terror.
"Foolish mortal…" Hakudoshi closed his eyes and let Kabaji fall to the ground in a lifeless heap. "Just for good measure…" he stepped on the village headman's neck and aimed his naginata in a downward slice, severing head from body.
"Monster! Have you no heart!?"
"Technically no… my heart is hidden somewhere safe." The boy gave a small smirk.
"You bastard!" Herman thrust his fist at the boy, enraged and wanting to do anything to cause the demon pain.
"Too slow…" Hakudoshi grabbed the lobster's wrist above his claw and pointed it downward, effectively breaking his stance and slicing at one of his eyestalks with the naginata.
The chef barely moved out of the way in time and managed to get a few steps away from Hakudoshi. The boy disappeared again as Herman readied himself again. "How does he keep doing that? And where is he?" The merman looked around.
"Over here…" The demon boy sighed calmly and revealed himself to be standing on the back of Herman's red shell.
"Don't fuck with me!" The angered merman chef twirled around, trying to get a grip on the boy.
"Oh? You were serious? Fine then…" Hakudoshi stepped down and grabbed Herman's other fist, bringing it behind the chef's back and driving him to the ground. "I wonder how flexible you mermen are!" He pushed the fist down into his back, causing extreme pain for his opponent because of his unholy strength.
Herman winced in pain, letting out a small scream as he was disabled and tortured. His eyes widened as he heard a snap in his arm, crying out in pain. "D-Damn you…" he managed to curse through gritted teeth.
"Time for this lobster to crack, and I don't even need a hammer!" Hakudoshi grinned evilly and pushed harder, snapping his arm until it fell limp at his side. He let go and chuckled, deciding to play with his opponent a little more and give him a chance to fight back.
Herman backed away and faced the demon boy again. His right claw had no feeling in it and he couldn't lift it. He curled up into his defensive ball and began to roll at Hakudoshi at a high speed.
"Please… that old trick?" Hakudoshi easily avoided the speeding cannonball of a merman and kicked him like a giant soccer ball into the lake behind him.
Ha! You think water can stop me? Apparently you don't know much about mermen. Herman grinned and uncurled himself as his gills activated. "I thrive in water!"
Hakudoshi chuckled as he looked down into the lake. "Those waters are being poisoned by Naraku's miasma that is covering this entire forest. You're directly breathing in his poison."
The cook's eyes widened and he jumped out of the lake as fast as he could, coughing and wheezing, already feeling the effects of the poison on his body. He made one last futile attempt to attack the demon boy by thrusting his good fist at him but failed as Hakudoshi dodged and sliced down his stomach with his naginata, making a cut despite his tough merman skin.
"Before I kill you, I'll let you know why you lost." Hakudoshi let Herman fall to his knees from his injuries and the poison. He knelt down beside the merman and whispered in his ear. "I can read your mind…" he gave an evil smirk. The boy stood up and aimed his naginata high, ready to go in for the finishing blow for his paralyzed opponent.
"Tomahawk Toss!" As Hakudoshi swung downward, another swing came from the trees, cutting the demon boy in half. The captain's giant stone axe landed behind the boy as he looked upward. "You were so busy reading his mind, you couldn't focus on mine." Axe opened his eyes and glared at Hakudoshi.
"Who are you!?" The demon boy growled and reformed his body to its former shape.
"I'm someone who's awfully pissed that you attacked his nakama!" The captain walked around and picked his giant stone axe up off the ground. "My name is Axe, I believe everyone should know the name of the person who will kill him!" he snarled, twirling his heavy weapon with ease.
"Captain…" Herman managed to let out a soft wheeze from his poisoned throat. "I'm sorry…"
"You fought honorably to defend the village, I'm proud of you Herman." Axe smirked towards his nakama. "Sorry I didn't interfere sooner but I had to figure out this guy's secret."
"So what?" Hakudoshi scoffed. "I can just read your mind too!" his eyes obtained a purple glow to them as he peered into Axe's mind.
"I advise you… my mind is NOT a pleasant place to be…" The captain closed his eyes.
The demon boy's eyes widened as he saw images of bloody battles, horrible monsters and fiendishly strong opponents. "W-What are you!?" The demon backed up looking shocked. "You can't be human!"
"I'm just a simple treasure hunter…" Axe took advantage of the lapse and sliced again, splitting the demon boy a second time.
Hakudoshi growled and regained his composure as he reformed his body again. "You cannot kill me, I will remain alive because my heart is not in this place, you can slice and dice as you please but you will never take my life."
"We'll see about that!" The captain swung again, this time to be stopped by a pure white barrier the appeared around the demon boy Hakudoshi.
"I cannot allow you to continue, I'm running out of time… Naraku should be almost through with the Yokai Ki no Ai by now…" The barrier stayed with him as he began to rise into the air.
"Get back here damn you!" Axe shouted as he began to chase Hakudoshi to where he was flying off to, only to look back to Herman who was now unconscious on the ground because of being infected with the miasma. "Kuso… I have to get him back to the doc or he'll die…"
Hakudoshi continued flying away in his white barrier bubble, breathing heavily from his peek into Axe's mind. That man… can even Naraku be able to defeat him?
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"Inuyasha! Something's wrong here!" Miroku shouted over the roar of demons.
"Whatdya mean?" Inuyasha let loose another Wind Scar into the onslaught.
"Usually Naraku doesn't send this many demons, there must be something important here that he wants." Sango interjected between smashing up demons.
"What could he want?" Dusty slashed another demon with her scythe, her and Chizuru had found their way back to Devon and Inuyasha's group a short time before.
"Maybe what he wants isn't here." Miroku finished. "Maybe these demons are just meant as a distraction!"
"A distraction from what!?" Devon slashed angrily at more demons with great vigor.
"I have no idea, but Miroku's right, something is wrong here." Kagome shot another arrow, purifying more demons.
"Wait! Something's happening!" Inuyasha shouted as he watched the demons. Their numbers became less and they began to fly off in all directions, leaving the village.
"They're… retreating?" Chizuru questioned as she looked around to the demons dispersing ever quicker.
DJ, Kirsty and Niri appeared out of the thinning mist, the latter being aided with her arms around the other two's shoulders. "You sure you don't want me to treat that Niri?" she looked to the wounds on her body and legs from her fight with Kagura.
"I'll be fine doc, just a flesh wound. Save your energy for someone who really needs it. At that moment, Axe appeared out of the mist as well, carrying the large Herman on his back. "Like him…" Niri finished, pointing to the merman.
"Oh my heavens! What happened to him?" The doctor knelt beside Herman as Axe set him down.
"He had a run-in with one of Naraku's incarnations, a boy in white."
"Hakudoshi…" Devon growled, remembering the boy from his time under Naraku's control as a demon.
"I can heal his wounds… but I'm having problems with this poison, it's like nothing I've ever seen before." Kirsty looked over her patient carefully.
"Here…" Kagome set down some herbs and put applied them to the cut in Herman's stomach. "These are some powerful herbs we got from Jinenji specifically designed to treat Naraku's miasma, he should be well by morning."
"Alright then," Kirsty finished healing the cut and Herman's broken arm. "What do we do now?"
"Hakudoshi said something about Naraku and the Yokai Ki no Ai, maybe that would be a good place to start." Axe surmised.
"Is it possible that Naraku sent all those demons to distract us while he does something with the demon tree?" Miroku looked puzzled.
"Who cares?" Inuyasha growled, stood up and began running back in the direction of the demon tree of love. "We just kick his ass before he has the chance to do anything!" he shouted back.
"We better follow him, that mutt has been known to get himself into loads of trouble." Koga growled and took off in a blue whirlwind after Inuyasha.
"You heard the man… wolf… demon… thing… let's go people!" Dusty shouted, as the rest of them began running off towards the Yokai Ki no Ai.
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Naraku stared at the demon tree, it's veins coursing with his evil miasma. "It is almost time…" The evil demon smirked as the tree let off a purple glow. He looked behind him as the boy in white landed on the ground, still panting from his fights. "Are they on their way Hakudoshi? I want Inuyasha to see my ultimate triumph before I crush him."
"Yes master Naraku." Hakudoshi's eyes narrowed with just the smallest hint of sarcasm in his voice.
"There you are! You've finally shown yourself Naraku!" Inuyasha shouted, bringing up the front of the large group of pirates, demons and other fighters that were all chasing Naraku. "Wind Scar!" A yellow wave of demonic energy was shot at the demon.
"Hmph, how pathetic." Hakudoshi stepped in front of the Wind Scar as his barrier seemed to capture it. "You never learn do you?" The wave of energy was shot back at the group of people. "Deflecting the Wind Scar is so simple for demons such as us."
"Watch out!" Everyone in the group jumped to one side or another to avoid the wave. "Darn, there are Saimyosho here too, I can't use my Wind Tunnel." Miroku growled as he watched the poisonous insects surround Naraku and Hakudoshi.
"This is Naraku? I imagined him as bigger and more scary looking." Dusty gave the enemy an unimpressed look, earning a glare from Naraku. "EEP!" She jumped behind Miroku in a fright. "I was only joking! You look like a very scary demon thing."
"Damn you Naraku!" DJ lost his temper and charged the more powerful demon at sonic speed. "How dare you attack everyone like that!" His sword connected with Naraku's barrier only to crackle with electricity as the speedy swordsman was thrown backwards onto his back. "Ow…"
"What happened?" Axe questioned.
"I got my ass kicked…" DJ said simply.
"OBVIOUSLY!" The captain spat. "I mean HOW did you get your ass kicked!"
"Well you see, the foot goes towards the posterior and then…"
"Enough! Baka…" Axe slapped himself in the face as a reaction to his musician's stupidity.
"I'm glad you're here Inuyasha, and you as well Axe…" Naraku gave an evil chuckle as he looked the group over and nodded towards the pulsating demon tree.
"What are you planning Naraku!? Why poison the demon tree?" Devon shouted towards the demon.
"The Yokai Ki no Ai is a powerful demon, powerful enough for me to absorb and become a great deal stronger. But the problem with this is the Ai spores that break apart evil demonic energy would overall weaken me if I tried to absorb the tree as is. So I poisoned the tree with my miasma, much like your friend." Naraku nodded to Herman, who was slung over Niri and Kirsty's shoulders. "By killing these spores I have made this tree a powerful and evil demon, corrupt enough for me to absorb and become stronger!"
"So he's been planning to take the demon tree into his body and increase his power all along?" Miroku gasped, glaring at the demon. "But his miasma alone couldn't do all that to such a powerful demon tree."
"That's where Axe and his crew come in." Hakudoshi chuckled.
"What!? That's the purpose you brought us all here for!?" Axe shouted angrily.
"Precisely." Naraku smirked. "I needed your hatred and malice in order to increase the power of my miasma and corrupt the demon tree. Every battle fought in these sacred woods tainted them and contributed to the Yokai Ki no Ai's downfall. When I controlled Axe and made him destroy the village on the forest's edge, when Koga and DJ battled, when Devon was controlled and grew angry through many battles, when Inuyasha and Axe battled in the rim, even when Dusty fought Shippo. Even up to the battle against all of the demons you just fought, all have contributed to the corruption of the demon tree, preparing it for me to absorb. I should thank all of you pirates for your assistance, when I am the most powerful demon in the world, your deaths will be quick and painless."
"Damn you!" Devon snarled and pulled out his swords towards Naraku. Good act my spy, just remember to bring the sacred jewel you have in your possession to Tschimaru when the time is right. Naraku chuckled as he telepathically transmitted his thoughts to the swordsman.
Insect-like legs appeared out of Naraku's chest and gripped the corrupted tree firmly, beginning to uproot it. "Not so fast Naraku! I'll purify that tree before you get a chance to absorb it!" Kagome shot an arrow at the tree Naraku was in the process of taking into his body.
Hakudoshi stepped in the way of the arrow, allowing it to bounce off of his barrier harmlessly. "So weak for a priestess, especially the reincarnation of Kikyo." The demon child smirked.
Kagome gasped, being unable to penetrate the barrier with her arrow. "My spiritual power still isn't strong enough…"
Naraku completely uprooted the tree and began to pull the tree into his body. As the insect legs pulled the tree in, his chest began to glow as the overwhelming demonic aura spewed out in the form of a dark purple miasma. As Naraku completed the transformation he looked very similar, the only difference was that the spikes on his shoulders were no much longer and grouped together into strong, brown branch-like clusters.
"Arrrrg, damn you Naraku! Let's see how you handle this! ADAMANT BARRAGE!" Inuyasha swung his diamond sword and released numerous spears of Adamant towards the newly transformed demon.
"You never learn, do you Inuyasha?" Naraku laughed softly as a seed shot out from his hand, landing in the ground between the charging spears and the demon. The seed instantly grew into a large and wide tree, allowing the adamant spears to stick into its bark but not to pierce through the plant. "This demon tree's bark is twice as strong as the demon's belly that you could barely escape. I now have control over this and many other demon plants." The powerful demons smirked as the tree slowly disappeared, taking the adamant spears with it.
"Urrrg, damn, my Adamant Barrage won't work anymore… now what?" Inuyasha growled and lowered his sword.
"You are such a pathetic half-demon Inuyasha, now that I have become more powerful, you don't even deserve to be killed by my hand." He shot out another seed which grew into a large human shaped tree, the tree had logs for arms and legs and was so large it towered above the other trees in the forest.
"Damn, and here I thought demon plants sounded like a wimpy power." Niri glanced at the wooden monster.
"Now my wood golem, attack and destroy these fools." Naraku smirked as the golem roared. "Come Hakudoshi, we're leaving…"
"Naraku you arrogant fool…" Hakudoshi growled.
"Good luck with your final battle in this world Inuyasha." Naraku laughed evilly as he and his incarnation disappeared in a purple mist
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Wood Golem: -roars-
Inuyasha: Damn! My Adamant Barrage can't pierce through the demon tree's bark!
Axe: Come on guys! Maybe if we all hit it at once!
Kagura: Even Axe and Inuyasha cannot defeat Naraku? Damn him! What hope is there left?
Kagome: Next time! Battle against the terrifying Wood Golem! See ya soon!
Axe: I'll turn ya into firewood, you stupid demon!