Inuyasha: Finally! I'll destroy Naraku and get my revenge!
Axe: And I'll get my nakama back to our own world!
DJP: Uh… guys?
Both: Yeah?
DJP: The recap?
Inuyasha: Oh yeah! Last time on Inuyasha!
Axe: Naraku sent us to this crazy world, Chizzy, Herman and Kagome faced off against Kanna and her mirror demon.
Inuyasha: Then DJ and that mongrel kicked Kagura down!
Axe: Then Kikyo, Dusty, Kirsty, Sango and Shippo tore Hakudoshi apart!
Inuyasha: Then Sesshomaru, Miroku, Niri and Devon kicked Tschimaru's ass!
Axe: What's gonna happen next? Come aboard and find out!
Inuyasha: Hey! This is my show and we do the recap my way! –tackles-
DJP: -quickly- I don't own One Piece or Inuyasha!
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Inuyasha sighed as he and Axe stood in front of the lake, which had a waterfall dumping water into it from the mountain above. "Damnitall! We've checked all around this place and still no sign of Naraku! I can't even smell 'em!"
"That actually makes sense, seeing as how we're around water, you wouldn't be able to pick up his scent to quickly around here…" Axe sighed and hefted his large stone axe on his back while looking around.
Inuyasha's dog ears twitched and he put his head closer to the water. "What is that?"
"What's wrong? Hear something boy?" Axe teased gently.
"Will you cut it out!? I am not a dog!" Inuyasha growled, still listening to the water. "I can hear vibrations, someone's down there…"
"Under the water?" Ax looked around. "That would make sense too, seeing as how most of my crew wouldn't be able to find him then. Anyone who's eaten a devil fruit loses the ability to swim forever. Naraku sure knows a lot about us, hopefully he doesn't have the ability to find any seastone or we're in deep shit."
"So Naraku's underwater… but where?" The dog demon sniffed, trying to catch the scent of anything suspicious.
"There…" Axe's eyes narrowed to an opening in the bottom of the mountain, just under the water's surface. "An underwater cave…"
"So you can't swim huh?" Inuyasha swung his arm in circles, stretching. "Tough luck for you… looks like I'm going alone." He grinned.
"Hell no! Of course I'm going with you, baka!" The pirate captain shouted. "We just have to figure out some way to get through that water."
"Alright, if you insist…" Inuyasha sighed and put his hand to his chin in thought. "Alright, I've got an idea. I'll split the water with my Wind Scar and you use that Soru thingy you used in our fight and run across there real quick before the water falls back down."
"We don't know how far that cave goes back! I might not make it through in time and drown!" Axe shouted.
"I'm willing to take that risk…" Inuyasha stared blankly at him.
"You idiot! Fine… since we can't come up with a better plan…" The captain crouched down and got ready to kick off for Soru and run.
Inuyasha unsheathed the Tessaiga and pointed it forward. "Alright, here goes! Wind Scar!" He swung the large sword down as yellow streaks came out of it, striking across the water and hitting the mountain, leaving a temporarily dry path where they had stricken.
"Soru!" Axe dashed across the path in the blink of an eye and into the cave on the other side.
"Alright, time to see if he made it…" Inuyasha chuckled as he dove into the water, swimming to the opening through a watery tunnel until he saw a small light at the end, swimming up and emerging out of the water and into the cave.
"Come on boy, use the doggy paddle!" Axe poked fun.
"Shut up!" Inuyasha leapt out of the small pool and onto dry land once more. "I am not a dog!" he then proceeded to shake himself dry like a dog.
"Riiight… So is it just me or do you notice something strange about this place too?" The treasure hunter looked around.
"Now that you mention it…" The dog demon turned his head from side to side. The cave was very dark but had light from some unknown source. In addition to this, candles lit the edges of the cave wall, further illuminating the dark place. The final thing Inuyasha noticed about this place was the distinct purple haze and toxic smell of Naraku's miasma. "Nah, don't see anything strange." He crossed his arms sarcastically.
"Geez, don't know what'll kill me first, the miasma or choking on your sarcasm." Axe coughed as he inhaled a small amount of the purple mist.
"Aww, quit whining, even a human like you should be able to handle this mist long enough to take out Naraku and get out of here." Inuyasha swung his arms and took off down the cave hall.
"I have a bad feeling about this…" Axe sighed as he followed Inuyasha down the increasingly dark and ominous tunnel.
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Naraku smiled as he closed his eyes, still able to see some of the events going on without Kanna's mirror. He had purposely allowed Devon to remember his hideout to bring Axe and Inuyasha here so he could finish them. He hadn't expected the rest of the group to survive the attacks of his subordinates, or even Tschimaru's death, but so far none of these events had put a fatal wound in his plan. He could still easily take out the rest of the snake once he cut off the heads.
"Naraku! Where are you!? SHOW YOURSELF!" He heard Inuyasha's voice down the tunnel before seeing the Dog demon run into the large chamber he was in, Tessaiga wielded and his face covered by his sleeve with the robe of the fire rat.
Axe soon followed and looked around. This chamber he was in seemed much larger than the tunnel, this appeared to be where the core of the mountain was on the outside. He bet that if they went straight up to the top, they would reach the waterfall that lead into the lake. He rested his eyes back on the villain. "So, I've finally found you… Naraku!" he took his large stone axe from off his back and let the head hit the rock floor below.
"Axe, Inuyasha, so glad you could make it, now I will have the pleasure of killing both of you personally, I would have been a little disappointed if the Wood Golem had done so in my stead, especially now that I have my new powers." The demon of the miasma smirked.
"Shut it, filth! You never change, you always hide in the shadows until you're strong enough to win, you never sully your own hands unless it's a sure thing. Well this time you're wrong! We're the one's who are stronger!" Axe shouted.
"Rocky's got a point there Naraku." Inuyasha grinned and cracked his claws. "You may look like a full demon, but I know you'll always be that pathetic human Onigumo who failed to win Kikyo!"
"Care to test your boasts?" Naraku smirked softly as a purple shield surrounded him and numerous appendages grew out of his back, including spider legs, claws and tentacles. "You can't even touch me."
"This ends now Naraku! Return me to my own world!" Axe charged forward, swinging his large weapon down on the fiend, shocked as it bounced off harmlessly. The young captain slid back a few feet from the force of his own attack and smirked. "A barrier, I should have expected as much after my encounter with Hakudoshi."
"Who cares? With my Red Tessaiga, I'll bust the thing wide open!" The dog demon swung his large sword forward as it began to change colors from a grayish white, to a blood red. "Take this! WIND SCAR!" He swung the blade horizontally and yellow streaks came out, pounding into the barrier but having little more effect than Axe's attack.
"You never learn and you never get any stronger, do you Inuyasha?" Naraku taunted. "Do you not remember our battle at the border between this life and the next?" The demonic power of the wind scar continued to swirl around Naraku's barrier, becoming larger streams of yellow energy. "Even with your Red Tessaiga, I can deflect the Wind Scar as if it were a child's toy." The large yellow streams shot out in all directions and ricocheted around the chamber walls. "And if you recall our battle at Mount Hakurei, you'll remember that in an enclosed environment such as this cave, I can make the Wind Scar bounce off the walls in an endless trap!"
"Damn, I forgot." Inuyasha growled as he dodged a demonic stream of energy, sliding on his heels as he tried to deflect them with his Tessaiga.
"Nice going, mutt-boy!" Axe shouted as he swung his giant axe at the stream. He was surprised to see it didn't bounce off the axe, but it didn't go straight through either, it seemed to swirl in the currents around the axe head. "Of course… the aura around the axe. The power that Koigokoro gave me! If he can capture the Wind Scar in his aura, than so can I!" He swung his axe again and again, concentrating to keep the Wind Scar concentrated on the axe head. Once all of it had been absorbed, he swung it one last time, releasing the collected streams directly at Naraku's barrier with added force from his attack. "TAKE THIS!"
Naraku's eyes widened as he watched Axe attack, he used his arms to protect himself just in case as the attack slammed into his barrier. Cave dust engulfed him and the entire chamber as the attack hit.
"Heh, Backlash Wave, Axe-head style…" The young captain planted the bottom of his weapon on the ground and grinned, admiring his work.
"Don't get cocky yet, rock-boy." Inuyasha murmured as he covered his eyes to protect himself from the dust.
As the cave dust cleared, Naraku stood unharmed, barrier untouched from the fierce attack. "I told you, you two won't be able to lay a scratch on me." The demon grinned.
"Oh yeah? Looks like you're the one who forgot, I got strong enough to pierce your barrier at the border of this life and the next. Adamant Barrage!" The dog demon swung his sword as a wave of diamond spears shot out, heading towards Naraku.
"How can you forget something so recent, are you that dense Inuyasha?" Naraku shot a seed from his finger at the spears that instantly grew into a wall of tree bark. "I gained the power to stop your Adamant Barrage thanks to the Yokai Ki no Ai, remember?" The demon smirked as the adamant pieces got stuck in the bark.
"Grrrr… damnitall…" Inuyasha muttered. "Maybe he really does have the upper hand."
"You fools, even if you could break through my barrier, my miasma will kill you before you can lay a hand on me, nevertheless destroy me without my heart intact." The demon smirked as the bark and adamant dissolved back into the ground again.
"Damn, he's had this all planned out, that miasma puts us on a serious time limit, even Inuyasha can't stand that stuff for too long…" Axe wheezed as he began to slowly feel the effects of the poison mist. "On top of that, he can even grow his demon plants here even though it's a rock floor and not soil." He turned to Naraku. "Inuyasha, try your Adamant Barrage one more time…"
"Right… hope you have a plan or we're seriously screwed…" Inuyasha gripped the hilt of his Tessaiga tightly as it appeared to become a diamond sword for a second time. "Adamant Barrage!" He swung and the diamond spear wave shot out again.
"So futile…" Naraku shot out another seed that grew into another wall of bark.
"Looks like you're the one who's forgotten something this time Naraku!" Axe grinned. "Soru!" ran forward at an incredible speed and appeared next to the wall of demonic tree bark. "Have you forgotten how I defeated your precious Wood Golem?" The young captain smirked as the currents of the axe's energy swirled around the head again as he swung, cutting straight through the bark and allowing the adamant pieces to pass through their desired course and hit Naraku's barrier.
"What!?" The demon shouted as his barrier was shattered as the spears bounced off, leaving him unharmed, but unprotected as well. Naraku growled as he watched his two opponents. "Did you really think that was the only power that the Yokai Ki no Ai gave me? Would I go through so much trouble just to stop one attack from you, Inuyasha?" He shot another seed from his finger, which landed at the feet of Inuyasha and Axe.
"Behold the other powers of the demon tree!" Naraku channeled his energy and allowed the seed to grow, springing vines out of the dirt and breaking the rock under the young captain and half-demon. The vines shot up and surrounded them, piercing their skin and leaving small scratches with their thorns. The two poked their heads and arms out of the forest, small trickles of blood streaming from both bodies.
"What the hell is this stuff?" Inuyasha looked around and realized he had dropped his Tessaiga, which lay on the floor in front of him, outside the patch of the vine forest. He looked around and saw that in a similar manner Axe had dropped his giant stone axe next to it. Without the weapon to form the aura around, there was no way to cut through the incredibly tough plants.
"These are the vines of depravity. The poison on their thorns will slowly drain the strength out of you as long as the plant remains intact. And as a side effect, the plant will show you your worst nightmares until you die a slow and painful death." Naraku chuckled as he watched his enemies struggle.
"No way…" Axe groaned weakly, already feeling the effects of the poison vines combined with the miasma. He looked towards Naraku to see his vision was already fading, he looked over to Inuyasha to see he had already blacked out. He closed his eyes as he himself fainted.
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Inuyasha couldn't move, he felt as if he was in a coma. When he opened his eyes he lost all sense of his body, the only sense that seemed to be working were the sights and sounds he saw before him. His eyes widened as he looked on a grassy plain and heard his own voice, but not him speaking. "Fool! As if I had any intention of ever becoming human!" Inuyasha, or rather Naraku in Inuyasha's guise, looked down at a mortally wounded Kikyo. "Feh, this rock… it's hungry for more hateful blood… I think I'll go slaughter the village!"
Inuyasha wanted to scream out, but his lips wouldn't move. Only his thoughts could express his sorrow. Kikyo! It wasn't me! I didn't kill you! I would never betray you! He sobbed mentally as he watched the scene change.
The true Inuyasha jumped out of a building as it exploded, he had seen Kikyo betray him with his own eyes, even fire her arrows at him and call him a half-demon, something she promised never to do again. "I finally have the sacred jewel!" He held the pink stone in his hand and leapt off.
"Die Inuyasha!" Kikyo screamed, her wound bleeding as she shot her arrow, pinning Inuyasha to the tree of ages.
The half-demon's eyes widened in surprise and in pain, both inner and outer, he reached for the jewel but eventually let it fall to the ground as he was sealed. The current Inuyasha could only watch on in horror as Kikyo died and was eventually cremated with the sacred jewel. "
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"Kikyo…" Inuyasha mumbled as he lay unconscious among the vines.
"Heh, so that's what he's dreaming about… His greatest fear was brought to reality when I made him and Kikyo betray each other… I wonder what his nightmare is…" Naraku glared at the unconscious Axe.
The young captain's face looked pale and sick as he mumbled in horror, looking disgusted at whatever he was seeing.
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Axe turned around and vomited at what he saw, so many bloody and dismembered bodies lay before him. "W-What have I done?" he trembled as he looked on in horror.
Axe held out his weapon as a large crowd of men and women gathered in front of him. He glared at them all, "You're all making a huge mistake...come to your senses about what you're thinking of doing!" he cried.
"Oh, they've already come to their senses, my dear...Captain,"
Axe growled as a woman with ebony hair parted away from the group and walked a little closer towards him.
"Kairi...,"
The woman smiled, "It seems, that after all this time on the seas, your faithful crew has abandoned you...to follow me. What say you, crew? Shall we rid ourselves of this waste of space and go after what our hearts desire?" she yelled out to the group behind her.
"AYE!" they shouted in unison.
The large group of crewmembers ran full speed at Axe and soon the deck became a battlefield. For every man or woman that rushed him, Axe swung his mighty weapon around, knocking them away as best as he could.
Kairi slowly walked away from the raging battle, and began to sing a song loudly.
"La dee da dee di, let's begin the genocide...la dee da dee dud, an ocean of blood...,"
Axe was completely swept up in the horror of the personal nightmare of his past when he heard a voice. "Have you forgotten!?" The spirit of an old man appeared before him and shouted.
"Koigokoro…" Axe whispered, still dazed from the poison and shock.
The old spirit stood directly in front of him, screaming directly in his face. "HAVE… YOU… FORGOTTEN!?"
"Forgotten what…?" he mumbled as his eyes feathered open and shut as he spoke.
"You made a promise to Inuyasha and to me to defeat Naraku and get your crew back to your own world! If you don't defeat him, there is no way you can fulfill your dream there!" Koigokoro shouted. "I think I can destroy some of the poison in your body so the hallucination will cease, but the rest is up to you, I cannot interfere any further."
"I understand…" Axe closed his eyes as a flash of light surrounded him. When he reopened his eyes, he was back in the chamber with Naraku and Inuyasha, still tangled in the vines of depravity.
"No, I have not forgotten, Koigokoro… I will fulfill my promises. Naraku! Your plan backfired! I'm itching for a fight now more than ever! You reminded me why I'm fighting!"
Naraku looked on the young captain, his expression mildly impressed. "Hmm… you're still alive, not bad…" He looked to his other opponent. "Although you still can't get out of the vines, and I can't say how much longer Inuyasha will stay alive."
"Naraku…" Inuyasha growled, his voice much deeper and raspier than before. As the dog demon lifted his head, the two others saw that his eyes had turned red and three purple stripes had appeared on either cheek on his face. "I will… KILL YOU!" His claws, which now looked much longer and more powerful, sliced through the vines and ripped them apart, freeing both him and Axe. The robe of the fire rat ripped off and Inuyasha remained in his white shirt, soaked in his own blood. "Die!" He swung his claws into Naraku, ripping deep into his body.
"I believe you were saying something? That I wouldn't be able to lay a scratch on you?" The demon growled and cracked his now bloody claws.
Naraku barely flinched as Inuyasha tore into him. "So this is your full demon form… I've always wanted to see it firsthand."
"Well take a good look, cuz it'll be your last!" Inuyasha rasped as he struck again.
Naraku defended himself with his tentacle, which spewed out miasma into Inuyasha's face. The demon coughed and wheezed, but struck again, only to have the same result and more miasma spit in his face and into the dank cave air. "Go ahead and keep attacking Inuyasha, mindlessly kill yourself and Axe with my poison because of your bloodlust…"
Axe thought as he covered his nose."Die Naraku! Die Naraku! Die! Die! Die! Kill! Kill! Kill!" The full demon Inuyasha shouted mindlessly as he slashed at Naraku and released more miasma as Naraku simply reformed himself after each attack.
Axe grabbed the sword, hilt and all. He also grabbed his stone axe off the cave floor, dashing over to Naraku and Inuyasha through the gathering miasma. "Oi! Wake up baka!" The young captain shouted as he smacked Inuyasha on the head with his own sword.Inuyasha's eyes, face and claws began to turn back to normal as he reached for the sword in contact with his head. "Hey! What was that for!?" He put Tessaiga back on his waist.
"Had to wake you up, can't let you go killing yourself." Axe smirked.
"Feh, why do you care?" Inuyasha wiped some blood from his lower lip.
"Because… nakama look out for one another." The pirate captain grinned and gave a thumbs up.
Inuyasha stared at Axe blankly, slightly in awe. "N-Nakama?"
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Chizuru, Kagome and Herman could see the mountainous waterfall of the lake of Ai forest in the distance as they continued walking. Herman could now stand on his own, despite his injuries from Kanna's glass demon.
Chizuru suddenly stopped walking and stared at the mountain. "You alright Chizuru?" Herman asked as him and Kagome turned to the navigator.
"I have a bad feeling about this…" she mumbled.
"Me too…" Kagome put her hand over her heart as she looked towards the mountain. "Inuyasha… please be alright…"
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Alright, hope it's good, I didn't know exactly what to put for Axe's nightmare since his past isn't entirely clear yet, so I winged it, forgive me if I was off. Next time the battle ends! Who will come out standing?
Niri: Well we're all here, but where are Axe and Inuyasha? Shouldn't they have finished their search by now?
Kagome: Oh no… what's that rumbling?
Naraku: You fools!
Kagome: Next time! The Final Battle, Part 2! Nakama We Are! See ya soon!
Inuyasha: I-I won't go down so easily Naraku, this ends now!