Inuyasha: Previously on Inuyasha!
Axe we finally faced off against Naraku, he put up a tough fight, giving us a time limit by slowly filling the cave with his miasma! Damn, and I thought my gases were bad!
Inuyasha: Bad joke… stay on subject! He showed us images from our pasts to try and break us, but Axe got some spirit help and I transformed into my full demon form!
Axe: Now that Inuyasha's back to his own half-breed self, who will come out the victor of the final battle? Come aboard and find out!
Inuyasha: Don't call me a half-breed!
DJP: I don't own One Piece or Inuyasha!
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Scroll Nineteen: Nakama We Are!
Koga looked around the waterfall area he had just arrived at. "Hmmm, looks like we're the first ones here."
"Hmmm, wonder why? Super fast wolf and speedy swordsman, woulda thought we'd be last." DJ sighed sarcastically from his spot on Koga's back. His injuries had stopped bleeding, but they still hurt like hell.
"Shuddap!" The wolf demon roughly dropped his comrade on the ground behind him and looked around again. "Hope the others got away okay, if we got attacked, it's likely that they did too."
"They'll be fine, I know those guys, they're very strong, it would take a lot to bring them down, especially since they have Inuyasha's group helping them." DJ winced and rubbed his now sore behind.
"KOGA-KUN!" Kagome shouted as she ran towards the two, followed by Chizuru and Herman.
"Kagome!" Koga cleared the remaining distance between them and took hold of Kagome's hands. "Are you alright? I'd never forgive myself if something happened to you."
"I'm fine." She chuckled softly and waved him off while DJ, Chizuru and Herman all watched them and sweatdropped.
"Baka Wolf, making a fool of himself. How ridicu… DUSTY-CHAN!" DJ watched as the two groups had joined together and Devon, Austin, Miroku, Niri, Kirsty, Kilala, Shippo, Sango and last but not least, Dusty walked towards the already regrouping nakama. The speedy swordsman glomped the latter person and hugged them tightly. "Oh, Dusty-chan, I've missed you soooo much! Naraku didn't hurt you did he? I'll maim him if he harmed one hair on your beautiful head!"
Dusty stared at him blankly. "Uh…. DJ-kun… that's all very nice but…."
"BUT THAT'S ME YOU'RE HUGGING! BAKA!" Devon roared and shook the clingy pirate off of him.
Koga let out a roar of laughter. "Guess he's still a little delusional…"
"AH! Baka-demon! My wounds reopened!" DJ clutched his bleeding side.
"Oh my, what happened to you guys?" Kirsty's medical instinct kicked in as she kneeled beside DJ and used her last shot of healing power for the day to quickly seal up the bleeding cuts along his body and legs.
"Kagura the wind bitch attacked us. You guys?" Koga tilted his head as he watched Kirsty work.
"We got Hakudoshi, and me and Kirsty kicked his ass before Sango tore him up! He got away though…" Dusty's ears flattened as she said that last part.
"Ha! We killed Tschimaru, he won't be coming back ever again." Devon smirked, confident that he was the only one who had gotten a certain kill.
"We had Kanna, not sure what happened to her though." Chizuru sighed as she sat down on a nearby log.
"So no one faced Naraku directly?" Sango asked, looking around as everyone shook their heads.
"That's probably how he planned it, Naraku never sullies his own hands if he can help it." Miroku stepped forward. "We should count our blessings, we're all lucky to be alive and unharmed."
"Not all of us…" Herman counted heads. "Where are Axe and Inuyasha? Shouldn't they be back by now too?"
"So my hunch was right…" Devon muttered to himself. "They probably ended up facing Naraku, hope they're alright…" He looked down.
Kirsty put her hand on his shoulder. "You alright Dev? You look worried, I'm sure Axe will be alright, he's the strongest out of all of us and Inuyasha's pretty kick-ass too." She smiled warmly.
Devon looked to Kirsty and then down to Austin, who was tugging on the tail of Koga's wolfskin skirt, looking up at the very perturbed wolf demon. "I hope so Kirsty… I hope so…"
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Naraku chuckled evilly as he watched his two opponents struggle, gasp and wheeze from the miasma that was now more rapidly than ever filling the cave. "At this rate. I'll give you about ten minutes more before you die from the poison." He smirked smugly at his enemies. "At the most of course. And you haven't even come close to defeating me yet." He laughed maniacally.
"D-Damn you Naraku…" Axe panted as it became harder to breathe. "I will kill you before that happens."
"Tell me Axe… do you like to gamble?" The evil half-demon glared and smirked at the same time.
"What the hell…"
"Outside this cave, all of your friends and allies have gathered, your so called nakama." He held up one of his demon plant seeds. " This is the seed of the devouring Zetsu trap plant." He planted the seed into the ground. "It is set for a certain time limit, ten minutes to be precise, it will seek out the largest group of people around, currently your friends. It will remain under the ground until the time limit is up, and then it will use its very large jaws and quickly snap up any humans, demons or otherwise in its radius."
Inuyasha and Axe's eyes widened as they heard this last part. "That plant thing's gonna eat our friends!?" The other half-demon shouted.
"You're not as dumb as you look Inuyasha." Naraku used his tentacles to hit the roof of the cave, causing rocks to tumble down on the entrance of the cave chamber. "Just so you don't try to run away and help them. Of course, if you defeat me, the demon plants will wither and the risk will be gone, but if you do not, they will die…"
"DAMN YOU! WIND SCAR!" Inuyasha swung his sword at Naraku, releasing the yellow streaks of demonic energy from its tip.
Naraku sighed and merely produced another shield made of bark, which absorbed the Wind Scar as the previous ones had absorbed the Adamant Barrage before it earlier in the battle. "You will soon find it hard to swing that oversized sword of yours Inuyasha." The half-demon chuckled.
"Grrr… QUIT STALLING!" Inuyasha swung his sword again in anger.
"After my explanation and that little outburst, there's only nine minutes left…" He produced one seed on each finger of his hand and shot them into the dirt. Ten identical plants came back up, each with small vines and roots for legs, but with a flower with sharp teeth for a head, dripping what appeared to be saliva from their mouth, only when the fluid connected with the cave floor the rock began to dissolve away.
"It's acid!" Axe's eyes widened as he watched the plants.
"Damn it all… more cronies to try and waste our time…" Inuyasha grumbled.
"These are the demon acid Hidan demon plants." Naraku explained. The acid in their mouths can eat through nearly anything, even your robe of the Fire Rat wouldn't help you, if you had it on that is." Naraku laughed at the unarmored Inuyasha, who was merely in his white, wife-beater style shirt. "Eight and a half minutes left…" he closed his eyes and began to walk to the other end of the chamber, disappearing in the gathering cloud of purple mist.
Axe thought as he tried to perpetuate his labored breathing."Damn you Naraku!" Inuyasha swung his Tessaiga straight on the head of one of the Hidan demons. "What the hell?" The half-demon watched as the demon opened his mouth and let the large fang slip right into his jaw, clasping down on it with its large teeth. "Give it back, idiot!" Inuyasha tried pulling the sword out in vain.
"Step aside dogboy…" Axe sighed and closed his eyes, letting the demon-killing currents flow around his giant axe head as he swung it hard into the side of the head of the Hidan demon. The demon was hit and skidded across the cave, but only had a large dent in its mouth and seemed unfazed as it scurried back over to the two, Tessaiga still grasped tightly in its jaws.
"Well that went wonderfully…" Inuyasha crossed his arms sarcastically. He reached to his shoulder and dragged his claws across one of the wounds from the vines from earlier. "Blades of Blood!" Many tiny red arcs were shot out across the ten demons, as all of them seemed to open their mouths and 'eat' the blades harmlessly. The one with Inuyasha's sword did not open its mouth but was still unfazed as it was hit. "Damn…"
"If those mouths can handle that acid, then they can handle almost anything, including your sword. If Tessaiga stays in there too much longer, it will surely break in half. And I doubt we have more than seven minutes left of that time limit and we still haven't gotten anywhere close to Naraku." Axe muttered to himself. Think damnit! Think! He shouted to himself in his mind, his vision and thoughts clouded by the poison spreading in the space.
"Here, put this on, it might stop some of the poison." Inuyasha sighed as he walked back over to where the vines were and picked up his robe of the Fire Rat and wrapped it around Axe's mouth and nose like a mask.
"What about you?" Axe looked over to the half-demon.
"I'll be fine, I don't fall to things as easily as you humans do. Besides, Nakama look out for one another, right?" He gave a fanged grin and showed Axe his palm, which was still slightly red from the dried demon blood the day before, even though most of it had already chipped away.
Axe's mind suddenly became a lot clearer now that he didn't have the obnoxious poison in his face. "Of course! Inuyasha, look at their legs! It's just roots! They must be weaker than those mouths, aim for the legs and the heads will roll!"
"Gotcha, Iron Reaver Soul Stealer!" Inuyasha swiped his claws at the root/legs of the Hidan demon holding his sword. The demon quickly unclasped its jaws, falling to the ground and withering away into the rock floor. "One down!"
Axe made a large arced horizontal swing with his giant axe, taking out many of the Hidan demons at the legs with one stoke. "Make that six down!" Axe grinned under his poison mask.
"And time for the rest! Wind Scar!" Inuyasha swung his newly freed Tessaiga and unleashed the familiar yellow streaks from it, quickly dispatching the remaining Hidan demons. "Ha! Piece of cake!"
The duo ran towards the other side of the chamber. When they finally saw something through the mist, Naraku's figure appeared, apparently hooked up by the arm to what appeared to be a vine-like plant with a glowing flower. "This is the Sakura demon plant, this cherry blossom demon can cure any disease or injury. Unfortunately they're extinct, until now." Naraku smirked.
"Cherry blossoms that can cure anything? Where have I heard that before…?" Axe muttered to himself.
"But wait! We didn't do any damage to you! What do you need that for?" Inuyasha shouted, pointing his sword at the demon and demon plant.
"The cherry blossom demon plant can also revitalize energies, any energy, even ones that would take days to repair naturally. In short, this plant is fixing my barrier!" Naraku shouted as he detached himself from the plant as it withered away. He floated upwards a bit until he was about halfway up the chamber and reactivated the spherical purple barrier around him.
"SHIT!" Inuyasha and Axe shouted at the same time. "The one thing we actually did to him and he can repair it like that!" Axe shouted, looking at the once again armored Naraku.
"Four minutes…" Naraku reminded them as he floated in his new barrier.
"Great, now we have to break that thing all over again!" Inuyasha shouted, ready to use his Adamant Barrage once more. The half-demon trembled slightly as the poison began to take its final effects, leaving him on the edge of death.
"No, don't Inuyasha! I have a plan…" Axe stated slowly. "Use your Wind Scar…"
"What!? You saw how easily he could deflect…"
"Just do it! Use your Wind Scar, then Backlash Wave!"
"Fine, Wind Scar!" The yellow strokes flew out of his sword one more time and headed toward Naraku's barrier.
"Fools… you can't stop me with that!" Naraku shouted as he easily held the Wind Scar for a moment, powered it up and deflected the blast back to where it had originated.
"Alright, here goes nothing…" Inuyasha panted as the empowered Wind Scar hurtled towards him. "Backlash Wave!" He swung his sword and the powerful blast turned into blue whirlpools of energy as they headed back towards Naraku.
"One hell of a game of tennis, eh Inuyasha?" Axe grinned as he watched the Wave. He looked back to his comrade and saw him collapse due to the strain of the blast as well as the poison miasma's damage to his body.
Naraku winced as the wave hit him. "With the Yokai Ki no Ai, I can deflect even this!" He once again powered the Backlash wave up to a point where it shook the entire cave and deflected it back at the unconscious Inuyasha.
Axe stepped in front of his nakama and held his giant axe high, panting from the long battle. "Nothing left to hide behind now, Naraku!" He swung his axe, capturing the energy in the axe head as he had done before. He could feel the tremendous energy from the head go all through his body, he poured his own energy into the head and swung his axe again, releasing the extremely powered up Wind Scar back at Naraku one last time before falling to his knees.
Naraku screamed as the blast his his barrier and he began to hear a cracking sound. "Impossible! No one can break through my barrier through sheer force!" The barrier did indeed crack and break, unleashing the remaining energy on the unprotect villain. "NOOOOOOO!"
"Heh, never get tired of hearing that, the big villain 'NO!'" Axe chuckled as dust flew throughout the cave.
As the dust settled, Naraku still remained, but most of his body and armor had been destroyed, leaving only his head and part of his shoulder. Axe wheezed and coughed, standing over the villain calmly. "With one minute to spare…" he laughed weakly.
"Fool! You honestly think I would keep my word?! I can rush the demon plant's growth rate with my demonic energy. You may have defeated me, but your friends are still going to die!"
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Outside the cave, the others sat nervously, in a state of tension. Kagome looked towards the waterfall, a worried look on her face. "I can sense a lot of energy in there, I wonder who's winning."
"I still say we go in there and help Axe kick his ass!" Dusty pounded her fist into her palm. Devon had told the others that Axe and Inuyasha would probably be fighting inside the cave.
"I told you, kit. One, we don't know where the entrance is. Two, if we go in there, Naraku might use us as a bargaining chip against Axe and Inuyasha, SOME of us have a habit of walking into traps." The first mate shot a glare to the fox girl, who chuckled nervously.
"Guys, do you feel something trembling?" Niri asked as the ground seemed to move.
"Yeah, what the hell?" Koga looked around as very large teeth poked up out of the ground all around the group.
"Don't just stand there, get out of the way!" Devon shouted as he began to run out of the radius, but it was too late, the large jaws appeared from under the dirt and snapped up everyone in the area.
"AH!" Dusty quickly jumped and did a split against both sides of the mouth, trying to prop herself up to avoid the rising fluids in the mouth of the beastly plant.
"Damn!" Devon jammed his Kitetsu into the side of the mouth, but it had no effect as it simply bounced off the inside jaws of the plant. "Last time it took Axe's special powers to break one of these demon plants!"
"Well I doubt it would get many meals if its jaws could be easily broken." Kirsty kicked the side of the Venus flytrap style plant.
"AH! We're doomed!" Shippo screamed as he was burned by the acids trying to slowly eat him.
STHINK!
A loud noise came as something stabbed into the outside of the plant, followed by two waves of energy. One wave was whitish-pink and the other was a light blue. The two waves pierced through the outer shell of the plant and forced it to open its mouth, releasing the captives inside from being digested. "Who was that?" Herman asked, turning his eyestalks from side to side to find their saviors.
"Sesshomaru-sama!"
"Lady Kikyo!" Niri and Kirsty shouted to the two figures standing there. One was the teenage-looking dog demon in white fur and the other was the beautiful but stern looking priestess, each holding their weapons in attack position.
"They saved us?" Devon asked, making sure Austin was okay before looking on the two carefully.
"Once again, I did not do that for you, I traced Naraku's scent to this area and simply destroyed whatever had his aura around it." Sesshomaru said calmly and turned around.
"You should be grateful! If Lord Sesshomaru hadn't come along, you would all be dead right now!" A green, impish creature shouted from behind the dog demon.
"Enough, Jaken." He said calmly. "Naraku is preparing to go on the move again, we should as well."
"That was amazing Lord Sesshomaru!" A dark-haired little girl grinned broadly from her place next to the impish Jaken.
"He's right… Naraku is about to escape, I think you should find Inuyasha and that other man and prepare to leave." Kikyo said calmly.
"Sesshomaru…" Niri walked slowly up behind the dog demon, who had now saved her and Devon twice now. "Even if it wasn't your intention, thank you for saving us."
"Silence, I do not require the gratitude of a human." Sesshomaru looked back at her with a cold look in his eyes before walking.
"Teeheee, he's just in a bad mood since we lost Naraku again, I'll be sure to tell him again when he cheers up." Rin smiled to Niri and ran off after Sesshomaru. "Wait for me Lord Sesshomaru!" she called, he hands spread out like wings at her sides as she ran.
"Cheers up? Yeah, I bet he's just a ball of sunshine." Devon looked at the leaving party.
"Feh, and you said I have a habit of walking into traps, you lead us right into that Venus flytrap thingy." Dusty scoffed while wringing demon plant saliva out of her shirt.
"What was that kit?!" Devon gave chase to the fox girl, who hid behind the nearest group of people, DJ, Koga and Miroku. "How dare you try to harm a lady!" All three of them shouted in unison.
Kikyo watched the waterfall in silence. "I suggest you take good care of Inuyasha, he'll need this when he gets back." She looked to Kagome and handed her a small bag of herbs. "I came across them in my travels, they should heal Naraku's miasma."
Kagome's eyes widened as she took the bag in her hand. "Thank you Kikyo…" She watched as the priestess left without a word to anyone.
"Since that flytrap thing came out, does that mean that Axe is winning, or losing?" Kirsty looked towards the waterfall again.
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"I'm judging by that upsurge of energy outside that your Zetsu plant thing is kaput." Axe grinned, still panting from the miasma. If it weren't for the Fire Rat mask Inuyasha had given him, he probably would have been dead by now.
"Damn… beaten by someone I summoned here…" Naraku panted, shaking what remained of his body.
"Yeah, gotta love the irony though." Axe grinned as his arm turned into an incredibly hard rock. "Kachi Kachi no…." He raised his fist level with Naraku's face. "BAA-ZOOOOO-KAAAAAAAAA!" He punched Naraku hard in the face, shredding what was left of his body. "Next time… STAY OUT OF MY WORLD!" The pirate captain roared over his victory.
Axe fell to his knees, strength all but gone from his body as the lumps of flesh began to reform before his very eyes. "You fool… you think this is over? I cannot be killed, without my heart, I am immortal!" Naraku shouted, panting equally drained from his fight. "I will kill y- AH!" Naraku watched as the spikes from his transformation of the Yokai Ki no Ai disappeared and his flesh began to bubble. "What's happening!?"
"The strain on your body is too much, looks like the Yokai Ki no Ai wasn't completely poisoned after all, a portion of good remained in it, just waiting for the moment that you would be weak and it would be able to kill you from the inside." Axe smirked broadly.
"I will never let it destroy me!" Naraku shouted as a seed shot from his body.
"The tree's rejected you… you lose Naraku!" Inuyasha chuckled, his face in the dirt, not completely unconscious after all.
The seed shot to the roof of the cave, making a hole in the roof, which the miasma quickly took to escape from the chamber, leaving the room clearer and brighter than before. The seed quickly grew into a full sized tree. "What's going on!?" Naraku shouted.
Axe smirked. "Ai Forest… is returning to the way it's supposed to be…"
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The others outside watched as the top of the waterfall cliff broke and sprouted a tree, the Yokai Ki no Ai was coming back! "Well ain't that somethin…" Koga smirked as the tree returned to its full size, reigning high on the cliff beside the waterfall and letting out pink blossoms.
"It's beautiful!" Niri shouted as they all watched the love spores come down from the tree's perch.
"What's this mean?" Niri blinked.
"What else could it mean!?" DJ smirked.
"He won!" Kagome shouted.
"They won…" Devon smiled brightly as Austin jumped for joy.
"Whoot!" Dusty raised her fist into the air triumphantly.
"THEY DID IT!" The group shouted, giving cheers and shouts of joy.
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Naraku panted and winced as the tree ejected from his body and the Ai blossoms rained down into the cave, burning such an evil demon as they touched him.
"I feel sorry for you Naraku, unless you're fighting for someone other than yourself, Inuyasha and his friends will kick your ass one time after the next. They'll always be stronger because they're not alone. Everyone who works for you hates you and eventually turns on you, you can never show any love to anyone. The Yokai Ki no Ai doesn't want someone like that in its forest, get out!" Axe smirked.
"Damn you… pirates…" Naraku panted heavily and left without a word in a puff of miasma.
Koigokoro, the ancient spirit of Ai forest appeared once more before Axe. "Thank you… Captain Axe, you have restored life to this forest. You have our eternal gratitude."
The pirate captain smiled broadly and collapsed on his back, looking up at the sun streaming in through the hole in the cave. "…No Problem…"
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The others climbed the cliff to take a closer look at the tree and saw the large hole in the ground from the seed shooting through. Austin kicked a rock into the cavern to see how deep it was.
"OW! Stupid jerk! That hit me in the eye!" Axe shouted from inside the cave.
"Well… he's alive alright." Niri sweatdropped as Shippo and Kilala slowly lowered people two by two into the cave.
Kagome was the last to be lowered and ran over to Inuyasha when she saw him lying on the ground. "Inuyasha!" She put the herbs from Kikyo in his mouth.
"K-Kagome…" He said softly as the herbs started working immediately and removing the poison from his system.
"Oh Inuyasha!" She hugged the half-demon tightly.
"Are they having a random name shouting contest? Oh! Can I play? NIRI!"
"OW! What!? Dusty! I'm right here, you don't have to shout…"
"We're having a random name shouting contest…"
"We are NOT having a random name shouting contest!" Inuyasha snapped to the fox girl and sniper as he felt his strength returning rapidly.
Kirsty kneeled down and gave the other half of the herbs from Kikyo to Axe, hoping that they would be able to return his strength as well. "Glad you guys aren't dead at least."
DJ gave a low whistle as he looked around the battle-scarred cave. "Musta been one hell of a battle."
"Hey guys! I found some eggs!" Herman shouted as he pointed to nine blue orbs on the cave floor, covered in dust from the fight, but seemingly unharmed.
"Those aren't eggs, baka, their obviously juggling balls!" Dusty shouted, trying to pick them up, but having no success in doing so as something seemed to be surrounding them and preventing her from touching them. "…The hell?"
"Hmm… A barrier…" Sango inspected the orbs carefully. "I think these might be the anchor points for the spell that keeps the Axe-Heads in this world." She looked back to her comrades.
"Good… now we just bust them open and you guys can go home…" Inuyasha used his sword as a walking stick to stand up while Axe did the same with his weapon.
"What? But we made a promise we wouldn't leave until Naraku was destroyed, he's out of the forest but still not dead." Axe protested.
"Don't be stupid! Getting you guys back to your world is the first priority, we'll destroy Naraku ourselves, there's no reason that you guys have to worry about in anymore. We'll hit him double hard for all of us!" The dog demon shouted.
"Inuyasha…" Kagome smiled warmly as she watched him. "He's right, you should go back home while you can. We'll handle Naraku. You guys have your own problems to take care of back home, we won't forget your promise to help us, but maybe you should just help us in spirit, there are people who need you more in your own world, we can handle things just fine here."
"Feh, alright, I guess we won't stay where we're not wanted. Crew! We're going home! Home to the sea!" Axe grinned broadly and raised his fist.
"AYE!" The rest of the pirate crew shouted and raised their fists in unison.
The crew said their good-byes and exchanged handshakes and hugs. "Alright, I just need one good strike with my Red Tessaiga to break these things." Inuyasha stood up straight, his sword turning blood red in order to break the barrier around the orbs. "Wind Scar!" The yellow streaks shot out one last time and broke through the barrier, destroying the nine blue anchoring orbs.
The pirate crew slowly began to disappear, a shining and glimmering light slowly taking them back home.
"Thanks for everything, it was great working with you Kagome." Chizuru grinned.
"Thanks for your help Miroku, although I think I like my approach better." DJ chuckled. "And thanks for the battles Koga, we'll call it a draw."
Austin gave thumbs up to Miroku for helping to save him from Tschimaru.
"Yo, thanks for letting me borrow your boomerang Sango, and Shippo, remember those pranks I taught ya!" Dusty waved.
"Thanks for teaching me about those herbs Kagome, I guess we'll both be working on our methods to help people, I'll become a great pirate doctor, you become a great priestess, okay? And Sango, I'm sure Kohaku will return to you one day." Kirsty smiled warmly.
Herman smirked. "Thank you all so much… I'm glad I could help and glad you could help me a little as well. Go get Naraku and make sure he can't hurt any more people."
Niri grinned. "Miroku, work on that problem of yours, you're a good guy otherwise. Sango, try to keep him in line, sorry I won't be able to make the wedding!"
"Sango… Kohaku wanted me to tell you that he's alright, he's still working for Naraku but he's okay, and he loves you very much." Devon gave a small smile.
Axe grinned as they continued slowly disappearing. "Inuyasha, you got some pretty kick-ass moves there, keep getting stronger, I know I will. And about Naraku… give 'em hell! Hit him once for me!"
Inuyasha's eyes widened as he watched his friends leave. "Wait! There's one thing I have to know before you guys leave! Nakama… you throw that word around a lot, it seems to have great meaning to you. I've never heard that word before you guys came around… what does it mean?"
"You're a part of our crew of course." Dusty grinned.
"That we're friends." DJ smirked.
"We're family." Devon gave a look.
"Naw, none of those even come close, Nakama means we're more than family. We're as close as can be." Axe smiled and held out his palm that was still red from demon blood. "No matter what else happens, we're always Nakama! Right guys!?"
The rest of the crew held out their red palms as well. "YOSH! WE ARE NAKAMA!" came the thundering cheer that shook the cave. The rest of the group from Inuyasha's side of the cave held out their red palms as well as the pirate crew bid their last and finally disappeared.
Inuyasha rubbed his eye as it suddenly stung with warm tears. "See you later guys, we'll get Naraku, for all of us!"
Shippo jumped up on the half-demon's shoulder. "Inuyasha, are you crying?"
"Shut up! I am not! Just a lot of dust in this cave…"
Kagome laughed softly and smiled. "Oh Inuyasha…"
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Whew, that was a long one, hope you enjoyed and fret not! It's not over yet, there's still one last chapter believe it or not! Hope you all enjoyed!
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