Chapter 10

The group was chasing after Ben.

Gwen's eyes were glowing pink, and a small, square box was floating above her outstretched hand.

'I got him!' she suddenly shouted.

'What do you mean, you got him?' Miroku replied.

'I mean, I have a barrier that he cannot escape around him.'

'Ah.'

'He's still Acceler-,' Gwen started, 'wait, he just transformed back.'

Gwen lifted both hands as if she was conducting an orchestra.

'Over there!' Kagome shouted.

Gwen brought her hands towards her face, and the barrier followed, and landed neatly in front of them.

'That is impressive, Gwen.' Sango said.

Ben was watching them suspisiously with glassy, vacant eyes.

'How do we get through to him? Last time something like this happened, the watch timing out usually snapped him out of it. What has changed?' Gwen said to herself.

'I don't know, but we have to stop him running off.' Answered Sango.

'We could probably catch him fairly easily, if he stayed human.' Miroku said.

'I know!' Kagome exclaimed. 'Gwen, could you let me in?'

Gwen obliged, and Kagome grabbed Ben as he tried to run, and put him into a sling.

'InuYasha! There is something in the side pocket of my bag. Can you get it?'

'Feh.' InuYasha reached into the bag, and pulled out two small hoops that were connected by a small chain.

'What's this?' He asked, holding them out.

Kagome pinned Ben's arms behind his back, and slipped the hoops around his wrists.

'What does that do?' Miroku asked.

'If he cant touch the watch,' Kagome started,

'Then he has to stay human,' Sango continued,

'And he cant run away!' Finished Gwen.

Kagome got off Ben, who got up and took three steps back, turned and ran.

'Thanks, Kagome, now we have to catch him all over ag-'

InuYasha had turned, crouched, and sprang straight into something invisible.

'What the,' InuYasha started.

'It's a barrier!' Miroku shouted/

InuYasha drew tetsaiga and dispatched the barrier.

The stench of his miasma hit InuYasha like a rotten tomato in the face.

And the wisp of another certain demon was mixed in.

---

'They are here, and so is he.' Naraku thought, mentally wincing as another tentacle was severed off.

Naraku dodged a burst of power, just as the boy ran up, his hands behind his back in the most odd way.

Naraku sent a tentacle around his back, and broke the small chain that held his arms in place.

The boy threw his arms around, fiddled with the strange band on his arm, and transformed into a large, green demon.

The demon charged Naraku's attacker, leaving Naraku free to collect his dispatched appendages.

---

'He's over-' InuYasha ducked, narrowly avoiding a green shard, which embedded itself into the wall behind him.

'He's DiamondHead!' Gwen pulled out the shard, and examined it.

'Who?'

'InuYasha, you have to note that this is how hard is skin is, he can shoot these extremely hard, Gwen explaimed, tossing the shard towards him.

There was a thump, and Kagome looked around to see Miroku on the ground, looking very sore.

'It sounds like Naraku already has a fight on his hands, I wonder who though?' Sango mumbled.

A very familiar-looking toad ran past, clutchng a very familiar-looking, two-headed staff.

InuYasha stuck his foot out, and caught the toad around the waist, winding him.

'Ewwww! A frog!' Gwen exclamed.

'Jaken?' Asked Miroku, who had gotten up and brushed off his robes. 'What are you doing here?'

'Lord Sesshomaru is doing battle with Naraku, but there is the strangest demon out there too!'

Gwen went ever so slightly pink.

kagome glanced around feverishly, and said; 'Where is Rin? Is she alright?'

'Ah-Un is with her, and both are outside the barrier.' Jaken squeaked.

'That's good enough for me!' InuYasha shouted, and dashed out to join the fighting.

Gwen stuck her head out, and saw that InuYasha was constantly chopping off a, um, something's, um, tendrils.

She watched as a figure in white attempt to slice open DiamondHead's chest, only to have the sword reflecting off of him.

Gwen watched as Sesshomaru twirled gracefully, sheath his sword, and create what looked like a whip out of thin air.

She watched as it, also, reflected off Ben's Diamond-hard skin, to sever one of the strange demon's tendrils that was racing towards the pair.

She also saw that the rest of the group were also watching the twin fights.

DiamondHead landed a swift punch to Sesshomaru, clipping his jaw in an uppercut.

Sesshomaru actually staggered, only about two paces.

Gwen winced as InuYasha received a hole in his gut.

The fights were getting more and more grusome, but everything changed when one thing happened.

The Omnitrix's face on DiamondHead's chest flashed red.

Two things happened at once.

One; Naraku's eyes widened for a second as he realized what was happening, giving InuYasha the chance to slamm tetsaiga into the ground, shouting; 'Wind Scar!' and reducing Naraku into a head and torso, who glared evilly and InuYasha.

Two; Sesshomaru stepped back, unsure of what the light meant.

His eyes tightened into a hard resolve, and started to draw Tokijin.

Another three thing's happened at once.

One; Sesshomaru froze, but the freezing was obviously involuntary,

Two; a barrier surrounded Naraku, stopping his rejuvination, and causing all of his pieces of himself to hover around him, looking for a hole in the barrier,

and Three; DiamondHead turned back into Ben.

'What is the meaning of this!' Naraku exclaimed.

'What the,' InuYasha said.

Gwen walked out onto the field, grabbed Ben by the collar, and shook him.

'What were you thinking?!? You'll kill yourself! You Stupid, Hotheaded, dweeb!' Gwen ranted.

InuYasha, paused, sheathed tetsaiga, and laughed.

He just laughed and laughed, pointing at Naraku the whole time.

'RELEASE ME AT ONCE, YOU PATHETIC GIRL!' Naraku shouted.

Gwen sent a glare so venomous that Naraku himself shut up.

Both Naraku and Sesshomaru glared daggers at her.

InuYasha was still howling with laughter at Naraku.

Kagome, Miroku, Sango, Kirara and Shippo walked out from their hiding place.

Gwen was still ranting.

'You are the stubbornest, dweebiest, most horrible thing in this entire UNIVERSE, including the null void, to ever have owned the Omnitrix!'

Ben blinked slowly. Recognition dawned on his face.

'I'm the only thing to have owned the omnitrix!' He said quietly.

Even InuYasha shut up at that.

Gwen didn't realize that she was crying.

Now the tears ran freely down her cheeks, throwing her arms around her cousin.

'Well, this is weird.' Miroku said.

He saw the scene of Naraku desperately trying to -literally- pull himself together, Sesshomaru frozen, Tokijin half drawn, InuYasha sitting up, watching two children hugging.