Chapter 1: Defeating Naraku

"WIND SCAR!" Inuyasha yelled as it went hurdling towards Naraku.

"Hehehe, you can't even hit me, Inuyasha!" Naraku muttered as the attack missed him.

"I wasn't aiming at you!" Inuyasha growled back.

"Huh?… ARRRGHHHHH!" That was the final blow. After hours of trying to kill Naraku, nothing worked… until now….

"We did it!" Sango yelled.

"Does that mean… Sango! Look!" Miroku told her as he unwrapped the prayer beads that confined his wind tunnel. It was disappearing.

"I… I can feel… my heart in my chest again." Kagura muttered to herself.

"Kagura? What will we do now that Naraku is dead?" Kanna asked in her mono tone.

"I… I think its time we moved on." Inuyasha won't give me anything. And Sesshoumaru is not my mate, or anything close to that for a fact. She thought. What WILL we do?

Kagome and Inuyasha ran up to each other and hugged lightly, before they knew what they were doing. They then immediately jumped off of each other from what had just happened and blushed.

"Sango?" Miroku asked while softly embracing her. "Will you be my wife?"

"Miroku!… Of course!" Sango told him lightly; Miroku tightened the embrace.

"Ka-go-me?" Inuyasha asked in syllables.

"Hmm?"

Oh Damn, I can't tell her now. We just defeated Naraku. She's probably a little messed up in the head, like the rest of us are. I'll give her some time first…

"Never mind. I'll tell you later."

"What was it?"

"I'll tell you in a little bit. Not now though."

"Hmph! Fine!" I got all worked up for nothing! Maybe I can tell him how I feel soon. As long as Kikyo is out of the question…

She'll find out sooner or later about my feelings towards her…

"Hey where's the Shikon no Tama? I know Naraku had a HUGE chunk of it before he died." Kagome told them.

"If he had it when he died he would of regenerated and… oh no… you don't think?" Inuyasha told her.

"We would of saw him, AND look! There's parts of his body still around here."

"Well then get looking because we can't have him regenerate!"

"Inuyasha, don't you think he would of regenerated by no if he had the jewel?"

"I guess wench."

After a few minutes of searching they found it.

"Ah! Here it is! Guys, I found it! Now there's only… 3 shards left." Kagome yelled out to them. They ran over to see it.

"Then that's Kouga's and Kohaku's shards left." Miroku said. As he finished this Sango started to weep; Miroku patted her on the back and hugged her as she cried on his shoulder.

"It's been a rough day for all of us. Why don't we go back to the village and get some rest?" Miroku suggested; they all agreed. Kagome hopped on Inuyasha's back while Sango, Miroku, and Shippo were on Kirara. They arrived back at the village in about half an hour, it was near sundown when they arrived. Of course the first thing Sango and Kagome did was go to the hot spring with Shippo tailing them. Inuyasha and Miroku just lounged inside Kaede's hut waiting for the ladies to get back. Inuyasha after a while got up and waited in front of the hut.