Hana couldn't believe her eyes… Inu was awake! And he was alive, but how was that possible with the hole in his chest? None of this was making sense, not that she was complaining about this. It was amazing to see that he was alive, but… his heart had stopped over an hour ago… there was no way that he could be alive right now… "Inu, you're okay!" shouted Hana as she wrapped her arms around the living hanyou's neck, sobbing into his shoulder…
Inu looked over at the sobbing girl, not sure what he was supposed to do, all he knew… was that he knew this girl. Giving a soft smile, Inu wrapped his arms around her… memories slowly returning to his mind… the memories that he hadn't gathered from the other world returning to him.
He knew Hana…
Hana was someone close to him… close to his heart and his soul… Inu knew that he loved her more than anything in this world. And nothing would stop that from happening. Giving a gentle smile, he pushed her back for a moment, giving her a serious face. Now, wasn't the time to cry about him being alive… now was the time for battle.
"Where is… where… is…" Inu had to think, who did this to him in the first place? Of all the memories why didn't that ass's name come to his mind? Shaking his head, the young man tightened his eyes as he tried to think of his name. Screw it… "Where are the others?"
Hana pointed to the left, the opening of the field where they were fighting the monster that had taken his life.
Nodding to her, Inu pushed himself to his feet and took a deep breath. The hole in his chest didn't disappear, and he knew why that was. He had to get the Shikon back; it was the only way for the wound to go away… Narrowing his eyes, Inu ran toward the action… the only thoughts in his mind was that he had to save his family… he had to save those dear to his heart… if he defeated this demon, than the past would be restored to the way it should be.
With nothing but peace... with the peace that the world had worked so hard to gain from all of this war… and nothing would stop Inu from finishing his personal task.
Inu tightly held the hilt of his sword, he knew that he had to do something when he arrived… but, how to sneak up on that ass… damn it his name just wasn't coming to him at all. Shaking his head, he knew that he would still have the element of surprise till he had exposed himself to them, showing that he was alive and well.
Narrowing his eyes, Inu poked his head out of the bush, trying to see if he could find a good opening for an attack. But so far, nothing came to mind… he had no way of fighting this guy as of yet… Taking a deep breath, Inu knew that his father and best friend were fighting this guy… so it was easy to get an opening… he hoped anyway.
Closing his eyes, the young man took a few deep breaths, hoping to calm himself down… trying to think of what he could do… trying to think on an attack that he could do… unless, he gave him a shock… Eyes snapping open, Inu couldn't help but smirk… yeah… a shock that shouldn't be possible…
"Naraku, I'll make you pay for taking my son's life with your death!" shouted Inuyasha as he swung the Tetsusaiga.
Takai was in shock when he saw the power of the mighty fang… To him, it just looked like a rusty piece of crap and now… it looked like a fang. Shaking his head, the young sacred slayer knew that he had to stop this man; after all… he had to keep that promise, to never lose to scum. Narrowing his eyes, the young man grabbed his sword, fuelling it with sacred energy…
"Wind Scar!" shouted Inuyasha as he swung the sword; Takai took this chance to help give more energy to the attack. Swinging the sword it threw the sacred energy that had once been within the blade and went to the glowing yellow lights of demonic energy. The yellow energy of demonic energy changed, growing bigger and more powerful as it hit Naraku.
Only… he survived.
"Damn it, the jewel it protecting him from our attacks… We need the jewel to stop him."
"But how, no one can get near him for that to work…"
Both men knew that it would be impossible for this fight to be won… Takai couldn't help but wonder, if this is why the future turned out the way it did… was it because Naraku couldn't be stopped in time? Because no one had the power to stop him… it was the only thing that would make sense to him…
Looking over to his left, Takai saw that Shippou was floating up in the sky as some kind of… pink… balloon… thing… as if he was trying to find an opening for an attack that would finish him off, as was Kirara. But Takai highly doubted that would be the case; there was no way that they could beat him… They had to retreat and bury Inu… he deserved a final resting place…
"Now you'll all die!" shouted Naraku as he slammed his newly grown fingers into the ground as roots. The roots buried themselves into the ground, only to appear below the heroes, wrapping themselves around their bodies to prevent them from doing anything…
Takai was wrapped up by his ankles and wrists and held high in the sky as he struggled. Damn it, he could only channel his powers through his hands… damn it all to hell! "You son of a bitch, I'll kill you where you stand! I'll make sure that you never see the light of day, I'll make you burn, I'll make you wish that you were dead and burn your soul to ashes!" shouted the teen as he struggled.
As for Inuyasha, the vines that were Naraku's fingers started around his ankles and coiled themselves up his body up to his shoulders. Inuyasha growled as he tried to break free, but the vines were slowly starting to crush him.
Shippou gasped and his bubble form disappeared as he fell toward Naraku, holding his sword as he tried to slash the demon in half with his sword. Narrowing his eyes, the young fox demon tried to finish off the demon with his sword, but before that could happen, a free vine of Naraku's fingers shot out of the ground and coiled itself around Shippou.
Naraku let out a dark laughter. "You'll all die here! You'll all die by my hands and I'll savour your screams as you all beg for mercy, no one will ever help you now." Laughed Naraku as he tightened his hold on the three men, but as he had said those words, there was a loud and angry howl coming from the forest which had caused everyone to look toward the trees… and were shocked at what they saw.
For bursting out of the trees, was a huge white dog with blue strips on the cheeks, right on the muzzle…
Inuyasha stared at the demon in shock; he had heard stories of a giant dog demon before, his father… the only demon with sapphire strips on his cheeks, something he had only seen in a few rare paintings that Myoga had shown him as a child. "Father?" whispered Inuyasha in shock, not sure what the hell was going on… there was no way that this could be his father… his father was dead!
"You cannot be alive InuTashino! There is no way that you could be alive; you were killed over two hundred years ago!"
The dog smirked before jumping through the air, and ripped the vines, freeing everyone. Takai was in shock, thinking that his mind was playing tricks on him, there was no way that this could be… Shaking his head, the young man looked up and saw the whole in the demon's rib cage, could this be… "Inu?"
Inu looked down at Takai and smirked a little before turning his gaze to Naraku. That was when Takai confirmed it; there was no one that did a smirk such as that, Takai would recognise his smirk anywhere.
"Dude you're alive!" shouted Takai in surprise, not that he was complaining, looks like Inu kept his promise after all. The only difference; is that Takai didn't get a broken hand like last time.
Inu growled at Naraku, leapt through the air baring his paw downward at Naraku only for his body to glow white, blinding just about everyone, but Takai who just so happened to have put on some sunglasses. Inu's body had started to shrink down till he was in his real form. Screaming out a battle cry, Inu held the Yin-Yang blade in his hands as he slashed at Naraku, the force of the hit had sent the demon flying and hit a tree.
Naraku growled when he opened his eyes from the blinding pain that surged through his spine, he couldn't help but glare at the hanyou boy. "How are you alive?" shouted Naraku as he tried to push himself up, his body still shook with the numbing pain.
Inu just smirked at Naraku and swung his sword as he held it out at his side. "What do you mean? I've only been in a state of suspended animation."
"You had a hole in your chest!"
"Yes, but there was one thing that kept me alive long enough." Whispered Inu with a smirk that grew with Naraku's frustration, he couldn't believe how easy it was to annoy this guy. Seeing Naraku's confused face, Inu just smirked, oh how much fun it was to see the confusion on his face. "Have you noticed that a tiny shard of the jewel is missing? Or are you as stupid as you look?"
Naraku howled in rage as he charged at the smirking hanyou.
Inu laughed and jumped through the air, back flipping, doing cart wheels as he dodged each and every attack that Naraku tried to throw at Inu. There was no way that he was going to get a hit at this rate. Naraku was fast, but Inu was faster. Smirking, the young hanyou held his sword over his shoulder, pumping a mixture of sacred and demonic energy through the hilt, and into the blade. Closing his eyes, Inu pictured himself absorbing all the demonic energy that was flowing through the air, purifying it through his very pours, feeling as it flowed through his body being purified as it entered his sword.
As the pure energy was flowing into his sword, Inu focused on his own demonic energy… forcing it to flow through his very essence… forcing it to flow through his body and into the sword that was his to claim, by using an attack that shouldn't be possible, only for one, who was made of sacred, and demonic energy…
Someone who was born of a demon, and one with sacred powers, someone who could harness both and not have their body burned to ashes.
Naraku growled, he wasn't going to let anyone beta him. There was no way that he was going to lose some half-demon brat! Growling, Naraku jumped to his feet and charged at Inu if he could stop the hanyou's energy collecting, than he would have a chance to stop them.
Inuyasha growled and swung his sword at Naraku, hoping to block his path toward his son. But sadly, his attack missed for Naraku had ducked from the attack from the adult hanyou. Inuyasha cursed, he had to stop Naraku before he could get to Inu, with an attack like this, Inu didn't have time to keep building up energy or else Naraku would kill him!
"Hold on dude!" shouted Takai as he grabbed the bone boomerang from his back, held onto the end and spun on the heels of his feet. Wanting to build up both speed and power for the attack, pumping all of his strength into his arms, Takai swung the weapon at Naraku and watched as the weapon sped through the air.
Building up speed and power as it spun through the air, heading toward Naraku as he sped toward his friend. Takai had to give Inu some more time; it was the only way to get this attack ready to finish off Naraku… Takai wasn't sure how though, but he knew that this attack would be enough to kill Naraku for good…
Naraku just smirked, jumped over the swinging boomerang and kicked Takai when he was close to him. "You cannot win boy. You are not as strong as Miroku and Sango." Said Naraku as he smirked at the wincing boy, for the force of the kick had caused the young teen to skid on the grass a few feet. Takai glared at Naraku and screamed out for his friend to move!
But Inu couldn't move…
Naraku was mere inches from Inu now…
Naraku was about to attack…
Takai and Inuyasha both screamed for Inu to stop and just attack… but he didn't…
Suddenly, just when they thought that Naraku would kill Inu, a new voice entered the battle… a voice they all thought wouldn't be heard in this battle.
" Invoco super matrem terram teneat te inimici tui adesto vineam tuam obligare vult malum tenebras domum tuam!" (I call upon the mother earth; please help thee to bind our enemy with thy vines of thy power to bind the evil that wishes to bring darkness to thy home!)
Everyone was surprised that Hana arrived… they all thought that she wouldn't want to get involved in this battle that had taken Inu's life before he had somehow returned. However that had happened, there was no way of knowing, least not fully. Only Inu would be able to tell them that.
Inu couldn't help but smile, that had been what he needed, something to keep the evil demon bound long enough for him to complete the spell. His eyes narrowing as he stared at the man, he had gathered enough energy within his own body.
"Within light there is darkness,
but do not try to understand that darkness.
Within darkness there is light,
but do not look for that light.
Light and darkness are a pair,
like the foot before and the foot behind in walking.
Each thing has its own intrinsic value
and is related to everything else in function and position.
Ordinary life fits the absolute as a box and its lid.
The absolute works together with the relative,
like two arrows meeting in mid-air"
Naraku's eyes widened when he saw the energy flowing around the young man, the power was leaking through his very pours, swirling around him as if protecting him from anything that would try to hurt him. "Blazing Shadow!" shouted Inu as he charged at Naraku, jumped through the air and slammed the sword into his chest. Naraku's eyes were wide with pain, how was it possible that the jewel wasn't healing his wound? Or pushing him back?
"Confused? I should hope so, for the reason why I was able to do this… is because you don't have a full Shikon Jewel… I have a piece of it left which gives me the power to destroy you once and for all. You never had the power in the first place. The Shikon, broke a piece of it off, and left it within my heart. So long as I had faith in those who had faith in me, the jewel gave me the power to repair the damage in the time flow. Now, you can never come back and hurt anyone ever again."
With that, Inu twisted the sword within Naraku's chest, the glowing pink orb flew out of Naraku, and into the whole of Inu's chest. He couldn't help but smirk as Naraku turned to ash… It… it was done…
Naraku was finally dead.