IM SO SRRY 4 THE LATE UPDATE!! i feel horrible im srryyyy!! please don't kill me!

i've been busy with school and my boyfriend. hes so cute!

Anyway...

this chappie is like another lead-up-to-something-important chapter, which is next. You finally get to meet Naraku's newest and last (living) incarnation. (If you count Magatsuhi as an incarnation). (Don't bother you probably don't know who he is. For now. He's at like, the very end and he is weird)

Enjoy! And please don't yell at me in a review lol. Gomen no sai!


InuYasha- Chapter 396- Dokumizuchi

The enormous body of a snake stood high in the sky. Its thick body was at least fifty feet around, four hundred in height. Its head was covered by its massive mane, the hair spilling over even its face. Two horns peeked out from the hair however, showing that the demon was menacing. It towered over a village, threatening to fall on it at any moment, crushing anyone below.

"It's come out!"

"The Dokumizuchi!"

"Fire!"

A group of men, dressed in armor, let the strings of their bows go. Flaming arrows flew through the air, leaving a trail of fire in their wake. The youkai's eye glared through the hair, resembling an eye of a human. Suddenly, a blinding light came from the demon's head, literally blowing the men away. All that was left was skeletons.

A few days later, InuYasha and his group happened upon the village the demon plagued.

"Dokumizuchi?" Miroku questioned after hearing an old village man speak the demon's name.

He stood in his rice field, a hoe in his hands. "Yeah, it's been a problem since before, but…recently, the reports got worse."

"Oh?"

"A few days ago, the samurai of the castle left to exterminate it but…," he told, his face becoming sad. "Not one of them came back."

The group set out to the battle field after hearing their fill. Coming over the hill, they saw the remnants of the samurai. Kagome stared at the bones, feeling queasy at the sight. "These are…"

"The samurai the villager told us about…?" Miroku finished, not tearing his eyes from the horrible sight before him.

Sango kneeled down to one of the fallen soldiers, examining him thoroughly. "I'm sure of it," she said, touching the man's clothes lightly. "The armor and weapons are untouched. The Dokumizuchi did this."

"Sango-chan, you know about it?" Kagome asked, standing behind her friend.

"Yes. But the Dokumizuchi usually…only spits out a poison that withers trees and pollutes the ground. And that's all…" Sango was curious at this demon's power. "For it to be enough to make humans turn to bone, the youkai poison it spit had to have been large…"

Kagome reminded, "The villagers said the reports were getting worse…" She turned to the hanyou, who was staring at the sky. "InuYasha…?"

"It's faint," he said, explaining himself, "but mixed in with that Dokumizuchi thing…is Moryoumaru's scent."

The group gasped, surprised by the news.

A few yards away, a strange thing popped out of a tree. It was an eye, its pupil watching the group intently. A trail of veins trailed from the back, wings sprouted at the sides. It began to fly off, finally coming to a clearing. A man sat, his arm resting on his leg. His long black hair was pulled back into a high ponytail, his bangs split at the middle of his forehead. His eyes were large, with long lashes. His lips were dark, as if they were painted. He held a strange sheathed sword in his arms, its hilt resting on his chest. He wore a patterned vest over a light colored kimono, with hakama pants. He would have been considered an ordinary villager.

If it weren't for the fact that he was missing an eye. Suddenly, the flying eye came to him, its veins pointed at his empty socket. Its wings concealed themselves back into itself as it plopped itself back in the man's head. He smiled, his eyes closed.

He opened them, and then said, "I see…. They showed up, huh? InuYasha and his friends…"

Speaking of, the group had made their way to a foggy marsh, similar to the one with the demon women.

"It's…inside the swamp?" Miroku asked.

InuYasha pulled Tetsusaiga from its sheath. "I'll drag it out. Kaze no Kizu!"

The attack smashed into the water, causing droplets to fly up and onto the rest of the group. Kagome and Sango watched on in anticipation. The last traces of the Wind Scat swirled into the water, a whirl pool forming around it. Suddenly, a giant ball of glowing liquid blasted out from the water, heading straight for InuYasha, who stood on the edge of the cliff.

"Youkai poison?!" Kagome asked.

Sango gasped, "It's huge!"

"This is bad," Miroku observed. "Get down!"

The poison sprayed out at them, with the force of a waterfall. InuYasha used Tetsusaiga to block the attack as he was pushed back from the force. Sango held Kagome under her, Hiraikotsu over the both of them. After the blow, the surrounding trees had been stripped of their bark and their leaves.

Shippou stared at them in awe, "The forest withered up!"

Over by the lake, the Dokumizuchi had made its appearance. Its snake-like body was like a wave in the water, coming up then disappearing again under the liquid. This time, the hair was cleared from it's head, revealing a gruesome face indeed. It's eyes were large and squinty, staring down at InuYasha with malice. It had two dots on its forehead, markings of some kind. Its mouth was hinged like a puppet, fangs pointing out from its bottom jaw.

"Boy…." it snarled. "It was you who cut the swamp."

Kagome gasped, "The Dokumizuchi!"

"It can speak?!" Miroku's eyes were wide.

"Feh," InuYasha scoffed, holding his sword in front of his face defensively. "Let's get right to the point! Hey you bastard! You know that youkai, Moryoumaru, don't you?!"

It looked at him with a curious eye. "Moryoumaru you say…? What's that? That's-"

"Don't bull shit me!" he shouted, cutting him off. "I smell Moryoumaru's scent coming from your body!"

It smiled. "Oh-ho…well if that's the case…that lump of flesh was a piece of Moryoumaru, wasn't it?"

"Lump of flesh?" Sango asked.

"Indeed. It had fallen into this swamp…and I ate it. I see…it's because of that that the youkai power within my body began to increase…."

Kagome stared up at it, "You ate the piece of flesh?"

"Just that?" Sango asked.

"You're not a friend of Moryoumaru's then?!" InuYasha inquired.

It laughed. "What a pain you are. I'm no one's companion!" It formed another ball of youkai poison in its mouth, chucking it down at the group. InuYasha countered it with the Wind Scar. But it was no match. The poison shot out from the wind, still headed for InuYasha.

"What?!" Kagome gasped.

Miroku took a step back, "The youkai poison pushed through the Kaze no Kizu!"

I can't beat it with the Kaze no Kizu eh? InuYasha thought, a snarl on his face. In that case… Dragon Scaled Tetsusaiga!

The blade was coated in scales instantly, gleaming in the light. Giant swirls of energy flew to the blade, getting sucked in in torrents. InuYasha struggled to hold his ground from the power and force of it all.

The Dokumizuchi screamed, "What?! My youkai poison has been absorbed?!"

"That's good InuYasha!" Shippou screamed.

Kagome held the little fox demon in her arms, "Keep absorbing the youkai energy!"

A blot of heat ran through Tetsusaiga, causing InuYasha to jump in surprise. What?! He thought, staring at his blade. It's happening again! The Tetsusaiga is heating up! He moved the blade to the side, trying to blow the heat off of it. "Damn," he cursed, glaring up at the Dokumizuchi. The scales were now gone from Tetsusaiga's surface.

"InuYasha…?!" Kagome exclaimed, a questioning look on her face. He undid the Dragon-Scaled transformation himself?!

InuYasha clutched Tetsusaiga in shaking hands. Shit…. What the hell is going on?!

That strange man from before with the ponytail sat on a nearby rock. His legs were crossed again, his finger at his lips in thought. "That sword…" he observed with a smile. "I don't know if it's strong…or weak."