Kaida clung to Sesshomaru as more miasma covered their path. She buried her face in his tail, trying to keep her arm in place. "Sesshomaru please go after Sango!" Rin called.
Kaida glanced back over her shoulder and noticed Rin's worried expression. "Sesshomaru…" Kaida whispered. He didn't say anything. "Sesshomaru!" Kaida gasped as crystals grew up from the ground blocking the path Sango had just flown through. "SANGO!" The ground shook slightly and Kaida gasped as she fell to the ground suddenly, her grip slipping.
"KAIDA!" She heard Sesshomaru yell as the group opened up just enough for her to fall through. Kaida flinched as she landed on the ground and then felt the ground to start and wrap around her.
"NO!" She cried out in pain and horror as the ground covered her view. A strange feeling washed over her as she was push and prodded through the fleshy material. Suddenly it disappeared and she felt herself slam into the ground again. Pain flooded through her arm as she landed on it again. After she realized that she smelt Kagome, Miroku, and Inuyasha's scent.
Kaida slowly got up and looked over seeing Miroku, Kagome, and Inuyasha. Kaida froze as she heard a sucking sound coming from Miroku's direction. Miroku's wind tunnel?!
A chill ran down her back as she recognized Naraku's laugh. "The more you all feel anguish and suffering, the more the Shikon Jewel descends into darkness. Suffer more. Lament over your powerlessness."
Kaida growled, but was shocked to watch Sango and Kirara fly in at that moment.
"Sango? I've been waiting for you." Naraku said calmly.
"Sango!" Kagome called. Kaida got up and headed towards Kagome's direction.
"Sango, where's your gas mask?!" Inuyasha called out. "The miasma here is different than usual!"
Kaida could feel it; the miasma was slowing her body. "SANGO!" Kaida called out as well.
"Kaida?!" Kagome called. Kaida got closer to her friend.
"I'll break through any miasma or demonic energy! Hiraikotsu!" Sango called throwing her boomerang towards Naraku. Miasma tornadoes came out of Naraku's barrier.
"Miasma tornadoes!" Inuyasha called.
Kaida got to Kagome's side. She watched as the boomerang broke through the miasma tornadoes. "Have you forgotten, Naraku? Hiraikotsu can smash through your demonic energy!" The boomerang cut through Naraku's barrier and cut Naraku in half.
"She did it!" Inuyasha called out. Kaida smirked but froze as she watched the boomerang surrounded by miasma come right back and surround Sango.
"Oh no!" Kagome drew out and arrow, to clear the miasma, as Kaida shot up towards Sango.
"You're too late." Naraku said calmly. "Sango has already been bathed in my miasma. She gave her gas mask, her very lifeline, to Rin. Even if it was for atonement, what a foolish choice."
Kaida gasped as vines knocked her into a wall. Horror filled her eyes as she watched Sango fall, along with a mini Kirara, falling. "SANGO!" Miroku called as he ran towards the woman he loved. A hole opened up and Sango flew through it. Kaida watched shocked as Miroku jumped in after her.
"Sango! Miroku!" Kagome called out. The ground shock and Kaida watched Kagome almost fall, but luckily Inuyasha caught her. Kaida sighed in relief. "Inuyasha we have to save them!"
"Right!" Kaida struggled in her bounds and froze as the same crystals that had blocked Sesshomaru blocked Inuyasha and Kagome. "NO!"
Naraku started laughing. "Why don't we let them spend their last moments together?"
"What is going on?" Inuyasha called worried as the Shikon Jewel pulsed.
"The Shikon Jewel is being controlled by darkness again." Kagome said seriously.
Kaida shivered and growled as she watched Naraku's body reformed. "The monk and Sango's misery have given power to the darkness." Naraku said, the compete jewel in front of his chest.
"Naraku!" Inuyasha and Kaida growled together.
"Ironic, isn't it?" Naraku asked calmly. "Though they share love for each other, their despair runs deep. They will die shortly. They have chosen to be swallowed whole by the wind tunnel together, and are waiting for that moment. Do you understand, Inuyasha? They will be devoured by the Shikon Jewel's darkness."
"NARAKU!" Kaida managed to break out of her bonds and shot towards Naraku angrily. Naraku easily knocked Kaida back down towards the ground.
"No way I'll let that happen!" Inuyasha growled. "Naraku! I'm gonna destroy you and break the wind tunnel curse!" He gripped his sword. "Meidou Zangetsuha!" Inuyasha swung his sword. At that point Kaida watched in horror as the Shikon Jewel fussed with Naraku at that point and was fully absorbed into him. A Medio opened up behind him but Naraku created web like vines to hold him in place as he glowed purple black. A new armor formed on his body.
"He wasn't absorbed by the Meidou?!" Inuyasha called shocked.
"No!" Kaida shivered angrily.
"Is that the Shikon Jewel's power?" Kagome called.
"The Shikon Jewel was burned together with Kikyo's remains, and was to have vanished from this world." Kaida gasped as cracks began to appear on Naraku's face. "Even so, it exploited Kikyo's lingering attachment to Inuyasha, and was reborn in Kagome, using her body to return to this world. Though shattered, it continued to bring forth calamities, and became whole again by overcoming space and time. The Shikon Jewel will never disappear, even if I were to die."
Kaida growled at Naraku. "YOU WILL DIE!"
"Naraku, what is it you really wanted to do?" Kagome asked. "Though all the time you've been fighting us, you've only accomplished one thing. You tore Kikyo and Inuyasha apart. You forced siblings like Sango and Kohaku to fight each other. You took advantage of Miroku and Sango's love. You ridiculed out bonds of friendship, and cursed the love between two people by separating them. Why? Was that what you wished for?"
"Heh. Why bring this up now?" Naraku asked calmly.
Kaida growled at Naraku and tensed. What is he planning?!"
"You couldn't have done all those things without understanding the human heart! Because you know the importance of bonds, you know the pain of losing them. The Shikon Jewel didn't grant your true wish, did it?"
Kaida was shocked to see Naraku with a shocked expression on his face.
"You were hesitant, weren't you? The Shikon Jewel transforms the one who absorbs it into a true monster. That's why, even though you've had the completed Shikon Jewel for some time, you didn't try to absorb it until now."
"So what of it?" Naraku growled. "Do you honestly think your words of wisdom can purify my heart?!" Kaida jumped away as Naraku shot purple energy spheres towards them all.
"Kagome, get back!" Inuyasha said, stepping in front of Kagome. "Meidou Zangetsuha!" Inuyasha swung his sword. "Naraku!" The medio started to absorb Naraku's attacks and hit Naraku in the chest. It opened up behind him. "You and I may have been born differently, but we're still both half-demons! We're half demons because we have both a human and a demon heart! That's why I'll never forgive you! We had a choice! A human heart or a demon heart. But you chose to live as a demon even though you kept your human heart!" The medio closed behind Inuyasha and Kaida shivered, shocked by Inuyasha's words. "You hurt and cursed people, ignoring your human heart all the time! Do you honestly think I'd let a monster like you keep hurting my friends?!" Inuyasha swung Tetsusaiga again and the Medio split into mini slice marks, going all over the place.
Naraku looked as shocked as Kaida felt as the medio started to cut his web and left just Naraku's shoulder and above. "The Shikon Jewel." Kagome called drawing an arrow. "If I can pierce through it…"
Kaida gasped as the ground started to shake and crystals formed near Kagome, sending her flying. "Kagome!" Inuyasha jumped and caught Kagome landing a little away.
"KAGOME!" Kaida called and started to run towards the two. She glanced over and shivered as she watched Naraku start to reform.
"It's futile. No matter how many times you crush me, this is the inside of my body. I'll regenerate every time." Naraku laughed.
"Shut up! I'll just keep tearing you apart then!" Inuyasha yelled. "Naraku, your vengeance towards this world, your entangled tentacles, and your fate with the Shikon Jewel… I'm gonna sever them all! Meidou Zangetsuha!" He swung the sword again, it cut through Naraku again. The area started to shake and miasma started to leak through everything again. Kaida flinched as the ground started to absorb her again. She jumped up into the air, trying to keep off the ground.
"Don't mock me!" Naraku yelled out, sounding angry.
Kaida covered her mouth slightly as the miasma got stronger. She looked over and sighed in relief as she spotted Inuyasha break him and Kagome out of the ground. "Are you okay, Kagome?"
"I'm fine." Kagome answered Inuyasha.
"Thank goodness." Kaida smiled slightly, but froze as her nose caught a scent.
"Sesshomaru's getting closer!" Inuyasha called out, voicing Kaida's nose was right.
"So this sound…" Kagome gasped.
"It's the sound of Bakusaiga's destruction." Inuyasha turned towards Naraku and Kaida jumped towards the two. "Naraku, you can't regenerate anymore!"
"I already told you, Inuyasha. The Shikon Jewel will never disappear, even if I were to die." Naraku said, sounding calm.
"Give up, Naraku!" Inuyasha yelled out. "It's over for you!"
"So it would seem." Naraku said calmly. "However, Inuyasha, you should know that there exists something neither your Tessaiga nor Sesshomaru's Bakusaiga can cut."
"Huh?! Quit being a sore loser!" Inuyasha yelled angrily.
Kaida landed near Kagome and Inuyasha. "Naraku, THIS IS your end!"
Naraku laughed. "You're talking about your soul, right?!" Kagome called. Kaida looked at Naraku angrily, her body tensed up. "That's why I'm here! I'm here to purify your soul!" Kagome called out.
Naraku smirked and Kaida froze. A horrible sense of foreshadowing entered her body. She glanced over her shoulder and was stunned to see Byakuya of Illusions standing behind you and Kagome. He drew a sword from his back. It looked like Medio Zangetsuha. "Byakuya of Illusions?!" Inuyasha gasped. He turned to look at the reincarnation.
Byakuya suddenly swiped his sword and it sliced through both Kaida's and Kagome's backs. Kaida's legs felt tired and she collapsed to the ground next to Kagome. Her eyes widened in horror.
"YOU!" Inuyasha yelled out angrily and sliced through Byakuya.
"I'm simply a detachment that would've died, along with Naraku, anyways. I have no regrets. I've played my part." Kaida watched as Byakuya disappeared. It was about there that she realized that her back wasn't cut open.
"Kagome!" Inuyasha was at Kagome's side. "Are you alright?!"
"Y-Yeah." Kagome sounded as shocked and stunned as Kaida still was feeling. She got up slowly and glared as she heard Naraku laugh. The ground started to shake and Kaida flinched, her arm was still soar.
"Kagome, climb on!" Inuyasha told Kagome.
"Okay." Kaida watched as Kagome got on Inuyasha's back. Kaida jumped up as well as Inuyasha.
"There's no space left to stand. Let's end this!"
"Right!" Kagome drew an arrow.
"This is the end of Naraku!" Kaida yelled out, flexing her claws. She had lost her spear with Sesshomaru.
"Meidou Zangetsuha!" Inuyasha swung his sword. "Kagome, shoot!" Inuyasha yelled after destroying parts of Naraku.
Kaida followed his lead, but had to move away from the two as pieces of flesh moved around her. Kaida glanced over seeing flying pieces of his flesh moving around. "That jerk's still fighting!" Inuyasha yelled, while jumping from shards of broken Naraku that were still in the air.
Kaida did the same and growled. "NARAKU!" She yelled out angrily.
"Inuyasha, behind you!" Kagome called. Kaida looked over to see a large piece flying towards them.
"KAGOME! INUYAHSA!" Kaida called, but was relieved to see Sango's boomerang saving them.
"Sango! Miroku!" Kagome called.
"Kagome! Kaida!" Shippo called out. He turned into his pink bubble form and Inuyasha landed on him. Kaida jumped around until she too was able to land on Shippo.
"Why are you here?!" Inuyasha asked.
Kaida rested, her arm was killing her after all the quick jolting movement she had been doing. "Shippo I'm glad you're okay." She smiled.
"How about a thanks?! I came here as fast as I could!" Shippo yelled at Inuyasha. "Are you okay Kaida?!"
"Yeah." She smiled. "Thanks for coming here."
Kaida froze as she watched Kirara fly nearby and Miroku open his wind tunnel. She had heard that Miroku couldn't open his wind tunnel much more without it sucking him in and killing him. "Wind tunnel!" Miroku yelled and started absorbing flying pieces of demonic flesh in.
"Miroku!" Inuyasha called, worried.
"Don't worry about me. The wind tunnel's curse is diminishing!" Miroku called. Kaida listened; she couldn't hear the wind tunnel anymore as Miroku closed the tunnel.
Suddenly the wall broke and Kaida smiled happily as she saw Sesshomaru. "SESSHOMARU!" She called out happily.
"Sister!" Kohaku called as they followed on Ah-Un.
"Sango!" in called out.
"Kohaku! Rin!" Sango called out shocked.
Kaida shot off Shippo and over to Sesshomaru. He looked happy to see her and she quickly curled up onto his back. "Sesshomaru…" She whispered.
"Kaida…" He whispered back as well.
"Bakusaiga's destruction is spreading. I knew Lord Sesshomaru would be the one to defeat Naraku!" Jaken called out.
Kaida blinked. "When did he get here?" She asked, but Naraku's voice caught her detention again.
"So you're all here, huh?" Naraku was frowning. "You and all your pathetic friends."
"That's right." Inuyasha smirked. "And not one of us is missing."
"Today is your last day!" Kaida called out, gripping onto Sesshomaru. This is the final battle….