"M-Miro-kun, what the hell are you doing here? Aren't you supposed to... " Miroku pulled back the sleeve of his robe showing off his voidless hand proudly. The hanyou stood there, mouth gapping wide open like a fish. Was this a delusion, or was he really seeing this? "Y-your.... "
The houshi smiled and pulled his sleeve back over his hand just barely, for the next thing he knew Inuyasha's arms were squeezing him in a tight embrace.
"Hey, careful, don't want to harm the baby do you?" He felt a sensuous inner warmth in his heart when he heard Inuyasha laugh at that. Laughing, that was something they hadn't shared very often do to fearing for one another's life far too much. Now that Sesshomaru hadn't harmed his brother nor was there any more dreaded wind tunnel to fear anymore, they could be happy and raise their child together. "We're going to have a family soon."
"Thank kami I didn't even have to use plan B," Inuyasha muttered to himself.
Plan B?
"I take it my services aren't needed after all."
Inuyasha pulled off of his mate and crossed his arms facing his brother arrogantly. "Nope, so now you can buzz off for all any of us care."
Sesshomaru blinked once and nodded. "Heed my warning Inuyasha, you'll pay for disturbing me" He paused for a moment, getting brief pleasure out of the fear of most of them, though it was in vain. "after, the kid is born. Fighting you in a baring state is pointless. Too much like shooting fish in a barrel."
The hanyou snarled. "Why don't you come here and say that to my face, jackass?" Inuyasha attempted to charge at his brother, only to be held back while he spat childish insults only one brother could make to another. It would've been cute had it not been so dangerous. The houshi wished Inuyasha would just shut up before the elder youkai changed his mind about waiting so long to make him pay.
"Where do you think you're going, Sesshomaru?" A sinister voice worded in the background. Gasps of fear surrounded the entire area, seeing as such a voice could only belong to one. "Don't you want to stay and watch your brother die?"
Inner rage flared through Miroku. Though he wasn't as strong with out his nothingness, the venomous insects couldn't be sucked into his hand. His eyes were dark and he ran right in front of his mate. "Show yourself, coward."
From out of the blue Naraku appeared, yet he lacked of the silly looking ape suit he normally clad. This time, he was in the flesh. Not a puppet, not anything.
"Ah monk, I hear you and Inuyasha have grown close." In a swift movement, Naraku knocked Miroku back against a tree harshly, knocking him completely unconscious. His dark eyes store deep into the hanyou's frightened eyes. He could tell they were frightened, Inuyasha was backing away slowly and his body was quivering.
"Why do you back away, Hanyou? You scared?" Naraku pressed his body to a tree with his hands, still looking vastly into Inuyasha's eyes. "You ARE scared." The evil demon pressed his fingers to the dog-boy's forehead and a sharp pain jolted right through his forehead.
"Ahhhh ha." One of the enemy's tricks, yet this was deffinatly not one of his easier to deal with. Inuyasha fell to the ground clutching his head.
Gees, the coward finally faces of with us and I couldn't even get a damn hit.
The pain slowly cleared from his head and he blinked a few times in order to regain his vision. Through blurred vision, he was able to spot Kouga and Sango facing Naraku head on. To the side he saw Kagome tending to Miroku while Kilala and Shippou were near him. Of all the people to run into, why Naraku?
"Damn... they need help." Inuyasha moaned while trying to regain balance.
"Inuyasha, don't. Sango and Kouga can take him on, you're too weak because of the baby." Inuyasha thought, oh right, the kid. He wished he were a full blooded demon at that moment. Full blooders only take three weeks to form a kid. Inuyasha wasn't exactly sure the amount of time it would've taken for his child to form. His mother told him as a child it only took her two months to form Inuyasha, but was it the same case here?
The demi-youkai smirked, knowing this was by a long shot. He figured, if he could birth the kid here and now, perhaps he could take down Naraku once and for all. "Appreciate the concern kid" Inuyasha pulled out an untransformed tetseiga and threw it to the ground. "but the kid's going to help more then it'll hurt, you just watch. Oh, and tell Myoga if he ever comes that I've known his little secret about my sword all along."
"You... WHAT?"
Abandoning the sword, Inuyasha ran a good twenty yards while sliding his finger nails into his abdomen. Thank goodness demon's had no particular way to birth children unlike human vagina's. "Prepare to die, Naraku."
In fury Inuyasha blindly slashed the claws covered in his own blood at the demon. Sango and Kouga had to step out. They were exhausted. Naraku proved to be full of unlimited energy. Too did Inuyasha, he and Naraku were an equal match.
I don't understand. How did Inuyasha get all this power? I'm almost no match for him.
Naraku's theory may've very well been correct. By all means though, he would not be beaten. "You won't win, hanyou. I guarantee, you will not win. Momentarily, the demon vanished yet reappeared with a little girl in his hand.
Rin!
At the sideline Sesshomaru bared his teeth slightly while he clenched his fists tightly. Inuyasha wouldn't.
"Unhand Rin, fool. We had a deal, I let you slay Inuyasha, you give me my chibi-ningen back."
Naraku laughed deep within his throat. "And you believed me. I swear, you and Inuyasha are far too much alike. Both cocky, both stubborn, and most of all, you're both gullible fools. Besides, it's been awhile since I got to slaughter and human children."
As Rin screamed in terror Sesshomaru growled very audibly. Everyone stared toward him. Never had this man shown such emotion. He drew forth his tokejin sword, prepared to attack that sinister youkai, yet his brother beat him to it. Inuyasha's human side kicked in, telling him to do everything in his power to save a little one. Little did Naraku expect to have a foot slam in the back of his head, knocking the chibi straight from his grasp. While Naraku was down, Sesshomaru retrieved the child and tried to calm her shock.
"Damn you." Naraku rose to his feet, staring at the angered Hanyou. "You want a real fight, Mama?" Inuyasha bared his teeth at the other semi-demon. Again, fists flew between the two of them, only this time, Naraku gained the upper hand.
With an agile blow to the face, Inuyasha flew 20 yards back. The wounds in his gut grew larger, making a sickening tearing sound. He was in pain, a great deal of it. "Now you die, Inuyasha." Naraku powered up to immense levels, wanting to smell the fear emit from his adversaries body. The more he powered up though, the more Inuyasha's cowardice subsided.
What the hell? His blood's changing!
Inuyasha rose to his feet, with his true demonic features flashing before the other demon. More sounds of tearing flesh were occurring. "Mama's got a present for you," said a voice frightening enough to cause Naraku to gap at it. He's a full fledged demon, and he's birthing.
With one loud howl, the child burst from the demon's body, covered in dark blood. It too was in full demon form, holding it's hand out toward Naraku. Little did anyone expect, the child still had a kazaana and it was sucking in Naraku.
"So... that was... plan B.. " Miroku said slipping from his unconscious state. "He's clever, I never would've guessed he'd come up with that kind of strategy.
"Eww.... e-e..ww-w... e... " Kagome's eyes rolled to the back of her head and she fainted with a certain wolf demon to capture her.
Inuyasha screamed at the pain and fell back once the umbilical cord was completely detached from the child due to all of the flying debris. Naraku, ambushed. Ambushed by his own curse, and he could forever suffer in it pits of somewhere worse then hell. He could suffer in the pit's of his worst enemy's child's hand.
"He did it. He finally defeated Naraku." Miroku smiled and rose clumsily to his feat while Naraku and the wind tunnel vanished. It was finally over, yet Inuyasha didn't seem to be moving. Miroku gasped in fear, what if he was....
"Do not worry, he shall be fine, monk," said the voice of Sesshomaru. Drawing out his sword of healing, the youkai made a clean slash right across his torn abdomen. Sango walked over and placed the tetseiga back into Inuyasha's hand, so that when he awoke he would be free of his youkai self.
"Why did you help him?" Miroku asked while cradling his unconscious mate. He received no answer from the man, yet somehow already knew what it was. Inuyasha saved the little girl, so in return Sesshomaru saved him.
Again Sango walked toward Miroku with the whimpering infant in her hands. "It's a girl."
A... girl?!?
At first he was a bit disappointed, but when he got to hold the baby in his arms for the first time all of that seemed to vanish. She was the perfect mixture of her parents, long silver hair with black highlights, indigo colored eyes, and the hanyou ears she of course inherited from the Hanyou. The child was so precious looking. He could hardly believe it was this little girl who killed Naraku once and for all.
"Hey, quit hogging her. She's my kid too you know." Inuyasha slowly rose to a sitting position with the help of his lover, cradling the little girl in his arms. Much like the houshi, Inuyasha'd full expected them to have a son. Upon waking up though, the scent of the infant gave it's gender right away.
Miroku's arm circled all the way around his koishii drawing him closer so that his head lent on the monk's shoulder. "I love you," he whispered to Inuyasha planting small kisses along his cheek.
Inuyasha turned slightly, so that the next place Miroku's lips touched was his own. They kissed deeply in front of everyone, not caring what was going on or what was being said. It was completely blocked from their minds. Somehow, they were brought together by fate. Fate kept them both alive, and their love would now keep them living their granted life to the fullest.