Sorry I haven't updated in a while! I have exams Wed. through Fri. this week and just finished my Geometry one today! Things have been hectic this year and school is finally over with on June 5th! YES! SUMMER VACATION!!!!!

Anyway, I would like to thank everyone for their reviews about last 13 or so chapters! I made this the last chapter... so this is now COMPLETE!! I had fun doing this and proud that this is now over... I will miss it though. I hope everyone will continue reading this and review! You all may hate me once you have read this through... sorry for the wait.

Disclaimer-I will never own Inuyasha or Naruto... I only own the plot and this story... nothing else is mine.

Recap:

Instead of answering the question, Gaara just sent another wave of sand towards Inuyasha. Said demon just jumped a few feet away from the oncoming sand attack. He didn't need to be a genius to stay clear away from the sand that could very likely kill him.

Gaara was confused a little but didn't allow it to show on the outside. He wouldn't show any emotion at all. It was how he was brought up with being hunted down and almost killed by all the people his father sent after him.

However, while Gaara was lost in his thoughts about the past, he forgot all about Inuyasha and the match. Inuyasha saw this and took his chance to attack the sand-nin. He sent another wave of power from the sword after making clones to attack on opposite sides of Gaara.

By the time Gaara was able to sense the multiple attacks coming at him, his sand had made a huge dome around him. He didn't know how much attack his shield could handle, but it had to hold up until it was time to attack the village.

However, Gaara's shield couldn't hold out any more since Inuyasha attacked the dome with iron reverse soul reaper after the clones attacked with regular wind scar. He had his left claw inside the whole he made with his attack.

Inuyasha felt something wet and slimy on his claws and realized it was Gaara's blood. He had been able to pierce the dome made of sand and Gaara's shoulder. He heard some kind of mumbling coming from inside the sand dome and pulled his hand out from there.

The entire crowd was watching excitedly when they saw that the sand-nin that could leave a mission and come back without a scratch had a whole in his right shoulder. Inuyasha stared at the blood on his left claw and back at the shoulder that was in his sight.

Before Inuyasha could give the final blow to the injured sand-nin, Temari and Kankuro jumped from the balcony and grabbed Gaara. Once they had Gaara, they made their way towards the forest surrounding the village.

The invasion had just begun.

End Recap

Chapter 14-Invasion: Leaf vs. Sound and Sand Part 2

Everywhere you looked there happened to be chaos. If you looked right and left, you would see different ninjas fighting each other. If you were standing on something high up and looked down, you would see fighting once again. Also, if you were down on the ground and glanced upward, you would still see fighting.

The invasion was happening everywhere. You could barely get away from either getting yourself injured or fighting someone from another village. Since everything was happening all at once, no one paid attention to the taking of the three sand-nins.

No one saw Temari and Kankuro take Gaara from the arena and fled towards the woods surrounding the Hidden Leaf Village. No one except the Tsuki-nins that saw everything happen.

The captain, Itachi, turned to his team and started issuing orders, even though they each knew what their job was during this battle.

"Inuyasha, take Naruto, Sasuke, and anyone else who is able and go after those sand-nin. There is no doubt in my mind that they would try to protect the Gaara kid. He was, is, the main key to this attack," said Itachi in his commanding tone that left no room for arguments. He turned towards Sesshomaru. "Sesshomaru, take your attack towards the front gate and stall everyone trying to get there until I arrive. We will be taking down the enemy's reinforcements. We'll need to summon two dogs to take down the snakes."

The response he received was an affirmative nod. Sesshomaru didn't like talking much and only did so when it was necessary or he had a question. This time he had nothing to say, as he was getting ready to introduce the world to one of his summons.

The weasel captain turned to his little Higurashi and opened his mouth to say something but was stopped, as Kagome interrupted, "You don't need to tell me what to do. I already know what to do."

"You do? Then please enlighten me on what you must do," said Itachi in a sarcastic voice. He knew she understood but couldn't leave her alone until she said what he wanted to hear. He wanted her to be careful during this invasion. "I don't want you to get hurt, and I'll be able to know where you are if things go wrong where I'm at."

She recited what Itachi told her she had to do during the invasion. She was to help the Hokage with whatever he needed unless he told her to go help someone else. She would protect him if Orochimaru had the chance to attack him without help.

When she was done, Itachi smiled down at her and dismissed his team to their posts. He watched as Inuyasha woke everyone up that he needed and left after Gaara and his siblings.

Sesshomaru turned into his true form and started to run towards the gates where the summoning was being held. The young taiyoukai had summoned his own animal to help him with the happenings that conspired there.

Itachi turned towards Kagome and sighed as he watched her leave towards the black shield barrier that surrounded the top part of the stadium where the Hokage and Orochimaru were being held.

He himself had his own part that needed to be done.

With Inuyasha, he had a rough time getting Naruto and Sakura to leave with him once he told them about the plan. They needed to get everyone else from the Rookie Nine and go after Gaara and his siblings.

"What do you mean we're to follow you?" asked Sakura after she was told by Kakashi to go with the others. "How can you tell where Gaara and his siblings are?"

"Keh! Will you just shut up and follow me like you were told to? I don't have time to answer all your questions!" yelled Inuyasha as they jumped the tree limbs in the forest. "Listen, just follow me and we'll reach them."

"Yeah but how do you know where you're going?" asked a persistent Sakura. She was getting annoyed that he wouldn't answer her questions, but she wanted answers.

"Sakura-chan, maybe we should just leave with him. Besides, he's a half-demon who can tell where to go by scents alone," said Naruto quietly as he jumped behind Inuyasha.

"He being a half-demon is just worse. He can turn out to be the same thing that attacked the village twelve years ago!" quietly exclaimed the pink haired girl while trying to make their conversation being overheard by Inuyasha. "I don't know how the Third Hokage could allow demons into our village!"

However, Inuyasha heard what was being said. He wanted to very much smash the girl's head in, but he reframed from doing so. He didn't necessarily want his father mad at him for killing another village's genin. Instead, he ignored her and the fox kid behind him.

With Sesshomaru, he didn't really have to wait long before he felt the presence of his team leader and sensei behind him. He turned to look at Itachi from the corner of his eyes to get a confirmation on which person was next to him.

He didn't really wish to kill someone he knew without a very good cause. However, if it was Inuyasha, he didn't really need a good cause. He would just kill him someday.

Itachi quickly agreed to the silent question that was no doubt in his student's head. It was time for something to happen between the sound, sand, leaf, and, now, tsuki ninjas.

Sesshomaru was going to say something about the mission but was stopped by a voice that sounded from the front of the battle field.

"What's going on here?" boomed the voice. "Need any help with the rotten snakes and sand devils?"

With Kagome, she had a lighter time than the others. Her only job was to protect the Hokage at any cost, even if she was to get killed herself. She quickly ran towards the dark shield and passed the other ANBU around her.

"Listen girl, even if you can get into this shield, what makes you think that you can defeat that snake in there?" asked the captain of the ANBU. "We tried everything to get into there, but we can't since it's somehow blocked from outsiders getting in."

Kagome turned towards the captain of the guard and sighed. No one knew what her family was made of since they had died out before anyone could really see. She looked at the assembled ANBU and quietly said,

"I'm a Higurashi. Our specialty is… was taking down barriers and force fields. If anyone could get that thing down, it's a Higurashi."

"You expect us to believe that you're a Higurashi? If so, where have you been the last four of five years?" asked an ANBU guard that didn't appear at the arena earlier. If he did, he would've realized that she was telling the truth.

The other guards, however, grew worried for their comrade since they all were at the match and knew about the girl in front of them. She really was the last of the Higurashi clan.

"Simple… I don't have to tell you where. I'm just here to do my job and help the Hokage before he passes," answered Kagome as she started to walk towards the barrier.

Once there she raised her hands and closed her eyes. She concentrated on her inner self and collected a large sum of miko power to destroy the barrier. When she gathered enough energy, she placed her hands on the shield and watched as the darkish colored barrier fell around them.

She left the confused ninjas where they were at and walked towards the Hokage and Orochimaru. Even after doing all that she had done, she still had a lot of chakra and miko energy left. She would at least have Orochimaru's head for what he had done in the past against her and the Hidden Leaf Village.

Back with Inuyasha and the gang, they reached Gaara and Sasuke but were a little late seeing as they continued their match outside the arena.

Gaara had the younger Uchiha pinned against a tree with a large hand made up of sand. He didn't even turn around when the others arrived before pushing the Uchiha further into the tree.

Sasuke saw the others arrive and gasped when he saw the look on both Naruto and Inuyasha's face. They looked like they were going to kill something really soon if not in a few seconds.

Naruto's fox features were standing out which made them look like jagged lines across his face. His blonde hair was even more messed up than before. If you glimpsed really closely, you would be able to see a thin line of red chakra beginning to surround the young blonde. Other than that, his eyes were starting to turn a dark red around the irises.

Inuyasha was, however, worse than Naruto.

He looked like someone possessed him. His eyes were a dark red in color. There was hardly any other color in the place where the eyes were supposed to be held. His claws were lengthened to look like deadly weapons… which they kind of were. Instead of where his hanyou ears were, there were pointed ones where human ears were located.

They acted like this because no one with demon blood or spirits should be able to act like this unless something was really wrong. Plus, Gaara was hurting someone they became accustomed to since Sasuke was Itachi's little brother and Naruto's teammate.

With Sakura knocked out quickly by the giant hand made of sand, Naruto and Inuyasha ran towards where Gaara and Sasuke were. Instead of thinking clearly, they attacked blindly and forced the Shukaku vessel to drop Sasuke onto the tree hard.

Sasuke quickly looked back and forth between both the Kyuubi vessel and the hanyou inuyoukai. He could understand what was going on in his teammate's mind, which happened to be probably nothing at all, but was confused about Inuyasha's reason to fight with Naruto since he was a hanyou and not a vessel like the other two.

Instead of worrying about it any longer, the young Uchiha joined the fight once he made sure his other teammate was safe away from the fighting trio. He heard a loud bang and saw Naruto and Inuyasha try to get away from the aftermath of the explosion.

There was a huge cloud of smoke left from where Naruto threw a kunai with an explosive tag on it. Once it cleared, you could see the Shukaku vessel almost in a complete transformation: the merging of the Shukaku and human.

With the others at the gate, Sesshomaru and Itachi turned around and saw Inutaisho crouched behind them. He looked a little feral but wasn't completely. He turned to look at the number of opposing ninjas that weren't part of the leaf and moon villages.

"Well, I guess we got here just in time then. Did this just start or something?" asked the Tsukikage to his son and trusted friend.

Sesshomaru answered, "Father, how did you get here so fast? We didn't tell you about the time set of the invasion."

"Young Kagome sent one of her summons not too long ago when she finished her exam," answered Inutaisho. "Now then, what needs to be taken care of and where are the other two?"

Itachi answered this. "We just need to make sure that the sound and sand villages don't get into the village very much. "Inuyasha is with Naruto and Sakura going after the Shukaku vessel and my brother. Kagome is with the Third Hokage and Orochimaru, fighting. I couldn't send her here or with Inuyasha, no offense, so she went to help the Hokage."

Inutaisho thought this over and sighed. "Well, I guess you did right with my other son, but not with Kagome. She could probably handle you and her teammates, but she can't really fend off a legendary ninja like Orochimaru since all his strategies are ways that he would only be the victor."

"I know, but she wanted to help him. I can't very well tell her what to do once she has her mind set on it," replied Itachi.

During this talk, Sesshomaru was watching his fellow ninjas from his village fight against the sound and sand. They were slowly being driven back away from the entrance to the Leaf Village, but it was something. He only kept one ear open in case his father and leader needed something of him. The other was open for the screams of help that may or may not appear from the nins from his home.

Kagome quickly dodged the oncoming sword that landed with a loud thud next to her. She had been watching the Third Hokage carefully in case she needed to intervene.

She was currently fighting the clone of the snake sannin while the Hokage fought the real deal. She couldn't get the feeling that something wasn't right with the way things were going.

She watched as the Hokage was struck down with another sword sticking through the middle of his stomach. She quickly disposed of the clone and ran towards the two ninjas.

She would save the Hokage even if her life depended on it. She wouldn't let him die with her protecting him.

She finally reached then when she got this odd feeling about in the air. She looked around and saw the form of the shinigami king behind the Hokage. Since she had seen this before in one of her clan's scrolls, she feared the worst for the old man and the one being captured.

"Old man, what are you doing?! You can't use that jutsu," screamed Kagome as she silently cried as she began to watch the shinigami take the soul of both the old man and the arms of Orochimaru. "You'll only die in the process."

"I know… Kagome, but it… is the only… way to… save this… village," stuttered the Hokage as he turned towards the girl. He was somewhat hurt that he never saw her grow up when she lived in his village but was glad she was with someone who cared about her. "You have someone… to protect… as have I. Do not… try to save… me this once… Kagome… Higurashi."

With those final words, he quietly passed into the stomach of the shinigami while leaving the distraught Higurashi and Orochimaru crying over his lost use of arms.

When there was a thud that signified that the great Hokage was gone completely, Kagome turned her angry cold eyes towards Orochimaru and ran towards him with a vibrant blue sword made of only miko energy.

Orochimaru, not paying attention to what was happening; only saw the blue light coming towards him at the last minute to try to get away. With a final scream of terror, the snake sannin had his head severed by the young miko.

Said miko yelled out in pain and angst as she cried for the loss of a grandfather-like-figure. She knew that everyone would want to know what had happened today in the shield that was still up since it only allowed her inside.

She felt sound-nin come toward her and slashed out in anger and also killed them as well. No one from sound would live if she was her executioner. She didn't know how long she was there looking at the dead bodies of the rotten snake and the kind Hokage, but she was found.

She felt arms around her that she knew of and leaned into them. She looked up slowly and saw Itachi with Sesshomaru and Inutaisho behind him. She turned around in his arms and silently cried again. She cried until she fell asleep in the arms of her leader and boyfriend.

A couple of days later found the rest of the ninjas from the moon and leaf on the Hokage tower saying their last words to the fallen Hokage. You could see that many were sad and upset with the fallen comrade, friend, father, grandfather, and leader.

After the services, found the last Higurashi heading towards the Hyuuga District to say good-bye to her home that she left all those years ago. She felt someone following her but paid no attention until she felt two arms circle around her.

"It's going to be alright Kagome. You know that he was going to die sooner or later. That invasion just helped speed up the process," quietly said Itachi.

"I know but still. I could have saved him and everyone this grief," answered back Kagome. She turned around in his arms once again and mumbled, "It's not fair! It's just not fair!"

Itachi began to console her as they continued to make their way towards the Hyuuga District. Once they arrived at the head of the family's home, Kagome was calm enough to actually talk to the people who took her in many years ago.

She knocked on the door and waited until someone answered. Suddenly, the door was open and a dark haired man came out. It wasn't Hiashi who she thought it was, but, instead, it was Naraku.

He looked the same, as he was when she saw him not too long ago. The only difference was that he was holding onto the juncture of his neck, which had some patches of medical equipment covering a spot.

If you looked really closely, you could see that a little bit of blood had showed up on the bandage. Kagome got out of Itachi's hold and walked up towards the man and put her hand, which was glowing a vibrant blue, on top of the wound.

Naraku and Itachi looked on carefully until the light was completely gone. Kagome looked up into Naraku's face and sighed. She knew that she sensed something inside the wound that shouldn't have been there, but she had to know.

"Was that wound infected with that baka-snake's chakra?" asked Kagome while looking into his eyes. She didn't need to hear the answer when he flinched at her words. She merely asked, "Why?"

He couldn't answer her, so he just invited them inside before he completely explained what was going on at the time and why he did it. It took over a few hours to get everything that had happened out in the open, but they both told their stories.

Soon, it was time to leave. Itachi and Kagome left with the company of Sesshomaru, Inuyasha, and Sasuke, who wanted to stay with his brother. He just got his brother back and would never want to leave him again… now that the truth was told.

Well, that's all folks! I hope you enjoyed reading this as much as I had fun creating this! If you all hate me now, I understand your reasoning...

If there are any questions, please ask. I may not do a sequel since I have to finish my other stories, and I already have one started up but not uploaded. It is a Harry Potter and Twilight Crossover, but not sure how it turns out... it depends on how I like it before I upload it.

In the meantime, I have two stories out that are also crossovers: Inuyasha/Naruto/Harry Potter and Inuyasha/Twilight. I hope to see everyone that read this read my other ones if they like. Until then, good-bye everyone!

This is now complete!

Ichigo Mirai