Once More

Brought to you by Sango The Lecher Slayer

Okay ya'll, I know you might be a little annoyed that I haven't updated, especially without giving you any closure.

But here ya go now!!

Thanks for supporting me sooo much during this (insanely long) journey. I hope you love this last chapter and find it HILARIOUS.

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Chapter 9: The Anti-Climactic Shocker

Last Time:

"Kikyo, do you understand every phase of the plan? It is up to you to make sure Inuyasha never chooses Kagome, even when she is on the verge of death. This will break her spirit, making her mind easy to bend. She will die within that fateful day Inuyasha betrays her. Leave the rest to me, my pet."

After Kikyo nodded with a smile equally sinister to the one Naraku wore, she was given the signal to move… into his bed.

As Kagura listened from the doorway, her disgust was barely concealed on her face. Her more prominent expression, however, was anger. 'Naraku, you won't get away with this. This girl is my only hope to be free. Disgusting bastard, you make me sick. The stupid plan will never work' Kagura smiled, not a nice happy smile though. 'I'll make sure it won't.' "Just you wait Naraku," She whispered, "Your time is coming, and it's coming much sooner than you think."

Now:

We move forward 3 months.

"Fluffster!! Come here, puppy!" Kagome shouted.

Needless to say, a certain very tall someone, who was pretty content before, was unhappy.

"You called, wench."

And now there are two unhappy people…

Kagome sniffed. "Yes, I did your Royal Pain…ful…ness." 'Hot damn, I need to work on my nicknames.' ANYWAYS "I've been sensing that something is going to happen."

Dun Dun Dun!!

"Who played my theme music?" Katiya asked. "Wait a minute! Why do I have the ominous music? I'm not on the dark side?"

Sesshomaru whistled and gazed at the ceiling. "Lovely day we're having."

And now there are three ticked off people…

"Okay, I'll let it slide this time. I have to let you know that I just found out - "

"Come on, don't argue!" Kagome shouted. Obviously she hadn't really been paying attention to the question. "I feel like something just might happen today!"

Katiya tried to interrupt. "Hello! I can sense - "

"Silence. Listen to Kagome. Continue."

"You how know I can now sense imminent danger because of our training? Well, I have this little feeling that something could happen soon." Kagome continued.

Katiya, meanwhile, was bouncing up and down, waving her hands impatiently. She screamed, "Excuse me! I have important - "

"Kagome, I don't know what you are talking abo – Wait, why do I smell Naraku?" Asked Sesshomaru.

"And I now sense Inuyasha!" Said Kagome!!!

"If you had just listened to me five minutes ago…" Katiya muttered. "Instead of staring lovingly into each others eyes… Stupid love birds."

"There was no staring involved!" Kagome screeched.

"Your right, my bad. You were gazing." Katiya conceded.

Sesshomaru agreed, "Yes, much better. Staring is such a harsh word."

Kagome started to protest, but just decided to give up. 'Why do these things happen to me?'

o0OOO0o

On the other side of the moat…

Naraku and his children (thingies) stood facing Inuyasha, Sango, Miroku, Kirara, and the Kikyotch – my bad, I mean, Kikyo. They were both waiting for the guard to let down the door to the moat in front of Sesshomaru's castle.

One might ask why they didn't swim across. The reply would be, "Have you ever heard anyone tell a story about swimming with 40,000 pound piranhas?"

Didn't think so.

It was obvious that Miroku was still stressed out; you could tell by his abundant acne and his hair – once his secret pride and joy – was greasy and unkempt. But you could tell that Sango felt some strain as well; her clothing was ripped and she kept on giggling… even though nothing was funny…

The only person who was oblivious was Inuyasha. Seems he didn't care too much about his companions, did he?

"Naraku!" Inuyasha shouted. "What the hell are you doing here?" He started muttering, "Damn it, I knew I should have prepared for today. All those secret rendezvous with Kikyo took up so much time that I had no time to prepare or anything." He sniffed. 'Or to bathe…'

Gross.

"Inuyasha, now is the time that you will all meet your doom! I will unleash my secret plan of attack… now!" Naraku giggled evilly. Yeah, it wasn't even a manly-ish chuckle. It was downright girly.

Kikyo took four steps to Naraku's side.

"!" Screamed Inuyasha, and he dramatically swooned. Unfortunately for him – or actually, pretty fortunately – he fell into the moat. On his way down he happened to trip Kikyo.

So now we understand why Kikyo was so graceful; as soon as she fell to the ground, she shattered into more pieces than the Shikon Jewel.

"Crap."

Realizing that his plan was now foiled – the plan being, turn Inuyasha to the dark side and have him kill everyone because Naraku had no more power (he had given it to Kikyo, but Kikyo hadn't returned it yet), Naraku promptly broke down.

"Why do bad things always happen to me?!?!" He sobbed. "Always, always, always!!! No matter what I do, it's never good enough. Can I ever win? Why does the world hate me?"

Because you're evil. Le duh.

Sango and Miroku shared a look, and with the help of the children, tossed Naraku into the moat.

Piranhas! It's your lucky day.

At that point, the guard looked back, "Okay, gate clearance for party of ten – Wait, where did 3 of them go? Oh god, tell me they did go for a swim in the moat! My shift supervisor is going to kill me! Their, like, the 20-eith person this week. Maybe I should have stuck to farming…"

"Uh, no, not at all… they're fine, they just had, uh, other things to do." Sango said.

"Yeah," Miroku confirmed, "Other stuff."

Everyone in the group nodded emphatically. "Oh yeah!" "Sure!" "You bet!!"

"Phew. What a load of my chest." The guard smiled. "Come on in! Lunch is being served."

o0OOO0o

Inside the palace at the lunch table, Kagome suddenly said, "That ominous feeling is gone!"

Sesshomaru gazed at her lovingly with pride, "My my, your senses pick things up so quickly."

Katiya had given up by this point, and grumbled, "Did I not just say that five minutes ago?"

She was completely ignored.

"Eh Fluffster! Now that the imminent threat is gone, are you gonna ask Kagome to be your mate?" Katiya asked with a grin.

Kagome blushed, "Why would he ask me that?"

"Will you be my mate?" "Yes!"

"Someone is eager…" Katiya drawled.

Kagome blushed and then turned the tables, "Someone sounds jealous. You know, I can set you up with someone…"

Katiya scoffed, "Please, there's no need. I'm already courting someone, don't you remember. We talked about Hawk for hours… I knew it! You were just tuning me out and thinking about Sesshomaru!"

The rest of the crew walked in, unnoticed, until Sango said, "Please, she used to do the exact same thing with me. Get used to it."

"Oh My GOD!!"

Much hugging commence, and their stories were told, with Katiya laughing her ass off at how the EVIL Naraku had died. "Seriously, that's it? After years and years of battling, that's so… anticlimactic."

The group shrugged. "Hey," Kagome said, "At least no one was hurt."

Everyone smiled.

Thanks everyone, for a great run!!

I need your reviews if you want some more (because there might be an epilogue in the future…)

Sango TLS