Hey guys, I bet you want to know what the good news is. Well the good news is….(Drum roll please) there will be a sequel to this story. It'll be called Haunted Memories, I will send it when all the reviews have been finished with this one. And Aneia I would like to get some reviews from you too. Here's the final chapter.

Disclaimer: I do not own the Inu gang, the only character I own is Kiri.

Chapter 23- The End

-No Replay This Time-

Inuyasha gently shook Kagome's weak form. "Kagome! Talk to me!" he said desperately, almost on the verge of tears. 'I'm not going to cry now! Kagome needs my strength right now! I will save her, if it's the last thing I do!' he growled.

"Awe, the poor puppy is crying." Naraku laughed.

"Thanks for breaking the barrier for me, Inuyasha!" Kiri thanked him in mockery.

(A.N. Now, you all know from reading this story that there is NO cuss words or foral language, right? Well, in this situation, it's going to be different. BUT I won't write the word, I'll have my boyfriend do it, because I'm not that type of person. The word is h-e- double hockey sticks. Back to the story)

Inuyasha sent her death glares, "Go to hell!" he growled.

Sesshoumaru watched as his half-brother tried to bring Kagome back into consciousness and fight off Naraku, Kiri and Kanna.

"Maybe we will meet you there in a few thousand years. I'll just end your misery now." Naraku said, taking a few steps towards the half-demons. Sharpening his tentacles on the trees.

Sesshoumaru took one glance at Naraku, then at his brother. He growled sub-consciously, as he stepped in the front of Inuyasha and his wife protectively.

Inuyasha looked up at Sesshoumaru in shock. 'What the heck is he doing? He's never stepped in the way of anything unless Jaken or that girl, are in trouble, or unless there's something he wants.' "What are you doing!" he demanded.

"Keeping you from transforming and buying you time." Sesshoumaru said briefly. "Take her to safety when I tell you."

Still shocked, he nodded in agreement.

"What's this? Protecting your half-brother? I thought you hated him, certainly something I wasn't expecting that's for sure." Naraku said with mockery in his voice.

"No one is going to be killed by you or your incarnations!" Sesshoumaru said blankly, controlling his emotions now.

"Oh well, I was going to absorb you into my body anyway. Thanks for saving me the trouble." Naraku shrugged.

"Don't flatter yourself, Naraku" Sesshoumaru said drawing his sword. He swung it in Naraku's direction, and it's power cut up Naraku badly, but he just reformed.

Suddenly, then out of no where, Kiri came and knocked the sword out of Sesshoumaru's hand. It landed by where the children where at.

Sesshoumaru saw them move out of the way so the sword's power doesn't destroy them. Sesshoumaru turned back to Naraku.

"What? Can't fight without your sword?" Naraku said smugly.

"No, Naraku. It's you who can't fight." Sesshoumaru said. His eyes widened, then they turned to the shade of red, outlining his eyes green as his pupils began to get bigger. "Go!" he said to Inuyasha, his voice was deeper than it normally was. Then his mouth stretched to a great length showing many sharp teeth like his father. Then a big gust of green wind surrounded Sesshoumaru, making it hard to see what was happening inside the wind.

"Right!" Inuyasha jumped out of the way, with Kagome in his arms securely, as something came stretching his way. He went to the trees. "Now you're in for it, Naraku" he said with a dangerous voice as he disappeared in the safety of the trees.

For once, Naraku was truly scared. He has never seen Sesshoumaru's true form, until now that is. He didn't even know how big the demon was growing and didn't know if he'll be even able to absorb the great demon. But he would try, that was for certain. He thought with an evil grin on his face.

Then wind finally cleared and in the place of the human form of a full demon, stood a great dog demon, which resembled his father. The demon seemed to laugh at Naraku's discouraged face, but at the same time have a hint of growl in it.

Sango looked up at the dog demon, "Is that really Sesshoumaru?" she asked.

Kikyo stood at her side, "Yes, it's his true form. If he needs help, I will take on my true full demon form as well even though I was normally a dead human. I will look some what like Sesshoumaru." Kikyo said calmly.

"Whoa" was all Sango could manage to say.

Kiri then came and attacked Sango, Miroku and Kikyo. To even the odds a little bit, she made three copies of herself to fight them. Mixing up with them, so Kagome's friends couldn't tell which one was her. They all shot an attackas she went into the trees to do what Naraku told her to do.

"Which one went in the trees? The real or fake?" Miroku asked and unanswerable question.

Inuyasha was still trying to wake up Kagome. "Wake up! You have to stay with me!" he whispered the last part in her ear. He closed his eyes, sadly, but not giving up. He felt something grip on his hori. He opened his eyes and looked down at Kagome, he smiled with relief as he saw Kagome open her eyes to look at him.

"Never… I..will…never…leave you…Inu-y-yasha" she said with a gasp for air. "I…can h-hardly…b-b-breath." She said, her voice hardly audible.

Inuyasha held her close to him, and he comforted her. "I'll find a way to get your soul back, I promise." He said to her comfortingly.

"Inu-yasha… you…need to…" she gasps for more air. "C-can… you…" she started to say, but tried to breath more air.

"What is it?" Inuyasha asked, patiently.

Kagome grunted as she tried to talk. "B-break Kanna's… mirror." She forced out.

"Of coarse! Break the mirror and you'll get your soul back right?" he asked hopefully, the fact just dawning on him.

Kagome gave a slight nod before resting her head on his arm.

"Oh Inuyasha… I see you." Kiri said behind him.

Startled, Inuyasha jumped out of the way and turned to see Kiri.

"Careful, she might go to the next world if you keep that up," Kiri warned with an evil smile on her face.

Inuyasha growled, but held Kagome even closer to him. (If possible)

"Don't… worry, Inu-yasha… I won't… leave you… here… I promise." Kagome assured with a slight smile on her pale face.

'Kagome' he whispered in his head.

"Inuyasha" Kiri said, gaining his attention again.

Inuyasha looked at her and instantly, he was somewhere else. He was in a field of flowers, lots of them. He saw a non-pale, perfectly healthy, Kagome picking some flowers with Shippo. "What the, where am I?"

Kagome giggled, "You're silly. Where do you think we are? In the field picking flowers. It was your idea to bring me here and I invited Shippo." She said happily, looking at him with the smile he fell in love with.

"Hey, what are you carrying Inuyasha?" Shippo asked.

Inuyasha looked in his arms and saw nothing. But he felt weight on them. "I was just fighting Kiri! How did I get here?" he asked himself.

Kagome looked at him blankly. "Who's Kiri?"

"Naraku's incarnation, who else?" Inuyasha said to her.

"Naraku?" Kagome and Shippo looked at each other with a puzzled look.

"Are you feeling alright, Inuyasha?" Kagome asked him worriedly.

"Of coarse I am! Why ask me a stupid question like that!" he said confused.

"Um, Inuyasha. There's no such thing as someone named Naraku or Kiri. What do they look like?" Kagome asked.

'No such thing?' he thought. "I… I don't remember" he said, forgetting their faces.Soon, hefound himself forgetting what they were talking about.

In the normal world, Kiri giggled as she saw Inuyasha easily get trapped in her illusion for him. "Soon, he won't even know that he has the real Kagome in his arms and drop her away from his protective grasp. He's too happy to even want out." Kiri said, knowing that Inuyasha is too caught up in his illusion to hear her.

Kagome opened her eyes when Inuyasha's hold around her loosened. She looked up at him and saw that his eyes were a blank amber color. She looked at Kiri, and she had red eyes. 'An illusion!' She weakly reached up, behind his neck and pinched him.

Just as sudden as it came, the field, Kagome, everything left. He was back in the forest and he remembered everything he hadforgotten, including Kagome in his arms. He realized that he was losing his hold around Kagome so he tightened it.

Kiri looked at him surprised, "How did you get out of my illusion? You were happy in it, so it should have been effective." She reasoned.

Inuyasha smirked, "Let's just say, I have a reliable source." Inuyasha said to her. Then he looked around for Kanna.

"What are you looking for? I am your opponent! As for you," Kiri said looking at Kagome. "You'll regret helping him."

Inuyasha glared at her, a glare that will send anyone to death if looks could kill. "Don't you ever threaten Kagome!" he said in a deathly tone.

"Shut up, Half- breed!" Kiri said waving a hand. Wind came from that motion. Practically taking him off balance. "Dance of Blades!" and the pedals on her flower in her hair, went flying towards him, sharp as ever, only to have new ones grow in their places.

Inuyasha jumped out of the way and back to the battle, looking for Kanna. Then, he spotted her fighting Kikyo. He went beside her, "Kikyo, I need you to protect Kagome. I'll take care of the garbage." He said setting Kagome down, gently, as not to wake her because she was sleeping.

"Okay, be careful," said Kikyo as she went in front of Kagome.

Inuyasha drew his sword. "Alright Kanna, I have a score to settle with you!"

Kanna just stared at him, as if she was reading his soul and mind. "You can't break my mirror. It is unbreakable," she told him.

"Wanna bet?" Inuyasha yelled. "Wind Scar!" he called his most famous attack.

His attack went toward her, but she raiser her mirror a little and she reflected the attack back to Inuyasha.

Inuyasha growled, "That won't work on me anymore! Backslash Wave!" he called. He knew that Kanna wasn't expecting him to make that move on his own attack.

Kanna raised her mirror and tried to repel it but since her mirror was the one to send it to him, it was the mirror that broke. It was a big blast, so it also destroyed Kanna as well. It created a big cloud of dirt.

A blue orb was all that was there when the dirt cleared.

"No! How dare you!" Kiri shouted. She ran to catch the orb to put it her own body and take away Kagome's chance to survive, before it flew to Kagome. Before she was even close to it, the part of Kagome's soul that was in her, flew out of her body into the orb. The orb, then, flew straight towards, Kagome and her life, going in its proper place inside Kagome.

Kagome took a large gasp of air as the light faded into her body. The color came back to her face and skin. The radiant of her beauty back to normal. She opened her eyes and smiled as Inuyasha went over to her. "Thank you" she whispered to Inuyasha.

Inuyasha pulled her up on her feet, now that she's back to normal and can fight again. "Sesshoumaru!" he signaled his brother.

The great dog demon just turned to look at him and nodded.

Naraku attempt another of the many attacks on Sesshoumaru, but it only itched him instead.

A blue light engulfed the demon, and it rolled into a ball. Again, no one could see what was happening inside. Then, faster than ever, the ball went towards Naraku and cut off many tentacles. Then, the orb went to the ground and in it's place was Sesshoumaru, back to his normal self, with his sword back in his hand.

Kiri got angry from the death of her sister. So, to show it, she multiplied herself 20 times.

Kagome grabbed her bow and arrows then readied it. "Uh-oh, that's not good." She said regarding Kiri.

"Naraku wasn't joking when he said she'll get more powerful when she's mad." Kikyo said also rearming her bow.

Sango lifted her weapon, she had been protecting the children from Naraku's demons, with Miroku. "Before we will kill Naraku, we need to get Kohaku." She reminded them.

Naraku suddenly burst out with laughter. "You silly girl. I killed that boy long ago! How else would Kagome have the entire jewel? Not a piece missing?" Naraku asked.

"No…" Sango, got really angry. She'll show Naraku no mercy what so ever, not now not ever.

"What makes you think you can play with peoples heart like that!" Inuyasha demanded. He knew what it was like to loose someone. He lost his mother.

Kagome shot an arrow at Kiri, "Pay back time, witch!" she said grimly.

Sesshoumaru used his whip.

"Dance of the Dragon!" Kiri called and all the attacks were blocked all except the arrow. The arrow was still flying towards her. Kiri widened her eyes, and a white beam shot out of them, dissolving the arrow.

"No way!" Kagome said in disbelief.

Kikyo shot her arrow at Naraku as Miroku threw some sutras since the wasps came out.

"Boomerang Bone!" Sango called throwing her weapon.

Naraku put up a barrier, "Nice try."

"Yes it was actually, Sango took out your wasps." Miroku pointed out.

Naraku frowned.

"Wind Tunnel!" Miroku removed the beads from his hand.

Five of Kiri's multiples moved in the way. Naraku was able to get out of the void's path.

"Kiri, finish the job Kanna couldn't do!" Naraku commanded.

Inuyasha charged at him, "She's not finishing anything!"

Kikyo and Miroku used the same attacks as before.

Kiri's multiples blocked the attacks while four others go behind Kagome unseen. One of them wrapped her arm around Kagome's neck, choking her. "Time to die!" the copy said to her, not even trying to make it so only Kagome can hear it. Wanting Inuyasha to see Kagome die, then die soon after.

Kagome struggled, she put her chin to her neck to prevent some of the choking, but still being choked non the less. She shifted herself so her weight was on her toes, then she dug her heel in Kiri's foot.

The copy yelped in pain, "Ow!" she let go of Kagome.

When the copy let go, Kagome elbowed her in the face, hard. "Keep (hit)your (hit) hands (hit)off (hit)of (hit)me! (slam)" she yelled, as she sliced the copy in two.

Kikyo saw Kagome fighting the other three copies as they were gaining up on her, Kikyo knew that Kagome couldn't fight all three at the same time. Even if she's as stubborn as Inuyasha. She shot an arrow at one and ran to help Kagome. Soon, all four were gone.

"Kikyo protect Kagome, Kagome protect Kikyo" Inuyasha instructed.

"Don't tell Kikyo what to do!" Sesshoumaru told him in his icy tone.

"Argue later" Inuyasha grunted, slicing at Naraku.

"Inuyasha, you have to find the real Kiri in order to beat her!" Kagome informed.

"Can't you just tell me which one is which?" Inuyasha grumbled.

"No! I can see jewel shards and stuff like that! She's nothing spiritual, so no we can't tell which one is which." Kagome argued.

"Got it!" Inuyasha replied. He dug his claws into his palm, drawing blood. "Claws of Blood!" he shouted throwing them at the copies, destroying most of them. Leaving only two behind. One real, one fake.

Naraku sent out his tentacles at them.

"Boomerang Bone!" Sango said, cutting off the tentacles. But Naraku just sent more.

"Kikyo, we need to attack Kiri first with our arrows. Then we go to the trees and shoot some arrows to distract Naraku so we can go in for a frontal attack, then the perification." Kagome whispered.

"Good plan, let's go." Kikyo replied

Kagome and Kikyo readied their bows and went in different directions. There was two Kiri's left, one had to be the real one.

The Kiri's looked at them, "What are you trying to do? Trap me?"

The girls didn't say anything, they just closed their eyes.

Kiri growled, "I'm not going to be humiliated by the likes of you!" Kiri yelled and she and her copy went for Kagome first since Naraku wanted her to finish Kanna's job.

Kagome opened her eyes and she and Kikyo fired their arrows at the real Kiri. When Kiri disappeared from purification, the copy was no more. "Three down, one to go." Kagome said.

Everyone was fighting Naraku now. So it was easy for Kikyo and Kagome to hide in the trees. Kagome hid their scent and they went their separate ways.

"Die!" Inuyasha shouted.

"You first half-breed!" Naraku replied coldly. He looked around, looking for something but couldn't find it.

Inuyasha noticed this and remembered Kikyo and Kagome, he turned to look for them to see if they are ok, but he couldn't see them anywhere.

Suddenly, an arrow came out of no where. Then an arrow from a different direction. Heading for Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha. If they were sacred arrows, it didn't show.

"Duck out of the way!" Inuyasha said dodging the arrow meant for him. Sesshoumaru sliced the one for him in fourths. He didn't even feel pain. Meaning the arrow wasn't a sacred one, other wise his hand would have a burn mark or he would be purified. So he knew that he wasn't in harms way.

"Whoa, where did those arrows come from?" Miroku asked.

Then, four different arrows came from four different directions.

"What the…?" Inuyasha moved out of the way again as another arrow came at him, so did Sesshoumaru.

"Who is shooting those arrows!" he demanded, he knew the scents, but didn't trust his nose for this one.

When the two arrows went for the brothers, two sacred arrows headed for Naraku, for purification.

But the non-sacred arrows flew out to knock them off coarse but it didn't work since they were regular and the other two weren't. The sacred arrows hit parts of Naraku's body, purifying that area.

"Wait a minute, how is it that there's four arrows two of them different from the other and only two scents. And two of them trying to kill us." Inuyasha said confused.

"Are you really that dull? The sacred arrows belong to Kikyo and Kagome. The other two it seems are trying to help Naraku, even if they have Kikyo's and Kagome's scent, they aren't really them. The real Kagome and Kikyo probably have their scent hidden, or maybe it's the other way around." Sesshoumaru said, now confusing himself.

With Kagome:

'What? How can they smell us when we hid our scent?' she thought, now confused herself. She sniffed the air and found that there are two scents, her scent and Kikyo's. She went near the one that seem to be hers. The demon looked exactly like her! She saw the real Kikyo look at the fake. 'Oh no! Naraku is going to use these two to trick Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru!'

The fake took something from her side. Kagome saw that it was a dagger. The copy was about to jump out at Inuyasha, but Kagome went out first. "Inuyasha! Look out!" she yelled heading towards him. She saw the copy head out now, going to try and knock Kagome out of the way. Kagome landed on the ground and pulled Inuyasha's feet out from under him and he fell to the ground. The knife barely misses him.

Inu's POV:

He heard a rustle in the trees so he looked to his side and saw Kagome jump out with a worried expression on her face.

"Inuyasha! Look out!" she said worry clearly in her voice.

He saw another Kagome jump and he got confused. The first one to come out landed on the ground and pulled his feet out from under him, that's when he noticed the dagger in the seconds hand. So he didn't say a rude remark to Kagome, because he knew she saved him.

Normal POV:

After pulling out his feet, Kagome got off the ground and grabbed the other Kagome's hair. She kicked the dagger out of her grasp. "You are going to regret that big time, you fake!"

"Oh? Am I now?" The other said. She elbowed Kagome in the stomach where it hurts most.

"Auuu!" Kagome's air forced out of her. She let go of the other's hair, to try and breath better. But instead of being fine, the girl punched her into the air. "Oof!" she said as she got hit.

Miroku saw as the girl that had her hair pulled punched the other in the air. She was up to ten feet up before she came back down. "Inuyasha! I don't know which one is which, but that might be the real Kagome! Help her!"

Inuyasha was about to jump in the air to catch Kagome, but the other pushed him back and jumped in the instead.

The fake Kagome was beside Kagome in a second. She grabbed Kagome's shoulders and slammed her into the ground. "I don't think I'm going to regret anything, since you are so weak." She said as a cloud surrounded them and she stood up over Kagome.

When it cleared, it was obvious that Kagome was in a deep hole, made by the pressure from the other.

"I can't tell which one is which! They both look the same!" Miroku said.

"Yea, but they don't act alike." Inuyasha pointed out. He knew which one was his Kagome, and he was angry that the other had beat Kagome down into the ground.

They heard fighting in the trees, and one of them had been pushed out of the trees. The other came out after it.

"Two Kikyo's and two Kagome's? Now that is just weird!" Miroku said.

Sango saw Naraku trying to get away, but she stopped him and started the battle again.

Kagome tried to move and sit up.

"Oh? Not dead I see, oh well. I can fix that!" the fake told her, she lifted Kagome out of the hole. She smiled as she put Kagome on her feet. Then just as soon as Kagome got her balance, she started a number of punches and kicks at Kagome. With the last blow, Kagome was kicked very hard 20 feet away from where she was already.

Kagome hit the ground and rolled to a stop on her stomach. She felt a moist in her mouth, she put her arms under her and lifted herself and spit out the blood. Then she got back on her feet.

Inuyasha smelt something he hated to smell, after seeing a little bit of the Kikyo fight, he turned his attention back to Kagome, only to see her getting punch and kicked and with the last blow the other had kicked Kagome hard. Kagome was sent flying 20 feet across through the air.

She landed and rolled to a stop on her stomach. He saw her go up on her arms and smelt her blood. He growled and he looked back to the other Kagome. She was on her way to Kagome. Inuyasha charged at her, "Leave her alone!" Inuyasha yelled knocking the fake to the ground.

The fake just got back up and looked at him, then without a second thought. She pulled towards her and kissed him.

He instantly tried to push her away. But she seemed to be more than a demon. She had more than normal strengthand she had a high pitched laugh. 'She's a witch! She cast a spell to look like Kagome and gain more strength!'

Kagome felt her mark go on fire and after that she couldn't control her body. Her eyes went red as she turned to see the fake kissing her mate. (Ooo, the fake was going to regret it big time now. The fake didn't even know that Kagome had been marked yet, I guess she will now huh?)

Faster than normal, Kagome charged at the fake with new found strength. She pulled the girl away with great force. The girl ended up 50 feet away. Kagome growled a deadly growl.

Inuyasha felt the girls force being taken away, he was happy about that. The girl had forcefully been pulled away, by Kagome. He knew what happened, Kagome's mark had brought out the demon in her and now she's going to fight for who gets to be his. He heardher deadly growl towards the other girl.

The girl got up, surprise that Kagome had gotten so much stronger within a few seconds. She looked up to see Kagome in front of Inuyasha as if he was hers and hers alone. Her eyes looked like fire was burning in them. "Who do you think you are to just barge in and throw me like a flea you, (ok I'm going to be brave and write it, just this once) bitch!" she demanded.

Kagome growled some more, "He's mine! Mine alone!" she said to her.

"No he isn't! Just because you travel wit him doesn't make him yours!" she argued.

"Yes it does! He's my MATE!" Kagome barked at her.

That shocked her, Naraku never told her that he had mated anyone, let alone the one she took the shape of. "Hmph, figures. Alright then, I know what you want then if that's the case…" she started but got interrupted by the flaming Kagome.

"Your death!" Kagome yelled and she charged at her claws ready for slicing.

"I was thinking maybe if I fight for him and win he'll be mine. The one who doesn't die…" again interrupted by Kagome.

"NO!" Kagome said and she cut the fake with out another thought, in half, then straight down the middle. The demon inside was finally calmed by the death of the fake, the one who tried to steal her love, her mate! Her eyes returned to normal and Kagome looked around.

She knew something happened and because of it, her demon side wanted to kill. She didn't remember what happened, all she could remember was the word 'kill' in her mind. She looked at her hands and saw blood, then she looked down and saw the fake in pieces. She had killed her! But then again, it didn't really bug her because she was with Naraku, therefore has to be killed.

Inuyasha saw Kagome's wild hair go back to normal and the tense aura around her go away. He knew she was back to normal because he saw her look at her hands. He thought she would freak out with her first kill with her own claws, but she didn't. She just shrugged her shoulders and turned around and saw him.

She smiled at the sight of Inuyasha. She saw Kikyo fighting Naraku, now. She had apparently won the fight a long time ago. (She was winning from the beginning so it didn't take her long, just imagine what happened because, this is after all, in Kagome's and Inuyasha's point of view mostly.) She ran up to Inuyasha and hugged him.

Inuyasha hugged her back, he was happy that she was back to normal. She went to get her weapons and Inuyasha went to the fight, Kagome right behind him.

Kagome jumped in the air, her hands free of anything, she balled her claws into a fist. "Fist of Fire!" she called and she hit Naraku square in the face with a burning fist. She was back with group now, so she took the weapons she slung over her shoulder and readied them as did Kikyo.

"Wind Scar!" Inuyasha yelled and at the same time Sesshoumaru sent his swords most powerful attack at Naraku.

Kagome and Kikyo shot their arrows five seconds afterwards, because they would pass the first attack easily.

Naraku had no where to go, and in an instant he was cut in pieces, then purified by the sacred arrows. Naraku was no more, for good.

Everyone said good-byes after a little while, and Sesshoumaru, Kikyo, Rin, and Jaken went on their way.

Sango, Miroku, and Shippo went to the place where Miroku's grandfather had a house waiting for them.

As for Inuyasha and Kagome, they went to find a good home fit for two half demons and maybe a few pups. Forgetting everything about Naraku and his incarntations, well almost everyone forgets. But one person, is still taunted by him and as some might say, Naraku still lives in this persons memories, taunting this persons Poisoned Memories. Who has the Poisoned Memories? Well that's a whole different story.

More of the story will be in Haunted Memories a year later.

The End

Alright, wasn't that a good ending? And a good title for the chapter? I thought it was. I hoped you all loved or at least liked this story. Show it to your friends that you think might like it, I don't care anymore if you tell them what it's about now that it's finished. Well, I'll see you all in the next story then. All I have to do first is make up the summery, even though I'm still bad at it, and write up the second chapter since the first is already done. See ya, bye.

Story created by: smfan

a.k.a. Stephanie Colby

Finished Date: 07/19/ 06