all of his opponents and ruled almost half of Japan. Why should he fear an intruder there? Which was why he'd only sent three yokai to stop the intruder.
"So, you made it after all! Didn't think that you would dare to come here!"
His hand tightened into a fist for a moment as his gaze grew angry. So he now looked at his counterpart, Naraku. He couldn't hear Naraku's mocking voice anymore! Not like it was back then! The latter seemed to notice, as he was now laughing:
"Or did you come to find revenge for your friends? Do you seriously think you could do something for them with that?"
"Shut up. Be quiet!!!"
His furious voice echoed through the entire castle. He was making fun! Naraku made fun of! About this act! This...
Naraku's laughter had ceased, but a triumphant smile streaked his face as he put his hand on one of the skeletons around him.A few skeletons lay next to the villain, bald and dusty. The villain now stroked the skulls of the skeletons with his hand while he spoke to his counterpart:
"These are your friends!"

A shock shot through his body as he backed away in horror. Naraku's cold smile grew stronger. No...
"This ... is a joke!"
He knew that his friends died at his hand, he knew that he hadn't buried them, but that Naraku had their bodies, their skeletons here in his castle, right next to him ...
"Shocked! Well, these are my trophies! My trophies for my victory!"
Now, however, the shock at the sight of these skeletons and his friends disappeared and gave way to hatred. Hatred of Naraku's smile. Hatred for Naraku's words. Hate about the way he dealt with his friends.
"You damn...!!!"
With that he already felt how his own strength increased, his Youki flared up and the hatred dominated his whole body. He wouldn't let this bastard escape alive, even if it cost his own life! And he had to expect that.
Naraku also got up now and faced his visitor. If he would finish off this adversary, he would be rid of the most troublesome of his enemies and be able to rule all of Japan undisturbed. So he got ready.

With a loud scream of rage, he stormed off, directly towards Naraku. He let his funny, tantacle-like arms fly at his enemy, intervened. It reacted quickly, tearing several of these tentacle arms with its claws. In the heat of the moment he overlooked someone who wrapped himself around his neck, lifted him into the air and choked him.
With all his might he grabbed the tentacle-like arm, trying to loosen the tight grip around his neck. No chance! Naraku's grip was too tight! And there was no one else who could help him either. He was completely on his own!
Naraku smiled darkly for a moment, before he threw his enemy, whom he kept in the air the whole time, to the ground with full force, and let them hit hard.A brief pang of pain escaped him briefly before he lay motionless on the floor.
"Hmph! Was that about it? Just as weak as I thought ..."
With that, the black-haired man, who, thanks to the jewel, had meanwhile become a yokai, went to the person lying on the ground, looked down briefly at him. How pathetic! Well, no wonder he died so quickly. Exactly as he thought it would! This yokai was no match for him, Naraku. Now he could join his corpse to the skeletons of his friends, then they would just be united in death. This foolish gang!

Naraku's thoughts were suddenly interrupted when something suddenly grabbed his leg. When he looked down, he saw that it was his opponent's hand. So he hadn't completely chased him into the afterlife yet? Then he just has to make up for it! But before the villain could react, his opponent, who was lying on the ground, had used a fire attack, which now spread from his leg to Naraku's body.
This flinched briefly while he was using his strength to extinguish the flames that were burning on his skin. This wretched one! Did he just pretend to be dead?
Meanwhile his opponent, who saw with satisfaction how Naraku caught fire, jumped up. So he ran towards the burning man and quickly thrust his claws into his body. Naraku had reacted immediately, now grabbed the attacker with his tentacle-like arms, who was able to briefly jump back to safety. After all, he hadn't trained so doggedly in the last few years only to be caught by the villain!
Now he was holding something shining in his hand, which he had stolen from Naraku by his attack. The Shikon no Tama! But he did not want to be chased away his jewel so easily, attacked his enemy again with these arms and, when he was not careful, managed to hit him with one of these tentacles in his stomach, so that the one came out on the other side.Immediately he jumped back, severed Naraku's arm with a claw attack, and landed a few meters away. He immediately winced and held the sore wound on his stomach. When he removed his hand, he saw blood on his hand. Briefly he gritted his teeth. He had to hurry before he would find his grave here!
In the meantime, the jewel that had just fallen out of his hand as a result of the attack rolled across the wooden floor, shimmering through the weak light that came from outside.
Immediately he rushed to the jewel to get his hands on it in front of Naraku. But the villain also hurried to get the piece of jewelry and was faster than his opponent. Briefly he screwed up his eyes. The wound made him much too slow, so the villain would get the jewel in front of him without any problems. He had to do something!
At the moment he could only think of one solution and so he collected all his magic, let it go now. Not on Naraku, but on the jewel. He had now arrived in time, now held the shining jewel in his hands while he laughed darkly.
"Nobody will be able to defeat me that easily as long as I have the Shikon no ..."
His speech ended abruptly when the magic attack of his opponent shot past, the jewel hit and hit the back wall of the castle. At first Naraku was confused what this attack was about. Especially since his enemy hadn't even hit him!
But before he could attack his enemy, the villain was frightened. Suddenly there was a crunch from the hit jewel, which suddenly shone brightly. First a crack was visible. Then two. Three.
"No, not!!!"

It did not help. At the same moment the coveted piece of jewelry shattered in his hand, several rays of light flew back and forth, breaking through the castle wall. When the glow was over, Naraku stood stunned. Together with his opponent, who grinned slightly."My attack shattered the jewel! Now you will no longer be able to abuse its powers!"
"You miserable ... !!!"
With that, the villain attacked full of anger and hatred, and his opponent immediately blocked his attacks. Exactly as suspected, Naraku's attacks were now far less dangerous. Sometimes also because he was no longer in possession of the jewel and therefore was no longer a great threat.
While both attacked each other with all their available strength, there was suddenly a brief shock. While the one was irritated for a moment, Naraku continued to attack, causing another tremor. And in the same moment, Naraku's opponent realized where these tremors were coming from.
The lock threatened to crash! Since the castle was right on the slope of the high mountain and the last attacks, including the fragmentation of the jewel, had pretty much taken the castle with them, they would both fall, including the castle, into the depths if they continued like this.

But instead Naraku fought on, attacking incessantly. He didn't seem to care much about the jewel or the danger of falling. He was only interested in eliminating his enemy. In the meantime, he had to go into defensive stance and defended himself from the ever tougher attacks.
He wouldn’t hold out much longer, even if he won. He wouldn't get very far with the wound. The blood loss was too high for that. He was going to die! It was clear to him! But if he were to die here, among the remains of his former comrades, then at least he would take his enemy with him to hell.
Another attack. Again he could only defend himself. In the meantime the vibrations increased more and more, the cliff on which the castle lay crumbled away more and more.
With the last of his strength, he straightened up in pain, launched a final attack. Naraku also gathered his last strength and so they both ran towards each other, attacked each other.At that very moment the shock was too great, the cliff broke away and the lock fell.
And while the lock fell, Naraku smiled coldly for a moment.
"Wretched fool! Now you will die with me!"
He knew that! He knew from the start that he was going to die! And he didn't care! Because what Naraku had done to him was far worse than anything else ...

And while he was still falling, waiting for the longed-for impact, he let his thoughts wallow back on that moment ...

"Inuyasha!"
A claw attack. Blood spurted. There was a scream.
In the next moment the young student fell to the floor, her face contorted with pain. With expressionless eyes, the Hanyou, who had become a full-fledged yokai again, looked down at Kagome, who was struggling with her pain.
"Inu ... Ya ... sha ..."
There was a laugh and someone in baboon skin emerged from behind Inuyasha. His face was covered by a baboon mask.
"Kagome, how does it feel to be killed by your own friend?"
She didn't reply, she knew very well that it was Naraku who was behind Inu Yasha's transformation and who was now manipulating his body. She didn't blame the hanyou, least of all Inuyasha could for what Naraku did to him.
"Inu ... Ya ... sha ... V ... Forgive me ..."
With tears in her eyes, the student had said these words with pain. She couldn't prevent what was coming. She was a bad friend. And in the next moment Naraku had given the Hanyou a signal, who then gave the student the coup de grace.

"Kagome-chan ..."
Sango, who had been kneeling in front of Kohaku's bloody corpse, had watched the whole thing in