"Can I break away?

Push me away, make me fall

Just to see another side of me

Push me away, You can't see what I see

the other side of me."

-Trust Company 'Downfall'-

It was a hopeless fight, they had were losing, if they had not already lost. Naraku was more powerful than the group had wanted to accept. Even with all of them attacking the demon from all sides, they seemed to not make one ounce of progress. Sango and Miroku stood side by side with Kilala large and fiery beside the humans protectively. Inu-yasha was no doubt standing next to Kagome, and surprisingly even the miko was fighting back with all she had. Firing a sacred arrow after each other, without much of a rest between each firing. Her arm had long ago gone numb from pain, her muscles firing spasms of lightning through her shoulders. She would have long ago run out of arrows, had not her surrogate son Shippou, skipped off around the forest and retrieved the arrows that had not stuck inside Naraku, and had not been broken by his attacks. Even the small kitsune, between retreiving her arrows and dodging attacks with the help of Kagome, fired his small amount of power towards the powerful demon. No longer did they fight against a puppet, the black-haired man in front of them was the true thing, no more fooling around, it was now or never. Naraku had half of the Shikon No Tama, the group had the other half. But still it was not enough. Their energy was starting to drain, and yet Naraku did not seem to lessen in his attacks against the ragged group.

All that truly mattered in the end, was that Naraku was somehow defeated, the Shikon No Tama returned to it's original shape, and purified from it's hidden evils. The details of the battle are not to be discussed at this current time, for it's horrible tale will come later on in such a story.

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Authors Note: I am well aware that this is a pathetic excuse for a prologue. But it may help to see it more as a quick overview of the start of the story. At the moment I do not wish to get into detail of the fight and what transpired after the battle, that will come at a later time.

For all those that read, please be patient as I upload chapters that are in larger magnitude than the one you see before you.