Byakuya

Byakuya (白夜, Byakuya) is Naraku's ninth and final detachment, meant to replace Kagura. His main purpose is to observe InuYasha and Moryomaru's growing powers and report back to Naraku.

After taking the power of one slash of InuYasha's Meidou Zangetsuha, he later slashes Kagome with the blade. However, before he gets a chance at a second strike, InuYasha attacks him with his Meidou Zangetsuha and Byakuya is absorbed into it. When Naraku dies, a Meidou appears behind Kagome, due to Byakuya's Meidou Blade.

Powers & Abilities
He has an incredible power to create illusions, but has many other powers as well: he can possess people with paper soldiers, summon vines to entrap his enemies, teleport others to different dimensions, detach organs from his body, and erect barriers, essentially making him the most powerful of Naraku's detachments. He travels on a giant origami paper crane. He also has an ability to detach one of his eyes, which becomes a flying eye demon, which he uses to spy on his enemies. Naraku can also see what Byakuya sees by touching his eye socket, to which Byakuya finds "disgusting". Byakuya also has a sword but it's not really a sword, but a handle. This allows Byakuya's final techinque, in which the handle absorbs the demonic energy (which he used to make his own version of Inuyasha's Meidou Zangetsuha) and slashed Kagome. The purpose of this attack is still unknown as the Meido opened up behind Kagome some time after Naraku was defeated.

Name Meaning
Byakuya literally means "White Night".