This is a stupidly short chapter, I know, but let it be known that as I'm uploading this chapter I'm working on the next! I just didn't know how I should continue on with this chapter, so I made it just a super short one. I'll get the next one up sometime today! As always, I do not own InuYasha or any of the characters! (Well, I guess technically I own Masaru, but whatever. Lol) Enjoy!

"Masaru, huh?" a sinister voiced repeated. Naraku shifted is gaze back to Kanna, who held her mirror in her arms. He smirked, staring at the reflection of a dead demon in the mirror. Reaching into his kimono, he grabbed one of the shards of the sacred jewel and tossed it to Kagura. "Take the shard to this "Masaru" and resurrect him… I have use for someone as powerful as him…" Naraku let out an evil laugh, very pleased to know there was such a demon powerful enough to take down Sesshomaru. Kagura tried to suppress her worry as she flew off to carry out her orders.

With the full moon high above the sky, Kagura quietly crept over to the rotting corpse of what appeared to be a more humanoid-like demon. "So this is the man responsible for Lord Sesshomaru's current predicament…?" hesitantly, she placed the sacred jewel shard into the man's forehead, stepping back to give him space. Very quickly, his solid purple eyes snapped open, his snake like pupils searching around in confusion. Masaru's body began to rise from the ground as the flesh on his body began to revive itself. He hissed as he stood up straight, one hand on his forehead where the jewel shard lay. He turned his glare towards Kagura. "Woman… Tell me, are you the one who summons me from the deepest reaches of hell?" Masaru's voice was very cold and heartless; no doubt a very vicious, brutal man, Kagura thought. "The jewel shard is a gift from Naraku. He has granted you a second life… so long as you return the favor." "Naraku?" Masaru simply smirked, "very well, I shall play along with his little game…"