Author's Note: We don't like Kagome so Kagome fans...beware! Anyway, on with the story!!
Chapter 7
The next morning, Izayoi awoke to find herself in her room. "Was it just a dream?" she asked herself. She glanced towards the mirror and saw that she was dressed exactly as she was the previous day. Suddenly there was a knock on her door. "My Lady, a friend of yours left this bag of clothing for you," a man's voice came from the outside. Izayoi got up and went to opened the door. The man gave her the bag and left. Izayoi opened it and saw that it had some of Elena's 'modern' clothes and some girl 'survival equipment' as Elena called it. Izayoi put the bag on her bed and went to go get ready for the day. After she took a bath, she looked through the bag and took out some mousse and gel that Elena had packed for her.
She put some into her hair, hoping that Bankotsu would like the sweet scent of apple. She picked out a pair of dark denim jeans and a simple black polka dotted shirt. Izayoi rummaged through the bag and saw a smaller bag that was from Itzsuna, the accessory girl. Izayoi picked out a pair of black and silver hoop earrings, a matching choker and bracelet, and a watch. She finished off the look with some black sandals and a belt. After quickly applying her usual makeup, she stepped outside to look for Bankotsu. Not spotting him, she took out her phone and called Elena. "Hello?" Elena's voice came out from the earpiece. "Hey Elena! I got your clothes. Just wanted to say thanks," Izayoi said. "Oh, sure. No problem! So what are you doing?" "Nothing," Izayoi said. "So you're telling me nothing happened between you and Bankotsu last night?" Elena asked. "Well, actually something did happen. Bankotsu kissed me last night! At least I think he did. It might have been a dream," Izayoi explained.
"What?! Oh my god! How was it?" Elena asked curiously. "Words cannot describe it, Elena!" Izayoi said in a dreamy way. "All I can say is that it felt as if I were in heaven!" "Oh-my-gosh! I wish that could happen with me!" she said, sighing. "You mean with you and Tseng?" Izayoi giggled. "Yes! I want to tell him, but I get nervous," Elena said. "It's normal," Izayoi said. "Anyway, I guess I'll be seeing you later, then, okay?" "Alright, then. Talk to ya later!" Elena said. Izayoi closed her phone just as Bankotsu came up from behind and hugged her saying,"How did my princess sleep last night?" Izayoi kissed him softly before replying,"Fine." "I was thinking of spending the day with my brothers? You wanna come with me?" he asked. "Umm...yeah. I'll be safer won't I? I mean now that it's 'official', if you know what I mean," Izayoi said nervously. "You'll always be safe with me!" Bankotsu said, holding her hand and walking off to the Band of Seven's usual hang out. "Hey, Jakotsu!" Bankotsu said. "Hi, Bankotsu!" Jakotsu waved. "Where's everyone else?" Bankotsu asked, putting an arm around Izayoi.
"I don't really know. They just left me here while I was asleep for a while," Jakotsu replied. "Alright then. I'm gonna go look for them. Izayoi, stay here, okay?" Bankotsu said. "Okay," Izayoi replied and her and Jakotsu stayed looking at Bankotsu as he walked off. "Jakotsu, do you want me to fix your hair so it can look really pretty?" Izayoi asked. Jakotsu turned around excitedly and clapping his hands together, asked,"Really? Sure! I'll do anything so I can look beautiful for my Inuyasha!" They sat down on the ground and Izayoi took out a brush, a clip, and some mousse. First she brushed Jakotsu's hair to get rid of the tangles before she applied the mousse. "What's that?" Jakotsu asked as Izayoi rubbed the mousse into his hair.
"It's to help style your hair. I use it all the time to make my hair seem wet," Izayoi explained. She twisted his hair and placed the clip to hold onto it. Then, she added more mousse to the ends to get a spiral effect to it. She finished off by brushing his bangs into place. Izayoi brought out her mirrorand gave it to Jakotsu saying,"Look! Do you like it?" "Oh, I love it!" Jakotsu said, examining himself in the mirror. "Thanks!" "Well, I wasn't able to find them anywhere!" Izayoi and Jakotsu saw Bankotsu walking up to them. He flopped onto the ground next to Izayoi. "I'll go look for them, there's nothing better to do around here anyways," Jakotsu said, getting up and walking off into a nearby forest. "So alone at last," Bankotsu said, hugging Izayoi. She reached up to kiss him as he placed a hand on her back. "Can I do your braid, Bankotsu?" Izayoi asked when they broke apart. "Huh? Why? Is my braid messed up?" "No, I just wanna!" Izayoi replied touching his face. "Okay I guess," Bankotsu said, letting his hair loose. Izayoi sat behind him and began to brush his hair. "You hair's so pretty and soft!" Izayoi complimented, rubbing her face against it. "Okay..." Bankotsu thought. "Oww!" he winced as Izayoi hit a tangle. "I'm sorry, Bankotsu!" Izayoi squealed. "It's okay. I've suffered worst." She finished brushing his hair and then braided it quickly. "There we go! All done!" Izayoi said in a sweet little girl voice.
A sudden gust of wind startled them as Kagura appeared. She looked as if she was out of breath. "Izayoi! Naraku wants you at the castle immediately! I'll be able to take you there!" Kagura said. Izayoi looked at Bankotsu and he replied,"Go before your father gets angry." Kagura threw one of the feathers in her hair into the air and, with another gust of wind, her and Izayoi were flying away on a feather. "I'll see you later, Izayoi!" Bankotsu yelled out. "Okay, bye!" Izayoi yelled back. "What does Naraku want?" Izayoi asked Kagura, worried that Hakudoshi had told on her. "Inuyasha appeared at the castle. He wants you to be there to make sure nothing happens to you," Kagura explained. "Wouldn't I be safer with Bankotsu, seeing that I'm far away from the battlefield?" Izayoi asked. "In a way, you would. But, if you're with him, you won't have any barrier to protect you," Kagura said as they approached the castle from the back so they wouldn't be spotted. They landed and Kagura said,"Go inside the castle. I have to go hold off Inuyasha." Izayoi was totally confused and went to go snoop around even though Kagura told her to stay inside.
She went over to a window overlooking the courtyard. Her father and a some guy wearing red were there. It looked as if they were talking, but Izayoi couldn't hear anything from this distance. Suddenly, she heard Kagura's voice cry out,"Dance of Blades!" They hit the guy in red and a girl that looked around Izayoi's age cried out,"Inuyasha!" "So that's Inuyasha!" Izayoi thought. She remembered what Kagura had told her about some guy named Inuyasha being responsible for her mother's death. She narrowed her eyes at the thought that he was in the castle, trying to kill her father this time. She saw Kagura attack a group that involved a monk, some other girl with a huge boomerang, and the girl that had called out to Inuyasha. Inuyasha turned around and yelled,"Kagome!" Unfortunately, the girl with the boomerang had protected her and the girl named Kagome was fine. "She looks pretty useless! It seems that Inuyasha cares about her more than the others," Izayoi thought to herself. "If I'm able to kill that girl, I may be able to make Inuyasha suffer for killing my mother! It's a more wiser decision that going after Inuyasha himself. Yes, I think I'll be able to carry this out! She seems to be stupid seeing as she gets herself in danger, so I'll have noooo trouble at all."
Izayoi had a plan in mind already as she walked down in the direction of the courtyard. She spotted the girl named Kagome a good distance away from everyone else. "Damn, I'm so lucky to have taken Theater Arts in school," Izayoi thought as she pretended to be wounded. She forced herself to shed tears as she stumbled to Kagome. "P-please...help...me," Izayoi stuttered as she collapsed to the floor. Kagome hurried to her, asking,"Are you okay? What happened to you?" "I've been trying...to...escape from here...for days. They've been...torturing me, asking...if I knew some...girl called...Kagome," Izayoi said, pretending to have a hard time breathing. "They must have thought you knew me, seeing that you look as if you come from my time," Kagome said, kneeling over to help her. Izayoi laughed softly.
"You really are a pathetic fool!" Izayoi said in a deadly whisper. "Wha--" Kagome began to say. Izayoi pierced through her heart with a dagger, causing Kagome to fall to the floor, blood pouring out of her mouth. "Kagome?" Inuyasha said, catching the scent of blood coming from behind him. He saw Kagome laying in a pool of her own blood and noticed Izayoi standing up, her arm covered in the same scarlet blood. "Kagome! You'll pay for this you wench!" Inuyasha said rushing towards her with the Tetsaiga firmly grasped in his hand. Izayoi had barely looked up when she saw her father in front of her. He placed a barrier around them both before Inuyasha had a chance to attack. Naraku laughed and said,"Inuyasha you are so easily distracted by the death of a mere woman." "You'll pay for this!" Inuyasha retorted.
"Good job, Izayoi. You have gotten rid of nuisance for me," Naraku told Izayoi in a quiet voice. Izayoi laughed evilly and told Inuyasha,"You and Kagome are so alike in the sense that you are both so easily fooled!" "I don't know who the hell you are, but I'm gonna cut you and Naraku into pieces for this!" he yelled at her. Kagura came into the battle and opened her fan and said,"You will have to face me, in order to get to them first!" Inuyasha was distracted by Kagura that by the time he looked up, Naraku and Izayoi were already leaving. "Come back here, Naraku! I'm not done with you. You'll pay for what you did to Kagome!" Inuyasha yelled at them.
Far away from the battlefield, Naraku and Izayoi were in his chambers. Izayoi felt rather proud of herself of killing that useless girl, Kagome. What did disappoint her was that she had ruined Elena's clothes with the wench's worthless blood. Izayoi sighed heavily,"Oh, I ruined Elena's clothes! I'm sure she'll understand though." Naraku looked at Izayoi with an evil smirk. He was proud of Izayoi and how she had tricked Kagome into believing that she was injured. "Izayoi, you managed to kill Kagome and for that, I'm very grateful." Izayoi grinned happily. "Well, I knew that stupid girl had to go. I noticed that she was just getting in the way." Naraku replied calmly,"Perhaps...anyway, I'm glad to say you are indeed my daughter."
Naraku came near Izayoi and gave her a slight hug that made her smile. She was glad that she was being recognized for her part in dispatching Kagome in front of Inuyasha. Then, a sudden thought hit her. "Ha, they can't charge me with murder here! The Feudal Era rules just for this time only and not to mention because of Bankotsu!" Izayoi released herself from Naraku's hug and said,"I'd better go clean up. I'll see you later." She walked out the room and thought to herself,"Man, am I a mess! I hope this blood comes off!" Down the other side of the hallway, Hakudoshi was passing through, apparently minding his own business. Hakudoshi came near her. She heard her heart pumping faster. She really didn't feel like arguing with him today. As soon as he came close enough, however, he grabbed her by the waist. He pulled her into an embrace and began to wipe off the blood that was trailing down her neck from her cheek.
Izayoi was paralyzed with shock and couldn't move. Hakudoshi spoke softly to her, as if an whisper. "I saw how you killed that girl. I'm impressed. I didn't know you had it in you." Izayoi tried to back away from Hakudoshi and he just pulled her closer to him. His forehead came in contact with hers. Izayoi looked at him with her eyes full of flames. She noticed a somewhat amorous look in his eyes. He pressed his lips onto hers. He quickly ended the kiss and smiled at her. "If you don't let go of me, I'll kill you this instant!" Izayoi was letting herself be hugged by Hakudoshi only because her body wouldn't obey her commands to move. Smiling with a vile look in his eyes, he said,"Just try to kill me. You're too weak to face me." Izayoi was struggling to free herself from Hakudoshi. "Release me at once!" she said in a whisper.
No matter what Izayoi did to free herself from Hakudoshi's grasp, he would tighten his grip on her. "You should wash off that human's scent. It smells awful." Izayoi was getting even angrier from what he had just said. Hakudoshi read her mind and corrected himself,"I didn't mean that you're awful, but the human blood on you." He looked down at her bloodstained clothing and said,"Oh, and you should change into something more loose and comfortable." Izayoi had a feeling that something was up with Hakudoshi. He wasn't acting like himself. "Since when do you care so much about me?" "I'm just use to seeing you in your other clothes," he said randomly as breathed down her neck. He pulled down her shirt sleeve to expose her bare shoulder, panting excitedly. He held her even tighter and closer to him than before. Slowly, he sank his fangs into her flesh, on the spot where her neck connected with her shoulder. She winced slightly. He gently licked off the droplets of blood oozing from the wound. Izayoi was beginning to feel dizzy and unsteady. Suddenly, everything grew dark as Izayoi fainted.
Later that same day, Izayoi woke up in her bed. She felt a soreness in her neck and glanced to the mirror. She saw the bite that Hakudoshi had made. "Why the hell did he bite me?" she thought. She got up from bed and nearly fell down. She still felt unsteady and dizzy. "Just what did he do to me?" Izayoi walked to the door and slid open the screen. As she stumbled out the doorway, she fell. "Izayoi! Are you okay?" Izayoi heard Kagura's voice come near her. She got up, covering the bitemarks on her neck with her hand. "I'm fine Kagura." "What happened? I saw how you killed Kagome," Kagura said. "I'm fine. Naraku just told me I did well. That's all. Oh, and I met Hakudoshi again," Izayoi explained. "Did he bother you again?" Kagura asked. "Well, he was acting kind of weird. The only reason I let myself was because my feet didn't want to move."
Izayoi looked down, rubbing her neck and said,"When I woke up right now, I felt really dizzy! He also bit me! I guess that's why I fainted." Izayoi removed her hand to show Kagura the bite on her neck. Kagura gasped and thought,"He bit her on her neck? Then that can only mean..." "It still kind of hurts," Izayoi said. "I think I might as well go to sleep since I still feel dizzy. Good night!" Izayoi walked back to her room and jumped on the bed, not even bothering to change. Back outside, Kagura was sitting on the roof, thinking about what Izayoi had told her just now. "Hakudoshi bit her on the neck...that only means one thing," Kagura thought. "But why would Hakudoshi want Izayoi as his mate? She is pretty, but I thought he had no heart. Perhaps he only desires her body not her heart." Kagura looked up and said to herself,"I won't tell her this. This will only make her feel worse. I'll tell her only when I see that Hakudoshi does mean business."
Miroku, Sango, Shippo, and Inuyasha were all mourning the loss of Kagome as they settled down for the night. "Inuyasha," Miroku said as they all sat near the fire. "What?" Inuyasha replied, his back turned to them. "Did you wonder why Naraku protected that girl from your attack?" "Isn't she one of Naraku's incarnations?" Shippo asked, wiping away his tears. "I don't think she is. Knowing Naraku, he wouldn't risk his life for an incarnation of his," Miroku replied. "So what is she then?" Sango asked, her eyes brimming with tears. "Hmm...I have a theory but I need more proof in order to see if it's true. "Who cares! She killed Kagome! And for that, she will pay!" Inuyasha said angrily, getting up and walking away. They all watched him go away. "Kagome's death must have really got to him," Sango whispered. "Of course! He loved her almost as much as he loved Kikyo," Miroku said. "We should all get some sleep. We'll be able to discuss this more in the morning," he added.
Author's Note: We mentioned that Hakudoshi bit Izayoi on the neck because we've read in several fanfics that that's how demons mark their mates. Also, we know that Naraku is acting a bit soft, but, hey, even the evilest of people are bound to care for someone, right?