Night Prayer and Warnings

"Angels East angels West, North and South just do your best and just watch over us as we rest, amen."

The gang was once again up and traveling once more when the first rays of light shined down on the slumbering lands, Miroku and Shippo were in the front of the group while Kirara took the middle. Inuyasha growled softly "tell me again, why we are going South instead of Northwest, like Kikyo said she sensed jewel shards at" Shippo rolled his eyes "oh did you hear then when she was seeing white?" he said sarcastically Inuyasha glared at him, but Shippo returned it with more force.

Miroku shook his head "well Inuyasha, we heard a rumor saying there were jewel shards in the Southern Lands and since we were closer to the Southern Lands than we were to the Northwest, I thought it would be better to go to the Southern Lands instead" he calmly explained to the half demon.

Having nothing to argue about, Inuyasha crossed his arms over his chest and huffed, sticking his nose in the air. Shippo, Miroku, and Kirara shook their heads at the half-demon's childish antics. They continued to walk down the dirt road ignoring Inuyasha huffy attitude all of the sudden Kirara stopped and looked around, sniffing the air, everyone stopped then looked at her.

Shippo stepped up "what is it Kirara?" he kneeled down beside her then looked around the area where they were currently in, everything was silent, that was when he noticed there was no sound at all. No rustles from the leaves, no thumping sounds from running animals, not even a whoosh sound from the wind, not that he could even feel even the slightest breeze.

"Hm, well if it isn't my little half-breed of a brother," came a cool and cold baritone voice; everyone froze then slowly turned their head to see a tall dark figure slowly walking out of the forest.

"Bored, bored, bored, bored, bored, bored, bored, bored, bored, bored, bored, bored, bored, bored, bored, bored, bored, and…bored" Kagome sighed, she swirled her finger around in the water as she watched as everything went on within the kingdom and the lands. The eyes that were within the forest were within the room, the water, the sand and stones in the Zen Garden, everything, even her bed.

Kagome sighed again 'damn, how long are they going to keep me in here?' she closed her eyes and shook her head then opened her eyes again then look to the right. She frowned then raised her hand, the image within the waters froze in place, she swiped her hand across the other images and the other image became larger. Looking at the image closely she saw that it was her old group and…Sesshomaru?

"Oh shit, this will not end up well" she mumbled to herself, pushing herself up to her feet "drastic times means for drastic measures" Kagome clasped her hands together in front of her as though praying. She slowly kneeled on one knee at the same time her arms slowly crossed each other to opposite shoulders, making an X.

Bowing her head, Kagome started to chant something; the water slowly started to rise out of the pool and glided around her like a snake. As Kagome chanted faster and faster, the water started to swirl around her faster as well, Kagome's black silk pajamas changed to a black kimono that had red dragon designs on it with smoky clouds on the edges of the separate piece of the sleeves. A black and gold obi (belt) around it with a red string in the middle of it. It had slits on both sides that reached her hip revealing her long never ending slender legs that will get even girls drooling; she wore the most amazing shoes that didn't look at all for fighting. The shoes was a red dragon with its neck going down the shoes while its wings were closed behind it as the heel holder and its tail went up, above her ankle, also had a topaz stone in the end of the tail. On the wings were dazzling faux gems and iridescent stones , the bottom of the shoe was made up of pure gold and the thing that gave the shoe its dazzling perfection was the sparkling gem on the heel of it.

When the whole transformation was done, Kagome was completely surrounded by the water and the water slowly started to pull back into the pool with Kagome missing from the spot she was just in.

Back with the gang, Inuyasha was growling at his brother with tetsusaiga out and ready to plunge it through the ignorant demon lord, Sesshomaru stood only a few feet away from them, not effected by Inuyasha's threatening growls. He looked at all the members of the group as though searching for someone, when he seems to not have found them he looked back at his brother "so I see that your other miko has left you, what? Did she realize that you might use her for your selfish pleasures" he said with a bit of mock in his voice.

This only ticked Inuyasha even more he tightened his grip on the hilt of the sword, ready to charge at him when Kikyo spoke, turning his attention to her. "What brings you here Lord Sesshomaru, if I do so remember, you had other responsibilities to deal with" she said, Sesshomaru knew what she was talking about and narrowed his eyes at her slightly.

"Hold your tongue wench or I will make sure to send you to where you truly belong" Kikyo glared at him with hatred burning her in dead brown eyes, she pulled her bow from her back and readied an arrow, aiming it at Sesshomaru heart. "I truly belong where I say I truly belong" she said coldly, Sesshomaru put his hand on Tokijin, getting ready for any kind of attacks, the group stood there in a battle like stance for what seemed like forever.

At a river that lead down to the ocean, the waters slowly started to rise up as it went higher and higher it started to swirl around into a cocoon, when the waters was completely in a cocoon shape it instantly froze into solid ice. The whole area was silent, the animals that were around looked at the cocoon curiously, wondering what it was, they took a step closer to it then quickly halted when the heard a loud crack sound.

Their ears instantly perked up, they saw the solid ice cocoon starting to crack. The cracks spread out all through the back and the front then CRASH! Ice shards flew everywhere the animals was about to run for cover when the suddenly saw humongous transparent pink angel wings open up and flapped a couple times. They blinked a couple times and backed away when they saw the wings turned pitch black, that was when they high tailed it out of there.

The wings flapped a few more times before disappearing in thin air, Kagome slowly lifted her head allowing her hair to spread away from her face. Her eyes flashed to silver to frosty ice blue the winds swept across the area, blowing bamboos back and to make a soft flute sounds.

Closing her eyes and breathing in the waters and natures around her Kagome sighed, she slowly opened her eyes then smiled 'beautiful' she thought "you know Lady Kagome, if Kouga knew that you left your room, he's going to be quite mad with you" came a masculine voice. Not surprise by this person unexpected appearance Kagome turned her head to see a parallel person of Sango, except this one was a guy, not a female, his raining cloud eyes were hard and narrowed. His face narrowed, his hair was short and light brown instead of dark brown, he wore a black and grey armor just like demon slayers wear and he had a giant demon bone on his back and instead of a creamy ivory color it was pitch black and had strong metallic blades that came out when thrown. Also instead of being human, he was a Black Panther demon, except he kept his demonic appearance well hidden.

Kagome gave a low hum "I know, but I have more important things to take care of then worrying about how Kouga will feel when he finds out of my disappearance." The Black Panther demon chuckled "you seem to never change and also seem to have a few clever tricks of your sleeve" he grinned, showing his pearl white fangs that shined to the sharp point.

Ignoring the demon's remark, Kagome turned and started walking, well power walking, into the forest. The panther demon stood there a bit shocked then quickly ran up beside Kagome "hey, calm down, it was only a joke" Kagome looked at him from the side of her then looked straight ahead again "I know, but I need to be somewhere before half my lands starts looking like Sarah Desert."

At the sound of this the demon's expression became serious "is it an enemy?" "No, some old comrades" Kagome said flatly, the panther demon stared at the young ruler before looking straight ahead. Yes, he knew who she meant, everyone in the kingdom knows about the group Kagome use to travel with before she even came to stumble upon the ruins of the Southern Lands.

'Maybe now I could teach that little puppy and his bitch not to mess with someone like Lady Kagome' inwardly smirking, the panther demon started to formulate a plan within his mind to make Inuyasha and his little bedmate pay for what they have done.

"Bastard!" screamed Inuyasha, he swung tetsusaiga at Sesshomaru, but he dodged with ease and swung Tokijin at him successfully hitting him in the stomach. Inuyasha screamed out in pain while flying back and hitting a tree, almost breaking it "Inuyasha!" Sango called out in worry, now she knew how Kagome felt when he always got injured, hopeless.

She turned to look at Sesshomaru to see him barely dodge one of Kikyo's arrows; she watched as Kikyo quickly notched another arrow in her bow and took aim once again in one graceful movement. Not wanting Kikyo to get all the glory she tightened her grip on the strap on her hiraikots and towards Sesshomaru, who was still dodging Kikyo's arrows, she stopped about a few feet away from Sesshomaru, sliding a bit on the ground, and threw her giant demon bone boomerang "HIRAIKOTS!" she yelled.

The giant demon bone boomerang flew straight towards Sesshomaru's unsuspecting back when he heard the whizzing sounds he turned his head to see the giant bone about ready to his hit him directly. His eyes widened just a fraction when he noticed another arrow coming straight towards him and ready to purify him to hell and back, there was no escape.

"Lord Sesshomaru!" a girl screamed in fright, the teenage girl that traveled with him quickly ran out of the bushes she was hiding in and ran in front of him. Sesshomaru looked at his ward with shock and worry flashing briefly in his eyes, he was about ready to push the little girl out of the way when another arrow hit the ground in front of them and put up a pink wall that blocked the arrow and another black giant demon bone boomerang shot out of the forest and hit Sango's boomerang, making it fall to the ground only a few inches away from them.

The black boomerang flew in the air then came back around and flew back into the forest, though you couldn't hear if someone caught it or not. Everyone stood there with shocked expressions wondering what just happened; the glowing arrow that made the pink wall barrier slowly sucked back up into the arrow then pulsated.

The arrow and Sango's boomerang pulsated as well then slowly lifted into the air, the teenage girl watched in amazement as the weapons floated up in front of her as though there were two people standing right there protecting them. 'Guardian Angels' she thought to herself with a smile on her face.

The teenage girl had black hair that reached her lower back that had a small ponytail on top of the right side of her head and brown eyes that shined with innocence and joy. She was about a 5'5", she wore a white kimono that had sakura petals on the shoulder and edges of the sleeves with a turquoise mist behind it, the kimono showed her half developed body. And she wore no footwear at all, she was just plain barefooted, which some found kind of strange.

After coming out of shock, Inuyasha narrowed his eyes "what the hell is going on Sesshomaru, stop being coward and fight me like a man!" he shouted Sesshomaru looked at Inuyasha with a bored blank expression "this Sesshomaru has nothing to do with this half-breed" he said in calm icy voice.

"Its actually I, who is doing all this…Inuyasha" came a cold monotone voice that sound particularly familiar, everyone turned their heads to see a black panther demon wearing a demon slayer out fit wearing that black boomerang that deflected Sango's boomerang. And standing right next to the demon was a cloaked figure that held a LONG black glowing bow that seemed too connected to the black and white edges glove, and with a silver metallic arrow in their hand, which was all they could see.

Inuyasha glared at the two people "who the hell are you, and why are you protecting this bastard, are one of his-" "we do not work for Lord Sesshomaru nor are we protecting him" came the same feminine voice that they could only guess was the cloaked person. "We are specifically trying to prevent future damages to the Southern Lands, as you so intelligently knew that, right?" the panther demon asked, everyone stood quiet, they actually thought that they were half-way to the borders of the Southern Lands but not really within it.

Taking their silence as a no the panther demon rolled its eyes and mumbled something about complete idiots and their lack of navigation, the cloaked figure chuckled at the demon's remark. Sesshomaru stepped up "How is it that the Southern Lands reach this far into the lands, as I so do remember that Southern Lands only rule half the lands that reaches the" "public village, yes, that is true, but the Southern Lands has expanded since the time when the new ruler arisen" "new ruler?" asked Kikyo with a confused look on her face.

"Wait" Sango shook her head then looked at the demon "the Southern Lands has not had a ruler since the time before Midoriko was even born, or even the great dog demon general." "Your point?" the demon raised one elegant brow, Sango narrowed her eyes "my point is, is that there was no other heir to the throne to the Southern Lands so no one could possibly take over…" "Ah yes, true, but as you know the Demon Political Law states that if any lands has not been ruled over and their was no other heir produced to take the throne of those lands. The souls of the past Southern Rulers will remain in the living plane until they have chosen a right ruler of their choice, to their throne of those said lands. Am I not correct?"

"…Yes you are, but…how would anyone be chosen when no hardly knows where the Kingdom of the South really is, that kingdom was more hidden then…Naraku himself is" Sango said, trying to explain everything the best she could. She actually didn't know the Demon Political Law, she always thought everything was chosen by the demon court, which is also a group of elder demons that chooses whether a demon will remain ruling their lands also see if their heir is worthy to take over them when the current ruler passes it on or dies in battle.

"It is true that the demon court is supposed to choose the next ruler, but even they cannot change the original laws that were written in the blood of the first four rulers and elders of the court."

While this whole conversation was going on Shippo and Miroku were eyeing the cloaked figure that now stood quiet. They saw their head move to the side as though looking in the forest, Rin also looked at the mysterious woman wondering what she looked like underneath that cloak, even though she didn't care, she might be too ashamed of how she looked and just hid herself underneath that gaudy looking cloak.

She jumped when the panther demon turned his head and glared at her with lightning bolts shooting in his eyes, she gulped "I would highly recommend you didn't judge my friend of being a hideous looking being" he said with a small hiss. Rin was shocked "but I didn't" "he's telepathic, meaning he could read other people's minds" came the mysterious girl's voice, her head still turned to the forest.

Everyone looked at her "why are you hiding underneath that cloak?" asked Sango curiously the mysterious girl turned her head to face her "whoever said I was hiding?" she remarked calmly. "Take off the cloak then, and let us see your face" said Kikyo, she didn't like this woman. She held a lot of power, enough to make a bow and arrow out of them. The girl looked her way "I do not need to prove that I am hiding or not to any of you, my reasons for being in this cloak is my own, try and tell me that I am a coward and we'll see who'll be running up the hills with arrows shot in the ass" she threatened, to prove her threat she lifted her bow and pulled back the arrow to aim it at her, but then the arrow divided and she was holding three arrows, all pointing at Kikyo, Inuyasha, and Sango.

All of them tensed up seeing this, the hairs on the back of their necks rose from the power that started to gather up within the arrows. Silence grew in between them making the whole situation uncomfortable the panther demon looked at the girl then at the gang then back at the girl.

After a couple more seconds the girl spun the bow in one hand and the arrows in the other and separated them, she pulled her arms back, making the weapons disappear within her cloak. She spun on her heels letting her back face them the whole gang seemed to have been relieved because their shoulders went slack a bit the girl turned her head "Tinotsu" she called the panther demon perked his head up when he heard his name being called.

"Yes?" he asked "come on, there is nothing else to be said here" the panther demon, known as Tinotsu, nodded and lowered his arm from the strap on the boomerang and walked over to her. As he reached her side the girl turned her head the other way "you may stay in the Southern Lands as long as you do not destroy anything, but if you do, consider yourselves as preys" with that said the girl's cloak lifted up revealing her kimono then engulfed them and shot into the air, shooting straight down into the deepest part of the Southern Lands.

Everyone stood there, not really knowing what to do, they didn't want to listen to the girl, but they also did not want to test fate, they had no clue what the new ruler was capable of, also they had NO CLUE as to what the hell just happened. Sesshomaru took his hands off Tokijin and turned on his heels "come Rin" he said, the teenaged girl, known as Rin, jumped a bit then turned to Sesshomaru "yes Lord Sesshomaru" she quickly followed behind him back into the forest.

"Hey get back here you bastard, we're not done yet!" Inuyasha screamed out in anger, suddenly he was hit in the back of the head "ow!" he turned to meet narrowed violet colored eyes. He blinked a few time then growled "what the hell Miroku!" he yelled earning another whack on the head "ow!" "Are you deaf Inuyasha, that woman said if we were to cause any problems on these lands we will be hunted down and killed. And I do not wish to die just yet" he said with anger laced in his voice, Inuyasha glared at him while rubbing the, oh so noticeable bump on his head.

"Its getting dark, I think we should go find a village before the moon rises up" said Sango, she glanced at Miroku to see him pick up the sleep Shippo and helping Kirara to jump onto his shoulder. She felt a pang of hurt and jealousy in her gut, she glared at them then turned look at Inuyasha he looked at her then at Kikyo "yeah, I think I smell some villagers up not too far from here."

The hunters started to take off to the closest village never noticing that a pair of lavender and gold eyes were watching them in the shadows, when they saw them disappear in the distance then fled and went to the village in the Southeast to where a certain wolf general was.


Kage: chapter 9 complete, I think I need to rest my brain, I have been doing this story for two weeks straight, I think...yeahhh, I think it was two weeks, oh and this chapter was for a girl named KikInu, I suppose it was, I'm sorry for those who wanted to know what Inuyasha and the others were doing and I never did that and was discussing the whole...Kagome thing also the palace/kingdom. Also I'm going to hold off my other stories to kind of complete this one and I promise I will try to get this story complete, that would be awesome the very first story that Kage actually completes -gasp- haha, also I'm ina good mood to write down a whole bunch of chapters because I have a new boyfriend Nolan Jankowski. haha.

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