Fallen Trust, and Misguided Soul

Saeka moved for the first time in three days. Sesshomaru was the first to notice. He hadn't budged from his spot beside his companion for the entire time they'd had her since Kirara brought her in on her back. When Saeka's eyes opened and looked at him, they were at once filled with fear and panic. She had tried to run, but he had held her back.

" No! Leave me alone!" Saeka cried.

" Saeka, be still! You're fine, now." Sesshomaru said to her. She had managed to get about five feet away, but she appeared skeptical. She now looked at him as she had the day they had first met. She appeared fearful of him.

" I don't know who you are." She said stubbornly. She got to her feet, wobbled and fell down again.

While all of this was happening, only InuYasha was awake and he could see the vague and quite subtle hurt in his brother's eyes. Saeka meanwhile had finally managed to get to her feet and slowly hobble several feet away, still glowering at Sesshomaru.

Kaede was awake too, however and she was watching with grim composure. She shook her head in empathy.

It's just as I thought. Miharu has indeed caused her parents to split up like this, but definitely not intentionally. And now that our only reliable pair is unable to trust one another, we may have a more difficult time than previously planned.

Khiinli stepped up to the lab computer and proceeded to type in all sorts of streams of endless jumble that made no sense to Tama, but clearly plenty to her. He watched as her eyes danced across the screen, following the steady stream of symbols. Finally, she pressed one large key that spelled, Eientre, which he figured probably meant 'Enter' and watched as a screen popped up showing a large room with five to six figures standing within, all observing two others in the darkened background. Khiinli let out a sharp gasp and stumbled back. " No!" she breathed.

Tama rushed to her side just one of the figures turned, let out a yell and with a single swipe, destroyed the camera in that room, causing the screen to go all snowy.

As he helped Khiinli up, a sudden sound like a foghorn suddenly met their ears and Khiinli grabbed his arm and ran with him to the other end of the room.

" Khiinli! What's happening?" he yelled.

" It is the alarm! We have been found!" she cried. She reached the opposite wall and with incredible strength, slammed her fist into the wall, forcing open what was obviously a hollow panel. But this, whatever it was had buttons in it for pressing, as Tama was about to find out as she shoved him inside.

" What are we doing?" he cried.

" We are using the Time Transporter to take us back to the Feudal Era. The kikuurama has transformed early! We have to get out of here while we still possess our lives and warn everyone in your era! She will arrive just as soon as she is trained! There is not a moment to lose!"

Tama just watched as the doors shut behind them and she scrunched herself up against him.

" Shut your eyes." She murmured. He did so, just as the room began to whirl around uncontrollably.

The soldiers marched proudly in with a figure draped in a red cloak in between them and Tobias chained and being dragged along behind them into the throne room of King Drasmond. They bowed.

" Your highness, we have captured the scientist responsible for attempting to halt the transformation of the kikuurama." They declared. Tobias struggled in his chains as Drasmond stood up. " Traitor. We will have you personally dealt with by our friend. Is the kikuurama here?" he said. The soldiers moved aside so that the cloaked figure could move forward. It paused beside the throne of Drasmond and the king smiled wickedly. " Excellent. Now my friend, are you prepared to give your life to the kingdom?"

The head nodded. Tobias, still on the floor closed his eyes sadly. Drasmond cackled evilly, stretched his hand over the cloak and whipped it off.

" Now, we, the citizens of Malsshinyor shall reign supreme!" he yelled to the heavens.

Beside him, Miharu, eyes black all around except for a little red point in the middle grinned a demonic grin.

Her eyes narrowed on the form of her ex-friend lying on the floor some yards away while Drasmond laughed his triumph to the heavens.

The kikuurama had risen.

A/N: Now how was that for a cliffhanger? Miharu has become the kikuurama, she is about to eliminate her friend Tobias and her family is split apart. Aside from that, Khiinli and Tama are on their way back to the present time to consult Miharu's parents. Perhaps there is a way to change all of this and it might involve stopping her creation altogether. Uh-oh, what could that possibly mean???

Prepare for the chapter of the kikuurama called,

The Paths We Choose