Chapter 13-Origin of the Holy Seven Priests Revealed

Several more days passed as Sesshomorru, Kikyo, Kagome, and Shippo were resting in Kaede's village watching over Sonya. Sesshomorru stayed inside Kaede's hut with the others so he wouldn't be seen by anyone. He felt that his reputation for not liking humans should stay as discrete as possible.

Kagome and the others didn't really care as long as he helped in protecting Sonya. Before long the flea and loyal servant of Inuyasha, Myoga had come paying a visit to address the group about what he had heard about the Holy Seven Priests. The news was less then enthusiastic when he told them.

"They believe themselves to be holy warriors?" said Kagome in surprise. This was the first she had ever heard of it or anyone in that room for that matter.

"Yes, the Holy Seven Priests was found over a hundred years ago by an unknown man whom what many considered to believe was a fallen priest. It was his belief as well as the belief of his followers that demons were evil regardless if they were harmless. Many within the priesthood around had little objection to it, but some priests as well as monks thought that was a little extreme for their liking. When this unknown man learned of half-demons and their existence he asked the head of his order to rally all the monks, priests, priestesses, demon hunters, and any others soul who wanted to join in a crusade to kill what he called 'the half-demon plague'. Needless to say the order was less then ambitious to launch that kind of campaign.

"Considering that it would takes months, possibly even several years to assemble an army of fellow members of the cloth together. It seems that man intentions were would be considered a little…farfetched and over zealous," said Kikyo as she had heard rumors as a child of a man starting such a campaign.

"That's what the leader of his order thought too. When he took his request to the counsel of priests they scorned him for his outrageous desires. They tried to remind him that half-demons were both human and demon and that by killing the demon you would in turn kill the human inside that was the soul. And that was something the counsel believed was wrong with his plan. The priest called the counsel old fodders and stormed out of the counsel chambers. Shortly after six other priests close to the original priest joined him in a quest to kill all the demons and made a reputation for themselves. Ever since then every previous priest of the Holy Seven, has been passing down their teaching for the passed one hundred years. Finding those who would help them in their quest to purge all that is demon life," said Myoga as he rested on Sesshomorru's shoulder only to be smacked right off by the demon.

"Ye make sense on why ye would attack Inuyasha, but why attack ye old man?" said Kaede as she was showing Sonya how to grind herbs together.

It took a moment for Myoga to gather his composer before he could answer. "Because they also believed those who would help half-demon or mate with full ones were just as evil as the demons themselves. The Holy Seven Priests believed that anyone who helps demons in anyway must die to become purified," said Myoga.

"That's wrong. To hunt down demons as well as humans who help them," said Kagome who had a very sad look on her face.

Sonya saw this and got up and sat next to Kagome. "Don't worry Kagome. Inuyasha is going to make them pay for what they have done," she said with an optimistic smile.

"I hope so Sonya. Inuyasha sometimes has a habit of doing things that some would consider being…hostile to others," said Shippo who was sitting next to Sonya watching Kaede's teaching.

(Several hours later not far from Kaede's village)

Inuyasha and Kilala rested at a nearby stream to wash away the blood that had stained their bodies to a point where not washing the blood of was not an option. Kilala's blood stained fur was cleaned in the stream almost immediately since she had killed only a small amount of people compared to Inuyasha that stained the river in light red colored blood. Inuyasha however, had done more killing then Kilala by far and destroyed so many buildings with people in them in the process.

The blood on his body was soaked into his clothing as well as skin causing Inuyasha to wash his clothing as well as his skin. In doing so the blood on his body caused the once pure stream of water to become severely discolored with that of dark red human blood. After doing so they rested briefly as Inuyasha thought about the many things he had done. "Kilala? I'm beginning to believe that…you should have never come with me on this journey," said Inuyasha.

Kilala looked at him with surprise. She could see Inuyasha was staring into the stream with great intensity in his eyes as if he was struggling with something in his heart. She could sense an inner struggle within Inuyasha as he came to grips from the recent village they had just killed. Kilala had sense this before in Inuyasha in the beginning of the attack they assaulted the human settlement. She went up to him and tried to give him some form of support by showing some sort of affection that only a cat like her could. "Thank you Kilala, but from here on out I must do this alone…I see that now," said Inuyasha tiredly.

Kilala gave a mewing noise with a hint of a growl, which said, "I don't want to go. I want to keep going and to stay here with you".

Inuyashas voice suddenly became more serious when he spoke a second time to Kilala. "Please Kilala! (voice softens here--- ) Go to Kagome, Kikyo, Sango, and the others and tell them I love them all with every fiber of my being. I can only hope that…maybe one day they will love me back for the horrible deeds I've done," said Inuyasha as he hugged Kilala who after staring at him reluctantly left him by the now bloody stream.

Hours after Kilala left Inuyasha just sat their in front of the stream gazing at it as it finally was purified once more. He stared at the reflection with a heavy heart. In the time he and Kilala had been together they had attack three small villages and two highly populated market places. In each case, he and Kilala spared a small group of people who he ordered to inform the Holy Seven Priests of what he and Kilala had done.

It was clear to him now that his enemies weren't going to come to him no matter how many people he killed. He realized at that moment…he would have to come to them. He slowly got up and headed North to where the Holy Seven Priests were when he heard something come his way. It was the sound of a horse. "What the hell is going now?" said Inuyasha as the sound of the horse came louder and louder with each passing moment.