Chapter Twenty-Five: Unlikely Allies
"Speaking"
Thinking/Memories
'beast talking/thinking'
"Hiraikotsu!" The sound of the bone boomerang whirling through the air was disrupted only by the sound of it crushing through the body of a large demon, tearing it in half.
As the body began to reform a shining pink light pierced through its core, dispersing the body in its purifying light. The other demons shuttered away from the light forming their retreat only to be met by a white hair, red-clothed demon with a sword twice his size.
"Wind Scar!" With one fell swoop of the club size blade, scars of the earth slashed through the horde of demons creating a hole in the small army.
"There's too many of them!" Sango cried out from her perch atop Kiara.
"If only the Saimyōshō weren't here!" Miroku bashed a demons head in with his staff, then through sutras at a few more coming towards him. There was the buzzing of the Saimyōshō in the air, the poisonous bugs doing nothing but floating in the sky to prevent Miroku from dispatching the horde of demons easily.
"Just sit back, Miroku," the smugness in Inuyasha's voice was hard to miss as he slashed down a few more of the demons. "All your good for is that wind tunnel of yours, your useless if you can't use it."
"Inuyasha!" Kagome's disapproved shriek came from across the battlefield and it caused the hanyo to wince.
"What I meant is don't try anything stupid!" He tried covering for himself as Kiara landed beside Miroku and Sango and he rolled their eyes at Inuyasha.
It took a few more strikes with Tessaiga and Hiraikotsu for the horde to be gone, with a few of the Saimyōshō fleeing.
"We must be getting close to Naraku, what with all these demons coming out of nowhere." Miroku panted, watching as the bugs flew off into the sky and out of their line of sight.
"Well, we'd know for sure if we didn't waste all that time looking for that princess." Inuyasha sheathed his sword and crossed his arms, his annoyance evident on his face.
"Waste our time? She got kidnapped and we were supposed to be there to help her family!" Kagome yelled at him, putting her bow and quiver aside and glare up at him.
"Well we spent weeks looking and we lost track of Naraku's scent," Inuyasha argued back.
Miroku and Sango sat down against the shade of a nearby tree, watching as the two began to argue once again about the Princess Kasumi who disappeared in the night.
"Here they go again," the monk sighed, crossing his legs as he watched his friends begin a screaming match.
"How do you think this one will end? Will she storm away, or make him sit?" Shippo sat between Sango and Miroku, yet another viewer for the fight.
"My money is on her telling him to sit," Miroku wagered.
"I think she'll storm off, probably go home," Sango tossed in.
"My bets she'll do both," Shippo said.
The group waited, ignoring the words being shouted as it was typically a repetition of previous fights over the last several months. It didn't end until Kagome told Inuyasha to sit, and she stormed away from the group and into the trees.
Annoyed, Sango and Miroku handed over the only currency worth giving to him. Sweets. Sweets that Kagome had brought back from her world to share with her friends. Sweets that were meant for everyone and Shippo kept managing to get his hands on everyone else.
"Hehehe, a pleasure doing business with you two," Shippo unwrapped a sucker and popped it into his mouth before he ran off towards Kagome while Inuyasha eventually made his way towards Sango and Miroku.
"Really, Inuyasha, haven't you learned anything yet?" Miroku questioned with his arms crossed.
"Shut-up, we wasted time looking for that girl and you know it." Inuyasha plopped down further away from them.
"It wasn't a waste of time to Kagome, Inuyasha. She was an innocent girl who got kidnapped by demons. Demons we were supposed to protect her from." Sango agreed with Kagome that it was important to follow through protecting people you swore to protect. She remembered how close she had been to grabbing her, if it hadn't been for that demon, Kasumi would be safe. Her home had been destroyed and her father killed but she would have been out of the reach of the demons. Now, for all they knew she was dead and that meant they failed.
"We can't protect everyone who we encounter," Inuyasha grumbled.
"But that doesn't mean we should give up without even trying. You know Kagome believes in that." Sango reminded him which caused the hanyo to growl in disapproval.
A long awkward silence passed between the group as they waited for Kagome to return. Miroku and Sango had laid out a picnic and were munching on the snacks their Miko friend brought for them when an odd chill filled the air. Collectively, three sets of eyes rose up to see the white silken hair of Sesshomaru.
He was staring off into the distance when his head turned to look at his little brother and his friends, his blank expression unchanging.
"Sesshomaru!" Inuyasha jumped up, instantly drawing his sword out to which Sesshomaru scoffed at.
"I have better things to do that fight you," Sesshomaru said as Jakken came out from the trees, panting heavily.
"My… my lord…" he huffed bending over as he tried catching his breath.
"Jakken, where's Rin?" Sesshomaru asked pointedly.
"I-" Jakken started but with a glare from Sesshomaru he turned back and hurried back through the trees.
"Sesshomaru," at the mention of his name the demon lord turned back till his eyes fell upon the monk who called him. "Are you out here looking for Naraku too?"
"Miroku, shut up!" Inuyasha yelled at the monk.
"It's of no concern to you," Sesshomaru looked off into the distance again, silencing any further questions as he waited for Jakken to return with his ward.
It's been months since he parted with Kasumi and if he thought he was unfocused before, then he had been sorely proven wrong. The first weeks were terrible as her scent faded from his clothes and the sound of her laughter no longer sang to him. He aimlessly made his way out of the woods, vaguely recalling fighting demon hordes that smelled like Naraku. He let each fight lead him farther and farther away from the place where she smelled the strongest, driving him closer and closer to the east. He knew he was a silent person, but with her absence, he noticed the quiet more, dreaded that the sound of her voice wasn't playing with his ears. He never stopped walking, even when Rin needed to rest and eat he kept going, letting the girl and imp catch up on their own.
Now here he was beside his brother and his terrible group, and all he could care to think of was his kit.
"Lord Sesshomaru!" Rin's high pitched cheer drew him out of thought long enough for him to look back at her. She was running with her hand in the miko's, dragging her along till they stood beside him. "Lord Sesshomaru! She says she knows onee-san!"
"Oh?" Sesshomaru questioned, kneeling in front of Rin. "Does she now?"
"Yeah! She said she met Onee-san's papa!" Rin was excited to be able to talk about Kasumi. She always was talking about her, telling Jakken stories of their trip with her.
"Kagome, what the hell is going on?" Inuyasha hurried to her side, not liking how close she was standing to Sesshomaru.
"Kasumi," Kagome said a smile on her face. "Rin told me that Kasumi lives at Sesshomaru's home."
"What, keeping the company of two little human girls now?" Inuyasha smirked with his arms crossed.
Sesshomaru didn't say anything as he stayed in front of Rin while she animatedly spoke about how excited she was the Miko knew her big sister. She kept going on until eventually, Kagome asked her if she was hungry. With an excited yes, Kagome lead Rin away, leaving Sesshomaru to his quiet thoughts.
"So, Rin, how did Sesshomaru meet Kasumi?" Kagome asked, getting ready to make the girl ramen despite Inuyasha's annoyed look.
"Onee-san said he saved her when she didn't want him to. Kasumi said that now she owes him some sort of debt for it." Rin said, beginning to pick nearby flowers while she spoke.
"It's great that he saved her, but why did he bring her back to his home, and not you too when he saved you?" The Miko pressed, curious to the interworking of Sesshomaru's mind.
Rin only shrugged. "I don't know," she started. "But I think it's because she's a half demon and I'm not."
"Wait, What?!" The whole group dropped what they were doing and watched Rin, who timidly looked between them all.
"She is not a half-demon. We met her, she didn't smell like one." Inuyasha concluded and huffed, arms crossing as he plopped down on the grass, finally looking away from Sesshomaru who still hadn't moved.
"Well she traveled with us for almost two months, and when the half-moon came, her hair turned black and her eyes turned brown." Rin sat down once she collected enough flowers and began to braid them together.
"She had brown hair and eyes when we met her," Inuyasha said, thinking that would put everything to rest and that this girl was stupid.
"Every other time she had yellow and black hair, and a really long yellow and black tail. She also had really pretty green eyes! Sesshomaru said they make him think of jewels!"
"Sesshomaru said that?" the group questioned together. They all turned to look at the brooding lord, who stared off at the sky as if he was expecting something or someone to come from the clouds.
If only a man would say that to me… Both Sango and Kagome thought as their eyes trailed off to Miroku and Inuyasha
While the females sighed at the romantic idea of men that complimented just for their eyes, the men went about eating, ignoring what they thought was a normal attitude for Sesshomaru.
"How did you three wind up here?" Miroku questioned the imp, who sat closely beside Rin.
"Lord Sesshomaru said he could smell Naraku over this way. We have been running into several of his Saimyōshō." Jakken said, watching the group closely. Once more he couldn't understand his lords' intentions. Yes, it was true they followed demon hordes and saimyōshō up to this point, but why stay? It baffled him. He was so unlike the lord he had come and know over the years. In such a short amount of time, he almost didn't recognize the bleary-eyed man he had become. All because of this girl. It was like Sesshomaru didn't care if he went after Naraku or not anymore. He felt a rushing of wind, and his head quickly snapped towards his lord, only to find that he had disappeared from his spot in the grass.
"Where did he go?" Inuyasha shot up, a hand on his sword.
"To her, most like. They've been parted for several months and my lord has yet to think of anything else besides her. She has cast a spell on him, charmed him. I'm sure in time he will forget all about his grudge against Naraku."
"Good! Lord Sesshomaru deserves to be happy! And I'm happy that Lord Sesshomaru is happy with Kasumi. I like her." Rin said.
"So long as he doesn't get in my way with killing Naraku, I don't care what he does," Inuyasha said.
"Well, don't you find it a bit odd that he found us? It's almost like Naraku is leading us together." Miroku suggested.
"Now, why would he want to do that?" Shippo asked, looking up at the monk.
"That's a very good question. Rin, you and Jakken can stay with us until Sesshomaru comes back, okay?" Kagome smiled at Rin, who smiled back. But the question remained in the air, why would Naraku lead them together? And was that really his intention?
Loud, terrible screeching ripped across the quiet afternoon, the birds that settled in the trees of the garden fleeing at the ear-shattering cry.
"Kasumi!" Kagewaki's voice broke through the shrieking and he dashed into the garden to see her huddled up against the garden walls, a large wasp was hovering near her. Kagewaki sighed heavily, walking over to her and pulling her up into his arms. "My lady, it's just a Saimyōshō." He said, straightening out her robes and her hair. "It won't harm you."
"I don't care what it is! Get rid of it! It's huge!" She screamed, quickly hiding behind Kagewaki. He stared at the bug for a moment, and they seemed to share a silent conversation before he started waving his hands at it, trying to get it to go away.
"Go on, shoo. You're scaring my lady," he said and slowly, the giant bug passed on its own. Kagewaki turned to face the cowering fox who had her hands in front of her face. "It's gone, Kasumi."
Cautiously she peeked out from behind her fingers and examined their surroundings before she finally relaxed. Kagewaki chuckled at her.
"Don't laugh at me," she tried to chastise him but her fingers still shook. He only laughed more and she glared at him. "It was huge! Way too big for a bug!"
"It's nothing to fear, Kasumi. Believe me, if it wanted to hurt you, it would have." Kagewaki smiled at her. "I take it you want to have your lessons inside today?"
"Yes, please before someone comes out here only to laugh at me for being scared of a… what did you call it?" Kasumi breathed a sigh of relief again as Kagewaki lead her back inside the estate.
"A Saimyōshō, Kasumi. A demon wasp." He explained to her.
"Ugh, is there a demon version of everything?" She asked him, letting him take her up to the study for their daily lessons. She was grateful that her ladies in waiting didn't bug her when she walked through the gardens, and that they left her alone during her training and lessons. She did not want an audience to her bug freak out.
"Basically," Kagewaki chuckled again, sitting down at his desk, and she sat across from him. She decided she quite enjoyed his laugh, despite that it was at her expense, it made her feel less ashamed of her reaction. "Now today, we have the family names to go over today."
"Yes, of course…" Kasumi sighed as he placed out a map in front of her of the country.
"Tell me the western lords, first," Kagewaki said.
"Yes," she looked over the map, examining the western area and then her gaze flicking over to the east and the vast distance between them. "The Daimyō of the west is the Inu no Daiyōkai Tōga."
"I thought it was supposed to be Lord Sesshomaru?" Kagewaki asked her, knowing it was only a trick.
"The Great Dog General has passed and is survived through his sons Sesshomaru and Inuyasha. His eldest son, Sesshomaru is not fully recognized as the Daimyō of the west since he has yet taken on the full responsibility of his position. The Great Dog General had a human wife, Izayoi who has passed, and a mate, whose name is not in any records but is alive. Her whereabouts are unknown to anyone in this world, apart from her son, Sesshomaru."
"Good, now who is below the great dog family?" Kagewaki asked.
"Hikazemon, the previous lord, Utada was killed by Lord Sesshomaru, and he is survived by his eldest son, Keijiro Hikazemon, named the new lord of the house after his fathers passing, and his twin daughters Mitsuki and Mitsuyo. Mitsuyo is married to the young Lord Sadao."
"And his other daughter?" He asked.
Kasumi sighed at this. "Lord Hikazemon planned on marrying Mitsuyo to Lord Sesshomaru to secure their loyalty to the new lord of the west."
"Alright, now let us move to the east," he pointed to the eastern side of the country. "You mentioned Lord Sadao, who is his family?"
She took in a deep breath. "L-lord Sadao… His father is Lord Tomosue, current Daimyō of the East. His wife and mate are Sadako Hokama, an eastern lords daughter. They married so Lord Tomosue could get their lands. Their two oldest are twins, Sadao, named after his mother, and their daughter Tomoka, named after their father. They have a second daughter, named Emi, unmarried and lives in the home with them. A second son named Ryūhei, who is mated to Matsuko. A demoness who isn't from any formal line. The two live at her ancestral home far away in the south."
"You're forgetting someone," Kagewaki raised an eyebrow at her, and she furrowed hers at him.
"Do I really have to do this part?" She asked him.
"Yes, all of the names. You are apart of their family line too." He pointed out, which only made the young kit sigh in disapproval.
"Fine… Lord Tomosue has another daughter, Kasumi Ishikawa, born from a human woman who was married to a human Eastern Lord." Kasumi said quietly, wanting to hurry up an move onto the other lords.
"I thought mated demons didn't sleep with anyone other than their mates?" Kagewaki questioned.
"They don't, unless in cases like Lord Tōga with Izayoi, who he married. But my father wasn't mated to Lady Sadako when he met my mother. He and Lady Sadako were married for thousands of years. Their son and daughter are older than Lord Sesshomaru. They only became mates… a week after my mother was dead." A week after my birth. It took him only a week to get past my mothers' death before he moved on. A week to decide to abandon me. This was always one of her least favorite parts of her lessons. Learning the truth.
Sesshomaru told her in the past that she had older siblings. She never disbelieved that but learning about them solidified that there was a whole part of her family she never knew about, was never really allowed to learn about. She has sisters. And brothers. A stepmom.
The thought of a mother, even a stepmother hurt her heart, squeezed it until tears sprang to her eyes.
A mother… A mother who probably taught her children loved her children. Spent every moment she could with her children. Coddled them as babies, watched them grow into the adults they are now.
"Can… can we stop for today…?" Kasumi asked softly, staring down at the map he had laid between them.
"Kasumi, you can't stop every lesson after talking about your fathers family." Kagewaki's disapproval was clear in his voice.
"Can we take a break then…?" Her gaze never lifted up to meet his, but she knew he was giving her a look of pity. Who wouldn't? She was green with envy.
There's Kyah… There is always Kyah. Sure, Kyah wasn't really her mother, but she was as much of a mother as any girl could ask for. She was there for her through everything. Until she wasn't. How many years will it be until she can think of Kyah without feeling bitter anger?
"Perhaps we can take a walk outside? Fresh air might help you a bit, Kasumi." Kagewaki suggested. "Maybe around the stables, so we don't have to worry about the bugs in the garden?"
"Yes, outside sounds good…" She said, and the two rose.
Kagewaki silently led her outside into the courtyard, then towards the stable. Neither of them said anything to each other and Kasumi welcomed the silence. Over the last several months, Kagewaki has been an unexpected friend and mentor. He was kind, and gentle, and understood her emotions better than anyone here. He treated her with the gentle pushing of an older brother, encouraging her in everything she did, ensuring she took care of her body as well as her mind. He became her support system faster than Usui did, and she didn't even feel the need to constantly have her lady in waiting by her side. Usui could finally go about her normal duties without worrying about Kasumi.
In its own way that was bad. It meant the two didn't see each other as often. Especially since Kasumi took her mornings with Kagewaki to add in more lessons for her, giving her hardly any time to do what she liked.
The kit took in a deep, slow breath and turned her eyes up, watching the clouds cover the blue sky. The sun warmed her skin, curled her tail and flattened her ears, covering her body in its heat which relaxed her more than any conversation could do. She told Kagewaki about her walks with Kyah in the courtyards before, now whenever she needed a breath of fresh air during their lessons, he took her out here, to hear the hustle and bustle of everyday life. Except for today, it was… quiet.
Kasumi stopped walking and looked around them, noticing that no one was in sight. Actually, were they even near the stables?
She whipped around sharply, looking all around her and not seeing the manor anywhere. She looked up at Kagewaki, fear in her eyes.
"Kagewaki, where are we?" She asked, breathing in sharply.
"Don't worry, it's just for a walk outside the manor. A change of scenery." He smiled at her again, and there was a hint of cruelness there she didn't recognize. She took her arm away from his and took a few feet away from him.
"Take me back, Kagewaki. Right now." She demanded, trying to flex her title at him, but he only laughed. The gentle laugh she had known was warped, dripping with malice and without humor.
"You want me to take you back, Kasumi?" He asked her and when she nodded he took a step closer to her, her heart sinking when his eyes opened and all she saw was red. "Why would I do that?"
She screamed as loud as she could manage before he jumped onto her, covering her mouth with his hand, and covering her body with darkness.
Putrid death. Demon hordes, blood, and mutated flesh. The horrible, disgusting stench of Naraku.
Sesshomaru was probably still miles away from his estate when the smell hit his nose, stronger than any stench he's caught from the man so far, quite possibly due to the fact that it was only puppets and incarnations he's met so far.
No, this stench was the same stench as the man he met when the wind witch kidnapped his Rin. This was the real Naraku. And he was at his estate.
He didn't need to be there to know he was there, he simply knew.
His pace quickened, he was running faster than he ever has before in his life. He was at the estate in a manner of minutes, and people were roaming around as if nothing was wrong. As if they had no idea the danger they were in.
"Lady Kasumi," he grabbed the first person he could, his words an angered growl. The guard gulped.
"L-Lady Kasumi typically has lessons in the early afternoon… S-She should be in the study with Lord Kagewaki." The guard stammered and Sesshomaru dropped him, quickly making his way into the study. His kit's smell was nowhere in the house, it was completely masked by the putrid stench of Naraku. Every hallway he walked through, each room he passed by, every person he encountered reeked.
He slammed open the door to his study, which still had the vague warm smell of his kit and the cold distinct stink of Naraku.
"Where is he?!" Sesshomaru shouted into the hall, scaring the daylights out of a court woman. Through the red haze of his anger, he recognized her as Usui and he was on that girl in seconds, his hand on her neck, pinning her to a wall. "Where is he?" He growled at her. She dropped whatever was in her hands and gripped his wrist desperately trying to get herself free as she struggled for air. "Where is he?!" He yelled at her this time, finding it difficult to rein in his demon now. They were intuned with each other.
"I-I… d-don't…" Usui struggled to form words as she kicked her feet, her dark skin turning pale, her lips turning purple before Sesshomaru dropped her, letting her crumbled in front of his feet.
"Where. Is. He?" He asked, tone clipped with impatience and anger.
"I don't… know who you mean…" she rasped and he growled, picking her up by the hair and lifting her to meet his red-eyed gaze.
"My kit, where is my kit?" He snapped. "Who is this Kagewaki?"
"H-Her tutor." She gripped his hands in her hair, eyes tearing up. "They take walks in the gardens. In the courtyard after lessons."
He growled lowly. "Who brought this man here?"
"M-Me… no one would teach her. H-he… was the only one willing." She stared up at him, for the first time since Kasumi's arrival she was afraid for her life.
"You've just killed Kasumi." He growled, dropped her again, turning sharply to sniff out Naraku, and hopefully his kit.
"W-Who is he…?" She asked, a hand on her throat.
"The man I've been trying to kill," he growled at her before leaving her in the hallway.
"Oh, Come on! Can't we ever get a break from this?!" Inuyasha's voice of annoyance broke through the sounds of battle.
Kagura was giggling as she set wave after wave of after Kagome, forcing Inuyasha to protect her, and preventing him from dispelling her attacks. All he could manage to protect his woman was to use his sword as a shield.
And the occasional time Kagome fired an arrow, which would dispel her winds for a while, horde after horde of demons would come after them, giving her just enough time to be able to summon her winds again.
It was the perfect plan of attack, keep Inuyasha distracted while Sango struggled to fight her brother, while Miroku struggled to defeat the horde of demons outside the battle between her and Inuyasha. The Saimyōshō was perfect in the role, but more than that, every time the demons were cut in half by Inuyasha, a little of Naraku's miasma would enter the air.
Jakken had taken Rin into the trees and was protecting her with his life while she hid, unable to fight for herself, and fearful that she'd be taken again. The first time she was, Lord Sesshomaru almost lost his life, she didn't want that to happen to him again. So she stayed with Jakken, occasionally beating a demon with a large rock if she had to but she let the imp protect her from the army of demons.
"What a time for Lord Sesshomaru to be gone," Jakken whispered, holding his staff tightly in his hands. "If he were here, this fight would be over quickly."
Rin thought as much as well, and she looked over at Inuyasha and Kagome as he tried destroying another wave of demons that rushed them, collapsing onto his knee.
"Lord Sesshomaru, where are you…?" Rin whispered a plea for her lords' protection.
A mangled screech pierced through the air and the winds that had been swirling in the air ceased abruptly, clearing only to find a very large, white dog pinning the wind witch down.
"Kagura!" Kohaku called her name, trying to go after her but was stopped by Sango's Hiraikotsu.
The demon dog dissipated to reveal a red-eyed Sesshomaru with his poison claws digging into Kagura's neck.
The battle stopped abruptly. In his sudden appearance, Sesshomaru had taken down the horde of demons, not focusing on anyone else in the fight apart from Kagura. The witch that reeked of Naraku.
"Lord Sesshomaru!" Rin declared happily, ready to skip up to him but Jakken stopped her.
"No, you mustn't get near him, Rin." He said watching with fear in his eyes at the anger in Sesshomaru's. He hadn't even spoken yet, but there was a deadly intent in how he held Kagura, so close to crushing her windpipe; so close to ripping her throat out. He could just as easily bite her head off.
"Sesshomaru! What the hell are you doing?! That's my fight!" Inuyasha yelled struggling to stand up. Sesshomarus response to him was a harsh growl that pierced the silence gathering around them.
"Inuyasha, I think we should stay out of this." Kagome tried reasoning with him, keeping her hands on his shoulders.
The group watched as Kagura struggled, clawing at his hand, her fan at his feet, her legs kicking and struggling. And the anger.
There was nothing on Sesshomaru's face besides anger. His face had warped to that of a demon, his curled grin showing every sharp fang in his mouth, his nose slowly formed into a snout, his red piercing eyes holding Kagura in place.
"Where is he?" There was something chilling in the calm way he spoke to her. They all saw the anger and deadly intent, and yet it was that calmness that really chilled the blood.
"I don't know!" She struggled to breathe, to form words. The fact that she wasn't gasping as much as he liked had him squeeze her throat harder. "I-I don't know!" She yelled again, struggling desperately to free herself.
Sesshomaru threw her far across the field where she slammed into a tree, and she was pinned again as Sesshomaru's sword Tōkijin pierced between her breasts. She cried out, unable to stop the blade as it slid deeper into her. She may not have a heart, but this had to be what it felt like to be stabbed through one.
Her throat was sizzling from his poison claws, and her body felt like it was being split apart by his sword.
"I don't know where he is!" Kagura yelled again, unable to look away from the intensity of his gaze. He would kill her if he didn't get what he wanted from her.
"You better learn soon," he threatened, sliding the sword in her ever deeper still. She cried out again, and this time it wasn't her who spoke.
"I can take you to her," from across the field Kohaku spoke and in half a heartbeat he was standing in front of the child, his sword sheathed and Kagura on her knees coughing out blood.
"Where is she?" He asked. The only reason why he wasn't strangling the kid for information was that he promised Rin he wouldn't kill him. But he wanted to. Hearing the little shit tell him he knew where his kit was made him want to tear him apart, knowing full well the kid wouldn't die. He wanted to keep tearing, letting him heal and tearing him some more. Always bringing him close to death but never finishing it. It was better than killing him, and his demon growled within him, pleased with the idea.
Kohaku looked up at Sango, who had yet to let him pass, then back at Sesshomaru. Sesshomaru took this moment to grab Hiraikotsu and fling it across the field, then daring the demon slayer to cross him.
"Naraku is south. He plans on bringing here there, where he intends to take everything she can offer you." Kohaku's dead gaze met Sesshomaru' and the demon lord growled his disapproval.
If he harms one hair on my kit's precious head, I will end him. Sesshomaru and his beast both agreed.
When they rescued their kit, they would finish Naraku right then.
AUTHOR STUFF: CLIFF HANGER!
CONGRATS YA'LL YOU FINALLY GOT TO THE BANE OF MY CREATIVE EXISTENCE.
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This has been where my brains been at for months now.
This is NOT the final chapter, however, I probably won't be writing a new chapter anytime soon. Because yes,
I wish to sit behind my cliff hanger and laugh maniacally while you guys sit there and squirm until I post a new one.
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