The Daedalus Design

by lyrainthedark

Sequel to The Icarus Factor. Three years later, Naraku and Kagome have taken steps toward bliss - but there is a price to be paid for returning to a future where the fires of industry burn, returning with a great and growing power...and the shikon no tama, burning in her blood...and the past, and its sins, still heavy on his soul... NOW COMPLETE.

34. Tangled

- Drabble Collection: The Daedalus Design -

XXXIV.

Tangle

Naraku shakes his head and focuses on his wife.

"Not any more; what bothers you, Kagome?"

And then he hears the news – what has bothered her is clear to him, and he knows just as she does that the cause of what these vain reporters are talking about is...youkai. He wonders if it was his own power that caused this – he knew, even before he released his strength, that he might attract unwelcome attention...

He does not feel regret, and he does not feel fear – he feels irritation, that some idiots have gone out and given in to base urges, garnering the attention of humans for the first time in centuries.

What a mess; the fools!