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(The sisters had all gone their separate ways and Mikita practiced with the Dragon Tail. For a while, she simply stood holding it and looking at it.)
Mikita: Karasu's really mad at me, and I jumped into the argument forgetting to explain how I got the Dragon Tail. She probably thinks I did it; that I killed the dragon and made the sword from its tail… but it was my mom who did it. It was just my inheritance… though I don't deserve it.
Sesshomaru: It was an accident. You were just a child.
(Mikita turned to see Sesshomaru standing there.)
Mikita: I know, but it was still my fault. It's hard to live with that, you know.
Sesshomaru: How did you develop these human emotions?
Mikita: I do not have human emotions! I have the feelings of any living creature! It's just their choice of how they want to be… humans and demons alike.
Sesshomaru: You're smarter than you appear.
(He gently took hold of her chin and guided her lips to his, giving her a quick kiss. She then looked at him questioningly.)
Mikita: …No intentions?
Sesshomaru: Not at all.
(She gave him a gentle smile.)
Mikita: You're smarter than you appear.
(He put his hand on her shoulder assuringly.)
Sesshomaru: It'll be all right. You'll see.
(When she looked close enough, she could see a very faint smile in his expression. When he turned and walked away, she looked at her Dragon Tail.)
Mikita: I should probably practice. I'll never master it otherwise.
(She swung it around and it grazed her arm. She screamed out, dropped her sword, and held her arm.)
Mikita: (High-pitched) AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! (Suddenly normal) Okay.
(With a sudden, odd switch from high-pitched screaming to a calm tone of voice, she had moved her hand and her wound was healed. Then she suddenly realized something. "Wait a second! Did Sesshomaru just kiss me?" She ran off to catch up with Sesshomaru.)
Mikita: Sesshomaru! Wait up!
(He stopped and turns to her.)
Mikita: Why did you change all of a sudden? I mean you're not usually like that. It just… surprised me, that's all.
Sesshomaru: It's like you said, everyone chooses how they want to be.
Mikita: There's only one thing I can say to that…
(She threw flames from her claws and they burned him in various areas.)
Mikita: You're not fooling me again Naraku!
(He laughed evilly and transformed back into himself. Mikita saw through his trick after all.)
Naraku: You are smarter than you appear, though it took you a bit longer to notice.
Mikita: (Sighs) Karasu must be rubbing off on me.
Naraku: So, how did you figure it out this time?
Mikita: Sesshomaru has both arms now. Contributions of my ever-so-generous father. Apparently you aren't up-to-date on this fact. You know, your shape shifting is getting really old.
Naraku: Hmm. Clever… but not clever enough.
Mikita: Hn. We'll see about that.
(She ran toward him but he vanished.)
Mikita: What!
Where did you go? Don't play mind games with me damn it!
(Naraku
appeared behind her.)
Naraku: Now. Now. I don't wish to fight. You must save your energy for the child.
Mikita: What child?
(In that instant, she felt a sharp pain in her stomach as she growled and held her stomach.)
Naraku: Let's just say I'm not very patient.
(Her stomach rumbled with something inside it and the pain grew worse.)
Naraku: This will be interesting.
Mikita: Oh it'll be interesting all right.
(She extended her claws and held them to her stomach, smiling evilly toward Naraku.)
Naraku: Go right ahead. Such an act will dismember your very soul. If it dies, you die as well.
Mikita: Shit! Ow!
(She sat on the ground as the rumbling and pain intensified.)
Naraku: I can't believe you place value on your life.
Mikita: I don't care about my life! I want my revenge on you and my dumb ass father before I go! This world does not need to suffer any longer from the likes of you!
(She screamed out in pain and lay down, and Naraku smirked.)
Mikita: Although I'd rather be dead right now! AAAAAHHHHHHHH!
Naraku: Go right ahead. I'll just resurrect you to torture you some more.
(Naraku laughed with his evil plot.)
Mikita: Grrr… Damn you.
(The real Sesshomaru—The real Slim Sesshy—arrived on the scene and tried to slice Naraku, but the blade phased right through him and he disappeared. His voice was still heard as he was leaving.)
Naraku: Happy suffering!
(His evil laugh was the last that was heard, and Sesshomaru went over to Mikita, sitting behind her and sitting her up to where she was leaning against his stomach and chest.)
Sesshomaru: What's going on?
Mikita: Naraku's incarnation!
(She strained with the agony yet again as it continued to torment her.)
Sesshomaru: I'll kill it when it comes out.
Mikita: No! If it dies, I die! Then Naraku would make my life even worse!
Sesshomaru: It must be a spell, a curse. There's only one way to end it: Naraku must be destroyed.
Mikita: Go! Find him! Destroy him! Please?
(She shouted out, as it seemed to grow worse.)
Sesshomaru: What about you?
Mikita: It doesn't matter about me! Just hurry!
(Sesshomaru ran off to track Naraku down, and Mikita's pain became nearly unbearable. She strained and pushed, screaming out in pain exceedingly loud. Off in the distance was then heard the cries of a newborn baby. Inuyasha and Kagome heard these noises.)
Kagome: I hear a baby crying!
Inuyasha: I smell Mikita! That was her screaming!
(When they found Mikita, she was unconscious, and a newborn baby lie near her opening. Blood covered the infant and was all over Mikita in that area, plus the umbilical cord was still intact.)
Kagome: It is a baby! And it came from Mikita!
(Inuyasha cut the cord with his claw and Kagome picked the crying baby up.)
Kagome: But how could she have a baby already? She didn't go full term and it doesn't even look premature.
Inuyasha: Naraku must have something to do with this.
Kagome: Inuyasha, give me your shirt. We'll wash it at my house.
(He took off the red shirt part of his kimono and handed it to Kagome, who wrapped the baby up in it.)
Kagome: Mikita will be safer if she's away from here.
Inuyasha: Right.
(Inuyasha took Mikita up in his arms while they left for Kagome's house.)
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Whoa! That was something unexpected to happen to Mikita so quickly and painfully. She seems so misfortunate. Naraku must have a personal grudge against her. I know that most fan fics end up with Naraku raping their female character, but it just seemed to increase the plot opportunities. Next time, we will catch up with Karasu and her mother… and her sister. This was a rather short chapter compared to the others. O.O