Kanna

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Attempt

Kanna has not met Kagome, Inuyasha or their other companions in person other than on that single occasion when she was ordered to steal what remained of the miko's damaged soul with her mirror. Unfortunately for the void child it so happened that, even when rather reduced, Kagome's soul was far too large and pure for her mirror to contain. Kanna chose to deliberately release the soul rather than break her mirror in a futile attempt to restrain it.

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Although she has not been required to confront the Inutachi since that once she still sees them every day, spying on them with her mirror to inform her master as he plots and schemes.

Kanna is utterly obedient, doing exactly as she is told and answering all of Naraku's questions dutifully. Everything he asks of her she achieves; the void child lacks both the motive and the will to do otherwise.

Feeling

Kanna was the first detachment to be created and the only one to survive more than a few months without either being killed or becoming sufficiently independent to plot rebellion. Naraku does not bother to hold her heart as he does Kagura's; he knows that she lacks the inclination to rebel.

The evil hanyou also assumes that her compliance is born of lacking the emotions necessary to even understand freedom, let alone desire it, but that is not quite true: Kanna knows that she is alive and does not want to die. The void child also feels something –what it is she does not understand- for Kagura; the wind-witch's bitterness at being enslaved gives her a vague sense of sorrow whenever the two interact.

Meaning

After Akago was blasted in two by a dying monk Kanna took charge of one of the halves, later being joined by Kohaku to help protect it as she carries it back to Naraku.

Kanna's purpose in life is to do Naraku's bidding and spy on those he seeks to destroy; as such she is more familiar with Kagome and her companions than any other including the evil hanyou himself. This familiarity sometimes leads a small part of her to wonder, as she watches the smiling miko in her mirror, what life would be like with a different purpose.


Kanna, who is as adorable as she is tragic.

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