Disclaimer: This is a fan work based on Masashi Kishimoto's Naruto and Hishoshi Shiibashi's Nurarihyon no Mago. There will also be some elements from JK Rowling's Harry Potter. There is no money being made from this, it is merely a work meant for the entertainment of myself and the other fans of the original work. This is merely for fun, and not profit. I repeat: I am not making any money out of writing this.

Warning: OCs OOCs Sues, and some crack. You have been warned.

Note 1: AU (of an AU...sort of).

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chapter four

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There were many pockets of Kyoto youkai scattered around the city, some of whom were battling amongst themselves for the right to follow Hagoromo Kitsune. As Byakko passed them, they all stopped for a moment feeling the chill run up and down their spines, the chilling sensation of something far worse than the deepest depths of hell passing by them, almost within their reach, almost caressing them teasingly, tauntingly.

He saw their fights and was unimpressed by such small fries thinking that they were worthy of such heights, pathetic insects with no real care and worry other than selfishness, even among youkai it was something he personally didn't all that much admire. His Hyakki Yakou stood by one another, even while he was not around, they always looked out for one another even those that didn't see eye to eye. They were friends, and family.

There was surely a reason or more as to why the Kyoto youkai were unable to rise up from their ashes and return to their former place of prominence in the world of youkai. They were all relics of the past thrown aside, forgotten, waiting for a true master to elad them towards a greater and brighter future for youkai kind. Sadly Byakko couldn't really care less about them as they squabbled amongst themselves, he was far more preoccupied with the fight between Hagoromo Kitsune and Nura Rikuo which was happening at the castle, while the egg of the Nue prepared for hatching.

The Nue, a formidable youkai, one that had at one point in time also been human, an onmyouji that had turned from his dream of coexistence to that of total domination with youkai at the top due to the actions of a select few men. Byakko only learned of such from the scant few loose lips around the capital as he made his way, silently and stealthily to the main battle between the monarchs of the demon world.

He arrived just as Hagoromo Kitsune was being dragged to Hell without her son, the Nue, showing her any sort of affection for all of the hardships that she had undergone to return him to the land of the living, to the land of which both human and youkai lived and thrived in their own respects.

Just as she was about to be pulled into the underworld, the real one, a long forgotten memory surfaced within his mind, one from long ago when he was once a part of a whole that he now stood on par with or was even greater in strength. Contrary to popular belief of his former world, the Rikudou no Sennin was not the only one that had managed to gain a victory over the gargantuan Juubi. There had been another, a woman, one like in some tales managed to soothe the savage beast for a time, specifically attracting the part that was the former Kyuubi. Though through the passage of time, her beauty waned and the beast as a whole grew tired of her, eventually forgetting about her save for the Kyuubi within it that had managed to form a kind of bond with her. She was the reason why he was always in a rage, a bad mood so to speak, after being separated from the rest of what became known as the Bijuu. Losing her was a blow that he could not take, and the only means by which he could release his frustration was through rage, anger, and sheer and total destruction.

Now that she was once again within his grasp, even though she was in her reincarnated, several times too, state he took his chance and leapt for her. The hands of Hell shooting back into Hell from whence they came feeling the power of something far viler than even the Shinigami itself. There was just something about the power of Byakko that pushed them away, that or the fact that he had had prior contact with one of the illustrious five.

He left an illusion in place, as it would not do for the enemy to realize that there was another player in the game, one that could prove their downfall if he so chose to take up a more active role in the war that was surely to come.

When it was Tsuchigumo's turn to be swallowed up into Hell, Byakko signalled some of his subordinates to get that particular monster to safety, but also make sure that he would not be able to foil any of Byakko's plans by layering illusions over the knocked unconscious monster.

It took a while before Byakko decided to reveal himself, along with the youkai that were members of his already considerably strong clan as well as those that were recently inducted into it. It was quite a surprising development for the Nura clan to find themselves completely surrounded on all sides by a number of youkai that none, not even the First had managed to sense the presences of.

"More enemies?" Kurotabou said preparing for battle once again, just as the rest of his comrades too were doing.

"No," Byakko replied, "We're here to offer some form of aid to the Nura clan. I am Byakko, and these," he gestured to his youkai, "Are the members of my own Hyakki Yakou. I seem to find myself disliking this Nue character, but for different reasons from yourself. So how about it Nura Rikuo, would you permit another clan to fight by yours?"