Chapter 45

"Rin!" Ayame smiled in her dress from the 1800s english town waving them down as they glanced at her nodding, so she ran up towards them. "It's nice to see you! It's been three days since I saw you!" Ayame shouted. "It must've been hard waiting out here all that time especially in that." Rin smiled at her thinking to herself. "Rin..." Ayame glanced at her, no not at her behind her.

"who's that?" she asked as Rin glanced behind her "It's Melody the great-great-granddaughter of Inuyasha & Kagome." Rin laughed.

"No not her she definitely gives off a presence just like them, I mean the man standing behind her."

Slowly turning around she saw Naraku crack a smile for a minute that she had never seen before covered in evil and suspicious presence. It disappeared immediately when he noticed her looking directly at him. "I want to tell them" her heart pleaded with her. As she finally agreed there was something definitely wrong with that shadow so-called Naraku.

"He's umm...uhh. he's a ghost sort of.." Rin stuttered as Ayame moved closer to him examining him. Sesshomaru glanced at what Ayame was looking at in his eyes, there was nothing, but he knew after seeing her talking to the nothing several times over there had to be something..

"Rin you can't tell Ayame my name you've got to lie." Naraku stated. "No. No more lies." Rin sighed sitting down on the grass next to Ayame. "he smells somewhat familiar." Ayame stated glancing at him. "...but the scent of him...it reminds me so much of when everyone comes back injured...all the time way back when." Ayame continued whispering.

"See why, there's another reason you can't tell her yet...okay how about a deal? you don't tell anyone and we'll look around for who framed me after they're caught for destruction against them you can tell them all even if they can't see me yet." Naraku muttered. "No...I want to tell them." Rin smiled as she glanced at Ayame.

"his name is..."

"his name was..."

"Naraku" they said in unison as they glanced at each other Sesshomaru's eyes widening. Everyone had agreed not to tell her of anything that happened during the years of Naraku's attempted rein. "Rin...why didn't you tell us sooner?" Sesshomaru finally spoke up trying to sound as monotone as possible. "He said he was once a very special friend...he wanted to surprise everyone now that for some reason he was regaining his strength.." Rin whispered wrapping her arms around her legs with her chin resting on them.

"No matter what...the one thing I should've told you...Naraku he lures people in with natural human emotions...curiosity,hope,anger and revenge...and then makes them destroy each other. At the time we knew him he was looking for something called the shikon no tama." he sighed

"it translate to jewel of four souls, it was supposed to grant wishes and change between good and evil depending on the user's heart." Ayame continued the explanation although the had never directly met Naraku she knew plenty enough.

Rin glanced at this 'Naraku' he didn't seem to be confirmining or denying anything at all just standing there. "is that what you believe? Rin what do you believe in?" Naraku asked this time everyone could hear and see him. "Actually I don't care...I'm completely in my physical form again thanks to being near the barrier...oh and some of your life energy " Naraku smiled as Rin finally realized for some reason she felt weak and dizzy. "I can't move" she thought to herself as the trio rushed to her side trying to get her to move.

"What'd you do to her!" Ayame snapped "Nothing much it's just from her presence I figured out how to use her large amount of energy to make me come back to a physical form faster." he laughed as she struggled to keep focus on everything as it all felt weak. "I've got Rin." Melody said running towards Rin just in time for Naraku to send a fatal attack towards her. As Melody shut her eyes praying that whatever protected her before would be there.

Slowly sliding her eyes open, Melody, glanced up at everything. They were surrounded in a bright pink barrier. "Is this one of you?" Melody glanced up slowly lifting herself from attempting to protect her friend. "You all always make bad choices." Naraku sighed walking closer. "No Melody this is you." Sesshomaru sighed.

"I've never seen demonic powers activated by praying." Ayame glanced at her slightly amazed apparently Melody had been whispering out loud. "She is the granddaughter of Inuyasha and Kagome then." Naraku smiled placing his hand against the barrier as it attempted to reject him.

"I see it fends off anything you don't know what it is or think is a threat." Naraku sighed shaking his head as Sesshomaru set his sword at the ready. "But it's extremely too weak, even weaker than a starting miko." Naraku laughed as the barrier shattered like pieces of glass. "I'll go first!" Ayame shouted eager to get even with the person that had hurt so many of her comrades.

There were several hits between each 'root' of Naraku's power and Ayame as each 'root' shattered quickly she was traveling faster than you could imagine in a dress like that. "Too slow, too weak" Naraku mocked her as she ripped the bottom of the dress tossing the shoes off. "You have no idea how much I've been waiting for a chance to hurt you." Ayame smiled cracking her knuckles as she kicked her heels.

"what else don't I know?"

"I hated hiding out so much, so it's going to be double the pounding."

"The fight starts now?"

They were laughing at each other problem thinking of sadistic thoughts of what was about to happen to each other. As Sesshomaru finally entrusted Rin whom could barely move to Melody. "keep a good control on that power...your half-miko so you might hurt one of us." he sighed as Melody glanced at her hands. "I'm not sure i'm ready to have someone elses' lives in my hands with something I have no responsibility with...what if I can't trust in myself?" Melody said staring at her hands, tears tipping her eyes at the thought of feeling helpless and unable to control her power. Finally with a sigh "I am of course your family too. I expect you'll have more control then Inuyasha ever had." Sesshomaru said pacing away towards Naraku leaving Melody unsure if he was encouraging her, joking or criticising his brother. "I can do this!" she shouted towards him wiping away her tears.

"I would like to fix something in what you just said." Sesshomaru said unsheathing his sword. "And what would that be?" Naraku laughed. "The phrase of time." Sesshomaru shook his head as Ayame glanced at him tiring from her time-skip acknowledging his want to step in. "sure tell me what the problem was?" Naraku laughed dodging a kick from Ayame, he was never really the best in hand-to-hand combat.

"This battle is about to end."