Chapter 8


Nauki sniffed the air as she slept soundly. Her father had laid her on her side with a pillow underneath her chest to comfort her. Someone was in the room. Nauki could smell the person's prescence. It wasn't Oda. The smell of windblown leaves didn't come to her nose. She opened her eyes slowly. It was dark in the room, but she could make out a blurry figure that was almost see-through.
He heard her whimper. The figure had been watching over her after her brother had left for the night. The full demon who had snuck into the hut, faded in. He smiled weakily at her. Kenaye walked over to her softly, the raccoon tail on his belt swaying gently. He kneeled down slowly so his swords wouldn't scrape the floor. "Hi, Nauki, I heard you had an accident," he said putting it very mildly.
She looked up at him, her head nodding. *Who told him?* Her mind was blank. Nauki couldn't figure out why he was there. He had always told her that since he was a full demon he didn't have emotions. If that was true, why was Kenaye looking at her with that strange look? It was the same look her father often gave Kagome when she had attended to them when she was younger.
Nauki tried to get up to prove to him that she was his equal. She didn't want Kenaye thinking she was weak even though she was half demon and half angel. Her arms started to shake and her breathing was rasp as she attempted to move. Nauki's muscles were straining badly.
Kenaye's eyes widened with shock. He knew she couldn't get up. What he coudln't understand was why she was trying. Nauki's wound re-opened unexpectedly. She felt the cut rip apart underneath the bandages. Panic came over her. Nauki went down grabbing her chest, eyes closed and teeth gritted.
"NAUKI," Kenaye yelled. He grabbed onto her, then lifted her to his chest. Nauki was gasping in mortal pain. Kenaye could smell the blood. He touched her chest only to find the bandages soaked with blood.
Inuyasha's eyes widened as he heard the yell of a male voice. Someone was in the hut. Someone was with his daughter! He got up quickly. Kagome woke up at the noise also. She saw her husband run out of the entrance down the hallway as fast as he was able towards the back room where their daughter was laying.
Inuyasha came flying into the room, his heart racing. When he saw the full demon holding his daughter, he went straight at Kenaye with his claws. "Iron Reaver!" The claws went soaring straight at Kenaye's head.
Kenaye knew Inuyasha had a right to attack him. He would have done the same if he had seen a full demon holding his seriously wounded daughter. Not wanting there to be a further dispute, Kenaye faded out quickly. As he did so, he missed Inuyasha's claws and took Nauki with him.
Inuyasha touched dwon on the wooden floor of the hut. The wood cracked and split where his claw attack met. His hasty decision could have hurt Nauki. Inuyasha wa relieved that the demon had fled with his daugther in one sense, but also outraged at the same time. *Where the hell is he?!* He growled lowly, his eyes narrowing. Inuyasha started to search the hut his mind in a wreck. He had no idea if the demon was the same one Aya had spoken of earlier that day.
Inuyasha ran outside in the middle of the night. *If she dies...* He yelled at the trees, his claws tightened. "Give me back my daughter, you bastard!" He looked around frantically. The only sounds he heard was his voice echoing through the trees. Kagome ran outside in her night kimono. She had no idea what was going on.
"Inuyasha!" She ran towards him, her heart racing with total fear. "Inuyasha!" Kagome saw the expression of sadness and shock on his face. She stopped where she was. "Where's Nauki?!"
Inuyasha gritted his teeth. To lose Nauki now would break him. He couldn't afford for his heart to break anymore. As the panic increased inside of him, a tear started to liquify in his eye. He suddenly caught the scent. The demon had faded back in, wherever he was. Inuyasha raced in that direction, his golden demonic eyes turning red with anger as he left his wife standing in his wake.

Kenaye held Nauki's limp form, his concern growing by the minute. The wound was more severe than he would have ever imagined. *I'm going to help you, Nauki. You've helped me in the past. These favors I return to you.* He gently but his claw over the wound.
Kenaye's eyes glowed light brown. The current running through his body intensified. "You can't leave yet Nauki. There is too much for you to do." He smiled weakily. "I haven't even had time to claim you yet."
A blinding light went from his claw flowing towards Nauki's chest. The deadly wound that had impared her from moving, or living her life for the past month, started to heal. As the tear closed, the blood leaking out of her wound, started to go back in. A reverse effect was happening. Kenaye didn't fully understand. He had only performed the operation once before on a friend of his. The blood loss was usually stopped, but had never returned itself into the body.
Kenaye laid her down. He lifted his leather armor off of his body then covered Nauki up. "You should be alright now." He took his finger and lifted it towards the half-angel's face. Very gently, he ran his finger down her soft skin. Kenaye had never touched her before in the past few months that he had known her.
"You won't be when I sink my claws into your flesh," Inuyasha raved as he jumped from behind the full demon. His eyes were completely demonic, their red tint flashing in the night sky as he leaped.
Kenaye narrowed his eyes as he watched Inuyasha leap into the air. *He's quicker than I would have thought for a hanyou.* He rose to his feet just as Inuyasha's body started to come down. "Sorry. I can't fight with you, Inuyasha." He faded out instantly.
Again, Inuyasha missed his chance to get a hold of the full demon who had snuck into his home. Dust flew as his body touched down upon the ground. Inuyasha stood in the night air, feeling violated. He should have caught the scent quicker than he had. What if Nauki had died again? He looked over at his daughter, his mind still in a rage. He was fighting to keep his sanity. It had been a long time since he had become a full demon.
"P...pa..pa," Nauki called softly. She had opened her eyes to a dark forest. Her body was slightly chilled from the air. "Pa...pa." The sixteen-year-old half-angel, half-demon looked up to see her father watching her with red glowing eyes. She knew instantly what had happened to him.
Demonic red eyes looked into the soft, gentle orchid eyes of the half-angel. His mind was racing in different directions, but his heart was in tune with hers. He made his way over to her, his body not following the orders that his raged filled mind was telling it to do. Nauki had a hold of his soul. She wasn't going to let her father become mindless.
As Inuyasha came closer to her, Nauki kept her eyes fixed on his. If she blinked, the hypnotizing effect would be gone. Whatever had happened, had caused him to be completely outraged. He bent down towards her, sniffing at her softly. Inuyasha had the mind of a feral dog demon when he transformed too much.
"P..pa...pa," she said again, finally closing her eyes. Nauki was getting pretty cold as she lay in the grass underneath a tree.
Inuyasha's red eyes finally changed back to their original golden tint. The danger was over. His anger was still aparent, but not as full blown as it had been before. He rubbed his nose against his daughter's, his guard up.
Inuyasha wrapped his arms around her, then picked her up. He took the leather armor off of her. Gently, Inuyasha kissed his daughter's cheek as he held her close. *I don't know how, but her wound is gone.*
"Pa..pa, where is..Kenaye," Nauki asked.
He looked at her with the softest, most gentle eyes. "I don't know, Little. But..when you see him again, tell him to NEVER scare me like that again," Inuyasha said sternly. He started to carry her back to the hut. As Inuyasha walked back, he glanced behind himself at the spot where he had last seen the full demon. The leather armor was gone.