Naraku's Nightmare

Chapter Three: A Nice, Normal Wedding

            Naraku refused to be married to such a…to such a… He didn't know how to describe this girl, exactly.

            He ran down the halls of his castle, trying desperately to get away. But he heard the footsteps of doom pounding behind him.

            "Naraku, baby~" Ai cried, chasing after him, "don't run and mess up your wonderful clothes!"

            He ran even harder. He had to get away. He HAD to GET AWAY!!!

            She pounced on him, sending them both crashing into the floor.

            "Yay! I've caught you again!" she giggled, lying on top of him. He shoved her off quickly and formed a cloud of miasma around him, hoping that she would lose him in the cloud of darkness, or at least get poisoned by the miasma.

            "Oooh, Naraku," she said, poking him very hard in the ribs. "You're so naughty. But you'll have to wait for…YOU KNOW…after the wedding," she said, giggling like a mad woman. Naraku was afraid. Very afraid.

            "Oi, the preparations are ready," Inuyasha grumbled to the couple who were shrouded in miasma. "Feh! Lovebirds," he muttered, exiting to the shrine. Naraku was about to kill him for that statement, but was pulled back by Ai.

            "Oh, you know, he was only stating the truth," she said, hugging him closely. Why wasn't this woman affected by his poison?!

            He felt her drag him to his doom.

            They entered the shrine. He could see that Inuyasha and most likely Kagura had managed to get as many of Naraku's acquaintances as possible. He even saw Sesshoumaru and that human girl he kept around him there.

            Suddenly he heard someone begin the play the organ. Where did that old woman get an organ?!

            Kaede tried her best to read the notes on the piece of paper, but her poor eyesight weren't exactly helping her. She decided to improvise the parts she couldn't see, feeling quite proud of herself.

            The people at the wedding winced as they heard the music, but all were too afraid to anger the old woman. What if she put a subduing spell on them?

            Naraku felt Ai hold him in the most painful grip he had ever felt in his life, and the two of them marched to the priest together.

            "I don't want you to get lost on the way to the alter," Ai giggled. Naraku wished he would die.

            "Hello, Naraku, Ai," Miroku said pleasantly, ignoring Naraku's looks. "Shall we begin?"

            "Yes, sir!" Ai said happily.

            "Okay, blah blah blah. Let's get to the interesting parts," Miroku said. "Do you, Naraku, take Ai as your lawfully wedded wife, to—"

            "No!" Naraku shouted.

            "Oh, don't get cold feet when we're so close to being married," Ai said, tears in her eyes and squeezing Naraku in her sadness.

            Naraku couldn't make a sound with the pain that he was feeling. What kind of youkai was she? How was she so powerful?

            She was one fly that he had NOT wanted to catch in his web. Why was the world so cruel?

            "He's not protesting anymore, so that means he says 'yes,'" Ai said happily. Miroku decided to agree with her.

            "Do you, Ai, take—"

            "Yes I do~!" she said happily.

            "All right then," Miroku said. Inuyasha grabbed the rings from Shippou and shoved it at Ai. Ai put one ring on her finger, and the other on Naraku's finger.

            "You may now kiss—" Miroku started, but Naraku interrupted.

            "NOOOOO!" he screamed like a girl, trying to get away. He almost made it to the door, but was stopped when Kouga tripped him and bashed his brains a few times till he was too dazed to move. Then he felt Kikyo and Kagura drag him back to Ai, where she promptly gave him a suffocating kiss.

            "Yay! Now we're married FOREVER~!" she said.

            "NOOOOOOOO!"

Author's Note: Up next: "A Happy Ending."