~*To love is to be able to let go*~
Chapter 7
"Failure, you failed to do the mission that you set up yourself in which you requested my help in it. I will not tolerate this anymore Kikyo you will die for the failure you have brought among us!" Naraku walked up to Kikyo grabbing hold of her chin, lifting it up to his face while he was talking to her.
"Kill me? Naraku you give yourself too much credit. Right now with your physical contact with me I could purify you. You wouldn't even be quick enough to kill me." Kikyo taunted.
"It is you who is giving yourself too much credit. You were to fool to not recognize the animal god Byakko, you may be powerful Kikyo but you are not powerful enough to defeat me, Naraku. Even by some pure fluke you managed to severely wound me, would you be able to fight off all these demons?" Naraku questioned as he released her to show her that every inch of the ground outside was filled with demons.
"Don't over estimate yourself Kikyo. Every demon in the Eastern Lands is in my lands right now. You can not possibly wipe out every demon I have. The fool that they have for a lord is nothing but a prawn of my master plan. Soon the Southern, Western and Northern Lands will also be in my hands. It was my original plan to have you by my side when I rise to claim the throne but now I see however you are nothing but a bag of dirt. You have no more use to me now so you either take your chance now to get a head start before I seek my demons on you." Naraku looked at her with pity. Kikyo who once was a respected priestess in now being rejected like the pile of rotten matter she is.
"You can't just dispose of me once you think I have no more use anymore. I'm telling you now that if I ever left your side you will sorely regret it. Don't think that you know everything about me Naraku. Even if you send your demons after me they will be no trouble for me to kill. I may have failed in my mission this time but I gain knowledge on what Kagome has become. She is my re-incarnation and I know everything that there is to know about her." Kikyo replied smugly as she found another thing that Naraku will consider letting her stay instead of disposing her. It is true that she had extreme confident that she can defeat all the demons that he sends to her but why tire herself out if there wasn't a need to do so. Not to mention that it will do her get help if she could use Naraku's demons for her own use.
"Knowledge? What knowledge would that be might I ask? You said yourself that your re-incarnation is not powerful. Oh you said that she could not reach the level that you are on. Well you got that right because she is way passed you Kikyo!" Naraku yelled getting angry with Kikyo.
"And you think you will stand a chance without me there? Hello if you haven't realized you don't exactly have an ounce of purity inside you. How do you expect to stand near enough to kill her! Plus you can't see the Shikon shards, how do you suppose to get the shards with out my help!" Kikyo screamed back. Naraku growled in annoyance. It was true that they couldn't sense the shards which meant that they needed Kikyo's help as much as he hated it. If Kikyo could get close to Kagome then Naraku doesn't see why he couldn't because if Kikyo is pure then pigs will fly.
"Fine, your life is spared for now but I warn you one false move or one more failure and I will have you killed within seconds!" Naraku reply angrily as he stormed out of the room.
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Aromas of all kinds of food filled the dinning room up. The whole table itself is packed with delicious food and beverages. Upon the sight and smell of the food both Inuyasha and Shippo drooled much to the amusement of the others. Kazuaki laughed softly as he watched the both of them lunged forward for the food like they were deprived from anything edible for months.
'Well this is certainly a change.' Kazuaki thought. This was actually the first time that he wasn't treated as a prince. If his father wasn't there everyone wait for him to make the first move to do anything first before they follow. The manners that they use have always polite, formal and impersonal. This group however seems not to care at all whom he is either that or they did not know the right way to do things. Inuyasha and Shippo were stuffing themselves with food with their hands and their table manners were horrible. Kagome sat next to them telling to use the utensils instead of their hands but that went unheard. The demon exterminator was hitting the monk and screaming pervert at him. It was all downright rude but was a nice change. Shaking his head he took a seat directly in front of Kagome.
"Kazuaki-kun do you know anything about…." Kagome began before she was interrupted by a girl running into the room screaming. She was a little girl around 6 or 7 dressed in a bit ragged kimono with parts of her hair tied up on one side of her head. She was running and tripping the same time, running after her was a little green toad with a stick with two heads on it which the whole Inuyasha gang recognized. In less then a sec, Kagome took the girl in her arms while Inuyasha, Miroku and Sango were standing there in a fighting position.
"Jaken, you little toad, just because your too weak to harm anyone it doesn't mean you pick on defenseless little girls!" Inuyasha growled.
"You don't know what your messing with you worthless hanyou! You better give the girl back to me this instant." Jaken croaked out as he shrunk away a bit afraid of the menacing glare that Inuyasha gave him that promised pain and torture.
"Sesshoumaru-sama! Save Rin from Jaken-sama!" The little girl called Rin screamed in Kagome's arms as she tried to get away from her.
All eyes turned towards the little girl at the mention of "Sesshoumaru-sama". It couldn't be that this little girl, this human little girl knows Sesshoumaru and he lets her live with that fact alone. There is just no way that the human hating youkai has a human girl around him.
"Rin, you know that Sesshoumaru-sama is at a very important meeting right now and you are not to interrupt him just because of your pathetic screams as a human." Jaken said firmly as he was trying to intimate Inuyasha with his staff.
"No! Jaken-sama said that you will kill Rin so Rin is asking for Sesshoumaru-sama to help me!" Rin retorted back as she headed towards Jaken and whacked him on the head.
"Why you insolent child! How dare you hit this great Jaken-sama you pathetic little human girl!" Jaken said in rage. Picking up his staff he chased Rin around Inuyasha and co.
"Kagome-chan did they just implied that this human girl…follows Sesshoumaru the human hater around?" Sango asked slowly coming out of her shock. Kagome just nodded at Sango as she was still speechless from her shock. Kagome watched as the little girl who seems no more than 6 years old ran around them in circles screaming for her 'Sesshoumaru-sama'
"For heaven sake, Kagome shut her up!" Inuyasha yelled as his ears flattened to his skull from Rin's screaming.
"What? Why me?"
"You're human. She's a human. See the connection plus you're good with kids!" At this point Inuyasha was at the verge of silencing the girl his way.
"Okay fine then since you are obviously being the stupid idiot that you are." Kagome muttered as she stepped in the way of the circle that Rin has been running around, which of course successfully blocked Rin from going further.
"Ah Rin-chan… it's going to be okay. Jaken isn't going to hurt you so do you think that you might be able to stop screaming?" Kagome asked gently.
"Nah uh, Rin wants Sesshoumaru-sama here."
"How many times do I have to tell you that Sesshoumaru-sama is not at your beck and call. He is a youkai and you are inferior to him because you are a human." Jaken said in frustration.
"Sesshoumaru-sama!" Rin screamed and continued screaming. Kagome turned to Inuyasha with a look which said 'well I tried.'
"Rin, be quiet."
Just after that there was no more noise. Kazuaki let out a relief sigh and turned to thank who ever made that child stop screaming. The reactions of the others with him were totally different however. Every one of them was in the position prepared for battle with the exception of the little girl and the green toad.
"So this is the miko that you have talked so much about…. My little brother's human wench. How…. Interesting."