Important Note: Last week I replaced the author's note that was chapter 4
with and actual chapter. So, if you haven't already read that chapter you
should go back and read it first.
Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha or any of Rumiko Takahashi's other characters.
A/N: Sorry it took me so long to get this updated, but I was really sick and pretty much stuck in bed.
A Glimpse Ahead
Chapter 5
Kagome tried to scream again, but was cut off as a hand clamped over her mouth. "Kukuku," laughed Naraku, "Now that I have you both, I can put my plan into action."
'Who else does he have?' Kagome thought before she felt a sharp pain at the back of her head and everything went dark.
The rest of the group reached the clearing just as Naraku disappeared into the sky, with Kagome unconscious in his arms.
"Damn! You bastard! I'll find you and I'll make you pay for this!" yelled Inuyasha.
Ritsuko suddenly turned to Sango, "You still have Kagome's jewel shards, right?" Sango nodded. Ritsuko continued, "Then this is going to be interesting."
"What do you mean?" asked Miroku.
"Well, unless I'm mistaken about the time, Kagome is not the only one that Naraku is holding captive. He is going to use Father's feelings against him in the fight. You see, throughout time, tribes and clans and families, both human and youkai have separated themselves from each other be designating colors or patterns or symbols to each group. This is especially true among royalty and nobility. Well, my grandfather was the Great Demon of the Western Lands and my grandmother was actually a hime. So our family holds to a designated color. In case it wasn't obvious, our family is marked by the color red. We can all see that father wears red, Sesshomaru also wears some red, although not as much due to his anger at Grandfather for mating with a human. And now even the girl, Rin, who travels with Sesshomaru wears some red (A/N: I know that in the anime, Rin usually wears orange and white, but on the color picture on the back of some of the manga she's wearing red and white so I'm going with that since it works with the story), as Sesshomaru views her as family. Naraku will make use of this as well."
Sango caught on to something Ritsuko had just said, "Wait, Sesshomaru's little human girl is considered by Sesshomaru to be part of the family?"
Ritsuko nodded.
"Then, how exactly does he see her? Like a daughter? Or something else?"
Ritsuko shook her head, "Oh no. In the future, Sesshomaru will mate with that human girl. He only keeps from doing so now because he knows that she is too young. In the future, they are very much in love and have two adorable children. In fact, that's part of the reason why Father and Uncle Sesshomaru start getting along again. Sesshomaru couldn't very well keep despising hanyou when he has hanyou children, now could he?"
Miroku caught on, "So that would make Rin your aunt, right?"
"Well, yeah," Ritsuko replied.
"So, falling for humans really does run in your family," Shippo said, receiving a smack on the head from Inuyasha.
The irritated hanyou then growled at the others, "Do you plan on wasting time here all day or are we going to go look for Kagome?"
Meanwhile Kagome was waking up in a cold, dark room. She was chained up by her wrists and ankles to swing-like contraption hanging from the ceiling. Looking down at herself, she noticed that she had been dressed in a kimono of fine red silk. She could feel a ribbon tied in her hair, making a headband.
"So, you're finally awake," spoke a familiar voice.
Kagome turned her head to face the voice. It was like looking into a mirror. The girl before her was similarly chained up and dressed in a similar red kimono, although her hair was tied back away from her face. A face that was almost identical to her own, "Kikyo. So, you're the other one Naraku was talking about."
"Kukuku. Now that I have you both, it is only a matter of time before Inuyasha shows up and I use the two of you to destroy him. Although I am disappointed, I expected you to have some jewel shards on you, girl."
Kagome gasped. The jewel shards. Where were they? She had left the hot springs in such a hurry that she had forgotten all about them. Boy was Inuyasha going to be pissed. She silently prayed that Sango or Ritsuko had noticed and picked them up.
Naraku continued on, "Seeing the two of you like this will torture Inuyasha. I shouldn't be entirely surprised if he goes mad. That would certainly make things easier. Forcing him to choose between you two. It's really quite simple. I don't know why I hadn't thought of it before."
"I don't understand," Kagome said, "What makes this any different than any other time he's been around both of us together."
Kikyo answered, "Because this time we've been marked. We're both dressed entirely in red. That's Inuyasha's family color. If his youkai instincts kick in at all, it will force him to choose one of us over the other, of neither of us at all. And if they fully take over, the one of us he doesn't choose could end up dead for falsely claiming his family color."
Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha or any of Rumiko Takahashi's other characters.
A/N: Sorry it took me so long to get this updated, but I was really sick and pretty much stuck in bed.
A Glimpse Ahead
Chapter 5
Kagome tried to scream again, but was cut off as a hand clamped over her mouth. "Kukuku," laughed Naraku, "Now that I have you both, I can put my plan into action."
'Who else does he have?' Kagome thought before she felt a sharp pain at the back of her head and everything went dark.
The rest of the group reached the clearing just as Naraku disappeared into the sky, with Kagome unconscious in his arms.
"Damn! You bastard! I'll find you and I'll make you pay for this!" yelled Inuyasha.
Ritsuko suddenly turned to Sango, "You still have Kagome's jewel shards, right?" Sango nodded. Ritsuko continued, "Then this is going to be interesting."
"What do you mean?" asked Miroku.
"Well, unless I'm mistaken about the time, Kagome is not the only one that Naraku is holding captive. He is going to use Father's feelings against him in the fight. You see, throughout time, tribes and clans and families, both human and youkai have separated themselves from each other be designating colors or patterns or symbols to each group. This is especially true among royalty and nobility. Well, my grandfather was the Great Demon of the Western Lands and my grandmother was actually a hime. So our family holds to a designated color. In case it wasn't obvious, our family is marked by the color red. We can all see that father wears red, Sesshomaru also wears some red, although not as much due to his anger at Grandfather for mating with a human. And now even the girl, Rin, who travels with Sesshomaru wears some red (A/N: I know that in the anime, Rin usually wears orange and white, but on the color picture on the back of some of the manga she's wearing red and white so I'm going with that since it works with the story), as Sesshomaru views her as family. Naraku will make use of this as well."
Sango caught on to something Ritsuko had just said, "Wait, Sesshomaru's little human girl is considered by Sesshomaru to be part of the family?"
Ritsuko nodded.
"Then, how exactly does he see her? Like a daughter? Or something else?"
Ritsuko shook her head, "Oh no. In the future, Sesshomaru will mate with that human girl. He only keeps from doing so now because he knows that she is too young. In the future, they are very much in love and have two adorable children. In fact, that's part of the reason why Father and Uncle Sesshomaru start getting along again. Sesshomaru couldn't very well keep despising hanyou when he has hanyou children, now could he?"
Miroku caught on, "So that would make Rin your aunt, right?"
"Well, yeah," Ritsuko replied.
"So, falling for humans really does run in your family," Shippo said, receiving a smack on the head from Inuyasha.
The irritated hanyou then growled at the others, "Do you plan on wasting time here all day or are we going to go look for Kagome?"
Meanwhile Kagome was waking up in a cold, dark room. She was chained up by her wrists and ankles to swing-like contraption hanging from the ceiling. Looking down at herself, she noticed that she had been dressed in a kimono of fine red silk. She could feel a ribbon tied in her hair, making a headband.
"So, you're finally awake," spoke a familiar voice.
Kagome turned her head to face the voice. It was like looking into a mirror. The girl before her was similarly chained up and dressed in a similar red kimono, although her hair was tied back away from her face. A face that was almost identical to her own, "Kikyo. So, you're the other one Naraku was talking about."
"Kukuku. Now that I have you both, it is only a matter of time before Inuyasha shows up and I use the two of you to destroy him. Although I am disappointed, I expected you to have some jewel shards on you, girl."
Kagome gasped. The jewel shards. Where were they? She had left the hot springs in such a hurry that she had forgotten all about them. Boy was Inuyasha going to be pissed. She silently prayed that Sango or Ritsuko had noticed and picked them up.
Naraku continued on, "Seeing the two of you like this will torture Inuyasha. I shouldn't be entirely surprised if he goes mad. That would certainly make things easier. Forcing him to choose between you two. It's really quite simple. I don't know why I hadn't thought of it before."
"I don't understand," Kagome said, "What makes this any different than any other time he's been around both of us together."
Kikyo answered, "Because this time we've been marked. We're both dressed entirely in red. That's Inuyasha's family color. If his youkai instincts kick in at all, it will force him to choose one of us over the other, of neither of us at all. And if they fully take over, the one of us he doesn't choose could end up dead for falsely claiming his family color."
