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Chapter 28: Pyrasuuke's Fame

When Kagome was done crying into Inuyasha's shoulder she stood up wearily with help from Inuyasha and pulled the scroll Midoriko had given to her before she had gone.

She unceremoniously ripped the seal off it and opened it.

She read it through once. "This is the…weirdest chant…I've ever heard of…" she said at last as she raised an eyebrow.

Inuyasha stood quietly by her empty grave and looked in it hesitantly. It was tidy…just like Kagome. He suppressed a laugh and looked back at her.

She sat down again, Indian style and placed it down. She pulled out and ofudo and turned toward a grave behind her.

"Super…cali…fraga…listic…" she chanted.

"What the hell kind of chant is hat?" Inuyasha asked her as he knelt next to her.

"Bring forth the miko of death." She threw the ofudo at the grave and a blue light made it sink into the stone of the grave.

In the same order as Kagome's out popped out a hand, then a head full of…purple hair?!, then a body covered in a white kimono, finally the legs and petite feet. In this woman's hands she held a large case that bulged at the sides.

"Thank you, Kagome-sama!" said the woman happily as she and Kagome danced around.

Inuyasha jumped backward, her voice was like velvet and her humor certainly didn't match her face.

"Is this…you're…" she whispered something.

Kagome looked at her hurt. "What do you mean?"

"Okay…I got my answer. Hello! I'm Pyrasuuke, the Miko of Death." She said as she put out a hand.

Inuyasha shook it gingerly. What is it with Kagome, he thought, always attracting weird women.

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"Kagome…Tastunai better bring her back." Muttered Sango as she sat in the hut with Hiraikutsu as her pillow and Shippo sleeping restlessly at her side. She smiled and looked at the kitsune. "Tastunai is…very nice…for being the lover of Naraku." she said the last part bitterly.

"Sango-chan!" she heard a distant call. "Sango-chan, konbanwa!"

Sango looked out the window and her eyes widened. She jumped up almost stepping on the now awake Shippo and ran to the door. She ran out at full speed and tackled Kagome. "How the hell are you alive?!" she cried.

"How the hell can you run that fast?!" Kagome asked back.

Shippo ran out as well. "Kagome!!!" he cried as he tackled her as well.

"Shippo-chan! I missed you!"

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"Who is this?" Sango asked as she calmed down from her crying, hugging, and questioning session with Kagome.

"I'm Pyrasuuke, the Miko of Death." Pyrasuuke bowed her head. She was wearing her usual clothing of a Chinese noblewoman. Kagome, who was wearing a similar outfit sat across from her and was glaring at Kirara who kept trying to bit the seals that protected the clothing.

"What are you doing back on earth?" Miroku asked.

"I am here to avenge all the spirits Naraku has destroyed. They were never supposed to die and by him destroying their exercising spirits they were never able to come back to what they left undone. He broke their restless spirits and…I must destroy him for that." She said as she clenched her fists in the cloth of her many layers.

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"Tastunai…Tastunai…please…Tastunai." A voice pleaded.

Tastunai stopped her progression through the dark forest to star into the darkness. "What is it…Naraku?" she asked angrily.

"You say through my disguise well, kunoichi." Said Naraku's voice. Something came flying toward her. She caught it without looking up. Unfolding it she felt her katana, her sheaths for the many knives, daggers, and throwing stars that she carried around with her and her now red kunoichi uniform. "Why are you givin' this to me?" she asked as she looked to the place she knew Naraku was lingering.

"Naraku has sent me to fetch you…but seeing that his…kugutsu," he said the word like it was poison, "are all breaking off our vows to listen to him and not listening to his orders, I saw fit to give back what was yours." Naraku finally stepped out, but instead of being clad in his baboon suit he was normal, wearing a black haori and a deep red for a hakama. He walked toward her and smiled as he put a finger under her chin. "Beauty is one I don't quite look for in a woman, just their skills, power, and loyalties. I got that plus a beauty that I can stand to look at." He moved closer.

"Damn you to hell! I don't give a shit if you're disobeying orders or following orders by saying your disobeying orders." She said angrily.

"Dress yourself, I have something to tell you." He said.

She growled but obliged none the less.

When she came out her hair was in a high ponytail and she was tying the black sash around her red ninja outfit. The black netting at the top was in the shape of a triangle. She had black hand guards on and up her sleeves, hidden form enemies, was her plethora of sheaths with lades in them. Her trusty katana fell at her side. Her pants were tied up after her knees and she had a sarashi around her legs after and around her feet like shoes as well as around her chest to make her appear as a man ninja.

"Sit." He ordered.

She crossed her legs and glared at him as she fell to her butt lightly in her Indian style position. "We kunoichi are never supposed to show emotion. The saying is…'The weak are to die as the strong are to live'."

"Pyrasuuke…she is…among the living once more?" he asked.

"She is?" Tastunai asked as she stared at him through now emotionless eyes. "Pyrasuuke-san was never one to die, never supposed to die, never one to settle down, not one to keep her promises and betray things like her once well known brother. Her past is of death, killing, hatred, and…mikoness."

Naraku blinked at her for a second and let out a humanly laugh. "Mikoness is one that will never be quite settled with her. She's a Chinese Noblewoman, she could never be a miko." He said.

"I suppose…but seeing that's she's come back…she must've been strong enough to break through Death's Barrier or what us kunoichi like to call 'Ruutasuka' it means nothing Japanese, Chinese, none of those languages, it's just a word we thought fit for the barrier." she waved off his confusion. Looking sidelong at the kugustu she asked, "Why are all the kugutsu's forming a rebellion? Is it not their duty to follow Naraku-kun? He has created you all."

He seemed to stiffen at the question. "Pyrasuuke was the one…that screwed up the series of events that were to occur. She…seeing that…she had killed most of Onigumo in the cave Kikyo-sama had kept him in would've kept her from seeing rest, peace and serenity. She broke through the barrier and became…a keeper of the dead I s'pose." she said as she looked at her nails and carelessly told her hypothesis.

"You must know, Tastunai!" he accused.

"Oh shut up! It's a known fact that whenever a strong and important person dies their spirits linger in the 'Lake of Frozen Death' and only the one's who were not supposed to die are actually able to leave through the barrier, if someone finds them before they drowned." Tastunai explained as she, out of habit grabbed her hilt of her katana and stood on one knee and foot to glare at him.

"Keep your anger, Tastunai, I wish to know where they are keeping her." He said.

"Hell if I'll tell!" she yelled as she stood and jumped up to a tree branch.

He was instantly in front of her, holding her shoulders downward so she couldn't run. "I still love you." And with that he placed a lingering kiss on her lips and left.

She stayed in her position for a moment. I still love you…I still love you…I still love you…Damn him, she thought angrily as she punched the branch underneath herself making it crack and fall with her clutching onto it like a frightened cat. She fell with a crunch and her eyes tearing. "Ow…"

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"This is so…exciting!" Kagome said happily as she skipped into town and waved to all the people. "I was only gone for two days and it feels like an eternity!" she stopped when she came to Kaede's hut.

She looked through the window sadly. "Poor Kaede, becoming a teenager so quickly." she 'tsk' and turned back to Inuyasha who had followed her for protection.

"Oh well…you wanna come for a walk with me? I gotta get used to my body again." She said as she turned to Inuyasha, her hands behind her back.

"Sure." He said quietly.

"What's up with you? You've been quite lately. Not the usual Inuyasha I know." She said as she linked her arm with his.

He sucked in a sharp breath.

"Wait…don't tell me…your plagued by…humans?" she asked jokingly.

"Yep. But I'm used to it you now." He said as he smiled at the ground.

"I'll get it out of you…somehow." She seemed to fall into deep thought because she didn't catch his thoughtful looks.

"It's the new moon. You got cramps?" she asked finally.

He smacked his forehead. She got half of it, he thought.

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Well…I told you it was going to be a fast update. One day in between but…who gives a hey, right? Anyway I'm glad I got 85+! I'm on my way to 100+. Can't wait!!

Next chapter:

Chapter 29: Seal it With a Kiss