Chapter 12
Disclaimor: I don't own Inuyasha and Co. although I truly wish I did.
*Sorry it took so darn long, but there were a few reasons for delay. One, computer decided that it wasn't about to let me online for a while, and two.I was still trying to figure out where I wanted the rest of the story to go (got it started on a pang of inspiration)
He couldn't believe it.
How had she managed to survive?
She had been stabbed at least three times.and poisoned by a snake demon if he remembered correctly.
And he had also buried her!
How could she still be alive.it was almost impossible!
And yet there she was down the hill side.talking with the villagers and reasurring them that no other demons would come and the others had left but would never return.
They all believed her of course.passing her by as a mere human.a mortal, in which she wasn't and could never ever be.
His mind raced through the possibilities of how she could possibly be here.
How?
Well.she could have been found by Naraku or something and given a sacred jewel shard to survive with like Sango had.
Nope.that was impossible.Kojika had died at least.what?...fifty-seven years or at least around there.
Naraku had only been made at least a little more than fifty years ago.perhaps fifty-one.
So that was impossible.
Or what if Naraku had found the bones afterwards and managed to use them into his own structure.
Nope again. She didn't smell like Naraku and plus.he could only use living demon flesh or at least flesh covered bones. He couldn't use the while diseased.
Then maybe another witch like Urusawe, the one that brought Kikyo back brought Kojika back.
Endless.Kojika wasn't known by many but her people and they were probably rejoicing that she was dead.Besides.she smelled like a living breathing human.which confused him even more.how come she smelled human when he knew very well she was a pure blooded demon at this time.
And that little red dragon on her shoulder.perhaps it brought her to life.
Or maybe.maybe she was reincarnated just like Kikyo had been to make Kagome.
Perhaps that was the possibility.the only one that made even half sense.
So she was reincarnated.but then how did she remember him if that was the case.
Kagome hadn't remembered him even though she was Kikyo's reincarnation.so that was another problem.
How the hell had Kojika survived!? This was driving him crazy!
He was going to ask her.finally he would find out what the hell she was still doing alive and why she hadn't shown herself sooner.
Inuyasha cracked his knuckles and began to walk down the hillside, but only made it half way down when Sango, Miroku, and Shippo stopped him.questions written clearly in their faces.
"Inuyasha." Miroku beckoned the hanyou's attention. "We have a few questions we wanted to ask."
"Make it quick houshi!" Inuyasha told him, trying to be as patient as possible with the little fuse that sent his anger flying in a matter of moments. Miroku cleared his throat and banged his staff on the ground as if to call for more attention.
"Inuyasha." He began. "Who is this young lady and how do you know her?"
Usual question.he should have known.
How would he explain this little acquaintance?
"She was my friend many years ago. A demon who understood what I was going through as a young boy and that took care of me." Inuyasha replied, hoping to get around them with that so he could ask Kojika his own little questions.
"But then what happened. Why did you leave?" Sango asked.
She knew nothing. She couldn't possibly know anything.
"She died many years ago.in a battle." This was really starting to irritate him!
"But she doesn't smell like a demon." Shippo told him matter-of-factly. But Inuyasha already knew that.it was one of the reasons he wanted to go and talk to her.his old mentor. So he tried to get around them, but they kept him still.each one trying to deliberately catch his attention so they could be answered.
"Outta my way!" He finally shouted angrily, his temper fuse having finally shriveled up.
He had to get over there.
By now, Kojika had already finished talking with the people and walked towards him, that red dragon on her shoulder, and her hand petting it affectionately. It was apparently her pet or something like that.
She had taken off her hood, displaying the long silky black hair he always knew her for, and her delicate chin rubbed against the dragons loving little nudges. Her brown eyes twinkled in the sun light that was the next morning from the fight of last night. Pretty brown eyes.she had always had them.but it made him wander what she looked like when she was in her true form.What color of eyes did she have then?
"Kojika." He beckoned, finally coming up to her front, Miroku, Sango, and Shippo all in tow.
"Inuyasha." She replied, bowing. She was shorter than he remembered, at least by five inches from his own head.but then again.he had grown up a little more since he last saw her. "It's been a while." She told him with a smile.that mischevious smile she always had that told him she knew everything that was going on in his head.
She was probably reading his thoughts right now.that dragon power she had and used so often when they had been traveling together.
She already knew what he was going to ask.
"So you want to know what I'm doing alive. Fine.lets find a nice spot in the trees and I'll explain everything." She told him, turning and letting her dragon up off her shoulder.that dragon with it's hairs like fine little flame's that glowed from it's back. It flew up high above the ground.a piercing red dot in a light blue ocean-like sky.
Then he flew off towards a cluster of trees in the forest, and Kojika strode in that direction leading everyone including a now curious Kagome towards the spot her dragon chose.
It was a nice cluster of trees.thick and heavy with shade as she sat down under it.beckoning the others to do the same. They did, and her little red dragon again landed on her shoulder.chirping to her happily.
She reached into her pocket and pulled out a little brown treat.which it ate quickly.
"So.you want to know what I'm doing here aye?" She confirmed, turning to them with one final pat to her dragons head.
"Well.it's simple. I was never dead in the first place. Perhaps I should start from the beginning. If I still know Inuyasha as well as I did and he hasn't changed too much, than I know he hasn't told you anything of how we met right?" Everyone nodded, including he.
"Fine." And she explained how they met.
Everyone seemed to listen very carefully to her words.and afterwards.they all understood Inuyasha's past.
"So that was it eh?" Miroku said softly. "You were an outcast of the village you mother kept you at.and then we she died they tried to kill you interesting."
"And that explains where the red hoari of fire rat fur and the sword wielding skills you have now came from." Came Sango.
"And that attitude towards everyone." Said Shippo with a frown. Kagome was silent.probably thinking in her own little world.
"But how did you survive the demon attack?" Miroku asked.being the first one to ask the question on everyone's minds. "Weren't you poisoned as well as bleeding?"
"Yes. It's a rather funny story, and a long one, but we have time I presume?" Everyone nodded. "Good. You see.I was never really dead to begin with. Just unconscious from my loss of blood. I had never taught Inuyasha to decipher between the living and the dead at his age.so he suspected me for dead. And Inuyasha.I thank you a lot for burying me.it showed that I taught you that well. All though I now see you've dropped that custom. I will not hold you to it though. Anyways.I had been poisoned by the snake's venom.yes.but the tremendous bleeding of my body allowed the poison to leak out of my wounds and detoxify me. Then when Inuyasha buried me, the dirt helped clot up the wound and prevent more blood from being lost. Then my demon powers came into play and healed my wounds.creating more blood which took my body a while to do."
"But I'm confused." Miroku said.resting his staff on his shoulder. "You said you were stabbed at least three times.and poisoned. How could you live long enough for the effects you just explained to take place?" Everyone nodded.the same question coming to their minds now.
"Well.Miroku right?" He nodded. Kojika continued. "Three stabs and a little demon poisoning isn't enough to take down a full grown and aged Draymon.it just doesn't work like that."
"So that's why not even Sesshomaru will fight you, eh?" Came Sango.her finger to her lips.
"Precisely I suppose." Kojika replied.
"But if you're a dragon demon, then how come you don't look or smell like one?" Shippo asked.
"She doesn't smell like one?" Miroku asked. Inuyasha, Shippo, and Kirara all shook their heads.
"Well.that's simple really. Draymon's gain more magic over the years.age brings wisdom.and wisdom brings more abilities. Since the fifty some years I last met Inuyasha.I have gained a few abilities. Before I met him.I looked like Sesshomaru.pointed ears.facial markings.even the silver eyes of my people.but I managed to learn to look almost completely human by the time I reached Inuyasha's village.and so I decided to try out this new ability. That's when I found him and saved him. Just he same as that.fifty years later.I have learned to mask my scent as anything I wish.I've also found a small knack for copying voices."
"Oh really!" Shippo shouted. "Do mine!"
"Okay." Kojika said with a smile.watching the little fox demon hop anxiously up and down. "How this?" Everyone became quiet. In Inuyasha's mind.she had sounded exactly like Shippo, even with his keen dog sensed ears. Had he heard her with that voice from behind, he probably would have whirled and punched her the way he did with the little fox.
"How about mine?" Sango asked.
Kojika copied her voice.
"Wow!" Sango exclaimed.
"I'd like to ask a favor?" Miroku replied.
"Yes." Kojika answered.
"Would you take my form and my voice for a while when I happen to disappear in one of the villages.men's stuff you know." As soon as he said that.Sango and Shippo busted out and hit him over the head. "Darn houshi!" They said as he rubbed the bump on his scalp.
"Excuse him." Sango said with a polite nod.
"He's excused." Kojika responded with a smile.
"Something still confuses me." Kagome acknowledged. It had been a while since she last spoke.
"Yes." Kojika urged.
Kagome sat up at her tree, and hugged the jewel shards on the necklace at her throat.
"That dragon of yours.the red one.it's not living." She said.
Everyone watched the dragon with confused thoughts.
It looked living.to the fox and hanyou it smelled living.but Kagome was right.there was something wrong with it.
It didn't breath or blink or some much as cock it's head.
"That's because it isn't living."
"Eh?" Was everyone's mingled question.
"It's an incarnation of me. I made it from my own flesh and blood, but I didn't not give it a soul of its own, instead it lives off mine. It can eat, drink, and even speak like a real dragon, but it cannot live or breathe."
"An incarnation?!" Inuyasha half-near shouted.
"Yes. What's wrong with that?" But he knew she could see it in his head.she could read his thoughts of course.and it had been years that he had last had to cover his mind from her picking in it. Now she was years older, more experienced, and he had used it in a long time.
Naraku.
"No. I am not like Naraku." Kojika clarified.
So she knew who Naraku was.
"But how." Shippo was going to ask, how she knew what Inuyasha was thinking, but Inuyasha interrupted him.
"It's another technique. She can read minds."
"Oh." Shippo went quiet after that.
"What do you mean your not like Naraku? Can't he make incarnations of himself?"
Kagome asked, sitting up to get a clearer listen.
"Yes and no."
"What do you mean?" Miroku requested.
"Well.yes Naraku can make incarnations of himself.but he makes the largest mistakes when he does."
"Like what?" Sango asked.
"Well.for starters.he makes creatures the same size or larger than he is.which give him a disadvantage should they turn on him. And two.he uses other demon's souls, those he's captured in his own body, to animate these walking dummies of his."
"Eh?" Everyone chorused.
"Why does he have captured souls?" Shippo asked.
"It's simple. I'm sure you all know that in the beginning, Naraku was Onigumo right?"
Nods.
"Good. Well, when Onigumo requested that his body be devoured and reshaped by the demons, they came together to make one body, and in turn.one place with multiple souls. He cannot merge souls, but he cannot get rid of them either.they are attached to his body. The only way he can find that he can be freed of them is by emitting them into the created bodies of those he makes, and they are free. He also thinks that by keeping their hearts he can keep control. But that's another flaw.he makes his followers far too powerful for himself.it doesn't matter that he has a heart from each.but should he make too many.and should they all decide to gang up on him.then he cannot destroy all the hearts at once.and even then.the souls will return to his body because they are attached to him and they will torment him there. He is cornering himself."
"Then why don't you make one.?" Inuyasha asked.
"It's simple.I make small creatures.ones that don't do the fighting for me.but show me where the battles are so I do not have to fight. I do not like to fight.but if I must I will.This dragon, Kazu is his name, cannot speak a true human language, cannot think for itself because it does not have it's own soul, and only lives to serve me. When it dies.it holds no regrets and in so doing.does not come back with an angry soul. I save myself the hassle of making large powerful warriors with their own minds, when one day they can kill me and take their own freedom and allegiance. I do not think that way.
Besides.Kazu here has been living for forty years and has not once caused any trouble."
Everything went silent.but one thing continued to bug Inuyasha. He couldn't get it out of his system, so he asked his question, knowing that Kojika already knew what he was going to ask.
"How come I never came to see you even though I was alive.Simple Inuyasha.this you should know yourself.You were pinned to a tree in an eternal rest for fifty years.
Sure I came to visit.spooked the hell out of the villagers.To them I was there and then I was gone. A couple actually called me the reincarnation of this priestess person that was living there at one point I do believe. Something like Kikyo." Inuyasha tensed... Kagome stared.Miroku, Sango, and Shippo bowed their heads.
"What did I say?" She asked, but silently.she was already reading their minds. Kikyo was close to someone here.Someone who loved her as much as she had with him.
Inuyasha.
"I'm sorry." Kojika said, bowing her head once for apology. "I had no idea.much has happened in the years past."
But Inuyasha wouldn't listen.he stood up and jumped up into the trees, leaving the group behind in his silent fury.
"He really loved her I see.and Naraku ruined it for them.How sad for such a love to go wrong.But she is still alive, no?"
"Sort of." Miroku answered. Now it was Kagome that stood up and stalked away.headed in the direction Inuyasha had run off too.
"What's wrong with her?" Kojika asked, turning back to Miroku, Sango, and Shippo after watching Kagome leave.
"Could you not read her mind?" Miroku asked.
"No. I could not, strangely enough. No one has ever been able to close me off so effectively. And yet she doesn't know she did it." Kojika informed.
"How is that possible?" Sango asked.
"I'm not sure for once. But I think she has a lot of spiritual power with in her.dragon demons have always been eluded by such human strength for years. The strength of a miko has always been able to shut away our powers.but only the truly strong ones can do it without realizing it.She is powerful.the reincarnation of the one Inuyasha loves yes?"
They nodded.instead of reading Kagome's thoughts, Kojika had read there's.
"Ah, but there is something else there between those two. Inuyasha is confused.yes.very confused." She shook her head. "Best leave them be for a while.
They need to talk things out between them.both have feelings and emotions for the other that they feel they cannot give because of their own little set backs. Once they've talked.things should be fine."
*There you go! Other chapters soon to come! My inspirations coming back in bursts!*
Disclaimor: I don't own Inuyasha and Co. although I truly wish I did.
*Sorry it took so darn long, but there were a few reasons for delay. One, computer decided that it wasn't about to let me online for a while, and two.I was still trying to figure out where I wanted the rest of the story to go (got it started on a pang of inspiration)
He couldn't believe it.
How had she managed to survive?
She had been stabbed at least three times.and poisoned by a snake demon if he remembered correctly.
And he had also buried her!
How could she still be alive.it was almost impossible!
And yet there she was down the hill side.talking with the villagers and reasurring them that no other demons would come and the others had left but would never return.
They all believed her of course.passing her by as a mere human.a mortal, in which she wasn't and could never ever be.
His mind raced through the possibilities of how she could possibly be here.
How?
Well.she could have been found by Naraku or something and given a sacred jewel shard to survive with like Sango had.
Nope.that was impossible.Kojika had died at least.what?...fifty-seven years or at least around there.
Naraku had only been made at least a little more than fifty years ago.perhaps fifty-one.
So that was impossible.
Or what if Naraku had found the bones afterwards and managed to use them into his own structure.
Nope again. She didn't smell like Naraku and plus.he could only use living demon flesh or at least flesh covered bones. He couldn't use the while diseased.
Then maybe another witch like Urusawe, the one that brought Kikyo back brought Kojika back.
Endless.Kojika wasn't known by many but her people and they were probably rejoicing that she was dead.Besides.she smelled like a living breathing human.which confused him even more.how come she smelled human when he knew very well she was a pure blooded demon at this time.
And that little red dragon on her shoulder.perhaps it brought her to life.
Or maybe.maybe she was reincarnated just like Kikyo had been to make Kagome.
Perhaps that was the possibility.the only one that made even half sense.
So she was reincarnated.but then how did she remember him if that was the case.
Kagome hadn't remembered him even though she was Kikyo's reincarnation.so that was another problem.
How the hell had Kojika survived!? This was driving him crazy!
He was going to ask her.finally he would find out what the hell she was still doing alive and why she hadn't shown herself sooner.
Inuyasha cracked his knuckles and began to walk down the hillside, but only made it half way down when Sango, Miroku, and Shippo stopped him.questions written clearly in their faces.
"Inuyasha." Miroku beckoned the hanyou's attention. "We have a few questions we wanted to ask."
"Make it quick houshi!" Inuyasha told him, trying to be as patient as possible with the little fuse that sent his anger flying in a matter of moments. Miroku cleared his throat and banged his staff on the ground as if to call for more attention.
"Inuyasha." He began. "Who is this young lady and how do you know her?"
Usual question.he should have known.
How would he explain this little acquaintance?
"She was my friend many years ago. A demon who understood what I was going through as a young boy and that took care of me." Inuyasha replied, hoping to get around them with that so he could ask Kojika his own little questions.
"But then what happened. Why did you leave?" Sango asked.
She knew nothing. She couldn't possibly know anything.
"She died many years ago.in a battle." This was really starting to irritate him!
"But she doesn't smell like a demon." Shippo told him matter-of-factly. But Inuyasha already knew that.it was one of the reasons he wanted to go and talk to her.his old mentor. So he tried to get around them, but they kept him still.each one trying to deliberately catch his attention so they could be answered.
"Outta my way!" He finally shouted angrily, his temper fuse having finally shriveled up.
He had to get over there.
By now, Kojika had already finished talking with the people and walked towards him, that red dragon on her shoulder, and her hand petting it affectionately. It was apparently her pet or something like that.
She had taken off her hood, displaying the long silky black hair he always knew her for, and her delicate chin rubbed against the dragons loving little nudges. Her brown eyes twinkled in the sun light that was the next morning from the fight of last night. Pretty brown eyes.she had always had them.but it made him wander what she looked like when she was in her true form.What color of eyes did she have then?
"Kojika." He beckoned, finally coming up to her front, Miroku, Sango, and Shippo all in tow.
"Inuyasha." She replied, bowing. She was shorter than he remembered, at least by five inches from his own head.but then again.he had grown up a little more since he last saw her. "It's been a while." She told him with a smile.that mischevious smile she always had that told him she knew everything that was going on in his head.
She was probably reading his thoughts right now.that dragon power she had and used so often when they had been traveling together.
She already knew what he was going to ask.
"So you want to know what I'm doing alive. Fine.lets find a nice spot in the trees and I'll explain everything." She told him, turning and letting her dragon up off her shoulder.that dragon with it's hairs like fine little flame's that glowed from it's back. It flew up high above the ground.a piercing red dot in a light blue ocean-like sky.
Then he flew off towards a cluster of trees in the forest, and Kojika strode in that direction leading everyone including a now curious Kagome towards the spot her dragon chose.
It was a nice cluster of trees.thick and heavy with shade as she sat down under it.beckoning the others to do the same. They did, and her little red dragon again landed on her shoulder.chirping to her happily.
She reached into her pocket and pulled out a little brown treat.which it ate quickly.
"So.you want to know what I'm doing here aye?" She confirmed, turning to them with one final pat to her dragons head.
"Well.it's simple. I was never dead in the first place. Perhaps I should start from the beginning. If I still know Inuyasha as well as I did and he hasn't changed too much, than I know he hasn't told you anything of how we met right?" Everyone nodded, including he.
"Fine." And she explained how they met.
Everyone seemed to listen very carefully to her words.and afterwards.they all understood Inuyasha's past.
"So that was it eh?" Miroku said softly. "You were an outcast of the village you mother kept you at.and then we she died they tried to kill you interesting."
"And that explains where the red hoari of fire rat fur and the sword wielding skills you have now came from." Came Sango.
"And that attitude towards everyone." Said Shippo with a frown. Kagome was silent.probably thinking in her own little world.
"But how did you survive the demon attack?" Miroku asked.being the first one to ask the question on everyone's minds. "Weren't you poisoned as well as bleeding?"
"Yes. It's a rather funny story, and a long one, but we have time I presume?" Everyone nodded. "Good. You see.I was never really dead to begin with. Just unconscious from my loss of blood. I had never taught Inuyasha to decipher between the living and the dead at his age.so he suspected me for dead. And Inuyasha.I thank you a lot for burying me.it showed that I taught you that well. All though I now see you've dropped that custom. I will not hold you to it though. Anyways.I had been poisoned by the snake's venom.yes.but the tremendous bleeding of my body allowed the poison to leak out of my wounds and detoxify me. Then when Inuyasha buried me, the dirt helped clot up the wound and prevent more blood from being lost. Then my demon powers came into play and healed my wounds.creating more blood which took my body a while to do."
"But I'm confused." Miroku said.resting his staff on his shoulder. "You said you were stabbed at least three times.and poisoned. How could you live long enough for the effects you just explained to take place?" Everyone nodded.the same question coming to their minds now.
"Well.Miroku right?" He nodded. Kojika continued. "Three stabs and a little demon poisoning isn't enough to take down a full grown and aged Draymon.it just doesn't work like that."
"So that's why not even Sesshomaru will fight you, eh?" Came Sango.her finger to her lips.
"Precisely I suppose." Kojika replied.
"But if you're a dragon demon, then how come you don't look or smell like one?" Shippo asked.
"She doesn't smell like one?" Miroku asked. Inuyasha, Shippo, and Kirara all shook their heads.
"Well.that's simple really. Draymon's gain more magic over the years.age brings wisdom.and wisdom brings more abilities. Since the fifty some years I last met Inuyasha.I have gained a few abilities. Before I met him.I looked like Sesshomaru.pointed ears.facial markings.even the silver eyes of my people.but I managed to learn to look almost completely human by the time I reached Inuyasha's village.and so I decided to try out this new ability. That's when I found him and saved him. Just he same as that.fifty years later.I have learned to mask my scent as anything I wish.I've also found a small knack for copying voices."
"Oh really!" Shippo shouted. "Do mine!"
"Okay." Kojika said with a smile.watching the little fox demon hop anxiously up and down. "How this?" Everyone became quiet. In Inuyasha's mind.she had sounded exactly like Shippo, even with his keen dog sensed ears. Had he heard her with that voice from behind, he probably would have whirled and punched her the way he did with the little fox.
"How about mine?" Sango asked.
Kojika copied her voice.
"Wow!" Sango exclaimed.
"I'd like to ask a favor?" Miroku replied.
"Yes." Kojika answered.
"Would you take my form and my voice for a while when I happen to disappear in one of the villages.men's stuff you know." As soon as he said that.Sango and Shippo busted out and hit him over the head. "Darn houshi!" They said as he rubbed the bump on his scalp.
"Excuse him." Sango said with a polite nod.
"He's excused." Kojika responded with a smile.
"Something still confuses me." Kagome acknowledged. It had been a while since she last spoke.
"Yes." Kojika urged.
Kagome sat up at her tree, and hugged the jewel shards on the necklace at her throat.
"That dragon of yours.the red one.it's not living." She said.
Everyone watched the dragon with confused thoughts.
It looked living.to the fox and hanyou it smelled living.but Kagome was right.there was something wrong with it.
It didn't breath or blink or some much as cock it's head.
"That's because it isn't living."
"Eh?" Was everyone's mingled question.
"It's an incarnation of me. I made it from my own flesh and blood, but I didn't not give it a soul of its own, instead it lives off mine. It can eat, drink, and even speak like a real dragon, but it cannot live or breathe."
"An incarnation?!" Inuyasha half-near shouted.
"Yes. What's wrong with that?" But he knew she could see it in his head.she could read his thoughts of course.and it had been years that he had last had to cover his mind from her picking in it. Now she was years older, more experienced, and he had used it in a long time.
Naraku.
"No. I am not like Naraku." Kojika clarified.
So she knew who Naraku was.
"But how." Shippo was going to ask, how she knew what Inuyasha was thinking, but Inuyasha interrupted him.
"It's another technique. She can read minds."
"Oh." Shippo went quiet after that.
"What do you mean your not like Naraku? Can't he make incarnations of himself?"
Kagome asked, sitting up to get a clearer listen.
"Yes and no."
"What do you mean?" Miroku requested.
"Well.yes Naraku can make incarnations of himself.but he makes the largest mistakes when he does."
"Like what?" Sango asked.
"Well.for starters.he makes creatures the same size or larger than he is.which give him a disadvantage should they turn on him. And two.he uses other demon's souls, those he's captured in his own body, to animate these walking dummies of his."
"Eh?" Everyone chorused.
"Why does he have captured souls?" Shippo asked.
"It's simple. I'm sure you all know that in the beginning, Naraku was Onigumo right?"
Nods.
"Good. Well, when Onigumo requested that his body be devoured and reshaped by the demons, they came together to make one body, and in turn.one place with multiple souls. He cannot merge souls, but he cannot get rid of them either.they are attached to his body. The only way he can find that he can be freed of them is by emitting them into the created bodies of those he makes, and they are free. He also thinks that by keeping their hearts he can keep control. But that's another flaw.he makes his followers far too powerful for himself.it doesn't matter that he has a heart from each.but should he make too many.and should they all decide to gang up on him.then he cannot destroy all the hearts at once.and even then.the souls will return to his body because they are attached to him and they will torment him there. He is cornering himself."
"Then why don't you make one.?" Inuyasha asked.
"It's simple.I make small creatures.ones that don't do the fighting for me.but show me where the battles are so I do not have to fight. I do not like to fight.but if I must I will.This dragon, Kazu is his name, cannot speak a true human language, cannot think for itself because it does not have it's own soul, and only lives to serve me. When it dies.it holds no regrets and in so doing.does not come back with an angry soul. I save myself the hassle of making large powerful warriors with their own minds, when one day they can kill me and take their own freedom and allegiance. I do not think that way.
Besides.Kazu here has been living for forty years and has not once caused any trouble."
Everything went silent.but one thing continued to bug Inuyasha. He couldn't get it out of his system, so he asked his question, knowing that Kojika already knew what he was going to ask.
"How come I never came to see you even though I was alive.Simple Inuyasha.this you should know yourself.You were pinned to a tree in an eternal rest for fifty years.
Sure I came to visit.spooked the hell out of the villagers.To them I was there and then I was gone. A couple actually called me the reincarnation of this priestess person that was living there at one point I do believe. Something like Kikyo." Inuyasha tensed... Kagome stared.Miroku, Sango, and Shippo bowed their heads.
"What did I say?" She asked, but silently.she was already reading their minds. Kikyo was close to someone here.Someone who loved her as much as she had with him.
Inuyasha.
"I'm sorry." Kojika said, bowing her head once for apology. "I had no idea.much has happened in the years past."
But Inuyasha wouldn't listen.he stood up and jumped up into the trees, leaving the group behind in his silent fury.
"He really loved her I see.and Naraku ruined it for them.How sad for such a love to go wrong.But she is still alive, no?"
"Sort of." Miroku answered. Now it was Kagome that stood up and stalked away.headed in the direction Inuyasha had run off too.
"What's wrong with her?" Kojika asked, turning back to Miroku, Sango, and Shippo after watching Kagome leave.
"Could you not read her mind?" Miroku asked.
"No. I could not, strangely enough. No one has ever been able to close me off so effectively. And yet she doesn't know she did it." Kojika informed.
"How is that possible?" Sango asked.
"I'm not sure for once. But I think she has a lot of spiritual power with in her.dragon demons have always been eluded by such human strength for years. The strength of a miko has always been able to shut away our powers.but only the truly strong ones can do it without realizing it.She is powerful.the reincarnation of the one Inuyasha loves yes?"
They nodded.instead of reading Kagome's thoughts, Kojika had read there's.
"Ah, but there is something else there between those two. Inuyasha is confused.yes.very confused." She shook her head. "Best leave them be for a while.
They need to talk things out between them.both have feelings and emotions for the other that they feel they cannot give because of their own little set backs. Once they've talked.things should be fine."
*There you go! Other chapters soon to come! My inspirations coming back in bursts!*
