DISCLAIMER: InuYasha isn't mine.
Twenty-nine Days
Chapter 5
The group stood stunned. Inuyasha was the first to recover and said, "Naraku? How could you trust him for a second?"
"I never did! Don't you understand?"
"I believe I do." Miroku said, "You made the ultimate sacrifice for your father, just as I would make the ultimate sacrifice for you, my lady. Will you do me the honor of bearing my child?"
Ringhali smiled darkly, "If you think you can handle this, boy."
Miroku's eyes widened and his jaw dropped, "Of course." Ringhali busted into laughter at the fact that he believed her. He quickly regained his composure and said, "I am glad that you understood my joke."
"Feh. A joke." Inuyasha laughed at this feeble attempt at saving himself from embarrassment.
Also watching from a distance was another pair of eyes. The blazing red eyes belonged to a black stallion with dragon type wings folded on its back.
Inuyasha looked around sniffing the air. "I smell demon." The others stared at him with strange expressions. "Its possible." he added.
"Hmmm. I don't doubt that it is, but do you not realize that we have in our company a demon?" Miroku motioned to Ringhali.
"That might be it."
The youkai that the red eyes belonged to turned, its mission complete. Smoke curled from its nostrils and trailed behind him, shrouding the forest in a foggy haze. The reptilian wings unfurled from its back and carried the steed into the air toward a dark castle.
"What have you discovered, Kalypso?" the baboon-clothed stranger asked.
"Ringhali is currently west of here in a forest. She is in the company of the hanyou and the monk. They have not been destroyed." Kalypso reported in his human form. His mane-like shaggy hair halfway covered his dark angular features. He is tall, his muscles toned and his pointed ears pierced multiple times. "What shall we do next?"
"Join them."
"Join them?"
"Yes, claim to be on their side. Deceive them and, at a crucial moment, destroy them." A smile slowly spread across Naraku's face.
"Inuyasha will know I am a demon, he may be a half-breed, but his senses are sharp still."
"I know just how to side step that."
"Where did this fog come from?" Kagome held a piece of cloth over her nose to filter the smoke. She glanced to Inuyasha, who was freaking out from his senses overloading. She tore the cloth and put half of it over his nose. He looked up to her and their eyes met. His hand reached up and clasped hers.
"Kagome.." he started to say something, but was interrupted by his body changing. His white hair was replaced by black and his hanyou senses were deadened.
The fog began to clear and Inuyasha moved to a spot away from the others, not wishing to share his secret with the new comer.
Around the campfire, Sango, Miroku, Kagome, and Shippou bombarded Ringhali with questions. Kirara had joined Inuyasha beside a secluded tree.
"What do you want cat?" he snarled, on edge. Kirara looked up at him and laid next to him. What did I do to deserve everyone's kindness? From where he sat he could see the others never hiding themselves. Lucky bastards.
A.N. How do you like Ringhali? R&R plz!