This is my third installment of Soul Bond. I thank both of you who have reviewed. I'd really like to get some more feedback from the readers (If I have any others) so please review. *Sparkly eyes*
Pretty please with a cherry one top! Flames are also readily accepted, but they had better be justified or I'm going to burn you right back. The flames however will be used to heat Kikyo's kiln, once I catch her. *Pulls out tranquilizer gun*
Enjoy
As for the disclaimer you all know the deal.
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Shi
Soul
Kon
Four
Shikon
Four souls
Four souls, bound together for all eternity. Four parts creating a whole.
Shikon no tama
The jewel of four souls
The jewel of four souls, jettisoned from my body so long ago. Along with it went the souls of my enemies, leaving a struggle for dominance. Of good and of evil. Decades passed as we changed hands once and again. Never at peace.
Naohi
The balance of a soul. Calm and peaceful. A certain monk once said that it was a state of the soul's utmost balance. Thus containing all four parts.
Aramitami
Courage
Nigimitami
Wisdom
Sakimitami
Friendship
Kashimitami
Love
The war raging inside my jewel continued for centuries. Both sides refusing to back down. Eventually we came into the possession of a band of demon slayers. They transferred us into the hands of a young priestess. The slayers believed that she had the purity to cleanse the jewel of all evil.
They were terribly mistaken.
For although the priestess was indeed powerful her heart was impure. She placed herself atop a pedestal that none could reach. Then she pitied herself for her seclusion from others, believing it was due to her duty.
It is believed that her powers weakened due to her love for a hanyou boy. This is incorrect. Her powers lessened from her apathy for others. She was not accepting of her love either. If she even truly loved him.
In the end the two were ultimately led to betrayal. All because of their distrust of each other. One lay in a dreamless sleep because of a geas. The other laid to rest in the earth. With her taking me into the transcendent realm of existence.
Centuries passed their in the darkness. The evil with me lay dormant. It had no desire to fight.
Then I came upon a little light. It was a completely pure soul, awaiting life seeking reassurance and guidance. This little soul had been cleansed of the deeds of many lives and become vibrant and healthy. Many souls joined it to become one with its joyful existence.
With it I returned to the land of the living. I lay dormant in the body of a little girl, but I could watch her live and grow. She had the powerful blood of a miko coursing through her veins. Due it and my power I protected her through the years from any demons that came near.
As time proceeded she grew into a young woman. Then on her fifteenth birthday her fate was irrevocably changed. She was pulled backwards through the stream of time to 500 years earlier and fifty years after I had passed into the other realm.
The demons awoke after their long slumber in the jewel.
The combined power within the jewel made demons lust for it. And eventually, its protector as well. The young woman from the future, my little light.
But her new guardian came in a form that even I did not suspect. It was the hanyou boy who had been enscrolled. After she freed him from his enchanted slumber he defeated the beast attacking her. The beast ripped me from an orifice in her body during the battle. Then he himself attacked. The girl was given a binding power over the young hanyou magically binding him to her side with but a word.
Unfortunately an accident occurred. While attempting to retrieve the gem from the jaws of a demon it was shattered into pieces by a single misplaced arrow. One which even I could not prevent.
Shards of the jewel scattered all over the land. The demon souls with each attached themselves to a piece and flew away with it. I was forced to depart from my girl and split my powers hoping to subdue their evil. It was in vein.
A more powerful demon arose and became an eternal enemy of the two.
They became the most unlikely companions in their quest to collect the shards. Eventually they became friends, and as time passed, something more.
One their journey they collected many souls to accompany them. As well as many enemies and still they continue on.
So here I wait until I am whole and pure again. Till I return to my girl and pass, perhaps forevermore on my transcendent journey.