Dark Sides and True Feelings

A/N: I am thinking of creating a sequel, but should I or not? Anyways review and give me your opinion if I should create one or not.

Disclaimer: See chapter 2

Chapter 12

The morning

Inuyasha and the others woke up and prepared to leave to Malin's house. Koga and his friends waved and disappeared off into another direction. The Inuyasha group wasted no time to go and ran to Malin's house at full speed.

To Naraku

"Kagura." Naraku said while watching Miroku sleeping on a base of a tree. Miroku was out of his rage by now and his hands were soaked with animal blood. He didn't run to any villages during that time, so he didn't spill any human blood. Fortunately for the demons, none of them crossed Miroku's path and thus he didn't kill any of them.

Kagura walked in and asked, "What do you want Naraku?"

"See the monk turned demon there? Well, I want you to make him swallow this sphere." Naraku then held up a red sphere that was about the size of a ping- pong ball. Kagura looked at it in wonder and asked,

"What is that sphere?"

Naraku smirked and replied, "This is a sphere that was made by rage demons. Rage demons are very sinister and are usually not that powerful. However, when they go into a rage, they can be very difficult to kill. This sphere was made by these demons to invoke eternal rage. I acquired one of these from one of them and I thought Miroku should swallow it. He would then be in his demon rage form forever until the spell is broken."

"I see, but how can I make him swallow it?" she asked.

"I'll leave that to you, but I want him to swallow it by the end of today. Now go and here is the sphere." Naraku said and threw the red sphere to Kagura's hands. Kagura caught it and exited the castle and went off to find Miroku on her feather.

'Miroku will kill everyone and that slayer will be too scared to do anything. Then when I meet Miroku next time; I shall make him a part of me. Than I will be invincible with the complete Shikon Jewel and his power combined in me. Excellent, my plan is working perfectly.'

To Kagura

Kagura flew to the tree that Miroku was sleeping on and looked at him. 'He doesn't sense me? Oh well, might as well wake him up.'

Kagura kicked him at the side and Miroku woke up. He looked down at his claws and found blood on them. 'What happened here and why is there blood on my claws? I can remember killing things but it is a little foggy.' That was when he noticed Kagura watching him.

"What do you want bitch? You have the same scent as that bastard Naraku." Miroku asked.

"Hmmm, I am here to offer you more power." Kagura replied and showed him the red sphere.

"What does that thing do?" he asked while getting off from the ground. He still had DarkEdge in his scabbard and all of his Shikon shards even though he transformed.

"This is a sphere that you swallow in order to become a raged demon forever." Kagura said.

Miroku looked at her for a while and said, "Hell, I don't want to be a raged demon forever because I can't get stronger."

Kagura smirked and replied, "But when you are in your raged form you are much stronger, faster, and you can kill a lot more people faster without a second thought or remorse."

Miroku looked at her in deep thought. 'I can kill that girl with the boomerang much easily and the others too. Should I take the offer?'

"Okay, I'll take the sphere but I must think about it before I use." Miroku decided.

"Humph, as you wish, here's the sphere but you must use it before sunrise tomorrow or the effects won't work." Kagura lied. 'Then that bastard won't kill me for failing this mission.'

Miroku snorted but compiled with the deal. Kagura handed Miroku the sphere and flew off to Naraku's castle.

Miroku looked at the sphere and thought about it. 'I don't know, I want to kill but do I want to think nothing but to kill all day? But, I can kill all of those annoying people without regrets. I'll think about this more later on because I need to find a place to wash my claws.' With that, Miroku placed the sphere in his robe and walked to the nearest water source.

Back to Inuyasha

After traveling nonstop to Malin's house, they made it there before sundown. They were all completely exhausted but they managed to drag themselves to Malin's front door. Sango warily knocked on the door and Malin appeared.

"Oh, it's the girl that travels with Kaede. I see you brought more friends along this time. What do you need?" Malin asked gently.

"Well, we need more information about the element, light." Sango replied.

"Ah, another forbidden book of mine. Stay there while I get the book." Malin said and disappeared into his home. After about 10 minutes of waiting, Malin reappeared and gave Sango his book.

"This is all I have about the element light and dark." Malin said while shutting the door.

"WAIT! Why do we need information about dark?" Sango asked as she put her hand on the door to prevent it from closing.

"I thought it might me helpful to you and well..............." Malin said while looking grim.

To this, everyone looked intensely at Malin and Sango asked worried, "Well?"

Malin looked up with the most serious face he could muster and said,

"Well, it so happens that I don't have enough money to separate the two elements into different books." Malin said with a cheerful expression.

Everyone falls anime style, even the villagers.

Inuyasha was about to pound him when Kagome said,

"SIT!"

Unforuntley for Inuyasha, he was slammed down into a very hard stone floor.

"Let's go and find Houshi-sama." Sango said and jumped on Kirara with the book in hand. Inuyasha was mumbling a few "chosen words" and let Kagome jumped on his back

"Inuyasha, can you find Houshi-sama's scent anywhere?" Sango asked.

Inuyasha sniffed around and answered "no." Sango and Kagome sighed at the same time at Inuyasha.

"WHAT?" Inuyasha shouted angrily.

"Okay, our best bet is to go back to where we camped last night and try to find his scent from there." Sango replied.

Inuyasha and Kagome nodded and everyone took off after shouting goodbye to Malin. While traveling, Sango was reading the book that they acquired from Malin. Unfortunately like all of the other forbidden books, this book had only one page of information.

"Hey guys, I'll read the book the you to see if you could figure this out." Sango shouted.

"Light and darkness....."
"Happiness and Sadness...."
"They are the opposites from each other yet....."
"They're created from the same exact thing......"
"Which are tears......."
"Light and darkness is both born from tears......"
"Tears that are born from happiness, joy, and are from the true heart, makes the element light........"
"Tears that are born from sadness, anger, and are from the wicked heart, makes the element darkness........"
"True tears that one sheds, makes the most purist of light............."
"Fake tears that one sheds, makes the most vile of darkness.........."
"These elements represent emotions that will never waver.........."
"Light represents kindness, friendship, and love........."
"Darkness represents hatred, madness, and pure evil......"
"These elements cannot grasp each other's emotions......"
"They are the strongest elements yet.........."
"Without one another, the world will be off balance....."
"Which is why there is always darkness and light."

Sango finished reading the book and looked at her companions. They both looked deep in thought but Inuyasha was still running to their destination.

"So, do you guys get it?" Sango asked.

"Feh, I don't get all of this book crap. You guys figure it out, I am here for the fights." Inuyasha shouted,

"Hmmm, I get the part about the emotions that light and dark represent. Light represents kindness, friendship, and love. Darkness represents hatred, madness, and pure evil." Kagome replied.

"Yes and I get the part that tears made up those two elements based on the emotions that the person shed." Sango answered.

"Feh, there is also the part that the both elements would have to exist or the world will be off balance." Inuyasha said while running.

"So what do you make of all this Sango-chan?" Kagome asked.

Sango thought about it and sighed. 'The pieces are starting to fill in, but I still need to think about it a little more.'

"I think I might know, but I still need to think about it a little more."

"Okay Sango-chan!"

"Feh, whatever."

They finally made it back to camp and it was past sundown by now. The half moon was shinning bright in the sky with the stars. Inuyasha and the rest decided to camp over here again for the night and journey on to find Miroku tomorrow. Inuyasha jumped to his usual tree while Kagome set up her bedroll to sleep in. Sango laid her back against Kirara once again and kept thinking about the verses and information.

'Okay, the verse to free Houshi-sama went, "Thy only way to revert him to normal is with true light and emotions that darkness can not grasp." Tears make both light and darkness, but true tears makes true light? True tears are made from positive emotions, a pure heart, and are shed in truth and not lies. Since true light is made from true and pure tears, that's part of the way to free Houshi-sama!' Sango eyes widened instantly when she thought of that. 'That's it!'

Sango was about to shout out when she noticed that everyone was still sleeping. Sango grinned sheepishly and laid down on Kirara again.

'Now, what are emotions that darkness cannot grasp? Let's see, Light represents kindness, friendship, and love while Darkness represents hatred, madness, and evil. Are those the emotions that they can't grasp? Light cannot not grasp hatred, madness, and evil while Darkness cannot grasp kindness, friendship and love.'

Sango smirked and realized that was the way to free Miroku. 'I figured it out, true light is true tears that are positive and from a pure heart. Emotions that darkness cannot grasp are kindness, friendship, and love. That is the way to free him! I will tell Inuyasha and Kagome in the morning about this.' With that, Sango fell asleep on Kirara exhausted from the day.

To Miroku

Miroku was sitting on a base of a tree that was near a lake. He washed his hands in it a few hours ago after killing all of the demons there. He was still thinking about the sphere that the girl gave him. He took it out of his robe and looked at it deeply.

'Should I use it? I have to make my decision right now or the effects will not work. Do I want to have a will only to kill all day? Well I do, but there is still something holding me back. If I took it, maybe I wouldn't have this feeling anymore and I can kill everyone easily without remorse or a second thought. Yes, I will take it and then goodbye to that slayer and everyone else.'

With that, Miroku held the sphere in his hand and raised it to his mouth. He placed the sphere in his mouth and swallowed it whole.

'I wished that they made the sphere smaller, I feel like I swallowed a rock. I don't feel any diff-.'

That was when Miroku felt a deep rage circling around his body. It was very painful and Miroku shouted in pain and held his stomach with his arms. He could feel the transformations taking place and an endless hatred in his mind. His spikes grew on his arms, his stripes on his cheeks turned red, and his eyes were now completely red.

He can feel no emotion other than hatred. He couldn't think, speak, act, or hear straight, the same feeling when he faced the dead priestess. His aura and scent is now changed into a bloodthirsty and crazed one. He was consumed by demon rage and he felt stronger and faster. Miroku stood up and grinned sinisterly.

'This is demon rage isn't it? I like it, but I must kill something right now.'

That was Miroku's last thought before all he knew was to kill everything and everyone.

A/N: I think I made this fanfiction darker than I had planned. Anyways, review this chapter!