Lady Sakaru sat on the floor before a table that came up to her waist. She was doing ikebana. Her bowl was lacquered and purple, within it the spiked flower holder barely peeped out of the water. Her movements were graceful and slight she placed each flower with delicate precision.
"Lady Sakaru? May we enter?" Miroku asked as he slid open the rice paper wall.
"Oh yes please do. I was just doing some ikebana." With a twist of her hand Lady Sakaru twisted the stem of one of her chrysanthemums and bent it north.
Miroku and Sango entered and sat cross-legged before the wizened demoness.
"Those are beautiful flowers." Sango complimented.
"Thank You Sango. I'm sure all of you haven't come here to watch me arrange flowers, you must undoubtedly have some questions to ask me." Lady Sakaru stood up and was about to place the ikebana on the side but Miroku stopped her and moved it himself.
"Thank you Miroku."
"Lady Sakaru?" Sango asked. "How did that human girl become an heir to a demon throne?"
Lady Sakaru walked over to a row of shelves on the far corner of the room and removed a brass scroll holder.
"This is the history of the town and why we are hidden from the outside world." Lady Sakaru explained unrolling several large illustrated scrolls.
"Before Inuyasha's father cloaked us within this shield our village was normal. But the neighboring villages began to hate us because we were demons. We were peaceful even back then. Many times the other villages would be attacked by other demons and we would come to their aid and defend them. Some of us even left to protect them and in return were treated kindly and with respect. But there were some humans who hated us even though were did nothing to them. Their scorn fomented into the birth of a demon, it's name was Sarutane. This demon had no body it was pure anger and blind hate. It infected the neighboring villages with a fierce rage. Once kind families turned against their demon protectors and chasing them out of their villages accusing them of working dark magicks upon their houses and live stock. Sarutane affected not only human but demon alike, he fired up many demons within this city against the bigotry of the humans. A war had broken out between human and demon. I remember that day well."
Lady Sakaru looked pensive her purple eyes staring up at a crack in the ceiling. Her voice was low and hushed, she let her memories do all of the talking leaving little for emotional emphasis.
"The humans had climbed up the battlements of the city and were attacking through the north and west gates. Some of the humans had cross bows and lobbed an oily fire upon us. It rained red and the air smelled of burnt blood and grease. You see Miroku. Sango. When you are under the will of Sarutane you are imbued with immense power. I stood on the top of this tower and raised my arms high over my head. Across the seemingly blood stained sky I crystallized my power into a vortex of youki, the vortex wiped the red from the clouds and replaced it with a freezing blackness. Being a demonic miko has its privileges and with Sarutane possessing me I was all-powerful."
A clumsy horned green demon with black armor that drooped on his shoulders ran up the towers steps. As soon as the demon touched the latch of the opening to the tower he felt a chill. A youki that did not feel like Lady Sakaru penetrated through the tower and made him afraid. Mustering enough courage the demon shoved open the latch and reported loudly "Lady Sakaru the humans have broken through the North gate."Her long black hair obscured her face, but as she turned the demon could see that something was not right. "Thank you Tasuka." Lady Sakaru's voice was harsh and had a hiss in it. Her syllables were constrained to sibilance like someone had tied a noose round her neck and thrown her from her perch. Her once porcelain skin cracked like a china doll and underneath veins crept to the surface making blue spider webs on her face. Her eyes carried the cold steel of hatred.
"We shall kill them all Tasuka. The humans will never let us live in peace till we are all dead." Lady Sakaru twisted her left hand and flipped it out screeching "MOERU!!!!" A black fire ripped through the space between the tower and the north gate. The crowd of humans that had breached the wall now rolled on the ground under the sweltering blanket of flames.
Tasuka's claws shook. The once kind demon miko was now charring the skin off of humans. But something beyond the horizon caught his eye. Within the darkness of the freezing sky was a pinpoint of light. It streaked across the black and hovered over Lady Sakaru.
"Miroku, Sango, Inuyasha's father saved us. He stopped me from killing the humans. Using the Tenseiga, he exorcised Sarutane from the others and me. But hatred and prejudice cannot be killed so easily so he used his powers to cover us over in this barrier. And until last night we thought that the night of the Blue Fire was a myth. We were ready to have spent our entire lives passively and invisibly."
Sango asked. "But what does that girl have to do with this."
"Ahhh yes. Rin. The legends surrounding where she came from is still clouded. But I believe that it was a demon witch, she transformed herself into the visage of Inuyasha's mother and slept with him. She wanted to carry the child of the Daiyokai. But Inuyasha's father found out of the treachery and destroyed the witch along with the baby she carried. Inuyasha's father knew that deep inside the child had great potential for good so he transferred the baby's soul into the body of a young girl and hoped that eventually that girl would give birth to a child. And that child would somehow be drawn to this place, imbued with the power, and rule as our leader. You see, Inuyasha's father never killed Sarutane but we believe Rin can. Somehow fate has chosen this young girl to be our savior."
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Across town the two demons roared at each other. One had a gold lizard's head and a body with bat wings that had talons. The other one was a spider like creature with a scorpion's tail and red eyes. Each let out a primal scream of battle. The lizard demon licked its lips with its long tongue. A long strand of poisonous webbing dribbled out of the spider demon's fangs. The spider demon was the first to act it shot a strand of webbing at the lizard demons body. With a tumble, kick, and roll to the right the lizard demon avoided the poisonous strand. Armed with an axe the lizard demon struck with a jump and slash at the spider demon's tail. Having so many legs the spider demon was less mobile and couldn't turn fast enough to avoid the axe's blade.
"Sankontetsuoo!" Inuyasha's attack deflected the lizard demon. It sent both creatures tumbling back into one of the fruit stands lining the street.
Kagome slid off of Inuyasha's back. "How did this happen?" she inquired.
A grey rat demon looked at her with malice. "We never had this problem until you humans arrived!" He said with a sneer.
"Yah" Someone else in the crowd cheered.
"Years ago your kind tried to kill us and now you're at it again! We should drive all of you out!"
"Hold on! This isn't Kagome's fault!" Inuyasha answered standing between her and the angry mob. The blade of the Tetsusaiga was at the ready.
"You're a dog demon and son of the great Inu no Taishyo (Inuyasha's father's title). Yet you acquiesce to this human's will? You carry her around like a good little doggy." The rat demon spit to emphasis his point.
Inuyasha let out an audible growl. Kagome moved around Inuyasha and pleaded, "Can we stop this?" But her pleas were cut short when a shot of acid nearly singed her right arm. "Hey that almost hit me!" The lizard demon stood up and readied himself again for another one.
"Kaze no Ki..." Before he could finish Kagome stopped him with a hand on her arm.
"No Inuyasha you can't attack them. Something just isn't right. I think they're under a spell." Inuyasha stretched out his arm over her and caught a wad of acid.
"Alright Kagome I hope you're right about this." Inuyasha picked her up and bounded towards the house with Shippou still asleep in it.
"We have to get Shippou and find Lady Sakaru she must know what to do."
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Hey guys. this is your humble author speaking. Sorry if I haven't updated in ages school job and well I've been in japan so hahaha yah its been hard. I mean crap those Japanese keyboards are tiny. But anyways I'm back home and I have some time so I promise updatage. That is well if this story still has a fan base. Again I'm really sorry I haven't updated since well last year. But I'm determined. Drop me a review please. And tell me how it's going. Jya ;-)