CHILD OF EVIL

Chapter seven

FOR THE FATE OF THE WORLD

Kagome gave Naraku a strange look; he shook his head and looked back at her. With a smile he led her into the moonlight, it bathed him in white light, she averted her gaze so that he wouldn't notice her awe.

"I demand that you come with me." Naraku said calmly.

"And why should I listen to you?" Kagome snorted.

"Because I'll kill your Kitsune pup if you don't. Shippo I think it was called?" Naraku replied.

Kagome's eyes widened slightly, he hadn't ever threatened the pup for her company before. She nodded in defeat and took his arm reluctantly, before he had told her things that she used to defeat each demon she was faced with. Of course if Inu-Yasha found out that she was consulting Naraku for battle strategies he would go over the top, he was like a monster when angered.

"What is it Naraku-sama?" Kagome asked quietly.

"You are faced with one UrukaMaru correct?" Naraku queried.

"Yes, formed from mine and SesshoMaru's blood." Kagome replied hesitantly.

"You say lord SesshoMaru's name as if you think highly of him."

"That may be because I have come to respect him, as I have you." Kagome said, "Now what about UrukaMaru?"

"She is undefeatable." Naraku said simply.

"What do you mean she is undefeatable?"

"Because she is the very essence of SesshoMaru and yourself, you both must die for her to be defeated." Naraku informed her.

"NO! I can't let SesshoMaru die!" Kagome shrieked.

"Then you must allow her to kill innocent people." Naraku stated and began to walk towards his castle.

"Naraku, there has to be another way!" Kagome exclaimed, she was on the verge of tears now.

"Try as you might she will not die." Naraku snapped.

"But... What if I..." Kagome began.

"IT WILL NOT WORK WENCH!" Naraku shouted.

Kagome froze, she had now just registered in her mind that she could not save the world and spare the taiyoukai, she didn't care if she died, but SesshoMaru could not at any cost.

"But I cannot let him die! I...I...I care too damn much to lose him!" Kagome managed to choke out, he lower lip was quivering slightly.

Tears flowed freely from her eyes, how was she ever supposed to save the people if she could not bring herself to sacrifice the demon lord. Her train of thought wandered, if it was SesshoMaru's blood that needed to be shed, she would spill it.

"I understand Naraku-sama" Kagome whispered through heavy tears.

"Don't cry, you know what you must do and there is no sadness in saving the world." Naraku whispered.

"That's easy for you to say, you don't care about the people you kill!" Kagome cried.

"True enough" Naraku replied.

"You don't understand what a sacrifice feels like Naraku!" Kagome exclaimed.

She followed him out of the forest, there on the porch of the castle stood Kagura and Kanna, her favorite shadows. It wasn't as though she liked them; it was just that they were strong. Strong enough to protect Naraku, not that he needed it, he was powerful on his own.

"Kagura" Naraku called.

The wind witch looked up to Naraku, and then dropped to one knee in a bow, Kagome surveyed her carefully. What she saw was a fear of being one with Naraku again; she needed to be free like the element she controlled.

"Come to me Kagura" Naraku ordered.

With that the wind witch lifted from the floor and flew to Naraku's side, she seemed oblivious to all but her master.

"What is it Naraku?" Kagura asked softly.

"I want you to seek out our favorite taiyoukai for me." Naraku said with a glance to Kagome.

"Yes my lord." Kagura replied and with that she transformed the feather in her hair and was off.

"What do you want with Lord SesshoMaru?" Kanna asked.

"To tell him how to beat the blood child." Naraku said as he lifted the void into his arms.

"Oh." Kanna whispered.

"NARAKU!" Kagome shouted.

He turned to look at her; she stood there with a confused yet wise look on her face.

"What is it child?" Naraku asked as he repositioned Kanna in his arms.

"I wish to tell SesshoMaru-sama" Kagome demanded.

"As you wish but he will be returning shortly with my disobedient shadow." Naraku agreed.

Kagome bowed as if to signify thanks for granting her wish, even though it was a small wish, but she did want to let the taiyoukai know what she had to do. And at least make him understand that it was the fate of the world on his blade.

She turned and kicked at the dirt, raising a particularly high cloud of dust, she began to cough as she inhaled it. She heard a laugh from behind her and turned to see Naraku watching her.

"What!" Kagome demanded.

"Look to the forest woman child." Naraku said and walked into his castle.

She turned to see Kagura emerging from the trees, SesshoMaru following close behind the wind witch, he aw Kagome and donned a look of slight confusion. Kagome cried out in happiness and ran to the taiyoukai, she threw her arms about him and brought him close, tears streamed down her cheeks.

"What is it woman?" SesshoMaru demanded.

"To defeat UrukaMaru... we must kill each other." Kagome said, her voice filled with sudden strength.

"We must die?" SesshoMaru asked stupidly.

"Gomen, but the worlds rests on our deaths." Kagome whispered.

The demon lord turned away slowly, thinking to himself about what he had to, he knew it was going to take a while for him to fully comprehend his death. He felt a hand on his shoulder and he turned to see whom it belonged to. As he suspected the hand belonged to the young miko. He sighed and turned completely around to face her, she held a dagger at her side he saw it and knew she was prepared to end his life; he however didn't feel that he could end hers.

"Are you serious about this?" SesshoMaru demanded.

Kagome nodded in response and he unsheathed Toukijin, the girl brought the dagger up to his neck and pulled across his fine skin, she was splattered with blood. As quickly as a youkai who was bleeding to death could, SesshoMaru brought Toukijin across her neck, the first thought that entered her mind was, how fast do you die after having your throat slit. It hurt like hell and on reflex Kagome grabbed at her neck, SesshoMaru however didn't, even in death he would not show weakness.

"Sessho..." Kagome whispered, she was about to ask him if it hurt but she had finished bleeding out and her heart stopped.

The youkai lord had died a single second before she did and both slumped to the ground in their own blood. Somewhere not very far off stood UrukaMaru; she was headed straight for the scent of the western lord.

"What is this?" UrukaMaru asked herself quietly.

Blood was coming from her body, there was no pain and there were no wounds, she felt cold.

"What is going on?" UrukaMaru whispered.

The girl reached the clearing to find both SesshoMaru and the miko lying in a pool of blood, it took a moment for her to realize it was their blood. They actually went through with it! Her mind screamed... THEY ARE DEAD!

Naraku peered out his window to see the blood child standing next to their two bodies, out of the corner of his eye he saw Kikyo race off into the woods. He shrugged it off thinking she had to vomit, seeing as blood doesn't have a particularly great scent.