Kaoru arrived in the small village. It was practically in the middle of nowhere. There were few villagers. Mostly women and children. Kikyo had a small hut for her to live in and she gave her some miko clothes so she would be disguised.

She made herself at home. She took out all her weapons and dolls, not to mention ingredients for witchcraft, and put them into a small nightstand by her futon. She didn't bother changing into her new clothes yet. She slipped into her futon and drifted off into a deep sleep that she hadn't had in ages.

Not long after she was asleep, Kaoru started tossing and turning. She was having a horrible dream about what happened the first day she arrived at the feudal era.

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Kaoru's dream

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Kaoru climbed up the green vines and squinted in the bright sunlight, "Ah! So this is it!" She walked forward a few steps and stopped. Her advanced youkai senses could tell that something wasn't right. She quickly turned around and saw a man with long, wavy black hair. His eyes were red like blood with white pupils. He wore purple and navy blue clothes.

"Kaoru, I presume. I know of your tragic problems. I think that I can help you. Help you become all human so you don't have to deal with the bullying. Come with me, I'll show you what I can do," he said. He never took his eyes off her. His glare was like hypnotism because Kaoru could feel herself moving toward him unwillingly.

Her parents had told her to watch out for a man named Naraku. Could this be him? Could this be the man that is so evil?

"Are you Naraku?"

"Yes," he said and all of a sudden, his arms turned into thick roots and grasped her. She screamed when he thrashed her around. A dark miasma surrounded them and she passed out.

When she woke up from her sleep, she felt bloodlust. She looked up at Naraku.

"What did you do to me...?"

He cast his hand out at her and said, "You will kill your mother and father. If you don't I will kill you."

She was once again hypnotized and this time several images flew through her head. She saw all his incarnations and how he could kill them if he wanted. She saw the spider marks. She saw everything about his past. About Onigumo. Everything.

Then she saw him killing her. Crushing her in his roots. Dragging her dead body to his fortress. Then resurrecting her.

She looked on her back. She saw a big spider mark.

"No..."

He pulled out a voodoo doll of her (A/N I know... too much voodoo. I can't think of anything else. Kinda getting repetitive) and told it to hunt Inuyasha and Kagome down and kill them. Immediately, Kaoru reacted. She tried to fight it, but it didn't work.

She got all her weapons and left his hidden home.

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Kaoru's hut

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Kaoru woke up with tears in her eyes. She sat straight up and looked on her back once more to see if it had only been a dream. Unfortunately, the mark was still there. But she knew from the way she felt, that she wasn't being controlled right now. She had to go home. She needed to escape from Sengoku Jidai.

She started packing her stuff and Kikyo came in.

"Leaving so soon?"

"Oh... Kikyo. Yeah, I just remembered that I have some school work to do at home!" Kaoru blushed from the lame excuse.

"You need to stay a little while longer," said Kikyo and she looked at a puppet of Naraku's hidden in one of the trees outside. He gained control of Kaoru once again.

She grasped her head and tried her hardest to regain control of her body. But it was no use. She knew the powers of voodoo and witchcraft were really hard to fight against. Sometimes a protection against them didn't even work.

"Get dressed and meet me in the hut by the village's livestock. Be prepared for our first lesson," Kikyo said and left.

Kaoru obeyed and got changed into her new outfit. She had a few tears slip out.

She didn't really want to kill Kagome and Inuyasha. She hated her life, that much was true. And the bullying was true too. But the only reason she came here was to meet her parents and to have a little fun. She wanted to just escape from it all, not destroy her life. In the era she lived in, she cut herself and did attempt suicide, but that was a while back. She now knew she had a lot to live for.

But her parents had told her that she would try and kill them, and that she would be controlled by Naraku. She thought she was prepared, but she was wrong. Very wrong.

By the time she was done thinking, she had her clothes on and was already heading over to Kikyo. She needed to get used to her body acting on her own from now on.