Well hello again! Betcha didn't expect me to update so soon huh? Well I did so there! Ok, just to let you know, this is a rather boring eventless chapter, but I gotta build it up a bit, and build up some character, ya know? It's also somewhat short, (well five pages) but considering I updated so quickly, I figured it was okay! I'll try to have the next chapter up by Friday! Enjoy!

Darkness' Light

Chapter Two:

Black, White, and Gold

Usagi skipped down the dark hallways, turning a corner every now and then, she followed the map in her mind. She'd taken this route so many times, that she could close her eyes and still know where she was going. Over her shoulder she carried a small sack filled to the top and tied tightly closed. The long hallway ended in a staircase that led underground into a small room lit with four large fire burning torches.

At the far end of the room there was a large metal door, but more importantly, just to the right of the door, there was a small gap where a piece of the wall had given away, and it was just wide enough for the petite golden haired girl to squeeze her body under. Quickly grabbing a torch and pulling it from its cradle hanging on the wall, Usagi looked towards the small gap.

"Musou-kun?" she called out still looking at the small hole, "Musou, are you in there?"

"Of course I'm in here, where am I going to go?" the man called back through the wall, Usagi laughed.

"I'm sending the light through," she announced as she carefully slid the torch under the wall, before she too crawled through. She was pulled to her feet by a handsome man with long black hair.

She smiled up to the taller demon, then quickly grabbed for the sack she'd been carrying. Pulling it to her she used the fire light to swiftly untie the knot in the top. "Look what I brought you!" she cried excitedly as the tie came loose revealing the sac to be full of meat and bread rolls.

Musou looked over the food with raised eyebrows, "how did you manage to get all this food?" he took up a large piece of meat and took a bite.

She shrugged her shoulders nonchalantly, "it was simple," she started out, shaking a finger in his direction, "I just told them I was still hungry and that I needed more to eat!"

He nodded his head in understanding before continuing to fill his mouth with the meat and breads. Noticing that she hadn't eaten anything he decided to state the obvious, "you're not eating."

She smiled while rubbing her belly, "no I ate so much for dinner, I'm stuffed!"

"You, stuffed?"

Usagi gave him a fake glare before picking up some bread, "well I guess one roll wouldn't hurt." The blue eyed girl may have looked angry, but on the inside she was smiling from ear to ear, it was so nice to have someone to talk to and joke with. Each time she came down to visit the imprisoned demon, she found herself growing more and more attached to him.

"I can't wait until Lord Naraku lets you out of here Musou-kun," she started, "we're going to have so much fun!"

The taller demon looked down to the bread roll he held in his hand, he did a good job of keeping his face expressionless, but his eyes betrayed him, they were filled with pain, and a deep sadness. "Usagi," he looked to the beautiful girl sitting before him, his little sister, "Naraku's not going to let me out of here, you know that as well as I."

The golden haired girl right then and there decided, that just like Kagura, she would set Musou free.

She narrowed her delicate eyebrows at the black haired demon, "Then, I'll get you out of here," she held her fist out before her in determination, "I don't know when, or how, but I promise Musou, I'll get you out, I promise I will." He laughed at the antics of the petite girl, "and when I do, we'll run through the fields and pick wild flowers, and then we'll eat the large juicy black berries that grow on the vine near the river bank, and we'll go swimming!"

"That sounds wonderful."

The two smiled at each other as they fell into a comfortable silence.

Kagura walked towards her room, Naraku completely disgusted her, why couldn't he just let her go, he still had Kanna and Usagi and then there was Musou, but he wasn't of much use. She wished she could just run away again, but knew it was a waste because the same thing would happen as last time.

She saw something in the corner of her eye, and quickly looked to it only to find Usagi climbing the stairs that lead to the dungeon. A small smile played across her lips as she watched the golden haired girl smile and wave in her direction before heading of in the direction of her room. There was definitely something weird about that girl, she couldn't tell whether she should like or dislike her. Then again why would she like anything that willingly served under Naraku? She turned and continued on her way.

Naraku sat in his room, he was very curious about something, and he couldn't stop thinking about it. When he put the image of Kikyou in his youngest 'child's' mind he got a strange reaction. Similar to Musou's feelings for the priestess, which was lust swirled with a deep yearning, Usagi's were purely that of admiration, intrigue, and genuine love. He was curious as to the events that would occur if Usagi were to come face to face with the priestess.

He decided, come sun rise, he would call for the blue eyed girl and send her off in the direction of Kikyou.

"I believe you're over reacting Inuyasha," the taijiya said looking blankly to the hanyou who had just finished explaining how the golden haired girl from days before was a demon and she had hypnotized Kagome and herself into believing she was completely harmless.

"Yeah, she seemed really nice to me," Kagome stated drifting off into thought.

"Me too!" Shippou called from the time travelers shoulder.

"I agree that she was a demon," Sango started again, "but she definitely didn't seem threatening."

Miroku sat on a near by rock listening to the three go on about the blue eyed girl, he agreed with both sides of the argument. He had to admit, there was something strange about the girl, and if she was with Naraku, than she was definitely an enemy. Still, she had yet to threaten them in any way, so it would be wrong of him to label her so.

The dark haired monk was brought out of his musings by Inuyasha's voice. "Miroku don't just sit there like an idiot! Tell them how wrong they are!" he yelled pointing to Kagome and Sango.

Miroku looked to Inuyasha who was looking at him expectantly, he then moved his gaze over to the females of their small group, they were looking down at him threateningly, as if daring him to disagree with them. "Uh," he continued to look back and forth from Inuyasha to Kagome and Sango, "… no comment?"

Usagi walked quietly down the dirt road. She passed many travelers and village workers along the way, many of the women would whisper amongst themselves about how indecently she was dressed, while some men would approach her and try to start up conversations, insisting on her staying for a while. She would politely turn down their offer, and continue on her way.

Naraku had sent her in the direction of a small village that, on foot, was a two day travel. Usagi remembered back to early that morning when Naraku informed her she'd be leaving.

She kneeled before her lord and looked up to him, "you called for me Lord Naraku?"

She watched as he slowly nodded his head, a small smirk played upon his lips, "I want you to head to a small village to the north of here," he pointed his finger in the direction mentioned; "there you will find the Priestess Kikyou."

At the mention of the name she again had an image of the beautiful woman stuck in her mind. Her heart began to race, and for some reason, she felt a great needing, a yearning for the woman.

"I want you to befriend Kikyou; I want you to gain her trust. It is very vital that you do this Usagi, the priestess is a very important part of my plans."

"Anything you wish of me Lord Naraku."

Usagi smiled while thinking of her lord Naraku, she couldn't understand why Kagura hated him so much, how could someone hate the person that gave them life? Usagi knew, she'd always stay loyal to Naraku, and only Naraku, he let her live, and for that she was extremely thankful.

Turning off the dirt road onto a small forest trail, she started heading west. She wanted to make just a quick stop before continuing on her small journey. Running through the forest she was aware of all the sounds, and scents of demons around her, but she didn't care, she was on a mission; get to the rose gardens before nightfall! Racing towards the setting sun, the scent of roses greeted her, and she slowed to a fast walk. She'd spend the night in the gardens. Though she didn't really need to stop for rest, it gave her an excuse to go to the valley of flowers.

Upon her arrival, she was first greeted with a wide meadow filled with multi-colored wild flowers. There were so many flowers that you could barely see any green grass, just pink and purple, orange, red, yellow and white. Usagi carefully walked through the meadow trying not to step on any flowers, though it was nearly impossible.

When she finally made it to the end of the meadow, she looked up to the thick green bushes that reached for the sky; they were a good two times her height. Crawling through a small clearing, Usagi started through the maze of tall bushes and berry vines that had large thorns the size of her hand growing from them. A lot of the turns went off into dead ends, and an amateur could easily get lost, but the golden haired girl had spent a lot of time exploring the maze, and knew all the correct ways to go.

Baby birds could be heard calling for food as she skipped by a small bird nest wedged between two branches protruding from the large bushes. The smell of roses got stronger with each step until the maze opened up into a small circular clearing filled with red rose bushes.

Usagi casually walked along the small path that weaved around the plants, heading towards the middle of the small garden she came upon her favorite rose bush of them all. From the tiny green stems arose large white petals that were stained pink in the center. She leaned over the small plant and breathed in deeply, taking in the lovely scent of the large flowers, along with this scent, another scent caught her attention. She stood quickly and continued to take in the rancid, rotting-like smell. She became aware of a presence, it wasn't very strong, but she could feel it none the less. She knew who it was, she could sense him. It was a presence she'd felt everyday from the first day Lord Naraku gave her life. Then one day, he was torn away from her, her only real friend, her brother, gone. But no longer, she could sense him, meaning he must still be alive!

The golden haired detachment took off at full speed in the direction she sensed the demon, her heart beating with excitement, and a smile staining her lips as she raced through the maze. "Goshinki!" she called to him, his presence was starting to feel stronger, "it's me, wait for me Goshinki!"

Quickly turning a corner in the maze she cut her arm on a berry thorn that stretched out as if reaching for her. Stopping to watch as the blood stained her pretty kimono she frowned, and then turned to frown at the large thorn.

Remembering she was following Goshinki, she quickly looked around her, trying to find the demon, but she could feel him no longer. She quickly noticed another demon. She could sense it, it was quite a ways from her, but it was a very powerful demon. She disregarded it, feeling it was no threat to her. She would eventually find out how wrong she was.

She couldn't wait to tell her Lord Naraku that Goshinki was still alive. Quickly turning to head back down the path she came, she found herself facing four different paths she could have come down. Which one? Looking from one to the next and so on, she tried to remember, or maybe even smell what path she'd taken, but the scent of flowers was so strong, she could smell nothing else. Just deciding to guess, she started down one of the paths.

A few turns and guesses later, she came face to face with a dead end. Long story short, she was lost. Growing tired, the golden haired detachment just decided to rest there for the night, and find her way out at sun rise. Guess she was just an amateur after all.

She then would continue on her way to find, and befriend the Priestess Kikyou, and then hurry back to give Naraku the good news.

A ways away, a tall demon calmly walked through the unusually quiet forest; his thoughts lingered on a petite girl who slightly smelled of the dark haired hanyou that disgusted him so.

I know I know, kind of an eventless chapter huh? Well ya gotta build up to the good stuff ya know!? Heh!

And again I know, it was only five pages long, but I promise, they will never get any shorter than that, and considering that I updated this like five days after the first chapter, I thought it would be okay.

Important On another note, I just found out, that in January, I'm gonna be shipped off to the Army. So I'm going to try and update as much as I can until then, but it's going to be hard because I've got a lot of studying to do! Though after my basic training, I'm sure I'll be able to continue updating!

Again sorry for the short chapter, and thanks for much for reviewing!

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Next Chapter

"Its you!" Usagi exclaimed as she took the hands of the priestess, "you're the beautiful woman, the Priestess I see in my mind, you're the one who's constantly calling out to me!"

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