Chp 30: Remember
Disclaimer: The day I own Inuyasha is the day Korn declares themselves a Christian Rock band. Meaning once again, that I will never own Inuyasha.
A/N: YES! I AM UPDATING! YOU HAV ENO IDEA HOW HARD THIS CHAPTER WAS! I had to alter the song-fic part about three times, and I'm STILL not totally satisfied with it. I see that a few of you are mad at me for what I made Inu and Sess's past be like, but like I said before, that is only digging few inches into what their past was. Believe me, its way more confusing that what it is right now. ^_^
KitsuneOokami-chan: Kudos for figuring out what I have planned! Am I that easy to read?
Nightmares Hell: Yes. I understand you are pissed, but please, this is what I want it to be like, and remember, more is yet to come.
Not doing a whole bunch of review responses, just a few that really stuck out.
WARNING!!!!!!!!!!! SONG IN THIS CHAPTER!!!!!
And the chapter title gives it away. ^o~
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Kagome grinned while staring at the picture she had taken of Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru. "Oh it's soooo CUTE!!!!! I'm going to frame this, and make copies of it, and then I'm going to show them to everyone, and then I'm going to royally embarrass them both! This is going to be so FUN!!" She squealed girlishly.
Kaze cocked his head to the side as he stared at his mother, only half understanding what she was saying. But by the evil look on her face, he could tell she was up to something evil again.
Kagome once again skipped away waving the picture around gleefully.
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Inuyasha was sitting on the floor cross-legged, while Sesshoumaru was sitting in the armchair he had recently vacated, his back ramrod straight.
Well, you could also say they were in an awkward silence.
"Ummm..." Inuyasha started.
Sesshoumaru inclined his head to show he was listening.
Inuyasha coughed a bit nervously and then said. "Um. Sorry for um, well, uh, you know..."
"Crying on me?"
Inuyasha's eye twitched at how bluntly he put it but gave a mumbled, "Yeah."
Sesshoumaru smirked. "If you say nothing of it I will not either."
Inuyasha glared at him from the corner of his eye, but said, "Deal."
Sesshoumaru settled back into the chair and asked, "So, how much did you hear Inuyasha?
Inuyasha's ears drooped. "Everything..." he said sadly. "Was Outou-sama really like that?" He asked painfully.
Sesshoumaru sighed. "Yes. But he atoned himself before passing."
Inuyasha's ears perked at this. "Really?"
Sesshoumaru nodded and said, "Hai. Though I still have not really absolved him."
Inuyasha cocked his head and asked, "Why not?"
Sesshoumaru tensed a bit and said tightly, "Demons have excellent memories, and do not easily forget the past. We can just as easily hold a grudge. He did not really believe I would amount to anything. I never got the chance to prove him wrong and see his face. And some scars left never properly heal."
Inuyasha looked puzzled for a moment before a look of understanding of his brothers double-edged words passed over his eyes and he let out a silent 'Ohhhhh' of understanding.
Sesshoumaru cracked an eye open and looked at Inuyasha, his face turned irritated when he saw the look Inuyasha was giving him.
"What?"
"So you have a scar...?" Inuyasha asked.
And irritated sigh escaped Sesshoumaru's lips and he glared at Inuyasha. "Yes." Sesshoumaru sent a glare at Inuyasha that immediately silenced him. "And not many people know, actually, only you, Tsume, and Kagome's mother Lyanna, and father, Kinyoru. So don't go blabbing it to the world."
"Feh."
"If you wish to know more of our father, then I will tell you all I know." Sesshoumaru said after a moment of silence.
Inuyasha shrugged and Sesshoumaru took it as a 'yes'.
Sesshoumaru took a deep breath and let it out before continuing.
~~~~~~Flashback~~~~~~
Sesshoumaru's eyes eased open, but he shut them tightly to the blinding light that assaulted them. He moved his neck to the side, only to regret it a moment later as pain shot through his neck and back. He held back a groan as he once again opened his eyes, squinting around the room he was placed. A female hawk demon walked into the room carrying an armful of linens, but as soon as she saw him, she squeaked in fright and they went flying.
Sesshoumaru tried to lift a striped arm to block a sheet that was falling toward his face, but stiffly kept it still as he was jolted by another wave of pain. The sheet drifted down to make its home on his head.
The hawk demon scurried to pick up the sheets that were lying on the floor, and then snatched the sheet from his head. Sesshoumaru gazed quizzically at her as she stuttered an explanation.
"S-s-sorry m-milord. J-just bringing s-some f-fresh sh-sheets. The ones you are on, h-have collected some b-blood."
Sesshoumaru looked down at his sheets and, indeed, there was a dark crimson stain extending from his shoulder blades to his thighs.
The hawk demon composed herself and informed him, "I will be moving you so I can remove the sheets and replace them."
Sesshoumaru nodded and relaxed himself.
The hawk demon placed an arm behind his head and lifted him slowly so he was in a sitting position. She inspected his back and then turned to face him. "Can you stand?"
Sesshoumaru moved his legs off of the futon without much problem, and then rose to his feet. When he straightened his spine, it hurt for a few seconds before he heard a 'pop' and he didn't feel any more pain. He looked back to the hawk demon and asked, "What is your name?"
She began stripping the sheets and said, "Tsume."
Sesshoumaru followed her with his eyes and noticed she was younger than him.
Tsume gathered the sheets into a ball and threw them into a small laundry basket in the corner of the room. She handed Sesshoumaru a loose white hakama and haori and said, "Strip
your clothes and throw them into the basket with the sheets, then you may dress yourself."
Sesshoumaru just stared at her back as she walked out. 'Strange female.' He thought. As he stripped himself of his kimono and dressed himself in the fresh one, he thought of how careless of him his father had been. He clenched his jaw and his hands tightened around the obi he was tying. 'Damn bastard.' He thought.
(A/N: Okay, here is where the song comes in, it will be in italics, I am going to switch it first person, Sesshoumaru.)
:: Sensation washes over me, I can't describe it,::
I finished dressing myself and stepped out onto a balcony, overlooking the forest and then the coast of the western lands.
::Pain I've felt so long ago, I don't remember...::
I launched myself off the balcony in a powerful jump, leaving me sailing over the treetops and facing away from the sea.
::Tear a hole so I can see, my devastation,::
My eyes bled crimson as I propelled myself forward once again with merely a touch to the tops of the trees, but even as I touched them, they turned black a crumbled.
I clenched my fists for a moment before once again relaxing them and letting the feel of the forceful wind calm me. I squeezed my eyes shut tight and then opened them again, the red hue gone. 'Am I going crazy?' I thought dully.
::Feelings from so long ago, I don't remember...::
I plummeted downward towards what looked like a hole inside of a giant hill; rocks and giant boulders strewn about everywhere.
::Holding on! To let them know, what's given to me, given to me!::
I quietly walked into the opening to find a huge dwelling, hollowed out with a few adjoining rooms. I saw a beautiful Inu youkai sitting cross-legged on the floor, holding a small form dressed in red. Two large floppy ears poking out of its soft white hair.
My mother...and my half brother Inuyasha.
::To hide behind, the mask this time, and try, to believe!::
I locked eyes with her for a moment and she smiled sadly. She looked down at the small being in her arms, and then back up to me. I nodded my head in a silent response and turned away. I began walking but a small growl made me halt. I turned to see what it was.
Inuyasha had shifted positions and was feeling around for something. He grabbed hold of my mother's soft tail and curled himself in it, just as he used to do with my own. I smiled at him, a bit sadly and then turned around and closed my eyes.
::Blind your eyes to what you see, you can't embrace it,::
I forced myself to exit the den and then began walking once again. 'Live Inuyasha. Have the compassion that I may never feel. I will be there again with you someday.'
But for now, I must leave him to himself; hopefully things will not be as hard for him.
::Leave it well enough alone, and don't remember...::
I sighed and leaped through the under story of the forest and gradually climbed higher. My eyebrows drew together as I felt a pull towards a certain direction. I spun to my left in the air, still moving forward and stopped myself with both feet. I thrust myself forward and looked below me, searching for the source of the pull.
::Cut your pride and watch it bleed, you can't deny it,::
I came to find a small clearing; but nothing was there. I was suddenly hit with waves of power, and a long lost memory was triggered. An odd pain surfaced in my chest as it became harder to breathe. I grasped my chest and closed my eyes momentarily.
::Pain you know you can't ignore, I don't remember.....::
I opened them to see a woman with long white hair and a soft blue kimono smiling at me. She looked young, a bit older than me. But wait...
She was pregnant?
::Holding on! To let them know, what's given to me, given to me!::
"It hurts does it not?" she said quietly.
I just looked at her.
"Your emotional pain has manifested itself Sesshoumaru..." She smiled a bit as she took a few steps forward. "Your father is a good man. Never forget that he loves you however much it seems he does not. Neither of you will last forever."
::To hide behind! The mask this time, and try, to believe!::
I doubled over and fell to my knees as another wave of pain shot through my chest. She approached me and knelt down in front of me. She lifted my head up with her slender hands. She smiled at me softly. "Let it go Sesshoumaru. Free yourself." She embraced me softly and laid my forehead on her left shoulder.
::And I can! Remember! To know this, will conquer me!::
She placed her hands on my back and I squeezed my eyes shut tightly. I did not see it, but her eyes had become clouded over with a swirling white mist. She smiled after a bit and closed her eyes. Tilting her head downward. She held her hands against my back and they glowed with a soft white light.
:: And I can! Just walk alone...::
The pain in my chest instantly subsided. I opened my eyes and she pulled away from him. She smiled sadly and stood up. I followed her eyes and she receded a few steps away from me. A voice whispered, her own, but her lips remained motionless. "Inuyasha will be fine, do not worry about him, your mother will take good care of him. Find peace Sesshoumaru. Do not bind your fear and emotions, lest another time like this take place..." She faded into nothing as she spoke, leaving me kneeling there, bewildered, in the clearing.
::And try, to escape...into me...::
'What does she mean? Another event like this? What in the seven hells...'
::(Sensation washes over me...I can't describe it...)::
A strange feeling was still left in my chest. 'What is this? What was she talking about my emotional pain manifesting?'
::(Pain I've felt so long ago...I don't remember...)::
And suddenly I was tired, tired of what I had been living for, and tired of what I had lived with. I wanted to leave. But not yet... There was still something calling to me. I closed my eyes and let my senses flow wide. The breeze lifted my hair and pressed my haori against my skin.
::I'm just, holding on! To let them know, what' given to me, given to me..::.
My eyes flew open, the edges of the whites darkened to a blackish red. I sprinted out of the clearing, going only by instinct and raw feeling. I was weaving through the forest, a little less directional, and more erratic than before, as if I was driven by an unseen force, something telling me to remember what I had forgotten, to sift deep into my memory and bring forth what I had buried.
::To hide behind! The mask this time, and try, to believe!::
I hacked down branches that barred my way, leaving a cut path in my wake. It tugged at me still, pulling me toward an unknown destination, once again commanding me to remember.
'But what is it?!' I screamed inside my head.
::And I can't! Remember! To know this, will conquer me!::
I emerged into a clearing that held nothing but a single old pine stump. I approached it cautiously; Wary that a specter may jump out at me, or even my father.
I gazed down at the stump, and could make out a carving through a thin layer of debris that had accumulated on it. I wiped it away with my kimono sleeve and looked down at an old
poem, something that had been written ages ago.
~ A father's pride,
A son's love,
His own step as long,
As the stallions stride,
And the others as little,
As the stars high above.
Walk as they may,
As tall as they stand,
A protector's bloodline,
To rule over this land.
May sadness and fear,
Never be veiled,
For such a great bond,
May one day fail.
Come what may,
For his innocent eyes,
In ones amber orbs,
Love hides all lies. ~
/For my little Sesshoumaru /
-Kounatri Sirinata-
::And I can't! just walk alone... And try, to escape...into me...::
I gazed down at what was carved into the stump with something akin to shock or disbelief.
'My mother had written this?'
Had she known what would become of my father? Or was this just a piece of her heart from what she had already experienced? Maybe it was a reminder... to show me that maybe he could still feel something for me, other than disgust.
::Into me.......::
'Maybe. Maybe Inutaisho still is still my father. But, can I find a way to still be his son? It is not for me to decide. If Inutaisho chose to change, then so be it. If not. I will leave. I can only hope that Inuyasha will be safe.
::Into me...::
[End song ::Remember by Disturbed:: Album: "Believe" Want to hear the song? Tell me. Or go to yahoo music videos if you have an account there and search for 'Remember' and see the video.]
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Inuyasha was sitting on the floor with his eyebrows drawn together in confusion. "So I was with your mother during all of this?"
Sesshoumaru nodded. "Hai."
Inuyasha drew his eyebrows together even more. "Then why in the seven hells don't I remember?"
Sesshoumaru leaned back in his chair and
placed his fingertips together. "That I do not know either." He sighed and
raised himself out of the chair. He walked over to the doors of the balcony and
opened them, letting a breeze carry the slightly chilly air of the early
evening in. He stepped out onto the medium sized balcony and turned his head
partially towards Inuyasha. "Would you like to walk with me?"
Inuyasha hefted himself up and said, "Uh, sure..."
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Kagome was sitting on her bed staring out the window lazily. "Soooooooo, boooooooriiiiing..." she let her head fall down on the mattress and she sighed into the blankets. "Ugh. Maybe I should go see Sango and Miroku... I really need to make sure things are okay with them. They seemed a bit too okay with Naraku being a companion...sort of..."
She walked to her armoire and pulled out some loose fitting navy blue hakama and a navy blue halter-top with a split in the middle of the front. She put a few bangles on each wrist and ankle and hopped over to her balcony. She launched herself off with her wings, and then Spun in a fast spiral in the air. A swirl of red energy began to intertwine around her and then as it grew brighter, she became bigger. Her wing feathers knitted together, her stripes spread over her skin and then darkened; her eyes slid upward and grew in size as her face became longer. Her hair flew out behind her and became a mane. And soon, she was gliding out over the treetops at breakneck speed in her true dragon form, her arms and legs tucked tight against her body as her wings pushed her forward and her tail steered.
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Rin was in the garden, and instead of picking flowers; she was actually tending to her very own bush of black roses! She kneeled down and plucked a few dandelions that had made their way into the underneath of her bush and tossed them into the pond, the golden heads floating on the surface. She was humming a song she had heard Kagome listening to in her room, and had only managed to catch a few words, but still sang what she could.
"I've slept so long without you, it's tearing me apart to, how'd it get this far? Playing games with this old heart... I've killed a million petty souls, but I couldn't kill you! I've slept so long without...you..." she then hummed the rest because she could not recall the words.
She then squeaked as she saw a big thingy fly above her, but sighed in relief as she saw it was only Kagome in her big dragon form.
Rin stood up and brushed the bottom of her kimono hakama off. She wiped her forehead and went over to wash her hands in the pond. After finishing that, she sat down under the large, and now colorful weeping willow and rested.
She looked at the stars and traced little shapes with her fingers.
Jaken looked at her hand movements and said, "Strange girl... Rin! It is time for you to come inside. Sesshoumaru-sama is out and will not be pleased if you are outside after it is dark, and the sun has already set!"
Rin grinned and jumped up. She ran past Jaken into the castle and ran around the hallways to her room, with her arms spread wide like and airplane.
Jaken watched her with weary eyes, "*sigh* What a strange child. Rin! Tsume is waiting in the bathing room with your change of clothes...go...to her..." He said the last part while sitting down on the floor. He removed his hat and wiped his brow. Then replaced it. "Ah, this Jaken must be getting old..." he hefted himself up with his staff and trudged down the hall towards his chambers. (A/N: Yes, Jaken has his own chambers. Hey! The little guy needs a break once in a while!)
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(A/N: I'm kind of demonstrating in this particular part that our dear Naru-chan is still evil. I'm not trying to give him the goody-goody image. Merely trying to make him a misunderstood evil hanyou who has a few issues he needs to work out. ^^ and our favorite Hentai Necromancer will help him with that.)
Naraku held his hands behind his back as he took the stairs one by one to the dungeon of his fortress. He reached a grate in the floor and bent over, he gripped it with his hands and pulled upward with a grunt of exertion. A cloud of dust rose in the air as he dropped it next to the opening. He stepped down a few steeper wooden stairs, and was now in a damp, musty dungeon with about 10 cells on each side of him. He turned to his left and walked, candles in their holders bursting into flame as he walked past them. He ducked his head a bit in the low space, and stopped as he reached the last cell.
"Hello Juroumaru."
The outline of a dark figure could be seen dimly from the bars of the cell, and it looked up from his place where he sat huddled in the corner, eyes glowing with a light of their own. The sound of his breathing filled the air and the damp room filled with a chill.
"Yes. I know, your brother Kageroumaru was killed in your conflict with Inuyasha and the wolf demon, but you were not. Now were you?"
There was a shuffling noise and Juroumaru stepped out of the shadows of the cell into Naraku's vision. He was crouched down on the balls of his feet, supporting himself with his left hand while he rested the other on his right knee. His pale pink hair spilled over both shoulders and partially his face. He looked out at Naraku through the strands and breathed out slowly.
"Would you like to come out of your cell? See the moonlight perhaps?"
Juroumaru shuffled a bit closer to the front of the cell and lowered his head a bit in a show of 'yes'.
Naraku chuckled a bit and said, "Now, now, remember what happened the last time I let you out without chains on?"
An image of the head of the baboon pelt falling to the ground and rolling flashed across Juroumaru's eyes.
Naraku smiled. "I see you do. Now, will you be a good boy if I let you out this time?"
Juroumaru's eyebrows lowered and he shifted his weight; he inclined his head in another show of, 'yes'.
Naraku's eyes glowed crimson as they locked with Juroumaru's icy blue orbs. 'Hn. It appears he's not lying.'
"Good. I will not have any massacring of villages. The odd human here or there. But not villages. You will not be killed. I will have my insects follow you, and Kanna will be monitoring you at all times. In four days I will send Kagura to tell you that it is time to come home." Naraku smirked.
"Oh and, Juroumaru," Naraku held up a small glowing red ball and gave it a bit of pressure.
Juroumaru's eyes widened and he began to breathe heavily as he grasped his chest, the air coming out of his mouth sparkling blue.
Naraku ceased the pressure and put the small sphere in the sleeve of his haori. "Don't try anything stupid or I will be forced to use that again."
Naraku walked away and waved his arm behind him. The wall that had been the right side of Juroumaru's cell shimmered, and then disappeared. The moonlight illuminated the damp cell and Juroumaru's pupils dilated and contracted in quick succession. He timidly shuffled into the moonlit grass and gaze out over the muted colors of the forest and the grassland. A powerful gust of wind blew his hair to the side of his face and rippled across the long grass.
He made a few more timid steps, before in a flash of green and white. Was bounding across the grassland and weaving through the trees with rapid grace.
Naraku gazed into Kanna's mirror and watched as Juroumaru stretched his limbs for the first time in almost a year. He smirked at the picture and then turned away. Kanna began to follow Naraku but he put up a hand and motioned for her not to. The mirror rippled and the image faded.
Naraku pulled aside the shoji screen and slowly walked in the direction of Kimi's room.
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Kimi flopped down on her futon and let out a long sigh. "Sheesh. You'd think he'd get an interior decorator. Everything is so....dreary."
Naraku spoke from her doorway. "What are you doing up at this time of the night"
Kimi almost jumped and clung to the ceiling. "HOLY SHIT! DON'T DO THAT!"
Naraku quirked and eyebrow. "Do what?"
Kimi composed herself and stomped over to Naraku. Doing her best to look angry and intimidating.
But when you have to crane your neck at a 50 degree angle to see the person's face. It kinda looses its meaning. "Don't sneak up on me! And you know damn well that demons AND necromancers don't need to sleep that often! Now when are we leaving to go back to Kagome?"
Naraku stared down at her. "I don't see what the rush is. I'm not anxious to be around people who loathe me more than anything living, dead, or undead."
Kimi look bemused. "What do you mean?"
Naraku sighed and rolled his eyes. "You did not see through their facade? It's not that hard to interpret peoples' actions into what they see you as. Kagome's companions, the exterminator, the monk, and Inuyasha, they all hate me. 1, they never spend more time than needed around me, 2, they give me dirty looks behind my back, 3, they are always tense and have their hands near their weapons when they pass me, 4, they've all stated that they hate me many time before, 5, in the short time I've been around them that wasn't trying to kill or manipulate them, I've discovered that they don't want to be, "won over with gifts" meaning, my giving the exterminator back her brother and removing the danger of the monks hand did almost nothing for my cause, and 6, they entertain thoughts of torturing me in horrible ways before feeding my remains to a pack of wolves."
Kimi snickered. "Wow. I WAS clueless. So why do they act like they can stand your presence?" Kimi smiled while thinking, '*sigh* I hate playing clueless. It was as plain as day that they hated his guts. -_-' poor bastard...'
Naraku shrugged while turning around and walking down the hall, prompting Kimi to follow him. "Perhaps because they would do anything to keep Kagome around them. I have studied their little group quite thoroughly, mostly because I have tried to kill them countless times, and Kagome is really what keeps them together. After she left, many times the monk considered leaving and continuing his quest on his own, perhaps even taking the exterminator with him. But decided to stay because Inuyasha was, well, you could say he was a depressed wreck. After Kikyou disappeared, Inuyasha was without someone to cling too, therefore, pretty much lost."
Kimi stared at him as they turned a corner. She noticed they were heading for the front entrance. "Wow. That's deep. So how do you plan to redeem yourself? From what I've heard you are in pretty deep shit. Killing Kikyou, tricking Sesshoumaru, Killing and then reviving Kohaku, killing all of Sango's family, cursing Miroku's family, manipulating Kikyou, indirectly stealing Kagome's jewel shards, slaughtering countless people-"
"Okay! You can shut up now! I already know what I did and I haven't the faintest clue of how to redeem myself! I've already given the exterminator back her brother, but I can't give her back her village, I have no clue where I and Sesshoumaru stand due to the fact that I haven't seen him in nearly a year, I took away the danger of the monk being sucked into his hand, and, as Kagome puts it, I'm screwed when it comes to Inuyasha. I have absolutely no way of helping myself with him. Because, not only do I not know where Kikyou is, what else have I done besides make his life a living hell? I mean, my incarnation broke his sword, then his brother made a sword out of its teeth, then tried to kill him, and with all the emotional stress the Tetsusaiga being broken did to him, that makes me screwed even worse, and then I set Ryuukotsusei on him by melting the claw, witch in the end turned out to be for the better, now that Tetsusaiga is lighter and he can use the Kaze no Kizu whenever he damn well pleases. But still!"
He stopped and turned to Kimi looking very pathetic. "He has no idea how much I want to make things right with him! From the moment Naraku was born, my goal was to acquire the Shikon no tama. But Onigumo's heart and mind were still strong back then. Now that his soul has deteriorated, Naraku is more one person than a human and thousands of demons. I have no desire for the Shikon no tama for anything like world domination. Inuyasha and I share the same view. I want to become one person entirely. A demon instead of a half demon, if I could even call myself that." Naraku looked away and began walking again. They had reached the edges of his miasma barrier and were now walking in open grassland; the moon hanging overhead with not a cloud blocking it.
"I am repulsed by my own existence. Foolish Onigumo had no idea what he was in for when he offered his body to the demons." Naraku scowled and stared at the ground in front of him, then glancing at Kimi who was listening passively to his rant.
"Do you know what it feels like to have thousands of demons crawling under your skin? To have to fight every second of every day to keep control over them?! To know that one day the soul that keeps me sane will just disintegrate into nothing leaving me a pouring mass of demons with nothing but an insatiable bloodlust and goal to kill?!"
Kimi smiled up at him sadly. "Nope, sorry mate; can't really empathize with ya on that part. You know, you should be looking on the brighter side of things. You have a Necromancer and a renowned soul stealer, whoops, soul collector, 'scuse me, in your good graces. I for one don't think you're in that much trouble. What I don't think you have quite right is, you're basically just a container for thousands of demons. They aren't one thing in total. All I have to do is merge all the demons together to make one demon, of course I can't do that while you still have a soul, so that's where Kagome comes in. She takes out your soul, which isn't Onigumo's by the way. You still have a human heart, with some of Onigumo's desires left. Naraku's soul is your own. Onigumo and the other demon's are different souls all together. You see, everything has its own soul, whether it is a thief who offered up his body to create a completely different being, or the lower level demons that make up that being. When Onigumo merged himself with those demons, it created something akin to a cataclysmic force. While destroying his own soul, the essence of what it once was, and then the other demons' souls combined with the natural energy that flows through the earth and all existence, created a new one. What do you think reincarnation is? The essence of one soul, combined with natural power and energy to make something almost exactly like the former, but unique in its own way. It's not Onigumo's soul that is deteriorating because of the demons, it's yours. Now come on Naraku. I wanna get to Fluffy's castle as soon as possible! Get the miasma going!"
Naraku was staring dumbfounded at Kimi. Not only had Kimi just defined what reincarnation was, she explained his entire existence, corrected his assumptions, and gave him a solution to the worries that had plagued him for nearly 5 decades.
So, how old was she again? 467? Something like that.
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