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Chapter 7: Who Is Kira?
"Come here, Kyou." Kagome called to her son. The twins were now eight months old and crawling all over the place. Kyou, the boy, had black hair with black dog-like ears and golden eyes, while Iyasu, the girl, had silver hair and white dog-like ears with hazel eyes. Inu-Yasha loved being a father and was very protective of his children. Ayame had her pups only a few days earlier, four pups in all. Three girls and one boy. Two of the girls were identical with blue eyes, like their father, and reddish brown hair, like their mother. They were named Yume and Yuri. The other girl was named Tsuta, and she had dark brown hair like, her father, and green eyes, like her mother. The only son was named Ookami, and he looked just like his father. Sango was close to the day of her delivery and was becoming more nervous by the second. She had a fear that Kira would come back and try to kill her child too. Miroku tried to calm her fears, but it was no use.
"Sango, everything will be fine." Miroku wrapped his arms around her and placed his hands on her huge belly. "I promise not to let anything happen to you or our child." Miroku said.
"I know you won't. I'm just nervous." Sango told him as she laid her head back against his shoulder. He had changed so much, and he loved her as much as Inu-Yasha loved Kagome.
Elsewhere Kagura was caring for her three little ones. She had also changed. No longer wishing to kill anyone for fun, she now wished to care for her children. Two boys and one girl. The eldest boy, Eien, had black hair and golden eyes. In the middle of his forehead was a purple crescent moon, just like his father's. The next child was the girl, Megami. Megami had white hair and red eyes. She also had a purple crescent moon on her forehead. The youngest child, Kaze, had black hair and red eyes, but he didn't have a crescent moon on his forehead, unlike his brother and sister. "Kaze." Kagura grabbed him before he climbed over the edge of the staircase. The children were only six months old, but already very active. Rin spent most of her time helping Kagura to care for the babies, since raising three demon children was a hard job, even for a demon such as Kagura. Sesshomaru didn't change much after the birth of his children. He did care for them, but he never seemed to be at the castle any more. He was always out killing demons that dared to try and take the west lands from him.
"Megami, come here." Rin said as she picked up the demon girl and placed her in her lap.
"Rin, where is Eien?" Kagura asked as she looked around and noticed he was not in the nursery.
"He was just here." Rin said as she placed Megami back in her crib and walked out of the room. "Eien!" Rin yelled for him hoping he would crawl back to her. "Eien!" Rin began screaming, he was gone! Eien had disappeared.
"Rin! Have you found him?" Kagura asked.
"No, he's gone." Rin said. Just then an arrow shot threw a window and landed near Rin. She picked up the arrow and noticed a note was attached to it. "Kagura, it's for you." Rin had a grim look on her face. Kagura took the note and read it.
"How dare he!" Kagura couldn't believe it. Naraku had sent one of his new incarnations to take her child from her. Now he demanded that she come to fight this new incarnation and if she wins she could have her child back, but if she lost, Naraku would get to keep Eien and Kagura would come back to him.
"Jakken!" Kagura yelled for him. As soon as she yelled he was right there.
"You called for me, my lady?" Jakken asked.
"Go find Sesshomaru. Tell him to come back immediately." Kagura ordered him.
"Yes, my lady." Jakken ran out of the castle as fast as he could.
"Perhaps you should have sent me? I could have found Lord Sesshomaru faster than Jakken." Rin told Kagura.
"I wanted you to stay here with the children until Sesshomaru gets back." Kagura said as she walked over to a wooden case that sat atop a small golden stand. "I have not needed this is almost a year." Kagura said as she opened the case and picked up her fan. "I almost missed it." Kagura opened her fan and ran her fingers across it.
"Are you going to fight?" Rin asked her.
"I have no choice. Watch over my other children, Rin." Kagura said as she walked out of the castle.
"Such a cute little demon child." Kira said as she looked down at Eien. She wanted so much to have a child of her own, but with Naraku in control, she knew that was impossible.
"Give me back my child!" Kagura appeared in front of Kira, ready to fight.
"If you come back to Naraku then I will give you back this child." Kira offered Kagura.
"I would rather die then go back to Naraku. It took me so long to break free from his control." Kagura told Kira. She could tell that Kira longed to be free too. "Why do you work for Naraku?" Kagura asked her.
"He has my heart." Kira told her. "Does he still have yours?"
"No. Another holds my heart. He freed me from Naraku's control by taking my heart from him." Kagura told her.
"Then I must fight you. If I defeat you and take you and the child back to Naraku, perhaps he will free me." Kira said as she prepared for battle.
"Inu-Yasha?" Kagome looked over at her mate, who was sound asleep. Kagome had a strange feeling that something was wrong. She hurried and got dressed, then grabbed her bow and arrows and walked out of the hut. She followed the feeling to a clearing in the middle of the forest. There she saw Kagura and another young demon. She could tell that Kagura was prepared to fight this demon, but why?
"I want my child!" Kagura said as she sent blades of wind at the young demon girl.
"So that's it. She has Kagura's child." Kagome said as she watched. She wasn't going to interfere just yet, only if Kagura needed her help.
"Come now, sister, rejoin Naraku." Kira told her.
"I will not!" Kagura sent another barrage of blades of wind hurling at Kira. Kira easily sent the attack back at Kagura. "Ahhh!" Kagura fell to the ground; every one of the blades had hit her.
"Do you surrender?" Kira asked as she approached Kagura.
"Never." Kagura tried to get up, but she couldn't.
"Then you will die." Kira pulled out her sword, ready to strike Kagura down, but something happened.
"Nooo!" Kagome released an arrow that shot through Kira.
"Who?" Kira turned and saw her standing there, ready to release another arrow. "You will pay for this. I will be back to take my revenge." Kira said as she disappeared into the darkness. Kagome ran to Kagura to help her up.
"Release your hold on me." Kagura told Kagome.
"I was only trying to help. After all, you had saved my life once before." Kagome told her.
"Eien." Kagura picked up her son and headed back to the castle. "Thank you." Kagura didn't face Kagome, but at least she said it.
"Kagura, why did you not wait for me to return?" Sesshomaru asked her.
"Rin, take Eien to the nursery." Kagura handed him to Rin, then she fell to the ground, her blood gushed from her body.
"Kagura?" Sesshomaru knelt down next to her. "Jakken, go get the miko that lives with my brother." Sesshomaru ordered.
Kagome had made it home without anyone noticing that she was gone. Carefully she lay back down in bed with her mate and tried not to wake him. "Where were you?" Inu-Yasha wrapped his arms around her and asked.
"I went for a walk, that's all." Kagome lied.
"Next time, tell me before you go anywhere." Inu-Yasha told her.
"I promise." she told him, not wanting to start a fight.
"Inu-Yasha!" Jakken ran to the hut yelling for him.
"What does he want?" Inu-Yasha grumbled as he got out of bed. Kagome didn't say anything; she just got out of bed and walked over to her babies to check on them. If Naraku could take one of Kagura and Sesshomaru's children right from under their noses then Naraku could easily take away her babies. "Kagome!" Inu-Yasha yelled to her from outside the hut.
"What is it?" she asked, already knowing.
"Sesshomaru has sent for you. Kagura was injured in a battle and he wants you to come and heal her." Inu-Yasha told her. "You don't have to go if you don't want to." Inu-Yasha whispered in her ear.
"I will go. Sesshomaru and Kagura saved my life once before, the least I can do is go to him when he asks me to save his mate." Kagome told Inu-Yasha.
"I will come with you then." Inu-Yasha told her.
"What about the children?"
"We can watch the twins." Sango said as she walked out of her hut, followed by Miroku.
"Thank you. Come on, Inu-Yasha. We have to hurry." Kagome said as she ran back into her hut and grabbed her bag.
"Kagura? How do you feel?" Kagome asked her when she finally woke.
"What are you doing here?" she asked Kagome.
"Sesshomaru sent for me when you came back injured." she explained. "Kagura, do you know who that was that attacked you?" Kagome asked her.
"Kira." was all she said.
"Who is Kira?" Sesshomaru asked when he walked in.
"Sesshomaru..." Kagura turned to see him standing in the doorway.
"Who is Kira?" he asked again. Kagura didn't know how to answer that. She wasn't really sure of who Kira was.
"Kira is a creation of Naraku." Kanna appeared at the window.
"Kanna? What are you doing here?" Kagura asked her.
"I have come to warn you. Kira is not like us, she is different."
"How is she different? I thought she was an incarnation of Naraku, like you." Kagome told her.
"Kira is not an incarnation of Naraku, she was human." Kanna told them.
"What do you mean she 'was' human?" Kagura asked.
"Kira was a princess in the north..." Kanna began to tell the story, with the images appearing in her mirror.
Flashback
"Kira? Are you in here?" her elder sister opened the door and walked into her room.
"Hello Ariel. Such a lovely day. I was about to go for a walk, would you like to join me?" Kira asked as she smiled at her sister.
"Not today. We have a lot to do. Father sent me to get you. Now put on your good kimono and take off those villager cloths." her sister insisted.
"What do we have to do?" Kira asked her sister.
"There is a man coming here today, and he wishes to marry me!" Ariel exclaimed.
"I am so happy for you!" Kira hugged her sister tightly.
Kira quickly dressed and ran to meet her parents, but on the way ran into a young man. "Hello." he smiled at her and helped her up.
"Thank you. My apologies. I was in a hurry to meet with my parents before my sister's suitor comes." Kira said as she dusted herself off and looked up at the man. It was Naraku! "I do not believe I have seen you here before. May I ask who you are?" Kira asked him.
"I am your sister's suitor." he smiled at her.
"You are very handsome, and kind. I am sure my parents will agree with this match." Kira told him. "May I show you to where they are?" Kira smiled as she took his arm. "Right this way."
"Kira!" her father exclaimed when he saw her with her sister's suitor.
"Here you go. I will take my place with my parents now." Kira smiled at him.
"Hello." her father greeted Naraku with a smile.
"Hello." he smiled back.
"This is my eldest daughter, Ariel." her father pushed her foreword.
"I am please to meet you." Ariel kept her head low, afraid to look up.
"Please lift your head there is no reason for you to be shy." Naraku told her. Ariel lifted her head and smiled at him. "Much better." he smiled back.
Naraku stayed at the castle that night, waiting for his chance to attack. He hadn't come to the castle for a bride, but for a protector, and he had found what he was looking for. Later that night, his chance arose. Before dawn, Naraku called for his demons to attack the castle. While the demons attacked, Naraku made his way to the princess' room. "What are you doing here?" Ariel awoke and asked him.
"The castle is under attack. We must get out of here." he said as he woke Kira up.
"What is going on?" she asked him.
"We must get out of here." he said as he lifted her from her bed and carried her out of the castle. Ariel ran behind them, trying to keep up.
"Ariel, hurry!" Kira screamed to her sister, just before a demon ripped threw her. "Ariel!" Kira screamed and forced Naraku to drop her. She ran back to her sister, hoping that she was still alive.
"Kira, we must get out of here." Naraku held his hand out to her, waiting for her to take it. "Ariel would not want you to die here." Naraku told her.
"You are right." Kira took his hand, and when she did a shot of energy went threw her body. Kira screamed as she was transformed into a wolf demon. "What are you doing to me?!" Kira screamed.
"You were weak, I am making you strong." Naraku laughed.
"When she awoke, Kira no longer knew who she was. Only that she was created to protect Naraku when his time of weakness came." Kanna told them.
"Why are you telling us this?" Sesshomaru asked her.
"I want you to free Kira. She does not deserve this life he has given her." Kanna told him.
"What about you? You don't deserve this life either." Kagome told her.
"I was created by Naraku. I am part of him, like Kagura. But Kira is not part of him. If she is not freed then she might become like him, ruthless and willing to do anything to kill Inu-Yasha." Kanna said to Kagome.
"How do we free her?" Kagome asked.
"Kagura holds the key. She is the one that must do it." Kanna said as she disappeared into the night.
"What does she mean by that?" Kagome asked Kagura. Kagura didn't say anything; she just sat on her bed staring out the window.