YAY!!! another chapter in less than a day from the other one.
Disclaimer: still don't own anything Inuyasha, Aireana, and kisho how ever are mine.
Chapter 10- After Math
"What do you mean you knew Kagome would be in danger with that thing?!!?" Inuyasha shouted at the flee Myouga, and nearly deafening everyone in the room.
Sesshoumaru was glad Inuyasha could outwardly express his anger at the situation, and that he had Jaken take the children else where once they got back. Inside Sesshoumaru wanted nothing more than to tear apart every shadow looking for her. He was pissed far beyond anything he could remember, but he knew that would be of little help right now so he fought his instincts. He had to remain outwardly calm and collected so that something could be figured out.
Myouga bowed low in the hanyou's hand, "f… for… forgive me. m... my lord. I figured he would go after the boy. I never thought that it would be brave enough to go after Kagome-sama."
"Why would he go after Kisho?" Sango looked up from the little fire-cat in her lap, towards the cowering flee youkai.
"Because the boy has and extremely strong and ancient soul. There is much power in people who have souls such as his. I have not seen one like his since…" The little youkai put is figure to he lip thinking for a minute, "Your lord father."
"Are you trying to say that Kisho is the reincarnate of the great youkai lord?" Miroku was quite interested in this now.
Myouga nodded, "In fact I am quite sure that the young lord is…"
"What should that matter?" Inuyasha cut in, he was looking very over whelmed at this point.
"The shadow youkai, as you have been calling it, is really a darker soul looking for a host strong enough to house its soul." Myouga sat down getting ready for a long talk.
"But how did such a soul end up with out a body?" Miroku as well decide to make himself comfortable for a long discussion, while the others just looked on at the flee.
"Someone long ago must have pulled it from its natural born body, and stopped it from passing on to the other plan. It is very rare, and has not been done for over two millennia. If these soul are full of hatred, some can become strong feeding on the livings souls. Most however never are able to survive very long and their soul fades from the world never truly finding rest."
"That still does not explain why it is in Kagome, or was after Kisho?" Sango understood how it came to be but she wanted to know why, and how to get her friend back more than knowing its past.
"Only a body that houses an already strong soul can house the youkai's soul. If it tries to take a host that is to weak then the host will not survive the possession."
"One would think a youkai would be a better choice than a human though" Miroku's voice was soft with an understanding.
Myouga nodded then continued "Indeed, a youkai's body is more likely to survive because they are born with stronger souls. But most are to dominate to try and take over."
"Now a young youkai who has not been shown not to know his full power would be much easier to over take. They are not yet strong enough to fight off an attack of the type they would be taking on spiritually, But their body would be strong enough to survive."
"Much like Kisho when he first came here." The voice of Sesshoumaru made everyone jump at his unexpected comment.
"Yes, Young Kisho-sama fit into that area when he came here." The old flee nodded to the youkai lord. " Now though the boy is stronger, he knows more of his true power, and thus will be hard to beat. I soul that is incomplete is even easier to beat and take over."
"Kagome-same has an old soul of a great reincarnated miko, who lived long before Kikyou did. It holds in it a great power. That power should have been able to beat it, but as it was not at full strength there was no way she could have won against one so over powering.
Myouga looked about the room to the eyes of the different adults, all seeming to be asking for answer as to how to beat it.
"How do we get it out of her?" The youkai lord was towering over the small form of the flee. Myouga stepped back slightly, he looked to be in deep thought.
"Now that it has a host there are two ways that might be able to work but research is need to guarantee that the second on will work." Myouga swallowed hard before he looked up at Sesshoumaru. "First one is to kill Kagome..."
"OUT OF THE QUESTION!" barked their host, startling everyone in room at his out burst. Myouga recovered quickly and nodded, he was expecting that.
"I agree. That will undoubtedly mean the death of Kagome's unborn child." Myouga took a slow deep breath as he inched away from Inuyasha before continuing.
"The second is far more difficult for many reasons. First we would have to reunite Kagome's soul. Second would involve awakening her now dormant soul in her body, and weakening the youkai's soul so that Kagome could fight it."
Everyone sat silent with their eyes on a deathly still hanyou, waiting for his out burst. After what seemed like hours Inuyasha signed as he rose to his feet and looked down to the ground.
"So… what you are saying is that we have to kill Kikyou to save her." He did not need to see Myouga's nod to know his answer. Before anyone else could say anything to the heart broken Inuyasha, he leapt out the window.
"Could Sesshoumaru-sama bring her back with the Tensaiga though Myouga?" She was trying very hard to sort things out so that both of her friends would be happy in the end.
"I don't believe so Sango because Kagome's soul would then flee to Kikyou to join together in her body, correct." Miroku was sure he was right, he knew what Sango was trying to do be feared it would not be able to happen. Myouga nodded in agreement to Miroku's answer.
"Then do you really think he will allow us to kill Kikyou?" She feel a great swell of pain in her, and everyone could see it on her face and in her voice.
"HE will not have a choice in the matter. She is already dead, I will not allow her to live at the cost of two lives." Sesshoumaru glanced out the window to his brother in one of the tree near the palace walls.
"I quite Agree that two lives are not worth the life that Kikyou has been given." Miroku now stood next to Sesshoumaru looking at his friend with a deep sorrow and the utmost sympathy. "I do feel we should see what Inuyasha wishes to do. After all he does harbor deep feelings for both Kikyou and Kagome."
"I will not allow his feeling for a walking corpse to kill my mate and my child." Sesshoumaru brought his gaze down to the monk who cast a worried look towards Sango and Myouga. " I will however give him the time it takes to find out and prepare to fight this possession. If he can't do it then I will take care of it for him. And if he should get in the way I will take care of him as well. Come flee there is much to do and I wish to get it done quickly." With that he turned on his heel leaving the two humans staring at each other in the grand meeting room of Sesshoumaru's palace.
Inuyasha leaned back with a heavy sign. He stared out into the forest of the western lands. He hated that his brother had found a happiness that he did not have. But he really did love her, there was not doubt in his mind the three days they had been traveling he saw a side of his brother he never thought he had.
"What am I going to do?' But the answer never came. His heart felt like it was being torn from his chest. He didn't want to see either of them die. Why did he have to lose one of them?
'Again I have to chose, which one will be alive. I loved Kikyou, and I will always love her. Do I love her the same as I once did though. So much has happened. I love Kagome even though she doesn't feel the same about it as she did.'
'Can I watch Kagome die and live knowing that it also killed my unborn niece or nephew? No I don't think I could, but I know I can't kill Kikyou. I don't think I could even be there or know when she's killed. But she is already dead, the only reason she is still alive is because of the small bit of Kagome's soul that she still has. Yet she is here and walking when she should be dead. She shouldn't be here, and neither should I, right? No I never died the way Kikyou did, should I forget my grudge on Naruku and just go to hell with her?'
'What about Kagome? She would be heart broken to find out that I went to hell to save her. But I promised Kikyou… and…'
"AH!!! I am so confused." He jumped down from the tree and ran through the palace as fast and he could, hoping he would out run the pain, and confusion surrounding his thoughts. He continued until he hit something firm that sent him crashing to the ground.
"You should watch where you are going, Sir." The voice was soft and very feminine. Inuyasha looked at the hand of the young female that was helping him up. He allowed her to help him to his feet, as a bright blush rose to his cheeks.
He looked at her and noticed she was quite attractive. She had golden hair that was pulled back into a low tie and then it traveled down to her lower back. She had silver grey eyes, and a golden star that was on and around her right eye. Her body was nicely curved in all the right places for Inuyasha, which made her even more attractive.
She was wearing form fighting black pants with a haori that was just as tight around her chest, then it loosened up and went down long enough to be a skirt. It was all tied together with a light grey sash that tied around her waist.
"Sir???" She quirk an eyebrow at Inuyasha and watched as he was jolted out of his self induced stupor. He muttered a quick apology, blushing a bright red that matched his haori. He brushed himself off then looked into her eyes.
"ah… Who are you? I didn't think any one beside our group was here." His blush faded, as he waited for an answer.
"I am , a guardian of the western lands. And you have to be Inuyasha, Sesshoumaru-sama's younger brother." She said with a nod.
"Guardians?" he nitted his eyebrows together.
"Yes, guardians" with a slight laugh. "You didn't think that Sesshoumaru-same protected his lands by himself when he leaves for long periods of time, did you?
"Well…a … Yeah." Again rose blush to his face for admitting his foolish thoughts.
"Our lord is strong but he can't be every where at once so he entrusted us to protect his lands while he is traveling." She simply smiled at him motioning for him to follow her.
"So how did you come to serve Sesshoumaru?" He follow beside her the blush fading from his cheeks as they walked.
"I don't really serve Sesshoumaru-sama. I have never been a servant, but he found me when I was very young. I was inexperienced and destroyed a village on the edge of the territory. He normally, would have killed any youkai that dared such a thing, but instead he brought me here and had me trained."
"Why would he do something like that?" Inuyasha had paused scratching his head. There was more to Sesshoumaru than he had first thought. His eyes showed the distance of his thoughts as he tried to puzzle it out.
"His reasons are his own." She shrugged continuing on their way, pulling Inuyasha from his thoughts, as he move up beside her following her again. "What where you running from if I may ask?"
He stopped again, looking very intently at his feet. "Myself," he was scratched his head again trying to fit the pieces together. "See one of two people I care very deeply for is going to die. I am not that I can let either of them go." He realized that he had spoken his thoughts out loud, and wasn't sure if she would even care.
"oh?... So what are you going to do?"
He was slightly surprised that she hadn't said it wasn't her problem. "I… am not sure. I want both to live, but one of them died a long time ago. Now she is walking in this world because of something unnatural."
"She walks this earth fueled by a missed placed hatred, and she holds on to a piece of someone else. And because of that my other friend and her baby are going to die." He plopped down on the ground placing his head in his hands. "Plus a lot of other people will die if she doesn't help to finish what she started."
crotched down looking into his pain filled eyes feeling badly that he had to make such a choice. "It sounds like you know what needs to be done, but you don't seemed to have admitted what you need to do." She placed her hand gently on his shoulder and gave him a comforting smile, then turn as she started walking way. She stopped after a few feet.
"Oh, Sesshoumaru-sama said that he would like you to find him after the children are put to bed. If you need an ear later on I wouldn't mind talking to you, again."
He watched her retreating form as he returned to pondering exactly what he should do. But maybe she was right he did know he just had to admit it to himself.
Finally after nearly three hours all three children where asleep. Sesshoumaru had sat there with three very upset and crying children trying to sooth them, but he seemed to have made it worse, at first.
Rin had been the first one to drift off to sleep in tears. But Kisho, and the kisune pup, Shippou, fought it hard for two more hours, it wasn't till the exterminator came in and took the cub that Kisho finally started to relax into his fathers embrace. After Kisho as well was in the land of dreams he sat down his pup and carefully left the room.
He got to his study; he looked over the scrolls and books that they had pulled from the library that day. He knew it would take some prep time, and well as a great deal more time than he would have liked to read it. He smelled Inuyasha long before be was even close to the door. It slid open a few moments later.
"What is it Sesshoumaru?" Inuyasha crossed his arms as he stood in front of his brother.
"What have you decided, Inuyasha?" He was trying not to let his annoyance of the situation show in his voice.
"Kikyou's time on this earth ended too soon fifty years ago." He dropped his eyes to the floor avoiding meeting his brother cold eyes. "But she is not meant to be here, now. Kagome is alive, a force greater than anyone of us brought her here for a reason. And no matter how much I hate you her baby deserves a chance to live."
"Good," Sesshoumaru turned away, noticing that Inuyasha had not moved to leave, "Something else on you mind." He turned his head so he could look at the broken form of his brother.
He took in a deep breath before he started to speak. "I want to be the one to finish it," somehow saying the words made it all seem more real to him, "but if I can… can't… then… then… could…." Inuyasha was fighting back tears that were brimming in his eyes. He never thought that admitting it to someone else would be just as hard as admitting it to himself.
"I will then be assisting you in the task that needs to be done." Inuyasha looked up at his brother, he never had asked for anything from him before, but he was glad Sesshoumaru would finish it if he couldn't.
"Thanks" It was mutter so low it was barely audible as he looked away from the Western Lord. He merely nodded turning back to look out the window.
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Far off in his own dismal castle Naraku, sat watching the young possessed miko. "I will have to use this to my advantage" With out to much thought he had Kanna sent to get Kogura, so he could set his plans in to action.
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Kagome stood hovering above the ground with an evil smile on her face. She had found the Miko easy enough. It was only a matter of time before they came for her.
For now though her mind was on other prey, namely the wolf Kouga. She knew Naraku had just about all the shards she didn't, but this one wolf had two. Why the girl had let him keep them was beyond her.
Kagome let out a heavy sign. 'I really must find a better body. I do not like being a female.' She poked at her belly, 'You will be to young, little one. Prehapse this Nararku will do. She seems to fear his power and if he is power full enough I should be able to over take him and have him survive.'
Off in the distance she saw a whirlwind of dust. "Hmm, he is heading this way now. To bad it is close to dawn or I would play with him. Oh well I will find him again tonight and have my fun.'
She drifted towards a rocky ledge and slipped into a narrow passage. After she got in she turned to the opening and carved a symbol in the rock wall. "That should hold you young miko should you awaken during the day." She walked back to the deepest part of the cave and laid down to regain the strength it had lost in the fight with the miko's soul for the body.
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Kagome stirred from the darkness, her head hurt, her limbs were aching, and she tingled from head to toe. She fought to open her eyes to let in the light which she so desperately craved, but her eyes would not open, they felt as if they had been super glued shut.
She remembered battling the shadow youkai, and it touching her, then everything went black. Did her friends save her last night? She didn't think so, she could feel an evil energy around her, and she was on hard surface.
'Wait! I can feel things.' She bolt herself of to a sitting position, wishing she hadn't moved so fast but she refused to close her eyes again. She worked her way to her feet and saw she was in a cave. She saw light towards the far end of the cave and ran towards it on shaky legs.
She reached the passage way, and went to exit it, but was thrown several feet backwards.
'Foolish girl do you really think I would just allow you to run away.' the voice laughed from somewhere deep inside her. It made her skin crawl when the voice started to speak.
"Who are you? What to you want?" She was terrified as she yelled to no one, looking for its source.
'A specter of the past. One who has been seeking revenge for more centuries than I am aware of, and you little miko will help me to enact my revenge.'
"No I won't. I am not helping some sick youkai who can't even show himself!" Kagome cried out in pain as a sharp jolt went through her body.
'I do not need your permission to gain your help. You will not be conscious much longer anyways.' The voice faded off.
"What do you mean you don't need my permission? WHY WON"T I BE CONSCIOUS?" Kagome was screaming at the top of her lungs. She winced as she heard it reverberate off the cave walls. She brought her hands up to her ears to deaden the sound. She gasped at what she saw. She walked over to be in better light.
Her nails where now black as night and slightly longer than they had been before. She touched the point of one to her skin and blinked when she saw a small drip of blood come from under her nail. She gently traced the black lines on her wrist, when she noticed her hair. She took it in her hands and noticed its dark grey color with enter mixed dark blue highlights. She noticed that she wasn't wearing her old cloths but she was not in an out fit similar to Sango except it was black and blue.
'Like what you see miko.' The voice was mocking her.
"What have you done to me?" Her voice was barely a whisper, and a tear slide down her cheek.
'I made you a suitable host for my spirit. Had you been any weaker you most likely would have lost your life in the process.'
"What does that mean?"
'I have given your weak body muscle and strength, you will live longer, and other certain powers which you need not know.'
"Why won't I be conscious much longer?" She was sitting there slowly rocking back and forth trying to comfort herself.
'Because I will again be in control, and we will find the Shikon no Tama.'
"No, you can't use it. Nothing good ever come of it please don't use it. Please" Her tears where flowing freely down her face now. She noticed the tingling of her body was getting worse.
"How long do you plan on keeping me?"
'As long as I need, but I doubt you or your child with survive my leaving your body.'
"Leave Kisho alone you bastard." She had stopped crying, and was sitting very still when she her the uproarious laughing in her head.
'I am not talking about that little brat. I am talking about the one you carry inside you, bitch.'
Kagome sat dumbfounded, she hadn't known. Did Sesshoumaru know? Oh god what would he say when he found out? Or her mother for that matter! What was she going to do?
Then almost as if answering her questions; 'Yes he knows, he is not pleased that I have taken you as a host. I don't care about your mother she can't get here. You are going to just live with it, or I could kill it for you.'
"NO!" Kagome yelled, "No, I will deal with it."
'Good then, it does make taking you has a host much more difficult but nothing that can't be dealt with'
"This didn't hurt it did it?"
The voice snorted at her, 'Hardly, it won't be born Hanyou now. You should be glad I did this now you won't have to deal with a worthless child.'
"I don't care if it is born, Hanyou, human, or youkai, as long as it is alright." She decided that she wanted to know where they where going, "Who are you going to get revenge on?"
A sharp pain went through her again. 'You need not know who, it does not concern you!'
"I think it does. I mean you are in my body so how does… it… AHH!!!" Her body again was reeling in pain.
'You seem to miss understand girl, you will not be present again as soon as night falls. I need your soul still in your body to keep it alive but you will never see the light of day again. You will sleep for as long as I deem it necessary for you to sleep. So enjoy your last day of life as you know it. You may not have another.'
"Why me? Why can't you leave me and my family in peace?" Silence was her only answer. She knew she could not leave because of the barrier at the entrance, and there was no other way out. Kagome watched the out side world pass by, as she slowly came to grips with her new reality. Slowly she felt herself falling into a deep dreamless sleep.
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Sorry this chapter doesn't have a whole lot of action in it, the next one will i promise.
Disclaimer: still don't own anything Inuyasha, Aireana, and kisho how ever are mine.
Chapter 10- After Math
"What do you mean you knew Kagome would be in danger with that thing?!!?" Inuyasha shouted at the flee Myouga, and nearly deafening everyone in the room.
Sesshoumaru was glad Inuyasha could outwardly express his anger at the situation, and that he had Jaken take the children else where once they got back. Inside Sesshoumaru wanted nothing more than to tear apart every shadow looking for her. He was pissed far beyond anything he could remember, but he knew that would be of little help right now so he fought his instincts. He had to remain outwardly calm and collected so that something could be figured out.
Myouga bowed low in the hanyou's hand, "f… for… forgive me. m... my lord. I figured he would go after the boy. I never thought that it would be brave enough to go after Kagome-sama."
"Why would he go after Kisho?" Sango looked up from the little fire-cat in her lap, towards the cowering flee youkai.
"Because the boy has and extremely strong and ancient soul. There is much power in people who have souls such as his. I have not seen one like his since…" The little youkai put is figure to he lip thinking for a minute, "Your lord father."
"Are you trying to say that Kisho is the reincarnate of the great youkai lord?" Miroku was quite interested in this now.
Myouga nodded, "In fact I am quite sure that the young lord is…"
"What should that matter?" Inuyasha cut in, he was looking very over whelmed at this point.
"The shadow youkai, as you have been calling it, is really a darker soul looking for a host strong enough to house its soul." Myouga sat down getting ready for a long talk.
"But how did such a soul end up with out a body?" Miroku as well decide to make himself comfortable for a long discussion, while the others just looked on at the flee.
"Someone long ago must have pulled it from its natural born body, and stopped it from passing on to the other plan. It is very rare, and has not been done for over two millennia. If these soul are full of hatred, some can become strong feeding on the livings souls. Most however never are able to survive very long and their soul fades from the world never truly finding rest."
"That still does not explain why it is in Kagome, or was after Kisho?" Sango understood how it came to be but she wanted to know why, and how to get her friend back more than knowing its past.
"Only a body that houses an already strong soul can house the youkai's soul. If it tries to take a host that is to weak then the host will not survive the possession."
"One would think a youkai would be a better choice than a human though" Miroku's voice was soft with an understanding.
Myouga nodded then continued "Indeed, a youkai's body is more likely to survive because they are born with stronger souls. But most are to dominate to try and take over."
"Now a young youkai who has not been shown not to know his full power would be much easier to over take. They are not yet strong enough to fight off an attack of the type they would be taking on spiritually, But their body would be strong enough to survive."
"Much like Kisho when he first came here." The voice of Sesshoumaru made everyone jump at his unexpected comment.
"Yes, Young Kisho-sama fit into that area when he came here." The old flee nodded to the youkai lord. " Now though the boy is stronger, he knows more of his true power, and thus will be hard to beat. I soul that is incomplete is even easier to beat and take over."
"Kagome-same has an old soul of a great reincarnated miko, who lived long before Kikyou did. It holds in it a great power. That power should have been able to beat it, but as it was not at full strength there was no way she could have won against one so over powering.
Myouga looked about the room to the eyes of the different adults, all seeming to be asking for answer as to how to beat it.
"How do we get it out of her?" The youkai lord was towering over the small form of the flee. Myouga stepped back slightly, he looked to be in deep thought.
"Now that it has a host there are two ways that might be able to work but research is need to guarantee that the second on will work." Myouga swallowed hard before he looked up at Sesshoumaru. "First one is to kill Kagome..."
"OUT OF THE QUESTION!" barked their host, startling everyone in room at his out burst. Myouga recovered quickly and nodded, he was expecting that.
"I agree. That will undoubtedly mean the death of Kagome's unborn child." Myouga took a slow deep breath as he inched away from Inuyasha before continuing.
"The second is far more difficult for many reasons. First we would have to reunite Kagome's soul. Second would involve awakening her now dormant soul in her body, and weakening the youkai's soul so that Kagome could fight it."
Everyone sat silent with their eyes on a deathly still hanyou, waiting for his out burst. After what seemed like hours Inuyasha signed as he rose to his feet and looked down to the ground.
"So… what you are saying is that we have to kill Kikyou to save her." He did not need to see Myouga's nod to know his answer. Before anyone else could say anything to the heart broken Inuyasha, he leapt out the window.
"Could Sesshoumaru-sama bring her back with the Tensaiga though Myouga?" She was trying very hard to sort things out so that both of her friends would be happy in the end.
"I don't believe so Sango because Kagome's soul would then flee to Kikyou to join together in her body, correct." Miroku was sure he was right, he knew what Sango was trying to do be feared it would not be able to happen. Myouga nodded in agreement to Miroku's answer.
"Then do you really think he will allow us to kill Kikyou?" She feel a great swell of pain in her, and everyone could see it on her face and in her voice.
"HE will not have a choice in the matter. She is already dead, I will not allow her to live at the cost of two lives." Sesshoumaru glanced out the window to his brother in one of the tree near the palace walls.
"I quite Agree that two lives are not worth the life that Kikyou has been given." Miroku now stood next to Sesshoumaru looking at his friend with a deep sorrow and the utmost sympathy. "I do feel we should see what Inuyasha wishes to do. After all he does harbor deep feelings for both Kikyou and Kagome."
"I will not allow his feeling for a walking corpse to kill my mate and my child." Sesshoumaru brought his gaze down to the monk who cast a worried look towards Sango and Myouga. " I will however give him the time it takes to find out and prepare to fight this possession. If he can't do it then I will take care of it for him. And if he should get in the way I will take care of him as well. Come flee there is much to do and I wish to get it done quickly." With that he turned on his heel leaving the two humans staring at each other in the grand meeting room of Sesshoumaru's palace.
Inuyasha leaned back with a heavy sign. He stared out into the forest of the western lands. He hated that his brother had found a happiness that he did not have. But he really did love her, there was not doubt in his mind the three days they had been traveling he saw a side of his brother he never thought he had.
"What am I going to do?' But the answer never came. His heart felt like it was being torn from his chest. He didn't want to see either of them die. Why did he have to lose one of them?
'Again I have to chose, which one will be alive. I loved Kikyou, and I will always love her. Do I love her the same as I once did though. So much has happened. I love Kagome even though she doesn't feel the same about it as she did.'
'Can I watch Kagome die and live knowing that it also killed my unborn niece or nephew? No I don't think I could, but I know I can't kill Kikyou. I don't think I could even be there or know when she's killed. But she is already dead, the only reason she is still alive is because of the small bit of Kagome's soul that she still has. Yet she is here and walking when she should be dead. She shouldn't be here, and neither should I, right? No I never died the way Kikyou did, should I forget my grudge on Naruku and just go to hell with her?'
'What about Kagome? She would be heart broken to find out that I went to hell to save her. But I promised Kikyou… and…'
"AH!!! I am so confused." He jumped down from the tree and ran through the palace as fast and he could, hoping he would out run the pain, and confusion surrounding his thoughts. He continued until he hit something firm that sent him crashing to the ground.
"You should watch where you are going, Sir." The voice was soft and very feminine. Inuyasha looked at the hand of the young female that was helping him up. He allowed her to help him to his feet, as a bright blush rose to his cheeks.
He looked at her and noticed she was quite attractive. She had golden hair that was pulled back into a low tie and then it traveled down to her lower back. She had silver grey eyes, and a golden star that was on and around her right eye. Her body was nicely curved in all the right places for Inuyasha, which made her even more attractive.
She was wearing form fighting black pants with a haori that was just as tight around her chest, then it loosened up and went down long enough to be a skirt. It was all tied together with a light grey sash that tied around her waist.
"Sir???" She quirk an eyebrow at Inuyasha and watched as he was jolted out of his self induced stupor. He muttered a quick apology, blushing a bright red that matched his haori. He brushed himself off then looked into her eyes.
"ah… Who are you? I didn't think any one beside our group was here." His blush faded, as he waited for an answer.
"I am , a guardian of the western lands. And you have to be Inuyasha, Sesshoumaru-sama's younger brother." She said with a nod.
"Guardians?" he nitted his eyebrows together.
"Yes, guardians" with a slight laugh. "You didn't think that Sesshoumaru-same protected his lands by himself when he leaves for long periods of time, did you?
"Well…a … Yeah." Again rose blush to his face for admitting his foolish thoughts.
"Our lord is strong but he can't be every where at once so he entrusted us to protect his lands while he is traveling." She simply smiled at him motioning for him to follow her.
"So how did you come to serve Sesshoumaru?" He follow beside her the blush fading from his cheeks as they walked.
"I don't really serve Sesshoumaru-sama. I have never been a servant, but he found me when I was very young. I was inexperienced and destroyed a village on the edge of the territory. He normally, would have killed any youkai that dared such a thing, but instead he brought me here and had me trained."
"Why would he do something like that?" Inuyasha had paused scratching his head. There was more to Sesshoumaru than he had first thought. His eyes showed the distance of his thoughts as he tried to puzzle it out.
"His reasons are his own." She shrugged continuing on their way, pulling Inuyasha from his thoughts, as he move up beside her following her again. "What where you running from if I may ask?"
He stopped again, looking very intently at his feet. "Myself," he was scratched his head again trying to fit the pieces together. "See one of two people I care very deeply for is going to die. I am not that I can let either of them go." He realized that he had spoken his thoughts out loud, and wasn't sure if she would even care.
"oh?... So what are you going to do?"
He was slightly surprised that she hadn't said it wasn't her problem. "I… am not sure. I want both to live, but one of them died a long time ago. Now she is walking in this world because of something unnatural."
"She walks this earth fueled by a missed placed hatred, and she holds on to a piece of someone else. And because of that my other friend and her baby are going to die." He plopped down on the ground placing his head in his hands. "Plus a lot of other people will die if she doesn't help to finish what she started."
crotched down looking into his pain filled eyes feeling badly that he had to make such a choice. "It sounds like you know what needs to be done, but you don't seemed to have admitted what you need to do." She placed her hand gently on his shoulder and gave him a comforting smile, then turn as she started walking way. She stopped after a few feet.
"Oh, Sesshoumaru-sama said that he would like you to find him after the children are put to bed. If you need an ear later on I wouldn't mind talking to you, again."
He watched her retreating form as he returned to pondering exactly what he should do. But maybe she was right he did know he just had to admit it to himself.
Finally after nearly three hours all three children where asleep. Sesshoumaru had sat there with three very upset and crying children trying to sooth them, but he seemed to have made it worse, at first.
Rin had been the first one to drift off to sleep in tears. But Kisho, and the kisune pup, Shippou, fought it hard for two more hours, it wasn't till the exterminator came in and took the cub that Kisho finally started to relax into his fathers embrace. After Kisho as well was in the land of dreams he sat down his pup and carefully left the room.
He got to his study; he looked over the scrolls and books that they had pulled from the library that day. He knew it would take some prep time, and well as a great deal more time than he would have liked to read it. He smelled Inuyasha long before be was even close to the door. It slid open a few moments later.
"What is it Sesshoumaru?" Inuyasha crossed his arms as he stood in front of his brother.
"What have you decided, Inuyasha?" He was trying not to let his annoyance of the situation show in his voice.
"Kikyou's time on this earth ended too soon fifty years ago." He dropped his eyes to the floor avoiding meeting his brother cold eyes. "But she is not meant to be here, now. Kagome is alive, a force greater than anyone of us brought her here for a reason. And no matter how much I hate you her baby deserves a chance to live."
"Good," Sesshoumaru turned away, noticing that Inuyasha had not moved to leave, "Something else on you mind." He turned his head so he could look at the broken form of his brother.
He took in a deep breath before he started to speak. "I want to be the one to finish it," somehow saying the words made it all seem more real to him, "but if I can… can't… then… then… could…." Inuyasha was fighting back tears that were brimming in his eyes. He never thought that admitting it to someone else would be just as hard as admitting it to himself.
"I will then be assisting you in the task that needs to be done." Inuyasha looked up at his brother, he never had asked for anything from him before, but he was glad Sesshoumaru would finish it if he couldn't.
"Thanks" It was mutter so low it was barely audible as he looked away from the Western Lord. He merely nodded turning back to look out the window.
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Far off in his own dismal castle Naraku, sat watching the young possessed miko. "I will have to use this to my advantage" With out to much thought he had Kanna sent to get Kogura, so he could set his plans in to action.
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Kagome stood hovering above the ground with an evil smile on her face. She had found the Miko easy enough. It was only a matter of time before they came for her.
For now though her mind was on other prey, namely the wolf Kouga. She knew Naraku had just about all the shards she didn't, but this one wolf had two. Why the girl had let him keep them was beyond her.
Kagome let out a heavy sign. 'I really must find a better body. I do not like being a female.' She poked at her belly, 'You will be to young, little one. Prehapse this Nararku will do. She seems to fear his power and if he is power full enough I should be able to over take him and have him survive.'
Off in the distance she saw a whirlwind of dust. "Hmm, he is heading this way now. To bad it is close to dawn or I would play with him. Oh well I will find him again tonight and have my fun.'
She drifted towards a rocky ledge and slipped into a narrow passage. After she got in she turned to the opening and carved a symbol in the rock wall. "That should hold you young miko should you awaken during the day." She walked back to the deepest part of the cave and laid down to regain the strength it had lost in the fight with the miko's soul for the body.
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Kagome stirred from the darkness, her head hurt, her limbs were aching, and she tingled from head to toe. She fought to open her eyes to let in the light which she so desperately craved, but her eyes would not open, they felt as if they had been super glued shut.
She remembered battling the shadow youkai, and it touching her, then everything went black. Did her friends save her last night? She didn't think so, she could feel an evil energy around her, and she was on hard surface.
'Wait! I can feel things.' She bolt herself of to a sitting position, wishing she hadn't moved so fast but she refused to close her eyes again. She worked her way to her feet and saw she was in a cave. She saw light towards the far end of the cave and ran towards it on shaky legs.
She reached the passage way, and went to exit it, but was thrown several feet backwards.
'Foolish girl do you really think I would just allow you to run away.' the voice laughed from somewhere deep inside her. It made her skin crawl when the voice started to speak.
"Who are you? What to you want?" She was terrified as she yelled to no one, looking for its source.
'A specter of the past. One who has been seeking revenge for more centuries than I am aware of, and you little miko will help me to enact my revenge.'
"No I won't. I am not helping some sick youkai who can't even show himself!" Kagome cried out in pain as a sharp jolt went through her body.
'I do not need your permission to gain your help. You will not be conscious much longer anyways.' The voice faded off.
"What do you mean you don't need my permission? WHY WON"T I BE CONSCIOUS?" Kagome was screaming at the top of her lungs. She winced as she heard it reverberate off the cave walls. She brought her hands up to her ears to deaden the sound. She gasped at what she saw. She walked over to be in better light.
Her nails where now black as night and slightly longer than they had been before. She touched the point of one to her skin and blinked when she saw a small drip of blood come from under her nail. She gently traced the black lines on her wrist, when she noticed her hair. She took it in her hands and noticed its dark grey color with enter mixed dark blue highlights. She noticed that she wasn't wearing her old cloths but she was not in an out fit similar to Sango except it was black and blue.
'Like what you see miko.' The voice was mocking her.
"What have you done to me?" Her voice was barely a whisper, and a tear slide down her cheek.
'I made you a suitable host for my spirit. Had you been any weaker you most likely would have lost your life in the process.'
"What does that mean?"
'I have given your weak body muscle and strength, you will live longer, and other certain powers which you need not know.'
"Why won't I be conscious much longer?" She was sitting there slowly rocking back and forth trying to comfort herself.
'Because I will again be in control, and we will find the Shikon no Tama.'
"No, you can't use it. Nothing good ever come of it please don't use it. Please" Her tears where flowing freely down her face now. She noticed the tingling of her body was getting worse.
"How long do you plan on keeping me?"
'As long as I need, but I doubt you or your child with survive my leaving your body.'
"Leave Kisho alone you bastard." She had stopped crying, and was sitting very still when she her the uproarious laughing in her head.
'I am not talking about that little brat. I am talking about the one you carry inside you, bitch.'
Kagome sat dumbfounded, she hadn't known. Did Sesshoumaru know? Oh god what would he say when he found out? Or her mother for that matter! What was she going to do?
Then almost as if answering her questions; 'Yes he knows, he is not pleased that I have taken you as a host. I don't care about your mother she can't get here. You are going to just live with it, or I could kill it for you.'
"NO!" Kagome yelled, "No, I will deal with it."
'Good then, it does make taking you has a host much more difficult but nothing that can't be dealt with'
"This didn't hurt it did it?"
The voice snorted at her, 'Hardly, it won't be born Hanyou now. You should be glad I did this now you won't have to deal with a worthless child.'
"I don't care if it is born, Hanyou, human, or youkai, as long as it is alright." She decided that she wanted to know where they where going, "Who are you going to get revenge on?"
A sharp pain went through her again. 'You need not know who, it does not concern you!'
"I think it does. I mean you are in my body so how does… it… AHH!!!" Her body again was reeling in pain.
'You seem to miss understand girl, you will not be present again as soon as night falls. I need your soul still in your body to keep it alive but you will never see the light of day again. You will sleep for as long as I deem it necessary for you to sleep. So enjoy your last day of life as you know it. You may not have another.'
"Why me? Why can't you leave me and my family in peace?" Silence was her only answer. She knew she could not leave because of the barrier at the entrance, and there was no other way out. Kagome watched the out side world pass by, as she slowly came to grips with her new reality. Slowly she felt herself falling into a deep dreamless sleep.
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Sorry this chapter doesn't have a whole lot of action in it, the next one will i promise.
