AN: Ok, I am finally done with this chappie, it took a while. Gods above and below. It took a while. But it is one of my favorites yet, in fact it is my fav! Aright then, the next will be updated soon so get to reading. Oh and by the way, I got a question from LionessisRin, my answer,

AA: Kanna is a dog demon, Kagura named her after her sister the Kanna we know from the show, and or graphic novels, because Kanna died in the final battle. Ok now, any more questions, I would love to hear em!

Disclaimer: Sigh despite my many bribes, pleadings, court trials, and death threats, Rumiko Takahashi still owns Inuyasha. However, her body guards will get lax someday and then she had better watch out! Muwahahahahahahaha!

Chapter 9

A Family Reunion…

Kanna had never been inside a real village before she began to travel with Li and Sara. They stayed at one ever chance they got. Fighting troublesome demons and the like. However, Kanna had never really fought a demon who was allowed to beat her before. It was much more intense to say the least. Li however, managed to cover for her, seemingly watching out for her in their first few battles. Which she was very grateful for in the end.

Sara could manage very well on her own Kanna noticed. The girl had been raised by a demon slayer and a very powerful monk so what else was to be expected. Though according to Sara, she and her brother Rey were the best fighters out of the 11 siblings that they had. Gods above and below Kanna could never imagine having so many siblings, let alone help out with them. Or even learn their names! Sara however couldn't live without a large family.

"They are great most of the time, but if you like alone time you're outta luck at my place!" she said with enthusiasm. Kanna asked Li about his younger sister,

"Well, I love her personally, she doesn't get on my nerves often cause' Kouga hardly lets me near her anyway so she doesn't have the time to." He said grinning, "You don't have any siblings do you?" he asked her, she shrugged,

"No how could you tell?" she answered, he rolled his eyes,

"Just a lucky guess." He replied.

So they all headed back to Sara's village, only to find that soon, some distressing news was to reach their ears.

"Hello good sir. We hear that there are some demons bothering your humble establishment?" Sara said cordially, to the chieftain of the village. The man nodded, while looking Sara up and down,

"Yes, and you think you can do something about it?" he asked softly,

Sara nodded, Kanna and Li stayed quiet beside her. The chieftain looked at Sara again,

"You are just a girl, and you are all just kids, do something useful, there isn't anything useful for you here!" he said, and then reached down to Sara, however, before his hand ever got within an inch of her arm, Li growled low in his throat.

"I wouldn't." Li said his voice deadly soft. The chieftain stopped,

"Oh, he's a demon then, well if you why didn't you say so? Fine, I'll tell you what I know about these demons." And then the man sat down, Sara and the others followed suit.

Li gave Sara a glance as the man began his tale, but she didn't seem to be angry with him.

"Alight," the chieftain said, "It all began about two months ago, all of a sudden two demons showed up and asked for our assistance in a, disagreeable plan, but we wouldn't assist. The next day, they brought with them another demon, the one who runs them around, his name is Nireku, and he set them on the village, they killed many." The chieftain shivered, Li growled and glared to the side, catching the chieftain's attention. "Somethin' wrong with you demon?" he asked, Li looked to him,

"No, nothing is wrong, but I know this demon personally, I promise to take care of it for you." He said coldly the chieftain looked at him, uncertainly,

"That might be a problem, you see, we to keep him from killing us again, we decided to give him something that would make it impossible for us to resist, and impossible for him to be defeated, a little girl, a priestess that still lives inside him. If you kill him, she dies too." The chieftain said sadly, shaking his head, "We should have known better."

Li just sighed,

"That is only a complication, not an impossibility; I'll fix it all, I promise." And then he stood and the two girls followed him,

"What will you do demon?" The chieftain asked, Li grinned, his fangs showing,

"I'll do what I do best, win." And without another word he left.

Li sat propped against a hut wall, the girls were inside getting a bit of rest so that they could fight better when Nireku struck again, which would be undoubtedly tonight. The villagers said he came on the nights when the moon was full. This would work out well in Sara's opinion; full moons meant tons of light to fight by. Li had said nothing on the topic. He was readying himself to fight a very dangerous creature.

Still, there is something else worrying me, no priestess, no matter how strong, can be held inside a demon, it would burn him inside out. So this priestess can't be of pure nature. So how is it Nireku's fooling every one? Li growled, irritated with his ignorance.

"Oh well, I'll just have to wait until tonight I guess." He muttered to himself, and then he closed his eyes to rest.

Li looked out from his hiding place among the many huts littering the little village. Darkness had just clutched the little thing, and Sara and Kanna were also hidden very similarly to himself. The both were in his line of vision.

And then he felt it, a demon approaching. His mother's spiritual abilities proving themselves in the test. He smiled; Nireku had no idea what he was going to get into tonight.

Better him than me.

And the Nireku entered the village, and immediately Li sensed the priestess was near him, but not inside him as the chieftain had said, just as Li had thought. Nireku came into his sights, and stopped, and then yelled,

"You know I come, and I am here, so get out of bed you fools, why do you sleep on these nights?!" however, no one came, instead, Li walked out from his hiding place, grinning brightly in the moonlight,

"Why hello there Nireku, beautiful night eh?" he asked, Nireku snarled,

"You, why would you be here pup?" Li grimaced,

"I'm no pup, and I'm just doing my job, saving the innocent." he yelled, his voice mocking. Nireku glared at him from where he stood on a roof top.

"You think you can beat me little pup? This I would like to see. But first let's see if you're worthy to even fight me eh?" Nireku said with even more mockery in his own voice, and then with a wave of his hand he summoned Kite and Suki to his side.

"What do you wish of us my lord?" asked Kite solemnly, Li snorted,

"Oh gods, not you two Kite? You are following his orders now? Well this just beats all things to hell, YOU followings HIS orders, that's just rich." He said. Kite chose to ignore him, but a small frown flicked across his face. Suki never seemed to even show emotion. At all.

"Kill him." Nireku said simply to the two demons. Only Kite moved to fight. Suki only jumped to a perch in a tree to watch them. Nireku said nothing and a shadow peered also at the fight from his side.

Kite jumped to land in front of Li, a fiery sword in hand.

"Prepare Li, I am more prepared for your power this time." He said, Li just shrugged,

"Yeah, I suppose you will be, but so am I, I'm prepared for you as well this time." He said smiling, just allowing his fangs to show.

Kite snarled and ran forward, Li just jumped, dodging out of the way, drawing his claws and slashing out at Kite, who dodged away spinning. Li's fangs totally pulled out, giving him a very demonic look, and his claws struck upward to knock Kite across the way. Then he stood back and chuckled,

"You are still underestimating me because of my age fool."

Suddenly Suki turned to them,

"Kite," she said in a very dead voice, "he has two girls with him, they are right, there." she said pointing to the two houses where Sara and Kanna stood waiting.

Li glanced at her, then to Nireku,

"Leave them out of this Ni-" he never finished, Nireku was already attacking the huts, with a roar, Li sped after him, "NO!" he snarled, but just then he noticed Kanna jumping away with Sara clinging to her.

"Li, your battle is with me!" yelled Kite, "If you where foolish enough to bring two women with you, then they are probably powerful enough to protect themselves right?" Kite said, "RIGHT!" he yelled, Li nodded, but hesitated, and then attacked once again.

Kanna jumped away from Nireku, Sara stood next to her. Nireku glared at them when he realized that they'd gotten away. His glare narrowed on Sara, who winked.

"Nice to see ya again Nireku," she called waving, "hope you won't mind if we kill your lackeys!" Nireku spat,

"Not likely slayer!" he yelled, but before he could attack, Suki jumped down,

"I wish to fight them." She said, but her gaze was mostly for Kanna who got into a fighting stance. Suki just stood there, waiting, Sara got out of the way. Kanna finally got tired of waiting,

"Come on!" she yelled, rushing the demoness, who's stare became cold at Kanna's approach.

"Ice sickle." She said, pulling just such a weapon from thin air. Kanna jumped away from the side, the weapon missing her by mere inches. Sara watched from the ground.

Li was hit with Kite's sword and thrown to the side, blood rose like a fountain from his wound. He didn't even slow down.

Kanna pulled her own sword from the air,

"Ice Blade!" she yelled, slicing at Suki, who dodged away quickly, bringing her sickle down on Kanna's back, throwing her to the ground, Kanna rolled to avoid the next attack and back flipped into a standing position, her blade coming up to block the following attack.

Li's claws ripped into Kite's back, throwing him into a tree, Kite just moved before Li's attack hit,

"Iron reaver soul stealer!" he yelled, however, the attack missed when Kite moved, Li just killed the by standing tree.

Kite jumped and went to attack Li's unguarded back, to no avail as suddenly Li wasn't there and threw Kite to the ground again.

Kanna screamed as she was thrown aside with Suki's sickle. However, Suki could attack again, Li grabbed her and threw her into Kite, and then he looked to Kanna,

"You alright?" Li asked, Kanna nodded,

"As good as I can be." She said, Li nodded, turning back to Kite and Suki, who were glaring daggers at him.

"Enough!" came a voice from the shadow that stood behind Nireku.

A woman came into view. Li felt himself get cold all over. The woman looked just like his mother, except that she was older and maybe, a bit colder in the eyes. Li growled unconsciously, the woman was staring at him.

"Nireku, what is this? Surly not who I think it is, he is too young." She said coldly, Nireku shook his head,

"No, this is not the man who you seek Kikyou, this is the whelp Li." Nireku said to her, she was still staring at Li, her eyes intense and cold as ever.

"How old are you, Li?" she asked, the firmness in her voice had him answering before he knew what he was doing.

"Sixteen." He said, Kikyou's porcelain face pinched into a frown.

"Sixteen," she whispered, more to herself than to anyone else, "then you might be…Are you his son? Inuyasha's son?" she asked calmly, but her eyes were flashing. He opened his mouth and again was answering before he knew what he was doing, what was wrong with him? He was losing control.

"Yes." He said bluntly.

As soon as he said it, he heard Nireku hiss, Kite seemed to have already known, Suki was not affected. Sara was staring at him incredulously, as was Kanna. Kikyou grimaced,

"And your mother? She is Kagome is she not?" she asked, again, Li found himself answering, and found the world around him fading.

"Yes." He replied blunt as ever. Sara gasped,

"LI!" she yelled, Kikyou's attention snapped to Sara, she frowned, and then turned back to Li,

"You waste your time my dear." She said, seemingly directing it to Sara, "He cannot hear you." Sara glared at Kikyou,

"Stop this! What are you doing to him?" she yelled, Kikyou ignored her,

"Li, where might I find Inuyasha?" she asked, Sara looked and saw Li shrugging,

"I don't know, I avoid him, he might be in the West by now. Yeah, probably." He said his eyes Sara noticed, lifeless.

"Li stop!" Kanna yelled, he didn't hear. Sara felt rage well within her.

"And your mother Li? Where might she be?" Kikyou asked,

"In the East. With Kouga." He said,

"Stop it Kikyou, or else." Sara said coldly, Kikyou just smirked and turned to her,

"Or else what?" she sneered, and then Sara pulled her staff out, and threw it head long at Kikyou, Kanna threw her ice blade at her at the same time, Kikyou wasn't prepared for this, and both the weapons hit her. She screamed and drew back.

"Damn you both!" she snarled, Nireku began to glow, fire in both his hands, he threw it at Sara, and it hit her dead on.

The slayer girl screamed in agony as the fire came around her. Suddenly another roar filled the group's ears. Li jumped over at Nireku, slashing down his chest, stopping the attack, and then ran over to Sara, putting his red haori around her to protect her from the flames.

Li put Sara on a safe spot of ground, and then slowly turned to Kikyou and the other evil band.

"Get away. Now." He growled danger filled his eyes and voice, challenging any of them to come a step closer.

Kikyou looked to Nireku,

"Let us go find his mother." She said, he nodded reluctantly, and then they all disappeared.

Li healed Sara's burns with a soft pink light that emanated from his hand. Kanna just watched,

"I don't get it Li, how in the hec did Nireku resurrect Kikyou? My father mentioned her in the old bed time stories he used to tell me. She died in the final battle with their greatest enemy Naraku." Li listened, then sighed,

"Well, the first time I met Nireku, he told me he was the son of the great demon Naraku. So maybe Naraku's knowledge is still in him. Maybe that's how he knew how." Li said, and then silence followed, Li continuing to heal the unconscious Sara.

"Where did you learn that Li?" Kanna asked, Li shrugged,

"My mother." He said softly. When he was finished he stood. Sara was opening her eyes. She looked up to him, he smiled. She stood and hugged him hard.

"Stupid dog brains! You scared me!" she snapped, Li smiled to himself, then pushed her back.

"Listen you two; I need you to do something for me. I need to go to Sara's village, but if you two wouldn't mind, going and checking on my family in the East. Kanna told me what I said. If you two go and keep them safe until I can get there, maybe they'll be safe." Kanna and Sara nodded,

"Alright, but you stay safe Li, I don't want to find you dead when I get back home." Sara said.

Li promised, and then they all parted ways…

Li stood on the out side of a forest. A wolf pack stood in his way.

"I'll not let you pass!" their leader yelled, Li sighed.

"I don't want to fight." He said, the leader wasn't listening, instead he attacked him.

The fight was brief. And in the end, Li killed the leader. However, there was just one little detail he forgot.

As soon as their leader lay dead. The small pack of about 8 turned to him.

"To our new alpha!" one yelled, Li felt all the blood drain from his face.

"You- of course, how could I be so stupid as to forget that part?" he snapped at himself. Then looked to the pack, and sighed. "Alright, maybe you guys can be helpful, maybe, follow me, we're heading to the village up ahead!" he yelled, a wolf looked to him,

"That's not our land!" it yelled, Li grimaced,

"Well, I guess we'll have to change that now won't we?" he called, and then ran ahead, leading his pack to the village ahead of him…

The demon reared up and slammed Li straight into the village, his pack snarled at its feet, attacking the demon in vain. Li called them off with a sign. The did retreat, if unwillingly, they didn't much care for abandoning him.

The little pack had grown from 8 to 28, in the few weeks he'd been in control. They all loved him dearly though.

Li snapped his attention back on the demon and jumped up attacking it harshly with his claws.

"Dammit!" he snarled as it managed to slice him on the side, and just then Li noticed another blur streak past him.

This one too was fighting the demon apparently, for it drew a huge sword and attacked the demon head on. Li ran right beside the new blur, attacking side by side with it. This demon didn't use his claws as much as Li did, not needing to having that sword. Just then the blur attacked the demons front, and Li jumped behind the demon's unguarded back, slicing it straight down the middle. With a scream the demon died vanishing into a pile of ashes.

Li and the other demon landed gracefully on the ground. Immediately Li was on guard again, waiting for the dust to settle so he could see the other man.

When the dust cleared Li about fainted. Standing not twenty feet from him was his complete and total double. However, he knew who it really was. He'd seen this man's picture. His eyes wide, he whispered,

"Dad?"

AN: Buwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!! I am so evil, but I really am tired of writing, I've been up for hours! Ok, so by the way, this is not the REAL Kikyou, this is a replica that Nireku created; however, she has the safe desires as the real thing. The real Kikyou is standing up in the spirit world shaking her head sadly. VERY sadly. Anyway, thanx for reading!