Chapter 13: A Dangerous Encounter: Kisa's Heart is Tainted

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Days passed by as Kisa got frustrated with bad grades in Math and Science. She studied sure, but the thought of going back through the well lingered in the back of her mind. It teased her at night in her dreams, and the sight of her necklace just lying on her dresser made her anxious. Kagome had been going to school as well, but not as much. She would miss a few days and come back to retake a test or catch up on homework. Kisa became overwhelmed by everything around her. It was just getting to hard.

As Kisa was walking through the halls getting ready for another boring Science class, she noticed something posted on the bulletin board. –A dance?- Kisa read. –This Saturday? Hmmm…..- She scrunched up her face in thought, but merely scoffed and kept on walking by. Kisa turned into a long corridor and opened the class door. The class was buzzing with the new news of the dance. Kisa had walked over to her seat setting her books on her desk.

"Kisa!" Called a familiar voice from above the noise.

Kisa turned around facing one of Kagome's friends. "Oh, hi Ayumi. What's up?"

"Where's Kagome? I haven't seen here at school today. Is her back acting up again?" Ayumi asked with a concerned expression.

Kisa sweat dropped, "Uh. Yep, it's her darn back again!"

"Oh, I hope she gets well soon. So anyway are you going to the dance?"

"I don't know should I?"

Ayumi nodded clasping her hands together, "Yes!"

The bell rang before Kisa could reply back, and the class took their seats. The day dragged on just like every other one. Kisa walked down the street to her home. She pushed open the front door and dropped her bag by the door. She didn't bother to remove her shoes. She was just too tired.

Hisame stuck her head out from the kitchen door. "Hey, you!"

Kisa just waved and began walking toward the steps. Hisame narrowed her eyes and went back into the Kitchen. Kisa slammed her door open and then slammed it closed. She fell back on her bed and closed her eyes. –Until Saturday then.- She thought.

The week went by in a flash and Kisa found herself standing in front of her mirror on the day of the dance. She didn't intend to go, but for some reason she had gotten dressed up. She wore a pleated denim miniskirt, with a modest white and pink sleeveless shirt. Her hair was down and was curled. She had even put make up on too look nice.

"Why am I doing this again?" She asked herself.

Kagome looked up from her bed and threw a magazine at Kisa's head. "Because you need to loosen up!"

Kisa smiled, "True. How do I look?"

Kagome stood up and winked, "Gorgeous! How about me?"

Kagome was wearing a black miniskirt with a modest white blouse. Kisa gave her a thumb up and giggled. "Very attractive!"

The two grabbed their jackets, said their goodbyes to Hisame, and left for the school. The dance was being held in the auditorium and by the time the two had reached the outside of the auditorium, night had fallen, and the music blared from the open doors. Kisa looked up and noticed there was a full moon that night. She shrugged her shoulders and walked inside with Kagome.

The inside of the Auditorium was dimly lit and had been transformed completely. Around the front of the room was a Disk jockey, he spun the turntables and blared the music even louder. There were refreshments and food in the other direction, while people danced around the middle of the smoky dance floor. Streamers skimmed the tops of people's heads as they came in from the door and moved along the side of where everyone was chatting away.

Kagome had greeted her three friends. Kisa merely waved to them. Something had been bothering her and it made her stomach upset. Kagome and her friends moved to the middle of the dance floor. Kisa shook her head 'no' to them as they ushered her over with them. A boy with shiny auburn hair wearing some denim pants and a striped black and blue shirt was talking to Kagome. Kisa couldn't hear what they were saying, but she knew his name was Hojou. They began to dance to song Kisa had forgotten the words too. She leaned up against the wall and sighed crossing her arms.

An hour passed by and Kisa had managed to dance to a few songs. She yawned, staring at her necklace. She stroked it with her fingers and in return it pulsated. Kisa jumped a little surprised by its action. It pulsated again, and again, and again. Faster and faster until Kisa's whole body felt as if it were pounding inside. –What the?- A horrible feeling came over Kisa and a vision of Naraku possessing the jewel whole flashed before her eyes.

Kisa ran out of the hall and out into the street. Kagome watched her and excused herself from her friends following after Kisa. The breeze lifted itself up over the tops of the trees and made the blades of grass beneath Kisa's feet sway menacingly. Kagome ran behind her and put a hand on her shoulder. Kisa flinched and pulsated again.

"What is it?" Kagome asked.

"Something's not right back in the feudal era."

"Let's go back then."

Kisa nodded. She told Kagome to head straight for the shrine, and that she would meet up with her there. Kagome nodded and took off sprinting toward her house. Kisa merely had to run a couple of streets and down a small alley. She noticed Hisame wasn't home and opened the rattling front door. She quickly grabbed the spear from within her bag. It unfolded itself and glowed. Kisa smirked. She hurriedly ran toward Kagome's home. As she reached the entrance of the well, a horrendously bulbous green tentacle had broken its way free from the well.

"KAGOME!" Yelled Kisa. There was no reply.

After a few seconds the tentacle struck towards Kisa wrapping itself around her tightly. Kisa could only feel the spear in her hands. She was then pulled into the well. Kisa noticed the well was pitch black and withheld a seemingly familiar miasma. She coughed and choked as it entered her system.

The tentacle pinned Kisa up against a large tree as it exited the well. Kisa struggled to get loose but the tentacle held too tight. A cackle shrouded the midnight sky and a shadow loomed behind the trees protection. Kisa noticed she wasn't the only pinned up against a tree. InuYasha tried biting at the tentacle so it would let him free. She turned and saw Kouga, two other wolf demons, Sango, Shippou, Miroku, and Kagome were being held back by a barrier. Kisa gripped the spear tightly in her hands and cut free from the tentacle.

"Who the hell are you?" she called to the figure.

The moonlight shown over him; he was a young man with long wavy black hair and red eyes. He wore a black and blue kimono with a white pelt draped over his shoulders. He cackled and smirked. "The one who everyone seeks."

Kisa gasped and looked at him wide eyed. "You…You Bastard! So you're Naraku."

The moonlight grew brighter as Kisa stepped into it. She smirked back and scoffed. "So you're the bastard who killed that priestess, and did all those horrible things to these people?"

Naraku held out his hand revealing a small jewel, which was missing a piece at the top, in the palm of his hand. "I'm judging this is what you saw in your premonition, Guardian."

Kisa clenched her teeth and narrowed her eyes. Naraku closed his hand into a fist. "Once I took the jewel shards from that wolf's legs, plus the one from that half-demon and the one from Kohaku's back, I now grow stronger then ever before. The jewel is finally complete.

"And now I will take the last piece of what I need to be the most formidable demon ever." He narrowed his eyes and threw the jewel toward Kisa's heart.

Kisa stood paralyzed as the jewel shot towards her. She gripped the spear in her hand and held it up to block the jewel from entering her body. The jewel pushed back the spear ricocheting it towards the floor. It pushed through Kisa's chest and emerged itself inside of her. Kisa groaned in pain and fell to her knees, her body completely taken over by the jewel. Naraku smirked and took a step toward Kisa.

The others inside of the barrier as well as InuYasha watched helplessly as Kisa cringed from pain on the floor. Kouga banged his fists on the barrier's walls, his eyes burning with an ultimate fire of hate. Ginta and Hakaku exchanged worried looks as they watched Kouga try to kick free from the barrier. Kagome was on her knees just staring hopelessly. The other three were busy trying to break free to help Kisa. InuYasha clawed his way free from the tentacle's grasp and unsheathed his Tetsusaiga.

Naraku picked Kisa up and turned toward InuYasha. He smirked looking down at Kisa's heart which had formed a black aura. She was unconscious once again and breathed slowly, gasping for air.

"You Son of a Bitch! Leave her alone. She has nothing to do with you or the jewel." He yelled pointing the Tetsusaiga at his face.

Before he could receive a reply a strong miasma protruded from beneath Naraku, as he took off into thin air. InuYasha gritted his teeth. He turned to face the others in the barrier and released them with the red Tetsusaiga. Kagome ran towards him and embraced him burying her face in his kimono. InuYasha surprised, returned the embrace.

Kouga ran out of the barrier and took off toward the direction in which Naraku took Kisa. –No! Why, why did he have to take her! Why is she so important to him? Kisa! I have to tell you.- Ginta and Hakaku scratched the backs of their heads confused.

"Why is Kouga acting so strange lately?" Ginta asked.

Shippou jumped off of Miroku's shoulder. "We think he's in love with Kisa."

"That mere human girl?" Hakaku replied.

Shippou nodded. Kagome pulled away from InuYasha with tears in her eyes. His face looked down at her with sympathy. He pulled her close to him and lowered his face to whisper in her ear.

"It's ok Kagome. We'll find Kisa. She'll be ok. Besides Kouga's already gone to track him down."

"No! This is my fault. I-I…" Kagome trailed off. She gripped tighter onto InuYasha's kimono and began to weep softly into it.

Sango, Miroku, Shippou, Ginta, and Hakaku all had expressions of hatred mixed with concern. They each were ready to find Naraku and slay him for their own purposes. Kagome and InuYasha pulled away from one another and took off toward Naraku with the others following closely behind.

Kisa was laid down on a small area in the floor of a large cave. Naraku had put up a powerful barrier at the entrance of the cave. Kagura stood in the shadows along with Kanna, Miyoko, and Ichiro in the back awaiting their orders. Naraku turned to Ichiro and Miyoko.

"Stop them." He muttered.

The two nodded and headed out in their own ways from the cave, to the moonlit forest outside. Kouga raced through the forest at about the same time, but was sidetracked by the ice demon Ichiro. He smirked and held out a long sword covered with icicles.

Kouga furrowed his brows. "Get the hell outta my way."

"Sorry can't do. Naraku's not done with the girl yet." He said, "From the look on your face, I'd say you're in love with the guardian."

Kouga clenched his fists and swung for Ichiro. "I said get out of my way!" he yelled.

Ichiro scoffed and quickly dodged his attack. "Pathetic wolf. You can not so easily defeat me with your hands."

Kouga cracked his knuckles and kicked Ichiro straight across his face. "Don't act so cocky. You ain't that tough. Now tell me where Kisa is."

Ichiro was thrown back into a tree but pushed himself back with feet. "Hm. The guardian is having the spiritual power sucked out of her as we speak."

"Why do you keep calling her the guardian? Cut the shit. Where is she!" Kouga yelled. He punched the ground with his right hand. It created a large shockwave sent straight toward where Ichiro stood.

Ichiro jumped high into the air, and readied his sword aimed at Kouga. Kouga looked up and kicked the sword from Ichiro's hands. As Ichiro tried to quickly grab it back, Kouga gave him a hard punch in the gut. He sputtered and scratched Kouga's side with his sharp claws.

"Uhn." Kouga graoned as he hit the ground.

"Ha! Don't make me laugh you pathetic wretch." Ichiro scoffed. However when he looked down at his gut, he noticed blood spilling out onto his hands. –What! This weak wolf did this to me!-

Kouga stood up and charged for Ichiro with rage and swiftness. He dodged all of Ichiro's furious moves toward him and unsheathed his Katana -for the first time- stabbing Ichiro through the heart. Ichiro gasped and fell to his knees deteriorating. Kouga leaned forward on his fist and re-sheathed his sword, sprinting again toward the cave as if nothing had happened. –Kisa, just hold out a little longer-

Kisa moved around on the floor as Kanna moved towards her. Lifeless beetle black opticals stared down at Kisa. She held out her small white mirror and turned it on its side. The mirror began to pull out a shadowy white figure from Kisa's chest. It entered the mirror and made it shake violently. Kanna stared down at the mirror and let out a small whisper.

"Her soul entered the mirror yet it wishes to return back." Kanna put the mirror high into the air as Kisa's soul shot back out from the mirror into Kisa's body sending her backwards a ways.

Naraku contorted his face in frustration. "What?" He moved over to Kisa's body and picked her up by her hair. "The Guardian is more powerful then I had predicted her to be."

Kanna moved back into the shadows next to Kagura. Kisa winced in pain as sweat beads ran down her face. It was a whirlwind of emotions inside of her body. The tainted jewel was tying to warp her mind, but Kisa's subconscious would not allow it to be manipulated. Kisa struggled to fight free from its spell. Naraku dropped Kisa on the floor carelessly, and faced the entrance to the cave a vile and malicious smirk creased upon his lips.

"The wolf is here. I think I can make this ordeal very, very entertaining." He scorned.

Kisa's face was filled with anguish and pain. She managed to open her green eyes smeared with tears and fear. As she tried to pull herself up to lean against the wall she was kicked down by Naraku. He had pinned her down face first in the ground with one of his green scaly attachments. –I-I need you…Kouga. Help me. Please!- She shouted inside of her mind. Naraku lifted her by the back of her shirt and brought her face level to his.

"Tell me, Kisa. That is your name isn't it? Do you realize what will happen after you recover the last piece of the real jewel? The one, who falls in love with you, will die." He said.

Kisa gritted her teeth and stared down toward the floor. Her eyes had gone wide, and narrowed with anger. "You're lying!" she muttered.

"Or am I?" He turned to Kanna, "come here Kanna. Show Kisa what is in your mirror."

Kanna walked slowly over to Kisa. Since she was small she stood just under her face. Kanna lifted the mirror up to show Kisa. The mirror rippled and a fog covered forest came into view inside of the mirror. Kouga was running through the tall grass toward the demonic aura of the cave. Kisa could see the determination, anger, and fear in his eyes. Her eyes filled with tears and she shook her head.

"No! Get away! Don't come, Kouga!" She shouted trying to break free from Naraku's grasp.

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