Silver Shadow Demon: Please don't be angry because I made/am making Inu's life even more miserable… I needed an excuse for mindless slaying… 'Cause I really don't have a normal life… Completely absorbed by my own writing… Besides he now gets pity…

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Disclaimer: I don't own Inu but I do own Aidelle and the Angels

Chapter II

The Flames of Life

I charged for InuYasha's home and prayed I'd reach it on time. I had already failed Inutaishou once and had no intention of repeating the experience. Lucky for me the kid had some sense, when I got there he was dripping wet and lying on the shore of the lake that divided the village. I approached him, "InuYasha, I need you to stay here and wait for me alright? Here take my cloak so you can keep warm." He sat and rapped the cloak around his shoulders as you would, normally with a blanket. He nodded to signal that he understood and would stay put so I left to find the resident arsonists. Of course my fist task was smothering the flames in a thick coating of shadows, choking them out. To my advantage the arsonists were still in the common area of the village, still armed with extra torches and such. I was going to have fun with this… I could see the spirit of the old man, he was watching for me, he new I wasn't going to let them get off so easy. "ES MIEN LOS SINTHOS" The group was engulfed in a black flame that eventually died into a sphere of blackness. The old man stared in horror, but those souls were free, they didn't deserve the same punishment he did. Many have asked me how I could decide the fate of these people, well it was simple the old leader had poisoned Izayoi and ordered the boy be killed. He had also been the one to lure Ryokutse (AN: Sorry if its misspelled but I mean the dragon that Inu ends up killing the one that killed Inutaishou.) to the valley where he brought the demise of the dog lord I had called friend for so long. Oh yes a long time, I was already a few centuries old when the dog was born… I was the birthing mother for both him and his first, Sesshomaru. When my shadow dome dispersed finally the bodies, now souless, lay in a small pile. Their soul globes floated toward the Spirit World and as promised the old man lingered on. I ran back to InuYasha and found he was unconscious and becoming colder by the second. I hoped above all that Inutaishou would forgive if my idea failed, I am after the Angel of Darkness, and fire never was my forte. I cast my flame beside the child and fell into drowsiness, without wishing it; I fell asleep beside the small form of the child. When I awoke the flame I had cast was glowing bleu, a deep bleu, a bleu I remembered clearly from Inutaishou's crescent mark. I looked up at the moon… 'Where are you now my old friend…' the flame turned red and the boy stirred. The wind sounded strangely like a voice at this point, it whispered, "From your flames of shadow came flames of life and light. Light can always be created through darkness…" "Inutaishou… I knew it…" My old friend visited me that night and I can say this with authority, no matter how old you live until; never will you be wiser than him. The words he spoke to me over the wind that night made no sense to me until much later because I always saw darkness and light as opposite things but that was my foolishness and my eyes were opened by none other than the adorable Hanyou that lay curled up beside me when his fathers voice came to me.