Tesse: hello again, I'm gonna make this quick so, no I do not own inuyasha.

Inuyasha: Heritage

Chapter Twelve: Naraku

It had been two days since Koji had met Myouga. They been traveling on foot the entire time and Koji was currently looking into a horse.

"No! That's practically stealing the horse! Go bug someone else!" the man walked away waving a hand at Koji.

Koji sighed, it wasn't the first time that someone had refused to help him or sell him something.

"Don't worry master Koji," Myouga said from atop his perch on Koji shoulder.

"They know that I'm part demon and so they treat me like crap!" Koji said getting ready to leave.

Myouga sighed, he didn't know what to tell the teenage boy. "If they had known who your parents were, they would have given it to you," he said.

"Well they don't know who my parents are, hell, I hardly even know who they are!" Koji said kicking up dust on the road as they left the village.

"But master Koji it's not yours or your parents fault that you went missing 14 years ago. Master Inuyasha spent almost two years searching for you, but in the end he had to return to Kagome and Kayori, because they needed him," Myouga said they were now on the outskirts of the village, Koji plopped down next to an old tree.

"I wish I had at least been able to see them before all of this Naraku business. It's not fair! I always knew they were out there somewhere, but when I actually get the chance to meet them…" Koji drifted in thought leaving his sentence unfinished.

"You know, you're leaving one important person out of this," Myouga said.

"Who?"

"The person you share a birth with, Kayori. She was really small when you disappeared, but I know that she would gladly welcome you into her heart again. And she knows your parents better than anyone else," Myouga said crossing all four of his tiny arms.

"But where is she? You said that she had slipped past Naraku and was now conspiring against him with two guys named Shippo and Ryku," Koji said staring at the grass gently swaying in the breeze.

"That's very true, Ryku was the son of Sango and Miroku, while Shippo was one of your mother and father's companions. They've all gotten past Naraku to live another day. We should try to find them as soon as possible," Myouga said thoughtfully.

Koji stood up, and stared at the village they had just passed through. He had a smile smirk on his face.

"That man said that my offer was just like stealing a horse, right?" Koji said.

"I guess he didn't know what stealing was then, because that offer was pretty fair," Myouga said not catching onto what Koji was saying.

Soon they were standing outside the stables with the horse all saddled and ready to be ridden.

"Master Koji! What are you doing?! This is stealing!" Myouga screamed but Koji didn't seem to notice as he mounted the white stallion. As he did the stable keeper ran from his cottage.

"Sayonara!" Koji yelled to the stable keeper as the horse took off, the stable keeper yelled tons of profanities, which Koji never heard.

'I'd expect Inuyasha to do something like this!' Myouga thought as he desperately clung to a strand Koji's long raven hair.

Koji on the other hand was having the time of his life, the wind whipped through his hair and stung his eyes but at the moment he didn't have a care in the world. He'd forgotten that Myouga was desperately trying to not fall off.

After about twenty minutes Koji began to slow down.

"Myouga! What the hell is that?" Koji exclaimed as a strange presences began to fill the air with the poisonous miasma. Koji held his hand over his mouth and nose to keep from breathing the bad air.

"Oh no! It's Naraku!" Myouga said getting ready to take off, Koji didn't know he was leaving.

"Wait do you mean?! How can he be here?!" Koji almost yelled. "Myouga?" Koji looked over his now unoccupied shoulder. "That filthy BASTARD!" Koji spat bitterly.

"Koji," a harsh voice said from the woods. Suddenly the horse went crazy and Koji was thrown to the ground as the horse made a break for the village.

"The only son of Inuyasha," Naraku cackled, "I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to kill you."

"Bullshit!" hissed Koji, preparing himself for a fight. He had been fighting since his caretaker Meanae died, but he doubted if he would win against Naraku, his only chance might be running. Koji wouldn't run though! He had to much pride to run away, he wanted revenge for his parents and sister who's lives had been broken because of Naraku.

Naraku laughed, "You think you can defeat me? Inuyasha thought the same thing, what happened to him, you ask? He was captured and now he's being tortured along with his brother, Sesshomaru."

Koji felt white-hot anger burn beneath his cheeks, "Die!" he yelled as he charged Naraku only to be swatted away by one of Naraku's tendrils. Koji fell to the ground with a large gash in his side. But he got up hardly noticing the wound. He slashed back at Naraku with his claws but it failed again. This time Koji had a new wound across his shoulder.

He was losing and he could see it. Naraku of course was enjoying himself, as he lunged forward with one of his tendrils. Koji didn't have time to dodge as Naraku's new weapon ran him through. Koji gasped in pain as Naraku pulled the tendril away.

Naraku laughed again, "You're weak Koji! But don't worry you'll be with your pathetic twin sister soon!" With that Naraku left laughing.

Koji fell to his knees as blood flowed through his fingers. Oddly enough, his life wasn't flashing before his eyes. He saw images that he'd never seen before.

(a/n: This is what Koji saw)

A pretty girl walked down a forest path, her long silver hair flowed gentiley down her shoulders. She looked happy as a small girl with light brown hair and an odd arrangement of clothing made of animal pelts danced around her. Two other boys traveled with her. They all seemed to be enjoying themselves.

Suddenly Koji saw the whole forest they were in from a bird's eye view. He knew that they weren't that far from where he was. And he had to find them.

He lifted himself off the ground with what little strength he had left. He surprised himself that he hadn't died yet.

Koji had made it to the forest, but as soon as his wounded body entered the trees everything went black, but he stumbled on unconsciously before his body had given out as well, not far from where Kayori and her companions had begun to set up camp.

"Kayori are you alright?" Shippo asked as Kayori unconsciously fumbled in the bushes. But KayorI hadn't heard him, she was seeing in black and white, and voices rang in her head.

"Kayori!" Ryku jumped up. But Kayori couldn't hear over the voices in her head. Before any of them could stop her she ran into the forest as fast as her legs would allow.

It wasn't long after that Kayori gain consciousness, and had control over her body, but now she had no idea where she was.

Forward! Kayori obeyed, and walked forward. Shoving the branches out of her way as the smell of blood reached her nose. She quicken her pace as she tried to find the source.

'It's so familiar,' Kayori thought innocently. She knew that it wasn't far from where she stood and with sudden adrenaline she burst through the trees.

She found what she was looking for. A mangled body, she approached it cautiously. His raven black hair covered his face, puddles of blood had collected under his body, and he moaned slightly telling Kayori that he was still alive.

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