Missunderstood-
Once again I'm updating…because I don't really need to worry about my other story ( Miroku's Rosary) due to it being on hiatus I can update this story more often.
Thanks to :
Shadowww15 : You got it! Naraku will die. Like he does in most of my stories…not that I hate him or anything…really!! But… I'm not gonna tell you how he dies. –haha-
Kagome1015 : Nah… the last chapter probably came out a few days ago… you caught it on time.
Anyhow thanks you two like a lot! 'cause …you're the only two who review –tear- (sigh) Anyhow…. On with the story?
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Chapter 10
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Just in what way did Naraku see Kagura as miserable? She was dancing around! Someone in depression, obviously wouldn't be doing that.
Kagura laughed, she was clearly out of breath now, maybe it was time to go back in? Nah, just a few more minutes…
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They left the mansion in a hurry. It could be that it was because they weren't getting enough exercise lately, due to the fact that there have been no demons around. Or it could could be that the owner of the mansion was chasing them out and yelling obscene words at them. Better yet how about the way that there was an army of servants behind the owner…all carrying knives and other sharp objects?
The Shard hunters ran for their lives. Inuyasha doesn't need to, but he wasn't about to kill them either. This was all the monk's fault.
"He's corrupt."
Inuyasha had been thinking that ever since they teamed up. Cheating, lying, womanizing…unless you were blind, or just pure dense…You would have to agree with Inuyasha. But then again Miroku did have his good points…If only I can come up with some right now… (-Wanders off to go think )
They ran into the forest, with the trees concealing them, there was no way the angry mob could find them. Unless they had an amazing sense of smell that is. But luckily for them the crowd just rushed on past carrying their sharp objects and now, torches. In the morning.
This village was not meant to be stolen from, Miroku learned a lesson from that. Not all villages go easy on you. Sango and Kagome were running, they just could keep up with the boys. Even thought Inuyasha took Kagome's over-stuffed backpack, and Miroku took Sango's weapon, they still couldn't catch up.
"They must have a lot of practice doing this ne?"
"Yeah!"
The boys turned the corner and dove into the trees. The girls dove in with them. The five of them huddled there, trying their best not to make a sound.
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Naraku's castle
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Kagura sighed, guess it was time to go in. On her way toward the castle she started walking slower and slower. Something wasn't right. It was as if the air was thicker with evil than it usually was, which was pretty amazing.
Naraku's miasma started lifting the second Kagura stepped into the court-yard. Even though it did slightly lessen, the vapours were still waay too thick. Kagura was a demon, so she should have a good sense of smell.
Her nose was extra-sensitive to to poison, she coughed.
"It's like Naraku's trying to kill me on the spot."
Kagura coughed again, the curtain of poison still proved too strong for her. Carefully opening one eye, she calculated how far away she was from the gates. With one final cough the wind-demon ran for the doors, it felt like she was running 10 miles. She never reached the doors.
Right when she was supposed to burst through the doors, the entrance was blocked by none other than…Kanna.
"Move!!!"
Kanna stood there. Obviously she wasn't going to budge. Kagura thought of another way, of course, going around the girl. She wasn't big enough to block off the entrance alone. Kagura quickly moved to the left prepared to run right past her…but that never happened either. The sorceress carshed into Naraku, he was blocking up the entire left side of the entrance.
"What…are you doing? Let me in!"
"…Dear Kagura, I will let you in…in a moment."
Naraku gave a Kanna a nod. Kanna understood in a reply she looked over to Kagura, who was still sitting on the ground where she fell. Kanna raised the mirror, and slowly Kagura's soul was seen being sucked out. Not into the mirror, but into Naraku.
"Ugh..what.."
"Thank you for your co-operation Kagura."
"What.. did you just do?!"
"I have just stolen your soul." Naraku said, rather proudly, "Starting from now on it would be like as if you were just an incarnation of mine, like Kanna here. You basically belong to me."
"Why…you…I'LL KILL YOU!!!"
Kagura whipped out her fan. She stood in her fighting pose ready to strike Naraku down. Naraku simply smiled, and then started chuckling.
"Kagura, I would warn you not to do that. You will regret it."
"Regret? You will be the one regreting!"
Naraku laughed, so she ignored his warning. Kagura lunged forward, her fan opened ready to slice Naraku right in half. Naraku dodged it and jumped over to a corner. It would look like he cornered himself accidentally. But Naraku had other things planned.
"Good move." Kagura sneered, quickly advancing towards the cornered hanyou. He was just staring at his wrist.
"Go on Kagura, why don't you attack?"
Kagura watched Naraku. Did he really want to die? Kagura lifted her fan, she was about to attack when a heart emerged from Naraku's wrist. The one he was staring at. Kagura back up.
"What on Earth?!"
The heart was real, it was beating. It was Hers. Kagura gazed up at Naraku, he was laughing now. Naraku saw the horror written all over the wind demon's face. It was fun watching her in a state of shock.
"I told you, you would regret that."
Naraku wrapped his fingers around the organ. At first he squeezed lightly, then harder, and harder. Kagura couldn't feel anything. Right when she was about to make a comment though, the pain came.
"Ugh!"
Kagura crumpled to the ground once more, a searing pain pulsed where her heart used to be. It hurt, a lot. Kagura didn't know what to do anymore. She looked up again to see Naraku's plased face. He was laughing, at her pain.
"Y-You bastard."
The last Kagura heard before she passed out was Naraku's horrid laughter.
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Inuyasha's group
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"So, where are we going now?"
Kagome already knew the answer to that question, but what if she got a different answer? You can never tell with Inuyasha.
"You mean…you don't know?"
Inuyasha gave her a skeptical look, one that she didn't like. Kagome took a quick look over her shoulder to find Sango. Maybe she could help her out? Nope. Sango was busy, flirting. Since hen did Sango do that? Maybe since she found out about her little 'crush'.
There they were the two of them, laughing, enjoying their time together. While Inuyasha watched Kagome watch them. What a day. Kagome turned over to Inuyasha again, she was about to answer his question. Well she was until the familiar tingling sensation shot through her body once more.
"Inuyasha, theres a jewel shard nearby."
"Got it."
Inuyasha lokoed around, trying to concentrate on where the demon was. Where was the direction that the demonic aura seemed strongest? There. Inuyasha started running towards the edge of a forest.
Just as he reached it the demon came out, sending Inuyasha flying back towards his friends. He landed with a thud. Kagome looked at the demon, carefully scanning it's body. There, within it's hair!
"Inuyasha! It's hair!"
Inuyasha walked towards the creature and defeated it using the wind scar. Carefully sifting through the locks of bloody hair, Inuyasha finally found the shard.
"Here."
The hanyou handed the fragment to Kagome, she was holding on to the shards for everyone. Kagome placed the shard along with the bigger chunk. A soft pink light filled the bottle, when it died down again the fragment had been connected to the rest of the jewel.
That night Kagome and Sango excused themselves from dinner, they walked into the forest and out of hearing-range. Sango pulled out a crumpled piece of paper from her yukata. There it was, the will. The stupid piece of paper that had started all this trouble in the first place.
'They will go to hell with me.'
Sango sighed sadly, how will they ever kill them? Especially since they've become such good friends now…
' I want the Shikon no Tama and "their" heads beside me in my grave.'
That's really scary…who would want their enemies' heads beside them? Well…apparently Naraku…
'Signed,'
"Huh?"
Sango looked at the paper carefully. Where the signature was suppose to be, there was a blotch. Could it be that the ink accidentally got smudged? Or did he never sign at all? Was this…all a plan just for his benefit? Is naraku even dead?
"What…"
Kagome looked over and saw what Sango saw. They were both very confused now, why hadn't they noticed it before? Why didn't Sesshoumaru see it? Kagome reached over to take the will from Sango. She gently placed her hand over the paper. It was completely..dry. And there were no oil stains, water marks…or anything that could smudge it.
"Naraku probably did that while he was signing."
"Yeah, maybe. Afterall there are no such things as pens in this era. All you have are ink and brushes."
Kagome thought back to the time when she brought pens to feudal japan. She had to give an hour's explaination on how they worked. The bunch of pens she brought ended up being left in Sesshoumaru's office. He liked them. A lot. He wouldn't let Kagome leave with with the 'sticks' he insisted that she leave them there. For 'safe' keeping. Agome didn't buy one word of that. But nonetheless she left them there.
After that they shrugged it off, probably accidentally smudged. He had really long sleeves…everyone in the Feudal Era had long sleeves…
The girls walked back to camp to find the guys already getting ready for bed. Actually Miroku was already asleep! Did they really leave for that long? Sango was about to go to her sleeping bag when she saw the problem. Miroku was in it. Sighing Sango laid down against a tree, pretty much like Miroku does very often.
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Morning (Naraku's castle)
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The castle was dark. The only things lighting up the halls were torches and candles. Which gave them a very eerie effect, you couldn't see the other end of the hall until your close to it.
The sun's rays could never get to the castle. In fact the inside of the castle had never felt the warmness of the sun since the original Lord died. Naraku's miasma had been keeping the rays out. Even if there were windows, all you could see outside was the purple-ish shade of the poison vapours.
Kagura was tied up in the basement, she was all chained up and tied against the wall. Opposite her was Naraku, who was smiling. He had been a whole lot happier since Kagura became his 'slave'.
Slowly Kagura's eyes opened as she looked around. Her vision was really blurry. Must have taken in too much poison.
"Where am I? Ohh…I don't feel to well, maybe I should go to my room…"
Kagura tried to move but the chains held her back.
"What?"
The demon's eyesight slowly began to focuse, she started taking in her surroundings. That's when her memory came back, she got captured. By Naraku.
"I see you have woken up. About time too."
"You…you bastard…why did you-"
"and you don't need to know."
Naraku stood and walked out leaving Kagura behind. She could budge, it was as if the metal around her wrists were getting tighter.
"And I wouldn't move if I were you," a voice from the stairs called. " The more you struggle, the tighter they get…until they just snaped you limbs off."
Kagura growled. How was she supposed to get out of this mess now? Only Naraku can let her go…or his little incarnations?
"Kanna!"
Kanna- nothingness! That was her only other option. For that girl to release her! It's not like Naraku can sense her anyways. Kagura remember what the girl had told her.
FLASHBACK"I hate how I can never sense you." Kagura snarled,she was running into this girl way too often these days. It was like as if the little girl was her stalker.
"I was never meant to be 'sensed' by anyone. Even Naraku himself…cannot sense me."
END FLASHBACKMaybe…just maybe… but really. Kagura thought about the girl again. It's as if she enjoyed being slave to that..that guy! So she probably wouldn't let her go…
"What have I done?!?!"
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Inuyasha woke up, his ears were perked up, listening carefully in all directions. Nothing. It was true that he was desperately searching for Naraku. And he always seemed to appear in the early mornings. Watching them, Stalking them. Was there something that he wanted aside from the shards?
It felt like 'Naraku' was appearing more and more often. Maybe the girl would know something? Inuyasha looked down. Sango was up. She was the only other person who got up early like he did. It was kinda nice having company in the mornings.
"Hey! Sango!"
The taijiya looked up from the water, she had been thinking hard about the case. There havn't been many clues. Actually just one and it hardly counted as a clue. And that was the smudged signature.
"Yes?"
"Can I ask you some questions?"
"Oh no! Does he know about my crush too?" Sango stiffened, just a little. Not enough for Inuyasha to notice.
"Yeah, sure."
"Umm…I was wondering…if you knew anyone by the name of Naraku?"
"N-N-Naraku?!"
"Yeah…something wrong?"
"N-No! no! I have never heard of him before!"
"Ookay…no problem…thanks anyways.."
Inuyasha hopped back into the tree, and closed his eyes. Sango let out a deep breath. That was a close one. She couldn't think of anything else! She didn't want to lie to him but what was she supposed to do?
'yeah I know him! Actually me and Kagome are spies who were sent by him! We are here to kill you and collect the shards!'
Sango shook her head. That was the truth. Something that she will remember for the rest of her life.
-End
Oh!! What's this? A new reviewer?! Whoa! Hehe…so hyper. I think I had waaayy too much sugar for today…
Anyhow an early thanks to leeania!!