I really did have to do it, and I must admit I didn't regret it much, if even at all.

"Lord Naraku?"

The spider hanyou turned around and glared maliciously at me. "What?"

"My probes," I said. "They're still –"
"Well, go and get them!" He certainly was an impatient little – well, big – half-demon.

"Yes, my lord." I bowed to him, then looked to Lucia, who stood patiently beside me. "Lucia," I said, and she nodded. We both sunk into the shadows to return to the scene of the battle.

And, oh, what a glorious battle it had been. It had gone exactly how I planned.

When Lucia and I arrived at the scene, Hexias and her so-called friends were still gathered in the center of the clearing. My beautiful Experiment had been defeated, as I had so reluctantly anticipated, and was lying in a pile of rubble near the tree I was hiding behind.
"Hey, Kagome," I heard one of them say. "Who /was/ that?" It must have been that black-haired girl.

"Naraku." That was Hexias. Her voice is so very recognizable. "My arch nemesis, if you will."

"More like arch stalker." That time, the voice was male. I couldn't tell exactly who it was.

"Stalker! Are you serious!"

"Sort of," Hexias told her. "I mean, he's in love with me." By then, I had figured that out. Lord Naraku had been very careful not to injure Hexias when he made his attack.

"Can we leave now? We'll go back to me and Kagome's house." This one didn't have any grammar skills, from what I could tell.

"Yeah, okay." Hexias paused for a moment, then said, "Miyako?"
Miyako asked: "Where the hell is it?"

"Central. 421 Twilight Drive," Hexias said. Miyako then used her teleportation magic – I'm still a little jealous of that ability; I can't teleport – and they all vanished within a flaming tornado. I realized that it resembled my Aeroga Flame almost exactly.

"Now, where could all of my probes have gotten to?" I wondered in speech, emerging from behind the sakura tree. Lucia passed me and nearly dove into the remains of the Experiment. She seemed rather eager to find the probes for me, the dear.

When she returned, she held six probes in her arms, and I saw one looking completely destroyed on the ground beside her. I scowled.

"They saw one," Lucia said calmly. She walked past me again and started to disappear into the ground in a pool of liquid shadow, without my command. She was acting very strangely, and it wasn't pleasing me at all. Feeling a tad frustrated, I followed Lucia, determined now to find out what was causing her behavioral problem.

Then it hit me that the only possibility was Lord Naraku. He was controlling her, as he did to so many others… I wasn't sure of it, of course, but I thought it to be the most likely possibility. And so I felt a strong need to defy him, or at least act by my own free will. I headed for Hexias's house, the location of which was given to me by Unit-04 and Unit-05. Unit-06 had been mutilated.