A/N: not musch to say here you go!
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Also I will be starting some new fics, soon I hope, but I will put new fics summaries in my bio when I post them.
Chapter 14: Aku (evil)
The castle was empty, no one was there even the villages were abandoned, and the few too old to leave stayed at their homes and prayed, it was the day of the opening, when the yuurei, spirits of the dead, walked the earth, the day that both demons and humans revered. Rin and Sesshomaru rode on the back of Ah-Un, they were traveling to the closest shrine to wait out the day, and that happened to be the shrine of Kokoro, and Kagura was sure that the old shrine was still falling apart from the battle with Naraku, she would just wait and see how things would pan out.
"Yay were here!" Rin said, as she jumped from Ah-Un.
"Jaken-sama! Hurry up!" The small girl said dragging both Kanna, and the small imp through the shrine gates. There they washed their hands to respect the ground holiness.
"Guess we follow." Kagura said as she finished washing her hands, then, stepped forward, she was wearing a white kimono with feathers decorating the hems, with three large ones, arranged in a circle with the kanji for 'wind' on the back.
"................"
Kagura and Sesshomaru proceeded to the central shrine where most people were not allowed, it was pretty much empty, only a few miko (tachi) sweeping the shrine. The main hall was . . . gone and only a few stacks of wood remained, there was a sign that said 'to worship halls'. As they entered the other worship hall, they found Kenmei in front of a fire, he held a wood pole with paper streamers at the top, he was waving it around chanting a purification spell.
"Evil I banish thee, begone, depart from this world and find peace, go now and never return." Kenmei spoke as he waved the pole above the fire. There were others there behind him two lower priests, and four lower priestesses, there were also some other high ranking officials praying (all of them demons like Sesshomaru). Kenmei looked back and saw Sesshomaru and Kagura. He looked over to the junior priestess, who then handed Sesshomaru prayer beads, then went over to Kagura.
"Thanks." Kagura sat down and watched what the others were doing. This continued on for the next few hours, and when the prayers were over, it was almost sundown. Most at the shrine had left, but Sesshomaru decided to remain at the shrine for the night, for Rin (and Jaken) were sleeping, Kagura sat on the roof of the shrine and looked at the moon, while Sesshomaru sat and watched Rin, Kanna was awake too, looking into her mirror spying on Kagura.
"Huh...guess I really am free." Kagura spoke as she looked up at the moon, it was blue, a rare color, especially for Autumn.
"Aughhhhga!!!" Kagura heard, and a massive demon crept from the side of the mountain, it has a head similar to a long-dead cobra, its body had two legs and six arms, each with three large claws. It came toward the shrine but was blocked by the kekkai, it began swiping it's claws at the barrier, the wall was holding up but shaking under the power of the demon, Sesshomaru, and the rest of the clergy of the shrine came, to the side of the kakkai, the demon broke the wall, and jumped through, it stood now, only looking down upon all that would now appose it. Kenmei ran to the front of the clergy of the shrine.
"Everyone... Now!" Kenmei said as the other threw sacred ropes at the monster, the ropes flew at the beast and tied around it's body.
"Aghhhhh!" The demon screeched in pain, as the ropes burned it skin. It began pulling at the ropes. The priests and priestesses tried to hold the ropes but the demon broke free. It prepared, it drew air into it's mouth, the clergy began running, and Kenmei created a new Kekkai, the monster let loose a horrible roar, Kenmei's barrier was not strong enough to hold the roar's power back and shattered the shards, of the barrier flew and cut Kenmei, like snow does to trees in the winter, he fell to the ground, blood dripping from the cuts. One of the priestesses came and helped Kenmei stand they ran over to Kagura and Sesshomaru.
"Hurry, kill it, that is a demon created by the emotions of the yuurei from dead demons, if you kill it the spirits will be freed."
"Gladly." Kagura said. She stepped forward, readied her fan...
"Dance of blades." She said calmly, as the sharp cutters flew at the monster, the only glanced it and the marks that were left behind quickly healed.
"What's wrong? Those blades should have done more damage." Kagura said as she jumped out of the way of it's claws, it was fast for it's gigantic size, but it only continued it's advance on the shrine. Sesshomaru unsheathed Tokijin and struck the beast on the arm but the wound healed once again. Sesshomaru leapt up and rammed Tokijin into it'd forehead, the demon shook and collapsed onto the ground.
"It's over?" Kenmei said.
"How could such a powerful demon be brought down by a strike like that?" Sesshomaru walked over to the demon to retrieve Tokijin, but when he approached his sword, the demon absorbed it into it's body, the monster stood up with the hilt of Tokijin poking out of it's head.
"Thank you, you have given me a new body." The demon spoke in a distorted voice, Kanna came out of the building, she held up her mirror to the monster, the image in the mirror was not the gigantic demon but...
"Naraku...."
A/N: How did you like it? Linkmaster I will try to use your request, but I am hesitant to kill anyone right now in the story, but you will be surprised next chapter, also about the Sesshomaru emotion thing you wanted that probably going to be the hardest thing to write, it's to ooc but I will work out something, but through this story I tried to make it seem that Sesshomaru will 'tolerate' Inuyasha, like he does Jaken, I will be sure that I use at least part of your request, but if I did it would interfere with my original plans for this story, and you wouldn't want me to end this story in a couple chapters would you? There still a lot I have to dish out, and even more to resolve.