1N/A: Not much to say, here's the next chapter.
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha, stupid guards, in the way, I will steal that copyright, someday. Also some of the ideas in this story, and part of certain concepts parody parts of the game Otogi which I do not own, but the terms I put them in are fairly public domain, so ha!
Chapter 16: Hakaisha (destroyer)
"Time for this game to end." Naraku spoke as he summoned the power of the jewel.
"Die." He said, but before he could complete his attack, the Shikon pulsed, and it cracked, and strange roots grew out of the black jewel, they spread through Naraku's body, and pierced through his skin and became thorns.
"What is this?" Naraku Spokes as his body became fodder for the jewel. A voice came from the jewel.
"Foolish Naraku, did you truly think that you held any power at all? Now you will become my vessel, until I discover my original body." The feminine voice spoke, as Naraku was enveloped into the blackness of the jewel, and melted away. Then a massive red light spouted out of the orb, and flew into the sky.
"She if free... Nanashi..." Kenmei spoke with his last breath, and died against the tree.
The light faded from the morning sky, and the sun shone on the destroyed battle field.
"Did we win?" Kagome asked, as she walked by Inuyasha and looked as where Naraku had died.
"Guess so, but what was that light?" Inuyasha answered, as he sheathed Tetsusaiga. Keade walked over to them.
"Is everyone fine? Need ye any bandages?" She spoke.
"What about that priest? He got a direct hit from Naraku." Inuyasha said.
"He's dead, he died after the red light disappeared." Sesshomaru spoke as he walked away towards Kagura in his void of care voice. Kaede nodded, and walked over to Kenmei's body lying against the tree.
"Poor child." Kaede said, as she took the cover off her hoarse and covered his body.
"He said something before he died, what was it?" Miroku asked.
"He said... she is free... Nanashi." Kanna spoke as she stepped closer to the body.
"Look." Kanna pointed to a scroll next to Kenmei's body.
"What is this?" Kaede spoke as she lifted to scroll from the ground, it was bound with a silver chain, with a small coin with a square hole in the middle.
"This is a seal." Kaede said as she broke the chains and removed the seal, but as soon as she did a blue light enveloped them all, they were transported to somewhere else, the blue light faded, and they were standing on stone steps on the side of a tree-covered mountain.
"Where are we?" Kagome asked. They looked up the stone stairway, it was night and the lights of the stone lamps that were on both sides of the steps.
"This is the legend of the first court of Japan." A voice behind them all spoke. All turned around to see Kenmei standing on the steps.
"What? How?" Kagome asked wondering so many things at once.
"This is the world of a story, a legend of the most powerful demon who will ever exist."
"I see the power of the scroll pulled us into another realm." Said Kaede.
"Yes, follow me, you all need to see with your own eyes." Kenmei said as he walked up the path, they followed, and as they reached the end of the path a huge stone door came into view, it was covered with many slips of paper, and sacred ropes bound it closed.
"What is this?" Inuyasha asked as Kenmei approached the door, he cast one of his seals to the door and the seals burned away, and the great stone door slowly opened.
"The gates of hell." Kenmei said as he waled through the stone archway into the darkness of the mountain.
"I hope he was joking..." Shippo said, being squeezed by a panicked Kagome. They entered the mountain into a large stone cave, it lead down deep into the mountain like a hallway, and many ghost-lights filled the tunnel with light. And there were many red archway supporting the cavern, winding their way down the abyss.
"Restless souls." Miroku warned as they continued the sojourn into the void. They eventually reached a massive enclosure with a shrine built into the stone.
"This is the nameless shrine, it is forbidden, few know of it's existence, fewer have walked these halls." Kenmei spoke, as he sat on the steps of the shrine.
"Why are we here." Sango piped up from her silence.
"You need to see the mistakes of the first court of japan, and to hear the predictions of empress Himiko, the queen the prevented destruction." Kenmei finished as the room filled with light, and the only thing anyone could see was each other.
"It all started after the first emperor, Jimmu-Tenno brought culture to Japan, to rule he constructed a court of nine counselors, but the men were corrupted, and sought to create an ultimate weapon of annihilation, deemed Nanashi." Kenmei spoke as the light swirled around them and became figures, of nine ningen(humans) standing in a circle, standing in the center was a shapeless form, the men began chanting, as the figure began to take shape, she was dressed in a kimono, the kimono had many layers three of which hung off her shoulders, the other four wrapped tightly around her body, and they went down and stopped above her knees like Kagome's skirt, the sleeves went down to her feet. She had long hair, with nine hairpins sticking out in every direction, behind her, was a circular stone with a eight pointed cross in the middle whose points went past the circle, to from spike-like ends.
"Is that her?" Miroku asked.
"Yes, she is the combination of many kami, and youkai, her powers comes from the Shikon, and she was absolute, not even the emperor could vanquish her, so he went to his grandmother, Amaterasu, goddess of the sun, and divine guardian of Japan, Amaterasu summoned nine Kami, that had great power, but even they were powerless before Nanashi." The lights swirled again, showing the power, of the demon goddess, fending off the great kami, of those one familiar, Suijin, holding the trident of Amakoi, using her power to defeat Nanashi, but to no avail, she was defeated.
"Her power was truly terrible, but then she came The priestess Midoriko..." The lights revealed the priestess.
"Amaterasu gave her the sacred objects, the mirror, the sword, and the beads. With these holy objects, and her power to purify Nanashi's power, she defeated her, but Nanashi abandoned her body and possessed Midoriko, with the last bit of holiness she had in her, Midoriko cast both of their souls out as other demons who were under Nanashi's control devoured her, but the unleashing of the two souls, created the Shikon no tama, and it's light ended the battle, destroying all of the demons." The light shifted to the cave where midoriko's body still stood, with the demons wrapped around her, binding her body even in death.
"This place is where the surviving humans sealed her body, and those were my ancestors, the Onmyoji clan, we have been holding this burden for centuries, protecting these grounds from those who wish for her power." Kenmei stood, and the lights faded, revealing the shrine once again, Kenmei opened the doors, and led them into the jinja. In the back behind the altar, was a door.
"Follow me." Kenmei said as Kenmei walked into the door, the others followed, it led down into the darkness, they walked downward, down a long set of stairs, through many of the red torii shrine gates, with no light, beside the lights of the dead spirits. They were led through another door into a brightly lit room with floors and walls of wood, the lamps the hung from the ceiling were arranged in rows and lines, leading to a large wood door with many seals stuck to it, even more then the first door, once again Kenmei dispelled the magic and walked through, in to a another large stone room, but is was filled with water like a huge underground lake, from the door a wooden bridge led into the center of the lake there was a large ring platform, with five sub platforms around it. Kenmei walked to the end and turned, to everyone.
"This is the grave site, this is where my clan sealed away the most formidable demons and spirits." Kenmei looked down into the murky water, the others looked too, and there were hundreds of thousands of sacred stones, each tied with sacred ropes, suddenly five wheels tied to the five sub platforms began turning bringing up ropes from the water, and bubbles began to erupt from under the waters as a center platform raised up to the surface in the middle of the ring platform, and on it was a massive rock tied with many ropes, Kenmei approached it and the it's many ropes snapped, and fell into the water, the stone began cracking, as fragments fell into the water and crumbled into dust, to reaveal the frozen body of Nanashi.
"Now to tell you the rest, after the defeat of Nanashi, the next empress Himiko, predicted this..."a shadow bourne from a one who lusted holiness, will die and be bourn four more times, on it's final departure he shall devour the four souls and unleash one who was sealed." this prediction is flawed, on one knew what it meant but our family knew it was about the Shikon jewel, what we did not know was if Nanashi or Midoriko would be the one to return, so we assumed the worst and kept track of the location of the Shikon No Tama, when the priestess Kikyo died and dragged the jewel to Jigoku with her we were over joyed, were too were freed from the responsibility of the Shikon No Tama." Kenmei turned to the body of Nanashi.
"You must do this to stop her, you must find the nine kami and ask for their help, each will give you part of a sacred spell that will banish Nanashi into Jigoku." Kenmei spoke as the light returned and he faded away.
"Go to my shrine pray to Kokoro and she will grant you the first kanji of the spell." Kenmei said as the light faded. They were back in the field, his body, and the scroll was gone, nowhere to be found, but then a white bird flew over head, and flew off in the direction of the shrine. Everyone was silent, their days of peace would not last much longer.
(Scene change)
"I am free, and look at all these wonderful demon spirits I've collected." A shadowy figure spoke as it admired all the fake jewels it had created.
"Lets see Kaguya, Naraku, Hyoga, what other powerful demon spirits can I collect next?"
A/N: how did you like this chapter? I know, slightly boring with all those long paragraphs, I'll try to update soon.
But Anyone, I need ideas for omake! Pretty much anything will do, keep it pg-13 (iv'e had no good ideas for omake so please help)