Creatures of the Night

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A Town with a Secret

One of the villagers leaded the gang to the middle of the town, where stood a very large shrine. It was a lot bigger than Kagome's home and it had tons of servants about. The one thing that caught her eye though was a torn flag, hanging above the very top of it. She squinted to try and see what was on it but she was to far away to get a good look.

As they entered, the servants greeted them gratefully and bowed as they walked by. None of them were ever treated this way before and it was kind of uneasy for them as they continued a long the path.

As they reached the door of the shrine, the villager turned towards them. "I'm sorry but this is where I leave you. Go inside and a servant will lead you to the leaders domain," said the man. He bowed and ran back to his home.

The group looked at the door and looked at each other with reassurance that everything should go smoothly and with that, they pushed the door open. Inside of the shrine was absolutely amazing. There were paintings on the ceiling and there were sculptures everywhere from the eye can see. It also seemed that the walls were made out of some kind of smooth material for it shone their reflections in the wall. In front of them stood a girl who looked about sixteen and wore a purple kimono, smiling happily at them and Miroku smiled back.

She bowed. "Hello, my name is Akadori," she said happily.

Kagome bowed back. "Hi, my name is Kagome. That is Sango the demon slayer, Miroku the monk, Inuyasha and this little guy, is Shippo," said Kagome and pointed everyone as she said their names.

"Nice to meet you all," said Akadori and bowed again. "May I ask what is that you wish?"

"Yes, we would like to see the leader of the town," said Kagome with a serous tone.

"Oh! Well, alright. Should have guessed that would be the case," she said rubbing the back of her head. "Um, follow me," she said happily and started to walk through the corridor. Kagome started to laugh.

Inuyasha looked at her with a confused expression and asked. "What's with you? Why are you laughing?"

"It's that she just so happy, I found it cute," said Kagome and smiled at him after she was done laughing.

"I think she's annoying. If she stays that way, sooner or later she'll die," he said arrogantly

"Inuyasha! Don't say that!" yelled Kagome angrily. Inuyasha rolled his eyes and did his usual "feh".

Up ahead, Miroku decides to talk to Akadori 'cough, pervert, cough'.

"So Akadori, how long have you been here?' he asked, acting innocent.

"I've been here almost all my life, but I don't mind it. My master is very nice and caring," she said and looked at him with questioning. "How come you travel with them, isn't your duty to stay in one village and teach?"

"Well, yes and no. You see, my great grandfather was cursed by this horrid demon named Naraku and he put a black hole in his hand," he continued. "And if he could not destroy him, he would one day be sucked up by it. Sadly, every male in my family has the same curse, until Naraku is defeated I will probably get sucked up," he said mournfully and watching Akadori's sad expression.

"Is there anything, anyone could do to help," she asked kindly.

Miroku finding his chance, he grabbed her hands and made her stop walking. Everyone watched as they knew what would happen next.

"There is something you could do," he said giving a pitiful look. "Will you bear me a child?"

"Eh?" Akadori was confused on what he just asked her to do and stared at him blankly. She had no idea what to do but luckily for her, Sango quickly came to her rescue.

"Hentai!" she yelled angrily and hit him with her boomerang. As it made contact with Miroku's head, it made a long echoing crack. He collapsed to the ground.

Akadori gasped and asked. "Is he…is he dead?"

"No he isn't sadly," said Sango taking her boomerang out of his head. "He seems to always survive when I hit him"

Akadori looked at her shocked and then looked back down at the twitching lump Miroku. She then looked at Kagome and Inuyasha to see if what Sango said was true, both of them nodded their heads yes (Inuyasha didn't really nod his head yes, it was more of a grunt). She relaxed and smiled again.

"That's good but will he wake soon because I don't think I can wait all day," she said and started to rock side to side impatiently.

"I can wake him up!" said Shippo finally speaking up. The gang looked at him with confusement.

Shippo ran up to Miroku and disappeared with a pop and was replaced by Sango. He leaned near Miroku and whispered something in his ears that neither Sango nor Kagome could her but Inuyasha was turning very red in the face for his sensitive dog ears could hear every word.

Miroku bolted right up and hugged Shippo tightly. "Oh, Sango I knew you would change your mind and bear me a child!" Miroku said happily but heard a large pop. He looked at who was in his arms and it was Shippo. "I knew it was too good to be true," he started to weep a little and Sango was giving off glares at Shippo.

"Well, he's awake now, let us go!" said Akadori and started to walk down the hall. Sango stopped giving glares to Shippo and Miroku stopped his weeping and followed.

After a few more minutes of walking, the gang was finally at the door where the leader of the village was supposed to be. Akadori pushed the door open and revealed a huge room. It had the same smooth material as the hallway did but it looked far more beautiful with the painting on the ceiling. The painting had five different towns and each one showed a glorious creature above them and in the middle stood a moon and a sun, it was enchanting

"Quite marvelous isn't it?"

The group tore their eyes from the painting to see who had spoken. It was a woman wearing a red kimono and had hoop earrings dangling from her ears. She was also looking up at the painting too, scanning it with her sky blue eyes.

She looked down at the gang and smiled. "Let me introduce myself, I am Hitomi Kazumi, leader of this village," she bowed politely and Sango, Kagome and Miroku did the same.

"Well, my job here is done, I shall wait outside the door until you are done," said Akadori and bowed to her master and left, closing the door behind her.

"Happy girl isn't she?" said Hitomi staring at the door.

"More like, easy prey," mumbled Inuyasha and Kagome gave him a glare.

"True, she would be easy prey," said Hitomi. Inuyasha had a look of surprise over his face. She turned to the gang. "So what brings you to me?" she asked politely.

Kagome spoke. "Well, Lady Kazumi-"

"Please call me Hitomi," said Hitomi, interrupting Kagome.

"Oh, okay, Hitomi," said Kagome. "We are in search for shards of the Shikon jewel and we heard a rumor that there might be one here," said Kagome nervously. "Have any of the villagers acting strangely lately?" question Kagome.

"No, no has"

"How about weird monsters?" asked Kagome questionably.

Hitomi flinched. She took a deep breath but made sure that the gang could not hear and shook her head no quickly.

Kagome was staring at her intently wondering why she had flinched at the word monster. She passed the thought away for now and she will think about it later.

"Since you say there are no jewels shards here, can we at least rest here for a couple days?" asked Kagome kindly, pleading with her eyes.

Hitomi gazed over each one of the gang and noticed that they all looked like they could use a warm bed and decided it would be okay, as long as they only stayed for a couple days.

"Alright, you may stay in my shrine for shelter and food but make sure you back here before sunset," said Hitomi anxiously with a bit of worry on her face.

"How come we have to be here before sunset?" asked Kagome with a puzzled look.

"For dinner of course," she said quickly. "Now go on and see the village! Your rooms will be ready for you when you get back"

As the gang headed out the door, Sango noticed that Akadori was not outside the door waiting for them and was wondering why but her thoughts were jerked away when she felt a hand caressing her butt. Sango gave him her usual trademark slap and the gang headed out the doors of the shrine, into the wondrous village.

They split up into pairs so none of them would get lost, but the real reason was so that someone would keep an eye on Miroku and he's hand. Kagome went with Inuyasha and Sango, Miroku, Shippo and Kirara went their separate ways. They promised to meet each other back at the shrine before sunset.

The first thing Kagome wanted to do was find the little girl who found the Shikon jewel and thank her so Kagome asked many of the villagers where she lived but all their replies were the same, "There is no silver haired girl who lives in this town". Confused Kagome walked along holding the Shikon jewel staring at it while Inuyasha walked in front of her.

Inuyasha stopped walking Kagome bumped into him. "Ow, Inuyasha why did you-"

Kagome immediately stopped talking at what she saw before her. It was a house but it was majorly destroyed. It had huge slash marks on it and wood broken in places. It looked like a total wreck but what caught Kagome's eye was that there seemed to be dry blood on the half broken door.

"Inuyasha, what happened here?" asked Kagome staring mindlessly at the door.

"I don't know but something weird is going on here and it might involve Naraku," said Inuyasha, his face was very stern.

Kagome took a step closer at the house and noticed where they were. They were no longer in the main street where the markets were, they were now in a dark pathway. Kagome looked around more and saw that there were more houses just like this one, some were worse though.

"Inuyasha, what could have done so much damage like this?" asked Kagome staring at Inuyasha with sadness in her eyes.

"Probably one of Naraku's minion or a rogue demon," said Inuyasha calmly. Inuyasha looked around to and Inuyasha's face fell at one site. He hurriedly went over to pile of woods and started to move it. Kagome watched him and soon she saw a woman's face but she seemed to be badly injured. Her face was slashed up and soon Kagome saw the rest of her stomach squirming from just the look of her. Her body was almost torn in two, hanging only by a bit of muscle. Her organs were showing practically pouring out as Inuyasha moved her.

"She's been dead for about three days," said Inuyasha and quickly covered his nose. "Her smell is horrid. Humans shouldn't smell this way at all after their dead"

Kagome sniffed and soon she wished hadn't. Her smell was horrible, Kagome felt her eyes start to cry and felt like her nose was on fire. Kagome's stomach could no longer take it and Kagome swiftly went behind a few pieces of a house that was still standing. As Kagome finished emptying her lunch from her stomach she headed towards Inuyasha, covering her nose with her hand.

"Inuyasha we should go back, it's almost sunset, plus I can't take the smell anymore," said Kagome weakly and no sooner as she said that her knees collapsed beneath her.

Inuyasha ran over to Kagome quickly. "Are you alright," he asked worriedly and Kagome nodded her no. "Can you stand?" he asked.

"No, I can't," said Kagome trying to move her legs but they were stiff as a bored.

Inuyasha knelt down and picked up Kagome. "I have to carry you back since your so weak to move," said Inuyasha arrogantly but was really worried. Kagome nodded her okay and put her head on his back.

Inuyasha went ran quickly back to the shrine with Kagome riding his back.

'I got a lot of questions for Hitomi,' thought Inuyasha and ran faster.

To be continued…

Whew, man, I finally finished this chapter it took me forever to do. My hands all cramped up from typing so much. Anyways, I hope you guys liked the gore I put in, original that wasn't the plan but I guess my plan changed a bit. Please review and I promise to put up the next chapter soon! Adios!