Chapter Eight: what naraku wants

Standard disclaimer: me no own IY but Kasandra is mine!

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Last Time:

Kasandra walks back to the hut by herself her mind preoccupied (O.o) with her "beautiful killer" so she doesn't register the blood red eyes watching her. Kagura turns tail and goes back to Naraku telling him what she had seen and heard about this new demoness...

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This Time:

Kagura reports to Naraku, watching his face carefully. Secretly she begins to hope that this new demoness would help her gain her freedom. Naraku all but gurgles, 'this demoness will be mine.' Naraku dismisses Kagura and calls Kanna to him. The albino incarnation comes silently and holds up the mirror for Naraku to watch Kasandra in. Naraku watches her intently and creates another puppet to go with Kagura to test this new demoness' abilities.

Kagura meanwhile looks down at the shard in her hand which had all but fallen in her lap. She smirks but does not question where it came from, she can feel the power radiating off it so she knows it's authentic. She tucks it into her obi inside her fan so Naraku would not sense it. She heads out knowing already what was required of her. Kasandra meanwhile is talking to kaede about medicinal herbs in the future and promising to bring some back for the elderly miko.

Before long she smells the sickening scent of miasma. She is suddenly glad that she had sent Kagome with InuYasha so that there was no one she really needed to worry about here. She rises and says she'll be right back. Kasandra stalks out her tail bristled at the sickening scent. Before long Kagura and the puppet appear before her. Kasandra snarls and immediately reaches for her fans but to her immense suprise Kagura shakes her head 'no' so she reaches for her sword and once again gets that same response so she runs at the puppet claws extended.

As she rips through it she feels Kagura slide closer as if to attack her from behind. Now as far as Kasandra could see Kagura was a long distance fighter so the notion of Kagura trying to fight her hand to hand suprises her. within moments she feels something get pressed into her hand and Kagura's presence fades. Kasandra looks a bit perplexed and thankfully Naraku thought it was because of the puppet.

After a few more short moments Naraku stops watching her and she glances down at her hand. shock rocks through her body as she sees a nearly pink shard and a small feather in her hand. Noding she tucks the feather into her hair, much like she had seen in Kagura's hair, and closes her hand around the shard. Smiling she walks back into the hut and to her suprise Kagome and InuYasha had returned during her absence.

InuYasha sniffs and growls, "why do you smell like Naraku!" Kasandra just arcs a brow, "A puppet was near here with the wind witch from earlier." Everyone jumps up hearing this but she gestures them back down, "I do not believe this witch is your enemy." InuYasha huffs, "What makes you so sure? You haven't been here longer then six hours yet." Kas sighs and turns to Kagome, "Open your hand."

Kagome does so and Kas drops a nearly pure shard into it, "Because baka she pressed this into my hand while I destroyed the puppet. she also pressed a feather into my hand with it." Kagome looks at the purified shard in awe, "She had this and it wasn't black?" Kas shakes her head, "Nope as a matter of fact I think it only darkened from being in contact with the miasma and her youki." Kagome shakes her head as if she couldn't believe it but then sides with Kas.

"Inu-kun if this shard was in her posession then she has no true darkness in her. the shards would not have been so clear if so. Also think about it if she was truely evil Naraku would have this shard as well. but she risked her life to give it to us." Kasandra nods. "Yes and I believe she needs rescuing, her aura screamed of sadness and need. I believe she's being held against her will by this Naraku person."

It's Kagome's turn to nod, "Yes Naraku holds her heart and her younger sister Kanna's heart. if they disobey him they could very well be killed. all he'd have to do is squeeze the hearts." Kas begins growling softly at this bit of information...

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Gomen nasai this is very short but hey at least it's an update. Caoi ppl.