Disclaimer: I don't own them. But I DO own the orbs of the 10 dragons, and the 10 dragons themselves! And the curse…yeah…I also own Naraku's new incarnation!
Summary: While battling Naraku, Inuyasha gets cursed and turns into a………WHAT!? Can Kagome get him back to normal? Or will fate say no to love?
Pairings: Inu/Kag Mir/San Sess/Rin
A/N: In this chapter, Sessy and Rin will be in it! That's why I have added a new pairing, you see. Sess will meet up with Kag and the others later, like, in the next chapter, or the one after that….yeah…
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Chapter 3
The wind blew through the field of grass, the sun giving off the light of a new day. On the hill stood the lord of the Western Lands.
'Hmmm…I can smell Inuyasha's blood in the wind…' Sesshomaru thought. 'Strange. It is somewhat different. Inuyasha's blood smells like it was many years ago. How can that be?'
"Lord Sesshomaru!" called a young voice. Sesshomaru turned to see a young human girl running towards him.
"Yes, Rin? What is it?" asked Sesshomaru.
When the girl finally reached him, she stopped for a few moments to catch her breath before answering. "Jaken is being mean to me!" she said in her most innocent way, making it look like she were to cry (FAKE CRY! Not reality…). "He said that I had a bee…..feeble mind, and that I'm a weak m…ma…mortal!" Rin explained.
"He did, did he?" Sesshomaru said. "Jaken! Get over here!" Sesshomaru called.
"Yes, milord?" Jaken answered, walking up and over the hill to his master. "Uh, you called?"
"Yes. Is it true that you were making fun of Rin?"
"Well, somewhat. I wouldn't say that it was 'making fun of', but I will say that I was setting the girl strai-" Jaken did not finish his sentence, as Sesshomaru had kicked him over the hill, causing him to go crashing into the river at the bottom.
"Rin, you may go play now." Sesshomaru ordered.
"Alright, Sessy-chan!" Rin exclaimed as she bounded off towards the river to fetch Jaken.
'Sessy-chan…how odd.' Sesshomaru thought. 'I'm having a feeling I've never felt in my life. It's been happening ever since Rin decided to follow me. Hmph. I never thought that I would ever befriend a human…' Sesshomaru made an odd face. 'Befriended? Would I, the great lord of the Western Lands, a full-blooded demon, sink so low as to befriend a mortal girl? Heh. Maybe. But then again, maybe she's more dear to me than a loyal companion…'
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"Alright! Everyone ready to go?" asked Kagome.
"Uh, Kagome? Where are we going?" asked Inuyasha, walking out of the hut.
"We're going on a trip to see if we can turn you back to normal!" Kagome answered, forgetting that Inuyasha was asleep when they talked about their little 'plan'.
"Uhhh…..what do you mean 'turn me back to normal'?" asked Inuyasha, doing that confused blinking again (Man, I just LUV confused blinking!).
"Well, let's just say that a couple days ago, you were really, really good friends with us! Now, we're gonna get you to remember us again!" Kagome stated. 'Well, that's partially false, and also partially true…'
"Oh. Okay, I guess!" Inuyasha brightened up, and helped Kagome pack her backpack with all her supplies.
"Kagome, you ready?" asked Sango.
Kagome nodded.
"Then let's get going," Miroku suggested, walking out of the hut.
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In the bushes, Kagura was spying on them. And with Inuyasha so young, he wouldn't even know what her scent would be.
Perfect.
'This is so boring. Walk, walk, walk, walk, and walk.' Kagura thought back to what Naraku's plan was.
---FLASHBACK---
Naraku had come back from a long journey across Japan. He was holding a glass container full of a white liquid.
"Kagura, come here." Naraku ordered. Kagura obeyed and walked over. Naraku showed her the bottle. "This is the blood of Taimu, the dragon of time. I had to travel a long while to finally reach him, defeat him, and take a sample of it. I have a plan, but it includes you. Are you ready?" he asked.
"Tch." Kagura only nodded.
"Good." Naraku replied, and started to add some sort of red plants into the bottle. "I am going to make a gas. A poisonous gas that will make the victim reverse age. I will use it on Inuyasha. When I tell you, go and make sure you capture him, and only him. Meanwhile, my new incarnation will distract the other members. Got it?" he asked.
Kagura only nodded again, knowing it was a death-wish to debate.
"Good, now get out of my sight." Naraku ordered. Kagura stood and left quietly, wishing she could just chop off his head and be free.
---END FLASHBACK---
'If I don't complete this task, Naraku will surely kill me. Then my desires of becoming free will be all for nothing. I can't fail…' Kagura thought before sneaking along the gang's path.
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"Lord Sessy-chan!" Rin called, running over to Sesshomaru with Ah and Uhn (I don't know how to spell their names, so I'll just leave it at that!).
"Pathetic human! Do not call Lord Sesshomaru by that repulsive name!" Jaken shouted, clubbing Rin on the head with the Staff of Heads. "I think it a disgrace to even keep you he-" once again, Jaken did not finish his sentence because Sesshomaru kicked him down the hill again.
"He hit me!" Rin complained, showing the lump on her head.
"Don't worry. If he does anything to you again, let me know, and I'll make sure he'll get a punishment." Sesshomaru reassured.
"Okay!" Rin said, smiling. She then continued, "I'm just wondering, where are you going?"
"I'm going on a little journey. Stay here with Ah and Uhn, and tell Jaken not to do anything bad to you, or he'll be severely punished." Sesshomaru informed before leaving.
"JAKEN!" Rin called, running down the hill. "Sessy-chan's gone on a journey! And he says that if you hurt me in any way, shape, or form, he'll se-ver-e-ly punish you!" Rin said, saying each syllable of 'severely' carefully as to not mispronounce it.
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Kagome and the gang had been walking for about 3 hours, making their way across the so-called 'path', that didn't even have a dirt road.
"Myoga, are you SURE that this is the right way?" Kagome asked. "I mean, I haven't seen a single dirt road in 2 hours already!"
"Yes, I'm quite sure! The dragons made sure that barely anyone would be able to find their locations." Myoga explained. "So of course, they would guard their treasures far away from civilization."
Sango was just about to add to the conversation when a large explosion was heard nearby. The gang rushed over to find a huge crater-like depression in the earth, with a woman in the center of it. You could tell from just looking at her that she wasn't human.
"Who are you?" asked Miroku.
"My name is Koto," the woman replied. She had aqua-blue hair that reached her waist. She wore a light blue kimono in the same fashion as Kagura's, minus the purple stripes. She had a blue gem in her forehead, icy pale green eyes, and blue lipstick on.
Shippo sniffed the air. "She smells a lot like Naraku, too!" Shippo exclaimed.
"That must mean that you're an incarnation of him!" Sango said.
"That is correct. I have been ordered by Naraku to come and steal our jewel fragments!" Koto's voice grew as she launched a huge cyclone of water from the palms of her hands. Everyone just barely dodged it.
"Inuyasha! Get away from here!" Kagome shouted as the water cyclone hit and knocked over a couple of trees.
"Uh, right!" Inuyasha looked around, and decided to head to the forest.
He crouched down and looked around, searching for a bush or large rock to duck behind. While he had his back turned to the forest, 2 hands shot out. One went around his mouth, the other dragged him into the forest.
Kagome and the others were continually being shot at by Koto.
"I suspect that she must be a master of water!" Miroku shouted as the cyclone hit another wave of earth.
"HIRAIKOTSU!" Sango shouted, launching her boomerang. It missed, hitting the earth next to her.
Koto was launching more cyclones, but Kagome launched an arrow, and the cyclones dispersed into nothing but water drops.
"Hm. My time here seems to be up. But we shall meet again, don't you worry about that." Kota said. As soon as she finished, she was engulfed by a tornado of water, and was gone.
"Well, that was certainly interesting." Miroku said, crawling out from his hiding place, practically soaking wet.
"I'll say." Sango added, helping Miroku stand up. Both turned when they heard Kagome gasp.
Kagome was searching around frantically.
"What's wrong?" Sango, Miroku, and Shippo asked at the same time.
"I…I can't find Inuyasha!" Kagome answered, fear totally clear in her voice.
"Huh!?" Sango immediately ran over to help search. "Inuyasha wouldn't have just walked off, do you think?"
"That doesn't seem like Inuyasha's behavior…" Miroku answered.
"Hmmm….this may not be good." Myoga said, jumping from Kirara's fur to Kagome's shoulder.
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Koto and Kagura tossed a frightened Inuyasha onto the floor.
"Ow!" Inuyasha murmured when he hit the ground. He looked up to see a pair of red eyes staring at him, sending a chill up his spine.
"Naraku, we've brought you the boy. Just like you ordered us to." Kagura said.
"Good. Now leave." Naraku ordered. The two women did so.
"Who….who are you?" asked Inuyasha, backing up into the wall.
"Heheheh…my name is Naraku." Naraku replied.
"N-Naraku? Hey wait, I think I remember Myoga saying that name before. Yeah, earlier, he mentioned the name, 'Naraku'…" Inuyasha said. "Do you two know each other?" he asked.
"Well, you could say that." Naraku said, taking a step closer. "But let's just say that we're on opposite sides."
"……" Inuyasha was so scared that he couldn't move at all. He covered his head with his hands and started to whimper.
"Eheheheheheheheheheh…." Naraku continued to chuckle. The amount of fear around the young hanyou amusing him. By the time he was within a foot of him, he was trembling. 'Time to make him mine…' he thought, reaching into his kimono thingy and pulling out…
TO BE CONTINUED……
Summary: While battling Naraku, Inuyasha gets cursed and turns into a………WHAT!? Can Kagome get him back to normal? Or will fate say no to love?
Pairings: Inu/Kag Mir/San Sess/Rin
A/N: In this chapter, Sessy and Rin will be in it! That's why I have added a new pairing, you see. Sess will meet up with Kag and the others later, like, in the next chapter, or the one after that….yeah…
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Chapter 3
The wind blew through the field of grass, the sun giving off the light of a new day. On the hill stood the lord of the Western Lands.
'Hmmm…I can smell Inuyasha's blood in the wind…' Sesshomaru thought. 'Strange. It is somewhat different. Inuyasha's blood smells like it was many years ago. How can that be?'
"Lord Sesshomaru!" called a young voice. Sesshomaru turned to see a young human girl running towards him.
"Yes, Rin? What is it?" asked Sesshomaru.
When the girl finally reached him, she stopped for a few moments to catch her breath before answering. "Jaken is being mean to me!" she said in her most innocent way, making it look like she were to cry (FAKE CRY! Not reality…). "He said that I had a bee…..feeble mind, and that I'm a weak m…ma…mortal!" Rin explained.
"He did, did he?" Sesshomaru said. "Jaken! Get over here!" Sesshomaru called.
"Yes, milord?" Jaken answered, walking up and over the hill to his master. "Uh, you called?"
"Yes. Is it true that you were making fun of Rin?"
"Well, somewhat. I wouldn't say that it was 'making fun of', but I will say that I was setting the girl strai-" Jaken did not finish his sentence, as Sesshomaru had kicked him over the hill, causing him to go crashing into the river at the bottom.
"Rin, you may go play now." Sesshomaru ordered.
"Alright, Sessy-chan!" Rin exclaimed as she bounded off towards the river to fetch Jaken.
'Sessy-chan…how odd.' Sesshomaru thought. 'I'm having a feeling I've never felt in my life. It's been happening ever since Rin decided to follow me. Hmph. I never thought that I would ever befriend a human…' Sesshomaru made an odd face. 'Befriended? Would I, the great lord of the Western Lands, a full-blooded demon, sink so low as to befriend a mortal girl? Heh. Maybe. But then again, maybe she's more dear to me than a loyal companion…'
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"Alright! Everyone ready to go?" asked Kagome.
"Uh, Kagome? Where are we going?" asked Inuyasha, walking out of the hut.
"We're going on a trip to see if we can turn you back to normal!" Kagome answered, forgetting that Inuyasha was asleep when they talked about their little 'plan'.
"Uhhh…..what do you mean 'turn me back to normal'?" asked Inuyasha, doing that confused blinking again (Man, I just LUV confused blinking!).
"Well, let's just say that a couple days ago, you were really, really good friends with us! Now, we're gonna get you to remember us again!" Kagome stated. 'Well, that's partially false, and also partially true…'
"Oh. Okay, I guess!" Inuyasha brightened up, and helped Kagome pack her backpack with all her supplies.
"Kagome, you ready?" asked Sango.
Kagome nodded.
"Then let's get going," Miroku suggested, walking out of the hut.
---
In the bushes, Kagura was spying on them. And with Inuyasha so young, he wouldn't even know what her scent would be.
Perfect.
'This is so boring. Walk, walk, walk, walk, and walk.' Kagura thought back to what Naraku's plan was.
---FLASHBACK---
Naraku had come back from a long journey across Japan. He was holding a glass container full of a white liquid.
"Kagura, come here." Naraku ordered. Kagura obeyed and walked over. Naraku showed her the bottle. "This is the blood of Taimu, the dragon of time. I had to travel a long while to finally reach him, defeat him, and take a sample of it. I have a plan, but it includes you. Are you ready?" he asked.
"Tch." Kagura only nodded.
"Good." Naraku replied, and started to add some sort of red plants into the bottle. "I am going to make a gas. A poisonous gas that will make the victim reverse age. I will use it on Inuyasha. When I tell you, go and make sure you capture him, and only him. Meanwhile, my new incarnation will distract the other members. Got it?" he asked.
Kagura only nodded again, knowing it was a death-wish to debate.
"Good, now get out of my sight." Naraku ordered. Kagura stood and left quietly, wishing she could just chop off his head and be free.
---END FLASHBACK---
'If I don't complete this task, Naraku will surely kill me. Then my desires of becoming free will be all for nothing. I can't fail…' Kagura thought before sneaking along the gang's path.
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"Lord Sessy-chan!" Rin called, running over to Sesshomaru with Ah and Uhn (I don't know how to spell their names, so I'll just leave it at that!).
"Pathetic human! Do not call Lord Sesshomaru by that repulsive name!" Jaken shouted, clubbing Rin on the head with the Staff of Heads. "I think it a disgrace to even keep you he-" once again, Jaken did not finish his sentence because Sesshomaru kicked him down the hill again.
"He hit me!" Rin complained, showing the lump on her head.
"Don't worry. If he does anything to you again, let me know, and I'll make sure he'll get a punishment." Sesshomaru reassured.
"Okay!" Rin said, smiling. She then continued, "I'm just wondering, where are you going?"
"I'm going on a little journey. Stay here with Ah and Uhn, and tell Jaken not to do anything bad to you, or he'll be severely punished." Sesshomaru informed before leaving.
"JAKEN!" Rin called, running down the hill. "Sessy-chan's gone on a journey! And he says that if you hurt me in any way, shape, or form, he'll se-ver-e-ly punish you!" Rin said, saying each syllable of 'severely' carefully as to not mispronounce it.
---
Kagome and the gang had been walking for about 3 hours, making their way across the so-called 'path', that didn't even have a dirt road.
"Myoga, are you SURE that this is the right way?" Kagome asked. "I mean, I haven't seen a single dirt road in 2 hours already!"
"Yes, I'm quite sure! The dragons made sure that barely anyone would be able to find their locations." Myoga explained. "So of course, they would guard their treasures far away from civilization."
Sango was just about to add to the conversation when a large explosion was heard nearby. The gang rushed over to find a huge crater-like depression in the earth, with a woman in the center of it. You could tell from just looking at her that she wasn't human.
"Who are you?" asked Miroku.
"My name is Koto," the woman replied. She had aqua-blue hair that reached her waist. She wore a light blue kimono in the same fashion as Kagura's, minus the purple stripes. She had a blue gem in her forehead, icy pale green eyes, and blue lipstick on.
Shippo sniffed the air. "She smells a lot like Naraku, too!" Shippo exclaimed.
"That must mean that you're an incarnation of him!" Sango said.
"That is correct. I have been ordered by Naraku to come and steal our jewel fragments!" Koto's voice grew as she launched a huge cyclone of water from the palms of her hands. Everyone just barely dodged it.
"Inuyasha! Get away from here!" Kagome shouted as the water cyclone hit and knocked over a couple of trees.
"Uh, right!" Inuyasha looked around, and decided to head to the forest.
He crouched down and looked around, searching for a bush or large rock to duck behind. While he had his back turned to the forest, 2 hands shot out. One went around his mouth, the other dragged him into the forest.
Kagome and the others were continually being shot at by Koto.
"I suspect that she must be a master of water!" Miroku shouted as the cyclone hit another wave of earth.
"HIRAIKOTSU!" Sango shouted, launching her boomerang. It missed, hitting the earth next to her.
Koto was launching more cyclones, but Kagome launched an arrow, and the cyclones dispersed into nothing but water drops.
"Hm. My time here seems to be up. But we shall meet again, don't you worry about that." Kota said. As soon as she finished, she was engulfed by a tornado of water, and was gone.
"Well, that was certainly interesting." Miroku said, crawling out from his hiding place, practically soaking wet.
"I'll say." Sango added, helping Miroku stand up. Both turned when they heard Kagome gasp.
Kagome was searching around frantically.
"What's wrong?" Sango, Miroku, and Shippo asked at the same time.
"I…I can't find Inuyasha!" Kagome answered, fear totally clear in her voice.
"Huh!?" Sango immediately ran over to help search. "Inuyasha wouldn't have just walked off, do you think?"
"That doesn't seem like Inuyasha's behavior…" Miroku answered.
"Hmmm….this may not be good." Myoga said, jumping from Kirara's fur to Kagome's shoulder.
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Koto and Kagura tossed a frightened Inuyasha onto the floor.
"Ow!" Inuyasha murmured when he hit the ground. He looked up to see a pair of red eyes staring at him, sending a chill up his spine.
"Naraku, we've brought you the boy. Just like you ordered us to." Kagura said.
"Good. Now leave." Naraku ordered. The two women did so.
"Who….who are you?" asked Inuyasha, backing up into the wall.
"Heheheh…my name is Naraku." Naraku replied.
"N-Naraku? Hey wait, I think I remember Myoga saying that name before. Yeah, earlier, he mentioned the name, 'Naraku'…" Inuyasha said. "Do you two know each other?" he asked.
"Well, you could say that." Naraku said, taking a step closer. "But let's just say that we're on opposite sides."
"……" Inuyasha was so scared that he couldn't move at all. He covered his head with his hands and started to whimper.
"Eheheheheheheheheheh…." Naraku continued to chuckle. The amount of fear around the young hanyou amusing him. By the time he was within a foot of him, he was trembling. 'Time to make him mine…' he thought, reaching into his kimono thingy and pulling out…
TO BE CONTINUED……