A Day In The Life Of Naraku
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"Are you sure this will work? The InuYasha gang may be a bit slow, but they might catch on eventually. The god of war himself- Ares- didn't manage to get InuYasha out of the way for me. What makes you so sure you can?" Naraku said to the cloaked figure in front of him.
"Do not worry," The childish, if a bit croaky voice under the hood said. "Ares was a fool in trying to trick Eris into getting InuYasha out of the way- the whole plan was foolish. My solution is much easier- if a bit more difficult."
Rin (A strange narrator): Naraku has made a deal with a very powerful evil being.
Cimorene looked at it in disgust. "Who are you?" she asked, trying to see into the hood.
"Your executioner." The girl said. Then she reached and touched Cimorine's face.
Cimorene screamed as her life force was drained from her body. Her face aged into wrinkles, before finally turning to nothing but a bare skull.
Rin: Her name's Helen Back. She has stolen a magic marble that enabled Naraku to switch bodies with InuYasha!"What do you expect me to do with this?" Naraku asked, looking doubtfully at the marble the strange being.
"With this, you defeat the InuYasha gang and get their jewel shards." She said.
Rin: InuYasha is in Naraku's body, and utterly confused. He has taken the jewel and gone in search of Kagome and some answers!
He picked up the jewel with the handkerchief and put that in his pocket as well.
He opened the door. The smell of rotting corpses met his nose.
Ugh!He covered the offended body part.
Then he began walking down the body-strewn hallway. As soon as he got out of this Palace of Death, he would find Kagome…
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In Which Naraku Schemes, Kagura Dreams, InuYasha Steams, And Kagome Screams (I had too much fun rhyming)
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I'm sorry for whatever Kagome said in the preview, she was stoned. Ignore her. I changed my mind. I fixed the chapter. The acknowledgements and explanations are at the bottom of the page.
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Naraku (in InuYasha's body) didn't know what to do.
Well, here he was, sitting with the InuYasha gang; looking a bowl full of the most fowl noodles he'd ever eaten. The jewel shards were a mere few feet away. Unfortunately, he didn't know if InuYasha could take them all on.
Maybe if he had the Samiyosha (sp?) he could've done it. Then again, he had the element of surprise. But still-
"Something wrong, InuYasha? You've barely touched your food." Kagome said.
He glared at her. He picked up the noodles, and threw them against a tree. The bowl shattered.
"There. Now I've touched it. Happy?"
They stared in shock.
Suddenly Miroku straightened up.
"Nan desu ka?" asked Shippo (what is it).
"Did you hear that?" He asked.
They listened. It was very soft… but it sounded like a wail.
"We'd better check it out. Sounds like someone in trouble." Sango said.
"I sense a jewel shard!" Kagome exclaimed.
Naraku perked up. Jewel shards, eh? Hmmm…
Everybody grabbed their weapons and headed out.
#InuYasha Falls Apart#
It was when InuYasha (in Naraku's body) had traveled a mile or two that he realized that he had no idea where to go. Without his sense of smell, he was lost.
He crossed his arms and glared at the dead tree in front of him.
And not only that, he felt weird. All shaky and pale. He was just wondering if Naraku had eaten something bad when his arm fell off.
Note: I have no idea how this process happens. I'm making it up.
"What the-"
He fell over and shattered. Body parts were everywhere. An arm here, a leg there, and his head had rolled upside down.
"So this is what happens to Naraku, huh? Damn."
He tried to get his arm to moves towards his head. Believe me, it's harder than it looks.
Finally InuYasha gave up on pulling himself together, and sighed.
"Now what?"
-The Retrieval Of The Last-
Kohaku was sitting on a log, staring into space, thinking about nothing. A person walked up to him. Yawn. Who cared?
It was a woman. He glanced indifferently at her.
"So you're Kohaku, huh?" she looked down at him curiously.
"Hmmm… and this must be the last one… the one nobody remembers." She smiled. "Well, don't worry Kohaku. Everything's going to be just fine."
She reached out her hand…
&Generic Bandits&
"AHH! HELP!"
Naraku and the InuYasha gang had caught up to the wail. Hey, that sounds like some sort of band name. Naraku and the Inu Gang vs. Josie and the Pussycats.
Anyway, the wail was a strange-looking woman, being attacked by a bunch of bandits.
There were about ten of them, smelly and mean looking. They were shoving her and trying to grab a package in her arms.
"Hand it over, lady!" shouted one.
"Hey, why don't you pick on someone your own size?" Kagome called out angrily.
"Oh, like you?" growled a hairy-looking bandit.
"If you don't lay off her, InuYasha'll kill you!" Kagome answered, hiding behind Naraku.
Naraku wondered if he could use InuYasha's claws and sword. Did he know how?
"I'd like to see him try." Said one of the men. Since he was the biggest, hairiest, and smelliest of the lot, he seemed to be the boss.
Naraku cracked InuYasha's knuckles.
"There's a shard in the woman's bundle!" exclaimed Kagome.
Well, I wanted to see if I could handle InuYasha's body. This should be an interesting test…
#Kagura Thinks About Stuff#
Kagura was indeed thinking about stuff. Like what was up with Naraku. What was he doing?
"Hey wait a minute. I can find out!" she exclaimed. She nearly fell of the tree she was sitting in.
"Hey Kanna!" she called over to the other branch. Kanna turned.
"Use your mirror to see what Naraku's up to."
For a second the mirror went blank (no reflections). Then a picture showed up. The InuYasha gang. Beating up a bunch of random bandits. The bandits running away. Some woman.
"What the- this is InuYasha, not Naraku!" Kanna shook the mirror. It went blank… then showed InuYasha again.
"Well if that's Naraku then where's InuYasha?" Kagura asked the mirror angrily.
It went blank… then showed a picture of Naraku in pieces in the forest, looking very angry, and very silly since his head was upside down.
Suddenly, Kagura had an idea. An impossible idea.
"Could this be the real InuYasha…?"
&Isabel Loud and Morrigan&
"Oh my god, you saved me! How can I ever thank you?" gushed the grateful woman Naraku and the Inu gang had just saved. She had a very strange accent. And even stranger- she was human, yet she had red hair. And green eyes.
"Give us your jewel shard." Naraku said.
"InuYasha!" said a surprised Kagome. But the woman just smiled.
"Sure. I just found it on the ground anyway. I don't want it." She handed it to Naraku.
"My name's Kagome." Said Kagome. "This is InuYasha, Miroku, Sango, Shippo, and Kirara." She pointed to each in turn.
"I'm Isabel Loud. And this is Morrigan." Isabel said.
"Morrigan?" Sango questioned.
Isabel held out the bundle. It was an adorable baby.
Kagome and Sango immediately began to coo at the baby and exclaim how cute it was.
Naraku tried to look at his watch, but failed because he suddenly realized that he was in Feudal Japan, and watches hadn't been invented yet.
Miroku yawned. Shippo climbed on top of Naraku's shoulder for a better look.
"(Anime vein) Get off my shoulder or DIE, rodent." Naraku said.
"Geez Louise InuYasha! Ok, ok." By this time, Kagome and Sango had recovered.
(Author's Note: That's a phrase you don't hear often in InuYasha. Shippo climbed on top of Naraku's shoulder for a better look.)
"So, you're not from around here are you?" asked Miroku.
"No. I came from the green shores of Eire. I married a man from here who had shipwrecked on a beach, but he became homesick, he had to go back. At first I couldn't leave me homeland, but I love him so much, and had to find him, and now that I have wee little Morrigan… well… I have to find him." She sighed sadly. "He's in a far away village, Zaarkiwa."
"Actually, that's not far away. Maybe we can escort you. Make sure you don't get attacked by any more demons or bandits." Miroku suggested innocently, although they all recognized the glint in his eye.
"Oh that would be wonderful! Would you?" Isabel looked hopeful.
"Don't we have something better to do?" grumped Naraku. Kagome glared.
"InuYasha, sit." WHAM!
"Yes, of course we'll escort you." She said to Isabel, and smiled. Isabel smiled back.
"Actually, we should make camp. The sun's setting." Sango commented.
(Can you guess which country "Eire" is?)
Naraku leapt to his feet and spat out dirt. What in Tartarus was that?
#Kagura's Deal#
InuYasha looked at the setting sun with relief. Hopefully this meant he could pull himself together.
Wait, what was that, in the sky? Hard to tell because his head was upside down. It was a… oh no. Not…
"Kagura, what are you doing here?" InuYasha asked angrily.
"Saving your $$, Naraku. Or should I say… InuYasha." InuYasha stiffened.
"Don't worry, I've come to make you a deal. I'll help you defeat Naraku and get your body back… on one condition." Kagura said.
"What?" InuYasha asked warily.
"You give me my heart back."
"What?"
Kagura sighed. I guess I have to tell him the whole story…
&Breaking Camp&
"In Eire, we don't have demons. Only pixies and leprechauns and the like." Isabel remarked.
They had made camp and a bonfire. The InuYasha gang, I mean. And Naraku.
"Okay, what should we eat? How about ramen?" asked Kagome cheerfully.
"NO!" cried Naraku. Shippo looked up from his lollypop. Sango and Miroku stared. Kagome blinked.
"Did mine ears deceive me? Did I just hear InuYasha decline Ramen?" asked Sango in disbelief.
"I'm not hungry." Naraku replied angrily, just as his stomach gave a huge rumble.
"How about eggs?" asked Miroku.
"Eggs are good with me." Isabel said.
They ate in silence, and said goodnight, except for Kagome. She had to "go home for supplies."
Go home? Where? Naraku had never thought nor cared about Kagome's origins.
Hmm. She was going into the woods, alone, at night, with all of the InuYasha gang's jewel shards around her neck.
Heh heh…#InuYasha's Coming Around The Mountain#
"Can't you make this thing go faster?" barked InuYasha.
"My feather goes only one speed." Kagura said coolly.
InuYasha crossed his arms and pondered.
He was worried. How did this switch happen? Did Naraku do it? And of course, the most important question:
Was Kagome ok?
&The Betrayal&
Kagome stared down at the well. It seemed seasons ago since she first fell through, yet it was only… seasons ago.
I've been doing this for a while, she thought.
"Kagome, what are you doing?" She turned. It was InuYasha.
He walked over to the well, looked down.
"InuYasha, what's up? You've been acting weird." She sat on the edge of the well.
He looked at her perched on the edge of the well, at the long drop. He stared at the sky. Long pause.
He gave a small smile. "You really haven't figured it out yet, have you? Either I'm a great actor, or you're extremely stupid."
"What?" Kagome was confused. "Figured what out?"
He smiled. Kagome didn't like that smile. It was an evil smile. It showed all his fangs, too.
Kagome didn't have time to react for what happened next. She felt as if she was falling through water.
The world seemed to slow down as InuYasha ripped her bottle of jewel shards off her neck, and shoved her backwards into the well.
She was so shocked she didn't even scream as she fell into the well, hitting her head on the wall, making everything go black.
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InuYasha, or I should say, Naraku- laughed. He looked down the well at Kagome- and stopped laughing.
Kagome was gone. Vamoosed. He frowned.
Then again, who cared? He had the shards, and with any luck she had smashed her head open on that wall. And now with her and InuYasha out of the way, he could take care of the slayer and the monk just fine.
Then all he had to do was get his body back. He'd give the shards to Kagura, use the Marble, get the shards, and destroy InuYasha.
It was brilliant.
Of course, he wasn't counting on being betrayed himself.
And I'm not talking about just Kagura.
End Of Chapter Seven
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