Okay the long awaited next chapter of my story, sorry that it took so long guys I had a lot of crap to deal with for some time, plus college and a job! shakes fist at her managers for keeping her so late

Sori: Sorry for the wait guys, life has a way of dealing blows and apparently I got dealt a LARGE blow of mass proportion.

Yaoi-san: Or in your case you had a large square in your room with plot bunnies! – chuckles –

Sori: It's not a square! And I got rid of a lot of my plot bunnies thanks! – glares – At any rate heres the next chapter.

Disclaimer: I don't own anything, but the witch named Aki, no suing please!

Ch12 For Love of a Tainted Jewel

Kagome groaned as her head lolled to the side, a demon had just come in and injected her with some kind of orange liquid. The penetration of the needle didn't hurt, when a small droplet of blood blobbed out Hiei growled out his anger and hissed at the chains that burned his wrists. They were magic chains capable of holding them in this creepy dungeon, she didn't know if her miko powers would come into play and if at all she could use them but it was worth a try, right?

The door slammed open however as Naraku sashayed across the floor, the demon who injected the liquid in her scurried out. He caught her chin in-between his thumb and forefinger staring into her un-dilated eyes, he hissed at her showing her his fangs and a smile came to lips as the mark on her neck began to disappear and to Hiei's despair and utter horror Naraku began to nuzzle her neck and lick it.

"N-no!" Kagome couldn't get her voice to work right, she wanted to get out of here not to be this evil mans wife, clawed hands went to her lips hushing her up as crimson red eyes looked into blue frightened ones.

"My dear, you will become my wife weather while your living or dead. For I have the incantation that the old demon witch used for Kikyou's resurrection!" She gasped at him, how can that be, Urase didn't even write it down, or did she? For all she knew Urase could have done it and hidden the book somewhere shit! She cursed in her mind.

"Now, you will be my wife and bearer of my line along with the child Rin. The Jewel will tainted and you will be mine." He said into her ear and as he pulled back his lips caressed her ear and she shivered for fear of being evil, for killing without remorse. She looked over to Hiei whom was trying his hardest to get out of the chains.

Suddenly her chains snapped open and she fell into the arms of Naraku, he pulled her close to his body as a spasm over took her and she fell limp into his arms. All around her was going black, an encroaching darkness she wanted to rid herself of right now, but white wrapped around her making her cold and drawing from her body the warmth it was supposed to generate.

"You are mine…" the whispered words were spoken before pain claimed her neck; she was being taken somewhere and didn't want to know. Someone bit into her and she howled, where was she? Who was next to her! She was scared to find a blanket wrapped around her and a strange hand that didn't belong to Hiei wrapping around her waist.

Suddenly she was pulled back into a hard chest and someone began to kiss her neck lovingly as a silky smooth voice floated to her ears.

"You are marked as my property, and the child, Rin, will be my property as well. After the ceremony is over you will kill the Forbidden one." He touched her unclothed back dragging a clawed forefinger down her spine and making her shiver with fear.

"Please…don't do this…" she whispered as tears splashed down her face, however a slap to the face woke her up from the reality that might be.

"Kagome!" Hiei yelled, she opened her eyes and blinked the blurry images away as she tried to recall what had happen.

"Hiei is your bite mark on my neck gone!" She sounded worried, but he took a look anyway and shook his head no, to which she sighed in relief. Now she mused that was just a nasty dream, how silly can I be to think Naraku wants me when all he's after is Rin and the Jewel.

Wasting no time she began her assault on the chains, it seemed Naraku forgot that she was still a miko and not just a demon. So, using her miko powers like a mini blowtorch she got chains off.

Next thing she knew she fell to the floor on her hands and knees, the poison burn on her back still hurt but it was almost gone now. She went over to Hiei freeing him from his chains and was swept up into strong arms, holding her he kicked down the door and growled at the two demon guards. It didn't take much to make them break down into hysteria once the Jagan got pissed and even the dragon on his arm was a little furious at this Naraku character.

"We have a ways to go to find the child, but the dragon is not far off." Hiei said in his monotone voice before the roaring of a dragon was heard and pieces of the hall began to crumble slightly from the ferocious attacks that Au-Un began to unleash.

Kagome didn't have to tell him which way Rin was because they could both feel her aura, she was in the western part of the castle, and they were in the south. Both hoped to reach the child in time before Naraku got to her.

Miroku kept side glancing at Sango; she was hugging Shippou close to her as the kitsune pup clung to her like a lifeline. He seemed to be scared so she held onto him like Kagome would, the demon exterminator seemed more then a bit sad and depressed it didn't take a youkai nose to figure that out. So in order to make her smile again he had to do what he had to do and went over to her taking her hand in his and squeezing it gently.

Sango had to shift Shippou in her hands since Miroku too hold of her hand and a loving squeeze was given, she so wanted to kiss him but was afraid to do so in front of strangers. It was strange that they would come at a time like this but even stranger that Sesshoumaru Youkai Lord of the Western lands was accompanying them.

Not only that but people in the group were beginning to pair off into couples, it seemed she and Miroku were the only traditional couples though. Kirara mewled at her shoulder, the fire Neko purred at her and rubbed he cheek to try and get her to cheer up. She figured that's what Miroku was doing holding her hand, trying to make her smile a little and forget about all her trouble, forget about her brother but she couldn't and could never forget about Kagome.

Further down the line were Kuwabara and Ysuske; they were walking side by side. Both with a grin on theirs faces at the fact that they found love in a close friend.

"So, uh, Urameshi-" Kuwabara was cut off by Ysuske glaring at him as the read head shrunk away a little as if he had been slapped on the hands like a small child.

"Don't use my last name bud, Ysuske is fine." The red head couldn't believe his ears and he seemed to perk up at the thought before shadows befell his face, how would Keiko take this and were they even together still?

A cackle echoed in an old rickety room, the woman who was watching the group loved the drama. It wasn't that she didn't want to help but to watch the entire goings on and now Ysuske and Kuwabara were talking about a strange girl named Kieko. This seemed to be a big soap opera drama but life is drama, without it life wouldn't be interesting.

She was currently sewing together a torn off sleeve, last night she had gone out to pick some herbs and potato's from her garden. A minx youkai had appeared and she killed it in one fowl swoop of a hand, literally shredding the thing to pieces and using its meat in her soup. Usually she would use something else from her cabinet but fresh meat shouldn't go to waste her mother always said.

"Damn Minx demon, you ruined my favorite kimono." Growling her eyes looked into the crystal balls depths to see that it had shifted to the two men in the back, Kurama the thief and Sesshoumaru Lord of the Western Lands. They were now a couple how cute she mused not paying attention to the needle as it poked her finger, she screeched and put the finger into her mouth trying to get the blood to stop. Once she was satisfied that it had stopped she took it out to see that the prick was gone and smiled going about sewing her sleeve.

It had taken her awhile to become a good seamstress, she had to practice on a lot of clothes since most of hers were torn or had holes in them. Sometimes she would go off the mountain to get cloth to make a kimono.

A high pitched screech had her putting down her sewing for a moment before taking the hot water off the stove and pouring it into her cup. Once satisfied she put the kettle back on the stove and took a drink of the raspberry flavored hot tea, it was delicious she decided and when she went back down to the human store again she would get this brand as well as the lemon cinnamon.

Her eyes widened at the Western Lord as he pulled the red headed one up for a kiss; she almost spit her tea out at such a display of love and in public to! Oh to humans the forest isn't public but to youkai its more public then anyone knows. However she didn't curse this but rejoiced in it, since Sesshoumaru hadn't seen his sister in a long, long while.

Waving her hand over the crystal ball she let those two is while looking into the confides of Naraku's castle, or at least trying to. She got a little interference but somehow got inside to take a look.

She seemed to be following a black blur that was most likely the Forbidden child, she didn't see the girl anywhere at first before flowing black hair caught her attention and the she asked the crystal ball to slow down the picture. It showed the Forbidden one had his hands all over the girl and carried her down the hall like a Princess, it was very cute indeed but would Sesshoumaru approve of such?

She remembered the miko girl became an ally of the Western Lands and a very close friend; if Sesshoumaru disagreed to the marriage he would kill Hiei. This Forbidden child was stepping on eggshells when it concerned her older brother and as far as Inu Yasha went….she scryed for him with the crystal ball to find that he was dead. No surprise there she mused before Kanna came into the room.

"The Albino child!" Aki hissed, she watched in fascination as the child dragged her youngest brothers body out of the door and to a room that was really dark, its confides were swirling with incense and then the connection was broken as the ball of crystal swirled with white.

"Shit, that's not good. Inu's soul was going some where but this might mean a resurrection of the body and not the soul!" She had never imagined this would happen as she scurried about putting her best fighting Kimono on and taking a look in the mirror to make sure all was in check.

She was very slender, lithe and very pretty in the face seeing as it almost looked exactly like Sesshoumaru's accept she had bright orange eye shadow and pink lipstick on. There was a crescent moon but it was orange to match the eye shadow, she had slipped into a three-layered silk kimono that was fit for a princess and she was. Her name is Aki, Princess of the Western Lands and middle child to the family of her father, Inu Tasho.

"Looks like my intervention will have to be a bit more earlier then I predicted. I neither saw nor envisioned my youngest brother would be apart of this evil mess of mass murder. To make things worse I might change the future outcome of this battle, if someone dies then the future itself will crumble and be changed for all eternity!" She looked herself straight in the eyes while braiding her long silvery white hair with orange highlights, once done with that she took up a few daggers and a Kodachi.

She had trained while she was here and it would pay off now. With one last go over through the mirror she began to chant in the demon langue with many clicks of the tongue a few barks and growls before the mirror began to glow orange. Finishing up she strapped the Kodachi to her waist and disappeared into the strange orange light, the only evidence that anyone was ever here was the crystal ball and the still steaming cup of raspberry tea.

The group was upon Naraku's castle; Sango noticed the youkai and Miroku were getting a bit restless as Kirara growled low in her through. The fire cat's creamy fur was standing on end as magic began to leak into the clearing, she sat Shippou down by her feet and unhooked Hiraikotsu from her back posed to attack.

Orange light blinded everyone except for the demon exterminator as someone stepped out from it, they were all tense except for Sesshoumaru as he snorted and held Kurama back placing a hand on his shoulder and pulling lightly. His neck arched downwards as his lips brushed against the ear, he felt a shiver and smiled before whispering into the Kitsunes ear.

"That is my youngest sister." Is all he said before the light went away and a beautiful girl stood before them and bowed. Every eye trained to the new person, wondering why she was here and if she was a spy from Naraku when she spoke.

"Sorry to be late Sessy-kun, but I thought you might need my help." She approached the Western Lord with a keen smile and walked as though she were royalty, every one, except for Kurama, wanted to know who this girl was. They watched as she stood before the Taiyoukai and smiled as the demon Lord backhanded her. She fell to the ground, not saying a word, not crying, no sound escaped her and yet she made no response to get up and yell at him.

Now, every one else was just as confused as the others were about the slap, but who would slap a girl, a demoness even? Well, they got their answer, Sesshoumaru the Taiyoukai wasn't afraid of anything and couldn't be it seemed. Finally the girl began to move, tucking her legs underneath herself and sighing eyes downcast, her white pelt flapping in the breeze as everyone did a double take wondering was that there before?

"I'm sorry Brother, I deserve every slap, every punishment given to female demoness alive. But it will not change the fact that I would do it again." Her voice didn't quiver or shake as another smack was delivered to her face, blood ran its course down her pale cheek, Sesshoumaru growled deeply, Kurama could feel it resonate through his chest.

"What do you want Aki?" The Taiyoukai finally asked, the girl stood now brushing off the grass from her silk kimono and sighed.

"Are you aware that Inu Yasha is within Naraku's walls being controlled?" Sesshoumaru raised an eyebrow at that question, how absurd the hanyou should be gallivanting with his ninny human group not he, Sesshoumaru but he only did this for his mate's sake. He didn't kill any of the group either keeping to his mates promise.

"I was not aware, is he still alive?" The question just popped out of his mouth as Aki smiled, she knew he still cared for Inu Yasha, even if he didn't show it on the outside that much. Then she frowned, no the Inu Hanyou wasn't alive and was going to be used in the makings of Rin becoming evil.

"I'm afraid not, Inu Yasha's blood will be used to turn Rin into a hanyou at first for her to receive the jewel. After that is complete the jewel will be tainted, as will the priestess who protected it. I fear Kagome is in as much danger as Rin is brother, we must hurry before we are too late!" She bowed her head for the next oncoming blow as the hand was coming down and she waited, nothing pierced her skin and nothing tore her up from the outside in as she dared take a look. The red head in her brothers grasp had taken shot out his hand and held it.

"No more Sesshoumaru, she has had enough." With that the Taiyoukai snorted at Aki as the group lingered around the new member. Aki only hopped to Kami she did the right thing, perhaps the future will change and perhaps not, the only thing she can do now is take a few steps forward instead of backwards.

"My name is Miroku." Aki hissed at him as he took her hand as she retched it back and slapped him, her red glare had the monk hiding behind the girl exterminator.

"I will not bare your child you pervert!" She pointed an accusing orange claw at him as he shrank away with swirly eyes that made Sango finally laugh.

Shippou came out from behind the girls legs to find a strange female dog demon, he thought it was okay for this female to be around. She had an aura like Kagome's, very nice and wondered how she got those cuts on her cheek, so being the adorable child he was he ran over to her and plopped down into her lap.

"Shippou!" Sango asked aghast at the child, but Aki seemed delighted as she held up a hand to quite the demon exterminator.

"It is alright dear. Now, your name is Shippou correct?" The child in her lap nodded as arms encircled the poor child, she hugged him to her closely and nuzzled his head like Kagome.

"We will save Kagome and she will be reunited with you. We will also bring back your friend Rin, so she can play with you. But what we need you to do when we go into battle dearest kit is to hide someplace safe, we don't want you to get hurt." Wetness soaked through the front of her kimono as she sat the child on her lap, crocodile tears gathered and splashed down his face as she tried to get rid of them with a hanky she found.

"Dear, what's wrong?" She couldn't understand the blabbering sobs and hiccups of words before Shippou stopped.

"It's just, that's what Kagome would do and say to me!" He broke out in fresh sobs as Aki held him close trying to sooth him to sleep, she got strange looks from them all but shrugged it off.

"I am Aki, Princess of the Western Lands." She bowed and one by one, beside Miroku and Sesshoumaru, every one else introduced herself as they began walking once more.

Aki stayed close to Sango for fear of her brother ripping her head off as the sleepy child in her arms snuggled into her chest and tried pulling the clothing closed to his body for heat. Out of the corner of her eyes she saw the exterminator smile a real smile for the first time since Kagome had been kidnapped, the monk seemed to see as well as he brightened up.

She was being watch by Sesshoumaru and most likely being glared at by him, this all had to do with the human male she had married. Once he passed away he left her the mountain shack, the thing was he died before she could have cubs, at the tender age of 30. He fell to his doom into a chasm with a large pit of demon nests on the bottom, he was eaten alive and she could do nothing for him.

She could, however do something for her friend Kagome, they had met awhile back in the forest of Inu Yasha. Keeping hold of Shippou she recalled it all as the group walked on silence.

It was the year that Kagome and her group came back to the village after defeating the Water God.

Aki had stood in front of the tree wondering where in the world her brother could be, he just couldn't suddenly wake up and be gone, could he? She sighed walking up to the tree and up a tree root to put her hand there and she sniffed the air finding another scent mingled with her sleeping brothers. Her brown cloak swirled when someone with a strange contraption came into the clearing, she hissed lightly before diving over the side of the root of the tree she had stood upon to watch the intruder.

"Inu Yasha I'm going home now!" She turned to where she had first come, a smile lighting her face making it look very young and naive. That's when she heard the voice of the other person.

"Feh, be back in three days we still need to get jewel shards! You hear me Kagome!" The girl nodded as she got on that pink contraption and used it to go faster then humans usually do, she followed with the intent of interrogations and questioning how her brother could be walking and talking.

Once the girl stopped and got of the pink thing with a basket she ran ahead and stood before the well, not knowing if she was to go past it or not.

"Girl, why is Inu Yasha off the tree?" The girl in question blinked at her putting a finger to her lips and tapping before talking.

"Well, I did take the arrow out." She said looking to Aki, who blinked. Could this girl be Kikyou, she certainly looked like her and yet she didn't act as the Kikyou did with demons and demoness. The subtle eye color was another dead give away; Kikyou's eyes were brown while these girls' eyes were blue. She wondered about the power this child held within her and wanted to know but Kagome was side stepping her and putting the pink thing against the well.

"Well if that's all then I'm going home for a few days." With that the girl jumped in AS Aki tried to save her but was blinded by a flash of blue lights, she was stupefied and wondered who that girl really was.

She had waited those three days for the girl to come back and as god to her witness she came out, hands on the green vines as she went to help her out. Aki's eyes almost bulged at the over kill of her yellow rucksack.

"Thanks. Hey, weren't you the demoness I was talking to three days ago? By the way I'm Kagome." The girl made a bold impression on Aki, as Kagome thrust out her hand for a shake and the demoness did the same as she moved the hand up and down.

"I'm Aki. Nice to meet you but I must go." That was the time that her husband had been in trouble, she gave him a magical horn and only she could hear it when he blew. He blew it loud and clear as she raced from the clearing to his side.

Aki sighed, it was the only two times she had met the human girl Kagome and wondered if she stayed her cheerful self through those strange changes. Sometimes becoming a youkai made a human go mad with a killing spree of bloodlust or it made them into evil creators that wanted to take over the world; hence Onigumo turning into Naraku and his evil plot to over throw human kind to kill them and have a large massacre. Yeah, she looked into some things to deep, but what was she supposed to do all alone in that damned shack all day, sleep? She was a youkai Princess for crying out loud and after this adventure she would beg Sesshoumaru to live in the castle once again, she could be Rin's auntie and keep the girl out of her brothers hair for quite sometime.

She had always wanted pups, always wanted a family of her own but was denied when her husband died. Ever since all the youkai males ever went for were beautiful demonesses who had the body and not the skill and brains, actually beauty could come with brains. But for most demonesses, beauty is the only thing they have to offer to their mates, if the males didn't like the females and he had already bitten her, then death would come swift and painless, a killing bite to the neck would be made.

She shivered at that and thanked Kami her mate was a human because they don't kill unless they need to, that is unless War comes then needless blood shed accurse.

"Kagome…" The child in her arms mumbled snuggling up to her once again and sighing, she heard the fire cat growl at a bush and out popped sanyosho buzzing in delight as a incarnation came bustling through the bushes and to them at an incredible rate.

They had gone down many halls so far and each one lead to another which lead to another and so on, but they could smell Rin's scent and knew they were getting closer. They had only to find the right door in the next hall as Kagome calculated which hall it was that held the child when they came to a dead end an evil laugh rang out.

"Kukukuku, wrong way lover birds! Now try and find Rin before the sun sets tomorrow, for she will be used to make Kagome tainted as well as the jewel!" More laughter rained down on them as Hiei backtracked and they went a different way.

Left, right, left, right, right, left they kept track of each turn they made and each hallway was marked with a scorch on the wall to tell them they had been here once. It was odd because the hall they were using now had two scorch marks on it, Kagome began to ponder if they were going around in circles. That's when she remembered something from an anime she watched, its called Bleach

The main character Ichigo, a soul reaper Renji, and a Quincy Ishida, along with the sidekick Kon went to a museum. They had to win a game to get their friends back and when they began to play, taking a right each time to get back where they started. Ishida she remembered told Kon to tie the rope to something and unwind the ball of yarn as they did the same thing again, taking rights all the way through. When they got back to the start a second time they saw that the yarn was still there and it was only an illusion. The bad guys had tricked them into going right all this time and this secular thing seemed to constitute to what they were doing as Hiei came to another end. He was about to turn around when Kagome voiced her opinion.

"Hiei stop, go through the wall." The short man gave her a are you serious look, she only nodded.

"Yes, I'm sure it's an illusion to stall us." Hiei understood and cuddled her close to his body; he sniffed the air growling since the whole place reeked of Naraku. He put on a burst of speed running at the wall, halfway there they were confronted by a randomly placed demon.

The large furry demons was actually a gorilla, it was a lot bigger then the normal sized ones at the zoo Kagome mused as a sweat drop dangled on the back of her head and she laugh nervously.

Hiei however growled at the confrontation and flipped Kagome onto his shoulder with his left arm and used his right to take out his sword, she understood what he was doing and stayed still thank Kami. Not decreasing his speed in the least bit he jumped up, slashed at the body and head multiple times and landed in a crouch on one knee behind the demon. The gorilla hadn't time to growl at them before it fell to the floor in bloody chunks.

This really isn't what Kagome wanted to see but she was safest against his shoulder when her can at least use one hand to fight with his sword. She felt him moving again and couldn't tell if they got closer to the wall, she felt the anticipation from her mate and decided now was the time they closer to the wall as she closed her eyes for impact when she felt the stirrings of magic caress her.

Her eyes popped open at Hiei's confident smirk to her and took her in his arms once again after sheathing his sword. They had made it to a large oak door where Hiei put her down and opened it on his own and they both walked in to see Rin being held captive by Naraku.

"Leave her alone!" Kagome growled charging with Hiei shaking his head running after her, she made the mistake of not smelling them first he mused before taking her by the arm and yanking her backwards.

"Did you not smell the air before you attacked them woman?" He was giving her death glares as she gave him a death glare of her own and did as he bade her to do, her eyes got large as she gasped. Anger swirled around her as she disentangled herself from Hiei and charged at Naraku, large tree roots came from the bottom of the pristine white baboon suit and flared at her, Kagome swatted them away with her claws as more grew. She dodges and evaded the tentacles with the help of Hiei fending some of them off of her hide as she raced up one and slashed through the white baboon fur when a piece of wood popped out of the body.

It landed in her hand as she cursed it up and down the walls of this nasty castle and wished more then anything this damned adventure would be over. The wooden doll with a single price of black hair wrapped around the middle was crushed in her hand; she opened it to see fine dust spreading across the floor.

She turned to Rin next and sniffed, it smelled like her and she had to make sure, but how? Hiei beat her to the punch however thrusting his sword at the child as she did a back flip landing on the bed. The bed was sliced in two as Hiei's sword came down with a whump sound, Rin giggled with childish glee as she brought out a Kodachi pointing it at Hiei.

"Hiei be careful with her!" Kagome reached out a clawed hand as Hiei snorted at his mate, could she not smell this thing, this masquerading fool? He would make her see that this was not the human child, jumping off the end of the bed where a unbroken post was he growled loudly for the fake human child to hear and the battle begun.

He slashed downwards as he had jumped off a bed post, Rin dodged to one side and slammed her small body against his as he landed making him skid to the middle of the room, she ran towards him a battle cry on her little lips raising the Kodachi above her head. Hiei saw what she was doing and jumped into the air at the last minute receiving a nick on his cheek for the trouble but at least he wasn't hurt bad enough not to fight.

Kagome watched at the sidelines as they fought, it wasn't right for a child to fight like this she decided standing up straight and waiting for Hiei to catch the girl. It didn't take him long to catch the child either as the demon put the girl into a headlock and held her there, he had slapped the Kodachi from Rin's hands and it rattled to the floor.

"Kagome this is not Rin!" Hiei said slamming his fist through the girl's chest as she cried out in pain, Kagome screamed as she fell to her knees watching the black blood flowing from the hole in her chest. Wait, demons have black blood and humans have red she mused looking over to see the child slumped on the ground fizzled out to be replaced with a lizard demon that hissed at her.

A large green claw reached out for her as it began to drag itself across the floor but was stopped by a sword through the hand, it roared in pain and died in that instant by its own weapon. A crunching sound pierced her ears as the Kodachi was slammed into the skull killing the demon instantly.

"I told you it wasn't Rin, this was only a trap. Come." Hiei said putting out his hand as she got up from the floor and took it. He grabbed her bridal style again as they made their way out of the bedroom through the oak door and back to where the gorilla demon had died. They would take a different way this time and hopefully find Rin.

Kanna had dragged the lifeless body of Inu Yasha from the room, it was a shame really that her master had to use a demon that failed him. But it was her masters law that she listened to just as she mused on things Kagura came out of no where with a frown on her face.

"Kanna, what are you doing?" The wind witch asked as she snapped out her fan, the albino child talked as she tugged Inu Yasha's body.

"Naraku needs the blood of a tainted crazed Hanyou for his experiment with the child Rin." That's all she could say, as the red eyes of her older sister got large and then receded to small slits. Kanna noticed the nervous shifting of Kagura as she snapped her fan shut and walked with her to Naraku's room, it wasn't long before they were both bowing before the rice paper door. It was a really nice one, a blue jay snag its morning song on a sakura branch that was beginning to blossom.

They waited for Naraku to say something as they sat there bowing with there hands on the mat and heads on there hands, the smell of blood assaulted there noses since a dead body was next to Kanna.

Kagura wasn't sure what Naraku was going to do but she would be free, as free as the wind and some how the hanyou's group would help her attain her freedom and her heart.

Naraku chuckled threading his fingers through Rin's dark inky hair, she reminded him of Kagome in a light. The girl's eyes opened as she hissed at his presence trying to scoot away from him as he stopped her by pulling the child by her hair and back into his lap. Rin struggled in his lap and even bit his hand, he growled drawing a line on the child's cheek with a clawed finger he heard her intake of breath and wasn't reworded with a chilling scream of pain as expected.

He growled lowly in anger, how dare this child not scream in agony but he couldn't hurt her much more because she was to become his daughter, the scratch was essential anyway since Kanna and Kagura were outside his room. They were waiting on him and stayed in bowing position, he grinned like the Cheshire cat he could have them do anything for him.

Kagura was most useful to get the group here and she would or her heart would be destroyed. Lifting the child off his lap he made the child stand, his voice was smooth and very quite like as he spoke.

"If you wish to live Rin, go get me that jar." He pointed a finger to a large jar at the side of his room and as the girl moved slowly he opened the door to his room.

"I've brought the hanyou master." Kanna said as she looked up and got into a sitting position her mirror no longer in her lap but in her bloody hands. Naraku looked to the right side of the girl and a smile curled his lips, Inu Yasha died by the hands of Kagome's mate perhaps he could use the blood of her mate as well? The spell called for hanyou or forbidden child blood to be mixed or used separately.

A sanyosho came buzzing in and landing on his outstretched finger as his smile grew grim, it seemed they had defeated Yomi with the help of Sesshoumaru and his sister Aki. He growled killing the large bee with a flick of his wrist Aki was here? Her magic was powerful and rivaled the hidden witch that lived on the mountain it was once said that Aki disappeared with a human male. He grinned then, the honor of her station was soiled, her father when alive he heard was in an uproar and Sesshoumaru he ignored the fact that she was even alive. It was as if she was dead to them, but it seemed Aki has found her brother again this will be troublesome he decided sending out two more incarnations and a doll of himself to take care of them and stall them until the needed time tomorrow at dawn. He would need some type of great magic to defeat her and called Kanna over.

"Kanna come here!" He yelled as the albino child got up and walked forward sitting back down and putting her mirror up for Naraku to look into. It fizzled out and then into the clearing where the group was. The two humans were in a slight shamble with nicks and tears in there clothing, the reaming youkai and fire cat didn't even have a scratch on them. He made a fist digging his nails into the soft flesh of the palm drawing blood; the sound of a jar being set at his feet had him looking up.

It was wonderful the smell of fear, the look of utter terror on Rin's face was lovely. He reached for the jar pulling it over a bit more and reached into it digging around in the ooze like liquid he kept Kagura's heart in. He came out with her heart and watched as she tried not to hiss at him in anger.

"Go watch the group fight, if they kill the incarnations and my doll you will fight next. Keep them there as much as possible." As he talked he stroked the organ in his hand softly, using his thumb he caressed the heart as if it was a lover. Grinning in his sadistic was he pierced the heart with his thumbnail as Kagura doubled over yelping out in pain. The nail dug deeper and deeper till it hit a spot that hurt the wind witch.

"If you disobey me and try to leave I will eat your heart and reabsorb you into my body." She shook her head as best she could as the constricting in her chest began to ebb away, it was like a numb pain had filled her chest and her ribs were about to crack. It was as if her whole body felt her heart being squeezed in her chest and yet she saw through blurry eyes the organ that was held in Naraku's clawed hand.

"Aye." She said as the pain lessoned and she got up wobbling into the hall and wondering if this would be the death of her, it was better to die then to live without a heart to be free she mused. Maybe she would kill herself intentionally, but no Naraku would find a way to bring her back to life to do his bidding because she's one of his main incarnations.

Plucking a feather from her hair she threw it to the ground as it got bigger and she sat on it, perhaps the group could help her deceive Naraku and she could get her heart back? Another no since she heard the fluttering and buzzing of the sanyosho in the air beside her, curse Naraku she hissed in her mind as she took off for the place the large group had just finished fighting.

Back in the main house where Naraku sat he looked into the mirror to see the first room the couple went into was destroyed with the piles of dust littering the floor he chuckled, they would find similar rooms as such and keep running into them until they notice the back of the room is a magic wall. He was impressed that Kagome even knew the first set of walls were even fake, perhaps she would find out the next set were fake as well?

"Kanna, take the body and the girl to the room next to this one. Make sure she dosen't escape." As if that was enough for the dead boy on the ground to hear for him, Inu Yasha's ear twitched before he raised his head. His golden eyes piercing Naraku's red ones as the foggy eyes came to realization that he was in front of Naraku.

The spider hanyou raised his eyebrow, had the inu hanyou not died? Perhaps his past fighting's with the girl and his extra ordinary healing had helped him to come around. Strange Naraku mused as he lifted a claw to hi lips and tapped it lightly as an idea came to mind, the girl Rin was standing next to him and trying hard not to cry as he voiced what Inu Yasha had to do.

"Change of plans Kanna, take Inu Yasha to a hidden room and have the two forbidden children find him. After that come back here and take Rin to her room, she is not to escape understood?" The albino child nodded her head as she took the hand of the hanyou who was sanding up, she had a unreadable look on her face as she looked up at Inu Yasha and tugged him along.

They went down four hallways after exciting Naraku's sleeping quarters, she stopped at the end of a real dead end in the hall and placed her hand on a gray block three up and five over pushing on it as the bricks moved aside. Inside was a bedroom where Inu Yasha would wait for the two, he growled at her and stalked past her to sit on the bed.

Kanna put her hand on the brick again and the brick door closed as the Inu hanyou began to mumble.

"I'll kill him Kikyou-" the wall closing he had just come cut him off in and snorted at the albino child that disappeared. His sword was still at his hip and he smiled like a psychopath, his mind was stuck on the drive to kill those that got near Kikyou but the dead clay woman was already gone. He thought Kagome was Kikyou and the male that was with her had to die.

"Hiei will die, Hiei will die." He kept saying over and over again until a sinister laugh escaped her and he fell backwards onto the fluffy bed, he bounced on it but showed no other emotion but anger. Hiei eyes bled red filling in the whites of his eyes as his fingernails got longer he took the pillow on the bed and ripped it apart as bird feather began to swirl all in the room.

The oak door at that moment began to be opened; he jumped over the bed and hide behind it to surprise the people or demons that came in. Oh he so needed a fresh kill for this blood lust that pumped through his veins.

Slowly the door opened as Inu Yasha began to sweat with anticipation, his knees were crouched and he watched silently as the door was halfway open. He wanted to pounce on the door to get this feeling out, but like a true predator he waited fore whatever it was that was going to come through the door.

Mean while Kanna had just gotten back to see Rin laying on the floor, another scratch on her left cheek bleeding. Her master snorted at the child's insolence as she entered the room bowing, he looked the other way and waved her off to take the human child.

She did as her master bade her and took the child by the wrist dragging her down the hall before the girl began to wiggle and wake up.

"Let Rin go!" The child squealed as tears made there way down her cheeks, Kanna didn't sigh or show emotion but spoke in a monotone kind of voice.

"I will not, Master Naraku needs you for an experiment. Hush child and be quite the Master is sleeping he must to regenerate himself." Rin still wiggled and twisted trying to get her hands away from the mean white colored girl, suddenly the wiggling stopped as a foot came crashing into the back of Kanna.

For the first time she gasped dropping her mirror as it slammed to the floor in a loud crash, it wasn't a normal mirror but a demon one and as it made contact to the floor it got cracked almost all the way through, she bent down to pick it up as a foot kicked her in the butt sending the albino child to her face on the floor.

Rin squeaked as she ran for her life, Au-Un was somewhere here and she would try to find the dragon first. She headed down a hall to the right and heard the angry roaring of the two headed dragon, tears cascaded down her cheeks as she ran like a bat out of hell, her steps echoing down the shadowy hall. More roars echoed to her ears as Rin turned left and found herself coming face to face with Kanna, the child hissed at the albino bringing her hand out and slapping the girl on the cheek.

A stunned Kanna stood there as she looked at her pink cheek in fascination, that part was pink, would Naraku be mad? He had made her to be white.

While Kanna looked at herself in her own mirror Rin turned around and kept running, she wished the dragons would roar and got her wish as she yelled out for him.

"Au-Un where are you!" She yelled, a wall blasted down with a fireball and there before her eyes stood a bloody and beaten two-headed dragon that lumbered forward to her. She cried running as fast as she could and glomping the chest of the dragon; the two heads wound around her showing affection and love.

Rin got untagled from the necks and climbed up onto the dragon as it sniffed around the hall before she took up the reigns.

"We have to find Kagome and Hiei, they might be lost." With that the dragon and girl set off to find Kagome, while Kanna was still looking at the pink on her face.

Sori: Yeah, another chapter done and I have people on the edges of their seats. – grins –

Yoi-san: Yeah that and they yelled at you for not updating. – prod- Better get the next one typed out so they don't kill you with a mob.

Sori: - sighs- Reviews are nice, no flames please. – grins -