New Devil
Chapter Four
Kagome sat up and stretched; she looked around and found she was alone.
"I could've sworn someone was here" she shrugged and got up, she looked at herself in the mirror and gasped.
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Naraku walked down the halls and passed by Kagome's room, he stopped and went to open the door but thought she would still be asleep until he heard her gasp.
Naraku opened the door and Kagome ran into his arms.
"M'lady what's wrong?"
"I-- my-- eyes…" she looked up at him and her eyes were solid black but suddenly began to swirl, like smoke was in them, and they became normal once again.
"They're not black anymore. Do not be afraid, M'lady, I had told you the other night that changes may take place when you drink from the cup."
"Yeah I know I was just a bit shocked to see that when I wake up in the morning" Kagome smiled
"Today you will have to begin your training. It is your choice on which you would like to learn for today"
"Um… well I don't know what else do I need to learn?"
"Weaponry, charges, powers and the sets of being queen"
"Oh… well I want to be a strong queen so I can protect my people so… weaponry?"
"As you wish M'lady, Honoo will bring in your proper clothing for today's lessons."
"Ok. Um before you go, where are my friends?"
"They are in their quarters but free to roam the castle grounds"
"Oh"
"Sir Naraku" Honoo came in and bowed "Mistress, I brought your clothing for today" Honoo bowed and set neatly folded clothes on Kagome's bed then left.
"I will leave you so that you can prepare yourself" Naraku bowed and left the room closing the door behind him. Kagome took the outfit and easily slipped it on. It was a brown top made of a thick fabric and black pants that clung onto her skin but allowed her to move without difficulty. She tied up her hair in a pony tail and followed Honoo, who had been waiting out in the hall for her.
"Where are we going?"
"To the tani" (tani means valley) they turned a corner and Kagome couldn't even see her own hand, she felt someone take hold of her and lead her through the hall. A small ray of light shone down and Kagome looked at who was walking her through the hall.
"Yuki?" there was no answer, Yuki stopped and Kagome heard the click of a door. She was yanked in and thrown to the hard floor.
"Ouch, Yuki why did you do that?"
"Shut up!" fires at each end of the room lit up and Kagome tried to move but looked to see two large bald men holding her down.
"Yuki?"
"Shut it!" Yuki kicked her in the side
"Just kill her and get rid of the body, if your caught kill yourself"
"Yuki!"
"My name is Anetia Kin" (Kin means silver) she glared at Kagome and left the room. Kagome felt herself being lifted and the men laughed. One held her as the other went over to a table and picked up a knife. His cold eyes stabbed into Kagome's as did the knife.
"Ngh!" Kagome coughed and tried to struggle free from the man holding but couldn't as the knife was pushed deeper into her stomach.
"Maybe after this we can have some fun with the other woman you came here with" the men laughed and Kagome glared at them
"I won't let you touch her!" the man holding her yelled in pain and let her go as the other man backed away from her. The man who'd been holding her blew on his hands and Kagome noticed smoke coming from the palms. Kagome pulled the knife from her stomach and cornered the men.
"I thought she said the mistress was a normal human!"
"I'll kill you for even thinking about harming Sango" Kagome raised her hand when the door burst open and Inuyasha ran in.
"Kagome!"
"Inuyasha?" Kagome lowered her arm and the men tried to run out of the room but Inuyasha grabbed them and pinned them to the wall.
"Kagome wouldn't stab herself" Inuyasha gripped the men's necks
"We… we're told to kill… the mistress… please let us go…!"
"Inuyasha let them go" Kagome looked fearfully and the boy and he dropped the men who quickly pulled knives from their boots and slit their own throats.
"Oh my god!" Kagome ran into Inuyasha who held her as the blood flowed. Inuyasha tightened his hold on Kagome and she winced.
"They stabbed you" Inuyasha looked at Kagome's wound and picked her up
"I'm fine" Kagome smiled but winced again
"We need to find a doctor or something" Inuyasha rushed from the room into the black hall where he seemed to easily get through. As they exited the hall Kagome looked at Inuyasha and was shocked. He had white ears sticking from his head and his hair was silver.
"Inuyasha your hair and you have ears…" Kagome lifted her hands and rubbed Inuyasha's ears causing him to stop; he closed his eyes then shook his head.
"Don't do that, and what do you mean my hair and ears?" Inuyasha pulled a strand of his hair to find it silver and felt for his ears. Kagome took his hands and put them to the top of his head where he felt pointy dog-like ears.
"What the hell!" he looked at his hands and his nails were like claws
"Kagome?" Kagome looked to see Naraku coming towards them and lifting his sword that he was holding.
"Your blood, this demon hurt you!"
"No, no Naraku don't hurt Inuyasha! It wasn't him he's not a demon! Well at least I didn't think so…"
Naraku put down his sword and looked at Kagome's wound. He put his hands over it and closed his eyes. Kagome laughed as she felt a tingle in her stomach and Naraku smiled lifting his hands. Kagome's wound was healed and the blood gone.
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"So Inuyasha is a half demon?"
"Yes, he seems to have more human blood though, for I could not sense any demon blood when I first met him"
"Must be why my parents left me to die…" Inuyasha crossed his arms, acting as if he didn't care.
"That can't be, they loved you I just know it. Maybe they were too poor to feed you or…"
"Demons don't usually mate with humans for love" Naraku spoke with a stern expression
"Maybe Inuyasha's parents were different. Maybe the demons wouldn't accept the human or her child and the humans we're afraid of the demon and the child. So they found it best to leave Inuyasha in a world where he could live as a human and be accepted into a less dangerous place. Then they…" Kagome closed her eyes to think and smiled
"They loved one another and Inuyasha" She daydreamed for a moment
"M'lady the men who tried to assassin you killed themselves but you said one of the servant women had told them to do so?"
"She looked like Yuki but she couldn't have been" Kagome made a hurt face
"If she was the one who gave you the black pearl then when she found out it didn't work to it's fullest she had those men try to assassin you. This could only mean she is working for a higher arc that wanted you dead before your powers explored high limits. I will send soldiers to look for the woman and kill her" Naraku sighed "I am only glad that Inuyasha came when he did"
"Ya…" Kagome got up and walked to the door
"M'lady?"
"I still haven't begun my training for today. Can we start now?" She tried to get off of the topic
"As you wish" Naraku stood and Kagome smiled
"I wanna be strong so that no one has to save me anymore. Inuyasha do you know where Sango and everyone else are?"
"No, I haven't seen 'em" Inuyasha shrugged, his hair shining in the light that snuck into the fortress
"You're hair is so pretty when it's silver, like the moon when it's full" Kagome smiled and thought "Isn't tonight a full moon? Inuyasha we should all go for a walk tonight wouldn't that be so pretty with your hair" Kagome laughed
"As you wish" Naraku bowed at the proposal
"Naraku please stop saying that. And please just call me Kagome"
"Yes M'… Kagome" Naraku held out his hand for Kagome and she took it with a smile
"To training we go! Come on Inuyasha"
"Why do I have to go?"
"Because I said so and I'm queen" Inuyasha mumbled then followed like a good dog ()
In the tani there were tall bushes surrounding the area, like protective walls, with small pink flowers blooming from them. Naraku handed Kagome the lightest sword he could find and stood a few in front of her, holding up his own sword.
"When you are coming down on your opponent you want to push down with the sword as if it heavier then your body. Like this" Naraku faced the dummy he had set out and jumped in the air towards it, as he came down he made it look as if the sword was pulling him like a magnet to the dummy, he thrust and the dummy fell in two.
"Um… ok I'll try" a new dummy was put out for Kagome, she jumped up but not as high and when she came down she only stuck her sword in the head, where it got stuck.
"Eh, heh, heh"
Inuyasha sweat dropped and Kagome rubbed the back of her head laughing
"Not as easy as it looks" Kagome pulled the sword from the dummy and stepped back to try again only doing the same thing three more times.
"Sir Naraku" two soldiers dressed in all black and metal came out with a white haired woman.
"Yu… I mean Anetia Kin!" Kagome went to go over to her but she glared with solid red eyes and Kagome backed up.
"Kagome this is her"
"Yes" Kagome looked down sad "But please don't kill her!"
"We have no choice"
"Aren't you supposed to follow my orders? I say don't kill her!" Kagome looked into Naraku's eyes strongly and he sighed
"HA! I can't believe you're the Devil; you're so pathetic, asking them to not kill me! I should've killed you myself! What kind of Devil salvages an assassin?" Kagome looked down hurt
"Take her to the cells" Naraku ordered and the guards turned but Anetia ripped loose of them and ran towards Kagome about to stab her with the sword she pulled from the soldier.
"Ah!" Kagome held up her sword to block the attack luckily in time before the sword came down on her. Anetia went to hit her from the side and with luck Kagome blocked again. The soldiers grabbed Anetia Kin and took the sword back.
"Heh, pretty good for a wimp like you. Too bad your little friend wasn't as smart as you" Anetia smirked cruelly
"Shippo! Where is he?"
"In an early grave" Anetia laughed and Kagome recognized it as the same laugh she heard when she was at the ceremony.
"Y--you killed him!" Kagome ran past them soldiers and through the halls, she searched every room she passed but saw no sign of Shippo. She asked the servants she passed if they had seen him but none had. Finally Kagome opened the door to her own room and found Shippo lying in a pool of blood.
"SHIPPO!" Kagome ran to his small body and lifted him up
"Ka…go… me…"
"Shh don't talk please just rest" tears streamed from Kagome's eyes as she carried Shippo to find Naraku. Blood flowed from cuts on his legs, arms, and his biggest wound on his side.
"Naraku! Someone please!" Kuro came from a room and looked at the limping body in Kagome's arms
"What happened?"
"Please help him please!"
"I can only conceal him in an orb that will stop the bleeding for a few minutes"
"Hurry please!" Kuro closed her eyes and moved her hands in a triangular form.
A black sphere formed around Shippo as Naraku and Inuyasha rushed to the scene.
"Naraku hurry, help him please!" tears rushed from Kagome's eyes and Naraku put his hand to the sphere speaking in a different language. He pulled away and Shippo's injuries slowly disappeared.
"Thank you" Kagome hugged Naraku her tears damping the front of his shirt. She let go of Naraku and whipped away her remaining tears.
"Where is Anetia?"
"In the cells" Naraku answered; Kagome began walking down the hall. (She knows where the cells are since Naraku brought her there when Inuyasha and everyone were locked up)
Kagome walked to the door on the left but stopped as she heard screaming of pain from behind the right door. She put her ears up to the door and heard another scream that was gurgled and then coughing followed by hard breathing. She went to open the door.
"Mistress" Kagome turned to see a guard behind her "Anetia Kin is in this room"
"Oh how stupid of me" Kagome laughed and the guard looked at her curiously as she walked into the room. "I wish to talk with her alone"
"Yes mistress" the guard closed the door leaving Kagome and Anetia.
"Find your friend?" Anetia laughed coldly
"You shouldn't have hurt him I was fine if it was me but not Shippo. I cannot forgive you Yuki" Kagome closed her eyes and Anetia laughed
"Humans really are stupid" Anetia spat at Kagome who immediately opened her eyes, which were now solid black with a small red pupil in the center. A fang peered from under her top lip and her hair grew longer until it reached passed her waist.
Kagome glared at Anetia and her eyes grew narrow. She held out her hand as black smoke formed into a long black sword. As Kagome walked towards Anetia her face changed. Anetia's eyes widened as the Mistress raised her arm and came down. In a deeper voice than Kagome's the mistress said,
"Payment for angering my souls sleep. If you return to this world do not come near this body or you will truly die"
"Mistress Kikyou…" Anetia fell to the floor. The Mistress closed her eyes and fell to the ground. Anetia's blood flowed around Kagome's body which was back to normal now, the blood making sure not to touch her.
Kagome jumped up and ran to the door when a hand wrapped around her arm.
"M'lady?" Kagome looked up at Naraku's worried face
"Where's Shippo?"
"He is playing in the castle gardens with the other young boy"
"And Anetia?"
"Dead" Kagome closed her eyes and began crying
"I didn't mean to--she didn't deserve to die, Shippo didn't die…" Kagome held onto Naraku and sobbed as he held her close
"M'lady—Kagome, Anetia wanted you dead, she tried to kill your friend what else could you do you did what was right"
"Killing someone isn't right… even if they did kill someone else what does killing THEM prove!" Kagome looked fiercely at Naraku then froze
"I'm sorry I just…" Naraku held Kagome tighter and she smiled
"I'm such a wimp…" Kagome pulled away only to be pulled back, by Naraku.
"You are a very brave Queen Kagome" he lifted her face to his, their lips meeting for a brief moment.
Ack! After going through this chapter I was so confused! I'm so sorry for anyone who read this before (though how would you know I'm saying sorry… I doubt you'd be reading this a second time… I'm going off track again…) Anyway I'm so sorry I've been taking so long to fix up this story. Hopefully it'll turn out better once I'm done, Thank you for all of your support readers!