: Chapter 3 :

: Started: June 5, 2006 :

: Finished:

Sesshoumaru left Rin's room and retreated back to his so that he could finish the paper work that he had started but didn't finish on time because Aki had come back. He sighed without knowing it and sat down on his bed, while she was gone the only thing that he could look to for comfort was the statue.

"Lord Sesshoumaru, don't you think that you should get to working on the wedding between you and Aki?" Jaken asked.

"She disappeared again, she's trying to fight this was alone." Sesshoumaru answered as he scribbled something down. Jaken nodded and left, Sesshoumaru set the pen down and looked outside. "Why don't you let me help you?" Sesshoumaru asked to no one in particular, there was no moon so it was dark, and there was nothing that he could see in the pitch black.

"You know…just because she doesn't ask for help, doesn't mean that she doesn't want it." Ceci's voice said from behind him, Sesshoumaru turned around and was face to face with Ceci.

"Aren't you dead?" Sesshoumaru asked.

"Yes, but since Aki attacked Death the flow of souls has been messed up, and certain people close to Aki or know Aki get to come back to live again. I don't know why it's only them but it is." Ceci said.

"No! That means Naraku is-!"

"Back." Ceci finished for him.

"We've gotta warn Aki!" Sesshoumaru dashed to the door and Ceci followed, he noticed there were a few features that were different about her.

Her skin was paler and her eyes were now a dark green, instead of a light green, she also looked stronger and wiser.

"You look like you've been through hell." Sesshoumaru said.

"I have been, I've also seen things that Aki mad can't compare to." Ceci added. "Though she does come pretty close. She should be not that far from here, after all It is night and she's probably hungry." Ceci added.

"WHAT THE HELL?" Aki's voice rang through the castle at a high-pitched note, Sesshoumaru stopped and covered his ears in pain. Ceci looked at him funny.

"What's wrong?"

"Someone yelled a high-pitched note and it hurts my ears." Sesshoumaru answered through gritted teeth. Ceci looked around.

"Who did it sound like?" she asked.

"Aki." Sesshoumaru said he took his hands off his ears and took off down the halls. Ceci blinked.

"HUH! He's gone!" she said in surprise with her eyes wide. "HEY!" she yelled and started running after him. Soon Sesshoumaru found Aki, she was bleeding in several places and she couldn't see, do to blood loss.

"Aki!" Sesshoumaru said, Aki looked over.

"Sesshoumaru?" she asked. "AH!" she yelled as Naraku impaled her on a sword that he had gotten a hold of. Sesshoumaru growled. Naraku slowly pulled the sword out, Aki cringed and gasped in pain when Naraku stabbed in back though.

"Leave her alone." Sesshoumaru growled warningly.

"Oh no. I'm no where near down with her, she's going to suffer in the pits of hell, just as I have." Naraku added malevolently.

"Naraku leave her alone!" Ceci growled through her fast breathing. "If you don't leave her alone we're going to kill you!" Aki wasn't hearing anything besides muffled noises. Aki growled and her face wasn't filled with pain like it had been before.

"Listen up you ass." Aki growled in a low voice. She took the sword out of her stomach and her hand was cut. "The only one who's going to be giving orders or killing someone is me. So shut your fat ugly mouth that's good for nothing and get down on your knees where you belong!" Naraku growled and slapped her. Aki growled and Naraku found Aki's arm through his head.

"This…this isn't the Aki I know…" Ceci whispered in horror. Aki smiled, her eyes were still blurred but that didn't stop her from doing anything at the moment.

"I don't know her at this point either…" Sesshoumaru said. Aki leaned over to Naraku's ear and whispered something in it.

"You should learn to behave or else you're going to die and then I will never have any fun killing you slowly. I'll leave you on the brink of death and then get you back to how you are now…soon enough you'd be my lap dog and I'd just kill you like that. How would you like that?" she pulled away and smiled malevolently. Naraku scowled and Aki pulled her arm out of his head. Then he attacked Aki again, this time he went for her head and tried to chop it off, she leaned back to avoid the blade and without stopping she leaned all the way back and back flipped, ramming her feet into Naraku's chin, making his jaw break from the forces of the hits.

"Ow…that HAS to hurt." Ceci said, Sesshoumaru nodded in agreement.

"Alright, I'm fed up with you, always coming back, my fight's not with you anymore, it's with Death hence I can kill you now." Aki's hand was engulfed by black fire. "Bye bye." She said. Then Naraku burst into flames and was totally gone, soul and all.

"Where'd he go?" Ceci asked as she looked around for any sign of Naraku.

"He's gone and he's not going to come back. He's in limbo." Aki answered, she was back to normal and as she said it she collapsed to the ground.

"Aki!" Sesshoumaru and Ceci yelled as they ran over to Aki. She was on her knees, even though she was unconscious. Sesshoumaru picked her up and carried her to the castle, and into the infirmary. She was still bleeding from the wound Naraku had inflicted when he stabbed her.

"It needs to be stitched." Sesshoumaru said as he looked at the wound.

"I'm not doing it!" Ceci said as she took a step back, Sesshoumaru rolled his eyes.

"Hand me a needle and some wire." Sesshoumaru said as held his hand out.

"From where?"

"That cupboard over there." Sesshoumaru pointed to a small door in the wall and Ceci walked over to it and grabbed the needle and wire. He quickly threaded the needle and set to work on Aki's wound. An hour later he was done and his hands where covered in blood.

"That's…so gross…" Ceci said as she held her hand over her mouth.

"Nn.." Aki mumbled and she started to wake, she had slept through the whole stitching of her stomach and was just now waking up. "Oh…my head. What happened?" Aki asked as she looked around to see if she remembered anything.

"Aki!" Ceci said, Aki's eyes went wide.

"Ceci! What're you doing here? You're dead." Aki muttered. "I must be dreaming, someone pinch me…OW! I WAS KIDDING!" she growled, she looked to how pinched her and almost launched herself at him, if it wasn't for the stitches in her stomach she would have. "What happened? The last thing I remember is being stabbed my Naraku."

"Well, first of well, welcome back to the living, you were almost dead." Sesshoumaru began. "Second of all, I'm not sure what happened but you killed Naraku, now there's nothing left of him, you said he was in limbo. After you were out and we brought you back here, for the last hour I have been stitching the gaping hole in your stomach back together and Ceci here's been going on and on about 'how gross it is'."

"Oh…" Aki said, "You didn't answer my very second question. What's she doing here, I thought she was dead."

"Well, as you know, Naraku came back, it has something to do with the flow of the souls being screwed up or something, only Naraku and I got to come back since we are the ones close to you." Ceci explained before Sesshoumaru could open his mouth.

"Ahh…ok now any one want to help me up?" Aki asked as she held her arms out to her sides, Sesshoumaru ignored them and picked her up bridal style. "That works to." Aki added.

"Where to?" he asked.

"First I think she should get some rest!" Ceci said as she jumped up and down to see over Sesshoumaru's shoulders, since he was taller than her.

"Food comes first!" Aki said as she threw her hand into the air.

"Food it is." Sesshoumaru nodded in agreement.

"Lord Sesshoumaru!" Rin yelled as she came down the hall. "Look what I found! The old path of Fire Flowers!" Rin said as she held up a bouquet of them.

"Good, this means that we don't have to plat new ones." Sesshoumaru said. Aki looked from Sesshoumaru to Rin. "Why don't you go find a vase for them? Aki gonna be bed ridden for a while." Sesshoumaru added, Aki scowled and rolled her eyes, she didn't want to be useless and in bed for a while, but she knew she didn't have a choice.

"What'd Aki do this time?" Rin asked.

"I got myself into a fight, well more like I was jumped because the person didn't like me so they wanted to get red of me." Aki explained from her place in Sesshoumaru's arms.

"Ooooh, you shouldn't get into so many fight's Aki!" Rin scolded, Aki laughed, but then stopped because it hurt too much.

"Ow…no more laughing, it hurts." Aki muttered.

"Serves you right, I say!" Ceci said with a nod of her head. "Anyways what do you want to eat? I'll go get it." She added.

"Steak sounds nice!" Aki said.

"No, apple sauce." Sesshoumaru said, Ceci nodded and went to the kitchen to get Aki food. Aki looked at Sesshoumaru.
"Why mush?" Aki asked.

"You can digest things very well at this point." Sesshoumaru poked her in the stomach and held up his fingers, they were bloody.

"You know…you have an excellent point there. NOW BRING ON THE NASTY APPLE SAUCE!" Aki yelled, Sesshoumaru jumped and Aki clamped her hands over her moth. "Oops…my bad." Aki said with a chuckle, Sesshoumaru threw her up and caught her, when he caught her she gripped his arm. "Don't. Do that!" she growled.

"Do what? This?" Sesshoumaru asked as he kissed her, Aki smiled and kissed him back.

"No, I'll allow that." Aki said with a smile.

"I got the apple sauce!" Ceci said. Aki looked at it, she swore she saw it move.

"Was it me or did it just move?" Aki asked as her lip curled back in distaste.

"It was you." Sesshoumaru answered.

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Aki: Well we hoped you liked it…we're not going to do reviews today, Oddone's too tired.

Oddone: You might be to if you've been running around all day!

Aki: Good point anyways later peoplez!