Chapter 18
Touch of Love
Naraku eyed the ghostly servant kneeling in front of him. His curiosity got the better of him; he wanted to know more about this servant of Katos'. Naraku had been slightly surprised that the servant had walked through his private quarters phasing through the wall as if he wasn't even there.
Naraku would never admit to being taken off guard, by a foreign servant no less. His ego couldn't, no wouldn't allow that knowledge to pass through to others to use against him.
"Stoicheio, is that your name? What exactly does it mean?"
"Stoicheio is m' nam' und it means ghost. Master sent may here to send y' this message."
Stoicheio out stretched his hand out with a slip of paper in it.
'Stoicheio is exactly what I need to infiltrate Sesshomaru's fortress. He passes through walls without leaving behind a trace.' He grabbed the paper out of the ghostly servant's hand. "Can you become invisible?"
Stoicheio just looked at the hanyou, his body slowly shifting out of focus.
"Kagura!" He turned his attention away from the ghost onto his defiant reincarnation. "Take care of this, I will send out some saimyoshou to help you deal with the matter."
Kagura raised her fan in front of her face while using her other hand to reach out and grab the paper from his disgusting appendage. When the paper was within reach Naraku's hand pulled away from hers.
"Don't disappoint me." He didn't give her a glare as she had expected instead he graced her with a smile that could warm any woman's loins.
She gave off a disgruntled sigh as he placed the message into her hand. Kagura glared at her hanyou father and walked out of the room.'Damn him.'
"So you have the gift of invisibility... You may be of some use to me." Naraku looked at Stoicheio whose transparent body became visible once again.
"Tell me, what do you know of the Shikon no Tama?" Stoicheio didn't notice the flash that pasted through Naraku's eyes.
"Ah don ken this Shikoon na Tana" He pronounced awkwardly.
"Well than, let me tell you a little about the famed jewel." Naraku gestured for him to sit on the pillow opposite to him.
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"Shimatta!" Kagura looked down onto the tree tops looking for the last members of the Inu group. When she came across the missing members she landed her feather onto the ground.
"Kagura what are you doing here?" Shippo Squeaked.
She gave the group a once over, 'without the hanyou or the miko this group will be easier to defeat."
"Naraku found some use for you three." The little demon neko gave off a loud growling sound while flames consumed her small cat form and within moments Kirara emerged.
"Four if you count the fur ball."
Kagura smirked as she lifted her hand signalling a swarm of demons to attack the wary humans.
She lifted her fan into the air swiping it in the direction of the female slayer. "Dance of Blades!" Her blades missed by a fraction of a second as the youkai slayer parried her attack.
"HIRAIKOTSU" Sango sent her boomerang flying past the wind demon, the Hiraikotsu turned and headed straight towards the female youkai.
Kagura used the wind to misguide the weapon onto a different target.
"Miroku look out!"
The boomerang was meet with a shield hitting it with the force of the wind, but was deflected off with ease. Within moments the shard hunters vanished into thin air.
"Where'd they go?"
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"I broke a nail!" The goddess huffed in annoyance. "Now I have to look after a bunch of humans, today is just not my day." She folded her arms across her chest pushing her breasts upwards to the delight of one chaste houshi.
Miroku looked the goddess over, she was the most beautiful woman he had ever seen, her golden blond hair sparkled in the sun light, her blue orbs matched the oceans blue and her body was...
"Hentai!"
Thump
The corner of the Hiraikotsu was slammed down on top of Miroku's head with surprising force.
"Ouch, Lady Sango what did this humble mo..."
"Shut it houshi!" Sango demanded.
Shippo and Kirara looked around the cove they were transported to; along the rocky walls of the steep cliffs were untouched gems and diamonds. The fire blazing not but ten feet from where they stood set a soft atmosphere while the beautiful stones reflected off the light in astounding colours.
The clashing of the waves caught Shippo's attention; he focused his eyes more closely towards the shore and found a huge human sized oyster shell on the beach. His breath caught in his throat when the woman spoke.
"Well if you two are done fighting, I would like to inform you as to why you two are here."
Both of the squabbling humans turned their attention towards the goddess looking over her nails.
"Might I ask as to why we were brought here" Miroku walked towards the beautiful goddess, "by such a gorgeous woman such as yourself?"
"I don't think he was paying attention to what she was saying!" Shippo stating the obvious while watching Miroku ogle the Goddess's assets.
Miroku smiled as he took hold of both the Goddess's hands "Would you do me the honour of baring my child?"
"Cha…" The beautiful blond haired deity looked the monk over, her face looked thoughtful until. "Like I would do it with a mortal! You have got to be kidding me." She took her hands away form the houshi and the soft sounds of gay laughter echoed across the cove.
When she calmed down, she smiled the biggest smile she could muster. "Now I see why Kagome keeps you. No wonder cousin keeps you so close to her heart, not only do you amuse her you also bring her happiness."
"Cousin?" Shippo asked
"Well ya! I'm the goddess of love, Aphrodite" She spoke as if it were common knowledge. When she spoke again her eyes light up and her hair blew softly behind her.
"My father Zeus is the king of the gods, his older brother Hades is the king of the Underworld or of the dead as some say. Hades is Kagomes' father making her my cousin sort of."
"What do you mean sort of?" Sango questioned
Their attention was brought to a dark masculine laughter. His body was covered in armour and a sword at his belt.
"Ares, what are you doing here bro?
"I am the god of war Aphrodite, did you forget that?" He looked at the group observing each one of them, his eyes lingered on the slayer and winked. "I am here because I sense a great battle will occur."
Miroku the ever observing one, seen the wink and clenched his hand tightly.
"Kagome is also the daughter of Persephone who is the daughter of Zeus and Demeter the goddess of the harvest. That is why she is the goddess of everything yet nothing." Aphrodite's voice broke of Mirokus' train of thought of sucking in the war god into his wind tunnel.
"Hold on, you mean to tell me that Kagome is the Granddaughter of your father Zeus, and Demeter. They had a daughter Persephone, who has a daughter with Hades, Zeus older brother. Isn't that incest?"
"I guess we shouldn't tell them that Demeter is also Zeus's older sister, not to mention that his wife Hera is also his older sister." No matter how quiet she spoke her voice carried her words towards the mortals.
"WHAT?"
"Sango, you must see that in order to keep their line pure they must mate with each other, some of the nobles and royal families do that in order to keep the fortune to themselves. Not everything is seen in black and white."
A booming laughter caught their attention, when they looked over at Ares they seen him leaning on his knees panting with laughter, Aphrodite had the smallest of a hint of a blush on her face.
"You are right monk, but you see we are not like you mortals, Aphrodite here is my sister and daughter of Zeus, but believe it or not she was born from sea-foam." He gave off a small laugh. "We do not have blood like you mortals; we have what is called Ichor, its properties I will not disuse with mortals."
"I see."
"Come we must prepare you for battle!" Ares stated.
"Wait before that happens I want to do this first." Aphrodite lifted her right hand slightly in the air; she turned her palm upwards and brought it to her lips. She took in a small breath and let it out. The air she breathed out turned into a sparkling dust that flew right towards the monk and the slayer.
"Breath of love"
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Greek
Stoicheio - Ghost
Kato – Evil
Ares – AIR- eez
Aphrodite – a –fro –DYE – tee
Demeter – dee- MEE- tur
Zeus – zoose
Japanese
Neko – Cat
Shimatta - Damn it!
Hentai – Pervert (Everyone knows that one!)
Note: Aphrodite had a sexual relationship with Ares according to mythology.
There are two ways Aphrodite came to life
She was born from sea foam
Daughter of Zeus and a oceannid Dione
If you have any questions about the gods or the story in general I will more than happy answer.
