Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Inu Yasha characters and is great appreciative to the creator of them to allow me to use their characters. I do how ever own Korui.

Kitsune: Hey everyone, Zero couldn't be here this time. I want to thank everyone who has reviewed yet again, you help keep my writing. I just want to t let you know that at times they will be out of character but that is just to get the plot out there. After that I will try to keep them in character the best I can. Thanks bunches and enjoy.

Chapter 7: The Prophecy

Korui jumped over the wall and nearly collided with something furry, large and black. She skidded to a stop and looked back to see that it was the wolf from the shrine but bigger. "What? How did you get here…and bigger?" She walked up to him and held out her hand to him. He muzzled and licked it wagging his tail. She noticed her backpack a few feet behind him. "Hey you brought my bag." She smiled a bit. "I just might keep you." She scratched his ears. He burst into a ball of flames changing into his smaller size and jumped into her arms. "You got spunk I give you that." She shifted him to her left arm and pick up her backpack placing it the strap over her shoulder and headed off in the direction she thought Keades village was.

Kagome paced back and forth while Inu Yasha sat on the floor with his chin in one hand and drumming the fingers of his other on his knee his sword tucked in the crook of his arm. "I'm sure she's fine Kagome."

"I want to think that too but she has been gone for over three days." she stopped in front of a window a looked out. "I can't help but worry about her."

"Keh, what ever." He closed his eyes his ears twitching slightly. Kagome paced for a few more minutes before she picked up her bow and arrows. Inu Yasha opened one eyes and watched her. "What are you doing?"

"I'm going to go look for Korui." She walked thought the door, Inu Yasha getting up and following her. Shippo popped out of her backpack with a pocky in his mouth and scampered after them. He caught up with the two on the bridge and jumped on Kagome's shoulder. "I'm coming too." He stated as he clung to her uniform shirt. Kagome smiled and nodded.

Korui was about two miles north of the village. She was talking to the little wolf who just looked up at her with his big green blue eyes. "Hmmm…I need to think of a name for you." The wolf cocked its head. "Lets see…how about Lee." the wolf shook its head a bit. "No? How about…" She smiled a bit. "Sesshoumaru." The wolf make a face and shook its head growling a bit. "Don't like that name? Me neither." She giggled a little. "Hmmm, I know Kouvu." The wolf yipped and wagged it's tail. "Yeah, I like that name, Kouvu it is."

After a few minutes the pup yawned and lounged over one of her shoulders. She smiled and stroked his back lightly. She felt around her bag with her free hand and pulled out the book looking the cover over. The cover bare of the wolf that once was on it leaving a design that was similar to the one that had appeared on her arms looking like tattoos. They weren't that big, a three inch band of flames running around her upper arms. When she was in her full demon form they ran down her entire arm but now they where only on her upper arm. The bracelet caught her eye and she sighed. She had no clue how to get it off. "Well it's not that…bad looking…" She turned her wrists and the silver flashed in the sun slight as encircled her entire wrist. She put the book back in her back and touched the spot that Narako had bitten her. She shivered and looked at the sky. "Bastard…why did he bite me?"

Naraku watched her from a mirror and chuckled. "My plan has been set into action."

Kagura looked at him from where she knelt. "What plan? Why did you mark her?"

"Well there is a rumor of a prophecy going around. When you said you found her at the shrine of Midoriku I figured she must be the one."

Kagura looked at him. "The one?"

"Yes, the one that will bring me to my knees though she does not know that yet. She will be my demise if she finds out how truly powerful she really is and accesses it. I got to her before anyone else could and took her for my own." He smiled. "If I hadn't, history might repeat it's self."

"What do you mean?" She have him a speculating look.

"Well, you know the story of Midoriku and how she fought against the seven strongest of the youki's then sealed all their souls in the shikon jewel. Well she had a little love fling with a famous lord of the western lands that no one knew about."

Kagura had a look of surprise a little jealousy on her face. "He would never fall for a human, he believes they all should rot in hell plus there is no proof that he really did love her right?"

Naraku smiled not really paying attention to her last remark. "Yes, surprising isn't it. Sesshoumaru of all people loving a human, a priestess. This happened of coarse before anyone really knew of his past or who he was for that matter. Well when she died sealing the demons, he went into a little depression phase, showing no emotion but hatred to the world. He was getting close to coming out of it when his father got a human pregnant and he got a half blood brother. Sesshoumaru was furious at this, his father having a child with a woman he loved, the life he didn't get the chance to have." He looked at Korui's face in the mirror. "With his destined mate." He smiled despite himself.

"Then one night," He continued after a bit. "his father dies saving Inu yasha and his mother. Sesshoumaru was furious when his father told him that Inu Yasha was going to get his fathers sword and risk his life to save them. After that his heart turned cold as ice and he viewed the world around him as a hell on earth. That's why they hate each other so much."

"But what does this girl have to do with all of this?"

"Everything, she is the reincarnation of Midoriku."

"What? No she can't be."

"Yes." Naraku stood up and walked to a window and opened it. "It is said that when the reincarnation of the great priestess comes and possesses the book, the kimono, bracelet and the sword of Midoriku then the prophecy has been opened. Here's the catch though, the count down to the worlds end starts the moment the bracelet is placed around her wrist. It started three days ago, leaving her till midnight of the next new moon to gather the jewel and get it back to the shrine to be kept there for an eternity and out of good and evil hands." He chuckled. "She has a slight problem though, I have most of the jewel." He took it out of his kimono and held it in the sun light. "But there is a slight chance she could get it back and that is if she and Sesshoumaru join together to face me. She will have to powers to match me but we would end up killing each other. She needs someone who is an almost match to help bring me down."

"But Sesshoumaru would never go for that." Kagura stood and walked over to him. "He hates her, I saw it."

"Yes but he knows who she is the reincarnation of and will soon be after her to question her."

"But he tried to kill her."

"Yes but he was too blinded by her insults to him and of rage that he didn't really care who she was and only wanted her blood to spill across the ground before him."

"So…if he is calm when he meets her again he will figure things about the prophecy as well and to catch the heart of the woman he loved yet again."

"Yes but I have taken her for myself and that will wound him greatly and allowing me to get to him and others through her."

Kagura nodded and smiled. "I see now." Naraku turned to her and smiled.

"Yes, now we just need to wait for the right moment to use her."

Korui was nearing the village when she heard people calling her name. It sounded like Kagome and Shippo, Inu Yasha with them though helping with little enthusiasm. Korui headed in their direction and soon ran into them. "Hey guys." She waved to them.

Kagome saw her and hugged her. "I was so worried about you, where were you?" She stepped back and saw Korui's tattered cloths. "What happened to you?"

"It's a long story you wouldn't really believe half of…"Korui sighed and shifted her bag on her shoulder. "Lets just get to the village so I can clean up and change…damn I don't have any cloths to change into."

"You'd be surprised…"Kagome said smiling. "I have seen some pretty strange things here. Oh, don't worry about cloths Korui, Inu Yasha and I can go grab you some right Inu Yasha?" She looked at Inu Yasha and he just crossed his arms mumbling a 'Whatever…' He noticed the little wolf on her shoulder.

"Hey, what's with the wolf?" He asked making a slight face at it.

"Oh him? He…kind of followed me." She smiled at Kagome. "Thanks sis." She walked past them. "I'll tell you what happened after I get fresh cloths and something to eat." Shippo agreed with her on getting food. Kagome and Inu Yasha follwed her back to the village the wolf snoring quietly on Korui's shoulder.

Kitsune: Well That's all, hope it was good. R&R please!