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Chapter 8: I'm his what!

Korui settled down in the hot spring she had found and sighed. She closed her eyes as the water soothed her rattled nerves. She had pulled most of her hair into a loose bun on top of her head and secured it with chopsticks. A wisp of hair fell into her face and she blew it away only to have it fall lightly back across her nose. She grumbled quietly and tucked it behind her ear. She started to clear her mind of stress when Naraku's red eyes flashed in her mind. Their bright jewel tones shone in a mocking way as his laughter echoed in her ears. 'Your mine' his smirked had a wicked edge to it and then he lunged at her with his teeth bared.

"No!" She jerked up right breathing hard. She looked around and saw that nobody was around. She took a deep calming breath and settled back in her spot. Her fingers went to the teeth marks at her collarbone, tracing it lightly. "Why did he bite me…?" She looked to Kouvu who was on a rock near the edge of the water. "I mean what was he accomplishing? Pain yes but he could have caused that by hitting me or torturing me. He kept me at his place for two days, bites me then just lets me go….I swear this place just gets weirder and weirder." She looked at him and he looked at her as if he understood her.

She smiled a bit and scratched his ears. He wagged his tail and nipped at her fingers playfully. "Hey you little fuzz ball...watch it…" She reached for him to dunk him in the water but he scampered out of her reach and jumped onto a rock a few feet from where she sat , being just out of her reach. He crouched on the rock his tail in the air wagging from side to side. He got his nose really close to the water and then leapt into the water splashing her in the process.

"Hey you little monster!" She laughed and splashed him back. She smiled after a bit as she watched him paddle around the spring. She leaned back against the stone lining of the spring and sighed looking to the sky. "I hope Kagome and Inu Yasha get back soon with my stuff…"

She had sent them back to the present time with a list of things she needed and her key to her apartment. They had left about two hours ago and hoped they would be back soon. She figured it might be a bit longer because Kagome had not been to her place in a while and it might take her longer to find it. She smiled a little picturing a lost Kagome and a bitching Inu Yasha as he got impatient looking for the right building. She drifted off as she thought.

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Silver hair against the dark sky took over her thoughts. Ember eyes that could kill with a glare yet hold a softness and understanding that no one knew about. Eyes that have seen the world change and start to fall to the will of the sins. Sesshoumaru stood tall and lean with robes of blue instead of red. He seemed much younger then what he looked now. His eyes were much softer as the stars shone in them. He had a slight smile on his face, which seem a little out of character of the icy heart of a man that now roamed the western lands. He stood in a field of long grass with fireflies flickering through the air and blades of grass. His eyes flickered to a young woman who walked to him quietly and they embraced.

Korui's body tingled as if there were arms around her and she shifted a little in her sleep.

The woman looked up into the face of Sesshoumaru. They exchanged a few words and then kissed, it being full of love and passion. Sesshoumaru's fingers laced through the woman's hair his other hand resting on the small of her back. The woman's hand rested on his cheek her other on his chest. The two broke the kiss and the woman became visible. Her eyes were both violet purple, exactly like Kouruis'. It was Moridoku. Sesshoumaru was the one to talk.


"I love you Moridoku…will you bare this Sesshoumaru's mark?"


Moridoku smiled loving up into his face stroking his cheek gently. "I would love nothing more then to do so my dear Sesshoumaru."


Sesshoumaru kissed Moridoku and then pulled the collar of her kimono down a little exposing her collar bone-

Korui woke up her eyes wide and breathing a little hard. Her lips tingled as well as her collarbone. 'What kind of dream was that?' She caught her breath as she started to look around for her cloths. A twig snapped and she froze. Her eyes scanned the trees around her but she could not see anything. A light appeared from behind a tree, coming towards her. It was Sango with a lantern.

"Korui, I was starting to worry about you. Kagome and Inu Yasha are back with your things." She set the lantern down on a rock.

"Thanks Sango." She got out and dried with a towel Kagome had given her and dressed in a kimono Kiaede had given her to barrow until she got her cloths. Kouvu was curled up in a ball next to a rock near where she had been sitting. She wrapped him in the towel and picked him up. She slung her bag over her shoulder with her free hand. "Lead the way."

Sango nodded and picked up the lantern leading them back to the village.

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Korui entered the hut after Sango to find that Kiaede had not returned from the visit she had to take to a family in the village. She had to leave right when Korui, Kagome and Inu Yasha had gotten back. She said she would talk with them as soon as she got back.

Korui sighed and set Kouvu down near the fire still wrapped in the towel. Inu Yasha was eating what looked like his second bowl of ramen while Shippo ate a lollipop Kagome had brought back for him. Kagome was sitting next to a bag that must have her stuff in it. She walked over. "Is this it?"

Kagome nodded. "Yeah, it took us a while to find your place and Inu Yasha complained the whole time…till he saw your shop window."

Inu yasha's ears perked when he hear his name mentioned. He swallowed the ramen in his mouth and then spoke. "Did you really make all those weapons?"

Korui nodded. "Yeah, I work with metals. Weapons, armor, welding…you name it I work with it." She started to go through the bag. She found some cloths said a quiet 'thank you kami' and then went to go change in a private area.

Inu Yasha looked a bit puzzled. "Welding…what's that?" He looked to Kagome while Sango and Miroku took interest as well.

"Well, umm…It's where you have two pieces of metal and you melt a rod of metal at the edge of each piece of metal making them one. It is use to build large buildings and bridges in my time. Korui is a free lancer or someone who has their own business. She makes weapons for display and as props in plays and movies. Many people go to her to repair family heirlooms as well. She also works on building and bridge repairs under a co-companies name at times but most of the time it's under hers."

The group just looked at her a bit aw struck. Even Shippo was looking at her in mid lick. Miroku was the first to speak up.

"That quiet an accomplishment…she must be kept quiet busy."

"Yes, we hardly see her anymore. She is always working on something. We usually only see her on holidays. I kind of miss talking to her like we use to."

Korui entered at that moment dressed in a tank top and black jeans. Her hair was down and combed out. "Talk to whom?"

"Oh, nothing…" Kagome said with a smile. She saw the bands of flames on her sisters' arms. "Hey when did you get those tattoos?" Her sister had only gotten one before and that was when she was in a gang as a teen.

"These? I donno, they just appeared after I got in a fight with this guy name Sesshoumaru or something like that." She started to look for something to tie her hair up with.

"Sesshoumaru!" All four yelled in shock at the same time. Shippo jumped onto Kagomes shoulder. "You go in a fight with Sesshoumaru?"

Korui stopped looking through the bag and looked at everyone. "Yeah, is there something wrong with that?"

"Sesshoumaru is Inu Yasha's older brother and lord of the western lands." Sango said looking from Korui to Inu Yasha.

"And…point being?" Korui still did not get why they over reacted. So she got in a fight…that almost killed her. "He's the one who started it not me."

"He usually is the one to start the fight with Inu Yasha but with other people, they have to do something to motivate him to attack. What did you do?" Kagome asked her sister.

"Nothing, this little toad thing started babbling at me because I bumped into 'his lord' and I hit him with a staff he was holding."

"Ah, that would be Jaken." Miroku said. "The staff he holds is called the staff of two head." He smiled a bit. "So you hit him over the head with his own staff?"

"No more like hit him fifty feet into some near by trees." Korui went back to looking through her bag. Shippo laughed a little and went back to eating his lollipop.

"Sesshoumaru got mad at you for that?" Inu Yasha said looking a little shocked.

"No, what I think set him off was the fact that I didn't get bullied to his will and talked back to him." Korui pulled a hair tie from her bag and started to put her hair up. That was when Kagome noticed the bite on her neck.

"Korui…what happened to your neck?" Kagome pointed to it and the others noticed it too.

"Well…" She finished with her hair. She though she might as well get a kick out of the story. "I was fighting with Sesshoumaru when this chick on a feather came down and grabbed me." She made a grabbing gesture with her arms. "I was of course near going unconscious and didn't know what was going on. I then woke up chained to this filthy wall with my cloths all ripped up." she placed her hands together as if bound by invisible robe. "This guy entered the room and just stared at me, it kind of creeped me out. All of a sudden he lashed out and bit me!" She jumped at Inu Yasha in a flash and bit his arm. Her sudden movement and his outburst caused everyone to jump slightly.

"Ah! What the hell do you think your doing?" He growled and pushed her away from him. Korui sat back in her spot laughing.

Kagome looked a bit shaken. "What did the man look like?" She figured who it might be when she had mentioned the woman with the feather, Kagura.

"Well, he had long wavy black hair with kind of pale skin. His eyes were red and he wore blue eye shadow. He wore a kimono of purple and black. I think he was a transvestite and gave me rabies. "

"I knew it, it's Naraku." Kagome said looking at the group. Inu Yasha gulped slightly.

"Kagome…y-you know what that means right? When he bit her…" He looked from Kagome to Korui.

"Yeah-" Korui stated. "That he's a raving loony tic that's bites complete strangers." She took out a bowl of ramen and poured some hot water into it.

Kagome looked at Inu Yasha. "No…I don't think so…"

"It means he has taken Korui as him life long mate." The hut fell completely silent. Korui burned herself with the water the split from the cup over her hand.

"What do you mean life long mate? I'm like his bitch or something?" Korui looked completely out raged. 'That bastard! I swear I'm going to kill him when I find him again!' She stood up cursing and grabbing a long item wrapped in cloth that was next to her bag.

"Where are you going?" Kagome said looking worried as she watched Korui unwrap the item.

"I'm going to go kill him is what I'm going to do." She unwrapped a sword that was at the length of about four and a half feet. 'Your dead Naraku, you slimy bastard.'

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A/N: Well that's all for now folks thanks for reading…I really need to start to get these chapters longer then what I have been writing. Anywho, Thanks for reading and hope that you enjoyed it!