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Chapter 23

Taka tossed the shards in the air and caught them again.

'Pathetic old bat,' she thought.

She smirked and held the four shards, one between each finger.

"I can't believe Kagome would leave these four precious fragments with an old hag," she said with a sigh.

The shard in her neck let off a faint black glow. It was why she was like this. She made a slit in her arm, embedding one shard in the cut. She did the same to the other arm and both legs. She shook her head for a second and when she opened her eyes again they were violets with the red pupil again. She smirked and her fangs grew longer. So long that they poked a bit out of her mouth this time. Her claws also grew abnormally long. She let out an evil kind of laugh.

'Blood!'

The word ran through her mind.

'Blood.'

She was craving it now. She took a whiff of the air. She grinned. A human mother and a toddler. She ran towards the scent. After a few minutes the two humans came into view. The mother turned and screamed. She pulled her child's arm and began to run.

'A chase...? Fun,' thought Taka.

She jumped into a tree and bounded back down and slashed the woman from her right shoulder to her left hip. Taka got her claws almost right through. The woman let out a cry and collapsed. Taka raised her hand and licked off some off the blood. Her ear twitched when she heard the child begin to cry. She looked over at him. She smirked and grabbed him by the collar of his shirt dragging him along behind her as she ran.

xXx Kikyo xXx

Kikyo stood ready with her bow and arrow. She had heard the woman cry out and knew that whatever harmed her was heading Kikyo's way. She held the arrow and narrowed her eyes.

'Now!' she thought as she released it.

The arrow flew. She heard a gasp of surprise. She got another arrow ready and walked into the clearing where she heard the gasp. She sensed four fragments of the Shikon no tama. She kept her arrow ready.

Taka snarled when she heard Kikyo's footsteps. Kikyo stared at her with the other arrow still ready.

"Hmph... you're just a pathetic hanyou," said Kikyo, "Like Inuyasha."

Taka snarled when she said that and ripped out the arrow. She turned to look at Kikyo. Their eyes met. Taka had the image of a younger Kikyo holding out flowers to her. Taka shook her head and her eyes cleared as she looked at Kikyo again.

"Taka!" Kikyo gasped, "Onee-sama? (A/N thats how Keade says big sister in Japanese... if I remember right...)

Taka's eyes turn dark violet again and she ran at Kikyo, her eyes filled with rage. Taka slashed at Kikyo but missed. Kikyo looked at Taka's neck when Taka faced her again. The black glow. Kikyo seen it.

"A tainted fragment of the Shikon no tama!" Kikyo said aloud.

Taka slashed at her again, but this time Kikyo reached her arm out to where Taka's neck was. Her hand went right through taking the shard with it. Taka stopped. Her eyes cleared again. She turned to Kikyo.

"Who are you?" she growled.

"Don't you remember me Taka?" asked Kikyo.

Taka shook her head.

Kikyo put her hands together as if she was praying and chanted a few words.

'This will help you remember onee-sama,' she thought.

The spell made Taka pass out. Taka lay on the ground and breathed as though she was only sleeping.

"I'm not as skilled as mother was when it comes to memory spells Taka but this will have to do," Kikyo kneeled beside Taka.

She looked over at the child she seen Taka have. Dead. Kikyo sighed sadly and looked back at Taka.

'Why does the jewel have to do so much damage?' she thought.

She heard a snap of a twig from above her. She looked up. Sesshomaru stood before her.

"I knew i smelt that hanyou's scent," he growled.

"What do you want Sesshomaru?" asked Kikyo.

"To kill her," he pointed the tokigen at Taka.

"Nande?"

"She made the mistake of badmouthing this Sesshomaru."

Kikyo narrowed her eyes.

"Is that your only reason!"

"Hai. Now move out of my way miko," he raised his sword.

"Sesshomaru!" Inuyasha's voice came from the forest.

He jumped out of the forest running in front of Kikyo and Taka.

"Still after Taka?... Pathetic," Inuyasha smirked, "Why did you save her back in the mountains if you still want to kill her?"

"That was only to repay a debt... she saved Rin so i repaid her," he said emotionlessly.

"So you're going to attack her while she's down? How cowardly."

"Urasai!" growled Sesshomaru.

"Why are you here Kikyo?" Inuyasha asked without looking back at the miko, "I thought if you'd kill a hanyou who ever killed a human," he looked at the dead child through the corner of his eye.

Kikyo didn't answer.

"Why didn't you kill her?"

"Because she's..." Kikyo stopped.

"Hai?"

Kikyo bit her lip.

"Kikyo?..." growled Inuyasha now getting annoyed.

"She's my half-sister!" said Kikyo.

"Nani!" exclaimed both Inuyasha and Sesshomaru at the same time.

'That's probably why I thought Taka was Kikyo in those miko clothes!' thought Inuyasha.

Inuyasha turned to Kikyo.

"You're not lying... are you?" he said when he seen her eyes.

"Why do you think I didn't kill you when we first met? She was the reason I grew soft for hanyou's," said Kikyo.

Sesshomaru put his sword away.

'Inuyasha has a strange taste in women," he thought as he walked away, 'I'll just get Taka later when she's awake.'

"Why didn't she live with you when we first met?" asked Inuyasha, "I don't recall ever seeing her."

"Her father took her away from our mother... he did that because mother put a spell on Taka... one that would make her age like a normal human would... it was five years before I died and she was approximately fifteen," Kikyo looked at Taka, "she hasn't changed much at all."

"So she's approximately around seventy-five right now?"

"Hai. My mom was a more powerful miko then I am so she put that spell on Taka and although Taka didn't have the miko powers she still learned archery but she used her shadow powers instead... but I'm guessing her father made her start using a sword."

"How did she forget?"

"Her father forced my mother to put a forgetting spell on her because Taka use to be sort of afraid of her dad because of his ferocity, and my mother said she still loved him to much to purify him."

"Her father died..." said Inuyasha.

"Nani! What about the other kage youkai! Didn't they try kill her!" gasped Kikyo.

"They did... but then they met up with me," Inuyasha smirked.

Kikyo laughed a little.

"What kind of spell did you put on her anyway?"

"A spell that what help her remember."

"Now I can see why I'm... beginning to like her... alot," said Inuyasha as he put his head down a little.

Kikyo looked at him confused.

"Heh... you're almost just like her..."

Kikyo smiled.

"Right now... what she's dreaming of... is the memories she forgot."

"When will she get up?"

"I'm not sure..."

Inuyasha's ear twitched as he heard the stretch of a bow string. Him and Kikyo looked up to see Kagome.

"Kagome?" gasped Inuyasha, "what're you doing!"

"Liking Taka alot, Inuyasha?" Kagome laughed a bit, "I can stop that," she aimed the arrow at Taka.

Ok... ok...ok... i don't know what to say about this chapter... it's weird to even me... oh and i have a really weird idea for a later chapter. Lol well Ja ne