A/N: Thanks so much to our reviewers: kittyb78, Water-Goddess-Mi, and Yuti-Chan! You guys all get cookies! This chapter is so short though...we feel kinda bad. But either way, we hope you guys like it!
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Chapter 2
"Damn that Izayoi!"
"What's the matter this time, Kiyumi?" an emerald green serpent asked, wounding around the young woman's neck.
"That woman that Bankotsu's with!" Kiyumi hissed, narrowing her vivid amber eyes. "How could he have chosen that half-breed as the mother of his children?!" She turned away angrily and walked over to a nearby stream, deep in thought. Kiyumi had been In love with Bankotsu for some time now. So long, that her love had now turned into an obsession. She admired him from afar but never had the courage to try to talk to him. Kiyumi spied on him, whenever she had the chance, with Naruaki, her serpent servant(A/N: lol stalker!)
"Well, you do realize this is your own fault! I always told you to approach him whenever you had the chance, but noooo you were always too shy!" Naruaki hissed teasingly. Kiyumi shot him an evil glare, signaling for him to shut up. "It's not that easy! As I'm pretty sure you know, her father is the demon Naraku!" She ran a hand through her dark violet hair worriedly. "If he even suspected me of trying to harm her, he would most likely kill me!"
"Use your head, woman!" the serpent said impatiently. "You can control time!" Naruaki slithered up a tree branch to face Kiyumi. "That's why your father left you the sunadokei(1) charm!"
"And? What use will this be?" Kiyumi looked down at the sunadokei pendant that hung around her neck. The serpent hissed in frustration. "You can go back in time! Make that hanyou fall in love with someone else! That way you can get another chance at getting Bankotsu to notice you!"
Kiyumi thought over what Naruaki said carefully. After a few moments, she cried out," But Bankotsu wouldn't notice me anyway! I'm nothing compared to that half demon!"
"What?!" Naruaki said unbelievably. "You really have low self-esteem, don't you? She's the one that has nothing on you! You are a full-fledged demon and you are beautiful yourself!" "But not as beautiful as she is! And not to mention my parents weren't as powerful or as well-known as hers!" Kiyumi whined.
Naruaki shook his head in frustration. "You are so stubborn and naïve! I don't even know why I'm trying to help you!"
Kiyumi looked down, watching the water in the stream flow by, glistening in the sunlight. "Hey, I just realized…if I do what you just said, who would make Izayoi fall in love with?" she asked, looking up at Naruaki for his opinion. "Hmmmmm…well, we would probably have to get some more info about Izayoi and what goes on during the day. Hey, how 'bout we trick a servant of hers into telling us something we don't know?"
"Wait!" Kiyumi said suddenly. "I know who! It's this boy at the castle…his name's Ko-Kohaku I think." She clasped her hands together happily. "We could use him and ask for information…something about Izayoi or Bankotsu's past!" "Would he be easy to get to?" Naruaki asked, slithering around her neck once more.
"I'm pretty sure he would!" Kiyumi smirked. She walked alongside the stream thinking of a way to separate Izayoi from her beloved Bankotsu.
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A/N: We know that this chapter is short but we ran out of more ideas for this chapter. We just wanted to introduce the conflict in this chapter. And this is where the jealousy part comes in. We officially hate Kiyumi, almost as much as we hated Hakudoshi in our last story! So please review and tell us what you think! You'll get pocky if you do review!