Chapter 6
Kikyo walked through the woods trying to senses any trace of Naraku, for once again he was outside her senses. There should not have been even one place in which Naraku's evil spirit was beyond her priestess powers.
'Where could Naraku be hiding?' Kikyo wondered as she continued walking with her soul collectors beside her. She stopped and sent the soul collectors to go and gather more souls it wouldn't be long until the last soul faded and left her pretend body empty. How she hated this existence having to live off of the souls from other people. These souls should be looking forward to an eternity of rest, not being held captive in her fake body, if only she didn't need these foreign souls to stay alive but after she had been brought back to life only to have her soul ripped away by that stupid friend of Inu Yasha's, well it was the only way. The only way as long as Kagome still lived, Inu Yasha look good care on that girl so there was nothing to be done, besides she had once been the great priestess Kikyo she should not be thinking such greedy and evil things. This was her path she would follow it tell the end, when ever that may be.
'This aura I feel approaching it is Naraku's?' Kikyo thought, 'No it is different from Naraku's it must be one of his incarnations.' Incarnations how she hated that word for if you thought about she was one too. She didn't belong to Naraku of any one else but she still was a thing made by a demon. She had no real right to label those forced to do Naraku's evil biding even if she knew that they came for her.
'Naraku still can not find it in his will to kill me, with his own hands.' Kikyo mind stated smugly, 'If he can not why does he believe that one of his incarnations can do that for him, that devious fool.'
Through some mist she saw the young boy she knew to be Kohaku, coming but the person who walked beside him, she had no idea as in who that could possibly be. 'A new incarnation perhaps.' She silently wondered. This new incarnation was taller at least four heads taller than the young boy waking beside him. Also this incarnation had nothing other than what appeared to be pupil for eyes, all that was there was a pure black cloud that made her almost shudder with fear, almost that is. He had pale lifeless skin paler than her own which said much considering that she is dead and its, his, hair appears to be a black that when the sun shined upon it, it had a bluish tint in it. It was then that she realized the lack of demons, whenever Naraku or any of his incarnations came they always seemed to have many demons with them, safety in numbers you could say, but this time it was just the trapped boy and an unknown stranger. Things did not bode well for the troubled priestess.
"Hello Kikyo my name is Ryuo." The tall stranger said his voice was hollow, sounding completely void of all emotion and thought as if he knew nothing other than what that darn Naraku chose to tell him. Ryuo the name was that of an old warrior who was unbeatable, the only thing that was ever truly able to beat that aged warrior was time; he simply ran out of it and died at an old age of ninety. Things just now seemed to go form bad to worse, thing definitely did not bode well for this priestess.
"Ryuo is it?" Kikyo started at his smirk she continued, "Who as sent you here, was it Naraku?" She had asked it even know she knew the answer she needed to catch his response and also she needed time to assess the situation.
"Of course I was sent by Naraku, did you expect anything else." His dark eyes seemed to expand, making him appear all the more evil. This demon created by Naraku certainly had the same mind; he could tell that what she was trying to do.
"No, you are right this is something that I would expect only from Naraku. No other creature that I know of would do something as cowardly as to send another to do his biding unless that person were human of course. But of wait I almost forgot that Naraku is nothing for than a half demon and that he has the same knowledge of how easily he could be destroyed." Kikyo said this to anger the demon and she did, he appeared to be very angry. She realized just too late what a huge mistake she had made, for the demons eyes glowed a bright purple and he smiled a cold smile.
'What is happening' Kikyo's mind screamed as she felt all the spirits being ripped from her body, the spirits would not be leaving alone however for they were to be closely followed by the bitter anger that had been animating her body, the anger was left over from her soul it could not fully pass on. The anger had a long eternity to be looking forward to as it floated around space and time neither here nor there. It was to exist away form all other life forms as nothing but a mere memory of who it once belonged to.