Chapter 8: The Evil Plan

Sesshomaru glared right back. There was no way he would be scared by the likes of a half-breed.

InuYasha got up from the pond and said angrily, "I knew something was wrong. You are going to pay for this."

Sesshomaru was about to say something back when he heard a carriage stop by the gate and Kagome stepped out. She walked up to InuYasha, ignoring Sesshomaru, Naomi and Koga.

"InuYasha, I just wanted to check up on you. How's you're training going? And why are you wet?" she asked.

"It's a long story", InuYasha said and glanced at his stepbrothers and stepmother. He didn't want them to know that he was training to defeat Miroku.

"You can go now", he said.

Sesshomaru frowned, but left without complaint with his mother and brother following him inside the castle.

"I'm doing pretty good", InuYasha replied.

"Have you found a way to escape the black hole in my father's hand yet?"

InuYasha shook his head and Kagome sighed.

--------in the castle-------

"What training?" Koga said.

"I don't know. Why does he have to train?" Naomi replied.

"We need to find out. I think we should go to Kaede's again. She may be back by now", Sesshomaru answered.

"Well, I have to go now", Kagome said.

"Okay", InuYasha replied and gave Kagome a hug, who clearly didn't want to get her dress wet because of InuYasha's drenched clothes.

Kagome walked back to her carriage and waved her hand to InuYasha and took off. He thought about how to get past the black hole in the king's hand. What if he asked Naraku for help? That seemed like a good idea, but how can he get depressed enough to call him? InuYasha started recall unhappy thoughts to make him depressed, but that didn't work. He tried other things, but they didn't work either. InuYasha finally got frustrated.

"Damn you Naraku! Why can't you just come whenever I call you?" InuYasha yelled when the familiar blue light appeared before him.

Naraku sighed. "What now? What does a fairy have to do to get away from his godson here or in this case, godperson."

"I'm sorry about this, but I need your help", InuYasha said.

"Don't you always?" Naraku retorted.

InuYasha ignored him. "I need to defeat the king in order to marry Kagome, but he has a wind tunnel in his hand that is capable of sucking in anything. I need to get past it somehow."

"Finally. A job for me", Naraku replied happily. "I have just the thing for you."

"You do?"

Naraku conjured what looked like a wasp's nest out of thin air. "These are venom wasps. They are under my command. When that king of yours opens his wind tunnel, let the wasps out and they'll do the rest."

InuYasha took the wasp's nest from Naraku.

"Naraku, I owe you one."

"Actually, you owe me three, including this one. Maybe we should start an account", Naraku said thoughtfully.

"I don't think so", InuYasha replied.

Naraku looked at InuYasha like he just came out of the sewer. "Hmph. So much for courtesy", he said and disappeared.

--------with the Sesshomaru gang---------

Sesshomaru led his mother and brother to Kaede's house once more and was relieved when Kaede was home.

"What brings ye here again?" Kaede asked from the dark.

"We need your help", Sesshomaru replied.

"And what's in it for me?" she asked.

Sesshomaru held out a bag of gold coins to the old woman and she gladly took it. She sat at her seat at the table.

"You want to know why InuYasha is training", she said, surprising the three of them.

"Yeah", Koga replied.

Kaede gazed into the crystal ball and said after a couple of minutes, "he is training in order to defeat the king so he may marry the princess."

Sesshomaru smirked. There was no way he was going to let InuYasha continue his training, but he would let him fight with the King so he may lose miserably and if he was lucky, even get sucked into the void.

"I need one more piece of information", Sesshomaru said, making Naomi and Koga look at him questioningly.

"I want to know about his bodyguard."

Kaede looked into her crystal ball once more. "Very interesting. His so-called bodyguard is a fairy from the fairy realm. His name is Naraku. Eighty-percent evil, ten- percent intelligence, nine-percent goodness, and one-percent stupidity. A fine looking man though."

"How can we subdue him?" Naomi asked.

"I have the perfect thing, but it may take a month to complete the ritual", Kaede said. "Once you complete it though, he'll be completely powerless."

This made Sesshomaru smirk once more.