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Chapter 11

When Kakiya woke up, she found herself in a cave, wrapped in the blanket. Her head ached, but it was tolerable. She stood up, picked up her blanket, and slowly made her way outside. The sun was well above her now. She stood there and soaked up the sun's light. When she opened her eyes, she found Ah-Un grazing on the lush green grass, but failed to find Sesshomaru anywhere. Sighing, she walked over to Ah-Un and put the blanket back inside his sack. When she turned away from Ah-Un, she found Sesshomaru coming towards them.

"I see you have woken up. Are you hungry?"

Kakiya could smell the scent of blood coming from him, "A little."

He tossed a body of a dead deer over to her, which Kakiya caught with her magic. Kakiya worked on the dear, removing the skin, excess fat, and other inedible parts (1), throwing them into pile before turning it all into soil with her magic. She lazily lit a flame on the ground and started to roast the deer, turning the floating body with a turn of her hand.

Sesshomaru watched all of this from his seat on the rock in front of Kakiya. 'She has an interesting way of using her power…' he thought as he watched her.

Kakiya yawned and felt the fatigue from using her energy starting to build up. She strengthened the fire and went to remove Ah-Un's muzzle.

"I'm sure you're hungry." She said as she scratched underneath both of their muzzles.

She saw that the deer was done and she extinguished the fire, leaving the floating deer. Kakiya quickly sliced the meat into large chucks for the dragon and left a piece for herself. She left the dragon to eat his meat in piece and made a bowl for her own meat to fall into with a pair of chopsticks neatly sitting on top of the bowl(2). Kakiya wearily made her way back to the rock, stumbling over a stone. Sesshomaru quickly went over to her when he saw her sway. He sat her down beside him and took the bowl of venison away from her. Kakiya tried to take back the bowl and feed herself, but after many failed attempts, she gave up and accepted being spoon fed by Sesshomaru, who was amusing himself at this event. Kakiya sighed, feeling like a child, and leaned against him, her head on his shoulder.

"Will you really let me stay here?" she looked at him.

"Do you really want to go back with InuYasha?" he suddenly questioned.

"To be honest, I'd rather stay here." She truthfully told him.

"Then there is your answer." A moment of silence passed between them, "What is your connection with InuYasha? He seems to care for you quite a bit." He said in a bitter tone. He knew that InuYasha and Kakiya once lived together in the human castle, but he wanted to know why.

"InuYasha… he's my childhood friend, and I consider him as my little brother," she giggled, "Although I certainly will give up that thought since he's your real younger brother." Kakiya sat up and poked at the ground beside her, "I lived with him and his mother Izayoi in a human castle after InuYasha was born and your father had passed away." Kakiya heard a low growl beside her. "When we grew older, Izayoi passed away. He insisted on staying by my side to protect me everywhere I went and at first, it was cute. After a while, he had become a little annoying, so we went separate ways after that."

They shared a silence once more, but it was soon disrupted with a small band of demon thieves showed up before them. They walked towards them with their swords in hand.

"They look like they have lots of valuables on them!" one of them said in a rough voice, "Hey look boss, there's even a female… I wonder if she's human."

They all looked at Kakiya with greed in their eyes, "I want a piece of her boss, maybe a leg or something. After you're done playing with her, of course." He licked his lips.

Both of them ignored the band, Kakiya wondered when they would leave.

"Give us your possessions and the woman and we will leave you in peace." He threatened Sesshomaru.

Sesshomaru stood up with Kakiya and Ah-Un following behind him. They started to walk away, but then the largest demon, which Kakiya thought was their boss, grabbed her wrist, "You stay here woman," he held up his sword to her neck, "You're mine now."

"Let go of me." Kakiya threatened.

Sesshomaru looked back when he heard Kakiya speak just in time to see the demon lick her on the face. He growled with anger, 'How dare the…' he thought bitterly. He used his whip and quickly disposed all of the demons from where he stood.

The weight of the dead demon fell on top of Kakiya, crushing her on the ground. Kakiya tried to push off the dead weight, but failed to even move it, "Sesshomaru…" she called out.

Sesshomaru let out another growl as he saw what he had done. He jumped over to where Kakiya was and kicked the dead body off with ease. He helped her up and used the cloth Kakiya made appear to wipe away the saliva on her face.

'Her fever is not getting any better.' He noticed when he touched her forehead.

"Let's leave. I don't want to stay here." She quietly told him, mentioning to the dead demons behind her.

They distanced themselves from the site with Ah-Un following closely behind them. Soon, the sun was setting. Kakiya was now sitting against a tree, her head leaning on Sesshomaru's boa for comfort while he sat beside her. Her body was already starting to burn up and her breathing became harsher as the sun continued to set. Sesshomaru could easily see power was seeping from her body. Demons were starting to gather around them, seeing why there was such a strange and strong demonic aura that had suddenly appeared on their lands. The sun was only a few minutes away from being completely hidden now. Pain shot through her entire body and continued as the sun sank lower. This was only of the most painful transformations that she had ever had. Her human transformation was fine; it involved no pain in the process.

Sesshomaru gazed down at Kakiya, he put a hand on her head, 'What is happening to her?' he thought worriedly, then surprised himself at his worrying.

She took her head off of Sesshomaru's shoulder and leaned over, crossing her arms around her stomach and holding the sides. She closed her eyes as the sun finally disappeared. Her hair turned into a silver colour, just like Sesshomaru, that shone underneath the light of the starts twinkling above. Her demonic aura now poured from her body, since when she was in her half-demon form, she tried to make sure that her aura could not be seen, but now she didn't care. She opened her eyes to reveal a pair of piercing red eyes in the place of her normal brown eyes.

She took a deep breath and looked at the demons around her, "Ah…" she breathed heavenly, "Finally." She said in a tone brimming with confidence.

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(1) Parts such as the head, intestines, fat, skin, blood, waste, hooves, tails, etc.

(2) This is the same magic that Kakiya uses to make her dark sword materialize.

"If I had a dime for every time you said the word 'destiny,' I'd be even richer."