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Chapter 12

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She gracefully stood up, with ease, and walked around, taking note on how strong each demon was, "All weak." She muttered as she formed a weak sword in her hand.

She went around and lazily slew each one that was there. When finished, she was covered with the blood of the demons. She looked back and saw a white haired demon sitting down, against a tree, and a two-headed dragon demon beside him. Sesshomaru stood up from where he sat and walked towards her as she cleaned the blood off with her magic.

Kakiya, sensing that he was a strong demon, slowly made her way towards him, being cautious, "You are…" she searched her memories of her half demon self and found his name, "Lord Sesshomaru, correct? The son of the great InuTaisho, you have a great resemblance of him." She said, examining him.

"Do you…" Sesshomaru tried to find the right words to use, "No… are you still the same person?"

"Of course I am! However, I am different from my weak half-breed and human self. Tell me, Lord Sesshomaru, did I too, capture your mind with my looks?"

Sesshomaru gave her a questioning glance, "Why do you say mind and not heart?"

"Because all the men I've met so far only want my body and want nothing with my heart."

Sesshomaru gave a small smirk, "And what if I too have done something to you? Like all those men?"

Kakiya searched through her memories to see if he had actually done anything to her weak self, but failed to find any, "Why do you lie?" she demanded.

"No reason…" he watched her clench her fist in frustration to his answer, "I wish to fight you." He said simply.

"I see, so I fight you shall have." She turned her weak sword that she held in her hand into a dark sword and jumped back a few.

"Before we fight, however," Sesshomaru told her before she raised her sword at him, "I must have you tell me why you must undergo so much pain before you turn into a demon and why you are not weak like you were just moments before."

"I don't go through any pain during the stage before my transformation, my other self does, because she is too weak to handle so much power. If I had just switched into a demon, like I am now, with the small amount of power my half-demon self has, then I would have used all of it already, leaving me with barely any power to left to do anything fun. Since my half-breed self cannot handle the power of my demon self, then it causes her body pain, which only she can feel. As for why I'm not weak now is because not that I've turned, my pure demon self can easily contain and control the strong demonic power."

"I see." He simply said.

Kakiya thought for a while, not really sure what to do next, but then decided, "Actually, I don't want to fight you. I would spend too much time fighting you, and it would probably not turn out in favour of me, since I lost the last battle I had with you when I was a half-breed."

Sesshomaru glared at her when she said that. "Are you being a coward?"

"I am not! Fine then, I guess I shall exchange a few blows with you first. I suppose I have to warm up one way or another." Kakiya held up her sword, "I'll start then." She quickly charged towards him Sesshomaru, quickly deducing the amount of space between them and tried to slash at him.

He easily avoided it and drew out his sword, "What will you do after this?" He said he swung at Kakiya, who was coming in on his left side.

Kakiya blocked his blow, and she stabbed at his chest, but he stepped to the side, and swung at it, making her sword swing back, "What I do in my spare time is not something I'm about to tell a demon that can't even land a hit." She threw a few fire balls at him.

He cut each of the down and attacked her again. Their swords clashed, sparks flying everywhere.

They were facing each other now, with their swords forming a large X in the middle, "So you are saying that I am weak?" Sesshomaru said in a low voice, letting a small growl escape from his throat.

Kakiya slightly pushed Sesshomaru back, "Yeah, pretty much. Although your demonic aura around you makes look strong, and although I sensed that you were strong before, but apparently, I was mistaken." She taunted.

"Wrong move." He muttered, he quickly pushed her back and ran her into a tree, smashing it into the ground.

He slashed at her and broke her sword, making it disappear and sliced a bit of her stomach with the tip of his sword, making her fall over and was now lying on her back, her hand over her stomach.

Sesshomaru drove his sword into her left shoulder and felt the tip of his sword dig into the ground below her, "What's wrong? We're just warming up." He said, slightly pissed that he had gone so easy on her that her demon self got over confident, 'Not even her half-breed self would have done that, she has more common sense then this foolish demon.' He thought. He was standing over the fallen demon, leaning on his sword that was impaled in her shoulder.

Kakiya grabbed his blade, burning her hand as she did so and tried to take the sword out, but Sesshomaru's weight on the sword prevented her from doing so. She groaned as the sword continued to poison and shocks her with its evil powers. "Get off of me." She groaned.

Sesshomaru had now calmed down. He pulled the sword from her body to let her get up. He swung his sword in the air, getting rid of the blood at the tip, and tucked it back in his sash. He watched her heal her stomach and then her shoulder, which took a longer time.

"You're good." She admitted after healing her wounds and used her magic to mend her lightly damaged clothes, "It's been a while since I fought someone as strong as you were." She thought to herself for a while, "Maybe…" she started and then rolled her left shoulder to examine her work, "I should tell you then perhaps you can help me." She decided, "But before that, I want to know why you travel around with me."

'She dares to taunt me and now she asks me this…' he continue watching Kakiya, 'this girl has some nerves…' but he decided to answer her anyways, "It is not I who travels around with you, but you always gets hurt, which leads to me taking care of you, at the request of a human child who has taking a liking to your half-breed self and likewise, she had become attached to her as well."

"Who?" she questioned.

Sesshomaru glared at her, 'And now she forgets the child, who she practically adopted as a daughter,' not letting his surprise show, "Her name is Rin, do you not remember her?"

"Of course not. I cannot find anyone by the name of Rin in my half-breed's memories."

Sesshomaru examined her closer; she had two red strips on the left side of her cheek, but was not what had caught his attention. He walked closer to her and lifted up a lock of her hair in his hand; Kakiya flinched at his sudden touch, but then slowly relaxed.

"Your hair… why is it that your half-breed self have black hair and not silver like yours and mine?" he asked as he examined her hair under the pale light of the full moon.

"She chooses to keep it back, but she can freely change the colour of her hair into any colour, even purple is she so desired, but her natural colour will always be silver."

Sesshomaru dropped the lock of hair and it fell back into place, "So, tell me what I need to know so that I can help you," then he thought to himself, 'If I want to, that is.'

Kakiya quickly made a fire with her magic. Ah-Un walked towards the fire, for warmth, and sat near it. Sesshomaru and Kakiya walked towards the fire and sat down with a fair bit of distance in between; enough so that they can hear each other talk, and far enough so that even if they were to reach out, they won't be able to touch another. Sesshomaru sat near Ah-Un while Kakiya sat slightly in front of them, but more to the right side then directly in front of them.

"You might know that I am different from other half demons." She sighed, "Well, we are trying to find out why. So far, an old demon that I have met fore said that he knows of my kind and many more exists in a place called Rhoycel. He said that it was a murderous yet heavenly place. He told me that even though there are many of my kind that exists there, there aren't many of them that are like me. He said that there was more of my parent's kind there, not exactly my half-breed kind." She picked up a nearby stick and poked the logs in the fire, and continued, "The old man told me that I was the first of my kind he had ever say to be born there and lived to be as old as I am now, since he said that every child born between the two kinds would die, either by their own power overwhelming them or the people there would kill the child."

"So, you want to find this place, but you are afraid that even they might reject you and hunt you down." He mused.

Kakiya slowly nodded, throwing the stick into the fire, she hugged her legs against her chest, "I want to meet my real parents, I want to know what I really am, why I was left in the other era, and if there are really others of my kind out there in this world… but I don't want even my real parents to reject me," she sighed again, "I want to find it and go there, yet, I don't want to at the same time."

'A demon being scared over such a simple matter,' he thought, "Does the other… you… know this?"

"She only knows that she much find a place called Rhoycel, nothing more. It was I, who talked to the old demon, not her, so she does not even know of what may be there since she doesn't know how to tap into my memories very well."

Sesshomaru didn't respond to what she said, but continued to watch the dancing flames.

"Lord Sesshomaru, if you even find anything about Rhoycel, could you please inform me?"

He looked over at her and saw the seriousness in her eyes, "Only if I happened to chance across it."

"Thank you." Kakiya had decided to stay with Sesshomaru for the remainder of the night, for she was intrigued with the demon before her. She simply wanted to sit there and watch the flames, like Sesshomaru was.

At Naraku's hideout, Naraku found that Kagura had once again failed to follow his orders, "Kagura, you have disappointed me once again. I had asked you to do a simple task and you fail to complete it."

Kagura was kneeling in from of Naraku, who was looking down at her with disgust.

She gripped her closed fan, "I'm sorry, My Lord."

"No matter, I will give you one more chance. Go after her once more, but this time, ask her first, fight if you much, but remember to ask her to follow you and bring her here," he turned away, "You are dismissed." He said bitterly.

"Yes, My Lord." Kagura stood up and left the cave.

Once Kagura was outside of the cave, she plucked a white feather from her hair and turned it into a giant feather. She rode away in the direction of where Kakiya was, following her strange scent and her abnormal strong demonic aura.

Finally, Kagura spotted Kakiya and saw that Sesshomaru was with her, "That witch!" she gasped, "How dare you and Lord Sesshomaru…" she growled, unable to continue on with her sentence.

Kagura had always admired and had feelings for Lord Sesshomaru, especially after seeing how strong he was and after he rescued her from downing in the water. She also liked Lord Sesshomaru because he was handsome; he had enough power to easily kill Naraku for her, and partially the fact that he was a real Lord of the western lands. Now seeing that her Lord Sesshomaru was with Kakiya, made her immensely jealous.

"Dance of blades!"

The attack headed straight towards the two, but was stopped by an invisible barrier, "A barrier?" she shrieked.

She looked down at them and noticed that the two didn't even notice her attacking them and just continued to stare at the fire. Kagura growled and sent another wave of blades at them, but once again, the attack was deflected by the barrier. She flew around them, attacking various spots on the barrier, but the barrier still held and failed to give in.

Down below, Kakiya had finally noticed that there was someone poking at her barrier. She looked up and saw a person flying around, sending blades of wind at them.

"It would seem that we have a guest, Lord Sesshomaru," Kakiya said, obviously amused with the flying demon above.

"You just noticed?" he asked.

Kakiya growled at his question, revealing a set of pointed fangs; two at the top and two slightly smaller ones at the bottom; they looked like InuYasha's fangs, "Of course I noticed," she snapped, "I just didn't mention it until now."

When Sesshomaru didn't respond, Kakiya growled again and crossed her arms across her chest and looked up at Kagura, "You're annoying!" she growled, "What do you want?"

Kagura stopped when Kakiya had finally acknowledged her presence, "I am here to bring you to Naraku." She glared at her, "And to get you away from Lord Sesshomaru." She muttered.

"I heard that!" Kakiya shouted back.

From behind her, Sesshomaru smirked at Kakiya's reaction.

Kagura put her fan in front of her mouth, 'She heard that?' she thought, surprised.

"I heard that too." Kakiya was amused at Kagura's expression.

"Now you read minds?" Kagura yelled, frustrated, "Damn you witch to hell!"

Kakiya looked at her for a bit, "Your boring… leave." She said suddenly.

She extended her barrier so quickly that it hit the stunned Kagura and knocked her out of the air. Kakiya suddenly had an idea come to mind and she grinned evilly. She stood up and started to walk towards Kagura and dropped her barrier.

She stood over Kagura and leaned over, picking her up by her hair, "You name is…" she looked through her memories again, finally finding her name, "Kagura right? I actually want you to bring me to your master." Kakiya looked down at Kagura, who still had her eyes closed.

Kagura finally opened her eyes and found herself staring into the piercing ruby eyes of Kakiya. Kagura saw that her hair was now silver, not the dark brown, almost black, colour it had been before. She saw that Kakiya had such a powerful demonic aura that she would easily see it leaking out of her body.

"What are you?" she gasped.

"Your worst nightmare." She smirked, revealing her fangs, "So you will bring me to your master, right? The one you call 'Naraku.'"

"Of course, so let go of my hair."

Kakiya dropped her on the floor, and looked at her back, "Ah… That reminds me…" her eyes glowed red and five glowing red marks shone through her clothing on her back.

"Argh!" Kakiya writhed with pain, "I thought this mark had disappeared!" she yelled out.

Kakiya ceased her torture, "Not hurry up and bring me to your master." She turned towards Sesshomaru, who was silently watching her, "Do you want to come, Lord Sesshomaru?"

'That despicable woman!' Kagura thought bitterly, 'How dare she ask –'

Kakiya looked at her and stepped on Kagura, cutting off her thoughts.

'That girl…' Sesshomaru thought, looking at Kakiya, 'She is like a newborn demon playing with her food or a new found toy.'

Kakiya immediately took her foot off of Kagura and frowned at Sesshomaru, "I am not!" she said, crossing her arms again.

"… you heard…"

"Duh." She retorted.

'You shouldn't be reading people's minds like that, it's rude.' He thought, directing his thoughts at her.

"Your point?" she demanded.

Sesshomaru sent a wave of his power at Kakiya and turned it into an unbearable high-pitched sound.

"Ow!" Kakiya yelled out and grabbed her ears, attempting to cover them from the noise.

'That's not going to do anything.' He thought and did it again, sending his thoughts to her first and then sent the sound right after.

"Just stop it! I won't read minds again!" she shouted, covering her ears again, until the sound had stopped, "At least yours anyway." She mumbled.

Sesshomaru heard what she said and did it again, just for the fun of it.

"What did you do that for?" she demanded, after recovering from her mental attack.

Sesshomaru merely looked at her, with a glint of amusement in his eyes.

Kakiya had saw that glint, "Bastard." She growled under her breath.

Kagura had been watching the two have their quarrel and was confused. Nonetheless, she stood up, after regaining her strength and turned her feather into a giant one and lifted up in the air.

Kakiya saw this, "Ah-Un." She called out and the two-headed demon dragon appeared in between the trees.

He too lifted up into the sky with Sesshomaru and Kakiya jumping after it and they both landed on his back. Kakiya sat down and took the reins while Sesshomaru took his seat behind her. Ah-Un followed Kagura until she reached a cave and they both stopped.

"Leave your dragon out here."

Sesshomaru jumped off and landed on the ledge, outside of the cave.

Kakiya pat the demon, "Stay here." She told him and jumped off, landing beside Sesshomaru, "Lead the way, Kagura."

"Bossy wrench." She grumbled.

Sesshomaru heard her, but didn't say anything, but was waiting for Kakiya's reaction to it, which came shortly after. Kakiya growled at her and made the marks on Kagura's back glow again, with pain, "Watch what you say to me, demon." Kakiya didn't stop torturing her, "Well? What are you waiting for? Lead the way."

Kagura had troubles walking since Kakiya had yet to release her painful hold on her, but she continued to move along anyways, cursing Kakiya with all the words she could think of in her head.

"Kakiya." Sesshomaru warned, he leaned towards Kakiya and whispered in her ear, "Let her go, you're acting like a child again."

Remembering what Sesshomaru had done to her head before, she immediately released her magic, "You spoil everything." She muttered, then she removed the markings on Kagura's back permanently, "there, happy?"

Kagura continued to walk forward, 'Why does she have the same type of control over me like Naraku does? Except Naraku can kill me faster then she can.' She thought bitterly, hating the control the two demons had over her and continued on.

There were many different tunnels, turns, and pathways, but eventually, they finally reached the end of a tunnel and found a large door. Kagura opened it with a wave of her fan. They entered the room as the door closed behind them. Inside, there was a dark figure that seemed to appear only when the flame from the candle, which was the only light source in the room, flickered in that direction. Kagura walked over to another candle and lit it, revealing the face of the man.

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