Disclaimer: I do not own any part of InuYasha, only my own character Kakiya.
Chapter 14
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"Argh!" he yelled out and angrily punched the castle wall to his new hideout causing it to crumble, "She got away." He growled, "I was so close too!"
He paced around and suddenly thought up of a brilliant plan to bring both Kakiya, Sesshomaru, InuYasha and his friends to him, "Kagura!" he impatiently called out.
Kagura quickly came into his room and knelt down, "Yes, My Lord?"
Naraku quickly told Kagura his plan and sent her away, "Kakiya, you will be mine to toy with whether you like it or not." He mused, "Kanna." He called out.
He watched as the little girl came into his room, holding her mirror. Kanna didn't need him to explain his orders, since she had already fingered out his plan. She walked up to him and sat down in front of him, showing him of Kagura flying above the forest, on her way to carry out Naraku's plans.
Sitting down, he smirked, 'This will be interesting.'
InuYasha sniffed around, 'Why is it that Kakiya's scent so strong?' he sniffed around again, 'It's like she's been here just a few moments ago, but it's like that everywhere.' He yelled out in frustration, "Kakiya! You are so damn confusing!"
Behind him, Miroku picked up a light piece of wood and threw it at InuYasha, hitting him on the head.
"Ow! What did you do that for, you monk?"
Miroku sighed in irritation, "If you are so worried about her, then go look for her, I doubt she's that far from us."
InuYasha scowled at what he said and sat down, facing the other way.
"Do whatever you want to do, but go pout elsewhere, you are ruining my appetite." Kagome told him, slightly annoyed that he was making the atmosphere for their lunch all depressing.
Sango sipped from her drink of green tea, "If it makes you happy, we all will go to find her. I'm sure she wouldn't tell us to go away if all of us come to see her."
"Argh!" Kagome yelled out in anger, "Can we just stop talking about her? I'm getting so annoyed!" Kagome angrily bit her rice ball and chomped on it, "If I could, I would sit all of you."
InuYasha slammed into the ground. He quickly got up and was about to yell at her, but when he looked at her, she had flames of anger that burned brightly around her. Not only that, but her face looked like an angry face of a demon, in InuYasha's mind that is. To Kagome's surprise, everyone had shut up after she said that. She smiled in triumph and noticed that they had slightly moved back, since it was a smile of evil. After they finished eating their lunch, Kagome quickly packed everything away in her bag. Nobody started to go anywhere until Kagome was done.
"Ok, let's go!" Kagome said, almost too cheerful; she was glad that the rest of her lunch wasn't as depressing as the first part was.
The group set off to find Kakiya. Although Kakiya's scent was everywhere, InuYasha followed the scent that was the strongest and followed it. He noticed that the way that they were going was against the wind.
He figured that her scent was getting picked up by the wind and it was blowing it in his direction, 'Heh, not so confusing anymore, Kakiya!' he thought.
Kagura finally reached the place she was looking for, an unfertile field that was blackened by fire. The only things that you could find here were the bones and ashes of both humans and demons alike.
She shuddered; she didn't want to become part of this massive graveyard of scattered and broken bones anytime soon, "Trust Naraku to send me to a place like this." She angrily spat out, 'If only I would kill him…' she thought bitterly.
Kagura looked around and saw a giant demon head that had its jaws held opened by a pair of large bones acting like pillars. She stared at the head, the scent of graveyard soil and clay was so overwhelming in this area that it made Kagura feel like she wanted to gag and then become sick afterwards.
"Let's get this over with." She grumpily told herself.
She drifted down towards the head and jumped off her feather, making sure that she didn't land on any sharp or broken bones with her bare feet. She saw demons and humans carrying weapons emerge from the giant bone head housing.
"Dance of blades." Se easily killed them finding out that they were made up of clay, the soils of the grounds around them and as well as bones.
More came out and Kagura growled, annoyed with having to waste her strength on such feeble creatures that were only moving because they were being controlled by the demon Kagura was looking for, who was inside that demon bone head. Kagura easily killed this wave of clay and waited for the next one to come, but the next one didn't come, instead a harsh voice came out of the demon head instead.
"Who dares disturb my peace and kill my makings? I will eat you alive if you continue disrupting me."
"I have come to get assistance from you, on behalf of a demon by the name of Naraku. Are you the demon, Roshoi?"
"I am he. So what do you want with me? Why do you not ask my elder sister, Uresue?" I'm sure and her weak powers can see to your problems. I am too busy at the moment." He replied.
"Uresue already died, if you didn't know. She died shortly after she resurrected the priestess Kikyo."
A booming laughter came from within the head, "Ha! Serves her right for thinking she was more powerful then I, Roshoi! Her own creation killed her, such a horrible fate. Good riddance."
A few minutes of silence followed after; neither of them talked and Roshoi had stopped sending his clay puppets after her. Kagura was getting impatient and the decaying bones around her were getting on her nerves. She opened her mouth to speak, but she was cut off by Roshoi before she could utter a word.
"Well?" he demanded, "Do you want my assistance or not? I haven't any time to spare, but since you told me about the pleasant news, I will help you."
Kagura walked into the bone head and found a demon that had a slightly humped back. He had long grey hair, which was tied back, and he was wearing a dark blue kimono, outlined in a gold colour. His skin was pale and it was covered with a few wrinkles.
'He looks like an old human man.' She thought, disgusted, but then remembered that she was told to bring him back to Naraku, she sighed, "Bring all the supplies you need to make one strong doll."
He looked up at her, "What is my reward?"
"What?"
"My reward," he repeated, "Yes, the news was good, but I want something more."
"What do you want, demon? Name it and it shall be yours."
He thought for a while, "Actually, never mind, my reward will be simple to make this strong clay doll that you so desire and make it my strongest creation yet. All I ask is for me to be able to keep my creation once you are done with it."
"Sure, why not." She said plainly, 'I don't think Naraku has any use for it afterwards anyways.' She thought.
"I also require two more items that will make this clay doll stronger, once is slightly easier to get, but the other one, although easy to get, it's hard to contain it. What I need is a shard, or two, of the Shikon jewel, and the living soul taken straight out of the human or demon, no reincarnations." He started to gather his things, 'A shard might be able to contain a live soul in a clay body… or it my break the body because of its power. Either way, it's just an experiment.'
Kagura thought about it, 'I'm sure Naraku doesn't mind sparing a few shards, I'll just get them back later anyways and Kanna could easily provide countless living souls.' She looked back at the demon, "I can easily get you both things. Now hurry up."
The demon hurried and finished packing. Following Kagura, they went outside. Kagura pulled a white feather from her hair and turned it into giant one, although it was even larger this time because she needed to hold herself, the demon Roshoi, and his belongings.
'Finally.' Kagura thought as they left the burned waste field behind them.
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Kakiya was sitting on Ah-Un while she and Sesshomaru walked through the forest, looking for a place to stay and something to do. She had reduced the amount of power that was pouring out of her. Lately, she was getting annoyed with the weak mobs of demons that endlessly followed them around: they appeared everywhere they went.
"Where is Rin?" she suddenly asked.
When Sesshomaru didn't answer, she became even more frustrated. Kakiya had been searching through her half-breed's memories on various things, but whenever she tried to find out who Rin was and what she had looked like, she only found a shadow of a young girl which was called Rin. She even tried to find out where she was currently staying, but to her dismay, she found nothing.
"Why won't any of you tell me where she is?" she yelled out in anger.
"Any of us?" he stopped walking, making Ah-Un stop beside him, "What do you mean by us?" he turned and looked back at Kakiya.
"You and my other self." She angrily told him, "My half-breed self is keeping any memory of Rin, other than her name, since I learned of it myself, away from me." She slightly growled, the great Lord didn't say anything, but she continued on, "All I know is that she is a human child by the name of Rin. That was all I could get from my memories."
"So, your other self is blocking you from getting into her memories?" he questioned, "But you had no problem getting into them before."
"Ever since that incident with Naraku, she had shut her memories from me, well some of them from me." Kakiya jumped down from Ah-Un and landed in front of Sesshomaru and looked at him, "At least tell me why you two are so secretive about this Rin child. Why do you not let me see her?" she demanded.
Sesshomaru looked into her deep ruby eyes, "If you must know, she is trying to keep Rin safe… from you."
Slightly satisfied with his answer, she moved to the side of him and they continued walking until they found themselves walking up a hill. At the top, there was a very large tree; it looked like that tree had created the trees circling around it, with it as the center.
"So big…" she whispered, amazed at how vast the tree was.
Curiosity and amazement quickly took over her as she ran up to the tree. She found a large branch that was the closest to the ground and jumped towards it. Although it was pretty high off from the ground, she still easily reached it. Jumping on to the higher branches of the tree, she finally found one to her liking and sat on it.
She looked at the scenery around her and looked back at Lord Sesshomaru, "Why don't you come up here and join me?" she slightly smirked, 'let's see what's your jumping limit is.' She mused.
Sesshomaru lazily made his way to the base of the tree. He stood a few metres in front of the tree. He looked up at Kakiya and gracefully made his jump. He effortlessly passed Kakiya, who was giving him cold stares, and landed on a branch way above her. He jumped down and landed beside her, majestically sitting down.
"Show off." She muttered, turning away from him.
Sesshomaru held back a laugh, "You asked me to come up here." He smirked.
She didn't reply, but turned back to face to green-blue scenery laid out in front of them. It looked so close, yet it was so far from them. From here, they both could see the mountains, which looked like greyish-white hills, and one of the mountains was Naraku's old hideout, before he was forced to move. She loved nature, but it was too fragile, so she had always end up destroying it.
"Why is that…" she stopped and closed her eyes as a strong gust of wind blew at their faces, she reopened them and continued, "Why is it that when I lived with your father that I never saw you?"
A small jolt of shock ran through him, but quickly disappeared, "I was never home." He quickly answered.
"I see…" she quietly muttered.
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Kagura walked towards Naraku's room while Roshoi was following close behind her. They had finally reached Naraku's castle, and Kagura was glad because Roshoi's stench was really bad, even though the wind blew most of the scent away, he still smelled bad. When they had arrived, Kagura had set them both down, Roshoi decided to leave his stuff out in front of the castle before he followed Kagura into it.
They stopped in front of a pair of large doors, "My Lord, I have brought him as you ordered."
A voice came from within the room, "Come in."
Kagura opened the door for Roshoi and he stepped inside the room.
"Make sure you get the human child, we need bait." Naraku told her.
"Yes, My Lord." Kagura said, closing the door behind her, leaving Roshoi and Naraku to be alone.
"So you must be Naraku." He stated as he looked at the demon sitting in a corner, by the window, inside the room.
"You are indeed correct, Roshoi. Welcome to my castle."
"Naraku, what do you need of me?" Roshoi demanded, "I want to start working on the clay doll. I already miss my clay." He sat down in front of him, still keeping his distant with the strange demon.
Naraku chuckled, "My, my, you are one hasty demon. No mater, I will just have to skip the small talk." he said with an artificial sigh, "I want you to create an exact replica of a person. Can you do that?"
"Of course I can! Show me what the person looks like and I'll get started right away… but first, I need a living soul, no reincarnations and I need a jewel shard to hold the soul."
Naraku smirked, "Demanding now are we?" he held out his hand and on it was a jewel shard.
He made a small cut on his finger, enough to draw blood, and covered the shard with his blood, making it become tainted. Then, he made his arm go deformed and a piece of the deformed arm fell off. He remade his arm to its former shape and picked up the piece of flesh, turning it into a heart. He fused the tainted shard with the now beating heat together.
"You will use this as the heart for you clay doll, the jewel shard will still do its job of containing the live soul. This is what you had wanted, correct?" he gave Roshoi the beating heart.
He hastily took it, cradling it in his large hands, "Now All I need is the picture of what you want me to create and a living soul, preferable of the person you want to make."
"Kanna." Naraku simply said.
Kanna opened the doors almost immediately after he had called her, "Yes, My Lord?" she walked into the room and stood beside Naraku.
"Show Roshoi an image of Kakiya's former side, not the one she's in now."
Kanna held up the mirror for Roshoi to see. In the mirror was Kakiya's half-breed self, fighting Kagura and then resting afterwards. Kanna showed Roshoi various images with Kakiya performing differing tasks.
"My, my, my, what a beauty." He said with greed, "I can see why you want an exact replica of her." He concentrated on the images again, "Creating her will be simple and once her soul takes control of the clay body, her powers will be copied into the clay so she may use them at will. I'm guessing you want me to put the heart that you had formed inside her so that you may control her? A smart plan, I would say. I will begin right away."
"Where are you going to be to make this body?" Naraku questioned.
Roshoi stood up from his seat, "Outside."
"Good." He muttered as Roshoi left his room, Naraku got another jewel shard and tainted it the same way he had done with the last one, "Kanna, your mirror." Kanna handed him her mirror and he embedded the jewel shard into the back of the mirror, "Now it will hold all of Kakiya's soul, even if it is as big as Kagome's was." He muttered and gave back Kanna's mirror.
A ways away, Kagura was already flying towards her next target to complete the second part in Naraku's plan. Although the sun was already starting to set, she didn't mind and continued to fly through the air to find the castle that Naraku had ordered her to look for.
Rin climbed into her bed while listening to a maid tell her a story, although Rin wasn't really paying attention to what she was saying. Rin missed her mommy, Lord Sesshomaru, and Ah-Un. She was tired of moping around, hoping that they will be rushing home, to her, that night or day.
She looked over at Jaken, who was sitting by her bed, listening to the demon maid tell the story, "Jaken, when do you think they will be back?" she asked him.
"Lord Sesshomaru will come back when he wants to." He answered simply.
The maid stopped talking, gently pat Rin's head, "Don't worry, I'm sure that they will come back soon. They wouldn't leave such a cute child alone here for alone." She told her softly, "Just be patient and when they do return, give them a big happy smile and greet them. They wouldn't want you to be sad when they return home."
The maid tucked Rin in and kissed her on her forehead, "Now, be a good girl and go to sleep now." She blew out the candle while Jaken quickly left the room to return to his own, "Good night, little princess."
She left the room and gently closed the door behind her. Rin had only managed to stay away for about another hour before she started to drift off into a dreamy sleep.
"Good…night…" she quietly whispered as she yawned, 'Mommy…Lord Sesshomaru… Ah-Un…" she thought before sleep over took her.
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