Disclaimer: I do not own any part of InuYasha, only my own character Kakiya.
Chapter 16
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"Why are you making me wait?" she demanded.
Kagura sighed, "You're such an impatient demon, yet you take so long to make up your mind. Besides, I've already told you, the human child didn't wake up yet."
"She does have a point…" Kakiya muttered, "I'll give you one more hour before I go and blow up this place and find the human myself." She decided.
'Why do I have to keep watch on her?' she bitterly thought.
It has already been two hours since they had arrived. Kakiya had followed Kagura into the castle, leaving Sesshomaru outside. Kagura had led her into an empty room and told her to stay and wait.
'Lord Sesshomaru is probably getting really bored right now.' She smirked at the thought, 'Serves him right, for coming.'
Kakiya sat there for a few more minutes, "So, why are you not waking her up again?"
Kagura slapped her fan against her palm, "Humans need their rest."
"What a horrible excuse. Waking her up early is not going to kill her." She retorted.
Kagura turned away and focused her attention on whatever was so damn interesting outside the window; an attempt to ignore Kakiya, 'Actually…' Kagura thought, 'The reason why I can't get to her is because Kohaku was the one who won't let me in and insists on letting Rin sleep.' She let out a long breath, "Indeed, what a stupid excuse." She muttered, leaving the room, trying once more to see if Kohaku would let her in his room yet. She really wanted to just blow up his door to pieces, but she knew that Naraku would be at her throat later, 'That Naraku, he should just die already.' She cured.
In the room where Rin and Kohaku stayed, Rin had finally woken up.
She looked around the room, "Where am I?" she asked, and then saw Kohaku sitting quietly beside her, looking at the floor, "Oh, hi Kohaku. What are you doing here?"
Kohaku looked up at her, "You got captured by Kagura, so now you are at Naraku's castle."
Rin pulled the blanket closer to her, then realized that this blanket wasn't hers, "Is this yours?"
Fixing his eyes back to the floor, he nodded.
"I'm cold…" she said quietly, and looked at Kohaku, "You must be cold too." She huddled closer to Kohaku and shared his blanket with him.
"Thanks."
They sat there together in silence for a while, until they heard a knock at the door.
Walking through the hallways of his castle, he slowly made his way to the front, where Roshoi was making the clay replica of Kakiya. He finally reached the front doors and opened them. He noticed that the sun was already starting to rise. He sighed and walked over to Roshoi.
"Are you not done yet?" he impatiently asked.
Roshoi looked up at him, "Of course I am! It was harder, since I didn't have the ashes of the girl, but nonetheless, I completed it."
Naraku stared at the replica of Kakiya, who was lying in a large tub of disgusting green water. He didn't know what it was nor did he want to find out. He could hear the sound of his heart beating inside her and the sound of her steady breathing.
"So, all you need now is her soul?" he questioned.
"Yes, but are you sure you are able to get it while she is still alive? Her real body will probably die without her soul. Unlike reincarnations, who posses two souls, this Kakiya should only have one."
"Don't doubt the powers of I, Naraku." He turned and left, 'Kakiya will now be easier to control if she is stuck in a clay body that has my heart in it.' He thought, 'Now, her body will be powerless so I can use her real body in as many experiments as I please…' he smirked, "Now… let's see how long you last." He entered into his castle and walked through the hallways once more, 'Time to pay a visit to Kakiya.'
Making his way through the castle, he first went to Kanna's room, and simply told her to follow him. As they neared the room that Kakiya was staying in, Naraku could already start to see the huge amounts of demonic power leaking from her.
'I guess I have to make her sleep first.' He mentally growled, 'Damn her and her strange powers.'
Naraku let Kanna enter the room first and begun to release large amounts of his miasma, although it already had covered his castle, the one he was releasing was something that would make even the strongest demons sleep.
As Kanna opened the door, he heard Kakiya talk.
"Who are you? Don't try and say that you are Rin because you are obviously not human."
"My name is Kanna." She simply stated.
Naraku let his miasma fill up the room as he walked in.
"Naraku." She hissed.
"Good morning to you too, Kakiya."
"Why did you bring me here?"
"No reason, I just wanted to see you again." He smirked as he saw her eyes slightly droop, but then snap back open.
"You brought me here, kidnapped a person I don't even know, threatened to harm her if I don't come, just so that you could see me?" She yelled out, she stood up and started to walk towards him, but started to sway, 'What's wrong with me? Why do I feel so… tired?' she yawned, but then angrily snapped her mouth closed.
Kakiya looked up at Naraku and saw him smirk. Anger swam around inside her, building up as she realized she couldn't do anything to him. Her legs started to wobble; losing its strength as sleep slowly took over her and saw Naraku walk over to her. Suddenly, she no longer saw his face, but the ground as she realized she was falling. She hit something soft and warm. Tired, she looked up and met Naraku's eyes. He was holding her, preventing her from crashing onto the floor.
"Good night Kakiya." He put a hand over her eyes.
Darkness surrounded her, "You… bastard…" she managed to say before the sleep finally took over.
"Kanna." He simply commanded as he gently set her on the floor.
"Yes, my lord." She said as she walked over to where Kakiya laid.
Kanna held out her mirror which reflected Kakiya's sleeping form. A white coloured mist swirled from the body and into the mirror.
"She has a large soul," she though aloud.
Naraku slightly nodded, "Just like Kagome."
She continued to hold out the mirror until the white mist no longer appeared. She held the mirror close to her chest again.
"It is done."
Wondering whether to just leave the body there or take it with him, then decided on the latter of the two seeing that it would just be a bother to bring the body elsewhere. He was anxious to have his doll be brought to life.
"Good, let's go." Naraku mentally contacted Kohaku, 'Tell Kagura that she isn't allowed into the room, don't bother taking Rin to Kakiya anymore.' He told him.
'Yes master.' Came the quiet reply.
Naraku quickly made his way through the front while Kanna was trailing behind him, keeping a fast pace to keep up. When they finally reached the front doors, he threw opened the doors and walked over to Roshoi.
Roshoi turned around to look at Naraku, "Do you have the soul?"
Naraku made a quick motion with his hand to Kanna to step forward.
She walked towards the clay body, "This is what you want the soul to enter, correct?"
"Obviously."
Kanna held out the mirror and released Kakiya's soul and guided it towards the clay body. The body lit up into a white colour as the soul entered it. The long flowing stream of white mist finally stopped. Kanna stepped back and with a look from Naraku, she retreated back into the castle, silently closing the door behind her. Both Naraku and Roshoi stared at the body with anticipation. After a while, it didn't move.
"Are you sure it will work?" Naraku demanded, his impatience doing nothing but raising.
"Of course!" he snapped, "The soul just has to adapt to the body and same goes for the body. If it does not, the replica of the girl will simply be a doll that moves and talks, making it useless in battle. Her powers will not work if both the body and soul do not accept each other."
The hands on the body twitched and drew in the full attention of the two. Her hands clasped the water, only to relax again moments later. They watched as she her arms and legs started to bend while she sat up. Her eyes fluttered open. She looked down at her hands then saw her hair. She ran her fingers through her long black her as the look of surprise spread across her face.
"What… am…?" she quietly whispered.
"You have finally awaken, Kakiya." Naraku smirked.
Her eyes flew up and saw the two men standing before her. Naraku walked towards her. Kakiya slightly moved back, but was stopped by the rim of the giant tub she was in.
"Who... are you?"
Naraku stopped before her and frowned, "You do not recognize me?"
She slowly shook her head.
"I am Naraku. Although this demon here," he motioned to Roshoi, "made your current body, my heart beats within you, making me your master."
"Naraku…?" then realization filled her eyes, "Onigumo… you…?" she quickly stood up only to crash back down into the tub, splashing the green murky water everywhere.
"Yes but-"
Kakiya cut him off with a snarl, "What do you want with me?" she raised her hand and a fire ball swirled in front of it, aimed right at Naraku.
He smirked, "I don't think so."
A blast of pain shot through her chest making her cringe. She struggled to keep the fire ball from going out and shot it at him.
Anger flashed on Naraku's face, "You had just made a grave mistake, Kakiya." He teleported right in front of her, dodging the fire.
He grabbed her wrist, and put a hand on her back, sending another blast of pain through her turning her limp. He lifted her up, grabbing her other hand, twisting it behind her back. Naraku held both of her small wrists in his hand, and used the other one to take off this blue robe. He pulled the robe over her, tying the yellow sash around her slender waist, keeping it in place while keeping her arms firmly pinned to her back.
"This will do for now." He muttered.
Kakiya struggled underneath his grasp, but the more she moved, the more painful the hold got, and eventually stopped, then looked up at him, "I'll ask you again… What do you want with me?" she calmly asked again, trying to mask her fear and anger.
"Nothing much," Naraku pulled her close to his own body, and looked down into her amethyst eyes, "I just wanted you under my control." He smirked again, 'Who wouldn't?' he thought wickedly.
Kakiya looked away, frustrated with the answer he gave her, "Then I'll ask you this; what moon will be up… tonight?"
"That's a strange question for someone like you."
"Just answer the question."
"The full moon." Answered Roshoi, slightly annoyed by the way he was treating his doll, "Now Naraku, I suggest that you let go of her arms before they snap off."
"I think not. Besides, I'm sure that your clay is flexible enough for me to hold her like this." Naraku retorted.
"That might be so, but might I remind you that it is clay, so even if it slightly flexible it will stay like that if you keep her locked up in that hold enough." Roshoi pointed out, "The body must be in constant motion for the body to work properly, well, only until her soul fully adapts to the body."
Naraku growled.
Now it was Kakiya's turn to smirk, "Well?"
Reluctantly, he let her go. Kakiya stepped away from him and stretched her arms and legs. She took in a large breath of the morning air and found that InuYasha's group was here and so was Sesshomaru. Kakiya even caught a whiff of Rin's scent, but there was a scent here that caught her attention: the scent of herself.
"What am I doing awake… and in a clay body?" she whispered, and then started to jump towards the castle, to find her other self.
"Oh no you don't." Naraku sent another wave of pain into her heart.
The cold ground below her came rushing as her. Kakiya felt the impact of the fall, but the pain in her heart soon made the pain from the fall numb. Kakiya craned her head to look at Naraku who taking his sweet time walking towards her.
"What… is this?"
Naraku knelt down beside her and grabbed her arm, lifting her up again, facing her towards him, "You're mine now; you can't be doing things like this out of your own will. You will not be returning to your body… understand?" he growled.
"No… but I have to…" she struggled to say, but the pain only increased.
"You don't have to do anything, but listen to my orders." He watched her struggle under his grasp, 'Normally Kagura would just give up and listen to me by now…' he forced her to look into his eyes, he started to hypnotise her with his words like he did with Kohaku, "You are going to go to the back and kill both InuYasha and Lord Sesshomaru… with your own sword."
He released his hold on her heart and watch her eyes dulled. He felt a smirk creep up onto his face. Roshoi only stared at the evil demon with terror in his eyes. He feared that his doll might not hold out for long.
"Yes…master."
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"Kagome! She's in here!" Sango called out. "Well… At least I would like to think so…"
Looking back, she saw Sango and everyone else hurrying into a room. She ran towards the room and went inside. She found Kakiya lying down on the ground like she was unconscious. She knelt down beside her and pulled her head up so that she was now resting on her warm lap instead of the cold, hard floor. She noticed that Kakiya looked different from before; Kakiya now had silver hair, two red stripes on the left side of her face, and pointed ears.
Kagome ignored it and shook her, "Kakiya! Hey, Kakiya, wake up! We're here now, you're safe from Naraku."
She shook her once more. Miroku checked her pulse at her neck and found it was still beating, although unnaturally slow.
"She must still be asleep." He pointed out.
"Way to state the obvious." Shippo muttered.
"At least we know she's not dead!" Miroku retorted.
Sango touched her forehead, "And her body temperature seems fine."
Kagome raised her hand to slap her older sister, "I said wake up, damn it! We don't have all day to be sitting here!" she swung her hand to Kakiya, but before hitting her face, another hand caught hers.
Kakiya's eyes slowly opened to reveal a piercing ruby colour, "What do you think you are doing to me, human?" she ask coldly. She sat up and let go of Kagome's hand, looking at the humans around her, "Damn you, Naraku…"
Kagome suddenly stood up and pointed at Kakiya, "Human! How dare you call your younger sister that! Even though it is true, but still!" she yelled out.
Kakiya searched her memories for the humans in front of her, but found nothing; there were no memories for her to search through, only the memories of her own when she was awake. 'What is this? Why can't I recall anything from my other self? It's like she's missing…' she thought angrily, punching the floor, smashing it and realized that she could no longer sense her sleeping presence in her mind any longer. "That Naraku will pay…" she growled and turned to face the frightened humans, "What is your name; the one who claims to be my sister."
"Kagome!" she yelled out.
"Are you really my sister?" she questioned, 'Maybe she knows of that place.'
"Not by blood, but yes, through adoption."
"Adoption…?" she was utterly confused and growled in frustration, "Never mind, you wouldn't know of it anyways. Humans and their strange customs…" She muttered and stood up, 'She's not even a demon of any sort. She can't be my sister, what a foolish assumption to make.'
Kakiya began to walk towards the door, but another human voice made her stop, "Wait!" Sango told her.
Turning around, she let out a low snarl, "What now?"
Sango slightly look a step back, "We have to go to InuYasha."
"Now why would I do that? Besides, what is this InuYasha?"
Miroku stared at her with disbelief, "You'll see." He simply told her.
They walked out with Kakiya following behind them. They made their way towards the back of the castle, where Sesshomaru and InuYasha were.
Out at the back of the castle, the two had ceased fighting, but now they were just staring at each other, not letting the other pass to go find their respective comrades.
"You are so stubborn, InuYasha." Sesshomaru simply stated.
"And you're one to talk!" InuYasha spat, "Standing there, not letting me go."
They both suddenly caught a strange scent of clay.
"Kikyo? No… there is no graveyard soil mixed with this scent." InuYasha noticed.
The figure appeared, standing on the roof, sword drawn at her side. Both brothers looked up and recognized the figure. Shock clouded InuYasha's eyes.
"Kakiya…" InuYasha gulped, wide eyed, "Why are you wearing… Naraku's clothes?" he demanded and hoped that Naraku didn't do anything to her like those bandits long ago were going to.
Sesshomaru stared at her, not believing that this girl was actually Kakiya; since her hair was not the same silver that it was before and her weapon looked off too, 'If that is not her, then who is she?' he wondered, 'A replica of her half-breed self?'
Kakiya jumped down from the rood and stood in front of them, she touched Naraku's blue jacket, "My master gave this to me, so why wouldn't I wear it?"
"Who ever made this replica is a sick bastard." He muttered.
They heard an evil laugh coming from within the castle. The two brothers turned their attention to the figure coming out of the castle.
"I heard that, Lord Sesshomaru," he laughed, and then he noticed InuYasha, "Oh… look at what the cat dragged in…"
"Naraku!" InuYasha pointed his sword at him, "What the hell did you do to her?"
"Already bearing your fangs towards me? You've really got to work on that temper of yours." He taunted.
"For once, I agree with you, Naraku." Sesshomaru admitted.
Ignoring his older brother, InuYasha started to run towards Naraku, dragging his sword along. Lightning bolts fell out of the sky and were aiming towards InuYasha. He had no choice but to jump back until he was behind Sesshomaru again. Kakiya jumped from the roof and landed beside Naraku. She gently rested her head on his shoulder and put a hand on his chest affectionately.
"InuYasha, you seem to have mistaken something. Kakiya was always like this; ever since she was made that is." He wrapped an arm around her waist, puller her closer to him, "So powerful, so obedient, so... mine."
Sesshomaru let a smirk crawl onto his face, "So, you are saying that since you couldn't control the real one, you made an exact replica of her. You must have been desperate to have done something like that."
"You have one sick-ass mind." InuYasha growled, "Once the real Kakiya sees this, she'll have your head!"
Naraku grinned, "It is true that I got a demon to make a clay doll of the original, but I also took the original's soul, so I don't think the real Kakiya will be coming anytime soon. Besides, I will be using her real body for my experiments," he stroked the doll's black hair, "I want to see how long it can last before I absorb it." He let go of Kakiya, "Kill him." He commanded.
She jumped from his side and charged at InuYasha. He saw her attack coming, moving back just before her blade sliced through the air inches before his face.
"Kakiya, snap out of it! I don't want you fight you when you're like this!" he jumped towards her and knocked the blade out of her hand and grabbed her wrist, "I said stop it."
Another energy blade appeared in her left hand, she cut at InuYasha, but he let her go before she could land a blow. Kakiya jumped back, throwing her sword at InuYasha, who dodged the flying weapon with ease.
Kakiya held out her hand and a red flame appeared, "Fire dragons, come forth and wrap your flowing bodies around these fiendish beings."
Two mighty fire dragons roared from the small flame and flew towards the two brothers. A dark shadow emerged from nowhere in front of them, about to take on the full blow of the dragons.
"You can do nothing against me, be gone!" The fiery dragons exploded into tiny flames that danced around until finally disappearing.
"This scent…!" InuYasha exclaimed, but then looked back at the other one, "There are two…? But I thought her soul…" he examined the one that saved him and saw that she was different from before and that the strange demonic aura he had sensed for the last few nights was coming from her.
Kagome and the gang emerged from the castle, "InuYasha!"
He looked at the castle to see his comrades were safe and sound. They were running towards him.
"We found her, but she was acting a bit strange…" Sango told him.
"Hey you guys… I think I know why she was weird…" Shippo stared at the two different Kakiyas, "Why are there two?"
"What are you talking about Shippo?" Miroku questioned and he turned to look in the direction that Shippo was looking at, "There can't possibly be two… good lord, there is twice the amount of that beautiful goddess!" he grinned, "Perhaps InuYasha won't mind sparing one for me," he whispered, then turned pale as he glanced at Sango who was standing beside him, "Ahh, I mean, I didn't really mean that, you know? I just…"
Sango simply slapped him across the face, "You lecherous monk, you never seem to learn don't you?"
"Putting that aside, can someone tell me why there are two Kakiyas?" Kagome yelled out.
Naraku looked bewildered, "How can this be? I took your soul! You shouldn't be –"
"Awake? Alive? Moving?" Kakiya smirked, "Looks like your miserable plan backfired, Naraku. Now, if you don't mind, I would like it if you give me back my other half."
"Other half?" they all said in harmony, except for Sesshomaru, who took this chance to go find Rin.
"My half breed self." She formed her dark sword, similar to the one her other self was holding except her's swirled with excess energy and was glowing, 'If I destroy that body, my soul should come back to me…' she thought.
The Kakiya's double was confused at what to do, Naraku's control over her was weakening from the sight of her real self, and finally, she broke through, "My body!"
The real Kakiya watched as her other self jumped towards her but then collapse to the ground, withering in pain.
"I thought I told you that you may not go against my orders," he growled.
He started to walk towards Kakiya, but the real one stopped him with a dark blast, "Get away from my other half." She threatened.
"Kakiya," he commanded, "Come to me."
"No.." she struggled as the pain in her chest increased.
"I said come."
"Yes master…" she got up and walked towards him as the pain died away.
"How dare you treat my other self like that..." she growled.
InuYasha couldn't stand there, watching Naraku torture Kakiya, doll or not, "Wind Scar!" he aimed the attack straight at Naraku.
"Kakiya." he commanded.
She held up her hand and created a barrier, blocking the attack from reaching her or Naraku. He smirked and wrapped an arm around her again.
"She's mine to control," he looked over at the real Kakiya, "And so are you." He swung a tentacle from his back towards her.
A green ball of energy shot down from above and destroyed the tentacle before it reached Kakiya, drawing everyone's attention towards the sky.
"Lord Sesshomaru," Demon Kakiya muttered, "That was unnecessary."
"Sesshomaru…" The replica whispered.
He jumped down from Ah-Un, who held Rin on his back, and landed beside the real Kakiya.
Kakiya looked back at the human girl on Ah-Un, 'So that is Rin? Why he even keeps a human like that around is beyond my knowledge.' She thought.
The replica followed her gaze and her eyes focused on Rin's small form, 'Rin!' she was about to jump out of Naraku's grasp to go and hold the little child, but a familiar ping of pain erupted in her chest once more, she glared at Naraku with hate in her eye, "You had better let me out of your control now, or you will regret it." She growled.
The pain in her chest increased as Naraku felt the anger inside him rise. Kakiya was trying to defy him again, and he did not like that, "I'm afraid not, my little doll; you are mine, and I will make you recognize that fact." He smirked, "Do you understand?" he tightened the hold he had on his heart.
She clutched the clothing above her chest, 'This pain... it's coming from my heart..' she thought, then smiled, "Unfortunately, Naraku, I do not and I have found a way to be released."
"Oh? You plan to gorge out your own heart do you? However, I won't let you do such a thing," he grabbed her chin and forced her to look into his eyes. He once again hypnotized her until she was under his complete control again, "There, much better."
Kagome pulled on InuYasha's sleeve, "InuYasha, there's a jewel shard in her body!" she quickly told him as she pointed to the fake Kakiya, "I think that's how he's controlling her soul and her body, just like what he did with Kohaku."
Sesshomaru whispered to Kakiya, who was standing beside him, "We are leaving. I am teleporting us away from here."
"What?" she looked up to see that Ah-Un had already left, along with Rin. "What about her? My other half?"
"We will deal with her later."
Kakiya thought about it for a bit, "Alright, let's go."
Although InuYasha had heard what Kagome had told him, he was distracted by watching his older brother and Kakiya engaging in a quiet conversation, 'What could they be talking about?' he slightly growled, 'Why is Kakiya with him?' he thought bitterly, "Sesshomaru you are the biggest ba-" he suddenly stopped when he saw the two glaring at him.
"So we'll come back when he and his human company leaves?" Kakiya asked Sesshomaru after glancing in InuYasha's direction.
He gave a slight nod as a reply.
Naraku noticing them talking and wanting them to stop, "Kakiya, kill Sesshomaru and his annoying brother." He snarled.
Kakiya raised her hands and started to form a whirl wind made of fire, "Yes, my master." She released the fiery blaze towards the group and it split into two, one headed towards Sesshomaru and the other towards Kakiya.
"This nonsense again." Kakiya mused, "Lord Sesshomaru, let us leave."
A ball of blue energy wrapped around the two and quickly teleported them to a place far from the castle.
"They left!" InuYasha exclaimed.
"Ah, InuYasha? I don't think that's the main problem here." Shippo said nervously.
InuYasha stared at the whirling blaze, "I was getting to that! You guys get away first, I'll deal with this." He lifted up his Tessaiga, "Backlash wave!" He quickly jumped away after his companions as the attack headed straight back towards Naraku.
"Damn it..." He growled. He quickly scooped up Kakiya and retreated behind his barrier.
Kakiya's eyes glowed as a pale white light enveloped them both in that light. She teleported them away from the blast, retreating to another castle of Naraku's.
He looked down at the panting doll in his arms, "Good job, Kakiya. For that, I shall forgive you for what you have done today. However, next time, I will not accept failure as an answer." He carried her off into his castle.
"Yes, my master."
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