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Chapter 18

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Kakiya lifted up her sword and pointed it towards Naraku, "Naraku, my soul, right now. Or else."

The other Kakiya materialized a dagger and threw it at Naraku, inside his barrier, and managed to hit him in his shoulder before he turned around and whipped her across the field with one of his tentacles. She got sat up and noticed that her body had cracked with the impact, but the recovery speed of Naraku's flesh inside her patched her up too quickly.

Naraku was furious, "Kakiya, what do you think you're doing?" he reached up and grabbed the dagger and ripped it out of his shoulder, the dagger disappeared in his hands while he was stomping over to his doll.

Kakiya saw him and quickly scrambled to get up and get away from him, "Naraku, stay away from me!" she formed a black sword in her hand and pointed it at him.

He merely laughed as he saw this, he walked over and pushed the sword easily to a side and walked right up and looked down at her, "Now… I want you to call out to your soul, bring that soul into your body. Do you understand, Kakiya? Do this properly and I might forget about what you just tried to do."

Kakiya growled, "Naraku! Get away from her, your opponent is me!" she sent a fire ball towards them.

Naraku put up his barrier and deflected the attack, "Did you hear me, Kakiya? I want you to call out to your other half."

Sesshomaru growled, "Are you so weak that you cannot even defy his orders? You dare not listen to him, Kakiya." He gripped his sword, 'The Kakiya I know is not this weak; she should be stronger. Is it because they are separated?'

The other pointed her sword at Naraku, "Sesshomaru! Take my real body away; I don't want her soul to be drawn out! I don't want her to be in the hands of Naraku…like me" she whispered.

Demon Kakiya's eyes glowed red with anger, and shot another fire ball at Naraku and almost managed to crack it, much to Naraku's surprise. "Are you suggesting that I am so weak that I cannot defend someone who is merely a half-breed?" Running towards the two, she swung her sword and was stopped by the barrier, 'This barrier will not stop me from my goal,' she bitterly thought and gave a final push.

Naraku noticed his barrier was cracking even more, 'Damn, she is breaking it again!' he pulled back. He angrily shoved the doll outside of his barrier, "Kakiya, take her soul."

The demon Kakiya pushed the clay one aside and charged at the escaping Naraku, "You will not get away!"

"Oh really…?" he broke into the mind of the half breed behind her, 'Take it, take the soul with your sword.' He commanded.

The life vanished from her eyes, leaving behind dull orbs. She charged at Kakiya, but Sesshomaru quickly intercepted and redirected the blow to the ground.

Kakiya glanced behind her to see what the sound of clashing metal was, "Lord Sesshomaru?" she said puzzled, and immediately took in what she saw, "Kaki-" she started.

"Pay attention to what is in front," He quickly cut in, " I will take care of this… fool."

She quickly turned around to see Naraku charging towards her; his tentacles out to the side, just like spider legs. Kakiya jumped to the side to avoid him and glanced up to the sky. 'Damn, the sun is gone.' She looked back at Naraku, 'I have to finish this before the night ends.' She cursed.

Naraku once again was upon her, he wrapped his tentacles around her legs, but Kakiya only sliced them off, "Resistance is futile," he growled, "Give yourself up already, you belong to me."

Her eyes flared red once more, and were filled with anger. She shot powerful fire blades at him, "I do not belong to you!" she shot more fire blades, fuelled by her anger, she broke through his barrier, "Get it through your thick skull, half-breed!" she kept firing one shot after another, slowly walking towards him, and each one hitting their mark on Naraku's torn body. She briefly stopped firing and watched him slowly regenerate, "You are one disgusting parasite," she shot a blazing ball at his still regenerating body.

Off to the side, Sesshomaru swung at Kakiya and broke her sword and Kakiya, whose clay body could not handle the impact from his power, flew back and crashed into the trees behind them. Sesshomaru took this moment to return to the Demon Kakiya's side.

He landed quietly beside her, catching her attention, "You are being blinded by your anger again. I have already told you once before, do not let him get to your head."

Kakiya swung at him, but was only able to slice through air as he was gone, she saw him behind her, and tried to calm down, "You know… you would be a good teacher if you were not so cold all the time," she said, trying to forget her anger.

He smirked, "I wouldn't want students who are so childish, like yourself." He whispered before he quickly jumped away, avoiding another blow by her sword.

"Do not call me a child!" she growled.

"What did I just finish telling you? Do not let your anger control your actions."

Kakiya glared at him, 'He is one annoying lord.' She thought and saw her replica charging at them. Kakiya jumped over to her and blocked her sword, "I will take care of this one."

Sesshomaru gave no answer, and ran towards Naraku who was just getting up. He saw him come, and moved away from him, using his tentacles to attack from a distance.

"Kakiya," Naraku snarled, "Do it now."

She jumped back from Kakiya, avoiding another blow, "Yes master."

Kakiya rushed towards her and punched her in the face, "I never want to hear those disgusting words come out of your mouth ever again."

The replica staggered back and regained her posture. She walked towards Demon Kakiya and smiled, "Kakiya…" she whispered, grabbing hold of her body and she hugged her.

"Wha…?" Kakiya was confused, "What are you-" she got cut off by a sharp pain in her stomach; the place where Naraku had once stuck her before. She coughed up blood, "How dare you…" she growled.

The replica had stabbed her arm through her stomach and reopened an old wound.

Naraku smiled, "Do not think you will easily recover from that, dear Kakiya… That arm contains my solidified miasma…" he laughed, "I finally have you!"

Tentacles erupted from the ground below her and wrapped around the real Kakiya, holding her in place.

"Come to me, my soul." The replica whispered.

Her body started to glow white once more, she struggled, but that only caused the poison to spread through her body faster. Kakiya suddenly stopped struggling as she realized something.

"Naraku, for this one time, I shall grant your damned wish. Take it; take my soul, my dear half-breed." She smirked, "We'll see if your fake body can handle my being."

With that, Kakiya's soul left her real body entirely and disappeared into the clay body. Both went limp and crashed into the ground.

Sesshomaru quickly flew over and cut away the tentacles on the real body, pulling out the arm from her stomach, 'Just what are you thinking…' He wondered as he jumped away.

Naraku laughed, "At last! She is mine!" he slowly dragged the clay body over to him.

"Naraku, why is it that you are so determined to posses this Kakiya?"

Naraku glared at Sesshomaru, "Why? Why? Why wouldn't I want her? A being so powerful and perfect, despite the fact that she is only half-demon, that would make I, Naraku, even more powerful when I absorb her unique powers. Lord Sesshomaru, I have tried to absorb you once before; a being, who too, is perfect and so powerful that even I cannot absorb you. For now anyway, which is why I need her. I will become even more powerful when she becomes one with me. And now, if you will, Lord Sesshomaru, hand over that body."

"You are a fool to think that I would do such a thing." Sesshomaru snarled.

"So you too have affection for this being?" he laughed, "Even someone as great as you have fallen for this girl…"

"Don't be ridiculous, you sick half-breed."

Naraku laughed once more, "This half-breedjust succeeded in taking away something precious from you."

"Precious?" his grip on her limp body tightened and he looked down at her wounded self, "I, Lord Sesshomaru have no such thing."

Hearing Sesshomaru say that made his blood boil, "What is she to you then?"

Sesshomaru smirked at Naraku's reaction, "That is something that I am not obliged to tell."

Naraku glared at the cold hearted demon, 'This person irritates me to no end…' he glanced over at the replica and lifted it up towards him. Apart from the steady movements of her breathing, he noticed that she remained inanimate. "Wake up." He commanded, but nothing happened, "I told you to wake up." He shook her, 'What's going on? I saw her soul enter this body, so why isn't it moving?' Naraku looked back at the real body, still motionless.

Sesshomaru moved back, towards the tree line with Kakiya's body still in his arms, 'It's still warm,' he could feel her heat through his clothes. He was about to set her down, but something stopped him. Her body started to dimly glow a pale green and Sesshomaru noticed that her wounds were trying to heal, 'Her powers remaining is keeping her body alive.' He mused, and noticed that the wound was, if at all, healing very slowly, though he could still see the ground through the open flesh, 'Naraku's miasma is spreading…' he looked back at Naraku, who was still trying to wake the replica, "I see your plans have failed." He smirked.

"Shut your mouth, I don't want to hear anything from you." He lifted her body up towards his face until he was face to face with her. "Kakiya… wake up." He moved his hand towards the Shikon Jewel in her body, but just as his fingers brushed up against her neck, cracks started form. "What?" he looked around at the rest of her body, he saw cracks started to appear on her arms and legs.

Her body started to release her demonic aura, just as it did when she was in her own body as more cracks formed. Kakiya's eyes snapped open, revealing the piercing ruby eyes of her demon self and had a pair of red streaks burning upon her left cheek. The tentacles that held her had started to disintegrate.

"Naraku… I warned you not to touch me…" came the voice of her demon self. She smiled as she held out her hand, revealing the shards that Naraku had embedded in her body; purified. "I have to admit, it was hard to purify these while in this form, and I am surprised that I managed to achieve this…" the shards were wrapped in a blue orb of energy and it flew back to Kakiya's real body, "I will be taking these." She muttered.

"Kakiya, you may be in your demon form, however, I still control your body." Naraku laughed and sent a shock on pain through her heart.

Kakiya smiled, "Oh, you mean this?" she took her hand and drove it into her own cracked body, and broke out her heart and looked at it. "I thought it would hurt more, after seeing my other half being controlled by this trickery… but I don't really feel a thing." she squeezed her own heart, "See? Nothing."

"Why is it that you came out and not the other?" Naraku yelled out in frustration.

"You made one fatal mistake, Naraku. You wanted both our souls in one body and as soon as I came in, the other was put into a deep slumber as I am the one who is awake, not her. On top of that, this body that you had made cannot handle my power and so you see it crumbling." Kakiya looked at the heart in her hand once more, and saw that it now sprouted tentacles and were wrapping themselves around her arm. "It's useless, Naraku…" she set the heart ablaze and it, with the rest of the body, became a giant flame and quickly reduced the clay to ashes.

Two white orbs of light flew out from the flames and made their way back to Kakiya's body and disappeared within it.

"Damn you Kakiya! You will become a part of me by the end of this night!" he growled and charged towards her body.

Sesshomaru quickly pulled out Tokijin, "Dragon Strike." He muttered.

The attack blew Naraku away. Sesshomaru slid his sword back under his sash and picked up Kakiya. A blue ball of energy wrapped around them, teleporting the two to a place far away from Naraku.

Naraku soon recovered from the blow and drew back to his castle, 'I was so close…' he angrily thought, and turned around making his way deep into the depths of his castle to regenerate, "Next time, I will get her and my shards back." He mumbled.

Afar, Sesshomaru had finally landed, choosing a place to stay until the night ended. He carried her body to a cave in a side of a mountain and found a giant rock to lay her up against. He sat down beside her and looked up into the fading night sky. Feeling a stir next to him, he looked over and found that her body had slid over and now was resting on his boa.

"Looks like you are going to be a half breed again…" he sighed as he brushed the silver hair from her face.

As he pulled away, the side of his finger softly brushed her check. Her eyes fluttered open, capturing his golden eyes with her red ones.

'Her eyes are so entrancing …' he caught himself thinking and quickly brushed the thought away. He turned his attention to her stomach, which still bled.

Kakiya looked down at her stomach, "I had forgotten about this," and placed a hand over her wound and started to heal it.

He noticed that it was taking longer for her to heal and that the usual demonic power was not leaking from her body as much as it did before. He couldn't even see her aura any more. She was becoming weaker.

Kakiya looked at him, after healing her wound, knowing that he noticed her powers weakening, "I'll soon turn back into the person you all seem to mistake me for." She mused.

Together they watched the light return to the sky as the sun was beginning to rise. Her heart pounded with less strength as it changed to accommodate a half being. As the sun finally started to appear at the horizon, the markings on her face resided and her eyes, turned back into the brown colour and her hair started to turn black once more.

"Until the next full moon…" she whispered before she closed her eyes and fell limp beside him.

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Outside, the snow is quite lovely.