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Chapter 5 Conjuring

"Naraku" A young pale girl whispered to Naraku. She was not a very lively one; nothing ever took her by surprise, for that would be a sign of weakness. Her only weapon was a clear, circular mirror, and she had absolutely no life in her eyes. She looked at her master, a young man with hair that went down past his waist, black as ink; it matched his eyes fairly well. He was an evil being, evil is actually and understatement, wicked being more like him. He was powerful to say the least, and his entertainment was making others suffer.

"Lady Kikyo is here to see you." With that the young girl, name Kanna, walked out of the room not waiting to be dismissed, by now she knew he wouldn't say anything to her anyways, however if she did she surely would have not known what to do.

"Naraku, I have come to form an alliance with you." Kikyo stood at the doorway with a very calm look on her face. She always looked calm, which was something that the dead learned how to do. She had thought long and hard about what she was about to say to him. It may bruise her pride, yes that is indeed true, however, revenge was something that would come of this, and revenge is what she cherished most. She had known where Naraku resided; once stumbling upon it when he had accidentally become weakened and had let the barrier fall. She had not taken action then, for it was not worth her time to do so. She had simply moved on without even making her presence known. She absolutely loathed Naraku, but she hated Inuyasha more, and for that reason, is why she has blessed him with her presence.

"And does this have anything to do with the hanyou I presume?" Naraku chuckled as something passed across Kikyo's usually emotionless face, something a kin to anger. Anger was a wonderful thing Naraku thought, 'but revenge is better' he smirked. He had known for a long time that this day was approaching; the day the weak, un-dead would ask for his help. And of course, Kikyo would never ask for help if it did not concern the half-breed. He knew this for a fact. Kikyo was a prideful woman; very self-righteous indeed. He hated his human heart that still resides within him for letting her be his weakness. But he would sooner kill himself than let any being alive, or dead, know that. His human heart, Onigumo, loved this woman, while his demon heart, hated her with a passion that could not be rivaled. Soon he would be rid of this human, all in due time, 'and that', he thought, 'is a time worth waiting for.'

"Your presumptions are correct; however they are not what you may think. I will gladly get the pathetic copy of myself out of your way if you get the hanyou out of mine. Normally, I would have wanted to take care of Inuyasha myself; however, lately I have been focused more and more on the girl then on the hanyou. I find myself wanting more and more to just get rid of her, all the while making Inuyasha suffer. It works to benefit both of us. The girl and hanyou will both be gone and you will have all of the jewel fragments. All I ask is that you get rid of the hanyou so that I can focus entirely on the girl." She hated asking his help in this matter; it bruised her pride. But in order to get what one wanted, oh and she wanted this, a few things had to be given up in return.

With that Naraku smiled, "That Kikyo, I think can be arranged." This current idea seemed to appeal to him; luring him like a victim to a siren. The beckoning to beautiful to be past up; it did work out to benefit him all the way around after all. Both the half-breed and annoying wench would be gone, he would have the jewel shards and collect the last remaining, therefore the Shikon no Tama would be his to possess. As a result of this, he would turn full demon; finally getting rid of the human heart that currently rested in him, along with the infatuation of the miko, hence he would finally be able to kill her as well. He glanced at her when she spoke.

"You are aware this changes nothing between us, correct?" Kikyo had turned back before leaving just to ask that final question. There was an unspoken agreement between them; they hated each other, but the hate for the others was greater; more intense. After this was over, the past would be forgotten, and they would continue hating each other.

"My dear Kikyo, I would never dream of it." Naraku chuckled once more and with that Kikyo was gone, to set off on finding the girl Inuyasha traveled with. It was her turn to suffer like she had for all of those years; it would be her turn to pay with her life for the hanyou. 'You won't get away from me this time you filthy hanyou, I will make sure of that.'

Naraku was still thinking back upon this; reasoning the pros and cons. The idea was evil and for that he enjoyed it immensely, however, he still did not like the thought of teaming up with Kikyo, and he didn't want to just get rid of Inuyasha either, that would be too easy, he wanted to have fun with this. Perhaps he would make the hanyou watch as he tortured the poor girl…no that's to nice. He wanted to turn them against one another, for he favored head games above everything else. This was undeniably going to be well worth waiting for. Kikyo didn't know it yet, but she had signed her death warrant when asking him for help. A stupid mistake that would prove to be…

However, little did he know that Kikyo was thinking the exact same thing. She knew that Naraku tended to take things into his own hands and that would just not settle well with her. But she would not be so easily defeated when it came to this matter. This was too personal, and she would not let her revenge, once again, get away from her. She was not going to back down.

Her thoughts drifted to the person of her current resentment; Kagome. She hated that girl with all of her being. She was too good, too perfect. It disgusted her. She thought back on it; on a life that she had had before she was dead. At one point in time maybe she and Kagome could have gotten along, they were basically the same person anyway. She had had some common interests. Such as starting a family and having a good life, something Kagome surely wanted. But her thoughts darkened, and just then she realized how different her and her reincarnate really were from one another. She herself was not as lively as Kagome, or as out going or as fun, and with that Kikyo hated her even more. She hated that she had worked so hard to be like that: so carefree, wanting to not have to worry about the jewel or protecting it and just being a normal girl, and yet Kagome did it without trying. She had gotten something she had worked so hard to attain. She hated that even with all of the training she had had, that Kagome was still more powerful, that it just came naturally for her. She would not admit that to anyone however. And she scowled at that thought. It wasn't fair how her life had turned out. She was finally going to be a free girl; if the hanyou had just turned human without thinking about it then she wouldn't have been in this situation. It was his fault. He ruined her life; took it from her. And now that he owed her his own life, in replacement to the one he caused ruin to, it seemed as though he would not be giving it up. He hadn't told her the words, but she knew it. Every time she beckoned him, he would come. She enjoyed that it caused her copy pain; that she was hurting the girl who most deserved it, for she had taken what was rightfully hers. But every time he came, the meetings got shorter and his mind always seemed to be somewhere else. Was she not good enough for him anymore? Surely not; if anything she was better than him, she always had been. But even after all of this, she could clearly see that his heart belonged to another and that he would not be repaying his debt, the one that he rightfully owed to her. And for that she would make him deeply suffer.

When had she gotten this evil? Even in life she had had some evil thoughts, but none as bad as this. She hadn't been this truly horrible while living had she? Right now her soul, or lack there of, was just made of anger and hatred; she now loved to make the ones she hated suffer, where as if she had been living, she would never have had thoughts such as those. She wasn't perfect when she was alive, but she had been better than she was currently. She missed the feeling of being free, being able to feel, being able to wonder how your life was going to turn out. She narrowed her eyes. As time had passed she had realized, now, how her life was going to be turning out, and it was not to her liking. She would not accept this. Why was she the one who had to take souls from dead maidens just to stay alive? Why was she the one who had to live life alone with no one to care for her? Why was she the one that had to die? Stealing her resolve, she kept walking. If she has to suffer, so did everyone else, because that was just how it was going to be. She would not be alone in her sufferings, for everyone else surely deserved more than she. Her thoughts turned wicked once more at the thought of how she could make those who had betrayed her suffer, and those she didn't like, cause them pain; her copy taking the lead in her thoughts, along with the hanyou who she had once felt close to. She smirked as she kept walking through the forest, thinking of all of the things she could bestow upon them, the thoughts running freely through her mind.

Inuyasha was sitting outside of the hut, with his back laying up against the wall. His back ached but nothing he couldn't tolerate, that is if he didn't move at all. When they had gotten back he had immediately, well as immediately as he could anyway, went to find Kaede. She had been in her hut just sitting there putting some herbs together when she noticed him struggling to walk in, actually walking wouldn't be the word, it was more like toddling; dragging his feet and moving as if in slow motion, not to mention she noticed that his dark red kimono was now even a darker red than before, that surely was not good. Her smile immediately turned upside down.

"Child, what happened to Ye and Kagome?!" She asked as she started to get up as fast as she could; it was starting to get harder as the years past she noticed.

"We were attacked by a demon. Here help Kagome!" the hanyou all but threw her at Kaede, she smiled to herself, the hanyou was so worried about the young miko. It was quite endearing.

"While I am tending to Yer wounds tell me how this came about?" She started to gather all of the materials that she would need in order to help cleanse the wounds.

"We were back at camp and I heard Kagome scream…" He rushed it out because he didn't want her to think he was worried about Kagome, she didn't need to know that. He trusted Kaede yes, and held a respect for her too, but old habits died hard and he still couldn't let one of his weaknesses be revealed. 'Kagome is not a weakness' he scolded himself.

She was his strength. If they were in battle, she would scream his name and he would feel a sudden rush of power. She would look at him with those eyes that made him feel like he could conquer the world. She gave him the strength to live on from day to day, for she was his reason for living.

She was his weakness also, but not in that sense. She gave him a look, it made him weak. She smiled at him, and that made him weak too. All she would have to do was say his name, and his legs would almost give out. She was his weakness, and for that, each and every day he was grateful to have her. He did not like being out in the open about his feelings, especially when enemies might be lurking about trying to find out his weakness; trying to find out about his Kagome.

By the time he was done explaining what had happened, Kaede's eyes held silent laughter. The boy obviously was worried about her no matter how much he denied it. Over the days they have spent with Kagome, Kaede could tell that something had grown between the two. And she couldn't help but notice that they both held strong feelings for each other. They showed each time they argued, each time they laughed, each time they breathed. 'Ah, to be young and in love'

"Kagome is alright Inuyasha, she just seems to have used way too much of her power in a short amount of time. She must have been really worried about ye to do that, only strong emotions help can trigger a progressiveness in their powers, and Kagome was not very trained. I have done my best with the child, but not enough for her to have grown as powerful as this; not as in control of her abilities as this. I am guessing that the child held some very strong emotions while she was trying to save ye." Kaede then moved from Kagome to Inuyasha, silently tisking him as it seemed he was in a silent competition with himself seeing how bloody he could get in one battle. She told him to lie on his stomach so she could tend to the wounds on his back. He grumbled but complied to her request. He was still nervous for Kagome but when Kaede once again reassured him that Kagome was fine and only needed rest then he let his body relax. Kaede just smiled.

Inuyasha let out a breath of relief that he didn't even know he had been holding. He finally remembered the last part of what Kaede had said, "She must have been really worried about ye to do that…I am guessing that the child held some very strong emotions while she was trying to save ye." The hanyou blushed suddenly, 'Was she really worried that much about me?' While Inuyasha had been brooding over this, Kaede had finished up the last of his wounds. When Inuyasha noticed that she had finally finished he got up, very slowly and with much effort, and hobbled over to where Kagome was lying. Kaede was still looking over Kagome and every time she made an observation Inuyasha would be hounding her and asking if something was wrong or if he could help. She finally got fed up with him and sentenced him to wait outside until Kagome woke up. He was not to happy, but she threatened him with not being able to see Kagome even if she did wake up, and that got him. He was silently cursing the whole way and Kaede just shook her head at his antics.

With his back still against the wall Inuyasha sighed again for the umpteenth time. 'She must have really been worried to increase in her abilities..' He then remembered the fierce look in her eyes; that had been the most emotion he had seen out of Kagome in a little while, come to think of it. But he quickly pushed that thought aside, maybe she wasn't mad at him anymore, but he didn't want to jinx it. So he thought yet again, back to the way her face looked. With so much anger there; that someone had actually dared to harm him. She had once again surprised him by her loyalty to him. He noticed that no matter how mad Kagome was at him, she never stayed away from him for too long. It was like it was a hard task for her. He remembered this one time that happened a little while ago. They had been checking on a rumor for a jewel shard, and it was early in the morning. Everyone else was up except for Kagome. She was always a late riser, but this particular morning she was even more impossible. No matter how many times Inuyasha tried to wake her up, she would always shrug him off and say something to the extent of 'five more minutes' and then go right back to sleep. He was getting ticked off and so decided to use another method.

Kagome….absolutely…hated… snails. They were slimy on the bottom, hard and rough on the top, they moved so incredibly slow, and she just thought they were the most disgusting things in all of Feudal Japan, including the demons, that is except for snail demons, which she just completely refused to fight. Anyways, Inuyasha decided that if she wasn't going to get up on her own accord that he was going to help her with that. He did say he was going to watch over her, right? So…he went over and found some of these wonderful creatures and told the group not to worry and that Kagome would be up in no time.

"Kagome…"

"Kagome…." Still no response.

"Kagome…there is a snail on your-" He didn't even get to finish before Kagome had jumped up and started screaming bloody murder. Snails were all over her! There were only five, but to her it was five too many. She screamed and yelled and was jumping all everywhere. To everyone else it was a funny site. Miroku and Sango had to hold hands over there mouth or look away because they were trying to keep from laughing. Shippo was laughing outright. And Inuyasha was on the floor, and if he was capable of crying, he would have been crying because he was laughing so hard. He was holding his sides and gasping for breath. Kagome jumped into a nearby pond, it was freezing cold by the way considering autumn had started not long ago. And then to make matters worse, she slipped on a rock, screamed and then landed face first into the stream. Now, just about everyone was laughing, some friends they were!

"We…shouldn't…be laughing…." Sango held her hand to her stomach and tried to compose herself…to no avail.

"Inuyasha…you…dog!" Miroku got a stitch in his side and was gasping for air.

Kagome surfaced slowly, it looked like a scene from a scary movie. (a/n: The Ring!) She was dripping wet, her soaked hair was covering her entire face, and she was surfacing slowly. That made everyone stop laughing, except for Inuyasha that is. He was still cackling from the aftereffects, hey, at least she was up now, right? Needless to say, when she found out that Inuyasha was, indeed, the culprit, she sat him so far into the ground that his back hurt for about a week, had headed back to her home right after that, and ignored him for about 3 days. Furthermore, Inuyasha had to do some major groveling, but he was Inuyasha! He couldn't just do that. So on the third day, when the whole ignoring thing had became too much for him, he just sucked up his pride and apologized. That was all it had taken, she immediately had went back to the way things were and the snail incident had been completely forgotten. But the moral of the story is that even though she had ignored him for those three days, she had never locked the window to her room, therefore she hadn't locked him out, which meant a great deal to him. Secondly, when she came back after a day of pouting, she had still ignored him, but she had brought him ramen nonetheless. And she had never said anything remotely hurtful to him, just the normal stuff.

Even when she was completely furious at him, she could never hate him, or hurt him. That brought a smile to Inuyasha's face, that and remembering how silly Kagome had looked while jumping around. He looked towards the hut that she was occupying, still unconscious because Kaede had not yet come and got him.

His smile slipped from his face…what was wrong with her? Kaede said that she had used too much energy, but she had done it before. Not to mention she had only fainted and then woke right back up about a few minutes later. This was different. She hadn't woken up and he was seriously getting worried. What if she never woke up? What if what happened caused her to lose her memory or something? What if she died while he wasn't in there to save her? He started to panic at that last thought. He would never let that happen to her! With that thought he got up and sprinted inside the hut. He told Kaede what she could do with her protests, the choice of words he used not nearly as nice, if Kagome had been awake she surely would have sat him. Kaede left deciding that it was better to go take a walk and stretch than to make another set of beads for the stubborn hanyou that let her to the incantation…as many times as she wanted to. Inuyasha sat down right beside Kagome's prone body. He didn't sleep outside that night, nor did he sleep at all, because nothing was going to harm Kagome while he was around. Nothing would get to her. He would die for her if he needed to.

He didn't know that pretty soon that might just be what he had to do.

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