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He hated her, yet he loved her.

If he could, he would kill her, but his heart didn't let him do her no harm.

How he hated his human heart. It made him weak in the presence of a certain woman.

"Damn you, Onigumo." He cursed under his breath. If there was something he longed for more than the shikon no tama was to be able to kill that woman. She was the only constant reminder of when he was human, and it angered him.

Try as he might to get rid of his heart, it always kept coming back. No matter how hard he stomped on it, or how far he threw it away, it always found its way back to its owner.

But that was it; he didn't understand that you cannot throw away your heart, that's impossible. If he wanted to kill her, he would have to learn to hate her, teach his heart to hate her, because it was his heart that ruled over his mind.

'If you want to kill me you are going to have to hate me. I was foolish enough to help you when both of us were human, but not anymore. If you want the shikon no tama, you will have to kill that annoying girl first, then come after myself.' She had told him.

He had wanted to strike her. His hand moved towards her, but in the end his heart pined for her and he let her go.

'Hate me. Tell your heart to hate me, or become stronger until your heart rules your mind no longer.' She told him, walking away.

And that was what he was trying to do.

He knew that he could never teach his heart to hate her, so he only had to get stronger.

Get stronger until he could get rid of anyone in his path, but to do that he needed the shikon no tama, and that was in the possession of another nuisance, a wannabe miko by the name of Kagome.

He growled softly, as a thought of that miko and her troupe of renegades trying to collect the jewel shards.

He was not going to let that happen!

He was going to take Kikyo's advice and find a way to make himself stronger in order to kill Kagome everyone in his path!