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"Kagura."

"Yes, Master Naraku?"

"Where is Kikyo?"

"Inuyasha killed her, Master Naraku."

"You saw this?"

"I did, Master Naraku."

"Good."

Naraku's enormous castle was now discreetly located on a high range of mountain peaks surrounded by a thick, sickly looking purple colored mist—his doing of course. The evil half demon known as Naraku was sitting in one of his conference rooms on a pillow with his legs folded neatly underneath himself. Kagura was standing in a corner, her folded fan in her hand, talking with her creator.

The room they where in was pretty plain, nothing adorned the walls and the colors where, in a nut shell, pretty much bland variations of grey, tan and a dark ugly green color. Naraku was calmly sitting in the center; his narrow red eyes inspecting his rebellious second incarnation. Thoroughly searching her bitter features to make sure she was not trying to tell him a lie. He finally deemed her truthful and dropped his piercing gaze to look at the sliding door that opened to reveal a girl about Kagura's height walking in.

"Kunara. Your task went according to plan, I presume?" Naraku asked in his deep voice.

"Yes. Rakuna has taken over the taijia girl, master Naraku."

"When did you achieve this?"

"When the hanyou went to kill the undead miko."

"And I'm guessing no one has knowledge of the plans?"

"No one suspects a thing except for her fire-neko."

"That wretched cat doesn't matter. I am pleased with your work, Kunara. You may go." He waved a hand at the girl; she bowed deeply at her waist and left, closing the sliding door behind her. Naraku watched her silhouette through the screen door as she walked away, down the hall.

The two demons, Kunara and Rakuna were Naraku's most recent detachments and they where sisters, with different powers and drastically different appearances.

Rakuna had dark blue hair and pale skin, and her eyes where white. No pupil, no shine, just white outlined by black, her small lips where painted a blue color that was a bit lighter than her hair, and she also had the same color eye shadow. Her bangs looked like Sesshoumaru's except a little wider spread out. She always wore kimono with variants of blue and plain sandals that many feudal time people wore.

Kunara had flaming red hair that was more in the style of Sango's. Her eyes where the same white color as her sister's and her lips and eye shadow where colored bright red, matching her hair, and she wore either red or pink clothes. She did not favor kimonos and, more often than not, dressed in male clothing. Other than their hair, lipstick, eye shadow and clothes preferences the two sister incarnations looked exactly the same; their body types were identical.

Both girls had two elemental powers each as well as a few very unique ones as well. Kunara had control over fire and earth while Rakuna wielded water and air. Kunara was able to transform and had the power of resurrection; she could give life to bodies, bring them out of the grave and command them.

Rakuna, however, specialized in manipulation and possession—she could also split her soul to control more people at once. She was also granted an innate ability with all weapons. Both sisters, when apart, had a solid black half-circle shaped demon marking on their foreheads; but when they were together, the half circle became full.

Naraku had to say himself, he was very proud of his last two incarnations, they where powerful and loyal and most of all, neither had failed in any assignment given to them. Twisting his body into a more relaxed position, he let out a sigh.

"Master Naraku." Kagura spoke, shrouded in the shadows of the corner of the room. He frowned; her tone wasn't at all respectful.

"What, Kagura?" He called in a bored voice and looked toward the area of the room Kagura had spoken from.

"What is your reasoning for having Rakuna take over the taijia?" The wind sorceress asked, stepping out of the darkness and into the view of the twisted, evil hanyou.

"The reasons are my own, but if you really must know…this is simply amusement." As he laughed evilly, a sinister smirk adorned his pale face and a wicked twinkle gleamed in his eye. His second incarnation's crimson eyes narrowed and she stepped across the room and exited.

"Kanna." Naraku called out firmly and calmly for his first, and so far most useful, incarnation. She silently appeared by his side, her blank, dark eyes bored into him, as if they where simply hollow.

"You called, Master Naraku?" She droned out in her dull, monotone voice.

"Show me Inuyasha." He commanded quietly. The small white child of an incarnation knelt down in front of her master and held up her mirror, the surface rippled and then settled to reveal a clearing in the woods. The picture that he saw was, to him, highly amusing…

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Sango was completely kissing Inuyasha on his lips just as Sesshoumaru and Kagome, Miroku, Akina and Jaken passed the trees above the clearing. Inuyasha simply lost his mind, and he had no idea why. His mind just went blank and he felt himself close his eyes, wrap his arms around Sango and return her kiss.

Kagome could not believe what she was seeing. The sight tore at her heart, but she didn't let it show. No tears, no yelling, no sitting, and no fighting ensued. Sesshoumaru silently landed his youkai cloud and let the arm that was still around Kagome's waist fall to his side. The young miko stepped off of the white cloud, her sweet face devoid of emotion and stood about five feet from Inuyasha and Sango, who where still paying her no mind.

Inuyasha instantly smelt Kagome's scent and his amber eyes opened wide and his arms tried to unravel themselves from Sango's body.

'…Ka…go…me…' Inside the hanyou's head there was a battle raging, he heard some voice of a female telling him to give in and release his body. He, of course, fought with his entire mind at the strange voice. Eventually he lost the skirmish and control was ripped from him, his eyes closed again and his arms tightened around Sango. His hands where shaking with the effort of trying to break free and gain control of himself again, but he couldn't.

The kitsune and fire-neko entered the clearing at that moment; Kirara sitting atop Shippou's orange hair. As soon as he saw Kagome, tears of joy jumped into his eyes.

"Shippou." Kagome said simply and held out her arms limply, still no emotion on her face. Shippou looked at her scared for a minute by her expressionless face, then looked at Inuyasha and Sango, and understood why she was sad. The fox kit instantly jumped into his mother's awaiting and outstretched arms and clung to her shirt, soaking it with relieved tears

"Kirara?" The internally-grieving miko didn't know if the fire-neko wanted to come or not but she still wanted to give her the option to leave Inuyasha and Sango.

"Mreow!" Kirara jumped onto Kagome's shoulder and curled her tails around her paws as she sat and looked sadly back at her former mistress. Inuyasha and Sango broke apart, the hanyou put his arm around her waist and Sango leant her head on his shoulder, a small sinister smile touching her lips.

"Good bye, wench. Have fun with my brother." Inuyasha said darkly, smirking widely. Sango laughed lightly and reached up to kiss Inuyasha on the cheek.

Kagome turned back to Sesshoumaru, stung by Inuyasha's tone and stepped back onto the solid youkai cloud, laden with fox and cat passengers. Sesshoumaru's eyes where narrowed at his half-brother and he automatically put his arm around Kagome's waist and lifted his cloud from the ground, still fixing his hanyou brother with a deathly cold stare. Kagome glanced back with one sorrowful look and only allowed a few tears to roll silently down her cheek.

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A/N: Awww. Thanks for readin

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