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Chapter 13- Sankotsu's Journey To Life

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN THEY TOOK HER!"

"I'm sorry there was nothing I could do. Her soul disappeared."

"We can fix this. You will fix this, Sankotsu."

"How can I? She is among the living now. She is out of my territory."

"Not anymore. You will go to the land of the living and you will kill her."

"NO! She's my friend I can not do that to her!"

"Her soul is very important. It is meant to be here. She has to be trained. Who else will take your spot when you leave here and go to the land of the dead?"

"Does there have to be someone to take my place?"

"Of course there does! And she is even more valuable. She can see the future anytime she wants. That is very valuable to the gods. They will be proud of me for finding her."

"It seems that even in death, you still did not return to the man I once loved."

"Once loved? Love doesn't exsist here."

"It does."

"You will do as I say!"

"I WILL NOT KILL HER THE WAY YOU KILLED ME!"

This silenced the man standing in front of Sankotsu. Sankotsu regreted now that she had lied to Kagome. The man walked closer. She thought he might kiss her but instead her grabbed her chin tightly and forced her to look at him.

"You will. Do not think I will feel guilty about what I did! I did it for us! I performed the ritual and now look at us! We are immortal. We do what we want when we want! All we have to do is help the gods!"

"They would not want her dead! I shouldn't have lied to her about there being a bond. I should have warned her. She needn't have died."

"Go now or I will make her suffer. Kill her quickly so she feels no pain. If I have to do it myself I will not only torture her body but I will also torture her soul."

Sankotsu slung her chin from his grasps.

"Some day you will be punished for all of this."

"You could be in on this too. It is you that wants to move on to the land of the dead. You could stay here with me forever."

"No, I don't know you anymore." Sankotsu turned and began walking into a portal that had appeared out of no where. he disappeared into it. The man watched the spot she had disappeared into for a long time before walking away.

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"Kagome? Are you okay? I saw you leave."

"I'm okay. I was just saying goodbye to Bankotsu."

"Where is he going?"

Kagome already had her answer ready. "He wants to face Naraku alone. He wants us to focus on the shards."

"Does he really think we would let him do that?"

"I think that he does."

"Wait, are you going to let him?"

"No, but we do need to find any stray shards first."

"You're right. Inuyasha isn't going to be happy about this."

"Yeah, but he'll have to get over it."

"Come on, let's go get everyone else up. We shouldn't waste time."

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Bankotsu wasn't sure how long he walked before he had to stop. It had started rainingand he ran into a cave to wait for it to stop. He would be no good if he got sick. He saw a bright light form just like when Kagome left him in his dream. It disappeared to reveal a tall blond woman.

"Great, I must have fallin' asleep again." The woman didn't seem to care that he was talking. She walked up tp him and looked him over.

"I can see why Kagome would be interested in you."

"Who are you and how do you know Kagome?"

She seemed to have stopped listening to him again. She rushed past him deep into the cave. She waved her arms and the cave lit up from a fire she had cast in the middle of the ground. She waved her arm again and the entrance to the cave closed.

"We can't be too careful. He can't watch over us while I am not there, but there are others around who can. We can't be over heard."

"What are you talking about? Who are you? And who is 'he'?" Bankotsu felt a strange trust towards this woman. Not once did he even think to attack her.

"I am Sankotsu. I am a friend of Kagome's. She is in great danger."

"How did you know she was going to die in a month?"

"This is not about that. Although, that is another problem we have to face. This is about the bond. The reason she died."

"What about it?" The both sat across from each other on each side of the warm fire.

"There is no bond. It doesn't exsist. Nor does anything like it exsist."

"WHAT!? You mean, Kagome died for nothing."

"It's my fault. I let him control me. I let him use my love for him against me. But not anymore."

"I'll ask again who are you talking about?"

"His name was forgotten to me and to him long ago. We will call him Narhuko. He is like Naraku. All he wants is power. Narhuko was once a very handsom and very loving man. We were young when we met but it was love at first sight. Then, Narhuko started to study magic. The same thing young miko's would study. It started out as good magic. Then he got into darker things. I got very worried for him. But I did nothing to stop him, thinking he would hate me if I did." Sankotsu took a breath and Bakotsu shifted his weight so his legs wouldn't fall asleep. "After awhile, I thought he had given it up. He started acting natural and then we were married. After a full year of marriage he came to me one night. He told me he found a ritual that would make it so we were together forever. Even if we died. I didn't realize what it was and I agreed. That month during the full moon he told me it was time. He drew a marking around up in our hut with some kind of white powder. He told me to close my eyes. I did it without a second thought."

Sankotsu stopped she closed her eyes as if picturing the moment. A single tear fell down her cheek.

Bankotsu cleared his throat. "Uh, just take your time."

She smiled and reopened her eyes. "You are nice and good looking. Kagome is lucky. As I was saying, I closed my eyes. Then he stabbed me right in the heart. I opened my eyes and saw him one last time before I died. It seemed I was asleep for a very long time. I still don't know how long it was that I was like that. Then I woke up in this great place. There was a lake in front of me and when I looked into I could see the past, present and future. Although, I could only do it at certain times. Narhuko appeared in front of me. I yelled at him fro what he had did. It seemed he had eaten my heart and then killed himself. We were immortal. We were't dead or alive. We were both. We didn't live on earth but we weren't dead either. I didn't like being there at first, but I thought about it and I liked the idea of spending all of my time with Narhuko. But he wasn't the same. He thought that if he gave the to the gods enough he would be made one. But I knew it would never happen. They saw him for what he was. A very evil man. But he spent a very long time thinking of what he could do to finally please them. After awhile we forgot our names and how old we were. Then I saw Kaagome. And through me he saw her too. He could see into my thoughts. he told me to go to her that she was special. I told him if I did then I wanted to die. To really die. He said he wouldn't need me if he had her. It broke my heart even more to hear that, but I did what he told me too. I lied to Kagome. I didn't kill her though, he did. Now he sent me here to kill her. I told him I would, but I really just want to help Kagome. I feel bad about it. I shouldn't have been so selfish. But I was desperate to be in peace. I know the man I loved once is gone. He is corrupted by this ritual. This thing we have."

"So, what do we do?"

"I need you. We have to kill Naraku and bring Kagome back for permanent first. Then, we figure out the rest."

The rain stopped and Bankotsu jumped to his feet. "Let's get going then. We don't have much time."

"I couldn't agree more." She waved her hand. The fire disappeared and the cave opened. She stood and they walked out into the sunshine.

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"WHAT DO YOU MEAN HE LEFT TO FIGHT NARAKU ON HIS OWN!? THIS IS MY FIGHT! NARAKU IS MINE!!"

Kagome sighed. She had known it would be like this. "I know, but we do need to find the shards. I don't think he'll be able to find Naraku on his own. We have time to finishe as much of the jewel as we can without the shards Naraku has."

"Feh, don't think I'm going to be nice to you just because you died."

"I wasn't exspecting that."

"Good."

The both folded their arms and looked away from each other. Sango and Shippou rolled their eyes. Kirara even had the expression 'here we go again' on her face.

Miroku came running into the small cave they had taken shelter in when it had started raining. "In case none of you have noticed it has stopped raining. We can leave now."

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A/N: I know it doesn't seem too long, but I just wanted to get the history across of who Sankotsu really was. And sorry for my lousy japanese name making. I know im not good at it, but I wont pretend to think I am. So hope u liked it anyway. Review please they give me motivation to continue!!!!!!!