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HawkAngelXD: Sorry about your confusion, actually Kohaku will be revealed throughout the next chapters in which I'm hoping to better explain his role. Strange to add him so late huh?

Dark Inu fan: I'm really not gonna give her a new sword actually. The whole thing was to gather up the stones and then seal them away. Rin just assumed that them being in Otaku was being sealed but there's one more step. More will be shown to you later on don't worry.

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Kohaku returned to the dragon demon's side only moments after he had turned his back on it. Its body was being slowly surrounded by flies; the stench of the rotting remains would travel quickly. Kohaku lifted both his hands and brought them to his face wondering why he felt so good.

He supposed it was a lasting effect of Naraku trying to make killing a pleasurable act rather then a despicable one. It was too late for him to fight the pleasure now, it wouldn't solve anything. What would his dear sister Sango think of him now? This blood thirsty man who's only pleasure in life was taking the lives of others?

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Not too far off a similar thought was playing in Sango's head as she sat alone near a riverbank on the opposite side of the mountain of her little brother. What was he up to now? Were his memories back or would he stay in that emotionless state she seemed to always see him in?

"Sango?" the woman blinked out of her thoughts at the sound of her dear friend, Kagome's voice.

"Yes?" she replied.

"Why are you sitting all by yourself?" she asked while making herself comfortable beside the demon slayer. Sango looked away and to the ground for a moment before gaining enough courage to face Kagome.

"I'm thinking about Kohaku, and what he could be doing at the moment," she answered. Kagome's eyebrows worried slightly but placed a hand on Sango's shoulder,

"Whatever he is doing I'm sure it's for the good of others," she stated. Sango gave her a watery smile but said nothing; Kagome kept her hand on her friend's shoulder not knowing what else there was to say to the hurting woman.

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"Kouga, there you are! We were worried you had left us for good," a few of Kouga's followers rejoiced at the sight of him. The wolf demon turned to stare down from his perch a top a small cliff at them.

"Took you all long enough," he huffed annoyed at their slow pace compared to his. He really needed to train his pack to keep up the pace with him; he was tired of having to always wait on them.

"Are we still in search of Kagome?" one asked their leader. Kouga fixated his gaze on a piece of gravel in the road as he thought about it. He had been chasing after Kagome with little luck of winning her heart, why would she give herself up to that dog?

"No," he replied to his group's surprise, "we will start our search to find fellow wolf demon packs and try to bring back our massive numbers that there were before those winged beasts," Kouga explained as his followers nodded to one another happy to actually not have to chase after that human girl any longer.

Kouga turned his head to the residing sun and the moon that was raised high in the sky barely visible. "Make no mistake, one day I will have Kagome as my woman," he murmured to himself, not ready to throw in the towel just yet.

Almost seconds after the last words left the wolf demon's lips a loud howling erupted through the skies. Kouga's eyes widened at the oddly familiar sound, his pack instantly became alert and tense.

"The great wolf has awakened…." Kouga whispered half in awe and half in fear of what was to come next. He could imagine the wolf's grey fur and its taunting green eyes that would hold you still like stone. After all the legends that had been passed down, this one had finally been awakened.

"Could it be?"

"It can't be!"

"Impossible!" his pack members cried out in protest at the idea that such a powerful demon could be freed from its ever bonding hold to walk freely once more.

"Ko-Kouga?" one wolf-man asked him, "You don't think it's really him?" the man murmured the last part not even wanting to speak his name.

"Yes," Kouga laughed coldly, "it's him alright, and he's come for one reason. The priestess who bounded him is alive once more," he added.

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"Rin, what is on your mind?" Otaku's soft voice filled the air around the young woman who sat alone. She blinked in surprise at the break of the silence but smiled a little at the sword.

"That I must give you all up soon, I felt like we just met yesterday," she replied. Even though Otaku didn't have a body she was sure he'd be giving her a reassuring smile.

"It may feel like that Rin, but we won't forget you. You've changed our outlook on humans from the bad example we had with Mizu," Otaku stated. Rin's smile faltered slightly at that, the mention of that name bringing back memories. Memories of Sesshomaru, and what he had said to the present Mizu that night at her house.

"I was too naïve then to tell what she had done until it was too late, soon I was wrapped around her finger, I would let her blame me and I would second her cry just so that she would love me,"

"I love Mizu, I've loved her then and I still love her now, nothing will ever stop me from loving her and nothing has,"

She held in the sudden pain she was feeling after that flashback ended, he had loved that woman. Her lord could not love a cruel woman, he could not.

"She could not have been all bad?" Rin suggested but Otaku shivered slightly at her side.

"She was a woman who craved power, why do you think she took immediate interest in your lord all those years back? Yes I knew Lord Sesshomaru, though not like I do now. I remember his face when she had us under her power," Otaku explained and Rin felt her heart go out to her lord, so that woman who she looked like, Mizu, used her lord for his power?

Looking at her lord now he never seemed the type to be tricked like that so easily, could he have turned out that way due to Mizu? She wasn't sure but wondered if he had not met Mizu, he would not have met her.

This was too personal on her note; she didn't want to cry for her lord in front of Otaku and the others so she switched subjects. "When I could harness your power I felt like I could finally be of use to Lord Sesshomaru. That way he would have a reason for keeping me by his side," her arm tightened around Otaku's scabbard, "I don't want to be left in a village away from him," she added quietly.

"He kept you before you met us right? Then he'll keep you for that same reason after we leave," Otaku stated in a sympathetic tone.

Rin nodded but wondered if her lord had only kept her until she was old enough to take care of herself. She sighed and rested her chin between her knees and closed her eyes, this was the first time she had just relaxed in a while.

"Rin, get down!" Rin's eyes bolted open at the urgency in Otaku's tone that she quickly laid down on her stomach. A few moments later Otaku's voice sounded again,

"Alright, it's gone," he breathed in relief. Rin cautiously sat up and turned to look down at Otaku.

"What did you sense?" she asked.

"That demon, the one that has been stalking us," he replied and Rin tensed, what did that demon want with them anyway?

"I'm actually surprised that it's been the only demon to follow us. The stones together like they are now are just as powerful as the Shikon Jewel. Is it possible that the demon population does not know about us?" Otaku pondered, Rin nodded in agreement, it was strange that there were a small amount of demons after them.

"I suppose we should count that as a blessing," Otaku murmured under his breath, though he would really prefer a lot of weak demons to the one that had just missed them.

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Sesshomaru stood in front of a familiar hut a top one of the high cliffs; it was home to a large Cougar Village. The leader of the village was the one he had saved in war; he needed that favor the leader promised him now. The demons tensed as he walked into the village, multiple female demons bared their fangs while holding their children close.

He bared his own fangs out of reflex but held back on killing them even though the attraction was so strong for their blood. He composed himself when he heard the booming voice of their leader, being a large demon. He stepped out of a nearby hut with a few other males of the village before his eyes fastened on Sesshomaru.

He instantly fell to one knee and bowed his head to him; the rest of the village around him did the same. Sesshomaru took pleasure out of seeing the females previously baring their fangs at him now with blushes of their own foolishness.

"Lord Sesshomaru, what a surprise this is. May I ask what you are doing so high up in the mountains?" the leader asked.

"Please stand when you wish to speak to me, I'm tired of looking down on you," Sesshomaru replied. The leader squirmed slightly but got to his feet with the look of fear crossing his face. Sesshomaru was sure he had seen the dog demon fight ruthlessly against the foe. If he had not needed the Cougar right now he would've killed the whole village.

"I'm here to call upon that favor that you proposed to me," Sesshomaru answered his original question.

"About that human girl?" the leader asked his fear etching away and seriousness taking over his features. The true leader was coming out.

"Yes, soon she will fulfill her purpose in what I need her to do. But before she can finish it I need to take out a certain demon. I do not want her in harm's way. Will you take her into your village?" Sesshomaru asked. The Cougar stared back at him as if thinking over the pros and cons of helping him.

"Please, come into my home where we can speak more privately," the leader pronounced giving his villagers dark looks. The Cougars dispersed in seconds and Sesshomaru followed the leader inside his hut to talk over the preparations of a new member to the clan.

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