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HawkAngel XD: lol happy you were so into me updating, sorry I took a little while. Hope this redeems me!

Storms-winter Glad you're excited about my chapters, I try

Dark Inu Fan Dead just won't stay dead is the truth. I just love the whole concept of past lives though; I play around with it a lot. The whole village couldn't stand up to the two because one Kohaku is a demon slayer, and two the demon is supposed to be just as strong or stronger then Lord Sesshomaru himself.

Erilin-chan: oh! Two reviews at one! You're going to spoil me like crazy!

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Rin stared up at the man waiting for him to explain how he knew Rin's practical double.

He seemed to take the hint after a few seconds.

"Many years ago Mizu and I were…involved you could say. Purely on a physical level, she was deeply attracted me and I was deeply attracted to her. You may have figured that out by the way you were so mesmerized by me earlier. I see her good taste hasn't died out with her," the man said with a cocky smirk. Rin ignored him in hopes he would continue.

"After a while she agreed that I could change her into a wolf-demon to become my mate, but my lady was a picky one. She wanted power when she became a demon, power over a mass number of subjects. The only way I could allow my lady to do that would be to marry a high up demon. Though I didn't want such things I had to do it, for her. So she married Lord Sesshomaru. Once she would get settled as the lady of his land, then she would murder him, getting all of his power. Then she would marry me and change for me so we could be together," the man explained. Rin already could see so many loop holes in his scheme.

"So what went wrong?" She asked.

"The four demons in that sword went wrong. The only way she could bring Sesshomaru to notice her was to show her cold side, her killing side. With those four stones she killed many. Later our plan was to kill Sesshomaru with those stones. At the last moment when she had him pinned down the stones fought against her," the man stopped and placed a hand over his eyes shielding her from their silvery glow.

"They turned all their power against her and tried to slay her, my love! But she was a smart girl, so she put a spell on them with the last of her strength, and sent them to prisons of their elements. There they would suffer alone for eternity," he let his hand fall and held her gaze for a few more moments as if that alone would make her understand.

"What does this have to do with me?" Rin dared to ask.

"You have her in you Rin; you have my Mizu inside you. She chose you to sleep in for all these years, and now I will resurrect her. She will be brought back into the land of the living to be with me!" the man stated sounding only slightly crazy.

"How will you bring her back? It's impossible to bring back the dead," Rin stated.

"How silly you are my little Rin. The vines that hold you now are what I call spirit vines. Even now they are slowly sucking out your priestess powers that you inherited from Mizu. Soon all her power will be sucked out of you, then I can put that into a new body for her," he replied. After that he let one of his claws run down her upper arm slowly cutting open the flesh. Then he put his finger under the cut to catch the blood that dripped down her arm. Rin watched him waiting to see what he had in store for her.

"This portion of your blood will work for a new body; soon the vines will suck out all your power. Then you won't be able to use the sword or the stones, you won't have any power to wield it. Once all of her power is sucked out of you her spirit will leave your body, I will harness it and put it in the new body, after that you will no longer be needed," he added.

"Lord Sesshomaru will put a stop to you," Rin said angrily twisting in the tight hold the vines had on her. The man only chuckled.

"Go a head, fight all you want, her power will only be sucked out faster," the man stated and turned to leave her alone.

"Where are you going?" she called after him.

"To give this to another plant that will create a new body for Mizu. And I must attend to a few things, make this place homey for a few guests I'm expecting soon," the man smirked one of his fangs poking out of his lips.

Rin only shrunk away from him and stayed silent. He said nothing else and left her there, to wait for all her power and usefulness get sucked away.

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Meanwhile Sesshomaru and the group were steadily following the unfamiliar scent into the forest. They were no longer on any path but were led by the sole smell of the demon.

"Do you think we'll make to Rin in time?" Kagome asked the group.

"Don't say that," Sesshomaru snapped, "of course we will," he added in a slightly softer voice as if to convince himself of that fact.

Kagome shrunk back behind Inuyasha's right shoulder from Sesshomaru's scolding eyes.

Inuyasha's eyebrows narrowed towards his half-brother.

"Don't take your anger out on her Sesshomaru. She's just as worried about Rin as you are, so stop acting like you're the only one that cares what happens to her," Inuyasha snapped back at Sesshomaru.

Sesshomaru looked over towards Inuyasha for a moment before reverting back forward not saying a word.

Soon after Sesshomaru slowed his pace and came to a stop, the rest followed suit.

"The scent ends here," Inuyasha said.

The group looked around but saw no river or stream that the demon could have taken to mask his scent.

"Look, flowers!" Kagome cried pointing towards the west where a large patch of flowers lay. They were all pink of color and seemed to go on for miles.

Inuyasha smelled the air for a moment and nodded.

"The flowers have a very strong scent, it is possible that the demon could have masked his scent in the flower patch," Inuyasha stated.

"Then let's go," Sesshomaru replied and turned to his right to make his way towards it.

"Wait! Don't go in there!" the group paused at the sound of a new voice calling from behind them. All but Sesshomaru turned to see who it was.

It was Kohaku running towards them.

Sango gave out a cry of happiness and practically jumped off Kirara to meet him. Kohaku ran towards her and wound his arms around her waist giving her a big, and much needed, hug.

"Kohaku, we heard from the Cougar village that you killed a whole lot of demons, is that true?" Sango asked her eyes moist already knowing the answer.

"Yes, but I did it to save Rin," he said.

"What?" Sango asked after a pause.

"If I hadn't helped out that demon, Naraku would have controlled me and made me do it, and who knows what I could have done under his control," Kohaku shuddered at the thought. Sango wrapped him in her arms again and held him close unable to believe that after all these years Kohaku was still battling with Naraku for control of his body.

"Plus, I wouldn't have gained that demon's trust either, and he wouldn't have told me about all his booby traps," Kohaku added.

"He set up traps?" Miroku asked.

"Yes, he knew that the minute Sesshomaru found out about Rin being kidnapped he'd be hunting for him in an instant," Kohaku replied.

"Is that why you asked us to wait? Are the flower patches traps?" Kagome asked him.

Kohaku only nodded.

"It made not look like it, but those flowers are only the tops of demons. The flower design is there disguise. They can be summoned by the demon on command to attack anything. They are vicious little creatures," Kohaku described.

"They hide their mouths by biting down on the flower stems and let their fronts and backs only show so it seems like they are flowers," Kohaku added.

"As long as you don't let your presence be known they won't attack. They only do when someone panics; it's like an intoxicating perfume and wakes them all up. And there's got to be thousands of them everywhere," Kohaku said.

"So how do we get past it?" Miroku asked.

"Well Kirara can carry Miroku and me," Sango offered and Kirara growled in agreement.

"I'll jump as far as I can so not to make too much noise," Inuyasha stated.

"And I can transform and carry Kagome," Shippo added while puffing out his chest and hitting it with his left fist to prove his toughness to the group.

"I'll fly to the other side," Sesshomaru stated as his tail wound around his body and he slowly was lifted off the ground.

"I'll follow Inuyasha's lead," Kohaku said once Sesshomaru had disappeared.

So the group set off in the field of flowers. Kirara and Shippo floating above and Inuyasha and Kohaku darting around the field.

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"Hum… so they think they can go around unnoticed?" the blue haired demon asked his silvery eyes glowing with mischief.

"Pity, the boy was really useful too," he added looking through a glass that showed the flower fields and his guests. His vision zeroed in on Kohaku, and he shook his head again. He snapped his finger and one of the flower demons appeared at his side.

"Tell you brothers and sisters that I'm sending them dinner," he told the demon, it only made a screech and showed its large fangs before disappearing again.

"Now to watch the show," the demon stated.

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Kohaku froze when he realized something was wrong, terribly wrong. Out in the distance he could've sworn he had seen one of the flower demons floating, as if awake. But during the night was when they rested.

"Inuyasha," he called to the half-demon, Inuyasha looked back at him, "We must hurry I think one of the demons is awake, it'll awaken everyone," Kohaku added and Inuyasha nodded and picked up the pace.

Suddenly the whole group started noticing commotion as the flowers began to sway as if in a dance and suddenly an ear-piercing screech filled the area. Like the sound of sliding glass against glass had the whole group covering their ears.

Kirara made a distressed noise and pushed its ears down on its head. Shippo covered his pink head with his tiny arms and Kagome held her ears. Sango and Miroku were also holding their ears hardly baring the sound. Inuyasha and Kohaku stopped running to cover their ears.

As if by a power switch, all the flower demons floated upward and turned on a 90 degree angle to face their mouths at the group. At first it was in slow motion as the screeching kept on and then in a flash of a moment the flower demons opened their mouths and added their own screech to the first one.

"We have to move on!" Kagome screamed over the noise to her friends. Inuyasha held his ears and gave out a cry his sensitive ears hardly able to take it.

Kohaku grabbed for waist ribbon on his armor and untied it, trying his best to drone out the screeching from his uncovered ears. Once he pulled it loose he quickly approached Inuyasha from behind and wound it around the top of his head and tied it in a strong knot at the back. This held Inuyasha's ears down and somewhat helped Inuyasha become focused.

Kohaku pointed forward to give the message to move on to Inuyasha, the half-demon nodded and moved forward. Shippo spotted Inuyasha and moved and Kirara followed close behind.

Kohaku stared around the huge mass of flower demons and saw the drool falling off their fangs; they would not go without dinner tonight. There was only one thing he could do to save Rin, and that was to sacrifice himself.

He pulled out the weapons at his sides, the ones he had received from Naraku, and jumped up high to slice through one of the flower demons. Its screeching died and it fell to the ground in two even pieces. The screeching softened until it ended all together, as if the demons were put in a state of shock.

Meanwhile Sango looked down for her little brother but didn't see him.

"Where's Kohaku?" she asked Miroku. Miroku looked down and suddenly became worried. He gave a glance backwards and wished he hadn't, him glancing backwards caused Sango to look back too.

She gasped and covered her mouth spotting Kohaku slicing through demon after demon.

"We have to go back and help him!" she cried and was about to order Kirara to turn around when Miroku covered her arms with his and gave her a serious look.

"There are too many demons over there Sango, we wouldn't make it out alive," he stated.

"Couldn't you use your wind tunnel?" Sango begged, hoping for a solution, any solution.

"Kohaku is too covered by them to see, I could suck him in by accident," Miroku answered.

Sango turned back and called for Kohaku and watched with tears in her eyes as her brother fought for his life.

"He's doing this so we can move on and save Rin, let him do it," Miroku said trying to sooth Sango, but it only served to make her worse.

"Kohaku!!" she screamed causing the rest of the group to look back and see their comrade blindly fighting off thousands of man-eating demons.

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"Should I go to him?" Kagura asked seated across from Kanna in their own private room, given to them by Naraku. It couldn't really be called private though since Naraku had the privilege to come in at any time.

Kanna looked down at her mirror at the image they had been watching. Kohaku was slicing and killing countless flower demons.

"No, he seems to have accepted his death, let him die honorably," Kanna stated and Kagura nodded and got up to leave. Once Kagura was out of the room a single tear rolled down Kanna's cheek.

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That's it for now; you just have to wait for the next chapter!!