Chapter 11: Heading Back and Inukimi Prays
Kira graoned as she awoke the next morning to someone poking her in her arm. "Five more minutes mom." She moaned as she snuggled in the fluff of the boa.
"Kira." Came a stern voice as the same person shook her to wake her up. "I am not your mother."
She graoned as she opened her eyes and looked up at Sesshomaru. "Nope. You are deffinatly not my mother."
Sesshomaru rolled his eyes and then scoped her up into his arm, carrying her bridal style as he stood. "We must go now."
"Go?" She had forgotten about the conversation last night. After she had been told everything that she missed while in meditation, she had fallen asleep. "Go where?"
"Back to Keade's village." He said as he walked off into the forest. He knew his light was incredibly bright and didn't want to wake the others. "Remember we promised to head back and protect Haku."
"Oh. Okay." She snuggled into his arms as he carryed her. "Wake me when we get there."
He sighed as he felt her drift back to sleep. He knew it wouldn't be until later that afternoon until they arrived at the village but he thought that the sooner he and Kira left, the better.
Once he was far enough away from the camp, he looked up at the sky. He then took a deep breath and relaxed. The air currents swirled around him as his marking started glowing. The winds then covered his body and he was soon inside a brightly lit sphere. He jumped hard off the ground and shot into the air like a rocket, speeding off toward Keade's village.
Meanwhile, back in Naraku's castle, the lady of the west was starting to wake up. She groaned as she lay on her fluffy boa like a bed and then froze. She could smell it in the air. A familiar scent she hadn't smelled in so very long. A single tear came to her eyes as she smiled softly in the dark room. Sesshomaru, my son, you are so close and yet so far away. But still, it is good to smell your scent again.
"Is everything ready Kagura?" came Naraku's voice from behind the screen door.
Inukimi looked over her fluff and saw the shadowed figures of Naraku and Kagura on it.
"Everything is ready Naraku. I was just about to leave to capture the boy mentioned as the spiritual slayer." Kagura said as she stood before her creator.
"Don't forget to use this to seal the boy's powers." He handed the sorceress something that couldn't be made out from their shadowy forms.
Kagura seemed to be looking at the object in her hand. "Will this work on a child that is fated to be one of the gaurdians?"
"It will have too. So make sure that it works." He said threateningly.
Inukimi could feel Kagura's anger from outside the room.
"What about the demoness? What was the point in capturing her?" Kagura asked as she tucked the object into her kimono.
Naraku just chuckled darkly. "She will come of use in due time. She is merely the bait to lure out the one that has been sealed away since death for so long and will one day be the one to guide and train the four guardians."
Someone who has been sealed away since death? What does he mean by that? Inukimi thought as she looked up at the ceiling. Her neck was starting to hurt from staring at the door.
"And who would this being be exactly?" Kagura asked, sounding impatient.
"The greatest demon who ever lived."
That could be a lot of demons that have died over the years. Inukimi thought as she sighed quietly. One demon in particular came to mind and made her heart ache with sadness and pain. Inutaisho.
"And which would that be? Many great demons have fallen over the years. Or so i've heard."
Inukimi heard the monster chuckle again. "Now where would the fun be if i told you?" She then heard footsteps as he started to walk away from the room and Kagura. "But i will tell you this. He was known as a Great Dog Demon General."
Inukimi's eyes widen as she realized who he was talking about. My beloved? But it can't be! He's been dead for the past 65 years! Burned to death in a fire while saving his mortal lover and half breed son. There's no way he could have survived something like that.
She would have to ask the monster about it later. For all they knew, she didn't know anything of the conversation that she had just overheard. She then heard a rushing of wind and recognized it as the whirlwinds making Kagura taking off into the air on that large feather of her's.
Inukimi took a deep breath and silently prayed to the gods. Please. Let my son keep this spiritual slayer safe from Naraku. And let no harm come to the spirit of my beloved Inutaisho.
As he predicted, Sesshomaru arrived at Keade's village in the late afternoon. Kira had awaken during the flight but hid her face in his fluff, saying that the sight of everything rushing by so fast was making her sick.
He soon landed outside off the old priestesss' hut and the sphere evaporated.
Keade was waiting for them outside her hut. "Lord Sesshomaru? Lady Kira? What brings you back so soon?"
"We came to check on Haku." Sesshomaru said as he sat Kira down on her feet.
Kira didn't say a word as she ran to the back of the hut and threw up.
"What is wrong with her?" Keade asked as she saw Kira leaning against the hut for support.
"Traveling by light appearently didn't agree with her." He said as he sighed softly. "But that is beside the point. Where is Haku?"
"Haku is asleep in my hut. Why do you ask?" The old priestess asked as the demon lord entered the hut.
He sighed in releaf seeing the boy was asleep by the fire. "He's safe. Thank the gods."
"Lord Sesshomaru? What is going on?" Keade asked as she watched the lord kneel by the sleeping three year old.
"He's in danger Keade." Kira said as she soon entered the hut. "Myoga came to us and told us there's a prophecy concerning Haku, Kagome and Inuyasha's daughter, and me and Sesshomaru's future heir."
"Is there?" Keade watch Kira walk over to the far wall and sit against it.
"Yeah. And yesterday when i was meditating on Inukimi, I overheard Kagura say that she knew were the spiritual slayer was, whom we all think is Haku because his father is a monk and his mother is a demon slayer." Kira looked over at Sesshomaru as he carefully picked up the boy without waking him and held Haku in his arms. He then went over to his mate and sat next to her.
"You must explain to me what all this means." Keade said as she went over to the fire pit and sat down.
Kira sighed and began telling the old priestess everything she knew.
Meanwhile. The rest of the group was flying back to the village on Ah Un and Kilala. Inuyasha was rubbing his right eye as he sat behind Kagome.
"Is something wrong Inuyasha?" Kagome asked as she looked over her shoulder to look at him.
"I'm not sure. But my right eye has been feeling weird since this morning." He said as continued to rub his eye.
Could it be the pearl? She asked in his mind so they wouldn't worry Sango and Miroku anymore then they already were.
Why would you ask that?
Because your right eye is where the black pearl is hidden. She said as she looked at him concerned.
That's impossible Kagome. That stupid pearl lost all it's power after Sesshomaru and i went in there to get the Tetsusaiga. Hosenki told us so himself. He said as he soon stopped rubbing his eye. The gateway to my father's grave sealed up after that. It can't be used again.
Kagome sighed as she leaned against her mate. You never know Inuyasha. Maybe the pearl is reacting to something?
Maybe. We have seen stranger things. Guess we will have to wait and found out what's going on with my eye. He said as he rested his head on her shoulder as Ah Un flew over the forest below them.