Chapter 11
Miyori's Dilemma
"Your getting married?" a shocked Koinu asked the blue wolf demoness.
"Of course," responded Corlee, "father says he is a nice man."
"Why does what your father think of him matter?" Koinu questioned, "What do you think about him?"
"Tonight's the first night that I am going to meet him," Corlee answered.
"Your dad said he was your fiancée though," Koinu stated, "how did you two love each other enough to become engaged if you have never met him before."
Corlee then began to giggle, "You really don't know anything do you puppy?"
"Don't call me that," Koinu growled, "and of course I don't know what's going on."
"Not all of us pure blooded royal youkai are as lucky as Miyori-sama who gains a mate in a battle. Its possibly that way because she is hanyou, but anyways after my father's clan and all the clans of the north were killed off by a hanyou named Naraku us wolf youkai are on the path of becoming extinct."
"Naraku? That is the name of the dude my mom and dad were fighting with before I had to leave this place."
"Many people fought with him until your father Sesshoumaru-sama forced his soul to leave this world. He had made many suffer. Thanks to him my father ended up mating with my mother other then yours who he loved at that time. He did it to join wolf clans in hopes of repopulating our race. Now I must join together with another pure wolf youkai and do the same."
"What is it with all of you youkai and becoming mated and married just like that?"
"Its just the way things are, maybe if it wasn't for tradition and Naraku eliminating most of the rare breed youkais things like this wouldn't happen."
"Damn Naraku I have never even met him and he seems to be ruining my life."
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Miyori felt her ears twitch as she stalked through the hallways upon her return. Even though it was true that she had no sense of smell whatsoever her hearing was unlike any other. She knew exactly what that sound was. Something had fallen to the ground. Something exactly one hundred and twenty pounds meaning it was either someone's futon being laid down before they took a rest or someone's body had collided with the floor.
It would be best if she went to go check it out. For all she knew an assassin sent from the south could be eliminating servants or even possibly her family. She rushed into the room she heard the sound come from.
She released a relieved sigh when she only saw that human whore of her father's laying on the ground. In other words it wasn't important. The woman was probably hung over or maybe even dead. She had heard humans had way shorter life spans then youkai, but wouldn't she have to look old in order to die of natural causes?
Curiosity got the best of Miyori as she looked around the room. After awhile of listening she finally heard a faint heart beat. The woman was still alive, but barely. So what would she do? Leave the human to die on the floor of course. This human was obviously mental. She was a demon while this human on the floor was a human, but yet the woman kept claiming to be her mother; obviously it was affecting her father too for he didn't deny it. It would be best for him if the woman died and what was best for her father was what was best for the Western Lands.
Miyori watched as the human acted like a fish out of water trying to get oxygen. Miyori just let out a yawn for she was exhausted. She was ready to just leave the room so some servant could find the human's decaying body. That was when she noticed a pool of water laying on the floor next to the human. Obviously when the woman fell down she bumped into the table and knocked a cup over.
Miyori picked up the cup and examined it before using the tip of her tongue to lick the inside of the cup. Right away she threw the cup down as her ears flattened against her head and her face scrunched. Someone had placed poison in the cup. Miyori picked the woman up and headed towards the infirmary. This discovery changed everything. She needed to have the human alive to find out who did the poisoning. What if the culprit had other targets? This needed to be nipped in the bud.
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"You seem to be giving up," a strict female voice told Kagome.
Kagome's eyes started to open and she found herself lying in an area of nothingness. Everything was white. Quickly she got up on her knees and peered around.
"Am I dead?" she asked herself.
"Almost," the voice from behind her answered.
Kagome turned around and found herself face to face with Kikyo. The woman who she was reincarnated from, the dead miko who gave Kagome many reasons to hate her, and the body of clay who stole Inuyasha away from her leading Kagome into getting marked by Sesshoumaru. What did she want?
"So am I going to die?" the reincarnated miko questioned.
"Probably," Kikyo answered coldly, "you are not as strong as I thought you were."
"I guess I wasn't," Kagome agreed.
"Pathetic," sighed Kikyo, "so you are giving up the fight to live?"
"What's the point?" asked Kagome, "I am not wanted here anymore."
"I saw everything that happened between you and your mate and I can't believe you have been discouraged by that."
"You were watching?"
"I no longer walk the earth, in result my soul has joined back up with you. I see everything you see."
"Then you should know me dying is the best thing I can do for my mate and my children."
"Millions of things wrong with you just said. Koinu seems to be close to you."
"I also thought Tsuin was close to me and look how that turned out."
"I don't know about Tsuin, but Koinu and Miyori aren't like him."
"Miyori definitely isn't. She hates me more then anyone."
"Youkai Miyori seems too, but the real Miyori must care for you or she probably would never write the letter that she is suppose to write one week from now."
"Wait Miyori is a hanyou and now that I am here she will have no reason to write that letter."
"Or so you thought, because of your will to give up you will die in a few minutes and then the real Miyori will awaken but she will have no idea what happened to her dear mother. She will assume you are still in the future and after witnessing Tsuin's sickness and Sesshoumaru's death she will write the letter then send Inuyasha to your time with it. You will then come here, fight with Sesshoumaru, and die all over again. Due to your interference with time and will to die the souls of you and your family will be stuck in the same circle for all eternity.
"So if I don't change things the soul of me, Sesshoumaru, and our children can never become free? Why didn't you just contact me earlier and tell me not to return to the past?"
"You were in love it would have been difficult to stop you. And it won't just be your families; me, Inuyasha, Rin, and everyone you have had contact with since coming back here will be trapped. This is your only chance to save everyone. Don't ruin it and be repeating the mistake for all eternity."
"Fine if that is the case I guess I could try and fight, but I think it's too late for me."
"Are you a human or are you a miko?"
Kikyo then extended her hand out towards Kagome. Kagome stood up as Kikyo placed her hands on the young miko reincarnation's shoulder. Kagome tried to remain unafraid as her body glew pink.
"My power is of no more use to me so I will even lend my assistance," Kikyo pointed out as she purified the poison.
"May I ask a question?" Kagome asked as the more experienced miko tried to save her.
"I don't care," Kikyo replied.
"In all the time that I have known you good soul or not you haven't been the type who would ever care whether your soul was trapped or not," Kagome stated, "so why are you helping me live?"
"I don't want Inuyasha or his niece and nephews to suffer," was all she said as she finished the spell.
"You really do love him don't you?"
"Despite what you have all thought of me in the past, it's true I love Inuyasha."
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Sesshoumaru had already regretted what he had done seconds after she had left the room. It wasn't her who needed time alone to cool down it was him. That was all he wanted was for her to leave the room, but somehow this desires for her flared forth and wanted her gone for not accepting his dominance.
Now thanks to his actions she probably left his office with every intention of never coming back. Would she really leave the castle like he told her to do? Sesshoumaru couldn't let that happen. What would the other lords think of him if they found out he gave his mate such a treatment, how would Koinu respond, and would she always believe the things he told her? He had found out the truth three years ago so there was no way he could pretend to deny it too himself now. He loved Kagome and he would not allow her to disappear from his sight again.
The castle's lord headed out into the hallways to find his mate. His first stop had been her room. She wasn't there. Had she left the castle already? He could smell her scent in the room along with another scent. It was Miyori's scent. From what he had Miyori had been treating Kagome with all out disrespect, so why had his daughter been here?
"Sesshoumaru!" the youkai lord heard his name called.
His body turned and then his golden eyes looked towards the floor. There he saw his small hanyou brother looking as though he was in a fighting stance. This would have brought a smirk to Sesshoumaru's face if he wasn't occupied with something at the moment.
"What is it brother?" Sesshoumaru questioned Inuyasha, "I am busy go play with your toys."
"I am done playing!" growled the small hanyou, "what did you do to Kagome?"
"Why is that any business of yours?" Sesshoumaru asked, "and that's Lady Kagome to you. You also forgot to call me Lord Sesshoumaru."
"Shut up Lord Fluffy! You hurt my friend and you will pay!"
"She is the Lady of the castle since when is she your friend? Ah I see so Inuyasha that is really you. You were just pretending to not remember anything. I will make sure you are removed from the castle half breed."
"You can never get rid of me. Not as long as you have Kagome suffering the way you do."
"It is none of your business Inuyasha and since you seem to know so much where is she?"
"She is in the infirmary of course. Probably because of something you did to her."
"The infirmary? All I did was scratch her and punctured her skin a little in the arm. If she went there to get bandages she should have been out by now."
"I don't know what happened but she is laying down in a bed unconscious barely breathing."
"What?"
Sesshoumaru didn't question anymore as he took off towards the infirmary to find out what had happened to his mate. There was no way he could have done anything that caused her to be in the position that she was now in. Either she decided to stop breathing on her own or someone else had done something to her. The only one who would have been able too though was Miyori for it was her scent he smelled all over the room. Miyori wouldn't do anything though would she? No she wouldn't no matter how much disrespect show showed for her mother. Also the day before she was a little shaken up about her brother's condition and Sesshoumaru knew what happened when Miyori got emotional.
The youkai lord walked into the infirmary to find several of the healers around Kagome doing what they could to get her to breath again while the remaining were coming up with some kind of serum. Serum? What would just need that for she was just having trouble breathing wasn't she? And then there was Miyori looking over her mother.
"What's the situation?" Sesshoumaru asked looking at Kagome not caring who answered his question.
"There is someone in the castle who cannot be trusted," responded Miyori, "I found her lying on the floor after drinking a cup of water that was poisoned. I am trying to get her revived so she can tell us who did it."
Sesshoumaru looked at Kagome's body. It was so frail. She was pale and her breathing had slown way down. Of course it didn't matter if she died or not for all he had to do was use the Tensagia to revive her, but he wasn't able to do that until she was completely dead and he would rather not have her not die at all. He wanted her to snap out of this so she would live and not suffer. This was somehow paining him and it was getting worse when he noticed the mark he left on her face that would scar her for the rest of her life.
"Okay that's the situation," Sesshoumaru found himself growling, "but what's her situation."
"I don't know I am no human doctor," Miyori responded in a bitter tone.
Sesshoumaru turned to scold Miyori for taking that tone when her mother was in jeopardy but then a healer appeared and told him what was really going on, "Lady Kagome is receiving her serum that will help but it seems as though she has purified most of the poision out of herself already. Its just up to her now to start breathing again."
He went back to Kagome's side. It was up to her then. His golden eyes didn't leave her once as her breathing started to get more frequent and faster. Was she coming back to him?
"Kagome," his voice rang out to her calling her to awaken.
Kagome's eyes went ajar as he continued to call at her name. She started into his golden eyes with her own chocolate eyes. He was forced to look away though. Due to the fact that her scar was right by her left eye and he couldn't stand looking at it anymore.
Kagome also looked away. She had only brought herself to not die so she could free their souls from being stuck for all eternity. She had no intention on forgiving Sesshoumaru, he had scarred her for life and she didn't feel any a merciful mood.
"Who poisoned you?" Miyori asked immedtly before Kagome even went through five minutes of being conscious.
"Miyori now is not the time to question your mother," Sesshoumaru snapped at his daughter, "she needs time to recover."
That was met right away with a growl from Miyori, "don't confuse your human whore with my mother."
"There is no confusion about it," snarled Sesshoumaru, "I have been hearing about your attitude lately Miyori and I am not amused. This is Kagome your birth mother and my mate. You will treat her like so."
"She is human!"
"And you are hanyou."
"What are you talking about? I don't care what you or this human or Tsuin say. I am a full demon and even you know it."
"Yes you do appear youkai for now, but where were you yesterday Miyori? Or should I say Katsu?"
Kagome's eyes widened. Why did he just call Miyori Katsu? There had been a strange connection with the two. Like the fact that Katsu was suppose to be Miyori's servant but yet the two were never in the castle at the same time.
"Katsu?" Miyori questioned, "isn't that the name of that lowly human servant you have work for me?"
"You didn't answer my question Miyori," continued Sesshoumaru, "where were you yesterday."
"I…I…can't remember," answered Miyori hesitantly, "and I am going to head out of here. While you wait for you darling human to recover I will go find our poisioner."
"Go then."
Miyori angrily left the room. Something was going on and she had no clue as to what it was. All she knew for certain was that someone was out to poision her family and they needed to be found out and killed.
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"Why are you still following me?" Koinu asked looking back to see Corlee.
"Because I enjoy your company," Corlee told Koinu, "usually Rin is the only who ever wants to spend time with me when I am forced to visit Lord Sesshoumaru's castle. Its nice to be in a male's company for once."
"I am sure your fiancée wouldn't enjoy hearing that," Koinu responded in an irritated tone.
"You seem mad or frustrated Prince Koinu," noted Corlee.
"I am not mad," he said louder though in the same tone.
"Yes you are; please tell me what angers you."
"I see your still wearing the outfit I designed for you."
"Yes I like the mixture that black and blue make."
"I am going to miss seeing you in it."
"I will be sure to wear it every time I visit Lord Sesshoumaru's castle."
"It won't be the same."
"You seem to be angered at the fact that I have a fiancée."
Koinu then turned around and stared into Corlee's green orbs. His brown ones seemed to light up as he did. Corlee turned silent waiting for him to say something. It looked like whatever he was going to say was important.
"Kagome-chan is back!" Koinu then heard some kind of male voice screech in the hallway, which made him loose his train of thought.
Both Koinu and Corlee's heads turned to witness Rin and some kind of youkai walking through the hallway. This youkai was the same height as Rin. He had one kitsune tail, orange hair, but yet he appeared to have the body of an eleven year old boy.
"Who is that Rin-chan?" Corlee asked curiously.
"This is my friend Shippou-chan," Rin answered pointing at the strange youkai kitsune.
Shippou, Corlee, and Rin then all went into a conversation about how Shippou met Kagome and Inuyasha along time ago and they used to travel looking for jewel shards. Koinu's mother's life story wasn't that important to him so he just leaned up against the wall with his eyes. Seemed like every time he was about to tell someone how he felt something distracted him. Whether it was him with his mother who always seemed to be distracted by the hard times she was facing or Corlee just now going into useless conversation.
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"I am confused," Kagome said not liking the awkward silence that seemed to consume the whole infirmary.
"You need to work on getting better not talking," Sesshoumaru told her sitting on a chair next to her temporary bed.
"I won't be able to rest in peace until you explain this to me," started Kagome, "what is up with Miyori? Why did you call her Katsu? And why is Katsu never here?"
"I thought you would have figured it out by now," Sesshoumaru stated as though Kagome was truly the stupidest human on earth, "Miyori is Katsu."
"How is that possible? Miyori is hanyou while Katsu is a human."
"Inuyasha was hanyou and I believe you have witnessed him as a human several times."
"So Miyori has a night where she looses her powers also? That doesn't make since though. She keeps claiming is a full youkai. Wouldn't she figure out that she is hanyou by her transformations? And this seems to happen more then once a month."
"That is where things get a bit complicated. I believe it all has to do with the jewel shard hidden within Miyori. She has been telling the truth. She is indeed a full youkai. You as a miko should have been able to figure that out."
"My miko powers haven't been working well lately. Miyori seems to have them mastered though."
"They work in harmony with Miyori's youkai powers so she doesn't realize she has them. Anyways the shard has turned her into a full youkai since it was never removed from her, but like you have witnessed with Naraku you can never throw away your human self without turning into a soulless monster such as youkai Inuyasha. Once a month on the day of a crescent moon Miyori changed human like all hanyou, but due to a while half of her disappearing at once and her body turning into something it wasn't use too she lost her memory."
"So you got her a job in the castle and convinced everyone that when Katsu was around Miyori was out on a mission."
"Yes, but lately Miyori hasn't only been changing once a month. She changed right after Tsuin got sick which leads me to believe any time she is about to release a human emotion she changes into a human and lets it all out then."
"Yes the day after I found Katsu and she was crying because she said her brother was ill."
"Katsu is trying to remember what she saw as Miyori, but that is impossible so she has been given an illusion about a human family in her head."
"I think I understand. Due to the shard's power Miyori really is a full youkai and her human blood and emotions have been pushed to the side, but when she is close to tapping into them she changes into a full human and doesn't even realize it."
Kagome thought about her conversation with Kikyo though, "Who is this real Miyori that Kikyo said would have woken up if I died though?"
"That exactly right," Sesshoumaru replied, "but I am done keeping secrets from her. I never explained her human blood for I did not want it to affect her training, but she believing she is a full youkai causes her to disrespect you. I will not have this any longer."
"Don't go through the trouble you wanted me out remember?"
"About that…I am sorry."
"Your…your apologizing?"
"Even though it is normal for mates to get beaten to learn their place it is disrespectful for both the male and female with a prementant scar gets involved. You will wear it forever and it will always symbolize what happened this day."
"So you really don't want me out?"
"I marked you and we had children. You and me are stuck together no matter what, but your right I shouldn't have tried to change you. You don't have to take any lessons except the self defense lessons I got you."
"Your letting me fight, but you said…"
"I changed my mind, but this lessons won't be that hard. Its just fencing. Your miko powers are gone now. I believe it is because you are not a true miko and you just inherited the ability from your reincarnate. It was just temporary blood and now that it is in Miyori's body it has left you. There is only a speck left and it only appears when you need protecting."
"I understand now. Thank you for giving me freedom."
"You are more then welcome. Anything else you wish to know before I leave you to rest and find the one who did this to you?"
"Well it had to have been Aoi because she gave me the drink and it took her about an hour to make the just plain glass of water, but anyways I have created sort of a theory when talking to Tsuin about his condition and then looking at the note you gave him."
"Figured that out to did you?"
"Do you really think Naraku's soul somehow is affecting Tsuin?"
"Yes I do."
(End Chapter…um…what one are we on? Oh yeah 11)
A/N:Has no time to stat anything for once again Sesshoumaru steals computer:
Sesshoumaru: Yeah this is my house Dammit I will be answering all questions and reviews for the time being for I am not getting paid to be in this fic. Now Tamasha has a question. She wants to know if she should bother writing a third installment to this fanfic. She thinks it should end here in the sequel with a happy ending, but then she came up with another idea. She wants to know what you all think. Anyways time to answer the reviews that you have all made for me. By the way you all finally got your Shippou so now you can all shut it up.
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