Final Lesson

Kagome

A total of three weeks passed by and all of my thoughts of forgetting this and returning to my friends faded away. I rose above many of Naraku's minions including Hakudoshi, who wasn't very happy about it, Kikyo's bows could no longer keep up with me and neither could Kagura's wind blades could put a scratch on me. Naraku and I can actually have real sparring matches now and he's even tried tag matches sometimes varying to Kikyo and Kagura or Kanna and Hakudoshi.

Naraku's respect for me, I noticed, has also grown a bit. He no longer calls me ningen or wench ,but miko or just Kagome. My relationship with Kikyo has not progressed nor deteriorated, we're not buddies but we're no longer enemies either. The one thing that did change about me with Kikyo was that I respected her more then I did before, and I even dared to feel alittle sorry for her as well.

Sometimes during training she would lose her train of thought, and mumble Inuyasha's name, I guess remembering the times they spent together. It use to pain me sometimes too, I would remember all our memories together as well as Sango and Miroku's little shannighans but now, I feel nothing.

I now lay here, naked against Naraku's cold body and wondered how this would all end for me.

xXx

"Miko, wake up it's time for your annual lesson" Naraku gently shook me.

Rubbing my eyes and scratching the side of my head, I looked at him drowsily. His long slightly curly, raven hair fell over his shoulders and down his back covering his spider mark carving on his back. His eyes were slightly narrowed in irritation ,but lined with previous feelings of sleep. The lower half of his body was covered with the sheets while leaving his upper half to be marveled in it's godly glory.

He chuckled and gave me a lazy boy smirk. "You worship my body every chance you get miko-sama, it's cute"

A light blush crept over my face and I abruptly turned away.

"Kagome..." he called.

I turned to him. "Yes mast-

When I turned to look at him he gently placed his lips on mine and slightly pulled my body closer to his. I was greatly taken back by his gentleness, it was almost as if he was afraid he would crush me. After we broke apart he got out of the bed and ran his hand through his hair.

"Your reward for being a good pet" he said.

Inuyasha

In a quite slow pace, I kicked around the disembered remains of a scorpion youkai into a nearby hole I dug out just for this occasion. Sighing, my thoughts once again went back to Kagome and how she's probably given up hope by now.

Kikyo turned out to be of no help, now that I think more closely it seemed that she was leading me in complete circles. This only further confirmed that she is indeed, working for Naraku.

After completely burying the dead corpse of the scorpion youkai, I headed back to Kaede's village.

xXx

To my complete surprise Miroku and Sango were standing outside of Kaede's hut, waiting for me. I guess what Kaede told me was a bit inaccurate on the time they were to fully recover.

"Inuyasha!" Miroku greeted.

I nodded at him, acknowledging his prescense. Sango ,on the other hand, just gave me a small wave.

"You guys recovered faster then I expected" I said with a slight grin.

Miroku nodded. "We worked hard to recover, after all we have something important to accomplish"

That's when Sango spoke up. "I just wish Kagome was here with us, but her studies are more important than this"

I scrunched my face up. "What? Her studies?- Naraku took-"

Thats when Miroku interrupted me and politely pulled me aside.

"What the hell is this?! She doesn't remember what happened?" I whispered harshly.

Miroku put his hands up in defense. "I couldn't remind her about Kagome, shes her best friend and we don't know anything about Kagome's well being. Who knows, we have to think about the worst case scenario"

I swallowed and gave Miroku a look of unbelief. Since when did he start thinking about 'worst case scenarios'? There were plenty of times where Kagome was kidnapped and at any point her kidnappers could've very well killed her, but that never stopped us from giving up hope or attempting to save her.

"Look Miroku I don't know what the hell is up with your attitude, but...if you don't want to help me rescue Kagome then I'll just find some one else because obviously neither Kagome or I can depend on you"

With that I left Miroku and Sango and headed towards Naraku's last hideout for any clues. Now that I didn't have to worry about Sango and Miroku, I could fully focus on what was ahead of me while Miroku and Sango couldn't further slow me down with their injuries.

"Don't worry Kagome, I'll save you"

Hakudoshi

Kikyo, Kagura, Kanna and I were once again spectators to one of Kagome's and Naraku's matches again. It truly was a fantastic sight, I wouldn't say they were of equal pairings but Kagome was able to hold her own against him.

Just as I thought Kagome might, for the first time, render Naraku defenseless, Naraku directed his palm into the pit of her stomach. This move, no matter where it was directed, always sent the opposer flying away from the user. It was a self defense move Naraku was to teach Kagome today.

Her body slid over to me and I didn't have to look to see she was unconscious from that one blow, this was predicted of course because she was still human. But according to Naraku's strange cryptic talk, all of that may change.

Naraku chuckled lightly walked over towards Kagome's body laging on the floor.

"She did well considering this was only her fourth sparring match with me" his face contorted into a small frown then. "but if she ever wanted to face Inuyasha then she needs to have some youkai blood flowing in her at least"

My curiosity peaked at that moment then, how would that be even possible? She was a human nothing more, putting youkai blood in a human has been tried before and failed. Ningens thought if they devoured youkai blood they'd get an ounce of our strength ,but it only gave them diseases or poisons.

"Even trying to do that would none the less kill the girl, that's as good as she's gonna get right now" Kikyo murmured.

She took the words right out of my mouth, if it wasn't her then I was going to say something. Looking up to see Naraku's reaction to this, I realized he wasn't pleased in the least.

"Again you question me, but I guess I reap what I sow"

This seemed to strike a nerve at Kikyo.

"Reap what you sow? You haven't even begun to do that, and just what do you mean by that?"

Naraku sighed irritatedly. "It means that I only have myself to blame for recruiting a useless ground miko as a pawn"

My mouth slightly opened at Naraku's words, Kagura did the same and Kanna just stared into blank space. Kikyo said nothing in her defense ,but I could feel the murderous aura evaporating off of her. I knew , along with everyone else, (even Naraku) that Kikyo was planning to kill him.

Naraku

After Kikyo's little outburst, she took it upon herself to leave the mountain for awhile. I sighed, she always did something largely annoying like this. Looking down at Kagome's unconscious body, I picked her up and lightly threw her over my shoulder.

That's when Kagura stood up as well. "I was just about to get her to her room to heal"

I shook my head no. "There's no need, I'll heal her this time. After all, her injuries are slightly more servere than what you normally heal"

She nodded her head and disappeared leaving a gust of wind behind her.

XxX

Sighing, I lightly laid Kagome down on her bed. Her injuries weren't as servere as I thought originally, she even did better in our fight than I thought. My thoughts eventually went back to that wench Kikyo, I knew she had plans to kill me but the question was when.

I looked down at Kagome then, maybe I could use her for this too. Knowing her, she'd probably enjoy getting rid of her. Lowering my head down towards Kagome, I lifted her wrist towards my mouth and roughly bit into it.

She groaned in her sleep, but I knew she was still to weak to resist or struggle. Yes, this was all part of the plan, that hit to her stomach was premeditated from the moment I suggested to spar with her. I injected maybe a pints worth of miasma into her blood stream, because she was weak her miko powers should be at their greatest.

If it detected any life threatining danger, the miasma would've been purified instantly. Mixed in with the miasma was a bit of my youkai blood, also thanks to her being a priestess she's more immune to simple human diseases and any type if sickness.

The pigment of her skin got paler and she started to furiously cough up blood. This part of the process was necessary, in order for the youkai blood to thrive a human piece of her had to be devoured by the youkai blood itself.

Tears of blood leaked out of her eyes and her talon-like claws clenched into the bed tightly. She writhed and wormed in pain and slight agony, her voice coming out in nothing but a strangled yelp. When she turned to open her mouth again I noticed the sharpened canines grow (maybe three inches longer) and the rest of her teeth followed suit, on her slender arms were small black spiders.

A/N: hey guys^^ I hoped you liked this one. This chapter only took me like, maybe three days to do because I was being over aggressively lazy. I'm also going to start posting up the next chapter titles in my author's notes, including my other story Electric Feel (GrimmHime) so make sure to check that out if you haven't already. Thank you everyone for reading or reviewing (or both!) and following my story. The next chapter title is: 'Mutation'

Happy Readings! ^^ -sasusakui