Metamorphisim

Kagome

Sesshomaru's lovely face remained stark and neutral, but my wolffish instinct told me other wise while a lovely scent filled the air. Fear.

The almighty, spiteful, Inu-youkai, Lord Seshshomaru was afraid of me? No, not really me ,but who's blood I've come to harvest in my ningen body, now turned hanyou.

Removing my hand away from the direction of his chest, I needlessly bit my sharp, pointed nails.

"Your not taking me seriously are you? Lord Sesshomaru" I smiled at him.

The thick fluffiness of the fur he wore seemed to bristle slightly.

Naraku told me that hell wolf youkai are known for their aggressiveness and eagerness to fight, so seeing even a hanyou hell wolf acting calm must be a shock.

I shook my head and closed my eyes while making a distinct tsking noise with my tongue, I desperately wanted a reaction out of him. If he's not going to give me what I want..when I want, then I'll obtain it by any means necessary.

Quickly running up to him, (in his eyes appearing as a burst of wind) not even that made him flinch or anything for that matter, I was as close as I dared to be (which was chest to chest if I may add) ,but he only looked down his nose at me.

Fury wenched itself through my veins. "Fine! Be that way and put up a fight! but if you won't give me what I want theeeeennnn...maybe Rin would be a sufficient piece of meat" I grinned.

His eyes filled with red as he clenched at my throat, of course this didn't hurt me in the slightest but it was uncomfortable being hoisted up into the air like this.

"You will not touch a hair on her!" He roared.

I snickered in pure delight. "Foolish puppy dog! I already have her!" I whispered desperately into his ear. Giving it a simple lick, I whispered killer words soaked in venom "you never thought this was the real me was it?"

His eyes flickered from red to gold multiple times before he fully processed the information I just gave him, his face was so PRICELESS!

I laughed extremely loud into the air and he let my 'fake' body fall to the ground as he sped off into the wilderness.

My laughter died down as my finger gently massaged my bottom lip in thought, he was so much weaker when it came to Rin...Rin is his essential weakness, so is that little green imp thing that follows him around.

*SNAP!*

My real body, who I also had control and awareness over, just now snapped the imp's neck. As a ningen miko, I never enjoyed shooting and purifying my enemies with my sacred arrows but now was an entirely different story.

Now I took pleasure in the people and youkai I killed, sexually and physically. Either way I writhed in pleasure of the hunt and kill.

*SCREAM!*

I snickered, I made little Rin watch the murder of the green imp, if she did manage to come out of this unscathed (highly unlikely) she'd have awful memories for a long time coming.

The taste of her blood coursed down my parched throat and eagerly, I swallowed, like a starved person that hadn't eaten real food in eight hundred years. My eyes rolled back as I viciously bit into her still thumping heart and bursts of flavor exploded on my tongue.

My eyes glanced into hers and fear registered in them as she saw her own heart 'still-hooked-up' to her body as I licked at it. How was this girl still alive?

Getting bored of the kill, I tore the little thing into pieces and ate every bit of it whole. That's when I smelled it, the acrid scent of urine filled the air and I scrunched up my nose in disgust. Looking down, I noticed Rin had wet herself and finally the light disappeared from her eyes and she was gone.

Biting my lip slightly and taking out the paper doll Naraku gave me from between my breast, I crushed it into my palm. Totally obliterating it. My real and fake body merged back together and I bolted off back to Naraku, stupid puppy got there too late and will have to find them like that. Sucks to be him.

*Two months earlier*

Naraku

Today was the day I would teach Kagome new things, things even myself could not fully do, but I had pride in her so far.

Things like astro-projection required many things to accomplish so instead, I came up with a way to detour that price...by infusing the process with my paper dolls.

By doing so, the user (has to be of fox youkai blood, even half is good) has to have a paper doll ,making another copy of themself, only you offer a little of the fox youkai blood on the paper doll. Now not only will you still be concious in your actual body ,but your physically and mentally aware in your other body as well.

Yes, the whole thing, now that I plotted it all out in my head..seemed it would be impossible to teach to someone as young as Kagome (in youkai years. In ningen years I am the age of twenty six. Apparently very young to Kagome)

In terms of youkai years though, she wasn't even a year old (1 youkai year=56 human years, only three human years have passed so far).

I smirked in backwards amusement, she seemed so young.

Another thought passed my mind as well, Kagome is still not capable to control herself when it came to prey and hiding her demonic energy; much like what I do when it came to her and Inuyasha tracking me down...those days are over.

She has much to learn these two months, after that's up, I'm going to send her after Sesshomaru.

*Four Weeks Later*

Kagome

Naraku worked me to the bone, lessons got harder and his hits got harder; more deadlier. Of course after every lesson I got the necessary herbs and remedies I could find in the fuedal era, but there wasn't any IBprofen, Motrin, or Tylenol here so every pain I had was fast at healing (thanks to my youkai blood) ,but hurt so much more.

I took a fast kick in the back and a slash at my arm. Yelping, I reacted out of bloodthirsty rage and tried to attack him back ,but he dodged.

His face scrunched up as he looked down his nose at me. "I give you fox youkai blood as well as hell wolf youkai, but you can't even work in the speed that I specifically gave you" he rustled his black raven hair in frustration. "you can't attack me when your angry, your attacks are slower and you leave yourself open"

The next words that came out his mouth next, was like a slow liquid fire knife cutting through my skin. "If you remain like this, Inuyasha would kill you before you even utter the words you hate him"

Deep rumbling growls expressed my displeasure with his words, and he gave me a sympathetic look. What was I doing? I can't crucify him for trying to help me.

"I'll do my best to please you" I muttered.

My hair cascaded over my eyes so he didn't see the bloodthirsty snarl I had across my face.

*Present*

Inuyasha

Every growl, every waking moment, I spent on finding that wretched Naraku. Killing such...such a young innocent girl like Himeko was...unforgivable.

The irreplaceable scent of youkai caucuses invaded my nose painfully, a deep burning sensation that caused me to cover my nose with my hands. Why were their so many dead bodies in one place? (Even someone like Naraku wouldn't do something like this, it was too sloppy)

Every caucus had one significant wound to them, a missing heart, and based on the area surrounding the hole, it seemed it was torn out by claws or jaws. This was the work of a youkai-eating beast.

Shaking my head at the sheer number of killings, a familiar scent catches me by surprise. It smelt like...Kagome yet...not Kagome...more like another hanyou like me.

Venturing further along with the scent, the trail of bodies eventually died off and there I came face to face, with a distraught Sesshomaru.

"Sesshomaru? What the hell are you doing here?" I asked.

Dodging a poisoned claw, I back flipped maybe ten feet away from him. What the hell have I done to him this time?!

"This is all YOUR FAULT!"he shouted.

My ears flattened down to my head, he's never been...enraged at me before. He threw something at my feet and it took me awhile to know what it was...that's when I almost jumped back in horror.

There on the ground, was little Rin's mutilated body. The young ningen girl that seemed like a pet to Sesshomaru than anything else, who would've thought he actually cared about her.

"Wha-what happened to her?" I managed to choke out.

He was before me in a flash, I stumbled backward in surprise.

"Your WENCH is what happened! I told you before and you didn't listen! Now look what you've done!"

Before he reached for my throat, I noticed the small but real tears in his eyes. The gold in his irises were dull...dead.

Easily dodging his attack, his movements began to get sloppier and sloppier until I could just run away from him without fear of being attacked. Yeah, my heart sort of bled for my brother, but Naraku still had to die.

When,and only then, his death will cleanse this whole region of his reign. Finally, I'll get revenge for everyone. For Sango, Miroku, Kikyo, Sesshomaru, and definately for Kagome.

A blade came a hairline inch from in front of my face, was everybody trying to kill me today?! Just what the hell did I do?! Growling menacingly, I turned to my assailant.

"Hakudoshi!" I shouted.

He smirked at me, regally holding his oversized halberd, he looked the same ever since I first encountered him two years ago; short and child like.

"I'm deeply sorry for my late appearance Inuyasha, a certain dead miko was holding me up so I had no choice but to dismember her. But don't worry, she's quite alright, her soul collectors are now trying to resemble her limbs." He grinned.

My blood broiled inside of my veins, my knuckles shook in my fury. How dare he! How dare he touch Kikyo like that! Just as I was about to lose it, I bounced right off Hakudoshi's protective barrier like a ball.

"Now now Inuyasha, our fight will come at another time, but there's something that you must handle at this moment" he muttered.

I did NOT feel like hearing Hakudoshi's lies at the moment, but something inside me told me to just hear him out.

"And just what would that be?!" I snapped.

He smirked once again, he knew something I didn't of course, he just needed to word his next sentence in a certain way.

"I suggest you should hurry to your dead miko companion, last I checked, Kagome-née was going to make sure Kikyo is permanently buried in the ground" he mused lightly.

I gritted my teeth. Was he trying to piss me off?! Did I LOOK stupid?!

"Why in the hell should I believe you?! If you hadn't noticed, your track record in telling the truth isn't that great right now!" I snapped again.

He shrugged nonchalantly. "You can choose wether you wish to believe me or not, but are you willing to bet that miko's life to see if I really am telling the truth?"

My eyes widened in realization. Shit! With what everyone has been telling me, maybe I should go...and even if I was wrong and Kikyo is alive and well, then it's not like that's a bad thing right?

Sighing, I nodded at Hakudoshi and he was off going his own way.

Here I was again, saving Kikyo.

Kagome

I returned to Naraku later that night. He had a pleased smile on my face, everything went according to plan.

"How did you fair Kagome?"he asked.

I picked at my sharp nails, having dried blood caked under them was unsightly. "I left Sesshomaru slightly deranged and unbalanced, and right about now Hakudoshi should be telling Inuyasha where we are"

Naraku didn't seem to like that last bit. "WHAT?!"

His anger didn't phase me in the slightest. "Hakudoshi has hated me ever since you brought me here, the first thing he would do is go to Inuyasha because he still believes I have feelings for him"

Naraku paced around the room for a moment in thought, I only watched, waiting for the moment where I get eat out Inuyasha's heart. "Where's Kikyo?" He asked.

My face scrunched up in confusion, what did he want with her? "I don't know where she is...she comes and goes as she pleases"

He glared at me for a moment and I sighed. "No I didn't kill her, I'm pretty sure you would know if I did"

He stared at me hard for a mere more seconds before turning away from me. "Bring her to me, if she resists you may kill her"

I couldn't stop the oncoming grin from appearing on my face. "I won't fail you"

He grabbed me by the wrist and roughly kissed me. "You haven't so far so I don't expect you to"

It wasn't hard to find Kikyo's somewhat mangled body sitting on the ground against a tree, her soul collectors led me right to her.

"How unsightly" I muttered looking down at her.

Her usually neutral face showed true anger as her eyes met mine. "That coming from a copy of me, is what's truly unsightly"

A snarl deep within my throat caused some of my demonic energy to leak out, the unmistakable shiver caused ripples of fear to travel through her bones.

"Don't risk your life ningen, I will destroy you" I looked at her.

She huffed and looked elsewhere. "What do you want?" She asked.

Retracting my demonic energy back into me, I gave out the order Naraku requested of me. "I have to retrieve you, it seems Hakudoshi has made a foolish decision"

She stood up, blood leaking from her wounds and proceeded to follow me back towards Naraku. She was very lucky her blood didn't appeal to me at all, it smelt artificial.

Kikyo suddenly shot a sacred arrow into a clump of trees and I looked at her as if she had lost her mind. "Oh what is it now?!" I snapped.

She was not paying attention to me, her only focus was on the trees. I smelt the air for any intruders, and smiled at the familiar scent.

"Inuyasha" I grinned.

Inuyasha

My eyes widened and my nostrils burned heavily. Who in the hell had such an overwhelming youkai aura that rivaled Naraku's?!

I looked into the sky and noticed the stream of soul collectors I was following were disintegrating each inch they travelled. I must be getting close to Kikyo then...maybe even Kagome.

Before barging into the scene like I usually do, something told me to just hang back and watch. So I did, Kagome's familiar voice travelled through the air somewhat differently then it did when she was with me.

"Don't risk your life ningen, I will destroy you" she snarled.

Again this shocked me, Kagome never snarled at anyone, nevertheless at me (except whenever she yelled at me to sit). Also, what the hell did she mean by 'ningen' she said it as if her and Kikyo...weren't of the same class or species.

So everyone was right...

"What do you want?" Kikyo asked hallowly.

It looked like Kagome was picking her nails as she talked to Kikyo. Even though her back was towards me, everything from the curves of her back, the way she made herself stand, her scent, and her curved talons/claws, made me realize that Kagome was no longer human.

They're about to leave when I just missed a sacred arrow whizzing past my face by a hairline.

"What the-

The concealing trees and bushes around me purified to just sticks and branches, leaving me offly exposed. Kagome whirled around on Kikyo yelling what now, when she stopped and hastily sniffed the air.

Thats when our eyes meet, the deep brown eyes I was so in love and familiar with distorted and turned into a brilliant shade of ruby red. That's when I noticed it, the abrupt change her form took.

Her talon-like claws lengthened a deadly length, the hair I was so familiar with that flowed and stopped at her back turned a more darker black than normal, she gritted her teeth while her long canines grew even more.

Something that shocked me a hell of a lot more...was the four fairly large black tails swishing about from her, and her twitching black ears that peeked from the top of her head.

"Inuyasha" she grinned.

The sun glinted off her pearly canines, blinding me for a couple of seconds. A scent of pure evil hostility wafted off of Kagome in waves as she stood there staring at me.

Clearing my throat awkwardly, she took this time and interval to swipe at me. She was lucky enough to catch the whole left side of my face, it bled profusely and into my eyes.

"Damnit it Kagome! I'm trying to help you!" I shouted.

She cocked her head to the side for a moment, like the words I just told her didn't quite sink in with her mind. Instead, she calmly brought her hand to her mouth and took a hesitant lick.

My eyes widened, was she seriously tasting my blood? What did Naraku do to her?!

Her eyes rolled back slightly as she moaned out loud. "You have delicious blood Inuyasha...that I will give you"

I glanced over at Kikyo for a moment, her eyes were trained on Kagome like daggers. Besides the usual black nothingness I would see in them from time to time, her eyes held the look of pure hatred.

Kagome snickered and laughed, pulling from within her black hakuma a long deadly pointed halberd. It was a curved blade that forked at the end (almost like a scimitar), her lips pulled back revealing her top and bottom fangs.

"You have no idea how long...how long I've waited for something like this" her tongue slithered around her bottom lip.

I clenched my fists together, all this time I was looking for her...wondering and worrying about her. She was slitting around with Naraku and let herself be turned into something evil and full of hate and desire.

Where did my Kagome go?

"I gave up...everything for you. Even our friends. I abandoned them FOR YOU!"I roared at her.

She raised her eyebrows and positioned her halberd along her shoulders. "And I'm suppose to care? I gave up things for you too and it wasn't just my studies, but my family as well. Like this...I will never see them again, and just who..pushed me towards Naraku n the first place?"

Sighing, I held my head down, I knew the answer to that one.

She laughed. "Exactly, now...either you fight me, and die. Or I have my way with Kikyo and surely that won't be pleasant either. Hmph, at least for her anyway"

Kikyo held up her bow, and then aimed towards Kagome. One ear on top of Kagome's head flickered in Kikyo's direction making Kagome turn around.

"At your level...you would never be able to kill me" Kikyo glared at her.

Kagome's grin got wider and wider. "Me? Not be able to kill you? You must not know your place by now...allow me to remind you"

With speeds my eyes could not follow, Kagome had Kikyo dangling from the air by her hair. Kikyo screeched in pain and protest. From instinct, I raced to get to her before Kagome did any really damage.

The tip of Kagome's halberd pierced the inside of my neck, causing me to halt and freeze where I stood.

"Don't be stupid Inuyasha, it's not your turn so you will wait"

Kagome's crimsom eyes met mine and my body would no longer move, she retrieved her halberd from my neck (which started to bleed profusely) and proceeded with Kikyo.

A feeling of dread filled my whole body and my eyes started to widen in terror.

With enormous strength, Kagome launched Kikyo into the air while lengthening the claws of her right hand. As Kikyo's body started propelling to the earth, Kagome gave out a howl and drove her claws along Kikyo's body.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

My eyes filled with hot steamy tears as Kikyo's body laid sprawled in three long different pieces along the ground. The sound of rocks pelting the ground sounded as the rest of Kikyo's body fell to the surface.

A deep purr came from deep within Kagome as she stared down at Kikyo's remains.

"Well...that was a bit...anticlimactic dont you think Inuyasha-San?" She mused cheerfully.

My half demonic blood boiled. She dared killing Kikyo right in front of me...and then claim she's bored?! The claws I owned lengthened and my vision turned completely red, no longer had I control over my body.

I snapped out of my daze and lunged at Kagome mindlessly, she only dodged the swipe at her face and only received gentle scratch marks across her porcelain skin.

The full demon inside me roared at Kagome for her evasiveness. "I'm going to kill you!"

She smirked devishly. "In due time Inuyasha...we may kill eachother in the end"

Her crimson eyes gleamed, and the next thing I knew...she was gone.

Naraku

I paced around and around my chambers. What the hell was taking her so long?

"You can't be worrying about that miko girl right?"

Onigumo's voice swirled around in my head, I oringinally thought I had gotten rid of him in full but my efforts were only half fulfilled. I sighed and ran my fingers through my hair frustratedly.

The next thing I knew, I found myself outside looking for her.

Following her demonic aura, she wasn't hard to find. Easier actually, she 1) had almost no control over the amount that leaked out from her body and 2) she's still only a few months old (youkai years). I sighed, I'll have to teach her how to control that better later.

There she was, leaned up against a huge boulder shielded by some trees. The moon illuminated her body and shadow. Beautiful. Her crimson eyes gazed up at the moon in the up most peculiar way. She was awed, almost a hopeful expression touched her face as she continued to stare and stare.

She jumped in surprise, as if snapped out of her dream-like trance, and sniffed the air. Her features fell and she relaxed again, recognizing my scent.

"Did I take too long...Naraku-sama?" She asked.

I was silent for a moment, just observing her body language and facial expression. Her gaze never wavered from the large moon looming over her, she didn't even acknowledge my presense.

"No, not entirely. But I must ask what the hold up was" I muttered.

Her eyes almost fluttered shut, her tails swished about her legs and curled in on themselves to keep warm from the night air. The fangs that occupied her mouth glistened and sparkled while sitting on her bottom lip and her claws were decorated with blotches of dried blood.

"Inuyasha is the reason" she answered after a while.

My face grew angry and annoyed. That stupid hanyou always got in the way of everything! His ningen heart was always the cause of his disarray when really he should've gotten rid of it a long time ago.

"Did you kill him?" I asked her.

Her claws flashed for a brief moment, and before I knew it the boulder she was leaning upon came tumbling down and deteriorated into a pile of rubble and rock.

"No, but I should have...the time wasn't right" she murmured.

A glare touched my face and a temple in my forehead came up in my anger.

"And what of Kikyo?"

She looked at me with a stark and neutral expression. "She is dead"

I sighed loudly and ran my hand through my hair. She didn't kill Inuyasha but she killed Kikyo instead?! I had to know the logic behind this.

"And what accomplishment did 'that' achieve?" I asked almost angrily.

She ran her fingers through her long black mane lovingly, admiring its luster. "Inuyasha was so distraught over losing Kikyo that I wanted his feelings of loss and hatred to simmer, my reason for saying it wasn't time"

I agreed with her reasoning. In her situation, I probably would've tortured Kikyo first then killed her. I petted her on the head, her ears fluttering a little.

"Your my prodigy as well as my mistress, I value you for reasons other than your power" I said pulling her into my chest.

Her fingers entwined in my hair, down alongside my face, my hakuma, chest, back ,and...other places. Her fingers roamed every inch of me.

She giggled playfully. "I know you probably don't appreciate being groped by me with such intensity, but I had to. Theres a feeling in me that things won't turn out very well for you or me...this may be the last time I get to touch you like this"

I almost smiled, she was right about that. Things won't turn out very well at all...

A/N: hey guys^^ not too long ago I had just uploaded another chapter to Electric Feel so I'm completely wiped and pooped right now. It just turned 11:01pm (Sun.) and I have school in the morning D: how am I suppose to wake up now?! Anyways, I'm sacrificing a lot for you guys right now by uploading this so mean comments are not welcomed right now. Anyways...yea...read and review please :3 any questions feel free to ask and I will happily answer.

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