Chapter 23

Kagome can feel the immensity of the building when she entered. "It's full of demonic auras." She was able to hear Inuyasha say to her to calm her nerves that she didn't know she had. Toga leads them to a special room in the building. "Inuyasha, you need to have to be careful with the wheelchair when we enter." Toga said to his son. "Why is that, Mr. Takahashi?" Kagome asks him. Toga smiles a little. "The room we're going into has a fragile structure and it can make it difficult to keep your balance in there. I though that either Inuyasha carry you or have the wheelchair." Toga explains to her.

Feeling conscious of her weight, "Inuyasha do you mind?" Kagome turns her head to ask him. "Sure." Inuyasha nods and helps Kagome get onto his back while she wraps her arms around his neck. Toga nods and opens the door. The moment the door opens, Kagome could feel an unsettling presence. 'What was that just now?' She asks herself. Toga leads his group into the room. It's just a simple council room with the two groups one in each row bowing in front of them. Toga sits in the middle table, with Inuyasha helping Kagome getting comfortable by his side, even though her legs are paralyzed, she couldn't sit properly, even if she wanted to. Luckily the table was closed off in the front.

Ai sits next to her daughter while Hiroki sits next to Toga, and Onigumo sits in his own seat in the one side of the row. "The meeting is about to begin." One of the individuals speaks first. Toga stands up. "Thank you for attending here. I'm truly grateful that we were able to come to a confirmed case about the topic at hand." He spoke sternly. "As we all know that Kikyo is dead due to a drug overdose ten years ago. However for some unknown reason, Kikyo has been revived due to something that no one is to ever attempt. As you can see here next to me…" He gestures his hand to Kagome. "…my son's mate has become a victim to this. As such she has been nicked by Kikyo with a dagger that had poison on the blade. As such, she's paralyzed. Hiroki could you explain to us how that poison worked." Toga turns to Hiroki.

Hiroki nods, "Thank you, Mr. Takahashi. Like he said there was a poison on the blade. I was able to collect a sample of the poison that was left behind where Kagome got nicked. I analyze the components of the poison to discover a terrible outcome." Hiroki shows the poison in the sample on the projector to show the room entirely. "This is no ordinary poison. This was from a demon who specialized in this and the effects when used. This poison in particular happens to be from spider demons. Their poison is meant to have the victim obey them no matter, the paralysis is a aftershock if the victim refused to do so." He explains to them.

One of the demons stands up. "My lord. I might know who was behind the plot. It was Naraku." Toga turns to see it was the Dragon demon Shiro from the last meeting. Toga nods to let him speak. "What I had to make sure it was affirmative, I've sent one of my own to follow Naraku to see how he was able to create such a concoction. I know it's against the law to pursuit another member of the council with the leader's permission, but I had this feeling that this is something more than that. Kagome Higurashi…"

Shiro walks up to the front of the table and look at her gently. "Did you know anything about him?" Kagome nods. "Yes. Naraku would always claim that we had a relationship. However, I didn't share the same feelings." Kagome gives her answer. Shiro hmms at that. "I was asking if you know his family. Was her human or a demon?" Kagome widens her eyes. "To be honest with you, I thought that he was human. And now that you asked me that question, I had to reconsider my answer." She said as calmly as she could.

Shiro nods and turns to Onigumo. "Onigumo here happens to be related to Naraku as we speak." That made the member murmur. "Silence!" Toga shouts to them. The room grows silent. "How are they related Shiro. Onigumo, rise up." Toga commends the man. Onigumo does so. "Onigumo is Naraku's father." Shiro tells them. Toga doesn't seem surprised. Neither did Inuyasha. But Kagome and Ai are. "As such, they're spider demons, who can shift shape into the person they believe would be their downfall. Mainly humans." Shiro explains the demon's ability.

"But what about Kikyo being at the cabin where Naraku and Kikyo were?" Ai asks him this time. Shiro turns to her. "As you remembered that Naraku disguised as you and abducts Kagome after finding out that she's Inuyasha's mate. The thing is that you didn't know about someone else know. And somehow someone did." Shiro walks back and forth. "Then who told my mother?" Kagome asks him urgently.

Shiro nods and wiggles his clawed finger to a door at the back of the room. The door opens up to reveal none other than Kikyo. Inuyasha stands up. "What is the meaning of this? No one is permitted to know about the mating acceptance." He shouts to Shiro. Kikyo walks up to the front of the table. "It was me who told your mother." She confessed to them. Kagome gasps in surprise. "But how?" She asks the girl. Kikyo digs into her jacket's pocket to pull a camera. "This camera was placed outside of the window of Kagome Higurashi's bedroom." She said to them.

That angered Kagome. "You spied on me!" She screams as she wanted so bad and attack Kikyo, but her paralyzed legs prevented her to do so. Inuyasha puts his hand onto her shoulder to make her calm down. "And the dagger's sheath has poison soaked inside to make sure that blade was coated." Kikyo also confessed to them as she places the two items on the table. "But there's one more thing you must know. It's true that I died from a drug overdosed but it was allegedly. The body I'm in is was being preserved until Naraku came in and used me." She explains as she is beginning to disappear bit by bit.

"But what about the time that you claimed that we were friends back then." Ai asks her quickly. Kikyo chuckled sadly, "The fact is that I mistaken you for someone else who almost looked like you. I'm sorry." She apologizes to the woman. As such she vanished. "She was a specter." Toga tells the room. "But one thing baffles me." Kagome said to Toga. Toga nods. "How is that the poison hasn't affected me completely?" She asks him. Toga remembers something, however he's decided to turn this into a private one. "The meeting is dismissed. Onigumo, due to Naraku's attempt to hurt Kagome, the jury finds you guilty. And I know something else about you." Onigumo looks slightly frightened by Toga's immense power.

Hiroki speaks them time. "Naraku isn't really your son. In fact, you made an incarnation out of your flesh and blood. And I can prove it here." Hiroki puts on the footage that was at the back of the cabin. Little did they know that there was another one in the closet that Onigumo looked through. "You had Kikyo walking on thin air, thus leaving no footprints throughout the time. She was locked in there in an animated suspension state, thus waiting till you arrived and awaken her up to make her nick Kagome with the knife that you created and had her use it because you didn't want to sully your hands on the weapon." He said wisely to show the proof.

As such Onigumo grins evilly. "You've got me pretty well. I have to admit that you really did your homework to figure out my every move up until this point." Inuyasha instinctively gets in front of Kagome due to her weaken start. "All because I had to make sure rather or not my poison would completely take over Kagome. And now I know for sure she has it." Onigumo glares at the girl. "She has the Sacred Jewel that was able to prevent the purpose." That made Kagome gasp in shock.