Chapter 16

Tasuki appears, and miaka comes down sick,

With keisuke and tetsuya and the voltori and the cullen's,

They continued to read the universe of the four gods in the throne room,

"The bandits apologized to miaka and Bella and the others," "and gave them lodgings,"

"Well that's good I have to say so," Marcus stated

"What of tasuki?" Asked caius,

"Not sure yet," "nothing as come a crossed about him or her,"

"Hummm," "well have to see," "so shall we go back to the library to search of a way into the book?"

With that everyone went to the library to search for what they where looking for,

In the book world, in Bella's dreams,

"Please don't take my child!" "I want her," said a weak voice,

"But it's not the right time for her to be born," spoke midariko and another,

"Then what would you do with her?" Midariko smiled down at the child,

End of Bella's dream

Bella shot right up from the dream she just had it was just so real,then the pain in her chest came back but not as bad, the poison is moving fast, she closed her eyes to try to use her power to make it stop,

meanwhile with the others

All the bandits where on their knees bowing and just finished apologizing to miaka, hotohori, and nuriko, genro and koji was right next to them, making sure they all knew there place, miaka just forgave them and waved her hand to dismiss the apology,

"Oh one more thing," "is anyone one of you by chance named tasuki?" "I want to ask him to come along with us,"

All the bandits whispered and talked between them selves on who tasuki is, one of them even asked eiken, who was put off in a corner,

"Eiken," "do you know you this tasuki is?"

"Actually no I don't?" Genro who was leaning against the wall spoke up,

"Well I know who he was," miaka turned around with hopeful eyes and asked,

"You do?" "Please tell me please!"

"Okay," "don't be disappointed after I tell you," "tasuki was the name if our former leader and now he his dead now," the priestess of suzaku was disappointed,

"tasuki's dead?"

"I'm sorry," "I wish we could bring his back from the dead," "but that's impossible," genro still had his eyes closed and listen to to disappointed murmurs of miakas group,

"isn't there Another way?" Nuriko the ever optimistic one, was depressed as well,

"It's all over now," miaka couldn't believe it,

"how are we going to finish our mission now,"

"It couldn't be," the mention of their old boss, koji changed the topic to something else,

"Hey listen genro," "you want to go visit the bosses grave tomorrow sometime?" "You probably miss him don't you,"

meanwhile a few hours later,

Hotohori decided to get away from the business with the bandits, "there was a nasty storm raging outside," "everything just getting to him it's just making him feel so suffocated and stressed with the whole thing," "but then his light of hope always brings him back his Bella,"

*sighing* to himself he went to go check on shippo and shiori,and rin, they where playing a game together while dios and kiarra slept off to the side, smiled knowing her children is ok,

Finally making it to the room where his angel resides in, he heard a soft *thud*, he started to feel sick with worry that something happen to his angel,

with out thinking he dashed into the room with out knocking, the sight struck him like a blade being stabbed into his heart, his bella was lying on the floor curled up clutching herself like if she was in pain,

Hotohori fear showed on his face, he dashed over to his Bella and knelt Down to her and gather her in his arms,

"Bella," "Bella," "what happen?" "Are you ok my angel?" Bella opened her eyes and tried to force a smile, it made hotohori worry much more,

"I... I'm... Fine dearest heart,"

Bella clinched her eyes close tightly and *gasped* and the pain that shot through her entire body, beads of sweat formed on her pale face her breathing was uneven, hotohori placed his hand on her forehead to see if she had a fever, he retracted it quickly from the coldness of her skin,

"Bella your cold as ice," "what's happening?" Bella pouted at his weakly,

"How the hell should I know!" "I just woke up from a strange dream!" "And then suddenly I can't bloody breath!" "Ah!"

Bella clinched her her eyes shut and grabbed onto hotohori's clothing as the pain shot through her again, when he check her temperature she normally hot, but she cold as ice horror struck him,

he quickly scooped up his love to go tell the others what going on, until she gripped his clothing tighter,

"No," "I don't want miaka seeing me like this!" "She so busy trying to find her seishi," "I don't need her worring over me," staring up at her love, daring him to go against her wishes, even in her weaken state she still had the power to threaten someone,

Hotohori listen to his angel, *sighing,* he went over and place her on the bed,she looked more comfortable now he let out a sight of relief, Bella close her eyes to fight off the poison with midariko's help, keeping her mind off the pain he brought up what genro said against his better judgment,

"Bella," "genro told us that tasuki was the name of their former boss,"

their was silence, Bella was taking it in what he just told her, and it must finally click all together, Bella shot straight up,

"WHAT ON BON APART BALL'S!" "YOU MEAN TO TELL ME THAT TASUKI IS FREAKING DEAD!" "WHAT IN THE SEVEN LAYER'S HELL!"

Hotohori sweat dropped and had to hide the fact that he was a little turned on by her anger, but was happy that she was way more cheerful now and looking better,

"Unfortunately yes," "according to genro-," Bella cut him off with a more angered look,

"GENRO!" "WHERE IS THAT BLASTED STUPID RED HEADED BANDIT!" "I SWAER I'LL KICK HIS SORRY BANDIT BUTT TO THE END'S OF THE EARTH AND BACK IF HE IS LYING!" "OOOOOOOHHHHH THAT LITTLE-!"

"WHERE IS HE!" "LET ME AT HIM RIGHT NOW!"

Bella was standing on her Bella with a angered look on her face, so who ever it meant for meant death, and hotohori was trying his best to calm her down and to get her to lay back down,

"Now," "now," "my angel," "in your condition-," Bella shot him a glare that made him shiver,

"MY BLOODY CONDITION HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS!" "WHERE IS THE USELESS BAKA AT!" "LET ME AT HIM RIGHT NOW!"

Hotohori sweat drop even though his angel is quit delectable like that, he should of chose Another topic,

meanwhile the fallowing morning,

Morning came as quickly as they liked, the sun shone over the mountains thewater shined off the leaves and grass from the rain the night before, deep in the woods there was a hidden domed building, the tomb of the former boss, as promised, the gang genro, koji, miaka, nuriko, hotohori, even shiori,rin and shippo came visit tasuki, torches lit the center lay a simple wooden coffin, genro look on sadly, and placed a hand on the coffin and said a few words of respect,

"He was a good man,"

Miaka, look at the casket depressivly, and thought, /;what do we do now?" "We need all seven warriors," "even if one of the warriors is dead," "suzaku wouldn't appear," "and tamahome wouldn't never ever come back,"

a image of tamahome appeared In her mind, and remembered the promised he made,

Flashback

"I'll come back after you find all seven warriors,"

Flashback end,

As if reading her mind, nuriko spoke up in concern,

"We can't go on with out tasuki," "sir," hotohori managed to hear what nuriko said since he was wallowing in his own musings but found a way to answer anyways,

"Yes," "but it's not possible to resurrect people from their sleep," after that said a bandit walked in and spoke up,

"Um?" "Hey boss?" Genro answered him with a glance,

"Hm?"

"I just only heard rumors about this," hotohori turned to listen into the conversation,

"Yeah," "what are these rumors about?"

"There some talkin about someone up in choko," "who can bring back the dead back to-," he was cut of by miaka grabbing his shirt,

"Hey are you serious," "mister!" That startled the bandit,

"Um," "well it's just a rumor i over heard,"

"Then I better go to choko to check it out,"

miaka fist pumped the air, hotohori stayed quiet, "if this person is able to bring back the dead," "maybe just maybe this person could rid his Bella of the poison," nuriko looked at miaka and sweat dropped,

"Miaka?"

"Even if there is a person and not just a rumor," "let's not get our hopes up just yet," nuriko spoke in a serious tone,

"Let's just hope it is," "but before we go," miaka held out her bowl and asked,

"give me one full bowl of rice," everyone fell over at that comment,

While all the humor was going on, hotohori stayed in his thoughts, "he hasn't told no one about Bella's worsting condition," "she drained all her energy trying to get out of the room," which of course he stopped," "he stayed with her the whole night like how they do back at the palace," "walking away from everyone to go back to his Bella,"

meanwhile In Bella room,

Bella was laying on her stomach reading a book that she found in the room to keep her occipide, the rain finally stopped look like it would be nice to start to go and travel again,

it seemed that hotohori told her about where their next destination would be before he had to go back to miaka, bella *signed* and started to read again,

she did hear the person come in the room, until she felt hands going down her back and to her backside, she smirked and turned around to see her love,

"Hello dearest heart," "when did you waltz in here my dear,"

"Just now my angel," smiling down to his love,

"Dearest heart,"

"Yes my angel?"

"You haven't told no one have you?"

"No I haven't my angel,"

"Ok good," beaming up at him,

"Just promise me when we go don't push yourself to much," "I don't know what I would do if I lost you," Bella pouted,

"No worries I won't," "and you will never lose me," but still pouted,

Hotohori wanted to have her closer to him, he placed his angel in his lap and held onto her,until bella felt something poking her,

"Dearest heart?"

"Hm?"

"Is that your new weapon in you pants?" "or are you happy to see me?" Bella smirk at her comment but damn by the fell of his erection he huge worried to know the full size,

"Oh I'm real happy to see you my dear,"

"I can tell that dear one,"

"Silly," "silly girl," Bella pushed herself off of him at the comment,

"I am not a silly girl," hotohori rolled her over on her back,

"Yes,. Yes you are a silly girl," "but your my silly girl," hotohori leaned down to give her a slow sensual kiss, And running his hand down stomach and ran his fingers a crossed it, hotohori thought that she perfect and all his, they finally stopped for air,

"Oh.. My.. My dearest one.. What gotten... Into you...?" Bella asked breathily,

"Oh from all those men touching you in those ways," "I was so angered I wanted to kill them," "but then again I know that I knew you where mine," "and I been craving to do that all day,"

"Well dearest heart you need to get like that more often," Bella smirked up at hotohori,

"Well then what ever my angel wishes she shall get," hotohori thought, "how did he ever get so lucky to have bella,"

Unknown to them, genro saw and Heard everything, genro was starting to get confused way he was so angered by what he say and heard, waving it off he went on his way,

meanwhile later that evening,

While everyone was getting ready to leave, genro came face to face with a vary angry Bella,he shrank back as she stomped forward toward him with flames behind her, he could almost feel what she wants to do to him, the murderous aura around her so dark menacing, as the flames of hell was behind her for some odd reason he shouldn't be turned on by this,

"GENRO!" "I HOPE YOUR NOT LYING TO USE ABOUT TASUKI BEING DEAD!" "AND SENDING US ON THIS RUN AROUND ON SOME RUMOR!" "OH YOU WILL FEEL PAIN THAT YOU NEVER FELT BEFORE MISTER!" "AAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHH!" "I STILL DON'T TRUST THE WORDS THAT COME OUT OF YOUR MOUTH YOU BAKA!"

Bella was waving her fist's and had her sleeve's all rolled up all ready to kick genro ass, hotohori, and nuriko had to hold her bad from getting to him,

miaka looked on at her cousin and genro," glad their getting along just fine,"

genro was trying to look all tough, so he crossed his arms and stood straight as he could,

"Since when did I lie to you?" Bella eyes flared pink a little,

"YOUR A BLOODY BANDIT YOU BAKA!" Genro yelled annoyed at them,

"WILL YOU JUST SCRAM ALREADY?" "I DON'T WANT NOTHING TO DO WITH NONE OF YOU PEOPLE YOU GOT THAT!" "NOW GO ONE GET GOIN!"

Bella shot him the deadliest glare that would make sesshomaru proud, then she smirked at him and looked off to the side,

everyone looked on cautiously, waiting to see what she would so next, then she turn back around and the smirk she had turned to a evil smirk and looked at genro right in the eyes and stated,

"Oh I can't wait to give you the pain you so deserve," "oh so many torture way's I can cause you pain," "so see you soon genro!" Bella winked at him and flipped her hair over her shoulder, and turned around cheerfully, and did alice pixi skip, and hoped on to hotohori's back,

Genro was frozen stiff by what she just said, everyone's thought, "we glade we are not in your shoes bro,"

miaka started to poke genro to see if he would stop being frozen, hotohori chucked while he groped his Bella's back side while she was on his back,

Koji tried to unfreeze his buddy, after some ice water dumping courtesy of Bella, and a few bending and more poking and some scratching, still the bandit still stayed frozen,

"Anyways where off," "bye hope to see you guys again," they where watching them all off, miaka was riding with nuriko and Bella rode with hotohori, and shippo and shiori and rin they where on dios,waving good bye, genro finally unfroze himself and collapsed to the ground,

"Oh kami that chick is going to kill me," koji looked at his buddy like he was crazy,

"Wow bro," "I never seen you get so work up over some chick," "are you sure your alright bro?" Genro frowned and stand up,

"Their finally out of here," koji stated while putting his hands on his hips, starting to talk about miaka, since he spent more time around miaka then he did with Bella,

"What a chick," "she either stupid or just really goodhearted," "and that cousin of her's," "she is one sexy chick," "I must say so fiery," "isn't she," genro snorted sarcastically,

"That sure made us act all weird," "like that made us forget who we really where,"

"we even fed them good food," "and gave them the best rooms as well," koji snickered,

"Yeah," "you even let that Bella chick use your room," genro shrugged,

"Well it was that or hear the people with her complaining," "plus she was good company and fun to make angry," koji looked at his budded in shocked at what he just said,

"Well," "if I didn't know any better you starting to fall for the fiery princess," genro fail to hide the blush that crept up his face, his friend saw it as well, and laughed it off,

"Oh my kami!" "You are!" "Hahahahahaha!" "And for the guy who alway's yell's about hating the female race," "you fallin hard for a fiery girl like that," "hahahah!"

Koji was on the ground rolling in amusement at his friend, while genro was trying to get rid of the blush and clinch his fist,

"WOULD YOU CUT IT OUT ALREADY DAMNIT!" After he finished his laughter, and got up from the ground,

"Forget it," "I'm just happy we got the fan now,"

genro," "the priestess of suzaku," "you wouldve like to go on their adventure didn't you?" Koji smirked and continued,

"And not to mention to warm up to that girl that you fell for," genro hit his koji on the head,

"I said quit it damnit!" "Besides she already as someone," "what dose she need me for?" Koji smirked,

"That make it more fun to try to get the girl you want don't you think," "am I right?" "Well it's not a fun game to get her with out the other guy in the picture," "why in the world would a refined guy fall in love with a hot chick like her?" "She must be special or something for both of you two to fall for her," "well to think about it we don't know anything about her," "but damn she was one hell of a fighter and hot doing it," "it wouldn't hurt to have her on our side ya know,"

genro pondered for a moment on what his buddy said and closed his eyes,

"Don't be stupid," "I'm In charge now," "I don't need no more combination," "it was the bosses last wishes for us," "besides I hate girls," "especially that pushy evil chick," koji turn to his buddy and said in a somber voice,

"Well I'm guessing it worked out for the best,"

even though genro didn't want to admit it, koji knew his buddy wanted to go with those people and to be by the side of that girl,

"Hm," "such a hard choice for you my friend,"

meanwhile with Miaka, Bella, hotohori, and nuriko,

After a few hours of riding miaka wanted to stop and rest, so the stopped by a river so the horses could rest and the nekkos,

miaka sat under a tree reading tamahomes note with a bottle of water that hotohori gave her alittle while ago,and reminded her that she needed to keep her health up,

speaking of hotohori he been quiet all morning, "wonder why?" "Well she knows he was upset about Bella's condition and he tried not to worry her over it," "he rather amazing and was perfect for her cousin and glad they were together," "he managed to hold up his duty as a suzaku warrior," "the emperor of Konon," "and keep his relationship with her cousin,"

speaking of her cousin, she was a little bit away resting against hotohori while he leaned against a three trunk,"oh Bella," "Kutou lied to us," "they have tamahome so why don't they remove the poison from her cousin body?" "Yui are you behind this?" "No yui will never do that to Bella she thinks of Bella as a sister," "it was probably that stupid nakago," "he purposefully doing this so we can't complete our mission," "I'll show him a thing or a two," "but knowing Bella would get to him before she dose,"

"Poor girl!" Miaka jumped at the voice she heard, nuriko was standing by the tree that she was leaning on with his arms crossed,at first miaka didn't know what nuriko meant until he started to talk again,

"I really feel bad for Bella," "you know," "with all the thing's in her life the way it is," "and finally found true love," "even though it's not with me," "now she gets poisoned," "and handling the responsibility's with the jewel," "and protecting you and the one's she care's most about," "and you seem oblivious for what she dose for you," miakas eyes widen,

"Love?" "I thought that it wasn't that bad," nuriko sighed,

"Didn't you hear when they confess their feeling for each other," "heh I'm even

jealous," "and I would love to have her for myself," "she been the one i waited for since i was a child," "but I won't give up though," "and if you would pay attention you would be able to see how bad her condition gotten," "and for you information I'm not gay," "i'm a cross dresser," miaka put a finger to her mouth in deep thought,

"I didn't hear anything," "or seeing anything that se gotten worst," miaka stated dumbly,

Nuriko looked at the stupid priestess with a dead pan look,before letting out a sad *sigh*, he should of known miaka wouldn't pay attention, going back to his current topic, miaka looked at nuriko and asked,

"And why are you all mad about nuriko?" nuriko just closed his eyes and smiled,

"Well," "I was shocked at first when i found out she was in love with his majesty," "and not me," "it made me jealous that he snag her while i was trying to get her to love me," "I mean I lost the contest," "even though I'm not gonna give up," "I'll never stand to the likes of his majesty," "but I could try though,"

obviously on what nuriko was saying he was jealous that his majestic stole Bella before he could get her, while pulling on miakas cheek,miaka tried to talk the way with her cheek the way it is,

"I Hont beahave you!''

"Are you talking about mama?" With a smile plastered all over shioris and rin's face,Nuriko stopped pulling on miaka and turned to the two demon pup's, and smiled widely at how cute they where, forgetting about miaka, nuriko tackled shiori, rin and shippo, hugging the two daemon pups to his chest heart content,

"Oh my!" "Your just so cute!,"

Miaka just rubbed her poor poor abused cheek,with dios and kiarra next to her for a well deserved cat naps, watching over the demon pup's is fun but can be Tiring to the nekkos,

Hotohori had a smile grace his face, he was in Heaven relaxing with his Bella against his chest,running his finger's through her hair, he heard what nuriko said and thought, "good luck you will never have her,"

Bella quickly got up and ran acrossed the to another part of the clearing and barfed up all the contents that was in her stomach,

Hotohori sent a message to nuriko, he got the message and stomped off in a fit, that hotohori went off with the girl he ever so loved,he grabbed miaka and took out all his anger on the girl who didn't notice her cousin condition,

After Bella was done barfing eventhing she had in her stomach, she started to shake and feel like she was dunked into ice cold water, she curled up in a ball to stop the feeling,

hotohori looked everywhere for his angel, until he came to a clearing and saw her curled up in a ball, he ran to her quickly and placed her head on his lap,Bella just got off of him and went to wash her mouth out, and went back to lay back down on his lap,

"I'm really really sorry," leaving hotohori confused and disturbed, they returned with his Bella on his back oh how he loves the feel of her backside, it was Bella who insisted to keep going to choko before dark comes,

After their quick break they continued on the rocky path to choko,each of them lost in their of thoughts,"hotohori was hoping that his angel would be able to be cured by this person,"

nuriko was thinking, "damn his majesty getting all lovey in front of him," "that should be him with her not him grr," miaka was just humming in her head, the damons where asleep on each horse,

meanwhile with tamahome and yui,

"Tamahome!" "Tamahome!"A shirtless tamahome shot up instantly, oblivious what was going on,

"Yui?" Her voice shakes in relief,

"Oh thank goodness your ok!" "Your still hear," "I had a dream that miaka came and took you away and left me all alone here!" He eyed her in the little clothing she had on and thought,

"Oh no," "we didn't do anything,"

"No we didn't,"

*Sighing* in relief, there's nothing to worry about,

"when the time come's I will take you with me," "all we can do now is believe in miaka," "and wait for her to come get us," "and not to mention Bella," "she might be saving us sooner or later," "crazy chick she is,"

tamahome shivered at the thought of Bella sneaking into kutou and rescuing them, and the thought of what she will do to him when she dose, yui seemed happier at the mention of Bella's name,

"Yeah your right," a servant came in asking for the priestess of seiryuu,

"Lady yui?" "Lord nakago wish's to see you," yui nodded,

"Well I must be going now," "I will have some breakfast ready for you soon," she stood and fallowed the servant out,

"Oh," "and thanks a lot," when the door shut, tamahome closed his eyes and stated to himself,

"Breakfast," "huh," "miaka probably stuffing her face right now," a image of miaka stuffing her fast with a huge pile of food crossed his mind, *sighing*,

"Hm," "wonder when I be able to see her silly smile again,"

meanwhile with yui and nakago,

"So your telling me that tasuki of the suzaku seven is dead?"

Yui asked while she sat in a throne that was made for the priestess of seiryuu with candles lit on the wall to light the room enough to see her, with two black assassins kneeling in front of her and report her, with nakago stand right next to yui,

"And because of that the priestess of suzaku is heading to the city of choko in northern konan," "there are rumors of a person that can raise the dead," nakago turned to yui,

"It seem's that they are having a lot of trouble gathering their celestial warriors?" Yui replied coldly and uncaring,

"Let them work for it harder," "maintain surveillance,"

"As you wish," the assassins left in the dark night of kutou,

Yui left to go get dressed for the day, nakago called back one of the spies,

"Yes," "my lord," bowing before nakago,

"What of the priestess of the shikon jewel?"

"She is with them however-," the spy stopped, and waiting for permission to continue,

"You may continue,"

"She seem's to be gravely sick," "some of our spie's spotted her collapsing a few times," "and is together with the emperor of konan," "and seems to have three other suitors wanting her as well," nokago nodded and dismissed him,

nakago was alone in the room,"it seem's his plan is working well," "but he has to get her away from the emperor though," "if he wanted her for himself now can he," smirking at his thought's,

meanwhile with Bella and the others,

The road brought them to a dilapidated village with crows hovering and perching on trees, the village seemed dead, as the plant life as well,it would be a miracle if there was still humans living in this village, nuriko and hotohori was still holding onto their horses, while miaka and Bella looked around at the entrance of the village,

shippo and shiori and rin anddios and kiarra was no where to be found, suddenly they heard wheels of a cart, getting closer and closer, Bella pulled her cousin out of the way and the rest fallow suit when the cart part them with two men pulling it,

"GET OUT OF THE WAY!" "MOVE IT! MOVE IT!" On the cart was a man that looked seriously ill, hotohori gazed at them in wonder,

"What in the world could of happen in the city?"

Bella gagged and covered her nose, nuriko and hotohori was the first to notice that Bella turned pale,

"Bella!" "are you alright?" Nuriko and hotohori was immediately at her side, while miaka was in miaka land,

Bella felt weaker and like the poison was eating at her by the minute and like something else was joining in with the poison, there was a demon inside of this village and she new it, the stink was so rotten, the pile of corpses, Bella senses changed ever since that bite by James, and with a blood bond with sesshomaru it got enhanced, the whole town stinks of death,

"It's nothing to worry about," "the town just stinks that's all,"

miaka snapped out of her little land and looked on confusedly, and smelled the air to see what her cousin meant, "there wasn't no smell at all,"

"I don't smell anything Bella?" Bella got up and patted her cousins head,

"Of course you wouldn't dear cousin of mine," "your senses are at the level of a human," "I just have a heighten on my senses," "and plus your not use to the smell of death my dear cousin," "and don't wish to know it either,"

hotohori and nuriko was just as confused as miaka was, Bella didn't feel like explaining any further, it brought all back all of those memories, pushing them back, she reassured everyone that she was fine, nuriko pulled out the magic mirror and a new symbol appeared,

"Hey," "miaka look a new symbol appeared in the mirror," miaka obeyed and saw that there was a new symbol that was in the mirror it meant heal,

"Dose this mean one of the suzaku warrior's is here somewhere in this village?"

"wait do you think this the heal symbol is the person we are looking for?" Bella placed her hand's on her cousins shoulder's to stop her happy dance,

"Don't get your hope's up," "and don't the happy dance yet," "miaka," "it says heal," "not resurrect," "It could be referring to a different person as well," "did you think about that one," miaka put her hands to her mouth,

"What dose that make any difference?" "It say's heal," "and the person might be able to resurrect like you can,"

"isn't the same miaka,"

"oh Bella you worry to much,"

bella shrugged and forced a smile she just a bad feeling about this place,while she figured out if this place was the real deal, *sighing*, miaka was lost in her own world again, in her excitement her elbow shot backwards,

"Wow how did we get so lucky!" "ALL RIGHT!"

And miaka being miaka she didn't notice that there was a women behind her and elbowed her in the stomach,

"Ugh,"

miaka snapped out of her happy land, and realized that she elbowed someone, the women crumpled down to the ground in pain,With a *thud,*

"Oh!" "I'm so sorry!" "I didn't mean to!" Miaka knelt next to the unknown women in worry,

"Are you alright?" The lady looked up with a kind smile,

"Yes I am," "I wasn't watching where I was going,"nuriko help the women up,

"Well that was quite a fall you had," "you sure you didn't get hurt?"

The women had yellow blond hair, her hair was designed at the top in two circles each had pink ribbons around them, she had a elegant blue dress with a pink sash that went over her arms, next her eyes were a startling grey,nuriko continued to apologize for miakas stupidly,

"I'm sorry," "our miaka just get so overjoyed and she just don't think what she is doing,"

"uh well," "I think your daughter is vary sweet,"

"I uh," "well I think you got it all wrong she not my daughter,"

nuriko thought about the child if he and Bella ever had one, snapping out of the thought when he saw miaka sneak up behind the women and grab her boob's, making their new acquaintance jump in shock,and thought twice about her being sweet, hotohori scolded the priestess,

"Miaka what do you think you doing!"

Miaka held her hands up in defense, while Bella was humiliated by her cousins actions and slapped her in the head,

"Ow Bella that really hurts!" Miaka yelled at her cousin,

"Well think before your actions dear cousin of mine!" Growling at her cousin,

"Well I've been fooled twice you know," "I just wanted to make sure she was a women you know," Bella slapped her cousins head again,

"Well I guess I deserve that,"

"Yes you did," "gah,"

hotohori knelt down so she could hope on his back oh how he loved her when she like this, nuriko just continue to bow and apologize

"Oh I'm so sorry for her perverted actions," "she don't know any better,"

Bella stayed quiet on hotohori's back, while miaka gave the odd women a piggy back ride,

"Oh I'm sorry about this,"

"It's ok your apology is accepted," "but are we getting close by chance?"

Miaka started to feel odd and tiered but wrote it off as the strange atmosphere of the town,still they need to escort the women to a house in the strange town,

finally making it to the place they needed to go, the door opened and revealed a older man and woman,

"Oh miss shoka!"

"Oh thank havens!," "that you finally made it!",

now the woman that they know her name is miss shoka, she got off of miaka and the man lead her to the bed where a girl laid, the girl was unmoving pale and disturbing, shoka knelt by the girls bed,

"She must be the patient?" The older man nodded,

"She suffered horribly over a month," "and the fever exploded and she finally passed away," miss shoka smiled at them to let them know things will be ok,

"No worries," "I'll take care of her now,"

with that said miss shoka went to work, miss shoka let her lips linger above the girls and breath, no one in the room watched her as intently as bella did,

she wanted to see for herself If this is the person they where looking for, if she is she has to to be using some sort of trickery or magic or it could just the power of suzaku, everyone stayed quiet in fear they would disturbed the miracle at work, in a less than a minute, the seemingly dead girl came back to life and gasped in amazement, miaka contend to look at the girl who just came back from the dead,

"She's alive again!"

"How did she do it?" Hotohori asked, the old man answered them,

"It's dreadful for many month's we been plagued by a mysterious illness," "it produce's and prolong blistering fevers that is so painful than death itself," "the demon is called shikkionki,"

a disgusting horrible one eye monster flashed through all their minds, images of people painfully suffering from the thing,just making sure he heard everything correctly, hotohori repeated what the name was,

"Shikkionki?" The elder man continued with a sad tone,

"The doctors have no cure for it," "but Miss shoka can't cure the illness," "she only can bring back the dead," "their not the best after there brought back," "but they seem happy enough," "some people even the strongest among them rather take the quickest way and get killed off and be brought back by miss shoka," "she dose't even charge no one either," happy as ever, nuriko called out to miaka,

"Miaka we found her ask her quickly!" It seemed that miaka thought it before he could saying anything, miaka already cornered miss shoka in a corner and asking sternly,

"Now listen to me miss shoka!" "You have to come with us!" "We have someone that we wish for you to revive!" "It's vary important!" "Am I understood!" Bella sweat dropped at her cousins behavior,

"Miaka your being rude!" "You only have to ask her nicely you know,!" Miaka ignored her cousin lectures, and waited for miss shoka's answer,

"I can't go," "I'm sorry," "I would love to go with you really," "I can't never leave the city again," "I can't leave the people with out someone to care for them," "besides If I step one foot outside of the city limits," "I will lose all my powers,"

"All right!" "I'll bring tasuki here to you then!" Miaka stated since her mind was up, then she turned to nuriko, hotohori, and Bella,

"We can just ask genro and the others if we can bring the coffin here,"

Bella let out a annoyed *sigh* and rolled her eyes, "guessing no one is listening to her warnings," "and top everything off," "some how she lost her voice what in kami saggy ball's is going on here", "she tried to open up her mouth to even speak," "but nothing came," "what ever dark aura is causing this," 'it's the same darkness that around the whole city it's just more in this room,"

"Bella?" Snapped out of her thoughts, hotohori eyeing her worriedly from the corner of his eye,

"Bella my angel," "are you ok?" Bella kissed him to let him know she was ok, nuriko looked on worriedly over at the girl that he ever s love'd,

miaka still didn't notice her cousin what family she Is, then miaka fist pumped the air to interrupt their musings and moments,

"Let's get going!" "Yeah!" "Operation get tasuki here is on!" Everyone sweat dropped at her energetic and determination,

meanwhile later that night with everyone,

Miaka road with nuriko, and Bella road with hotohori, they where backtracking back to genros stronghold to ask if they could bring their deceased boss to miss shoka so she could bring him back to life, but it was obvious that they were going the wrong way, nuriko spoke up what's on everyone's thoughts,

"It look's like a cemetery," hotohori turned to looked at him,

"Did we take the wrong passage?" "I think we should of turned back there somewhere?" Miaka immediately protested,

"There no time to turn back!" "We got to get back to tasuki right now!" "We just have to get there faster," the next thing miaka knew she was falling off nurikos horse, the man grabbed her just in time,

"Miaka hold on!" "what happened?" Hotohori looked on in confusion so he urged his and bella horse near where they were,and Bella got off the horse with hotohori,

"Miaka your burning up," Bella looked at her cousin in worry,

"I'm ok you guys," "my body just feel hot that's all," hotohori's eyes widen when a memory came a crossed,

"No!" "It's a fever!" "We got to get back to the village now!"

All of the sudden nurikos horse started to panic, bella moved miaka over to hotohori's horse,all around them rotten arms came from the ground, Bella eyes widen is shock,

"zombies?"

A couple of hands reached out for hotohori's horse and started to suck it in as well,hotohori tried to calm down the horse but didn't work so it just galloped away,Bella as trying to block out the stink of death, and kept up her guard, until one of the zombies came from the ground,and muttered in a distorted voice,

"Flesh," "need flesh!" "Your flesh will be ours!" "You will never leave the city!"

Not wanting to hear anymore of the disgusting monster's, hotohori took out his sword, and started to slice one of them apart,his blade glowed blue in the moon's light while the green blood of the zombies covered the ground,even though how many time he sliced the zombies, they kept coming,

nuriko uprooted a whole tree and started attracting the zombies with it,behind stood miaka and Bella that looked at each other and smiled,

Bella took a deep breath and thought well it's my turn, she took out her newest sword that the volturi made for her, she turned the blade pink and started to attack the zombies with the blade and her other hand she had a link light whip she got from the bond with sesshomaru, every time she attracted she purified each zombie,

Miaka cried out when a zombie was trying to pull her into the ground,Bella growled and stopped want she was doing and tried to get to her cousin, it would of been easy, if she didn't have to hold her breath from the stink,

Hotohori was and nuriko was being strangled, oh this isn't her night is it,

one of the zombies looped their arms around Bella to try to get her away from her cousin, but Bella shot out her pink light whip and purified the zombie and got miaka to safety somewhat,

Miaka hugged her cousin tightly and thanked her over and over, bella finally got her off of her and continued to fight off the zombies, her brown eyes turned pink for more power, miaka looked at her cousin, she was afraid of the look that her cousin was showing, Bella stood and flashed towards hotohori and nuriko, bella used her blade to free them,

"Get miaka out of here now," the only thing Bella said to them before she flashed into the mob of zombies,

"Bella don't do it!"

Both men shouted at the same time then glared at each other, Bella was lost in the crowd of zombies, all you can see is the flashes of pinkand green here and there, That's how they knew she was alive still, she was fighting and kicking zombie ass, hotohori and nuriko thought they couldn't fall any harder for the girl fighting but they did,

Hotohori handed miaka to nuriko, before he himself immersed in the zombie fight, he will not leave his angel alone and he will not lose her now, And he defiantly be the one doing the rescueing, he cut his way through the zombies until he made his way to his Bella, he found her with a pile of zombies on top of her,

narrowing his eyes, "oh no they don't," "they are not taking his Bella away from him," "not while he is alive,"

he sliced his way through the zombies and saw her hand and grabbed it and pulled her out, she was cover in cuts and bruises, but her eyes where still not back to normal, And suddenly they saw heard a familiar person,

"REKKA- SHIEN!"

Instead on being surrounded by the zombies, they where surrounded by flamed, familiar flames, Bella's eyes turned back to normal, Bella and hotohori looked at genro looking all smug with his iron fan on his shoulder,

"Well this is worse than I thought," bella beamed up at him,

"Genro!" Shippo and shiori and rin appeared on dios and kiarra, they smiled down brightly,

"Hey mama!" "Look we brought mister orange!" Dios and kiarra growed their replied,Bella gave a dabble thumbs up,

"Real nice my little ones!" Genro hit shippo and shiori and rin on the head,

"I told ya stop calling me that!" Genro looked below him and saw a storm of zombies come out,Bella and hotohori swore they heard him curse a few word before he yelled,

"I'll wipe the rest of them out!" "Get to the ground now,"

obeying, hotorhori grabbed Bella and laid on the ground if you didn't know any better you would of thought they where doing the nasty the way they landed, genro jumped high I'm the air and raised his fan and yelled,

"REKKA-SHINEN!"

Bella felt the harsh heat from the flaim's she had her yes shut, hotohori had her underneath him shelding her from the flaims, if the situation what it was she would probably be turned on by this,The fire nearly killed most of the zombies Turing them all to ash, the ones that weren't turned to ash by genro was tacked by kiara and dios, and shioris and shippos help,

After a while when the air cleared showed a smug looking genro,and a satisfied shippo and shiori and rin looking on there work, hotohori helped his Bella up,

"Well to tell ya the truth I wasn't goin to come," "but since none of you throw fire," shippo started to complain,

"I thought that you needed the protection,"

shiori brought he staff back and knock her brother out,while rin giggled, hotohori kept his arm around his Bella's waste, didn't bother anyone else only genro at the moment,

"But what about your gang?" Genro *huffed* slightly before turning to them,

"Well we mad koji the new leader," "it was the best course of action," "and it was what the old boss would of wanted,"

Nuriko came running with miaka on his back,

"We heard some exploding and roaring?" "Are you guys alright?"

When nuriko saw how hotohori was holding Bella he got the as jealous as genro and quickly shook that thought away,Nuriko was carrying the waging of miaka, as his eyes landed on a red headed bandit,

"Genro?" The bandit sweat dropped,

"Do I have to say it all over again!"

Bella waved it all off and smiled reassuring, slapping her boyfriend on to backside and walked over to nuriko and started to explain everything,oh how he loved that women,nuriko and miaka nodded at everything what was said,

"So why did you come back," "other than the fire part that Bella said?" genro knealed in front of them,

"Stupid," "haven't you figured it out yet," "genro is just my nickname," he raised his arm and showed the bright red symbol for mountain,

"I'm tasuki!" "Sorry for tricking ya like that," nuriko exploded,

"What!" "Why didn't you tell us sooner you flaming bum!"

Hotohori frowned,After all the trouble we went trough, tasuki looked away for a moment,

"Well I didn't have much of a choice," "I couldn't just throw a wrench in the old bosses plans," "and the guys wanted me as the leader so what could I do," "That isn't me," "but then we talked it over and we all knew that's what I had to d-, "

he was cut off by the cracking of knuckles and dark laughter,he felt the feeling of death and didn't want to turn around to see who it was,judging by everyone's looks it was what he thought, he was so screwed , "oh yeah he really was screwed so badly,"

"Oh so your tasuki huh!" "If my memory serves me correctly," "I told you if you where lying about tasuki being dead," "you will feel the worst pain imaginable and slow torture," "heh heh heh,"

tasuki turned his head slowly to looked at his maker,what he saw turn him paler and for some disturbing reason turned on, she looked like a dark angel of death, he gulped, Bella loomed over him with the darkest look she could muster and turned her eyes red thanks to sesshomaru of course,

"Well I guess I can arrange your death," "since you where lying to us oh you will be in the pain of the life time mister," "I'm so going to enjoy your torture,"

"killing you would be to kind," "so I'm just going to torture you slowly," "heh heh heh,"

everyone backed away from the bandit to accept his fate, shippo and shiori and rin was ready to watch the bandit get his punishment, kiara and dios just watched from hotohori's shoulders,miaka glazed and stated to tasuki before Bella dragged him away,

"Well I see," "I'm glad you came," "and may you r.i.p," "now I'll leave you I'm the hand of my cousin," Bella grabbed the collar of tasuki's jacket and dragged him off,

Everyone watched as Bella beat the bandit mercifully, punching kicking him, and using her pink whip on him, and slamming him angst trees, "you evil little bandit!' Miaka continued,

"Wow Bella really letting into him isn't she," all of a sudden they heard her laughing,

"wow she is getting him good he really did piss her off," hotothori and nuriko nodded and tryed to to shake the thoughts of how hot Bella was when she was beating the living crap out of tasuki,

"Now we have the fifth member of the suzaku seven," *groan*, On nurikos back, nuriko was snapped out of how hot Bella was when he felt miaka going limp,

"Miaka!"

Bella stopped her merciful beating of tasuki and thinked he learned his lesson once again, throwing tasuki angst the tree a few more times and left him there and ran to her cousin,

"What's going one?" Bella asked worriedly,

"She just went limp I don't know," stated nuriko,

"Are you alright?" Asked hotohori, then his eyes widen in realization,

"Do you think it's Shikkionki?" Rembering what the old man said,

Flashback

"It prolongs blistering fevers that would make the strongest person wish for death,"

Flashback end,

"Do you really think its the shikkonki?" Not answering nuriko, hotohori ordered urgently,

"Find my horse at once!" "We need to return to the city as quickly as possible!" Nuriko dashed off to do as his emperor commanded,while hotohori told miaka to hang on,

Bella was kneeling next to her cousin trying yo keep her awake, it was a bit hard since her body was about to go on her again, she normally go's back to normal but it seems that the poison was getting stronger,and it block the flow of her ki basically so she not able to heal her wounds or use her powered to resurrect she would have to use tensiega if she had with her in this trip,Bella was struggling to stay awake, he body was starting not to obey her in her weaken state,so she just gave in and fell forward,

"Oh no Bella!"

Bella's head was about to hit the ground, hotohori was to occupied to save his angel before she hit the hard rocky surface, so to his dismay, tasuki grabbed her, and cradled her in his arms, hotohori glared at the sight,

"Hey!" "What's going on with all you chicks and especially you fiery princess?" 'Why are you all suddenly passin out for?" "Huh?"

Hotohori ignored tasuki's questions,and was worrying over his angels worsting condition,and thought maybe shikkonki had something to do with it as well,

meanwhile back in the village,

"Oh please miss shoka can't you do anything to help them?" "They seem to be affected by the same plague that you guys got going on here,"

miaka and Bella where laying on two different bed's next to each other, miaka was panting and groaning in pain ever since they arrived in the village, but Bella seemed still as a rock,

"There nothing I can do about that!"

"Oh please help them!"

Nuriko was leaning over miaka,making sure that she was alright every once in awhile,tasuki was leaning on the wall next to the bed where Bella was placed with his arms crossed,

"The only power I have here is to raise people from the dead," "that's my only gift," "miaka would have to die before I can help her," tasuki cut in,

"What about Bella?" "Why can't you help her?" "Dose she have to die first before you pull your hocus pocus on her?" Miss shoka looked at the floor

"Even if miss Bella where to die now," "I wouldn't be able to bring her back from the dead," "all I could do is to prey for her sadden tortured soul," everyone in the room yelled,

"WHAT?"

"WHY?" Miss shoka shifted her gaze over to Bella,

"Ever since miss Bella stepped foot in this city she was slowly dieing," "even if she dose die," "whatever that thing is is stronger than the shikkonki," "including she is protected by three different forces," "who ever and what ever is the part's protecting her thus far would not let me revive her," "it would shoot my power back at me," "so the thing inside of her wants to kill her off itself,"

everyone looked shocked at what miss shoka said, they all turned toward the unconscious Bella, even miaka looked over to her cousin,

shippo and shiori and rin was trying to stop crying,they didn't know their adopted mother was in so much pain, she always looked so happy infront of them,tasuki growled I'm anger,

"Are you just saying that we should just let both of them die?" "Isn't there something else we could do," miaka noticed the depressing air around the room and decided to speak up,

"Don't worry about me," "I'll be fine," "you guy's should be worrying about Bella," "compared what she going through," "she dose't deserve no more pain in her life," "this isn't nothing," "Bella strongest person I know," "and proud to have her as cousin," "I just can't lose her," hotohori looked at miaka sadly, he could tell she putting up a brave front,

"Miaka,"

"I'm sure there is a medical doctor in the city someplace," ''it might not help but it worth a shot so let's try," "huh," "Who know's someone might be able to heal bella from the poison," with that planed,

That night everyone bedded down for the night, it will be a long day tomorrow, hotohori laid next to his angel holding her, waiting for her to wake, nuriko and tasuki got their own bed's for the night,

the only person remained awake was tasuki he got out of bed and walked over to where Bella was, even though he was annoyed to see that prissy man there that Bella was with, thinking to him self more on other matters,tasuki continued to look at Bella soft features, and brushed his fingers arcrossed her cheek,

"who are you really fire princess of mine," "your not fully normal are you," "to survive to be killed from inside for this long?" "I would like to get to know you more and hope you survive this like the fire princess that you are,"

tasuki clinched his fist at his sides and tried to hold back the tears, "what am I thinking I hate females," *sigh* geez I might as well cut that out you wiggled you way in and I fallen hard," he went back to sleep, midariko heard everything,

meanwhile the fallowing day in kutou,

The sun crept up over the roof of the houses,

"This is silk isn't it?"

Tamahome asked, as he just finished tying the obi of the outfit,it was a gift from yui,

"Oh you look so cool," "you look so good in it," "I knew it would suit you greatly,"

yui stated cheerfully as she stood there holding tamahomes old clothing, she was just overjoyed and just couldnt stop smiling since tamahome put her gift on,since tamahome thought its best to keep yui happy, bella would of told him to do that,

"Lady yui?" At the sound of a deep voice, tamahome and yui turned to nakago who just came through the door,

"Forgive my rude intrusion I just reserved news," "I thought that might interest you and amuse you as well," he glanced at tamahome slightly and turned back to yui,

"It seems that the priestess of suzaku contracted a critical illness," "there is no cure for the sickness," "and she will suffer in great pain until she dies of the plague,"

tamahome gritted his teeth and clinched his fists so he wouldn't punch nakago lights out,how dare that blonde idiot say such cruel things about his miaka," "and right in front of him as well,"

yui's eyes widen in shock at what she heard, for a moment she was worried for her ex best friend, "oh no miaka!" "Wait a minute," "why should I worry about that bitch?" "It's only right it should happen to her," "with her gone," "tamahome And Bella will be with mine," "well not Bella i'll leave her alone,"

meanwhile back I'm choko with the others,

"Nonsense!" Miaka fist's her and had it shaking in front of her,

"What kind of doctor refuses his patients before even checking them out!"

Miss shoka, hotohori,miaka, nuriko and tasuki, been out since daybreak, they been on a search to find a healer ever since they woke up, hotohori had Bella on his back even though she was still unconscious they brought her along,hopeing they would find someone able to heal both girls,

"I don't need to look at either of you," "you two have the shikkonki disease," the doctor looked thoughtful for a moment, and thought out load,

"Hey wait a minute!'' "There is this guy his name is myojuan he might be able to help you," miaka perked up and got up in the guys face,

"THEN TELL US WHERE THIS MYOJUAN GUY IS! RIGHT NOW!" The guy backed away from miaka, and stated,

"He moved outside the city Limits a few years ago," "since then no one hasn't seen him," after giving them that information, they thought on how to find him,untill the doctor yelled at them,

"Now I gave you the information!" "Now get the hell out!" "I don't want to catch the shikkonki," after the door slamming in their faces, tasuki couldn't help himself to insult the doctor,

"YOUR NOTHING BUT A ASSHOLE!" "YOU SHYSTER!" Miaka shrugged it off,

"Well he did give us some good information though," "so why don't we start looking for this myojuan guy?"

Even though she is in a good mood, she was having problems walking,they found her a long enough rod for her to walk with, nuriko and tasuki was by her side to check on her even though they wished they where the one in hotohori's place,

miaka breathing came shallow, and thought, "this is to much for me," "I can't keep going," "how dose Bella do it," "there is two more members of the suzaku seven to find," "and tamahome still need to be freed," "what in the world am I going to do?" As though miss shoka could read her thoughts, she went up next to her,

"It's ok," "just hold on,"

Miss shoka, seeing the kind woman smile at her, hoping she was one of the suzaku warriors, until a merchant came running by,

"Fish!" "Fresh fish!" "Get your fresh fish today!"

Until one fell out,miaka being miaka jumped instantly at the fish at the same time a man was at the fish,their hands where instantly tied together over the fish,

"Get your nasty hand's off my fish!" "It's mine!"

The man looked at her in protest and growled at her,a serge of electricity went between them before that started to fight over the fish in a cloud of dust, hotohori and the others excluding Bella watched miaka in amusement,

"She is fighting that big guy for a little lake trout?" Nuriko asked with his hand rested on his cheek,

"Yeah," "even in her weaken condition she stomach is still the boss," hotohori spoke with a gentle smile, nuriko turned around to see miss shoka hunched over and asked,

"Miss shoka are you ok?" Miss shoka was indeed was in pain, but wasn't going to admit it to no one,

"Oh it's nothing really," "I'm tiered I'm gonna go home," "come see me if you need to,"

with that said she left, leaving everyone to look after her as she left, meanwhile the grunts and and growling and fighting seemed to die down, then they saw the tall man with the prize fish running away with it, of course miaka being miaka, was being a sore loser and wanted that fish, so she ran after him while shaking the walking stick like a cave man would,

"Hey!" "Only real creep's steal from the stick you jerk!"

"Miaka!" The three *sighed*,

"only when it comes down to miaka and food," "the food comes first than anything else,"

miaka made it to a path panting and sweating in exhaustion, miaka looked at the small shack that the path lead to, it wasn't to far from the city, it must be where the person who stole her fish lives,

"I'm all worn out now!" "Much more weaker!" Stated the exhausted miaka, her three warriors walked up to her calmly, nuriko placed a hand on her shoulder,

"Miaka," "do you think you she be running around here like that in your current "condition?" Tasuki raised a eyebrow in annoyance,

"Criminy!" "Are you really sick?" Miaka simply ignored everyone and pulled out a megaphone from our of nowhere,

"YOU ARE COMPLETELY SURROUNDED!" "I REPEAT YOUR COMPLETELY SURROUNDED!" "COME OUT WITH MY FISH!" "COME OUT PEACEFULLY WITH MY FISH!"

No one answered, hotohori suggested to go up the path and see if they could see him, when they made it to the shack they saw a cat eating on the fish, the scruffy man from before was on the floor hunched over looked like he was eating as well, they looked all around the room and saw all different kinds of medical jars and herbs, hotohori wondered,

"So many medicines," "maybe this is the myojuan person we where looking for?" With out anymore hesitation tasuki barged himself into the mans house,and saying,

"Hey you there!" "Are you this myojuan that everyone talking about?"

the man turned around slowly, his face was unshaven and long hair, tasuki didn't wait for the man to answer back he just went and said what had to be said,

"Well if you are him," "examine these two girls will ya?"

He nodded to miaka to miaka which was leaning on her makeshift walking stick, and to Bella which who was on hotohoris back,

"Oh please sir," "They'er getting weaker from the local plague,"

"Please mister myojuan," "I'll even forget about the fish," "even though it looked yummy," "I'll forget all about it," pleaded miaka,The man turned away from the group,

"Go away I'm not a doctor no more," "so leave," nuriko raised a elegant brow at the comment,

"Oh well I see," "but you will treat animals," "now will you," the man turned to them and shouted angrily,

"I don't want nothing to do with humans!" "Now leave!" Seeing there was no point to persuading him so they left, tasuki was fuming,

"Alright," "alright," "whatever pal!" "What a freakin rip off you where!"

As tasuki continued to insult the man, miaka fell to her knees, nuriko rushed to her side quickly,

"Miaka what happened?" Miaka whimpered her response,

"I can't... Move my ... Legs...," nuriko gathered her in his arms wishing it was Bella in her place,

"Miaka!"

"Hang in there!" "Where here to help you!"

Hey wake up! Why ya fallin asleep for?

meanwhile back at miss shokas house,

Miaka moaned in pain, everyone in the room was worried about miakas conditions, tasuki, who had his back turned to miaka, and asked out in a annoyed tone,

"Cripes!" "Isn't there'd anything we could do for them?" Nuriko looked at miaka with a sad look,

"It be sheer torture if she stay's like this for much longer," hotohori gritted his teeth in anger,

"Don't you think I know that!" "First Bella and now miaka!" "We must find some way to ease her suffering!"

He wants going to be much help for them he felt so useless,he was snapped out of her thoughts when miss shoka spoke up,

"There is one thing you can do for her," "you must kill her right away," miaka's *gasps* and *groans* became loader, miss shoka continued,

"One she dies," "I can use my power to revive her to better health," "it must be done," tasuki turned to her in annoyance,

"You really think we can do that?"

"You've got to be freaking kidding me lady!"

Everyone jumped at the voice, they saw Bella standing by her bed and her appearance had changed, she had a crescent moon and two pink orb's on either side of the crescent moon her forehead, and golden eyes and white pointed ear's, with silver highlights in her hair, and she was not pleased at all right now,

"Now answer me how do you speak of death and resurrection so easily?" "Is it because you can revive the dead?" "I can as well revive the dead," "but In my state I can't or have my weapon that dose it was well,"

Bella stared at miss shoka his a cold look with flashes of red here and there in her eyes, then she noticed miss shoka showed fear and quickly covered it,

"Mama," "mama," shippo and shiori and rin ran over to there mother, hugging her tightly and nuzzling her, kiarra and dios jumped on her shoulders and nuzzled her face,

Bella let down her cold mask and looked down at her little ones softly, hotohori and the others stepped back in surprise, before hotohori neared his angel this wasn't the first time he seen her in her half demon form,

"Bella," "what are you saying?" Bella didn't look at her love but looked at her cousin which who was shocked to see her wide awake,

"Should you be up so soon?" Bella only could smile at him, before she put her cold mask back In place and stared down miss shoka, who was starting to cringe in fear before her,

"I will not let you kill off my family!"

Nuriko stepped forward to the girl he so desperately wanted and love and in her half demon form she even more angelic,

"But isn't it the only way to stop her suffering?" Bella closed her eyes and shook her head,

"No," "there is a much better way," "but I must ask you guys to leave the room to do it though," tasuki eyed her in her strange form,

"What in the world are you going to do?"

Bella only gave him the sesshomaru glare,it shut it up right away, no one questioned Bella no more as they left the room as they dragged the frozen tasuki along with them, after the door closed,

Bella turned her golden eyes onto her cousin,

"Now i'm not sure if this is going to hurt you at all," "just be prepared dear cousin," miaka looked on her cousin with a confused look,

"Bella?" "What did you mean that you can help me another way?" Bella smiled down to her cousin to let her know it will be ok,

"Just don't question me," "and trust me my dear cousin of mine," "maybe one day I'll teach you how to do it," Miaka just nodded and trusted her cousin, Bella neared her cousin and put her hands over her body,

"I'm not losing no more of my family!" "No more!" "Your going to live miaka!"

To be continued