Back in the feudal era with demons after our hides and jewel shards to hunt down. It was never a boring day in this time line, though it was an annoying one. "Why can't we find even one jewel shard?" I asked no one in particular. Kagome hung her head while Inuyasha stomped in agreement. Everyone else just shook their heads and started making camp. I sighed and helped by going into the woods and scowering around for some firewood.
Thankfully the cloudy skies above didn't shower down on us as we ate our meal of ramen cups, though I gave Inuyasha mine and snagged my bag of jerky from my own bag. Yes, I brought my own stuff this time, sue me. Anyway, once our meal was over we turned in for the night. Everyone with their sleeping buddy whether they would admit it or not. Koga wrapped his arms around my waist and snuggled his chin on my shoulder, a contented growl sounding from deep in his chest. I smiled my thoughts dimmed, slipping off into sleep.
I was woken by a sudden jerk to my ankle as I was pulled from Koga and the pack. I yelped as the thing dragging me picked up speed and I was drug over the roots and rock on the ground. Koga was yelling in the distance as I clawed at the familiar root wrapped around my foot. "Naraku has a thing coming if he think he can just take me." I hissed.
Before too long, I was face to face with the spider. Though I was hanging by my ankle, I was still letting out an impressive growl. "Ah, you are quite the catch." Naraku chuckled, taking a lock of my red hair in his hand. "I wonder how long it will take that pack of yours to follow that obvious trail." He hummed and lifted me higher into the air. "I hope you don't mind leaving with Kagura. She will make sure you have a comfortable stay." I was then tossed onto a giant feather and tied with rope.
One more toss and I was in a cold, dark cell that smelled of death and other...unpleasant smells. I coughed and sat up as the door slammed shut. "Wonderful. I just had to get kidnapped. I was having a wonderful night of rest until that bug came into the picture." I grumbled, getting to my feet and looking out the barred opening on the door. Nice stone walls and burnt out torches met my view and I huffed in annoyance and tugged against my restraints. "This was not going to end well.
Koga pov
Nikki was ripped from me and drug away from the camp at an alarming speed. I yelled out and charged to catch up with whatever was taking her. Her scent was all over the ground along with a light smell of blood from hitting the debre on the forest floor. I heard Inuyasha call out for explanations but I was too far ahead and too busy running to answer the mutt. My legs were straining with my speed as I finally broke through the foliage and face Naraku just as he tossed Nikki to Kagura.
"You coward, attacking while we slept." I growled, baring my fangs and claws. Naraku simply chuckled as he stood tall. "What an angry wolf, but I am waiting for the rest of your pack to arrive." He smirked. Within seconds, Inuyasha burst through the bushes with his tetsuiga drawn. "You lowlife! Give Nikki back!" He yelled, an arrow flying past the both of us and heading for Naraku. The spider smiled and dodged the attack. "Patients, there are a few more to come." Kirara and Songo came flying over the trees sending the Hyricotsu at the demon scum. The attack missed and Miroku walked up behind me with his staff at the ready.
"Everyone is here, now we can get started." Naraku chuckled holding up the shikon jewel near completion. Kagome gasped as Inuyasha and I crouched low, ready to spring into action. "All I need are the shard you hold, priestess." Without warning, root like tentacles entangled Kagome and drew out the remaining shards. Once in his hand, the shards started to glow and return to the jewel. With a grin, Naraku waved his hand and sent several dolls to fight the pack. "I wonder what that little kitten would do if I were to...control her mind." He chuckled, leaving the fight before it even started.
Nikki pov
I was officially stuck in this seven by seven cell with sticky goo covering the floor. I didn't want to know what it was, but my nose had already identified the substance. needless to say, it isn't something you want to step in. I sighed and struggled with my restraints again, feeling my skin break as I twisted and pulled. My gut kept churning with the feeling of something bad coming my way, making me more desperate to get free. All too soon, Kagura returned and opened the cell door. "Naraku is ready to deal with you." She said, pulling the chains and dragging me up the steps and to my doom.
I was shoved into a room and onto the floor. I could smell Naraku and feel that erie grin that seemed to be stuck on his face. "Welcome, little kitten." His oily voice said as I straightened up as best I could. "Howdy, bug." I snarled in return. I was promptly slapped and sent back to the floor with a feral growl. "You will be learning your place. The place of a simple house cat." The spider snapped, waving a hand and a girl dressed in solid white stepped in. "This is Kanna, she has the ability to look at ones soul." Naraku explained and Kanna faced me, my face flashing in the mirror she held. "She can also take your soul to the void."
The mirror flashed again and I felt the all too familiar cold creep into my being. I growled and tried to keep my own life force where it was supposed to be. I heard the door behind me slide open as someone walked in. "Your dolls have been demolished, Naraku. The pack are moving this way." Kagura said, hiding her face behind her red fan. "Good, stay here until you take control of this lovely girl." Naraku chuckled. I swear his vocal cords would be the first to go when I killed him.
My world was growing colder and darker as Kanna held her mirror towards me. I let out a growl and tried to roll to the side, too bad Kagura placed her sandaled foot on my shoulder to keep me still. "I can promise that you will die by my, or Naraku's hands." I hissed out as I started to see spots of the familiar void. Kagura physically stiffened as the words left my lips and I knew I had baited her. "Get me away from Kanna and I will be sure you get out alive." I was starting to grow weak while the wind witch made up her mind.
Kagura took too long to make up her mind and I was pulled into the void. I screamed with frustration and fear as I could still feel the connection with my body. Kagura swiped her fan saying something about dance and dead. Sounds were hard to pick up, but now that my body's eyes were open, I could see what it saw. I was being walked from the room and out of the house entirely.
I was facing my pack as their eyes met my now dead ones. I was screaming at them to run, to kill me before I could hurt them. But Naraku was talking with his oily voice and I felt his touch on my cheek. Clawing and spinning in the darkness, I knew there was nothing I could do. Koga hasn't moved since I walked out of that house, I didn't blame him. Who knew Naraku had the ability to control another? Well, Naraku had other pawns to control others bodies. The spider was just a spineless insect under my foot.
Koga pov
I saw Nikki walking out of that spiders den and almost cried out. Her once bright brown and blue eyes were now dull and unfocused. Dirt covered her from head to toe from her time being drug through the forest. Her wrists were scraped and bruised from shackles the hung loosely by her sides. My blood froze then boiled over in rage, I could feel my inner demon howling and clawing to get loose. I was just about ready to let him off his leash before Naraku looked at Nikki. "Kill them, my pet."
The panther lept into action the moment she received the order, it took all my strength to block her claws. "Nikki, I know you can hear me. Snap out of it!" I yelled at her, hoping for any reaction from her dead eyes. Naraku chuckled as he watched our fight. "She can't hear you, wolf. Her mind is long gone, along with her soul." I growled at his words and kicked Nikki away, running towards the spider and letting my beast free.
My beast let out a roar of a howl and happily dove into the fight with Naraku. I tried to make sure Nikki never got in the way, but my demon was far to occupied with Naraku to worry about anyone else. I could faintly hear a fight breaking out over where Inuyasha was and I was hoping that mutt wouldn't do anything too drastic.
A few of Kagome's arrows flew at Naraku as I torn at him, none of the arrows hit their mark but the priestess still fought. "You should worry about that mate of yours." Naraku smirked as I felt sharp claws graze my back. Gritting my teeth, my demon did the only thing it knew, it attacked the thing the caused it's pain. My blood ran cold as I saw Nikki get a set of claws to her cheek and down her neck, blood oozing from the wounds and she didn't even flinch.
"How does it feel to harm you mate?" Naraku laughed just as my anger reached a peak and I clawed through his chest. Kagome chose that time to launch an arrow the embedded itself just two inches from my arm, straight into Naraku's heart and purifying the jewel. With a wild scream, Naraku vanished and the jewel was left falling to the ground. I turned to Nikki, praying that she would be back. But, dead eyes met mind and my heart broke.
Kagura had surrendered without a fight and walked over to Nikki and I. "I can bring her back." She said and I pulled Nikki closer. "And I can trust you?" I snarled, my aura flaring in anger and hurt. "You have no choice id you wish to have her alive." The witch turned and made her way back into that spiders house, coming back out with a girl in solid white and holding a mirror. The girl simply walked up to Nikki and turned her mirror facing us.
The reflection in the mirror was not what I expected. I was of Nikki, crying and screaming in a dark void. "What?" I gasped, looking from the girl in my arms to the one in the mirror. "Her soul has been trapped in Kanna's mirror ever since Naraku came back to the castle. It has been taking all of Kanna's power to keep her in there with all her fighting." Kagura explained giving the small girl a nod.
My eyes never left the Nikki in the mirror as she curled up and cried. The mirror flashed and a long, clear, ghost like soul snaked from the portal in the mirror and eased it's way into Nikki's body. I felt the girl shiver and instantly pulled her closer as my beast growled lowly. Soon, her dead eyes were brighter and I knew she was back. "Nikki." I sighed, leaning my head against hers and breathing in her wonderful scent. She groaned and tried to move, to which I tightened my hold.
Nikki pov
during the fight...
I knew there was nothing I could do once Naraku ordered me to kill my pack mates. But why did I have to go for Koga? He could be busy dicing up that spider. I was glad he was so strong when I felt my body dishing out all it had on it's first attack. I growled and screamed into the void that held me as Koga kicked me away and I rushed Inuyasha with my claws drawn. Inuyasha was a good fighter, good enough to almost take my head a few times.
A stab at my side had my possessed body running right at Koga. I was screaming and clawing at my arms to get that body to stop. But it didn't, my claws dug into Koga's back leaving four long gashes through his armor. My mind snapped when Koga turned, eyes red with unleashed rage, and clawed my face and neck. The look in his eyes the instant he reigned in his demon told me this was hurting him more than me. I howled and cursed Naraku for this and completely broke down, spinning around in the void with no one to help me.
I never bothered to look though the eyes of my body again, fearing that Koga and I would be tearing each other apart. All I could feel the numb pain of knowing I hurt the one I love most. Was I killing him or was he killing me with the same broken expression he had when he clawed at me by mistake? Had Naraku gotten his way and made yet another escape? what about the others? Were they fighting me with eyes of hatred now? Was I just another monster?
The numbness was overpowering, I didn't even feel the warmth as I left the void. Nor the arms around me when I was back in my body. What I heard was my name being said by the only wolf that mattered, Koga.
A/N: Alright! another chapter and I am so close to getting this one done! Wow this one has been so much fun writing. Hope you enjoy and leave a review, Thanks!