For those of you wanting Sasuke to be included.
Disclaimer: I suppose since these are required, I must say, "I do not own anything of this fic but the idea!"
xxxiii — apotheosis
"Why is it that we have to include this girl in our team, Sasuke-kun?" a voice, belonging to a distressed young woman, wailed.
"She is essential for our success." This one was that of a male's, so firm and composed.
"You're just being a jealous bitch, Karin, 'cause Sasuke won't be giving you any attention at all, now," jibed a third individual with no sympathy and perhaps a snide grin on his features.
"Shut your disgusting mouth before I decide to vaporize you, Suigetsu!" the fickle girl—Karin?—retaliated in a spiteful tone.
"Shh… she has awoken," said the last of their unusual party, he being the most soft-spoken.
Kagome groggily opened her eyes halfway, her recuperating vision undergoing the gradual transition from blurriness to clarity.
"Nani…?" she whispered as she took in the novel sight that had materialized before her. A sun-kissed diamond of four people, all of them wearing varying expressions and the same black outfit—and but one of them standing ahead of the rest as their alleged leader. He gazed down at her with the presence of a great darkness in his eyes; even greater was the ambition residing in them.
"Hikari no Kagome," the dark-haired messenger enunciated, inflections of raw power dripping off his tone, "you now belong to Taka."
Change brings opportunity.
—Nido Qubein
Author's Note: There will be at least one more part to this.