Chapter Twenty One : Hiyuke's Dream

Naraku's castle... Later that day...

Naraku cradled Hiyuke gently in his arms as he took in the sight of her stained and bloodied kimono, her pale sickly complexion, and the most terrifying of all, her lips... Which had turned bluish purple... Hiyuke had died, just like in his dream... It took everything in his power not to go on a killing spree, just so he could satisfy his beast's rage at losing Hiyuke...

"No..." Naraku said to himself angrily, "I will not lose her!"

Naraku removed the arrows out of Hiyuke's back and undressed her to clean her wounds when he gasped in horror... On Hiyuke's back were three large holes where the arrows had been... Each one had a swirled ring of bright purple and black around them... There was a thick metallic scent around her, it smelled like a cross between metal, plants and molded fruit... Naraku was very puzzled... He new he smelled it somewhere before but he couldn't remember where he'd smelled such a strange foul smell... Then it dawned on him... Karisa's blade had been laced with a foul smelling poison...

"No!" Naraku said angrily, " That bitch poisoned her!"

Naraku then new instantly what he had to do... Once he bathed her in the under ground hotsprings and dressed her in a fine teal blue silk kimono with pearl colored white feathers and a silver obi around the waist... Naraku then took her in his arms and held her as he began talking to her, even though he knew she was gone...

" I have done... Horrible things before in my past... I've murdered so many... Caused families to fight to the death... Tortured Kagome and her friends and tried to turn them against one another... I don't know if I could ever be forgiven..." Naraku said with his eyes closed, " But if you can help me... Give her back... If not for me and my selfish reasons, then give her back for the sake of her family... Please... Send me a sighn of what I need to do!"

When Naraku got no answer, he held Hiyuke gently in his arms and put his head on hers in despair... Suddenly there was a flash of warm blue light and Naraku looked up and gasped at the sight... There stood a beautiful female samarai... She had long flowing black hair a a beautiful outfit of silk and armor...

"Who are you?!" Naraku asked in wonder...

"I am the priestess... Midorico... " Midorico said kindly...

"Why are you here?!" Naraku asked the maiden.

"You once cared about nothing but power... Always killing mercilessly and using your incarnations to wreak havoc on the land... Until today... You actually shed tears for that woman in your arms... You mourned her the depths of which a mate would... When you began having visions of her, it wasn't because of you supposed to be gaining your time travel powers..." Midorico said wisely, " It was because of destiny... When she died, you unknowingly formed a life mate bond with her... That's why you transformed in to a full fledged demon when she died... She will be your life mate... "

"But... How can we possibly be mates?! She died from Karisa's poisoned arrows... " Naraku said in despair...

"You've got a mate bond with her Naraku... Don't you see?!" Midorico said with a kind smile, " You can save her... "

"How?!" Naraku asked, his eyes wide...

"Your a full demon... If you perform the demon Bloodbonding ceremony on her, you can save her... Trust me... You will have your mate... " Midorico said as she began to fade...

" A demon bloodbond... But... Wait! Mates are supposed to love they're mates!" Naraku said in despair, "I've never been loved... I've never loved anyone! How am I start now?!"

"Open your heart to her... And you will be able to love... Save her Naraku... " Midorico said fading away...

"I've never performed a bloodbond before... How am I supposed to do it?! " Naraku asked frantically...

But Midorico was already gone... Naraku looked at Hiyuke's ashen face once more in despair, then, all at once his aura began pulsing... Slow at first, then faster and faster like a beating drum... His true demon coming to the surface, Naraku let out an ear shattering warriors cry and bit into Hiyuke's neck between her shoulder and the base of her neck... And drank... The metallic taste of poison flowed into Naraku, his full demon blood instantly destroying it on contact and quickly nutrilized it... Once Hiyuke's blood began to taste sweet, he new he'd gotten all the poison out... Drinking five more long drinks of her blood, Naraku took his wrist and bit down until his blood flowed freely and put her mouth on his wrist... Naraku's eyes were glowing red as he continued to let his blood flow... He let his blood flow into Hiyuke until he began to feel weak, then sealed they're wounds and carried her to a spare bed chamber and laid her on a pallet of the softest silk and velvet pillows fit for a queen... His demon blood still very awake inside him, Naraku sat in the darkest corner of the room and watched over her, his eyes glowing predatory red...

Hiyuke was floating... She was high above the demon watching over the familiar looking woman down below, his eyes glowing a frightening blood red... He looked so very frightening, and yet, he looked as if his heart was breaking... Though she should be terrified of the demon with the glowing red eyes, she felt saddened for him... Suddenly, the scene changed and she was back home with Soata and her father, which everyone calls grandpa... She was safe... She was with her family... Yet she'd never felt lonelier... Suddenly the scene changed yet again... This time, it was a small boy wearing a dark blue and dark purple robe... He had a small pony tail at the base of his neck and steely blue grey eyes... His hair was black... He was running and an older man was running after him, trying desperately to get back...

"Father!" the child cried out, "I've got to get to father!"

"No child! You mustn't go! Your fathers wind tunnel is at its peak! If you go near him, you'll be pulled into oblivion and die instantly! " the old man said in sorrow...

Suddenly, a blinding light flashed and the man in the center of the field began to disappear in what looked like a black hole... Hiyuke gasped and watched in horror as the man was sucked away, leaving nothing but a large crater behind... The boy turned around and hugged the old man's bulky frame as he cried for his father...

The scene changed again, a woman with long black hair and a red and white priestess outfit on was walking when suddenly, inuyasha appeared and embraced the woman... Hiyuke gasped when she realized that they were in love! She watched them with a happiness as they walked hand and hand... Suddenly, a molevent entity with all too familiar glittering red eyes staring at the happy couple with pure hatred appeared... He was disguised in a baboon pelt... He watched as they agreed to meet the next day so that the woman could give something to inuyasha... The scene changed again, it must have been the next day, the woman was walking to meet inuyasha when suddenly Naraku appeared behind her, throwing off his baboon pelt, he transformed into inuyasha and slashed her back... The metallic scent of her blood was so strong, even Hiyuke could even smell it thick and heavy in the air... After Naraku left the woman, once he was far enough away, he took on the woman's form and went after inuyasha... Inuyasha was running to meet the woman when suddenly, a barrage of arrows rained down on him...

"Die inuyasha! " Naraku hissed...

Hiyuke heard a deep voice yell in hatred... It was the woman's voice with Naraku's voice mixed in... Naraku chased inuyasha to the village and then vanished, leaving the rest up to the real Kikyo... What Hiyuke witnessed next would haunt her forever... In slow motion, the real woman shot inuyasha in the chest with her arrow, pinning him to what she recognized as the secred tree... Then the woman fell to the ground... Her wounds to great to bare much longer... She gave a little girl that ran up to her with tears in her eyes, a sparkling jewel... Hiyuke felt her tears falling as she watched the beautiful woman die... The scene ended with the woman being cremated in a sad ceremony...

The last scene Hiyuke witnessed, was of a young woman and her brother dressed in worriars uniforms, sitting at a magnificent castle... They were fighting a large spider demon and Hiyuke realized that the village was a village of demon slayers... The warriors fought valiantly, especially the young woman... After they slayed the demon, the warriors all began cheering in victory... Then suddenly, one by one, her comrads and family were killed before her very eyes... Shaking, the woman turned around to see her brother covered in the blood of they're father and friends... Something wasn't right! He would never really do something like that! The demon wasn't really dead! He was possessing the boy! Hiyuke gasped as a sick feeling overtook her...

"No... " Hiyuke whispered... "He wouldn't do this... He wouldn't!"

"Oh... But wouldn't I?" Naraku said as he snaked his arms around her, " This is what I am... A monster... A beast... But my dear Hiyuke, be that as it may, every beast... Needs a beauty...

Suddenly, Hiyuke cried out in pain as Naraku sank his fangs into her neck and drank her sweet blood...

End dream...

Meanwhile, Kagome and inuyasha had been searching everywhere they could and had seen no sign of her mother...

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