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Previously on Great Dog's Devotion:

(Then I saw demon wasps gather around us and then everything went black. )

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Nikko P.O.V.

Floating... That's all I felt at that moment. Drifting in the sea of nothingness, although I felt someone carrying me, holding me close to their body.

It felt really different then the times Sesshomaru had held me. With him I felt safe and at peace, it seem right, however with this person... It was all kinds of wrong about it, that the place where the bruise was on my neck started to burn.

I was unsure why I felt the sensation on my neck. Am I imagining it or is it real... however I can not tell.

Even being near this person, I can sense the sheer dark power within this individual that it made me nauseous. I wanted to open my eyes to see what happening but my instincts told me that I shouldn't so I kept them sealed shut.

Something was telling me maybe it was for the best, so I was pretending to be asleep as I heard the rushing of the wind and buzzing of many insects. All of sudden, I started to feel as if we were descending down for a moment.

Then I heard the soft thump of feet of hitting the ground with my body shifting a little as I kept myself limp, I heard footsteps walking through the grass and from behind us I heard hissing and growls of different creatures, possibly demons.

We went up a few steps on short stairs and I heard an opening of a door and then closing it. After a few moments, I felt myself being shifted from the person holding me as one hand was on my hip putting me down what felt like the ground and the other hand was on my head so I don't hit it and supposedly not waking me up as I was laying down.

I heard the footstep slowly fading away to another place. For a few moments there was nothing but silence as I laid there, not moving a muscle.

The minutes went by and my body started to ache, I had no choice but to move. Slowly I shifted my legs a bit and carefully I opened my eyes.

I saw that I was inside of a medium size hut with no other rooms, just an open space with a unlit oil lamp next to me that made hard to see except was the peaking moonlight shone through the cracks in the walls. "Ah... I see your awake..." A masculine rough yet harsh voice said to me.

The voice itself sent a cold chill down my spine and I slowly turned my head to the source of the voice. In the dark left corner I saw a tall white creature that looked like a baboon and as I look at it, every instinct told me to run.

I look to the door and quickly went to it. "I wouldn't do that if I were you." It said as I quickly open it and saw many demons swirling around the hut as one noticed me and was coming close to the hut as it opened it's mouth to eat me.

Quickly I closed the door and moved away from it as I panted as I was out of breath from the fear of the encounter. "I told you..." It said as I felt it smugness.

I look at it in fury and then I looked at it more closely and I realized something...It was the creature from my dreams. I slid back more to the farthest wall from the creature.

As I did this, it started to chuckle as if it enjoyed my discomfort being near it. Then I blinked and all of sudden the creature was right in front of me, slowly a hand reached under the white baboon mask and pull it back...It wasn't what I expected.

It was a man who had pale skin with black back length hair, wearing a dark dark kimono with a decorated purple vest over it and his eyes were red like that of a demon that possessed a vessel of the person that once was but no more.

And him getting close to me made my nerves on edge as my heart started to beat in my throat. He tilted his head a little as if he was inspecting a bug underneath a magnifying glass.

Then he reached up and held my chin sternly with his cold pale hand, it made me want to squirm away but I knew it would give him satisfaction so I looked straight in the eyes that were sinister, soulless and had emptiness that at any moment would suck out my soul if I wasn't careful. He moved his head closer to me and tilted my head side to side and then seemed to have linger on the side of my neck where my bruise once was.

"Hmmmm...my my...You are a beauty...I can see why He had some of a slight interest in you...pity...such ashame...Indeed there is something special within you and I will find out what it is...soon." He said with a smirk and amusement.

I swiftly turned my head away from him freeing my chin from his hand. He smiled but didn't move away from me.

As I moved back and sneered at him, proceed to heed with caution since I have no weapons. I look back at him with determination.

"I know who you are." I said holding my ground not letting his words get into my head. "Oh?!...And who might that be since we have just met?" He asked as he sat down.

"You're Naraku...you torment my friends and yet don't want to get your own hands dirty playing this twisted game of yours." I said sitting on the floor since I had no where else to go. "Indeed...I am Naraku..." He said still looking at me.

We sat there in the silence as I expected to him to say more but after a few moments nothing else was said. "Why am I here? and what do you want from me?" I asked as I getting irritated with him.

He had a smirk on his face as there was a glint in his eyes as if he was planning something. "I've been keeping an eye on you for quite some time and may see an ending result of what I suspect...and I want is Sesshomaru to kill Inuyasha once and for all, though he had refused once before but things might be different this time." He said.

My eyes widen from that explanation and I realized what he meant. "Although...he may forsake you in order to get to me." He said.

Then doubt came into mind...I have known Sesshomaru for quite sometime but something in my gut was telling me what Naraku may saying he may be right but my heart says a different story. "That may be true but You have plenty of enemies who would like to get their hands on you." I said.

"You may be right but we shall see and what I have in store for him... I will succeed." He said.