Hakudoshi and Kohaku flew in the magenta barrier that surrounded them.
'I honestly don't know how long I can take more of this.' Kohaku thought, as he reflected on the last order given to him by Hakudoshi. 'All because he wanted Human souls for his latest 'experiment', a lot of people had to die to satisfy this.' Remembering the looks of horror and fears on the villagers' faces as huge demons appeared chased after them. As soon as Kohaku appeared, the villagers turned to him for help, seeing that he had a weapon, but were horrified as Kohaku brought his weapon down on them. Screams of pure terror and the strong scent of blood filled Kohaku's mind as he desperately tried to think of something else.
'Argh!…' Kohaku tightened his fists as he internally growled. Sneaking a deadly glare at Hakudoshi, 'The reason why he had me slay those people, even though there were demons around to do just that, was because he wanted to see whether or not I was still under Naraku's influence. For such a thing like that, I had to kill the very same people who ran to me for help. There has to be some way I can not only be free of Naraku, but Hakudoshi as well.'
"Kohaku, look." Hakudoshi said drawing Kohaku's attention to the light blue orbs floating up from this one area of the ground "Those are human souls."
"Human souls?" Kohaku repeated.
"So many of them were eaten. The demon Haku ate them. Let's hunt them down." Hakudoshi said as he directed the barrier towards the Giant Haku that was moving among the trees.
The giant Haku quietly moved through the forest not sensing the magenta barrier approaching it at a fast speed before and Hakudoshi readied his scythe and used it to sliced the Haku's head right off.
As Hakudoshi did that, the giant Haku's body fell still to the ground. Hakudoshi and Kohaku jumped on the body before Kohaku was given the order to slice on Haku's belly. As Kohaku did, the cut he made on the creature revealed multiple bright glowing lights.
"There's something shiny inside…What is it?" Kohaku said.
Smirking as he stood over the open cut, Hakudoshi simply said, "These are the lives of the dead that were consumed by this creature. Their souls. Kohaku, add these souls into the soul collector with the other human souls. And now that we have them, they will serve our purpose well." Hakudoshi smirked as he watched Kohaku grab a soul and put them into this jar that had writings all over its surface.
Kohaku just solemnly did what he was told but gave Hakudoshi a deadly glare once Hakudoshi briefly looked away.
The group sat in the clearing as they waited for Kouga to return from his quest. While the girls talked amongst each other, Miroku sat reflecting on Gankusanjin's words from the last time they saw him.
These crystals are made from my demonic energy." Gakusanjin said, as he brought back his arm to his side, "They should be able to help you track the Fuyōheki. When the aura of the crystal disappears, it means that the Fuyōheki is close by."
'It's been two weeks since we last saw Gakusanjin and a week since we last saw Kouga.' Miroku thought as he reflected on his thoughts. 'Kouga left to find some way to make his Goraishi stronger against Naraku's barrier just like Sesshomaru's sword. With how strong Naraku's Barrier is against attacks, it would be complete foolishness to face him without some kind of way to enter his barrier.'
As Miroku reflected upon his thoughts, he heard the faint sounds of people screaming nearby. This also caught the attention of his travel companions as they all turned and looked towards the direction of the source of the noise.
"Do you hear that?" Sango said not taking her eyes off of the direction that the sound was coming from. Kagome and her stood up as Kirara transformed.
"Yeah." Miroku said standing up as he also remained staring at the direction of where the faint human screams were coming from in addition to the now deep voices of twisted demonic laughter appearing in the mist of those screams. "It looks like we are needed."
"Of course this had to happen while Kouga was away." Shippo said under his breath, which the others definitely heard but decided not to respond to, since it was a thought they also shared. For all they know, this could be one of Naraku's traps again like last time where he pretended to have killed Inuyasha when he really imprisoned him. That day, Naraku gave the group an eye opener on how truly defenseless facing him they were without Inuyasha—or even Kouga for that matter.
Feeling the unspoken worries of his travel mates besides him, Miroku turned around to look at the others and said, "We will be fine. Now let's go!"
His words were the encouraging push they needed to face whatever was waiting for them in the nearby village. With that, the group set off.
Sounds of horrified screams filled the air as the group was getting closer and closer to the village, however, the group of friends were suddenly attacked by a group of demons on their way there.
"HIRAIKOTSU!" Sango called out as Miroku and her hopped off Kirara who just landed on the ground. Sango rushed towards where her weapon was and retrieved it before another demon could attack her. However as she went to do that she noticed that light green little orbs flew from the demons that she had just slayed before disappearing in the sky.
"What was that?" Sango said in astonishment as she looked back at the dead demon. In that moment she noticed how mismatched the demon appeared. It had one pink arm and one green arm but its body was gray. The demon also seemed to have two heads that weren't even identical. "Hold on…why does this demon look like this?"
Another mismatched demon tried to approach Sango as she was examining the dead body, but the demon was immediately killed by Miroku's staff.
"Yeah, they looked like someone's experiments or something. There's no way they were born like that." Miroku said, doing a quick look around to see how many demons they had left to attack before he looked back at the demon he had just killed. Light green orbs flew high as they left the fallen demon's body.
"Is that what I think it is, Miroku?" Sango asked.
However, before Miroku could answer her, he heard the sound of their other travel companions calling their names.
"Miroku, Sango!" Kagome called out as she appeared on a floating pink balloon-like creature that Shippo had turned into that was approaching the monk and demon slayer "There you guys are."
However, before Kagome and Shippo could land near them, a demon suddenly flew up and went to attack them. Kagome and Shippo screamed. Kagome tried to reach for her arrows but she knew that she wouldn't reach them in time.
"HIRAIKOTSU!" Sango called out as she threw her weapon that immediately destroyed the demon that went to attack the young priestess and the fox demon. As her weapon sliced the demon in half, the body of the demon collapsed to the ground.
Kagome and Shippo landed near Miroku and Sango.
"What are those?" Shippo asked, transforming back to himself as he pointed to the light green orbs that flew from the slain demon.
"Those are the demon's haku. All humans, animals and demons have within them the Haku and Kon spirits. Kon is the heart or soul while the haku is the power to animate the body." Miroku said
"What happened to the kon spirit of this demon?" Shippo asked
"It was probably released when it originally died, so only the haku kept the demon moving. So as long as a dead body still has the haku in it, it can move."
"When did it originally die? Does that mean that someone killed these demons and instead of the demons passing on, the person found some kind of way to animate them?" Kagome asked as she destroyed a demon by shooting her sacred arrow, "Do you think that Naraku is behind this?"
"There's no other person that seems to come to mind right now other than Naraku." Miroku said, as he killed another demon.
"Yeah considering, that has been on a little spree lately." Sango said as she also killed another demon. "It has to be him and no one else."
Watching how his friends killed most of the demons around them, Shippo took in what was being said before he finally noticed something that no one seemed to notice. "Hey guys…" Shippo said, drawing everyone's attention back to him, "Isn't it a little too quiet right now?"
It was at that moment that the group finally noticed how eerily quiet it was in the direction of the village. All the group could hear were sounds of demons growling and demonic sounds, instead of humans screaming or crying out. It was incredibly unnerving. It was at that moment, Miroku took out his wind tunnel and sucked in the rest of the demons and said to the others, "These demons held us up. Hopefully we aren't too late. Everyone hurry and get to the village, I'll handle things over here! "
With that Sango, Kagome and Shippo all got on Kirara and immediately tried to fly straight to the village. However, as they tried to do this the remaining demons on the ground tried to attack them. And it seemed like the demons were growing in number coming from the direction of the village.
"Hey, is it me or are the faces of these demons becoming more human like the closer we get to the village?" Kagome said as she shot her arrows at the demons that all tried reaching them.
"You're right but, there's no way we can leave Miroku alone with these demons!" Sango said, as she tried attacking them with her boomerang weapon, "There's too many of them! I think the sounds of our attacks are attracting the demons from the village to us!"
"Kirara hurry back to Miroku!" Sango said to her fire demon cat who nodded and flew back to the monk who was becoming quickly overwhelmed by the demons. As Miroku tried using his wind tunnel on several groups of demons that were in front of him, he didn't notice the groups of demons that were behind him approaching him rapidly.
"Miroku!" Sango called, knowing that she and her firecat demon wouldn't get to him in time. "Behind you!"
Just then Kagome felt the familiar call of the sacred jewel shards approaching them at an incredibly fast rate.
It was at this moment, as Miroku turned around to face whatever was behind him as his wind tunnel handled what was in front of him, that he heard a familiar battle cry from a friend that he hadn't seen in a while, "GORAISHI!"
Just then, several waves of thunder came and immediately destroyed the groups of demons that were behind Miroku.
The group stopped and all turned to look at the wolf demon who had suddenly appeared right behind Miroku. "Kouga!" They all called out in sweet relief.
"Didn't I tell you guys to stay put where I left you?" Kouga scolded the group, as he gave them a frustrated look "If I hadn't gotten here in time we would've lost Miroku!"
"Well maybe next time, don't leave us for so long. Did you think we were supposed to wait for you or something!" Shippo argued back, but flinched in fear as the wolf demon shot him a threatening look.
"Next time, I don't care what happens, since you guys are humans and not demons yourself, don't ever leave one another behind again. Understood!" Kouga said, watching as the humans and the fox demon nodded their heads in agreement. "Now get behind me."
As more demons approached them, Kouga released a large thunder wave attack that wiped off all the demons that were approaching them.
"Now let's go!" Kouga said, as he beckoned Kagome on his back and took off running towards the village. Sango, Miroku and Shippo followed after the wolf demon.
As the wolf demon and group approached the village, they were greeted with the sight of the dead bodies of the villagers whose bodies were brutally torn apart.
"Oh no." Kagome gasped horrified, as she came down the wolf demon's back "We came too late."
"Hello.. Is there anybody there?!" Sango called out, getting off of the fire cat's demon back, "You're safe now. Hello?" Getting silence back as her only response. She continued as she walked around the village as the others did the same.
As she turned the corner of a destroyed hut, she was met with the sight of a small group of humanoid demons that were feasting on the corpses of the fallen villagers and horses. Sango froze in her path and immediately threw her weapon at the demons–killing them. Kouga and the others followed her battle cries and came just in time just to see the Haku leave the slain demon's bodies.
"Judging by how human these demons appeared, it can only be the work of someone who specializes in dark magic." Kouga said as he looked at the faces of the dead demons, "So Naraku has to be behind this."
"Yes, that's what we believe as well." Miroku said as he looked around once more, "I fear that we came too late and the humans of this village have all perished. Not a living soul remains."
With that, Miroku said a quick prayer for the souls of the villagers, before he felt the call of the crystal that Gakusanjin gave them a pulse from his pocket. "It's Naraku, he's close by!" Pointing to the direction where he felt the Fuyōheki was drawing him towards.
"What, he's nearby?!" Kagome gasped as she stared at the direction that Miroku was pointing to, before she turned to look at the wolf demon, "Are we ready to face him Kouga? Did you find the power we need to destroy his barrier?"
"Yeah, I did." Kouga said as he helped Kagome on his back. "Now let's go!"
The group approached this isolated rocky area that was further downhill from the village that they had just left. The closer they got to the area, the scent of a familiar foe greeted Kouga's senses instead. "Guys, it's not Naraku we are approaching. It's Hakudoshi."
"Hakudoshi?" Miroku questioned before he brought out the crystal that Gakusanjin gave them, "But it was Naraku who stole the Fuyōheki, not Naraku. Or was Gakusanjin mistaken?"
"I don't know, but Naraku could've also given the Fuyōheki to Hakudoshi after stealing it himself." Kouga said. "That's another possible reason."
"But why would Naraku do that when the Fuyōheki would benefit him more than Hakudoshi?" Sango asked, "It doesn't make any sense. Especially, since it would have to be only Naraku who could be behind the sudden appearance of all these humanoid demons since only he has the power to do such a thing as we have seen through his previous incarnations."
"Looks like we are about to find out." Kouga said, as the group and him soon approached a clearing where they saw Hakudoshi holding a large spear and a humorous humanoid creature next to him.
Upon seeing the wolf demon and the group approach him, Hakudoshi smirked, "My, my…Kouga and the others, what a pleasure it is to meet you all again after so long."
"Save it Hakudoshi!" Miroku called out, "Was it your handy work with all those strange looking demons back at the village behind us?"
At this, Hakudoshi simply chuckled and said, "Oh so you met my pets? Considering that you're still alive does that mean that you killed them all already?"
"So it was you after all!" Sango glaring the lavender hair incarnation with hatred in her eyes, "What was the purpose of all of that Hakudoshi? Is this part of something that Naraku has planned, especially since he gave you the Fuyōheki? Or did you take that yourself?"
"Oh?" Hakudoshi smirked with a tone full of amusement. "So you know about the Fuyōheki as well? Well considering that Naraku and I are on the same side, it doesn't matter which one of us took it, now does it? As for the rest, I needed the haku of those villagers and many others to create Mōryōmaru over here. You see, after experimenting with demon haku and human haku, I soon realized that it's easier to make the demons that I created move when they are formed like demons. With human haku, human forms work best."
"How sick." Kagome said, with a look of disgust.
"Mōryōmaru, go ahead and fight Kouga. After you're done with them, finish the humans." Hakudoshi said, watching his creation take off towards the group.
"I think not!" Miroku called out, removing the coverings on his hand that contained the wind tunnel. "WIND TU–" however before Miroku could bring out his wind tunnel, Hakudoshi brought out a Saimyōshō hive nest and many Saimyōshō immediately came from the hive causing Miroku to freeze in his movement. "Damn…"
"HIRAIKOTSU!" Sango called out as she threw her weapon at Mōryōmaru, while Kagome shot an arrow as well. To this, Hakudoshi simply put a barrier around his creation which caused the two attacks to deflect off of the barrier. "Our attacks are useless against that barrier of his."
"Looks like it's my turn." Kouga said running towards Mōryōmaru before leaping at him, "GORAISHI!"
Suddenly a thunder wave appeared and for some strange reason Hakudoshi removed Mōryōmaru's barrier and watched as Mōryōmaru flew up fast enough that only his legs were caught in the blast. Then Kouga was surrounded with Mōryōmaru's destroyed body parts.
"He can fly?!" Shippo said in astonishment.
"Of course he can, I did create his body with other demons after all." Hakudoshi said with a proud smirk.
"Hakudoshi, why did you remove the barrier around Mōryōmaru on purpose?" Miroku asked, "It could have deflected Kouga's attack. But you left your creation exposed to it."
"Oh that?" Hakudoshi said with a tone of amusement, "I have my reasons."
The group and Kouga didn't like that answer of Hakudoshi and and decided to proceed with their next move cautiously. However, before Kouga could release another attack, Mōryōmaru's disscarded body parts clamped on to himand he felt a strong force trying to drag him back to Mōryōmaru's body.
"Kouga!" Kagome cried out.
"Look he's trying to absorb Kouga into Mōryōmaru's body, thats why he removed the barrier earlier!" Sango cried out in astonishment.
Kouga struggled hard against this as he was brought up into the sky where Mōryōmaru and Hakudoshi were. However, upon setting his eyes upon Mōryōmaru, he simply froze and gave that creature a glare full of a deadly promise. That look caused Hakudoshi's eyes to narrow in suspicion as his smirk dropped.
Then as Kouga was forcibly brought closer to Mōryōmaru's body, Kouga's goraishi turned black emitted an strange otherworldly color. Then Kouga broke free of the demonic hold, used it as a ground to jump off of and raised his Goraishi against Mōryōmaru. Seeing this, Hakudoshi immediately put the barrier back around Mōryōmaru but Kouga's Goraishi simply went through it.
Shocked at this, Hakudoshi immediately commanded Mōryōmaru to move away from Kouga to which the creature did just in time. However then, Kouga started to fall out of the barrier, he extended his arm that contained the goraishi towards Mōryōmaru and shouted, "BONES OF MY ANCESTORS!"
Just then, hard bone like spears flew towards Mōryōmaru's heart and pierced through the barrier. Hakudoshi immediately intercepted the attack by moving in front of Mōryōmaru much to everyone's surprise. The bones pierced through Hakudoshi's body and destroyed it, leaving behind a head.
Just then, Kouga fell back down towards the ground but made sure he landed on his feet.
"Kouga!" Kagome cried out as she discarded her safety and ran up to the wolf demon, "Are you ok?" Her travel companions did the same.
"Yeah…" Kouga said, as he kept his eyes on Hakudoshi who was giving them a dark look from where he floated.
"Now why did Hakudoshi do that when he could've let his creation take the hit instead of him?" Miroku said, "And more importantly why is he still alive? Could it be that he's just like Naraku in that regard?"
Just then, Hakudoshi smirked and his destroyed body parts came at the group so fast that they smoothly avoided attacks towards it. And went into the side of Miroku's robe on his chest and grabbed the crystal that was hidden in there.
"No!" Miroku called out, as the crystal that Gakusanjin gave them to track the Fuyōheki was taken from them. The destroyed body part smoothly avoided the attacks released on it and returned to Hakudoshi who only flew off with Mōryōmaru into the vastness of the sky. "It's gone."
"What's gone?" Kagome questioned as she tried to see if Miroku was injured from the attack.
Looking ashamed and surprised at the turn of events, Miroku said, "The crystal that Gakusanjin gave us to track the Fuyōheki. It's gone…"
"What?!" Kouga said, shocked, before glaring harshly at the now empty orange sky where Hakudoshi and his creation once was.
"How did he know we had that crystal?" Shippo asked, looking confused.
"I don't know, but now we have lost our only way to track down Naraku or at least be alerted to his presence." Sango said.
Kouga growled in annoyance at this and formed a tight fist with his hand.
A fully clothed and able bodied Hakudoshi flew in the dark skies with his creation until he spotted a cave below him. With an unbothered look, Hakudoshi flew towards it and went inside. Meeting a quiet Kohaku who shot him a dark look and Utsuho who stood beside him.
Hakudoshi stood in front of his creation who opened up his chest and revealed the infant holding the Fuyōheki in his hands. Hakudoshi smirked and walked up and gently scooped the infant into his arms before turning to give it to Utsuho. Hakudoshi then turned to address the infant.
"As you requested, I stole the crystalized jewelry. Now our enemies won't be able to find us so easily anymore. I'm going to give Naraku an report on the encounter that we just had with the late Inuyasha's companions and Kouga. After all, Naraku should be aware of Kouga's new ability." Hakudoshi said as he turned to leave. "By the way, I'm leaving Mōryōmaru here. So use him as you please." With that Hakudoshi headed out and Kohaku followed after him.
Utusho then turned to Mōryōmaru, lifted the infant to him and said, "Mōryōmaru, I will put a soul inside you."
At this, the soulless Mōryōmaru nodded his head in agreement and accepted the infant back inside his body once again.
Later on that night, Kouga stood watch as his other travel companions were resting from the day that they had earlier. The light of the campfire seems to add warmth to the cool evening's weather. Kouga glanced at them briefly, before bringing back out his hand. Suddenly the goraishi appeared and the last encounter that he had with his ancestors replayed itself back in his mind.
"Kouga, the request that you ask is an impossible one. We cannot grant it. Even if we were to give you the strongest poison, it still would not be enough to destroy Naraku's barrier."
This surprised Kouga, "Why not?"
"Because Naraku has found a way to strengthen his barrier against poisonous attacks. Now that he has done this, there is no more power in the world of the living that can destroy his barrier."
At this, Kouga gritted his teeth in frustration and formed a fist with his hand. "Are you positive about that? You mean to tell me that there's no power that I can use to stop Naraku now? Not even Sesshomaru's sword?!"
"Yes, even Sesshomaru knows this. There is no power in the world of the living that can penetrate Naraku's barrier."
Upon hearing this, Kouga felt his frustration growing, "I don't believe this. In just a span of a short time, Naraku was able to strengthen his barrier to that extent? How do you all know this?"
"Do not doubt the power of your ancestors who are aware of the matters that concern whom we swore to protect. As it stands there is no power in the land of the living that can destroy Naraku's barrier."
Hearing this, Kouga growled in frustration, "There has to be something! There has to be some kind of power that is so strong it can stop Naraku in his tracks!"
Suddenly, Kouga paused as his ancestors words from earlier. "Hold on….You said that there wasn't power in the land of the living….What about the land of the dead…"Kouga asked as his cerulean blue eyes turned dark as he stared strongly at the ancestors.
"DON'T BE FOOLISH KOUGA. THERE'S NO HOW THE LIVING SHOULD MESS WITH THE POWERS OF THE DEAD." One of his ancestors spoke with shock, "IT NEVER ENDS WELL WITH THOSE WHO TAMPER WITH THE POWERS OF THE DEAD."
"THEN HOW ELSE AM I SUPPOSED TO DEFEAT NARAKU!" Kouga growled revealing his fangs as his anger at the situation overcame him, "YOU KEEP SAYING THAT THERE'S NO POWERS IN THE LAND OF THE LIVING THAT CAN DESTROY NARAKU'S BARRIER, THEN HOW ABOUT THE LAND OF THE DEAD? WHAT IS IN THE LAND OF THE DEAD THAT CAN PROTECT THE PEOPLE I WANT TO PROTECT AND THE PEOPLE THAT I WANT TO AVENGE FROM NARAKU!"
"KOUGA, YOUR MIND IS CLOUDED WITH ANGER AND YOU'RE NOT ABLE TO THINK CLEARLY RIGHT NOW. YOU—" Before his ancestor could finish what he was trying to say, he was interrupted by another ancestor.
"Kouga, I sense that no matter what we say unto you will fight what we say and will discard all the warnings that we will give you concerning this matter. Perhaps we decide to tell you a permanent solution to not only destroying Naraku's barrier but also Naraku's soul itself, would you be willing to even sacrifice a portion of your life for this to happen." The other ancestor said, looking down at Kouga with cold eyes.
"Don't be foolish!" The other ancestor hissed at the other cold ancestor who looked down at Kouga harshly.
The other ancestor who was clearly the voice of reasoning turned back to Kouga and said, "Kouga, ignore his suggestion for it is a foolish one that won't end well for you. Life is too precious to even sacrifice a portion of it away. Even if you are not able to defeat Naraku, its okay. Your fallen comrades will understan—"
At this, Kouga immediately turned away from that ancestor and faced the one who spoke to him harshly, "Finish what you were trying to say. Even if I have to sacrifice a portion of my entire life, I wouldn't mind doing it, if it means that the people I want to protect and to avenge are taken care of."
"Just as I expected you would, but are you sure of your decision? Once you have agreed to it and have access to this ability, there's no going back."
"I'm sure." Kouga answered with resolve clear in his voice, ignoring the solemn look of disappointment that the other ancestor gave him.
"Very well….There is a power that the Goraishi has. It's an incredibly dark power that only we have the power to release. The Goraishi is a very powerful and spiritual weapon that has the ability to send its enemies into the afterlife. But not just to any area of the afterlife…The Goraishi has the ability to send a soul directly to any of the eight levels of Jigoku. Which ever one that you deem your enemy should go to. Since this is a sacred power, you as a full demon have only four times that you can used this power. However, each of those times that you use these powers, a quarter of your life is taken away from you."
Kouga kept silent for a while as he thought on this,"Does that mean that there are only four quarters of my life as it stands right now? So if I use one, I will only have three quarters of my life to live?" The ancestors nodded their heads solemnly.
Kouga paused as he imagined only living half of his life, "What will happen to my soul if I use all four? Will I be condemned to eternity in one of those levels of Jigoku?"
"No, since you are paying the price of using the power of the afterworld to send your enemy there with a quarter of your own life, you would not be sent to those yourself in your death. You will go to the place you would've naturally gone to even if you hadn't use that power of the Goraishi."
"I see." Kouga said as he pondered solemnly on this.
"Since Naraku is a vile demon who has done nothing but heinous crimes and sins, there is only one level of the Jigoku that would best suit your enemy Naraku and his other incarnation Hakudoshi. The reason why you have to use it on Hakudoshi as well is because he is not only on the same level of wickedness as Naraku but also is crueler than Naraku himself. So by using this power, you would have to use it twice. Do you understand?"
Kouga nodded at this.
"Now Kouga are you ready to access the sacred power of the afterlife?"
Kouga nodded…
"Very well…" The ancestor said as he reached over to touch the goraishi that immediately caused the goraishi to glow black and emit from it a strange otherworldly color.
As the memory ended, Kouga continued staring at the goraishi that covered his hand.
Author's note:
hl3xm3123: Thank you for your encouraging support. :-)
tsuki: Thank you for your encouragement. I also love SessInu and have other stories dedicated to them. One on this site and another in the works. In this story, Sesshomaru does have slight feelings for Inuyasha but it doesnt go far. I already have an account on Wattpad, so I'll look into publishing this story there. Thanks for the idea, though. This story is also available on AO3 under the same name. As of the moment, I don't think this story needs a translation, but thanks for ther offer. Yeah I don't like rape stories as well, it just happened with this story because I had made this story when I was younger and didnt mind that in stories. Now I do mind rape in stories and depending on the type of direction I want a story to go, I'm considering avoiding rape in my next stories. I dont know, lets see what happens. Thanks for you support. :-)
amekjr115: I'm so glad that you enjoy this story. I really want to see it to its end.
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