InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Future Heart, Future Pain, Future Hope ❯ Chapter 28 ( Chapter 29 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

Wow I have been getting some pretty good compliments here. Heh, its enough to turn girls head. At least I know my writing has improved somewhat from how I first started. Thank you all for telling me.

Stardragon 12....I just had to say thank you for your kind words. I couldn't tell you the way I am supposed to do it, but this works just as well. But one firm belief I have to stories is something two of my favorite authors, Wendy and Richard Pini, once said...

The best stories are the ones that have a piece of your soul...

And that is one saying I will forever stick to...

I still don't own didly Squat...

Secrets of the Moon....

The soul of the dragon in Mimori's staff was lost in thought. Things were coming it could sense, things that could mean life or death for countless beings. For that moment it was awake, and started to bond with its new companion, it knew what was going on somewhat via the demoness.

Doing its own investigation, somewhat to figure things out, using her memory and what he knows. The little spirit puts two and two together, there is someone that will play a role in things to come. Someone that his new friend must guide on a certain path or else all will be lost.

But part of him says as she is doing this...that multiple ways will come into effect, to allow them to accomplish their goals.

Already he can sense himself being pulled two ways. One more urgent then the other, he communicates this need to the demoness who is now perplexed.

...Two ways we must go my friend?....

...Yes. The way to our south feels stronger than the way to our west... Replies the little spirit, its confusion evident in its tone.

...could it be a spell?...

Making an indignant sound at the idea of that Mimori laughs, as the dragon spirit sputters in protest. Still listening to not just the spirit, but to the visions and the voice inside her head, she now realizes why they must go south.

That to guide the one they seek properly, they must at least know why.

And the direction they must go is south....

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In the future....

Kanaye brooded steadily, as he looked at Naoko. With fiery red hair, and white eyes, that were blank and staring, the demoness was indeed different. Because unlike others, her skin was dark, dark like the

earth...

It made her unique....more beautiful in his eyes. Still she was much like him, she desired knowledge almost as badly as he desired power. So they were a powerful combination...

When he allowed them to be, because Naoko.

Wouldn't hesitate to stab you in the back....

At the time when he had first met her, he like most others, were intrigued by her unusual coloring. So different from their own, and yet so exotic, he knew he had to have her. So when he had approached, she surprised him.

She knew he was coming, because she was coming for him...

The demoness had seen him in her dreams, seen what he could do with her knowledge as a seer. And she liked what she saw....

It was her who had aided him with her visions, to plot the downfall of Sesshomaru....

It was her who aided him when it came time to kidnap Inuyasha and that miko's son.

Still as the demoness begins to glow, he knows that now his patience, will finally be rewarded. In a voice that is different from her own, he hears the call of someone who is vastly different...

..speak your questions...

“Was I wrong in sending Taro back?”

... In my minds eye, I see history changing, I see one at the center of it all... The voice from Naoko states. Her body glowing even brighter, with each word she continues to speak. ...the prophecy is coming to pass...

Sitting up straighter, his eyes narrowing, Kanaye looks at the demoness with a cold kind of anger in his eyes. “The one you told me of earlier.”

...The boy is the key, he has the power within him. Her power is his and his is hers....

Confused for a moment as he looks at the seer with a questioning gaze. “Whose power...?”

Ready to answer the question, the voice begins to shriek, in fear. Naoko's body is now trembling so hard, one could almost call it a seizure. Still the glow does not fade, and Kanaye watches with a mixture of fear and uncertainty at the demoness, in her throes of pain and agony.

“WHOSE POWER NAOKO!”

...HERS! THAT PRIESTESS FROM BEFORE! AAAAH!!!!! HE DOESN'T WANT ME TO TELL YOU! .... Screams the voice.

“WHO NAOKO! WHO!”

....FATE!.... Screams the voice now, and then the woman collapses to the ground, the glow gone and all trace of her magic vanished. About to approach her though Kanaye, reels back all of a sudden as she gets up, but not as herself....

The power she normally exudes has not only doubled in intensity, but it was far stronger than anyone including himself has ever known...

His senses go wild, as her head tilts up, and he can see not white, but pure black in her eyes...

A rage filled with such power and rage, that even he must bow to, in submission. Something tells him that whatever was speaking through Naoko now, wouldn't hesitate to kill him, in a heartbeat.

::FOOLISH DEMON! YOU SEEK TO MESS WITH MY DESIGN, MORE THAN YOU ALREADY HAVE DONE! PUSH ME FURTHER AND I WILL MAKE YOUR DESTINY A NIGHTMARE WHICH YOU CAN NEVER WAKE UP FROM!::

With that said, the power that was within, the power that filled the atmosphere of her home disappeared and she collapsed to the ground one again. As she laid on the floor, Kanaye and other approached her softly, and gently.

A brave soldier, willing to risk his Lord's ire, grabbed for the demoness's arm and body. To feel for any sign of life, that may be in it. No matter how small...to be sure that this woman whom his lord valued for her power, was enough...

Checking her arm, for some sign of a pulse, the soldier finds nothing. Repeating the motion again with her neck, and then with his head upon her chest, still nothing....

“Speak Soldier! Is the seer still alive...”

Reluctant to answer, as he knows it could mean his death to tell the Lord of the Dogs what he does not wish to hear anyway. He simply nods his head in response to that question.

What surprises him, is Kanaye's response. It is pure silence....

Watching as his Lord gets up and walks away, the soldier visibly relaxes....relief on his features at the mere thought of his life being spared. Maybe the others were wrong about the Lord's temper...

Outside the door, Kanaye paused for but a moment, to turn to his second in command Haru...

“Kill him....”

Walking away, Kanaye smiled, at the sound of the scream.....