InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Halves ❯ A Descent ( Chapter 21 )

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Abi-Hime was at the end of her wits. She could not believe her second attempt had failed. Kagome had more lives than a black cat, and it was seriously annoying the undead princess. She would have to get more obvious now, since food poisoning and a poisoned arrow had failed.

 

Kagome had walked right out of range in the last possible second by pure chance, so Abi-Hime had shot the damned weapon at a tree instead.

 

How pitiful.

 

But when she felt that presence and she remembered those memories, she shivered. Instantly assuming fighting position, she waited for the abomination to show his face.

 

“Ah, my dear? How are you? Alive, I see,” he taunted, flaunting the fact that he was authentically alive and she was merely undead in a body that was not her own and was not even made of flesh and bones, like a normal one. Instead, it was made of clay and it had no pleasant smell, and it was also hard to handle. It was true; Naraku's body was not exactly his own, either, since he'd used his time of imprisonment in death's clutches intelligently. He'd gathered as many demons as possible and had absorbed them into his body, enhancing his power.

 

He swore he was sometimes too good and deft for this universe.

 

“So what brings you here?” she spat out, imagining herself plunging a blade through his heart. A katana would do.

 

“I came to see what you think of me now,” he answered simply, as if thinking nothing of her hostility.

 

“Oh, I simply hate you with all my heart and wish you rot in Hell, but there is no such luck, is there?” she spat out venomously.

 

“So my assumptions were wrong this time,” he chuckled in amusement. Not once did he think of her as a threat. When she raised the trident, he was quick to react.

 

“Don't even think about that, sweetheart. It is still connected to me. After all, it was my gift to repay you for your beauty,” he said cunningly.

 

To show he wasn't joking, the trident morphed into a rocky hand that grasped her arm tightly at his will, almost at the point of hurting her - well, it would have, if she had been alive.

 

“Ah,” she interjected, realizing that her weapon was, in fact, an enemy. When she wanted to throw it to the ground in disgust, she found she couldn't.

 

“It's yours,” Naraku said. “Take it.”

 

Did she have a choice?

 

For a while neither said anything, but Naraku felt he had to break the silence.

 

“As I was saying, I have a preposition. One that would end with Inuyasha's death.”

 

“Inuyasha?” Abi-Hime asked, not at all interested. She had a grudge against Kagome now, Inuyasha came second. Actually, third, since she hated Naraku more.

 

“I'm not interested,” she confessed, making him frown. “I'm more involved in trying to kill his wife, Kagome-Hime.”

 

Kagome-Hime? Inuyasha's wife?

 

Naraku frowned, recalling that Kagome was dead. What had changed?

 

“Kagome is alive?” he asked in a clipped tone.

 

“Unfortunately, yes. She does not seem to want to die no matter what I try,” the princess complained.

 

Naraku didn't even want to know how Kagome had managed to stay alive and where she had hidden, because a brilliant idea struck him.

 

The wicked smirk on his lips intrigued the woman before him greatly.

 

“I have got a hellish idea.”

 

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