InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ In-between Appearances ❯ In-between Appearances: Chap. 6 ( Chapter 7 )

Disclaimer: Inuyasha and it's characters don't belong to me. If they did the story would revolve around Sesshoumaru and because that's not true, you can tell it's not mine.

Title: In-between Appearances.

Summery: Lets face it, other than Inuyasha and his group, most other characters have many episodes between appearances. I'm sure it's been done before, but this is what happened to some of the characters in-between eps.

Author note: Well my story is coming to a close, not in this chapter, but there wont be many more, I can tell you that. BTW this story has evolved from a simple what happened in-between Sesshoumaru and Kagura's appearances in the show. And is now taking a slight turn into AU. I hope this doesn't stop anyone from reading.

Just another quick note to anyone reading this at the Sesshoumaru Fanfiction archives. Some of the earlier chapters seem to be displaying random Japanese, from the looks of it, symbols instead of the normal letters in some places. I don't know how to fix this, or if my computer is just messed up or what, just thought I'd let ya know.

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'Good Naraku's not back yet." Kagura thought as she passed through the weakened barrier. She had just lost the two Shikon shards she had taken from Kouga. 'But now I know Inuyasha's weakness...' She had seen the black-haired Inuyasha transform before her own eyes.

A few moments later, she lands, hoping to get a bath in the hot springs before retiring for the night. "Kagura?" her older sister Kanna calls to her. "Where have you been?" Kagura wishes for a moment that she could confide in her sister, but with her being so loyal to Naraku...it just wasn't an option.

"Out." she says before continuing towards the hot springs. "Kagura. Wait." Kagura stops and turns around to face her sister once again. "Master Naraku wishes to see you." 'Naraku! is he here? Has he been the whole time?' "Fallow me."

Kanna leads Kagura through the castle and down towards the basement. Kagura shutters openly, remembering what happened last time she was down in the basement. After arriving in the basement Kagura looks around. "Well? Where is Naraku?" Kanna wordlessly walks towards the center of the room and opens a trap door and points down into it.

Kagura walks over and looks in slowly. As soon as she does a number of tentacles grab both her arms and legs and drag her down. Kanna looks down into the sub-basement before closing the trap door.

"Hello Kagura." The head of Naraku specks. He uses his tentacles to place Kagura just inches from his head. The only part of him that remained not scattered around the floor. "Running off, leaving the castle on you own without my permission, while I was asleep..." He trails off. "Perhaps you didn't get the message last time and need a reminder?"

The tears fall from Kagura's eyes as her head slumps forward in defeat only fuel Naraku. He licks them off her face. "Don't worry, it will a;; be over with...eventually...Kukuku." Naraku's laugh echoes around the small sub-basement.

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The howl of a wolf wakes Rin up. She jumps and runs over to where Sesshoumaru was. Or at least where he had been before she went to sleep. Rin franticly searches, but Sesshoumaru was nowhere to be found. "Jaken-sama! Jaken-sama!" Rin runs to the small toad youkai. "Wake up Jaken-sama, Rin is scared!"

Jaken wakes up with a grunt. "What is it wench!" Jaken bellows, sitting up. "Jaken-sama, Sesshoumaru-sama is gone!" Jaken uses his staff to help him off the ground. "We must find Sesshoumaru-sama. He would never leave me behind." Jaken starts tearing up. "But the wolfs Jaken-sama..." Rin protests. "I can handle a few lowly wolfs easily." Rin clasps her hands together. "Then lets go Jaken-sama!"

Rin runs ahead of Jaken. "Rin wait! What about the wolfs!?" Rin keeps running not looking back. "Damn Sesshoumaru-sama is going to have my head. Let's go dragons!" Jaken gets on the twin-headed dragon before chasing after Rin.

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"Well Kagura, had enough fun for tonight? No answer, good because I haven't." Naraku lowers Kagura to the ground his tentacles receding back into the masses of youkai.

"Lets see, what else is down here anyways?" Naraku looks around and finds nothing. "Oh well, maybe we are done, at least until the sun comes up, I can't exactly leave the sub-basement now can I?" Naraku looks around again, to occupy his mind until sunrise.

"I should really so something with this place, there are way to many spider webs down here." Naraku looks around and see that most of his youkai are covered in spiders, and there were even a few on his head. 'Note to self, so many spiders down here, once becoming all powerful with the jewel, eradicate all spiders.'

Naraku closes his eyes. "Your not going to tell anyone about this are you, Kagura?" His voice returning to his normal cold tone. His eyes now reopened eyes harder and colder then just moments before.

"She's not going to need to tell anyone." Naraku eyes widen slightly as he looks up slowly. Shock and a bit of fear shining in his eyes. Sesshoumaru smirks dropping down easily into the sub-basement. "You can't expect to keep something like this a secret when you cross a youkai lord."

Sesshoumaru draws Toukijin. "Amusing that you will be cut down by a sword forged from the fangs of an offspring of yours...Basement Naraku." Sesshoumaru mocks, looking at the youkai scattered across the floor.

"Wha...what did you call me!?" Naraku screams, finding his voice had returned now that his fear had been replaced with anger. "Well you are hanging from the ceiling of your basement..." Sesshoumaru trails off, his smirk growing wider by the second. He swings the Toukijin and rips a number of Naraku's youkai to pieces.

Sesshoumaru is about to attack again when his eye catches something. "So you have your way with your own detachments? What's wrong, no one else that you can dominate? Then again, if you can't beat my brother and his weakling friends, I guess this is the best you can do."

While Sesshoumaru said that in his condescending tone, on the inside he was raging, both at Naraku and at himself. 'I should have just agreed to help. Is this all my fault?' He asks himself while cutting down a number of Naraku's tentacles as they came at him. Sesshoumaru cuts down the remaining tentacles around Kagura before turning back to Naraku.

"Lets see you escape this time." Sesshoumaru points his sword at Naraku's head. The sword pulses before releasing it's pressure. The sword pressure hits Naraku's head and sends it flying to the ground. Sesshoumaru walks over, slashing a few youkai that got in his way.

Naraku looks up with just his left eye. His right eye was closed, blood dripping down from a wound above it. "I'm not the one that will be fleeing. Kanna! Take his soul!" Mist appears around Sesshoumaru, then it starts being sucked away towards where Kanna's standing at the trap door. "I'll handle him, Master Naraku." Tenseiga flashes at Sesshoumaru's side.

"Is it your desire to help me again Tenseiga? Fine, let us do it." Sesshoumaru sheaths the Toukijin before drawing his healing sword. As he draws it, the blade begins to change shape, from that of a katana, to a dog fang. Sesshoumaru's eyes widen slightly, never before had the Tenseiga transformed like the Tetsusaiga.

The black aura surrounding the transformed blade pulses, throwing Kanna across the room. Sesshoumaru sides the fang back into it's sheath, untransforming it. "Kukuku...You may have saved your soul, but the sun is coming up." Moments later, what's left of the youkai head to the head of Naraku and start reforming his body.

Naraku's body finishes all but the right arm. "Damn the youkai you killed must have been my right arm. No matter, either you can try and kill me again, and I'll escape same as last time, or you can finish what you came here for."

Naraku kept a strait face, but hw was making assumptions that Sesshoumaru wanted something other then his death. Sesshoumaru cold eyes leave Naraku and settle on Kagura, who was beginning to stir.

Sesshoumaru walks over and rest a hand on Kagura's shoulder. He shacks her a bit, waking her up faster. Kagura's eyes flutter a bit before opening. "Kagura," The face and voice of Sesshoumaru take up her field of vision. "you free."

Time freezes for Kagura, a thousand thoughts rushing through her mind. Sesshoumaru had just told her the two words that meant the most. 'I'm...free? Does that mean Naraku's dead? He must be!'

Kagura grabs Sesshoumaru by the shoulders and takes his mouth on hers. Bliss however is short lived for Kagura, when she recognizes Naraku's laugh from the other side of the room.

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I know that Naraku is a bit OOC in this chapter, but I need some (Sad) attempt at comedy to lighten the mood before the climax of the story. I hope no one was put off by it. Well till next time, R&R.