InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ InuYasha: Legend of the Record Keeper ❯ Black Rosary ( Chapter 8 )

A/N: *sobs* I dun own InuYasha, but Kusabana, Aya, and Ikoku are mine, dun steal them! But if you like them that much I might let you borrow them……maybe not…..maybe if you ask really really really really really nicely…..

 

Alex: Hello all! I'm back again!

Sally: So we can see.

Alex: Oh hush, anyway it's going to be a while longer until I get the group and the forum up and going, blame work! I swear I'd spend all my time writing if I could but I have to work! *sobs*

Sally: Oh quit lying, you'd lay on your butt and read or watch anime all damned day and you know it.

Alex: *traps Sally in her discarded hoodie* I just wanted to say that, for those of you who wanted to see Inu and Kags kiss, I love building up tension as I have with Kusa and Sesshy. I'm trying to stay as true to character as I can although I may slip every now and again, the reason for the tension is it keeps ya'll coming back to read my stuff……aaaaand possibly send me reviews…*gives big puppy dog eyes* They give me liiiiiiiiife. Anywho on with the chapter!

 

Chapter 7:

Black Rosary

 

Miroku sighed and rubbed the red hand print on the right side of his face, once again his wondering hand had gotten him in trouble with his fiancée, but at least she hadn't chosen to clobber him instead. He suppressed a smirk, one day he would get past that last barrier of shyness that she kept firmly in place between them. In truth he only hit on other women to get a rise out of his beautiful demon slayer, he loved to see her eyes spark with anger as she became possessive of him.

 

He bit back the chuckle that threatened to erupt from his lips; he was one to talk about being possessive. More than once he had caught another man admiring her and he knew that he had sent each and every one of them a look that would have melted flesh from bone and had to fight the urge to suck them into his hand. He rested his head back against the wooden siding of the hut he leaned against only to be startled upright again by the excited squeal of the carrot topped fox demon as he ran for the edge of the forest. Apparently Kagome and InuYasha were back from their venture into Kagome's time.

 

Sango appeared at the door of the hut and blinked into the sunlight, “I take it Kagome is back.” Miroku nodded as he stood dusting his robes off as Sango stepped outside next to him. He gulped as he felt the familiar tingle in his right hand as it twitched towards her bottom, “Do it bouzo and I'll personally beat you into a bloody mess.” The words were hissed at him, apparently the dark haired beauty was still angry with him.

 

“My dear Sango, how long will you stay angry with me. I swear to you it's the hand not me, my intentions are more than honorable.” He pleaded with her smiling brightly mixing it with dark pleading puppy eyes.

 

“Not going to work this time monk, Kagome looks a bit flushed, let's go see how their visit to her time went.” The small conniving smirk on her face almost made the monk groan, she was planning again. With a sigh he followed the dark haired woman his mouth tilting up in a grin as he pinned his eyes on the sway of her hips.

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Kagome just knew her face was as red as Shippo's hair as the young demon pounced into her arms, “Kagome! I'm so glad you're back! Did you bring me anything, why's your face so red, did InuYasha make you angry again?” Kagome smiled as the kit rambled on and cast a glance at the hanyou beside her. His eyebrow was twitching in irritation, a flurry at the edge opposite edge of the town as a young lad came into view riding bear back upon a roan mare.

 

“Where is the Priestess Keade?” he pulled on the old rope halter he had been clinging to to pull the horse to a halt, “Please, please tell me where she is, there is a stranger in our village that has been badly injured.” A child bounced forward from the gathering crowd.

 

“Lady Keade's hut is just over there, she should be in…” the lad kicked the horse into motion and bounded off of it before he even took the time to pull the animal to a halt, he hit the dusty ground in a run towards Keade's hut.

 

“What do you suppose that's all about?” Sango watched the display curiously.”

 

“Feh, some person in the other village is hurt, apparently their priestess needs help healing her. Kagome you still have that thing!” no one noticed the slightly twitching noses of the half demon and the fox demon as they picked up on the demon scent the boy left as he hurried through the town. InuYasha's eyes landed on the black rosary dangling from the girls fingers.

 

“Gah! Kagome what are you doing with that thing!” Miroku's eyes widened and he made a grab for the vile black thing she pulled it from his reach, “Kagome! That thing needs to be destroyed!” she shook her head.

 

“Not until I talk to Keade.” She tucked the rosary into her backpack which was slung over InuYasha's shoulder and the half demon visibly shuddered as they headed towards the hut.

 

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Keade listened to the young man who bowed just slightly in front of her and suppressed a smile, he was nervous and still yet a pup in his own rights. In fact pup was the perfect word for him, her senses had picked up his jackal blood as soon as he'd entered the village, “Please priestess, Lady Ikoku fears that the girl won't live much longer if not treated with the right herbs, her demon powers aren't healing her and we've yet to discover why. The squirrel she keeps with her won't let anyone remove her kimono to see how serious the wounds are.”

 

“A squirrel? Such a little thing to keep a human or demon from treating the girl.”

 

“Tis a strange squirrel, I believe Lady Ikoku said she was a fox squirrel.” With a light blush the boy muttered quietly, “And she has very sharp teeth and claws.” The old woman stood with a slight groan and made her way to the corner where she picked up an herb sack and her bo.

 

“Very well child, let us go back to yer village.” She turned just as the others entered, “Ah, there ye are Kagome, I hope ye will all be alright, I'm afraid that I have to go help the neighboring priestess with a patient of hers. I will be back in a few days if ye wish to wait to depart.” With that the old woman left the hut with the lad trailing behind her. Kagome blinked at the door.

 

“Well, I guess we'll have to wait for her to come back. We have to ask her about that rosary.”

 

“Feh.” InuYasha flopped into the corner and began digging into the backpack for a cup of ramen.

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Ikoku's brow furrowed in worry as the woman laying on her futon shifted again as if caught in a dream from which she couldn't wake from. She rinsed the cloth again and placed it upon the girl's forehead, “She must be a demon to have lived this long in such a state, yet you will not let me help her little one.” She spoke to the little squirrel who sat dutifully next to her companion one small paw on the visible hand of the girl.

 

“Lady Ikoku! Lady Kaede is here!” the old woman stood at the sound of the villagers voices, she pushed aside the door flap to greet the older priestess.

 

“Lady Kaede, I'm glad that you decided to come, I fear that the girl will die if not treated.” Ikoku led the woman into the hut and to the side of the girl where she knelt down to check the cloth. Kaede was beside her in a few moments checking over the girl when her hands went to the kimono to part it the squirrel let out an angry hiss and scratched at her hand.

 

“Quiet ye creature, if you want ye mistress to die then deny me the act of healing her.” She picked the squirrel up by it's scruff and handed it to Ikoku even as it wiggle and scratched at her, “Wrap her in a cloth so that she may not free herself.” She turned back to the woman and began stripping her of the two kimono's she wore tossing them to the side to be cleaned and minded, “Oh my, ye must have had a nasty fall to gain all of these cuts…..ye gods!” her hand shot out to grab the girls right hand, there twined up her arm was a long string of black beads with silver fangs interrupting the black every so often, “A black rosary! And it's already burned into her flesh; it would take a strong priestess to take this from her….” Keade frowned as she thought upon the subject of the black rosary wondering what its trigger was, if it was a word or a certain power that the girl had once used to hurt others.

 

“Let us clean her Lady Keade, who knows why some dark priest or priestess placed that accursed thing on her, we'll have to ask her when she wakes.” Kaede nodded and together they set about cleaning and dressing the wounds that didn't seem to be healing in the least.

 

It took a long while to clean the blood from the pale flesh an treat each scratch as well as bandage the worse ones. Then all that was left was to wait for the girl to wake.

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He had found the spot easily, somehow some old building skeletons still stood held together by climbing vines. Small rises to one side of the grass covered paths were small bumps, each marking a grave.

 

“What is this place?” he didn't answerer the annoying high pitched voice, he turned instead and made for the tree line his heartbeat speeding slightly with each step he took towards that accursed place. He lifted his hand to brush back a low hanging branch and stepped into the spot, a sharp pain throbbed in his chest and he narrowed his eyes as the lingering scent of someone tickled his nose. It was light with a hint of sakura and the even lighter scent of flames, fire flowers. He glared down at Tenseiga, if he had had the Tenseiga the he could have saved her, useless now to do so.

 

“Lord Sesshomaru? Where are we.” Rin peered under the branch but didn't come any closer much wiser than the imp who scrambled under the branch only to be kicked back out.

 

“Don't come in here if you value your life Jaken.” The imp nodded dazedly and flopped backwards again to pass out in bliss.

 

“Why does this place fill so sad?” Rin's brow furrowed as she thought it over, it was silent, no birds chirping, no rustling of animals in the brush, only a very slight breeze moved the still air. There was a large feeling of sadness that kept it all silent, pain mixed in with the sadness and there was a patch of ground that was bare of anything except for the slight ring of red flowers.

 

“Because someone died here.”

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The world was dark and misty, she was trapped wrapped in white strips of cloth wound tightly around her form. In front of her stood the administer of her demise, it was made of little more than inky black shadows with brilliant red eyes and when its maw opened it showed lines of silvery jagged teeth that latched onto her left arm digging until the blood turned the cloth scarlet. She opened her mouth to scream although no sound emerged.

 

“Your screams are music to me.” It spoke in a faintly female voice as it lifted its head teeth dripping blood, “You will die and I will gain your powers and body, I will live again.”

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Ikoku frowned worriedly as the woman tossed in her sleep, the black rosary on her arm was glowing yet not burning deeper into her flesh, something was wrong with that rosary, it was to dark. Someone had laid a curse on this girl and she would get to the bottom of it. The squirrel had been released and curled on the girl's stomach watching her worriedly, there was a soft groan and the girl shifted slightly before her visible eye opened slowly before she snapped up into a sitting position her long scarlet hair floating around her shoulders. Her head turned and she stared at Ikoku her violet eye wide before she looked around the room then down at herself, her eyes landed on her left arm and she slid it under the blanket to hide the rosary there.

 

“You finally awaken girl, we were worried that you never would. Are you hungry?” the girl shook her head, “Thirsty?” another negative shake, “In pain.” Another shake although it was hesitant, with a slight breath the girl opened her mouth to speak in a very soft quiet voice.

 

“Where are my clothes ma'am?” Ikoku blinked then frowned.

 

“You are in no shape to go anywhere girl, you best lay back and rest. Besides your clothes are being cleaned and minded they were covered in blood and rips.” Ikoku shuffled to her feet and brushed the wrinkles out of her clothing, “I'll bring you some food and drink girl….what is your name I can't go on calling you girl.” She waited but the girl didn't supply a name only stared at the door longingly.

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Miroku stared with trepidation at the black beaded horror that lay on the hut floor in the semi-circle they had created, all but InuYasha and Shippo who seemed to be hiding nearer to the corner away from the evil thing.

 

“So anything could be the trigger to activating the rosary?” Kagome tilted her head at Miroku who nodded glaring down at the offending item.

 

“Yes, dark priests and priestess used them when they couldn't stop a demon. Much like normal priestesses used a sealing arrow they used a dark rosary. It doesn't kill the demon until later and it's much more painful. The priest or priestess would set the spell using one or more things to activate it such as a certain ability or emotion as the trigger, when it is triggered the rosary will burn into the flesh of the demon if they don't learn to curb the trigger and not use it. Eventually it burns completely into their flesh becoming more painful as it does so after that the silver beads push a purifying poison through the demon killing it slowly and painfully, they just waist away. That's why we destroy every single one that we find and remove the ones that we can from demons that have changed.” Kagome and Sango both shuddered

 

The thought of some poor person having one of those wrapped around them somewhere burning into them to bring about a slow death.

 

“I'll destroy it as soon as Keade gets back if you'll help too Miroku.” The monk nodded and the two demons who had finally slid all the way back into the corner sighted with relief.

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A/N: Okay ya'll that chapter ended a little choppily but oh well I try. A beta reader would be nice. I feel like crap because I think this chapters sucks to me *sobs* so reviews telling me how bad it sucks would be nice maybe I'd try harder. Reviews would be really really really really really nice tho! *gives big teary puppy dog eyes.*