InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Lady Kagome ❯ Chapter 17 ( Chapter 17 )

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

Kikyo again ventured to the other side of the well to see if the bear youkai had done what she had asked. She was sure the youkai was eager enough to carry out her request. It did not surprise her that upon the mention of offering any shards of the jewel that the demon would comply.

'I will not be giving that filthy youkai any shards,' she laughed dryly to herself as she passed climbed up the well.

She immediately saw the corpse of a purified youkai and smiled.

'So my copy took care of the beast while fleeing. Perfect.'

She pushed the doors of the well house open and saw the main building completely destroyed and graves in front of the tree of ages. She was not sure how many people had lived with Kagome, but she was sure that by the looks of the youkai’s purfied remains that she had seen everything. And telling how fresh everything looked, it was less than a day since it happened. She found it strange that there were already graves dug in front of the Goshinkboku, but then she found the faint trace of Inu Yasha’s aura behind and figured it had been him. She was not happy that he took compassion on Kagome’s family, but was not surprised since he had admitted his feelings about her reincarnation.

'Very nice. I hope the little brat is suffering. To be denied Inu Yasha, I gaurantee I will make her life living Hell before I go. Inu Yasha, you use to have no compassion for ningen when I was alive. Now you are weak. Weak for loving my reincarnation and it will be your demise.'

Her cold eyes sparkled with malice as she jumped back into the well. Her soul collectors surrounded her once she was on the bottom in the feudal era, taking her out of the well. As her head came out of the well, she saw Naraku. He stood in his blue out kimono and his armour made of of his own jyaki from his most recent transformation. Kikyo snickered as he never really fought, letting his minions doing the dirty work. He was actually trying to look like a warrior instead of the coward he really was.

"Onigumo," she hissed.

"Dearest Kikyo, I'd hope you would quit calling me that vile name. I haven't been that name for half a century and you know I have already discarded his heart from my body. But that is besides the point. You will help me obtain the miko Kagome," he commanded.

"Is that so? I don't take commands from vile youkais and especially you," she said coldly, she drew her arrow. “Why would you want my copy? She does not have the same power as I, not even as powerful.”

"Now, now, Kikyo. I want her for myself. I will not be denied. Give me the little miko and I will guarantee Inu Yasha will be yours," he negotiated. “Or is it that Inu Yasha does not want you? I could make him want you, you know. I think deep down you know what I already know, and that your so called copy houses a lot more power than we know. She does not even know how much she weilds and yet she restored Lord Sesshoumaru’s arm with a mere kiss.”

Kikyo growled. In a way, she had a feeling that Kagome had untapped power, but she was untrained and she was too old to learn everything in such a short time.

“Lord Sesshoumaru has been training her and her powers grow even more. His libraries hold a plethora of scrolls based on mikos trained to guard the Shikon no Tama written by Midoriko herself. I know she has had access to those under his tutelage,” Naraku continued, his brow raised in amusement.

He could not tell if Kikyo was irate, but he had a sneaking suspicion that due to her past actions that she wished her reincarnation ill will.

"I will think about it, now be gone," Kikyo demanded and then released her arrow. "Vile hanyou."

The baboon disintegrated into a small wooden doll, Naraku’s laugh echoing in the air.

'Figures. What a coward,' she scoffed. ‘Hn. He says he can make it so Inu Yasha will want me. Preposterous. Inu Yasha can be manipulated but not for long. I will not give into Naraku despite his tempting offer.’

She wandered near the Goshinkboku and heard a gruff voice, “So, what were you doing near the well, Kikyo?”

The voice came from above so she looked, finding Inu Yasha standing on the branch, leaning against the trunk.

“My, my, Inu Yasha, you are fairly nosey lately on my whereabouts,” she said coolly as he jumped down.

“I ask this one last time. What were you doing near the well, bitch? Your smell was around it, inside it and even on the other side,” he said with a growl, stepping closer.

‘Like a dog trying intimidate.’ She thought wryly.

“I bet you know what happened on the other side too, don’t you,” he said and then pushed her down.

Kikyo’s eyes widened. Never had Inu Yasha put his hands on her to harm her. He had actually pushed her!

Two of her shinidamachuu quickly picked her off the ground and carried her a little distance in the air from Inu Yasha’s angered form.

“You will do well hanyou to not touch me anymore or I will purify you,” she warned.

“You’ve crossed the line Kikyo,” he yelled as she disappeared from his view.

Inu Yasha ran westward. He had smelled Kagome and hoped that she was okay. Her blood was on both sides.

He had carefully buried her family under the Goshinkboku as he thought Kagome would appreciate it. He did not know exactly what had happened, but he smelled that it had been youkai related. He also had a feeling that Kikyo had been behind the plan. She had become very psychotic since his confession of loving Kagome and was worried for Kagome’s safety. The fact that he had smelled that Kikyo had successfully crossed over to Kagome’s time disturbed him as it meant that anyone with a shard could. He had not tested his theory out on the rest of his group as he had not thought about it. In fact, he had never thought about the possibility of someone besides him or Kagome coming through with the help of a shard and now that made things very dangerous.

Once there, he had barged in on Sesshoumaru comforting a distraught Kagome.

“So you know?” he asked Sesshoumaru.

"Hai, little brother," Sesshoumaru replied softly, looking down at Kagome.

Despite him being a bit irked, he followed Sesshoumaru to his chambers to keep Kagome company in her sleep, letting her know that she was not alone and they would take care of her.