Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction / InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Cursed ❯ Chapter Seven ( Chapter 7 )

Cursed

 

Summary: Yu Yu Yasha x-over

 

Because of her incarnation's curse, every new moon she turns into a lusting demon. Her friends have always been there to keep her from trouble but one night of the new moon, no one is there to save her. If she mates then she will not only forever be bound to that male but, she will stay demon forever. Will she be stopped in time?

 

Chapter Seven

 

Kagome blinked, taking in her new surroundings. Growling, sensing the barrier keeping her from going anywhere, she turned to find Sesshoumaru leaned casually against the cave wall, watching her with blood red eyes.

 

“As nice as this would have been, I have a mate. Release me, and I might persuade him to not kill you.” Kagome said calmly.

 

Because she had not completed the mating process with consummation, the curse was still active and she was still a lusting demoness. However, she had marked Youko and felt a certain need to honor their relationship, rather than take another mate. Though she felt this way, it did not mean that she couldn't take another mate. And Sesshoumaru knew this. Not only because her scent was still teasing him, calling him, but because he had done all the research he could on the particular curse that Kagome had placed on her.

 

Nearly giving in to his youkai, Sesshoumaru forced himself from the cave wall and stalked closer to the demoness before him. A dangerous smirk on his face as he stalked his prey. “I understand now priestess. You didn't place any type of spell on me. I am, however, disappointed by the fact that you left to return to your home before I gave you permission.”

 

Kagome scoffed and rolled her eyes. “Of course. And I apologize for that my Lord. But I have no time to soothe your ego right now. More important business calls to me.”

 

Sesshoumaru growled and disobeyed his own youkai when he grabbed Kagome by the throat, pulling her body close to his own and yet there was nothing lustful about this action. Kagome growled and struggled to get free, but Sesshoumaru just pulled her closer, close enough so that he could whisper into her ear.

 

“I am going to make you suffer.”

 

Kagome's ruby eyes widened at his words and she struggled with more fervor that only intensified when the youkai lord pressed her against the cave wall, his body keeping her there while his arm worked with the ties of her clothing.

 

When his lips descended to her neck to lavish the skin there with kisses and nips, Kagome could not find the strength to fight anymore. Sighing delicately, she sought to return the favor Sesshoumaru was giving her. However, she also had other plans and while she carefully inched her way around to the delicate skin covering his pulse, she mentally smirked before biting down.

 

Blood red orbs shot open, realizing what had just happened. He snarled when the fangs left his neck and waited for Kagome to bite her tongue and complete the process of marking him as her mate, before he pulled back.

 

Stoically, the youkai lord Sesshoumaru watched as his mate's eyes met his own. A smirk covering her features. “Really, Sesshoumaru. If you were watching everything in your tree like I think you were, then you should have known better.”

 

“You think I care that you marked me first?” He asked, allowing a slender brow to rise as if to mock her.

 

Narrowing her eyes at the youkai she growled. “You should.” She said threateningly.

 

“Hn.” Sesshoumaru chuckled, leaning forward to whisper once more in the demoness's ear. “I will have you begging me to mark you before I even finish with you.”

 

Kagome shivered and could only watch as the proud demon continued to undress her.

 

And he was right, before he had even finished bringing her to completion, she was begging him to mark her. And he was only too happy to comply with his mate's wishes.

 

|| YRA ||

 

A loud roar and the sharp sound of a shattering barrier startled Kagome awake and ruby red orbs shot around the room looking for the source of disturbance. Sitting up quickly she was confused to find her surroundings of that of a small cave.

 

`Youko?' shaking her head, she knew this wasn't Youko's home. It was too barren.

 

“Kagome,” a deep, velvety voice called to her. Looking back, Kagome gasped when she found Sesshoumaru seated behind her dressed in only his white hakamas and a smirk.

 

“Oh Kami!” she gasped, memories of everything that had happened, coming to the forefront of her mind.

 

“As much as I enjoy the fact that you're wearing my clothes, I'd like my haori back now so that I might defend myself against your other mate.” Sesshoumaru said as he came to a stand, holding out a clawed hand to help his mate to her feet.

 

“Hai.” Kagome whispered numbly, shrugging her shoulders from the oversized haori and handing it to the youkai lord. Quickly getting dressed in her own clothes, Kagome watched as her mate, Sesshoumaru, finished tying the sash that held his haori closed, around his waist. He didn't even have time to grab his two swords before Youko had burst through the cave and attacked the demon lord, blood red eyes filled with rage.

 

Easily dodging the attacks, Sesshoumaru moved to test his newest appendage, the arm that had been restored during his mating to Kagome, when Youko viciously grabbed him by the throat and slammed him against the cave wall.

 

“You've committed a sin by even thinking to dare touch what is mine.” Youko snarled, silver fur sprouting rapidly as his control on his demon slipped. The transformation into the massive silver fox was staved off only by the scent of Sesshoumaru's blood on his claws.

 

“Youko.” Kagome whispered carefully. She shivered when Youko's angry gaze met her own unsure one. Quicker than she had time to think, Kagome was suddenly overshadowed by the tall form of Youko as he looked down onto her. She flinched slightly when he reached out a hand to cup her face. He noticed this and frowned.

 

“I'd never hurt you. However, you reek of his scent and so I must remedy that.” He whispered, pressing his mate into the wall and lifting her so that she could wrap her legs around his waist.

 

“Youko,” Kagome breathed when Youko grabbed and ripped any clothing that he could get his claws on.

 

Not liking where this was going, Sesshoumaru growled his displeasure and made to force the kitsune off of his mate's body, but was stopped when strong youki and thorn-covered vines sprouted from the earth and pinned him to the wall. The inu roared when he was stuck with the sharp thorns but found he could not move.

 

“Keep your filthy thieving hands off of the Lady of the Western Lands.” Sesshoumaru snarled, his own amber colored eyes bleeding red as he fought off the poisons that had entered his body by way of the thorns on Youko's vines.

 

“No.” Youko replied, sparing only a sharp glance in Sesshoumaru's direction as he continued to touch their mate.

 

“Youko,” Kagome sighed, out of her mind with pleasure.

 

And before the eyes of a pissed off inu youkai, Youko consummated his own relationship with the miko turned demoness.

 

|| YRA ||

 

“Where is Kagome?” Kaede asked when Miroku, Sango, and human Inuyasha returned to her hut.

 

Feeling as though this was becoming a ritual, Miroku replied for himself and his friends. “Sesshoumaru took her and Youko followed after them.”

 

Kaede frowned heavily. “And why did ye not do the same?” she asked, seriously questioning the sanity of not only Kagome, but her choice of friends.

 

“You really think we could have caught up to them? And even if we did, what do you think we three humans could have done against three raging demons? Nothing!” Inuyasha yelled angrily.

 

“Ye could have at least tried!” Kaede yelled in return, glaring at the three of them with her one good eye.

 

“Keh, whatever.” Inuyasha scoffed, flopping down onto the wooden floor.

 

Kaede sighed, knowing that she couldn't blame any of them. Inuyasha was right. Against three very powerful and determined youkai, there was nothing that even a taijiya, monk, and hanyou could do.

 

“I apologize. But I only worry over what Kagome will think when she awakens tomorrow mated to not one, but two demons. I wonder if she'll even return, knowing she can no longer sense the Shikon shards.” Kaede wondered solemnly.

 

Unable to contain herself any longer, Sango broke down into heart wrenching sobs for the second time that day.

 

“Sango-sama,” Miroku whispered, moving to comfort the defeated demon slayer.

 

“Kaede, what's wrong with everyone?” asked Shippou as he entered the hut. Confusion and worry engulfed his blue eyes as he looked upon each of their defeated faces. “And where's Kagome?”

 

Kaede sighed and pulled the young kitsune into her lap to explain to him, in gentle, non-threatening nor alarming tones that Kagome would return. But she would no longer be human.

 

That is, if she did return at all.

 

|| YRA ||

 

Yawning tiredly, Kagome sat up and stretched. A blush threatened to engulf her entire face when she felt Youko shift against her in his sleep. Pulling the sheet up around her bare chest, she looked around the room for her other mate. She didn't see him and so she figured that he was probably wandering through Youko's home, taking inventory on how much of an accomplished thief the fox really was.

 

Kagome sighed as she replayed everything through her head once more.

 

After brandishing his claim on her in front of Sesshoumaru, Youko had taken her back to his home, daring Sesshoumaru to follow. The inu had and would have engaged in an all out war over her with Youko, had she not broken down from the weight of everything hitting her all at one. Both of her mates had come to a truce to comfort her when she had gone into a hysteria over the fact that she was no longer human, and no longer did she have any reason to return to her friends, now that she was no longer a miko. They had calmed her down and she had fallen asleep with both of them at her side.

 

Now that she was awake, she once more had time to realize and think over her new situation. `I wonder what kind of demon I am.' Was the first stray thought that hit her. And it made sense, the curse, under normal conditions, would have turned her into the same demon as her mate, but she had two mates from two very different species. So, which one was she? Or was she both?

 

Breathing deeply, she scented Sesshoumaru wandering, just as she had thought he would. `Mm, peppermint and cinnamon.' Kagome recognized as her mate's distinctive scent. Though the cinnamon was new, but that was due to the fact that from their mating, her scent had mixed with his own. Her own unique scent had changed as well to accommodate the peppermint of her inu mate, and the rose scent from her kitsune mate.

 

“Kagome?” the demoness looked down to find Youko watching her lazily.

 

“H-hi.” She whispered in return, feeling oddly shy. Youko chuckled with delight at the innocence of his mate.

 

“Kagome, Kagome, Kagome.” He murmured pulling the demoness on top of him.

 

“Ye-yes?” Kagome answered, another blush sweeping over her cheeks.

 

“How are you feeling? Sore?” Youko ventured to ask, a cocky smirk lighting his sharp and handsome features.

 

Feeling as though the blush was permanent, Kagome nodded. “A little.” She replied honestly, her face matching her ruby colored eyes.

 

“Hm, is there any place you'd like me to massage for you?” offered the silver kitsune, amber orbs darkening with lust. Eyes widening, Kagome shook her head quickly.

 

“I'm afraid that my mate, has no time to satisfy your inferior needs.” Sesshoumaru stated sharply from the doorway.

 

Kagome and Youko turned to look upon the silver inu, and while Kagome was grateful for his appearance, Youko could not glare hard enough at the other youkai. Sesshoumaru returned the hard look with his own cold amber gaze, however his eyes softened when he turned to look at his mate.

 

“Kagome, considering your new status as my mate and Lady of the Western Lands, I believe that we need to have a discussion to explain your new responsibilities.”

 

Biting her lip nervously, Kagome nodded and carefully pulled herself away from her kitsune mate to stand beside the large bed she had just been occupying, wrapped in only a sheet.

 

“Uh,” she began, not quite comfortable dressed in only a sheet with two male demons in the same room as her. Even if they were her mates.

 

Youko smirked, knowing that he was the cause for his mate's current silly predicament. “Perhaps you can explain to her, her new duties from the bed.” Youko offered slyly, eyeing his mate's curvaceous form fondly.

 

Now that they were now bound to each other for life, Youko knew that he would no longer be allowed to take any other lovers to his bed. And so with this in mind, he decided that he was going to make to the most out of his new situation.

 

“Disgusting.” Sesshoumaru grumbled, stalking forward to one of the many chests littering the room. Flicking the top open, he was met with many expensive silk kimonos. Finding one that suited his tastes, Sesshoumaru held out the silver kimono for Kagome to take.

 

Kagome blinked looking back and forth between her two mates, “Ahem!” Kagome tried, hoping that they would allow her some semblance of privacy so she could get dress. Both of them however, lifted a single eyebrow, patiently waiting.

 

Realizing that she would have to voice her opinions to the two stubborn males, she sighed. “Could I have just a little bit of privacy, please?” she huffed, feeling a bit of herself return in spite of all the things that had changed. She watched with frustration as Youko simply smirked.

 

“It's not anything we haven't already seen.” Youko stated, highly amused as he dropped an arm over his golden eyes, allowing his mate some shred of sanity. Sesshoumaru on the other hand, turned his back to her.

 

Quickly, before either of them could take a peek, Kagome dropped the sheet and wrapped herself in the new kimono. “Okay!” She sighed happily. She stiffened slightly when a body pressed against her own, but relaxed when she realized that it was Sesshoumaru as he wrapped a ruby colored obi around her waist to hold the kimono closed. “A-arigatou, Sesshoumaru-sama.” She whispered, turning shy once more.

 

“For you, my mate, I am merely Sesshoumaru.” The proud demon offered, speaking kindly to Kagome. Turning her slowly to face him, the inu youkai was rewarded with a bright smile.

 

“Okay, Sesshoumaru.” She whispered.

 

“Ugh!” Youko groaned loudly, rudely interrupting the sweet moment between Kagome and Sesshoumaru. Standing from the bed, the kitsune stretched lazily.

 

Turning to give him a piece of her mind about needing to share, considering she was mated to both Sesshoumaru and himself for life, Kagome was shocked to find that Youko hadn't bothered to cover himself. “AIIIE!” she shrieked, turning back around to bury her flaming face in Sesshoumaru's chest. “Do you think you could be a bit more modest.” She mumbled through the hard muscles of her mate's chest.

 

“Modesty is not befitting of a kitsune like me, Kagome-koi.” Youko replied nonchalantly, his silver tail swaying behind him as he made his way over to the same chest that Sesshoumaru had pulled Kagome's kimono from. His old clothes had been ruined the night before when Kagome's demon had impatiently clawed through them.

 

Picking out a matching haori and hakama set, after cutting a slit for his tail, Youko donned the pristine white silk, fit for no one less than a lord. Feeling odd, dressed in such formal attire, the kitsune grumbled his disgust even as he tied the black sash around his waist. Once finished, he dusted imaginary dirt from the clothes before turning to face his mate, whom still had her head buried in the inu's chest. “Alright Kagome. I am, by your standards, decent.”

 

Turning around slowly, Kagome sighed with relief upon seeing the immaculately dressed kitsune. He looked entirely different, but in a good way. She nodded her approval before turning back around to face Sesshoumaru. “So,” she began, unsure of how to approach a conversation with the normally stoic demon lord.

 

“Follow me.” Sesshoumaru commanded, easily taking charge as he made to lead his mate from the room.

 

Having had a previous friendly relationship with Youko, Kagome felt more at ease around him and so she easily took the kitsune by the hand before following after Sesshoumaru.

 

Mentally, Youko smirked. `You are making this too easy Kagome, my love.' He thought, glad to have procured Kagome before the inu youkai. Claiming the position as her favorite, would not be difficult. If he hadn't already. `Ah the many treasures I'll be able to obtain within the Western Castle and none of the punishment to follow. With Kagome by my side, making sure the dog does not raise his claws for my harm, it will be as easy as commanding the plants around me.'

 

|| YRA ||

 

“Show me the priestess.” Ruby red eyes stared hard at the tiny figure of a young girl.

 

Obeying the command of her dark demon master, the young girl held out the mirror she kept in her grasp at all times. Her charcoal blank eyes flashed, before the mirror she held, began to display images of what was happening elsewhere in the world.

 

Narrowing his eyes with growing anger, the shadowed youkai growled. “What is the meaning of this Kanna? Do you seek to betray me as well?”

 

Shifting her blank eyes to focus on her master, Kanna shook her head slowly. “No, Master Naraku. …This is the priestess that you asked to view.” She replied, seeing before her eyes, what was playing out in her mirror. “But it would seem that Kikyou's curse …has finally stuck true. Kagome has mated and now she is a demon, no longer able to sense the shards… or keep you from winning the war as a human priestess.”

 

Relaxing his features, Naraku smirked delightfully. “Wonderful. You please me greatly Kanna.”

 

Nodding, Kanna bowed. “I am happy to serve you Master Naraku. …Shall I inform Kagura of the need to gather your troops before leading them to finish off your enemies?” she asked.

 

“Hai. That will do.” Naraku replied, waving his clawed hand to dismiss his nihility incarnate. Once alone in the dark room, Naraku allowed his delight over recent news, show in his laughter.

 

“How I have longed for this day.” He sighed, standing slowly and brushing the dirt from his hakamas. A deadly intent growing behind dark ruby eyes, “Now, I shall annihilate the priestess and her friends. And the Shikon, …I will have my wish and this world will crumble under my rule.”

 

However, it was as luck would have it that Kanna had finally decided that she no longer had any need for the crazed hanyou that was her father. And unfortunately for Naraku, she had left out the minor and yet very important detail of whom Kagome had finally mated to.

 

Sliding the shoji screen aside and entering into the small room where her sister stayed, Kanna waited for Kagura's blood red orbs to meet her own.

 

“Kanna.” Kagura whispered, seeing the look behind her elder sister's blank eyes, “Is the time finally upon us?”

 

Nodding her answer, Kanna watched as her sister smirked. “…Gather the troops.”

 

“Of course, sister.” Kagura said as she rose from the ground.

 

“You know…the signal?” Kanna questioned softly, walking beside the wind demon as they both made their way to the dead gardens behind Naraku's castle.

 

“Never forgot it.” Kagura answered, sliding a feather from her obsidian locks. “Be back soon.” She added allowing her energy to make the feather grow before hopping onto it and taking off into the night sky.

 

“Do not fail…Kagura. …Our lives …depend upon these very actions…” Though she was high in the sky, her sister's words reached her ears.

 

`Soon, imoto. …I shall return to you your heart. …And I promise, that you'll never suffer again.' Turning around, Kanna slowly made her way back into the castle to see to all her master's needs in his final hours.

 

|| YRA ||

 

`Come on you baka girl! You can't possibly believe that we would want you to leave because you can't sense the damn shards?!' Inuyasha fussed mentally. And yet, as he thought these words, all the times that he told Kagome that she was only his shard detector, came back to haunt him. `Damnit! I'm the baka.'

 

“Stupid, stupid, stupid! I'm so fucking stupid!” Inuyasha yelled, grabbing a fistful of his silver locks before tugging angrily. Almost as if he were punishing himself.

 

Sango, Miroku, Shippou, Kirara, and Kaede all watched as he paced the earthen ground just outside of the barrier separating the garden from the village.

 

Shippou, Sango, and Miroku were helping Kaede tend to her garden while they waited, hoping and praying that Kagome would return. However, Inuyasha's pacing was a huge distraction, especially when he randomly shouted out how stupid he was every few minutes.

 

“Inuyasha?” a light, sensual voice called out, causing all of their heads to turn, eyes wide with hope.

 

“KAGOME!” Shippou yelled, leaping forward and clutching tightly to the soft silk of the girl's kimono, rubbing his face into her chest in his delight over her return. Kirara was acting similarly, only at Kagome's ankles and purring as she greeted her favorite time traveler.

 

Sango, Miroku, Kaede, and Inuyasha all held back, carefully watching both of the demons standing behind her.

 

“Kagome-imoto,” Sango began carefully, noticing the changes in her friend. “Why are both Sesshoumaru-sama and Youko with you?” the taijiya asked, highly curious as to why both powerful demons were so calm around each other, considering Sesshoumaru had run off with Youko's mate last time she had seen them together.

 

Miroku, Sango, Kaede, and Inuyasha all watched as Kagome blushed all the way to her roots. “U-uh, well, I,” she began, stuttering with her nervousness.

 

“Oh my!” Kaede gasped, coming to the only realization that struck her with Kagome's reaction. Sango, Miroku, and Inuyasha all looked at her, eyes demanding an answer.

 

“Will someone please tell me what the fuck is going on!” Inuyasha yelled, growing angry with a lack of response.

 

Calmly stepping forward, Sesshoumaru glared at his younger half-brother. “You will show respect to the Lady of the Western Lands.”

 

Slowly, coming to their own realizations, Sango, Miroku, and Inuyasha all gasped just as Kaede had done.

 

“Ah, ah. Let's not forget that the lovely Kagome, is my mate too. Isn't that right Kagome-koi?” Youko asked rhetorically, pulling Kagome close to his body and running his hands through her hair fondly. All the while careful not to squish the younger fox demon still attached to his mate.

 

“Kagome-sama.” Miroku said slyly, wiggling his eyebrows suggestively like his normal perverted self.

 

Kagome blushed again and buried her face in her mate, Youko's chest.

 

“Miroku!!” Both Sango and Inuyasha warned, hitting the monk over the head with their fists.

 

Pulling back to watch everything, Kagome could only smile, glad that she had decided to return.

 

“Kagome?” Shippou asked, slowly releasing his grasp on her kimono.

 

“Hai, Shippou-kun?” Kagome replied in return, ruby eyes watching patiently.

 

The young fox blushed and turned his sky blue gaze away from the demoness's face. “I'm glad you're back.” He finally said softly. Feeling and hearing Kagome giggle, Shippou turned to look back up at her.

 

“Me too, Shippou-kun. Me too.” Kagome agreed, lovingly hugging the smaller demon.

 

|| YRA ||

 

“So Kaede-sama, can you sense what kind of… demon… I've become?” Kagome asked, her ruby eyes meeting Kaede's brown one.

 

Kaede was quiet for a moment, watching the young demoness shift uncomfortably on her knees, before sighing and shaking her head in the negative. “I'm apologize Kagome-sama.”

 

The demoness sighed sadly. “Thank you anyways Kaede-sama.”

 

“Nay child, ye did not let me finish. I can not tell what kind of demon ye are because the curse, which had the process been normal, would have made ye into the same demon as ye mate while still retaining the abilities ye gathered during previous transformations. However, ye have mated to two different types of demon. A silver kitsune and a silver inu. Ye are not either yet it would seem, that ye are some time of dog demon.” Kaede explained.

 

Kagome and the everyone else's eyes widen at the elder miko's words.

 

“Kind of like a canine.” Kagome wondered aloud.

 

“Canine?” Inuyasha asked, just as confused as everyone else.

 

“Uh yeah. In the future, people who study animals for a living, or scientists, have realized that at their core, animals like dogs, wolves, foxes, coyotes, are all the same. They all each have similar instincts and evolved from one another, adapting certain traits to survive in their different habitats.” Explained Kagome.

 

“Ah.” Miroku and Kaede nodded.

 

“This makes sense, Kagome-sama. Ye do feel as though ye could belong to each of those types of demons. It would make sense to go ahead and call ye one of these, “Canine Youkai”. Ye may in fact be the first of ye kind.” Said Kaede.

 

“Wow Kagome! You're special.” Shippou cheered in amazement, grabbing onto one of Kagome's clawed hands, and jumping with his excitement.

 

“Feh, figures that you'd go and screw up something else, changing it into something unheard of, baka girl.” Inuyasha teased, arms crossed.

 

“Inuyasha, I have warned you before. Do not insult the Lady of the Western Lands. This will be the last time I tell you before I enforce punishment upon you for your ignorance.” Sesshoumaru threatened, amber eyes narrowing and glaring into his half-brother's own amber orbs.

 

“Sesshoumaru-sama, please don't harm Inuyasha. He's just being his usual teasing self.” Kagome pleaded, gently laying a hand on the demon lord's newly reformed left arm.

 

“Hn.” The youkai lord grunted, closing his eyes and pretending to ignore everyone around him.

 

“Kagome-sama, may I also add that I sense something else about you?” Miroku asked, unsure of his own thoughts.

 

“Hai, of course Miroku-san.” Kagome nodded, watching curiously as the monk sighed. Taking several moments to gather his thoughts, Miroku was startled when Inuyasha spoke up, impatiently.

 

“Keh, what the hell did you want to say?” the hanyou demanded.

 

“Inuyasha,” Kaede warned.

 

“I sense that though you are no longer a human priestess, the energy and aura that you gave off to symbolize that you were one, is still there. And yet, it has changed at the very core to something youki-like.” Explained Miroku.

 

All the eyes that were open, widened at the monk's words. All except for Youko. However, he and Sesshoumaru both smirked.

 

“What does this mean then?” Kagome asked. “A-am I still..” she shook her head. “Of course I'm not a miko, Miroku. So what do you mean that I still feel like one?”

 

Miroku shrugged his shoulders. “I've explained that best way that I can, Kagome-sama.”

 

“Then I shall explain further.” Youko announced, drawing all eyes but Sesshoumaru's to his form. The silver kitsune focused only on the gaze of his mate. “It is foolish and ignorant of humans to believe that they are the only civilized beings, believing in powers stronger than their own. Youkai, also have sacred spaces devoted to honoring the Kamis that bestowed upon us our own powers. The youkai that spend their lives taking care of these shrines are nisous and sous that are in every sense the same as a human priestess and priest. The only difference, our priests and priestesses, are demon. Tenma-Nisou and Tenma-Sou. You, Kagome-koi, are one of these long extinct Tenma-Nisou.”

 

“Extinct?” Kagome repeated.

 

“Hai. Though our Tenma-Nisous and Tenma-Sous were protected from and unaffected by the purification of the human nisous and sous, this was the exact reason why all of our race's, priests and priestesses were sought after. In order for the humans to believe that they were safe and had a special defense against our kind, they hunted after our own non-violent sous and nisous. For nearly seven hundred years, we youkai have gone without nisous and sous. But we have yet to forget and forgive the humans for their transgressions against our kind.” Sesshoumaru added.

 

“O-oh. Gomen.” Kagome apologized, her head bowed. Sesshoumaru saw this and frowned.

 

“The Lady of the Western Lands never bows her head and apologizes for something she had nothing to do with.” He said forcefully, gently lifting his mate's chin.

 

“Take your hands off of Kagome!” Inuyasha yelled, standing quickly and putting a hand on his sword, Tetsusaiga. Sesshoumaru carefully released Kagome's chin and fearsomely glared at his half-brother through the corner of his eye.

 

`Mou!' Sighed mentally nearly every occupant of the small hut.

 

“So what kind of abilities did these Tenma-Nisou and Tenma-Sous, have?” Sango asked loudly, very intrigued with this new information, and making sure Inuyasha didn't get himself killed.

 

“Other than being able to null purification from a human priest, priestess, or monk, Tenma-Nisou and Sous still retained their heightened senses. They also were able keep complete control over their inner beasts, where as even powerful youkai like myself and Sesshoumaru, if we are angered, we will lose control of our beasts and they will rule us. Tenma-Nisou and Sous were all gifted with the ability to extend their nullification, to other youkai under their care. There were more than likely more abilities, but with the passage of time, knowledge of these Tenma-Nisou and Sous and all their abilities has faded.” Answered Youko.

 

“Sugoi!” Kagome whispered. Catching Kaede's gaze with her own she coot closer to the aged priestess. “Kaede-sama, will you please try to purify me so I can see how this null power I have works?” the demoness asked, holding out her hand.

 

“Kagome!” Both Youko and Sesshoumaru called, furious at their mate's request.

 

“Kagome-imoto, is that really the best idea? We're not even sure if you are one of these Tenma-Nisou.” Sango asked.

 

“Hai Kagome-sama. Perhaps we should wait.” Miroku added.

 

Huffing, Kagome turned back around to glare at her friends and mates. Placing her clawed hands on her hips, “Wait for what? A priestess with true deadly intent to really go after me. At least here, I can trust Kaede-sama and if I'm not really a Tenma-Nisou, then I won't be purified to death.” she reasoned.

 

“Keh, baka girl.” Inuyasha grumbled under his breath, forgetting the fact that Kagome's senses were no longer dull ningen ones.

 

“Osuwari!” Kagome said, watching with smug satisfaction as her hanyou friend plummeted to the ground below.

 

“Alright Kagome-sama. I shall help ye in testing ye abilities. But only once.” Kaede resigned.

 

Turning back to the human priestess, Kagome smiled. “Arigatou, Kaede-sama.” She thanked, holding her hand out once more.

 

Taking a deep breath, Kaede began to focus her powers on a small portion of Kagome's hand. A pink light began to engulf the index finger that lightly touched the skin in the center of Kagome's clawed hand.

 

Everyone, including Inuyasha whom had just risen from his hole in the ground, watched with bated breath. Waiting for the smell of burning flesh, they were however rewarded, when a soft blue colored light rose from Kagome's hand where Kaede's finger touched. It shot out, quickly protecting Kagome from the purification by expanding and enveloping her entire hand until the appendage was covered in the blue colored hand-shaped shield.

 

Amazed, Kaede pulled her finger away from Kagome's hand, allowing her powers to fade as she watched Kagome's hand glow for a few more seconds, before the blue light began to gather in the palm of the demoness's hand in a small, blue colored ball.

 

All eyes watched the small round ball curiously, none more so than Kagome's. “Hm,” she wondered, watching as the energy hovered less than a inch away from her hand.

 

“Do ye have any idea what this could be, Sesshoumaru-sama, Youko-sama?” Kaede asked, turning her eye to watch the two silver youkai. Neither of them had an answer and as Kaede turned her gaze to watch Kagome's face, she saw as the demoness's eyes widened a fraction, before the Tenma-Nisou quickly straightened her arm to face the doorway of Kaede's hut. Just as Kagome did this, the small blue ball of energy shot out of the palm of her hand and out of the doorway, quicker than any of their eyes could see.

 

“What the he-” Inuyasha was interrupted when from outside, there was a loud explosion. Quickly following the explosion was a wave of youki laced with the energy that only Tenma-Nisou and Sous gave off. This wave of energy blew through the hut with such a ferocity that the occupants had to shield their eyes from the debris blowing in. The fire that had been calmly flickering in the middle of the hut, blew out.

 

When the wave passed, all eyes focused on Kagome, whom was sitting so quietly still seated in front of Kaede. “Opps?” Blinking once, she stood “I'll go see if anyone's hurt.”, before disappearing from the hut.

 

“I do believe that that, was something new.” Youko said, tapping a claw against his chin thoughtfully. “It is almost as if Kagome was able to absorb the energy that Kaede was using for purification, and then focus it and turn it into some type of explosive. …Hm, fascinating.”

 

“Fascinating?! If that was Kaede's purification, then that shit could have killed us!” Inuyasha raved angrily.

 

“Must you be so surly?” Sesshoumaru asked, glaring what could have been the millionth time at his brother.

 

Inuyasha returned his brother's look with one of his own and was just about to open his mouth with a response when screams of fear reached the occupants of the hut.

 

“Kagome!” Everyone yelled as they raced from the hut to check out what was going on. As soon as all the youkai of the group stepped foot outside, they were all hit with the strong scent of blood and fear. The sight that greeted them, was of an army of demons running about slicing any human that they could get their hands on.

 

“How the hell did all of these cowards get past my senses?” Inuyasha growled drawing Tetsusaiga, the fang transforming just as quickly as it's master had brandished it.

 

“Hiraikotsu!” Sango yelled, throwing the large boomerang to slice through a particularly large demon and saving a villager. As the weapon returned the taijiya it sliced through three more smaller demons.

 

Sesshoumaru drew Toukijin and cut through the demon closest to him.

 

“Rose Whip!” A thorn covered stem-like whip flipped through the air, slicing through ten demons before returning back to Youko.

 

“Raar!” Kirara growled snapping her jaw closed around another demon about to unthinkingly take a human life.

 

“Fox Fire!” Shippou yelled from the nekomata's back, blue flames engulfed the demon trying to perform a sneak attack from behind Kirara. “Behind you Kirara-chan!” the kitsune cub announced and Kirara quickly turned around to finish the demon that Shippou had stunned for her.

 

“I've got your back Kaede-sama.” Miroku assured, beating away demons while the aged priestess shot her arrows through the masses of demon that seemed to have no end.

 

Phasing out and then back in beside Youko, Sesshoumaru used his own poisonous whip to slice through the army. “Find Kagome.” The inu growled out to the silver fox.

 

Youko smirked and nodded. Yanking his whip back to his side, Youko kneeled to the ground and closed his eyes. Placing his left hand, a tiny seed underneath, on the to earthen floor, he searched for his mate through their bond and found that she surrounded by several high level demons. “Soukatsuteki-Biniesu!” the silver kitsune whispered, forcing his youki into the earth, the seed in his hand burst open and the vines it grew snaked through ground, underneath everyone's feet. Reaching their destination, they shot from the ground and wrapped securely around the Tenma-Nisou, before dragging her with them back underground.

 

“KYA!” Youko heard Kagome scream, but ignored it knowing that she was just frightened by the sudden attack.

 

The ground below Youko's kneeled form shook viciously, before the vines, Kagome still wrapped tightly in them, shot up from the ground. Having done his job, Youko stood before skillfully slicing through several more demon that had slipped past Sesshoumaru's whip.

 

Unsure of what just happened, Kagome looked around, finding that she was surrounded by her friends and mates. “Youko?” she asked, standing carefully.

 

Hearing his name, Youko looked back to see that Kagome had a few small scratches on her face and her kimono was shredded in several small areas. “Nothing fatal?” he asked, unpleased with the fact that his mate had been unprotected for such a long amount of time and been injured.

 

“Wind Scar!” Inuyasha yelled, sure that all the villagers that could be saved, were out of the way before letting loose the disastrous attack. This gave Sesshoumaru enough time to see to his mate.

 

“Are you unharmed?” the silver inu asked, pulling his demoness close to him and delicately sniffing her scent for any fatal injuries.

 

“Iie, I'm okay.” Kagome assured both of her mates, smiling brightly for them both.

 

“Stay close to us.” Sesshoumaru said to her, making sure he had her consent and understanding, before turning back around to finish off the last of the demons.

 

“Kukukukukuku,” a dark, chilling voice laughed.

 

Knowing of none other than the devil himself with that laugh, the fading sea of demons parted to reveal the group of three powerful hanyous. Naraku, Kagura, and Kanna all stood silently waiting for their enemies to make the first move.

 

“Long time no see, Inuyasha.” Naraku said. “Now where is that lovely priestess of yours? …Oh yes, that's right. She's no longer your loyal priestess, but some other demon's demoness mate. Ah, how could I forget?”

 

“Bastard.” Inuyasha growled, tightening his grip on Tetsusaiga.

 

“I'm right here Naraku!” Kagome announced, stepping forward, a smirk on her face. “And I'd like you to meet my mates.”

 

`Mates?!'

 

“Lord of the Western Province, Inu-Youkai Sesshoumaru and Legendary Bandit, Kitsune-Youkai Youko.”

 

Snarling ferociously, Naraku turned his ruby gaze bleeding blood red to glare dangerously at the one whom he thought to be most loyal. “What is the meaning of this Kanna?!” Snatching the girl by the front of her white kimono, “Why didn't you show me this?! Why did keep this from me?!”

 

Kanna smirked even as her charcoal eyes stayed blank. “Because you are no longer worthy of my power. Shin-e.” Kanna replied calmly and just as softly as she normally did. And as Naraku brought his free clawed hand back to end his disobedient and disloyal incarnate's life, Kagura struck him with her winds, whisking Kanna away in the brief second that he was stunned.

 

Watching them land beside Inuyasha, symbolizing and solidifying their switch to his enemy's team, Naraku roared angrily. “You will regret this. I swear it.” He promised lowly.

 

With one final roar, he directed his remaining soldiers forward, charging behind them, finally ready to end this long drawn-out war.

 

Owari

 

Sugoi, I actually got this out before another year could pass. O.O …… Amazing. Truly amazing.

 

Soukatsuteki-Biniesu, the technique Youko used to call Kagome to him by way of underground vines, translates to, “all-embracing vines”. Cool, huh?

 

Now, don't expect another chapter for a while. I'm working on my first Inu-Yasha/Bleach crossover and so that will be taking up most of my creative time. It is a response to pheonixstar123's request to write a Toushiro/Kagome pairing.

 

QUCIK QUESTION! Do any of you know exactly how old Toushiro Hitsugaya is?

 

And although I already have planned on how to play off the romance between the two, I'd much appreciate an answer. I figure he's somewhere near eighteen, considering that he appeared about eight in the memories of him and Momo together while eating watermelon. And then as a captain, it takes about ten years to achieve Bankai. Not to mention another ten years to master it, which he has yet to do. But hell if I know!

 

So anyways, be on the look out for that. It will have the title “No Need to Apologize”. The summary will explain why that is the way I made it.

 

Now, all I ask of you is to please leave a review.

 

Sincerely Yours,

 

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