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Chancery
By : Kura
Category: InuYasha > General
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Author Note:

There's too many episodes for me to remember
exact timelines of events. If any of the original events that I mention does not
fit, please disregard and forgive me. (PS: I'm roughly up to episode 130+ ish of
the anime, up to just after Naraku ed aed a new and better body and killed
Kikyou. So North American viewers who had not seen up to there, and not sure
about events I might mention, sorry about that! But I don't think you need
extensive knowledge of the anime to understand my fanfictions. Not exactly sure
what, if any, events I might mention.)

PS: I was made aware in some reviews that
Sesshoumaru's thoughts were a bit confusing, I apologize for that! Though, there
shouldn't be too much confusion as the story progresses, and all will be
revealed! ^^ (And the "her" in his thoughts was not Kagome, as you see
in the first word of this chapter~)

Chancery

- No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. - Plato

- Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Chapter 3

A Different Approach

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/Rin!!/
That thought resounded through Sesshoumaru's
mind, as he materialized in the clearing where he had left her with Jaken and
his two-headed dragon. However, there was no sunny girl to run up to hug his
leg, nor was there anyone else to greet him.
The tattered bodies of Jaken and Ah-Un, as Rin so
innocently named the dragon, lied on the bloodied ground lifelessly. Signs of
desperate battle were obvious throughout the surrounding foliage, charred
patches testified Jaken'semptempt to use the Staff of Heads, while burnt gorges
in the ground were left from Ah-Un's energy beams.
Pulling out Tenseiga, he narrowed his eyes at the
imps crawling over their bodies. With a couple of confident swipes, they were
turned into dust as the bodies healed and once again breathed. In moments, Jaken
and Ah-Un were awake.
"Sesshoumaru-sama!! Forgive this lowly Jaken,
for he has failed you!!" Jaken prostrated himself at Sesshoumaru's feet
immediately, ready to face his master's wrath.
"Jaken, where is Rin." Sesshoumaru
demanded calmly, but Jaken could detect the underlying rage and threat.
"That wiitchitch of Naraku's took her! I was
not able to defeat her!! I -" Jaken's screechy pleas were cut short as
Sesshoumaru sent him flying with a swift kick.
/Naraku ... how dare you touch what is mine, again! /

Sesshoumaru's eyes narrowed in fury as he
followed Naraku's left over traces of jyaki, intent on regaining what is
rightfully his.
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As Sesshoumaru came closer and
closer to the origins of the jyaki, he inevitably encountered the crazed
Inuyasha, also intent on regaining what he considered as his. The hanyou turned
youkai was no longer just frenzied and in rage, he was beyond infuriated at his
incapability of locating the ones he hunt.
When he leaped headlong into
Sesshoumaru's path, the two enraged youkai regarded each other with unconcealed
animosity. Without any words, they charged at each other.
Inuyasha's incoherent mind only
registered that this hostile youkai had again stood in his way, there hie his
animalistic instincts commanded him to attack and remove this obstacle.

Sesshoumaru merely thought to put
his half-brother out of his current state of near insanity; he felt it was an
insult to their blood. Besides, they were still brothers by blood despite all
that had been said and done. hurmhurmore, he could not chance the possibility
that he accidentally hurt his Rin while in this condition now that Naraku also
had her.

Gracefully, Sesshoumcallcalled forth
his venom whips from the fingers of his right hand, not bothering to use
Toukijin against Inuyasha who was only using his claws. Even in his youkai form,
with enhanced speed and reflexes, Inuyasha was still not up to the taiyoukai's
superior speed and skills begotten from long and arduous training.

Sesshoumaru effectively avoided all
of Inuyasha's rash and unplanned attacks. Seeing blatant openings, Sesshoumaru
retaliated with attacks of his own which were meant mainly to subdue, not to
kill. He had never been truly serious in trying to kill his half-brother, always
holding back during their past encounters.

At first, it had been a brutal blow
to his pride that Inuyasha was able to wield a sword that he could not. He had
been careless to let his youkai rage take over after the momentary lapse in his
control after getting the shock of his life when a mere human girl managed to
pull out the sword which neither him nor Inuyasha could. The price was the lose
of his left arm when he turned into his true youkai form, and was taken by
surprise at the power of the unfamiliar sword.

After he had tried again and again
to obtain the sword to sooth his indignant pride, his view of his hanyou brother
had changed slightly. He actually managed to feel approval towards Inuyasha for
appearing to master the fang sword their father meant for him to have. Then he
had learnt that it helped subdue his youkai blood, acting like a seal to stop
him from being taken over by the blood like he was now, causing him to discard
the idea of taking thord ord for himself. By then, he had understood their
father's true purpose for giving Inuyasha the fang, which was not favourism of
one son over the other. He had also seen the value of Tenseiga, somehow
seeking comfort from the cheerful little girl whom the sword brought back.

Turning his attention back to the
battle, Sesshoumaru twisted out of the way of another of Inuyasha's attack and
moved behind him. Inuyasha had been weakened by the toxin in his whip, causing
his movements and reactions to become slower. Before Inuyasha could turn around
to block his strike, Sesshoumaru had effectively knocked him out with a sharp
blow to the pressure point at the side of his neck.
He spared an indifferent glance to
the companions of the hanyou who had just arrived who was ing ing out to him.
Leaving them to take care of the now unconscious Inuyasha, Sesshoumaru once
again set off at top speed to retrieve his young ward.

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Black. Nothing. That was all she
could see and sense.
/Where am I? What kind of place
is this?/
Kagome tried to move, but felt as if
she was floating without a substantial body. She could not feel or will any of
her body parts to move, and could not seem to be able to see them or anything
else.
/Am I dead? Is this the
afterlife? Heh, its really not at all lwhatwhat it's cracked up to be. There's
no glowing heaven nor flaming hell, or was hell supposed to be freezing?/
In this strange plane, she seemed to
feel detached from her emotions. She remembered everything that had happened,
remembered the pain she felt, knew that the pain was still there, but did not
seem to actually hurt or care anymore. She felt almost ... peaceful.

/This isn't too bad ... maybe
I'll stay like this forever./
However, that notion was disrupted
as she felt the swish of fabric by her side, and something cool gently stroke
her face.

/What was that?/ She
wondered, unsure of what she was experiencing. /Was that someone touching me?
How could it be, does that mean I'm not dead yet?/
She felt the coolness leave her
face, only to pick up her hand.

/Wait ... I can tell it's my face
and hand, that means I'm really not dead? Or ... can souls be unconscious when
they pass on? Do they have to wake up or something? Aww ... my head hurts. I'll
stop trying to think now./

Feeling confused and disoriented,
Kagome let her mrelarelax and once again fell into total unconsciousness.

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"Kagome..." Naraku
whispered as he held her hand up to his face, softly kissing each of her fragile
fingers. Her hand was so hot it burnt against his lips and hand, but he could do
no more to help her fever. He had done all he could to heal her, the rest was up
to herself.
"Please live, Kagome." He
told her, his voice coloured with unidentified emotions. When he had agreed to Kikyou's plan, he
had not thought that the undead miko would injure her this severely. His eyes
darkened in anger, she would pay next time they met.

Kagome most probably would not be
alive now, had he reached her bloodied form any later. He even had to use one of
her shards to maintain her life until her body healed enough to sustain itself.
He did not want to use any of his tainted shards, in fear of worsening her
condition.
Relaxing his now angry expression
back to one of concerned calmness, he returned to watching the strange girl who
had continued to plague his thoughts. Before, when he still had Onigumo's heart
and feelings for the miko named Kikyou, he had attributed his strange obsession
with her reincarnation to their resemblance in appearance. When he had rid
himself of that human's heart and emotions, successfully disintegrating any
feelings he might have had towards Kikyou. He proved his point by forcing her
into his poisonous streams of miasma. [AN: Forgot what it was that she fall
into.]
However, that did nothing to lessen
his obsession with the young miko with mysterious origins who Kikyou claimed to
be her reincarnation. He still always observed her thought the eyes of his
puppets when he fought with her companions. Sometimes, he would ask Kanna to
show her in her mirror, and he would spend unknown amounts of time simply
watching her. What puzzled and alarmed him most was the almost calmness he felt
when he was near her, or watching her. Even now, a sense of being at ease with
himself that had eluded him ever since ... ever filled him, just by sitting
beside her.

When he could not stand the agony of
the countless different youkai he contained within himself caused when they fought
him, he would always ask Kanna to show her. When he watched her going about her
life, the pain would seem to lessen, become more bearable. Sometimes, in the
heat of battle, he would still watch her at injuries to himself.
Especially when he noticed the absence of hate in her furious gaze at himself.

/She has got to be the only
person in this world who does not hate me./ He thought cynically.

Mormes mes than one, he was drawn to
her gaze. Her glare often held anger, for hurting her friends and innocent
people. Many times it held accusations, other times pain. Some rare occurrences,
he even detected something akin to pity, maybe even sympathy in her eyes,
directed at himself. It was those times that his breath seem to catch, and he
find himself able to fathom that he actually owned a heart. However, those rare
moments are becoming much rarer, with the animosity between him and her friends
escalating. He almost regretted having to break what little good thoughts she
had of him, almost.

Watching her now, his only wish was
for her to survive this feverish state. He could not understand the unease and
agitation he felt at seeing her unresponsive and weak thi this, but he knew he
wanted her to live. He knew she would just go back to her friends and continue
hunting him, but at least he would be able to continue watching her warm light
from the pits of his dark hell. Maybe, just maybe, he would be able to redeem
himself, just a tiny little, by basking in her pure radiance.

He was not too sure why he wanted
the power of the Shikon no Tama at first, he could only guess that it was the
greed of all the youkai which he was made up from which drove him to his
behaviour. Often he would lose himself to the conflicts of the stronger entities
inside elf,elf, those that managed to keep a tiny bit of their own conscience
when they were absorbed. As he became stronger, the conscience of 'Naraku'
become clearer, and he was able to exercise more control over the emotions that
he felt, no longer sovilyvily influenced by the residue desire and hatred from
the youkai he had absorbed.

Now, part of the reason for the
jewel was to finish what he started. The other, more important part was to make
himself whole, so that he no longer have to stand the torture of being hanyou.
The youkai within him often fought his control, especially on the day when he
had to become human. It was excruciating on those days, not that he would let
anyone know. He could no longer stand his current pathetic existence, and the
only way to really exist freely was to make himself a true youkai with the
jewel, instead of the collage that he was now.
Most importantly, he recognized Kagome
as the focal point
which cleared his mind where the true thoughts of 'Naraku' was concerned. He
knew his infatuation with her was solely and entirely the thoughts of 'Naraku',
the new entity created from the mash of various youkai. When he thought of her,
he had no worries of losing himself to the seething youkai within him. When he
thought of her, he could almost block out the other raging thoughts not his own
that were constantly in his mind.
/I don't know what will happen to
my mind if you disappeared forever ... Kagome./

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Erm, I don't know what
to think of this chapter. Hopefully, you now have an understanding of my view of
Sesshoumaru and Naraku for this fic, especially Naraku. Instead of just seeing
him as the 'Villain' of the anime, I tried to create a different view of who he
is and what made him. I don't remember anything truly "evil" that he did, he
did kill a lot, or cause a lot of deaths, but it was not solely his doing. If
there was not already doubt, greed, and hate in the people he manipulates, it
wouldn't have been so easy for him to succeed. As for trying to get the jewel,
there's only so few that does Not want it. If you were made of a bunch of
blood-thirsty greedy demons, you'd probably end up like him too.

I hope youersterstood what I tried to convey
about his personality! -> He's an entity that was created from a bunch of
others, thus often he would be influenced by the other entities that made up
him, and it's not pleasant either.

-Kura
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