• 1-Chapter 1
• 2-Chapter 2
• 3-Chapter 3
• 4-Chapter 4
• 5-Chapter 5
• 6-Chapter 6
• 7-Chapter 7
• 8-chapter 9
• 9-Old Friends and EneC4
• 10-Chapter 11
• 11-Chapter 12

Sorry this took so long, but school has been murder and then I lost this entire chapter as I was editing it and had to restart it. Talk about screams….

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Cerulean Rose

Hana laughed as Hiroshi reached over and touched her again, tickling her before pulling her to hir a r a kiss. "Hiroshi, don’t, please…" She giggled as his tickling turned into a caress and she attempted to twist her body away from him, as her lips met his. "Hiroshi, please…"

They had married two days ago and she was still getting use to him touching her, Hana sighed in pleasure as she remembered her wedding, it had been a magnificent wedding in her village, the likes of which the village hadn’t seen in years.

Her mother and father had spared no expense in the preparation for her wedding, they had wanted her to be proud when Hiroshi’s parents and relations came for the wedding.

Hiroshi’s father was even a village elder, as were several of his uncles and he was even related to his villages’ miko, a woman named Kaede, so he could have looked much higher for a wife than her. Hanaled led happily, but he had chosen her.

Her village had been turned out with bunting of blue and red hues and other decorations, and after they wedding they had stayed behind to visited with her relations as Hiroshi people had returned to his village. They were finally on the way home to the hut that he had built for her in his village.

"Ah, Hana…I can’t help it… I finally get to touch you," Hiroshi whispered when he pulled her against him and kissed her full red lips, " and kiss you, hmmmm… I’ve waited so long for this. Kiss me again, Hana."

Hiroshi lips slashed across hers as he pushed her against a tree and his hands slide down her ribcage to cup her bottom pulling her against him.

Stone faced, Aniketo watched from her spot on the path as a laughing young couple laughed and kissed as they leaned against a tree of to the side of the path.

‘Father, this emotion they display, it is love, yes?’ Aniketo asked, ‘ And happiness?’

‘What it is, is disgusting.’ Naraku voice dripped with distaste and venom as he replied and watched the couple thorough Aniketo eyes. ‘Disgusting, child, weakness. Love is for fools and idiots. It’s nothing more than an opening for betrayal and defeat. Listen careful girl, this so-called love of theirs, is only a desire to mate and produce offspring. They tie their desires up in a pretty package and call it love, so that it will be something more than mere desire.’

Aniketo looked at the young couple with something akin to longing, ‘But father, it doesn’t seem like a weakness, they seem….’

Naraku sneering voice filled her mind, interrupting her. ‘Ah, my dear, the only true love, such as our love, is between a parent and child, and even then its best to remember that you can still be betrayed. All others loves are lies.

Lies, my dear,’ Naraku’s voice purred lovingly thorough her mind, ‘If you tested them and offered one life, if they left the other’s soul to you, they would both turn on one another. Oh, yes, Aniketo, my dear, the first lesson you need to learn is that love is an illusion. Find your pleasures through power, daughter, it last much longer than the false illusions of love and will not turn on you.’

"Not here, Hiroshi, anyone could see us," Hana giggled again as she looked around, while she pushed gently against his chest. Playfully Hana fought him, she turned her head this way and that attempting to evaded his determined lips.

Her giggles filled the air with his husky laugh, as she fought with him, when she saw an unmistakably very well dressed, young Lady on the in in front of them.

"OH, there is someone seeing us." Hana was both surprise and embarrassed as she looked at the young girl watching them. She blushed at being caught in such a compromising position ~ what must she think… ~ and then she pushed him away and bowed respectfully toward her.

Aniketo stood her ground in the center of the path as she watched the couple, she could feel the life force of the two flowing over and around her, a happy, fiery ribbon that linked them together in this life and the next.

A harvest…Should she?

But no… not just two live forces but three, the girl was with child, a girl. ~ So happy, so much in love. No evil in them at all. So happy and innocent, I will spare these three. ~

~ Why she seems so sad, so lose. ~ Puzzled Hana looked around, the Lady was alone, and there was no sign of anyone with her.

Where were her guards, and her servants, anyone that was as well dressed, as this woman did not travel alone in the wilds of the forest. "My Lady, can we serve you? Are you lose? Have you lose your party? I am Hana, my Lady, and this is my husband, Hiroshi."

" No. We need no help." Aniketo voice, as bland as bread pudding and with an emotionless that would please Sesshoumaru, replied to the girl’s gentle question and as she turned away from this loving, young couple and started down the pathin win when her father’s voice, an icy, dark hissing went through her, bring her to a stop. ‘They wish to serve, let them help to free me then. Take their souls, Aniketo.’

"No." Aniketo voice quivered slightly as she stood up to him foe fie first time in her short life, "No," she repeated aloud once more in an even less sure voice, she didn’t want to hurt them, she turned and once against walking away, ‘Please, father, I wish this couple to live. I know you consider them weak, fodder for us to use to free you…but… Please, let them keep their happiness, however fleeting.’

‘As you wish daughter,’ ~ Stupid little bitch. ~ Naraku voice as it filled her mind was soft and gentle, but he would have gnashed his teeth if he could, but he knew he had to be careful, the detachment’s feelings keep re-awaking for some reason.

He would not waste the title of daughter in his own mind, the girl was a tool only, to be used as with any tool and then discarded when it broke. Again and again when Naraku had thought that he destroyed her feeling, they returned to interfere with him, to interfere with what he wanted.

~ Patience,ust ust be patience. I will allow her to have her way this time, so that my hold on her grows stronger. Pretend to love her… make her need me. Patience, I have already had to abandon my position in her mind several times. I must tighten the influence of a loving father, needing his beloved daughter’s help. But when I am free…~ Naraku's dark thought were filled with how he would destroy this detachment.

Thoroughly puzzled by the young lady’s strange behavior, Hana attempted something she had rarely ever tried since she was a young girl and had aspired to train as a miko, only to be disappointed when she was told she didn't have the necessary strength. She gently reached out with what little miko powers she had to read the strange, melancholy lady.

She may have never had enough to become a village miko, much to the disappointment of her family and village, but she did have enough to read peoples intentions. A hunch or feeling she could always tell the good or evil.

She reached out carefully, gently and what she found caused Hana to gasp and shivered as she drew back in dread and panic as she felt a dark, repugnant energy surrounding the woman white aura. ~ What…What is that… I've never…whatever it is, it’s evil. ~

Aniketo paused as she felt the touch of purifying magic. Ade ode of a knife sliding down her skin, an icy cold and burning fire touch that mixed into hard, painful tingles, ‘fa do do you feel that…Still she is no danger to us…’ she started back down the path once more, before he interrupted her with an joyful cry.

‘A miko! A weak, powerless miko, yes, but still a miko. I want her Aniketo, I want the girls’ soul, send it to me.’ Naraku’s dark voice purred through her mind, a black snake curling around her. His detachment would obey him in this matter, he would give her no choice. ~ I have a delectable plan for this soul. ~

Naraku coldly and painfully ripped Aniketo blossoming emotions away, returning her to a cold, unfeeling monster he had planned for her to be. ‘Now, send me the girl’sl.’