Once Again with Love

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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.’

"You shouldn’t have scanned us, girl, we were going to let you two go free. Let you return to your pitiful lives." A double voice issued forth from Aniketo, a tear glowing on her cheek, she simply looked at the girl as her miko-youkai went out and surrounded the young couple, pinning them in a white net that trapped them and held them still.

Aniketo stood there and watched, a silent ghost, as the young girl and the young man froze unable to move at all, with identical looks of horror and fear beginning to slowly cover their faces.

Hana desperately attempted to breathe but could only gasped for breath, her lungs empty. She raised her hands and covered her throat, or attempted to but something was blocking her. Invisible hands. Hana clawed at them. They were cold, icy almost and damp.

Fear. Pain. Kami help her, something was blocking her throat…something was coming up crawling out. She could see and feel her life energy bleeding away, through her skin, being sucked in and entrap by this… this creature.

~ Hiroshi, we need to run… Hiroshi …please…run. ~ Hana thought as she tried to move, wanting desperately to help him, needing desperately to save them both. She felt her miko’s power flare up briefly her desperation, and found she could move her head, she turned it only to see him fall to the ground, and his soul slide out of his mouth.

She screamed and screamed soundlessly in horror, the only sound a hideous, black song ringing in her ears as she felt her soul slide into her mouth and then depart her body, Hana eyes drifted close.

But she was not gone, she still felt, feared, as her soul body floated in the wind to the woman waiting hands. 'You will go to father now and obey.' Hana felt the spell wrap around her, forcing her to obey, and she tried one last time to scream as she fell thorough space only to land before a crystal with a dark hair man entombed within.

Coldly, her face devoid of the weak, powerless, emotions that were attempting to overtake her, Aniketo turned once more and walked down the narrow path that curved and twisted it way throughout the woods.

Aniketo could feel the tears that stained her pale, white face, ~ he forced me to kill them, to take them. How could he, he promised me they could live. ~

She wiped the tears from her face, determination filling her, as she grabbed desperately to her father words. Do not display weakness, and emotions are weakness. ~ Emotions are not for one such as I. Emotions are the things that make you weak and a victim. Father only did it so I could be strong. He does love Yes,Yes, I know this… for father has told me many times. Still he made me…no, father loves me and I need him. ~

Aniketo looked up at the sun, what….some how I turned around, I don't remember coming this way. I was heading away from the sun. Towards the west. ~ But since reaching these woods, I feel more than I ever have… Why? Why did this area feel so familiar to me as well? ~

She paused and then opened her senses… this area of the forest was teaming with energy and seemed important to her, but why? She could perceived within herself a foreign need…almost an irrepressible compulsion to come here… to this part of the forest during the last few days, ~ I know this place, and yet I do not remember coming this way before. ~

‘Father,’ Anikito, feeling completely overwhelmed, called to her only support, she called to that spot in her mind were her father normally resided, but received no answer for the first time. ~ Where was he, I need him. ~.

‘Father,’ she called urgently once again as worry began to freeze her about his lack of response ~ Where could he be? ~, ‘ Father, where are you?’

‘Aniketo, I am here.’ Naraku forced warm and love into his voice to put her worries to rest as he thought with an evil smile to himself. ~ Can not the stupid little bitch be alone for a minute, I'm busy with my miko soul. ~

She was beginning to crea fea feeling of uneasiness in him, his spell should have made her completely loyal to him, an emotionless, unquestioning doll.

It had taken his speive ive long years to form Aniketo, to create and give her the powers he wanted her to have. ~ Five long year, ~ Naraku thought, ~ that miko bitch, Kagome, I'll make sure she pays for trapping me. I’ll destroy everything she love and then owe her, body and soul. The bitch… she’ll beg me to die be fore I’m through with her... ~

~ But first my new little, miko soul. I have plans for you, girl. ~ Naraku watched the soul he had forced Aniketo to take, as it floated in front of him chained to him, ~ Yes, such a delicious, wonderful plan. ~

But still, back to that ungrateful child of his, she was changing, Aniketo was become something more. It had to be this area, ever since she had entered this forest, Inuyasha forest she had begun to feel and to think for herself. ~ This was not acceptable. ~ ‘It’s all right child. I was simple resting.’

‘Father, where were you, you left me alone again.’ Aniketo voice trembled trapped somewhere between angry and fear, ‘I can’t stand to be alone, and how could you, you force me to take them after you promised me.’

‘I know, child, but this tire me so. The soul—Daughter I needed that for something important, its miko energy and can help sustain me. I won’t hurt it, I promise, but being trapped here, in this crystal, it drains me so. When you free me, I will free it to reenter the next life. I promise my dear. But you must free me soon, Aniketo. I grow so weak.’ Naraku infused his voice with weakness, and it echoed in her head.

‘I will father, I will.’ Aniketo replied, ‘rest then, father, later we can talk, but don’t leave me along.’

‘A village is not very far away.’ She could feel the pull of the villager’s souls ahead of her. ‘I will harvest them for father.’

Aniketo glided down the path, the sun glittered down on her and through the trees she could see a clearing and there in the middle was an old well. As she walked up to it she again felt that that strange compulsion.

Puzzled, Aniketo gazed down into the old well and reached out to touch it, only to fearful pull her hand back, she could fill the energy from dozens, if not hundreds of dead youkai who had been disposed of within it. It had obviously been used as a mass grave for dead youkai, but by whom, she did not know.

Hmm…during her travels for some strange reason she felt attracted to this area… a compulsion to see it and as she had drawn closer to it, it had become uncontrollable. Here she felt safe here in these strange woods.

The energy and magic of the surrounding forest tickled across her skin and absorbed in to her very being, almost calming her and she knew that this place was important to her for some reason.

Pissed, Naraku thought, ~ it her blood, it call to her, the miko bitch… yessss, the blood I had taken from her, the blood of a pure innocent thamix mix with mine to make my creation, it was attempting to purify her of his influence. Always that bitch Kagome came back to haunt him. Inuyasha’s bitch. ~

Naraku smirked in pleasure as he remembered her screams and tears as Inuyasha laid dead before her, a gaping, blood hole thorough his chest where once his heart had lain.

He growled to himself, ~ Still the blood…it is blatantly attempting to drive me out… Aniketo is mine. Mine… my property, my creation, my tool, and no miko blood would change that. ~ He would not allow it to succeed, Naraku smiled in twisted enjoyment at the thought of the mikos' anguish when she learned what he had created with her blood, what he had turned her daughter into. ~ A machine meant solely for killing, for worse than killing, a soul reaper.. ~

Yes, he could not wait for the miko to find that he had taken her blood and joined it to his to create a soul reaper, that every luscious, painful, death had been caused by her blood…her first born daughter. ~ Yes, Inuyasha’s beloved Kagome would suffer. ~