The Fox's Son

Chapter 7 - The High Council

In some void.......

Naruto found himself floating around in a void of darkness. The atmosphere was weighless and there was no energy. Suddenly, a plethora of swirling lights began to form around him. It was an array of white and pink and they spread like shooting starts.

"Now, isn't this interesting....." he mused with a hint of boredom.

Then, images began to shift and play like a roll of camera, showing people Naruto hadn't seen before.

There was a woman with raven black hair, wearing samurai styled shoulder and chest armor over miko clothing. She was battling a horde of what Naruto assumed to be youkai of different backgrounds and rankings. They ranged from imorans to ayakashis. The miko fought the demons 7 days and 7 nights until eventually, a dragon youkai captured her in its jaws.

In one final attempt to defeat the demon, the miko pulled his spirit into her body, fusing it with her own soul, before they both expelled simultaneously along with her heart. When they combined, it gave birth to the Shikon no Tama, where the two beings remained imprisoned within the jewel and have continued to battle ever since.

"Tough cookie....." Naruto commented as the images began to fade and form into view again.

Running through the trees with a jewel in his hand, a young man with long white hair, dog ears, and gold eyes. He was wearing a red nu-bakama, a red hikigoshi around his waist, a nenju, and a red suikan. You could tell that the young man was an Inu-yokai, a dog demon. However, it was evident that he was an hanyou.

"Heh, finally a way for me to become a full fledge demon at last!" he exclaimed with triumph.

Naruto raised his eyebrow in silent questioning. By the looks of it, he could tell that the white-haired guy was a half-breed. He could also see that he was around his age. Maybe 15 or 16.

"Die, Inuyasha!" a female voice said before an arrow whizzed through the air, near his head and lodged itself into the yokai's shoulder. The arrowed glowed a pinkish purple hue as it pinned the young man to the tree.

Holding a bow in her had was a woman with alabaster-white skinned with waist-length rich black hair that was tied into a loose ponytail. She had brown eyes and wore a white jacket with sode-kukuri through her sleeves and open shoulders. She wore a bright red nagahakama with a small board on the lower back. Her white kosode could seen through the slits on the side of her hakama and the openings at the sleeves and shoulders of her hitoe. She sported a red obi around her waist and wore tabi socks with rice straw sandals.

Her priest robes were now red as she sported a rather large gash on her right shoulder, that was bleeding horribly. It was a fatal wound, one that could not be healed at that time period.

"Ki-Kikyo...." the boy, know known as Inuyasha gasped out weakly before his head fell limp to the side, signifying that he was either dead or put into eternal sleep.

Naruto remained silent as the images began to warp again, fading away and ushering in a new set of images.

A girl wearing a short green skirt with a white short-sleeved shirt and a green cloth the covered her shoulders and tied around her neck with white brimming. It looked like a uniform of some sort. Said girl was being crushed by what appeared to be a giant centipede of some sort, against the tree that pinned Inuyasha, the dog demon.

Naruto noted that she looked similar to that other woman, Kikyo. While he knew she wasn't her, the resemblance was so striking that they could be either confused with one another or be mistaken as sisters.