Innocent Resentment
"The feelings of those with stolen light"

Chapter 1 - The Seeds of Sin

A soft carnation hued light burned from the two frosted glass vases that sat on the oak wood dresser in the corner of the room. Shadows ringed the polish wood, clinging to the drawers and surface but dissipated just shy of the vases' base. Scarlet shadows shifted over the floor of the castle room, silver of the moon unable to penetrate the darkness that enveloped everything, black broken only by the sickly light.

Kagura regarded the room with distaste, fan spread slightly and settled over her lower face, wind powers drawing up the lightest breeze for her alone as if she were trying to swirl away the tainted atmosphere. Her scarlet eyes were settled sharply on Naraku with obvious distaste, annoyance set in the hidden set of her mouth, her eyes betraying nothing but mild irritation at being summoned so abruptly.

"Well?" she questioned when her silent vigilance was met only with more silence. Her blood chilled and the wicked smirk her inquiry provoked from her creator but she let nothing betray the sick feeling.

"Well say hello to your new sibling." Naraku lifted a hand and gestured towards the cherry light engulfed vase. "You're going to be giving him safe conduct, to the bone eaters well."

"The bone eater's well?" Kagura frowned. "What's the point of that Naraku? What are you up to?" She didn't expect and answer. It was rare that she ever got one. Naraku knew that while she was too week to rebel outright she still couldn't be fully trusted.

So she was surprised when he leaned back, dark violet kimono drooping around his bare shoulders, exposing his scarred chest. "Through the bone eater's well lays the portal to the realm of Kikyou's reincarnation."

"That Kagome girl?" Kagura frowned angrily. "We've tried that already. The well is nothing more then a well, I have checked!"

"Then how do you explain the girl's disappearances?" Naraku laughed when Kagura remained silent. "Exactly. It's no more then a trick we weren't able to solve before."

"And now?" Kagura asked sullenly. She glanced towards the vases. "What's the point?"

"That girl is Inuyasha's weakness."

"We've tried killing her before." Kagura said impatiently.

"Who said anything about killing her?" Naraku's mouth twisted. "The human heart is a very soft, easily manipulated thing. We cannot touch her or her friends here. But perhaps in her own realm…"

Kagura watched him a long moment before moving towards the vases. When he made no sound to halt her she stepped up to the dresser and leaned forward to peer into the first vase. A girl was curled inside, naked, her knees pulled up against her chest. Short pale blonde hair floated around her face, long eyelashes glowing against her cheek. She was pretty, beautiful in fact, polished alabaster skin seeming to glow, not white but with the same crimsoned hue of the light engulfing the vase itself. But in the left side of her chest there was a whole, thin and wide, like a sword wound.

She turned her head towards the second vase and frowned. A second figure, a man this time, slightly older then the girl, with the same angelic features as the female. He was lovely, flaxen hair long and falling around his toned figure. He bore the same gap in his chest as the woman had, though his was on the right side of his chest rather then the left side.

Kagura extended a hand towards the vase. She gasped in surprise as the carnation light flared, darkening to burning scarlet. A hopeless, bitter feeling engulfed her before she managed to snatch her hand back. She frowned with angry distrust and bagged away from the dresser, spinning around at a chuckle from Naraku.

"Who are they?" She demanded.

"Strife and Discord." Naraku rose and walked over to the dresser. "What did you feel Kagura."

The wind sorceress' face contorted but she remained silent.

"Did you feel sudden anger and bitterness at your entrapment?" His eyes shifted at the gasp that escaped her. "You did."

"These…things did that?" She spread her fan again and lifted it to cover her lower face again, turning her head away. "And you're going to do this to that Kagome girl?"

"Not to her. No, not to her. But she'll feel the same emotions again." Naraku returned to his corner and sat again.

"And what is my purpose in this?" Kagura questioned.

"Your purpose is to give your new siblings safe conduct to the Bone Eaters Well."

"And that is all." Kagura said apprehensively.

"That is all you are needed for Kagura." She bristled at his dismissive tone but said nothing again, turning on her heel and strode out of the room.

She didn't stop till she'd reached the castle room. Kagura lowered her fan and turned her face towards the amber moon that burned overhead, color contorted by the barrier around the castle. By the time the moonlight touched the ground it had turned a muddy brown color, which gave even the darkness and even more tainted appearance. Kagura sneered in disgust.

'Damn you Naraku.' She thought. 'For being able to corrupt event he most innocent of resentment.'