Unexpected Allies by bluemoon

Prelude: KANNA SPEAKS!!!!!

WARNING!: This fic contains spoiler content up until right after Inu's fight with Ryuukokutsi.

Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha or the characters. If I did, I would not be writing this.

Prelude: KANNA SPEAKS!!!!

The small warlock was nearly bursting with pride that the lord had chosen him for this work. "This mirror, my lord, will hold the soul of any demon, even if it were the size of 15 or even 20 normal souls. You have chosen the right man. I do hope that this will solve your problem."

The young noble looked up and smiled in a way that would be called evil on anyone but the lord. "Oh, I am sure that it will solve my... demon troubles. Kanna, take the mirror."

The small albino girl took the object and examined it critically before nodding slightly to the man behind her and fastening her gaze on the person in front of her. "Thank you," she uttered calmly. "This should be just fine."

The shopkeeper shivered slightly. Those black eyes could cause frost in July. Perhaps she wouldn't be so cold if she were not an orphan. According to village gossip she had once been apprenticed to a miko who used magical mirrors to seal the souls of demons away and had finished her training at a remarkably young age because her village was surrounded by vicious and cruel youkai. She had only just become a master when she answered a plea for help from a nearby town and returned to her own settlement to find everyone in the place slaughtered. The little girl had afterwards wandered Japan until the lord had found her and employed her to control local demons for him. Normally she could just use the equipment that she had received upon graduation, but recently she had come across a demon with a huge soul, and so had to have a new mirror with more room made.

As the money was finally exchanged the mage's thoughts flashed to the hairline crack riddling the enchanted object. No need to tell them, whispered a small corner of his mind. They will only pay less, or go to someone else. No demon alive could break out of the mirror anyway, not with the number of purification spells you put on it. They don't need to know. Best keep quiet. This reasoning grew on him until it won him over and he smiled his customers out of the shop with a cheery "Come again!"

Naraku smiled sadistically as he climbed into his carriage. He had all the little pieces of his trap now, all that he had to do was set it.

The same malicious grin flickered across his features for the second time. 2 annoying, potentially dangerous enemies defeated in one brilliant stroke with no need to even sully his hands. All he needed to do now was have Kagura and Kanna take a Shikon shard to the local village and have a lower youkai deliver a little message....