Second request: Could I have another KNY scenario where Kagome meets Muzan for the first time? I think it'll be interesting to see.
She was frozen under his crimson gaze. The chill down her spine had nothing to do with the winter beginning to sprinkle on earth, but his aura slowly emitting from his body to dominate with solely his stare. Kagome slowly swallowed whatever ounce of fear she could down her throat as she directed her elderly patients out to the other room of her small cottage.
“Please, everyone feel free to rest in the room. I’ll come around when I help this man.” She sent her patients a warm smile. “Rin-chan, could you help with this patient?”
The petite apprentice child nodded as she hurried to set the tray of empty tea cups on the nearby wooden table and coming to help the elderly woman up on her feet and lead her out of the ominous tension.
Kagome sighed, waiting to see Rin, the child she had taken in as her apprentice, slide the shoji door to a close before facing the man at her genkan. She turned her head back to him before noticing the woman timidly standing behind him. A beautiful woman with fair skin and long black hair held back into a bun with a decorative pin. Despite her pupils hidden behind the purple hues she had, Kagome could not help but let her suspicion grow. These two…
They were no ordinary travelers. The man dressed in all white suit and black tie had made his appearance out of nowhere. The long black coat hanging off his shoulders swayed with the breeze to reveal the long nails at his side. The door to her home had burst open with the snowstorm’s chilly air beginning to brew inside. The last thing she needed was her patients stress levels to go up when they were already ill from the famine her village was trying to conquer.
The priestess slowly stood from the wooden floor and straightened her spine. “How may I help you on this cold night?”
Waiting for his reply, Kagome’s eyes caught the mysterious lady behind him come around to show her full figure. Her hands were kept low at the front as she took a small bow. “Are you the one they call Kagome?”
Kagome’s eyes shifted from her to the man before resting back on the woman. “Depends what this matters is about…”.
Their aura could not be flimsy mistaken; she knew it too well.
“Please do pardon my intrusion; my name is Tamayo.” The mysterious woman placed her right palm over her chest, “but we have come for your services.”
Her brow crooked up at her apology. Her single apology. She was not apologizing on behalf of his intrusion but solely on hers. Her brows furrowed as she stared at the man’s stoic expression. “We?” She questioned. She was not foreign to these dangers, in fact, compared to normal humans, she knew how to handle their class.
But it did not mean she would not set her guard high.
Especially when the one before her had the hairs on the back of her neck stand at a still. Right now she had to fear not only for her own safety, but those inside her home. There was no telling what this man could do.
“Rumors have rippled about a priestess having experience working with demons.” Tamayo’s expression remained cold. “We hoped to come and have you work with us.”
Kagome could not help but fixate her focus back and forth from Tamayo and the man. Demons? So she had been right. But there was something…off. Way off. The said priestess’s eyes narrowed slowly as the fire flames on her candles flickered slowly to reveal the crimson in his gaze darkening on her person. No doubt waiting for her acceptance or his attack upon her rejection.
“What exactly is your goal?” Kagome had to know. “For as long as I had known…demons went either into hiding or extinct. The world progressed too quickly.”
A scoff emitted out of the man. Both women froze at his sinister smirk.
“Humans surely believe they would out best demons? Do you all believe human blood reigns over all?”
His cold tone had her glaring; she dropped her tense shoulders. “Then why is it that a demon, who believes they are all might, is seeking help from a mere human?”
The man’s brow twitched as a vein on his forehead slowly prodded.
Tamayo’s mouth went agape at the priestess’s courage to speak against her master. Her eyes flickered back and forth before taking a deep bow. “Please! Muzan-sama is not asking for your help but is demanding it! I know this is a situation you would not trust, but please, Muzan-sama will leave everyone untouched if you just come with us.”
The priestess’s eyes returned to the male demon. ‘Muzan? That’s his name, huh?’ And she received a threat nonetheless. He was willing to kill everyone under this roof. Her right hand came over to the ribbons holding her kimono sleeves and pulled to let them fall. Closing her eyes, Kagome sighed and wrapped the ribbons around her wrists after releasing the other side. “Then let’s hear it; what exactly is that you need from this mere human?”
She would need to hear it first. Where had this demon come from?
Tamayo released a quiet sigh before her eyes pulled back from her shock with Muzan’s outburst. “Muzan-sama seeks to conquer the sun.”
Kagome immediately let her expression melt into a state of surprise. The sun? What was she talking about...?
Before she could vocally question her storm of question, Kagome’s breath hitched at the sight of black and and red whips made out of blood and bone sprout from his back. The end of one of the whips swiftly stopped mere inches away from the throbbing vein at her neck. A droplet of sweat clung on her cheek as her eyes cautiously lowered to see the sharp point of his whip.
“You will come with us.” His voice became lathered with threat. “You will assist me on my goal.”