DISCLAIMER
Don't own InuYasha. This is the remake of the original Chapter 1, for I felt that I was obliged to. I thought it sucked so much that it may be why I dun have so many reviewers. O'course, that doesn't mean I'm dissing my reviewers of this story! I'm happy that you stuck with me to the much better chapters! Thank you very much (bows low in gratitude)

Chapter I: Escaped to be Captured

'At last... Some peace...' a female, with long brown hair, brown eyes, a purple outfit, a pair of white angel-like wings, a golden-brown horn and a white-with-black cheetah tail, thought as she stands up from the ground as the purple vortex behind her closes. She has been wanting to get away from her crazy friends for awhile.

The forest around is dense, full of scents she doesn't fully recognize, but she figures that it's just a little different from the other areas of the world she's been in. But she notes that it's much more quiet from the usual.

Raising her head a little, she sniffs the air once again. She can't find anything that smells of danger.

'I suppose I am okay for now.' She looks right and left, quickly spotting a sort of trail. 'It is as good as any. I have no place to be at, anyway.' Walking to it and then on it, she follows one way. Hoping to not run into something that requires fighting. The female called Rose also doesn't want to run into any village or people. She doesn't really like company, like many others would.

Eventually, she pulls out the headphones from her bag on her back. She is never without it, for it provides the distraction. Besides, the quietness of the forest is bothering her very much that she needs some sort of noise. Pressing 'Play' on the cd player and zipping the bag closed again, she starts to listen to the groups called Drowning Pool and KoRn. She knows that this place doesn't have the greatest of technologies as of now, but she doesn't fully care. Rose just wants music.

'I wonder how they will take to me being gone again,' Rose thought as she switches topics to her friends in her mind. 'But I am sure that they are used to this routine by now. If they are not, then they can kiss my ass.' With that, she closes her mind to thinking. Headaches are the worst when she thinks too much on one manner. Though one subject will always haunt her waking and sleeping moments.

'This is some forest... There are too many dark auras around to my taste...' Rose thought as she starts to feel more and more auras that just screams danger. But she figures that if she kept alert, she'll be fine. She just hopes that it's true enough as she continues to travel through the territory that continues to grow darker and darker.

As the song 'I Did My Time' was finishing, Rose suddenly tenses, watching the nearby shadows that has rustling and movement within it.

"My my... You are certainly an odd female that I have seen," a man said as he finally steps from out of the shadows. Covered in the pelt of a white baboon, making his face hard to read. "What are you doing in my territory, female?"

"My question is who are you?" Rose said emotionlessly as she quickly places the headphones in the pocket of her bag, barely able to turn the machine off. "I am not causing any trouble, I am merely passing through. I did not know these lands belong to anyone."

"Kukukuku... So you say," he replies, chortling still. Rose is on edge as he steps closer, his aura the darkest she has ever encountered besides some she knows. "You truly don't know who I am, do you?"

"Why else am I asking...?"

"Very well. My name, is Naraku. What is yours?"

"...Rose," she answers as she narrows her eyes. "Now, will you let me pass? Like I have said, I have no quarrels with you nor anyone among these lands." She tries to walk by him as he continues to study her through the hood of the baboon pelt. The one called Naraku stops her by suddenly appearing in front.

"Why should I believe you? You are a strong youkai being. How do I know not one of my enemies have sent you to annihilate me?"

"For I would have already attacked once you made your appearance known to me." 'Christ, people and their territories... And enemies, for that matter.' "I have no allegiance to another, I am a traveler that is passing by. Allow me to pass or else I shall make you."

"Oh ho, a threat? I believe that you're not here to pass through. Now, tell me why you're here."

'Oi vey, he really needs to figure out that he is being dense...' "If you will not let me pass, then let me out of your lands. I have no business here, as it looks like." Being completely cautious, she turns to walk off in the other direction. "I shall take my leave."

"I think not," Naraku said as he lands in front of her once more. "You will be coming with me. I don't think it's very wise for me to let someone go that knows my whereabouts to tell others."

"Alright, this is starting to get old," Rose growls as she narrows her eyes. "Move, or else I will make you. Do not make me ask you once more."

"And what will you do if I don't, exactly?" Lashing out, he grabs one of her arms tightly. The tail around Rose's waist comes up instantly and wraps around the wrist, prying it off of her arm.

"You are not to touch me ever," she said with a warning tone. "I shall break that arm of yours if you are to do it again."

"Aren't we a little feisty? You can threaten well, yet, you seem to be reluctant to fight me."

'You would think he will get the hint... I do not want to fight at all...' "As you continue to do this, I will have to change my mind upon that," she warns. "Leave me be." Her tail releases his arm as she backs away, though Naraku seems persistent on keeping a close distance with her.

"I believe I'll have you unconscious. I am running behind on my schedule, and this is taking much more time than it should."

"You have asked for this." Rose's claws sharpen and grow much longer than normal, glowing purple. "Purifying Claws." The attack goes straight through the threat, the pelt sliced in half and only the remains of the man is a mound of dirt, a wooden doll and a piece of black hair wrapped around it.

"Did you really expect me to try and take someone on while they're on their guard?" the real Naraku said as he has a gripping hold on Rose's neck from behind, making her struggle to remove it.

'Shit! I should have expected that!' "You are such an arrogant and annoying bastard."

"That is what others have said. But I believe your beauty sleep awaits for you," he replies while he stabs into her back with his claws, sending miasma within her bloodstream. The world starts to turn black as she finds her limbs growing limp.

"Damn... you..." she whispers before the darkness claims her.

- - -

"...Ugh..." Opening her eyes at last after an hour of being unconscious in the world of nightmares, she can barely see the surroundings until her sight fully returned to her. All around, she can only see walls of earth, the scent of death and wet earth reeking and filling her nose. Rose finds that her arms have fallen asleep for some reason. Trying to move them so that she can take the sleep out of them, she finds that they are bound by something cold and hard.

'What is going on...? Why is my arms unable to move much? ...! That bastard, Naraku... He must have tied me up...' she thought as she looks up, finding that it's chains that holds her up. This makes her realize that she isn't on the ground, but held up by the chains on her wrists and ankles, as well as her neck and waist. Held off the ground by a good foot or two.

'Why do I feel so weak?? What the hell did he do to me?' Seething a little at the thought of being weak, she tries to pull herself loose from the wall and chains. The poison really knocked about with her nerve system. She gives up after a little while as her eyes fully adjusts to the darkness. She looks down to see her bag is somewhere beneath her feet. 'Looks like he did not bother to look through it,' she muses. All of her close possessions are in that bag.

"Someone's certainly making a racket down here," she hears as a trap door leading to down in the dungeon opens up. He turns her head to glares up at the spider hanyou, Naraku. "Seems you wake up after an hour of being unconscious..."

"What is it you want from me?" Rose replies coldly, her face turning blank from the anger and confusion she was feeling just a minute ago.

"Also a bit touchy," he said with a dark chuckle, jumping into the same room. He doesn't have the baboon pelt on him anymore, revealing his long lock of jet-black hair, and red eyes. He has the face of what would be a fair prince, if it isn't for the dark smirk it has on it. His clothing is flowing blue and black yukata, which makes his pale skin show even much more paler than it probably would have with any other colors. "I suggest you don't use that tone of voice. I hold your life in my hands. I might just end up killing you, with your attitude."

"Are you trying to scare me? Because it is not working," she said as she remains to look unimpressed with his little speech. Death threats never had bothered her, so why should it now?

"Hm. I cannot let you stay awake to regain your strength and escape, so it looks like we'll be seeing each other much more often."

"Do not come near me, you filth," she spats when he starts to walk towards her.

"Feisty, aren't we? But aren't we forgetting that you're in my hands?" he laughs as he stands mere inches from her. "With you all tied up and weak from my miasma, what can you do to back up your threats?"

Rose growls as he flexes his right hand.

"I hope you have a nice nap," he said just as he stabs his claws into her back once more, injecting more miasma, the world instantly blacking out on Rose.

At a different point of area...

"So many flowers here, Lord Sesshomaru!" Rin runs into the meadow the threesome has come across in their travels. Sesshomaru watches his charge stop and kneel onto her knees, picking a flower and bringing it to her nose to smell it. He isn't fully interested, for he was thinking upon other matters.

"Rin, you insolent human! Stay with us!" Jaken yells as he was gathering firewood. They will be stopping soon for Rin to rest.

"Lord Jaken, I'm fine! I'm only picking flowers for Ah-Un."

"A two-headed dragon doesn't care for flowers, silly human!"

'That dark aura is Naraku, I'm sure of it,' he thought as he continues to watch Rin and Jaken. 'But what of that new one? I haven't felt one quite like it before. Is it a priestess of some sort? Or could it be something entirely different?' he muses to himself. The aura he felt some time ago still remains in his thoughts, and if it's still bothering him, then it means that it has to be of some importance. 'The aura was demon, but it was much different from any other...'

He suddenly tenses, while Rin stops her picking of flowers and looks around. The area around them feels much darker and sinister.

'Could it be Naraku?' Sesshomaru's stance doesn't change in the slightest, but his sense of alert has increased considerably

"Kukukuku..." an too-familiar voice echoes through the area while a massive swirl of miasma explodes from above and lands directly in front of Sesshomaru, then dissipates to show the white pelt of a baboon standing there.

"Naraku."

"Lord Sesshomaru. It's so nice to see you again."

With a wordless command, Jaken takes Rin and Ah-Un out of the area.

"What business do you have with me this time, hanyou?"

"So suspicious as usual, Lord Sessomaru," Naraku chuckles. "But I suppose there's one good reason enough for your to be."

"AHH! Master Jaken, help!" Sesshomaru hears in a distance. With that for an answer of what the spider hanyou wanted, Sesshomaru's Poison Whip appears and slices the puppet in half. Naraku's voice continues to chuckle in the area.

"You have three days to find my castle and rescue your human charge. Until then, farewell," he said before the pelt and the mound of dirt decays and leaves nothing but a piece of hair and a wooden doll.

'Rin...'

It was easy to find Jaken, for Ah-Uh was on high alert, but their reigns were tangled in the branches of the tree that apparently knocked the imp demon unconscious. With a simple nudge, Sesshomaru walks away as Jaken instantly comes to life.

"M-m-my Lord! Forgive this lowly servant!" he cries as he bows so low that he's on his hands and knees, bowing his head constantly that he's hitting the dirt with his nose.

"Jaken." The imp stops his groveling, raising his head fearfully at his Lord. "There is no time for such things. Raise up onto your feet."

"Y-yes, you're right as always, mi'lord..." As Jaken grabs Ah-Un's reigns from the branches, Sesshomaru already is moving off in a direction he is very sure that Naraku's castle is at. But what also has his attention is the fact that the aura from earlier is in that direction as well.

'Things may be interesting to meet the person of this aura, but Rin comes first above all else,' he thought.