InuYasha stooped to the ground as he sniffed with much consideration. "Dang! He's already passed through here," he snarled under his breath.

" Come on InuYasha! Hurry up! I'm starving!" Kagome was tapping her foot with impatience.

"Now, now Kagome. I'm sure he has a perfectly good reason of why he's taking a little longer than expected," said Miroku with a gentle face.

"Uh! He's been sniffing around for over ten minutes already," she said in a whinny voice."He's probably picking on some poor traveler again."

Finally, Miroku just decided to go see what InuYasha was up to himself. " I'll be right back," he said with a sigh.

"Hey, Kagome!" Shippo can running up to her suddenly.

"Oh, hi Shippo!" she said surprised. "Any luck?"

"Not at all," Sango popped in the conversation suddenly. " Shippo and I searched everywhere that there might be food. Sorry."

"We really did," Shippo said backing up Sango.

"Well, thanks for trying you guys. Maybe on the way to the next village, wherever that is, we'll come across something," Kagome said with disappointment.

"So, InuYasha. Have any luck?" Miroku said slowly approaching him.

"Yeah, but I don't know if you would exactly call it luck," he replied with an upset look on his face.

"What ever do you mean?" Miroku said starting to worry.

"Well, I can definitely smell Naraku, but it seems as though he's already passed through. And do you know what that means?" he said quickly looking up at Miroku from the sniffing position he was in.

"Uumm. It depends." Miroku said with a quiver in his voice.

InuYasha rolled his eyes. "It means that there must be a village up ahead," he said whilst staring at Miroku who had a distorted look on his face.

"So, in other words that village is most likely to be wiped out in a few moments?"

InuYasha looked toward the horizon. "If it hasn't already."

"Why do we have to get there so quickly?" Kagome asked atop of InuYasha's back.

"I told you. We have to get there before Naraku destroys the village that's right ahead."

Kagome tilted her head with big eyes. "Aw. You really care about those poor villagers, don't you?"

InuYasha stopped running and sharply turned his head to Kagome. "Now you're just twisting my words. I never said I cared about the villagers. I only care about finding Naraku and beating the living daylights out of him." He turned his head around once more and took off again with one swift leap.

"Sheesh," Kagome thought. "Remind me next time to not ask InuYasha about caring for someone."

They gently glided along with Sango, Miroku, and Shippo riding on Kirara just above their heads.

"So, Miroku. What was InuYasha doing over there when you went to find him?" Shippo said with gleaming eyes.

"Well, he was doing exactly what was expected: sniffing for Naraku."

Shippo looked down."Oh. I thought he did something worth talking about. I'm so bored," he said with a slump.

Miroku thought for a second then said," Well, how about we just all sit here and wind down from our traveling. Maybe take a nap." Those were the only words Shippo had to hear before he conked out. Miroku gave a chuckle and flopped down with him.

A few moments after they fell asleep, they were awakened by the piercing sound of Sango's voice talking to InuYasha. Yet, she had to yell instead of talk, because she was floating above him. So, that just made it even better for the two. "InuYasha! I see a village up ahead! It doesn't look very good and I think I smell smoke."

InuYasha looked to the sky to give a reply. "I was afraid of that. I could smell the smoke miles before, but I didn't want to believe it was from the village. I guess the only thing we can do is keep going."

Sango had to dangle her head over the side of Kirara just to get a glimpse of InuYasha. "I'd say your right," she said straining her neck. "Maybe once we get to the village we might be able to find some clues as to where Naraku is." She turned to Miroku and Shippo who had ignored her voice and gone back to sleep. "Miroku! Shippo!"

They both simultaneously jumped up and said, "What!?!?"

Sango too jumped in surprise. "This is no time for sleeping. We're about to reach the village and I don't think it's going to be a pretty sight."

Shippo fell backwards and said, "Those are exactly the words I didn't want to hear. Ugh."

Sango shook her head at the sight of the little kitsune. "Well, there's nothing we can do about it. So, I guess we're just going to have to suck it up."

"Ugh," Shippo groaned again. "I'm so hungry. Do you think when we get to the village there will be food?"

Sango was facing forwards now. "Right now I'm just hoping there will still be a village there. Wait a minute." She spun around swiftly to find Miroku spread out once again. "I told you to wake up!"

Kagome stood staring at what was left of the village with her mouth gaping open. "Oh my gosh," she said aloud. "How could all of this possibly happen in that short amount of time?"

"It's called Naraku." When he spoke, he didn't even turn to face Kagome. He to was standing in front of what was left of the village, staring in awe.

Sango looked around slowly. "Does anyone else hear that sound?"