Disclaimer: Okay... It's obvious that I don't own InuYasha, so sew me if you must, but I garentee, I stated it right here, THAT I DO NOT OWN INUYASHA, nor the plot! So there! I win! The only thing I own is my plot and the characters I thought up in my twisted head.

Chapter One.

The key to his plan.

Kagome sighed as she stared at the fire before her. Her companions, Sango, Shippo, Miroku, Kirara, InuYasha, and even the tiny flea friend named Myoga was there, warming themselves against the night air.

The conversation was light and cheery, talking about old times, and laughing, talking about one's happy childhood memories. InuYasha, of course was the only one not joining in. He sat in the corner, doing his usual glaring rounds. His glares first hit Miroku, who knew it was there, but continued on talking. Next it was to Shippo, who looked as if he didn't have a clue in the world. These glaring rounds he seemed to do every night, continued around the group, to the golden eyes fell on Kagome's.

His eyes widened slightly as he realized Kagome was watching him, with a smile on her face... that oh so annoying know-it-all cheery smile; his thoughts spoke to him. His glare deepened, and looked away quickly, which in the end, made Kagome smile all the more.

For a few minutes more, this cheery night continued on, and the group had little trouble on their minds. Who would though? The fire made them warm, and fuzzy inside, and the good food didn't help the matter. Even InuYasha joined in on the part of the night where they stuffed their bellies to the busting point, and scarily enough, sat down for a while, and this is where the real shock sat in. He smiled at one part of Shippo's tale of when he was three and his father was playing a game with him.

Kagome shivered a little, as though darkness spread over her back, making the fire's warmth little to compare to the cold chill swarming over her. It was like you where standing in the snow, in hardly compatible snow clothes and someone poured ice water down one's back.

Kagome looked onward to her companions and realized she wasn't the only one feeling the effects of the cold chill. It seemed to go like a ripple, spreading about the small circle of three's that they made camp in. One by one, the group stopped talking and looking past Kagome's back in question.

Something was definitely coming.

A slight noise was heard then, as it seemed to be shooting towards them. "InuYasha?" Kagome whispered, as InuYasha instinctively got in front, drawing his sword.

"Shut up, Kagome. I need to listen." Kagome's gave changed to a redder flustered color, as she was about to respond, but stopped as her voice was caught in her throat. The noise that they heard was the tree's hitting each other, as a powerful force of wind came their way.

Kagome saw their fire was snuffed out, as even InuYasha's strong clamped down feet was dragged back a little.

And then it died...As though nothing had taken place. The fire returned with a new found glory, and blazed merrily then ever. And slowly the chill vanished, and the group looked around wildly for some sort of explanation to what they had just witnessed.

"Is everyone okay? Myoga? Where are you?" InuYasha looked around his galley of friends.

"Right my here, my Lord." a little voice said next to his hear. Myoga was clamped on to top part of his ear, hanging on to the tiny threads of fur coming out of the top points. "But my lord! Where is young Lady Kagome?"

The group froze as they looked around the circle of three's. But that was just a waist of time.

Kagome was gone.


Kagome awoke slowly. Her mind was dead to what just happened what seemed minutes ago.

"InuYasha?" A deep chuckle answered her whispered outcry, but it was the not the deep voice she wanted and connected the name to.

"No, no, my dear. I am not InuYasha." Kagome's breath caught in her through as her hand shot to her throat. The tiny silver necklace, where she kept her shards where gone.

"Naraku!" her voice managed to croak out. "Give me back my shards! I'm warning you..." at this Naraku laughed outright.

"Warning me now? Come now, my dear. You should know better then to warn me." Kagome opened her eyes, and took in her surroundings.

She was in a highly furnished palace room, which looked fit for even Sesshomaru to feel at peace. Her bedding was of the softest feathers, and silks, and lovely paintings hung on the walls of epic stories and legends. Dark richly colored pillows where thrown around the room, making wonderful looking places to sit. But right in the middle of the rooms, sat a round dent in the floor, where a fire blazed and warmed the room to just a good temperature.

Kagome looked around for the body of the voice came from. She found the body shape on the other side of the room, covered in shadows, his white eyes showing clearly, with his dark brown eyes staring at her, playfulness shining bright. But that was the only thing she could see, as the rest of just a mass of black blobs.

"Do you like your room? Is there anything else you should acquire to make your stay most... pleasurable?"

Kagome glared at the beast across the room. She spoke her voice raspy for what seemed strange to her, as it looked like she went through no real trouble getting here in the first place. One second she was talking with her friends, the next she was laying here, glaring at the beast named Naraku.

"What do you want with me? Why didn't you just take the jewel shards and leave me be?"

Kagome could see Naraku slowly start to smile, his teeth glittering in the light. The image was rather creepy. But who wouldn't get unnerved out at the site of a obviously large powerfully built half-demon that was currently a black blob, with the only thing showing was his glowing white eyes and fangs.

"You are too valuable, my lovely miko." Naraku stood up and walked forward. Now Kagome could see his fine sickening dark handsome features. "You, Kagome, are the very key to my plan." Kagome glared at the man in front of her.

"And what is your plan, Naraku?" Naraku laughed as his silkily deep voice echoed around the room.

"Now, now, Kagome. It would not do, to unleash too much of my plans in one meeting. You should try to eat something. You have lost some weight in your deep sleep."

"What? What deep sleep?" Once again, Naraku laughed. The sound lasted longer in Kagome's ears though. No matter how much evil swarmed off the male in front of her, she had to admit his laugh was darkly beautiful.

"My dear Miko... Have you not noticed? You have been asleep for two weeks. It's a pity your friends haven't started searching yet. From what I have heard, InuYasha has taken' a more of a liking to Kikyo, along with the others." Kagome's jaw dropped.

"But what about me?"

"What about you Miko?"

"I was their friend!"

"Apparently not any longer." A soft warm breeze blew throughout the room, and he was gone before her eyes.

Kagome made an attempt to sit up but her body wouldn't allow it.

InuYasha, have you really forgotten about me?


Kagura walked quickly down the corridor, leaping over the dead bodies scattered around on the floor. "Disgusting!" she sneered to her self, as she kicked off rotting flesh of her silken slipper.

"Do you have a problem with the way I decorate?" Kagura spun around quickly, as she tried to cover her shock and surprise of him standing there... watching her.

"No. I don't, Naraku-sama." Naraku nodded slowly as he walked toward her.

"I have a new assignment for you Kagura, along with Kanna."

"What is it that you wish my lord?"

"You are to watch the young miko. Make sure Kikyo never lies eyes upon her. If they where to meet. Only one will walk away alive."

"But my lord...Isn't that what you wish?"

"Not any longer. I only wish for you to take care of the young miko. Make her your friend; show her around the castle. Use Kanna only watch her when she asks to be by her self. She is never to leave these grounds, to hear me Kagura?" Kagura nodded, she knew that Naraku hated being questioned but there was one more that was burning inside of her to ask.

"Naraku-sama... Do you really mean to sell her to the lords of as a lady queen?" Naraku watched Kagura within in the corner of his eyes, as he walked past her.

"Do not ask questions that you all ready know the answers for, Kagura. My time is precious." Kagura blinked, and was not surprised when he was no longer there.

He was all ways popping in and out rooms. She never knew what he had planed for their futures. But in the end, they all ways survived...

But she didn't want to just survive. She was the wind. She lived to be free.

Maybe this young Miko may come in handy after all.


Naraku paced his room as he waited for his daughter Kanna to arrive. He wanted to keep track of those little pests that where trying to take back Kagome.

"My lord?" Naraku turned around, and the pearly white child stood before him. Her mirror in front of her, and was facing him. It was swirling within it's self. Drawing people's eyes to it, to stare within its depth.

But Naraku paid little attention to it. It's power did not draw to him, like it other where drawn to it.

"Kanna, show me InuYasha, and his followers."

Slowly the swirling masses took shapes, and then colors, and then noises. The foggy mirror showed like a mirror.

"InuYasha!" Shippo cried from Kirara's full demon formed head. "We are going in circles!" InuYasha turned to his friends on his heal.

"We are not!" He looked behind his back. "I know perfectly of where we are going." InuYasha turned to continue to run, but then stopped turning around, his friends where gone.

He was in blackness.

"Miroku? Sango? Shippo?" He called desperately into the darkness. "Where are you guys? Talk to me!"

"InuYasha..." A cool voice sounded from behind InuYasha. He turned around and gasped softly. Kikyo stood before him, in her perfect beauty. Her strange smile played against her face. Instantly they where back and the tree where InuYasha was pined for 50 years.

"Stop your foolish search, InuYasha. Kagome is gone. She left you... Why don't you see that. InuYasha, I am still here." InuYasha shook his head slowly.

"No! I know Naraku has Kagome!"

"But how do you know that? You have no proof."

"It's a gut feeling!" Slowly Kikyo become to giggle. Then her giggle turned to pure cold laughter.

"InuYasha. I thought you where smarter then that. Leave Naraku to me. I know him best." Kikyou walked over to InuYasha and placed her hands on his shoulders. "And I know you best, too, InuYasha." InuYasha closed his eyes, kissing Kikyo softly.

But when their lips met, she was gone, and he was thrown once again into darkness.

"InuYasha!" her voice called out. "InuYasha! InuYasha!"

"INUYASHA!" a male voice broke through the darkness. InuYasha opened his face. "Are you all right?" he looked around. His friends surrounded him. It was raining hard now, instead of the light rain they had earlier.

"Wha... What happened?" InuYasha asked looked at his friends, as his hand rose to rub his head.

"Lightening hit a tree, and split it into. You got a nasty hit to the head. Come on we should get you out the rain."

Shippo came running back out of breathe, and quiet drenched. "There's a cave right ahead! It's dry and warm." the others nodded and took off, InuYasha laying down on Kirara.

Slowly the image stopped playing, and Kanna stood looking at her master, as her mirror once again returned to his gray misty swirls. She waited with an unemotional mask on her face, waiting for more orders.

Naraku stayed silent for a while, a small smile playing on his face.

"Go now Kanna. Go to Kagura, she may need you." Kanna turned and left leaving Naraku to his own thoughts.

Many thanks Kikyo. But what do I owe this silent help for? What are you up to? What are you thinking?