Disclaimer: I know, I know, I know… we have to add this thing at the top all the time or else we'll uh… pay for the consequences… So here it is: I do not own Inuyasha, he and all the other characters that appear in my little gay-ass story belong to Rumiko Takasuri… how however the heck you spell her name… if any of you know how to spell it, please tell me !

Chapter 1: Chaos

"Don't worry guys, I'll be back." Kagome said sweetly as she posed on the ledge of the Bone Eater's Well. The days seemed to be more peaceful and quiet for the past week in the feudal Era, ever since they got rid of Naraku. Now that the burden of finding the Shiken Jewel was gone, Kagome was able to travel back and forth between her time and the feudal era without a problem. Well, there was still Inuyasha that Kagome had go to get through before hopping back into her own time where she would run her life like any other normal high school girl. After what seemed like a million rounds of sits, Kagome waved good-bye to her friends and hopped into the well. The last thing she heard was Inuyasha's grief-stricken howl.

No need to worry Inuyasha… She thought ruefully to herself. Despite the fact that she was now spending more time in her own period, Kagome always found her way back to the very depressed Hanyou. Kagome leapt out of the Bone Eater's well with ease. It had been so easy to do that since she had been traveling back and forth between the times in order to gather the Shiken Shards for more than seven years now. It so happened that this fateful day was her Twenty-third birthday. Kagome smiled to herself thinking about what Inuyasha and the rest of the gang were doing.

"Kagome…" a voice called down from the bottom of the well. The voice actually freaked Kagome out because she nearly fell into the well. The voice sounded oddly like Sango's. Perhaps Sango became a ghost and haunted her. Kagome shuddered at the thought and bravely leaned over the ledge of her well. Of course Kagome had the courage to lean into the well to see the ghost of her friend. How could she be afraid of a mere ghost when she had been battling the "almighty" Naraku for nearly eight years now? Naraku was much more menacing than any ghosts ever and of course there was Inuyasha's older half brother Sesshoumaru who was just as scary as Naraku, especially for his obsession of the Tetsusaigia that Inuyasha carried around with him.

As Kagome leaned over the well to look down, a brilliant flash of pinkish light glowed from the bottom of the well. Speaking of which, Sango was sitting at the bottom of the well. She sure as hell didn't look like a ghost. "Sango?" She called down uncertainly. Sango straightened herself up and gave a little nervous laugh as Kagome jumped down to the bottom of the well to join her friend. Instead of being taken back to the feudal era as usual, Kagome found herself looking up at the dark sky where the roof of the well house blocked out the sky.

"What the…" was all that left her throat. Sango was still next to her along with her boomerang.

"Are we back yet?" Sango asked nervously sweat-dropping.

"Sango, what are you doing here?"

"Uh… I um… was just passing by and just as you jumped into the well, Inuyasha shoved me into the well yelling at me to go after you. He told me that he felt this bad premonition."

"And…?"

"He told me he had a feeling that you would never return because of something horrible and handed me this to go after you. He then told me this weird stuff that he might survive until your time and we might meet again or something like that."

"Why would he…" Kagome trailed off and she understood why Inuyasha had been a bit more rash than usual. "He sensed that the well would close up forever…" Kagome said more to herself as she crouched down on the ground and passed her hand absent-mindedly across the dirt.

"Kagome… would that mean… that… please don't tell me I'm stuck here forever!"

Kagome closed her eyes and put a gentle hand on Sango's shoulder. "I'm afraid that your guess is correct. So that was what that pinkish flash was… the well sealed itself once the Shiken Jewel passed to the other side. Somehow… the well was aware of the pain that the Shiken Jewel caused for everyone and willed it into a world where its powers were unknown and ignored." Sango handed Kagome the Shiken Jewel.

"Well, if that's the case I guess I'll have to live with you, if you don't mind. And you can take this since it originated from your body."

"Of course you can stay! You're more than welcome and I'm sure Gramps would be excited to meet you. A person from the feudal area in the flesh!" Kagome grinned as she held the Shiken Jewel to her chest, willing it to return where it once lay.

The Shiken Jewel molded into her body and soon the Jewel's brilliant pink radiance was gone. At that, Sango stood up.

"Well, that settles it. No more Youkais running after the Shiken Jewel. No Naraku, no Sesshoumaru, no Kouga, no Shippou… and no…" Sango immediately cut herself off as she was about to say Inuyasha. Kagome looked a bit sad and Sango mentally slapped herself. "Look, how 'bout you introduce me to your family members?" Kagome nodded and proceeded to climb back up the ladder.

Inuyasha growled to himself. Sango was supposed to come back with Kagome. He knew that if he went, the only thing he would get would be a round of his most feared word. In fact, he flinched every time he heard it and didn't even want to think about it. Shippou popped out from nowhere and landed on his head. "Inuyasha… why'd you have to send Sango after Kagome? Isn't she going to return."

"Shippou…" Inuyasha growled, "Get off my heard before I…" Inuyasha didn't bother finishing his sentence because he punched Shippou off his head and kicked him away from him. That only willed Shippou to come running back to him on all fours. "Can't you smell something wrong in the air?" Inuyasha continued. Shippou nodded. "Then now you might understand why I sent Sango after Kagome. I have a feeling that we won't be seeing them ever again. The least I could do was send Sango after her." Upon hearing Inuyasha's contemplation, Shippou started wailing like mad only to be interrupted by a loud smack that resounded through the village.

They didn't need to guess very hard to locate where that sound came from. It was obviously another village girl slapping Miroku across the face. Despite Naraku's plight, Miroku still had his Kazanna on his right hand, which meant one thing: pervert. Both Inuyasha and Shippou sighed as the black-haired monk trampled out from what seemed like nowhere. Across his left cheek was the clear shape of a red hand mark. Right before Naraku died, he had cursed the Kazanna to stay with Miroku forevermore. Luckily he died before saying anything else. And with the help of Inuyasha abandoning his wishes to be complete youkai and Kagome's wishing upon the Shiken Jewel, the Kazanna was no longer a threat to Miroku.

But that didn't mean that he didn't stop being the biggest pervert in the village. "Ah… if only I didn't have this hole, then I might not be as perverted as you think me to be." Miroku said sighing while looking at his gloved hand. "If only Sango was here, then I would have at least enjoyed the slap, maybe even a bonk over the head with her boomerang." Inuyasha immediately freaked out and leapt away from Miroku.

"Whoa! Hold it! You're not telling me you actually enjoyed being beaten by Sango! Are you?"

"Why else would I keep touching her lovely butt knowing the consequences."

"Sicko."

Inuyasha sniffed the air and growled. "Miroku, don't you sense anything foul?" Miroku nodded as Inuyasha growled aloud to himself, "Sesshoumaru… why him?"

Sure enough Sesshoumaru appeared before them with an aura of arrogance. "Sesshoumaru, stop patronizing me." Inuyasha scowled as his older brother shot him a condescending glare. Inuyasha steadied himself and growled at his brother whose golden orbs shimmered not in malice as usual, but a look pleading him. Inuyasha sensed that his brother was not there to fight. "Sesshoumaru, don't think you could mask your emotions with your boring-ass facial expression. I can practically SNIFF the worry rolling off you in waves. What is it?"

"Inuyasha, tell me this," Sesshoumaru said scowling at the fact that his brother had figured out his true motive of seeing him. "What did you really do to that miko?" Inuyasha settled back into his fighting stance.

"What about Kagome?" He asked with a snarl, "If you're wondering what happened to her, she went back to her own time."

"I'm not talking about your mate, I'm talking about that undead miko of yours. What was her name again?" Sesshoumaru put on an expression of mock confusion. He shot Inuyasha a cold glare savoring the stricken look that spread across the hanyou's face. "Ah yes, it must be Kikyou I'm talking about. Tell me this, what did you really do to her?"

"I sent her to hell! What else would I have done? She's an undead Miko and I can't bear to think about her roaming the lands alone. Besides, I chose Kagome. Who would want to stick around with a insensitive clay pot like her?"

"Well, I hope you realize that this so called clay pot did not go to hell after all."

Inuyasha mentally choked on his own breath. "WHAT?" He sputtered not believing what his brother had told him. He was so sure he saw her sink into the ground and disappear in a flash of white light. Kagome had her soul completed, so how did she return. Inuyasha balled his hands into fists and hissed, "Liar. She's gone, she promised me she wouldn't return."

Sesshoumaru gave Inuyasha his usual impassive expression and told his younger brother evenly that apparently Kikyou did not keep her promise and was bent on taking him with her to hell if that meant she had to wage total war in the middle of the land. "I came to ask you to just go to hell with your beloved clay pot and never set danger to any youkai in this land. If that resurrected miko comes back and wages war with you she shall destroy all youkai in this land. Is that clear."

Involuntarily, Inuyasha muttered, "There's only one person who can stop her." Sesshoumaru raised an eyebrow at Inuyasha.

"You don't mean that that mate of yours could stop her. If that is so, I must remind you that she is very weak in miko powers…"

"You don't understand, you ass!" Inuyasha interrupted with a snarl, "If you think I was the one who killed Naraku, you're wrong. The person who actually killed Naraku was Kagome." Inuyasha raised his eyes to examine his brother who had gone rigid in shock. "I may have attacked Naraku with my Backlash Wave, but that didn't work. As Naraku was about to finish me off, Kagome shot her arrow at him. So now, if you think Kagome's a weak miko, think again because if you're as powerful as Naraku once was, she can take you down. And if she can take you down, she sure as hell can take Kikyou down."

"Do you not comprehend that I cannot sense any powerful miko vibes from this Kagome?"

"That's because she masks her powers, you cocky bastard!"

"And I hope you understand that this so called Kikyou sealed the well forevermore to keep this Kagome of yours from ever returning to this world to stop her." Inuyasha stiffened.

Shippou, who was hiding behind Inuyasha stuck his head out from behind Inuyasha's hair and asked him, "That means we can't ever see Kagome or Sango again?" Inuyasha swallowed hard. Was his brother testing him again? If his brother was right, then he was going to tear Kikyou from limb to limb. How dare she do that to his one and only love, the only person who taught him how to love and trust again? To make matters worse, Kikyou had lied to him. He growled, the sound vibrating from the back of his throat. "That bitch lied to me…" he snarled. Red-hot anger seemed to have clouded his vision, as Inuyasha menacingly told Shippou to get off him.

The small kitsune obeyed without another word and Inuyasha jumped off the ground to find the lying Miko. As fast as he leapt off the ground, he felt something soft and fluffy against his ankle. It felt vaguely familiar. Before Inuyasha could go any further into figuring out what it was, he felt himself plummet to the ground flat on his face. "INUYASHA!" He heard Miroku and Shippou call out in terror.

"You, little brother, are not going anywhere." He knew he felt that from somewhere. It was none other than Sesshoumaru's white furry pelt that lay on his shoulder. "We cannot stop this miko," came the same calm reply of his brother. "Even I am prone to danger against this miko who was once your girlfriend."

"She is NOT my girlfriend!" Inuyasha growled through gritted teeth. "Now get that fluffy thing OFF my ankle NOW!"

"Inuyasha, even I fear this once-ningen. She is very dangerous and can kill us without cause. Come to think of it, this Sesshoumaru thinks that it's not a wise idea for even something as shameful as you to die. I wished I haven't chosen this choice but we must go into hiding."

"HIDING!" Inuyasha roared pushing himself off the ground. "HIDE FROM KIKYOU? Where the hell did you leave that ruthless manner of yours? Huh?" Inuyasha clawed at the pelt that had wrapped itself around his ankle and was now cutting his circulation off. "GET YOUR FUCKING PELT OFF MY ANKLE!" Inuyasha shouted. He proceeded to take out the Tetsusaigia to slice the pelt off if that was the last thing he had to do.

Before he could slice the pelt off, he felt it loosen it's grip and slide off his ankle. "Smart thinking!" He growled, standing up.

"Inuyasha, follow me now. The rest are already in hiding."

"Why do you want to save me when you've been trying for the last seven years to kill me?" Inuyasha barked. "I do as I please, and I will certainly NOT follow you, even if you were telling the truth."

"Inuyasha, I don't feel bad vibes from Sesshoumaru this time." Miroku said calmly.

"What? You're going to follow him into a cave FILLED with youkais? As a monk too?"

"Those so-called youkais in the cave are youkais we know. The last thing I want is father's grave being shattered and purified."

"Why me?"

"Because you carry father's grave with you in your left eye. Besides, the only youkais that ceased to believe me were the mangly wolf and his remaining clan, the Ayame woman, Toutosai, and of course, Jaken. The only reason why I am persisting longer to get you to follow me is because of father's grave."

"Fuck you Sesshoumaru. You know damn well that I wouldn't follow you."

"Inuyasha, I suggest we follow Sesshoumaru to his suggested hiding place, it's all for Miroku, Shippou and Kirara."

Inuyasha glared down at the voice. He knew where it came from. Inuyasha angrily clawed through his hair and gave up to angrily flinging his hair around until a tiny dot flew out from his hair. "Myoga…" Inuyasha snarled gnashing his teeth at the small flea-youkai in between his claws.

"If Myoga agrees with Sesshoumaru, then we have a serious issue going on." Miroku said with a pensive look upon his face. Inuyasha shifted his death glare from Myoga to the monk who stood there firmly.

"I'm going to send Kikyou to hell if that's the last thing I have to do to stop her."

A flash of green light sliced past him barely missing him. It sliced a thin line along Inuyasha's face. Sesshoumaru looked angry beyond words. "You idiot. Once miko murders all the youkai, not only would I be the only inuyoukai standing, I'd be the last of all youkais!" Inuyasha glared at Sesshoumaru.

"Fine then. Take Shippou, Kirara, Miroku, and Myoga with you. I shall fight Kikyou. That's the only alternative left here now. And don't think I'd come running to you because I will not. Hide in that fucking hole of yours all you want but I will fight Kikyou even if that means I have to die."

With that, Inuyasha shoved the rest of his friends in front of him. "I don't have to worry about Kagome and Sango since they're safe in the future." Before is malevolent brother could utter another word or so much as lash out at him with his pelt and poison whip, Inuyasha had disappeared.

Sesshoumaru rubbed his temples with his only hand as he barely missed his brother with his pelt. His brother was much stupider than he had anticipated. Cursing inwardly to himself, Sesshoumaru turned on his heels and without so much as turning around, "Come." And he walked off. Miroku and the rest followed him into the mist that was starting around them.

She's starting her attack. Sesshoumaru thought to himself. "We're going through air." With that, Sesshoumaru summoned his mist that lifted him off the ground while Miroku, Shippou, and Myoga got on Kirara. They whizzed away to the unknown place that Sesshoumaru staked out as his hiding place.

"HAPPY FIFTEENTH BIRTHDAY!" Kagome's family called out to her. Kagome blinked. She was sure she was turning twenty-three this year, how did everything turn out to be that she was turning fifteen? Kagome looked at Sango who looked back at her surprised. They had celebrated each other's birthdays in their own special way in the feudal area. How did it happen that Kagome reverted back to a sixteen-year-old?

Nonetheless, Kagome smiled at her family and put on her fake happiness. Something wasn't right. "Umm… Gramps, I brought one of my friends with me from the feudal era other than Inuyasha. This is Sango." Kagome nudged Sango forward. Sango seemed shy, her boomerang posed on her back.

"Ooh! Is that…" Gramps rushed over to Sango and fingered her boomerang in awe. "Youkai bone…" Sango put on an uneasy smile. Kagome looked around the house. Some of the new things they had gotten when she was seventeen, eighteen, and nineteen were gone. Could it be that she had traveled somewhat into the future, but not quite. Sango was quite impressed with everything around her. She was especially impressed with the lump of blubber and fur that was now brushing itself against her ankle.

What? I thought Buyo died… Kagome thought to herself. Also, looking at Sango, she was positive that Sango looked six years younger. With that, she hastily excused herself to the bathroom. Once securely inside, she took a glimpse at herself into the mirror. She sure as hell did look as if she was fifteen. She couldn't believe she became so young. Why? Did she lose all her Miko powers she harbored with herself when she left Inuyasha clutching onto the ledges of the Bone eater's well?

Kagome tested her powers to see if anything had happened. She tried her smallest, weakest power she had only recently acquired. Snapping her finger, she felt a thin plume of sparkly white smoke rise from her fingers. She hadn't lost her powers. So maybe this was all a dream. Kagome threw open the door and grabbed Sango's arm.

"Come on! We need to figure something out! Mom, Souta, Gramps, thanks for the wonderful birthday you gave me, but I need to go somewhere with Sango." Without further delay, Kagome grabbed Sango's arm and dragged her out of the house. "Oh, and I'll be borrowing some money!" With that, Kagome dragged Sango out of the door and was down the steps to the shrine. The view of the city sparkled before her in the setting sun.

"Wow! I can't believe we actually made all this!" Sango breathed as Kagome tugged her off the curve to the subway.

Sango hesitated at the subway stand. "Come Sango, there's nothing to worry about, it's just something that helps regulate the amount of people that go on the train."

"Train?" Sango asked confused. She didn't notice the amount of people staring at her gigantic boomerang that still lay on her back.

"Yes." Kagome said as she put her subway ticket into it's slot and moved through. She stopped to wait for Sango who seemed not to know how to work it. "Oh, right. You stick the ticket in that small slot there." Sango hesitantly placed the ticket inside it's slot and it whizzed out of her hand. Freaking out and attracting more stares than before, Sango took out her boomerang and posed before the strange contraption. Kagome sweat-dropped. "Uh… it's supposed to do that. All you have to do is walk through it.

Blushing, Sango lowered her boomerang and tentatively walked through the machine. She let out a sigh of relief to find out that nothing happened. Without further or do, the two girls made their way to the train that was waiting. Kagome grabbed Sango's hand and ran up to the train. "Hurry up! If we miss that we have to wait for the next train!" Sango ran after her friend and the two of them managed to get into the train.

The doors slid shut, once more freaking Sango out. Kagome did her best to calm her friend down and explain to her that it was a door and nothing more. As soon as the train began to move, Sango experimentally tapped the ground with one foot. "Wow… this moves almost as fast as Inuyasha… well, maybe not as fast, but amazing." They waited until their stop came, and when it did, Kagome led her friend over to a hospital.

"Sango, if I'm correct, I think that we've just turned younger." Kagome said to the perplexed Sango and they moved towards the revolving doors.

"Don't tell me we're going inside there!" Sango said referring to the revolving door that continued to go round and round as some people willingly stepped into it. Smiling benignly, Kagome led Sango to the regular doors and pushed it open. She held the door so Sango could step through and they went to the DNA section. It was a place to figure out who was whose parent and things like that. It was also able to figure out people's age, especially designed for those who could not keep track of their ages.

Kagome approached one of the doctors and asked them if they could figure out her age as well as Sango's. Sango looked confused and freaked out when one of the nurses approached her with a needle. "Relax, it's only to take a small sample of your blood so they can figure our ages out."

"Kagome we should know our…" Sango was cut off when Kagome covered her mouth and laughed nervously. "They can figure our age out by looking at our blood?" Sango finished off lamely. "Are they evolved flea you-" Kagome covered Sango's mouth and laughed nervously as the doctors took their blood samples.

"Thank you very much ladies, please wait out in the waiting room." One of the nurses said sweetly. She handed them a slip with a number on it and Kagome led Sango out of the room and into the waiting room.

"Kagome, what's going on?"

"Sango, keep your voice down. If I am correct, we've just de-aged by seven years."

"Is that why I thought you looked a lot younger than before?"

"Yes. I have a bad feeling. In fact, I've had this feeling ever since I found out that the well sealed itself. I don't think it would just seal up by itself. I think someone sealed it up on purpose so that I can't come back. I think it has something to do with Inuyasha."

"Inuyasha? Who would want to hurt Inuyasha now that Naraku's gone? Sesshoumaru?"

"Wrong. That wasn't the power of a taiyoukai or any other youkai. It was the power of a miko."

"Kikyou? But didn't she go to hell after bidding Inuyasha goodbye?"

"I honestly don't know, if it were Kikyou, what would she want from Inuyasha that would make her seal the well up to keep me from coming back?" Kagome suddenly froze. "Oh kami… she's trying to kill him isn't she?"

"KAGOME! Kikyou is GONE. She couldn't have come back from hell to kill Inuyasha. We saw it for ourselves. She sucked herself into the ground never to come back again. How can she come back all of a sudden and…" Sango was cut off by Kagome's worried expression.

"I didn't want to tell you this, but a new nights after Kikyou disappeared, a small bit of my soul floated out from my body, which makes me more worried. I tried many times to will it back into my body. Kikyou was trying to return. I managed to save most of my soul, but the tiniest bit managed to escape."

"But what does Kikyou have to do with all this de-aging thing?"

"I don't know. All I know is that I might have to go back to school again. I'd kill myself if I find myself amongst younger students. Besides, you know that cat that rubbed against your ankle?"

"WHOA! THAT WAS A CAT?" Sango literally screamed. Kagome put on an insulted expression.

"Yes. It was Buyo. But that isn't important because Buyo died last year from a heart attack. So what is he doing here when he died?" Sango looked confused but she didn't have time to reply since the light changed to a different number. That number was theirs.

"Look, let's discuss this later. I have to go to school tomorrow. And we're next." Kagome got up with Sango and the two entered into the doctor's room as if it were their execution room.

"Ah, Ms. Higurashi. We have you're results. I'm glad to know your memory span is now back to normal, which means that you don't have to return periodically to figure out your age. Your ages are fifteen and sixteen respectively." The old man told them nodded at Kagome then to Sango. Both girls paled. This was not happening. It couldn't be!

Inuyasha woke up with a growl. His head hurt and he couldn't remember anything. The first thing he saw was Shippou's face. "INUYASHA! You're alive!"

"What else the fuck do you think I am?"

"Thank kami that Sesshoumaru saved you."

"WHAT?" Inuyasha roared bolting upright. Shippou tumbled off his stomach as his golden eyes surveyed the place he had woke up in. It was dark and lit poorly by some fire, which must have been made by Jaken's Nintengen, and Shippou's fox fire. The place was rugged and dark as well as cold. As Inuyasha surveyed the place, he saw Kouga scowling over what seemed like a rat with his two henchmen Ginta and Hakkaku.

"Awww man! Why the hell did I have to be born as a carnivore?" Kouga growled picking up the rat by it's tail then dropping it on the floor. Jaken was sitting on a bed of hay with a little girl cuddled next to him. Miroku was trying to make moves on Ayame, who kept on smacking him over the head with her fist. Toutosai was sitting down at the far end sobbing about how his place was destroyed and that he need fangs to make swords. He had set up a small area around him with his blacksmith materials and his cow stood next to him mooing calmly.

"Remember, Mangly wolf, you will NOT lay your hands on my cow!" Toutosai shouted.

"Heh! That cow looks like it would taste like shit." Kouga spat from the other side. Finally, Inuyasha's scanning eyes stopped on a tall figure that stood with his back to the rest of the group. The next thing Inuyasha did was fly up to claw out his brother. Much to his distaste, everyone, including Miroku blocked him.

"You bastard! How dare you interfere with my fight!"

"Did you not realize that you were about to be killed if I hadn't interfered?" Came Sesshoumaru's calm voice. The inuyoukai turned around to face his defiant brother. "I didn't have a choice. The last thing in the world I want is for father's grave disappearing from the face of this earth. I believe that that insane miko is now bent on destroying all youkai on the face of this earth and any other humans who are attracted or have any connections to a youkai. I, myself could not kill that Miko either. She was much too powerful. The only reason why I survived was because of the tenseiga. Using its powers I willed it to save the two of us. Now we have nothing else to do but to sit here and wait until that mad miko is taken to hell where she rightfully belongs or for your wretch to appear from out of nowhere to destroy her seeing that she is the only one who can stop this Kikyou woman. But that can be proved otherwise, since Kikyou had reversed her age. Thus she does not have the miko powers she acquired over the past eight years."

"WHHAT? You mean that Kagome became fifteen again?"

"Precisely. And I'm sure that the youkai exterminator is once again at the same age she once was when you first met. Pity. She's gotten much better in combat."

Inuyasha scowled at his brother. This was it. Kagome probably didn't even remember him. Damn that Kikyou. Sighing to himself, Inuyasha gave up his struggle and everyone released him. All he did was pace back and forth wondering if Kagome forgot who he was and her miko powers. But something in his heart told him that Kagome had not forgotten him. She would never forget him and neither would he no matter what. "You're a liar, Sesshoumaru." Inuyasha spat quietly enough for only his brother to hear.

Sesshoumaru turned around at his brother and humphed. Judging by the scent in the air, Inuyasha was somewhat convinced although deep down inside, his brother still hoped that Kagome didn't forget him. Sesshoumaru turned away from his brother. I'm sorry Inuyasha, he thought to himself, but I have no choice but to say that so you wouldn't run off after her again. With that, Sesshoumaru sat down on the bed of straw. He removed his armor and his pelt, which he found unmistakably dirty. "Jaken, wash this for me." He said calmly. The toady youkai approached and him and bowed deeply. "Yes milord… Rin, I know you like to watch me wash Sesshoumaru-sama's pelt." The little girl next to him bolted upright and skipped by him as he waddled deeper into the cave, the pelt dragging on the floor behind him. A small notch of vein appeared on Sesshoumaru's head.

"Jaken. Lift it up in the air. I will not tolerate my pelt being filled with mud before being washed." Inuyasha and the rest collapsed onto the floor their feet in the air twitching occasionally. Sesshoumaru lifted his teacup to his lips and sipped quietly.

Miroku was the first to recover. "I'm quite thirsty. I shall follow Jaken to see where the spring is so I could take a nice cool drink. With that Miroku disappeared into the darkness after the "toad" and the little girl. Inuyasha, in the meantime, Keh-ed. Then for a moment, just for a fleeting minute, everything seemed normal… Kouga fought Inuyasha a bit only to be broken apart by an angry Sesshoumaru. But it didn't last long, and everything seemed to collapse into the same silence as before. Inuyasha knew that Kagome had to be back.

A/N: New villain eh? And all those Kikyou lovers out there, I don't hate Kikyou, but I sort of wrote this story up out of the blue, so please don't scream at me by saying she's not a bad guy in the original anime/manga, because I know she isn't and I ain't doing this because I hate her, and it is NOT a kikyou bashing, so for all those Kikyou haters, well it's sort of a disappointment, since Kikyou is not displayed as "the slut" or the "jealous one"… well indirectly, anyway.

And also, if you are a person who HATES spoilers, well, this one is a slight spoiler, so beware! Nevertheless, please enjoy the story! It's not quite what you think!

NEXT CHAPTER: STRANGE HAPPENINGS

Why would Kikyou suddenly want to kill all the youkais, especially Inuyasha? Because this time, she doesn't want to take him to hell so she could be with him for eternity, oh yes, there's some other reason behind it!