Who would have guessed?

AN: hey everyone it looks like I updated I did add a chapter but the major thing was that went through and corrected some things; little spelling errors some grammar stuff etc… enjoy

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Chapter one:

Things are never as they seem… or are they?

It all happened in a blur. One moment they were setting up camp and the next Shippo was screaming.

No one even saw the large mass of tentacles until it was too late. Kagome tried to dodge but the sharp point of one dug into her arm as she went to pull an arrow rendering her arm useless and knocking her to the ground. Barley rolling out of the way of another one she sprung to her feet, thanking what ever deity out there that she had convinced Miroku to start training her in self defense.

Looking around she saw Inu-yasha trying to fight off tentacles that seemed to be coming from all around them, all the while yelling for Naraku to come out and face him like a man. Sango was off a little bit further chopping away at anything that came too close and she could see Kirara lashing out at the persistent things while protecting Shippo.

How ever the thing that surprised her was the look on Miroku's face when she finally turned her eyes to him. He seemed utterly confused which wasn't something that happened often. And that's when she noticed it, there was something off about all of this, and her senses didn't lie.

"Inu-yasha it's not Naraku we need to get out of here it's the …."

Before Kagome could finish her sentence another "tentacle" pierced her side making her stumble and almost fall. She was so distracted she didn't really see what happened in the next few seconds.

Inu-yasha was about to turn around and call her an idiot of course Naraku was behind this, who else would send an attack like this one? But then he paused and scented the air he couldn't find any trace of that retched scent all he could smell where his companions and the forest, something wasn't right but before he could realize what was happening he fell to his knees a large hole in his stomach.

Sango was fighting with all she had in her, these things just wouldn't stop coming. Something wasn't right and she knew it. The "tentacles" didn't look anything like what Naraku usually wielded, and then Kagome's voice broke through her thoughts confirming her suspicions. She looked down at one she had just severed and it hit her, brown rough sharp, they weren't tentacles at all they were ROOTS. But before she could make her findings known a sight that made her blood run cold caught her attention.

Inu-yasha was in a heap on the forest floor blood staining his red hori a deep crimson and another of those damn roots was streaking towards him. With speed she didn't know she possessed, she shot forward blocking the attack with her boomerang and dropped to her knees pulling the unconscious hanyou into her lap.

Time seemed to slow it was all a blur first she watched Inu-yasha fall and Sango cradle him in her lap before slumping forward blood flowing out of her shoulder where no doubt she had been attacked; and then Miroku was in front of her one root sticking out of the back of his shoulder the other from his leg before slumping to the ground.

She couldn't breath, all Kagome could do was stare at Miroku's crumpled form as the roots brutally ripped there way back out of his skin taking most of his robes with them. Then she felt it, jewel shards. How had she missed them? There were several maybe five maybe more she wasn't sure, but she could see their dark glow from beneath the bark of the trees around them.

In that instant she forgot herself, sheer panic consumed her but it didn't last long, soon the calming voice of he instructor came to mind and she was able to focus. Once again thanking her lucky stars for Miroku's training she dropped to her knees clutching the arrow she had been unable to fire and thrust it into the ground pouring all of her purification powers into it.

For a fleeting second she thought she had failed, that what she tried hadn't worked but then a strangled sound that could have come from her or the damned forest its self, she couldn't quite be sure, echoed through her ears and a burst of pink and blue light engulfed the clearing.

Lifting her eyes from where they had been trained on her glowing hands, Kagome was greeted with the sight of her companions lying in a clearing much larger then she remembered, with the ash of what she could only guess was the purified remains of the…trees?.. that had attacked her group and the sound of jewel shards clattering to the ground.