~ Chapter 2~

A/N: This is early, but I wanted to go ahead and create two chapters for ya'll to read. Thank you for reading my story, reviews and flames are welcome.

Three weeks have gone by since Kagome's injury. However, Naraku had already placed his plan into motion. But he couldn't do anything until they had returned from the Modern Era. Since he knew they traveled through the Bone Eaters Well, he silently waited there.

"Kagome, wait here while I get Kirara."

"Alright."

As soon as InuYasha was out of sight, Naraku made his move.

"I'm back!"

"That was quick, w-where's Kirara?"

"Heh, she wouldn't come without Sango and I wasn't about to stand there arguing with her."

"Where are we going?"

"Kaede's hut, that alright with you?"

Kagome nodded, but something was off about InuYasha, but she couldn't place it, "Oh well."

"Hey, Kag-!" He ran out from the grove of trees to the well, but she wasn't there, "KAGOME! Where are you?!" He looked everywhere, but Kagome was no where to be found, "She couldn't have gone off on her own, she's not able to walk still." He sniffed the air, he new that foul stench anywhere, "NARAKU! I'LL KILL YOU!"

Miroku, Sango, Shippo and Kirara rushed over to InuYasha when they heard his shouting, "What is going on, InuYasha? Where's Kagome?"

"Naraku must've used his trick to look like me and he made off with her," InuYasha said, inexplicable tears forming, "He's trying to do to us what he did to Kikyo and I."

Miroku, saddened that Kagome was not with them, "I will go and look for her, she's not far?"

InuYasha shook his head, "His scent covers hers so its impossible to find her."

A dark voice echoed in InuYasha's head, "Not impossible, InuYasha. You've just given up on her."

InuYasha growled, "Bastard! Where are you? Come out and fight, coward!"

"Has InuYasha gone mad?" Miroku looked at Sango.

Sango shrugged as the silent head battle raged on.

"Naraku, I will find you and I will kill you. I know how to break your barrier now and that worries you. The bond between Kagome and I is a lot stronger than the one between Kikyo and I was. However, if you hurt her, I will return to you what you did to her tenfold."

"Is that a threat?"

"You bet your sorry ass its a threat!"

Kagome groaned, "Ow, my head. Where am I?" She sat up, "Inu-Yasha? Where are you?"

Naraku, disguised as InuYasha, stepped from the shadows, "So, you're finally awake."

"Where are we?"

"Kaede's hut, its just past midnight. Get some rest."

Kagome nodded, but she shivered despite the warm place, "Something is off. But what? If this is InuYasha, normally he'd be picking a fight with me, injury or not!" Then, she sensed it, the faint pull of the Shikon Jewel. Puzzled, she looked at InuYasha, "Do you feel that?"

"Feel what? I don't sense anything."

"No, I guess you wouldn't, but there's a shard close by."

He grabbed her around the throat, "Where?"

"Inu-Yasha, w-what are you doing?"

"Where is the shard? Dammit!"

"B-Behind you!" Kagome coughed before she passed out from lack of oxygen.

"She sensed my jewel, but how? I sealed her powers before we got here. This place is beneath me, but it resembles Kaede's hut in ways of smell and feel. InuYasha figured it out sooner than I would have liked to, but Kagome... she's different. More gullible, like Kikyo."

-Kagome's Dream-

"InuYasha, why did you hurt me?" "Hurt you?" "Back at the hut, I sensed a shard and you choked me." "No I didn't. I don't even know where you are, Kagome. Naraku kidnapped you." "What?!" "I'm looking for you, Kagome. Can you tell me anything at all about the place where you are?" "Um, we're in a hut, similar to Kaede's, but its closer to the mountains, I think. Its much colder here and its abandoned. The huts are in ruins from the war. That's all I know." "I'll save you, Kagome. Just hang in there until I find you. If you can, drop hints or bits of clothing, anything I can use to find you faster." They embraced, "I love you, Kagome." Her eyes grew wide.

-End Dream-

Kagome's eyes glazed over as she looked about the hut, "He loves me. He said it." She smiled, "Now, we can fight together. Forever."

Naraku, disguised as InuYasha, walked over to her, holding the sacred jewel, "Is this what you were sensing?" He dropped it into Kagome's hands, she held it and realized that there were three shards missing, "Kohaku and Koga's shards are all that's left. We must not let Naraku get them!"

"You can stop hiding, Naraku. I know it is you."

"What? But how? I had you fully under my control!"

She shot him with a sacred arrow, "You did, until I had a dream!"

The arrow pierced Naraku's weak spot and he disappeared in a flume of toxic miasma, "You wench! I'll get you for this!"

Knowing she couldn't run, she waited until InuYasha, the real InuYasha arrived, two days after the encounter happened, "Kagome! You're alright!"

She smiled and hugged him, "Thank you, InuYasha. For saving me, as always."

"Heh, whatever."