CHAPTER 3: Ally or Rival?

Sango woke Inuyasha after a terrible bad dream, as he were trashing about in his sleep.

"I had a nightmare about Kagome…"

"Nightmare? About Kagome?"

"That Enma Ai… although I couldn't see her face… I can see Kagome being more like her slave…"

"…"

Kagome… where are you…

"Although they won the battle, they won't win the war yet."

Kagome sat on her throne speechless.

"Is it true, my dear Kagome?"

She nodded vaguely.

"Good. I'm not done with you yet."

"Where is she? I can't find her anywhere… not even her scent…."

"Inuyasha…"

"Kikyo? What… what are you doing here?"

"It doesn't matter now."

"What do you mean by that?"

"My purpose now is to save Kagome."

Inuyasha felt surprised.

"You hated her, but why did you want to save her now?"

"Enma Ai is a very dangerous enemy. If Kagome's soul falls in her hands, she will be her slave."

Inuyasha once again were taken aback, upon hearing her statement.

"She…will be Ai's slave?"

"If we don't act now, she will maybe be abused way much worse."

Kikyo walked to Amar Ma'aruf.

"I suppose you wanted to help me." Kikyo said that, while staring at Ma'aruf-chan's heterochromatic eyes.

"Sort of…" He replied while blushing.

"Hold on, how do we suppose to find her without any clues?" Inuyasha said, with a question mark on his face.

Kikyo turned her attention to Inuyasha back.

"Did she happen to have the Shikon jewel shard while she was captured?" Kikyo asked Inuyasha.

"I'm not there during the incident."

"We're there at that time, and we saw a bright spot on her chest. That's the point when she disappears."

"I'll be your radar, only Inuyasha agrees if I could tag along."

After a quick discussion, he agreed.

"I wonder how the others will react with Inuyasha's decision."

"No doubt about it, they're going to jump out of their skin."

"You're going to let Kikyo in our group? We're looking forward to it. "

Not really up to expectations…

"However, we couldn't find Kagome here. Any bright ideas?"

"…"

I saw her face again that night… but this time; you were leading me to some place… or some location…

"Inuyasha? What's wrong?"

"Nothing…"

"Yo, you seemed to be in a daze, did you miss Kagome so much?"

"SHUT UP!" Inuyasha yelled, and then he punched A-01 straight on his face. Inuyasha went dumbfounded by his actions.

"Sorry."

"So you REALLY love her don't you?" He kept pressing Inuyasha, making his face redden by the question he asked.

"Shh!"

This time, he knocked A-01 out.

"What's going on there?"

"N-nothing."

At the same time, A-01 was lying on the ground, swirl-eyed. He also got a 'watermelon' sized lump on his head, due to Inuyasha's usual head-knock.

"Daniel, can you scout the area for hot springs for us?"

"Sure."

Minutes later, he came back.

"It's not too far from here. Just go this way, and you'll find a hot spring few meters from here."

"And make sure that Miroku won't go and peek on us."

"No problem. If he stands in the way, Amar's AWM will take care of him."

As a threat, Ma'aruf-chan pulled his AWM's bolt, ejecting the spent casing up to the air.

"Ah… this so refreshing…"

"I miss Kagome a bit, you know."

"Really? Me too."

Suddenly, Kirara got out of the springs, and she started growling at something.

"What is it? Is it Miroku?"

"It's not him, but I could sense the jewel shards, engulfed in evil aura."

Kikyo was right. Seconds later, Inuyasha's voice calling Kagome's name could be heard. She got out of the spring, firing an arrow to the dark priestess among the bushes. But, she missed.

"Sango, get dressed!"

She could hear A-01 yelling for assistance.

"Taking fire, need assistance!"

After that, his Beretta Elites roared through the night sky. In his disappointment, none of the 9mm Parabellum bullets hit his supposed target. Kagome shot her arrow, but he managed to sidestep the previously holy attack.

"Don't shoot her! Fall back!"

"What?!"

"The Dual Hiraikotsu technique!"

A-01's devilish grin started to mark across his face.

"Hiraikotsu!"

It was too easy for her to dodge the first strike. A-01 deftly caught the giant bone in his hands, and he concentrates his power into his right hand, causing it to glow purple. His eyes also turned purple…

"Brace yourselves! DUAL HIRAIKOTSU!"

He threw Sango's Hiraikotsu with full blast force, straight at Kagome. Although she could evade it, Kagome didn't know that Hiraikotsu acts more like an Enemy Chaser, following whereever she goes.

It hit her from behind.

"T (read: terrorist) down."

Kagome however stands up like it was nothing for her. She stood speechlessly. Later, in a blink of an eye, she disappeared beneath the thick fog.

"Bedebah! (read: damn)She always does that all the time. I don't know when she will appear again."

Kikyo stood under a tree near a river. She was watching what's going on between both.

Amar-kun had the Shikon jewel shards, and I rarely see him using the jewel's power.

Kikyo now knew A-01's power very well, although in their previous confrontation before, he almost used the jewel shards ability on her.

A/N: The third chapter done during night here in Malaysia (8.03pm). Anyone who read this, maybe the next chapter will be bit late than usual. Just pray for me I don't end up in boarding school… TQ.