Chapter 7
Inuyasha was pushing the group to the brink of exhaustion. Even Koga was tiring but he would never admit it to Inuyasha. Since they left the spot where Naraku's scent was Inuyasha hadn't stopped all day and half the night. It was like an internal demon possessed and fueled him. The only thing that seemed to wake him out of it was when he stopped and looked around and saw that his comrades were slumped on the ground behind him.
" What do you think your doing?" Inuyasha said while leaping to the spot where they were sprawled on the ground.
" Inuyasha we all need a little rest. Everybody wants to get Kagome back as soon as possible but we're all exhausted ." Miroku stated with eyes half closed. There was a humph behind Miroku, Koga was leaned up against a tree giving Inuyasha a glare. " I'm ready to go mutt face but it looks like we're the only ones." Koga said with as much impertinence as he could muster. He was as tired as the rest but he would chew off his own leg before giving the hanyou the upper hand.
"Keh, your all a bunch of lazy bums!" Inuyasha yelled at them but even he could see that it was hopeless. "Be ready to go when I say so." With that he leaped up into a high oak tree branch and with some mumbling and cursing under his breath about bums settled into it.
He looked up at the moon wondering where Kagome was under it. Damn where is she?I couldn't live with myself if anything happened to her. He sighed and dozed off with thoughts of Kagome's raven hair and soft brown eyes. He even missed the 'sits'. The first rays of the dawn woke him from troubled dreams. He jumped down from the tree barking at everybody to wake up or be left behind.
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Naraku stepped out from the portal with a still unconscious Kagome slung over his shoulder and Kikyo following behind him.
" Now tell me just what do you have planned Naraku?" Kikyo questioned looking as Naraku slung Kagome down in a pallet in one of the rooms in his castle.
" You'll see soon enough now tell me when the girl awakens." With that Naraku strolled out of the room leaving it with just Kikyo and Kagome in it.
Naraku sat next to the window while a woman with her midnight black hair swept up with two feathers sticking out of it came in. She swept a glare at Naraku with ruby red eyes." You called master." She said master with a thinly disguised sneer.
" Kagura you don't seem especially happy to see me. I want you to gather some rope and put a wooden spike in the ground in the middle of the courtyard." Naraku said leaving no hint of what he was up to in his voice. He always spoke in the same monotone no matter what. "One last thing." Kagura turned around and Naraku threw a piece of parchment at her. " After you do what I asked draw these symbols around the spike in the ground."
"Yes my lord." With that she was out of his presence wondering what insidious plot he had now.
Kikyo watched as the young girl slept. She kept murmuring Inuyasha in her sleep. Why had Inuyasha picked this slip of a girl? She was in her own hateful thoughts when Kagome started to gain conscience.
" Where am I?" She murmured and slightly opened her eyes. "Kikyo?" A woman kept coming in and out of focus. She felt like she'd been stepped on by a giant. Her vision finally cleared. It is Kikyo! Kagome's mind screamed. " Where is Inuyasha!" Kagome started to demand while trying to sit up. Kikyo gave her a smirk that she didn't like one bit.
" Oh, your lover?" She said with distaste. "He's dead along with your other friends."
" What! Your lying! Inuyashas not dead. Do you really think for a moment that those two overgrown snakes could have killed Inuyasha!" Kagome yelled. To her small satisfaction she saw Kikyo flinch and a small ray of doubt cross her eyes.
"Well if he's not dead then he'll come looking for you and this time I'll finish him off myself." Kikyo retorted crossing over to Kagome and yanking her up. She started to try to fight back but the poison hadn't totally worked it's way out of her system. So she was dragged against her will and carried to another room where a man in a baboon coat sat.
Then she was thrown for the second time at Naraku's feet.
" I see you've decided to join us Kagome." Naraku said in a lazy drawl.
"Against my choice Naraku. What do you want with me!" Kagome snapped trying to drag her weakened body away from Naraku.
" I want your shards of course, but that's not it I also want your spiritual power. That way I'll have the ability to find the shards in a much faster pace." Naraku smirked his eyes boring into her.
"WHAT!"
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