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"H-How are you still alive. I-I killed you." I was shaking.

He laughed. "My dear girl, I must assure you that I am most alive. It took my followers a while to understand how to get me back to life, but they managed to do it. It doesn't matter how I am back, you just need to know that I am back. How have you been? I was surprised to hear that you had lived after I stabbed you."

I couldn't speak for a while. "This isn't possible. You can't be alive, you just can't be alive."

He laughed again. "I assure you Kagome, I am in perfect health. As for you, I'm not sure. How are InuYasha and Sesshomaru doing? I believe you were quite in love with InuYasha when we last met, were you not? Have those feelings stayed strong?"

I narrowed my eyes. "You don't need to know, but they were never there to begin with."

He laughed. "His feelings for you have not waned I'm sure. He would go to any length to find you if you went missing. He would do anything for you."

"He would not. Why are you calling me?"

"I just wished to hear your voice. It is nice to hear from you. I do wish to see you. How about you come back home so I can see you? I'll be waiting for you on the stairs that I was able to push you off of. You should have died then, but you didn't. You should have died when I stabbed you but you didn't. You will not cheat death a third time Kagome." He hung up the phone and I immediately called my mom.

"Hello Kagome, how are you?"

"Are you at home right now?"

"Actually I'm not at home, I'm at a friend's house, hard as it may be to believe. I'm about to go home, why?"

"Whatever you do, do not go home. There's some trouble there right now. There's a Souleater. Whatever you do, stay hidden. Call Ichijo and have him pick you up and stay with him. Whatever you do, DO NOT GO HOME."

"Okay sweetie, but what's happening?"

"Mom, I'll tell you when I'm done taking care of it. Just don't go home." I hung up. I paced around the room for a while. I ran down to the gym without them seeing me and picked up some arrows and a bow and a sword. I would run him through with a sword just like he did to me. I put my hair back up again and ran back upstairs into the kitchen where the brothers were talking.

"I need some Dr. Pepper and I need it now. Do you have any?"

Sesshomaru went to the refrigerator and threw a bottle at me. I opened it and drank a lot of it. "What's wrong? Why do you have those with you?"

I took another swig of the drink. "There's just some trouble over at Nobanaga's house. I'm going to go help him with it." I took another drink and screwed the cap back on. "I will be back shortly."

"Let me drive you there." Offered InuYasha.

I shook my head. "I'll be good." I started walking but he followed.

"Kagome we were doing so well just a minute ago. What happened? I thought you were better now."

I sighed as I walked out the door. "Look this isn't about what happened in there okay. This has nothing to do with it. There's trouble and I don't want you involved in it."

He laughed. "Kagome I know how to handle myself in a fight."

I whirled around to face him and he stopped short. "Listen to me InuYasha: you can't handle yourself in a fight like this one. You don't know anything about it. Those things would kill you the second they saw you. You see Sesshomaru and how long it is taking him to get to a state of self-defense and that's not killing them. You won't be able to do it, trust me. Stay out of it for once in your life." I turned back around and he grabbed my arm and pulled me to his chest.

"Kagome I know what those things can do and I won't let you go alone. When you guard here you have Sesshomaru and dad inside. When you're alone it isn't good. Let me go with you."

"InuYasha, I CAN"T LET YOU GO. If I have to knock you out to keep you away from there I will. Just stay here or go meet some parents, or something. Just stay away for now." I tried to get away from him but he pulled me closer to him. "InuYasha the faster I go take care of this the sooner I can take a nap. Let go."

He sighed but let me go. "Call me when you get done."

"I can't."

His eyes widened. "You deleted my number from your phone? Why would you do that?" I raised my eyebrows at him. "Okay so maybe that wasn't the best question to ask. Get Sesshomaru to call me when you're back home, would you?" I nodded. "I'll see you later, I hope. Of course I don't know if I'll ever see you again because you won't tell me what you're doing, just like before."

I rolled my eyes. "By all means if you want me dead keep bringing stuff like that up that will distract me from my goal." I glared at him and kept walking, leaving him.

I knew that I was walking into a trap. Naraku wasn't alive yet, there's no way. This was someone pulling a joke.