A/N: i apologize i posted the wrong chapter lol... I"M REALLY SORRY PEOPLE! dont be mad... heres the real chapter... sorry...

Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha… but how I wish I did…

\Chapter 10

"OUCH! Watch what you're doing wench!" Kagura growled as Kagome dabbed disinfectant on the wounds on her chest.

"Stop your bitching!" Inuyasha yelled from outside of Kaede's hut.

Kagura growled and glared at Inuyasha who was sitting in front of Kaede's door with his back to them.

Kagome sighed, shook her head then walked to her bag to get some bandages. She rummaged through her bag for a few moments before she found the bandages, she then knelt back down next to Kagura who was lying on her back on Kaede's futon.

"I'm just going to put these on your wounds." Kagome informed holding the bandages up.

"Whatever…" Kagura murmured.

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"Stupid wench…" Inuyasha murmured as he thought of Kagura.

"Perhaps you should leave Kagura alone?" Miroku suggested taking a spot next to Inuyasha, "It seemed as though she went through something quite terrible."

Inuyasha huffed in annoyance. He really didn't want Kagura here; he had a feeling in his gut that something bad was going to happen, what that something was he had no idea, all he knew was that Kagura or any detachment of Naraku was trouble.

Miroku gave his friend a soft smile and moved his gaze to Kirara and Shippo who were chasing a pretty blue butterfly. He then moved his gaze to Sango, or more accurately, Sango's rump. His hand twitched.

Sango, who was still dressed in her slayers gear, was just a few meters away from Kaede's hut doing some stretches. The monks hand twitched harder at the sight of her body's flexibility.

Sango noticed the look on Miroku's head and blushed for a split second before lifting the Hiraikotsu and saying, "Watch it monk." Her voice was stern but Miroku could hear the mirth in her voice.

Miroku chuckled and continued watching her.

Sango blushed and walked off to stretch and practice her fighting somewhere else, while choosing to ignore the perverted monk trailing behind her.

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"Get the hell away from me you crazy wench!" Koga yelled and he turned into his twister and sped off into the distance of a grassy field.

"But Koga… you promised you'd mate me…" Said Ayame as she ran after him, her reddish brown hair moving with the wind.

Following behind Ayame was Ginta and Hakkaku who were puffing and wheezing for air as they had been chasing after the pair for two days now and their strength was beginning to wear thin.

"Y-You t-think they'd s-stop and rest!" Ginta rasped out.

"Y-Yeh!" Hakkaku agreed, his voice crackling.

The pair stopped and let out a deep sigh and spent a few moments to catch there breaths before realizing that Koga and Ayame were now out of their sights.

"Koga wait!" The pair yelled in union as they went back to the chase.

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"Inuyasha could you please watch Kagura while I go to the forest to look for some herbs?" Kagome asked sweetly as she walked out of the hut, holding a wooden, woven basket in her hands.

Inuyasha growled and giving Kagome a glare retorted, "Why should I help that bitch? All she's ever been is trouble, and not to mention the times she's tried to kill us!"

Kagome sighed. Why can't he just help me out for once? She thought before looking back at Kagura through the corner of her eyes, I really don't think that Kagura is going to do anything... I mean in her condition and even after that I don't think she will... I don't know how I know I just do… She returned her gaze to Inuyasha.

"Please Inuyasha… please just look after her for a little while?" She asked, her voice sounding VERY exhausted.

What's wrong with Kagome she sounds so sad? I bet it was something Inuyasha did… Shippo thought as he stopped chasing the butterfly and stared concerned at Kagome.

Kirara mewed and nuzzled Shippo to comfort him.

Inuyasha growled at Kagome and it was for two reasons. One, he did NOT want to look after Kagura and two, he didn't like the sorrow he could smell from Kagome.

"Fine I'll watch the stupid wench!" Inuyasha growled giving into her wishes as he didn't like seeing her sad.

Kagome's face immediately brightened and giving him a bright smile said, "Thank you very much!" and with that she ran off into the forest to collect herbs.

Inuyasha gave a small blush before shrugging it off and standing and walking into the hut where he saw Kagura lying on the futon with a blanket covering her body.

She looked over to Inuyasha and gave him a glare, "Why aren't you killing me?" she spat.

Inuyasha shrugged and sat cross-legged at the other side of the hut. "Kagome chose to save ya, she's really kind like that." He said placing a hand on his swords hilt, "Were it up to me you'd be dead by now." He added.

"How very dog like you are, obeying your mistress like you do." She smirked; her shoulders shook as she let out a laugh.

Inuyasha growled at her. HOW DARE THE BITCH TALK TO ME LIKE THAT! I'LL KILL HER! He ranted in his head before realizing that killing Kagura would make Kagome mad and he may be subjected to a LOT of sittings for it. He shuddered as he remembered the time she had sat him nine times when he had gone to break the well.

"Feh at least I'm not Naraku's bitch!" Inuyasha retorted with a smug grin.

Kagura flinched she didn't want to think of Naraku right now, not after he had done to her. Though she had to admit he seemed different this time… almost as though he didn't want to hurt her… What's going on…? She asked herself.

Inuyasha saw her flinch and suddenly became interested in what happened to Kagura. In all the times he had met her he had never seen her flinch, he had seen her beaten and bloody but he had never seen her flinch, flinching made her seem so vulnerable, so weak. And as much as he hated to admit it the Kagura he knew was not weak.

"Kagura…" he said slowly. She looked up and he continued, "What happened to you?"

Kagura stared at him as though he had grown a second head. Did he just say that?? She asked herself as she stared and him and searched him for any sign of deceit but found none.

She sighed and looked away from him and wondered whether or not she should tell him, he had always been her enemy, he wanted her dead as far as she knew, what reasons did she have to tell him?

"Something to pass the time I guess…" she said under her breath, "Alright I'll tell you…" She added a little louder.

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"I wonder what happened to Kagura…" Kagome said to herself as she wondered through the trees searching for herbs.

She smiled as she saw the herbs she wanted and leaned down to pick them up only to shoot up again as she felt a familiar tingling down her spine. Shards… she thought.

She dropped her basket and went to reach for her bow only to realize she had left it in the village. Crap! How am I going to get away? I could run back to the village… no the demon would have killed me by then… She though panicking.

Before she could think of anything else she saw a whirlwind maneuvering through the trees. She stopped panicking and realized who it was.

"Koga." She said slowly.

The whirlwind stopped its course a few meters away it then disappeared leaving Koga in its wake. Koga Smirked and ran to 'his' Kagome.

"Kagome! My love!" He almost sang as he held her hand in his.

"I'm fine Koga…" she replied while silently wishing he would stop calling her things like, 'my love' and 'my woman'

Koga held her hands tighter and looked around her then took a sniff of the air, "Where is the mutt and why isn't he protecting my woman?" His voice was angry, but not true anger the type of anger Kagome was used to seeing in him, it was real but not real.

"He's in the village looking after someone I asked him too, he's not that far away-" she was cut off as Koga growled, turned around and held Kagome close to his side.

Through the tree's came Ayame, "Koga-" She stopped her sentence once she saw the young miko to Koga's side staring at her and Koga with confused eyes. "Who is that!" Ayame ordered pointing at Kagome.

"This is my Fiancé Kagome!" Koga replied cockily while pulling Kagome closer to him.

Fiancé? Fiancé! Since when was I his fiancé?? That one thought ran over and over again in her mind. Her anger flared and she pushed herself away from the wolf who stared at her stunned, "Since when was I your fiancé??" She asked angrily.

"Kagome you-" Koga started but was cut off by Ayame.

"Koga she can't be your fiancé!" She yelled waving her arms angrily, "You promised that you'd mate me!" her eyes were red from anger and unshed tears.

"I never promised I'd mate you!" he growled.

"YES! YES YOU DID!" She nearly screamed before taking several deep breaths and her eyes filled with water, "It was… It was the night of the lunar rainbow…" her voice was soft and sad.

"The lunar rainbow?" Kagome asked confused.

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"The lunar rainbow?" Naraku said with a confused face that was similar to Kagome's as he watched the scene through Kanna's mirror and he sat cross-legged on the centre of his bed.

Tiana who was sitting on the edge of the bed with the chain in her hands looked back at him as though he were an idiot, "You don't know what a lunar rainbow is…?"

He gave her a small glare, "What's so special about them?" he enquired.

She rolled the chain into a ball and leaning over the bed beat him softly over the head with it. "How could you not know what they mean?" she asked as he tore the chain from her hands and threw it across the room, "They're so romantic…" she added with a dreamy look in her eyes.

It was now his turn to stare at her as though she were an idiot, "Do I look like I know or care about romantic sentimentalities?" he said blankly.

She sighed, It would be really nice if you did… she though with a lopsided smile. Well I might as well tell him what they mean…

"Lunar rainbows appear on rare occasions at night after rain." She began, glancing at him to make sure he was listening; he raised an eyebrow and nodded.

She then continued, "Lunar rainbows can represent the meeting of soul mates…" a dreamy expression took her face and she leaned back on her elbows on her bed, "it is also said that if you propose to your love under a lunar rainbow you and your love's souls become intertwined forever…"

Naraku made a sound that sounded suspiciously like a snort. She actually believes that crap… he thought as he watched the dreamy look on her face.

"I wish something like that would happen to me…" she said under her breath without even realizing it.

Naraku stared at her blankly, "What?" he asked shifting uncomfortably on the bed.

"Huh? Oh nothing…" she replied with a smile, pretending she hadn't just said that, "Kanna would please show us more?"

Kanna's eyes widened for a split second before she nodded and continued to show them the scene through her mirror.

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"Lunar rainbow?" Kagome repeated looking at Ayame.

A tear rolled down Ayame's face, "It was many years ago when I was a little girl. I was running through a forest, trying my hardest to get away from the birds of paradise hat were hunting me…" she closed her eyes as she remembered the event.

Kagome sighed; she remembered those bird demon…things and the pain and trouble they had caused.

"I hid in a tree…" Ayame continued, "They came flying towards me and just as I thought I was going to die he came." She looked up at Koga, "You came."

Koga raised an eyebrow, something in what she said was familiar yet he couldn't remember the event.

"He killed the birds of paradise then found me in the tree. He then told me he would take me back home…" She closed her eyes. "I rode on his back as he walked, he told me…" another tear rolled down her face.

"As we watched the Lunar rainbow that appeared in the sky he told me that I need not worry about protection anymore because he would protect me and once I came back from the Northern mountains he would make me his mate…" She finished weakly opening her eyes.

"That never happened Kagome! I never made that promise to the wench!" he clasped her hands in his, "You're my one and only Kagome!" Koga exclaimed in his defense.

Kagome pulled her hands from his and stepped away from him giving him a cold glare, "How could you!" she yelled, "You, You… YOU JERK!"

He staggered back a bit at her outburst. Is she really that made that Ayame claims this? She must love me! A grin appeared on Koga's face as he thought that.

Why is he grinning at me? I'm so mad at him right now! How dare he treat that woman like that! It's obvious what she said was true so why must he be a total jerk to her!! Her anger flared and she looked at Koga darkly.

"Don't worry MY Kagome you're my woman! Nothing is ever going to change that, not mutt breath and defiantly not that wench!" he pointed at Ayame as he finished his speech.

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"THAT SELFISH BRAT!!" Tiana roared as she leaped from the bed, her fists clenched and her aura flaring a magnificent red.

Naraku, who was still seated on the bed, scooted back several inches. He hadn't seen Tiana this mad for a while, seeing her mad was one of the few things he feared, though he would never EVER tell anyone that.

Even Kanna stepped back a few inches.

"I'll KILL that brat Koga one of these days." She roared before looking at Naraku and pointing at herself, "I was there! I was there when Koga bought Ayame back! I remember her telling me that Koga was going to mate her! And Even Koga said he would!! THAT ARSE!!"

Tiana stopped her rant and stood there puffing heavily. After a few moments Naraku discerned that it was safe to get neat her again and slowly scooted off the bed and put his arms around her and drew her to his chest.

"I'm going to murder that brat." She murmured as she returned the embrace.

Naraku snickered. He knew that Tiana wasn't going to do anything to Koga, she was just somewhat mad about the way he is treating Ayame. Though that didn't mean he wouldn't put it past her to beat him to a pulp… a bloody pulp.

"Kanna that will be all…" he said dryly to the emotionless girl.

Kanna nodded and went to leave when Tiana interrupted, "Wait Kanna! Could you please keep showing us? I really want to see what happens please?" She asked kindly.

Kanna Visibly trembled for a few seconds as though she were going to cry before nodding and continued to show the event through the mirror.

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"Koga… I. Am. Not. Your. Woman." She said coldly with emphasis on each word, her normal cheerfulness was wearing thin right now and she dangerously close to snapping.

Koga stared at her stunned before his cocky grin appeared again, "No need to be embarrassed to say that you're my woman! 'cuz you are!" He exclaimed stepping closer to her.

Ayame looked sadly at the two, though her eyes flickered with anger as she looked at Koga. At first her anger had been at Kagome but after watching her intently she could tell that Kagome would only ever see Koga as a friend at the most.

Ginta and Hakkaku came running into the clearing, took one look at Kagome and backed away in terror, "Sister looks mad…" Ginta murmured eyeing Kagome fearfully.

"I feel sorry for Koga when she snaps…" Hakkaku added.

The pair took another rather large step away.

"Koga I never agreed to be your woman!! You just decided it!!" Kagome nearly yelled her breath coming out in pants as her anger grew.

"But Kagome you're-"

"I'M NOT YOU'RE WOMAN!" Kagome screamed.

There was a long silence between the five of them and four sets of wide eyes rested on Kagome, who after a few long breaths looked at Koga with anger filled eyes for a few moments before running. Running away from Koga and the clearing and even further away from the village.

There was a silence between the four of them a soon Kagome was out of their sights.

Koga was the first to jump from the stupor and went to run after her when a scent hit the tips of his nose. He swiftly turned and faced the direction of the village, his upper lip lifted as he snarled at the scent. Kagura's scent.

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Naraku was having a fun struggling to keep Tiana in his grasp as she attempted to pull herself from his grasp while growling things that mainly consisted of, "I'll KILL him!" and "That bastard!" and Naraku's personal favorite, "I'll rip that wolves tongue out!"

HE let out a small sigh before saying calmly, "As much as I would enjoy watching you murder the wolf, you would regret it afterwards…"

She instantly froze and let out a long sigh, "You're right… sorry." She said bluntly before turning to him, their bodies rubbing against each other as she did this, she then gave him a smile, "Thanks."

He nodded and turned his attention to Kanna, "That will be all Kanna." He informed.

"Wait Kanna." Tiana broke from Naraku's grasp and knelt down in front of Kanna, "Could you please show me Kagome?" she asked.

Kanna's lips twitched for a second before she nodded and showed her Kagome who was running blindly through the forest. Tiana raised a delicate brow.

Tiana suddenly grinned, an action which made both Naraku and Kanna look at her strangely. "Well, well… She's going to have an interesting day…" She mused as she realized exactly who Kagome was unknowingly she was heading towards.

She rose again and smiled at Kanna, "Thank you that will be all." She stated.

Kanna nodded and walked out of the room.

She then turned to Naraku, "Naraki-poo, could you please sent a few demons after Kagome? Now would be an excellent time to work on our plan." She asked him with a smile.

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