Ch 11 – Find Her

Miroku looked at the clock, Kagome and Inuyasha had been gone for a few hours now. The sun was beginning to rise, "Something's wrong." He said narrowing his eyes. He stepped over to the door and looked out at the ocean. He couldn't see the shore but something inside was telling him something is wrong. He walked over and woke up Sango.

She got up with the shake of her shoulder, she sat up rubbing her eyes "What's wrong?" She said yawning.

"Inuyasha and Kagome went out last night and they're still not back." He said seriously

"What? Why did you let them go out alone?" She said standing up, she was still in her clothes from yesterday and went to the table and put her gun holster on.

"Kagome had never seen the beach before and Inuyasha just wanted to go show it to her…" Miroku said, wishing he had convinced them to stay.

"Put your gun on, let's go" She said pulling her hair into a high pony tail.

Miroku nodded and put his gun in the holster. They ran to the beach "Did they take their guns or anything?" Sango asked as they ran

"Not their guns, but I thought they had their knives with them…" Miroku said looking around as they approached the beach.

"There!" Sango called running to an unconscious Inuyasha that was on the sand. She shook him "Inuyasha?! Wake up!" She called. She turned to Miroku, "We need to get him up the room and bandage him up!"

Miroku nodded lifting up Inuyasha and taking up to the room. He laid him on the floor and Sango pulled out the first aid kit Miroku brought. Miroku started sanitizing him and wrapping him up "He's okay, he just lost a lot of blood, but he should be fine." He said hoping he was right.

The two of them sat on the couch and watched Inuyasha, they had covered him with a blanket and gave him a pillow. Finally he started to move and opened his eyes, he looked around and then it dawned on him, he sprang up "Kagome?!" he said in a panic and then grunting and grabbing his stomach.

"You're really badly wounded Inuyasha." Sango said urging him to lay down.

"What happened?" Asked Miroku getting down to his level to lift him onto the bed.

"Where is Kagome?" He asked sitting on the bed "Tell me she is okay."

Sango and Miroku exchanged worried looks and then turned to him.

"Damn it, Damn it, DAMN IT!" he said punching the bed. He looked up and sighed his eyes brimming with tears, "I couldn't save her…" he looked down and a tear rounded his cheek "I couldn't save her again…"

"Inuyasha…," Sango started in a soft understanding tone.

"NO!" he said standing up "I PROMISED I WOULDN'T LET HIM HURT HER AGAIN!" he yelled punching a hole in the wall.

Sango and Miroku jumped, Miroku stood up and grabbed his arms and pulled him down. "Inuyasha, tell us what happened and we can go get her!"

Inuyasha took a deep breath, "She had never seen the ocean, never been to the beach. We drove so far….I didn't think he'd be anywhere near…" He took another breath. "He played in the waves, she was having so much fun. I taught her to body surf…then I stood up in the water…" His eyes went cold "And she was gone." He began to shake "I….I tried looking for her…then he attacked me…I tried to fight him off…" He shook more, his blood boiling with anger "DAMN IT!"

"Naraku is here?!" Sango asked surprised looking at Miroku

"How did he find us so quickly?!" Miroku asked standing up

"I don't know but we are going to go get her, NOW" Sango said standing next to him

Inuyasha stood and put his gun in his holster "Damn right."

The gang loaded up, they each had a gun and two knives placed strategically on their bodies. Then they left and started walking the hotel grounds "How are we going to find him?" Miroku asked

"He drives a blue Honda with a beads hanging from his rearview mirror, Kagome pointed it out to me" Sango stopped walking and pulled out two cell phones, "these are prepaid phones I got just in case, the other phone is already in the contacts." She handed one to Inuyasha, "You and Miroku go one way and I'll go the other, if one of us finds him call the other, don't go in alone."

"Not a chance" Miroku said looking at her "If we're splitting up, I'm going with you"

"I'll be fine" She said insisting

"Nope, I made a promise to your dad and myself, I'm staying by you"

She finally gave in and the two of them went one way and Inuyasha went the other.

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Kagome woke up with a heavy head ach, she went to move her arms and realized she was tied. She opened her eyes and saw she was naked and tied to a bed. The curtains were closed and Naraku was in on the couch watching the news. Without so much of a glance at her he turned off the T.V. and began to talk. "That was very foolish of you Kagome" He stood up and began to walk over to her and slid his had up her inner thigh and kissed her neck "I missed you" Her body cringed. He looked at her, inches from her face and she spit right in his face. He backed away and looked at her furiously "you little bitch!" he said and slapped her hard. Her face turned with the slap and she starred at the wall and right when she was going to give in, she narrowed her eyes 'not this time' she thought to herself. He leaned back down and she kicked her leg up and popped him in the back of the head with her shin. He was shocked by her defending herself.

She then started to scream "HELP! HELP! I'M IN HERE!" He then climbed on top of her, grabbing her neck, she continued to kick. He was chocking the life out of her but she kept fighting and kept kicking and trying to make as much noise as she could. He shook her by her neck squeezing tight, soon her eyes faded and her body went limp. "That's better" he said standing up. He grabbed rope from under the bed and tied her feet up. He walked up to her and put his finger on her neck, "Still alive, good." Then he grabbed a sock from the drawer and rolled it up and put it in her mouth and duck tapped it shut. He then put his coat on "I'll be back dear," he said winking at her unconscious body. He stepped out and locked the door.

He went down stairs and got in his car and drove away, just as he left the parking lot Sango and Miroku were coming around the corner, not seeing the car.

"I hope she's okay" Sango said, one hand on her gun. Just then they heard a woman talking to what looked like her husband and stopped to listen in.

"Honey, it's really not our place…" he said

"I don't care, I'm reporting it. I'm telling you I heard a woman scream." She said marching to the office.

They followed her in and stood about a foot away while she talked to the manager.

"Sir, as we were getting up and getting ready to head to the beach, we heard a woman from the floor upstairs screaming." She said

"Would you like to lodge a noise complaint?" The manager asked pulling out a form

"No! She was screaming for help and it sounded like a fight or something was going on!" She said hurrying her words "We think she might be really hurt!"

The manager nodded, he handed her a clip board and said "Please fill out this, we will call the police and investigate."

The woman nodded and began to fill out the paper work. Miroku stepped outside and called Inuyasha "Come to the office, we think we found them"

Sango approached the desk, "We think that be our friend, she disappeared last night and we really think that could be her!"

The manager nodded, "Please wait here for the police."

"She could be dead by the time they get here!" Sango snapped

"Ma'am please." He went to the phone and called the police. Sango motioned to Miroku through the window to not come back in.

She sat down next to the woman, "your upstairs neighbors you said?"

"Yes, the room right above us, it was so eerie." She said continuing to write.

"Yeah, I hope she's okay…what room are you in?" Sango asked

"We are in 921" She said continuing the paper work.

Sango looked through the window, Miroku and Inuyasha were both there looking at here. She held up the numbers 9, 2, 1, then pointed up and mouthed 'upstiars from' and held up 9, 2, and 1 again. They nodded and took off.

"Why isn't Sango coming?" Inuyasha asked,

"I don't know, a woman complained about hearing a woman screaming help and they said they'd call the police, then I went outside to call you. I guess they want here there for when the police show up because she said that could be Kagome."

They got to the room it was on the second floor. "Okay so here is 921," they went up one more floor "And here's 931, the room right above it." Inuyasha grinned grabbing his gun.

"Be careful, remember he might have Kagome as a shield, don't just go shooting blindly." Miroku warned.

"Do I look like an idiot?" Inuyasha snapped. He knocked on the door. No answer. He knocked again and cleared his throat "Housekeeping" he tried again "Housekeeping" Knocking again "Okay…that's my limit." He said kicking the door.

"INUYASHA?!" Miroku called out

Finally the door fell in and Inuyasha saw Kagome on the bed. She was tied up and naked, he shook with terror and anger, there was tape over her mouth and she had a big red mark on her cheek. He immediately ran over to her and untied her hands and pulled the tape off her mouth "Kagome, Kagome, come on! Wake up!" He shook her.

Miroku was walking around the room "Naraku is nowhere to be found." Inuyasha untied her feet and wrapped her up in the blanket.

"We are leaving, NOW!" Inuyasha stormed out to the room right at the police were showing up. They pulled their guns out and pointed them at Miroku and Inuyasha.

"Put the girl down, and your hands up."