Last Time...

Soft giggles echoed around them as a cold wind blew pass. "Hide and seek…" Kikyo said as she began to rise from the floor. The knife in her hand dripped real blood onto the floor. She lifted it up to her lips and licked it off.

"Run!" Takeshi screamed as the staff took off in a direction far away from Kikyo. He grabbed Sakura's and Mai hands and pulled them down the hall.

Kikyo snickered and then covered her eyes. "One one-thousand, two one-thousand, three one-thousand…"

Takeshi quickly placed Mai behind a group of bushes. He then instructed Sakura to crawl under a bench that was covered in vines. He himself then ran toward the largest tree in the garden and hid from the door. And that's when time ran out…

"Ready or not, here I come…" Kikyo's voice echoed. She knew in which direction they had gone but when their energy signature headed outside to the so called 'Garden of Inu Yasha' she stopped right in her tracks and stared at the open door. Her knife fell from her grip and clattered to the floor. It then dissolved into nothingness.

Takeshi glanced toward the door as the spirit of Kikyo seemed paralyzed. She was staring at the tree he was hiding behind and that didn't make him feel any better. His wet hands felt blindly for the other side of the tree and he slowly inched around it. Takeshi sank into the trees bark and held his breath. He could no longer see the door and every time he attempted to cop a look a silvery white material would slap his face. So he just gave up for a second, closed his eyes and concentrated solely on breathing.

Sakura tried in vain to see between the old vines that covered the bench. She was being shut out from the outside world by greenery and rain. She didn't know which one scared her the most. Not being able to see the apparition or if she could see her coming. These thoughts nauseated Sakura to a point in which she tossed all food that had not been digested in her stomach and commenced to fainting again.

Mai's eyes widened as she stared at the form that was slowly but surely appearing on the tree. "Takeshi…" She tried to whisper to him but the wind carried her frightened voice away. For on the tree that Takeshi was hiding behind there was a boy with silver hair and dog ears. And in between the flashes of lightening he would appear and then disappear. And as Takeshi attempted to look at the ghost standing in the door the boy's long silver hair would slap him as if the wind had been planning it the whole time.

"You cheated! He can't help you!" Kikyo bellowed over the howling wind. "And cheaters automatically lose…"

Kikyo's eyes bore through the tree to Takeshi and a pink light began to pulsate around him. Mai screamed as his body began to levitate toward Kikyo. Sakura sat up so fast that she hit her head on the bottom of the bench and was out again. Takeshi grabbed onto the tree trunk only to realize he wasn't alone. Golden eyes flashed at him as the night sky lit up in a furious light show.

"Kikyo!" The being yelled at the top of his lungs as pure fury clouded his eyes. The light around Takeshi dispersed as Kikyo shrank away from the door. "You bitch, get me down from here!"

"Inuyasha…" But it was not Kikyo who spoke these words it was a lady in green behind her. Kikyo's eyes widened as if she was experiencing a panic attack. But slowly her wide eyes became slits as she turned toward the woman in the green gown.

"Kagome… I told you that you'd never get to him in death either… Don't you listen sister dearest?" Kikyo asked sarcastically as she flew at Kagome who simply disappeared and appeared outside making her way toward the tree.

"No come back here!" Kikyo yelled. Pink lights that soon turned black flew at an alarming rate to Kagome. But they bounced off an invisible shield as Kagome stared at the tree.

"I'm sorry; I couldn't open the door…" Kagome said as one hand covered the cut in her throat so she could speak. She then pulled at the arrow that had him attached to the tree.

"Kagome…" Inuyasha muttered as his eyes grew from furious to soft and caring within a few seconds.

"No…" Kikyo screamed from the door as Inuyasha was released from the tree. The arrow that had trapped him flew right before her feet and she could not escape. Flames engulfed her ankles and then her whole body. Chains appeared around her ankles and wrists and the ground began to swallow her. "No, Inuyasha come with me. I was first not her. You owe it to me and you know it!" She screamed franticly as she began to sink faster.

"I owe you nothing; you took my life away…" Inuyasha said as he stood up straight and took Kagome's hand. "We have to go, he's calling…" Inuyasha muttered.

Kagome nodded as the ground finally sucked Kikyo in. Kagome then turned to Takeshi, Mai and Sakura. Takeshi had pulled the now conscious Sakura and the completely paranoid Mai out of their hiding spaces. Kagome smiled and walked over to Sakura who just stared in complete fright.

"Do not fear… I want to thank you for opening the door… Give this to your friend when you find him and he will at least begin to heal…" Kagome said with her mind being as her lips did not move. She handed Sakura a small vial and then appeared next to Inuyasha again. She brushed her lips against his cheek and then the two vanished.

"…" Sakura's eyes rolled once again into the back of her head and she fainted.