Chapter 25 Looking For Kagome

Everyone stared at the giant bird that was now twise the size it was before. It glared at them with hateful red eyes but didn't attack. It seemed like it wanted them to try and hit it again. They weren't that stupid, not even Kagome.

"How are we going to deal with this bird?" Sango asked staring at the huge black bird. "None of our attacks hurt it. They only make it bigger."

"I think the Sacred Jewel is responcible for that," Kikyo told her. "The bird is using the Jewel's power to make it invinsible."

"Oh."

Suddenly the bird swooped down from its perch and went right for Kagome. The girl screamed as the bird grabbed her by the shoulders and flew off with her. "Kagome!" Inuyasha yelled, watching th bird fly off with its prey. He turned to the others. "We have to go after it."

"Why?" Aijou demanded.

Inuyasha stared at her. "Why!" he roared. "Because that cursed bird just flew off with Kagome, that's why!"

"So what?" the miko asked. "It's not like it's going to eat her or something. One bite and it will drop her."

"Aijou!" Sango exclaimed.

The girl looked at her firend. "What?"

"That's not very nice thing to think."

"I know that."

"I think we should look for her," Kikyo spoke up.

Everyone looked at her including Aijou whose face held horror. "What!"

"I think we should go after them," Kikyo said again spreading out her hands. "That bird is probably a demon that Naraku sent to kidnap one of us. For all we know it could have taken Kagome to Naraku's castle and she's his prisoner."

"But... but.." Aijou began to protest.

Kikyo closed her eyes and shook her head. "No matter what Kagome did or how annoying she is she's still a person and I don't wish the fate Naraku has planned for her to happen. Nobody deserves the things he put people though. Even her."

Aijou said nothing. If you put it that way her mother was totally right and Aijou was humble enough to admit that. Nobody deserved the kind of horrible things Naraku put people through, not even Kagome.

She looked back at her mother and nodded. "You're right," she agreed.

"Then let's get going," Inuyasha said, hefting his sword over his shoulder.

The bird took Kagome all the way to a dark castle in the shadows of a mountain a good distance away from where she and the others had been. "Let me go!" the girl shouted at the bird. "LET ME GO!"

The bird let out a caw and complied. It let go of Kagome's shoulders. The girl started falling. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" she screamed, falling a good distance and landing on the front lawn of the castle, bloodying her palms on the rocky ground. "OW!"

She pushed herself up and looked around. She recognized that place. "Naraku's Castle," she said to herself. "Why did the bird take me here?"

"Because I would like to speak with you about something," she a voice behind her.

Kagome gasped and turned around. She saw a man standing a few feet away in the enrance of the castle She gasped again. "Naraku!"

"Why would Naraku want to kidnap Kagome anyway?" Shippo was asking Inuyasha as they walked through the woods

Inuyasha shook his head. "I have no idea," he said. "But whatever reason it is it can't be something good."

"No, ya think?" Aijou asked, in a bad mood because she didn't want to look for Kagome.

"Stop being disrespectful," Kikyo scolded her.

Aijou looked at her mother and felt ashamed. She didn't want her mother to be mad at her, not after all the time it took just to find her. She lowered her head. "I'm sorry," she said to her mother and Inuyasha.

"That's okay," Inuyasha told her while Kikyo nodded with approval. "Let's just keep looking. Naraku's castle can't be far."

Aijou was going to ask him how he knew that when suddenly the area around them started to rumble. "What is this?" the miko asked looking around.

"Wah!" Shippo screached, running over to Kirara and hopping onto her back. "What's going on?"

Inuyasha sniffed the air. He smelled something familiar. "Something's coming," he told them.

"What is it?" Sango asked as she pulled her boomerange off her back. "Is it Naraku?"

Inuyasha unsheathed his sword. "Well find out in a minute," he said facing the direction the sound was coming from.

Kikyo and Aijou lifted their bows and aimed toward the sound as well. Kirara grew into her big cat size and Miroku hold up his staff thing defensively. They were ready for anything.

Inuyasha smirked toward the sound. Bring it on!

A/N

HELP ME! I'm so running on empty here! I'm trying not to get too far behind in this story but I'm running out of ideas. If you have anything creative in your imagination can you give me some help? Please? I don't want to storyline to get shallow as someone already put it. I want it to stay great like it was in the beginning. I need some fight scene advice. :sweatdrop: