CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

Almost at once Inu Yasha stopped. "Stop! Everyone, there's something wrong." As soon as he said it an arrow shot over his head. The second arrow was a little bit
closer to it's mark.

"Everyone behind those trees. Return fire. Make sure the arrow finds it's mark." Inu-Yasha shouted his commands.

Unfortunately most of the arrows were being used to separate him from his troops and to keep his troops away from him.

Kagome saw this right away. She took off behind everyone else and ran after him. Kagome was racing towards Inu-Yasha when she saw him fall over a tree root. She
stopped dead in her tracks as she saw the glint of a blade being raised about to fall over Inu-Yasha's head.

Before Kagome could think about what she was doing she ran full speed at the giant shadow figure with the sword.

A flash of light went through Kagome's mind and suddenly he changed her path. She looked again at the sword, this time more closely. There near the top of the handle
was that shining piece of shard she had been looking for.

Now that she had found it, her plan had to come together quickly because she was still running.

"Thud" Kagome fell flat on her face. Kagome wondering what she had tripped over glanced at her feet. At her feet was a rope. Kagome followed the rope and found out
that it was attached to a net on the ground. It was a trap.