CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE

Kagome entered a city full of celebration. The flags were flying high and the music was playing loudly. She looked around trying to find Inu-Yasha but to no prevail. There was too much activity.

Her search ended soon when she saw a parade which her friends were in. Even if it was a celebration by the looks on her friends faces they weren't very happy.

She ran over to the parade. Then straight to Inu-Yasha.

At the sight of her, his nose raised several notches.

"Tuashimaga's here, Inu-Yasha!" Kagome tried her best to keep her voice down.

Inu-Yasha snorted at her, then said, "He died in the forest. Don't try any tricks with me."

"Please, you have to believe me!" Kagome pleaded.

"Why should I?" Inu-Yasha glared at her. Then tried to walk away.

"You listened to Lina. How am I any different?" Kagome retorted, annoyed with Inu-Yasha sense of reason. She stepped in front of him to block his path but he walked
around her quickly.

In a flood of anger Kagome stepped out of the parade. How could he be so unreasonable? He knew demons like Tuashimaga didn't just vanish.

Kagome stomped off as the party of demons stepped up towards the palace. She noticed how all the humans lined up on either side as if they had come to watch a miracle.

She looked around the crowd and noticed some of the humans closest to Inu-Yasha were wearing dark coloured robes. They were hunched over to hide their faces.

It didn't take Kagome long to realize what was about to happen. As she saw her grandfather step out of the palace on to the steps, they five humans in robes stepped
out and took their places around Inu-Yasha.

"Grandpa, run!" Kagome yelled at her grandfather. "There's something wrong with Inu-Yasha!"

Her shouts were lost in the uproar from the crowd around her.

A blaze of fire went out around those five demons and Inu-Yasha. The circle separate the other demons from Inu-Yasha.

Kagome ran over to Kianara and Hsike. A roar of laughter rang out into the atmosphere. It sent shivers down Kagome's spine.

As she peered through the smoke, Kagome saw Inu-Yasha or a mix of Inu-Yasha and a dragon type figure, scoop up her grandfather.