Betrayal

Author's note- I'm back! Sorry about the lack of updates. Blame it on my muses, Kouga-kun, and Miroku-sama. ^_^ I was updating my other fic, Beautiful Rain, at the time.

Disclaimer- "Inuyasha: A Feudal Fairy Tale" belongs to Rumiko Takahashi, Viz Comics, and Sunrise.

Chapter 10

Kidnapped


Yukito and Chikara woke up in a strange room. It was Chikara who realized that Shippou was gone.

"Yuki-oniichan!! Shippou-chan's gone!" Chikara yelled. "Where is he?"

"The question should be where are we?" Yukito told her. "What is this place?"
"I want Mama and Papa," Chikara said, starting to cry. Yukito hugged her tightly.

"Aw.. don't cry," He whispered. "Ya gotta be strong, so that Papa will be proud."

"I want Papa!! I want my Mama!!" Chikara sobbed.



"Miroku-sama! Miroku-sama!" Rin yelled. She bumped into the monk, and grinned. "Sesshoumaru-sama wants to talk to you." Miroku nodded, with a slight smile on his face, and the little girl ran off.

Miroku walked in the direction that Rin came from. Even from his distance from the little girl, he could hear feet trampling the floor, and giggles. So that was how it was like having a child. He laughed, slightly, before seeing Sesshoumaru. The tai-youkai raised an eyebrow, as if to say, 'What are you laughing at?'

"Tell me. Has my brother had any pups within the past few years?" Sesshoumaru demanded.

"Hai, he has. Two, in fact. A boy named Yukito and a girl named Chikara," Miroku answered. Sesshoumaru nodded, and was about to take off when, "Why do you ask?"
"I saw a neko youkai take two quarter youkai pups," Sesshoumaru answered. "One looked identical to my brother, so I wanted to know if it was his. Since it is, I'm going after it."

"I'm going, as well," Miroku said.

"Iie. You stay here. My idiot brother and his wench should be coming here soon," Sesshoumaru said, and flew off. Miroku narrowed his eyes, and walked back into the fortress. He was looking for Sango. Suddenly, walking into one room, he saw her practice fighting with a katana.

"Damn!" She swore, nearly cutting herself.

"Is this a bad time?" Miroku asked. Sango, shocked, dropped the katana noisily on the ground.

"I-Iie... come on in," Sango said, picking up the katana. "I'm just practicing."

"I could tell. Where is Hiraikotsu?"

"I left in a hurry, so I forgot it," Sango admitted. "Imagine, me forgetting Hiraikotsu..." He smiled, and watched her attack some invisible attacker.

"Sesshoumaru told me that he thinks he saw Yukito and Chikara," Miroku said.

"WHAT?!" Sango asked, the blade sliding from her hand, to stick into the wall. "We have to go get them!"

"We can't. Inuyasha and Kagome will be coming soon, and we have to go with them."

"But... we can't just let anything happen to those two!"

"I know, Sesshoumaru's on it," Miroku informed her. Sango still had the determined look on her face.

"You're really going to try and stop me from saving my niece and nephew?" She scoffed. "Ja ne!" She ran out of the fortress, with Miroku following. "I thought we had to stay here."

"We do, but I don't want you hurt," Miroku said, simply. She smirked, and then felt a familiar youkai aura. She recognized it immediately, and grinned.

"Kirara!" She yelled. Out of the bushes came the transformed neko youkai. It looked at its owner, wearily, before walking up to her, and nuzzling her. "I missed you, too... Kirara, do you see where Sesshoumaru went?"

Kirara nodded.

"Then let's go," Sango said, jumping onto Kirara's back. She looked back at Miroku, and smiled. "You coming?"

"Hai," Miroku said, getting on the youkai's back.

"Inuyasha, everything's so different," Kagome noted. "It's darker here."

"Hai, it is. Kagome, keep a hold of my haori, ne?" Inuyasha said, sniffing through the forest. "Hey, I smell Sango's scent. Her's and Miroku's."

"Honto?! Then go after it!"

"Wait... but Yuki's and Chika's are in the opposite direction..." Inuyasha said. "I'm going in the kids' direction. Let's go."

"Imouto-chan? Are you all right?" Yuki asked, after his younger sister's sobs subsided. Chikara looked up, and rubbed her eyes.

"Hai, I'm fine, Yuki," Chikara said, hugging him, before running around the room they were in. "Have you seen this place 'fore?"

"Iie, I haven't Chika."

"Where are we? Papa and Mama wouldn't play a trick on us," Chikara told him. "And neither will Aunt Sango!"

"I bet it was that damn bouzou," Yukito said.

"Ooh! I'm telling Papa that you cursed!" Chikara said.

"He does it, too," Yukito told her. "But I still think it's that bouzou who did it. I never did trust him."

"Miroku? He's nice!" Chikara said. "I like his staff thingy."

Yukito raised an eyebrow in his sister's direction, and snorted. "You'd trust the boogey man if he had a doll."

"Hai, I would!" Chikara said.

Suddenly, a cruel laugh filled the air.

"Ku ku ku... would you trust me?" Suddenly, a man about their father's age appeared. His long curled black hair was pulled into a ponytail, and both of the children shook with terror.

"Where's my Mama and Papa?!" Chikara yelled. "I want my Mama and my Papa!!"

"They'll be here soon..." The man said. "But for now, call me Naraku."

"Naraku?!" Yukito asked, angrily. "Father said that he killed you!"

"Aa, so my reputation precedes me," Naraku said.

"Leave us alone!" Yukito said, stepping in front of Chikara, protectively.

"As touching as this is, I'm not after you. I'm after that Shikon no Tama your father owns," Naraku said.

"He wished on it already," Yukito said. "It was that we lived full youkai lives. Including Mama."

"Well, that wish blew up in the dust when I returned."

"Miroku, I don't think we're going in the right direction."

"Then turn around."

"It's not that simple when Kirara has a place she knows she wants to go," Sango said, turning to raise an eyebrow in his direction. She turned back to face forward. "Kirara, turn around."

The youkai shook her head. Sango's eyes went wide. "WHERE ARE YOU GOING, KIRARA?!"

"I think she's headed for the village," Miroku observed. "But why?"
"I have no idea."

Inuyasha stopped for a minute to look around his surroundings. Oh yeah, he wasn't in the same Sengoku Jidai he had grown up in.

He sniffed, and realized he lost his children's scent.

"Kagome? I can't smell their scents," Inuyasha said. "It's like they didn't even go this way."

"WHAT?! No!" Kagome said. "We have to find them!!"

"I know, I know. Look, I can smell Sango and Miroku's scents. I'll follow theirs, ne?" Inuyasha asked. Kagome nodded. "Let's go."

"Come here, Chikara..." Naraku said, in a cold voice. "Papa wants to talk to you."

"You're not Papa! Papa handsome, and you ugly!!" Chikara yelled. "You ugly, you ugly!" She danced around, singing at the top of her lungs.

"Shut up, you miserable whelp," Naraku said, slapping the poor thing across the room. Yukito ran after her, and pillowed her fall to the ground.

"You bastard!" Yukito swore. "Leave her alone!"

"Aa, I see you got your father's mouth."

"That's not the only thing," Yukito said. He showed off his claws, and got ready for an attack. "Father taught me this one. Iron Reaver Soul Stealer!"

"There they are!" Sango pointed out. "There's Inuyasha and Kagome!" So that's what the youkai was doing. "KAGOME! INUYASHA!" The two looked up, and saw the taiji-ya and monk on Kirara's back.

"There you are!" Kagome said, when they caught up to each other. "Have you seen my children?"

"Sesshoumaru has," Sango answered. "Being dragged by a neko youkai. I know who has them."

"Who?" Inuyasha asked.

"Naraku."

A/n- I know, there was a snippet earlier, but I couldn't add that one yet.


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