Here's Chapter Two of my new Fanfic.  Again, if you haven't read "Inu-Yasha – Secret Soul of the Demon Dog" then I suggest you read it (cough and review it grin)  Let me know what you all think of this story!! PWEASE!

Whispers of that Nameless Fear

Chapter Two

     Inu-Yasha stood stock still with his nose to the wind that caressed through the forest trees and yet he smelled nothing of Kagome.  Nothing.  Tense and sharp, he waited impatiently, his gaze wandering to Sango for a moment to find her reaction, and then back to the forest.

     "Are you sure you saw her go in here?" he growled.

     The girl nodded sadly with worry.  "Yes, I told her not to go in . . ."

     "Damn her, she does this all the time!  The sun is almost set . . . she'll never find her way back before it's dark!  For once, why didn't she just let that stupid girl just die."

     "Inu-Yasha!" Sango gasped at the hanyou's harsh attitude.  "That little girl we saw was near death!  She had to at least try . . ."

      He held a hand up to silence her and perked his ears to the forest.  "I can hear her."

      Sango held her breath and listened too, but heard nothing. 

     "I can't smell her but I can hear her." Inu-Yasha mumbled under his breath. 

     "That's . . ."

     "Weird." He finished for her.  "I can smell her a mile away – from the other side of the well but . . ."

     "Perhaps she's caught up in another realm?" Sango offered, but only received an uncertain glance in response.

     "Another realm?  That's the stupidest thing I've ever . . ." but he was not allowed to finish his sentence before Kilala bristled and leaped in between her master and the darkening forest.  "Something's coming."

     Sango took a step back, hiding the fear the crept up within her as she felt for her weapon slung to her back.  "And it's not Kagome."

     "No kidding."

     Again, Inu-Yasha raised his attention to a soft whisper from the forest.  This time Sango heard it too.

     "Kagome?" she spoke Inu-Yasha's worried thoughts.  "In there with that demon?"

     "Not if I can help it!" the hanyou roared, flexing his claws and screaming through the forest foliage ready to face anything that came in his path with the summoned steel cleaving fang of his father.  "KAGOME!"

     The forest was pitch around him, Sango and Kilala were right at his heels, but he did not care.  The shadows played out before him as he sprinted blindly into whatever it was he sensed . . . a movement caught the corner of his eye and he leaped to a harsh stop, driving his claws into the earth to slow him down but never losing face as he confronted the darkness.

     The forest growled.

     Sango rushed to his side, nearly out of breath as she pulled her weapon free.  "Found it?"

     Inu-Yasha felt every hair stand on end as the night wind blew, the moon rising into the dark sky and a sinister laugh echoing amongst the canopy of the forest.  "Whatever you are . . . I know you're there!  Show yourself!"

     Another demonic laugh.

     The demon exterminator took a slow step back, fear crawling into her eyes.  "I don't like the feel of this demon . . . Inu-Yasha, be careful."

     Something slithered above them, a great beastly snake crawled amongst the shadows of the upper branches, snickering and gaping as the moonlight glinted on needle sharp teeth nearly two feet long implanted in his narrow jaws.  Black claws drove themselves into the trunks of the trees that supported it, it's orange body sinuous and dark within the shades, black feathery ridges started from in between his crimson eyes and down the entire slender body that alone was as long as the highest tree in the forest.

     What is this thing, Inu-Yasha thought to himself, noting that suddenly Sango seemed more frightened than usual.  "Come down here and fight me, beast!  What have you done with Kagome?"

     The snake hissed, his voice eerily similar to that distant call of Kagome . . .

     "TETSUSIAGAAAAAAA!" Inu-Yasha roared, leaping into the air with a great heave and slicing the blade of his sword through the trunks of no less than five trees before falling back to the earth with a gentle thud.

     The tops of the trees crashed around him, shattering to the earth and threatening to do him harm, but the hanyou did not even so much a flinch.  Anger boiled within the demon blood that screamed through his body, his muscles hard and ready. . .

     But his target was no where to be seen.  Vanished.

     "Where the hell are you?" Inu-Yasha howled.  "Where the hell . . ."

     From above the beast descended, crashing through the branches and away from the waning light that filled the open space Inu-Yasha had created, slipping back into the darkness of the forest shelter.  The hanyou followed destructively, slicing and wielding his sword as if he had become possessed, tearing through the forest as if he intended to destroy the forest itself. 

     "Where is Kagome?  What have you done with her?"

     Sango fell back.  "Inu-Yasha wait!  This is Naraku's dealings, I can sense it!  It might be a trap!"

     But Inu-Yasha did not hear her as he carved a path after the beast.  Sharp claws tore into his body from the side before he had a chance to leap out of the way and he fell to the ground in shock.  The sword slid away from his reach as the demon came from the forest to face over him, it's long, dragon-like face spread in a pleased smile he reached for the injured hanyou . . .

     "BLADES OF BLOOOOD!" he drove his claws into his own wounds and struck out at the monster, pulling himself up at the last moment before the beast could recover with barely a scratch across his tough hide.  What the hell is this thing?

     The monster began his pursuit again as Inu-Yasha tried to hobble away, his injuries hindering his speed and his sight.  Sango's boomerang soared over his head towards the monster, causing it to back away before it was slain and yet did not touch it.  She caught it again, sliding back from it's momentum, Kilala briskly at her side ready to leap at the first moment she had a chance.

     "Inu-Yasha!  You alright?" she called out, never taking her eyes from the beast.

     "I think I can . . ."

     Black claws struck him down again from behind and Kilala roared forward, flaring up with paws of fire, attacking with all her force, but to no avail.  Her sharp claws only clattered against the scales of the beasts neck and she was swatted away like a harmless flea, splitting the tree where she was sent into. 

     "Kilala!" Sango cried out in pain as she tried to pull Inu-Yasha away, but he was too heavy and too defiant to listen and pushed her away.

     "I can handle this stupid thing!"

     The hanyou whirled around to face the beast that stood between his sword and himself.  "Where is Kagome?  I know you're around here Naraku!  I can smell you!"

     "Naaaaarakkkuuuuu is noooot what youuu havvve to worry abouuut." The demon sneered in a snicker.  "But meeeee."

     Taking Inu-Yasha in a firm grip, the beast raised him into the sky and held him before his great bloody red eyes.  He struggled against the deathly grip but to no avail, the voice of Sango calling out his name caught his ears, but he did not listen.  "Where . . . is . . . Kagome?" he managed to gasp out as the monster squeezed.

     The hands that held him began to grow warm and then hot, haloed with a neon yellow Inu-Yasha began to feel his strength waning . . . his energies draining from his body . . .

     "Inu-Yasha!" Sango cried in fear, pulling her weapon back but never getting a chance to release it before she was struck down by the monsters tapering tail and send sliding into a tree.  Fresh wounds from the slender spikes hidden within the feathered tip opened across her arms and neck as she lay, motionless in a pool of her own warm blood . . .

     "S . . . Sango . . ." Inu-Yasha worried but his breath was quickly gone as the sun set over the horizon, plunging the world into night and he too fell into the blackness of his own unconsciousness. 

     Enzuno grimaced in pleasure as he took off into the night sky to toy with his prey . . .

     He would make his master proud.

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