Disclaimer: I am getting tired of writing these, so this one will go for all the rest of the chapters, I do not own Inuyasha or anything else except a few things so please don't sue me. Thank you.
Since I have had several reviews asking for longer chapters, I will try to make them longer, but I will be unable to update as often. If you are one of those who don't mind the short chapter, tell me in a review and I will see which side has the most support and go from there. Thank you.
After Inuyasha had explained his encounter with the mysterious woman to Miroku, Sango, and Shippou, including the part about not finding a scent, at all, there was a thoughtful silence. The subject of the silence was how to make one's scent "invisible." None had ever heard of such a feat. Finally, Inuyasha presented and idea.
"Do you suppose it is a spell with a trigger word, like the beads?"
"No, I don't think any magical item could have the power required to erase a scent." Miroku responded.
"Why don't we ask Lady Kaede?" Sango offered hesitantly, knowing Inuyasha's scorn for the old woman.
"But we will lose Kagome's um…scent? If we leave the area!" Inuyasha replied frantically.
"How about some of us go, and some follow the scent?" Shippou suggested.
"Great, let's go!" yelled Inuyasha as he grabbed Sango around the waist and took off after the hidden trail.
Miroku and Shippou, completely stunned by what just happened just, stood staring after the pair, watching a rising cloud of dust.
"I think we were just volunteered, but, Miroku, I wanna find Kagome too!" Shippou said, turning big pleading eyes on the monk. Miroku stared back.
"You know I hate leaving Lady Sango's side, but some things just have to happen. Besides, I can't very well find where Inuyasha is without being able to smell him, so he actually made a very wise choice of who to take along with him." The little Kitsune nodded, sadly, and then hopped onto Miroku's shoulder.
"Well, the sooner we talk to Lady Kaede, the sooner we can continue our search for Kagome." With that, Shippou and Miroku were off in the direction of the priestess's village.
With Sango clinging firmly to his back, Inuyasha was having no trouble getting around, but he was finding it difficult to track the un-scent left by Kagome. He had never encountered something like this. The trail had rapidly taken to the trees, making leaps that left Inuyasha wondering if it really were Kagome they were following.
Suddenly, Inuyasha caught a whiff of a different smell, one he disliked youkai. He sniffed around the tree they were in, but found the evil odor coming from somewhere ahead of them. Inuyasha took off at full speed again, trying to keep track of Kagome's invisible essence while simultaneously trying to follow that of the demons.
Just as he was getting frustrated with not finding the intruding demons, he caught a trace of something that frightened him. There was a small clearing just beyond the pair, and now Inuyasha dreaded what he might see there.
"Sango, please, let me check the clearing first, you wait here." Though the hanyou knew Sango was a demon slayer and would have no trouble killing anything they came across, Inuyasha smelled blood. Sango knew not to argue with him, he had been polite, there was something very seriously wrong. Inuyasha feared that in this small clearing, his whole world, all his hopes, everything might come to pieces. If it was the mutilated body of Kagome he came across, he wanted to spare Sango the pain. He, on the other hand, had been living in pain ever since that day two years ago when she told them all to leave. This would just be the climax and destruction of who he was. A new kind of pain would take hold, one without hope of an end. *No!* he thought, *this would have an end, but not a happy one.* Inuyasha took a deep breath and entered the clearing, alone.
Well, I just couldn't resist leaving the story here, it was too perfect a cliffhanger to let slide. I'm sorry if you would like to murder me right now, but you should be glad that I have a sense of humor. If you would just glance up at the drop bar that lets you pick chapters, you will notice that I have the next chapter up already. Aren't I just the best little updater?
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