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Chapter 2: Stolen

Kagome awoke in the middle of the night. Something isn't right. I sense shards, and their coming our way! I also sense lots of youkai. Kagome slipped out of her sleeping bag and woke everyone up.

"What is it wench?" Inuyasha said grouchily. Kurama shot mental daggers at him. Kagome ignored the name calling for now and looked at Inuyasha.

"Can't you sense it?"

"Sense what!" Inuyasha clearly wasn't a very happy person when he woke up.

"Naraku." Kikyo answered for him. Inuyasha sniffed the air. His face turned grim. Kurama stood next to Kagome as they waited for the coming onslaught. This is it! Kagome thought. She looked around her everyone seemed tense. Suddenly she felt a familiar presence.

"Sesshoumaru is here." Kagome said suddenly. Inuyasha growled while everyone thought the same thought. Why now?? He entered the clearing and looked the group over. His eyes stopped on Kurama, recognition flickered there momentarily before his eyes turned once again emotionless.

"I have come only to fight Naraku. I offer a momentary truce." He said simply. Inuyasha grunted.

"How do we know your truly not on Naraku's side?" Kagome noticed that only Jaken stood next to Sesshoumaru.

"He has Rin, doesn't he?" Kagome asked suddenly. Sesshoumaru looked at her. Surprise showing in his eyes for a second then disappeared almost as if it had never been there.

"Hai." They stood in silence, except for the sound of the oncoming demons. Suddenly it stopped. Kagome notched an arrow. The woods were filled with insane laughter as demon after demon came out. Inuyasha, Sango, Miroku, Kikyo, Sesshoumaru, and Kagome all fought intensely, and the demons were soon destroyed. Kurama had stood in the same spot, he unlike the rest were sizing up the enemy. During the battle no one, not even Kurama, noticed that a small demon had taken Kagomes shards until Naraku came from behind a tree. The group all looked at him with hatred.

"So much hostility." Naraku said "Tsk, tsk tsk. Kagome after I take you and make you mine I will teach you to watch after you possessions more carefully." He held up her shards. Kagome gasped she hadn't even noticed that they were gone.

"Naraku you heartless freak! I will never be yours!" Kagome all but spat.

"Tsk tsk tsk. But im not so heartless. I saved your dear friend Sango the hurt of seeing her dear brother die." Naraku looked at Sango, and expected to see her breakdown in tears, but was surprised by the look of happiness and hatred mixed in.

"That was not my brother. But thank you for killing him. You have let him move on, allowing me a free conscious, and the happiness for my brother I longed for." Naraku looked pissed. He wanted the taijiya to break down. Not matter, she wasn't important. Now that he had the rest of the Shikon no Tama shards he could complete the jewel.

Kagome watched as Naraku fused all the shards that they had collected and then took his shard. His eyes were gleaming madness and hunger. Kagome ran forward to stop him but was stopped by Kurama.

"There is a barrier erected. If you were to rush forward you would be hurt badley." Kagome stopped and nodded in understandment.

"So are we just going to stand here and watch him swallow the jewel?" She asked fustrated.

"Hai."

Naraku fused the jewel together and laughed maniacally. He swallowed it. Everybody waited, he started to bulge outward almost like he was going to explode. His body was surrounded by miasma, then it stopped. The forest was filled with in unearthly quiet. The miasma slowly started to disappear. There stood Naraku, he looked the same but he's body was radiating with power. Kagome backed up into Kurama he put his arm around, and she took comfort in it.

"So you still plan to fight me? Tsk tsk tsk…" Naraku laughed and looked around. "Ah…Sesshoumaru…I have no reason to fight you," he took something from behind him and throw it towards him. It was Rin. Sesshoumaru caught her and growled. She was bruised from head to foot. "Well, sorry I didn't return her in the "proper" condition, but she was a feisty one. She seems to have taken a liking to you Sesshoumaru-sama!" Naraku mocked. Sesshoumaru put Rin in Jaken's care. He took out Toukijin and prepared at launch at Naraku.

"Don't." Sesshoumaru stopped and looked at the owner of the voice. "That's just what he wants you to do." Kurama said.

"Who are you human?"

"I might as well tell you all now." He released Kagome and flickered. Kurama stood there in his youkai form. His sliver hair moved with the wind, and his ears flickered at the sound of movement or sound.

"Youko Kurama." Sesshoumaru said. Inuyasha looked like he was about to faint. Kikyo looked at Kagome with pure hatred. You could almost hear her thoughts. How did she manage to get someone that hot? Kikyo looked like she wanted nothing more than to rip Kagome's head off. Kagome just glared at her. Inuyasha finally found is voice.

"You know him?" He asked his brother.

"Yes. He is very widely known in Hell, for his thievery and his mercilessness. He is the only youkai I've fought that has beaten me. He's very intelligent."

"The only way to beat this hanyou, is to retrieve the Shikon no Tama." Kurama explained.

"No shit Sherlock!" Inuyasha said. Using a phrase Kagome had used once before. Kurama looked at him like he was stupid and continued.

"To do that w-" Naraku interrupted what he was about to say by shooting an arm out at an unsuspecting Kagome. Kurama picked her up and moved her out of the way faster than even Sesshoumaru could follow. He put her down a few feet away. And glared back at Naraku.

"Coward. You must be weaker than I thought to try kill someone who cant even defend themselves." Kurama's voice lacked all emotion. He's eyes were cold and unwelcoming. Naraku laughed arrogantly.

"I am unbeatable. I possess the Shikon no Tama. You cannot stop me!"

"You are beatable. Even if you posses the Shikon no Tama, you are still a hanyou, and all hanyou's are beatable. You just happen to posses a little more strength."

"A LITTLE…A LITTLE…!" Naraku was losing he's cool. He's miasma started to float over to Kurama, as he shot out tentacles. But that was only a distraction, for as Kagome watched Kurama dodge the tentacles with such swiftness it seemed he never moved, she didn't notice the tentacle come towards her until it grabbed her. Kurama stopped dodging the tentacles and rushed forward to get to Kagome. She reached for his hand, but was pulled towards Naraku, who then re-erected the barrier. Kurama stopped and stared at Naraku with such hatred it was almost tangible.

"Tsk, tsk tsk tsk. You should watch your friends more carefully." Miasma filled the clearing they were in as Naraku slipped away.

"If he says 'tsk tsk tsk' one more time I swear I'll rip his heart out of his chest." Sango said while staring at the spot Kagome once stood.

"He has Kagome, what the fuck are we supposed to do!?!" Inuyasha screamed.

"We follow him."

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