A/N: Well, I'm not even sure anyone is reading my story, but oh well! Here's chapter 2! I know it's not too interesting, but it will be better soon. Trust me. Please review when your done so that I know that other people are reading this! Thanks^^

Disclaimer: *looks under Christmas tree* Nope, I still don't own Inuyasha ;_; *cries*

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Chapter 2: Don't turn your back

"What are we hunting for, Dad?" Ara asked walking beside him in the forest surrounding Kaede's village. Mitsu was following them staring off into nothingness, apparently lost in thought.

"Anything," Inuyasha responded, "Kaede ran out of food, too, so we have to get her some also."

Mitsu was either ignoring them or didn't hear their conversation. He looked around at the brown grass and dead trees. He tilted his head to the sky and saw the full moon surrounded by glimmering stars, speckled on a blanket of black.

"Whatcha lookin' at, Mitsu?" Ara asked curiously.

He looked down at his younger sister, "Oh, nothing. Just thinking."

Ara laughed at this. "We're not in school, ya know. You don't have to think when you're here!"

Inuyasha suddenly stopped, making Ara crash right into his back. "Oww… Why did you stop, Dad?"

Inuyasha sniffed the air, "Naraku…" he growled. Mitsu and Ara also smelled the air; they could smell Naraku.

"It's probably just Kagura, Naraku would come himself," Mitsu pointed out.

"Oh really?" a deep voice asked above them, "What makes you think that?"

Inuyasha looked up only to see Naraku looking down at him. "Naraku. What is it you want this time? You already have most of the jewel shards!"

"Who said this had anything to do with the shards? I would just like to se your body on the ground, dead," he laughed. Inuyasha looked back at his children.

"Go get the others!" he ordered. Just then, Naraku sent a branch-like tentacle right at Inuyasha's back. He cried out in pain and surprise as Naraku pinned him to a tree.

"Dad!" Mitsu and Ara cried out in unison.

"Kukuku… Have you not learned to keep your eyes on your opponent?" Naraku smiled a wicked smile. If a snake could smile, it would smile as he did.

"Go!" Inuyasha managed to say and watched as Mitsu and Ara made a run for it back to the village.

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Kagome felt a chill run through her spine and she looked around.  Something's wrong, she thought and looked around the hut. Below her was a now conscience Miroku. To her left was Kaede, re-bandaging Sango's wounded arm.

Sango noticed the look on Kagome's face first. "What's wrong, Kagome-chan?"

"I don't know, just a feeling like something bad happened. It's probably noth--"

"Mom!" she heard Ara's cry from outside the hut. Soon enough, Mitsu and Ara were running through the door, "Naraku's here and he hurt Dad!"

Kagome's eyes went wide, "Naraku's here? What happened? Where's your father?"

"He's fighting Naraku," Mitsu answered, "C'mon, we gotta help him out!"

Kagome jumped up. She grabbed her bow, arrows, and backpack full of medical supplies --just in case. She quickly noticed Sango walking towards her boomerang against the wall and Miroku trying to sit up. "You guys stay here; you're too badly wounded."

"We can't just let you go knowing there's danger," Sango replied, "Besides, it's just a flesh wound, I've suffered worse." Miroku nodded in agreement.

"The medicine you gave me is working, Kagome-sama. I can come," Miroku said after finally getting up. He looked weak, but he was defiantly better.

Kagome nodded knowing it was no sense arguing. They began to where Mitsu and Ara said they encountered Naraku, but once they got there, he was gone. Kagome saw something out of the corner of her eye and quickly turned to see what it was.

"Inuyasha!" she sighed in relief as she ran to his side. There was a hole in his stomach and blood coming from his mouth. She quickly got out a cloth from her backpack and wiped the blood from his mouth. He blinked his eyes awake and looked at her.

"Where'd that bastard get to?" he whispered, not being able to talk any louder.

"I don't know, I just got here," she responded. Inuyasha tried to sit up, but the pain in his gut was too much and he leaned back against the tree behind him. "You shouldn't move, your wounds are real bad. You need to rest for a while," Kagome said, wiping some more blood that escaped his mouth.

"I'll get him," Inuyasha growled.

"Really?" Naraku asked from just out of their view, "Ara, Mitsu, you are even weaker than Inuyasha, if that's possible. You didn't even notice my scent."

"There's a lot of blood and people here, it's kinda hard to figure out the scents!" Mitsu argued.

"Excuses. Pitiful hanyou, just can't admit how weak he is," Naraku laughed.

"Excuse me? What about you? You're a hanyou too, you know," Ara said. She knew it would push him over the edge, but she could never let a diss go to waste, especially one that's so perfectly set up.

Naraku's anger reached a boiling point as he used one of his branch-like arms and knocked her against a tree. He laughed.

Ara's vision was fuzzy for a few moments, but once it subsided she noticed a pain in the back of her head. She held her hand to the back of her head and felt it wet and sticky. She put her hand in front of her face and saw it covered with her own blood. "Bastard…" she muttered. Kagome would have normally yelled at her for swearing, but under the circumstances, she felt she had a right to curse.

"Ara!" Inuyasha called. This time Naraku went too far; no one hurts his children and gets away with it. He stood up despite his injuries and took out his Tetsusaiga and prepared to fight.

Naraku laughed, "You wish to fight me? You truly are stupid," The two hanyous were poised to fight and prepared to attack…