*Sorry I was so late in updating this one. I had so much work from school that I was forced to get a minimal of about five hours of sleep a night. But here it is, so all the nail biters wandering what will happen next, can now finish this scene.*

Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha and co. but it would be the coolest if I did! I would never be teased or messed with!

Chapter 11

Sukira.

So that's what it's name was.

And it had simply been hiding underground the entire time, waiting patiently to try and kill Kagome.

So that's what Naraku was after this time. Just like the time he took over Sango's younger brother Kohaku and tried to have her killed by his scythe.

He truly wanted Kagome dead. And he would do all in his power to do so.

But here Inuyasha was, trapped head to toe in the deadly vines, fresh little thorns causing him to bleed close to death. And he had jumped in the way.to save her.

"Inuyasha!" Kagome shouted. How had it happened? One moment she was safe behind the wall, arrow out, bow stretched, ready to attack an available target.

The next.Inuyasha was stabbed and then bound and she was shoved off into the ground, away from the deadly grip of mother nature's vines.

She needed to help him..

"Inuyasha!" Miroku shouted, running towards Inuyasha's vines. Sukira turned towards Miroku and disappeared as if she was never there.

Almost as if she were a ghost. Miroku stopped in his tracks, looking around for the mischevious little nymph like incarnation. Before he could move, Sukira had appeared behind him and stabbed him in the back with a thorny tendril, his face quick with pain, and then calm with unconciousness.

"There's one.who's next?" Asked this evil creature from the core of earth. She raised her bloody tendril and licked it gently, as if the blood were a delicious treat. Then smiling, she turned around towards Kagome, her white teeth glistening in the moonlight. Her hair was bunched at the top of her head, red like that of a rose's pedals. Her eyes were completely black, as if there was nothing underneath the eyelids of this living-walking rose.

"Time to finish my job." She mentioned with a sort of sing-song voice. Kagome gasped in the exact instant that Sukira jumped, and she would have been dead had Sango not jumped in the way so quickly and shielded her off with her boomerang bone. Sukira's smile widened, as if she expected this action, and with the most disgusting snake like tongue, she licked out and stabbed Sango in the neck. The wound didn't look to serious, but for some reason Kagome could see a tiny red glow flow into Sango's body, as if lead through the veins of the blood stream.

She had been poisoned.

But the poison was working far to fast to be normal.

In a matter of moments, Sango was sputtering on the ground, her boomerang bone lying right next to her, her body motionless except for the continuous jerking and twisting of her face.

"Sango!" Kagome shouted. "Miroku!" But they were both down and unconscious now, and the only ones left were Kirara and Shippo.

Shippo of course tried to stand in the way, and sadly, Sukira got to him too, no matter how Kagome tried to protect him by picking him up and running.

Next was Kirara, who jumped at the nymph, but was cut over to the side by Kagura's wind blades. Kagome stopped, beginning to sob crazily because everyone had been struck down.

She had to do something she had to save them.

Kagome stopped, and laid the poisoned Shippo down on the ground gently.

If this was her last battle, then she would take Sukira with her, and save Inuyasha. She would do it.because Sukira had hurt her in the one place that caused her her most anguish.

Her heart.

Kagome took her archery stance, reaching back and grabbing an arrow and slipping it tightly into the string, ready to attack.

She already had her target positioned on Sukira, and that witch was still smiling.those white teeth still glistening in the moonlight.

Maybe I should shoot those pearly whites right out of her mouth. Kagome thought in a fit of rage.

With that in mind, she sent her arrow flying, only to miss her target by an inch or two, and get swept up in a thin like string that wrapped around her and pinned her to the tree behind her.

Kanna was the one who threw out the fine strong web, and she played with it like a child would with a yoyo, pulling and then loosening it gently, her mirror in one hand, and the other hand fooling with the strings. Any tighter and the string would cut her neck open.

Inuyasha watched from his bind, his loss of blood beginning to cloud his vision.

He had to save Kagome.but how? he was just as trapped as her.

But.he promised he would protect her.he had to do something. Inuyasha fought.fought hard against his binds, causing only his wounds to further open, and more to be made.

By now he didn't care if he died.

His only thought was that Kagome live.even if he didn't.

But no matter how he tried, he couldn't free himself from the vines that licked at his blood like a snake to the air.

He couldn't escape.

Sukira floated up to Kagome and touched her black hair, playing with it if you would.

"Such an ugly color your hair. It should be green.or red perhaps. Here, let me take care of it for you!" she said, beginning to pull on Kagome's hair, laughing as Kagome screamed and tried to reach up to stop the rough tug on her scalp.

'I wish that darned nymph will burn in hell!' Inuyasha thought furiously.

Yes.fire.plenty of it to fry her to death.

Then.almost as if by on cue, a large bright red fireball flew like a racing bird through the sky and right into Sukira's face. In a matter of moments, she was a shriveled black heap on the ground.fried so fast that only one quick screech was able to echo from her O shaped mouth.

She was dead now.wonderful, but.who threw the fireball.

Again out of no where, a red dragon came racing out, his back lit with tiny flames, and his flame shaped tale swishing swiftly as he raced down towards Kanna.

It was the same dragon Inuyasha had seen the night before!

In an instant, Kanna had brought up her mirror on the tiny lizard, and was prepared to reflect it away.

But this dragon wasn't stupid.

It flew up above Kanna in one of the swiftest movements Inuyasha had ever seen, and had punctured Kanna in the back of the neck with it's teeth from behind. Of course,

Kanna fell back, her eyes closing gently as she landed on the ground with a soft thud. Was the dragon's bite poisonous?

Kagura saw this and growled, the wind beginning to pick up, tossing the little dragon about madly, and it fought to keep balanced in the thick wind.

It was then, that the third surprise jumped out.a creature wearing completely black.

A ninja of some sort.

It had the veil and everything over the mouth, a large heavy set cloak surrounding it's entire body down to the knee, and large bottomed black pants, flapping almost like a butterflies wings in the heavy wind. No hair could be seen, and yet he could tell it had black hair.same shade as the clothing.

In an instant, this mysterious person had landed on the ground, a unconscious Kagura falling back.eyes still half way open.blank stare in his direction. She hit the ground and the wind completely stopped, everything still once more. The creature put away a sword Inuyasha had never seen it draw, and turned dark eyes shining from the heavy black lashes that surrounded them.

Who was this? And why had it saved them.

The creature took a look about, and began to walk, the little red dragon coming up and landing on it's shoulder. It patted the dragon as if it were a friend, and then came up to

Sango, the closest to it from it's landing position.

It bent down and took of it's glove.reaching towards her like she was a child, and in an instant of fear at what this creature might do, Inuyasha had to shout.

"Don't touch her!" He shouted. His rage was beginning to burn at his insides and the vines were loosening quickly. Whoever this was, couldn't be allowed to touch anyone.

Who knew what side it was on?

The ninja looked at Inuyasha, it's eyes seeming to laugh although he couldn't see a smile.

But with that look came a piece of understanding in Inuyasha's head.almost like a telepathic message.

'I won't hurt her. But she will die if the poison isn't taken out right away.' It knew Sango was poisoned.

But.how.not even he knew Sango was poisoned and he had been close up and watching. There was something familiar here.

The cloaked figure again bent down, and with this touched the bite that was on Sango's neck. For some reason, Inuyasha could see a red glow, almost like liquid light, flow out of Sango's body and into the figures hand, in which it immediately thrust it's pale hand into the soil, and dispensed of the poison.

Of course! The poison was natural to nature, and so the earth was able to destroy the poison with touch.

But how did this figure know that already.

Next came Shippo, in which again Inuyasha saw the red glow and the dissipation of the glow into the ground.

Once that was done, the figure snipped the web like coils around Kagome with it abnormally sharp talon-like nails, and with healing powers Inuyasha had never seen before, healed the red marks on Kagome's skin, and the wounds on Miroku and Kirara.

Last was him.

It came up to him, and for a moment they were face to face.brown eyes meeting gold.

Beautiful eyes she had.seemed to dance in the moonlight with a golden richness to them.

"Hold still." It said. The voice was feminine.and familiar.

She raised it's claws and sliced the vines apart easily, freeing Inuyasha from his bind and then healing his wounds with her magic touch. In a matter of moments, Inuyasha was completely healed and healthy.

After five minutes, everyone was awake and living.

But something wasn't right.

There was something about this character that reminded him of someone.but who.Who did this remind him of.?

Everyone was watching him.he sensed it now. They could all see the recollection in his eyes.as if he knew this person but couldn't remember who.

Why?

But then, in a matter of a moment.with her next words.he remembered who she was.

"Hello Inuyasha. It's been a while."

He gasped.

Could it be.?

Was it possible.?

No.he had watched her die.the most agonizing and bloody death.

But against all the odds, he said her name.simple and yet those letters held so much power.so many memories.

"Kojika."

*There you go, what do you think? Please send reviews! I'm starting to lose my inspiration on this story! I need a little encouragement for chapter twelve!"