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Chapter 30

Kagome had just barely made it into the room and found her shikon shard, when she got the creeping feeling one does when they something is going terribly wrong in another area of the world or of time.

This one involved Inuyasha, and she had an idea that he had already met up with Naraku and was fighting him at this very moment. Of course, she had begun to leave the room, except for the fact that she had noticed something highly unusual from out her window.

She was too curious to leave it behind, so she glanced out the window before going downstairs.

Things looked normal for a second, and then she noticed what had caught her attention.

A young teenage girl, probably around her age, came running out of the well house, wearing nothing but black T-shirts with Rock bands on them, black jeans, and heavy army boots.

She had her short hair pinned back in a pony tail, and dangerous brown eyes that glittered from under thin black eye-brows. In general, the girl looked about as normal as any girl running around the streets, but it was something more about the way she was running, and the sort of image or impression she left on Kagome's mind.

That...and she was running from the well house.

Kagome tried to call out to her, to find out what she was doing...but she couldn't. In this moment, it was like her tongue went limp and her lips sealed shut.

The girl looked up at her in the last moment, as if she knew how hard it was for Kagome to speak, and smiled, giving her a simple wave before vanishing around the side of Kagome's house.

Kagome of course ran down and out of the house immediately, but could no longer find any sign of the strange girl.

She hadn't recognized her face or anything to know why she was there, and she most definitely did not seem to be a girl at her school, considering most of them wore skirts in their free time.

Kagome sighed and walked into the well house, looking around.

There wasn't any graffiti or the like, to show that she was trying to vandalize it, and there most definitely wasn't any trash or undesirable items in the well or around it.

Perhaps she was just curious and had wanted to see the inside of the well house or something.

Kagome shrugged and stepped up to the well, sticking her lone shard in her pocket before jumping.

She wasn't surprised to land in the well and find that the same velvety portal opened up and welcomed her through.

She was however, astonished, at the many dead insect bodies that littered the inside of the well.

All of them, were Naraku's.

In this case, she immediately began searching around for anyone she knew...perhaps hurt or beaten up.

No one was around of course...nothing but a graveyard for insects.

She climbed out of the well, curious to how the dead bees had arrived, and began to search the trees around for evidence of a battle.

She only found one arrow aimed at her head from a distance.

An arrow from a dead miko.

"Kikyo! What's happened here?" Kagome asked, sticking her hand in her pocket to hold her shard. She wanted to ensure that no one was trying to sneak in a steal it while she was preoccupied by the miko of death.

"Nothing has happened here yet. But there will soon be a miko's blood strewn across that well and her bones tossed in for it to eat." (Consider that the well was called the Bone Eater's well in the beginning.)

"Kikyo! Where is Inuyasha?" Kagome asked with out fear of the dead miko shooting her. She had earned a new sense of bravery ever since she had met Inuyasha and begun traveling with him. Were this in the beginning, she would most likely be cowering before a tree at this moment.

"Naraku is fighting him." Kikyo replied, pulling her arrow farther back. "But you shouldn't be worried about him. I'm your opponent and I decide whether you see him later!" She smirked, and let her arrow fly, hitting her target with a loud pang.

During the little meeting with Kagome and Kikyo, Inuyasha and the fake miko had spent only a few minutes talking.

Inuyasha already knew that this fake Kikyo was Naraku, trying to fool him again, but by now, he had fought far too many adversaries to allow himself to be tricked so easily any more.

Naraku had gotten him once, fooled him so bad that it had caused him to hate Kikyo and then betray her, causing him to be pinned to the god tree.

Now...he was wiser, stronger, and far more prepared for the future than the first time he had encountered this sneaky hanyou before him.

Now...he would play by his rules. Not Naraku's.

"I no longer love you Kikyo. Get a clue!" Inuyasha replied, making Naraku believe that he was actually fooling him.

"But Inuyasha! How could you!? How dare you take that little tramp over me?!" Naraku yelled, seeming so much like Kikyo as he shouted. Had Inuyasha still been in love with Kikyo, he would have been affected.

"Kikyo! I am here to kill you, and that is what I must do. You're soul will return to Kagome's body, although I would prefer to kill Naraku first. Don't push me in a direction I don't want to go!" But Inuyasha knew how he was going to get Naraku to show himself. He had a little plan formed.

"Inuyasha! I no longer care about Naraku, nor about the fact that he made us betray each other so long ago. I just want you to keep your promise and go to Hell with me!"

Inuyasha hid a smile. He figured Naraku was taking the bait.

"Fine. Come here Kikyo. If you want me to die with you, then I will. Just show me what you want me to do."

Naraku stepped towards Inuyasha, still dressed as Kikyo, but he was wary of the hanyou's reactions. Inuyasha should have been hugging him a while back, but yet in insisted that Kikyo no longer mattered to him. Something was fishy here.

"Inuyasha." He whispered, coming close with in range. Then, with out warning, the dog hanyou jumped forth and attacked him, nearly piercing his flesh in his attack.

"What?" Naraku asked, stepping back. "What are you doing?" But he knew what Inuyasha would answer. He knew it all to well.

"Trying to kill you Naraku. So sit still!" Inuyasha replied, flexing his claws as he sometimes did when he was eager to fight an opponent he knew he could beat.

"Won't you attack me with the Tetsusaiga Inuyasha?" Naraku asked, revealing himself from his miko disguise.

"Not yet. I want to test you out with just my claws."

"Yah!" Shippo shouted, tossing another blue fox fire orb at Kanna, who simply side stepped in and threw out a bright white blast from her mirror.

"You missed." She replied calmly as the fox landed on a fallen tree branch.

"I won't this time!" He replied sending another.

He missed.

"You are truly a bad aim." She told him, side stepping another tossed at her.

"No I'm not! You just don't sit still!" Shippo shouted, jumping up as another white blast came flying his way. "And it's not like you're very accurate yourself!"

They were quiet for a while, each trying to hit the other from a distance using magical orbs and powerful lights.

Finally, Kanna managed to pin him down with a paralyzing blast, and poor Shippo, could not move a muscle.

"Hey! This isn't fair! You're not fighting fair!" Shippo shouted, trying his hardest to break from the seal that Kanna placed on him.

"I don't fight fair." She whispered calmly, stepping up to him and shining her mirror over his face.

Shippo gulped and prayed to his father that he wouldn't have to meet him sooner than he wanted to.

Another mile or two from Shippo and Kanna, Kagura and Kouga's fight was becoming intense.

Kagura proved a very formidable opponent when sent into a rage, and at the moment, that was where she was. Kouga didn't even realize he'd made her so angry. He just knew that she was sending him drafts of wind aimed at his head, and that he had to keep the utmost caution around her rice paper fan.

"Die!" She shouted for the third time, sending him a sharp whirlwind that only missed Kouga's legs by an inch. He was constantly jumping about, trying to ensure that he remained in one piece so as to fight Naraku with all he had when he found him.

Kagura on the other hand, seemed to be getting madder by the minute, simply because she'd been sent to fight such a stupid character and that he wouldn't sit still so that she could kill him. Kouga simply figured she was PMSing.

"Come back here!" She shouted as he dogged another blow of wind.

"No way!" Kouga replied, running in close to Naraku's lackey.

She replied by nearly smacking him across the face with her fan.

Then, when he dodged and ran off again, she began to cuss and throw more strings of wind.

The full reason she was so very made though was because Naraku had earlier told her straight out, that she was his slave and would be forever. That he would never let her go unless he killed her himself.

That, had left the wind sorceress in an extremely bad mood, and now she spent her time trying to slice this wolfs head off.

Maybe she'd use the hair on it to form a poison or other to kill Naraku or something.

While she was thinking, Kouga took his chance to race in close to her and land himself a hit on her side.

Unfortunately, she caught this antic just in time and jumped out of the way, only getting her foot damaged by the wolfs dangerous kick.

Their fight continued from there, hardly any conversation except to shout Die a multitude of other times and to continue trying to slice something off of him, be it head, arms, or legs.

Miroku, Sango, and Kirara had just barely finished off their adversaries, having beaten them with a devastating fight.

Sango had been stabbed in the leg, Miroku had been pierced in the air void in his hand some how when sucking up a giant boulder from the Earth Dragon, and Kirara had suffered a terrible blow to her side.

To say the least, the group was tired and restless.

They knew that there was another battle yet to fight, that of Naraku...and that he was nearby...one of the dragons had blurted out the plan while they were killing him, and had begged for mercy from the ancient Dragons of his people, the gods that watched over him from the heavens.

They had tried to spare him, but because of his pleas and his explanation, one of the other dragons had killed him in cold blood, and left him dead on the battle field.

Now...as it seemed that Naraku and Mikoto had formed quite a dangerous and bold plan, their little group had to return and inform Inuyasha of the entire thing. They were hoping, as well, that Kagome hadn't been found and poisoned by Naraku's bees, and that Kanna hadn't managed to steal her soul by now.

Mikoto stood upon a simple cliff, jutting out of the forest near Kaede's village fearlessly. He had watched the commotion going on down ways...had seen how Kanna began fighting with the little fox called Shippo, and how Naraku hadn't managed to fool Inuyasha as he thought he could. He also noticed how a strange array of light had jumped out of the Bone Eater's well and how all of Naraku's bees had been killed. At least Kikyo had remained to kill her reincarnation.

The only parts of the plan that seemed to be going right were Kagura vs. the wolf guy, and those other three people traveling with Inuyasha vs. his four dragons. As of the moment, he didn't know anything about Kojika and her ware-abouts, but he knew that she was most likely fighting her five dragons right now.

How simple this plan was going.

That...and he now had a huge chunk of what Naraku had insisted was the Shikon no Tama in his hands. He knew this ball was not the Shikon, that it was merely a fake crystal injected with a poison meant to kill his kind...The Draymon.

He also knew that the real ball of Shikon was in Naraku's grasps, and the hanyou had planned on using it and what ever he could get from everyone else to kill off Inuyasha and his friends. Naraku would do the dirty work, and the only thing Mikoto had to do, was to sit back and watch.

What a pleasure!

As he thought about everything going on, he only just barely caught the presence of another in the area, and he cursed himself for not paying attention to the forest behind him.

In fact, he had been so deep in thought and observation he hadn't even been listening to the environment behind him.

He knew instantly who it was when they stepped out.

"I didn't know you were such a stalker." He acknowledged with out turning around.

The person behind him snickered, and stepped up, sticking one sharp finger nail in the back of his neck.

"Neither did I." She replied with a smirk as she continued to stick her finger nail even deeper into his scalp.

"I see you managed to take care of my dragons." Said Mikoto with a painful smile. He could feel the wet trickle of blood draining down the back of his neck.

"Yes. The five you sent me, and that shady bunch you managed to hide in the trees north of here...Were they just in case Naraku didn't fulfill his mission, or were they there just to protect you're hide should I show up?" she asked, with a smile.

"Ah Kojika. I should have known you would be so perceptive." The Elder replied, turning around with difficulty, causing Kojika to loose her hold on his neck. "You were always so intelligent when we first met. Why did it all have to change?"

"Mikoto, you never win the girl when you kill off her father and take control of her kingdom. That...and when you exiled me from the people I knew, just because you were afraid of my miko half."

"Yes...I'm sure you're right as always. I see you're father was smart in choosing that powerful miko Midoriko as your mother."

Kojika smiled as she flexed her bloody claws before her.

"You're right. He was quite intelligent in doing that. It was unfortunate though that my mother was trapped with in the Shikon no Tama everyone is so hungrily seeking."

"Kojika." He mumbled softly.

"Mikoto." She replied with a cold voice, not accepting the fact that this stupid wrongly made Dragon hanyou was trying to flirt with her over these many years of exile for her. He was such an idiot.

Then, suddenly, as if he planned it, his arm jerked out and stuck a small round like crystal into her stomach, causing it to bleed heavily.

Kojika knew that Mikoto the Elder was trying to poison her with a fake Shikon no Tama, and with a smirk as her belly healed up from one of her newest techniques, she reached out and grabbed him around the neck.

"Let's get this fight started. Today Mikoto, we determine which one of us is the true ruler of the Draymon Empire."

*What do you think? Yeah I know, these are all sort of cliffies, but I will try to wrap them all up in this next chapter! So send me reviews!*