Disclaimer: I love him but I have yet to brand him with my name.

Authoresses Notes: I'm kinda pissed that no one reviewed. No, really pissed. But since I LOVE this story and just one chapter of no reviews isn't SO bad I wanted to post for you guys. I KNOW there's gotta be someone reading.

Also BossLady disclosed to me that the form wasn't submitting. I tested it myself and it was working just fine. . .oh well, sometimes these things happen

Anywayz, this is a fun chapter, and I can't wait to post it. I've finally figured out how to do this story. And I've been writing more, trying to improve my writing skills, so please bear with the horrible grammar/spelling/style/whatever.

Luv yallz!

Thoughts: Well, I may be putting Cruel Intensions on hold for now, since I totally have this story flowing from my fingertips, no matter how many times a delete the 3000 words I wrote and started over again I LOVE this story, I think the idea is totally original and I think it's going well. But, hey, it's only, like, the 4th chapter

Kagome will go through more crap as this story progresses, they WILL meet Miroku and Kikyou and Midokiko, secrets revealed, anger released, love blossoming, and resignation toward the covent MAY come. . .although, if I wanna be mean I might just make Kag-chan stay as a nun, whoever she loves, or is being loved by.

WARNING: on a rather. . .disguisting note, there is very grotesque places in this chapter and on. Seeing that I'm a very grotesque and morbid girl there may be parts that. . .are bad for a weak stomach. I mean, not like. . .I dunno rape cause I'm TOTALLY against rape, and that's why, though people suggested it, Kagome was not at all sexually assaulted in Through Winter's Gates.

Have you noticed I have a lot of italics and bolds? That's cause I finally figured out how to get Microsoft Word to convert my .htm documents into normal looking writing without having to change it to .doc. It put all these funny symbols before everything and I figured out it was something screwy with my font selections in MW.

So here's the awaited chapter. . .well actually I don't know if it was awaited since NO ONE reviewed!!

Lolz

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The Nun and the Sinner
The Spiders and the Jewel Part 2

'If I could find you now, things would get better,

we could leave this town and run forever,

-Yellow Card

Ocean Avenue

Suddenly, as soon as the kumo buryoku had attacked, they withdrew, thickening into a wall-like formation, their legs intertwining and forming solid bonds, their bodys smushing together until there were no gaps between each body.

"What are they doing?" Kaogme whispered to Kaede.

The samurai pressed their armored backs closer to Kagome and Kaede, guarding them from any and all danger. For now.

"They seem to be retreating." Said the samurai in front of Kagome.

"Not quite." Kaede corrected him as her old face wrinkled with worry, "had they run backwards they would have been retreating." She made a sound of thought, "they are going to attack.

Kagome swallowed and held the bow tightly against her chest, the thumping of her heart creating a rising and falling motion on her left breast. Her hair, now completely straight and dry, hung over her shoulders, covering her back and shoulders. She brushed it away out of stress, fumbling with the bowstring and quiver. Her eyes darted from spider to spider, a grey-blue blob of color dashing and darting like a cat after a mouse.

The kumo buryoku rose upwards, as if flying, propelled by their interlaced legs. Like springs, their legs spread apart, opening small gaps between their once tightly woven barrier.

In time they all opened their wide mouths, their fangs much longer then their supposed length poking out of their mouths. White spider webs dripped from their teeth and again, in time, they released the webs, hurtling them toward the small cluster of semi-defenseless people, save for a few dull spears and two bows and arrows.

"Don't let the web touch you!" Kaede yelled as said web rose about the group. "There is poison running through the fibers of those webs!

They all scattered as if they had been touched by a contagious diseased person. The web landed upon the heads of 3 samurai, Kaede's ankle, and Kagome's forearm. She could feel the poison eating away at her skin as she dashed it away quickly. Blood flowed strongly from the open flesh, pouring over her legs and arms.

The nun panted. I've never thought I'd be in a situation like this, she thought through her panic, oh lord please let a savior rescue Kaede-san and me?

He answered her prayer but not quite in the fashion she would think best. The jewel in her pocket (Kaede had given it back) emitted a bright light, blinding everyone and everything in the area. As if it was calling out to something, the jewel rose from Kagome. Being the first one to regain her vision, Kagome watched it  float forward, as if to coax her out of the light. She did.

And then, a fracture the size of a single hair ran rigidly through the center of the jewel. It stopped moving and even dropped it's height a bit, as if having been stabbed. More cracks and larger crevasses opened up.

Kaede was screaming something but the novice nun was mesmerized by the dance the jewel was making. It was gradually turning a dark color, a tainted darkness from it's usual pure pearl white.

Kaede yelled some more but Kagome reached out, as if under a spell. Nothing stopped her or her clouded head. She cupped her hands around the jewel, leaving her hands open wide.

It shattered.

Scattered across the ruined village, leaving black trails of something behind them as they sohred. As Kagome came back to her senses the pieces became clearer, bursting out with rainbows in their wakes.

Kaede finally made her way over to Kagome, latching onto her arm and holding a shard of the jewel. She seemed to look younger for a moment, as if the jewel had regained her strongest point of life. That being her in her 20s. She planted the shard in Kagome's far off hands and smiled.

"K-Kaede-sama," Kagome stammered, her hands still outstretched and an odd look crossing her features. "I-I'm so confused.

Kaede nodded. "It will all make sense in time. But for now. . ." she trailed off, staring at something behind Kagome.

Kagome turned slowly, curiosity crossing her mind.

He stood there, and didn't look at all pleased.

"You careless idiot!" he spat as he took a step forward, crossing the twitching leg of member of the kumo buryoku. "What the hell did you go and do that for, huh, bitch?

"Inuyasha. . ." Kagome whispered his name, feeling the name roll off her tongue as if she said it everyday.

It was Kaede who spoke angrily saying, "Inuyasha, what are you doing here?" she sounded angry as she tried to stand. Kagome came to her aid immediately.

Inuyasha blinked, his thick eyebrows shooting up in a surprised sort of way. "You look close to death, grandma, maybe you should leave this situation to you're granddaughter here." He said, waving Kaede away.

So he believes I'm not this Kikyou girl, Kagome thought, an ounce of happiness with it.

She stepped forward once again, pulling a sword form one of the many fallen samurais' belts. He unsheathed it and, just to sort-of test it out, swung it before him, aiming the sharp blade where Kagome's neck would have been had she not ducked.

He smirked as small hairs fell to the ground around Kagome.

She panted.

He's a mad man,  she thought as she trembled and crawled backwards away from him as she had done in the forest, why did I ever release him? Oh lord, please protect Kaede when I'm gone.

But Inuyasha did not attack her. He moved onto older flesh.

No!" Kagome yelled as he brought the blade down, almost upon her shoulder. Kagome pushed Kaede out of the way, the blade cutting her already wounded arm, cutting halfway through her bone before stopping abruptly.

Kagome winced and felt the pain rush through her arm, a paralyzing pain that seeped into her flesh, bones, and nerves.

Inuyasha pulled the blade painlessly from her arm and dropped it in a stunned sort of way. He was surprised, to say the least, that anyone would feel the need to protect a woman on the brink of death.

"Are you stupid or something?!" he yelled as he stared at her wound, now pouring tons of blood all over.

". . .pa. . .t. . ." she whispered.

Inuyasha sank to one knee beside her, knowing that if the girl died he'd never get the jewel whole again. "Pat?" he tried to figure out what she was saying.

She leaned closer to his ear and whispered in a painful voice. "I'm gonna pass out." And she did, right into his lap, the wound in her arm bleeding freely. The cross necklace around her neck fell onto his knee and he almost yelped from the sensation that came off it.

Pain.

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Definitions

Kumo Buryoku = Defined very very approximately to "Spider Force"

Youkai = demon, ghost, etc.

Kami-sama = god

A/N: So how was that chappie?? I know, kinda short, but I loved it. It might be tooo confusing for you people. . .might be. I'm not sure. Everything will be revealed in the next chapter.

The Spiders and the Jewel Part 3

The Next Arcs will be:

The Rosary and Midorkio = 3 parts

The Mononoke and Kikyou =2/3/4 parts (debating on whether to add more Flashbacks. . .)