I'm really self-conscious about my spelling. Please don't tell me I spelled something wrong. Seriously, I can't take it. I'm really bad about that. Myroku should be Miroku, I know this. Shippo can also be spelled Shippou, Kerara can also be spelled Kelala, Inuyasha can also be spelled Inu Yasha, get the hell off my back. I don't care. It makes me mad. …Oops, like I said, I can't take it. ::takes a deep breath:: Annnny hoo, enjoying the story?^^ Remember to review!

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Chapter 22

Kagome woke up. Someone's looking at me! She thought. Her eyes snapped open and she gasped. No one was there. She laughed and moaned stuffing her head in her pillow, picking herself up she began to dress. She looked around...Shippo, Myroku and Kelala weren't there...Inuyasha wasn't there. Sleepily she stared at the wall, thinking of nothing. Silently she walked outside.
"Oh! Kotarie?"
The girl stood sadly in front of her fake mother. Her shoulder was bleeding and her ears drooping.
"He took him, they took father."
Thoughts flew through Kagome's head so fast that she could hardly understand them all. She noticed the girls wound.
"Kotarie! Your shoulder!" The girl brought her hand to her face and smirked at the blood that dripped from her pale fingers. She brought it down quickly.
"Not important! I have fathers skin! Its...its Inuyasha. Didn't you figure it out? Naraku has Father. Naraku has Inuyasha, mom."
Kagome stared frozen at Kotarie.
Inuyasha...Inuyasha with Naraku......Kotarie....Naraku....INUYASHA!
She ran back into the hut screaming.
"WERE IS IT??? WERE????" Kotarie waited.
Perfect.

**Inuyasha**

Inuyasha had given up hope. There was no way. No way Kikyo would that. She wasn't.... He scrunched up his eyes.
"Something in your eye?" Came a voice filled with pleasure behind him. Inuyasha growled. He was thinking, and not sure what he was thinking about, he didn't want to be interrupted.
"Calm yourself Inyasha." Kagura continued.
"Yes," Naraku stated from a higher point on one of Kagura's feathers. "Were almost there. The girl hasn't been harmed. I think we should be making you very happy."
Inuyasha put his head down. He wanted to kill him. Make his blood flow. Oh how happy that would make him feel to see him die!
Naraku laughed, as if reading his thoughts.
"Were are we going?" Came a small cry from Kagura's lap. Kagura had the girl firmly stationd there. Not as if the girl would want to escape to fall to her death. Kagura looked quetionaly at Naraku. He nodded.
"To see a fight. You might not enjoy it much little one...but Inuyasha might find it interesting."
Inuyasha's head shot up.
"Kikyo?!" He gasped.
Naraku smiled brilliantly.
"Is she the first off your lips now? Odd...that wench you are always around seems to come out allot...but now...Kikyo eh?"
Inuyasha's eyes widened then snapped back angrily.
"I don't believe your sad ploys to brake me Naraku. There old."
Kikyo would never...
"No matter," he waved his hand as if to wipe away Inuyasha's foolishness. "You will soon see."

**Meanwhile to Kagome**

Kagome through her bag out of the way, searching.
How could this have happend? She thought. Was it because we left Inuyasha alone?
She felt something cold brush her hand as she searched her bed rolls.
"THERE!" She yelled triumphantly. She stopped suddenly. She couldn't rescue Inuyasha alone...were was Shippo and Myroku? Panicked she grabbed her holster and ran outside.
"SHIPPOOOO! MYROKUUUU!!" No answer. She tuned around.
"KELALAAAAAAA??"
Kotarie smirked behind.
"Mother?" she asked innocently. Kagome froze again.
"Kotarie?" She stood, her back to the girl.
What if...?
"Yes mother?"
"How was Inuyasha captured?" She began to shake.
The Naraku in Kotarie's head shook with laughter.
Fool...
"He was following Kikyo mother..."
"KIKYO?" Kotarie nodded.
"Kikyo is working for Naraku now mother."
Kagome's eyes widened with shock.
"I see..." Her face hardened.
So Kikyo is working for Naraku...She betrayed Inuyasha...
"One other question Kotarie."
Naraku sat back in Kagura's feather, curious.
"Yes mother?"
"How is it," she turned quickly. "That you know this?"
"I was following him...I was following you all...It's my job."
"I don't understand."
"Father...Inuyasha...started to wonder what had happend to -"
"Toooooo?"
"I can't tell you!" Kotarie looked exasperated. Kagome nodded.
"All right, I believe you."
I'm still keeping an eye on you though...
"What should we do now? Find Myroku?"
"Don't you think it better if we leave now? Father could be in danger..."
" Was it Naraku that wounded you?"
"No a dead solider by Kagura."
"I see...we have no choice then to go then."
Naraku...has gone to far...I no longer will play his game...
Naraku noticed the holster firmly draped on her hip. His eyes widened.
So she came prepared...
Kagome saw the girl's eyes widened.
"I have been taking lessons, though I really don't know how I found the time."
The girl was not listening. Her skin had turned pale and her mouth gasped for air. Kagome turned the her hand reaching for the Browning BDL nestled in her holster.
"KIKYO!" She breathed, shocked and angry.
"How dare you come back here after what you did!"
Kikyo cocked her head. Her eyes narrowed.
"What are you saying?"
Kagome stepped in front of the shivering girl.
"Kotarie run...Kikyo is far worse then any dead solider- huh?"
The girl was gone. Had she left already?
Kikyo stayed were she was.
Kotarie was here. Naraku must have Inuyasha. Kotarie told her it was me that had something to do with it did she? I will not be used as one of Naraku's foolish minions.
"Kagome. Kotarie told you I betrayed Inuyasha, did she not?"
"Don't try to deny it!" Kagome was close to tears. Kikyo was going to kill her...Inuyasha was gone...Were was Myroku, Shippo and Kelala?
"It is a lie," Kikyo continued. "I came to kill you, not him." Kagome's eyes widened.
"Then do me something Kikyo," Kikyo gave her a blank look. "If you only came to kill me, will you help me save Inuyasha? Then we can settle...what put us apart."
Kikyo thought about this.
If Inuyasha died, would that be so bad? Her and Inuyasha would, once again, be together. Did he not understand that she knew, now, that they could never be together in life, like everyone said? That is why I wonder. She thought. I wonder waiting for Inuyasha.
She looked up at the girl Inuyasha loved...again. She would kill for this girls soul, to be back with Inuyasha. She was going to kill this girl for her soul. When the girl was dead then Inuyasha would die with her. Perhaps in Nirvana they could all love together. If she could save Inuyasha, kill the girl and Naraku, erase the jewel from this world, then she would have fixed everything. She almost smiled.
"Yes," She said.
"Huh?" Kagome was surprised.
"I will kill Naraku for spreading his lies."
Kagome nodded, noticing that she had not said to save Inuyasha. She wondered what Kikyo was planing. Kagome was frightened of this woman.