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Chapter 10

"That little girl is always with Inuyasha and his friends. If I can catch her on her own, in someone else's disguise, then we might have a chance."

Naraku grinned evilly. "Clever, Kikyo. Who's face are you planning to wear?"

"Kagome's," replied Kikyo. "For she is the one that Kami trusts the most. Do you have a spell for shapeshifting?"

"Yes." Naraku left and soon returned with an ancient, dusty scroll. He rolled it out in front of Kikyo. "Here it is."

"An image of the person I transform into?" asked Kikyo. "Kanna's mirror should have it."

Kanna walked over to Kikyo, her sandals making soft but echoing tap-tap sounds on the wooden floor. The mirror glowed green and revealed Kagome's face.

Kikyo stood in the middle of the floor and closed her eyes. A red light emanated from her body and her features began to change, hair from long and straight to back length and wavy, eyes from obsidian to dark blue. Pretty soon, a mirror image of Kagome Higurashi stood where Kikyo was, uniform and all.

"I'll send Kanna with you, since she doesn't have a demon aura and will be very hard to track," said Naraku. "Also in case you have to transform into someone else."

Kikyo smiled cruelly. *Soon that silver orb shall be mine and mine to wish upon. Get ready, Inuyasha, to follow me to hell.*

~*Inuyasha and Crew's POV*~

Kami yawned. She found it surprising how she could be tired after dealing with a demon like Miyako.

"Let's eat something and go to sleep," said Kagome, digging into her large yellow backpack. "I've got Ramen."

At the mention of Ramen, Inuyasha's ears perked up. He grabbed the Styrofoam container from Kagome as soon as she had poured the boiling water in it and ate it in two gulps.

Kami settled for a canned dinner out of her own backpack. She let her Pokemon out and gave them food as well. Inuyasha sniffed the Poke-pellets Kami was pouring into an extra bowl. "Is that dog food?"

She giggled. "No, it's Poke-chow. I don't suggest eating it."

His ears drooped slightly (A/N: how cuuuuute! ^_^) and he devoured another bowl of Ramen.

"It's bedtime. Let's get some sleep," said Kagome as she unrolled her sleeping bag and slipped in.

"Okay." Kami unzipped her own bedroll and crawled down into the cushiony softness. Inuyasha chose a tree and jumped into the high branches. Sango, staying as far away from Miroku as possible, spread out a straw mat and curled up next to Kagome. Shippo chose to sleep cuddled up to Kagome.

In the middle of the night, Kami awoke to someone poking her. "Ugh…" she muttered, rolling over so that her back was turned to where Kagome was sleeping. "What?" she muttered, opening one eye. It was Kagome.

"I have to tell you something," she whispered urgently. "Here." She handed Kami her boots and backpack with her Pokeballs.

Kami was more than a bit bewildered and cross at having been woken in the middle of the night, but she figured if Kagome said it was important, it was. She pulled on her boots and kept her mouth shut, got up and walked away, never noticing the real Kagome sleeping peacefully behind her.

They walked a little ways into the forest. "What do you have to tell me, Kagome?" asked Kami.

Kikyo smiled silently. Such an innocent girl, so trusting and faithful to Kagome. Well, she'd pay for it. "Kagome?"

"Silence." Kikyo pointed a finger at Kami and all of a sudden she felt paralyzed. She tried to scream but no sound came out of her mouth. *Why is Kagome doing this?* she wondered.

"Kagome" began to boil and change, and in a minute it was not Kagome standing in the forest, but Kikyo.

*It's that girl who tried to take the Pokeball from me!* Kami thought furiously. *I've been tricked!*



A dozen soul skimmers came crawling out of the woods, their silvery bodies gleaming. "Go. Take the girl with us," said Kikyo, turning around and letting more soul skimmers wrap their spidery snake-bodies around her. "We're going to see Naraku."

Oho! That's one heck of a cliffie! I apologize for not updating sooner, but I've been busy over the weekend. *sigh* Just one of life's little roadblocks. Inuyasha on Saturday nights is awesome, though! But the one on last Saturday at 12:30 nearly broke my heart! How dare he not run after Kagome?! It made me want to kill Kikyo more than ever. And I will, don't you worry!

See ya later!

~Wendy-Chan