Chapter 8- The Samurai

Kagome and Sango were running on the pathway when they bumped into someone. They knocked him over too.

"Oh my GOSH! I am REALLY, TRULY...sorry!!!" Kagome, being the nice person she was, even in crazy situations, blushed.

"It's ok. Can I help you with anything?" As you probably guessed, this someone was Pikin disguised as a Samurai.

"No thank you." Sango said politely said to the man, "We are fine."

"Then why were you running so fast?" Pikin asked.

"We were running towards our village." Kagome lied, "There was news that they needed our help."

Even if Pikin was a demon, he, unlike Inuyasha, could not smell emotions brought on by other people. So he thought what Kagome had said was true.

'No. You do not need these girls. You only needed the demon.' He thought to himself.

"Well anyway," Sango interrupted his thoughts, "We better get going! Anyways, where are you headed?"

"I am going to the village you just came out of." Pikin said, "I am vsiting some friends for a day." This, what Pikin said, was true. Except for the friends thing. But he was going to be away from where he took Inuyasha, Miroku, and Shippo for a day.

(Later On, After Kagome And Sango Walked Away From Pikin)

"Geeze Sango," Kagome Said, I don't see anybody."

"I don't either, but we must keep our eyes open." Sango was very worried.

There was a change in the breeze. Kagome looked up to see Sesshomaru hovering above them. She screamed, and sidestepped towards Sango.

"Sesshomaru!" Kagome yelled, "Where is Inuyasha? If you did ANYTHING to him....I'll KILL YOU!"

"I have not done anything." Sesshomaru quietly said, by then Sango was looking up. "I may have fought him, but the people with him were taken away, and I left before he could fight me again."

Kagome and Sango looked at each other.

"Then, where is he?" Sango asked the demon.

Sesshomaru came down, and stood about ten feet away from Kagome and Sango, facing them. "I do not know, nor do I care." He turned and walked into the forest.

"Ok.......I am genuinely freaked out." Kagome's voice trembled.

"Yeah, I was sure Sesshomaru would attack us." Sango replied. They both sighed, and ran down the path.

"Wait!" Kagome said quietly after a while of running, "Do you hear that?"

They both were quiet and listened. There was a small voice yelling, "Help! Please!"

They voice was faint, but Kagome instantly recognized it. "Shippo!" She whispered.

They both ran towards the voice. When they came to an opening, they saw Miroku and Shippo bound with ropes to a tree.

"You guys!" Sango yelled.

"Ssshhhhh!" Shippo said back, "The demon might still be around. You DO NOT want to mess with him! He is so strong.....look what he even did to Inuyasha!" Shippo cocked his head towards the knocked-out Hanyou.

"Inuyasha!" kagome said under her breath, and ran towards him. "There is a aura around these chains." She said, "Maybe I can break it by using one of my sacred arrows."

Kagome took one of her arrows from her arrow basket and slammed it into the chains. A blue light erupted from the chains. It flung Kagome back, into Sango.

"Well," Kagome said to Sango as they were brushing their selves off, "I guess that didn't work."

"But Kagome," Sango said with amazement in her voice, "The light must have awakened Inuyasha!" She was right, Inuyasha was slowly lifting his head. His eyes blinked oped.

"Kagome?" he asked quietly, "What the-"He noticed he was still rapped up in chains, "YOU COULDN'T GET ME OUT OF HERE??"

"Inuyasha! How could I?" Kagome was mad he had not been nicer, "The chains have a special power on them, I at least tried!"

Everyone was quiet for a minuet, then Shippo broke the silence. "Hello? Can you guys get us out of these ropes at least?"

Kagome chuckled, then went over and with her arrow, broke Shippo away from the ropes.

Sango gasped, "Kagome! Look!" She pointed towards the arrows Kagome had cut. They were slowly disappearing.

"Oh my gosh!" Kagome whispered, then said aloud, "The demon who got you guys like this must have a strong power to be able to do this."

But just as the last of the ropes disappeared, an aura evolved around the ropes that Miroku was tied up with.

"Damn." Inuyasha muttered.

"Ok, this is just TOO weird!" Kagome said.

Sango walked up to Miroku, and tried touching the ropes. An electrical surge sparked her hand. "OUCH!" Sango yelled. Then, she moved her hand up to Miroku's face. She was able to touch it.

"Well," Sango said without looking at the others, "I can at least try to get him awake, maybe he will know what to do."

"Yeah," Kagome answered, "Being a exorcist and all."

Sango first shook him on the shoulders. No luck. then, she poked him in the face. No luck.