Disclaimer: I do not own Rumiko Takahashi's work, Inuyasha.

A/N: Okay, I said I would update within the week, but I got a little preoccupied: new video games, new books, etc. I also had decided to combine two of my chapters at the last minute. This is the chapter before that, but I'm sorry to say it's short. In the process of creating this new organization the titles are different as well. Enjoy anyway and please r & r!

Naraku's Revenge and Kagome's Suffering

Chapter 12: Tragic Mystery

Inuyasha woke up with his puddle of dried vomit next to him. The smell…well, it wasn't a good smell. But the vomit wasn't what woke him up. It was the scent of blood. The one smell he hoped he would never feel in his nostrils.

"Kagome!"

His eyes widened as he ran to the edge of the building, following the scent, looking over the concrete wall-like railing. He nearly jumped over, but what stopped him was the sight he saw many stories below. There were about three people gathered around a slab of concrete with smears of red and stained-smothered glass of the same color around and in the cracks of the area.

Inuyasha hoped to Buddha that Kagome's body wasn't among the carnage below, but his nose never lies. Kagome's blood was most definitely the red he witnessed. He wasn't going to believe it! Focusing his eyes, he stared harder at the sight. To his relief Kagome's body wasn't there! She didn't jump, he predictably sighed.

With his keen ears, he heard a piece of glass falling from Kagome's window toward the people below. Luckily men in blue outfits asked people to step aside just as the glass hit the ground with a crash.

At this sound, Kilala awoke, but quickly ran to Inuyasha's side when she smelled Kagome's blood too. She looked over the edge and began to whimper.

Inuyasha placed his clawed hand on her large demon formed head for reassurance, or maybe he was in denial.

Shippo was the next to awake. Not as quickly as the other demons, but, he too, began to pick up the scent of Kagome's blood. He didn't waste much time, he ran to Inuyasha screaming.

Miroku and Sango seemed to have awakened at the same time, they had forgotten for a brief moment what had just occurred when they heard Shippo scream.

"Inuyasha! What happened to Kagome?!"

This completely woke Miroku and Sango from their daze.

Before Shippo and the others would stand along side the two demons, Inuyasha straddled Kilala, and she flew down to where Kagome's room once was before the window mysteriously shattered.

"Wait, Inuyasha, Kilala! Where are you going?!" Miroku called out.

Inuyasha didn't answer. He wanted to know what caused Kagome's blood to end up splattered all over the ground below.

Inuyasha began to recall what Sota had mentioned earlier, "And she said she doesn't care what happens to her." Did Kagome know something that I didn't? Did she know this was going to happen? He thought, then added, Stupid wench! Trying to think of others is not helping her situation. She's probably in Marimu's hands right now.

His expression changed when he and Kilala floated closer to Kagome's window. It had broken into billions of cracks with many pieces below surrounding the people. What made Inuyasha whence was the sight and smell of Kagome's blood sticking o the sharp edges of the broken fragments.

She either struggled or jumped, Inuyasha thought. By the looks of the scene I would say she had struggled more than jumped. No mortal could survive a fall this high. Her body would have been left on the pavement cause that's what Marimu's mission was, wasn't it? If his task was to kill Kagome, why would he take her somewhere? Why not kill her here at the hospital?

He decided to look inside the room. Maybe his thoughts were getting the better of him. I hate to say this, but there's no reason for Marimu to take Kagome away. And she couldn't have jumped. There's got to be more to it, he thought to himself. What he saw inside made no sense. Not only was Kagome's body not found, but also her family seemed to be just dozing. This is getting too weird for me, he finally concluded with a headache.

Doctors were already inside checking on the family, so Inuyasha thought this would be a good time to leave before someone got suspicious.

As he flew up back to his friends, a patient who was incredibly old promptly opened his window and yelled, "It's him I tell you!" the old man pointed at Inuyasha as he yelled toward the doctors behind him in his room. "He's the one that made that girl jump and still move after falling. He's the one! The Evil One's among us!" After the ruckus the doctors quickly carried the insane old man away.

Inuyasha's ears and eyes became alert immediately. She…she did jump?! Inuyasha cried to himself in disbelief. But wait, how could she 'move' after a fall?

Kilala nearly reached the roof when the wind picked up. Inuyasha covered his nose with his huge sleeves as a reflex when he had instantaneously smelled Kagome's blood again. He looked over the horizon and noticed where the smell was leading. "Kilala, grab the others and follow Kagome's blood back toward the shrine, her house, where the well is," Inuyasha whispered in her twitching ear.

Kagome, do you have any idea what's going on? He thought as he glanced toward the shrine.

To Be Continued...