Chapter 6- Kagura the Wind Sorceresses Trap

At dawn the next morning they were all awake and getting ready to go. The previous night Kaede had found Kirsty a midnight blue Kimono, with a pale blue obi to wear. Kirsty decided to leave her torn jeans and t-shirt, which she had been wearing before, and a few of her books with Kaede to lighten her load. Kagome, Kirsty, and Sango sat on the grass, double checking the contents of their bags making sure they had everything they needed, while they were waiting for the guys to come and get them.

Kirsty looked at the cover of one of her books. Once upon a time it had said Inuyasha volume 15 on the cover, and it had a picture of Inuyasha and Kagura (a demon whom they would soon face). Now the cover had changed every time she looked at it.

All of a sudden she full took in everything that was going on. It hit her that this was real, far too real to be a dream. Even thought her family must be worried sick about her, Kirsty could not and would not go back now. She remembered the episodes of Inuyasha that she watched; she saw how Kagome was always crossing over into the different eras and how she sometime dragged her family into the danger. Kirsty couldn't do it. She couldn't put her parents, two older brothers, and friends in harms way because of her; she would have to stay until her job was done and give her family and friends an explanation of where she had been when she eventually came back. But even if she wanted to Kirsty couldn't go back, she didn't know how too, but she would worry about that later.

Miroku, the tall, teenage monk, was walking towards the girls as they were packing their bags. It suddenly hit him that he had not asked Kirsty his trade mark question. He ran over to Kirsty and grabbed her hand. Kagome and Sango gave an anime sigh, knowing what Miroku was about to ask Kirsty; he never give up. Little did they know Kirsty knew exactly what Miroku was going to do. "Kirsty," Miroku began his hands tightly clasped on Kirsty's hands "will you bear my children."

Even though Kirsty knew that Miroku was going to ask her to do that, she couldn't help but have a surprised look on her face. "Miroku..." Kirsty said trying to retrieve her hand from Miroku. "I will give you the same answer as everyone woman you ask that question to. NO!" She said this without even looking at her book.

"Are you trying to scare Kirsty Miroku?" A familiar voice said from behind Miroku. It was Inuyasha walking towards them with Shippo and Kirara at his side.

"I think Kirsty did a better job of scaring Miroku." Sango said laughing at the terrified look on Miroku's face. She had been planning to hit Miroku on the head, but he had suffered enough.

"Why? What did she say?" Inuyasha asked very interested as to why Miroku's expression was full of terror.

Kagome, who had joined in Sango's laughter, managed to stifle her giggle long enough to give Inuyasha an answer. "Kirsty gave Miroku the answer that she said every woman would give him to that question; NO!" Kagome cracked up as soon as she finished speaking.

All through their laughter and conversation, Kirsty had been standing awkwardly with Miroku's hands still clasped tightly around hers. He had gone rather still, almost statue like, with a depressed, scared look on his face. She was beginning to feel bad. For a whole summer she had watched Miroku be rejected by the countless women he had asked to bear his children, but never had she seen him take rejection this bad. "Miroku... are you ok?" she said her voice full of concern, ignoring the howls of laughter from Sango, Kagome, Inuyasha and Shippo.

"I'm fine, just fine. We should get going and continue our journey." He said in a manly voice, trying to change the subject. Finally, he let go of Kirsty's hands, and started to walk away from the village. Kirsty turned to Sango, Kagome, Inuyasha and Shippo, and gave them a silent signal to shut up.

Mere minutes after they had left the village, they were hot on the trail of a Shikon Jewel shard. Kirsty was lagging behind, with her nose in one of her books. "Is something wrong Kirsty?" Sango asked noticing how far behind them she was.

"I'm fine, but we better pick up the pace. Naraku is on the trail of the shard as well. One of his poison insects is going to pick it up before we do if we don't hurry." Kirsty replied.

"What!" Inuyasha yelled, angry that Naraku might get yet another Shikon Jewel shard. "O no he won't." He looked at Kagome, Shippo, Miroku, and Sango. "You heard Kirsty let's hurry up!" He started to run ahead.

"Wait!" Kirsty shouted after him. But Inuyasha didn't stop to listen. He was far to intent on getting that jewel shard.

"Why do you want him to wait?" Shippo asked.

"There are bandits up ahead. It's their interference that is going to stop him from reaching that jewel shard in time." Kirsty said looking in her book disappointedly.

Kagome looked in the direction where Inuyasha had run off to. "So Naraku is going to get yet another jewel shard?" She said.

"Yes, he is." Kirsty replied, she looked down at the ground. "I'm sorry you guys."

"Sorry?" Sango said. They turned to look at Kirsty.

"Why would you be sorry?" Miroku said confused.

"My job is to help you get the shards before any others do." She turned to the next page in her book, and glanced at it. "And I have failed. Inuyasha did not get to the jewel shard in time."

Kagome went over to Kirsty's side. "Don't worry about it. We have missed shards before and we will get them in the end." She said comfortingly.

Inuyasha came trudging back where he had last seen his friends. "Why did you follow?" He said his voice full of some anger.

"There was no point in following you." Miroku said. "Kirsty saw in her book that the bandits would distract you and shouted for you to wait, but you did not. She looked in the book and saw that you had failed."

"I'm sorry Inuyasha." Kirsty said looking at him sadly.

"You have nothing to be sorry for, so relax. I think we were going about this all wrong." Inuyasha said sitting on side of the path. "Why don't you read ahead first?"

Kagome, Kirsty, Miroku, Sango, and Shippo were amazed that they had not thought about that before Inuyasha. They sat down besides him. "That's probably the best thing to do." Miroku said, he seemed to have forgotten his painful rejection by Kirsty.

"Okay," Kirsty said turning to the next page in her book. "Let's see what will happen." Kirsty read on in the book in her book quietly. Everyone else stared at Kirsty. After a few minutes of getting the stink eye Kirsty said "Is something wrong?"

Sango spoke on behalf of everyone incapable of reading the fate scroll "Could we have some volume; in case you have forgotten we can't see what goes on in your book!"

"O yeah..." Kirsty said giving them a nervous giggle and smile. "I forgot that detail." They stared at Kirsty sighing the anime way. "We are going to run into Koga again;"

A vein in Inuyasha's forehead twitched. There was a long silence. They all new what Inuyasha was thinking. He despised that wolf demon, Koga.

Koga was the head of a demon wolf-tribe. He posses two Shikon Jewel Shards in his both of his legs which give him super fast speed. Previously he had kidnapped Kagome, because he found out that she could see the jewel shards, in hope that he could gain even more power. During the time he kidnapped Kagome; he ended up falling in love with her, and claimed her as his woman. When Inuyasha rescued her they got in a huge argument because Inuyasha got really jealous about Koga and her; which is why Kagome was not there when Kirsty arrived.

After a long silence Kirsty finally finished her exclamation: "We are going to run into him in a trap, a trap that has been set by Naraku." Hearing the name of his nemesis Inuyasha turned his full attention to what Kirsty was saying. "I think Naraku is going to try and make it seem like we killed Koga's comrades. Probably so Koga will finish Inuyasha off, like he could ever do that."

"What do you mean you think?" Kagome asked, a nervous look looming on her face.

"You know how Kaede said that I could see everything but what is going to happen to me?"

"Yes, I recall hearing about that."

"Well it's not very clear because I am in it. Or at least I think that is why."

"So what do we do know Kirsty?" Sango asked.

"We don't need a Fate Scroll to tell us that, we have to go hunt down Naraku." Inuyasha said getting up.

"So what do we do now Kirsty." Sango repeated.

"Like Inuyasha said lets go get Naraku." Kirsty said, smiling at the very annoyed look on Inuyasha's face, and getting up as well.

Over in the mountains a wolf- demon named Koga sat in his cave. Earlier on most of his comrades had left; they had left in search of more Shikon Jewel shards with another wolf tribe. They had heard of someone with even more Jewel Shards than Koga and Kagome put together. Koga sat in his cave looking at his injured arm. It had been badly injured from battling the birds of paradise. He had owned three Shikon Jewel Shards before battling them. But while he was battling the birds of paradise king the one shard he had had in his now injured arm got ripped off. Then Inuyasha came to rescue Kagome, the love of life, and killed the king. Because Koga was so badly injured his comrades took him away before he could fight Inuyasha or retrieve the shard. That poor excuse for a half-demon, it made Koga sick to think of Inuyasha having Kagome and those Jewel Shards. As soon as his arm was healed he would definitely get both the shard and Kagome back.

In the middle of hating Inuyasha his remaining comrades, who were keeping watch, yelled out and said that someone who coming. It was one of the wolves from the Northern tribe; he was walking at a very slow pace as if he was badly injured. Koga went to the entrance of the cave. "It is horrible." the injured wolf stammered.

"What happened?" Koga said anxiously.

"The Shikon Shards, I managed to get just one. Please use it. Go to the castle quickly or else the rest will all be killed." Without a second thought Koga had put the shard in his hurt arm and ran off to the castle.

"Come inside and rest, you must be incredibly strong to have made it here with those injuries." Said one of the remaining wolves, giving the northern wolf a gentle pat on the back; as he did the wolf split exactly along the lines where his various cuts were. "WHAT THE?!!?!" screamed the wolf surprised at his own strength.

"I've got the scent of those stupid insects!" cried Inuyasha running.

"We're right behind you Inuyasha." Cried Miroku running as fast as he could to keep up with Inuyasha while Sango, Kagome, Shippo, and Kirsty road on Kirara.

"Kagome can you sense the jewel shard amongst them?" Sango asked.

"Yes I can definitely sense the presence of a Shikon Jewel shard." Kagome replied.

"What's that ahead?" asked Shippo poking his head out from behind Kagome's hair.

"It's Naraku's castle." Kirsty exclaimed. They ran into the castle, but there was something strange, the scent of blood. "Wolves..." Kirsty said looking at the courtyard covered with dead wolf demons.

"Those are Koga's comrades." Sango said.

"Koga's comrades on the courtyard, why does this seem to bed so familiar." Kirsty thought. Then it struck her. "Inuyasha!" Kirsty shouted "It's a trap!" But it was to late the corpses had sprung to life.

"Is this what you meant by trap?" Inuyasha asked slicing the attacking corpses with his claws.

"Yeah, and it looks like your falling into it."

"Well that's just too bad." Inuyasha said killing more of the moving corpses who were running towards him. But they kept coming back to life. By now Inuyasha was covered in their blood. "Its like someone is manipulating them." Inuyasha said. All of a sudden the corpses fell to the ground in pieces like they had started off.

"What just happened here?" Sango said looking around at all the bodies lying around Inuyasha.

"Now you are going to realize what I meant by trap." Kirsty said looking regretful. "I thought I could stop this" she thought to herself. But it was to late, she could already see him coming at an alarmingly fast rate.