Chapter 10-Promises

Blood seeped from the wounds in Hiten's neck as he powered up. "She's mine, fox." Lightning crackled down the vines, burning them to ashes. He dropped to his feet.

Kagome gasped indignantly. "No I'm not!"

He smirked. "I believe you said if I stopped attacking Inuyasha then you'd do whatever I want. And I want you to come with me."

"But you didn't stop!" She hissed through clenched teeth

"Oh yes I did, I stopped attacking him when you charged at me. It doesn't matter the circumstances, a deal is a deal." He walked over to her.

Youko pushed her behind him. The air around him crackled with black energy in warning. "I don't care what deal you thought you made, she stays with me."

"Don't even pretend that you care about her fox. Admit it, the only reason you want her around is because she can sense jewel shards."

"I'd expect filth like that to come out of your mouth."

"Hand her over before I'll be forced to crush you."

Youko's eyes narrowed, he spread his feet out. Large black vines sprouted from the ground and wrapped around Hiten. The thorns pierced his flesh, ripping it from his bones. Hiten powered up, the clouds turned gray and started to crackle with lightning. Lightning struck the ground close to Youko's feet. The fox jumped backwards, getting out of range. The lightning struck the vines, freeing Hiten.

He walked toward Kagome. He grabbed her arm and pulled her to her feet. "Come on."

Youko dodged another lightning bolt. "Get away from her!" The ground rumbled and shifted. It rose up and toppled onto him burying Hiten alive.

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"Almost there." Kouga panted.

Inuyasha sped up. "There it is." The wolf skidded to a stop in front of the hanyou. "Why are you stopping?"

"Kagome's not here, I can sense it. She's little to the-"

"East." Inuyasha sprang forward with Kouga close behind.

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Kagome brushed the dirt off her shakily. "Some people just refuse to die."

"You don't have to worry about him anymore." Youko tilted his head to the side, cracking his neck.

The ground began to shake again. Hiten burst out of dirt, glowing with power. He held out his hand, lightning traveled down his arm and struck Youko. He flew backwards and skidded a few yards before hitting a boulder. Lightning struck him down every time he tried to stand. Kagome tried to swallow down her vomit. She would never to use to the stench of burning flesh.

She strung her bow and loosened. It pierced Hiten's right palm. He growled and turned narrowed eyes to her. Lightning traveled down his arm and toward her.

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Kouga pointed. "There she is!"

Inuyasha growled. "With that bastard Hiten!" He ran towards them but he smacked into something. He groaned and backed up. "What the hell?" He reached out only to come in contact with something solid.

"It's a barrier." Kikyou said from up in a branch.

He glared up at her. "Let us out!"

"I don't think so. Kagome is going to die like she should and I don't want you getting in the way."

"Why should Kagome's being alive matter to you? Just let me go damnit!"

"No."

Kouga kicked a tree making it topple over. "Take off this fucking barrier!"

She looked down at him impassively. "Don't tell me what to do, demon."

Inuyasha gritted his teeth. "Just take it down, Kikyou."

"She has clouded your judgment, and she's always in the way. She even made you forget your promise."

"I didn't forget Kikyou. When the time comes, I will go to Hell with you but this ain't the time so let me out."

"I don't believe you, once she's gone there will be no doubt your life will be mine."

Kouga crossed his arms. "You're just jealous that he wants to save her. Get over it, you're just a walking corpse."

Inuyasha glare at him. "Shut up wolf."

Kikyou's lips turned up slightly. "Jealously is a trivial matter that is beneath me. I just want to watch her die for the satisfaction it will give me. And it seems as though I don't have to wait long to get my wish."

Inuyasha and Kouga turned and watched in horror while a lightning bolt headed straight toward Kagome.

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Kagome's legs didn't want to move as she watched the bolt come closer and closer. She didn't know what was wrong with her. It only made sense to get the hell out the way but she couldn't. Youko gritted his teeth and sprang up despite the lightning frying him. He leaped at her, pushing her out of the way.

Kagome groaned from her place on the ground and stood up. "Thank you Youko." She looked around. "Youko?" He groaned and sat up, revealing a fist sized hole in his stomach. Red blood spilled from the wound and onto the ground at an alarming rate. She cried out and ran to him.

Hiten struck the ground between them with his lightning, creating a large crater. "Leave him to die."

Kagome roared in rage and transformed into a half demon and then to a whole demon. She leaped over to the other side of the crater. She bent over Youko. "Youko?" She asked.

"I'm fine."

She nodded and pulled out two knives she had stuck in her suit. They glowed a light purple before she threw them at him. They pierced his forearm, the lightning faltered. Kagome wanted to kill him. She wanted his blood on her hands. She wanted to rip his flesh from his bones. But there was a voice in the back of her head that told her something was more important. She dropped to her knees and looked down at Youko.

"It's just a stomach wound. You'll live."

He looked up at her through pain filled eyes. "A stomach wound that has caused me to lose a lot of blood, not to mean all the burns I have acquired." He chuckled lightly. "I guess I can't keep my promise. It doesn't look like I'll be there for you after all."

"You gave me your word." She said with a hint of anger.

"But what is the word of a thief?" She could start to see the blood tinting the inside of his mouth. "I'll still protect you Kagome, I'll be back for you." He transformed into a silver fox and slowly disappeared.

Kagome looked up at Hiten. She was so mad she was shaking. He had killed Youko. Nothing was holding her back from reducing him to shreds. She drew out her sword and leaped for him. He powered up, the force of it sent her crashing back to the ground.

Hiten sneered down at her. "I'm getting tired of this." Lightning descended from the clouds and coiled around her wrists and ankles. It burned where it touched her skin. The lightning bound her ankles and wrists together. She still struggled, worming across the ground, using her fangs drag herself to him. Her hair grew out and attempted to slice the rings of lightning but the rings burned her silver tresses. "Give it up, you lost."

She growled, her hair wrapped around the hilt of Aisaiga and swung it at him. It slashed his cheek, leaving a deep cut. Her hair wrapped around his limbs as the sword hacked at him. Hiten send lightning down her silver tresses, burning her. The stench of burnt flesh was magnified because it was her own. But she held on, her fury demanded more blood. She wouldn't stop until her eyes rolled back into her head and she fell forward.

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Kurama stopped walking abruptly. Hiei glanced at him. "What is it?"

He looked to his left. "I don't know, I-" He fell to knees and clutched his stomach in agony. He bit the inside of his cheek to keep from crying out.

Hiei drew his sword and looked around. Yuske raised his fists and took a fighting stance. "What's happening?"

Kurama panted. "I think Youko's trying to tell me something."

Hiei raised an eyebrow. "Couldn't he have taken a less aggressive approach?"

He smiled weakly. "He had been trying to tell me something all day but I wouldn't listen."

Kuwabara crossed his arms. "What he say?"

"I have to go to the well."

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Inuyasha and Kouga watched helplessly as Hiten picked Kagome up and left on a stormy cloud. The wolf punched the ground in frustration, leaving a large crater. "Are you fucking happy now?"

Kikyou's eyebrows turned up slightly in what Kouga thought was her version of a frown. "I would have rather him kill her. But I suppose with him she's as good as dead." She vanished.

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Kurama looked up the stairs. "This is the place."

Kuwabara eyed it skeptically. "Looks like a simple shrine to me."

Hiei glanced at him. "I don't think you have the right to call anything simple."

"Shut up, half pint!"

Kurama looked over his shoulder at them. "I think I should go on my own."

Yuske frowned. "Are you sure?"

Hiei rolled his eyes. "He wouldn't have said it if he wasn't."

Kurama smiled slightly. "I'll be fine." He started to walk up the stairs.

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Kagome groaned and shifted. She winced, it hurt to move. She summoned some saliva and spit on the ground, desperately trying to clean the dirt and blood from her mouth. She looked at her wrists and ankles, no rings of lightning but there were deep puffy red circles of where they had been. She took inventory of all her injuries. She had a large bruise on her left hip, several smaller bruises sprinkle across her skin, there were several small burns all over her, and her hair was caked with dried blood and was slightly seared.

She laid there, looking up at the sky, unable to move because of the pain. After a while she grew irritated with herself and struggled to stand. It took a few attempts but she finally managed to take a few awkward steps around. She was in the middle of a forest but that really didn't tell her where she was. She limbed a little farther when she saw a rabbit. She smiled slightly, she loved animals. It hopped over to her cautiously. Kagome cover her mouth in horror, when it struck something invisible and was fried to dead. She turned and vomited until there was nothing left in her stomach.

"I see you discovered barrier I made. Couldn't have you running off."

"Sick bastard." She spat.

Hiten looked her over with disgust. "You look and smell like shit, go wash in the lake." Kagome stayed were she was, glaring at him. He stomped over to her and grabbed her arm.

"Don't touch me!" She kicked and wriggled.

His hand crackled with lightning for a second, burning her. "Shut up." He lifted her up and threw her into the lake. Kagome emerged from the water, sputtering and shaking. She tried to wade back to shore. Hiten wagged a finger at her. "You don't get to leave until you're clean."

"Fuck you." She took another step, she was now shin deep in water.

He held out a hand, lightning spread from his fingers and surrounded the lake. "You don't leave until you're clean." He repeated and left.

Kagome wanted to scream. She took some calming breathes and stopped to think. There had to be a way to escape, she looked up but she was completely boxed in. She shouted curses in frustration and splashed the water angrily. She looked up at the sky. "What did I do to deserve this?! I never asked for any of this! You came to me and said things that I'll never be able to understand! You fucking ruined my life, do you know that?! You fucked up my life!"

She gasped and fell to her knees. Her hair changed back and forth between silver and black. There was a sharp stabbing pain in the base of her skull. Her right forearm was burning. She looked down at the appendage, her sight blurred with pain. The Symbols were shifting, slow at first but then so fast they were nothing but blurred images. Kagome clenched her teeth and shut her eyes against the pain. Then everything stopped abruptly. She opened her eyes and stood. Did that really just happen? She looked down at the Symbols on her arm but they were all in the same order. She glanced around sharply, did she really just imagine that? Was she going crazy on top of everything else? She held her head and groaned, she had a headache now. Maybe it did happen. She looked up at the sky.

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'Are you sure this is the place?' Kurama asked.

'I positive, I can sense her. The well is were I need to go.' Youko replied.

Kurama looked around skeptically, but jumped down into the well. He frowned and looked around. He climbed out and looked around in mild shock. Now he was in the middle of a forest.

'I told you.'

'Where am I?'

'500 years in the past.'

'How did you know about this well?'

'I didn't. I just sensed that Kagome was near and then I remembered this well that she had climbed out of once. Hm, so she came from the future. I also thought there was something different about her.'

'Who is Kagome?'

'She is a girl I once knew. I had thought I was going to die but then I was transported into you. I have developed a theory.'

'What?'

'I believe that I had an actual near death experience at this exact time, before Kagome had came into the past. Then I think Fate was trying to right itself by reenacting my predicament. I found myself in you and I slowly began to remember who you were.'

'I see.' Kurama turned and looked around. 'Where to?'

'East.'

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Kagome had refused to wash, but all of her angry splashing had ultimately washed all the grime off of her. She was soaking wet, pruny, freezing, and highly agitated. The fact that Hiten swaggered over to her with a smirk only added to her agitation. She rose up out of the water and sloshed over to him. He grabbed her arm in same place he had burned her earlier. It hurt but she didn't want him to know. He threw her down onto a straw mat on the ground.

Kagome shivered as she noticed an eerie shift in the wind. She wrapped her arms around her legs in effort to keep warm. He looked down at her. "You are pitiful."

"Fuck off." Her teeth chattered.

"With me you could be powerful, think of the possibilities. My strength and your ability to sense jewel shards will make us unbeatable."

"Is that the reason you brought me here?" She asked quietly.

"Yes, whe-"

Her hair turned silver and she lunged at him. Kagome slashed her long red claws at him, gathering his skin under them. "You killed him for that?!" She pinned him to the ground by sitting on his stomach and pummeled him in the face. "You fucking killed him for that?!"

Hiten flipped her over and pinned her wrists above her head. "If you had just came with me that would never had happened." She stopped struggling. He stood and dropped his outer kimono over her shoulders. Kagome pulled it around her absent mindedly as he walked off. 'IF YOU MAKE A MISTAKE, BAD THINGS WILL BEFALL THE ONES YOU CARE ABOUT.' Was it her fault he died?

Kagome looked up at the sky, tears streaming down her face. "Is this what you meant? Did he die because of me?"

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Kagome didn't know how long she sat there thinking about her encounter with Vaniliy. The whole situation was confusing her. What exactly did he mean? Everything he said made no sense. Was he even *trying* to help her? Or did he put some sort of curse on her? Her head was spinning with possibilities and the only thing that stopped her train of thought her grumbling stomach.

"Hungry?"

She glared up at Hiten. "No."

He rolled his eyes and handed a bowl of noodles. "I can smell when you lie."

She looked at the bowl but against her good judgment, she took it. Kagome tipped the bowl to her lips and slurped the noodles down hungrily. To her surprise it was actually good, but then again she hadn't eaten in about a day. She wiped her mouth and shoved the bowl back to him. The shift in the wind made her shiver and pull Hiten's outer kimono tighter around her.

Hiten started a fire by shooting some lightning at some twigs and fallen branches. Kagome watched him. "What will get you to let me go?"

He smirked at her, something she had grown used to. "Nothing."

"Nothing?" She repeated.

"Nope, see we can do this the hard way or the easy way. You can agree to say with me and you can have whatever you want. Or I can force you to stay with me and you can stay in the middle of the forest."

"Why can't I just leave?"

Hiten rolled his eyes. "Because you can sense jewel shards, besides you're good with a sword and bow." He winked.

Kagome normally would have smiled at the complement but she didn't smile at murders. "I won't agree to anything."

"You will eventually."

"Like hell I will." Kagome crossed her arms and turned away from him.

"You'll come around." He stood and walked away.

Kagome climbed up a tree to get a good look around. There were trees for miles and miles all around her. She groaned and sat back on a branch, resting her back on the trunk. Would she ever get away from this man?

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Sesshomaru stood on the edge of the cliff and looked around. He had had time to think. It was irrational of him to act that way. In due time he would get to his business. In due time.

"Master Sesshomaru? Sire?" Jaken asked hesitantly.

"What?"

"I had been looking for you, master."

"Why?" He asked with irritation, wishing he would get to the point.

"Actually, I'm not quite sure. I had this dream last night telling me that I had to find you. I thought you might have been in sort of danger."

Sesshomaru raised in eyebrow. "*If* I could possibly be in danger, what makes you think you would be of any help to me?"

"Well, I don't know, sire. I just felt compelled to com-" Jaken stopped abruptly. His eyes went blank before emitting a white light. "HE CAME BECAUSE I TOLD HIM TO."

He frowned. "And who might you be?"

"I AM VANILIY, I'M SURE YOU'VE HEARD OF ME."

"Really? I'm supposed to believe that?"

"YOU SHOULD, CONSIDERING HOW MANY TIMES YOU'VE ASKED FOR MY WISDOM CONCERNING KAGOME. I KNOW ABOUT ALL THE QUESTIONS YOU ASKED THE BOOK OF TRUTH. BUT THERE IS LITTLE TIME TO EXPLAIN. KAGOME IS DANGER, YOU MUST GO TO HER."

"Why would I want to do that?" He asked stubbornly.

"DON'T YOU WANT TO KNOW WHY YOU COULDN'T SENSE WHERE SHE WAS? THERE IS SOMEONE TRYING TO KEEP YOU AWAY FROM HER."

"Who?" He stopped to think. "That makes no sense, I couldn't find Rin or that wolf."

"BECAUSE THEY WHERE WITH HER, THEY DIDN'T WANT YOU TO FIND KAGOME."

"Who?" Sesshomaru asked again. "Why?"

"YOU MUST GO TO KAGOME. YOU MUST GO EAST." The light from Jaken's eyes dimmed and he fell forward.

Sesshomaru looked over the edge of the cliff. If this was so important why didn't Vaniliy just tell him directly in his sleep? Was that even Vaniliy?

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Kagome's nosed twitched. Something was not right, something was very very wrong. She gripped the branch and hung before she let go to land. Before she knew what happened a searing white pain shot through her body. Lightheaded with agony, she looked up at her hands. They were pinned to the tree by arrows with blood sluggishly dripping from them. She gritted her teeth to keep from passing out and looked forward.

A figure originally cloaked in the darkness emerged. Kikyou looked at her coldly and put an arrow on her bow. "You always were weak."

"Kikyou?" She gasped.

"Aren't you the smart one? I just can't figure out why Inuyasha even bothers with you." She loosed, an arrow pinned Kagome's left leg to the tree. She bit the inside her to cheek harder to keep from crying out. She refused to give Kikyou any satisfaction. "I'm tired of you getting in the way. He doesn't love you so why don't you just leave him be." Another arrow pinned Kagome's right leg to the tree.

"Why do you care?" Her question was a breathless whisper.

Kikyou walked toward her slowly. "Why do I care? Do think I was always like this? Some shell of human? Do you think that Naraku has not ruined my life as well?"

"What does this have to with me?" The pain from her wounds was making it hard to stay conscious.

"My soul was restless in death, my business was unfinished. Then that hag brought me back to life and I got my chance for revenge. But you always got in my way." She stopped three feet in front of her.

"Shouldn't you be mad at Naraku?" Her head hung forward. Every word was now an effort and was draining the last of her energy.

"I'm not concerned with him. All I want is Inuyasha dead. But right now I'll settle for just you." She raised her strung bow, arrow aimed for her head.

"LOOK WHAT WE HAVE HERE." Hiten stood a few feet from them with a ball of crackling lightning in his hand. "TWO PEOPLE I WANT TO KILL IN ONE PLACE. THANKS FOR THE CONVENIENCE."

Kikyou swung around, pointing her arrow at him. "Who are you?" Kagome looked up. Hiten's eyes were different. They were blazing white but this a harsher white than when Vaniliy possessed Inuyasha. And the voice was not a powerful like his either but just intolerably loud. Every syllable boomed, making the ground shudder beneath their feet. The added stress of the voice on top of her rapid loss of blood made her pass out. Kagome hung limply from the arrows that held her in place.

"THAT DOES NOT MATTER." He raised his hand and released the lightning ball. It immediately expanded and flew towards her.

A barrier went up around Kikyou and met the lightning in a flash of light. "LEAVE THIS REALM."

He raised an eyebrow. "UNLIKE YOU, PUNIJIA, I HAVE A RIGHT TO BE HERE."

"I KNOW OF YOUR CIRCUMSTANCES, YOU NEED NOT REMIND ME. I, TOO, HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO BE HERE."

"THESE TWO WOMEN MUST DIE. THEY DO NOT BELONG HERE, THE BALANCE NEEDS TO BE RESTORED."

"IT WILL BE WHEN YOU LET THE EVENTS RUN THEIR COURSE."

"HOW VERY ARROGANT OF YOU. YOU THINK YOU CHANGE THINGS ON A WHIM? YOU HAVE DECIDED WHAT WAS TO HAPPEN, AND IT FAILED. YOU CANNOT MEDDLE IN THIS REALM TO GET YOUR DESIRED OUTCOME."

"ME ARRROGANT? YOU CAN'T EVEN SEE YOUR OWN FOOLERY. IF YOU KILL THEM IT WILL ONLY LEAD TO THE VERY THING YOU'RE TRYING TO PREVENT. THE VERY THING I'M TRYING TO PREVENT."

"WE ARE NOT ON THE SAME SIDE, SO DON'T TRY TO MAKE IT SOUND LIKE WE ARE. THIS IS NOT YOUR AFFAIR. THIS IS NOT HOW THINGS ARE SUPPOSE TO GO, I HAVE TO RIGHT THEM."

"NOT EVERYTHING IS WRITTEN IN THE STARS."

"INFINITY IS WRITTEN IN THE STARS. WHAT HAS HAPPENED, WHAT WILL HAPPEN, AND WHAT IS HAPPENING IS ALL THERE."

"PERHAPS YOU READ IT WRONG, FOR WHAT IT SAID WAS GOING TO HAPPEN IS NOT HAPPEING THAT WAY. OR DID I JUST READ THE STARS WRONG?" She added with a hint of sarcasm.

"IF YOU KEPT OUT OF THIS THEN IT WOULD BE HAPPENING."

"YOU CAN'T CHANGE THINGS AROUND TO FIT SOME STUPID PROFOCIEY."

"THIS IS YOUR DOING, YOU PRACTICALLY SIGNED THEIR DEATH WARRANT."

"TOUCH THEM AND I SWEAR I'LL RIP YOUR HEAD OFF."

"VOLIENCE IS NOT THE ANSWER. JUST LEAVE NOW AND WE WILL NOT HAVE TO HARM YOU AND YOURS."

"YOUR TIME IS RUNNING OUT AND YOU KNOW IT."

The light from Hiten's eyes started to dim, he cursed. "WE'LL HAVE TO CONTINUE THIS LATER." He fell forward into the dirt.

She smiled bitterly. "TOO BAD IT HAD TO BE THIS WAY BETWEEN US." She crouched beside Kagome and touched her forehead. Her wounds healed instantly. "HE WAS PARTLY RIGHT, SOME OF THIS IS MY FAULT. I JUST PRAY THAT YOU ARE STRONG ENOUGH TO FIX MY MISTAKE." The light from her eyes faded and she fell forward next to Kagome.

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Vaniliy smiled at her crookedly. "So you ran into him again?"

Punjia frowned slightly. "Yes, I was surprised he would pull something like this."

"He was doing his job."

"No, this goes beyond his job. This was personal."

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Kagome woke perfectly fine, something that had not happened in a while. She looked down at her hands, they where healed. Even the burns around her wrists and ankles were gone. Maybe it was all a dream. She turned and came face to face to Kikyou. She clamped her hands over to mouth to keep in her scream. So it did happen.

Kagome sat up and looked down at the miko. She thought she couldn't hate anyone, besides Naraku, but she did hate Kikyou. Was that wrong? It wasn't her fault that Naraku tricked her but still, she had tried to kill her so how innocent could she be? In a moment of wickedness, an evil smile played across her lips as she took an arrow from the ground next to her. "Die bitch." She aimed the arrow for her heart and chopped downward.

Kikyou's eyes opened in surprise, instantly she vanished before the arrow could even pierce her skin. Kagome's arrow drove into the dirt. She blinked slowly, thinking about what just happened. She actually had tried to kill Kikyou. She backed up from the arrow in horror, what was wrong with her? What was she becoming?

"Well, done. But your take off was slightly sluggish."

Kagome glared at Hiten. "Fuck off."

"You could be very powerful, you know."

"I don't care."

"You'll agree to it sooner or later." Hiten stood and stretched. He looked around before setting his eyes on her. "What happened last night?"

"How should I know?" Kagome asked, irritated.

"You seemed to know that girl that was here."

"Oh her." She said, her anger welled up again. Quickly she quelled it. She realized if Kikyou was still here she would probably attack her again.

"Why did you try to kill her?"

"That's none of your fucking business."

"There's nothing wrong with wanting to kill someone." He told her, his eyes glittering brutally.

She frowned. "Yes there is."

"No, if you're stronger you have to right to survive and the weaker doesn't. You can't tell me that you wouldn't be happy to see her blood on your hands, to smell her fear, to feel her life fading away. Look me in the eye and tell me you wouldn't."

"I hate you." Kagome hissed. She hated him because he was right. It was wrong, but she knew he was right. She curled up in a ball, thoroughly disgusted with herself.

"You hate her, too, don't you? That's why you attacked her, isn't it?"

"Shut up."

"You almost killed her you know. If she had stayed around for a little longer that arrow would ha-"

"I said shut up!" She pulled a knife out of her still soggy boot and threw it at him. It pierced his shoulder.

Hiten picked her up by her neck. "I've been too patient with you. Tomorrow we *will* be going shard hunting and you *will* cooperate, or I'll kill you."

She glared down at him. "Then kill me."

To her surprise he threw his head back and laughed. "I like your attitude." He dropped her unceremoniously on the ground.

Kagome rubbed her neck. "Well, I don't like yours." She spat lamely.

Hiten rolled his eyes. "Get to like it because your going to be stuck with me for a *long* time."

She growled. "What makes you think that?!" She was sick of him. She was sick of being stuck with him, sick of his arrogance, sick of seeing his smirking face. Kagome realized that she could possibly hate him just like she hated Naraku and Kikyou. She hated him because he killed Youko, she supposed it was it a different kind of hate than what she felt for them. Were there different types of hatred? Since when was it so easy to hate someone anyway?

Kagome, her emotions pent up, launched herself at him. Hiten, surprised, toppled backwards from her weight. She picked up a large rock next to him and bashed him in the head with it. "I'm gonna kill you!" Her face was red with fury and madness. Again and again the rock struck his skull. She wouldn't stop until his brains were spilling onto the dirt. "I'm gonna kill you just like you killed Youko!"

No longer shocked, Hiten powered up, electrocuting her. The volts surged through her body, but she didn't feel it from all the adrenalin. "Die!" When he saw that she was somehow enduring his lightning, he powered up more, sending her flying into a tree. Kagome went straight through the tree, smacking into the barrier. She fell forward, the back of her suit burned to ashes. She was on all fours, panting, shaking and sweating. What was she doing? What was wrong with her?

Hiten stood beside her. "I know why you're pissed, I felt the same about Monten. I'll relish the day that I get my fingers around that mutt's neck." He growled, crackling with energy. "But Youko's death doesn't concern me in the least, so you better stop attacking me or I will snap you in half."

Slowly she turned her face up to look up him. "You cared about your brother a lot didn't you?"

"He might not have been the brightest but he will always be my brother."

"And Youko might not have been the most moral person but I will always care for him. You took him from me and *I* will relish the day I get *my* fingers around *your* neck." She said coldly. Kagome sat back on her rear and glared icily up at him.

"Good, with everyone going after you, you'll need a reason to live. And revenge the perfect incentive."

Her lips peeled back from her teeth in a sneer. "If I don't kill you, someone will come for me and end your pathetic excuse for a life."

Hiten picked her up by her arms. "I am invincible, let them come."

"Put her down!"

Kagome turned to look behind her. "Inuyasha!" Damn, that was impeccable timing.

"Why don't you make me?" Hiten snarled.

He pulled out Tetsusaiga. "Gladly."

"Inuyasha, don't!" But she was too late. He walked straight into the barrier and was instantly electrocuted.

Inuyasha stepped back and growled. "Why don't you be a man and come face me!"

"I'm busy, mutt."

"Well make some time." Came a voice from behind him.

When Hiten turned to see who the speaker was, he was met with a fist in his nose. He went flying backwards. Kouga ran next to him and pried Kagome from his grip. "I'll be taking her."

Kagome threw her arms around his neck in relief. "Thank you!"

"Hey, I distracted him while he dug under!" Inuyasha said indignantly.

"Thank you too Inuyasha." She added.

Kouga looked her over. "Are you okay?"

She nodded and stepped back. "So you dug under the barrier, huh?" He nodded. "Now why didn't I think of that?"

He picked her up and carried to the hole he dug. "Can we discuss this while getting out of here?"

The wind kicked up. "Don't leave so soon." Kagura said from a large white feather hovering in the sky.

Kouga snarled. "What do you want bitch?"

"Just a conference, Naraku wants to make a deal."

"Fuck off!"

"He went through a lot of trouble for this and he won't take no for an answer."

Kagome frowned. "Trouble?"

She smiled. "Yes, he had been busy but he wanted to make sure you got here and remained here."

"What?"

"Did you really think Hiten could survive those attacks on his own? You really are stupid." She waved her fav upwards twice. Hiten rose from the ground until he was floating a few feet below her. With another flick of her fan, a cut in his stomach foamed and sprayed black blood down on them. "He was dead the whole time. I must say, he was my best work yet."

"What impossible, I would have smelled it." Kouga protested.

Kagura tapped her fan against her temple. "Didn't you feel the shift in the wind whenever you got close. The wind was masking his scent. But enough explaining, Naraku will be here soon."

As if on cue, Naraku appeared next to her on her feather. The feather floated downward until they were about 10 feet from the ground. He held Kikyou in front of him with a knife pressed against her throat. "I'm going to make this simple. You can give me Kagome or Kikyou dies. You have a day to decide." The feather rose up until it was out of sight.

Flamez- OoOoOoOo! Lot of stuff happened in this chapter. Kinda made the story even more confusing ., but everything will be explained in due time. As for the Yu-yu action in this chapter, there won't be anymore. I didn't really want this story to be too crossovery. That was just put there to tell how Kurama got through the well and why and stuff. Review or, well you know.