Chapter 2

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(8 hours later) "I see land!" cried Sango. "Feh, it doesn't matter. Kagome's probably dead by now. . . I should have never brought you guys into this." said a broken-hearted Inu-Yasha. "Don't give up now! It'll be easy to find her here. . . . you just have to uhh. . . "said Sango "I can use a locating spell to find her spirit." said Miroku."all I would need is something close to her to use as a locator." at those words everyone turned and looked at Inu-Yasha. "What are you guy's lookin' at?" said Inu-Yasha. "I need to borrow control of your mind for a few minutes Inu-Yasha." said Miroku. "Are you out of your mind?!?!?! there is. . . no. . way. . . " Inu-Yasha collapsed as Miroku finished chanting the spell. "Show me where Kagome is" said Miroku. Inu-Yasha's body sat up and Miroku placed a map of the states in front of him. Inu-Yasha looked at the map and pointed at Virginia. Then he collapsed when the spell wore off. "What happened? MIROKU!!!" said an angry Inu-Yasha. "We know where she is now, she's on the other side of the country" Miroku defended himself. "Then what are we waiting for? Lets go!" cried Inu-Yasha. "Uh, Inu-Yasha. maybe we should get some different clothes and do something with your hair. We stand out like sore thumbs. Everyone Is staring at us and if we don't do something they might get suspicious" said Sango. "All ready taken care of! While you guys were playing voodoo with Inu-Yasha I bargained with a sales clerk and traded him a coin for all of these clothes. As for Inu's hair, we can't really do much about it." said Shippo .so they all put on their clothes and hid their weapons and started their journey to Virginia. They flew high above the clouds so no one could see them. A few hours later they landed in Virginia close to Washington D.C.

"She's here some where. . . I can smell her." said Inu-Yasha. He took off in the direction of the sent until he got to an old ware house and the others followed him. "I smell Sessho-Maru." said Inu-Yasha solemnly.

"What?!?" They cried.

"I thought that he couldn't get through the well." Said Miroku.

"He is stronger than me and if I can get through then he must be able to go through too." Said a thoughtful Inu-Yasha."

"We'll have to be extra careful," said Miroku, "He might have set a trap." "There's more. . . the smell of. . . Kikyo" said Inu-Yasha.

"Kikyo?" said Shippo. "I thought that she couldn't get through either."

"Well you thought wrong" shouted Inu-Yasha, "Look, every moment that we spend talking about this out here, Kagome is in greater danger. For all we know, they are spying on us right now and waiting for the right moment to attack. We can't just bust in there and rescue Kagome, they might just have the poisonous wasps, or have Kagome tied up with Kikyo holding a knife to her throat! There is no telling how far Sessho-Maru will go. . . " ended Inu-Yasha.

"So you came." said a voice in the underbrush.

Inu-Yasha turned around just as he was struck in the face, "Kikyo."

"Surprised to see me?" she said.

"No, is your friend Naraku here too?" he responded.

"Ha! That old ape couldn't go through the time portal if he used all the magic he had." She said.

"How did you get through?" said Miroku.

"If that brat reincarnation of me can get through, then it makes sense that I can too. Come, Sessho-Maru is waiting and willing to . . . bargain with you." Kikyo opened the door to the ware house and beckoned them to follow her. They went down stairs into the basement which was lit by one light in the middle of the room. The only thing they could see was a figure tied up, lying on the floor.

"Kagome!" cried Inu-Yasha. She laid there unmoving.

"What did you do to her you bitch?!?" cried Sango.

"She just ate something that. . . didn't agree with her very well, " said Sessho-Maru while he walked into the light, "Give me the Tetsusaiga and I'll give you the antidote and the girl."

"Why should I believe that you would give it to me?" said Inu-Yasha.

"Because, you have no choice. If she doesn't get the antidote within the next five minutes, she will die." Said Sessho-Maru.

Inu-Yasha immediately grabbed the hilt of his sword, willing to give it up to save her. Then he came up with an idea, still looking like he was going for his sword, Inu-Yasha grabbed Shippo's tail instead with one hand and the other, hid the real sword under his clothes. Shippo caught on quickly and transformed into the Tetsusaiga. Inu-Yasha looked at Sessho-Maru and back at the "sword" then tossed the rusty blade to Sessho-Maru who easily caught it. "Fool, giving up this for a silly girl. Here's the antidote. Come Kikyo, we are leaving." They left.

"Kagome?" said Inu-Yasha while Miroku gave her the antidote, "can you hear me? Are you ok?"

"Wh-what happened? Inu-Yasha! I knew you'd come! What the heck are you wearing? Where are we?" she said.

"Uhh, this country called "America", we had to wear some of their clothes to blend in." he responded.

"Well now you've done it!" cried Sango "We got back Kagome but what about Shippo? Or the shards that Kagome was carrying?"

"Feh, Shippo'll be fine, either he escapes or he leaves those damn mushrooms leading us to him." Said an unworried Inu-Yasha.

"That did seem a little easy," said Miroku, "almost too easy."

"What about Shippo? What is going on?" asked Kagome.

"Sessho-Maru had given you a poison and if I didn't give him the Tetsusaiga, he would let you die. . . but if he got a hold of the real one he would of killed us all so I gave him Shippo." Confessed Inu-Yasha.

"How are we going to- *sigh* never mind. We'll look for them in the morning. I can still sense the shards so they are close by. We'll *yawn* take turns guarding the door while the rest of us sleep" said a tired Kagome. Inu-Yasha still had his Kimono and made a 'bed' out of it which he and Kagome slept in. Miroku slept wrapped in his old robes while Sango and Kirara kept guard.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* I kept on telling myself that I wouldn't talk at the end of my chappies but I can't hold back any longer! ( :P

This is my first ever story that I have written and I understand that it may not be very good. I started writing because of my friend who is also a author on this site (Icebolt140) if it wasn't for my friend, I would of never gotten into Inu-Yasha all together. Thank you Icebolt140