AN: The funeral for our beloved pencil will be in the next chapter. You all are allowed to come. After all you've been through all of this. Miroku will be giving the eulogy. ::goes into a corner and cries:: Oh! ::comes back:: Um, Michio is fast, not so much...strong.

Jt: Um...being weird is cool, but...what the heck were you talking about? You confused the heck out of me! I got the part where you don't like my story all that much, but you do want me to update. I think...yeah, I'm lost. And tell your little brother, I don't have MicrosoftWord or any other place that would help me out with all that. Thats why this story has been a no show for the past months. Right now I'm using the library.

Chapter Eleven:

And Here's Where It Begins

Inuyasha got up has fast as he could, only to watch Kagome be carried away by that, that thing! He had to go after them, Kagome was in danger! Sango and Miroku would catch up. They had Kirara and Shippo to help, by following his scent. He dashed after Michio, who was holding a limp Kagome.

"Kagome!" he shouted after them. He got no sound or movement from the girl. "Michio put her down and face me! Whoa-!"

Inuyasha came to a sliding Holt when Michio just stopped. Michio turned around and faced Inuyasha, a brow raised in question.

"Well, I'm facing you," Michio smiled and with surprisingly great care, set Kagome down. "And I have set the girl down. Now what do we do?" he asked sounding amused.

Inuyasha growled, and held Tetsusaiga out, ready to slice the demon in half. He was about to strike, when a tsk, tsk caught his attention. He looked at Michio surprised to see him shaking his head and making the tsking noise.

"Inuyasha, Inuyasha, Inuyasha. Not a bright thing to do when your beloved mate-to-be is right by my feet." Michio said with a serious face, but his red eyes gave away his amusement. Inuyasha's eyes darted to the girl who appeared to be sleeping on the ground, right by Michio's feet, and then back to Michio, who had let a smile grace his face.

Dang it! He's right. If I try and strike him, I'll hit Kagome. Inuyasha thought angrily. He looked at Kagome again, a frown gracing his normally scowling face. He just needed to get Michio away from Kagome and he would be able to strike. But, how would he be able to get him to move?

"Well, this is the most fun I've ever had. Wee…" Michio said rolling his red eyes when Inuyasha did nothing. "Come now, if you don't do anything soon, I'm going to grow old and die of boredom."

"Die then," Inuyasha growled, flexing his hands that held the tight grip he had on his sword. "It would save me the trouble."

"I'm sure it would, look I don't have all the time in the world; so could we just, oh, I don't know, Hurry Up?" Michio said in an awfully bored tone, tapping his left foot impatiently. The only response he got from the inu-hanyou was a glare. "Fine, I'll just take the girl and be on my merry way." he said as he bent down to picked Kagome up. He had just grasped her waste when he was sent flying over the girl and into a tree. He looked up, just in time to see Inuyasha step in front of the Miko. Clever, Cheap! But clever, he thought as he stood up.

"Hmm, I didn't think you would go as low as to hit someone when their back is turned." Michio said to Inuyasha as he dusted himself off.

"If it's to protect Kagome, I'll do anything. And being as you're one of Naraku's spawns, it doesn't matter if I take a cheap blow. You would do the same." Inuyasha growled. Michio snorted and sent a glare over at Inuyasha,

"I am not as low as some of my siblings. I have some pride, after all." Inuyasha glared at him. True, he wasn't like Kagura or any of the other spawns of Naraku. He seemed to be...different some how.

"Whatever, lets get this over with." Inuyasha raised Tetsusaiga. Michio got into a fighting stance and they were about fight, when the wind started to pick up. Inuyasha sniffed, scowled and at the same time as Michio said

"Kagura..."

"Ugh.." Sango groaned as she sat up. Hitting that tree hurt pretty badly. She looked around, she saw Miroku standing up, with Kirara's and Shippo's help. She froze, where were Kagome and Inuyasha?!

"Miroku, Where's Inuyasha and Kagome?" she yelled to him, he only response was a worried face and a shrug, "Well, we need to find them. Naraku might hurt her."

"I know which way they went!" Shippo squeaked out, "Kirara and I can take you there!"

"Good, let's get going. I do not wish to think of what Naraku is doing to Kagome, or if Inuyasha is dead." Miroku said as he crawled onto Kirara. Sango took a seat behind him and held Shippo. "Let's go Kirara!" with that Kirara took off in a shot.

"Kagura, Leave, I can handle this!" Michio yelled at the Wind Sorceress.

"Naraku doesn't want you to play around. He wants the miko now, Michio." Kagura said as she took a feather from her hair, "I am here to retrieve her, while you take care of Inuyasha." With a swoosh of the wind, Kagura was in the air on her giant feather, with Kagome.

"Kagura! Let her go!" Inuyasha yelled up at the now laughing Kagura, "Kagome! Kagome!" he yelled desperately, trying to wake the girl up, so she could possible jump off or something. No response came as the feather blew further and further away. He turned to Michio who was glaring up at the feather.

"Die!" Inuyasha yelled as he swung his sword, it didn't surprise him much that Michio dodged it. Michio landed besides Inuyasha and grabbed him,

"Here's the deal. You live and go get the girl and possible if you can defeat Naraku. Once you do that, then we can fight." With that said Michio threw Inuyasha on the ground and sped away. Inuyasha got up and grabbed his sword, he briefly wondered why the demon had said and done that, but shrugged it off. He was just about to run off in the same direction as the feather when Miroku's voice sounded out,

"Inuyasha! Where's Kagome!?"

"Kagura has her, come on lets go!" with that, they all ran off after the feather.

"What do you want with her Naraku?" Kagome heard Kagura's voice ask.

"That is no concern of yours." Naraku's voice sounded, and then there were footsteps.

"One day Naraku. One day.." Kagura's voice growled and was followed by angry stomps out of the room and then a slam of the sliding door. Kagome opened her eyes slowly. She slowly looked to her left and the to her right. Nothing. She sat up and looked around, no one..Well except that dead person there. She jumped away from it with a tiny silent scream. Great, I'm stuck in Naraku's castle with a dead guy. She thought grimly. Sighing, she settled down and tried to think of a plan on how to get out of the room. Where's Shippo when you need him? The room was small and had no window, just a door.

No wonder why the guy died...no way to get out. Well, okay you could try the door, but most likely something's there to hurt you. She looked at the wall, maybe she could kick through it? It looked like it was made out of twigs. She kicked the wall really hard and nothing happened. Well, it was worth a shot. Now my foot hurts It felt like she was sitting in that small room forever, when she heard someone coming her way. She lay down, maybe they would think she was still asleep? The sliding door opened,

"Nice try. Doesn't work, when you're body has moved about a foot from the dead guy." came Kagura's voice. Kagome sat up and glared at her. Kagura's red eyes glared right back,

"Naraku would like to see you." Kagura said as she opened and closed her fan. Kagome stood straighter and took a step forward, this was it. She was going to face Naraku and she had nothing to help her. She was on her own, had no weapon and her foot still kind of hurt. Kagura gave a cruel smile and step aside to let Kagome by. When Kagome was out of the room, Kagura pointed with her fan to the end of the hallway.

Kagome took a deep breath and start walking down the hallway. She looked around and saw a bunch of dead bodies. Every single one of the bodies was nothing but bones and clothes. She scrunched up her nose at the light decaying smell.

"Hmm, you don't talk much do you?" Kagura asked, making Kagome jump a little. "I always thought you did. Whenever I show up you usually yell out Inuyasha! In that high-pitched voice of yours." Kagome's face turned red at the insult, but she continued on her way. Kagura shrugged and stopped talking. When they reached the end of the hallway, Kagura pointed to her right and said,

"In there."

Kagome walked past her and saw a door. She was about to open it, when she heard a noise from inside. Heart pounding, she slowing opened the door. As it opened all she saw was darkness, maybe Kagura got the room wrong? Well, whatever it was, this room gave her the creeps, so she decided to close it.

"Come in." Came Naraku's slimy voice.

Kagome froze.

Inuyasha, Sango, Miroku, Shippo and Kirara were on their way picking up speed faster and faster.

"I can smell Naraku!" Inuyasha informed them. As they passed the trees, the spotted the castle. Inuyasha was about to put on another burst of speed when an arrow came flying at him. He barely missed getting hit and slid to a Holt. He looked over to where the arrow came from and saw Kikyo holding up her bow and he could see she had already strung another arrow.

"Kikyo!"

At the mention of her name, she let the arrow fly. Inuyasha ducked and took a couple of steps back. Miroku jumped off Kirara and ran to Inuyasha's side.

"No! Miroku, you and Sango go to the castle and try to save Kagome! I'll deal with this. I need too." Inuyasha yelled to the monk. Miroku nodded and jumped right back on Kirara and he and Sango took off towards the castle.

"Why are you doing this Kikyo?" Inuyasha asked the dead miko.

"Because you chose her." Came her simple reply, "Even though you promised me, you would leave with me."

"I love her Kikyo."

"I said, Come in." Naraku commanded, when Kagome didn't enter. With a feeling of dread, Kagome enter the room and spotted Naraku sitting on the floor by the window.

Kagome walked in holding her head high. She heard Naraku chuckle cruelly. When she was inside the room, the door closed with a sharp snap, making her jump and look behind her.

"You really are amusing, you know?" she her Naraku say. She turned her head back to look over at him and was startled to realized he was now standing in front of her. She couldn't help it, it came out with no warning. She let out a high-pitched squeak.

Her eyes opened in horror. She made a sound! Inuyasha was going to hold it against her now! But, wait...Inuyasha doesn't know I made a sound. The only one who knows is Naraku and he wouldn't tell Inuyasha, or would he? She looked at Naraku, narrowing her eyes, He doesn't know! He has no clue I'm on a vow of silence! Hey, wait a minute...why the heck am I thinking about this!? I have our feared, evil, horrible, enemy standing right in front of me and I'm thinking about the vow of silence!? Kagome, you're such an idiot!

"You are a weird miko, girl." Naraku's voice snapped her out of her thoughts, making her look at him again. "Well, it doesn't matter. I have plans for you nonetheless." his cruel smile made her take two steps back. What was he going to do to her?

Before she could react Naraku's hand flew out and grabbed her by the arm, bring her closer to him. She turned her head away trying to breathe in some from air and not miasma that he was giving off. She heard him laugh and felt his other hand grabber her chin, making her face him. She looked up into his red eyes and the feeling of dread welled up inside her. He was going to use her…

He was going to use her to hurt or possibly kill Inuyasha.

Miroku, Sango, Shippo and Kirara were near Naraku's castle when a gust of a whirl-wind came.

"Hey!" came none other than the wolf prince's voice, Kouga "I can smell Naraku's barrier and I can smell Kagome near here, but I don't see her with you! Did she go with that mutt-face!?" he practically screamed.

"No! Kagome was kidnapped by Kagura and taken to Naraku's castle. Right now we're trying to get there to save her and Inuyasha is fighting off Kikyo." Said the clever little fox-kitsune, named Shippo. There was a stun silence and a look of confused shock on Kouga's face.

"WHAT!?"

Kagome jumped a little from where she was sitting, on the floor, in the room with the dead guy. What was that noise? She thought, and then sighed if I could only get out to see…Naraku had sent her back to the room, with Kagura as an escort. Kagura had asked her what Naraku wanted with her and Kagome gave her the truthful answer,

"Like, I would know."

Kagura wasn't too happy with that and practically threw Kagome into the room, when they got to it. As time passed by, Kagome started to get bored.

"So, how long have you been dead?" she kindly ask the dead guy. Sadly, he didn't answer back, making her sigh and grumble about dead people and why no one like being around them. Hmm, I wonder what the others are doing now, I hope they're all okay…Oh, Inuyasha, where are you? I want out, but you can't come; because Naraku has something planned, but you will come because of me. How did Naraku know about Inuyasha and I?

Before Naraku had sent her to the room he told her he knew all about Inuyasha's little mating ritual. At her shock, he smiled and said,

"And it couldn't have come at a better time. This will be very useful to me."

Stupid Naraku, being an evil, no good... thingShe glared at the door for a long moment and then sighed. This was going to be a long night… or was it day?

Kikyo stung another arrow on her bow and pointed it at Inuyasha.

"I thought you loved me?" Kikyo asked him.

"I did, at one point, when you were alive

." He told her, "Then, you were nice and caring, now… now you're cold, unforgiving and all you want it revenge and death."

"I remembering you telling me you wanted the same." Kikyo's eyes narrowed.

"I did, and I still do. I want Naraku dead, but I don't want all the death you do. Kagome showed me that revenge isn't the only in life. Please Kikyo, just let it go." Inuyasha pleaded.

"Alright." With that, she let the arrow go. Inuyasha barely made it out of the way, when another one came flying his way. Dodging that one, get picked up some dirt and then ran at Kikyo as he was lighting. Not expecting him to do anything to her, she watched him as she strung another arrow. Before she had time to shoot it though, Inuyasha had thrown dirt in her face and in her eyes. She yelled in frustration as she heard Inuyasha say,

"Sorry..." and then take off.

Miroku, Sango, Shippo, Kirara and now Kouga and his crew reached Naraku's castle.

"Alright, lets barge in and get my Kagome back, and then I'll kill Naraku." Kouga said to everyone, taking the role as leader before anyone else could say anything.

"Wrong! I'll get Kagome and I'll kill Naraku." Said Inuyasha and he came running up.

"I don't think so, mutt-face!" Kouga roared, "You let her get captured!"

"Not like I meant for her too!" Inuyasha roared back.

Miroku and Sango looked at one another, each having a grave expression.

"And so, here's where it begins." Miroku said.

"What Miroku?" ask Shippo.

"The battle against Naraku."

I know, I know! Why are you stopping there?! Because, I'm going to be making the next chapters longer, so I need more detail in them..lol. Also, I know this took FOREVER to be put up and I'm sorry. I was denied MS (Mircosoft word) access all this time. SORRY!!!

-MoonStar18