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~*~Last time:"What if you were without your bow or a sword?" "I'd pick up a stick and use it for a weapon." "Real swords can cut through bone without much effort, you really think a stick would hold up against one?"All Taiyoukai's have taxes, most of the yen goes back to the village in the form of livestock or land." "PERVERT!" "When did Sesshoumaru tolerate humans?"~*~

~*~Chapter 8: Kagome and Kikyo, Kidnaped!~*~

Inuyasha and Kikyo awoke to a grey dawn, the sun was barely shining through the dark clouds that promised rain. Sure enough a large raindrop landed on Inuyasha's nose, he growled and took off the outer layer of his fire rat kimono and put it over Kikyo's head. Kikyo smiled and put half of Inuyasha's kimono on his own head, forcing them closer together. Inuyasha gladly shared the makeshift unmrella and the pair continued on, heading West. One of Inuyasha's dog ears was sticking out of the kimono.

It was getting wet.

~*~

Sesshoumaru was the first one up, as usual. The Taiyoukai scowled at the unfortunate event of rain and stood under a tree to keep dry. The others woke soon enough, the rain waking them up. Soon the group was off, but not after Miroku had done something stupid again.

Kagome stopped and opened her yellow backpack that Sango and Miroku had brought and took out two bright pink umbrellas. She handed one to Sango, who gladly shared it with Miroku, her boomerang between his hand and her. Kagome opened the other umbrella and held it over Sesshoumaru's head.

"Why are you sharing this.....thing with me?" He asked, looking down at her and then back up at the annoying pink umbrella.

"Because I wouldn't want your tail to get too wet." Kagome replied, smiling at him. Sesshoumaru resisted the urge to roll his eyes and continued walking.

Shippou was asleep on Miroku's shoulder, Kirara on Sango's. Once in awhile the fox kit would start to roll off and the monk would have to save the Shippou from landing in the mud. With all the rain it was hard for Sesshoumaru to use his sense of smell to track the youkai that had attacked the village.
"What are we going to do when we find the youkai?" Kagome asked.

"Destroy it." Sesshoumaru answered, as though the answer should have been obvious.

"But what if we can't find it?"

"I never let my prey get away."

The continued walking for awhile, the rain starting to get heavier than it had been before. Kagome's arm was getting tired from holding the umbrella above her's and Sesshoumaru's head, he being taller than her. Not to mention her arms were still a bit sore from sword fighting.

'I think my arm is going to fall off....it's already gone numb.' Kagome's arm started shaking from not moving for so long. As if reading her mind, Sesshoumaru wrapped his tail around the umbrella's handle, holding it above him and Kagome. She sighed in relief when she put her arm down, blood rushing to the abused limb.

"Isn't that cute?" Sango whispered to Miroku, they were walking behind Kagome and the Taiyoukai. Sesshoumaru gave them another glare, but did nothing. Then to the Miroku's surprise, Sango grabbed his hand and continued walking.

~*~

The next morning brought sunshine to the soaked land. Kagome woke up earlier than everyone, except Sesshoumaru. Kagome was now beginning to think the Taiyoukai never slept either.

"What's for breakfast?" Shippou asked, looking at Kagome with still tired eyes.

"We don't have anymore Raman left, there's fish in the river but that might take awhile to catch." Kagome said, digging through her backpack.

Sesshoumaru suddenly appeared from the woods, when he had left Kagome will never know, but in his hand was a rabbit.

"Eat quickly, we have to trail the youkai before the rain washes away the rest of it's scent." Sesshoumaru said, tossing the rabbit at Kagome.
"Eeeeewwwwww!" Kagome cried out, jumping away from the rabbit. Sango, Miroku and Shippou held in a laugh and the monk decided he should cook it.

~*~

The weasel youkai jumped at Kagome, fangs bared. Sango's huge boomerang knocked it aside but the weasel didn't seem injured. They had found the weasel youkai that attacked the village half a hour ago, and still the battle raged on.

Sango threw her boomerang at the huge weasel again and it just bounced off the youkai's thick fur. Sesshoumaru had been watching and finally decided to end the fight, the humans were starting to wear out.

Sesshoumaru jumped into the air and attacked the youkai with Toukijin, the weasel screamed and dropped to the ground, a tiny Shikon Shard flew into the air.

"A Shikon Shard?!" Kagome gasped, she hadn't even felt the presence of the Shikon Shard. Sesshoumaru reached up and grabbed the tiny fragment between his fingers.

"I believe this should go into your care." The Taiyoukai handed the shard to Kagome and continued walking. Kagome quickly caught up to Sesshoumaru and looked at him. He looked down at her questionly. "What?"

"N..nothing....but I thought all youkai wanted the Shikon Jewel, when you caught the shard, I though you might have kept it." Kagome said.

"I have no need for something like the Shikon, it only corrupts the user and it is openly saying that you are weak."

"What do you mean by that?"

"Youkai go after the Jewel to increase their power, but anyone who needs the help of the Jewel is saying that they are weak."

~*~

The group stopped for a quick lunch nearby a river. Shippou and Sango came back with some fish and Kagome started a fire. Sesshoumaru stood away from the group, staring at the clouds.
"Lunch is ready!" Kagome chirped, everyone except Sesshoumaru grabbed a fish and started eating.

Suddenly Sesshoumaru growled and drew Toukijin. Everyone saw this and tensed, ready for whatever was going to come.

"What is it Sesshoumaru-sama?" Miroku whispered, his staff ready.

"Inuyasha." As if on cue, Inuyasha burst out from the treetops, Tetsusaiga in its true form. Kikyo soon followed, giving death glares to Sango, Miroku and Kagome. Everyone was fully returning the death glares to the dead miko.

"Sesshoumaru! You bastard!" Inuyasha yelled as he swung at Sesshoumaru's head, the Taiyoukai calmly dodged his younger brother's attack.

"Why so angry this time little brother?" Sesshoumaru asked, even though he already knew what Inuyasha wanted.

"Give Kagome back! You stole her! You stupid bastard!" Inuyasha yelled.

"I don't think Kagome wants to go back to a hanyou like yourself. One that chooses a dead miko over a live one." The Taiyoukai said as calmly as ever, his mask of indifference on, but Kagome could see pure hatred in his eyes.

"Kagome is mine! She's Kikyo's reincarnation, which makes her mine!" Inuyasha swung at Sesshoumaru again, Sesshoumaru dodged and blocked every attack Inuyasha threw at him.

Kagome however.....

"I AM NOT YOURS!!!!!!!! I AM NOT HER-"Kagome pointed at Kikyo, murder in her eyes, "-REINCARNATION! I AM KAGOME! KA-GO-ME!!! NO ONE ELSE!!!" Kagome yelled, hate burning in her eyes.

"I don't care!" Inuyasha yelled back, looking not unfazed by Kagome's 'speech'. He barely blocked Sesshoumaru's attack. Sango pulled Kagome back before her friend tried rip Inuyasha apart.

"It's alright Kagome-chan. Let Sesshoumaru-sama deal with it." Sango said, patting Kagome's shoulder. Kagome nodded and stood behind the monk and youkai hunter.

All of them failed to notice that someone was watching them.

"........I shall use this to my advantage......." With that, Naraku unleashed his poison, quickly knocking the humans unconscious. Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru started coughing, when the poison cleared, Naraku had both Kagome and Kikyo in his arms.

"NARAKU!" The brother's yelled at the same time. Naraku laughed and started to fly away on a cloud of his poison. Sesshoumaru's eye's turned red and the strips on his face turned jagged-

"I wouldn't try that Sesshoumaru." A voice called from above. Sesshoumaru stopped his transformation and looked at his new opponent. Kaugra landed, her fan poised at ready. Sesshoumaru re-drew Toukijin while Kaugra laughed and sent blades of wind at the brothers.

"Hahahaha." Kaugra laughed and took a feather out of her hair, and in a blink of an eye, she was up in the air, far out of reach on her feather.

"Come back here! Give me back Kikyo! And Kagome!" Inuyasha yelled into the sky. Suddenly Inuyasha turned to his older brother, who was calmly looking in the direction that Naraku had gone. "This is all your fault Sesshoumaru!"

"Pardon?" Sesshoumaru asked, giving his younger brother a glare that said 'die' all over it.

"I said 'This is all your fault!' if you hadn't taken Kagome-"

"Inuyasha." Sesshoumaru said very calmly, too calmly for anyone's comfort. Then the group saw something that Sesshoumaru hadn't done in over 200 years.

He lost his temper.

There was a sudden snap and a tree behind the Taiyoukai snapped, another tree snapped and Inuyasha had to jump out of the way to avoid being squished by the tree. More trees fell from Sesshoumaru's whip and claws. The Taiyoukai's eyes were blood red with hate and rage.

"You bastard hanyou." Sesshoumaru said calmly, regaining some control. Inuyasha yelled back at his brother, making sure he was out of range of his older brother's whip.

"Miroku. You're wounded from Kaugra's wind." Sango said, shaking from the Taiyoukai's outburst. She had never seen him destroy things because he was upset. What was worse, Sango nor Miroku had ever seen his eyes turn that shade of red before.

"Sango....." Miroku said, taking the huntresses arm, Sango gasped, she hadn't even felt Kaugra's wind blades hit her. The monk took care of the huntresses injury.

Meanwhile the brothers were fighting, both with words and swords. Sesshoumaru was winning the insult contest, while attacking Inuyasha with Toukijin. The hanyou was having trouble blocking the full youkai's attacks and was about to attack his older brother when-

"ALRIGHT! THAT'S ENOUGH!" The brothers stopped and looked at Sango, who at the moment, looked scarier than Naraku.

"Sango?...." Miroku was worried about his friend, Shippou was shaking from Sango's outburst and Kirara's ears were folded back.

"I DON'T GIVE A RAT'S ASS IF YOU TWO RIP EACH OTHER APART LATER, BUT RIGHT NOW WE NEED TO SAVE KAGOME! SO PUT YOUR STUPID FEUD ASIDE!" Miroku was there to catch Sango when she fell from yelling so loud.

"Sango...Sango...are you alright?" Miroku asked. Sesshoumaru put Toukijin away, his eyes still blazing. Inuyasha finally put Tetsusaiga away after everyone gave him death glares.

~*~

"Owww....my head...." Kagome moaned, slowly opening her eyes. Her head hurt, her eyes hurt, in face, her whole body hurt.

"Kukukukuku....good, you mikos are finally awake." Kagome's head snapped up and saw Naraku. Her body screamed in protest as she tried to move, then she noticed that she was chained to the wall. When Kagome looked around, she saw Kikyo was chained to the opposite wall as well.

"What the hell do you want with us?!" Kagome growled.

"Tsk, tsk. We shall have to work on your manners." Naraku laughed and looked at both of them. "I could kill you right here and now, but were would the fun in that be? I'd rather have you help me first, then I can kill you."

Kagome growled while Kikyo gave the Naraku one of her famous death glares. "What makes you think we will help you?" Kagome asked, giving the evil hanyou a death glare as well.

"Because you have no choice." Naraku grinned and snapped his fingers, suddenly waves of pain ran through Kagome's body.

"Bastard...." Kagome said weakly, she was sure that whatever it was that was causing her pain, it was probably sapping her energy away as well.

"You both will be used as bait. Kikyo for Inuyasha, as he as thrown you aside." Naraku said, smirking as Kagome's glare when he mentioned Inuyasha. "And Sesshoumaru has become quite protective of you, once they both come, I shall destroy Inuyasha and absorb Sesshoumaru into my body." Naraku finished, walking away and laughing evilly to himself.

~*~End Chapter~*~

WD: Yay! Hope you all liked! Don't forget to review and leave a recommendation! I didn't have one for last week.....

~*~Recommendation~*~

I Must be Sick by Shichan2 It's a great story! Rin gets sick and Sesshoumaru asks Kagome to heal Rin. Sparks fly and....well...I'm not going to tell you, you'll just have to go and read it!

~*~Reviews~*~

Sukera: Poor you. At least you didn't give up the computer or reading stories!

HieilovesBotan: He's a big softly on the inside, he just doesn't like to admit it.

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Sahuroh-SaffronSama: I'll continue, you don't need to worry about that.

Eddie4: Sesshou-chan won't get meaner....Inu-chan might though. But if anything, Sesshou-chan is going to get nicer.

Kariisme: Well, Inu-chan is still alive, if Sesshou-chan doesn't kill him. And Kikyo's still alive....hopefully not for long. Kagome does get stronger, don't worry about that.

Shippou's Acorns: Yup, Inu-chan is pretty stupid, at least in this story. Kikyo should have stayed dead, I hate Kikyo....she must die.