:: Chapter V ::
Inu Yasha instantly awoke. He had had a horrible dream…
:: DREAM ::
"I don't understand!" Inu Yasha yelled in frustration. "Why aren't we out of this stupid forest yet?"
"Inu Yasha, please don't be like that!" Kagome asked. He knew that she didn't like to hear him get annoyed, but sometimes he just couldn't help it. "Look, since we've been in the forest so long, it can only mean that we'll get out sooner!" She tried to raise his optimism about this.
I guess your right," he began to admit. "It still ticks me off though!"
"I understand. It is frustrating being stuck in such a freaky place for so long." She herself had been getting quite annoyed all along. She didn't exactly like the woods anyway. Or, at least not these kinds.
Inu Yasha had just turned around to keep walking on, but heard something behind him. Along with Kagome gasp. He quickly turned to face anything that would dare to take her away from him – but nothing was there. Neither was Kagome.
:: END ::
When he looked to the side to see Kagome for reinsurance of her safety, she wasn't asleep beside him. She wasn't even there. Naturally, he panicked. He immediately dashed to the spring that she went to rinse off at. Nothing. No Kagome.