Inutori: I'm back!  Hope you all didn't miss me too much!

Readers: Took you long enough!

Inutori: I know, I know.  I'm being slow at updating, so sue me…wait…don't sue me, I don't own anything of value anyway.  The only thing that I have that is worth anything is my bird and my laptop…and well…you don't want the bird (he bites hard enough to draw blood and screams so loud your eardrums pop) and my laptop is broken, so it's useless.

Sagi: Just get on with it and let them read the chapter.

Gem: Even as the Grim Reaper, I don't own Inuyasha or any rights to his story, so please forget any ideas you have about suing and go read the story.

Chapter 16

Down the Winding Road

Her heart beat in her ears with the adrenaline rushing through her veins, and Miroku showed no signs of taking back over.  When she glanced back at his form, she saw that he was unconscious.

"Great, I killed the perv.  Now what am I supposed to do?"

Sango hesitantly climbed into the houshi's lap and situated herself so she could drive the car safely.  Miroku's lap was actually fairly comfortable considering that he was unconscious and what not.

She let out a sigh and followed the road towards an old forest.  There ahead of her she spotted Kagome's car parked by the tree line.

With a smile on her face, Sango drove up to park along side her recently acquired friend's car.  When the engine cut, Sango felt a gentle hand caressing her rear end, to which she immediately jumped up and punched the monk faking unconsciousness.

"Hentai!"  She leapt out of the car as quickly as she could and ran over to greet Kagome.

Inuyasha was dangling halfway out of the car on the passenger side, and Kagome was breathing rapidly while holding her chest.

"What happened here?"  Sango leaned on Kagome's door and poked her head in the window.

"N-nothing."  Kagome turned to look at Sango, a hesitant smile gracing her lips.

"Right."  Sango rolled her eyes and smiled.  "Well, I'm here at your call, what'll you have me do?"

"Well, we need to track down my sister.  I just have the feeling that she's around here."

Sango shrugged, looking into the thick woods with a strange look.

"Keh, all I smell is demons around here."  Inuyasha was sitting on the hood of Kagome's car in a crouched position, sniffing the air and eyeing the forest closely.

"I don't care, Inuyasha, we're going in, and that's final."  Kagome got out of her car and put the keys in her pocket.  "Do you have my stuff, Sango-chan?"

"Of course.  It's in the back of Houshi-sama's car."

"Arigato!"  Kagome ran to the other car, opening up the back and pulling out her duffels.  The duffel was unzipped and Kagome removed two of the swords and tied them to either side her waist.  She hesitantly picked up the third from the bag and awkwardly tied it to her back.

"What's with all of the swords, woman?"  Inuyasha scoffed at her; laughing at how many swords she was being weighed down by.

"These two," Kagome patted the two around her waist, "are for fighting.  The one on my back…is forged from a demon fang.  It will…come in handy for fighting stronger demons."  The miko seemed a bit hesitant to share the information about the third sword she carried, but Inuyasha brushed it off as her stupidity.

"Keh.  Whatever."

She then pulled a bow and quiver of arrows from the second duffel, causing Inuyasha to jerk his head around and stare.

"Those are Kikyou's."  Inuyasha growled at Kagome, apparently angry at Kagome for having them.

"Correction, they WERE Kikyou's.  She gave them to me when I graduated from High School."

Inuyasha didn't answer, merely letting a low growl in his throat show them all his anger.

"What's got you so worked up, Inuyasha?"  Miroku smiled and patted Inuyasha's back.

"Keh."  He looked away from the group and began to walk towards the woods.

Kagome just shrugged and followed after Inuyasha a few strides behind.  Sango and Miroku took the hint, and they too followed.  Well, they followed after Sango retrieved her boomerang from the back of the monk's car.

It was dark, cold, and her entire body ached.  What had happened?  She opened her eyes painfully and looked around her, trying to make out anything in the pitch blackness.

"So you're awake."  A man's smooth, low voice rang through her ears, almost too loudly for her to stand.

"Where am I?"  She sat up fully, looking to where that voice had come from.  With talking, she felt her throat constrict agonizingly.

"Does it matter?"  The voice once again pierced her eardrums like tiny daggers.

When she moved to stand up, she saw a glimpse of something silver out of the corner of her eye.  "Of course it does."  She hated being blind, she hated not remembering what had happened; she hated not being able to remember her own name.

"Not anymore, Kagura."

Is that who she was?  Kagura?  It didn't quite click, but she figured it had to do with the amnesia she was suffering from.  "Why not?" 

"Because your location is of no importance."

She brushed her fingers along her cheek, pushing her black hair behind her ear.  Her fingernails cut her skin, and somehow she felt that that wasn't supposed to happen.  She felt that her body had been altered, transformed. 

"What…what have you done to me?"  Kagura wasn't totally sure, but for some reason, she knew this wasn't what her body was supposed to be like.

"I have merely saved you."

She jerked around to face the voice.  "From what?"

"From the inu hanyou and his followers.  They changed you.  Almost killed you.  If I hadn't taken you, you'd be dead."

An expression of anger crossed her face.  "And where are they now?"

"Coming this way to finish the job."  A Japanese fan flew through the air and she caught it upon reflex.  "Go out to meet our unwelcome guests, would you?"

Inutori: Fair warning.  In a little bit I may be changing my name to Inutora instead of Inutori.

Sagi: Not too much of a change; but enough that it may throw some people off…like me.

Inutori: Well, hope you enjoyed the chapter, despite how short it was!

Sesshoumaru: Of course they didn't.  I, Sesshoumaru, was excluded from this chapter.

Inutori: Whatever, you'll live, Fluffy.

Sagi: SESSHOUMARU! glomps him  Give me your boa!  Give me your boa!

Sesshoumaru: Get off of me, you weak human!

Sagi: I'm not a human, you ingrate!  I'm a Dweller of Darkness, called vampires, devils, demons, and the likes by humans.

Gem: Shut up, Sag.  No one here cares.

Inutori: Well, I hope now you'll all go and leave me pretty little reviews!  Until next chapter, ja ne!