Inutori: No one have a heart attack now. I know it's been a millennium since I updated.

Sagi: It's about time. We've been waiting for this for forever.

Inutori: I don't own Inuyasha, and man is it hard to type with a manicure.

Inuyasha: Then why did you get one?

Inutori: For the dance I'm going to tonight! Oh, and I guess this chapter had been previously written and was just sitting on my computer. I didn't realize I hadn't put it up yet, and I apologize for that. If it weren't for me, you could have gotten 6 pages more into the story.

Kagome: If you're so sorry, why don't you let them skip this and go straight to the story?

Inutori: Oops. Well, then, I better let you all go to absorb the chapter.

Chapter 17

Kagura's Wrath

She walked quietly through the forest, noting how little light was able to get through the trees. Everything seemed new to her, like she had been reborn. Things smelt more strongly, she could see farther and more clearly, and she could hear everything down to the small beating of butterfly wings.

Kagura took in a deep breath, trying to remember her past. "I have a sister…I think." How strange it was to know nothing about oneself except for what someone else told you. A wind youkai. That man said she was a wind youkai.

With a shrug, she looked down at the fan in her hands. It was mainly white, but it had red streaks across it like a bloody wind. The thought made a shudder run down her spine. What was it about blood that made her shudder?

An unfamiliar scent reached her nose, and she looked up from her fan, scanning the area for the possible threat.

She heard someone yell a name. After a minute or two, she heard it more clearly. "KAGOME!"

That made something in her jump. Kagome. Where had she heard that name before? The name sounded so familiar yet strange at the same time. Kagura rubbed her temple, not wanting to think anymore because of her headache.

"GET BACK HERE, KAGOME!" There it was again, that same jolt. Who was Kagome?

"Let go of me Inuyasha, I can sense my sister nearby!"

Inuyasha. That's the name of the man who attacked me with his followers. Perhaps she remembered the name Kagome from the attack.

Anger filled her entire being, and she felt the hairs on the back of her neck stand up. This Inuyasha and his companions would die very painfully for what they had done to her.

Four people came into view, two men and two women. Easy enough to take out. Without really thinking about it, Kagura opened her fan and waved it towards the intruders, sending sharp blades of wind through the air.

"Look out!"

The white-haired demon grabbed one of the girls and jumped out of the way, while the other two shielded themselves behind a large demon bone.

Kagura gritted her teeth at having missed. "Inuyasha, fight me!" She pulled back her fan, flicking her wrist slightly, sending another blast of wind blades at the group.

This time the blades made contact with the two behind the bone, forcing them backwards and down. They weren't dead, but they were badly beat. No more threat from those two.

She turned to the other two that were staring her down, swords drawn. The white-haired boy held a rusty sword that looked like it was about to break, but the girl carried two Japanese swords in pristine condition.

"Come." Kagura beckoned for them with the hand not holding the fan, challenging them to attack her.

They obeyed, charging her at full speed. Just as she was about to send them to their graves, she was hit in the side with a large object, sending her flying. She struggled to stand, looking at where the surprise attack had originated.

There stood the other female with her youkai bone cocked, ready to throw a second time. "Guess she wasn't done." Kagura held her arm painfully; glaring at the group she was fighting. Apparently she wasn't a match compared to her foes.

But if she were going to go down, she'd go fighting. Kagura gripped her fan tightly, swinging it forcefully towards the two sword-wielders. "Die!"

The demon grabbed the human once again and ducked out of the way, sparing both of them any injuries.

"No you!" The woman with the bone shaped like a boomerang threw it once again, aimed straight for Kagura.

She didn't have the strength to dodge, so braced herself for the hit, but it never came. In front of her appeared another man with long silver hair and the armor of a lord of some sort.

He sliced the bone in two with his claws, and then turned to face her. In his arms was a small child with black hair that was no more than a year old. "Let's go home, Kikyou." He turned to the side, apparently expecting Kagura to follow.

"My name is Kagura, fool." She somehow found the strength to stand up straight, glaring coldly at the newcomer.

"Very well then, Kagura. Come home."

"My home is with Naraku." The man was suddenly in front of her, glaring down at her with his harsh gold eyes.

"Your home is with me and Rin. Now come." His height compared to hers was intimidating, but Kagura tried her hardest not to show it.

"Wait, this demon is Kikyou?" The girl with the swords had chosen that time to speak up, staring in shock at Kagura.

"Of course, Kagome. Youki has merely been introduced to her blood. This is still my mate."

Kagura scoffed. "Your mate? Why would I want to settle for a man like you?" She scrunched her nose in disgust, looking the other youkai over.

Then the white-haired youkai punched her in the face. "Get over yourself. You have a daughter to take care of as well as another brat on the way."

"What?" Kagura looked at the tall man in confusion, blood dripping down her face from where he had punched her.

"Smell it and weep, woman. You're with pup, and it's not your first."

"But Naraku told me-"

"Forget what Naraku told you. He's a lying cheapskate that can't take no for an answer. Think for yourself, Kikyou. Does it always have to be what someone else told you?"

Kagura took off, flying up into the air quickly on a large feather. She left the woods to think.

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"Sesshoumaru, aren't you going to go after her?" Inuyasha looked strangely at his brother, wondering about the older inu youkai.

"Of course not. She'll come around." Sesshoumaru turned, about to leave.

"How did you know where we were?" Kagome looked at her brother-in-law with confusion of her face. They were in the middle of nowhere, and yet Sesshoumaru had managed to intrude anyway.

"You think I don't know how to track? I just didn't care when Rin was at the morgue." With that, Sesshoumaru disappeared, moving faster than the eye could see.

"So he tracked his wife here and that's how he knew she was Kagura?" Miroku weakly meandered over to where Inuyasha and Kagome were with Sango next to him.

"I guess." Kagome shrugged, baffled as the rest of them at this turn of events.

"Let's go find that Naraku guy." They all looked to Inuyasha, who was clenching his sword angrily and looking around them.

Everyone agreed, and after Sango and Miroku were bandaged up, they left to track down this mysterious foe.

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Inutori groaned, not happy with Sesshoumaru at all. "First he disowns me, and then he makes me his babysitter. And I'm not even getting paid!" She cradled Rin gently, glad that the little baby was satisfied with being fed solid food.

She was supposed to have her date with Souta tonight along with his sister and Inuyasha, but with this little kiddo in tow, it wasn't going to be much of a romantic evening.

"I thought you were dead or something, Rin. But I guess it's cool that you're not." Inutori dabbed Rin's nose with her finger, then set the girl down on the floor. Her black ear flicked towards the door where she heard an insistent knocking.

So, with a sigh, the dog hanyou pulled on her baseball cap and went to answer the door.

Through the eyehole, Inutori saw a strange youkai with her hair pulled back in a bun tapping her foot impatiently. Making a face, Inutori cracked open the door and looked questioningly at the red-eyed woman.

"May I help you?"

The female looked at her angrily, her mouth pulled into a frown. "My daughter is here. I'd like to see her."

Didn't Fluffy mention something about Kikyou being different now? "I'm not sure you have the right place. What's your name?"

"Kagura. But that stupid dog called me Kikyou or something. So you'd probably be knowing me as Kikyou."

Inutori bit her lip, hesitating to open the door to this apparent stranger. Her ear flicked back when she heard Rin cry out mama.

Then suddenly Rin was hobbling to the door and screaming to be let past Inutori's leg.

"Mamamamamamama." The little baby was crying and wailing like no other, and Inutori finally just picked the kid up, opening the door for the youkai woman.

Rin reached out to the youkai, once again saying mama, and Inutori reluctantly gave the youkai the child.

"So you're my brat, huh? What's your name, little one?" Inutori watched as the youkai woman awkwardly held the baby and tried to accept that Rin was her daughter.

"Her name's Rin." Inutori decided to help her out, since she was supposedly her sister-in-law.

"Rin." The youkai looked up at Inutori, silently asking for entrance into the house, and Inutori smiled and let her in, still keeping up her guard for anything suspicious.

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"Ite! Kagome, can't you be a little more gentle?" Sango tried to scoot away from Kagome as she dressed Sango's wounds again.

It was starting to get dark and Miroku had already started a fire. They hadn't found the elusive Naraku, but they did manage to find a desecrated building covered in youkai blood. That was a disturbing sight.

Inuyasha was up in one of the trees nearby, grumbling about how he hated camping, and Miroku was out gathering more wood for the fire. This left Sango and Kagome to themselves; hence why Kagome was dressing Sango's wounds for the second time that day.

"Gomen, Sango, but it's not my fault your blood is sticking to the bandages!" Kagome tried again to pull off the bloodstained material from Sango's forearm, but it only caused the taijiya more pain.

Miroku returned, carrying a pile of sticks in his arms. "I'm back! Did you miss me?"

Sango and Kagome answered simultaneously without looking at Miroku, "No."

Miroku pouted, upset at their answer. He set down the wood and slumped down at the base of the same tree Inuyasha was perched in.

Without warning, Inuyasha jumped up. "Tonight I promised I'd eat dinner with Inutori and her boyfriend! She's going to kill me!"

Kagome looked up curiously. "That's strange. I was supposed to eat dinner with my brother and his girlfriend tonight as well." The pair looked at each other without saying anything.

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Inutori: Perhaps I should have called it Sesshoumaru's Revenge. I don't know.

Sesshoumaru I do not do petty things such as exact revenge.

Inuyasha: Sure. That's why we found Naraku's lair desecrated.

Sesshoumaru: Are you so sure that was Naraku's lair?

Kagura: His scent covered you, along with the smell of blood. You can't go denying that you killed Naraku.

Sesshoumaru: Don't be a fool. I only want my brother's head.

Inutori: What, and not your sister's?

Sesshoumaru: Of course not. Where else can I get free babysitting?

Kagura: You're pathetic.

Sagi: Well, why don't we all go review now so we can get on with our miserable excuses for lives.

Gem: You're the only one here that has a miserable excuse for a life, so go shrivel back up in your corner and don't bother us. To readers besides Sagi: review, and until next update, ja.