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Chapter 8: A Terrifying Nightmare

"You bastard!" screamed Shawn, struggling in Naraku's grip, "Let me go!" she tried to pull off one to the defensive karate moves that she'd learned in martial arts class, but being about a hundred feet off the ground got in the way.

"If you don't settle down I'll drop you," threatened Naraku, not even looking at the girl in his arms.

"Please do! That's better than going anywhere with you. Besides I survived the last fall from when your bird buddy screwed up!" Shawn spat at Naraku, hoping he would drop her into the sea of trees below.

Naraku let go of Shawn, but held onto her wrist, hoping to scare her. He looked down at the girl. All she did was stare up at him coldly, with a look of hatred in her eyes. Naraku chuckled slightly, "Harashi's bravery lives on in you."

"Harashi nothing. The bravery comes from me," said Shawn.

Naraku swung Shawn back up and held onto her waist with one arm.

"Ow! Watch it! Broken arm here!" said Shawn, annoyed and in pain.

"Ah yes. I forgot about that," Naraku placed his finger on Shawn's right arm and said an incantation that Shawn couldn't understand. She felt her bone mend on it's own and she cried out in pain.

"What... the hell... are ... you doing?" panted Shawn. Her bones finished mending.

"Fixing your arm. You'll be needing it," said Naraku.

"For what? Punching your lights out?" retorted Shawn defiantly.

"I grow tired of you whining."

"Get used to it bitch."

"I think not," Naraku put an icy finger on Shawn's neck and hit a pressure point that knocked Shawn out, "Sleep now. You'll be needing your strength," and he continued gliding along across the night sky, Shawn dangling from his arms.

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"Damn it!" yelled Inuyasha. Punching a tree, "How could I let him get away with her again?"

"Inuyasha calm down. It's not you fault," said Sango. By now the miasma had cleared up. The group was walking again, with no more than the light of the moon to guide them.

Earlier Kagome had gone through another fit of worry like when the bird had captured Shawn, but she was over it now.

"Yeah chill. We know where he's going," stated Kagome. (I know they don't know exactly where Naraku's going but they know he is going to his castle thingy. That's how it's going down. Get used to it.)

"Chill???? Calm down??? Naraku just kidnapped Shawn! I don't give a rip where he's going! What if he does something really bad to her?" bellowed Inuyasha.

"Like what? Kill her?" said Miroku, "If he wanted to do that he would have done it a long time ago."

"Miroku's right Inuyasha," said Shippou, "We'll find him and beat him like we always do. We just gotta keep going."

Kilala purred in agreement.

"Feh. Fine, but let's get some speed. We don't have forever," said Inuyasha.

'That sounds more like him,' thought Kagome, 'He's usually the calm, cool, collected one in the time of crisis. I'm usually the one freaking out.'

Kagome hopped on Inuyasha's back while Sango, Miroku, and Shippou piled on top of Kilala.

'Naraku, you better watch out, because this time, when I find you, you're dead!' thought Inuyasha and with that he sped through the trees of the forest.

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It was dark. All around there was only darkness. Shawn sat up and looked around. Had she been sleeping? Where was Naraku? Had he locked her away some where? What was going on? She stood up. Her hair fell neatly upon her shoulders, 'Great I lost my hair tie again,' she thought.

Suddenly she heard footsteps. Shawn turned towards where she thought the noise was coming from.

'Don't panic. Don't panic. It always turns out bad when you panic. You need to breath,' thought Shawn as she tried to breath calmly and evenly. She could see a figure, a silhouette standing before her. Shawn squinted her eyes to try and make out its face, but she could not see.

Then, the figure lashed out and struck her face! She cried out in pain and touched her cheek where the figure's hand had made contact. The figure chuckled softly. The voice sounded familiar.

When Shawn looked up again the figure was gone. She turned around and there it was again! Again it struck her, but this time on her other cheek. She cursed. The figure disappeared.

"All right, who ever you are come out where I can see you!" Shawn called into the darkness. She sounded braver than she really felt.

A light went on and there stood the figure. It walked closer and the light stayed upon it. Finally it was close enough for Shawn to see.

"Inuyasha??" she gasped.

Inuyasha only smiled in response. Then he raised his hand and sliced down as if trying to cut Shawn to ribbons. She threw her arm over her head with a cry and she felt Inuyasha's claws bite into her skin! Shawn looked up and Inuyasha back fisted her in the jaw. She fell her knees and her hair washed over and hid her face. It covered up the single tear that was slowly falling down her cheek.

Shawn looked up, "Inuyasha, why are you doing this?" There was a look in his eyes that was strange, insane. It wasn't him doing this. Something was controlling him. That had to be it!

He her kicked in the ribs and knocked the wind out of her.

Gasping, she watched as Inuyasha raised his hand to make a final swing.

"Inuyasha NO!" Shawn cried she threw her hand up again in a pitiful attempt to block his swing. Inuyasha stopped with a look of surprise on his face. Blue light emitted from Shawn's hand blasting Inuyasha twenty feet back.

Shawn stood in awe of what she had just done. Her mouth was open and for a few seconds she stopped breathing. She slowly lowered her hand and stared at it. Then she looked up at the unmoving body twenty feet away.

"Oh my God."

Shawn stood and ran to where Inuyasha lay. She bent over him. His eyes were closed and she could not she his breathing. Tears spilled down her cheeks.

"Inuyasha? Wake up," she said softly gently shaking his shoulder. He did not stir, "WAKE UP!" she screamed at him shaking him violently. Shawn fell on top of his body and buried her face in his shirt, weeping. Her sobs eventually turned into wails of agony, "What have I done?" she sobbed.

Shawn looked up and before her eyes Inuyasha's body slowly turned into dust until that's all he was.

"No," she said, and then she threw her head back and cried out, "NOOOOO!"

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"NOOOO!" cried Shawn and she flew up into a sitting position. She was drenched in sweat and was breathing hard. She looked around, 'Where is Inuyasha?'

"It was a dream," a voice said from behind Shawn.

"Naraku," she said and she turned around.

Naraku chuckled, "Who else?"

Shawn stood and noticed that there were long chains around her wrists. She was in a cell of some sort. Naraku was on the other side of wooden bars.

Shawn growled, in a human sort of way, "You. You did this to me! You made me have that dream!"

"I may have given you the dream, but you have the power. You're the one that killed him."

Shawn lunged at the bars, but the chains held her back about a foot. She cried out in anger. Naraku laughed, "That's why I've been coming after you," he stepped as close as possible to the bars, "You have the power inside of you. I intend to harness Harashi's spirit inside of you and you will kill Inuyasha. And Kagome. And Sango. And all of your friends."

Shawn lunged again and strained against her chains. She barely came short of Naraku's face by a few inches. She spat at him, "Coward," she taunted, "You're afraid to kill him yourself. And you're afraid of me. Not only did you lock me up but you chained me as well."

"I am no coward. You posses great power. You could kill me if you wanted to. I risk my life just standing before you, chains or no chains," said Naraku, "But since you don't know quite how to use that power, I am not in danger at the moment.

"Believe me, if I could control these powers you would have been dead a while ago," threatened Shawn.

Naraku smiled, "You'll forgive me for leaving, but I need to do a few things before I bring forth Harashi's spirit," and with that he turned and walked away.

Author's note: A cliffhanger. I seem to be leaving a lot of those lately. Oh well. Sorry that chapter was short, but I don't know if anyone's even reading this, because I have no reviews. If you want to see more, REVIEW!