Disclaimer: I didn't own Inuyasha yesterday, I don't own him today, and I probably won't own him tomorrow either.

Notes to my reviewers:

Kitty: I'm sorry that I took up an entire day. You could've used that time to kill mosquitoes (or something else to help humanity).

Inufreak831: I'm sorry about your brother and I'm really sorry about my cliffhanger. I don't mean to leave cliffhangers, it just kinnda happens.

Viet grl: You're welcome.

CrazyOtaku: I did go on my trip and it was fun, thanks for asking. I got the demon cow idea from my little brother. While I was writing chapter 19 he was running around the computer room pretending to be a dog, then he mooed. I thought it was so funny that he mooed, so I had to put a cow in my story.

Chapter Twenty: Back in Kikyou's Castle

Kagome was vaguely aware of what was going on, but she didn't have much control over her body. It felt almost like she was watching a 3-D movie or something. The sun was just starting to rise. I wonder if Inuyasha has noticed that I'm gone yet she wondered.

She moved her eyes over the landscape now that there was light (her eyes seemed to be the only part of her body that she had control over). She squinted a little bit when she saw a spot a few feet away that seemed really familiar.

Think she told herself That was the spot where sometimes when she wanted to remember something, she would just start a sentence like that was the day that' or that was the person who' Most of the time that trick would work, but this time it took a little longer.

Kagome closed her eyes and tried to think harder, That was the spot where where then it hit her That was the spot where Inuyasha told me, he wasn't in love with Kikyou! She couldn't believe she had forgotten that day. When he told her that it made her feel, hopeful in one way and relived in another.

I must be somewhere near Kikyou's castle she realized and wondered how she was possibly going to get out of her current situation.

Suddenly, something caught her eye. She could see someone near a tree. Who is that? she asked herself as her eyes strained to make out who it was. When a cloud in the sky moved and let more light down she was able to see Kouga attempting to stay out of site.

Kouga, could you help me? She tried to yell out to him, but her mouth didn't seem to work. Of course she mentally slapped her forehead I don't have control of my mouth either.

She looked at Kouga hoping he would help her out. She noticed that his eyes were following her. He knows I'm in trouble she thought but he won't help! If she could have ran over and punched him, she would have.

Kagome's eyes left Kouga; it made her sick to her stomach, knowing he was right there and not helping her. She looked above the tree line, towards the sky. Red? She didn't know if it was just her imagination, but she thought she saw a glimpse of something red.

She waited till it reappeared, then she saw him. Inuyasha he was jumping over the trees looking for her.

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Inuyasha didn't slow down for Sango, Miroku, or Shippo as he jumped over the trees. He hardly even noticed that they were following him. His mind was only on finding Kagome, nothing else. He was so consumed in his search, that he didn't even notice Kouga hiding by one of the trees.

It only took him a few minutes longer to find her. He could see her walking. Where is she going? he asked himself. She seemed really determined to walk towards something. Once he knew where she was, he thought it would be a good idea to find out where she was going, so he jumped as high as he could to get a good look at whatever was ahead.

"Kikyou's castle!" he said out loud, "Why the hell is she going there?" He landed on the ground and (finally) paused to let the others catch up.

"InuDid you find her?" Sango was gasping to catch her breath when she finally caught him.

Inuyasha waited for Miroku and Shippo to join the two them before he said anything to her. "Yeah, she's going to Kikyou's castle, do any of you know why?"

They all shook their heads. "Why don't we just ask her." Shippo said then ran off to catch Kagome. The other followed.

When Shippo reached Kagome he was a little surprised that she didn't even notice that he was walking beside her. "Kagome?" he tried to grab her attention.

She didn't turn her head. "Kagome, why are you ignoring me?" he almost sounded hurt. Kagome had never done that before.

Inuyasha was the second one to get to Kagome. He looked down at Shippo then back at Kagome. He was a little surprised to see that she was still walking. "Kagome, why are you going to Kikyou's castle?" he asked.

She didn't answer him. "Kagome?" he grabbed her arm and tried to get her to stop walking. But Kagome (without turning her head) reached up, grabbed his hand, and twisted it.

Inuyasha let out a cry when his hand was twisted to the point of breaking. "Kagome!" he yelled, but she just ignored him. Kagome let go of his hand just it time to keep it from breaking, then she started running.

"What the hell just happened?" Inuyasha asked Shippo.

"D-Do you think she doesn't like us anymore?" Shippo asked.

"No." Inuyasha said, "Something is wrong. I just don't know what."

Kagome didn't know what to say. She had tried desperately to talk to Shippo and Inuyasha, but she couldn't move her mouth. It shocked her when her own hand reached up to hurt Inuyasha. She tried to stop under her own power, but it didn't work. And now she was running. Why am I running?

Sango and Miroku reached the spot where Inuyasha and Shippo were standing just in time to see Kagome disappear in the distance. "Aren't we going after her?" Miroku asked.

Inuyasha sat down in his dog position and tried to think. He was a little afraid of going to Kikyou's castle. He knew that if he went in to help Kagome he might meet up with Kikyou.

"Inuyasha?"

He stood up and started following Kagome, but this time he walked instead of ran. He looked down at his wrist. It was a little red, but the pain was quickly going away. It surprised him that Kagome was able to use so much strength, especially against him.

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Kikyou stood next to one of the windows and watched Kagome run closer and closer to her castle. She smiled and felt relived, knowing that her plan was going to work.

She was concentrating rather hard to control Kagome's body. Kikyou could control anyone with a weaker spirit body and mind, but Kagome was different. Kagome was strong enough to resist. It took a lot of effort for Kikyou to control her body (she didn't even want to attempt controlling her mind).

She turned away from the window and looked down at her pot of bubbling liquid. She scooped a little bit of it out with a glass she saved for special occasions. "Poor little Kagome." Kikyou mumbled with a hint of sarcasm.

She moved back to the window. Kagome was only a few feet away from the front door to the castle. I wonder Kikyou amused her self. She waited till Kagome had her hand on the front door the stopped controlling her.

Kagome stood there for a few minutes and looked around. She probably thinks I'm still controlling her Kikyou thought. She was really curious about whether or not Kagome would enter the castle or turn and run once she found out she regained control.

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Kagome stood there for a few minutes wondering what was going on. After traveling all night and all morning, she had stopped. Her hand was on the door. She blinked a couple of times and waited for her legs to start moving again.

Maybe a small spark of hope came alive in Kagome. Maybe I have control again she thought. She decided to find out by something small, she wiggled her finger. "I can move." She said out loud.

He pulled her hand back from the door and felt a wave of relief, she didn't like not having control over her own body. She took a few steps back and looked up. She have every intention of going and finding Inuyasha, until she saw Kikyou in one of the windows.

She held Kikyou's eye contact for a few moments then moved back to the door. Curiosity had gotten the better of her. She knew that she should have waited for the others to back her up, but she really wanted to know why Kikyou had brought her back here.

Ignoring the intuition she had that was telling her to stop and turn back, she opened the door and stepped in. The castle was filled with a cold and damp air that made it a little hard for Kagome to take proper breaths.

Last time she was at Kikyou's castle, Inuyasha had made her wait outside, so she had no idea where to find Kikyou. A slight breeze blew the door shut and Kagome knew there was no turning back. "Which way do I go?" she asked herself in a small whisper. She turned her head from side to side debating between the two hallways that were on either end of the room.

A chill went down her spine when she stared down the hallway to her left, so she decided to follow that one. It wasn't lit very well. There were a few candles near the walls, but they only provided enough light to allow her to see where she was going.

The hallway ended near some stairs made out of come kind of white stone. There were no other options other then going back, so she slowly made her way up to the second floor. The staircase twisted around itself a couple times, revealing more steps then Kagome thought there where. She was almost out of breath by the time she got all the way up.

When she had finished off the stairs she found herself in a small room. At one end was a table with dinner set out for two people. The rest of the room was filled with all kinds of different candles. Mainly black and red ones, but only a few were lit. The place reminded Kagome of Lady Lei's house.

"Hello Kagome."

Kagome hadn't noticed that Kikyou was standing next to the window. It must have been the same one that she saw Kikyou standing in from outside. She was still looking out the window, she didn't even turn around to talk to Kagome.

"Would you care to look out the window?" she asked.

Kagome simply nodded and moved next to Kikyou. When she looked out she saw that Inuyasha was walking in front of Sango and Miroku with Shippo sitting on his shoulder. She smiled, knowing that Inuyasha was coming for her made her feel all the more safer.

"He's looking for me." Kagome said.

Kikyou took a few steps back. " You and I need to talk. Alone." She waved her arms a little bit and a blue light surrounded the castle. Kagome watched from the window as the others wondered what it was.

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Inuyasha walked closer and closer to the castle. He was deep in his thoughts, wondering why Kagome acted the way she did. "She didn't seem like herself." He mumbled.

"That's for sure. What did you do to make her mad?" Shippo said.

Inuyasha wasn't aware that he had said that out loud, "I didn't do anything wrong." He said.

"Then why did she hurt your wrist like that?" Sango asked.

Inuyasha looked down at his hand. "I don't know." He decided to ignore his hand and looked towards the castle. He was getting more and more nervous as the neared the castle.

It wasn't till they closer to the door when he noticed something in the window. It was Kikyou. "Kikyou." He whispered to himself. He kept watching the window till he saw Kagome appear in it. "What the hell!" he practically yelled.

Miroku and Sango wondered why he yelled out like that. They looked at the spot where he was staring and saw Kagome in the window. "I wonder what's going on in there." Miroku said out loud.

"I'm going in." Inuyasha said. He took a few more steps forward, but stopped when a blue light blocked his path. It surrounded the castle. "What now!" he yelled.

Shippo jumped off his shoulder and ran to the edge of the light. He stuck out his hand to see if he could, somehow, go threw the light unharmed. Much to his disappointment he received a shock when he tried to touch it.

"Maybe it keeps demons out." Sango said. She closed her eyes and tried to walk across the shield Kikyou made. Like Shippo, she got a shock to. It didn't hurt much, but she couldn't pass the light. It was a stronger shield then any of them thought. "Demon and humans can't pass."

Inuyasha let out a frustrated yell and slammed the blue wall' with his fist as hard as he could, but it didn't do any good. "Damn it!" he yelled out. He wanted to go in and help Kagome, but he couldn't.

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Kagome turned away from the window and looked at Kagome who was now standing next to the table. She knew that if Inuyasha wouldn't be able to run in and help her she should stay on her toes.

"You look hungry." Kikyou said, "Why don't you sit down."

Kagome's stomach rumbled a little bit, but she shook her head. She didn't want to sit down and eat the food that Kikyou offered her, for all she knew it could be poisoned.

"There is nothing wrong with the food I'm offering you." Kikyou said, making Kagome wonder if she could read her mind or not. After Kagome hesitated a second time Kikyou placed her hands on her hips and gave her a cold look. "Don't make me control your body again."

Kagome didn't want Kikyou controlling her body again, so she slipped into the chair that faced Kikyou. She didn't take her eyes off of the tall dark haired woman as she sat down in the other chair. Kikyou ignored Kagome's eyes and started to eat her food as if Kagome wasn't even there.

"What did you want to talk about?" Kagome asked after a little while.

"My cook went to a great length to create a meal just for you Kagome, it would hurt his feelings if you didn't eat it."

Kagome frowned. "What did you want to talk about?" She hoped that Kikyou couldn't tell how scared she was.

"Kagome, my food isn't poisoned, if I wanted to kill you I would have done it already. I won't tell you why you're here until you finish your food."

The way Kikyou talked to her made Kagome feel like a little kid. She knew there was no way around it so she ate a little bit of the food. It wasn't as bad as she thought it would be and she soon found herself eating more and more until her plate was empty.

"You really were hungry weren't you." Kikyou gave a small smile.

"More then I thought." Kagome muttered.

"You must be thirsty." Kikyou said. She stood up and grabbed a cup that was already filled with some kind of liquid. Kagome grew suspicious, so she didn't take the cup when it was offered.

Kikyou decided to set it on the table, it might be harder then she thought to convince her to drink it. "You seem different from last time I saw you." She said. She set the cup down on the table and tried to act like she wasn't planning anything.

"I'm not." Kagome responded.

Kikyou squinted her eyes a little bit, "Stand up." She commanded, when she did Kikyou took a long hard look. "No. No. There is definitely something different."

She tilted her head back a little bit. Kagome didn't like the whole situation. She felt like Kikyou was trying to stare into her soul. "W-What did you want to talk about?" she asked. Her voice quivered a little bit causing Kikyou to smile.

"You and Inuyasha had sex, didn't you."

Kagome's mouth dropped open, How could she possible know that she thought. She nodded dumbly. "How do you know? D-Do you smell him on me, or something?"

Kikyou shook her head, "I can see it in your eyes. Which brings me to what I wanted to you about."

"What?" Kagome swallowed.

"I have a question for you. Has Inuyasha told you that he loves you?"

Kagome looked down at the floor. "Yes he did." Her eyes shot back up to Kikyou, "And I love him too." She said the last part in a stern voice so that Kikyou wouldn't think it was possible to break them up.

"Well." Kikyou grabbed another glass, filled with water, and handed Kagome the one that was sitting on the table. "Here's to your relationship with him, I hope it turns out better then outs did." Kikyou drank from her cup.

Kagome looked down into her glass; the stuff that Kikyou gave her looked like a type of wine her mother gave her once, so she brought the glass to her lips.

Kikyou watched with much anticipation as the liquid went past Kagome's lips.

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You guys must have really liked chapter 19. The first day I got 14 reviews, the second day I got 6, the third day I got 9, and the fourth day I got 12. Wow.

I would have had this chapter up sooner, but the Internet on the computer I am using wasn't working.

Seine I got so many reviews for chapter 19, I am only going to ask for one. Just one review.

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