(Naraku's castle)

Hikari groaned as she sat up.Her vision was blurry.She looked around.Hikari could not make out where she was.'Argh! where am I?' She shook her head to clear up.

"So you're awake," a female voice said. Startled, Hikari turned her neck so fast she cricked it.

A strange woman stood alone in the corner of the room Hikari was in. She wore a kimono. Her hair was tied up and she had pointed ears with dangling earrings. She had black hair and red eyes. There was an unnerving aura around her.

"Who are you?!" Hikari demanded. She tried to stand up but fell to the ground again clumsily. She then realized that both her hands and feet were tied up. "Ragh!" Hikari glared at the woman. "Untie me or pay the consequences!" She shouted.

The woman gave a hollow laugh. "Do you not know who I am?! I am Kagura, the Wind Witch. It is you who will pay the consequences for your cheekiness!" She replied smugly.

Hikari continued glaring at the 'wind witch' "Fine!" Hikari growled. She tried to transform. Nothing happened. "What did you do, you witch?!" she hissed.

"While you are under Naraku's care, you cannot and will not transform without permission, and besides, tonight is the no moon night," she said smoothly, as if it mattered nothing to her.

"Kagura," a hollow voice floated from the doorway. Both Kagura and Hikari glanced in that direction. "Master Naraku wants you to bring Hikari to him." A girl said. The girl was completely white. She wore white attire. Her hair was white. The flowers in her hair were white. The only thing that weren't white were her eyes. They were black. In her hands she held a mirror.

Hikari looked into the mirror. She froze. She felt a force trying to get out of her.

Kagura seeing this sneered. She pulled out a fan and waved it lightly. Blades of wind whooshed toward Hikari's transfixed form. The blades grazed her skin and her eyes tore away from the mirror.

Hikari glared at Kagura.

"Next time don't look into her mirror if you don't wish to be a souless being," Kagura said simply. She nodded and pulled a white feather out of her hair. It transformed into a giant feather. Hikari felt an invisible force drag her onto the feather. Kagura tilted her head toward the door. The feather obeyed her commands. Silently Hikari, Kagura, and the strange white girl headed to Naraku.

(Back to Inu Yasha)

Hakisuma paced on the ground where the group took camp. It had been dawn when they fought the demon. Now it was in the early afternoon. Hakisuma frowned as she thought about Shippo.

(Flashback):: Inu Yasha picked up the golem that had fallen out of the fox demon.

"Demon puppetry," Miroku declared quietly.

Shippo came tearing out of the bushes with Kagome behind him.

"What, " Shippo said as he looked at the golem, "is that?!" Shippo spat unbelievingly.

"It's a golem, a form of dark demon puppetry." Miroku explained.

Tears filled Shippo's eyes. "How did he think he could use my dad's form in this...this...way?!" Shippo demanded. His voice shook as te spoke. "I hate...I despise him!" With that, he bounded into the forest.

"Shippo!!!" Kagome yelled. She ran off into the forest to console the kitsune.

Inu Yasha stared at the golem with disgust. "What a baka," he muttered. He made that fox demon break my Tetsisauga! Damn him!"

"The question is, why did he think we would fall for that again? It's not the first time he used a golem against us. What is he up to?" Miroku pondered.

"Well, whatever it is, we have to stop him. Now. We can't let him get too far away! And he's got that Hikari. That wench got herself captured. Captured! By NARAKU!" Inu yasha spat.

"Inu Yasha, calm down. We have to think things through."

(End Flashback)

Hakisuma sighed. She had been sitting by herself for a while now, guarding everyone's possesions. Sango had gone off to take a bath in a hot spring they'd found nearby, and Miroku had muttered something about having to check on Sango four minutes after she had left. Kagome was talking to Shippo in the forest. Inu Yasha had gone to get a start and had promised grudgingly to come back and not go off by himself to fight Naraku after Miroku had reminded him about the hole in his hand.

Hakisuma glared at the ground. She, like Inu Yasha and Shippo were orphans. Inu Yasha and Shippo's parents were dead. Hers were killed by the demons set loose in her village. The realization had just then hit her that she was an orphan. She had hoped earlier that it was just a nightmare, that she would wake up and see her parents smiling down at her. But it wasn't. It was all Naraku's fault. All his fault. 'Someday,'Hakisuma thought, 'someday she was going to find Naraku and kill him along with Inu Yasha and Miroku and Sango.' She glared at the ground until her eyes were stinging. Hakisuma sighed. She got up and headed over to Kagome's backpack. 'Might as well eat...' Hakisuma thought bitterly.

She took out a package of instant ramen. There was a picture of a cow on it. 'What strange things she has brought.' She thought to herself. 'How do I cook it?' As if answering her question, Sango, freshly dressed in her green, white, and red kimono, came into the clearing pulling Miroku by the ears. Her face was dark with anger. Seeing Hakisuma holding the ramen, she chuckled and let Miroku drop to the ground unmercifuly. She headed over to Hakisuma and the strange packet of ramen.

"Here," she said. Hakisuam handed over the ramen to Sanog's outstretched hand. "Can you get that silver pot in Kagome's pack please?" Sango asked pleasantly. Hakisuma reached in and rummaged around.

"You mean this?" Hakisuma handed the pot over.

"Yes, and could you also get a bottle of water?" Sango requested.

Hakisuma handed that over also. She watched Sango carefully as Sango emptied the water into the pot and set it on the fire. After the water was boiling, she opened the packet of ramen and dumped the dried noodles inside. Sango caught a silver packet before it fell into the boiling water. She opened that too and sprinkled the powder onto the water's surface. Then, Sango turned around and took a long spoon out of Kagome's pack. Then, Sango banged on the pot loudly. Hakisuma watched all of it in interest.

"What's the banging for?" Hakisuma questioned.

"You'll see." Sango replied with a smile on her face while stirring the ramen.

Eight miles away, Inu Yasha's ears twitched. He sniffed the air and grinned. "Ramen's ready."