Sango and Miroku: FINALLY! The chapter we've been waiting for!

Sango: I think my arms are dead...

Miroku:...(straining to control himself)

Inu Yasha: Feh, Miroku finally can hold it...

Kagome: (rolls eyes)

Shippo: What's gonna happen now?

A.B.C.:.Otaku: Errmmm...I dunno. Just read. Here it is:

Five men rode up on their horses. They stopped and their horses neighed. They pawed the ground nervously.

The man riding in the front spoke up. "Does Hakisuma-san live in this village" He asked roughly. Inu Yasha didn't like the looks of these men. They had a disturbing aura around them.

"Why?" Inu Yasha returned.

"It is Lord Makoto's wishes to see her..." The man said impatiently.

"Makoto? That freakish bastard? Sorry pal, but you're outta luck. There's no way we're letting Hakisuma go to that creep." Inu Yasha growled.

"You shall not dirty his name!" the man spat. Man, he had a short fuse.

Inu Yasha's hand went to the handle of the Tetsusaiga. Something caught his eye and his hand stopped mid-way. Hakisuma was peeking out of the hut. Inu Yasha looked at her from the corner of his eyes and shook his head slightly. The mat door shifted and the hut was still.

Hikari yawned from her tree. "Why don't you bastards just go away and waste your time elsewhere" she suggested nastily.

The leader growled. "Shut the hell up, wench"

"Ooooh, ya wanna start something" Hikari jumped from the tree and landed in front of the man, disturbing his horse. It neighed and its eyes grew wide. Hikari smirked. "You better shut up if you don't want to walk back to Lord Makoto's grand castle." she scraped a long fingernail across the horse's chest, keeping her gold-rimmed purple eyes on the man. The horse squealed and reared back.

The man was infuriated. "Wench!" he unsheathed his wakizashi and slashed at Hikari.

Hikari jumped away and sneered.

"You see, you've caught us at a bad time..." Inu Yasha called from the tree. He stood up and jumped down. "You'd do good for yourselves if you just left...right about now..." Inu Yasha advanced towards the men, cracking his knuckles.

Hakisuma watched from inside the hut from a crack near the floor. 'They are handling it pretty well...' she mused.

Inu Yasha held the Tetsusaiga at the ready. He sensed the men were looking for serious trouble.

"My lord wants Lady Hakisuma, and if you don't give her to us, he's not going to be happy" the man growled.

"Feh...Like I give a damn. You don't expect me to just hand her over, do you?" Inu Yasha snarled.

The man smirked. "Well the... he flipped his fore and middle fingers towards Kaede's hut. "Search there first," he commanded.

Two men behind nodded and dismounted their steeds. They entered Kaede's hut noisily.

'Come on, Hakisuma. You can beat those two snot-noses up in no time...'

Inu Yasha brandished his giant sword. He copied the man's smirk and jumped foreward.

"Hold it!" the man barked. He snapped his fingers and a man brought forth a heavily cloaked woman. "You move one more inch and she will be killed."

"And why should I-" Inu Yasha started.

The man ripped off the woman's shawl and snorted. Kikyo stood still, her eyes downcast and her hands chained together.

Inu Yasha froze.

"Kikyo!" Kagome exclaimed.

Miroku and Sango reached slowly for their weapons. Hikari watched with a lame expression on her face.

Inu Yasha growled. Banging was heard in the huts and Hakisuma wa dragged out. She was unconcious.

'What! She couldn't even take care of two measly men!' Hikari thought in disbelief.

The leader smiled and the two men dragged Hakisuma over to him.

The man tilted Hakisuma's chin up and smiled in satisfaction. Suddenly he let go and spun his horse around.

"Come," he beckoned the men onto the horses. The horses rolled their eyes and pawed the ground as the men climbed on.

"Thank you for the girl..." the leader smirked.

Inu Yasha took a step foreward but stopped suddenly, as if he just thought of something. Hikari's eyes sparked. They both remained silent.

The men dug their heels into their horses' sides and the galloped away.

Inu Yasha sheathed Tetsusaiga.

"You let them escape! You let them take Hakisuma-chan away!" Shippo cried angrily as soon as they were out of earshot.

"Ah, shut up, they're not going to get very far" Inu Yasha said, flicking his hair behind him.

"Nani? How? Why" Shippo asked.

"Hakisuma wasn't knocked out. She probably pretended to be weak and everything so they would be surprised when she showed her true strength. She's wide awake, waiting for the opportune moment," Hikari grinned. "Oh man, they're gonna get it!"

"But do you think that Lady Hakisuma can take on five men at once?" Miroku asked uncertainly.

"She's smart," Kagome assured.

"Yeah, I'm pretty sure that she can take care of herself," Sango said. She looked at Kii. "What do you think?"

Kii mewed and shook her head. This situation was rubbing her fur the wrong way. She sensed something was wrong.

"Errrrrr..." the group murmured in unison. Doubts were surfacing...

"Ummm...let's follow her, just in case..." Shippo said. He looked around. "Yeah..."

((-))

Clop, clop clop clop, clop clop, clop...

Hakisuma slitted her eyes open. She was carried onto one of the horses, and sat in front of a man. He smelt of dirt, sake, and sweat. Not a pleasing scent. Even when you're in your human form.

'How am I supposed to get out of this one?' Hakisuma eyed the sack bouncing to the rhythem of the horse's trot while she was contemplating her plan. Ugh...I guess only this will do...

Hakisuma stirred. She forged an awakening, putting on a show of blinking. The man behind her poked her and grunted.

"Stop it, missy" he mumbled.

Hakisuma pouted. "Missy? Humph! It's Hakisuma-dono to you!" she huffed.

"I'm waring you..." the man grunted. The leader stopped in the front. The others followed his lead.

"What now, Takimachi?" he called.

Takimachi gunted. "Nothing much, sir. Its just that your royal highness Hakisuma-dono awoke..."

Takimachi's horse caught up the the leader.

"She's up, eh?" the leader watched Hakisuma with a glint in his eye.

'This girl, Hakisuma, is a fine lady.' he thought. 'Hmmm...I'd say she's around fifteen...' he looked her up and down slowly. He noticed that Hakisuma had silky-looking raven hair that gleamed in the patches of sunlight that drifted down from above, casting a goldish ring on her hair. She had fine pale skin decorated with thin, faint white scars.

No wonder here why Makoto-dono wanted her.

Hakisuma tilted her chin up and crept her hand over to the hidden dagger strapped to her lower leg. She put on a superior air.

"You have some nerve, capturing me like that." she said with a cold voice. The men snickered and Hakisuma's heart started to pound relentlessly in her head.

Hakisuma glanced around warily, flitting her silver eyes side to side. She swallowed.

She could barely heard anything that happened. She was scared...if anything went wrong, there was no telling of what the men would do to her.

Hakisuma slid off the man's horse gracefully and landed.

The men, startled, moved their horses foreward. The man flung his arm out.

"Stop" he commanded. The men exchanged glances.

The horses and their riders formed a circle around Hakisuma subconciously.

"Hmmm, I want to show you something before we arrive at Lord Makoto's castle, but it will be our little secret, okay?" Hakisuma said in a low voice. 'I can't believe I have to resort to this...' Hakisuma moaned inside her mind. 'It's just...wrong in so many ways...' She was going to use her katana that she hid inside her kimono. She was going to use a seductive tactic.

The leader watched Hakisuma's facial expressions. She looked a bit nervous...he was suspicious.

The other men watched hungrily as Hakisuma slowly loosened the collar of her kimono. Hakisuma kept her bangs covering her eyes as she did so. She closed her eyes and breathed in slowly and silently. 'Concentrate...'

The loosened collar of her kimono already revealed her shoulders. Luckily she she had gotten gashed by Inu Yasha's attack on Sumi-kari and had to bandage her chest. 'I have to remember to thank Inu Yasha for that...'

The men's eyes followed Hakisuma's hand to the middle of her chest. She had something there...it was dark...Hakisuma paused and smiled. 'What is that thing?' several men squinted. Others overlooked the object.

The leader watched on. He averted his eyes back to Hakisuma's face just as she looked up. Their eyes met. The leader's eyes widened. He was staring at Hakisuma's red eyes. She was in her demon form.

As for her chest trick...Hakisuma pulled out her katana. She unsheathed it and held both the sheath and the blade in the stance Kiraichima taught her and Hikari. She was going to use them both as weapons.

Hakisuma's knuckes cracked as she tightened her grip on her weapons. "Who's first?" she smirked.

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