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Current Time and Date: December 27 2004 7:52 PM Central Time

To My Reviewers: Gaaah! ::bangs head on desk:: I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I made a BIG mistake… about the whole Sango and Miroku proposes thing…I'm sorry….

I just completely forgot.

You guys should know by now I'm not the brightest bulb when it comes to remembering things…but I AM SOOOOO SORRY!!!

Please understand or at least try and don't think I'm a bad writer…since I feel like such a big fat loser of a writer who can't even remember how the hell her stories go…::sobs::

And the chapters got rearranged once more!

Chapter 23: Naraku Returns

Chapter 24: Hunt Never Ends

Chapter 25: Little Black Box

Chapter 26: White Day

Please forgive any misspellings or grammatical errors

Oh and the answer quiz thing at the bottom of the last chapter is: Kirara!

Other people put in some good characters too like Myouga and Jaken.

But it's Kirara. So if you guessed Kirara please include your email in your review. But the address in front of the user name for your email. Example: Hotmail: Crisa Rei

So if yours is something like: Snowbunny at put: Yahoo: Snowbunny

Oh and Kirara is going to appear in this chapter. So is Myouga

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Chapter 23: Naraku Returns

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InuYasha didn't know where the hell he was going. Where would Naraku stay anyhow? He had narrowed Naraku's hiding places down to a few. Kikyou's house, which was just across the street, was one of them.

InuYasha opened the door and looked around. He shut the door behind him. "Naraku?" he called out angrily. The house was cold and vacant. No one was in the house.

InuYasha caught Kikyou's scent, followed by the very faint evil smell of Naraku. He had been here.

InuYasha searched the entire house, going through every room, under every bed, but to no avail. No clue had been left behind.

InuYasha got back into his car and called Miroku's cell.

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Miroku's phone started to vibrate as Sango, Miroku, Souta and Kohaku were on their way to the house. "Hello? InuYasha? What? Slow down. What do you mean Kagome's in a coma?" There was a long pause as Sango kept throwing questioning glances at Miroku. "So we're back in business? All right. I'll meet you there." He hung up and slipped the phone back into his pocket.

"Kagome's in a coma. Kaede is taking care of her as well as Chiisuchina," Miroku began to explain. "Naraku's back."

"What?" Sango interrupted. "He's back? But we killed him!"

"Calm down and listen to me, Sango," Miroku said. "He came back. He has Kikyou's soul. He tried taking Kagome's but she put up a big fight. The jewel is now blackened and if Kagome stays in a coma she could turn evil. We need to hunt Naraku down."

"All right," Sango nodded.

"What's wrong with my sister?" Souta asked.

"She'll be fine, Souta," Miroku said. "Your sister can pull through anything."

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"InuYasha," Kaede's voice came through the receiver. "Kagome is waking up every few hours. It's a good sign. If she continues to wake up on a regular schedule the evilness will have a harder time to take effect. If she begins to slip up in her schedule the evil could take over her body soon."

"So if she doesn't wake up regularly she'll turn evil?"

"Yes."

"Damn it!" InuYasha hung up as he drove.

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Naraku sat on the couch and stared at the ruby bottle on the table. The contents inside were swirling madly around. "Calm down, love," Naraku soothed. "I promise it will be over soon."

Naraku laughed and looked at the frozen body of Kikyou on his table. "All I need to do is figure out how to get the rest of your soul from Kagome."

He stood up and looked into the fire. "She's in a coma right now. Her soul could be in either a state of vulnerability or self-preservation, but now that Lady Kaede is with her I don't know how I'll ever be able to get it." He smirked. "And of course now InuYasha is on it as well."

"He's hunting me down right now, though he'll never find me. I don't exist on Earth anymore," Naraku cackled. "I shall conceal myself in a human form. A business man. A rich man. A powerful man! I will take the place of Sesshoumaru."

To become Sesshoumaru Naraku would need lots and lots of power. How would he be able to obtain such power? That was easy for someone as evilly consumed as Naraku.

The answer was simple as daylight. Steal human souls and devour them.

Naraku descended upon earth as a simple spider, ready to bite humans and lighten them of the heavy burden of their souls.

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'Earlier this evening several people were taken to hospitals all around North America due to spider bites. The bites look similar, and scientists say that it came from a rare species that has been laying dormant until now. They feed upon humans like leeches. Everyone is warned all around the world to be cautious of going outside. If you receive any signs of a spider bite please go to the nearest hospital to obtain medical treatment.' The news reporter announced.

Miroku narrowed his eyes. "Spiders?"

"Why would they want to come out now?" Sango asked, handing him his staff as she tied up her hair.

"Something evil is raining upon Earth," Miroku thought out loud. "I can sense it. This evil has my body going insane with tingles."

"Same here," Sango replied, packing her poison powders. "Are we ready to leave?"

"Take these, Lady Sango," Kaede handed her several medicinal bags. "These shall ward off any of those spider demons. Just soak these bags in the bathwater and wash your body with the water."

"Demons?!" Sango looked at the television. "So they're real demons?"

"Dormant Demon Spiders," Kaede nodded, "which sleep until someone very powerful can feed them. They can drink humans dry of blood and also steal souls for power, though the spiders don't steal souls unless their master requests them to."

"Could Naraku be the one behind it?" Sango asked.

"I'm sure of it," Miroku stood up.

"I'll get the baths ready," Sango said and went upstairs.

"The spiders will reproduce. They lay their eggs in their human hosts like parasites. The baby spiders then eat the very flesh of the human for food and strength. The spiders, assured of the survival of their kind, then go off and steal the blood and souls."

"And how long does it take for the babies to hatch?" Miroku asked.

"A year," Kaede said. "But if the spiders kill plenty of humans in a year the world will be covered with them. Children wouldn't be able to go outside without seeing one or getting bitten by one. It will be so bad that one human will have ten spiders sucking them dry. Ten spiders per human on this earth."

"How big are these spiders?" Miroku inquired as he looked out the window for InuYasha.

"Like a black widow," she replied. "Dormant Demon Spiders take on the size of the black widow, but the color of Daddy Long legs and the markings of a zebra spider."

"How come the news doesn't tell them this?"

"They cannot capture one," Kaede answered. "The spiders are fast and can cause illusions for the humans if need be."

Sango came down. "The baths are ready. We should get Chiisuchina and Kagome in first."

"I have already bathed them and myself," Kaede said. "You two should go now."

"All right, I'll take Kagome's bath, you take InuYasha's."

Miroku nodded, not saying anything perverted as they both went to take a bath.

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InuYasha grabbed Buyo and shoved him in the bath water. The cat clawed InuYasha's forearms as InuYasha dunked the struggling animal underwater. "Come on stupid cat! Don't you want to survive those stupid spiders?!"

"I don't see why you're bathing the cat, InuYasha," Miroku said.

"Shut up! This cat means more the Kagome than money!" InuYasha threw the cat onto the bed after he finished.

"Then why are you abusing it?" Miroku asked.

"The cat'll thank me later," InuYasha stuck the cat in the dryer and turned on the dryer as a loud THUMP THUMP THUMP came from the dryer.

"InuYasha you're killing the cat!" Miroku shouted as he opened the dryer door. "You don't put cats in the dryer!"

"Whatever," InuYasha said, going into the kitchen, where Kaede was feeding Chiisuchina. He stroked his daughter's head. "This world will never be completely safe for her, but I'm going to try my best and kick demon ass for as long as I live. Where's Kagome?"

"She's in her bed," Kaede replied. "That is the best place for her."

"Did you put up sutras?" InuYasha asked.

Kaede nodded. "Extra sutras are around Kagome's bed. Her bed is safer for her than the White House is for the President."

"Good, make sure Chiisuchina stays in Kagome's bed with her," InuYasha said. "And tie the cat to it as well. Rin is coming over here. So are Kohaku, Shippo and Souta. I want them all here!"

"I know, InuYasha," Kaede nodded.

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Sesshoumaru got InuYasha's email and sighed.

"What is it, Sesshoumaru?" Rashi asked. "Something wrong?"

"Rin is going to InuYasha's house. Naraku is back and he's trying to overtake the world," Sesshoumaru began to explain everything in the email.

And when he finished Rashi was already headed towards the door of the hotel.

"Where are you going, Rashi?" Sesshoumaru asked.

"To InuYasha and Kagome's house," Rashi answered as she opened the door. "It's the safest place, right? Well, Naraku is up for challenges and, since I'm a hanyou, I can now help!"

Sesshoumaru grabbed Rashi by the arm just as she was about to fly out the room. He hugged her close and crouched down, protecting her from what was coming next.

A big explosion shook the entire hotel and pieces of the ceiling began to collapse. Sesshoumaru jumped out from the balcony with Rashi in his arms as he dropped to the ground and watched the hotel from afar.

"All those people!" Rashi exclaimed as pieces of the building crashed to the ground.

"Rashi, no!" Sesshoumaru protested, feeling her wrench from his grasp and go after the people who were in the rubble.

Sesshoumaru looked at the sky and there was Naraku, laughing. Sesshoumaru narrowed his eyes, not attempting to attack him, knowing it was useless.

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InuYasha bounded out of the house, sniffing as he ran faster than one of Kagome's arrows. He passed several clusters of spiders and killed each with his claws. "I hate exterminating useless demons."

Kirara was right behind him, Miroku and Sango on her back. Miroku was using his wind tunnel to get stray spiders and Sango was throwing the medicinal spider bags at certain places.

"We can't bag every house," Sango said. "Kaede can't make that many. We need to bag certain buildings and try to save every person."

She had a bucket of the spider water and whenever she threw it on children, the children would begin to cry. "And I'm making children cry…"

"Relax Sango-chan," Miroku soothed. "They will thank you later, once they have realized you saved their lives."

"If we follow the trail of spiders, InuYasha, we should be able to find Naraku's hide out," Sango called to InuYasha.

InuYasha clenched his teeth as he pattered down the concrete, killing off spiders. "I know, I know, the hag told me."

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Crisa Rei: Well that's the end for now.

The cat in the dryer was a true story. My friend's cat had accidentally fallen in the dryer and the whole entire family could hear a constant 'THUMP' and when the dryer stopped the opened it up and found their cat, dead.

Ahahhaahaha! I hate cats but I felt sorry for her because she lost her baby (the cat).

Current date and time: December 28 2004 at 1:00 PM Central

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