You should feel lucky. I don't normally write so obsessively. I am not very inspired at the moment so bear with me! This chapter will probably suck.

Disclaimer: Seriously? Ok, I do own. Ahhhh never mind! I have nothing to do with the originality and cleverness of Inu yasha!

Chapter 3:

The sun beamed heavily upon Kagome as she awoke the next morning. She felt lost and started to scurry around until it came to her.

The well. She had fallen there. And she had met Sesshomaru. He was going to take her to his castle for the time being. It was a scary thought as she didn't know much about him just yet. Then his voice came to her ears. "You up yet?" She nodded afraid to speak.

He jumped down and landed beside her. "Today we will walk. You have the job of collecting food along the way if you plan on eating." He turned and started to walk as she stood defiantly and followed. "Sesshomaru? Do you ever feel as though something strange happened that wasn't supposed to?" "You mean like last night. Yes." Kagome felt proud that he would now answer her occasional questions but still she felt as though it was odd that they both felt something strange.

-With Kaede-

'I have to find Sesshomaru and the girl. They can help me.' Kaede had set off in search the night before when it had first happened. She was a grown woman, so she wasn't afraid. She just didn't understand how her sister had come back and why she had dragged Inu yasha to the underworld. 'My sister had been angry with him as she had said to burn the jewel as she was to die soon. Is it possible that she has yet to resolve those putrid feelings of hate toward Inu yasha? 50 years into the afterlife and still she holds a grudge. Very strange. And with her body full flesh and bones last night. Is she alive?'

Kikyou had finished dragging Inu yasha down as her aching body needed to rest. "Kikyou, do you feel resentment toward me?" Her bland features turned to him as he spoke her name. "Inu Yasha, you didn't know that I had died did you? I have decided that you should resign here with me. You are the reason I hate and the reason I yearn to destroy. You betrayed me for the Sacred Jewel. I should have never trusted you. But as you watched me in the fields and with the village children, I grew to love you. I was foolish and yet, I still am for loving you even the slightest in my after life. I do feel hatred but I would never dispose of my love for you Inu yasha." Inu Yasha sat beside her on the boulder. "And I have loved you and will never stop these feelings as you are my only." They embraced but again Inu yasha felt his heart twist. This time, he noticed that something was amiss.

The day was dragging on in a boring state until sesshomaru stopped. Kagome bumped into his back, but showed no sign of caring. "Kaede is coming." "Well, then we should go to her. She might need us!" Sesshomaru looked back at Kagome. "Do you think I care?" She looked at him as if he was stupid. "You should." Then as a second thought, "People need help. It's crude not to help." "Well, I'm not going back." With that Sesshomaru went on again. He looked out of the corner of his eye to see that Kagome was going toward Kaede. 'Wench.' No matter how hard he tried, though, he found that he couldn't stop his legs from following her at a distance.

"Kaede, are you there?" Kagome had been walking trying to find her ever sense she and Sesshomaru had split. She needed someone to rely on. When she did find Kaede, she was placed in a bad predicament. A demon had captured her and placed her under a deep sleep. The demon had heard her approach and had suddenly become dead set on his appetizer, Kagome. "What are you?", she asked considering questioning was her strong suite. "I am Fusae, the demon of darkness. I will make sure you never smile again. Why don't you just,… sleep?" Kagome's knees buckled instantly as she toppled over. She had been put under a sleeping spell.

Instinctively Sesshomaru jumped down from the nearby tree and attacked the demon. "So, you think you have so much power as to bring upon fretting darkness to the lives of all living creatures do you?" The demon smirked in response and made an advance. "To slow." Sesshomaru lowered his claws in fast action and all you could see was venom from the demons fangs mixed with poison from Sesshomaru's claws on the ground. The demon had dissipated in to thin air. Sesshomaru went to Kagome's side first and checked for any real wounds. 'Not one scratch.' Then he went to help Kaede as Kagome would have wanted him to do. She was fine, so he placed her at the base of a tree.

Kagome was the first to awaken. She stiffly stood as the fall had hurt her body terribly. Sesshomaru had overlooked one thing though. On her cheek was one drop of blood. How something so subtle could make him grow slight anger was a mystery, but it did. 'The blood of a battle well fought' is what Kagome called it. She knew it didn't belong to her, and that she couldn't ever get hurt with a protector like Sesshomaru. This reassured him a great deal as he felt a little better.

Kaede awoke a little while later and was surprised to find the two people she had been looking for right there in front of her. "Kagome, may I ask you to do me a favor?" Kagome looked to Kaede. "Sure thing." "I want you to find Inu Yasha and place these prayer beads around his neck." Kagome thought for a minute. "Why do you need me to do it?" "1, because you are Kikyou's reincarnation, and 2 because I am to old to dive into a deep lake to the depths of Heck." Kagome gasped. "What is he doing there?" "My sister Kikyou came last night and took him away with her. It was strange." "And may I also ask what the beads are meant to do?" "They will allow you to subdue him whenever he starts to get out of line. As I am sure you will stay with Sesshomaru, I still need you to do this. You are the only one whom can keep him from going back with her. With this, you will combine your souls and you will know when he is in trouble."

It was the weirdest thing Kagome had ever been asked to do, and yet she felt obliged to do this for the woman.

YEY! Another chapter complete! Please r&r!!!