Disclaimer: It's me, La, again! Shel does not own anything. The only thing that she owns illegally is in a plastic bag in her closet—

Shel: (Covers La's mouth) SHHH! They don't need to know that!

La: (muffled) M Sarwy

Shel: Whatever.


InuYasha continued to follow Naraku's scent with Kagome shaking in his arms. Her hair was soaking wet as well as her clothes and since she had one her school uniform, it wasn't much to keep her from being so cold in the freezing rain.

InuYasha's ears twitched as Kagome's breaths came out short and gasping. Kagome buried her face in her hands and sneezed.

"You sure are risking a lot Kagome. Getting yourself sick isn't going to help us much."

Kagome sighed loudly and slumped her head against InuYasha's chest. "I just want all this to be done. And I'm not sick, someone is probably talking about me behind my back."

"Yeah, you wish."

Kagome sniffed. "Yeah I do, then I wouldn't be sick."


Shippo popped from his pink little bubble for to his regular cute fox form and landed swiftly on the ground. "I hope you all are happy." He said, snatching the magic leaf from the air only to be pounded and flattened by Miroku and Sango who landed on top of him. "Yep, thanks Shippo." Miroku said looking around. "Yeah thanks a lot." Sango said smiling and brushing herself off. The rain was starting to let up a little but the thunder was louder then ever.

"You think Kagome and InuYasha is alright?" Sango asked looking up at the dark and cloudy sky.

"I'm sure they're fine, really."

Shippo pulled Miroku's foot off his head. "Wish I could say the same for me, Miroku!"

"Whoops. Sorry Shippo." Miroku and Sango stepped off of the little fox demon. Shippo jumped up with Kirara (Hey, I don't remember doing anything with Kirara before…o well it's my fic.)

"Yeah right, I'm sure you mean that."

"Let's not argue over something so pointless. We have to catch up with Kagome." Sango raised her weapon over her head and looked at the others to see if they would agree.

Miroku nodded. "Alright, let's go find them."


Moments passed, and Kagome hadn't said a word for a while and that worried InuYasha a little. "Kagome, you still here?"

Kagome shuddered but didn't reply. InuYasha stopped. "Kagome?"

Kagome 'shh'ed him. "I'm sleeping."

InuYasha did the sweat drop thing. "How can you sleep?"

Kagome shrugged. "I'm cold."

InuYasha didn't take to that well. Well that's not good. Kagome is really sick.

The wind shifted the other direction, now blowing rain straight into InuYasha's face. And it carried the scent of human blood.

Kagome covered her face to shield her form the rain.

"Hang on, Kagome." InuYasha went into the direction of the blood that led off the path into the forest. Not far from there, a very small hut had the scent of blood and a demon around it. Kagome removed her hand from her face and recognized the place automatically. This is where Kuro and her family lived, and she didn't like the sight of it. It was deserted and had an empty feeling. "InuYasha, I don't like this."

"You don't smell the blood." InuYasha shifted. "Is anyone here? Kuro?"

Rain continued to pour and no one answered. The door shade moved a little and Kagome thought it was just the wind but then a young dark-haired thin girl stepped out. She had on a blue village kimono and her hair in a long ponytail. When she realized who it was, she waved ecstatically. "Kagome! InuYasha!"

Kagome raised her hand but didn't have the strength to yell back a greeting.

InuYasha rushed forward up to Kuro's house as she stepped aside to let them in. "Hey, guys, where ya been?"

InuYasha set Kagome down gently and she sneezed again. Kuro pushed him out of the way. "Oh, Kagome, what's wrong?"

"It's nothing, it's just—."

InuYasha piped in. "You're defiantly sick. If anyone was really talking about you behind your back, there's no way they would do it for this long."

Kagome was tempted to give him a sit but decided against it. "You guys have been out in this rain? Kagome what were you thinking?"

Kagome sighed. "We need to find Naraku and—."

Kuro held up her hand to silence Kagome. "Whoa, hang on. Why are you going after that bastard other than the reasons you already have. And why is it so important that you'll risk this weather?"

Kagome looked down at the floor. Kuro had reasons to go after Naraku and she also had a sacred jewel shard. She wasn't very old, no more than twelve or thirteen but she acted like sixteen year old. Naraku had tried to take the jewel shard from her but when Kuro refused, he killed her mother and two sisters. When Kuro still wouldn't give up the shard, Naraku gave in for now, but destroyed her village. The blood that had led InuYasha to Kuro was Kuro's own blood. In order for her family to forgive her for what she did, she gave a drop of her own blood along with offerings once at the beginning of every month.

But the demon blood scent that hung the air was of small demons. Kuro was an excellent swordsman with her own katana sword, Yuki, named after her mother. Kagome looked at Kuro's right arm. A fresh cut wound all the way around her arm where she had cut herself. There were two on her left leg. It had really been three months since it had happened, Kagome could hardly believe it.

InuYasha sat down in the corner with the Tetsusaiga leaning against him. Kuro straightened up. "Okay, what's going on?"

"About five days ago, we found Naraku and tried to kill him." Kagome explained. "But…things started to go wrong…and I…" Kagome sighed. She just couldn't do it.

Kuro looked at InuYasha. "Are you gonna tell me what happened? Or am I gonna have ta force it out of one of you?"

InuYasha shrugged. "There's no way to explain it."

Kagome pulled on her collar. "Well I could show you—."

Kuro sat back down. "Okay, well…?"

Kagome blushed a little. "InuYasha would have to turn around…"

InuYasha went red really quick. "Shut up, like I wouldn't."


The rain had gone from almost to nothing to a flooding rain. Miroku, Sango, and Shippo with Kirara were sitting on a thick branch in a tree.

"This is just great!" Sango put up her weapon to cover her head. "We're never gonna find Naraku like this."

Miroku looked down at the muddy ground. "True. We'll just have to wait until the storm passes."

Shippo was holding Kirara while he was scrunched up on a branch above Miroku and Sango. "I miss Kagome. You think they found Naraku yet?"

Miroku looked around. "No, I don't think so. Not in this storm."

"So where do you think they're at?" Shippo looked down.

"Kuro should be around here. Or at least close here." Sango said looking up at him.

"Oh yeah, that cute little girl we say about three months ago." Shippo said nodding. Kirara meowed loudly.

"Looks like your getting better Kirara." Sango said happily but then her tone changed. "So, how long do you think it will take for us to even find Naraku?"

Miroku sighed. "InuYasha and Kagome are far ahead of us. They have a better lead than we do."

"So we should go catch up to them."

Shippo jumped down into Sango's lap. "So, should we go find them now?"

"No. Let's stay here. At least until the storm let's up." InuYasha and Kagome, you guys better save a little bit of Naraku for us.

If you want me to wait, I will wait for you

If you tell me to stay, I would stay right thru

If you don't wanna say anything at all

I'm happy wondering

Go!

(Yeah, yeah)

Since I was a young man

I never was a fun man

I never had a plan and no security then

Ever since I met you

I never could forget you

I only wanna get you right here next to me

'Cause everybody (a-whoa-oh-oh) needs someone that they can trust
and...

You're somebody (a-whoa-oh-oh) that I found just in time

If you want me to wait, I will wait for you

If you tell me to stay, I would stay right thru

If you don't wanna say anything at all

I'm happy wondering

Kur0: Wow…two chapters in one day! Awesome…for you and me…anyway, I have some inside info…shhh…rumor has it that the 3ed InuYasha movie: Sword of World Conquer is coming out next month! If you guys haven't seen 1 and 2, try Boredors Bookstore, that where I got mine. The 2ed one is where InuYasha and Kagome kiss. . It was cute. Anyway, having said that, I;m gonna leave so keep reviewing and wait for my next chapter SOON! JA NE!