Disclaimer: Yea yea, you know…so I ain't gonna say it………………ooh! Ooh! Something random! ……I'm hungry………….Yeeeah O.o o and yeah, thanks to my biggest fan, Taeniaea for the shard idea.


Kagome clutched her bloody shoulder while Naraku paced the room across from her, holding up his prized sword. "I've done some recent thinking, Kagome."

"Oh, really? That's new." Kagome muttered.

Naraku's sensitive ears picked up that comment and held the tip of the sword under Kagome's chin and titled it up so he looked her in the eye. "Careful what you say. I might consider letting you live." Naraku snatched the sword back cutting Kagome's chin in the process. "Now listen; if I let you live, it will only be by the power of the jewel shard—."

"Never! You can kill me now but I won't be controlled by some stupid jewel shard!" Kagome yelled anger rising inside her.

Naraku held the sword above Kagome. The stench of the miasma made her gag a little. "You won't take me up on my offer? So be it then. They all think you're dead anyway."

Kagome tilted her head to the side so she wouldn't have to bare the scent of the miasma. "Someone has to find me…anyone…" Kagome peered down at her bloodstained shoulder and shirt. If Naraku was right and no one would come looking for her, she would die in this damn castle of hell. The very thought brought tears to her eyes and down her cheeks. "InuYasha…"

Naraku was getting frustrated now. "Give up on that filthy half demon already!" Naraku brought the blade clear across Kagome leaving another cut across her chest. "And learn when to keep your mouth shut." Naraku stood back up and turned his back.

Kagome spat at him. "You're one of those half demons aren't you? Disgusting…"

Naraku hesitated to turn and kill her now. "You'll never learn will you?"

The door busted into pieces and Kagura entered the room with InuYasha. Naraku clenched the sword in his fist angered more than ever that Kagura had once again betrayed him. "You wench…!"

Kagura glanced over her shoulder to see if InuYasha would help her. He stared right past her and at Naraku. "You bastard, now what have you done with Kagome!"

Naraku bent down next to Kagome who was too weak to say anything now. "Don't touch her!" InuYasha warned.

Naraku reached for something behind him and placed it in Kagome's shoulder then stood again.

"Step away form her." Kagura threatened through clenched teeth.

"You don't have a right to tell me what to do, Kagura."

Kagura flipped her silk fan out. This could get ugly…

Kagome sat up, her face tear stained and bloody as well as the rest of her. "I-InuYasha!"

InuYasha growled at Naraku and he surprisingly moved to the side and InuYasha rushed over to his fallen Kagome. "Kagome, what did he do to you?"

Kagome, now relieved that InuYasha was here, leaned against his chest. "InuYasha…"

"Don't say anything. Save your strength so we get out of here." InuYasha turned around to glare at Naraku.

The evil hanyou laughed silently to himself. I'm going to win this one, no matter what.

An evil miasma aura picked up in a swirling vortex wind. Kagura stood there narrowing her red eyes at Naraku. "I'll deal with you later." Naraku said grinning and grabbed Kagura's collar around her kimono. "Now let's go." The miasma thickened and when it disappeared, so did Naraku and Kagura.

InuYasha looked around. "This castle must be real…feel sorry for whoever lived here before Naraku."

Kagome shook and started crying, fresh tears sprung into her eyes and rolled down her face.

"Kagome?"

Kagome buried her face into InuYasha's kimono. "It was scary…I thought it was going to kill me." Her shoulder ached with the broken bone, it felt heavier but she couldn't move it.

InuYasha tilted her chin up and looked her straight in the eye. "He isn't going to hurt you again. I promise."

Kagome nodded weakly.

"Can you stand?" Dumb question.

Kagome sighed. "What kind of a stupid question is that? No!" Her attempts to be angry failed and her shoulder burned. "I can barely move let alone stand up."

InuYasha hit himself in the forehead. Damn. I can't leave with Kagome injured like this. We wouldn't make it.

InuYasha pulled up his red sleeve and ripped off the sleeve of the white kimono shirt.

Kagome, clutching her shoulder, backed away. "What are you—?"

"Just trust me." InuYasha said before ripping the sleeve into smaller pieces.

Kagome wiped the blood off her chin and wiped her bloody hand on the wood floor. I'm finally at a point in all this mess where I can say that it can't get any worse than this. There was a scratch across her chest and chin. Her shoulder bone was cracked and there was a huge gash where the spider broke through. Her clothes were bloodstained and she felt dizzy and sick.

Kagome looked back at InuYasha. "Now what?"

InuYasha turned red and Kagome began to feel a little uncomfortable. "InuYasha?"

InuYasha scratched the back of his head embarrassed. "Kagome, can you uh…well look, with you in this condition, we'll never make it to Kaedes in time…"

Kagome made a face while InuYasha rambled on. "Get to the point, InuYasha." Kagome winced. Her shoulder felt like it was going to break.

"Kagome, I need to do something about those wounds."

Kagome blushed slightly now realizing what InuYasha had in mind. "Uh…oh." Kagome's shoulder burned and she knew she would probably die before they even got close to Kaede's village. "Fine, but you—."

InuYasha held up his hand to silence her. "I know, I know, turn around."

Kagome sighed gratefully. That wasn't what I was going to say. But, that's kind of reassuring to know that that was InuYasha's first thought. "Thanks InuYasha…"

InuYasha looked back up at her confused. "For what?"

"…It's already pretty torn up, but could you help me? Since I only have one am to do it with…"

InuYasha went totally red but managed to stutter something. "Well, yeah but s-since, of um, uh…

Kagome raised an eyebrow while InuYasha continued to stammer. Jeeze, by the time he's done talking to himself, I could do it myself. Kagome pulled her good arm out of her sleeve and then, carefully, her bad arm, (Kagome-kun: Left armbad right armgood…focus people! BECAUSE… Eh, you're smart cough cough you'll get it.) and then pulled her whole shirt off and used her good arm to cover herself up. InuYasha had that look when he's usually embarrassed; eyes narrowed and making a small muttering sound. "I could get Sango to uh…"

Kagome shook her head. "I trust you, InuYasha."

InuYasha quickly used of the pieces of cloth and wrapped it around her shoulder, careful not to hurt her. Blood quickly soaked through it and leaked out the sides. "Damn, Kagome, how the hell did you get yourself in this much trouble?" InuYasha asked while covering that with another piece of cloth on the same spot.

Kagome shrugged. "Just lucky I guess."

"Lucky or cursed?" InuYasha had used three pieces to cover up the wound on Kagome's shoulder by now. He thought that would hold off until they reached Kaedes. Then there was that cut on her chest, which wasn't that serious but she was bleeding from it. "Uh, I'll let Kaede or Sango take care of that one." InuYasha said rubbing the back of his head again.

Kagome just smiled at him. Thank you, InuYasha. She pulled back on her bloodstained shirt and fell against the hanyou. She was suddenly very dizzy and overcome with sleepiness but something told her not to go to sleep and that she had to stay awake. She tried to ignore it for she was exhausted but it only got louder and she soon recognized it.

"Kagome, you have to stay awake." InuYasha said again trying to keep her awake. Kagome rubbed her forehead. "This is exhausting." She moaned weakly.

InuYasha picked her up and wandered into the room where Miroku and Sango and that giant thing was. Sango picked up her foot and smashed a tiny red spider and scraped her boot on the floor. "That takes care of that." She said clapping her hands. When she laid her eyes on Kagome half asleep she gasped. "Oh, Kagome…"

Shippo popped out of a small stone figure and back to his furry fox form. "InuYasha, you missed it! The spider just shrank a few minutes ago!" Then he too found Kagome. "YAH! What happened to her!"

Miroku sighed. "She's alive, and that's all that matters."

"Not for long, we got to get back to Kaede's and fast." InuYasha said holding Kaogme close to him.

We are all the same

Human in all our ways and all of pain

(So let it be)

There's a love that could fall down like rain

(Let us see)

Let forgiveness wash away the pain

(What we need)

And no one really knows what they are searching for

(We believe)

This world is crying for so much more

We believe

We believe

We believe

We believe

We believe

We believe

In this love

So this world

Is too much

For you to take

Just lay it down in front of me

I'll be everything you need

In every way

We believe

(In this love)

We believe

(In this love)

We believe

(In this love)

We believe

(In this love)

Kagome-kun: Think this is over? No, I have a few more chapters to go! Actually…yeah a few…heh heh heh. Naraku curses me AGAIN with a jewel shard so…fun…' Keep reviewing and ill keep updating! (Lol…Naraku curses me…I luv bein Kagome -.)-