Yeah, i'm updating. The swelling went down so i figured i could type better. Probably not, though. BUT here's your story!

Tilting her head, she saw Inuyasha and Kenshin at the door, unable to get in. They pounded on the barrier. She would keep them safe. As they had her. She would repay their kindness. She breathed, slow and deep, as the world drained away through her fingers. She took another breath and felt them taping the rag over her mouth and nostrils. She tried to hold to the surface, but found herself floating beneath it as deep, evil laughter filled her mind.

Inuyasha tried to wake the other two that lay on the floor. Thinking Kagome was in the room.

Kenshin's eyes fluttered open, and Inuyasha heaved a sigh. "Sano.." kenshin's voice was tired.

"He's dead, i think." Inu said, activating the locator around the fighters neck.

Kenshin's eyes glowed a feral yellow.

"Kagome, let's go!" Inuyasha said, turning to get the girl.

They were alone.

"Shit!" He cursed, running through the hallway, dodging demons and traps as he followed his nose.

kenshin was one step behind him, following him.

They came to an abrupt stop in front of a set of oak doors.

Inuyasha tried the door, and it didn't budge.

"Damnit." He cursed, slashing at the wood with his claws.

Kenshin stopped him. "Let me." The samurai said.

Inuyasha stood aside as kenshin's sword flashed almost invisibly through the air, splintering the heavy wood.

A barrier stood in the way, now. Glowing a dull bluish-green.

They both charged the barrier, but it only shot them back against the opposite wall.

Inuyasha's hanyou ears caught naraku's words.

"No! Damnit!" Inuyasha attacked the barrier again and again.

Kagome hung in the air, looking down on the ground. She screamed as bolts of lighning hit the wolf.

"What's going on!" Kenshin knew he had heard.

"She'll kill herself!" Inuyasha said, grunting as he slammed back against the wall again. Kenshin joined him in his assault on the barrier.

He smelled burning hair. It was sickening. The wolf screamed, arching his back in unconsious agony.

The bolts stopped, and Kagome was lowered, a cloth appeared, and was placed over her mouth and nose.

She glanced at them as they pounded against the barrier, fruitlessly. Her peaceful expression startling them both. She knew.

And then she was gone. "Kagome!" He didn't know who had uttered it, but it sounded like his own voice.

Naraku turned to them. He watched them as he picked up Kouga, as he flung the wolf like a doll to be impailed on the wall. As the blood trailed down the wall to pool there.

Naraku's laugher rang through the castle as he voiced silent words that only Inuyasha caught.

"Come in." The barrier disappeared, as well as Naraku.

Racing toward the wolf, Kenshin and Inuyasha felt for a pulse. Finding one, Inuyasha took off his locator and activated it, wrapping it around the wolf's neck.

Then, turning toward the doorway Kagome had disappeared near, He stalked toward the next room.

Kenshin caught his arm. "Look, go find Sango and tell her to delay..." He was drowned out by the roar of exposion that wracked the building.

Inuyasha glanced at the watch on his wrist. Pressing the button combination to raise the sheild, he sheltered himself, Kenshin, and the wolf from the flaming blast that engulfed the building.

When the roar died, Inuyasha turned golden eyes to kenshin. "Too late. She's gone."

Somewhere. She was not where she had been. There was wind here. And softness. The smell of lilacs flew to her on the wind.

She opened her eyes to see black.

She blinked, trying to focus her eyes. Nothing. No light. No shapes. Only darkness.

then she realized, she was blindfolded.

She strained to lift herself, to move. She couldn't move. Something was holding her. Something warm and strong. The sickly sweet smelling thing was placed over her mouth and nose again. She tried not to breathe it, tried to turn away, but the hand that held it there didn't let her go.

She breathed and the world faded away again.

Slowly, she surfaced. Coming throught the thick fog of unconsiousness to find herself being held. A cool glass was against her lips. She drank. As she drank, something was pressed against her temple. Just a small pressure. And then the world fell away.

Yup. I'm leaving it at that. Poor yous.

Somewhere, somehow, i will show you what i mean. -me.