Angel Selene: I was trying to figure out how I was going to do the next part of the story but I finally decided to break it up into many different parts so hopefully you'll enjoy even if I don't give it to you all at once. (Actually, I had writer's block.)

Chapter 21

-Shizuru-

Shizuru walked away from the now nicknamed 'Pervert', with a smile and a bag full of coins. Now she could buy a few souvenirs at the next village and then sell them for twice the price at home. She opened the bag and counted the coins. Swipers keepers, losers weepers, she laughed to herself. It was one of those beautiful mornings that looked perfect and made you believe nothing would go wrong. One of those days that you positively knew with out a doubt that something would eventually go wrong. She placed her hands into he pants; she was wearing green pants and a white button up shirt with a red tie. She had learned her lesson the day before when they were attacked that a skirt was not the best thing to wear.

"Hey Kids" She said walking over to Keiko and Kagome. "What are you two up too?"

"Nothing much, Just swapping stores." Keiko told her.

"About all the embarrassing thing Yusuke has done, so we can use as black mail later." Kagome told her with a mischievous smile. She laughed looking for Yusuke, surprisingly she found him talking to Inuyasha.

"When did those two become friends?" Shizuru asked.

"Who knows." Keiko told her. They reached a fork in the road only to have everyone stop.

"Hey what happen to all the demon guts?" Kuwabara asked.

"What do you mean?" Botan asked. Watching Yusuke and Kuwabara looking around.

"The demons we defeated, yesterday." Yusuke told her. "We left all it's gut all over the place."

"Onigumo." Keiko told them. "This is the place I was at last night during my vision, I saw him absorb the remainder of the demons."

"What is going on with Naraku?" Miroku asked no one in particular.

"Who knows?" Yusuke said.

"Maybe we should investigate this further." Kurama suggested. As he said that a portal open in front of the group. Two figures stepped out the portal a small girl in a white kimono caring a white ball and a man in samurai armor. Growling broke the silence of the forest.

"Naraku!" Inuyasha growled. The man in samurai armor just stared at them scanning the unusual group.

"I am sorry to disappoint you Inuyasha, but I am not Naraku." The man told them smirking; "I am Onigumo. And from what I can see you have added more useless humans to your already pathetic group." Onigumo's eyes scanned the group once more landing hungrily on Kagome. Kagome took a step back only to have Kurama place his hands in a reassuring manor on each of her shoulder. Inuyasha took a quick stance in front of Onigumo with a growl, along with Yusuke who anger was obvious in his eyes.

"Explain yourself Onigumo!" Miroku said calmly fingering his prayer beads.

" Very well I will humor you for a while." Onigumo told them smirking once more. No one seemed to notice "It really was to Naraku ignorance that I am here, you see Naraku throw a small experiment never knowing the whole time I was growing stronger and powerful learning from every mistake he made. You see when he tried this little experiment on me I was able to take my former appearance, before the fire disfigured me. Not only that I had the exact same powers Naraku possessed. Just take a look of Aki here, just like Naraku I too can make incarnations from my own body, but I have much more control over them then he does." Shizuru looked at the small girl Onigumo had pushed forward as she fidgeted under everyone's stare. Shizuru turned her gaze towards Onigumo her spirit awareness letting her see more then he had told them.

"You are making yourself seem stronger then you truly are." She commented, getting everyone's attention including Onigumos.

"I do not believe Naraku had the pleasure of meeting you." Onigumo told her, his smirk never disappearing.

"He didn't." She told him simply, his smirk making sick to her stomach more then any gory sight. She smirked herself. "You're losing your power as we speak." She felt it the moment the portal open in front of them.

"How unusual you are." Onigumo said his smirk disappearing. "But you have not told me your name."

"And you won't know it for I THE GREAT KUWABARA shall never let you know Shizuru's name." Kuwabara shouted an expected stupid remark.

"Way to go idiot." Shizuru told her little brother well shaking her head in disappointment.

"So Shizuru is it." Onigumo's smirk reappeared as his gazed returned heatedly to Kagome. "Why don't you tell me what else you know."

"You absorb demons or their remains to maintain your strength." Kurama added stepping in front of Kagome.

"That is why the demon remains we left here yesterday have disappeared." Shizuru added.

"You are also running from someone or something." Kurama added.

"Naraku wants you back." Miroku said his eyes going wide.

"He is hunting you down." Kurama added, "You two are each halves of a whole, He needs you survive and vice versa."

"But then why are you running away." Miroku asked. "If you know your going to eventually die if you don't merge back together soon."

"Because he is after something." Yukina stated surprising everyone.

"Kikyo!" Inuyasha eye's doubled in size.

"WOULD YOU FUCKEN STOP STARING AT KAGOME, LIKE SHE'S A PIECE OF MEAT." Yusuke shouted, finally losing the patience he had. (Surprised it lasted so long.) He raised his hand in the air and pointed his index finger towards Onigumo. "SPIRIT GUN!" he released a huge blast of blue energy.

"AKI!" Onigumo said Aki step in front of her master and raised her ball in the air. It began to glow and levitate into the air inches form her hands. Then, bringing her hands down in front her along with the ball a large black portal appeared in front of her taking Yusuke's attack into it. As soon as his blast ended the portal disappeared only to reappear behind Onigumo releasing Yusuke's attack onto a pile of rocks instead of his intended target.

"Lord Oniguma?" Aki asked looking back at him.

"Send them to the Forest of Silence." Onigumo ordered, Onigumo gave Kagome another lust filled gaze. "Until we meet again, If any of you survive." Aki's ball started glow once more as several portals appeared appear in front of her the last thing Shizuru saw before she blacked out was Aki muttering an apology.

-Sango-

Sango watched as several portals took people by ones and twos, and as one came towards her she could do nothing but stare as it swallowed her in the blink of an eye. She was in and out of the portal in less then a second with nothing but a chill. That was until she began to fall. Sango had been transported several feet above the top of an extremely tall forest. She let out a scream as she fell, soon she broke threw the treetops. Sango continued to fall, even as she tried desperately to grab onto a branch, but her tries were in vein since each time she manage to grab hold of a branch it would snap under her weight, which only manage to slow her decent before it quicken once again. As she fell branches scraped across her skin creating deep gashes and even deeper cuts, her body was completely oblivious to any pain due to the adrenaline coursing threw her. Sango closed her eyes, as the ground grew closer, images of her brother Kohaku came to her mind along with her family. She let another scream escape her mouth this time filled with grief and frustration at being unable to save herself like she would have been able any other time. To say the least she expected to die, but when she felt two strong arms go under her back and under her knees stopping her decent all she could do was grab onto the shirt of who ever her savior was. She finally opened her brown eyes only to fine two piercing red eyes staring back at her.

"Hi..ei." She managed to choke out his name. Her whole body was shaking from the shock but the urge to cry was what she tried to repress, not wanting to seem weaker then she already did. She dug her face into his shirt just incase her body betrayed her.

"Human?" Hiei said ever so calmly. She looked him in the eyes only to see slight worry pass threw his eyes. She gave him a small smile only to grab hold of his shirt tighter as he jumped off the branch they had been in.

"Thank you." She told him as he landed lightly on the grown. She had calmed down considerably and she let go of her grip on his shirt. What Hiei did next she didn't expect, as if sensing her now calm state Hiei dropped her. She landed hard onto the ground on her butt. "You fucken midget!" She shouted, she stood up only to have pain shoot threw her body as her ankle gave way. With a loud yelp she landed on the ground once again. "Idiotic jerk." She murmured as she used a tree for support as she stood placing her weight on her uninjured foot. A strong arm wrapped around her waist helping her stand. Looking to her left she was Hiei supporting her. "Your not going to drop me again are you?" She asked him not taking her hand off the tree.

"Hn." Hiei remarked. She raised her eyebrow in question. "Trust me." He finally said. (Angel Selene eyes completely wide. Hiei glaring at her with death promised in his eyes.) Logic would probably tell her not to trust him but oddly enough logic stayed quite as everything else inside told her to trust him. She moved away from the tree and placed her arm around his neck allowing Hiei to take half her weight. They both started to walk in the same direction, surprisingly without arguing with each other about which direction to go, as they started to look for a way out of the forest.

Angel Selene: People are probably very angry with me but I couldn't think were to take the story next hopefully you liked the chapter.

Hiei: I should kill you.

Angel Selene: HA but you can't

Hiei: You can't keep me tied to this tree forever.

Angel Selene: Yes I can.