An Evil Plan

They made their way quickly through the sea of vines and trees; Kagome hoped for the best but feared for the worst. She felt an odd presence that was strangely familier but kept an eye open and tried to be aware of everything, even the slightest sound. Suddenly, without warning, a demon emerged from the shadows. Kagome, Sango, and Miroku all reached for their weapons but were quickly thrown from the ground one-by-one by the demons powerful blows. Then, out of nowhere, a sword sliced the demon in half. As it fell, Kagome's eyes widened in surprize as she saw the owner of the sword.

"I should've known you all would be lost without me!" a familiar fox demons voice spoke, "Kagome?"

"Shippo, there's no time to explain but have you seen Inuyasha?" Miroku asked hurriedly.

"Yeah, I saw him over by the well on my way here."

He pet the cat beside him. kagome let out a sigh of relief and they began their walk to the clearing to find him and explained everything that had happened.

Naraku's Castle

A figure stood, hidden in the shadows behind Naraku.

"How did it go?" Naraku asked the figure, not turning to face him.

"Smoothly enough..." the figure replied, "You know if you decieve me, I'll kill you before you can even think up your next move..."

"And the same for you..." Naraku replied in a worryless tone.

"So at least we have an understanding..."

"Oh, I hope so..." Naraku turned, "Don't let your will to kill your brother fairly stand in the way of my plan..."

"I assure you, Naraku," the figure stepped out, "Inuyasha will be dead before sunrise..."

Naraku's face twisted into an evil and devious smirk.

By the Well

"Inuyasha?" he heard Kagome's voice.

"Oh, no!..." Inuyasha looked around for a way out.

He quickly jumped through the well just as the gang came out of the forest. He hit the ground and looked around nervously.

"He's gone...?" Shippo said in confusion.

Kagome was disappointed and the fear from before returned.

Kikyo awoke, alone once more, "Where is he?"

She sat up in her bed and looked out the window at the moon.

"What is this feeling...something isn't right..." She contemplated, "It's the same feeling that I felt around...that wench Kagome!"

She stood quickly and began to gather her things.

"If she is back, I'll do more than fake her death this time," she hissed and made her way out into the forest, following the strong feeling. Kikyo had expected that this was due to the fact that the two of them, kagome and herself, were not meant to exist at the same time.

"...and soon we won't have to worry about that," she thought to herself, "Soon I'll be free of that stupid girl, and Inuyasha will be mine alone..."

Sesshomaru's eyes stared out at the gang from the shadows of the trees. After he was sure that Inuyasha was really nowhere near them, he made himself present. He stepped out in front of the gang, about twelve feet away from kagome, who was at the head of the group.

"Sesshomaru..." Miroku's voice said from behind Kagome in a tone full of hate and disgust, "What do you want?"

He said nothing and an evil grin formed on his face. Shippo stepped forward to where he was about even with Kagome; He had his hand ready on his sword.

"Hm... looks a little like the little pup's grown up...doesn't much help though, you're still going to lose," Sesshomaru teased.

Shippo's sword suddenly flew toward him. Sesshomaru quickly stopped it with his own, and the two swords pushed against one another.

Shippo jumped back, "Miroku-"

"Way ahead of you," Miroku replied, running toward Sesshomaru unwrapping his arm, "Wind tunne-"

"Miroku," Sango called out, "Look out! The poisonous insects!"

Miroku stopped and covered his arm again, "Curse you, Sesshomaru!"

Sango stepped forward with a determined look on her face, "My turn..."

She threw her weapon, only for it to get sliced in half by Sesshomaru's sword.

"This is getting weak..." Sesshomaru sighed.

Suddenly, an arrow came right past Sesshomaru's ear. He whipped around to see Kikyo with her bow pointed at him.

"You're a little off," he stated in a worryless tone.

"I wasn't aiming for you," Kikyo lowered her bow and Sesshomaru turned around to see who she had hit.

"This is stupid," Inuyasha thought out loud as he sat on the side of the well, "I can't stay here forever..."

He jumped through and when he landed, he saw Sesshomaru and Kikyo first, then the gang huddled around something. He went over to see what had happened, keeping an eye on Sesshomaru nd Kikyo.

"Inuyasha..." Kikyo tried.

He pushed between Sango and Miroku to see Kagome, laying on the ground with an arrow through her stomache.

"Kagome!" he fell to his knees and grabbed her, picking her up and began toward the well.

"Where are you going?" Sango asked.

"They'll be able to help her there," he called back before jumping back through. He instantly began running once he hit the ground.

"Inu...yasha?" she winced in pain.

"Don't worry, I've got you...You're gonna be okay..." he replied; He didn't know where he was going but knew he had to get somewhere fast.