Inuyasha stepped back and judged the distance between him and the other side of the cliff. He could make it. It would be a close call, but he figured that with his determination, there was nothing he couldn't do.

"What are you doing Inuyasha-sama?" Myouga asked him.

"I'm jumping." Inuyasha said matter of factly.

"Oh that's- are you sure that's wise Inuyasha-sama?"

Inuyasha ignored him, and hoping he had judged the distance correctly, jumped into the black abyss before him.

He had given Myouga no time to jump or run away.

"We'll never make it." He heard the flee say.

Finally he touched the ground on the other side.

"You can stop covering your eyes now Myouga-jiji." Inuyasha said, a tone of annoyance in his voice.

Myouga looked up slowly.

"Oh, we're safe now. I mean, I never doubted that you could get here…"

Inuyasha stopped paying attention at that point. He had more important things to worry about. He looked around him, and found the 'village' again. The smells that had come across his nose on the other side were far stronger now than they were before.

"Sesshomaru." Inuyasha said with anger.

Myouga just looked at him. Of anyone, he knew of Inuyasha's feelings for Kagome, but as usual, he kept any knowledge he had, hidden away. Besides that, he had no desire to let Inuyasha know, for he had a huge fear of being squished again.

As Inuyasha walked, he began to notice footprints, many footprints, as if there had been an army marching through here recently. That, Inuyasha thought, could be the explanation of the smell of blood, but there was still the lingering scent of his brother.

"Inuyasha-sama… how is Kagome-sama?"

Inuyasha raised an eyebrow.

"How do you know about that Myouga-jiji?"

"Never mind that, just answer my question."

Inuyasha kept walking.

"She's alright now." Inuyasha said. But in the back of his mind, he still felt something very wrong. He still felt she was somehow in danger.

As they continued walking, they came to a small village, or what Inuyasha called a village. It was so small, he didn't know what else to call it. There were very few buildings, maybe three, and one large, dark building in the center of them. The center building, had a fence surrounding it, and many statues of youkai inside the courtyard.

Everything in this village was dead. There stood one dead tree in the far corner of the courtyard, and even the grass underneath Inuyasha's feet was dead and black.

At coming to the fence the scent of his brother was so strong, it overwhelmed his senses. He didn't know what to do first. He was so angry at his brother, he wanted to rush in and kill him. But in the same sense, he knew if he wasn't careful, his brother would end his life instead. He also knew, that he didn't have much time, maybe just an hour, and then he had no chances of defeating his brother.

"We have to hurry Inuyasha-sama."

Just as Myouga spoke, a huge youkai appeared and blocked the entrance to the center building.

Inuyasha looked up at the youkai, anger flowing in his veins.

"I don't have time for this!" he shouted.

The youkai grinned.

"I want to fight Sesshomaru!"

No response from the youkai, or inside the building.

Inuyasha drew his sword.

"Kaza no Kizu!" Inuyasha yelled. (I know I didn't spell that right… sorry)

The youkai stood firm in it's place. The attack hit it, but to no avail. It didn't even effect this youkai in the least. Inuyasha stood perplexed. How was this youkai so strong? Maybe if he used something stronger...

The youkai took advantage of Inuyasha's current state of confusion and struck him to the ground.

Inuyasha stood up and swung at the youkai, but once again, to no avail. The youkai smiled evilly and looked at Inuyasha. Myouga jumped off in a hurry and left Inuyasha alone to face the youkai. In a final attempt, Inuyasha attacked once again, only for the youkai to intercept his attack, and hit Inuyasha with his own.

Inuyasha was knocked unconscious.

……

Sesshomaru laughed as he walked out of the building he was in. He walked across the dead grass to the main gate. There a youkai he had placed there, was staring at the unconscious Inuyasha.

"Perfect. This will be even easier than I thought it would be."

Jaken walked up behind his master.

"Shall we take him under now my Lord Sesshomaru?"

"Yes. Get him bound, and then take him down."

"Hai, Sesshomaru-sama."

"And Jaken, make the cords tight, he may be exhausted and weak, but never underestimate him."

"But Sesshomaru-sama, tonight-"

"Jaken, he may be a hanyou, but his is still my brother. NEVER underestimate him."

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Kaede heard a noise in the distance. It sounded almost like a plea for help. It sounded like Kagome. But why would Kagome be yelling for help. Didn't she always have Inuyasha with her? And wasn't she in her time?

Kaede picked up her bow and arrows, and walked as quickly as her old bones would carry her, toward where she heard the noise.

When she came to where she had heard the noise she came across a rather large, but weak youkai, about to strike a young girl. Her apparel was strange like Kagome's, but this girl was battered and bruised. This girl was weak, and tired. Kagome was always full of energy.

Just as the youkai was about to strike the young girl, she passed out on the ground. The youkai was close to contact, when it was hit with Kaede's arrow, and it disappeared.

Kaede walked over to the now unconscious girl and gently rolled her over. Kaede gasped slightly. Had that youkai done this? Surely not.

"K... Kagome?"

-0-

Back at Kaede's village, Kagome was laid next to the fire, and Kaede ordered a hot bowl of broth for her. Kaede felt it her responsibility to examine Kagome, being she was the only thing close to a doctor for several miles. Kaede had been the doctor in the village since the death of Kikyo, her sister.

As Kaede examined her, she noticed the broken ribs, several bruises, cuts, and scrapes, but the thing that most intrigued her, was the fact that Kagome was showing signs that the other woman showed during pregnancy. But that was impossible. Kagome couldn't be. She couldn't. Could she? She was showing all the signs, had even gained a little weight and her abdomen was slightly larger than normal.

Kaede tried to convince herself otherwise, but she could come up with no other explanation for what she was discovering. Until Kagome woke up, she would have to be under the assumption that Kagome was indeed, pregnant.

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Mrs. Hirugashi had done everything that she could possibly think of to find her daughter. She had phoned all the police stations, gone down to the hospital, gone out searching herself, and even had Sota put signs up. She had gone everywhere she thought Kagome might go, and everywhere she could think someone would take her.

If Mrs. Hirugashi knew her daughter at all, she had probably gone searching for that Inuyasha...

Mrs. Hirugashi sighed. If only she had stayed with her that night. Insisted that she would not leave her daughter. Then maybe she would not be missing again.

She walked down the street, a tear going down her cheek. She had underestimated the determination her daughter had to be with that... that...

Mrs. Hirugashi let out another sigh. Her daughter was too much like she was. She should have taken that into account. Kagome was so innocent, so sure that things were exactly as she saw them to be. Mrs. Hirugashi had never had the heart to teach her daughter that things were not always as they seemed. Her own blindness had brought her so much pain, and yet it hadbrought her two precious children. Two wonderful children that she never wanted to go through the same pain. Her children never knew what had happened all those years ago, all the pain that she had seen in her life. She learned just after she had Kagome, that to get through life all she had to do was smile. And it became easy to do, because that is what her children wanted her to do, and because they made her smile at all the things they did. Her children had never asked many questions, they just took what they knew and moved on. When Kagome had asked, when she was small, why she didn't have a daddy like the other girls, Mrs. Hirugashi had never had the heart to tell her the truth, and in the world today, she may not have believed her anyway. So Kagome had gotten a simple answer, her father was dead. And so he was. Then man that she had married, the man she had known was dead, for he ceased to exist. When things ended, she walked away from him, seeing the body of the man she loved, but never seeing the spirit that she knew was inside again. She had never thought she would have to deal with a situation like that again, she figured that it had all ended that night so many years ago. But when Kagome had come home with Inuyasha, the hanyou..... she knew it had started all over again. It was not that Mrs. Hirugashi had something against Inuyasha personally, but he was a hanyou, a monster, a demon. And no matter how much like a man he could make people perceive him as, he would never be who Kagome thought he was, because he was a youkai. And youkai, all youkai, were never to be trusted. Never again.

When Mrs. Hirugashi returned home, Sota was in bed, and Grandpa was still out searching. She went up the stairs and sat on Kagome's bed.

"Oh Kagome..."

She buried her face in her hands and began to cry. She looked through Kagome's open window and went over to shut it. She always told her to keep the window closed so bugs didn't come in. Suddenly she felt what she figured was one of those bugs, and swatted her neck.

"Mph. Hirphmgushi-sawma."

Mrs. Hirugashi looked around her. Finally she traced the muffled noised to her hand, with which she just 'swatted the bug'. She looked down and her stomach turned. She finally found her voice just long enough to speak his name.

"M-Myouga?"

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A/N: Well, there's chapter seven. Hey I updated faster than normal! Aren't you glad? What is this? Twice in one week? lol. Well, I think I just gave things a bit of a plot twist... hmm... let's see how things keep going... R&R And thanx again for the reviews everyone!!! =D