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Inuyasha pushed Kagome down. The arrow that she had shot at him was knocked off target, but it hit his leg. He screamed out in pain, fell down and made sure that nothing was seriously hurt. Then Inuyasha looked at Kagome.

She was breathing heavily. He must have knocked the wind out of her when he pushed her to the ground. It looked like she was desperately trying hard to drive the poison out. Her eye color danced around from black to brown and brown to black. Her body was shaking violently and it appeared that she was struggling to get up.

Inuyasha rushed to her side to help, but Kagome hissed at him. She stood up and swung a balled fist towards Inuyasha's face. He easily dodged it and jumped behind her. He then figured out what the effects of the poison had on Kagome.

She began talking to the spot in front of her and throwing her fists around at nothing. "Die Inuyasha." She placed an arrow to her bow that she retrieved and shot it into the bushes.

Inuyasha realized that she must have been seeing him over there with Kikyou. He glanced up and saw Naraku with Kagura and Kanna looking down at them. He saw something else and could smell death circling all around it. That thing was a lot stronger than Naraku's other incarnations, Inuyasha figured.

Kagome was screaming and swinging frantically at nothing. She put another arrow to her bow and this time fired it up at the cliff where Naraku was. It almost hit him in the head, but he jumped out of the way.

"Damn," Inuyasha grumbled.

Kagome swung around and pointed an arrow at Inuyasha. He slowly backed up, with Kagome following him. He stopped when his back brushed up against a rock wall. He looked around for somewhere to go, but Kagome quickly advanced and she pointed the arrow tip at his heart.

Inuyasha breathed slowly and winched when he exhaled too hard and the arrow jabbed into his body.

"Kagome!" he yelled. "Snap out of it! You don't want to do something that you'll regret later on, trust me."

The miko's eye color changed to brown for a moment. She screamed out in pain and dropped the bow and arrow. She clutched her neck and screamed again at the burning pain that lingered there.

"Kagome. Can you hear me?"

Inuyasha jumped up and ran to Kagome. He got there before she fell to the rocky ground with an ear-piercing scream. Inuyasha held her in his arms and lowered her slowly to the ground.

He immediately checked her neck where he had seen the mark before. He sniffed the tiny puncture and made sure that it was poison like he had suspected, and it was. Inuyasha looked up to where Naraku had been and spat in disgust at what he had done to Kagome.

"You'll pay for this you COWARD!"

Kagome started to stir. She made a quiet noise that sounded like she was struggling to get up. Inuyasha looked at her with worry as she got up. There were locks of hair covering her face. She looked at Inuyasha and brushed them away. Kagome's eyes went back to the deadly black hues. She raised an arm and pointed at Inuyasha.

"Traitor!"

The words echoed in the hanyou's mind and all around the barren land.

Kagome picked the bow and arrow back up and pointed them at Inuyasha once again. She put him back in the same position against the wall and pulled back on the arrow.

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Naraku was dragging Zuri by his chains back into the hidden room. He was in a fowl mood and quite upset that Kagome had fired an arrow that almost killed him.

"That was close wassssn't it?" Zuri hissed.

Naraku pulled on his chains roughly and scowled when the demon tripped and almost fell to the ground.

"You shouldn't be so clumsy Zuri."

The demon glared at Naraku from behind and dug his sharp claws into his palms. The smell of fresh blood filled his nostrils as the blood dripped out of the wounds that he had just inflicted. He raised his hands and began drinking the blood until there were tiny scabs forming on the skin.

Zuri hissed again. " Sssso why do you think I made the beautiful girl fire an arrow at you?"

Naraku became dumbfounded at this. Could his new incarnation read minds? He didn't remember him having that power. And if he did Naraku would be in trouble.

Zuri started to laugh wickedly. "Now, now Naraku. Do you actually believe that I have psychic powers? Even a mere child could assume that you thought that I made the beauty try to hurt you. You must be getting too paranoid. Is that half breed Inuyasha bothering you?"

"I am not afraid of a mere hanyou!"

"Is it because you are one yourself?"

Naraku glared at Zuri. He was very smart for a demon that was just created a couple of days ago with no knowledge at all. And he knew that Zuri could easily outsmart him within a short period of time.

"Quite speechless aren't you?" Zuri said as he broke Naraku's thoughts in half.

Naraku pulled on the chains and walked into the hidden room with Zuri in tow. He would make this room Zuri's prison cell, with only jars of poison and a fireplace. He was hoping that Zuri would be so starved and thirsty that he would kill himself.

He placed the demon in the dark corner. He took the end of the chain that he was holding onto and placed it on a weird shaped hook that was attached to the cave wall. Then Naraku turned around and pushed the boulder over the room entrance, closing Zuri off from the rest of the cave.

Zuri hissed and sat down. A still picture of Kagome's face hung in his mind. He chuckled quietly and started to walk to the table with the poison jars. Once he found the purple jar with the poison in it that he had used on Kagome, he sat down.

The demon picked up the jar and stared at it. "So. Maybe the deed I did for Naraku will come in handy," he patted the jar and placed it gently down. "That hanyou, Inuyasha should be dead in no time," he said in a joyful voice. "I'll escape from Naraku and get the young maiden on my way. She should be pretty much out of it so I'll have a better chance of her not putting up a fight."

Zuri sniffed the air and smirked as he sat there. "So she's still here. Excellent, but so is that Inuyasha."

He became engulfed with rage. He picked up an empty jar made of delicate pottery and hurled it across the room. The noise of the pottery smashing against solid rock vibrated throughout the cave.

The angered demon went to the window, but was cut short by the lack of chain. He cursed under his breath and went up to the hook that Naraku had placed the chain on. It was stuck somehow.

"Oh well. I have something that might be able to set me free."

Zuri walked to the other side of the room. His robes trailed out from behind him as he glided along. A quiet noise of metal upon metal could be faintly heard as he went to a different corner.

He moved a rock that was stuck in one of the corners. He dug his hand inside and produced a piece of metal. It was razor sharp and had strips of leather around one end so the handler could have a good grip.

The demon ran a clawed finger over it until he came to the tip. He checked it over and smiled when he saw a trail of poison where he had his finger.

"This is about the only good thing that Naraku has done to anyone," he chuckled. Zuri slashed at the air and jumped up and down with joy when he saw poison crystals fall all over the place. "Giving me poison that's embedded within my fingertips!"

He took the sword and began hacking at the chains with the sword. Sparks flew everywhere as metal clashed upon metal. Zuri hissed when one huge spark landed on his hand and burned through his soft skin. He flicked it away afterwards and continued working.

The chain was slowly beginning to chip away. Zuri's sword was becoming dull so he decided to sharpen it up. He took one of his claws and trailed it over the edges and watched as metal slices fell to the ground. He hacked at chain again and again.

There was movement from outside of the boulder. Zuri's ears could hear someone trying to move it. He quickly hid the sword and walked over to it. He sniffed the air and glared at the boulder.

"What the hell do you want Naraku?"

"The question is Zuri, what the hell are you doing?"

"Sssss," Zuri hissed. "I can tell that you've heard the racket I've been making, no?"

"Trying to escape are you? And why is that you want to? Is there something outside you have an interest in?"

"Hmmm."

"A young girl by any chance? Well you'll never get to her Zuri, she's been claimed by Inuyasha as you can tell."

"Oh how clever of you Naraku."

Zuri heard his creator leave mumbling about how he was a 'stupid fool', a 'liar', and 'it was a mistake creating you.'

The demon brought the sword back down.

"Scared now, aren't you? Afraid that I'll try to kill you?"

He thrust the sword down on the chain. The metal just about broke. The sword vibrated on the impact and was almost thrown out of Zuri's hands, but with his strong grasp, he hung on.

"Just about there."

The sword hit the chains one last time. It sliced right through the strong metal. The two ends fell to the ground loudly. Zuri smiled with his sharp fangs sticking out. They shone for a moment before he tucked them safely away in his mouth.

Zuri moved his legs and liked the feel of being able to move about freely. He walked over to the table with the poison jars and placed them inside a pocket that he had made inside just for them. Then the demon walked to the window and sniffed the air.

"Ah. I see the beautiful girl is still here. Most likely trying to kill that hanyou. Even if she doesn't I'll have my fun."

He cracked his knuckles and went over to the table and began to drag it to the window. Then he stood on it and pulled himself onto the windowsill.

The demon looked down at the rocks. He wasn't bothered one bit by the drop that he would have to make. He would be able to test out his speed and jumping abilities.

Zuri swung his feet over the edge and sniffed the air.

"I will get you, beautiful girl."

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Inuyasha was waiting for the arrow to pierce his heart. Kagome was staring at him with a blank expression plastered on her face. She was holding the bow with shaky hands and by now the poisoned miko was deciding to shoot him or not.

Inuyasha knew that if he leapt out of the way now he would most likely not be hit because of the position of the bow. He could feel his muscles go tense as he got ready to jump.

Kagome black eyes looked straight at him. She pulled back on the arrow and let it go. It just grazed the hanyou's shoulder and fell to the ground, no longer of use to her.

From her view she had just slain Inuyasha. She slumped down to the ground and started to cry.

"What have I done?"

Inuyasha looked at her confused. She didn't hurt him at all then he remembered that she was still poisoned and in her state she must have killed him or something that could cause her to cry.

He ran to Kagome and put a hand on her shoulder. But the hanyou withdrew it immediately. Why was Kagome's skin so cold? He took a step back when she spoke again.

"I don't think I can live with this guilt." She went and got the arrow then placed it just above her heart. "I can't go on like this!"

"No! Kagome, don't!"

Inuyasha snatched the arrow from her and broke it in half. He threw the pieces away and started shaking Kagome, desperately trying to wake her up out of the world that she was trapped in.

"Kagome! Can you hear me? Say something."

The miko could hear a distant voice. She could hear his voice, but there was no Inuyasha. He had faded away and would never return. She could hear him calling her name. Where was he?

"I-I-Inuyasha?"

The hanyou could feel some warmth returning to her body very slowly. He knelt down beside Kagome and waited for her to say something, anything to show him that she was still there… somewhere.

Inuyasha saw Kagome's eye color flicker for a moment, but it went to black. He could hear her breathing become forced and he was thrown back when she threw her arms up to clutch at her throat.

Kagome began to scream and tiny drops of blood fell to the ground. "Get out of me! Get out!" she was ripping at her sensitive skin with her fingernails, trying to dig out the poison.

Inuyasha quickly grabbed her blood-doused hands and held them at bay. He tried to talk to Kagome but nothing worked. Her warmth was leaving and he knew that the poison was acting up yet again. But before he could move a tiny black dot shot by him.

Inuyasha stood up and looked at Kagome. She had gotten up too, but just as quickly she fell back slapping her neck as she did so.

The tiny dot became bigger and bigger. Inuyasha smiled and poked at the character.

"Good timing Myouga."

Kagome's eye color turned back to brown and the pain in her neck had subsided. She looked around and saw Inuyasha looking at her. She threw herself at his feet and began crying.

Inuyasha a hand out and Kagome took it. Then he picked her up and jumped up the rocks to Naraku's cave.

They saw Kagura, Kanna, and Naraku himself escaping on the wind mistress's feather. Inuyasha could make out some of their conversation. All he heard Kagura say was:

"Zuri's escaped. We'll let Inuyasha handle him on his own."

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Well that's it. I just had to end it there Mu hu ha ha ha! Anyways I have an important announcement for 'To Trust Again'. I will be making a special chapter for x-mas just for you guys. It will be long (hopefully) and it should be fairly sad too (aren't all my stories? I can't help writing tragedy) Anyways I hope you enjoy this chapter a lot is going to be happening in the up coming ones. Bye bye!