Chapter 17

Drip drop... Drip drop...

"Ugh..." Kagome sat up making the covers of a futon fold over and placed a hand on the back of her head.

She rubbed her head, trying to get rid of her headache. "Ow... What happened?" She asked.

"You had a very high fever and I brought it down for you." A different voice answered her.

She jumped. She didn't realize someone else was in the room with her. It was that guy she met earlier and another guy. The other guy had chestnut hair with baby blue eyes. He had on a yukata that was plain and dark blue. He looked familiar for some reason.

"Oh, where am I?" She asked.

"You are in a safe room away from all evil." Eisaku said.

"Don't worry, no one can hear us in here. Its sound proof."

"Who are you?" She asked.

"I am Genpaku. Nice to meet you."

"Are we still in the castle?" She asked.

"Yes, we are."

"Then it's never safe. We've got to find my friends and get out of here."

"Your friends? What do they look like?" Genpaku asked. Kagome found herself blushing again.

'What the hell! He just asked me about my friends! Why am I blushing?! What is wrong with me?!'

"Well, uh, one has long silver hair, but it looks white. Another is a monk, another a demon slayer. There's also a little cat like thing and a tall pony-tailed, uh, wolf sorta person." Kagome tried her best to explain without using demon or anything that would scare the person.

"Ah... I've seen them around here somewhere. They were looking for something earlier so I decided not to bother them."

"Oh man, they must have been looking for me."

"Might have been. You feel up to finding them?" Eisaku asked.

Kagome nodded and he pulled her up out of the futon on the floor. She didn't know why, but they reminded her of people, people she knew well...

(A/N-IF YOU DON'T READ THIS, YOU WON'T UNDERSTAND!!! ahem. Anyways, what's going on here is that Inuyasha and the others got away from Kagura and Kanna. But not how you think they did. Read on!)

"Kagome?! Kagome?!" Inuyasha yelled flying through the halls. Kagome stepped out of a room and Inuyasha flew to her with joy and anger. "Kagome! Where have you been?! We've been looking everywhere for you!" He exclaimed.

"Inuyasha?!" Kagome said surprised.

"Well that was fast." Two guys appeared behind Kagome that Inuyasha hadn't noticed before. The first things that Inuyasha noticed were that they were as tall as him and had muscular builds.

"Kagome... Who are they?" Inuyasha asked. Kagome blushed and looked away from Inuyasha so he wouldn't see.

"Uh, this guy sorta found me," She motioned to Eisaku and then pointed to Genpaku. "And he uh, I was sick, see and well..."

"Spit it out already!" He demanded.

The Eisaku stepped in front of Kagome protectively. Genpaku guarding her from behind.

"Don't yell at her! She has done nothing wrong!" He explained slowly, "I am Eisaku. I found her."

"And I am Genpaku, I made her fever go down."

"I didn't ask you! I asked Kagome!" Inuyasha grabbed Kagome from behind Eisaku and held her strongly by the arms. He looked straight into her eyes, his gaze never wavering.

"Ow. Inuyasha stop it!" She pleaded.

"Kagome, who are they? Who are they really?" Inuyasha asked. Kagome had to look away from his eyes, he just made her want to tell him the truth about how she sorta had a crush on them. She started blushing again and Inuyasha was so close to her face, he could see it as plain as day.

"They're who they said they were. They did take care of me. If you look in the room we just came out of, there is a futon and medical stuff everywhere."

"Kagome, how can you trust them when we're in Naraku's castle?"

"I didn't trust them! I fainted and they took care of me of their own free will! I didn't do anything!"

"Kagome, they didn't do anything to you did they?"

"NO! They aren't those kind of guys!"

"How can you be so sure?!"

Kagome didn't answer. She just turned her whole head away from Inuyasha. Inuyasha's eyes widened. His grip on her arms loosened and his arms slowly dropped to his sides. Kagome looked over to see why he stopped his third degree questions. Kagome couldn't see his face before he turned around.

"Inuyasha?" She asked.

"I see Kagome. I guess you really didn't like Koga huh?"

"Inuyasha what are you talking about?" Kagome placed her right hand on his shoulder. He brushed it off after a second. Terrified, Kagome held her hand against her chest. "Inuyasha?"

"I hope you're happy Kagome..." With that, Inuyasha took off down the hallway. It took a second before Kagome figured out what was going on.

"Oh no." She ran after him trying so hard to keep up. Eisaku and Genpaku running after her. "Inuyasha! You've got it all wrong!" She yelled. He didn't stop. At first she wasn't even sure he heard her but with his ears, he would be able to hear anything about 1-3 miles away! Why wasn't he stopping?

"What's going on?" Eisaku said pulling up on Kagome's right side, Genpaku on her left side. "Inuyasha thinks I'm involved with you two!" She yelled back.

"What?! Why would he think such a thing! I mean you're my-" Genpaku stopped.

"I'm what?!" She asked curious.

"You're my friend that I just met!" He answered.

"Oh! We're friends already?!" She asked confused.

"We're following you aren't we?"

"Okay..." They ran the rest of the way in silence.

Koga was down a hall looking around for Kagome. He got a whiff of Inuyasha's scent and ran towards it. He found Inuyasha walking with his head down.

"Hey Inuyasha, did you find Kagome?"

"Kagome?" He asked dumbfounded.

"Yeah, you know, my woman?" He replied.

"Oh, I just lost her. I haven't seen her in a while. She was down that hall the last time I saw her." Inuyasha said plainly.

"Good, I will claim her now."

Inuyasha didn't say anything. He just kept walking up the hallway.

"Hm? Hey dog-turd, what's up? I just claimed Kagome twice and you didn't say anything both times."

"I don't care anymore. If she wants you, you can have her."

Inuyasha turned the corner heading to the main hall.

"Hm, wonder what's eating him." Kagome turned the corner and yelled Koga's name. Koga turned around and ran to her. He stopped in mid air when he saw the two guys with her.

"Koga, have you seen Inuyasha? Do you know where he went?"

"Kagome... Who're they?" Koga motioned with his head to the guys.

"Oh them? Just friends who helped me when I was feeling bad. Have you seen Inuyasha? Its really important!"

"Ccchhhrrrrr...." It was a radio-like sound. Kagome reached into one of Koga's shin protectors and found a walkie-talkie.

"A walkie-talkie? Where did you get this Koga?" She asked. Koga didn't have time to answer.

"Everybody come in! This is important!" It was Sango's voice.

"What's up Sango?!" Kagome asked.

"We found the real Naraku! He doesn't seem too happy about it either."

"Where are you?" Inuyasha asked on his walkie-talkie.

"We're on the bottom floor in a huge room! Hurry up!"

'Naraku? This will definitely be a fight to the death. Will this really be the end of Naraku? Or will we....

TO BE CONTINUED