Welcome again everyone!Chapter 2 is now up and running! ... No, it's not running away. HAHA! I made a funny! ... I'll shut up now.

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KagomePriestess-15: Thank you! I really try to make it all those things! And as for the second chapter... Here you go!
biggest anime fan: That's true! And this is definitely not a one-shot. The other story, Cold Heart, is completely seperate. I just stole the idea of why Sesshoumaru would come after Kagome! And thank you, you're welcome, and that'd be great! Thank you so much! And the hiatus was only for a week so I could work on this one, lol! Now I'll be updating that one regularly, and this one just whenever.

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Thank you to both of you! It means so much! And now for something equally as important...

:Disclaimer:

Akana: Please don't sue us, Mr Lawyer, sir. We don't own anything but pocket lint.
Leiko: While that's partly true, it's also highly insulting, since you didn't include everything we own. We have pocket lint, but we have something else too! -- A penny! HAH!
Akana: Oh yeah, I forgot! It's underneath all the pocket lint.
Leiko: Wow... We're pathetic...
Akana: That we are, that we are...

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Well, that was... Pathetic... Now, read the not-so-pathetic story of Kagome-chan's birthday!

Chapter 2, More Kidnapping

Inuyasha opened his eyes drowsily. He yawned slightly and looked around, noticing how it was unusually bright and cheery. Something, somewhere, had to be wrong. There was no other explanation. A day just couldn't be that perfect with nothing to turn it horrible.

Inuyasha leapt from his tree and immediately picked up Kagome's scent. It was faint, and he could tell it'd been a few hours. He followed the trail, sniffing it out quickly. He soon realized that she had only been heading towards the well, and smirked at his own stupidity. Nothing was wrong; it was just a beautiful day! He kept following her trail, though. He just couldn't get rid of this feeling that told him something was very wrong...

He suddenly had two scents to deal with. One of an unknown demon and one of Kagome. He faintly cursed himself for not protecting her as he followed their scents, noticing that he smelled them together. The demon had obviously lain in wait and taken Kagome as she had been walking! This demon would pay; Inuyasha would make sure of it.

Kagome gulped. How exactly was she going to do that? She wasn't going to take Tetsusaiga, if that's what he meant. Something told her, though, that it wasn't what he had in mind at all. "W-What do you mean?" she asked.

He didn't respond. Instead, despite her protests, he simply leapt gracefully from tree to tree back to the field where his followers were awaiting. Rin and Jaken were pleased to see him, and yet confused as to why he had Inuyasha's wench with him.

Once he put her down, Kagome immediately backed away. "What do you want?" she yelled at him.

Jaken marched up to her. "How dare you, wench!" he shouted. "Lord Sesshoumaru will not tolerate such behavior!"

Kagome didn't even glance at him. She continued staring at Sesshoumaru, suddenly fearing for herself because of her outburst. Where did that foolish courage come from? her mind shrieked. I'm going to die, I'm going to die, I'm going to die! And I just turned 16, too!

Suddenly, a tornado appeared from the trees. The one inside it didn't even stop as he grabbed Kagome and was gone in an instant with the poor school girl.

Sesshoumaru watched the tornado disappear beyond the trees. He didn't attempt to go after it; he simply marked the scent well in his memory and decided to kill the unfortunate wolf demon next time he saw him.

Kagome looked at Kouga. "Thank you, I guess," she said, "for saving me." Her heart was still pounding at the fear of being killed by Sesshoumaru.

He smiled at her. "Anything for you!" he replied. "After all, you're my woman; I'd never let anything happen to y--" He suddenly tripped over a wire. He was quick enough to regain his balance, but that wasn't quite the problem. The wire was a trap, and now Kouga and Kagome were in a net suspended by two trees.

A hooded figure came out from the trees, and Kagome had no doubts that this was the one who'd first kidnapped her. She shrieked when she suddenly was no longer inside the net; the person had cast a spell moving her out, but leaving Kouga in. He picked up Kagome and ran off, leaving a frustrated and now very tangled up wolf behind.

Kagome looked at him. "What do you want?" she asked, her voice edged with fear. The fact that she couldn't see any of his face besides his eerie smirk did nothing to ease that fear.

"Your shards," he replied simply. "And you will be a good little priestess and help me find the others, too."

Kagome had no idea how to respond to this new foe. She knew nothing of his power or even of what he was! She just gulped and gathered the courage to ask another question. "Where are you taking me?"

"My home," he said. "Now, if this good little priestess would like to keep her head attached to the rest of her body, she'd ask no more questions." The subtle hint of danger in his voice was not missed by the "good little priestess".


Another cave, Kagome thought wearily when the hooded stranger finally put her down inside a rather large cavern. The walls were slick and bare except for the very back where a large weapon rack was. The weapon rack held an odd assortment of bows and arrows, swords, armor, and many weapons which Kagome didn't recognize. She slightly gulped when she looked at the pointy-ness of everything there.

The demon almost laughed aloud when he caught her staring at the weapons. "Don't worry, priestess," he said in false kindness. "I wouldn't use those on you... Unless I had a good reason. What would be a good reason for me to use them, though? Hm... Perhaps if someone didn't cooperate, I might find use for them..." He glanced at Kagome with that evil smirk back on his face.

Kagome shuddered. She didn't like this at all! She had no knowledge of this guy at all, so there was no way to tell if he was bluffing or not. Everyone else who'd come after her today she'd known; Kouga, caring and loving (a bit too much, maybe), Kagura, sarcastic and following Naraku's orders, and Sesshoumaru, cold and heartless. This was the only one she didn't, and it unnerved her to no extent. In fact, she was relieved when an interruption came in the form of wind blades.

The hooded figure jumped out of the way just in time. The blades continued to the back of the cave, completely destroying all of the weapons there, much to Kagome's glee. Kagura appeared at the entrance of the cave, her fan closed now. "Hand her over," she commanded, completely unafraid of the unknown demon.

"She's mine; I stole her fair and square!" the demon growled. "She's going to help me get the jewel shards!"

"That's not possible," Kagura said cockily, "seeing as how Naraku's going to absorb her for her powers!" Her fan opened and she swept it across, watching as more wind blades danced towards her foe. He wasn't fast enough to dodge these, and his cloak was torn up pretty badly.

He was wearing black hakama pants much like Inuyasha's. He had a black haori over his white kimono and Kagome saw that he had black hair that fell to his waist. His hood, miraculously, was untouched, so his face was still invisible.

Kagura laughed as she left on her feather, Kagome on it with her. Once again she'd completed her goal, but this time no one would take away Kagome until she got to Naraku's castle.

Kagome was on her hands and knees on the feather, her eyes wide. Naraku was going to absorb her? No way! She gulped, wishing that Inuyasha were with her right about now. He would make sure that Naraku never got his hands on her.

"Damned wolf!" Inuyasha growled once he came to the waterfall-blocked entrance to the cave Kouga inhabited. He angrily stomped in, not even noticing that Kouga's smell and presence, as well as Kagome's, were absent from inside the cave. Only when he got in and looked around did he realize they were missing. "Where's Kagome?" he growled at Hakaku and Ginta.

"We're not sure," Hakaku responded, surprised that Inuyasha was there.

Ginta looked at Hakaku. "Say, you don't think Kagura took her, do you?"

"That might be," he responded, looking at him too. "Kouga's not here, either. He most likely went off to find her."

They turned back to Inuyasha, but he was already gone, following the trail Kouga'd taken when he'd run after Kagome.

"Stay in here," Kagura commanded after locking Kagome up in a cell in Naraku's dungeon. "Naraku should be with you shortly." She smirked when a look of fear came to the school girl's face, then she walked off to wander about the castle for a while until she was needed.

Kagome sat in a corner and pulled her legs up to hug them, laying her chin on her knees. She had to figure out a way to escape before Naraku came! She'd have to do something, but what? What could she, a priestess with undeveloped powers, do to escape the prison of a powerful demon? Well, half demon, technically, but it honestly didn't matter! The only thing that mattered now was that she was helpless to do anything!

But maybe that wasn't so... Kagome looked around the dungeon, but immediately regretted doing so. There was a SKELETON leaning against the wall of it! Not a very helpful or pleasant sight at all! The fact that the solid wall behind it suddenly burst open didn't help either. Until, that is, she saw who'd busted it open...

Once more, it was Kouga who'd come to her rescue. He flashed a grin her way and picked her up, leaping out of the large holes he'd made in the side of the castle. One for subtlety, Kouga was not.

"You got out of the trap?" Kagome asked in vague confusion.

"Of course!" he replied. "Nothing could keep me from you!" He ran into the woods, back in the direction of his den.

"Interception!" a voice yelled from the trees. Kagome recognized it, unfortunately, and watched in fear as the hooded demon leapt in front of Kouga, throwing stars in one hand and a katana he'd salvaged from his weapon rack in the other. He was prepared to fight and reclaim the "good little priestess" he'd lost.

Kouga set Kagome down. "Stand back," he told her. "It's time to get rid of a nuisance!" He smirked at the hooded figure. "About time you paid for that little trick you pulled back there!" He cracked his knuckles confidently and got in a fighting stance.

"Fools."

Kouga whirled around, and the hooded figure stared in anger and slight shock. Both glared at the figure standing in a tree with Kagome, holding her with the only arm he had. His silver hair swished behind him as he ran off, leaving the two to simply gape open-mouthed at the lord.

Kagome's watched beeped again, telling her that it was now 3 o'clock.