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Recap:

Little did they all know, that might have been the last time they ever saw Kagome alive.

Trust

Chapter 10-

"Four chocolate please!" Kagome drummed her fingers on the counter and waited for the guy at the counter to finish scooping to ice cream. Normally, she would have checked the guy out, but now she had little interest in guys ever since the Kouga incident. She hated all guys except for Miroku. Oh, and Inuyasha of course.

The guy handed her the chocolate ice cream and Kagome handed him a five. Although the total only came to $4.50, Kagome let him keep the change: she wouldn't be able to carry it anyway.

She turned, carefully, and headed back towards her friends. She had just got around the building, when someone stepped in her path. Not taking her eyes of the ice cream, Kagome made a simple request.

"Excuse me." she said polietly, and tried to move around the person. Instead, the person moved with her. Kagome smiled, thinking it a silly conincidence that the guy had moved in the same direction as her, and swung to the right. The guy swung with her.

It went back and forth for a few moments, until Kagome, annoyed and realising that this was no accident, looked up. What she saw made her drop the ice cream.

It was the guy from her dream. Black hair, crimson eyes, thin eyelashes and all. Kagome stared for a moment, then, coming to her sense and sensing danger, took off. She ran around the opposite side of the building, only to find the guy already there. Kagome, extremely frightened, backed away from him.

"What the matter sweet pea?" he asked, and Kagome reconized the voice, it was the same voice that had made her skin crawl in the dream. Immediatly, Kagome yelled out a name that she found comfort in their presence.

"INUYA--" someone put a cloth over her mouth. Kagome inhaled, and was swallowed by darkness.

.:.With Everyone Else.:.

Miroku was unconcious again, with Sango muttering darkly on the opposite side of the blanket from him. Miroku was half-covered in sand, and Inuyasha knew that Sango wanted to finish burying him, and would have, had Inuyasha not stopped her. She had instead settled for muttering about how she would kill him when he woke up.

Suddenly, Inuyasha sat bolt upright and took off running. He had heard Kagome calling his name, and had smelt her fear. His nose led him to a spot where he could tell she had been only moments ago, but her scent was laced with anothers. It was the same smell of the youkai who had almost marked her as his mate.

But there was another familiar smell too. Inuyasha swore aloud. It was a horrid stench. A stench that Inuyasha would never forget.

The stench of Naraku.

.:.With Kagome.:.

Kagome opened her eyes, closed them, and then opened them again. Either she had gone blind, or the room she was in was pitch black. About to wave her hand infront of her face, she found that her hands and feet had been tied together. She had also been gagged.

A few mintues of pulling, chewing and spiiting, and a string of curses later, and Kagome was free of her gag. She was still tied up, but at least she could breathe better now.

She peered around the room, trying to see something, anything, in this endless darkness. She was unsuccessful. Where on earth was she anyway? The lastthing she remembered was going back to inuyasha and the others with their ice cream.

Thats when she remebered. The guy from her dream had been infront of her. He had been keeping her distracted while someone came up behind her and pressed a cloth to her mouth. The cloth had had something on it that made her fall alseep.

Kagome groaned. Her head started to pound and she rolled into the most comfortable posistion she could find. Thats when it hit her like a ton of bricks. Litterally.

Kagome saw stars and gasped for breath. Something or someone had just kicked her in the stomach so hard, she wouldn't have been surprised if her stomach had gone through her spine.

"Don't move." ordered a cold voice. Kagome reconised that voice, though vaguely.

"Why...don't...you...show...your...self. Coward." she added, gasping the words out.

"Very well." the voice gave Kagome the chills.

A bright light suddenly blinded Kagome, and she was temprarily blinded by night spots. Blinking, she finally mamanged to get a good look at her captor.

It was the man who had distracted her while the other one came up behind her.

"Naraku!" Kagome exclaimed, finally remembering him from when that mysterious blue light she had conjured up had transported her and Inuyasha to safety, and had gotten rid of her burn marks.

"What do you want with me?"

"Why, nothing, sweet pea. Your of no use to me, except to bait that stupid boyfriend of yours. If you weren't bait, I would have slit your throat a long time ago." He smiled so evily that the devil's knees would have been knocking had he seen it.

"Of course, you are also a good thing to have to control that mangey wolf. As soon as your precious Inuyasha gets here, I think I'll fill the wolfs request and give you to him. Then I'll kill Inuyasha, and you can the wolfs mate, as I'm sure that would be worse than death for you, right?" he smiled that evil smile again.

Kagome gulped and tried to make herself as small as possible. What was she going to do? Naraku was right; being with Kouga would be worse than death for her, but with Inuyasha dead, Kagome would cease to exist as well. Maybe not physically, but mentally for sure.

.:.With Inuyasha.:.

inuyasha had picked up Narakus scent as was now racing around town, following it. He refused to stop or slow down for Miroku or Sango, he refused to stop even if he got tired. He would not rest until Kagome was safe within his arms, and that she knew how much she meant to him. He would tell her as soon as he got the chance. He would tell her,

That he loved her.

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Alright, a much awaited chapter done! Now, for chapter 11...