PLP: I'm starting this chapter! GO ME!

QJP: Actually, no, I am. You get to write first and try to take over the whole thing.

PLP: Oh no, I WILL.

QJP: BC, help.

BC: Cricket 13, sick her!

Cricket 13: Yes master! (Carries PLP away)

PLP: You won't get away with this.

QJP: (hands BC candy) sure I will. Now to the fic! And remember, we still have the Inu gang. (Eats popcorn as she turns on the TV to watch the captured Inu gang)

MyMotherToldMeNo: NO! Wait! You can't start yet! (Speaks into microphone that goes into secret room) Sango?

Sango: Uh, yeah?

MyMotherToldMeNo: I'm here to save you! (Finds room and takes Sango's hand and pulls her out of room) We are safe now Sango.

Sango: Uh, thanks. Safe from what?

MyMotherToldMeNo: The evil authoress, and…Miroku.

Sango: What's so bad about Miroku?

QJP: I knew you liked him. Now that MyMotherToldMeNo saved Sango, let's go onto the chapter.

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"Wolf prints! Sango said, pointing down at the trail. It was still dark but the tracks were very noticeable.

Kagome rode Prancer towards her to see the paw prints that she was pointing at. "Your right. Lets head back to camp, the wolves seem to be heading in that direction along with the hoof prints."

"Right!"

The two headed back. Seeing that Kikyo, Naraku nor the two missing horses had come back, Sango and Kagome were getting very worried now. Both girls knew that their chances of encountering the wolves had greatly increased now that they spotted the tracks. Kagome dismounted and ran into the cabin that Inuyasha, Miroku and Shippo were in. "We haven't found them yet, so here's what we could do. We could pair up in groups of two but that would leave Shippo alone. We could also have one group of three so that one of us can stay with Shippo. Or, just me and Sango could go and search for them and everyone else stay here."

"It's better if you have all the help you can get," Miroku spoke up. "So I suggest me, you and Sango are in a group and Inuyasha stay here with Shippo."

"I want to come along too." Shippo whined.

"That's not a good idea Shippo. The wolves are very active and we can't risk you getting lost." Kagome explained.

"If Inuyasha stays here, he can protect you a lot better than I can," Miroku stated.

"There is no way in hell I'm going with that pervert." Sango growled.

"He's behaved himself so far so what's the big deal?" Kagome said, walking towards Prancer again. "Besides, it's just until we find Kikyo and Naraku."

"But who knows how long that'll take!"

"Just put up with him for a little while longer." Inuyasha said hesitantly.

"Fine. But I'll lead, Kagome will follow and you better not come anywhere near my ass!" Kagome and Sango hopped back on their horses and waited for Miroku to tack up Apricot.

A half hour later they were riding up the trial and Moonshadow started to become uneasy. He laid his ears back and started chomping the bit and side passing down the trial. "Easy boy," Sango told the stallion while stroking his neck soothingly. "I hope we find them soon. Moonshadow might dump me any moment."

Kagome looked around to see if she could find any signs of Kikyo or Naraku but wasn't having any luck.

After a long 3 hours of searching, the horses were sweating and tired, as were the riders. "We've been searching for three and a half hours and haven't seen so much as a hair of those two or the horses anywhere!" Miroku complained.

"Look, more hoof prints!" Sango called from the front and followed said tracks around a bend where they collided with wolf tracks again. There the two horse tracks separated.

"I'll follow these hoof marks while you follow those Miroku." Kagome ordered. "Do you mind Sango?"

"Why would I mind? I'll just look for the two stupid people." Sango stated.

Kagome nodded and started following the tracks she said she would follow until they stopped at a waterway. She made Prancer get in and walk around to find where the prints continued on the other side. Kagome had trouble finding the tracks through the slowly moving water, but would not give up and kept Prancer moving to prevent the mare from stopping and playing in the water. Finally, Prancer stopped with her ears foreword and nickered, a second later another nicker could be heard deep in the woods on the other side of the river. Kagome clucked to Prancer and the mare took off at a slow canter through the water and towards the bushes. Once there, Princess came into view and nickered again. When Prancer answered with a nicker of her own, Princess all but galloped over to the other mare, practically knocking her down in the process of greeting her. They nipped at one another and danced around each other while Kagome just held on for dear life as the horses went nuts in excitement. Once the two settled down, Kagome got a nudge from Princess and so she stroked the mare's neck and grabbed the reins. She clucked to both horses and started to walk back to where her, Sango, and Miroku separated.

"Oh good. You found Princess." Sango said when Kagome and the two horses showed up.

"Yeah. Any luck with finding Kikyo and Naraku?" Kagome responded while dismounting Prancer and ground-tying the two mares.

"Uh…you can say that, sure."

Just then Kagome spotted the two lumps on the ground covered with blankets. "What's under the blankets?"

"I'll let you find out for yourself." Sango said, removing the blanket covering the largest lump.

"I-is that…Naraku?" Kagome asked in disbelief when she saw the disfigured and half eaten corpse.

"Or what's left of him at least. Kikyo's no better." Sango re-covered the 'mans' body. "What are we going to do about this? We can't tell Shippo, he'll be heartbroken. But he'll also want to know where they are. He has no idea that he's an orphan now."

"Who's an orphan?" Miroku asked, leading Night towards the two girls. He looked a little beat up.

"What happened to you?" Sango asked.

"Why Sango, I didn't know you cared so much about me."

"I don't. I just can't have people getting hurt out here because then they might file lawsuits on us."

"Well, I'm fine. Night just charged and knocked me over then him and Apricot started to fight."

"They weren't fighting, they were playing." Kagome informed him. "Now we must get back to what we're going to do with Shippo."

"Well, does he have any other family?" Sango asked.

"I don't think so…"

Just then a brilliant idea came to Sango, "Lets adopt him! We have plenty of room and he practically lives at the barn as it is."

"But Sango, we have no idea how to raise a kid. Besides, he might actually have more family."

"Well, then lets just get back to camp."

"But what are we going to tell him? He's going to want to know if we found Naraku and Kikyo yet and he'll get suspicious when he sees Night and Princess without them."

"We'll just have to tell him that we couldn't find them and…that most likely they'll meet us back at the barn or something."

"Shippo's a pretty smart kid. I don't think he'll believe that, but its all we have so, lets try it and hope he doesn't see through it. I don't know what I'll do if he tries to look for them himself." Then Kagome went and gathered up Princess's reins and mounted Prancer while Sango did the same to Night and Moonshadow. They waited for Miroku to mount Apricot and then the three of them headed back to camp.

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QJP: well, finally this chapter is done.

PLP: Yup and it only has about 15 more chapters or something until this fic is complete.

QJP: yeah…then I'll be starting another fic and that one will begin to consume my boring and pitiful life.

PLP: Your lucky you know all these ideas for different fics. I'll be lucky if I can finish even one.

QJP: well, lets get the review answers answered:

Inuyasha: What the hell are you talking about? How am I being mean to 'your' gang?

-CuteAnimeBoysMakeMePant-: sorry, she's already dead…I would have put her death in detail like I did Naraku's but I reached my limit of 5 pages for that chapter. But basically the same thing that happened to Naraku happened to her.

Oneesan Kikyo: What we meant when we said that Shippo's heart is going to be broken is when Sango starts dating Miroku he'll be sad that his crush is taken by another.

MyMotherToldMeNo: Are you happy now that you saved Sango? So don't cry any more since I actually let you go in there and save sango from the terrible wrath of being stuck in that room.

Blackcat8610: I didn't really think that was a bloody description but it was all I could think of at the time.

QJP PLP: I was tired! And that's my excuse for not detailing Kikyo's death.

Thanx you 6!