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Chapter Nineteen

It was early morning, the sun was just coming up, and the group left Kaede's hut a while ago. Kagome was riding on Inuyasha's back, and Shippo, Sango, and Miroku were riding on Kirara.

Kagome pushed some of Inuyasha's silver-white hair out of her face and looked up at the sky. The sun was painted with the pastel colours of the morning. She sighed and laid her head down on Inuyasha's back.

"We're almost at the spot where Naraku's castle was last," Inuyasha said.

"Huh? Oh, yeah," she muttered.

They arrived at the spot a few minutes later and kagome climbed off of Inuyasha's back. Inuyasha lowered himself to the ground and tried to pick up Naraku's scent.

"I got it!" he declared and hopped back onto his feet, motioning for Kagome to get back on (does that sound dirty or am I the only one who thinks that?).

"And where exactly do you think you're going?" Kagura said from where she was standing outside. Akane slammed the door closed and ran down the hallway leading away from it. 'I knew it was too easy.'

Juts then, she heard the sound of an explosion and when she looked back she saw clouds of smoke and pieces of the door scattered all over the place. 'Crap.' She thought as she turned back around and continued running.

Kagome drowsily opened her eyes. 'Oh, I must have drifted off,' she thought to herself, then looked around at her surroundings. She couldn't get a good look though, everything was moving by her so fast. All she could make out was that she in a forest, and obviously was still riding on Inuyasha's back.

"So your awake huh?" Inuyasha said over his shoulder.

Kagome blinked sleepily, "Yeah."

"I think we're getting closer," he muttered. Kagome nodded.

"Mhmm, how long have I been asleep?" she asked, brushing away another strand of his hair.

"Not very long. About an hour," he replied.

Soon, a large castle came into view; it looked just like all of Naraku's previous castles.

"Not the most creative guy, huh?" Miroku commented offhandedly.

Almost immediately, they found Kagura, standing outside. Inuyasha let Kagome off of his back and drew the Tetsusaiga. Kirara landed beside Kagome and Sango, Miroku and Shippo all got off of her.

Inuyasha looked back at them. "You guys go find Akane and Ranma. I'll handle her." They nodded, and ran off to find an entrance to the castle.

They found one a few minutes later and went inside cautiously. "Akane! Ranma!" Kagome called out, hoping for a reply although she didn't really expect her to be that easy to find. She stopped infront of a door and slammed it open, her bow and arrows ready, just in case. There was nobody there.

"Agh, this is frustrating." Kagome grumbled and turned a corner, running down another hallway, the others following behind her.

"Don't worry Kagome, they've got to be here somewhere, we'll find them." Sango assured her.

"Argh!" They heard a frustrated growl, but it wasn't coming from Kagome this time. They stopped, looking around for where the sound came from. Suddenly, a door came off of its hinges and collapsed on the floor with a "thud." Then, Akane walked out, carrying Ranma and breathing hard. "Yes!"

"Akane!" Kagome said and ran over to her. "You're okay!"

"Yeah, I'm okay."

"What happened to Ranma?"

"I don't know, I just found him like this," Akane explained.

Just then, Kagome saw something white coming from where two hallways intersected. She ran up to the intersection and saw a little albino girl standing there.

"Kanna, one of Naraku's incarnations." Sango muttered as she and the others ran up behind Kagome.

"Oh, she probably stole Ranma's soul," Miroku said.

"Yeah, but I know how to get it back," Kagome said, readying her bow and arrows. She carefully aimed and fired a shot at the mirror in the albino's hands. It hit the mirror dead on and the glass cracked, releasing Ranma's soul.

"Ugh," Ranma groaned, slowly opening his eyes. He blinked and looked around. "Where am I?"

Kagome turned around, "Ah, you're awake!"

"Uh, yeah. Why are you carrying me?"

"Oh." Akane dropped him.

"Ow…hey! That hurt!"

"Oh no, Kanna's gone." Kagome said, finally noticing the absence of the girl.

"That's okay, let's go find Inuyasha," Sango said and they all rushed off outside to where they had left Inuyasha and Kagura. They were still fighting and it seemed like the fight was going nowhere.

"Take this! Wind scar!" Inuyasha yelled aiming his attack at the wind sorceress infront of him. Kagura jumped, dodging the attack while sending a wind attack of her own at Inuyasha. He held up the Tetsusaiga for defense.

"Looks like this battle is going nowhere." Miroku commented.

Finally, Kagura pulled a feather out of her ponytail and in a gust of wind, she was floating away on her giant feather. "We'll finish this later Inuyasha," she said as she floated away.

"Come back you coward!" Inuyasha yelled after her. "Damnit." He sheathed Tetsusaiga and turned to face the others.

"At least we got Akane and Ranma back," Kagome said.

"Yeah, I guess," Inuyasha agreed but he still sounded disappointed.

"Are we going to go back to the village now? It seems kind of pointless to juts be standing around like this." Shippou pointed out. The others nodded.

"Maybe you and Ranma should ride on Kirara, Akane. You guys have had it pretty hard these last few days." Kagome said. Akane nodded.

Little Kirara mewed and transformed in a burst of flame. Ranma let out a high pitched squeal and ran to hide behind a tree.

"What's wrong with him?" Inuyasha asked. Kagome shrugged.

"Big cat…b-big cat." Ranma stuttered.

"Oh yeah, he's afraid of cats." Akane explained.

"Why is he afraid of cats?" Inuyasha asked.

Akane sighed, "It's along story."

Heyo all. It's been a while so I decided to write a longer chapter for you. It was a bit rushed, yes I know, but the story was getting really boring. So anyway, review, review, review!

Thanks to everyone who reviewed.Muaha, now to answer some of your questions.

Falling Tenshi: Yes actually it was Buyo.

Flidar: Yes, yes I did. I also added that last part with Kirara becasue of that last review as well. For some reason I forgot that Kirara was a cat...hehehe, oops. I s'ppose thatif they worked together it would work, but Inuyasha's got such a big ego I don't know if he'd let anybody help him. And now that the whole kidnapping thing is over,Ranma shall turn into a girl very soon.

Muffinsnail: (blink blink) Okay...your very strange, you know that?

Waaah, that's so sad that I have so few reviews.

Cya.