A/N: Sequel to My Only Hope! Yay! I know many of you wanted one, and I finally got around to starting it! Good for me! Ahem…anyway, please review and let me know what you think about it. This one will be shorter than the other one…so I hope you enjoy it! Chapter three!

Summary: Sequel to My Only Hope, we finally see Inuyasha and the gang in the future. What other types of problems could the gang possibly run into now that the hard stuff is supposedly behind them?

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What the Future Holds
Chapter Three

"Inuyasha! Wake up! Damn you!" Kagome slapped him across the face. Hard. "Get up you idiot! Come on! Taka, Shippo and Toku are missing!" she screamed. "Get up!" she sobbed. "Inuyasha…please…"

"Kagome…" Sesshoumaru groaned.

Kagome slapped Inuyasha hard across the face, and he shot into consciousness. "What the hell? What's wrong, Kagome? Why are you crying? What happened?" Suddenly, realization hit Inuyasha like a ton of bricks. "Where are…the twins? And Shippo?"

"Rin is missing as well…but they were conscious, last I remember…" Sesshoumaru frowned.

Jin blinked. "Could they have gone after Naraku all on their own?"

Kagome paled at this. "They wouldn't!"

"They would." Sesshoumaru frowned. "The both of them have been training very hard at school…maybe they thought that they could handle it…or that we wouldn't recover in time to go after Naraku successfully…."

"That has to be it." Inuyasha nodded.

"So when do we leave?" asked Sumire.

Inutaisho smiled. "We leave now. We will follow Shippo's scent rather than that of Naraku…that way we have less of a chance of running into decoys. Since we don't know when they left us here, we may have a possibility of catching up with them…"

Inuyasha nodded. "Sounds like a plan to me…" he agreed.

Kagome gasped. "Inuyasha…their weapons! They are unarmed!" she pointed.

"Who? Shippo and Rin? No, they're not…oh…." He blinked. "We have got to hurry…" he whispered, picking up his children's swords and taking off in the direction of his eldest son's scent. The trail was at least an hour old, which meant that they could be pretty far away by now…and his twins with no way to protect themselves….

He cursed silently to himself as the others began to follow him. I didn't know that Shippo or Rin could move that quickly. We are going to have to hurry if we are going to find them before they get into trouble.

"Inuyasha! There's no way they could have gotten this far!" Kagome frowned. "Are we sure there isn't some type of barrier around here?"

Inuyasha stopped, and his father and Sesshoumaru nearly collided with him when he did so.

"What the hell, Inuyasha?" growled Sesshoumaru. "What did you do that for?"

"Did any of you notice a barrier? Kagome is right. I don't think they would have gotten this far. It doesn't make sense." Inuyasha worried.

Sumire shook her head. "There was no barrier, daddy. We would have hit it by now…"

"But I think we may have been here before…." Jin whispered.

"Kagome…" Inuyasha frowned.

Kagome gasped at where they happened to have stopped. They were standing in front of the Higurashi shrine….her old home. Her mother still ran the shrine, but Kagome hadn't lived there for five hundred years…

"Inuyasha! You don't possibly think…."

He nodded. "Actually, I do." He paused. "Let's go…"

"But Inuyasha! There might be people there!" Kagome hissed. "It's a shrine! We can't just run in like that with our swords drawn! If Naraku is here, he could have hostages…"

"Hostages?" Jin frowned.

"We have to take that chance!" Inuyasha drew his sword, and ran at the stairs, but was pushed back.

"You should have been expecting that one, father…" Sumire shook her head. "You will be able to break the barrier, won't you?" Sumire looked slightly worried as she stared at the spot where her father had just been cut off from reaching her siblings. She bit her lip. If this Naraku guy was as good as her parents and uncle claimed, then would he be able to keep them from getting in? From saving her friend and family? She shivered.

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"Naraku you stupid son of a toad!" Shippo spat. "Let us go! If you were going to do this then why not kill us already, huh? Where are my brother and sister? What have you done with them? Answer me!" he demanded.

Naraku laughed. "Little Shippo…my, you have grown up." He smirked. "Your brother and sister are fine. I can not get to them." He waved. "That is where you are going to help me out."

"I will not!" Shippo growled. "Besides, I can't help you anyway! Do you think I somehow know how to break down their barriers?" He laughed to himself. "You're sadly mistaken there…and even if I could, I wouldn't."

Rin nodded in agreement. "What do you want with us, anyway?"

"You?" Naraku smiled. "It was just purely luck that brought you here, my dear. I am so excited. I have wanted to absorb your father for hundreds of years now…and if he was that powerful five hundred years ago, I would love to see how powerful he is today…"

"He won't just let you hurt him!" Rin snapped. "Have you lost your mind?"

"He never had one…" Shippo whispered.

Naraku coughed. "Well, Rin, you see…back then, Sesshoumaru had no weakness…so of course he wasn't just going to roll over and let me absorb him. But now he's grown up. And he has weaknesses. Two very big weaknesses. Understand?"

"Yuka?" Shippo gasped. "What did you do to her, Naraku? How many people are really here, huh? Tell us!"

"I will get to kill you all today. I have you in my custody, and Akira, Yuka, and Izayoi are merely humans who happen to be mated to demons. All I have to do is kill them, and I have eliminated six people. As for Inuyasha….he is stupid enough to allow his mate and all his children to come with him into battle…and for that, he shall pay the ultimate price. I will absorb you all. There will be nothing left…and then I will be the one with the powers to track down the illusive sacred jewel…"

"I doubt it." Smirked Rin. "My daddy told me about you. You've never won before. What makes you think this time will be any different?"

Shippo paled. He could smell it. His parents had finally broken through Naraku's barrier. They would be there soon…but what were they going to do about everything once they got here? He blinked. He had to think positively. They had pulled through before…and this time was going to be no different than any of the others.

Naraku laughed. "Aw, Shippo…are you worried about your parents? Well, I think that there may be someone I want them to meet…"

"What do you mean?" asked Shippo, his eyes widening.

"Shippo, say hello to Kaira." A woman looking frightfully similar to Kagura stepped out of the darkness and bowed. Naraku glanced at her and nodded. "Kaira, the twins will soon realize that their parents are here. When I give you the signal…kill them. I'll hold off Inuyasha and the others so that you can take your time if you wish to do so. Afterwards, you can meet them. I'm sure they'll love you…" he smirked.

Rin and Shippo both paled, and jerked on their chains.

"Damn you!" screamed Shippo.

"Taka! Toku!" screamed Rin. "Don't put the barrier down! Don't listen to her! Keep your guard up!" she screamed. She wasn't sure how successful her words were. The barrier the twins had erected was preventing her from catching their scent at all.

Naraku blinked, and held out his hand. Kaira stopped in her tracks. "Wait." He commanded.

"Yes, Master Naraku?" Kaira bowed.

"I don't want you to kill the twins first. I want you to kill the human women. Go." He pointed.

Yuka looked like she was going to cry. "No!" she screamed. "Mom! Dad! Help mom! Somebody!" She jerked at her chains, but the action was only serving to make her wrists swell and bleed. She cursed under her breath.

Her anger was quickly building inside her body. She had never before had any reason why she would want nor need to be this angry. She had never felt anything like this before. It was a sudden surge of demonic power, coursing quickly through her veins like a fast-acting poison.

A growl escaped from somewhere deep within her throat, and suddenly, she was free from the shackles that had kept her wrists and ankles from moving.

"Do not hurt my mother," she growled in warning, taking after Kaira.

Naraku looked worried for a moment. "What was that?" he snarled.

Shippo gulped. He knew what that was. That was Rin turning full demon for the first time since he'd known her. It had been five hundred years, and he had never seen her as she just was. Her eyes were red with her fury…her fangs and claws grew in length…and now, there was nothing and no one that was going to stop her. Shippo paled at the thought. Sure, Rin would easily kill Kaira now…and Rin would be able to recognize her own mother's scent…but Shippo was uncertain about the fate of Akira and Izayoi. Shippo remembered times when Inuyasha had gone full demon. He had tried to hurt Shippo and his other friends on more than one occasion. His mother Kagome was always able to pretty much control herself in that state…but she was a miko…

There was a loud growl, no doubt from Rin, and then a scream. After that, there was silence.

"Oh…no…" Shippo whispered, and stopped moving, listening for any sound at all, but there was none. Please let everything in there be all right. Please. He prayed silently.

Naraku growled and disappeared. Shippo jerked in place, but he could no longer sense the evil hanyou in the vicinity. His father's scent, however, was getting closer, and closer…

"Dad!" Shippo yelped. "Get me down! The twins are in another room somewhere, and Akira, Izayoi, and Yuka are here as well…in Kagome's old living room…"

"Where is Rin?" demanded Sesshoumaru.

Shippo rubbed his wrists as his father released him. "Uncle Sesshoumaru, she…she turned full demon when Naraku's incarnation Kaira tried to kill Aunt Yuka…"

"She transformed?" Kagome and Sumire gasped in unison, and ran into the living room.

Inuyasha sniffed the air. "I think that the twins are upstairs somewhere. I'll be right back…"

"Where did Naraku go?" asked Jin.

Shippo shrugged. "I don't know. He decided to disappear right before you guys showed up. That coward. He's afraid of us."

"Sesshoumaru…" Kagome called. "Everyone is fine. Rin is sleeping…but no one is hurt. Thank goodness…" Kagome added.

"Why would Naraku go through all of this trouble to get all of us here and then up and disappear like this?" Inutaisho wondered aloud.

Kagome frowned and shivered. "I don't like having to be back here." She whispered. "Something doesn't feel right…"

"I know what it is, mom. We can't get out of this house." Shippo revealed.

"What…what do you mean?" Kagome stammered.

Shippo picked up the nearest chair and tossed it at the window, but it only bounced back. It hit Inuyasha as he was coming down the stairs, the twins behind him.

"What the hell was that for, runt?" Inuyasha growled.

Shippo jumped. "Dad…we are trapped…inside this house."

Inuyasha blinked. "What do you mean, trapped?"

"Naraku…he's trapped us inside the house…" Kagome gasped. "Mom…Inuyasha…why…would he do that?" she whispered.

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A/N: Heh heh. I realize it's a bit of a cliffy, but you guys are really going to hate me in a minute. I'm leaving on Friday for Kentucky…so I am not sure when I will be able to update again…which is why I updated this one….because it only had two chapters. I will try to update while I am gone, but if not, I will not be back till the end of July. Sorry guys! Please review!