Disclaimer: I may not own InuYasha…..but I will…..Iiiii Wiiiiiiillll…..
La: Ummm…actually…she isn't as insane as she normally is.
Shel: It's true, the caffeine must've worn off.
La: You had caffeine again!
Shel: It ain't my fault! They sneak it into the Coke.
La: What? You now theres a label on the bottle right?
Shel: ...what? Oh! No, that that coke! The other 'Coke'! Silly….
La: O.o …….o…..kay….
"I do not." InuYasha growled at Miroku who was pretty much laughing his head off about now about something he and InuYasha was discussing.
Yumi came up from behind InuYasha and latched on to his arm like Kagome did sometimes. "Hi!"
InuYasha didn't answer her. His attention was grabbed from the forest. Miroku's too. Something was coming for them. InuYasha gently pushed Yumi behind him as he recognized how the evil demon aura belonged too. "Damn. Kagura's here."
Yume kind of recognized the name but wasn't sure who it belonged too. "Who's that?"
"Just keep quiet and whatever happens, don't move." InuYasha instructed just before Kagura stepped out from the shadows of the trees. "Hasn't been that long, but all the same to you, hello." Kagura hissed from behind her fan. Yumi gasped, realizing who it was and clinging to InuYasha's sleeve, moved behind him a little more keeping her eyes on the witch. Make her go away. Make her go away. Make her go away. Yumi pleaded silently.
"What do you want, now? You got what you wanted, not get out of here." InuYasha growled. Kagura chuckled and shook her head, folding her fan. "Got what I wanted? No, you see, Naraku took it back and now, I can't say that I'm free at all." They both were referring to her heart.
Miroku raised his staff becoming more cautious of Kagura every second. "Why are you here? And tell us, what happened with Yumi?"
Kagura scoffed. "I'll tell you and InuYasha, you can stop hiding her. It's not like I don't know where she is. Her demonic aura is small, but it's there."
Neither InuYasha nor Yumi made a single move. Yumi continued to cling to InuYasha as a thought echoed on her head. I promised I would stay right here.
"Aww, poor girl. She'll be left alone as soon as he hears this anyway." Kagura said in a sweet mocking tone. "Both girls are back, InuYasha." That mocking tone irritated InuYasha to no end. "Both Yumi and Kikyou." Her tone turned to stone quickly.
InuYasha pulled his arm away from the girl. "Kikyou?"
Miroku was tempted to clobber InuYasha with his staff again. "Think InuYasha."
InuYasha ignored him. "Naraku brought Kikyou and Yumi back?"
Kagura seemingly satisfied with that response and nodded. "She's close. Maybe if you looked carefully, you'll find her in the forest."
"Miroku, stay here with the kid." InuYasha said before taking off past Kagura and into the forest.
Yumi protested. "But—!"
Miroku put his staff in front of her. "Just let it go."
Kagura flipped her fan back to its full size again. "Now having that done, I'll take the girl back. Naraku thought that maybe Yumi could serve him but of course, as you can see, he tried to kill her by reopening that wound."
Miroku turned to Yumi. "Is this true?"
Yumi, feeling no protection whatsoever nodded sadly. "Uh huh."
"So what do you want with her now?"
Kagura seemed kind of annoyed and at the same time confused. "Pathetic monk, aren't you? Naraku wishes to take back her soul and use her empty shell for more personal reasons like Kohaku."
"You will not use Yumi as your servant."
Kagura scoffed. "No, I won't. But Naraku will."
"I don't want to go back there." Yumi pleaded shaking her head nervously.
Miroku stepped in front of her preparing his wind tunnel. "Yumi, you must listen to me. Whatever happens, you must stay behind me or else I won't be able to protect you."
"From what?"
Kagura smirked. "Foolish monk. I brought friends." Kagura snapped her fingers and a whole swarm or the insects from hell appeared and surrounded them.
InuYasha's first instinct was that Kikyou would be at the sacred tree to recharge her miko powers. Sure enough, as he came closer and closer, tiny soul collectors flew around the area and Kikyou was sitting on one of the tree roots.I thought she would be here…
Kikyou looked up as another one of her soul collectors emptied a rather tiny soul into Kikyou's clay body. "InuYasha. I knew you would find me here."
"Hm." InuYasha feh'd silently to himself. "Pretty confident about that, aren't you? Considering what happened before Naraku killed you for a third time." He needed to get to the point why he came here. The heavy stench of dirt, bones, and miasma even made him feel sick.
"Is that why you came here, to remind me of my mistake?" Kikyou said, half smirking half annoyed.
"Not exactly…" InuYasha couldn't get that thought out of his head. "And you're losing."
I can't do anything now. I'll wait until Kagura is gone, then come back here for Kikyou.
Kikyou chuckled. "It's funny how Naraku wanted me and that young girl Yumi to become his servants. She didn't seem to fond of me though, and when I tried to let her die a peaceful death, she ran away from me."
"You tried to kill Yumi?" InuYasha growled, anger rising in his voice.
Kikyou sighed. "Yes. But only because she was brought back unwanted."
InuYasha was pretty much fed up with her right now. "I'm just gonna warn you right now. If you come even close to touching Yumi again, you'll die a fourth time. Got it?"
Kikyou laughed so hard that she had to sit down. "InuYasha, you're not fooling anyone. You really believe me to be scared of your idol threat? You?"
If there was one thing InuYasha hated, it was people laughing at him when he was serious. He turned around leaving the un-dead girl behind and headed back to the village.
"One more thing InuYasha." Kikyou called. InuYasha stopped but did not turn around. Kikyou had a soul collector wrapped around her hand now. "I hope you have another reason for visiting me?" InuYasha tried to tell her that he did but another thought floated back to him. "Yumi where are you going?"
"Back to daddy."
Miroku's right. It felt good…
"Yes but…I think that's all I got now."
Kikyou nodded understandingly. "I despise that girl InuYasha." Kikyou said coolly, referring to Kagome. InuYasha clenched his fist, not saying a word to her then left.
Kagome and Sango looked up from their meal when they heard a loud explosion from near by. "Now what?"
The two girls and Shippo rushed back over to where Miroku and Yumi were with no sign of InuYasha. "Miroku what happened?" Sango asked as she helped the monk up. Miroku could barely stand up. "Kagura came—Kagome you have to believe me. I tried my best…but Yumi is gone. I'm sorry."
"I can sense those insects around. You did try your best but where is she now? And where's InuYasha?"
Miroku grunted in pain. "Kikyou's back and—."
Kagome shook her head. "No. No way—he left you and Yumi to go look for her?"
Miroku nodded. Kagome rubbed her forehead. "Oh boy. Okay, I can't worry about him right now. Which way did Kagura go?"
Miroku pointed with his staff that seemed like the direction to the well. Kagome told Shippo to stay put and left in that direction.
Wrapped up in her own thoughts, she hadn't noticed the soul collectors floating around. InuYasha, you idiot, when I find you, if Kikyou hasn't killed you already. I swear to you, I'll rip you apart!
will try to believe in the things I cannot see
But my faith is shaking now like it's never been before
When I call
I don't know what I should do
Should I call?
Should I even count on you?
I'm giving all I can
It wasn't enough
To keep you in my hands
Should I give up?
I try to understand
Was it ever enough?
I don't understand
(Kur0: Oooh…Kikyou is back and what effects will that have on Yumi? Yeah I know but I kind of needed her to come back to give this story it's full effect. Hee hee! Oh and if I spell Yumi's name wrong, the real way I mean it is Yumi, which is dream I think. The other Yumi, Yume, is bow, but that's just what I hear. My computer automatically fixes stuff and so it sometimes changes it the other way around. So, just for future reference…)