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Natsu: Go me, updates 2 days in a row! By the way Scar from Full Metal Alchemist is MINE! And I have finally made a clone of Inuyasha…everyone, meet Inu-kun. (Out walks adorable little 5 year old Inuyasha) As can be seen, it will be a few more chapters before he's full grown.

Inuyahsa: Someone please rescue me from this crazy person!

Natsu: I'M NOT CRAZY! At least not super crazy.

Chapter 7: Information

After an hour, Inuyasha woke up like clockwork. And he was MAD. MAD actually does not begin to even really describe how Inuyasha was. Sango hoped Inuyasha would not try to kill anyone since she doubted she would be able to ever sneak up on Inuyasha again for years to come.

"WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO, BITCH!" he screamed at Sango. Miroku intervened at this keeping his eyes open for any changes in the hanyou's appearance.

"Inuyasha, calm down and tell us what happened. And please be quiet and watch your language. There are innocent as well as ill ears around," the monk said from his place by Sango.

"I DON'T GIVE A DAMN!"

"Si-sister…" a weak voice called out from what Inuyasha's noise had simply identified as an unusually large pile of blankets.

"WHO THE HELL IS HERE?"

"INUYAHSA! THAT'S ENOUGH! SHUT THE HELL UP!" Sango screamed right in the poor puppy's face.

Taken back by Sango's aggressiveness towards him and by the fact that she actually cursed, Inuyasha plopped down backwards on his butt with his ears flat against his skull. His eyes had bags underneath them, which he rubbed vigorously to make sure he was awake.

Wheww…calm down girl. "All right Inuyasha, that is Kohaku. We found him yesterday. Now please keep your voice down because he is ill," Sango said. You could hear how short her temper was from her strained words. "And please watch your language for we have a guest."

At this, the inu-hanyou did a quick sniff and noticed the girl…Souten…off by Kohaku. She was glaring at the half demon, and her face plainly told him that she thought he should shut up.

Great! Another Kagome…KAGOME! Inuyasha thought to himself. "Listen up! Kagome's been kidnapped! We need to find her!"

"We heard you when you came in," Miroku said. "However due to your actions, Sango was forced to knock you out because we worried you would murder Shippo."

"WE THEN LETS GET MOVIN'!"

"Inuyasha…" Sango said warningly from beside her brother.

"Jeez…" he muttered. "Can we please go rescue Kagome now!"

"Inuyasha, why don't you tell us what happened?" Miroku suggested.

"…Fine…" and with that Inuyasha quickly told them of the Tetsusaiga being stolen, Fuyu, and Kagome's kidnapping.

"…they just disappeared, like how Naraku would do. No scent to follow at all," Inuyasha finished up.

"Hmmm…" Miroku pondered. "I've never heard of a 'Fuyu' before…"

"Me neither, I'm afraid," Sango added. "In the meanwhile, there's not much we can do. We have no way of finding Kagome if what you say is true. We'd be best off asking around to see if anyone knows anything of Fuyu."

"NO! We can find them if we find the nothingness scent!"

"Inuyasha," Miroku said trying to bring him to reason. "You searched all night and weren't able to trace them. I agree with Sango that we should ask around." Inuyasha's face was covered in a scowl at this. He was much more for action then "asking around."

"Sango," Kohaku said after a few minutes of silence. He succeeded in startling everyone.

"Shshsh, Kohaku. You still haven't gotten your strength back," Sango said laying a comforting hand on her kid brother's forehead.

"Oh, I'm fine now. You're just being an old worry wart," the young boy proclaimed. Miroku snorted at this trying to contain his laughter. "Anyway, I can help. I know who Fuyu is."

At those words, Inuyasha was by the boy's side in a second. "Who? WHO IS THE BITCH?"

"INUYASHA! DO NOT CURSE AROUND KOHAKU!" Sango screamed at the half-demon.

"Sister Sango, it's all right. He just wants to find Kagome. Any ways, Dad used to always curse around me so its no big deal," Kohaku interjected. Sango proceeded to give her little brother a funny luck before snapping her jaws shut. "I remember when…when I was with Na-Naraku, I-I would read in my spare time. There was a really old book that was about sprites that was written a little less than one hundred years ago. It talked about someone named Fuyu who matched your description Inuyasha." Here Kohaku paused for breath. Painful memories of what he had done in Naraku's service were threatening to boil over.

"Fuyu was an ice sprite," Kohaku began again. "She used to be good and kind, but then she found a kimono that made her powers grow, and with that power, her heart grew black and twisted. The kimono was known as the Pa-puru Shikyo, and it required miko energy."

"What's that little bit-evil sprite going to do to Kagome?" Inuyasha interrupted. An evil look from Sango kept him from cussing.

"On the new moon, five days from now, there'll be a ceremony sacrificing Kagome to Pa-puru Shikyo. The cloth will drain her pure soul to funnel the injury into Fuyu."

"So," Miroku said wanting to lay things out, "we must rescue Lady Kagome in five days or…"

"She's gone," Kohaku finished for him.

Inuyasha sat still at hearing when Fuyu planned to steal the girl's soul for her power-hungry need. We'll have to rescue her in before the sun sets on the fifth day if I'm to help, Inuyasha thought despondently. He lowered his head till his bangs hid his worried eyes.

"Kohaku, honey, do you remember why Fuyu was pinned to the tree?" Sango asked her little brother gently.

"Ummm…she…what did she do?" Kohaku talked to himself for a minute before bursting out. "OH YEAH!" he said sitting up with an index finger pointing up to the ceiling. You could almost see a little candle being lit above his head instead of a light bulb. "She tried to sacrifice a VERY powerful miko there a hundred years ago, but it backfired."

"How?" asked Inuyasha looking up with a small bit of hope in his eyes.

"Dunno. Book didn't say exactly what happened, just how it ended. Fuyu was pinned to a great tree with a sacred arrow," Kohaku said. "Sorry."

DAMN, Inuyasha thought rather then say for his own protection.

"Kohaku, did the book say where Fuyu lived before she was trapped?" Miroku asked.

"Oh yeah. About fifty miles northeast of here in a stone castle near the edge of some forest known as Kagirinai Mori."

"Where the hell's that?" Inuyasha burst out. He needed information he could use.

"Where right next to it," Miroku said quietly. "You must never have heard of it, Inuyasha which is rather surprising. You see, Inuyasha's Forest is Kagirinai Mori."

"WELL, then lets get going! If we move fast, we can get there by dusk."

"Inuyasha, we should see if Kohaku knows anymore!" Sango said trying to be the voice of reason. She was unsuccessful, and she knew why. He was uneasy about his night of weakness being so near.

"He can talk on the way," barked out Inuyasha. "Lets go! Now!"

"I'm coming too!" Souten piped up with a determined face.

"Sango looked over at the little girl, and sighed. "Souten stay here and watch over the hut. It's going to be a bit dangerous for you," Sango told the little demon.

"Is Shippo going?" the girl asked. Sango nodded her assent that he probably would be.

"But he's like Kagome's adopted son Souten. He won't be able to keep himself from coming," Sango explained.

"As Kagome's future daughter-in-law, I AM coming," Souten told the demon exterminator. Sango's jaw nearly dropped before she remembered that demons sometimes were betrothed at an extremely young age of their own consent. They actually usually picked their future mates themselves.

Inuyasha simply waved the matter off as a normal part of life. "Whatever, the more the merrier. Can we just go now," he whimpered.

At that, everyone got going.

While the group was leaving, Fuyu was in the aforementioned castle descending the stairs to the damp dungeon. Along she glided farther and farther down; doors opened and closed of their accord for her. Eventually she made it to her special room.

Her "special room" had been made for mikos. Ward were draped everywhere to stifle the priestesses' powers. Few lasted more than a week or two in the room.

Across from the skeleton of a long dead miko who had been to weak to suffice the needs of the kimono lay Kagome unconscious. At least there, the pain of iron on raw flesh was numbed, although never completely gone.

Poor dear! Looks like she's rubbed her wrists raw trying to escape. Maybe I should have warned her about what happens when you try to escape. The sprite giggled at this.

"Oh Kagome, do please wake up! I need someone to talk to," Fuyu coaxed in a honey sweet voice.

At the sprite's words, Kagome stirred slightly. In her mind, the pain increased as she was slowly dragged from a dream into a nightmarish reality.

"Good to see you awake dear. Sorry that I didn't warn you about the chafing, but 'tis your own fault for being naughty and trying to escape!" Fuyu lightly scolded. "I really should have cleaned this place up a bit," she preceded to say while drifting over to the skeleton, "but it adds such and interesting touch to the place, wouldn't you say?" Fuyu turned back to he girl to smile.

"What do you want with me bitch?" Kagome growled out.

"Well, well. Looks like someone has been picking up bad habits from that nasty, old Inuyasha!" The ice sprite spoke lightly. "If you must now, I plan to feed your wonderfully powerful soul to my lovely Pa-puru Shikyo on the new moon." She indicated her purple kimono with a careless motion of her hand.

"Inuyasha will save me!" Kagome proclaimed courageously.

"And how does he plan to do that with out his beautiful fang?" Fuyu battered back, "and there is quite a barrier around this place to keep out anything with demon in it and your two little human friends. Do they plan to break it with their bare hands?" Another inhuman laugh escaped from the throat of the evil creature.

"But you gave the Tetsusaiga back, you CHEAT!" Kagome yelled.

"Tut, tut Kagome. So I did, but who's to be held responsible if the old hanyou runs off without it in search of you. Finder's keepers remember. Come now, this talk bore me. Tell me of your time!" Fuyu commanded.

Kagome kept her lips tightly sealed, as her eyes flashed.

"FINE! Be that way!" And with that, Fuyu stormed off in a huff to one of her more luxurious rooms upstairs. Let the human be stubborn. In a couple of days it would matter not.

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