Author's Note: Couldn't resist writing another chapter. Inspiration hit me full force yet again this weekend and I wanted to write something…I was kinda' in a mindset contusive to writing something like this. I hope you enjoy it!

Disclaimer: Nope, still don't own the series.

Previously on The Case of The Missing Sandwich Bags:
After coming up with the skeleton of his plan, Naraku decided to wait until morning to find out exactly what the weaknesses of his top two concerns were. From there, things would be finalized, and he would be rid of his only rival for jewel shards. If Inuyasha and company were eliminated, Naraku could rule all of Japan and have any wish he wanted when the jewel was completed. Hanyou though he may be, Naraku was still not to be taken lightly, even by other youkai.
Chapter Two: The Beginning of An Evil Plot
Naraku sat in silence at a low table in the center of his quarters. Surrounded by inkwells, brushes of all sizes, and numerous scrolls, he began meticulously devising his plan on the rice paper. First he wrote out what he needed to take care of all members in the company. Then the trouble started when he tried to focus on an actual plan. His left hand began to pulse, tingle, and turn red. Naraku thought nothing of the problem as the pain was not yet excruciating; only short spurts of red-hot heat would shoot up and down his arm from time to time. These pains were only slightly annoying, but they were not anything too serious to worry about.

He continued writing only to find that his vision was getting blurry and he felt like his head was trapped between the jaws of a jaguar demon which has the ability to exert an incredible amount of pressure per square inchThe pressure continuously mounted until it was so great that his brush slipped from his hand to drop to the table and clatter to the floor. Ink was scattered in blotches and dots where the utensil had dropped and sprayed its ink. He bent to the floor clutching both his head and his chest. The pain was radiating throughout his body as time inched by. Now the pain was beyond comprehension. If he didn't know what sort of pain he put Kagura through when he squeezed her heart, he knew now; something was in there doing the same to him. He was gasping for breath as he fell in a heap on the floor.

At this time, he had a vision of the witch he had just absorbed. She was standing in some dark void, the only light clearly on her. The witch began chanting in a foreign tongue "Balethondion Maltathuleiet Calenost Nilg-" before Naraku interrupted her. Demanding that she cease whatever she was doing, Naraku attempted to stand in the dream world.

"You Shall DIE Naraku for what you have done!" She raged with an icy blue fire blazing in her eyes.

"Quite the contrary witch!" Naraku snarled as he realized where he was and what he had to do. You see, the witch had pulled him inside his own body; he was in astrophysical form. Naraku also found that the witch had somehow managed to stay separate from him when she was absorbed. Onigumo was a part of his body, but the witch was still alive and separate, only trapped in his body like Jepetto in the belly of a whale. She had never fused with him or his powers and Naraku found that she was killing him from the inside out.

However, what he didn't know was that her plan was to first strip him of his demon powers and then turn him into a human. After becoming human, she would control his body and cause him to kill himself after which she would escape with his kakera. Either way he would end up dead.

Fortunately for Naraku, he was a quick thinker. He rationalized that if he separated himself from her, he could keep his powers and kill her. The witch had slipped up earlier in the formulation of the plan with him, informing him that she could not take over Kagome's body directly for as soon as she was separated from the girl, the spell would wear off and she would be too close to the enemy to escape alive. This had been the cause for a reformulation of plans. Now, information that had once been a hindrance was quite useful; he was using her information against her.

He quickly cast her out of his body as he once did to create Kagura and Kanna. The sorceress landed with a loud thud on the floor utterly confused and this time petrified in true fear. Naraku was standing over her, back to his normal self, and wielding a sword he had molded from his arm and hand.

"You had the whole situation wrong! I will not be the one to die this night! Say good bye to this world annoying and useless witch!" Naraku thundered before his sword began its descent.

Needless to say, she shrieked once more before she breathed her last. Calling in a servant to clean up the mess, Naraku once again sat at his table to begin looking over what he had written. He was well on his way with a new plot that would work and end the threat of the inu-gumi once and for all. The plan: to observe first and attack with something no member of the group could defeat. This 'something' he would create after finding the information he needed. He would then plan his timing exactly so he had the upper hand.

'Tomorrow is the day I begin looking for weaknesses in that annoying group.' He thought darkly before cracking a sinister smile and blowing his candles out. Dressing in his usual white baboon cloak and light blue mask, he headed out into the night. No creature would dare mess with him tonight, not in the mood he was in at least. Even the first quarter of the moon was hiding behind the protection of clouds, and no creature dared to move as he calmly walked by. His destination was set Kaede's hut. A demon crow had informed him of the group's location, which was a good week's walk away, even for a hanyou like him. No matter really though, he'd just have to run most of the way there.

'At least that tiger youkai accomplished the goals I set for him, and that bird as well. Inuyasha and company are wounded, their location is secure for now, and I can begin my observations from afar.' Naraku thought as he walked down a dimly lit path through the forest.

Author's End Note: Trying to be creepy and evil in this chapter was kinda fun! I hope I portrayed Naraku accurately enough. . .let me know if I didn't! I know, the first two chapters really have nothing to do with the story's title, but I promise everything will make sense later. Next chapter, there will be more action with the Inu-gumi. See you next chapter!

Oh and "Balethondion Maltathuleiet Calenost Nilgliniel" means "You who have betrayed me shall feel my wrath. As of this moment you shall become human!" in the Elfish language.

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