Ch.19:

Inuyasha skidded to a stop in front of the hut, some dirt flying up behind his heals. Without even glancing on the inside of it, he could tell from her stale scent that she was not here at the moment.

He fisted his hands in worry and narrowed his eyes seriously, as he concentrated. He found her most recent scent...and began to quickly follow it.

Along the way he realized that there was another person who's scent he could not identify...it wasn't even a familiar...But he also figured out that Kagome had come with whoever this guy was willingly. What in the hell was she thinking traveling with some random guy at night? His very gut was telling him that something was wrong.

After a little time, he had reached the little place where they kept traveling people at the village so they could wrest up. He got himself all ready to fight this fucker as he marched up to the door and...

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He watched her squirming all around the place, trying to stand, and trying to figure out what to do as he saw panick building up inside of her. He knew what true fear looked like when he saw it.

He watched her collapse onto the floor, and knew that she was to far gone to do anything at all to get away. He was enjoying this alittle to much, but he also felt a twinge of guilt as he watched her.

Had he really, truly, developed feelings for this girl? It was true that he had been enjoying her company earlier...His eyes slightly widened with realizitation, and then he built up a new barrier inside of himself to block out any good emotion towards the girl, because having emotions only got in the way all the time.

But he would make her his in time. He swore on that.

He stared at her waiting for her to pass out, because she was on the verge of it, when suddenly an ear-splitting scream filled the air.

That name...

"INU-YASHAAAA!" And he watched in horror as her body went completely limp onto the floor.

"What did you do!" He was almost panicked, but kept his cool. All of the others suddenly jumped up from their spots.

"What the hell is going on!" Asked the leader as he came close and face-to-face with Katsuro. "Inuyasha!" He bellowed in anger. "What an idiot! Do you know what you got yourself :and: us into?" He spat at him.

Katsuro held his gaze cooly.

"Inuyasha, as in the Inutaisho's son? The one that slew Naraku?" Spoke up one of the dogs with nervousness.

Another whispered. "Maybe he's not the same Inuyasha."

The eldest dog was quiet as he thought about what to do. That white dog that had passed by earlier:had: in fact been Inuyasha! He looked down at the girl on the ground, and suddenly had an idea.

"You." He glared at Katsuro. "Can, in fact, get us out of this by getting on Inuyasha's good side." Katsuro glared back.

"I :will: not do it!" He snapped angered.

"Do :not: talk to me like that. Ever again. Understood?" The eldest said darkly. Katsuro dropped his head down to the ground and tried to keep cool, as anger was threatening to overflow out of him.

"Yes, Father."

"Once Inuyasha get's here, tell him that since Kagome was cold and had helped you out, you decided to help her out by offering her warm tea since it was cold out. Act like your a very weak human, and you are very clumsy. And also act fond of the human girl...then get on Inuyasha's good side, if possible, and he'll take her away again."

Katsuro's eyes were dilated and held hate in them.

"I'll do it." He growled lowly.

"Now quickly..." The eldest grabbed some herbs and rubbed them all over Katsuro's hands to cover the smell of the poison. "Say you were trying to help her with those herbs. And do not fuck this up."

With that, the wrest of the men went out the back door. One though, turned around and threw a small round ball down onto the ground, and instantly it exploded as it hit, and filled the room with a watery haze, and then all of it dissipated quickly into the air seconds later.

'So...they are covering their scents.' Katsuro thought bitterly.

Hopefuly they had a better plan than just running away and leaving him here alone.

Katsuro pulled Kagome to a mat and covered her in a blanket just as the door fell and made a loud clanging sound as it hit the floor.

He pretended to be absolutely shocked at this, eyes widened.

"Demon!" He gasped.

Inuyasha did not have time for any of that.

"Move away from her." Inuyasha ordered authorively.

Katsuro stood up slowly, pretending to be fearful, and walked to the other wall opposite of Inuyasha.

"She- She's fallen ill suddenly and I was caring for her, y-you see. You won't, h-harm her will you?" He asked pleadingly.

"Who the fuck are you and what is Kagome doing here in the first place?" He demanded as he quickly got to her side and crouched down to look at her face...it was pale and sweaty.

'And why did she call out my name?' He glared up at that man...this just did not fit together at all. His eyes narrowed as he noticed that this man was in fact one of the ninja's he had seen earlier. He did :not: trust one word from this guy's mouth.

"I, had went out to the well to get some water, and when I returned to the village it was dark and I lost my way. I bumped into this girl and she said she'd help me back and when we got here, since it was cold outside, I--- I invited her inside to have some warm tea. I mean it was the least that I could do for her but then she suddenly collapsed onto the floor...I was trying to take care of her before you got here.."

Inuyasha set his jaw tight. His story sounded believable, but this man, or ninja, did not seem to be. And what would Kagome suddenly collapse from?

He glanced down at her face again, his eyes shimmered with worry.

"Arn't you a ninja?" He asked bitterly.

"Well, a-a ninja in training. Since my father too is one, but I like working with little animals and plants b-better than being a n-ninja and all.." He said fearfuly. "But if you don't mind, I co-could help her."

Inuyasha glared evily at this guy. He watched him swallow hard. "She needs to be helped, And I have the right things."

"No thanks. I have a friend out here who knows alot about medicine. She isn't to far away, i'll take Kagome to her."

"Kagome.." He repeated airily. Inuyasha ignored him and picked up the unconscious girl.

"Don't even think about leaving yet, because I have unfinished business with you. And even if you :try: to leave I will hunt you down and everything will be much, much worse." He growled lowly, his voice laced with venom.

"Sure...b-but i'm in kind of a hurry and-" Inuyasha ran out the door before he could finish his sentence. Katsuro watched him retreat, as he stood there against the wall he was filled with such hatred towards that demon, especially for strealing the girl he claimed to now own.

He made up his mind just then, that he :would: have her without a doubt, and he would kill that dog in order to have her. It did not matter if he was the lord's son, it didn't matter if he had slone Naraku either.

He would kill him, and take that girl.

Which made him think back again, why would this dog care so much for a human? Was he just protecting her as a part of this village, or did it go deeper?

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"Hang on Kagome..." He whispered to her as he looked down into her very pale face. He held her in one arm as he whiped the sweat from her forhead with his other sleeve.

"Kaede!" He barked as he ran in through her door. The old lady awoke with a jolt.

"My my Inuyasha, what is it?" She asked sleepily.

"Kagome----She, she's become really sick!" Kaede detected the urgency in his voice.

"What exactly is wrong with her?" She asked warily.

"From what I can tell, she just collapsed." He laid her gently onto her sleeping bag beside the sleeping Shippou.

Kaede only took one looked at her once, felt her warm sweaty forhead once, and eyes widened, she realized instantly what was wrong with her.

"Inuyasha, she didn't become sick. She has been poisoned!"

"What." He growled in such a low voice, that even Kaede being so close barely caught it. She glanced up at him. Inuyasha had suddenly stood up to full height, his fists were clenched. 'How dare anyone do this to Kagome..' How :could: anyone hurt Kagome like that?

He looked down at the unconscious girl, his eyes smoldering with rage. He would take care of this tonight. "Is she gonna be all right?"

"Perfectly. But Inuyasha, do you know who did this to her?"

"I have a clue." And he huffed out of the hut without glancing back in.

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I'm really sorry guyz, i'm not going to be updating as much for the wrest of this week because i'm having "finals" school and I really need to study n' crud so yah...i'm sorry if this chapter sucked but I was trying to do it quick so I could get back to studying and so yah...this is probably going to be the last chapter for the wrest of this week so be patient!

In the mean-time I still want reviews!

Thanks for ur patience with this!

And keep checkin back because I have many many cool little twists and plans and everythings for this story so yah. It will be pretty cool.