Last time Kay made friends with Rin and became her 'foster sister', while Michelle got bugged by Kouga about being his woman.

Chapter 11: The Lake of Glass

Kay walked out of the castle, a single tear rolling down her cheek. Then, she felt a hand on her shoulder. She turned and looked to see Sesshoumaru, standing next to her.

"You... are leaving?" Sesshoumaru asked, acting like he was trying to get the right words out.

"Yes. I must. I miss my home," Kay said, looking at the ground. "I know you don't need anyone to tell you this, but watch over Rin for me, OK? I'll miss her."

"You've only known her for a day," Sesshoumaru said.

"It doesn't matter. I feel like I've known her most of my life... And I have a question," Kay said, looking back at Sesshoumaru.

"Why did you save me?"

Sesshoumaru stayed quiet and emotionless. He took his hand from Kay's shoulder and turned around. He walked back inside the castle and Kay walked down the steps, and over to Kirara.

What happened? Kirara asked Kay.

"I... I don't know. I just... don't know," Kay said, a smirk playing on her lips. "Where's Miroku and Sango? We should go find the others, quickly."

"We're right here!" Miroku said, waving, and sporting a bright red mark on his face, much better looking than last season's mark. (Fashion joke.)

"Let's just go already!" Sango said, clenching her fist.

Kirara became large and flaming and the three friends got on the back of the cat. She flew away, looking for the rest of their little group.

- - -

The sun was rising by the time that they found each other, but they managed to do it in a fairly decent amount of time. Kay was very happy to see her friends and hugged her dog. They made a camp and went to sleep, trying to forget about what happened recently.

Kay stayed awake for a while and then something strange happened. It was as if water was poured over the fire as steam and smoke rose up from the logs. Nothing was left burning, and a fog seemed to cover the ground and slowly rise up to cover everything.

Kay's vision started to go black and she gasped, seeing her mom laying on the ground in front of her. Kay stood up and walked towards her mother, and she would have laughed at how silly her mother looked as an anime character with her short hair and all, had it not been that she was scared out of her mind. She knelt down and touched her mother's face and found it to be cold. She looked around and saw more bodies laying on the ground, those of her friends and her family, Michelle and Charlie. And then she saw the bodies of InuYasha, Kagome, Miroku, Sango, Shippo and Kirara. All of them dead.

No! This isn't real! Kay! Snap out of it! This isn't real you idiot! thought the 14 year old. It's like that other episode where Kikyo stole the jewel shards from Kagome! It's an illusion. WAKE UP!

Naraku appeared in front of her, between the blackness and the bodies. He smirked. "Be afraid. Your family, your friends, your life, is dead. Be very, very afraid," Naraku said, making the darkness close around her.

"No! There is nothing to be afraid of, because this is an illusion!" Kay yelled, clenching her fists and putting a foot forward.

"You are a fool. Look at everyone. They have died because of you. You killed them. You should be very afraid," Naraku said.

Kay straightened up and glared at Naraku. "There is nothing to fear but fear itself." She smirked. "You don't scare me. Fear doesn't come from other people, or creatures. It comes from yourself," Kay said, starting to smile now.

Naraku's body vanished and the bodies around her vanished too.

- - -

Michelle looked around the black abyss and saw nothing but strange people. She tried to speak to one of them, but her voice didn't want to work. Around her the people either glared or paid no attention to her whatsoever. She clenched her fist and punched at a person, but it vanished into nothing at her touch. The others vanished one by one, until the only one left was Naraku. Michelle felt like she was falling, but couldn't stop herself or get back up.

"You are alone in the world. Anything you touch will disappear or die. You have always been alone," Naraku said in a tone much like the one he used to speak to Kay with.

Michelle glared and managed to make a few noises.

"I'm not... alone. I've never been alone," Michelle said in a voice barely audible. He must have done something to her. "Kay has always been there for me," Michelle croaked out, clenching her fist as she continued to have that falling feeling.

"Really? Will she always be there for you?" Naraku asked as a figure of Kay appeared, talking with other people.

"Kay!" Michelle said, trying to get out of that stupid falling sequence.

The figure in front of her didn't turn to look at who called her name, and Michelle sighed.

"You're such an idiot, Naraku. Kay always reacts to whoever says her name, no matter what. Just get out of my mind, dammit! You get out of here, or I'll kick you out!" Michelle said, moving towards Naraku. She started to run on hard ground and ran towards him, and once she reached him she started to attack him with her fists until he disappeared.

- - -

Kay was woken up by Kagome shaking her and looking worried. Her eyes opened and she saw Kagome in front of her, looking happy. Kagome hugged her and then let go. "You were having some sort of concussion or something. You were twitching and you stopped breathing for a minute," Kagome said and hugged her again. Kay turned to see that Michelle was being taken care of too.

Did she have the same kind of dream as I? Kay asked herself.

Kay sighed and smiled. "Kagome, you can let go now," Kay said, laughing a little bit.

"Sorry," Kagome said, grinning and letting go. "Well, since we're all up, I guess I should make some food for us. How about ramen?"

"Did somebody say ramen?" InuYasha asked, pircking up. Kagome smiled and went over to her yellow backpack and took out some instant ramen. She went over to the now blazing fire and she started making it. It took a couple minutes, but she got the ramen done.

She put the ramen in bowls and handed them and chopsticks to each person. Kay ate the ramen fairly easy, but wasn't the first to finish with it. That person was obviously InuYasha. They finished their breakfast and they set off, heading to Kaede's village now that they had nothing to do.

In the middle of the day, as they were flying through the air, a familiar scent reached InuYasha's nose. He turned around and saw Kagura, smirking behind him and heading toward them.

"Kagura!" InuYasha said, growling. She took her fan and made the wind blow so hard that it knocked everyone down from the skies. She flew down and grabbed Michelle and Kay before they fell to the ground, and she flew off towards the west.

- - -

Kagura landed next to a waterfall that went into a huge lake. By the time that they made it, it was night, and the full moon was shining brightly on the water, which was oddly calm. The water looked like it was glass, even though there was a waterfall pouring into the lake. She held onto the two girls and they recognized a familiar purple miasma as Naraku's, so their telekinesis wouldn't be usable.

Kay growled at Kagura and tried to escape from her but her grasp was to tight. Naraku appeared in front of them and smirked, looking uglier than ever. Kay growled even more and she struggled, as did Michelle, trying to look for a way out.

"Why do you want us?" Kay demanded.

"To resurrect one of the greatest demons of all time. You two will be one of the primal ingredients to resurrect this demon," Naraku explained. He smirked and looked at Kagura. "Kagura, bring them to the top of the waterfall," Naraku said.

Kay! I heard his thoughts! He's going to use the demon to become more powerful! Michelle told Kay using her mind.

What I'm wondering is do we have to die to bring this demon back? Kay asked.

I dunno, Michelle said.

Kagura somehow managed to get the feather from her hair and flew up to the top of the waterfall. It would have been fun to fly up there, if they weren't scared for their lives. Naraku was already standing at the top of the waterfall and standing there with a smirk on his face. His eyes seemed to shine with anticipation and you could tell he was excited to finally get even more powerful.

But something stopped Naraku's happy-evil look. He growled and looked at the forest, and Kagura, Kay and Michelle turned to look too. There was a certain half demon standing there, his silver hair making him stand out a little bit in the night.

"Naraku!" InuYasha yelled, running towards them and jumping up. He landed next to Naraku and pulled out his sword, yelling, "You're gonna die!"

Naraku's bland look and look of hatred changed and he began to to smirk. "Just the person I was looking for," Naraku said. "Kagura! Throw them in!"

Just as Kagura threw them in with tremendous strength, making them fly quite far, Naraku pushed InuYasha over the side of the waterfall.

"Saihatsu tame tsuchi.

Naraku, goshujin tatsujin, houmon.

Attachi ichi karada tame senpou."

Kagura finished the incantation when the last one hit the water and went under, and the black water started to glow a greenish yellow.

Next time: Naraku manages to succesfully bring back the demon of past; he intends to make it a part of his body! Are Michelle, Kay and InuYasha all right? Or are they going to perish?

Naraku: I hope it's the latter.

Kay: Like hell we're going to die!

Michelle: I like that word. 'Perish.'

Kay: You are so weird.

Michelle: Actually, it's you who usually says that you like a word, you morbid child.

Kay: Holy hell! Look over there towards the next chapter! It says, Yominokuni, The Hades Dragon!

Michelle: Wow... What a name... Kay, you wrote this story. What's that mean?

Kay: I think it means Hades, just like Naraku means hades...

Michelle: Weird.

Rough translation of the incantation Naraku said:

Come back to the earth

Naraku, your master, calls

Become one with him.

((No, I do not know Japanese. I looked on a web site to find the words.))