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Chapter Six: Searching

Inuyasha and the others woke up nice and early and prepared themselves for the upcoming long day of searching. Inuyasha continued to shake his head to get rid of the thoughts of Kagome. It didn't work.

"Inuyasha." Miroku said, walking up behind Inuyasha as they left the hut, "you must focus, or we'll never find the jewel shard."

Inuyasha nodded, "I know, but I can't help it…" InuYasha walked out into the desert alone to think. Sango and Shippo walked out of the hut a second later and sighed.

"Inuyasha's mind is wandering…so be on your feet." Miroku said, following Inuyasha into the sand infested path.

Sango and Shippo looked at one another and nodded and left after Miroku.

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Kagome and Kikyo left the castle in silence. Kagome was so perplexed. She had no idea what Kikyo was planning, but went along with it anyway.

"Um, Kikyo?" Kagome couldn't help but say after awhile, "where are we going?"

Kikyo continued to march on, but replied, "the desert of Saigon."

Kagome did not know what that meant, so she pressed on, "where is that? And why?"

"I believe that a war was fought there recently over a jewel fragment. It's only 5 miles east." Kikyo explained not looking back at Kagome who followed behind slowly.

Kagome was satisfied with that answer and proceeded after Kikyo.

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The others marched on through the dense sand and occasional corpses. They saw nothing interesting on the way. Until…

BOOM! A big cloud of dust could be seen in the west.

"Looks like something finally decided to show up." Inuyasha said, with a smirk.

They rushed over and met up with a very hairy and ugly demon. Sango threw her hiraikoutsu, and unfortunately missed.

"Damn!" Sango cursed, picking up her weapon off the ground.

"Miroku pulled out some sutra's and threw them toward the demon. The demon sizzled like a steak and swerved around in pain. Inuyasha took this opportunity to pull out his tetsusaiga. But before he could make a blow, an arrow shot out and hit the demon in the head.

"That's right! The jewel is in its head!" a voice called out.

Inuyasha's ears perked up. He recognized that voice.

"Kagome?" Inuyasha called out. He began to look around, looking for her.

Kagome, who was 20 feet away, heard his call. She rushed away, but didn't go far. Kikyo grabbed onto Kagome's arm and pulled her away. Kagome couldn't fight back and retreated. Both of them took cover in the bushes.

As the dust cleared out, Kagome could see clearly. She did indeed see Inuyasha and the others. Inuyasha was searching around, trying to catch a glimpse of Kagome. But none came. Miroku walked over to the demon and caught sight of something shiny.

"Inuyasha!" Miroku called out, "the last jewel shard!"

Inuyasha rushed over alongside Sango and Shippo. There it was, in the middle of the brain of the demon, the last and final shard.

Inuyasha bent over and picked it up. At the same time, he also pulled out the nearly complete jewel. He put the two pieces together and within a second, the Jewel of Four Souls was whole again.

"At last…" Kikyo said from the bushes, jumping out, "the jewel is whole once again."

Inuyasha and the others turned to look and gasped. It was Kikyo.

"Hand over the Jewel to me." She demanded, her hand outstretched.

Kagome, still in the bushes, suddenly felt incredible pain and passed out, not knowing what was going on around her…

END OF CHAPTER