Sorry it took so long to updat, I was really buysy. But I hope you like this chapter, I think it's the longest yet! Please tell mr what you liked.)
It took about four hours for Inu-Yasha to scrub the marshmallow out of his hair while everybody else laughed at him. When he was finally done, they all went to bed. Shippo curled up next to Kagome while Inu-Yasha sat in a tree that was right next to Kagome. Sango kept her distance from Miroku's wondering hand and sat on the opposite side of the fire than him. It was late into the night and everybody was asleep. He slipped through the woods like a shadow. He hid his scent. He looked around the small camp to look for the small kit, his eyes landed on the two sleeping forms of a demon girl and the small fox kit. He slowly approached; careful not to wake the sleeping hanyou that was holding the fox. He reached down and removed the demon girl's hand from the child and picked him up. He knew he could just take the girl, but they would never find him.
'Good thing this kid made that little heart, Kagome will see that the kid is in trouble and come looking for him, if she didn't have the heart, they would probably think he just lost or something and have no idea where he is. The heart glows brighter the closer they are to him, so they will come. ' Naraku smiled to himself as he slid back to his castle.
Kagome cracked her eyes open; the sunlight hit them like daggers. She let out a small cry of pain and quickly closed them. When she opened them again she could see little black dots it her vision.
"Oh crap, now I can't see. Why do I always have to face the sun when I wake up?" She grumbled to herself as she looked around the camp. Eventually her sight became clear again. She looked up and her eyes landed on a silver haired hanyou in red, she sighed and stared at his peaceful face.
'He's so relaxed.' She thought. His mouth was slightly open; reviling a pointed fang, his left leg hung off the branch while the other was up near his chest. His left arm lay on his torso while the other dangled off the other side of the branch. Kagome almost wanted to paint him on a piece of paper. Inu-Yasha's eyes began to twitch.
'Oh no, he's waking up!' Kagome didn't want to be caught staring at him but Inu-Yasha ad already opened his eyes to seen her look away blushing.
'Was she staring at me?' He pretended he didn't see her looking at him and jumped down from the branch. Sango had already woken Miroku and had gone to get water for their trip.
"Hey." He said sleepily. Kagome was facing away from him and was flushing furiously. When she stopped, she looked up at him.
"Hi." She smiled. How he loved her smile. Just then, Sango and Miroku came back with the water.
"Hey guys, are you ready to go?" Sango asked. Inu-Yasha helped Kagome stand up and they began packing all their stuff, Kagome grabbed a pail and filled it with water to put the fire out.
"There, all done" She said as she dusted her hands off. When she looked around the small camp she saw that Sango was standing over a twitching monk with a red hand mark on his cheek, Sango's eye twitched as she kept muttering things like 'stupid hentai' or 'perverted monk.' Kagome couldn't help but giggle at Miroku's stupidity to mess around with a hot demon slayer.
'Poor guy never had a chance. One day she's gonna kill him.' Kagome shook her head sadly. She looked around again and saw Inu-Yasha lounging under a tree. But Shippo is usually tormenting Inu-Yasha. She walked over to him.
"Hey Inu-Yasha, do you know where Shippo is?" Inu-Yasha looked around for a second.
"Nope." He closed his eyes, laid back and relaxed, he was going to take advantage of Shippo's absence to get as much alone time as possible. Since Inu-Yasha was no help, Kagome went over to he angel pack and began looking for her heart. She found the little box that contained it, she opened it and gasped. Then dropped it.
"What's wrong?" Inu-Yasha walked over to her quiet fast
"Th-the heart." She stuttered as she pointed to the glowing Purple Heart that lay on the ground near her feet.
"Something happened to Shippo, Inu-Yasha we have to find him!" Inu-Yasha could see the worried look on Kagome's face and nodded his head in agreement.
"Ok, I know a little about these things. I know that it glows brighter the closer you get to him." Kagome thought for a second.
"You mean we use is kind of like a guide?" Inu-Yasha smiled and nodded.
"Exactly." They two walked over to the now unconscious Miroku. Kagome sighed and squirted some water on his face and he shot up like a bullet.
"I didn't do it Sango! Please don't kill me!" He cried as he put his hands out as protection. When nothing happened for a few seconds, he peeked open an eye. He saw that everyone was walking away.
"Hey! Wait for me!" He jumped up off the ground and ran after them. Kagome had the heart in her hand facing North, Didn't glow. Facing East, didn't glow. Facing South, didn't glow. She faced the West
"That way, to the West." Kagome pointed out. Miroku had just caught up to them and was puffing.
"You could have waited up for me." He wheezed out as he used Inu-Yasha's shoulder as a support. Inu-Yasha closed his eyes growled, Miroku immediately took back his hand, he liked his hand, and he wanted to keep it.
"We don't have time Miroku, something's happened to Shippo, we have to find him." When no one talked, Inu-Yasha opened his eyes to see that everyone was staring at him. "What?"
"I think someone's warming up to Shippo." Kagome said teasingly. Inu-Yasha crossed him arms and pouted.
"Am not, I'm just doing it so you won't get mad at me for not getting him." What he said was only half true, his voice had given him away. It was when he said 'Something's happened to Shippo' His voice sounded kind of worried. Kagome went up to him and hugged him, which caught him off guard. When she got off, he was blushing
"W-what was that for?" Kagome winked at him.
"That was for caring, now come on, we have to get Shippo back from whoever took him." The group nodded their heads.
"Come on." Sango gestured with her head for them to get moving.
Naraku smirked as he watched the group in Kanna's mirror.
"They're finally coming to save their little friend." Naraku chuckled. "To bad that that wont be happing. Now leave Kanna." He waved her away. 'I better send them a little present to tell them that I am the one who took Kagome's new son.' He smiled to himself as he looked at the demon puppet that was on the other side of the room.
Kagome walked along a small path as the little heart glowed.
'We're going to find Shippo, I know we will.' Kagome assured herself. The group had been walking for quite some time now and they needed a rest. Sango sat down on a rock.
"We need to rest for a little bit." She said, looking up at Inu-Yasha who scoffed. Kagome sat down next to her.
"I agree with Sango, we need a five minute break." Inu-Yasha rolled his eyes.
"Fine, but after that we get started again." Inu-Yasha sighed and sat down next to Kagome. Kagome suddenly felt a pain in the side of her neck and cried out in surprise. She lifted her hand up to where the pain was and felt a small dart and brought it down to eye level.
"Huh, what's this?" She examined the dart; it was about the size of her fingernail.
"What's that?" Inu-Yasha leaned over her shoulder.
"A dart, someone shot me with it." Kagome pointed to her neck. Inu-Yasha walked around Kagome and lifted some loose hair that covered where she was pointing; there was a small puncture wound.
Inu-Yasha looked worried.
'Who would do this to Kagome?' He was broken out of his thoughts by Kagome.
"Uh, Inu-Yasha." Inu-Yasha saw that Kagome was blushing slightly.
"Huh?" He then noticed how close he was to her and flushed.
"Oh, s-sorry." He immediately backed up off of her.
"Here." Kagome gave him the dart she held in her hand. Inu-Yasha sniffed it.
"It doesn't have a scent." He reported. Kagome sniffed it to. Nothing.
"He's right, I wonder what it is?" She shrugged. "Oh well, we have to find Shippo." The group got up and began walking again, but Inu-Yasha still felt unease, like something was wrong. It was about noon and the group was still walking. The heart would glow brighter every hour or two.
'We're coming shippo.' Kagome would not give up hope. She looked down to her hand at the heart. It was still glowing a bright purple. She was glad that Shippo had made it. Because if he hadn't they probably would never find him. She sighed. "Oh Shippo, I hope you're all right." It suddenly became dark with clouds; a figure stepped out of the shadows, showing its unmistakable baboon pelt.
"Naraku." Inu-Yasha seethed.
"What have you done to Shippo?" Kagome said through clenched teeth. Naraku chuckled.
"What makes you think I have him?" Kagome balled her fists; she was ready to attack.
"Because I know you have him!" Kagome took out her Tensia and lunged for him. "Now give him back!" She screamed as she sliced off Naraku's head. It landed a couple feet away. The head chuckled before the wind blew it away like dust. Kagome stared at the spot the where the demon puppet used to stand.
'I will get you Naraku!'
"Kagome, are you alright?" Kagome was torn from her thoughts by Inu-Yasha's concerned voice.
"Huh? Oh sorry Inu-Yasha, I'm ok." She assured him. She sighed and put her Tensia back.
"Why would Naraku do something like this? He must be up to something." Sango pointed out. Miroku nodded his head.
"I agree with Sango, I wonder what he's up to this time?" The group started up again. Kagome looked up into the sky; the dark clouds that had formed when Naraku came had begun to part and the sun filtered the sky. The group walked on through the day; it was so quiet and peaceful. Kagome closed her eyes; she suddenly felt a pain in her neck again.
"AH!" She cupped her neck with her hand as she fell to the ground in pain. Inu-Yasha ran to her side.
"Kagome!" He noticed her hand at her neck and pulled it away. The place where the dart used to be had a dark aura surrounding it. "Naraku must have done this to her." He looked down at Kagome; she had her eyes closed tight and her teeth clenched. "Stop hurting her! Stop hurting Kagome!" He shouted to the sky. "Naraku!" He felt Kagome relax in his arms. He looked down at her face to see that she was fine. Her eyes flickered open.
"In-Inu-Yasha?" He hugged her.
"Oh Kagome, I am so sorry, this is all Naraku's fault." Kagome stood up and looked Inu-Yasha in the eye.
"Well if its Naraku's fault, then why are you sorry?"
"Because I didn't think about it earlier." Kagome shook her head.
"Its ok, we just have to get to Naraku's castle and find Shippo." They started walking again, but this time Inu-Yasha kept a close eye on Kagome. The group had been walking for a while, Kagome saw a barrier surrounding a castle.
"Well we're here." She pointed to the barrier. Inu-Yasha walked up to it to see if he could get through. He touched and he didn't fly backwards.
"He wants us to come in." He mumbled to himself. "Come on." Kagome kept close to Inu-Yasha as the group walked in. Miroku tried to step in to see that it repelled him.
'He only wants Kagome and Inu-Yasha.' He looked at Sango to see that the barrier did not let her pass as well.
"Why isn't it letting us in Miroku?" Miroku looked up at the barrier.
"Because he doesn't want us to interfere with his plans. I don't know what they are, but since its Naraku, it's probably bad." Sango looked worried.
'Oh, I hope they'll be all right.'
Kagome looked around her; she couldn't see a thing.
"Inu-Yasha?" She tried to see through all the fog, but even with her Keen eyesight she still couldn't see through all the fog. "Inu-Yasha!" She called again. "Sango? Miroku? 'Where is everyone?' She saw a figure a couple feet away. "Inu-Yasha?" The figure came closer. It was Naraku!
"Naraku!" She was about to turn and run, but he was next to her before she could even blink. He grabbed her arms. She gasped and took a step back at his sudden movement. "Let go of me!" She tried to wriggle her hands free but he was strong. He leaned up to her ear and she froze.
"Kill him." He said simply. Kagome's neck began to hurt again, this time it felt like she was going to die.
"Ah!" She winced in pain, but Naraku wasn't going to give up that easily.
"Kill Inu-Yasha."
"No!" Kagome cried. Naraku was growing impatient.
"Kill him!" He said more forcefully. Kagome let out another cry before her eyes went totally blank. "Kill Inu-Yasha." He said again. Kagome nodded her head and Naraku smirked. "Now go find Inu-Yasha."
Inu-Yasha walked through the thick fog.
"Kagome?" He called. He couldn't see his hand in front of him. "Where did everybody disappear to?" A figure came out. "Kagome? Is that you?" Yes! It was her, he ran up to meet her but stopped. Her eyes, they were blank. "Kagome, are you alright?" Kagome went up to him and hugged him. "Huh, Kagome what are you doing?" She didn't move or answer. 'She's so warm.' He closed his eyes and hugged her back. She pulled out a small knife and held it to his back. She started to cry.
"I'm sorry Inu-Yasha." Kagome brought the knife back. Inu-Yasha saw it out of the corner of his eye and was about to push Kagome away, but she was strong and held him there. He closed his eyes and waited for the blow, it never came. He opened his eyes to see Kagome had stopped in midair and had her eyes closed tight.
'Kill him!' Naraku's voice said in her head.
"No!" She said out loud.
'Kill him!' Kagome shook her head.
"Get out of my head!" Inu-Yasha backed up off of her. She fell to her knees and clutched her head, still holding the knife.
'I said kill him!' Kagome felt immense pain in her neck and dropped the knife.
"Leave me alone!" She screamed as she held her neck. She felt faint, and her whole body shook. She stood back up. "I said get out of my head!" Inu-Yasha could only stare at her. "GET OUT!" Kagome screamed again. The dark aura around her neck slowly began to fade until it was completely gone. Her eyes rolled to the back of her head and she fell. Inu-Yasha ran and caught her before she could hit the ground. She had fainted.
'She must have had to really fight him off if she fainted, poor Kagome.' Inu-Yasha picked her up bridal style.
"I'm going in there and I'm getting Shippo out!" He declared.
'I-Inu-Yasha?" Inu-Yasha looked down to see that Kagome was still sleeping. "I'm sorry." She murmured. Inu-Yasha smiled.
'Ok Kagome, I'm gonna get that kid back if it's the last thing I do.'
Naraku walked into the room where Kikyo was staying. Right now she was furious.
"I told you to make her kill him, that's all I asked for, but you had to go and ruin it!" Naraku walked up to her and slapped her.
"I didn't have to do this for you! That girl was strong, she really is in love with him, and she even broke the spell you put on her." Kikyo clenched her teeth.
'How dare she! No one has ever broken one of my spells, it happened once before when someone broke my spell on Inu-Yasha, but that was her too!' Kikyo's eyes were filled with pure hatred for Kagome and Inu-Yasha.
'Inu-Yasha was supposed to be mine!' She stood up and strode past Naraku. She walked into another room were the kit was. He was huddled up in a corner.
"Come with me child." She went over and picked him up. Not once did he relax as she left the castle to see the two people she hated.
Kagome was still in Inu-Yasha's arms. She slowly opened her eyes.
"Inu-Yasha, where are we?" She looked around to see lots of fog.
"We're on our way to get Shippo." He was so happy to see that she was ok.
"What happened?" Kagome couldn't really remember what had happened.
"It looked like Naraku had taken hold of you're body and wanted you to kill me personally. But you fought him and won." He held her to his chest.
"Uh, Inu-Yasha, I can walk now." Inu-Yasha blushed and let her down. "So were did Sango and Miroku go to?" They walked closer to the castle.
"I don't even think they got through the barrier." Kagome nodded in agreement. Another figure came into view.
'Please not be Naraku." Kagome pleaded. When it became clearer, they saw that it was Kikyo. 'Oh, like that's a whole lot better!' Kagome noticed that Kikyo held a shaking red fur ball in her arms. 'Shippo!' Kikyo noticed Kagome's eyes widen and smirked.
"I see you recognize your little friend here." She grabbed Shippo by the tail and hung him so Kagome could see him.
"Ow! Let go!" He cried. He stopped glaring at the dead miko when he noticed Kagome and Inu-Yasha.
"Mommy!" He attempted to jump to her but cried out in pain since Kikyo didn't let him go.
"Shippo!" Kagome wanted to slice Kikyo in half for hurting Shippo. "What do you want?" Kikyo smirked.
"I want him." Kikyo pointed towards Shippo.
"Me?" He asked. She nodded.
"Why should I let you have him?" Kagome said.
"Because if I don't get him, I will kill him." (She doesn't know not to mess with Kagome's kit, I don't feel sorry for what's going to happen to her next) Kagome almost had a hint of red in her eyes. She started walking over to Kikyo.
"Take one more step and he's dead." Kikyo threatened. Kagome growled and charged at Kikyo with all her might. Kikyo never had a chance. All she could feel was the sudden blow to the side of her face. She dropped Shippo and he scurried over to Inu-Yasha. Kikyo staggered a little bit in confusion. Kagome stood on one foot and kicked Kikyo in the side. She went flying.
"Aaahhh!" Kikyo screamed as she waked into the castle wall. Kagome smiled and went over to see Shippo.
"Shippo, are you alright?" He nodded. "Oh thank goodness, I was so worried about you!" She fell to her knees and he jumped into her arms.
"Come on, let's go. I don't want to stay here any longer" Inu-Yasha helped Kagome stand up. They walked to the barrier and stepped out.
"Kagome!" Sango jumped up from her rock and hugged her friend. Poor Shippo was squished between their breasts. Miroku rally wanted to be Shippo at the moment.
"Shippo, you're alright!" Shippo jumped on Kagome's shoulder. The castle began to disappear.
"We get back now." Miroku said. The group nodded and started their way back to the village. Kagome looked over her shoulder one more time where the castle used to be, then at Shippo who was rubbing his sore tail. Shippo noticed her gaze and smiled at her, she smiled back.
'I'm so sorry Shippo, this was all my fault.'
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Hope you liked it. My fav was the with Kagome looking at Inu-Yasha. Well I will try to update sooner next time but you have to be patiant if you want long chapters like this one. REVIEW! (Please)