Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha, All characters and such belong to Rumiko Takahashi!

Not much to say, really. Only the old "I don't have much time nowadays to write, but I'm trying!" bit. But, I really am trying…I'm in grade 11, and my birthday is coming up on the 18th of April, so please, bear with me! Before I start new stuff in this chapter, I'll add a paragraph or two from the last chapter; as a recap.

Here is chapter 11:

Chapter 11: The same old deception

1"Look, I'll be back soon. I can't let Inuyasha know I'm responsible for any of this, not until after the war begins at least." Kikyo said, her soul collectors coming back and lifting her into the air.

"Good-bye, Naraku. Have fun..."

Naraku ignored her, looking down at his prize. He sensed the Jewel deep within her. "Such a waste that I'll have to destroy her." The demons in the darkness shrieked and growled in delight, hoping they would get the remains of what they sensed to be a priestess.

"Be Calm, the lot of you!" He yelled to them, and they obeyed. "She'll be mine, for the time being...Then she's all yours."

Kagura, one of Naraku's incarnations, stepped forward. "She'll be yours?" she repeated, "How so?"

"It's only simple." He replied, "I'll use her as I do with the other humans that serve me against their own will."

"Again, how so?" she said, still confused.

Naraku grunted impatiently, "To make it easy enough for your own mind to handle, I mean to use her as a puppet. To act through her to get whatever I want and to get to whomever I want..."

Kagura grunted also, but out of annoyance that she could not be of assistance; that a mere human would do the important work.

"And I know exactly how. Listen, Kagura!" Naraku spoke with haste.

At her name, Kagura walked over to her master and bent down beside him. "What is it? What can I do!"

"I need you to go scout out Inuyasha. Find him and then report back to me." Naraku grinned, "I need to know exactly where I have to go to finally strike back at the Half-breed."

"Kilala! Stop it; go back!" Sango shouted as her large companion roared ferociously and turned around in the direction in which they came from.

"What's wrong with her?" Miroku asked, looking behind him; towards the direction they were supposed to go and trying to locate something. "Did something spook her?"

"I doubt it. It's not like Kilala to act like this, especially when we're doing something of such importance." Sango replied, stroking Kilala's head, which seemed to somewhat calm her.

"Wait." Sango said, sitting as still as she could. "Do you sense that?"

"I do, and I have for the past moment." Miroku shut his eyes, as if to feel whatever he was sensing, "I wasn't sure if it was just the bad feeling of Kagome's safety possibly being in danger, or if it was something else. Now I'm positive it is something else…but what?"

"I'm not sure, but we need to find out. She's not easily scared, so it must have something to do with Naraku…although I'm not too sure why he would scare her."

"Maybe demons have a certain sense; one that can tell them what's going on miles from where they are. But maybe that's foolish talk." Miroku laughed, "I don't know that much about Demons; I've never been intone with their keen thoughts, you know? I mean, me being as pure as I am."

"Pure? You're the most impure thing I've ever seen." Sango rolled her eyes as Miroku was about to protest. "Now stop rambling on, Kagome needs us."

He sighed sadly, "I can't stay angry with you." He nuzzled into her back, "you're so beautiful."

Sango blushed but held an annoyed glare, "Way to suck up, Miroku."

Both the Monk and the demon slayer screamed as Kilala began plummeting suddenly to the ground.

"Kilala, snap out of it!" Sango yelled, accepting Miroku's outstretched hand. He pulled her into his body.

"It's alright, Sango. I'll break your fall." Miroku stammered.

"Don't be so dramatic, Miroku." Sango said, annoyed again.

"Come here…it's about time I did this." Miroku stated, kissing her.

"Ugh, this is hardly the time!" Sango tried so hard to say, knowing she didn't care what was happening around her. She wanted it, too.

Kilala burst into flames and turned back to her small form, just before they hit something hard.

"Ka…oh, it's only you Kikyo…I thought you were…" Inuyasha said disappointingly, but was cut off before he could finish.

"I know very well who you thought I was. And I also don't care if you think I'm a horrible person. I'm just doing whatever I can to help the rightful side of this war win." Kikyo smugly said. "And I also didn't want you to have to kill Kagome, to watch her die so tragically. So I helped Kagome do it for herself; she killed herself, Inuyasha, I'm innocent! Whether it all really was an accident or not."

"I don't want you to make excuses because I know all too well what you're trying to do; trying to get back into my good graces, well it's too late now Kikyo." Inuyasha said, "I can never love you again, so stop trying to do something about that."

"Oh my, Inuyasha…you make things so complicated for yourself." Kikyo whined, "All I ever wanted was to settle down with you, to have your children and to live normally like the people of the villages that I've come to care so deeply for." She looked accusingly at him, "And you're just too stubborn and selfish to even care."

"Just lay off, would ya? The way you go on about stuff is the same way the magic box people act on, what Kagome calls, Soaps." Inuyasha said, meaning soap operas on Kagome's television.

"I won't even ask what that is, but all I know is that Kagome is long gone now and you should move on. It seems that you had no trouble doing that once people kept telling you to forget about me…" Kikyo pressed her lips tightly together.

"Keh, What do you mean 'Kagome is long gone now'?" Inuyasha was quick getting to Kikyo, grabbing her shoulders, "What the hell did you do to her now!"

"Something you should have done a long time ago." She whistled lightly, summoning her soul collectors, who swooped down; retrieving her off of the ground. "Farewell, Inuyasha. I'll be around."

He growled loudly as she disappeared off with her collectors. He sensed something strange coming from the east and he charged off in that direction.

Kagura smirked from the sky; riding her feather. "It won't be long now, Inuyasha. Hopefully you'll be the one to overcome whatever Naraku throws at you; so I can be free."

"Hachi! my good friend!" Miroku let out a sigh of relief, "Talk about being in the right place at the right time."

"Thank goodness." Sango spread out on Hachi's giant yellow back, stroking Kilala's little fuzzy head.

"Please, Hachi. We need a favor." Miroku stated.

"Anything you wish, Master Miroku." Hachi smiled, "you just name it."

"We need a ride around, Hachi." Sango simply said.

"It's Kilala. She just suddenly began acting strangely, and passed out." said Miroku, "it's rather odd."

"Hachi, Look! Stop!" Sango yelled, pointing towards the ground.

Miroku's eyes darted in the direction that Sango pointed. It was Inuyasha.

"Hey!" Hachi bellowed, "Inuyasha!"

Inuyasha stopped, looking up onto the sky, seeing a giant yellow mass coming down upon him. He jumped into the air and landed on top of Hachi, sitting down cross legged in front of Sango and Miroku.

"I see you haven't found Kagome either, Inuyasha." Miroku sighed.

"No, But I know I'm close." Inuyasha closed his eyes, using his senses again to try and find Kagome.

Sango smiled, placing a hand on Inuyasha's shoulder, "Kagome will be alright, Inuyasha. She is much stronger than she looks."

"That's not the part that bothers me." Inuyasha gazed down at the trees that passed quickly by underneath them.

"And why is that?" Miroku looked at Sango, knowing she was wondering the same thing.

"This is what, the tenth time today that I've let something happen to Kagome?" Inuyasha exaggerated. "When is it going to end? When we find Kagome, and after I get her to someplace safe, we have a war to take part in. It's like we never get a moments rest."

"Look at it this way, Inuyasha…At least when the war is over, you and Kagome can finally settle down." Sango giggled.

Inuyasha blushed, "Huh! Settle down? What do you mean by that?"

"You know very well what Sango means." Miroku playfully poked him a couple of times in the leg.

"Feh" Was Inuyasha's only response, looking away from them to try and hide his wide blush. Suddenly something averted his sense to the north.

Inuyasha stood as his ears perked up, a slight smile forming on his face. "Kagome!"

Kagome's eyes drifted slowly open as she sat upright. "WH-Where am I?" She asked herself while her eyes began to focus.

"Ah, you're awake I see." An eerie voice spoke from within the shadows. Kagome watched as a figure approached her.

"Naraku." She glared, "Why am I here? What do you want with me?"

Naraku smirked, looking to the entrance to the cave. Kagura jumped from her flying feather, landing on her feet, catching her feather as it grew smaller and floated downwards.

"What news do you bring me, Kagura?" Naraku still held the smirk, yet it was not as big as when Kagome had first woken.

"He is coming." She simply said, turning to Kagome and gave her a wink.

Naraku gazed at Kagome and laughed. "And I can't wait."