PyroChi: Well I have graced you with another chapter haven't I? Sorry if its been a little while I'm one of those people who writes when the mood is right and time is most convenient. Anyway take it or leave it.

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Pathway to a Nightmare

Chapter:2

No one made a move, no one said anything. The silence seemed to stretch into forever until Inuyasha finally spoke.

"Its just a stupid book. Anyone could have heard about that or seen one of us while we were in a village and used us in some dumb picture. Besides, that could have happened to anyone."

Shippo looked at him in doubtfully. "Highly unlikely Inuyasha. It's not everyday that someone gets pinned to a tree for fifty years."

Before Inuyasha had enough time to take in what Shippo said Miroku quickly added, "He is right you know; but it could be that someone heard of what happened in Kaede's village and wrote about it." Trying to help the situation as well, Sango replied with confidence "I'm sure that's what happened."

"Does this look like a short story to you!" Kagome replied, flipping the pages of the rather thick book.

"I wonder if there are any other pretty pictures in it?" said a curious Shippo. The mention of picture seemed to snap Inuyasha back into the picture from his previous draw-in state of mind.

"Wait a second, you touched my ears? You always told me you would never do anything like that!"

"Is that all you can think about right now? Five minutes ago you were saying 'It's just some stupid fairy tale, it could have happened to anyone!'" Kagome replied heatedly.

"So you admit it!"

"RGGHH! FINE THEN, I ADMIT IT! ARE YOU HAPPY YOU, INCONSIDERATE JERK!" Tears were threatening to spill out in waterfalls from Kagome's eyes. She took a few deep breaths- trying hard to control her temper.

"I Don't know why this isn't freaking any of you out like it is me!"

" Kagome…" Sango patted her friend on the back trying to comfort the girl. "Let's forget about that book for now, okay? We'll set up camp and then………."

"So, when were going to tell me it was a lie?"

" Inuyasha……"

"Hey, don't look at me like that! You're the one who touched my ears."

"SIT BOY!" Kagome promptly dropped the book on his head, turned on her heals, and stalked off into the forest.

Slowly, Inuyasha crawled up from his "sit hole", removing the book from his face. At first his face took on a rather blank state, but it soon developed into a look of sheer determination with maybe a whisper of regret?

"No way, she's not getting off that easily!" He leaped to go, but before he could Miroku grabbed his arm.

"Don't you think your being a tad malicious?" Miroku wanted to stop the situation from progressing any further- for he feared for the pending fight and split up of the couple. This would not only be bad for both parties' feelings and mental states, but it also completely diminished any hope of finding the remaining jewel shards.

Inuyasha, however, seemed to be on a one-minded ego trip. For as soon as Miroku grabbed his arm he quickly drew back in annoyance. Narrowing his eyes in an evil manner he hissed out, "Don't you think you better keep your hands to your self!" Miroku's arm went limp at both the viciousness of his friend and at the hidden meaning he knew lay behind those words. Sure his hand tended to wander a bit, but wasn't that a little uncalled for?

Inuyasha, who was completely ignoring the hurt expression on his friends face, leaped into the woods to find the annoying wench whose words still rang in his ears.

Sango sighed loudly and questioned in an exasperated tone, " Now what?"

Miroku looked over at his partner who had been rather quiet up until then. He noticed that she looked rather tired... like she could use a good…….well, lets' call it a massage...

Sango keenly spotted the perverted twinkle glowing in his eyes and made sure he got the right notion in his head before it was to late.

"Don't get any ideas monk! I'm going to go to bed…alone."

"Oh well, it was worth a try..." He replied with his signature lecherous charm along with a slight undertone of disappointment. And with that they both turned to set up their own sleeping quarters.

Meanwhile, Kagome had kept wandering deeper and deeper into the dense forest. The days events had been so overwhelming that at first Kagome didn't care where she was going, as long as it was far away from that idiot!

'He can such a stupid jerk sometimes! Why can't he ever just listen to me?' She carried on with these thoughts for quiet some time, trying to stop the tears that would not cease to flow from her already swollen, red eyes. Eventually, she became weary and stopped underneath a rather large tree to rest. She sat on the ground and brought her legs up to her chest, wrapping her arms around them in the process. As Kagome sat, her head began to clear and she soon started to scold herself.

'How could I be such a big baby! I was so busy sulking that I got myself totally lost! Now what am I supposed to do!' she pondered over this for awhile longer, turning over different ideas in her head; ultimately making the final decision to try to find a path.

'At least that way I know I'm going somewhere.'

Desperately searching, she tripped several times and acquired many bruises and scratches in her frantic rush. When she finally met a path she almost missed it- for it was covered in eerie vines that she had never seen before. They had strange dark purple bulbs all over them and were an odd blood red color. The only thing besides the plants that marked the path was a small wooden sign that had nothing on it. Slowly, Kagome walked onto the path, being careful to step in the spaces between the peculiar plants tendrils. As Kagome walked along the trail another thing she noticed that did not seem right was the light ominous mist that seemed to hang over the area in an almost foreboding manner.

'What the heck am I doing!' She thought to herself. 'I might have a better chance just wondering around in the woods! This place gives me the creeps!'

Just as she was about to turn around and go back a sudden snap behind her sent a paralyzing chill up her spine and sent her tumbling down the path. As she tripped and stumbled over vines- praying she would come to a village soon- she came upon an opening with a rather large sign with nothing on it at the edge of it. She thought this rather odd, for that was the second sign she had seen on the path that gave no actual information to its reader. She peered through the rather dense fog coming out of the opening and, making out some houses and maybe a temple up in the distance, decided to pass through. However, as soon as she stepped onto the field she slipped in a buddle of some dark liquid. Grunting, she brought her wet hand up to her face and made a complete halt of all movement at the sight of the substance she had slipped in. Her breath hitched in her throat and her eyes widened in terror. Her hand was covered in what appeared to be blood. Fresh blood. She looked out onto the field and was met with an even more gruesome sight. Thousands of graves lay stretched out over the plane. As she peered even further she saw little fires burning on top of distant hills. Then a smell reached her nose. It was unfamiliar at first, but then she remembered; flashes of burning villages emerging in her mind. Then, did she realize that it was the scent of the burning flesh of humans and demons.

Before she could react, shadowy figures began to materialize from out of the mist. They wore shackles and chains that were covered in old and new blood. Most had sharp fangs and claws that grabbed out to reach her. She tried desperately to turn away, to get up, to do something, but it was all in vain. They continued to come towards her, staring at her with blank, black eyes that bored into her soul. They moaned in such an unbearable agony of unspeakable pain that it was almost unbearable to hear. The demons were only a couple feet away, inching closer by the second when, almost as if lighting had struck her, Kagome's body jolted alive. She scrambled to stand only to slip, head first, back onto the ground. She hit her head on something rather hard and began to loose focus.

The last thing she heard, before the darkness overcame her, was a small voice whispering in her ear. "You came."

PyroChi: Okay this is total off topic, but I'm sick of it! These braces are coming off! Gets pliers These things hurt to damn much and they aren't making my teeth look any different!………..More on topic, this chapter was a little more horror then it started out to be. Oh well. it had to be kinda scary. See you next chapter……..cuz I know I will. 0.o

Beta-person who has just randomly appeared::POOF: yah, tats kinda scary there...