Shadow Fox Revised

Well, here is chapter four, I hope I'm fixing this right. Well…I don't have much to say this time. I'm sick and got to stay home from school and one of my friends (Inudemoness247) was talking about how she had come back and started updating again, and so I figured since I was stuck at home, that I should try it too. So I started reading my story, to figure out what was happening in my story, and didn't get thru the first chap before I realized that there were a lot of typos. So I started rewriting and posting the chapters. Then I got to chapter three and realized that I really messed up if that is what I had written and somehow I had managed to get to where I was in chapter 13. So here I am, actually rewriting my story and I'm fixing to change it a lot!…and there is my life story. Enjoy the chap, don't forget to review!

Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha and company but I do own my shadow fox dude (can't tell you his name yet…because…well…I don't know yet ;), the tiger youkai, and The goddess Akiko.


----Chapter4----

----still with Inuyasha and the gang ----

"Urgh…" Inuyasha blinked his eyes open…they were still in the clearing, everyone was awake and had set up camp.

Kikyou was still sitting by the tree were she had been for the past three hours, while everyone else was trying to treat their wounds.

He noticed his wounds were already taken care of. '…Kagome…no…Kikyou…Kagome's not here….besides! Why would I want the wench to take care of me anyway! She ran off! Again! Well who needs her…..argh….I need her to find the jewel shards… Argh! That bastard probably had a jewel shard! That's the ONLY reason why I wouldn't be able to kill him! I couldn't even TOUCH him! Urgh…When I find that wench, she'll regret ever running off…and where the hell did she think she was going? The well is days away! And before we were attacked, I could smell her scent, and it was going in the opposite direction of the well! That idiot! She probably had no idea where she was going and is probably sitting somewhere crying cuz she's lost. HA! Or she did something really stupid! Like fall off a cliff or something!'

(an: and he doesn't know how right he is)

With that last thought Inuyasha gave a snort and tried to get up. Everyone turned when they heard him grunt in pain from the movement.

"Inuyasha," it was Miroku. " You really shouldn't be moving. You took it worse than all of us."

"Feh…whatever. I-" Inuyasha was seemingly cut of by nothing. Everyone noticed that he started sniffing the air and start growling. "grrrrr….Kouga!" Inuyasha whipped out the Tetsusaiga ready to fight, all wounds seemingly gone.

Everyone watched as a tornado came whirling in.

(an: what'd you think he was gonna do? Skip in like little red riding hood? XD )

"Kagome!" He stopped and looked around when he realized that she wasn't there. He immediately turned an accusing finger towards Inuyasha. "Yo Mutt face! Where's My Kagome! You didn't lose her did you! I knew I couldn't trust her your care! I should have kept her with me! I wouldn't have let this happen! You probably jumped her off a cliff or something!"

(an: XD once again, HOW RIGHT)

Inuyasha was infuriated. How dare he! Like normal, he decided to speak with out thinking. "Lose her? Lose her! She ran off!"

It was Kouga's turn to be infuriated. "She ran off?"

That was when Inuyasha realized his error in his words, but it was just a little bit too late.

"What the hell did you do to her this time! You crazy bastard! Where is she! I should rip you limb from limb! Why aren't you looking for her? Which way did she go? I'll find her myself! Hang on Kagome! I'm coming!" And with that he took off………in the wrong direction of which she had gone.

"Feh! I have to find that idiot before that moron does. She'll probably be eaten by the time that retard reaches her anyway. She had to go and run off and now I have to go rescue that wenches sorry ass. I'll make sure-"

"Inuyasha." Sango interrupted Inuyasha. " Stop with the I's, anywhere you plan to go, we're going with you, especially if it has to do with Kagome. I will ignore the comments and names you were just throwing her way….for now…but…you are right though. She doesn't have any means of protection out there. And you know it was all your fault that she ran off so that means it's YOUR responsibility to go and save her." With that statement she threw a glare at him. "oh and by the way." She added a little way too sweetly. "Why is hell she here? Hasn't she tried to kill us? Didn't she take our jewel shards and give them to Naraku? No, nevermind. I don't care. What I care about right now is Kagome. And no matter what you say, we ARE going with you. I know you're worried about her Inuyasha, I'm worried too."

"Worried? Worried about that WENCH! I'm not worried! I want to give her what she has coming to her! That guy probably had a jewel shard on him! If she was here she could have told me where and I could have killed the bastard! But nooooo! She had to go run off and get lost!"

Miroku stood up and stretched his back. "Now Inuyasha. You can't put all this blame on Kagome. Plus, before we got attacked, you said her scent was going the opposite way of the well. She didn't even take her bag. She was in…what does she call them…pag-amers?…anyway something like that. And you know she doesn't like going around in those. So her leaving obviously wasn't like her normal storm off."

"INUYASHA! THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT! KAGOME COULD BE DEAD AND IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT! I KNOW IT IS!" Shippo wiped away at the tears that were flowing freely from his eyes.

"WHATEVER! STUPID BRAT! SHE WOULD BE DOING THE WORLD A FAVOR IF SHE DIED!"

Shippo could no longer contain himself as he went from weeping to raging. "WHY YOU-! HEART SCAR!" Shippo screamed as he preformed his 'special' attack on the stubborn inu's ear.

"AARGGH! Get off me you little brat!" Inuyasha threw Shippo into the nearest tree.

Kikyou just continues to watch this 'odd' display through the group. Mentally sighing at the fact that the fool was really more than a fool, he was a complete imbecile! Then mentally laughing at how that made things all the easier for her. If only she didn't have to be around it!

In the distance you hear a rumble of thunder that causes the ground to quake and trimmer. They all looked up to see heavy dark clouds swirling in from every direction until all previously available light was smothered out.

"Inuyasha…it's going to start raining again soon. I suggest we start looking for Kagome now…and hurry about it…it looks like its going to be really bad…Lets go…now…for I fear if we don't…then Kagome might not…" Miroku trailed off and didn't finish his sentence. It didn't matter though. Everyone there knew exactly what he meant.

----At the Cliff----

"Her scent…it stops here…dear Kami…Kagome…" Inuyasha stood staring over the cliff into the water rushing past far below.

Sango stood there silently. Making naught a sound. Her eyes hidden behind the shadow of her bangs.

Shippo collapsed on the floor, wailing as loud as his little body would let him. Waterfalls of tears streaked down his face to water the wild grasses.

Miroku stood there in disbelief…almost as if he was waiting for Kagome to come wake him up with her sunny smile and waiting ramen breakfast. Waiting for this all to turn out to be just a bad dream.

Kikyou stood in the background. With everyone at the cliff's edge wrapped up in there disbelief, no one noticed the poison insects that she was currently communicating with. The bugs turned and flew off to deliver their message completely unnoticed.

"There…there must be a mistake…" Miroku looked desperately at Inuyasha "Maybe…maybe she came here, but then turned around…"

"No…" Sango cut him off. "Can't you see the skid marks. She didn't stop in time." Her voice cracked and sounded strained as she looked to him with sorrowful tear filled eyes.

"Stop all your mourning for this girl. It's a waste of your time." Everyone turned to look at Kikyou who tried to keep the evil triumphant smirk from making its way onto her willing lips.

Sango looked at her in rage. "How can you be so heartless! She just DIED! Why should we NOT mourn for her? Just because you despise her?" she bit out in pure hatred.

"She was not supposed to be in this world. I suspect that one in another world other than their own can't die." Kikyou's cold voice stilled even Shippo's crying.

"How did you come to such a conclusion as that, Lady Kikyou?" Miroku asked the question on everyone's mind. He mentally grimaced at adding the Lady part. It was supposed to be used as a term of respect and here he was wasting it on her.

"If she was actually dead, then I would have the other half of my soul. I do not, so therefore, if she did 'die' as you say, then that must mean she was merely sent back to her own world and took the other half with her, or that she is still alive somewhere down there."

Everyone looked slightly hopeful.

"It is not possible to live that fall Kikyou."

(an: Inuyasha, always the optimistic one ;)

Everyone turned a glare at Inuyasha (minus Kikyou who looked bored at the whole thing) for having tried to squish their little bit of hope.

Shippo had started wondering towards the edge while Miroku and Sango started discussing possibilities of where she could be and where the possible locations the that river below led to.

Then he saw something on the other side of the cliff. 'Wow, that almost looks like it could be a walkway. That's kind of cool. I wonder if they'll let me come back and play on it once we find Kagome? What is that?…a cave? Wow! I'd love to explore that!…WAIT! Could Kagome be there? "Hey guys!" Everyone came to gather around him and look where he was pointing.

Sango gasped. "Could Kagome-"

"Already on it. Lets go!" Inuyasha said in his gruff voice, but Miroku didn't miss the hint of hope that lay underneath.

So they began their journey again as they made their way around to the other side of the cliff.

Inuyasha in the lead…with Kikyou by his side.

----in the cave----

Kagome just sat there for what seemed like hours. Nothing happening.

The guy never coming back. That lady, Akiko, had come back when Kagome went back to sleep, but all she had said was to stay in the cave and wait.

"Well that doesn't help me very much. Sit here? Till what?" Kagome had been yelling at the walls for some time now. She couldn't go back to sleep again. She had already tried. And she obviously couldn't leave now either.

Kagome sighed as the only response she got was her echo off the cave walls, just like every other time. Odd though. Her echo went on for a lot longer than any other echo before. On a school field trip once, not that long ago, they went to a famous cave, she hadn't realized that caves could get famous. In that 'oh so famous cave' though, none of the echoes that anyone ever made lasted this long.

Kagome sat there and listened to her echoing words. She felt really empty inside. No a hungry kind of empty, though she was hungry, it was a lonely kind of empty. Was no one coming to look for her? Certainly Inuyasha's nose would have sniffed her out by now, and even if Sango couldn't have gotten Inuyasha to help, she knew that her sister figure would find a way to find her, and she would have acquired Shippo, Miroku, and Kirara. Shippo and Kirara could have sniffed her out, even if they couldn't do it as good as Inuyasha could and Miroku could usually sense her holy energy. She were where they? She had taken into consideration that it was raining outside, she had falling into a river, and it had been raining when she left, so it probably would be a little difficult to follow her scent, but what about her holy energy? Maybe that was one of the things that Akiko was talking about when she said many things would be different when she came back to. But she didn't feel any different holy power wise.

There was the weird echo thing, and the fact that she could hear everything. Even despite the heavy rain outside the cave, she could still here even the smallest bug breathing…She could even see everything. Kagome had always had troubles seeing anything in dark places, and now she could see everything.

"….weird…I wonder what this all means…"

"…Kagome……Kagome……Kagome……Kagome!"

"What the hell?" Kagome whispered as she looked around to find out where that had come from.

Each time she had heard it, it almost sounded like a different person…each time…'Maybe?'

"…Hello?" Kagome called out timidly to the dark cave, not to sure if maybe she was starting to hear things or not.

"…Kagome…Kagome…Kagome…Kagome!"

Whatever it was, it was getting closer…and the voices were sounding familiar…one sounded like a violent type male…the other was like a distressed woman, maybe her age…the third was like another man, this one more cool and collected…the last was what really caught her attention. It was like a small child wailing out desperately. Almost like a child that was lost and looking for his mother…'Shippo!' Kagome felt her motherly instincts kicking in as she had the sudden urgent need to go to Shippo and tell him that everything was alright.

They were here. They had really come for her. She knew that now.

That would almost make the woman, Akiko, right. But that could just be coincidence…what wouldn't be coincidence would be Inuyasha coming in with Kikyou.

She couldn't stop thinking about that. What if Akiko wasn't just a dream, and this was all real? "well…I guess I'll find out when I see Inuyasha…" and with that Kagome headed towards the entrance of the cave calling to her friends.


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Hmmm….wonder what will happen next? Don't you too? ;P

Hope you like it! That one took a long time to revise. ; just think about what it'll be like when I get to the ones that I can't even use anymore? ;;; Hope you all like! Tell me what you think and if you can truly see the differences between the two versions, because I truly have rewritten every chap so far.