Chapter 5

Jengatsu's Mistake

Kagome groaned in pain as she was roughly wheeled across an unknown terrain. She had noticed that she had stopped bleeding and she was now able to gain some motion in the tips of her fingers and toes.

Eventually the cart had stopped rolling, and once again Kagome felt herself being huskily picked up and laid down. Though this time she felt a strange texture of the ground as she felt a weird imprint underneath the bare back of her leg. She had managed to move the tips of her fingers around to get a better feeling of where she was been laid. Then she finally figured it out. Straw. She was laid down on some sort of straw mat.

Starting to think about why she was here in the first place suddenly Kagome heard the same old voice talk, the same as in the cave.

"Don't worry honey, everything will be okay. Here, drink this. "

Kagome heard a bottle being uncorked as rough, wrinkly fingers gently opened her mouth and poured in a thick, viscous liquid down into her throat. Unwillingly, Kagome drank it up, not caring about the possibility that this person could be making her drink poison at that moment.

"You should be feeling a warm sensation running through you now…" the old voice crackled.

And surely Kagome did feel a warm sensation running through her body. First it started off from the tips of her toes, then it went up her legs, then thighs, stomach, arms, fingers until it reached her face, and eventually her eyes. Kagome winced once or twice, noticing that the unbearable pain she had been feeling before had seemed to have diminished, and she felt as if no harm had been done to her. Blinking slowly, Kagome managed to open her eyes, which earlier had been caked shut with her own blood. Wriggling her fingers, she eventually moved her hand, then her arm. The pain had completely left her.

Unsure of what was going on, Kagome decided to move her arm towards her chest, where Inuyasha had brutally lashed out at her earlier on. Though when she reached her chest wound, there was nothing there. She moved her arm up and down, feeling for any bandaging that might be stopping the pain or even the blood from being seen on her hands. Though to her dismay Kagome felt nothing, but the light cotton of her school dress shirt.

"I just gave you a healing potion dearie. A mixture of honey, herbs and special spells and incantations make this one of the most expensive and rare potions found in the world. You should be happy that I had it on me and used it on you, otherwise you would have been a goner, " the old voice said as it had noticed Kagome moving her arm over her body in a confused manner.

Finally, Kagome wanting to know who was the one that had laughed when seeing her brutally injured body in the cave and rolled her to the hut, but ironically had ended up saving her, got up and seated herself upright.

Kagome's eyes widened it utter terror, this man…..was the same vendor who had sold the black jade necklace to her just the other day!

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Inuyasha stared at his claws, covered in a dark, ruby coloured liquid. Blood. He panted heavily…no, no…I couldn't have done this- there must be a clear explanation for all of this…(Inuyasha).

Sango looked up at the lone figure standing at the entrance of the cave. She had, had the suspicion that Inuyasha was the one that had injured Kagome, but when she actually saw him standing there in his blood-drenched kimono, it had finally hit her hard. Inuyasha had just killed Kagome. He was a traitor.

"What the hell did you do to Kagome!" Sango shouted out loudly on the brink of tears.

Finally noticing that there were people there, Inuyasha shifted his drooping head upwards to catch the horrified stares of both Sango and Miroku.

"I-I-I…I don't know…" Inuyasha muttered out stupidly.

"Don't gimme that god damn excuse you little bastard! You just killed Kagome! After all these months of working together and searching for the jewel shard your true colours finally come out! You bastard! You TRAITOR!" Sango shouted out in a wild rage as she began to savagely run towards him. Though she was stopped as she felt a strong grip grab onto her arm.

Sango turned her head around in surprise. Why was Miroku stopping her from attacking this pathetic traitor, when it was more than clear that he had just killed Kagome?

"No Sango, don't be unreasonable. Something's wrong- and I know that Inuyasha isn't at fault here," Miroku said firmly as he gazed into Sango's confused eyes.

"B-B-B…But Miroku…"

"No Sango, don't be hasty, we need to think about what has happened. We don't want to pay for our consequences later on. For all we know there could be someone out there right now who wants us to kill Inuyasha due to our misjudgment. First of all we need to find Kagome and make sure that she isn't actually dead. She might even still be alive, we still don't know that," Miroku said wisely.

Sango quietly nodded in approval. Maybe what Miroku was saying was correct, maybe she was being a little too hasty. Though it wasn't her fault, I mean, who knows what could have happened to Kagome- she needed to find her…

Both Miroku and Sango turned back towards Inuyasha, hoping to talk things through and find out what happened and where Kagome was, but to their utter horror when they turned around, where Inuyasha had once been standing, there was no one. He had run away.

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Inuyasha's mind raced, his heart pounded, his forehead sweated profusely. He needed to find Kagome- what he had done was totally wrong and he didn't even know that he had hurt her!

I'm so weak, what the hell have I done? What if I killed her! I can't live without Kagome, how could I do this to her? (Inuyasha).

Inuyasha sniffed the air, analyzing all the different scents that had risen with the upbringing of the new morning. Somewhere in the hundreds of different scents that had mixed together, he needed to find Kagome's scent. Which wasn't difficult because Inuyasha had come to get used to her scent, which was the most unique of all. It had a sweet, tangy scent, like the blossoming of wild flowers on the first day of spring. He kept sniffing and sniffing. No matter how difficult it was, he wasn't going to give up.

Suddenly he smelled it. Her sweet, arousing scent. Inuyasha turned forward in that direction, running off wildly.

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Kagome backed away against the wall. This, this man, he had wheeled her away to some unknown place, he had laughed at her when she was injured, he had talked to Inuyasha after he had attacked her, and now, and NOW she was sitting in the same hut as this mad man!

She couldn't believe it. The chances of something like this happening? She hadn't seen it coming!

The old man grinned, his cracked, yellow teeth protruding from his rigid lips. He looked so disgusting and vile. So evil. He moved closer towards her, and Kagome kept pressing herself against the seams of the walls. Until eventually her body was flat against the wall and the old man was face to face with her.

Kagome moved her head sideways in disgust as she could feel the damp breath of the old man blowing against her, smelling of rotten eggs and old fish.

"Kagome, " the old man said evilly, "you should consider yourself lucky…"

"Why is that?" Kagome asked in a scared tone.

"Because, I was ordered to kill you. The Lord had told me that I have to kill you, or else I will be brutally punished."

"Then- then why haven't you killed me yet? Why have you brought me here? Why did you give me that healing potion?" Kagome asked anxiously, fearful of knowing the answers to all her questions.

"Because, you're so beautiful. Darling, I am Jengatsu, master of the possessive arts- I had all of you under my plan, everything was working out perfectly. I had gotten that dumb fool Inuyasha under my spell and he had listened to every whimper and plea that I had ordered him to do. And I had ordered him to kill you…"

"…and…" Kagome asked, curiosity finally hitting the edge of her tone.

Jengatsu continued, "…and then I told him to stop. I ordered him to take you to me. So that I could deal with you personally."

"…personally…" Kagome asked, the fear finally returning to her whimper.

Jengatsu grinned devishly. "Of course darling, since the first day that I saw you I was tranced under your spell of beauty. You are the most beautiful creature I have ever laid my eyes on. And since that day I have thought of nothing except you, nothing except your body, nothing except me touching every curve that lay grooved upon your delicate body- and how can I do that if you're dead?"

"You disgust me, " Kagome said brutally looking into the old man's eyes with deep hatred.

"Oh, don't hate me. For I have saved you. I even went against the will of my Lord. I saved you Kagome. You don't know how much trouble I shall be in if my Master finds out. I want you Kagome, I need you." The old man said disgustingly as he laid one old, wrinkly hand on the bare leg of Kagome. Moving slowly….slowly up towards her skirt…

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Sango turned back towards Miroku, anger lit up in her eyes.

"See what you did Miroku? You let him get away! If you had just let me go then I would have been able to get him!" Sango said angrily.

Miroku looked at the exit of the cave in utter confusion. He had never suspected even Inuyasha to stoop so low as to run away, even from them. Maybe Sango was right, maybe Inuyasha was putting up a whole sherade from the first time they had met.

"I'm sorry Sango, I didn't mean for something like this to happen, believe me, it was completely out of my will."

"Yes, yes I know," Sango said as she sighed loudly, in the hopes of just giving up.

"Then I guess we should get going," Miroku said sternly.

Sango lifted her head in surprise, "Huh?"

"Let's go and try to find Inuyasha, maybe he has run to where Kagome is…once we find him, we can find Kagome," he said.

Sango nodded once again in approval, and they both headed out through the exit of the cave in search of Inuyasha-, the traitor.

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Kagome's eyes widened with horror. She quickly lifted her hand and slapped the old man right across the cheek, hard. Whimpering, the old man yelped and backed away.

"You disgusting old man! How could you do this- you pervert! Do you realize our age difference! You're as old as my grandfather! Have you no shame!"

Jengatsu rubbed his crimson red cheek, which was now burning in pain from the hard slap that Kagome had hit him with.

"…you little bitch! I get out of my way, even risking my life for you- and all I ask in return is a little loving- and you can't even do that?" he yelled in an outraged voice.

Leaning over towards the wall to his left, Jengatsu picked up a heavy steel sword that lay against the wall. He quickly took it out of its case as he raised it high, with it gleaming in the reflection of the afternoon sun.

"Well then, if you won't love me, then I guess I shall have no use of you! You stupid woman, it would have done you better to just give in- at least that way you would have had a better chance of living! Now I think I shall just listen to my Master and kill you!" Jengatsu said in an outraged voice. Obviously, Kagome had hit the man in the wrong spot- she had hit his pride.

All of a sudden the door of the hut burst open and a tall muscular figure walked through the door. Not able to see the man due to the sun obscuring her vision, and due to common habit, Kagome yelled out- "Inuyasha!" in a happy glee.

The old man turned around in bewilderment as he stuttered in confusion. The man grabbed a sword from his side and swung it ruthlessly across the man's neck, instantly severing his head from his neck. Jengatsu's head landed with a loud thud on to the floor as it rolled slowly towards Kagome, leaving a trail of blood squirting out of his severed vein.

Kagome glanced down towards the head, as she saw the eyes looking straight up at her blankly. Squirming with disgust, Kagome immediately ran towards the figure standing in front of the door, instantly hugging him tightly across the chest.

"Oh Inuyasha, it wasn't your fault after all! You were just being controlled by this crazy old man! Thank you for saving me!" Kagome said gladly as she looked up towards his face.

But suddenly Kagome yelped in shock, as she backed away from her hugging grip and looked straight at him.

The person she had hugged, wasn't Inuyasha, it was somebody else.

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That's the end of the chapter! OMG- I'm so sorry that it took me like forever to finish this chapter. Since I haven't like written it in a couple of months! He he…I prolly lost alotta readers…but hopefully the people who finished reading this chap will keep on reading. I just got a sudden urge to finish this chap! Hope you guys liked it- please review!