Velvet- Now I know I was a bit of an evil one leaving you all hanging there, but, my internet on the main computer I use is down and I've either borrowed my dad or my friend's computers to upload them. So I'll pass the chapters on to friends and get them to update for me okay? In the meantime contend with the 'Taking forever' chapters. But enough chatter from me, it's time for chapter eight!

Chapter Eight: Deep Scars

"What? What!" said Kagome shaking Kaede by the shoulders with insanity

"He-e-e-e ju-u-u-ust le-e-e-eft" said Kaede her voice going wobbly with Kagome's shaking. Kagome twirled around to face Koga; she took his hand in hers

"Please, can you take me to him Koga? Sniff him out or something? I can't let him become human if it means forgetting me!" Kagome said urgently. Koga thought for a moment, he really still despised InuYasha and wanted Kagome for himself. But he saw the desperate look in her eyes and nodded firmly.

"I will Kagome, for you" he said scooping her off the ground and placing her on his back. Kagome waved to Kaede before they disappeared in a gust of wind.

Koga ran as fast as he could following InuYasha's fresh mutt-like scent for around half an hour, then he stopped suddenly. Kagome gave a start

"Koga? What's wrong why did we stop?" she said leaning over his shoulder to look in front of them, there was nothing there.

"The scent's… Gone?" said Koga slowly as he looked around "I can smell it, but it stops a few feet away" Kagome slid Koga's back and on to the ground. Koga enjoyed the sensation.

"What do you mean gone!" she said irately. Koga walked forward slowly

"It's stops about…" he walked further "here!" he said before a purple and white flash of light hit him and he was thrown backwards on to his back.

"Koga!" said Kagome worriedly running to him and crouching down. Koga pushed himself in to a sitting position and stared straight ahead.

"Barrier" he muttered. Kagome placed an arm around his shoulders and gave him a quick squeeze.

"Are you alright Koga?" she questioned. He nodded and placed his head just above her breast. Kagome made to stand up and Koga moved.

"So what do you want to do?" he asked helping Kagome to her feet after he had gotten to his own

"I could try shooting an arrow, I don't know if it'd be as effective as the backlash wave that InuYasha must have used but I'll try" Kagome said grabbing an arrow from her quiver and knocking it in to place on the bow. She took careful aim and fired; there was a white flash and a hole, barely large enough to put your head through appeared.

"Is that supposed to happen?" said Koga. Kagome shrugged

"Do you think you can kick away enough for us to get through Koga? I don't think my arrows will quite cut it" Koga looked doubtful before Kagome added in a soft voice "Because you're so big… and strong…"

"Right" said Koga receiving a huge ego boost. He ran forward and placed three swift kicks below Kagome's first shot. It broke apart a little more so you could probably squeeze through if you tried and if you were about ten years old.

"Damn" said Kagome inspecting the hole "We need something stronger or InuYasha's going to get away!" she took an arrow from her quiver

"Well obviously this isn't working too well" said Koga as Kagome stabbed at the edges of the hole making it slowly bigger- very slowly.

"Better ideas?" quipped Kagome. Koga rolled his eyes

"More power?" he suggested

"I have 9 arrows left, what power were you thinking?" said Kagome getting to her feet and putting the arrow back.

"I dunno, try shooting three at the same time?" said Koga. Kagome thought for a minute, Maybe Koga's not just all muscle and ego, there might actually be a brain in there

"Okay" Kagome said firmly. She seized three arrows, picked up her bow and held them in place with her fingers, just before she fired Kagome closed her eyes and prayed Please let this work, I have to get to InuYasha… The arrows flew from her bow and plunged into the mystical barrier in front of them. The landscape shivered and melted away leaving a quite different scene to the one the barrier had been pretending to be.

"It's a massacre…" muttered Koga walking forward slowly and looking around at the ambiance. Kagome followed timidly.

"Koga, what do you think did this?" said Kagome drawing conclusions in her own head and praying they weren't true.

"You decide" he said crouching down to inspect some huge marks on the ground. It was as if a giant being had clawed the ground and left scratch marks.

"…Wind scar…" she whispered "No!" Koga turned around just as Kagome fell to her knees. All around them both were bodies and carcasses of both human and demonic appearance. Koga dashed over and knelt next to Kagome putting his arms around her in a comforting way. Kagome felt hot tears spring to her eyes.

"I think you already figured, but this was definitely InuYasha's work, the bodies around here reek of his scent" said Koga carefully. Kagome shook her head

"Koga, I must be crazy aren't I?" she said her voice crumbling "Crazy to want to be with a man who does… this"

"Maybe, but if there's one thing I know about love, it's to trust your heart" said Koga showing himself to be strangely philosophical at that moment. Kagome looked up slowly and Koga pulled her to her feet gently.

"I want…" Kagome began; she gulped "I want to go… home…"

"I understand Kagome, we'll come back tomorrow and-" Koga said before Kagome cut across him

"No" she said firmly trying to regain control over herself "I want to go home, and never come back"

Hope Y'all enjoyed that, or… felt very sad for Kagome…: coughs awkwardly: short-yes. Next chapter- LONG! I think I'll have a… thing at the bottom of each Chappie, so here we go:

Back at the writer's den

Velvet leans back in her computer chair having a stretch as Billy walks in.

"Done? ALREADY?" Billy says

"Yup"

"Better start on updating that other story now eh?"

"Nope, I plan to go read some other stuff and leave my readers hanging for ages like the evil –bleep- I am!"

"You really are a -bleep- aren't you?" Billy sneaks up behind Velvet and pokes her in the back of the head. Velvet growls and makes a swipe at him. Billy dodges and runs out of the room. Velvet gives chase

+Will Billy Live? Will Velvet Kill Him? How Many Toes Do Fish Have! Find out in the next installment of (Did you even give this a title? Shut up Billy!) Yeah, ill figure out the name later...+