"The darkness within"

Chapter 5

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His blade rang through the nighttime air as Hiei trained while the others slept. He put his fullest into it and more as he jumped and sprang from one limb to another. He repeated this until a tiny, pearly white dragon flew by him with a pure, blue soul in its jaws. Curiosity peaked; he followed it and found a horrid stench of a woman.

"Ningen, why do you survive on adolescent ningens' souls? You are not a kitsune so you must be an undead version of yourself." He smirked as he felt it step back from his dark aura. He decided to have a bit of fun. "You are unworthy of living. " He advanced as she pulled out her bow coolly.

" You stink of rotten flesh, ash, and wood. You smell like what that fool stunk of after Kagome went missing. Are you his undead whore?" Hiei coldly smirked as it slowly lost its face.

It slowly turned to face him as its arm trembled. It raised its arm as those pearly white dragons picked it off the ground just as he sliced its torso. It cried out in pain but bled a crimson rain fro the air above him. Hiei grimaced as he scrubbed his cloak free of the muddy blood that fed the bitch's life.

(Inuyasha pov)

I twitched as I dreamed of slicing Naraku's head after hearing plead with me as I stab him time after time. I enjoyed the metallic stench of his pouring blood until a spray of his blood fell on my face. I woke up to see my mate, Kikyo, bleeding to from a gaping wound. I grabbed and held her in my arms as her life's blood (hehe, she can't lose her life's blood cause she's already dead.) She whimpered something about a spiky hair demon as she faded. My eyes bled red as I dropped Tetsuiga and followed her scent back to an empty clearing. There was another scent and the only one demon stuck in my mind and that was Shorty from the future bunch. I chased after his disgusting scent to the village but the group wasn't there and Kaede pointed a direction and I stupidly followed it. I destroyed many small villages on the way to appease the anger that I felt. I found Kagome's scent and trailed it until it disappeared.

'Curse that damn kitsune!He's covering their trail.'Inuyasha's beast snarled at the indignity of it all.

'Kagome, when I find you you will replace Kikyo, and I'll make you watch as I kill that that bishouhen and Shorty.' With that last thought, he made a bone chilling, guttural sound that could be called a laugh.

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(normal pov)

"Can we sit down for lunch? " Botan and Sango pleaded. The guys sighed and the girls ran head to find a clearing. Kagome found one and called the others over. She stepped into it to sit down and stared down at a mutilated body. She remembered Botan screaming and the ground coming up to meet she face as two strong arms caught me and she knew no more….

Kurama caught Kagome as she fainted from the site and turned his nose away from the practically destroyed body of a male.

"Who is he?" Kurama asked as the men gathered around the corpse.

"I think it's Kouga, he's the ookami lord of the southern lands. But where are his wolves? I mean he never goes anywhere with out them." Miroku retorted.

"Look there's another body. Let's go check this out," Hiei commanded, "get the girls away from the bodies." Hiei patted his mate to stop her shivering but she just smiled shakily and nodded. Sango stepped forward with her mask on. But Kuwabara was shaking like a leaf. Yusuke would have laughed but it was too morbid. However, Hiei wasn't Yusuke.

"You afraid, bozo? This demon must have been far older." He smirked, as a whimper behind him was audible to all as Ginta and Hakkaku limped out from the shadows. Their faces filled were crestfallen and sorrowful. They both had smarting wounds or lacerations on their bodies and two shaggy wolves trailed behind them.

"It looked like Ayame but it wasn't. I mean she was acting weird. Lady Kagome! Please don't say our sister saw our lord Kouga's body?" Ginta stated as if crazed.

"Who is this Ayame? Hiei being direct as usual asked.

"Ayame is an ookami princess from the northern wolf pack. But, why would Ayame do this? I mean she didn't kill Kouga, did she? I thought she loved him." Sango butted in after Hiei.

"Why don't you start from the beginning and tell us what happened." Kurama smartly stated. They others moved away from the bodies and set down next to a creek.

" It all started when me and Hakkaku were playing with some of our tribes children…."

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Botan was splashing water on Kagome's face as the men listened to the ookami's tale.

She roused as she heard Ginta's voice and decided to listen too.

"…. Then, she started to kill everyone starting with Kouga and Hideki. We have been too busy with a wounded that we couldn't do the proper burial procedures. Kouga must be damned by that fact."

"Actually, he's still here. I can see a young man with brown furs. Is that your lord?" Botan stated as a matter of factly. She used some of ki and all of sudden Kouga looked silvery and surprised.

"Kouga! We're sorry we haven't gotten to bury you yet, my lord!" Ginta and Hakkaku stammered.

"Shut up you idiots. It was Ayame but I'm not damned! I just want to why she did it. I mean I took Ayame as my mate but then she killed me. What's up with that?" He turned sorrowfully to me. "I am sorry but I will always love you, Kagome."

"I've told you Kouga, I don't love now or ever more than the big brother I've never had." Kagome had to smile at him. Kurama was studying me as her said it.

'She's telling the truth.' he thought confused. 'Why would she be so honest? Most girls would have blushed or told him off.'

Kagome gasped as she realized it might not be Ayame's fault.

"Wait! It can't be Ayame because I remember coming across some of her wolves with Naraku. Maybe he's added her to his list of captured demons." She shivered at that thought.

" I didn't think of that Kagome. Let's go." Sango stated. Botan waved goodbye to the dead ookami lord and his stooges. She sensed that someone or something was behind her. She didn't know what it was but it was definitely there. She turned around and looked towards a group of trees far away, but the presence disappeared as she turned. Kurama spoke to Hiei in a low voice so she couldn't make out what they were saying. There was a crash as the trees near Kurama crashed down around where he and Kuwabara used to be. Kurama leapt gracefully away as Kagome stumbled into the ground from the force of tripping over a tree branch. As Kagome looked up into the crimson eyes that caused her fear and terror as knifepoint claws pulled her from the ground where she had tripped and threw her over his back as he fled from tree top to tree top. She screamed as they plummeted to the earth as he stopped on the ground. he flipped her off his back and shook her until she lost consciousness. He lodged in the closest tree's hollow and covered it with bark as a black tentacle lashed out and pulled him into the dark miasma that appeared before the snarling beast.

"Kukukuku. You have been a bad dog lately.Thanks for the delightful treat," Naraku pulled Kagome out of the hollow with one of his numerous tentacles.He pulled yhe demon's struggling body closer as he slowly absorbed the pathetic creature," Now, Inuyasha, you are part of your worst enemy." Naraku laughed as Kurama arrived only to disappear in a cloud of miasma. The last thing Kurama saw before the tentacle knocked him away was Kagome's prone body.

It's crappy. I know that much and it's short but I have been really busy, you see I got accepted into this program that gives you homework before schools starts and they are all A.P. courses so it's really hard on me. I will give you thenext chapters as soon as possible. Kikyo and Inuyasha will be bashed in this story. If you do not like that I will put a oneshot up for you inu/kikyo lovers,ok?