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Chapter 49

Hana laughed.

"Pity... Taka will be standing there watching as you all die... And she won't care," Hana laughed.

"That's because you stole her soul!" Inuyasha snapped.

"Rin-chan," whispered Shippo.

Rin looked at Shippo.

"I'll go get help... stay here," Shippo bolted into the forest.

Hana noticed the flash of orange and green and looked to see Rin and Shippo trying to get away.

"Oh no you don't!"

Vines shot at Shippo and Rin. Rin screamed as she was caught. Shippo was grabbed by his foot and the vines dragged him back.

"Don't! Onegai!" Kagome cried, "They're just children!"

Hana laughed.

"I have no reason to care for them!"

She walked over to Inuyasha.

"Shall you be the first?" she smirked.

Inuyasha growled and struggled a bit. Some vines released him a bit. Only to stab into him. He cried out in pain. Taka stared. The rose... it was in Hana's hand. Her eyes flickered.

"I wonder how long it will take to kill you?" Hana tapped the rose on her cheek.

Inuyasha growled. Hana looked at her rose. He snarled in pain again and his head dropped.

"Inuyasha!" Kagome cried.

Inuyasha stared at the ground. The rose's aura flared. It was like it was angry. Though Hana didn't notice. She also didn't notice the soul beginning to leave the rose. Taka's eyes slowly changed back. Until finally they were completely changed back. She snarled. Hana gasped and turned her head, only to get Taka's clawed hand to her throat.

"I am sick... and tired of people using my body to hurt the people I love," Taka raised Hana from the ground.

Hana gasped for air and dropped the rose.

"Taka!" Inuyasha looked up again.

Since Hana was occupied the vines loosened their grip. Inuyasha broke his hand from their grasp. Hana had her eyes behind Taka. Taka looked behind her. A vine stabbed through her. She gasped. The vine wrapped around her arm and tightened until Taka released Hana. Hana smirked. She didn't know Inuyasha had gotten himself out. Kuragari ripped himself out easily and whistled a high pitched whistle. After a minute Isamu burst from the forest. Kuragari got Kagome loose while Isamu got the two children. The vine released Taka.

"Ikeike!" Inuyasha snarled.

Hana turned and got slashed in the face. She fell to the ground. Small vines healed her wounds.

"I can't be killed so easy..." She stood.

Inuyasha helped Taka up.

"One thing will kill me... but I'm not telling the likes of you..." Hana turned.

She threw a rose and it stabbed into a tree, just missing Rin's head. Rin froze in fear. The rose she used to steal Taka's soul floated into her hand.

"I'll find a way to kill you!" Inuyasha snarled as he ran at Hana.

Hana moved. Inuyasha continued to slash at her. She kept moving... until Inuyasha slashed a petal of the rose. Hana froze. A slash appeared on her arm. This time it didn't heal.

"So that's it... your rose is what keeps you alive..." He smirked and went at it.

Hana threw it in the air. It turned red and other roses were duplicated. They flowed around Inuyasha. He watched them.

'Which one is it!' he thought.

"Confused Inuyasha?" Hana smirked.

Kagome's eyes widened.

"Inuyasha look out!" she exclaimed.

One of the red roses flew at him, getting his arm. The other roses began to take slashes at him also. Inuyasha growled, slashing aimlessly. Kagome noticed something.

"Inuyasha! There's the white one!"

"Huh? Where?" Inuyasha looked around.

All were red in his and everyone else's eyes... except Taka's. With her miko blood she also seen the white rose here and there.

"Right there!" Taka pointed at one.

Inuyasha slashed where she pointed. The rose had moved. Inuyasha continued to slash where ever Taka or Kagome told him. Hana laughed. Taka seen it again.

"Inuyasha! It's the one going at you right now!"

Inuyasha turned and slashed it down the middle. The other roses stopped and fell to the ground. The disappeared. Hana stared at them.

"Iie..." Her body dried up, as a roses would, and collapsed.

She died. Taka kneeled by the body.

"I'm going to take a wild guess... Naraku is behind this," Inuyasha crossed his arms.

"Gee... you think?" Taka looked up at him.

"Urasai!" Inuyasha looked annoyed already.

"Why don't you Inuyasha?..." Taka stared at him. "And we should get back to the village to get your wounds healed."

"They're fine," Inuyasha protested.

Kuragari had ripped out of the vines and helped Kagome down. He looked at Inuyasha and rolled his eyes. He stood by the male hanyou.

"Well that's good Inuyasha," He smirked and hit his back.

Inuyasha froze and yelled out.

"What was that for!"

"To prove you need medical attention," Kuragari stared at Inuyasha in annoyance.

Inuyasha scowled. Taka snickered. Kagome helped Shippo and Rin.

"Kagome!" both the children hugged the miko when they were released.

"I'm glad you two aren't harmed," Kagome hugged them back.

"Shall we go then Inuyasha," Taka suggested.

Inuyasha grumbled something and held out a hand to Taka, helping her up again. The two walked ahead followed by the others.

xXx Naraku xXx

"Hana... she failed," Naraku sat in the corner of a room looking into Kanna's mirror, "I wonder when Yume will find out her younger sister is dead..."

xXx Yume xXx

A woman walked into a small hut.

"Hana?" She looked around.

She looked exactly like Hana but her hair was a light purple and she had light blue eyes. Her indigo dress flowed behind her. She seen a rose on their table that they shared with the eldest sister. The rose was dead.

"Iie!" She picked it up.

Yume knew that was a sign her sister was dead. She growled.

'Where did she say she was going!' she thought.

A name came to mind.

'Naraku... Hana said something about doing a job for him... I'll find this... Naraku,' Yume put the rose down and walked out of the hut.

Later on she seen Kagura. Kagura was sitting on a rock alone. Yume walked out of the forest.

"Do you know who Naraku is?" She asked.

Kagura looked at Yume.

"Hai... but if you don't know about him... then where have you been? Underground?"

Yume growled.

"Tell me who he is," she walked up to Kagura, "My sister, Hana, has died and I want answers."

Kagura was about to snap back.

'Bring her to me Kagura,' Naraku's voice told her.

Kagura growled.

"Follow me," Kagura stood.

She began walking towards Naraku's castle. The barrier let the two pass and Kagura lead Yume to Naraku.

"Are you Naraku?" Yume asked.

"Hai."

"Where is my sister Hana!"

"She was killed... by two hanyous... Taka... and Inuyasha."

"Then I will kill them!"

Yume was never the brightest of the three sisters. But she had a useful power.

"You will be doing both me and your sister a favor if you do."

"I will kill them! I don't care what I'm doing for you! I just want to get revenge for my sister!" Yume clenched her fist.