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Chapter 50

Inuyasha stared at the wall as Keade patched up the small puncture wounds and the scratches on his body. She rubbed them with a type of cream that would help them heal.

"There yee go Inuyasha... they will heal on their own now," Keade covered the small container for the herbal cream.

Inuyasha got his kimono back on.

"'Bout time," He grumbled.

Taka sat in the corner of the hut staring ,bored, at the ceiling. She yawned. Rin played with Tsuki. Tsuki seemed to enjoy the little girl's company. Sesshomaru smiled when he seen Rin playing.

"Sesshomaru-sama! Play with us!" Rin tugged his sleeve.

Sesshomaru shook his head.

"Aww..." Rin pouted.

Shippo was playing with the two cat youkai. He laughed when Kirara bounded on him and Isamu jumped on his tail. Kohaku smiled. He watched them play longingly.

"Why don't you play with them Kohaku?" Sango asked with a smile.

Kohaku looked at her partially blushing. He shook his head and looked down. Kirara jumped on his head. He laughed and took her off. Isamu and Shippo followed and also jumped on the boy.

"Guess you have no choice," Miroku laughed.

Kohaku laughed as the three small youkai ran around him and jumped on him here and there.

"We should play too Sango," Miroku smiled slyly.

"I don't think so monk," Sango's eye twitched in annoyance.

Miroku sighed.

"It was worth a try."

"Yeah... a TRY!" Sango snapped.

"You know you like me Sango," Miroku smirked.

Sango blushed and looked away, still annoyed. It was getting late. Outside the sun would soon set. Isamu jumped on Taka's lap and curled up. Taka stroked his fur and continued to stare at the ceiling.

"Ye should be getting the young ones to bed now." Keade suggested.

"Hai," Kagome nodded, "Come on Shippo... time for bed."

"Aww! Kagome!" Shippo whined.

He crawled into her arms anyway and the two lay down on their mat. Kuragari lay down next to them, closing his eyes. Rin lay on Sesshomaru's sitting form. She yawned.

"Sesshomaru-sama... can Tsuki-chan sleep with us?" Rin asked.

"Uh..." Sesshomaru stared at Rin, not knowing what to say.

"Eh? No it's alright Rin," Tsuki assured, laying in her own spot.

"Ok..." Rin snuggled up to Sesshomaru.

Taka closed her eyes. Inuyasha sat next to her. Both were close to the door. Sango and Kohaku lay nearby. Kirara curled up next to Kohaku. Miroku lay by Sango but didn't touch her in fear she might make him move.

'I'll get her while she's asleep,' he thought with a small smile.

Once everyone had fallen asleep. A shadow appeared at the door. Yume walked in. She had her scent hidden and she walked like she was floating. She touched both Inuyasha and Taka's foreheads knowing who they were. A movement caught her eye. She looked up. Miroku had been groping Sango in his sleep.

"Hentai!" Sango mumbled, hitting him while she was asleep.

Yume watched them. They were both still asleep. She stood and walked out of the hut.

"Soon those two will die in their sleeps.." She muttered to herself, "for what they did to Hana!"

Kagome had woken up in the middle of the night. She didn't get back to sleep so she went for a walk. When returning she seen Yume walk out of the hut. She gasped. She waited for Yume to walk into the forest before she ran towards the hut. She seen everyone was asleep.

'What did that woman do?... why was she in here?' Kagome wondered.

She sat down. She didn't notice that, faintly, was a mark on each Taka and Inuyasha's heads. The markings read 'Endless sleep' in Japanese. Yume had went back into the forest and was playing an ocarina.

'As long as I play this... those two will not wake up...' Yume thought as she played.

xXx Taka's dream xXx

Taka had been dreaming of just training with her father... but then her training sword was hit away. She looked back at Jigoku. His look was savage.

"I won't have a hanyou child embarrassing me!" He snarled before he slashed at her.

Taka was cut on the arm and cried out.

xXx back in the hut xXx

Taka had cried out in her sleep and Kagome shot back up from where she slept. She glanced at Taka. She was holding her own arm in the sitting position she slept in. Blood seeped through her fingers.

"Taka-chan!" Kagome gasped.

She stood and went to Taka. She didn't know the hanyou was asleep.

"Taka?" She raised Taka's head to find her asleep.

She seen the markings on Taka's forehead.

"Endless... sleep? Kuragari!" Kagome exclaimed.

Kuragari awakened almost immediately. He seen Taka's small wound and asked...

"What happened?" He kneeled beside them.

Everyone else had awoken... except Inuyasha. He just snarled in his own sleep.

xXx Inuyasha's dream xXx

Inuyasha's dream started with just him as a kid and his mother walking in a village. His mother was torn from him in tears and the villagers began to beat him. Inuyasha cried out and fell to the ground as they continued.

"Mother!" He cried.

xXx hut xXx

"Mother!" Inuyasha cried out at the same time as in his dream.

"What's wrong with them!" Sango asked.

"I have no idea! I woke up when Taka cried out!"

The group was conversing when Shippo squealed.

"Kagome-chan! There's bruises on Inuyasha's arms!"

"Nani!" Kagome turned and seen some slightly visible bruises on Inuyasha's arm.

She rolled up his sleeve and gasped when more were forming. His lip also started to bleed.

"Inuyasha! Inuyasha wake up!" She shook him.

He began to struggle. Pushing her away and slashing around. Miroku tried to hold him back but was thrown aside.

"Inuyasha get a hold of yourself!" he exclaimed.

Both Miroku and Sango did their best to keep him down. Sesshomaru sighed.

"How I would enjoy killing him now but..." He took his sheath and held Inuyasha to the wall with it as the hanyou struggled, snarling.

More cuts appeared on Taka. Then on her shoulder a stab wound appeared. She snarled and slashed at Sango, who was beside her watching Inuyasha and Sesshomaru. She cried out and moved out of the way. Kuragari took his sister's arms and held her to the wall.

"Taka enough!" He snarled.

Taka cried out and another wound appeared on Taka's arm where Kuragari held her. Kuragari let her go. She continued to struggle, Miroku held her down with his staff. Kuragari looked at the blood on his hand. He shot his head up. Sesshomaru looked at him.

"What's that sound...?" Kuragari mumbled.

"So you hear it to kage youkai.." Sesshomaru muttered.

"What is it!" Shippo jumped onto Kuragari's shoulder.

He listened too and he gasped.

"What is it Kuragari-kun!" Kagome asked.

"An... ocarina... playing a lullaby!" Shippo exclaimed, "My mom use to play this song to get me to go to sleep before she died!"

"I'll go check it out!" Both the older full youkai said at the same time.

They glared at each other and bolted out the door.

"That leaves them to us.." Sango muttered as she finished bandaging her own wound and glancing at the two hanyou.

"Hai..." Kagome eeped slightly, "What if this is like that horror movie I saw!"

"Movie..?" Miroku asked.

Kirara and Isamu were put to work by holding Inuyasha and Taka down.

"I'll explain later! But on it a person killed people in their sleep! What if that's what's happening to them!" Kagome said quickly.

"Then let's hope Sesshomaru and Kuragari get to the sound and hope it's the source." A forgotten Tsuki mumbled as she sat up.

The small group turned to her and nodded before looking back at Inuyasha and Taka.

xXx Kuragari and Sesshomaru xXx

The two youkai ran through the forest the sound getting louder.

"Move it!" Sesshomaru shoved Kuragari.

The two had both started 'competing' against eachother the last few days. Kuragari snarled and regained his balance before continuing. The sound soon began unbearable to take. They both covered their ears and snarled. It was high pitched and loud when they got to close. Kuragari opened an eye to see Yume. She seemingly floated in the middle of a pond. She played the instrument. She looked up at them. Her eyes cold.

'I had a feeling you two would hear my music...' Her voice played in their heads as she continued with her song, 'so I made it so that you can't come close without you two needing to cover your ears.'

Sesshomaru growled. Both kept their hands over their ears painfully. Blood trickled down Sesshomaru's elf like ear (that he couldn't, without a doubt, cover) and down his face. He felt it and growled again. With a quick motion her drew his sword and threw it at Yume. The Tokijen flew by her head and she still continued. It dropped into the water below. Kuragari followed what Sesshomaru tried to do and did it also. He got the ocarina and it fell into the water like the Tokijen. Kuragari smirked. In the mean time Sesshomaru ran over the water and dove in. He was heading for his sword again. Yume gasped when the instrument left her hands and followed it under. Kuragari's sword was hit in the air and he caught it. Sesshomaru surfaced again.

"Got a little wet there did we?" Kuragari smirked.

"Urasai..." Sesshomaru growled peeking from his wet hair.

Yume surfaced again. She growled and threw a dagger at Sesshomaru. Sesshomaru jumped and dodged the dagger. Yume pulled the Ocarina back to her lips and was about to play again when Sesshomaru dove at her and Kuragari ran at her. Her head was sliced off and Kuragari slashed through her waist. Her body fell into the water. They seen it begin to weave together again.

"Ugh... that's getting old..." Kuragari caught the Ocarina when Yume fell and crushed it in his hands.

The weaving stopped and her body sunk.

"Too easy if you ask me..." Sesshomaru sheathed the tokijen.

Both were on land and Sesshomaru had busied himself drying off. Kuragari leaned against a tree waiting. After he had almost completely dried the two began heading to the village again.

xXx at the hut (also Taka's dream) xXx

Taka tripped. She froze at the sound of footsteps behind her.

"Get up Taka... an enemy could've killed you..." her father's voice was behind her.

She turned. He was offering her a sword again. He smiled.

xXx End xXx

xXx Now for Inuyasha's xXx

Little Inuyasha lay curled up with tears in his eyes when the beatings stopped. His mother kneeled and hugged him.

"You're alright!" She whispered.

xXx End xXx

Taka's eyes shot open and she tried to sit up but hissed in pain. Inuyasha did the same but since he only had the bruises he just growled slightly.

"What the hell?" he muttered.

"Inuyasha! Taka-chan! You're awake!" Kagome exclaimed.

"What happened?" Taka asked as she looked at her blood covered hand.

"We're not so sure ourselves... but you two are alright and that's what matters!" Sango bumped in.

Sesshomaru and Kuragari walked in. Inuyasha glanced at Sesshomaru and almost immediately burst out laughing.

"What happened to you!" He asked between his laughs.

Sesshomaru's eye twitched.

"Be lucky I saved your life little brother... I could've let you die!" He growled.

"'I'? I thought there was more then one person there Sesshomaru," Kuragari leaned against the wall.

"WE saved you," Sesshomaru corrected himself with yet another growl.

"Better." Kuragari smirked.

xXx At Yume and Hana's hut xXx

Two eyes opened in the dark corner of the back room.

"My sisters.. Both... dead... Inuyasha... Taka..." The pair of eyes narrowed, "Revenge..."