Disclaimer: No I do not own Inuyasha so there:P

hmm...I know I have another story in the works but I just finished a book by Nora Roberts, and I know we're not supposed to copy her books, as stated in the guidelines, but her story influenced me and I want to write one and it will be my own and not a thing like the one she wrote. I just got inspired. The book was good, but it won't be anything like hers. It will be about a soap opera star named Kagome and a....somebody I haven't dediced what yet, and his name is Inuyasha, love love love, secrets, deciet, hurt, drama drama drama and of course, murder. What would ya'll think if I tried to write a muder mystery set around Inuyasha and the gang? I'll come up with a summery and pitch it to you at the end of the chapter!!!

Chapter 17: Past the Deciet

"Wait up." The gang looked up at Kikyo desended the latter. (Thank you for giving me the idea of letting her come along you know who you are:D)

"Your not welcome, Kikyo." Inuyasha said his voice cold.

"Let me come along. These are my roots just as much as hers." Kikyo pointed to Kagome.

"Your not..."

"Okay." Kagome agreed softly shutting Inuyasha up.

"What? Kagome you want to let her come along?" Inuyasha was confused.

"This is her ancestor, just as much as mine. She has just as much a right to be here as me." Inuyasha looked into Kagome's and saw no jelousy, no wrath, just a sence of duty, loyalty, and most of all pity.

"How sad. A Singer who doesn't Sing is usually miserable. We're made to Sing, it's what we love to do."

Her words from many nights ago came back to him. She just wanted to give her the piece of her ancestory she had been missing all this time.

And he couldn't refuse her.

"She can come." Was all he said before he started rowing away from the ship.

"Oh sure, let the bitch come along. Your too soft for your own good, my lady." Han complained. Kagome giggled and Inuyasha smirked in agreement.

"What is that?" Kikyo asked finally fed up with the strange sense in the back of her head. "And what is so funny?"

"Han is funny." Kagome said immediatly.

"Who is Han?"

"He's the one you've been feeling." Kagome said and Kikyo looked at her in shock. How had she known. Could trained Singers read minds?

"He told me you can't hear him. Only a buzz in the back of your brain. That's because your soul is closed off." Kagome had no idea why she felt the need to instruct Kikyo. But she wanted to learn, and it was her right to know.

"My soul...?"

"Yes. You must open yourself. Concentrate on being with the world around you." The others watched in fasination as Kikyo closed her eyes and furrowed her eye brows.

"Testing, testing." Han obliged them.

Kikyo shook her head. "I can still hear the buzz, but nothing else."

"Your trying too hard." Kagome said immediatly remembering what it was like when she first learned to welcome in the world around her. "Relax. Close your eyes." Kikyo did and the furrow came back as she struggled. Kagome reached across and placed her hand on her forhead. "Stop tensing up. Relax, it takes no effort." Kikyo took a deep breath and will her body to relax and her mind to expand. "Don't listen with your ears. Listen with your heart, with your soul."

"Can....m..now?" (Who knows what he just said?)

Kikyo opened her eyes in shock as she heard a little bit.

"Very good." Kagome smiled at her.

"What was that?"

Kagome smiled at the ship. "That was Han. Now try again."

And they spent the boat ride listening to Kagome instruct her distant cousin. Miroku found himself closing his eyes and trying to release his soul. Sango was relaxing and Inuyasha was watching Kagome who looked like an angel as her voice became deep and soothing and she willed Kikyo into a trance.

But it was broken when they hit the sand.

"Time to go." Inuyasha stood up and helped Kagome out, but left Kikyo on her own.

"Got you." Rikos said grabbing her hand and letting her down.

"Thank you." Kikyo smiled at him. At least there was one who wasn't rude to her. "You met my mate yet?" He asked as they started walking.

Kikyo shook her head and Rikos launched into a monolouge about how great she was. Kikyo didn't mind. In fact, she kind of liked it.

"Woh!" Sango and Shippo gasped as they reached a huge crumbling marble wall. "What's that?" Shippo asked.

"A wall, a barrier." Kagome said. "It ensured that only Singers could enter the great city." Kagome said. "For there is no door, and there are no locks, and that marble is over 5 feet thick."

"Wow." Rikos wondered at the craftsmanship. "There isn't a single seam on this rock. Where did they find marble this thick?"

"They didn't." Kagome walked over to it and touched the ancient wall. "They Sang the seams together. This wall was once many different chunks of marble. They made it one."

"How do you know?" Kikyo asked walked over to her.

Kagome smiled. "Put your hand on the wall." Kikyo did. "Now open yourself again. Feel the world around you and feel the faint traces of Singer's magic in the stone. It's old, and it's almost inpossible to feel, but it's there."

"So how do we get in, if there's no door?" Rikos asked.

"Maybe the wall fell down in some places. We could walk around and look." Shippo suggested looking around as if to see the whole wall from here.

"No." Kagome said suddenly sure of something. That flower had given her way more than a map to the island, it had given her a map to the city and she knew that the only way to get what they wanted was to go in this way. "We have to go in here. It's the only way to reach the palace."

"But how do we get in?" Inuyasha asked.

"She came this way." Kagome said seeing it all in her mind as if it had just happened.

The feeble old women crawled out of the small dingy she had came here in and started up the shore. In her withered hands was a box of dark wood containing the Shikon no Tama. This was the only place she could trust it too.

"She walked right out of the boat and over here." Kagome moved a few yards to the right and saw it again.

She stared at the wall. She was not afraid of it. Then it still shone with all of magnificence and she allowed herself to think about the days when it was full. But she had a mission and she had no time for distractions.

"She wasn't scared of the wall." Kagome said with absolute certainty. "She knew that though her body had grown weak, her powers had only strengthened." It seemed she wasn't even talking to them any more. She was trapped in the memories of the past and her eyes were glowing again.

The old women Sang a song in her ancient and powerful voice and stepped inside the abandoned city and Sang it shut again.

The memories stopped and Kagome came back to herself.

"We must Sing ourselves an entrance." She said. "Kikyo, will you help me?" she asked on a whim.

"Oh I can't. I don't know how..."

"Every Singer knows how." Kagome said. "It's just a matter of knowing the Song. I shall guide you and you need not say any words at all. Just Sing with me."

Kikyo stared at the hand Kagome had offered her for a second. At first her hesitance was over the lessons her parents had instilled in her, then came doubt. She couldn't Sing. She had never done so in her life it was forbidden in the house. But Kikyo stepped forward and took Kagome's hand.

"You can Sing in the modern language if you want. It would probably be better for you. The words wont have as much power but better you know what your saying then try it in the ancient language and mess up and cause the marble to fall onto our heads." Kikyo laughed nervously.

"Your words are these, 'Mother earth, with power strong and old, who is both the mother and the killer, fierce and gentle, soft and strong, hear me and listen to my words. Let down your wall and let us pass we bear no ill to the treasure you guard'."

"Did you just make that up?" Kikyo asked impressed.

"No." Kagome said taking both of her hands in hers. "That is the Song of Opening, made just for this wall and it will respond to no other." Kagome once again had a memory flash of the old women Singing it and the stone melting away.

"Ready?"

"No." Kikyo said instantly but Kagome smiled and gave her a starting note. It was calm and peaceful and Kikyo picked it up as Kagome Sang it in the ancient language.

"Nothing happened." Kikyo said when they stopped.

Kagome, who had opened her mouth to continue said, "Of course not. We must repeat it."

"Oh." Kikyo said and they tried again. Kagome immediatly started glowing but Kikyo started out dull and grew brighter as their Sang grew stronger.

And then the wall melted. Literally melted and formed a long walkway that connected to the one in the city. The roads were old and the marble that formed them cracked and broken with plants growing through them, but still obviously a road.

"Great." Inuyasha said walking in.

"Do we close it?" Kikyo asked.

"No." Kagome said. "There is no point to. We'll close it when we leave." Kikyo nodded and they dropped hands and followed the otehrs inside.

"It's so beautiful." Sango said looking around at the ghost town whose only residants were vines and trees and the flowers and grasses breaking through the granite at their feet. Gardens, they knew what they were as the only places not covered in marble but in rich soil, flourished with flowers and weeds making it look beautiful and exotic. Glass from the windows were not shattered, but stood gleaming in the sun. Birds had claimed the city as theirs and flew where they pleased. A lot of it was covered in whitewash, but not so much you couldn't see the beauty beneath.

"Truly a marvel." Miroku agreed as everyone looked around.

"You should have seen it in it's prime." Kagome said her voice absent as she saw the old women again.

The buildings felt empty and the gardens, though the beautiful flowers still bloomed, had weeds in them that didn't belong. If she concentrated she could almost hear the sound of children's laughter as it used to be. Hear the Singing of the people, voices and noises. But no longer. And she needed to stop thinking of the past. Not when she had such an important job for the future. She gazed at the box in her hands. In was simple and no more decorated than the old women. She could still hear Modoriko's voice and that of Vestar's as they battled within the jewel. She looked up and started hobbling down the street. This one was a straight line to the palace, and that is where she had to go.

"Vestar." Kagome said coming out of the memory.

"What?" Rikos asked.

"The man, from the battle, his name was Vestar." Kagome looked right down the road they were on. "The palace is this way." And she started walking.

"That's really kinda creepy." Rikos said.

Shippo nodded but they followed her.

"We should be careful." Inuyasha said sniffing.

"For what? Bird poo?" Sango asked looking up at the sky.

"There is no way it will be this easy." Inuyasha said obviously. "Kagome said there would be traps and we have to keep a look out for them."

"You won't know." Kagome said.

"What?"

"Singers had no need for snake pits and stakes in holes in the ground. Their traps will be much different. Things that infect your mind, get into your soul. It will use your deepest fear against you."

"How do you know that?" Sango asked.

"Hacterad van tihad. Muso comite ithi mal." she answered her breathing starting to get faster. She didn't Sing the language, just spoke it. "Elhu mikoido. Masteria van toshu, mikogu lanito."

"Kagome." Inuyasha said scared as the vines and plants around them started to take life of their own.

"Sango!" Miroku cried as she screamed. A vine caught her leg and tore her down then started wrapping her up squeezing her until he heard her bones crack. "SANGO!" He yelled and tried to pry the vines off of her. "Kagome let her go! She's your friend, let her go!"

"Mir..OKU!" Sango said as the tight vines worked their way up her thighs.

"Bekito mishta moriar. Miroku mon camato, juhan." Miroku looked up at a screech and suddenly all the birds in the sky started to dive him, breaking his skin with their talons and beaks as they made him cover his head in fear.

"Mirkou NO!" Sango screeched her own pain intisified by his.

"Kagome stop this!" Inuyasha screamed at her as he ran to his friends aid. But she had already turned her attention to Shippo who was trembling in fright.

"Hieraitamo!" and the skin was peeled from her body revealing a purple-ish layer of nastiness that looked like half congealed blood. Her tongue got long and forked and her eyes rolled back into her head revealing only the whites but she still looked at him.

Shippo screached as she reached for him and grabbed him by the neck.

Still strangling him, her head turned a complete 180 and looked at Rikos who was watching it all in fear with Kikyo behind him as he tried to protect her.

"Palto mass." she hissed and Kikyo grabbed him from the back and presented a hot white knife in her hand and she held it next to his throught.

Suddenly Kikyo laughed and drew the blade down his arm making Rikos hollar in pain and Kikyo put the blood on her finger and licked it happily.

"Kagome, Kikyo stop! What are you doing!?" Inuyasha yelled running forward and grabbing Kagome's arm trying to keep her from Shippo's neck.

"Foolish half-demon." Kagome's voice was rough and not her own and so alien Inuyasha would not have believed it was hers but for her mouth moving. "Did you honestly think anyone could love you? I just needed you to get me here, and I used you perfectly, don't you think."

"Stop!" Inuyasha cried.

"Oh I don't." Kagome said as if reading his mind. "I have hating having your filthy paws on me since the begining. But you were useful. Bedding you was a nice touch wasn't it? You actually believed I enjoyed it too." she laughed as Inuyasha started shaking.

She was speaking aloud his greatest fear. The fear that she didn't realy love him. He had never said it aloud, hadn't even said it to himself but he knew it was his greatest fear and....

Wait. Greatest fear. That was the trap that the old women had created to stop intruders. Destroy them by their own fear, meaning none of this was real.

Not Miroku's fear of having to watch Sango in pain.

Not Sango's fear of having to watch Miroku in pain.

Not Shippo's fear of getting attacked by a terrifying monster.

Not Rikos' fear of being slowly tortured.

Not Kikyo's fear of blood.

Not Inuyasha's fear of Kagome not really loving him.

And not Kagome's of hurting those dear to her.

"This isn't real." Inuyasha said his voice calm and steady with complete conviction in his voice.

Everyone looked at him and them came to the same conclusion he did.

Then suddenly it was gone.

Everyone was standing just where they were seconds ago. Birds still chirped, no one was injured, Kagome looked like Kagome, and it was as if nothing had happened.

But for the fear on everyones faces.

"Miroku!" Sango called running to him and throwing her arms around his neck.

"Sango." he whispered in her hair just as passionately

Kikyo started gagging and Rikos checked his body for injuries though he knew there wasn't one on his body. Shippo was still trembling as any child even after a nightmare was over and Inuyasha had gathered Kagome in his arms and she kept whispered she loved him in his ear and he kept telling her it was okay.

"Damn." Rikos said making the couples draw apart.

Miroku laughed nervously. "Your people are indeed tricky, Kagome." he said.

Everyone nodded and looked to the city and Kagome got another flash.

The old women suddenly stopped walking and turned and smiled and knew that if any of her ancestors saw that, they had passed the trap.

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And that summery I promised you! Okay so I was thinking.....:

Kagome was a famous soap star and enjoyed her work tremendously. Inuyasha only stared in the big time movies, but when his mother asked him to be a surprise guest on her favorite soap, he couldn't say no. But after only two days of shooting someone is found shot. Now drama isn't only for TV and...what? You think who did it?

Coming soon, if my reviewers approve!!

So what do you think, trash or maybe you could work something out of that crappy summery....come one what do you think?

LATER!!!!!