Here you are folks. Sorry to keep you waiting and sorry it's not as long as I would have liked it to be. I hope you enjoy and keep the reviews coming. I love you all!

Disclaimer:I never will own Inuyasha or any of the characters, will I? pouts

Inuyasha ran through the light sprinkling of rain. He cursed his foolishness as he ran blindly through the dark. The rain had washed away Kagome's scent. It bled in all different directions. Something told him to head towards the bone-eater's well. He tried to think like Kagome, and every thought told him she would head there. She would try to go home.

"Please be ok, Kagome," he growled under his breath as he ran. The sun started to come up over the horizon. A pale blue light started to shine through the thinning clouds. The rain trickled to a stop, but Inuyasha didn't notice anything. His mind was one-tracked again and he just kept running.

Kagome woke up with a terrible headache. As the room spun in circles around her, she tried to grasp where she was and what had happened. She blinked hard twice to try and clear the spots from her vision. A dull throbbing pulsed in the back of her head. Pushing away the pain, Kagome attempted to focus. Booming laughter escalated and thundered around the room. Kagome slowly slipped back into unconsciousness.

Miroku, Sango, Shippo, and Kirara decided to use the day without Inuyasha as a day off. They all agreed that Naraku could wait and that without Kagome's ability to detect the shards or Inuyasha's sharp sense of smell, they really couldn't get anywhere anyway. Miroku gently put his arm around Sango's shoulder as he held a small picnic basket in the other hand. Shippo walked beside Kirara and lightly skipped, enjoying the sun's rays in his hair. Sango desperately tried to ignore Miroku's arm around her shoulder as she stared at the ground in the opposite direction, a light pink slowly emerging on her cheeks. Chuckling lightly to himself, Miroku decided to test his luck. He glanced over his shoulder and noticed her scrumptious bottom swaying in unison to her walking. It was too good to ignore. He let his hand travel farther and farther south….

SLAP!!

Kagome heard someone calling to her in the darkness. Everything was fuzzy. Her head ached and every muscle felt stiff. She clenched her eyes tightly shut in a desperate attempt to avoid reality. The someone kept calling to her to wake up. She thought she recognized the voice, but in all the dizziness that echoed through her head, she couldn't grasp who it was. Slowly, she opened her dazzling brown eyes and took in the room around her.

Everything spun for a few seconds before finally coming into focus. She wasn't bound or gagged like she thought she would be. Slowly sitting up, Kagome located the source of the calling voice and the booming voice she had heard before.

"Naraku," she sneered, backing subconsciously against the wall.



Inuyasha ran to the well in half the time he normally would have taken. 'That's because I have to go slower when Kagome is with me…' The thought made his heart ache, but a snarl grew on his lips instead. Anger lit in his eyes as he ran back towards the small village that he had come from. He veered from the normal straight path that he knew Kagome would have taken. He cursed himself for being so foolish. If only she knew the real reason for him seeing Kikyo. 'What if Kagome saw the kiss?' A blush began to grow on his face. 'She's really going to hate me for this.' He felt the wind rip through his hair as a familiar scent caught his nose.

"Naraku," he growled in anger. He changed course and headed towards the new scent. There was only one reason he would be so close to this area. 'Kagome…'

Miroku, a very distinct red hand print on his face, and Sango, a very distinct angry gleam in her eyes, both leaned against a small oak tree that resided at the top of a rolling hill. Shippo and Kirara were curled up next to each other, sleeping off the big lunch that they had eaten. An empty picnic basket and a red-and-white checkerboard blanket from Kagome's time were all that remained as evidence of the picnic. The sun continued to beat down upon the small field that they all resided in.

Kirara suddenly woke up. Pricking her ears forward and smelling with her delicate nose, she abruptly changed into her demon form. Shippo went flying as some of his fur was singed. Kirara looked towards a distant forest as a menacing growl echoed deep in her throat. Sango was immediately on her feet, Hiraikotsu in her hand. Miroku followed swiftly behind, placing himself protectively in front of Sango as he set his staff up as a shield in front of himself. Shippo recovered and clung to the back of Sango's shoulder. She could feel him shivering and assumed that he could feel the terrible aura as well.

"Do you sense that Miroku?" A swift nod and a darkening of his features told her what she needed to know. She couldn't differentiate between different demons' auras; she could only sense them. Miroku's behavior told her what she feared.

"Naraku." The name hung in the air for a moment before the companions all climbed onto Kirara. Flying as fast as she could, Kirara took them all towards the evil fiend. Everyone braced themselves for what they all hoped would be their final battle.

Bum bum Buuuuuuum. Will Inuyasha and the others save Kagome in time? What does Naraku want with her? Will Miroku ever stop being such a lech? When will Kikyo return again? Will she try and kill Kagome? What about Kagome's newly discovered spiritual powers? All these questions and more will be answer in the next chapter or two! Keep reading and enjoy!