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Chapter Three:

"There's another!?" Inuyasha almost yelled out of frustration. How could this have happened without him knowing? And twice in under a month!? Inuyasha's eyes bugged out at her, his face growing to a nice shade of purple. He was most certainly upset that this happened at all. And he thought that her time was dangerous! Wait – had this happened in her time or his? His eyes narrowed in suspicion, his mind going over every possible time this…this INCIDENT… could have happened.

Kagome just sighed and wiped away a few stray tears from her face. This was going to be difficult to explain to the hanyou. He always tended to jump to conclusions and was able to get her angry with a single scoffed word or irritating glance. She glanced over his way, and saw that she was correct; the half-demons eyes were narrowed with anger and suspicion. She took a deep, calming breath, preparing for the struggle ahead, and dove in head first.

"Inuyasha, do you remember about three and half weeks ago when we were ensnared in Karasumai's spell?" Kagome began carefully, catching the half demon by total surprise. He had been too immersed in his own over active imagination to see or hear what she had been doing.

Inuyasha hesitated slightly before answering. He didn't know where this was going, and was afraid to answer, lest the answer he gave was wrong. He didn't think he could take being 'sat' at this moment in time. Looking over into her eyes, Inuyasha told her the truth, although a bit quickly.

"Yes." He pressed his ears as flat as he could against his skull, as though it would block out the words he thought she was going to say.

"Good," Kagome whispered, surprising him. "Because that was the only time when the other incident could have ever occurred - whilst we were trapped within Karasumai's castle."

Inuyasha's eyes widened as he remembered what had happened when Karasumai had placed the entire Japanese Feudal Era under her sleeping spell. He didn't think that he would ever forget what had happened that night…

A mist had descended upon the countryside, causing every single person who was caught in it to fall into a deep and troubled sleep, filled with their deepest desires, no matter how strange they were. Kagome and Inuyasha, travelling alone because Miroku, Sango and Shippo had separated ways with them earlier for a brief amount of time, had tried their best to out run the mist to an ancient castle nearby. Seeking refuge and feeling lucky to have made it within the castle's thick walls, they had been given a single room to wait out the creepy mist. Unbeknownst to them, the mist originated from the castle and proceeded to engulf the room in which they were staying, as soon as they entered. Inuyasha, fighting off the drowsy feeling engulfing him, caught Kagome as she fell, deep in sleep. Trying to stay awake, even biting himself to do so, he eventually succumbed to the power of the demon's sleep spell.

The next thing he remembered, after blurred, passion-filled dreams, was waking up in the same bed as Kagome, both of them stark naked. Staring down upon her beautiful, sleeping form, he wondered if this was real. Were they really naked and in bed together? Was his dreaming of late really coming true? A drum sounded, from far off. That was what had awoken him – the constant, rhythmic beating of a drum. Blushing furiously – and with one quick glance at Kagome to see if she would be alright for a little while – Inuyasha got dressed and went to investigate the origin of the noise. 'And' he silently admitted to himself, 'I need to get as far away from Kagome as possible, before I do something we will both regret.'

Upon finding a main room, engulfed in darkness and smelling immensely of that mysterious mist, Inuyasha wondered where the fuck they could be. Just what kind of castle was this? The dark surrounded him and threatened to squeeze his body like a giant boa constrictor while the mist wanted to put him into a deep, fretful sleep full of Kagome.

When a woman of unbelievable beauty appeared, he just growled at her, shouting the usual obscenities. Her hair was long and dark, her skin as pale as the moon, and her eyes as bright as stars. He, not being one to look at women who weren't Kagome, ignored her beauty. She, ignoring his insolent tone for the moment, taunted him and told him that he and all who crossed her would die, for she was the powerful demon sorceress Karasumai. Naraku would give her as many jewel shards as she wished when she had removed this thorn from his side – the thorn of course being the young miko and half demon. Plus, the jewel shards they had were a valuable bonus.

Charging at the half-demon, Karasumai attempted to kill Inuyasha in one fatal blow. He had awoken from that mist when no one should have ever done so and for that, she was angry. After all, no one should know about her failure to keep even a half-breed under her control. Rage consumed her as she blasted him with her most powerful tainted miko magic. But she underestimated him, thinking she could kill him so quickly and easily.

Inuyasha killed her without a second thought, as her powerful blast of magic missed him by a landslide, and picked up the shikon shard which had fallen from her forehead. Even before her body hit the wooden floor, blood spilling forth, the mist disappeared from the countryside, and the occupants of feudal Japan awoke. Shippo and Kaede awoke, each wondering why the other was looking so shocked and upset. Sango awoke crying and Miroku awoke blushing furiously, frantically looking around for his perfect woman.

Inuyasha ran back towards the room in which he had awoken in, to find Kagome awake and glowing, her bow trained upon the doorframe. Lowering it, as she saw the familiar red and silver fly in, she sighed in relief. Waking up with no clothes on, and alone, she was frightened more than she would admit. With quickly spoken words, and the jewel shard exchanging hands, they left the castle, hoping never to return. Or to have to remember what had happened. The journey back to Kaede's was silent.

"I... I remember," Inuyasha whispered softly, his eyes upon his clenched hands which sat in his lap. His mind was still in a daze from that night. He was still, even after all of this time had passed, unable to remember what had happened while they were under Karasumai's spell. Now he finally knew. A light blush blossomed across his features, as he thought about what had happened.

Kagome was just as lost in thought as he was. A blush soon covered her face as well, considering she couldn't believe that that had actually happened. It was one of her wildest, deepest darkest secrets…how had Karasumai known what would totally throw her into numbness when and if she found out?

Looking up, she placed a soft hand on the half-demon's shoulders and whispered hesitantly, "I-Inu-Inuyasha?"

Glancing up straight into her eyes, Inuyasha replied, just as softly, "Y-yeah, Kagome?"

"Do you remember anything about Karasumai herself?" Kagome began, while staring into his golden orbs, then looked down at her green clad lap, "I mean… I know you told us about her name, and her connection to Naraku…but… how did – how could – why?" She finally ended off in a breath of a sigh, unable to make what she wanted to tell him known. It was just too confusing. She only hoped he knew what she meant.

Inuyasha knew. He didn't need words to know what she felt and saw, when her emotions played across her face like one of those "movies" Kagome always wanted him to go to. But…even though he knew what she wanted to ask, he didn't know how to answer her. It was just so complicated and…embarrassing.

"S-she mentioned that…that…her sleep spell was deadly…no one could wake up from it unless she chose to let them…" he whispered softly, looking out over the river, which was shining in the early morning light. He knew that wasn't what she was looking for though, as he felt her eyes still trained upon him. "She said…that her spell was designed to bring to life a person's deepest secrets, their most heart-felt desires and that she could never control what a person saw…or did..." With a last apprehensive look at the river, he turned to the girl who was sitting beside him.

Her cheeks were a bright fire hydrant red, and still growing brighter. Karasumai made her feel so vulnerable, knowing that someone could make her deepest desires come to life in a single second. It scared her, knowing that the she-demon had been in Naraku's control. Could he know what had happened in that room then? Was it some twisted plot of his? Feeling Inuyasha's eyes on her, she raised her own and looked deeply into his.

Whispering, knowing that he would still be able to hear her, she softly said, "What will we do?"

He twitched an ear towards camp, and then flashed her a small fanged grin.

"We do what we do every morning: go and search out jewel shards and Naraku…" She rolled her eyes at this. How typical of Inuyasha! No matter what happened all that mattered was that collecting the jewel shards and destroying Naraku. She sighed softly, listening as he continued.

"...and tomorrow I will probably be able to tell what type of demon blood you are carrying…" She just looked up at him with softened gray eyes and nodded.

Helping her to stand, the couple walked back towards their camp and friends.

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