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Chapter 6

"Elder Kaede, please come see my child! She has fallen ill and desperately needs your attention!" a young woman cried out.

"Keep your voice down, or else you will wake the children sleeping here." Kaede said, nodding to the resting bodies behind her.

"Yes, I'm sorry." She quickly apologized.

Kakiya, who was already awake and had changed into her clothes that she had in this era, stood up and walked up to Kaede, "Kaede, may I come with you?"

The elderly lady was surprised by her sudden appearance, "Of course you may," she glanced back at the others, "Sorry, we were being loud. We must have woken you up."

"Do not worry, I was already up when the sun rose." She said, waving away Kaede's thought.

"Ah, that's good then." She walked out the door, "Let us go then."

The young lady quickly ran forward to lead Kaede the way to her hut. Kakiya quietly followed behind. Inside the hut, InuYasha woke up to the rustling sound of people leaving the hut. Out of curiosity, he left the hut to and saw Kakiya, who was now wearing her usual attire, following Kaede and a younger woman.

He quickly caught up to her, "Hey," he said, tapping her shoulder, "What are you up to?"

Kakiya looked at him, "Apparently that lady's child is ill. I just wanted to tag along, nothing big.

He glared at her, "Why? Can you cure illnesses now?"

"Yes, something like that." Kakiya smiled.

She heard him sigh, "Is there anything you can't do?"

The question made Kakiya laugh. She thought for a moment, "Hmm... I don't know. So far, I can do anything that I can put my mind to."

"Bah, I bet you'll find something that even you wouldn't be able to do." He retorted.

"You're probably right." They continued following them, "I'll tell you what I can't do when I find out, alright?"

He scoffed, "Don't even bother."

Kakiya merely shrugged, "If you say so."

They finally reached the lady's house. She hastily rushed them in. When they entered, they saw a little girl bundled up in blankets with a cold cloth on her forehead. Kaede went up to the little girl and examined her.

"This girl only has a fever, nothing serious. Just give her time to rest her body, she will be well soon."

The girl's mother sat down beside her, "But how long will that take? Isn't there something you can do to make it go away faster?"

Kaede shook her head, "All illnesses take time to pass."

Kakiya stepped towards them and sat down beside the girl, "Unless someone does something about that." She whispered.

InuYasha heard what she said and silently went closer to the girl, wondering what she was going to do. He watched as Kakiya put a hand over the little girl's head. A foggy white mist came from the girl's head and disappeared as it touched Kakiya's outstretched hand. Kakiya pulled her hand back and stood up, stepping away. The girl's eyes opened, she sat up and the white cloth fell to her lap.

The lady hugged her child, "You're well again!" she looked up at Kakiya, "How did you do that?"

She started walking out the hut, "Some things should just be left unknown." Kakiya whispered as she left the hut.

InuYasha quickly followed behind her. They made their way back to Kaede's hut, but instead of going inside, they walked up the hill behind it and sat upon it.

"I know how you got rid of her fever." InuYasha said after a moment of silence, "And I'm hoping that you didn't do the same with my own injuries that time too."

Kakiya looked over at him, "Oh? You found out my secret?"

He scoffed, "I can smell it all over you. You took that girl's sickness upon yourself, even though you don't look the part."

"Ah, so you did notice." She touched her own forehead and found that it was warmer than usual, "But I can take it better than she could. That girl would have died." Kakiya looked over at InuYasha, "Besides, this virus will not kill me."

"But why do you put yourself through this?"

"I ask myself that a lot too." Kakiya fell back onto the grass, "Oh, and about your wounds. I did not take them upon myself. I can actually heal minor injuries, so do not worry yourself over that. I just can't cure illnesses."

InuYasha sighed and stood up, "I'm going to wake up Kagome; she's been sleeping for too long." He left, jumping down the hill and entered the hut.

Kakiya pulled out a three-leaf clover and looked at it, 'This illness is going to take a while to recover from...' she threw the clover into the air and watched it flutter down, 'What a strange human virus this is.' She thought and sat back up again when she heard Kagome and InuYasha leave the hut. Kakiya then got up and walked down the hill to meet up with them.

"So what do you plan on doing today?" she asked them.

"Well, Sango and Miroku aren't back yet..." Kagome looked at InuYasha, "And I don't think this guy's going to wait another night."

InuYasha frowned, "It's their fault for being so late."

Kagome sighed, "That's true." She suddenly looked up and was now looking around, "There's a jewel shard near here."

"Where?" InuYasha asked.

She pointed to the trees, towards the well, "It's up there, in that forest."

"Let's go then." He knelt down, "Get on."

Kagome quickly climbed on, grabbing her bow and arrows with her. Kakiya looked at them in amusement. She saw him quickly glance back at her. She smiled and waved him off, silently telling him to go. He jumped off towards the direction of the jewel shards.

"Now, how should I get myself there...? Teleport... no; too tiring... Jump like InuYasha?" she giggled to herself. "I think I'll fly then."

She lifted herself into the sky with a pair of wings that she made invisible and flew towards InuYasha with great speed. Kakiya quickly caught up to him and was now flying behind him.

"InuYasha."

"What?" he looked behind him and saw Kakiya flying, which almost made him loose balance and fall. "How... what... since when could you... fly?" he was at a loss of words.

Kakiya did a small flip in the air, "A while back." And flew up beside InuYasha.

"Are you using magic or something?" he asked, remembering all her weird skills.

Kagome noticed a pained look grow across her face, "Ah... it's nothing like that."

Kagome gently tugged on InuYasha's ear, "Stop questioning her." She whispered, "It looks like she doesn't want to talk about it."

"How do you know?"

"Just look at her expression." She quietly told him.

He glanced over and noticed Kakiya's gaze was fixed on the ground below her. It was a sad expression that she wore on her face.

"Hey, Kakiya..." he started.

"I'm going ahead," she said, cutting him off. She flew forward and glanced back at them, "I'll show you later, after this." Kakiya whispered.

"Show us what?"

Kagome noticed the dust oddly moving around below Kakiya as she flew along. Once in a while a large dust cloud would gather in a circle, it looked just like how when a bird flapped its' wings near the ground. Soon, she disappeared into the trees, and they could no longer see her.

"InuYasha... do you think she has a pair of wings?"

He laughed, "Kagome, I know she has weird powers and all, but have wings is just pushing it a little. Besides, most demons don't have wings, and if they did, they wouldn't be invisible."

"Well... Kakiya's not necessarily a demon, is she?"

He never thought of that, "That's what she's trying to find out, isn't it?"

"That's true. I hope she does find out soon. Although she doesn't seem to match any of the things I've seen in this world so far. Maybe she's part of a different world?"

"You're thinking too much."

She laughed as InuYasha picked up the pace, "I guess you're right."

They heard several large crashes and knew that Kakiya had already started fighting. When they reached there they found a large demon laying there, decapitated. They looked around and saw a blood soaked Kakiya, standing on the large decapitated demon head with Kagura, being held up by her neck. Kagura was struggling under Kakiya's grip, but couldn't fight back because her fan was on the ground, far from her.

"What happened here?" Kagome said, looking at the horrible sight.

Kakiya noticed that InuYasha and Kagome had finally come, "You're late." She said and threw Kagura to the ground. She jumped down towards them and held out a jewel shard; already purified.

Kagome climbed off of InuYasha and took the purified jewel shard, "Did you do this?" she looked at the shard, "It's already purified."

She simply shrugged and walked back towards Kagura. InuYasha quickly jumped in front of her, blocking her way.

"What are you doing?" she questioned.

"We need her alive if we want her to be able to bring us to Naraku."

Kakiya thought for a moment, and then raised her hand to her shoulder. A small blue, icy orb started to form, "That's true, but I also want to meet this Naraku." The orb grew larger as she talked, "He sounds like an interesting person."

InuYasha watched as the orb grew a tennis ball-sized sphere, "Interesting in a bad way."

In a fluid movement that even InuYasha almost missed, Kakiya threw the ice ball towards Kagura. He whipped around to look at Kagura, who was now shrouded in a frosty mist.

"Don't worry," Kakiya told him, when she noticed he was about to complain about her actions, "I just don't want our guide to run away."

The mist cleared away and he noticed that Kagura's legs were firmly frozen to the ground below her. The two quickly made their way towards her.

"This ice won't last long... I'm not so good at controlling water." Kakiya quickly whispered to InuYasha as they walked along, "So be prepared."

"I know."

Kakiya looked down at Kagura, "Could you bring us to Naraku?"

Kagura scoffed, "So now you plan on being all nice and polite. You almost killed me before."

"Answer my question." Kakiya lazily lit a fire in her hand, "Oh, but I won't take no as an answer."

"I was originally here to bring you to Naraku."

"Oh?" Kakiya kneeled down beside her and brought the fire to the block of ice freezing her legs, "I guess I should free you then."

InuYasha watched as the ice slowly melted, "Can't you just make it disappear?"

Kakiya continued to melt away the ice, making the fire in her palm larger, "The way that I made the ice in the first place was by gathering the water particles in the air and then freezing them with concentrated cold air. So now, I must reverse what I did before. I cannot just make things appear and disappear, InuYasha."

"But it looks like you did."

"Everything isn't always as it appears, InuYasha." Kakiya stood up when she finished melting the ice, but quickly healed Kagura before she stood up. "Lead the way, Kagura."

Kagura slowly got up then went to go pick up her fan, "I will. But InuYasha is not allowed to follow. I only have orders to bring you... and I might as well bring Kagome too, since she holds the jewel shards and can see them." She plucked a feather from her hair and threw it into the air. The feather turned into a giant feather and Kagura jumped on it. "We will fly there. The priestess may ride with me, since you already know how to fly." Kagura glared at InuYasha, "If you follow us, I will drop the priestess." She studied his reaction, 'Knowing him, he'd probably follow us anyway... too bad for Naraku.'

Kakiya nodded and lifted up into the air. She quickly flew towards Kagome, "I know you plan to follow us, just don't get noticed." She quickly whispered when she flew by InuYasha.

"Obviously." He retorted.

Kakiya gently picked up Kagome and dropped her onto Kagura's feather. "Lead the way." She said emotionlessly.

The wind quickly picked up speed as Kagura rode over it on her giant feather. Kakiya lazily followed behind her, keeping a large distance between them. Below, InuYasha stealthy and quickly followed Kagura closely behind while staying on the ground. On the way, InuYasha met up with Sango and Miroku, who were lazily eating by a tree. He filled them in while they followed him.

"Are you sure Kagura's not leading them into a trap?" Sango said, worried for Kagome.

"Who the hell cares? As long as we find Naraku, that's all that matters. Besides, I can get them out of any trap, no problem."

"If you say so." She said, unconvinced.

They followed InuYasha for a while longer, occasionally stopping and hiding for a while before starting up again.

"Say, InuYasha, why are we always hiding?" he looked up at Kagura's giant feather floating in the distance.

"I told you, I was not allowed to come, that was apparently her condition. Heh, but she probably suspects that I would follow along, or else she wouldn't care to watch the ground to see if I am here or not." He looked at the distant feather, "We have to catch up; I can barely see them. If we keep this pace up, we will lose our only trail to Naraku."

InuYasha started picking up his pace. Kirara originally was just running beside Sango in her little form, but transformed into her larger form when Sango asked her to. Sango, Miroku and Shippo rode Kirara as she flew alongside InuYasha. They quickly caught up to Kagura and were now directly below her; tailing her closely so that they wouldn't get behind again.

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