Once again I would like to apologize for taking so long to update but I've been busy with Christmas and whatnot. In this chapter you find out who Jaraku and Gikuri's master is. Also, there are 2 more characters introduced.

Disclaimer: I don't own InuYasha (I'll buy it with the money I got for Christmas: $20 - think that that will be enough?)

The demon stepped out of the shadows,

"Who are you?" InuYasha scoffed as he glared and pointed his tetsusaiga at the mysterious demon,

"I am Yukio, King of the Elephant demons!" The demon introduced himself. He looked like an ordinary human unlike his minion servants, his hair was grey as were his clothes. His lips were black and long thick scars running along his cheeks; his skin was pale and white and made him look like an elderly man.

"I wouldn't care if you were King of Kings! What do you want with us?" InuYasha threateningly asked,

'Why do all evil demons have a twisted plot? Why can't it all just be straight forward and easy to understand?' InuYasha asked himself, not letting his golden eyes leave the sight of Yukio. Yukio allowed a snicker pass through his ebony lips, enjoying the sight of people glaring at him with so much hatred.

"Haven't you realised yet?" Yukio asked as he smirked at his prisoners, "You're all just a tool to get to Sango." He explained, he snickered again as he savoured the looks of disgust he was receiving. He reached into his pocket and pulled out the sacred jewel shards, he admired them,

"It turned out that you were more useful than I thought you would be." Kagome growled as she watched Yukio play with the jewel shards, the anger inside of her was soon coming out. Shippo heard Kagome's growl and knew that Kagome was going to explode, he scanned the area for Kagome's bow and arrow.

'Where could they be? If InuYasha's tetsusaiga was here then shouldn't Kagome's bow and arrow be around too?' He thought to himself,

'I can't see them anywhere!'

Miroku saw Shippo frantically looking around for something,

"Shippo? What are you looking for?" He whispered as InuYasha threw insults at Yukio,

"Something to use as an arrow." Shippo answered, not stopping his search. Miroku was confused as to why Shippo wanted an arrow and not a bow as well but he helped the fox demon on his hunt. Miroku found a reasonably long stick on the ground and showed it to Shippo,

"But what of an arrow head?" Miroku asked himself, he began feeling round in his clothes, hoping he had something sharp. Shippo frowned at the monk,

'This is hopeless.' He thought bitterly and turned in time to see InuYasha unleash his wind scar,

"WIND SCAR!" InuYasha yelled as he wielded the tetsusaiga and performed his favourite technique. Yukio effortlessly avoided the attack and swiftly landed on the ground,

"Don't think you can hurt me in the slightest way, you're attempts are trivial to me!" Yukio signalled at Gikuri and Jaraku and turned his back on InuYasha. Gikuri and Jaraku appeared before them holding another length of the grey rope,

"Don't think you can try that again!" InuYasha spat as he watched Yukio walk away,

'He is such a coward! He can't even face me properly.'

"Don't anticipate our actions InuYasha." Gikuri advised, "Don't think you know all of our tricks." Before anyone could move Jaraku had Kagome bound with the rope,

"Make one wrong move and little miss will be strangled." Jaraku said coldly, he turned Kagome around to face him and whispered into her ear,

"Let's hope your friend, Sango, shows up soon."

Sango stirred awake, she slowly sat up because pain seared through her entire body. The hut she was in was small but clean and there was some water sitting next to where she lay. She drank the water and got to her feet and walked outside. She watched the many villagers do all of their chores and the children play.

'This is a busy village.' She thought, leaning against the door frame of the hut. There was people collecting water from a covered well in the centre of the village, they carried it back to their homes. Others were caring for the crops of the village and others feeding the livestock. Sango sighed, she was surrounded by people but still felt lonely, it made her miss the demon slayers village, it reminded her of the atmosphere that she felt whenever she was at home. She was lost in her thoughts and stared blankly at the well,

"You're awake!" A young girl caught Sango's attention and made her jump from fright,

"I'm sorry, did I scare you?" the girl asked Sango politely,

"Oh, no, I just didn't see you is all." Sango replied and examined the girl. She would have been no older than 10 years old, had short brown hair and enormous chocolate eyes.

"Who are you?" Sango asked the girl but what she really wanted to know was how she got into the village.

"My name is Emiko! Welcome to my home village!" Emiko replied cheerily, "Come and I will take you to Lady Gen, she is the priestess of this village and should be able to answer any questions you have." She snatched Sango's hand and pulled her to a hut 4 down from the one Sango had originally been in. Emiko and Sango walked into the hut and bowed to Lady Gen. Lady Gen wore the ordinary priestess uniform wore her hair in a neat bun.

"Welcome, child, please sit down." Sango strained to hear Lady Gen's voice because it was barely more than a whisper.

"Now, what is it you wish to know?" Lady Gen began pouring tea into three cups and handed them to Sango and Emiko and kept one for herself.

"My name is Sango and well, firstly, how did I get here?" Sango tried to speak as softly as Lady Gen and sounded like a small, lost child.

"You were found by the women collecting water for the well from the river on the outskirts of this village. They brought you here and put you under the care of young Emiko here." Lady Gen took a sip of her tea,

'She seems so calm and relaxed, it's helping me relax.' Sango took a deep breathe and smiled at Emiko in thanks.

"Thankyou very much. I have just one more question." Sango diverted her eyes back to Lady Gen, "Are elephant demons known to be around this area?" She asked,

'I hope that would be a good way of wording it.' She thought, her fingers crossed behind her back waiting for an answer.

"Yes, in fact. There was an elephant demon tribe not far from here but they were wiped out some 8 years ago." Lady Gen looked at Sango curiously,

"Wiped out by what?"

"A demon slayer."

Sango dropped her tea and stared at the priestess,

"Are you sure?" she asked hoping that the priestess was mistaken,

"Yes, but there was only one demon slayer out of an entire village of demon slayers that killed the elephant demons. They say that this demon slayer was cursed and underwent a terrible transformation, it is unlikely that they remember even doing it." Lady Gen explained. Sango went into a state of shock,

'Could this demon slayer be me? Could this be why the elephant demons seek revenge against me?'

Emiko jumped up and crouched in front of Sango and grabbed her shoulders.

"Sango? Sango?" Emiko shook Sango, trying to wake her up from her trance. Sango's thoughts were going wild, she began to drown in the unknown memories that flooded her head.

"SANGO? SANGO?" Emiko shouted, shaking Sango more vigorously using all her strength.

"Put her down, Emiko, you cannot wake her up, not yet."

Sango awoke in the now familiar hut once more. Emiko sat cross legged next to her,

"Are you ok?" Emiko asked with concern,

'What happened? I don't remember anything.' Sango sat up and took the water Emiko was offering her,

"What happened to me?" She asked after taking in a large mouthful of water,

"It was strange, one second you were acting normally . . . and the next you weren't, you were in some sort of state of unconsciousness. It was really weird so we carried you back here and you didn't wake up until now." Emiko explained.

"I don't know what happened – but I'm fine now." Sango assured Emiko and stood up.

"Do you know where that elephant tribe used to live?"

"If elephants never forget, then they wouldn't have forgotten where they used to live. Maybe that's where they are holding Kirara, Miroku, Kagome, InuYasha, and Shippo.'

"I know where it used to be, but why do you want to know?" Emiko stood up,

"Because I need to go there and someone to take me there." Sango looked outside and saw that it was sunrise.

'I must have been out all day yesterday.' She thought as she walked through the door and signalled for Emiko to lead the way.

'What really happened to me?' She thought as she followed Emiko to the Elephant Demon tribe's home.

Well, that was it for Sango, what could be happening to her? Was it a one time thing? Is the cursed demon slayer her? Will Sango find the elephant demons and her friends in time? You will get some answers next chapter (hopefully).

The new characters names meanings:

Gen means Spring (pronounced Jen)

Emiko means Smiling Child

Yukio means Gets What he Wants

I always choose names for my own characters according to their meaning.

Happy New Year!

Shippo147 ;P