Chapter 1 – Thinking
"All you know will be changed forever," chuckled Naraku's voice.
"Everyone has a dark side, knowing how to get it out is the fun part," laughed Sasuke's voice.
The voices laughed in unison as Misty held the kids tight. "You bastards! Come out of hiding and fight!" Inuyasha screamed. Suddenly the laughter stopped. Dead silence came upon us now as we looked around at each other. "Where do you think they were hiding?" Sakura asked. "I don't know," mumbled Gaara. "Let's not worry about that right now, lets all head back to the house," said Misty. The walk felt like it went on forever, long and silent. We arrived at the house, "Ash, Inuyahsa, may I have a word with you?" Gaara asked us. We nodded and followed him around the side of the house.
"Ok you two know this other guy, who is he?" Gaara asked us.
"His name is Naraku.." I started to say.
"He a power hungry demon, he killed Kagome and tried to do the same to Ash's mother and Misty." Inuyahsa interjected.
"If he killed Kagome how is she here?" asked Gaara.
"I wish I could tell you. After I sacrificed myself to save Ash I found myself back in my own lands before Naraku killed Kagome, as if nothing had happened," Inuyasha said.
"Well at least you're here, we are going to need all the help we can get," I proclaimed.
"You are right, this Naraku sounds like a very imposing foe, but he is nothing compared to Sasuke," Gaara mumbled.
"What do you mean by that," Inu and I asked in unison.
"Sauske has the ability to make the darkest part of a person come out. Past the point of just showing it to the point were the dark side takes over," he said with a sigh. "Two of our friends succumbed to this already; we don't know what happened to them after that. We believe he may have them, but even if we found them they have possibly already gone too far," he said.
"So what are his plans here then?" I asked him with worry.
"I really couldn't tell you. He is unpredictable. He could be here for your children or you, only time will tell," he said coldly.
"Well let's get one thing straight, my kids are to not be involved in this. Inu, you and I are the ones who will be taking this fight head on. Sakura, Misty and Kagome can stay and make sure nothing happens to the kids. "Rai! Rai! Raichu!" is all we heard as we saw Raichu coming out of the house towards us. "Yes Raichu you can come too, were going to need all the help we can get.
"All right we need to sit and think of a strategy on how to confront these two. Let's head inside and grab something to eat and talk. The girls should know the plan too," I said to them. They nodded and we walked into the house.
The girls had already made something to eat for the kids and had something sitting out for us too. I sat down and started to eat, with a lot more on my mind than I thought I would.
"All right, Inuyasha, Gaara and I along with Raichu will go out and find Naraku and Sasuke. You three will stay here with the kids incase they come here. We are going to pray that this will not come to pass. I don't a repeat of what happened last time. Does everyone understand what they are doing?" I asked. Everyone nodded their heads.
"All right, we have some guest rooms upstairs so let's get some sleep for tomorrow. We are going to need all the energy we can get." I said to everyone. I took the kids to their room and tucked them into bed and kissed them each on the forehead, "Good night Alisia. Good night Dante. Sweet dreams."
I headed to our room and laid down next to Misty. She had tears in her eyes, "Misty I know you never wanted something like this to happen again but I promise you everything will be alright," I said trying to calm her down. I held her tight and let her cry herself to sleep. I caressed her head and slowly drifted off to sleep as well. Hoping what I told her would actually happen.