Chapter 2 – Unknown

I awoke to what looked like my house, but something was different, but I couldn't put my finger on it. I turned to find that Misty was not in bed with me. I started to panic and ran out of the room and checked the other rooms. No one was upstairs, so I bolted down the stairs to discover, nothing.

"Were the hell is everyone?" I asked.

All I heard was a snicker from the darkness. "Did you really think we wouldn't play dirty?" chuckled a familiar voice.

I kept turning trying to find were the voice was coming from but, when I finally spotted the figure, everything went black. "You are such a pathetic worm Ash," chuckled the voice again.

"Sasuke!" I screamed.

"Ash, hand over the Tessaiga, and I'll spare your pathetic life," he snickered.

"Never! Tessaiga belongs to me and me alone!" I yelled into the darkness.

"Tessaiga is my last conquest of power, give it to me now!" he shouted.

"Over my cold dead body," I muttered.

"That can be arranged," Sasuke started to mutter. He paused for a moment, "I wonder how Naraku is dealing with Gaara and Inuyasha?" he asked.

My heart sank at those words.

"You bastards will pay for this, I swear it!" I shouted.

"You are very brave to say such things, considering you can't even tell where I am right now…."

"WIND SCAR!!"

The darkness was lifted by my attack. I saw Sasuke standing there, his eyes wide open. "How did you learn to wield Tessaiga?" he asked me hastily.

"This is just the beginning!" I shouted as I prepared for my next attack. I charged at him but heard something in the distance and I stopped.

"IRON REAVER SOUL STEALER!"

"SAND COFFIN!"

I looked around and finally saw Inuyasha and Gaara fighting Naraku. "You shouldn't hesitate," Sasuke whispered in my ear. At this he punched me in the stomach. I coughed up blood and fell to my knees. "You…you…you bastard…," I muttered.

I slowly began to lose consciousness; "Remember Ash, you will never be safe, and the dark side of the heart always wins…" was all I heard before I collapsed.

I awoke in a sweat, but, I was in my own bed. I looked over to see Misty laying there, sound asleep. "Was that all a dream?" I asked myself. "If only," I heard a voice out in the hall. I got up and opened the door. Gaara and Inuyasha were standing there, "Did you have the same dream too?" they asked me. I nodded.

"Sasuke is pulling out all of his tricks to try and stop us," Gaara muttered.

As Gaara said this I was filled with panic. "The kids!" I screamed. I started to run for the kids' room and I swung the door open. I saw that they were both still lying in bed sleeping. I sigh and walked back to Gaara and Inu.

"So are Sakura and Kagome alright?" I asked.

"They are both fine, Sakura may need a little more attention though when we are gone," Gaara added.

"Whys that?" Inu and I asked.

"Well she's pregnant," Gaara sighed.

Inu and I just looked at each other with mouths gaped wide open. After a minute or two we regained ourselves and looked back at Gaara. "Don't worry Misty is the perfect women for the job and I bet Kagome could help out too," I said to him. Inu started to turn red in the face. Gaara and I chuckled at him for a bit before we headed back our rooms.

I layed down next to Misty and kissed her on the cheek. "Man what a weird night," I laughed to myself. I wrapped my arms around Misty and went back to bed. "Hopefully this time I'm not brutally mauled when I go to bed," I sighed. I drifted off to sleep holding the women of my dreams in my arms.