Hi! This is Chapter Four of Kikyou's Wrath, but you probably knew that already. In response to a question left by one of my reviewers, I do have a beta reader...and in case you wanted to know, her pen name is Aspidiske. Thanks for the reviews, I will make sure I proofread my work more carefully. Okay, so now on with Chapter Four!

Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha and co. I might own a few original characters that I made up though, so please don't copy the original ones. Thanks!

Chapter Four: A Close Call

The ground was slowly trembling beneath Inuyasha and Kagomes' feet. Inuyasha grabbed Kagome and tried to run out of the cave, but they were very far in. By this time both had realized that the last time Kagome 'sat' Inuyasha, it caused the cave to collapse. Inuyasha was running toward the entrance of the cave with Kagome on his back when, much to his dismay, he saw that his exit had been blocked off by the falling rocks.

"Inuyasha, how are we going to get out?!" Kagome cried. "Our exit is blocked off, and rocks are falling all around us!"

"Wow, maybe you should have thought of that before you sat me twice!" Inuyasha retorted.

"LIKE I HAD ANY IDEA THE CAVE WOULD COLLAPSE!!" Kagome yelled. "Anyway, you deserved each one of those sits, but let's not argue about this now. Shouldn't our main concern be getting out of this alive?"

"Feh. Whatever." Then, Inuyasha pulled out his tetsusaiga. "WIND SCAR!" he yelled. With amazing speed, the Wind Scar cut threw all of the rocks that were blocking them from getting out. Of course, the Wind Scar only made the rocks fall quicker and in much greater quantities, but that didn't matter since right when the exit was clear, Inuyasha grabbed Kagome and leaped out of the cave and into the waterfall that had concealed the cave that was no longer there. It was clear that if the two had stayed any longer that they would have been buried alive by the rocks. Inuyasha jumped onto dry ground and gently set Kagome down.

"Wow. Good thing we got out of there. Maybe we should go and find Miroku and Sango now?" Kagome asked.

"Yeah, before Miroku gets himself into trouble with Sango," Inuyasha replied. With that, Kagome got onto Inuyasha's back and they started off into the forest again.

(A/N: Okay, now back to Miroku and Sango!)

It was almost nighttime, and Miroku had just finished his pretend exorcism. Shippou was already asleep, and Sango was getting ready for bed. Everything was peaceful and silent, until there was a sudden CRASH outside. Shippou ran behind Sango, who hurried to get her hiraikotsu, and Miroku ran to the window they had in their small house. Everyone was tired, and worried that it might be a real demon, when much to their surprise, they saw Kagome getting off of Inuyasha's back. Apparently, Inuyasha had picked up Miroku's and Sango's scent, which led him to this village. Unfortunately, Inuyasha had a little trouble landing because he failed to notice a tree right in front of him and had crashed into it. Typical Inuyasha.

"Hey! Glad you could find us! Did Naraku give you much trouble?" Sango asked.

"Actually, none at all. I don't even think he followed us. How 'bout you?" Kagome said while walking towards the hut that Sango, Miroku, Shippou and Kirara had been staying in.

"Same. He didn't even try to kill us. I wonder what he's up to...," Sango replied.

"So, what have you and Kagome been doing while we were at the village, Inuyasha?" Miroku inquired as Inuyasha got up off of the ground.

"Me and Kagome found a cave behind the waterfall, and had intended to stay there for a few days until we were sure that Naraku wasn't following us, but Kagome sat me too many times and the cave collapsed," Inuyasha explained.

"Oh..I'm sure you deserved it. Well we got this hut because Miroku did another pretend exorcism," Sango said while Inuyasha was glaring at her, clearly thinking that he did NOT deserve to be sat at all.

"We thought that was what you would do," Kagome said with a smile.

Suddenly the man who gave Sango and Miroku their lodgings and who the two talked into letting them do the fake exorcism ran up to them and yelled, "Help us!! We think there's a demon walking toward the village!!"

"We'll be right there!" Miroku said, and started following the man. Everyone was running toward where the demon was supposed to be when everyone abruptly stopped in their tracks. No one expected this to happen...

"Kikyou, what happened to you?" Inuyasha whispered.

With that, Chapter Four has ended.

Sorry for the super short chapter... I'll do my best to make the next one longer to make up for it. :) Ha, Kikyou, a demon? Yeah, I guess you could say I don't like Kikyou too much. At all. In fact.. I'm sure I might lose some of my readers for this...I'm a Kikyou Hater. I have nothing against people who like Kikyou...but I personally don't like her. So what happened to Kikyou? What would make the people of the village think she's a demon? Read on to find out! Thanks!

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