Okay, I have nothing to say of interest yet except for sorry for the wait! My life has been kind of busy lately, one of my pets died a few days ago, so that stalled the writing of this chapter a little. Well, here's Chapter Six!

Chapter Six: Missing Kagome

Shippou woke up early the next morning surprised to find Kagome not next to him, but slowly started remembering the night before that he had decided to sleep on his own last night, fearing Kagome's temper. The kitsune stumbled over to Kagome's sleeping bag and was surprised to find that the girl was gone. Panic was ringing through his head as he ran over to Inuyasha screaming, "INUYASHA!! KAGOME ISN'T HERE!"

Inuyasha hurriedly got up from his bed on the ground and quickly smacked Shippou on the head. "She probably just went home," he mumbled, still tired.

"No, she didn't!" Shippou yelled, trying to make Inuyasha worried so he could look for her. "Her bag and everything else is still here! If she went home, she would have brought her bag at least, so she could bring back candy."

Inuyasha couldn't argue with that logic. She hadn't gone home. Everything was still in place. Her sleeping bag was perfectly laid out on the ground, her pillow was at the same spot it was in before, and her bag was right next to her sleeping bag, as usual. The only thing missing was Kagome. 'Shit! How could I let this happen?' Inuyasha frantically thought. 'Who would have been able to take Kagome without my noticing them, though? Maybe that girl Kanna. She doesn't have much of a demonic aura. No, I still would have been able to catch Kagome's scent. I cant smell it anywhere. It must have been Naraku himself that kidnapped her. I'm sure he can do something like hide his scent,' Inuyasha thought. Quickly Inuyasha woke up Miroku. He wanted to find Kagome as soon as possible, so he would need someone to watch the place while he was gone. "MIROKU!" Inuyasha yelled.

"Ugh. Why do you yell at me this early? What could I have done already?" Miroku asked, clearly confused.

"You haven't done anything, yet," Inuyasha replied. "I just need you to wake up so I can go out and search for Kagome. I think that Naraku captured her while we were sleeping."

"He couldn't have taken her though, you would have sensed his aura, and couldn't she have just gone home?" Miroku stated, perplexed that Inuyasha would be so stupid as to forget that he could sense Naraku's aura.

"Yeah, I know. I don't think she did, though, because her bag is still here. I think that Naraku hid his scent or something. Whatever, all that matters is that Kagome is gone and I need to go find her," Inuyasha yelled back while running into the woods surrounding them.

With Kagome!

Kagome would have gone on sleeping, if only she hadn't heard the evil laugh of Kikyou. She quickly sat upright and looked around at her surroundings. She was sitting on a hard, wooden floor with nothing at all in the room, except for her. It was very, very dark, so Kagome assumed that it was still night. The only thing that she could see in the dark room, was that a door led to another room, where she assumed Kikyou was. Suddenly, everything went silent. She guessed that Kikyou had heard her sit up and was going to come in to talk to her. What she saw was so shocking that she started to feel lightheaded. A few seconds after she sensed a huge demonic aura, the only person she hated more than Kikyou walked into the room.

Naraku.

With a triumphant smile on his face Naraku said, "Oh, you're awake? It's about time. Looks like Kikyou's sleeping potion worked. You've been out for two days...I wonder why Inuyasha hasn't come to rescue you yet? Maybe he forgot about you...," Naraku walked out of the room, chuckling as though he had just told the best joke in the world.

Kagome thought of yelling after him to ask what he was going to do with her, but thought better of it. Maybe she could buy some time for herself if she didn't bring up the subject. 'Why is Kikyou teaming up with Naraku? Did they team up just so they could capture me? Why didn't Naraku's aura wake me up? Why didn't Naraku's aura wake Inuyasha up? Maybe it did wake him up and he just didn't care enough to stop them?' All of these questions would keep Kagome busy while she waited to be told more about what would be happening to her.

With Inuyasha again.

Inuyasha was blindly running through the woods, wanting to find Kagome as soon as possible. Of course, without a reliable scent to follow, finding her would be nearly impossible. Sometimes, Inuyasha would pick up Naraku's scent, and head in that direction, but it would be only seconds until the scent disappeared. It was like Naraku was trying to tease him, make him think that he would be able to find Kagome soon, and then it would be gone. That infuriated Inuyasha. He was running toward where he last picked up Naraku's scent, when out of nowhere Kagura jumped out in front of him. "So, you're looking for Kagome? I can help you find her," Kagura said. It almost looked like she truly wanted to help him, but she had a mischievous look in her eye.

"I don't need your help, Kagura," Inuyasha said through gritted teeth. "I'm doing fine on my own."

"Ha. It doesn't look like it. You do know that Naraku is leading you into a trap, right?" Kagura replied.

"Yeah, and how am I supposed to know that YOU aren't going to lead me into a trap?"

"Mm, whatever. I guess you're right. Anyway, what would I gain from helping you? 'Bye!" With that, Kagura flew off.

Inuyasha looked around frantically, forgetting which direction he was going in before. He looked up at Kagura. She was barely visible, and he couldn't pick up her scent, either. How strange. Right now, Inuyasha was desperate to find Kagome, and he had no choice. He jumped up onto a tree branch so he could see Kagura better, and ran after her.

Chapter Six has ended, now we are going on to an Author's Note!

I'm really, really sorry for the shortness/lateness/ suckiness of this chapter! I had major writers block and my hamster just died... so that could make up for the suckiness maybe? I will try to make the next one a hundred times better, and I'm also sorry for the lateness. Yeah, I know I said that I will try to update every weekend, but I'm only a week late, so it's not THAT bad, right?! Thanks to my reviewers, and I will update soon! Please review! Thanks for reading!

Love,

Moon of Ice