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Ok so this is the new chapter.. For anyone that's been reading THANK YOU!! Some conflict.. well.. pain .. keep reading!!

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Pain flooded Kagome's senses as she came around.

"What happened to me?" the young miko thought to herself.

Very slowly she sat up, and tried to sum up her injuries. Carefully she touched her face and immediately regretted it. Pain seared through her right hand as her ring finger touched the skin on her face. She cried out in pain and alarm.

The pain must have jogged her memory, instantly she remembered what happened, she and Inuyasha had been climbing the mountain in search of a demon bear. As they walked along the path, it crumbled; and Kagome had slipped and fallen down the side of the hill.

"I must have hit my head on the way down. Oh no, I wonder what happened to Inuyasha." At this thought, she grimaced, partly because she remembered the terrible way Inuyasha had screamed her name and the terrified look on his face, but mostly because her hand had started to throb violently.

It was very dark where she was, but Kagome's eyes began to adjust, and even in the dark, she could see that her ring finger was bent at a grotesque angle, and black with bruising.

"I wonder if it's broken," she said, speaking aloud for the first time. The sound of her own voice alarmed her a little bit; it was so quiet in this dark place.

Against her will, she thought of another possibility.

"It could just be dislocated. I could probably pop it back into place".

She knew it would hurt terribly. The same thing had happened to her little brother, Sota, a few years back.

She remembered how he wailed in pain when the car door slammed on his finger, and how it almost instantly stared to bruise. Her mother took him to the emergency room, fearing it was broken. After a quick X-ray, the doctor told Sota his finger wasn't broken, only dislocated. He told the young boy that his finger had been pulled right out of its socket when the door smashed into it. Kagome watched as they put the squirming boy onto a chair, gripped his wrist, and popped his finger back into place. Sota had screamed and fallen off the chair, but after a round of hugs and a candy bar, Sota was almost completely back to normal.

Kagome decided that this is what happened to her finger, it had been dislocated. Unless she popped it back into place, it would continue to hurt very badly.

Gingerly, so as not to use her injured finger, she untied the red tie around her neck, and went over what she needed to do.

She bundled it up the tie, stuck it in her mouth, and got ready for the pain.

"Okay..," , she thought, gently grasping her finger, "3. . . 2 . . . 1!"

CRACK

Kagome bit down and screamed in pain, her stomach churning at the sick popping sound her finger made. Then there was darkness.

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"Kagome!" the boy called her name, holding the last syllable for a little while. He inhaled deeply, trying to pick up the priestesses scent. Inuyasha had started looking for Kagome as soon as the dust had cleared.

He picked through the rocks for almost an hour, slicing tiny cuts into his hands that quickly healed before he even knew he had them.

Now he was slowly making his way back up the rock-strewn cliff, scanning the rocks for any sign of his lost companion. "It's so weird that I can't smell her, not even a little bit, it's almost as if she disappeared."

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Kagome opened her eyes.

"I can't believe how much that hurt!" she thought. "I don't think I was out to long though," The girl lifted her hand to look at her finger.

"Well, it still hurts, but it feels a lot better now..."

Kagome picked up her tie, un-bundled it, and began to tie it around her neck. Just as she was giving it one last tug, she saw a pale green glow coming from a bend in the dark cave place she had not known existed. The head of a serpent type creature glided around the corner, emitting the pale green glow.

Kagome gasped, "Those are Kikyo's soul collectors,", she thought. Kagome tried to stand up, but her muscles wouldn't move.

"What's going on?!,", Kagome thought, almost frantically.

She watched helplessly as several winged serpents glided towards her. Slowly they crept over her body, making the hair on her arms stand straight up.

She felt her body rising, leaving her in a standing position with her feet just barely brushing the ground beneath her. Kagome tried to scream as the soul collectors wrapped around her body, but no sound came out.

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Ok that's it for now! I hope it was better and it gets some more views! Please leave me some reviews.. I want to know what you think! Im very new at this, and I want some feedback. Ive already started on chapter four.. it should be done in about a week..

Authors Note—My good friend and I had a good long argument over what color Kikyo's soul collectors are.. what color do you think they are?

Lita