A/N: Sorry it's been so long!! Please enjoy this short chapter.

Part of my mind tried hard to silence me and my screaming, but it wasn't working. I had lost my son, my baby, and my heart hurt more than it had in many months.

The ground began to rumble as the demon that had attacked my home followed the sound of my pain filled screams.

"I founds you!" He called as he came across my location.

I heard the air whistle as his huge hand came crashing down on me, and something snapped within me.

An orb formed around me and kept his hand from crushing me to the ground. Slowly I stood and turned to the demon, focusing the full weight of my livid tangerine gaze on him. Rivers of molten rock forced the ground around me apart as newfound energy coursed through me.

"It is said that the color of the Haibane's hair and eyes represent the element that charges their power…" I gripped my katana tightly in my left hand as two small flames danced their way around the blade until it was suddenly ablaze in it.

The demon brought his hand down on me again, but the orb still stood in his way and his blow fell harmlessly against the shield that protected me.

I stared up at the demon as the rivers of molten rock around me began to release geysers of fire, as tall as him, into the air. "You took my son away from me, now you'll pay…" I charged the demon, leapt into the air and swung my sword straight down through the demon, cleaving him cleaning into two separate pieces; then I turned to the Saimyosho in the sky above me.

"I think only one is enough to tell Naraku that I will hunt him down and tear him into pieces with my bare hands…" I waved my hand and the geysers of flames erupted into the sky, burning all of the Saimyosho but one.

There… I told myself. We're safe for now… With that I collapsed to the earth as I slipped into unconsciousness.

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"I can't believe he made us come back here and check up on her. I mean can't he do that himself?" Someone growled.

"My god…" A female voice murmured in astonishment. "What do you think happened here?"

"Look!!"

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"Kaori…?" I heard someone question as I felt my body being moved.

I opened my eyes and stared up at a blurry figure with silver hair. "Sesshoumaru…?" I whispered in a hoarse voice.

"Sorry, no…" He answered trying to make it sound light and joking.

"Inu…Yasha…?" I questioned as raised my hand to touch the person who was hovering over me. "Why are you here…?"

"I'd ask you the same question. Looks like you were at the center of an earthquake or something."

"What…?" I questioned as I turned to look at the ground next to me; the gaping cracks that had been there when the magic poured through me were still evident, minus the flowing magma. Then I remembered what happened.

"He's gone…" I choked as tears filled my eyes.

"InuYasha what did you do?" Kagome asked as she stepped gingerly nearer to us. "She's crying."

"I didn't do it!" He responded as he tried to move away from me.

I gripped his shirt. "They took him." I turned to look up at InuYasha. "They took my son." I buried my face into his shirt as I sobbed.

InuYasha stiffened then slowly moved his arms around me and awkwardly tried to pat my back to console me.

"What did she say?" Someone asked

"They've taken her son." InuYasha answered.

"WHAT?!?!?" Was the response from the group.

"Did they take everyone else?"

"Kaori…?" InuYasha began as he tried to pull back. "Did they just take your son or everyone else?"

I shook my head and pointed in the direction that the cave was in; InuYasha freed himself and ran off in the direction I had pointed. I began to cough and blood splattered against my hand and the ground. Kagome made a concerned noise and went to move closer to me but the ground began to shudder under us.

"Kagome!" Sango shouted as she grabbed the girl's arm and pull her back as the ground began to collapse.

"Kaori!!" Kagome shouted as she tried to pry herself free of Sango's grasp.

"You can't! The grounds collapsing, there's no way to get to her in time!!"

I watched as the ground around me crumbled away and knew I had minutes left because I would fall into the chasm around me.

"Someone save her!!" Kagome shouted as she stared at me where I sat in the epicenter of the collapse.

The wind picked up and a tornado came out of the woods behind me just as the ground collapsed beneath me and I fell.

"NO!!!!" Kagome shouted.

"Gotcha!" Someone said as I was pulled out of the hole. Seconds later I landed on the opposite side of the gaping hole from the gang. I looked up to my left to see a demon boy holding me, a huge grin on his face.

"Wolf demon." I said as I stared up at him.

The boy gaped at me in shock. "How did you…" But he stopped as a blur or red leapt across the wide pit in the ground.

"Koga!!!"

"InuYasha." Responded the boy whose name I assumed was Koga.

InuYasha landed drawing his sword and pointing it at the wolf demon. "What are you doing here?"

"I could ask you the same thing mutt." Koga answered leering at InuYasha. "I just heard Kagome shouting as this girl here nearly fell into that hole in the ground so I came and saved her." He put his hands on his hips with an arrogant smile.

I backed away from the arguing men until I started coughing again. I hit my knees as blood squeezed between my fingers as I covered my mouth.

"Kaori!!!" I heard Kagome shout as she tried to run around the hole as I felt the darkness I had hated dearly swallow me whole and suck me back into unconsciousness.