:'( I do not own Inuyasha. I had a hard time with this chapter, although I have no idea why. :O anyhow, please enjoy!

"Kanna, please," Kagura snapped, throwing her pen at the pale woman sitting next to her, who had been tapping her long fingernails on her desk for an hour and a half. "You are giving me a headache. Either trip your nails or keep still!"

"My apologies, Kagura," Kanna said flatly, placing her hands in her lap. "It's a habit."

"I can tell," Kagura muttered. She paused and then blurted, "How exactly are we supposed to catch this witch girl anyway? Naraku tells us to get her outside of her house and capture her. But she never leaves! Maybe she has that one phobia-thingy-"

"Agoraphobia."

"Yea, that's it! Anyway she never leaves! We're running out of time here, Kanna! I'm tired of staying in this cheap, crummy hotel!"

"There is a girl who visits once a week to buy something from the Higurashi girl." Kanna opened a file on the desk before her. "Perhaps this could be helpful. We should make our move tomorrow."

"Yes, perhaps," Kagura nodded distractedly. Then she asked, "Kanna, why does Naraku always treat you like your more intelligent than I am? Why do YOU always get the information, while I'm always left in the dark?"

"Because," came the monotone reply, "I'm sleeping with him."

"You're WHAT?" Kagura was so shocked she fell off the hotel bed upon which she had been perched. "Are you really?"

"No. We're actually engaged."

"What? Are you serious?"

"No."

"Oh…"

"Goodnight Kagura."

~~~!~~~

"Inuyasha!"

"Oh man," Inuyasha muttered, poking his head out from his bedroom door. Sango's angry voice echoed around the mansion.

"INUYASHAAAA?"

"C-coming Sango!" Inuyasha raced down the hallway to the demon-slayers room. He paused and gulped loudly before opening the door.

"Inuyasha!" Sango yelled, "Why does this demon medicine say, "please apply to aching joint once a day. If joint pain does not subside, apply twice a day."

"Uh…" Inuyasha stuttered.

"BECAUSE IT'S MEDICATION FOR ARTHRITIS! YOU TOOK THE WRONG BAG YOU NITWIT!"

"Hey, hey!" Inuyasha said defensively, "She said take the blue one on the left!"

"Inuyasha," Sango spat out, "This one," she pointed to the bag in her hands, "Is green! GREEN!"

"Well," mused Inuyasha, "I thought it was more of a teal-turquoise color."

"It's green. GREEN! Read my lips. GREEN!"

"S-sorry Sango! Jeez!"

"Now we have to go back!"

"Aww man! another painfully long car ride? Great."

"Please, keep it down you two!" Came a shrill voice from outside of Sango's room. "Lord Sesshoumaru will be most disturbed by your barbaric fighting and shouting!"

"Our apologies, Jaken," Sango said, opening the door.

"Hmph!" snorted Jaken, the butler. "Don't let it happen again!"

"Uh, Jaken," Inuyasha stepped through the door and crossed his arms. "Sesshoumaru isn't here, ya know. He left an hour ago."

"Wh-what? Oh…" Jaken said, quite flustered at his blatant error.

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"Kanna, is that her?" Kagura nudged her companion and pointed at a dark-haired girl approaching the road that led to the shrine.

"Yes," Kanna confirmed, flicking a spider off of her shoulder. They were hiding in the forest on the right side of the road, waiting for their target to arrive. "Kagura," Kanna looked at the wind sorceress who was hiding behind a large tree. They were both dressed in kimonos, so if they were discovered they would have an easier time providing an explanation than if they were in their usual all-black attire.

"Yes, Kanna?" Kagura glanced over her shoulder at Kanna.

"Let's go."

The two stepped silently out from their hiding spot and, after dusting themselves off, proceeded quite noisily down the path, directly behind their target. The girl turned around and saw what she thought was a pale, elderly woman with short white hair being helped down the road by a very sharp and angular dark haired woman. She stopped and turned around, waiting for the two women to catch up to her. As they approached, she held out her hand to the older woman, to give her support, as her dark haired companion seemed to be struggling.

"Bad move, girlie," the dark haired woman sneered. Confused, the girl looked at the two women, and then her eyes grew wide. The old woman seemed to be getting taller and younger. A hand reached out and grabbed her hair, pulling her down.

"Now," said the dark haired woman, "we need you to do something for us. But first, what is your name, girl?"

The girl shook her head, her eyes wide with terror.

"What is your name?" Kagura snapped, losing what little patience she had.

The girl still shook her head.

"Fine! If you won't tell us, we'll beat it out of you!"

She shut her eyes tight, waiting for the impending pain. It came. A hand flew at her face, buffeting her cheek at full force. She opened her mouth, a soundless cry escaping her lips.

"Kagura, if you kill her," A soft, cold voice spoke, echoing inside the girl's head. "You can use your Dance of the Dead and carry out our plan anyway."

That was the last thing the girl heard before everything went silent.