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Sora and Kagome have been captured - will they be rescued in time? read and find out!

"When do ya think he'll be back?" Goofy asked looking towards Sango and Miroku. Inu-yasha had gone off on his own to search for Kagome and Sora's scent.

"Within a few minutes." Miroku replied calmly.

"Inu-yasha's nose is extremely sensitive. If they're here, he'll find them." Sango said confidently. Shippo piped in and said,

"Yeah, he's a blood hound!" There was a resounding smack and Shippo yelped in pain. Inu-yasha had arrived back just in time to hear Shippo's last comment.

"Well, with your abilities you could be called a blood hound." Donald said with a laugh. However, his laughter was short lived - he now had a couple of large steaming lumps on his head.

Sounding highly aggravated, Inu-yasha said, "Let's go."

Sora woke up very suddenly and attempted to sit up, but he was somehow restricted. Looking down, he realized that he was tied up in ropes.

"Ugh, not again." Sora thought in disgust, "why me?"

Looking around, he noticed Kagome next to him was also tied up, but unconscious. After a brief struggle, Sora managed to sit up and to his frustration, saw that they were still in the cell.

"The only thing that's changed is that now we're tied up!" he thought bitterly.

Sora decided to wake Kagome up when a man's voice asked,

"What is it about you that intrigues the Heartless?" Surprised, Sora exclaimed,

"You know about the Heartless?!" Turning to look at the owner of the voice, he saw that the man had long, unruly black hair, unsettling red eyes and donned a dark kimono. The man merely smirked in response to Sora's question.

"Wait a minute...are you Naraku?" He asked suddenly wary.

"I see my reputation precedes me." Naraku said in a coldly amused voice.

"What do you want with me, and how do you know about the Heartless?" Sora demanded tensely, trying to free himself from the ropes.

"What do I want with you? I, personally, want nothing with you. Quite frankly you're barely worth my time." Naraku replied in a smooth voice.

"Then why did you capture me in the first place?!" Sora yelled, provoked by the demon's words. Naraku chuckled evilly and said with a smile that did not reach his cold and calculating eyes,

"You amuse me. Very well, if you insist, before you die I shall tell you why I captured you."

Sora tensed at the phrase 'before you die'. Naraku saw this and continued with a smirk,

"A strange woman named Maleficent told me about the wonderful powers of the Heartless and said that if I were to kill the Keyblade Master for her, she would grant me the power to control them. They will be my obedient servants and I will have power beyond your pitiful mind's comprehension!"

He laughed wickedly then bent down to pick up Kagome's limp form.

"Kagome!" Sora struggled even more fiercely to get loose and help her.

"Naraku! Maleficent is just using you! The Heartless won't help you, they'll devour your heart!" Naraku had his back turned and paused as he opened the door. The cage bars separating them from the demons opened with a creaking sound. Without looking back, he said with pure malice in his voice,

"Die."

Hidden from sight behind the trees, Inu-yasha and the others debated on how to enter the castle.

"We should sneak in and stay hidden until we find Kagome and Sora." Sango suggested.

"That's a huge waste of time!" Inu-yasha yelled.

Ignoring Sango and Miroku's protests, he marched out from the cover of the trees, leapt forward and smashed through the wall of the building with his bare hands.

Riku gaped at his display of brute strength and glanced around to see if anyone else was as shocked as he was. Both Donald and Goofy seemed just as shocked himself, but on the other hand, Sango, Miroku, and Shippo weren't the least bit surprised. Instead, they seemed rather annoyed.

"I guess they're used to this." Riku thought.

As the rest of the group headed toward the opening Inu-yasha had made, Miroku said sadly,

"So much for sneaking in."

Crossing the field of debris, they hurried into the castle.

"Gawsh, I hope they're okay." Goofy said.

"Aw, don't worry. Sora's tough, so I'm sure they'll be fine." Donald replied confidently.