OK, so I've been snowed in for three days. Monday I didn't get any writing in due to stupid writer's block. (I had just got back from a vacation and had been away from the story for a weekend.) SO, here we are finally. And last night, I made a trailer for this fic. It's on youtube and the link is on my profile. I own nothing.

Chapter 5

Day 2

Previously on TSSoD:

InuYasha walked closer to the full demon. "Your sword, Bakusaiga, was created from your power. Before the Tetsugaiga absorbed the Tenseiga, you had learned compasion for mortals. That girl," InuYasha pointed to Rin, "That girl is proof, Sesshomaru. Before her you were a heartless, cruel bastard. Do you mean to tell me that your sword did not obtain any of your feelings for Rin?" Sesshomaru remained quiet.

Sesshomaru raised the blade and brought the blade down as if to slice Rin. He stopped mere inches above her head and swung the sword to the right and across her body. Rin's injuries magically healed themselves. The room stood in wonder as they watched the girl stir and open her eyes. Sesshomaru watched in silence as her eyes slightly searched for him before landing on him. Rin's face broke out in a smile as she sat up.

"These lands are not yours. And they never were that fool Inutaisho's lands either. They belong to the Great Alpha Wolf!" Sesshomaru turned slowly and raised his sword. Without a word, he brought the sword down and severed Kouga's head and body.

InuYasha opened his mouth to speak, but Sesshomaru interupted him. "I'm going after this Wolf because he attacked my honor. It has nothing to do with your mate."

"I promise to avenge those we have lost." Sango wailed and leaned into Miroku's embrace. "I...I also promise to return home to my wife and children."

Darkness. Enternal nothingness. That was all that surrounded her. No sounds. No light. No warmth. Harsh, bitter cold forced her to wrap her arms around herself. Another teeth jarring shivering trembled through her body. She knew there was something she needed to remember. Something important. Someone. But she could remember nothing. She didn't even know her name.

The only warmth she could feel was the red wine that slowly dripped from her stomach. It had slowed since she had been here. Where ever here was. She felt no pain from the wound. Something she probably should feel grateful for, but she wanted to feel something. Even pain. Pain would give her something to focus on. She could focus on that thing she needed to remember...if only she knew what that thing was.

She no longer knew how long she had been here. Minutes, hours, days, years. Time blended together in her dark world. Maybe she should walk around? Look for something? NO...if she moved and got lost then whoever she was supposed to remember would not be able to find her. But...something was missing. Her hands were folded over her stomach on her wound and something felt...wrong about her slender waist. Something was missing. Why could she not remember anything? She pulled her lip into her mouth and began to chew it. There were two someones she needed to remember. One that she needed to find. The other would find them once she found the other. There. She was on a train of thought. Something to focus on. She shivered again. She closed her eyes until the spell past. She opened her eyes again, expecting to see the same blackness, but instead, she saw a pillar of light. There was a small shadow in the pillar. She stepped towards it and stopped. Should she moved towards it? Yes. She knew with every fiber of her being that she should. She stepped again and than ran towards it. The closer she got, the warmer she got. She stood outside the light. Inside there was a small bundle of blankets. She stepped into the light and the warmth. She slowly bent down and pulled back the blankets. Underneath, was a small baby girl. She had a lot of hair for a baby, a full head, and it was midnight black. As dark as the darkness she had just left. Atop her head were little black dog ears. She reached for the baby. As she picked it up in her arms, she opened her eyes. Dark golden eyes looked back at her. A name bubbled to her lips and she threw back her head and screamed it as loud as she could.

"INUYASHA!"

It was early morning. The sun had barely risen over the moutains. InuYasha had steppen out onto a balcony for some fresh air. Sesshomaru had been running over battle strategies with his demon army. InuYasha rolled his eyes. Like Sesshomaru needed an entire army of demons. Even if they owed him or The Old Man debts. InuYasha sighed. Two days and two night. He needed to find his own way to bring Kagome back if Sesshomaru would not help him.

'INUYASHA!' The said hanyou's head jerked up as his ears swivelled. He knew that scream. Kami knows he had heard it enough for it to be engraved onto his brain.

"Kagome!" He yelled in an automatic responce. He sniffed. He could not smell her, but he knew that he had just heard her scream.

'InuYasha! Help us!' InuYasha turned around in a circle.

"Where are you, Kagome?"

'I don't know. It's so dark and cold here.' InuYasha growled.

"I'll find you, Kagome! Don't give up!" InuYasha felt a faint flicker inside him. He stiffened. It was the faint flicker of a mate bond. It was over as quickly as he felt it.

"Kagome?" InuYasha called.

'Inu...Yasha...' Her voice was fading.

"Kagome! No! Come back! KAGOME!" InuYasha clentched his fists. He could feel that she was gone. What was that? An illusion?

He clentched the railling of the balcony as he looked over his family's lands. Kagome was dead because of these damn lands. InuYasha snarled. He had never gotten into the whole political side of being an inu-hanyou. That probably had to do with being a hanyou and not a full inu-yokai. Even though his mother had been a princess and was envolved in political affairs, he still never had seen the appeal. Though of course, Sesshomaru was very much into the policical part of being a Yokai Lord. InuYasha rolled his shoulders. He could feel that this policitally fulled battle was going to be rough. Who ever this wolf yokai was, he was relentless. To murder a newborn pup in cold blood...though of course Koga had been the one to do that, the Great Wolf Alpha was the one behind it all. Sesshomaru still had not given him any information about the wolf tribe. InuYasha had been prepared to beat the answers out of him and then take off on his own, but Sesshomaru had disappeared into one of the many rooms of the palace since last night. When he had seen Sesshomaru again, he was running over the strategies and that's when he had stepped outside.

He could still hear Kagome's scream in his mind. It sent chills down his spine. If only he could fight a physical enemy that would realise her once defeated. Like the many times she had been kidnapped in the past. Instead, as Sesshomaru had told him, he would have to find his own way. Tetsuiga began rattling. InuYasha clutched the sheath and it calmed. Did Tetsuiga have the answers?

Dainty footsteps made his left ear twitch. He turned and saw Rin behind him. Everytime he looked at her, he thought of how Kagome was as a child. He had always wondered how she had maintained her innocence while traveling with Sesshomaru. Rin looked up at him with her wide brown eyes.

"We heard you yelling, InuYasha-sama. Are you okay? Did you see Kagome-sama? Master Jaken thinks you're just going crazy." InuYasha chuckled. Was this how Izayio would one day be? His chuckle cut off as he remembered that she was the one to find his dead pup. He turned away.

"I thought I heard Kagome. Maybe Jaken's right. But, I don't give a damn anymore." Rin walked up beside him and looked up.

"InuYasha-sama, will you bring Kagome-sama and Izayio-chan back to life again?" InuYasha swallowed hard.

"I hope I can." InuYasha whispered.

Miroku briskly walked along the dirt path. He was about half a day from Sesshomaru's palace, assuming that was even were InuYasha was. However, with luck he would run into Kohaku who had been sent to find Sesshomaru. Perhaphs Kohaku could point him in the right direction. The monk's thoughts wondered back to his village and his wife. Sagno was taking Kagome's death so hard. He had not seen her so distraught except when Kohaku had been under Naraku's control. Even then, there had only been a few times she had just totally had a brake down, like she was now. If Kagome could not be saved, then surely Sango would also be in danger. Sango would without a doubt become extremly depressed and would begin to slack in her duties as a mother, wife, and woman.

Likewise, InuYasha would become more of a wreck than he was those three years she was in her time. Only this time, he had lost his entire family. He had no mother, no father, no wife, and no child. All he had now was a cold hearted brother. Of course, he had Miroku and the others, but Miroku knew it would not be the same.

The sunny land before him suddenly darkened. He looked up in surprise to find a familiar large, round, pink demon form. Much like a child's drawing.

"Shippou!" He called up to the kitsune. The said fox demon transformed with a popping noise back into his normal, childish self. He landed on Miroku's shoulder.

"Miroku, what are you doing out here? Guess what? I moved up a rank!" Shippou eagerly informered his friend.

Miroku smiled. "Very well, Shippou." Miroku's smile fell. "Tell me, Shippou. Have you seen InuYasha around?" Confusion swept over Shippou's face.

"No. Why? Oh! How is Kagome? Was the pup born yet? What was it?" Miroku looked down and Shippou could feel the tension in the air. "Is something wrong with Kagome? The pup?" Miroku turned back to face the young yokai.

"Kagome is...dead." Miroku told him blankly. Somehow, telling someone who didn't already know, made it seem more real. Tears welled in Shippou's eyes.

"K-Kagome...is...d-dead?" Shippou could not wrap his mind around the idea that his adoptive mother was gone. Miroku sighed.

"So is the baby." Shippou gasped yelled. He wiped away a few tears before asking, "What happened?"

Miroku looked towards the sky. "Koga came to the village while we were at an extirmanation and killed Kagome while she was in labor." Shippou sniffed. Miroku continued. "InuYasha went off to fight Koga and find Sesshomaru and ask him to bring them back. Myoga says we only have two days and two nights to bring them back before their souls are lost."

"Sesshomaru won't help us." Shippou grumbled. Miroku let out a small chuckle.

"Maybe, maybe not. But, Rin was also attacked by Koga. He may be very willing to help." Shippou looked Miroku in the eyes.

"I want to help!" Miroku nodded.

"I figured you would want to. Look, Shippou, can you fly ahead to Sesshomaru's castle and see if InuYasha is there? If he's not, see if Kohaku is there and if he knows where InuYasha is. Can you do that?" Shippou nodded solemnly. He jumped into the air and with a puff of smoke transformed back into his demonic form. He quickly flew off towards the west.

Miroku sighed and let out a small prayer. Shippou had always been so fond of Kagome. She had pratically adopted him after he joined Kagome and InuYasha, way before Miroku had even met them. Kagome had been the ray of hope in the group. She had never given up and had always been there for whoever in the group needed it. Miroku began to jog after Shippou. They could not give up on saving her. Not only would she be forever lost, but the entire group would fall apart.

The afternoon sun beat down on his back as he sauntered through the tribe. Yes, he had killed the entire tribe and a few pesky mortals. And yes he was now missing his apprentince. And, he was certain the wolf baka had failed. He was indead behind scheduele. No matter. He would move ahead with his next stage in his conquest to retake the Western Lands. He needed to find a sorceress. First, he would make the girl his slave. Then he would raise his undead army of wolf demons. He cracked a grin, his sharp fangs glittering in the sunlight.

The one brother would not be able to fight him once his plan went into action. However -his grin fell-, the other would be harder. Koga had failed him; he knew it. His smirk returned. He would have to run a few ideas by the sorceress. Within two nights, the Western Lands would be his again. He reared back his head and let out a feral howl.

Be sure to review and check out the trailer! Okay, next chapter we will hopefully see some more action and more of the Alpha Wolf. The part at the begining about Kagome was because we haven't seen any of her since, like, chapter 1.

~Azarath101