A/N: It's interesting to read this story from the beginning and see how far it's come. I lot of things have changed in it since the original idea that I had for it. Here's chapter 26.

Chapter 26: Thriller

Hikari rubbed her eyes from exhaustion as she walked out of the house.

"Tell me again why we're going back to the feudal era this early in the firkin' morning?" Hiro groaned.

"Because I said we're going." Inuyasha said indicating the end of the discussion.

Hikari looked dead she obviously wasn't use to getting up at dawn. Of course it didn't help that they stayed up until midnight.

"Did you sleep well?" Hiroshi asked looking dead himself.

"Great." She answered sarcastically.

He smiled at her.

"KAGOME HURRY UP WE'RE WAITING ON YOU." Inuyasha shouted.

"I'm coming." Kagome walked out of the house with a backpack.

"You're seriously bringing that thing?" Inuyasha protested.

"Of course I'm bringing it." Kagome said.

"Fine, lets' just get going." Inuyasha accepted turning around and opening the door to the shrine.

Kagome and Inuyasha walked into the shrine.

"Come on you two." Inuyasha shouted.

"Well shall we?" Hiro said with a slight bow allowing her to go in first.

They walked in and Hiro shut the door behind them. Kagome and Inuyasha already left.

"I guess this is the last we'll see of this place for a while." Hiroshi sighed looking around.

"We'll be back." Hikari mentioned.

"Right."

Then they jumped down into the well.

"It took you two long enough." Inuyasha sighed in frustration.

"Whatever." Hiroshi sighed as they climbed out of the well.

"Kagome, Kagome is that really you?" A voice came from off in the distance.

"Who is that?" Kagome asked looking into the sun light.

"No…don't tell me it's…" Inuyasha's eye twitched.

It was a young man that looked to be in his mid 20's. He had fiery red hair and pointed ears. "Kagome it's me Shippou." He said stopping in front of her.

"Shippou? Oh my goodness you've gotten so tall and handsome. How have you been?" She hugged him.

"I've been doing great. Are these two your children?" He asked excited.

"Yep this is Hiroshi my oldest and Hikari." She answered pointing to them.

"Hello." Hiroshi greeted.

"What's up?" Hikari said.

"Hikari looks just like you." Shippou stated. "Oh right where did she go?" Shippou looked around.

"Where did who go?" Kagome asked clueless.

"Akane where did you go?"

"Who's Akane?" Kagome asked.

"HELLO!" A girl shouted behind Hikari.

"Ah!" Hikari screamed and jumped forward.

"I'm Akane it's a pleasure to meet you." She said shaking Hikari's hand rapidly.

"Um… hi." She finally said embarrassed that she did that.

"That's my daughter Akane." Shippou sighed "Sorry about that."

"I thought so she smelled like you." Inuyasha stated matter of factly.

She had his fiery red hair up sky blue eyes. She wore a short skirt with under armor type shorts underneath and a light green tank top.

"Well aren't you interesting." Hiroshi mentioned backing away a little.

"I'm sorry she's just a little…" Shippou started.

"Hyper." Kagome finished.

"Yea." Shippou laughed sheepishly.

"Why strange clothes you're wearing. You too." She said going back and forth between Hikari and Hiroshi. "How did you guys get here?" She raced over to the well. "Did you come out of here?" She looked down it again. "But how could you guys come from there there's no other way out." She kept looking towards Hikari then to the well.

"Will you just shut up?" Hikari groaned holding her forehead.

"I'm sorry I'll be quiet if your head hurts." Akane looked down at the ground.

"It's fine." She looked away from Akane and looked in the direction they were going to start heading in.

"Hikari, Hiroshi." Daisuke called flying down to meet them. "You guys came back quick."

"It wasn't our choice." Hiro glared at his father.

"What happened?" Dai asked gentle touching Hikari's neck.

"It's nothing to worry about it. Really I'm fine." She smiled.

"You're not a very good lair Hikari." Dai sighed. "What happened?"

"I said it's nothing can we please drop it?" She said frustrated walking away.

"What's gotten into her?" Dai asked Hiro.

"I have no clue she was fine before we entered the well." Hiro exclaimed.

"Come on we're going to find out." Daisuke ordered hooking his arms under Hiroshi's and flying off.

"Put me down. I hate flying." Hiroshi yelled.

"Don't be such a little kid about it." Daisuke laughed.

"Have you noticed how high in the air we are?" Hiro glared at him "Or have you forgotten that I don't have wings."

"Fine then I'll drop you if you don't stop fidgeting."

Hiro kept fidgeting and Daisuke lost his grip. He started falling rapidly towards the ground.

"Hiroshi!" Daisuke shot down towards his friend. 'Damn it I won't get to him in time.' Daisuke stopped. 'I hope this works.' "Through the light and that darkness let him take flight." He threw a towards Hiroshi striking him in the back.

"Ahh…" Hiro closed his eyes and braced for the impact but it never came. He opened his eyes and realized that he was pretty high up in the air. He looked up but Daisuke didn't catch him.

"See flying isn't that bad." Dai stated flying up to Hiro.

"WHAT?" He looked behind him and wings were on his back. He grabbed Daisuke's collar. "Why the hell did you drop me?"

"I told you not to fidget." Dai sighed pulling Hiro's hands off of his shirt "Now come on lets find Hikari." He flew off.

"Hey wait up." Hiro followed.

"Hikari, Hikari where are you?" Hiroshi shouted scanning the ground.

"Did you find anything?" Daisuke asked coming up behind him.

"No; nothing. What about you."

"She's not at Rokuro's that's what took me so long." Daisuke replied.

"Then where could she be?" Hiro muttered.

"Did anything happen last night?"

"Last night I thought you came to the house to see Hikari so I didn't bother getting out of bed."

"That wasn't me it was Zen." Daisuke said then shot in the direction of Naraku's castle.

Hiroshi followed as best as he could. "How was it Zen? He has a completely different sent from you."

'Not recently he hasn't.' Daisuke thought speeding up.

"Daisuke slow down I can't go that fast."

"I found her." Daisuke shouted then shot down towards her. "HIKARI STOP!" He snagged her shoulders and stopped her from running.

"I have to save him Daisuke. I can't let him stay there any longer." She tried getting away but couldn't get out of his grip.

"There's nothing you can do for him Hikari Naraku is just too strong you can't beat him." Daisuke said.

Hiroshi came down in front of her. "Hikari you're being naive and ridiculous. Stop trying to do something that you know you can't do."

"Hiroshi why do you…have wings?" She asked looking at him threw her tears.

"It's a long story. I'll tell you it on the way back to Rokuro's." He held out his hand to her. "Now come on lets go home."

Hikari stood there and did move.

"What's wrong?"

"It's Zen." She whispered.

"H-Hikari…" Zen stuttered leaning against a tree near by.

"Zen." She took a step in his direction but Daisuke stopped her again. "Daisuke let go."

"No Daisuke keep her there don't let her come any closer." He ordered.

"But Zen…" She whispered hurt by what he just said.

"Hikari don't come for me I don't want you to get hurt. It's hard enough just trying to hold him back. Go back with Daisuke and your brother." Zen muttered.

"Then come with us." Hikari said.

"I can't, but I do have a request. Fine my real body you'll be able to break this curse and return me to my original self. It's not a Naraku's castle I can reassure you of that." He looked at her for the first time for that conversation. "Goodbye Hikari." Threw something at her and it hit her in the forehead.

'Everything feels fuzzy. Why am I so sleepy all of a sudden?' She fell back and Dai caught her.

"You guys have about three days to find it. Naraku is getting restless and is about to take action himself. You have to hurry." He told them sliding down the tree trunk.

"Come on Hiro lets get going." Daisuke picked Hikari up. "She's gotten lighter then what she all ready is."

"Zen I have a question for you." Hiro stated looking at the person that he tried to kill just a few days ago.

"What? I don't have much time left." He said looking at his friends' older brother.

"Why do you have Daisuke's sent on you?" He asked with a strait face.

"I honestly don't know. Get out of here."

"Let's go Hiro I don't know how much longer that spell will last." Daisuke said lifting into the air effortlessly.

"Great I'm glad I'm a test dummy." Hiro shouted going after him.

"But you know don't you Daisuke?" Zen whispered watching them fly away into the blue sky. "I'm glad that she's surrounded herself with strong people."

~Rokuro's~

Hiroshi and Daisuke touched down and Hiro's wings disappeared.

"Well it looks like it only last about an hour. Lucky for us that we're fast." Daisuke commented.

"Yea luck for you." Hiro huffed as Rokuro ran up to them.

"You found her. Hiro did you just have wings?" Rokuro stated a bit confused.

"Long story." They said in unison.

"Why is she asleep?" He asked.

"Again long story." Hiroshi sighed.

"But not as long as the first." Daisuke smiled.

"Shut up." Hiro groaned hitting Daisuke in the back of the head.

"What was that for?" Daisuke growled.

"Let's get Hikari back to the house before you two start fighting." Rokuro interrupted.

The three walked to the house.

"What happen to Hikari?" Kagome asked.

"She just fainted is all she's been exhausted. She told me that she didn't get a lot of sleep last night." Hiro lied.

"Then take her to your room and let her get some rest." Kagome ordered.

"Alright, come on guys." Rokuro waved them towards his room. He closed the door after Hiro came in. "Now what really happened." Rokuro stated sitting down.

They told him the whole story every detail.

"So we have to find Zen's real body?" He looked at his friends confused.

"Yep." Hiroshi groaned "It's such a pain I mean we hardly know the kid and now we have to go and find his real body."

"Well there's the Hiroshi I know constantly complaining because he doesn't want to do a hard job." Daisuke laughed. "Besides Zen is Hikari's best friend I don't think she'd ever let us forget about it even if we didn't want to do this."

"He has a point." Rokuro mentioned.

"Hey she's waking up." Dai sat up. "Hey how are you feeling?"

"Like I just got it in the head with a base ball bat." She groaned.

"Then maybe you should have ducked." Hiro sighed.

"Oh ha ha very funny wing boy. I thought you didn't like flying?" Hikari smirked.

"Hey it was a life or death situation and in your case you better be happy that I'm alive because then I couldn't tell you something that you missed while you were knocked out." He countered.

"Oh really and what is this big news?"

"That Zen's really body is somewhere and for him to return to his normal self we have to go and find it." Daisuke said.

"Damn it Daisuke." Hiroshi muttered.

"So what are we waiting for?" Hikari started getting up.

"Did you forget Hikari you and I are grounded." Rokuro reminded.

Hikari fell back down. "That's right I completely forgot about that." Hikari sighed.

"We can try and convince them to let you guys out of this." Daisuke suggested.

"Wait what do you mean we?" Hiro objected.

"You're coming with me I don't care if you want to or not. You're convincing the parents three out of the four parents don't really like me." Daisuke drug Hiroshi out of the room.

"I hope they can do it." Hikari sighed.

They sat there in silence waiting for Daisuke and Hiroshi to come back. The two came back in the room about ten minuets later. Rokuro and Hikari stared at them anxious to know if they can go or not.

"You two can come." Hiro finally answered.

"Thank you!" Hikari smiled.

"Just don't make me save you again." Hiro groaned rubbing the back of his head.

"Now the question is where to start looking." Daisuke said.

"He told us that it's not at Naraku's castle so we should avoid that place at any cost." Hiroshi added.

"And we only have three days to find him." Rokuro stated.

"That's just great how are we supposed to cover the entire feudal era in three days?" Hikari moaned.

"I'm thinking that it's somewhere close to here and we just have to really look around this area and the well." Rokuro suggested.

"That is a good theory. If that's true then he would be protected by a magic barrier." Daisuke muttered looking down at the floor.

"Can you detect a magic barrier?" Rokuro asked.

"I think so; but I don't think that Naraku is going to make it that easy for us." Daisuke answered.

"Then we should get started. There's no reason to be sitting around second guessing ourselves." Hikari encouraged standing up.

"Do you know where we should start?" Hiroshi asked.

"No but I'm not just going to sit here and do nothing either." Hikari argued walk out of the room.

"Well you have to admit she's determined." Rokuro laughed following her out.

…To Be Continued…

A/N: Well it's been a long time since I've updated this story. I guess I got carried away with Here We Go Again and stopped working on this story. So now that I'm finished with this I can go and work on chapter 35 or something like that for Here We Go Again because I'm honestly out of ideas for this story. Please help!

-DTW-