Chapter 2

Kagome continued through the forest with tears streaming down her once perfectly smooth skin. She wondered if leaving completely and going out on her own was the smartest thing to do. She stopped in the middle of a clearing and sighed. She looked around at her surroundings, but saw nothing. It was getting dark and she had no idea where she was. Her tears clouded her eyesight and she was not paying attention to where she was going.

"Oh great!" she grunted, "Where the hell am I?"

Suddenly she heard a loud grunt and could sense someone running in her direction. She turned to where they were coming from as she heard some yelling and what seemed to be cheering. Five men appeared in front of her, swords drawn, and ready to fight.

"LET ME GO!" someone screamed as two more appeared in the clearing. A man was dragging a young girl along with him.

"Hey, what the hell are you doing to her?!" Kagome yelled.

"Who are you to speak to us in such a manner?" one of the men said.

"Oh don't start that shit!" she yelled, "I am so fucking sick of everyone single damn person acting like I am below them! I am not!"

Kagome, foolishly dropped her bag, ran forward into one of the men, and pushing him back into a tree as her elbow struck his stomach causing him to lose breath. A man off to her right reached out and grabbed her shirt.

"How dare you!" Kagome yelled, "Keep your hands off me!"

Suddenly, Kagome gasped looking in the direction of where the men came. They stared at her confused as her eyes began to widen. She jumped forward and grabbed onto the young girl that they had captured and backed away to the other side of the clearing.

"Thank you!" the child said to her, hugging her tightly.

Kagome, not noticing the child's hug, stared in the direction as the sound of falling trees and cracking wood echoed through out the forest. The men backed away just a bit as the Demon Lord of the West entered the area. His eyes were red, his claws were out, and his fangs were bare. The child in her arms looked back and smiled as the Demon Lord attacked the men. Kagome covered the girls eyes and closed her own until everything had stopped.

Opening her eyes, Kagome looked over to the one she knew as Sesshomaru with fear taking her body over. The child pulled away and ran to Sesshomaru, hugging his leg, and thanking him.

"Lord Sesshomaru!" she yelled, "They tried to hurt me!"

Sesshomaru's claws and fangs retracted as he looked down to the girl nodding. He looked back to Kagome who just sat there in shock.

"Why the hell are you here?" Sesshomaru asked her.

"I… uh…" Kagome was too nervous to answer.

"She saved me!" the child said to him, "She pulled me away from the bad men."

"She did?" he said and the girl nodded.

"Why aren't you with Inuyasha?" he asked Kagome.

"I left that stupid group!" she hissed, "I can't stand any of them! They tried bringing that stupid… AHH!"

"Calm yourself!" He demanded.

"I'm sorry!" she said, "They just pissed me off and I didn't want to say any foul words in front of the girl."

"The girls name is Rin!" he told her.

"Well sorry I didn't know!" she rolled her eyes and turned away from him.

Kagome continued walking through the forest, keeping her senses high and alert and stopped when she felt someone following her. She turned around and a few feet away saw Rin peeking at her from behind a tree. Sesshomaru followed soon after, obviously irritated.

"What's wrong Rin?" Kagome asked her sweetly.

"Me don't want you to go." She said.

"Well, I can't stay little one." She said kneeling down by her.

"Please!" she ran forward and hugged Kagome, "Me wants you to stay with us!"

"I…" Kagome sighed as she looked up to Sesshomaru, not wanting to say no to the child.

"No." Sesshomaru said bluntly.

"But Lord Sesshomaru!" she pleaded.

"Rin!" Kagome said before Sesshomaru could, "Sweetie, Sesshomaru and I aren't to fond of each other. I am sure I will see you again, but for now I must be on my own."

"You have to promise that me will see you again." Rin said looking to the floor.

"I don't promise." Kagome said making Rin feel upset, "I swear."

Rin looked back up at her and smiled widely at her. She gave Kagome one last hug and went off with Sesshomaru. Kagome waved to her as they left her sight.

"Well now where to go…" Kagome asked herself turning to her right and heading west.

Sesshomaru and Rin met up with Jaken and Ah Un. Out of nowhere a scent flew past his nose. A familiar scent. It was Naraku! Sesshomaru stopped walking and looked down to Rin. Naraku was near and in the direction of the girl who had just saved the child he thought of as a daughter.

"Rin." He said.

"Yes Lord Sesshomaru?" She replied happily.

"You and Jaken get on Ah Un and get back to the castle as fast as you can." He demanded as he turned back into the direction of Kagome.

"Yes milord." Jaken and Rin both said doing as they were told. Sesshomaru dashed of into the direction in which they had come. He couldn't let Kagome get hurt and no longer be able to fulfill her promise, no swear, she had made to Rin.

Still walking through the forest Kagome didn't let her guard down. She stopped in her tracks as she sensed a very large piece of the jewel shard near by and it was in the direction that Sesshomaru and Rin had gone.

"Oh no…" she said to herself.

She turned back and ran toward the area in hopes of getting there quick. She did not want Rin hurt and she knew that it was Naraku.

Inuyasha and the group were eating around a small fire when Kikyou stood up and looked out into the forest. Everyone looked up at her confused as she narrowed her eyes and glared at the area.

"Naraku is out there!" Kikyou hissed.

"Naraku! Where!" Inuyasha and the rest jumped up. Kikyou pointed into the direction as Sango handed her a quiver of arrows and her bow.

"Lets go!" Inuyasha yelled as they all ran into the direction in which Kikyou pointed.

A chuckle could be heard through out the large field that covered an area in the middle of the forest. In the middle stood Naraku, Kagura, Kanna, and Kohaku.

"They are on their way." Naraku said.

"How many?" Kagura asked him curiously.

"All of them." He said chuckling once more.

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