Mysti-Reious: Hey…it's me. Guess I didn't fall off the face of the earth after all! (Crowd in the back of my head goes 'DANG IT!') Yeah I've been super busy with stuff, so I haven't put up a chapter in FOREVER! (Has it really been 8 MONTHS?) Plus, I only have, like, 4 chapters left… ^^; So I'll try to put it ALL up (For reals this time) because SOME PEOPLE are NAGGING ME into finishing the story. (*COUGH* Darkness Revolution -_- ) (Aw, you know I love you, DR! x3)

So here we go! I DON'T OWN INUYASHA! R&R!

Chapter 9:

Don't Trust Me

Kagome walked to the edge of the forest, "Why hasn't Kasumi returned?" She turned around, "Inuyasha, what if she's lost?"

"Then I guess we have to go after her." The half-demon pulled her onto his back and called to the others, "C'mon! Search party to find Kasumi!" They all dashed into the forest.

After a few minutes of calling out endlessly, they finally found her in the middle of the forest, sitting in a tree.

"KASUMI!" They yelled together.

The sorceress was so startled; she almost fell out of the tree. She gripped the branch before she could fall, and then jumped down. She grinned at them all, "I'm so glad you found me! I got lost!" She laughed carelessly, then reached down to take off her bracelet. She transformed the bracelet into her wand, and took a few steps back.

"You know," she tilted her head, "I learned something from this experience, though."
"Huh?" Inuyasha blinked.

"Actually, I learned it from you, Inuyasha."
"Me? What'd I do?"

"I learned not to trust any one." She chuckled.

"What're you goin' on about?"

She pointed the wand at him, "Don't trust me1" She charged at them and swung at their heads. They all ducked and watched the blade fly over their heads, barely missing them.

"Kasumi, what're you doing?" Miroku yelled.

"How does it feel to be betrayed?" She turned to the hanyou, "Why did you betray me, Inuyasha?"

He froze, she sounded…like Kikyo! Kasumi saw him off guard and thought, The Prince was right, saying 'Why did you betray me, Inuyasha?' caught him by surprise! Now's my chance to attack!

She pointed her wand straight at him, "Die, Inuyasha!"

Inuyasha had a flashback to when Kikyo, really Naraku, tried to shoot him with an arrow and yelled the same thing, "Die, Inuyasha!" He couldn't fight herm it was like fighting Kikyo!

Kasumi ran at him, wand high over her head. Inuyasha couldn't move or use Tetsaiga; he was still to overcome with shock. Kasumi swung from right to left in one hard swing. Seconds away from making hanyou ham, Kagome yelled, "SIT BOY!" and forced Inuyasha to dodge by lying flat on the ground.

He scrambled to his feet and yelled, "Who's side are you on?"

"Yours! Why are you just standing there, you moron! She's gone insane… Quick! Dodge!"

Inuyasha whirled around to see Kasumi preparing to strike again, this time straight down so Inuyasha couldn't dodge by sitting. Kagome charged at him and pushed him out of the way. Everything seemed to go in slow motion. As he flew in the other direction, Inuyasha turned and saw Kagome being stabbed in the back with the blade, her eyes growing wide as she felt the pain. As soon as the blade cut skin, everything returned to normal speed and Inuyasha fell down. He whirled around to look at Kagome as she fell dramatically to her knees and dropped onto her stomach without moving.

"K-Kagome?" Inuyasha choked. When she didn't move, he glared up at Kasumi, How…dare you hurt Kagome! It's the end of the line for you. He scooped up Kagome and ran back to the others, "Watch her, and I'll take care of the Wicked Water Witch of the West!" He growled and drew Tetsaiga, then charged at Kasumi.

Mysti-Reious: Huh…looks short… anyways sorry for not uploading in a while, I've been busy… to tell you the truth I finished this chapter months ago, but never uploaded it…eheheh DON'T KILL MEEEE! So I don't own Inuyasha, R&R!