OMG! SOOOOO Sorry I haven't updated!! I totally forgot. So, I FINALLY got the chance to go to the library at my school and I learned something. They actually have FICTIONAL books! GO FIGURE! So I checked out FOUR books (three of which I had no idea I'd already read). I checked out 'Blue Bloods' and fell in love with it. I'm looking for the sequel now :D. I also checked out some Joan Lowery Nixon, only to find out that I've read ever. One. Of. Her books. ALL 60 OF THEM. I was like 'damn…'. So now I'm plowing my way through the vampire books there. But I just got the ninth Clique book, Bratfest at Tiffany's and read that in a grand total of three and a half hours…eagrly awaiting the five Summer Series…

Anyways, on with the story! (I know most of you are confused, but bare with me for a little while longer)

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Last Time…

I looked up into her dark red eyes. The eyes of a demon with bloodlust. I have to stop her from becoming this. I have to stop her from becoming the demon that stands before me, I thought.

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Chapter 27: Hitana: The Other Daughter

"Why are you doing this?" InuYasha moaned, attempting to adjust beneath the tight-woven ropes. "What did I ever do to you?"

She chuckled easily, crossing her arms over her chest. After a moments pause, the teen walked all the way around the pole that InuYasha was tied to and then crouched in front of him.

"You're perrrrrrrrrfect daaaauuuughter, Hikari," she drawled.

"What about her?" InuYasha snapped, wishing she would get to the point.

"I wanna kill her," she replied, her voice clipped and perky. "Always absorbing the attention. You know, it's just so…obnoxious to be ignored."

"I have no idea what the hell you're talking about, and I don't give a rats ass just let me GO!" He said, struggling to get free once again.

"You see," she stood up and put her hands on her hips with a sigh. "That's the attitude that got you into this mess."

"What?"

"And you're not getting out until you and pretty little Kagome are dead!" she hissed, ending with a laugh.

"You're completely insane!" snarled a vaguely familiar voice just before a body crashed through the ceiling.

When the dust cleared, InuYasha could see a silhouette. It stood up from its knees, but stayed hunched over.

"Kagome!" he yelled before being thrown into a mass coughing fit. The ropes were not helping his chest condition. He pulled at his hands, trying to reach his chest, or the rope that had slid around his throat.

"InuYasha!" Sango, Miroku, and Shippo called at the same time.

"Oh goodie," the girl said monotonically. "The gangs all here." She paused and looked around. "Wait. Where is it?"

"Where's what?" Miroku asked, sutras in hand.

"The littlest half demon."

Shippo raced over and untied InuYasha, helping his stand as much as he could.

Everyone's attention was drawn to Kagome, who was growling viciously.

"Uh, uh, uh, mommy. You wouldn't want to kill me," she said smugly, holding her hands out in front of her.

Kagome didn't flinch.

"What?" most of them gasped. What had she just said? Had she just called Kagome…mommy?

"That can't be…Hikari?" Sango said. She gripped her hiraikotsu for attack, he high ponytail swinging in the small breezes that blew through the remains of the castle.

The girl scowled. "Do not call me that! I can assure you that I'm not Hikari."

"Then who are you?" InuYasha growled before coughing a few more times.

"My name is Hitana, the 'other' daughter," she replied with air quotes.

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Thought I'd leave a cliffy. I will most likely update on Valentine's Day becase 1. It's a half day and 2. It's my SIXTEENTH BIRTHDAY!!! So I want reviews for that chapter for my birthday :D

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