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Chapter 36

Kagome's P.O.V.

I watched in horror and shock as Hikara and Mitsuki continued to attack their siblings.

"Naraku, what the hell did you do to them?!" I yelled at him while getting another arrow ready.

He just smirked at me. "My dear, I just made sure that they're on my side now. They obey anything I command them to do." He looked over at them and said, "Mitsuki, Hikara, stop and come here."

What Naraku said was true. They suddenly stopped their attacks on us and jumped back to Naraku. Inuyasha's and Natsume's eyes widened. Everyone else was just as shocked as I was. Naraku took Hikara's chin in his hand and her face made no sign of the disgust she usually would've portrayed. "They're simply my puppets now," he said. "They obey only me." He let Hikara's chin go and commanded, "Now, both of you, get Kagome and if anyone gets in your way, kill them."

I notched my arrow in anticipation and Inuyasha immediately got in front of me. "No way are you getting her too!"

Hikara and Mitsuki charged. Inuyasha held out his sword for defence, but he didn't attack them. Natsume ran in front of Hikara and tried to talk to her. "Hikara, come on! I know you're in there!"

Hikara just aimed a punch at her stomach. Natsume dodged it and grabbed her fist. "Snap out of it! I don't want to fight you!" With her other hand, Natsume slapped Hikara in the face.

For a minute Hikara's eyes flashed back to normal, but only for a second. Just as quick as they recovered, they were back into a blank stare. Hikara kicked Natsume hard and ran over to rejoin Mitsuki.

Inuyasha got closer to me and said, "Stay close." Then he growled at the two girls in front of us. "Stop it you two. You don't want to do this."

But Mitsuki grabbed her sword and held it up to attack him.

"I won't fight you!" Inuyasha insisted, his eyes silently pleading his sister to listen to him.

As her sword got to the top and was about to fall onto him, she stopped. Her eyes started to water, and her arms shook with hesitation. She was battling with herself and was struggling to take back control over her own body. After all, how could she attack the brother she had just reunited with?

I took this chance to shout out to her. "Mitsuki, you can fight his control!" While both Inuyasha and I concentrated on Mitsuki, neither of us noticed that Hikara had sneaked behind me.

In a split second, she tightly grabbed my waist and jumped back towards Naraku, her mission complete. Setting me down next to him, I immediately started to run the moment she let go. But Naraku was faster. Grabbing my waist, he pulled me into his chest.

I squirmed and pushed away him. "Let me go!"

He just chuckled and said, "Why ever would I do that, my dear?"

Seeing that I had already been captured, Mitsuki jumped back from her face-off with her brother and joined us. Said brother growled threateningly while the rest of the group called my name in desperation.

"Let her go you bastard!" Inuyasha ran over to us with his sword, but another barrier had formed, pushing him back.

Naraku laughed. "Hikara, Mitsuki, let's go. I've got what I want now. There's no need to stay any longer." With all four bodies, including me, together in that circular barrier, we began to float away from them. Kagura followed us on her feather.

"Inuyasha!" I cried as I reached out an arm towards him.

I heard him call out my name, but it was already too late. Naraku already had me in his grasp and was already making his escape.

Crap.

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InuKag4evertogether (author) + WanderingDreamer4Ever (editor)