Sorry if this took a while, but school has officially started piling on the homework, and sadly, school comes first. I'll try to post as often as possible, but I can't promise more than one or two a week. On the bright side, this one is a lot longer!! I hope you find it ok, if you find anything like a spelling error or something that needs to be changed than please tell me so that I can fix it immediately. Thank you!

I ran frantically through the woods, trying to put some distance between me and them. I had to get away, if only for a moment. I had to think this through. There had to be a way to fix this. There had to be.

A branch scratched my cheek. I think I felt a little blood. I don't know, it wasn't important. What was important was that I had to fix this. And fast.

I stopped short. In my frantic running I hadn't noticed Miroku appear in front of me. I started withdrawing my sword, but stopped. I closed my eyes and sighed, slipping it back into it's sheath. I knew I couldn't hurt them. They were my friends.

"Miroku it's me! Kameko! Can't you hear me?" I shouted.

Apparently he couldn't, because he showed no sign of it. Instead he held out his right hand before him.

Knowing what was about to come I ran behind the nearest tree and wrapped my arms around it as tightly as I could. My hands were able to firmly grip the opposite wrists.

Then it came.

It didn't start off slowly either. It came head on, pulling at me harder than anything I'd ever felt in the world. I'd never known how powerful his wind tunnel was, never ending up in the path of it. Boy was this my lucky day.

Knowing I couldn't hold on forever I glanced around me. Snow, sticks, and rocks, all were being sucked away into his hand. Looking behind me I saw one decent sized rock that wouldn't particularly hurt somebody, just maybe leave a bit of a bruise. Still, I was sure he would find it in his heart to forgive me for that when this was all over. He was trying to kill after all, he owes me.

I had only had a split second to do this, and if I messed up I would be sucked away into his wind tunnel. What was on the other side of that anyway? No, that doesn't matter! Focus!

Before I could change my mind I grabbed the rock. This caused me to let go of the tree and get pulled towards Miroku. I quickly threw the rock towards him, aiming high above the pull of the wind tunnel. It shot straight forward, but started aiming lower and lower, feeling the pull of the black hole. I was only a few feet away now, this had to work, or it was all over. Lower and lower the rock went...

Right onto Miroku's head. He feel backwards, the wind tunnel now aimed at the sky. I quickly crawled over to him and carefully put the cloth and beads over his right hand. The strong winds immediately ceased and I let out a great sigh of release. Silently apologizing for the blossoming bruise on Miroku's forehead I got the heck out of there before he awoke. I doubt the bruise would make him any happier.

The woods all looked the same as I ran through them. The snow was deep. I had to pick up my feet high to take each step, causing me to use twice as much energy. My lungs were burning, begging for water, but I just ignored it. I had no choice.

"What the-woah-aah!!" I fell face down into the snow. I shivered at the sudden chill that came from being face first in the snow, picking my exhausted body back up. I wiped the snow off my face and clothes and peered behind me to see what I had tripped over.

Shippo.

Well, this wouldn't be hard. Shippo only had illusions to fight with. One bonk on the head and he'd be no threat whatsoever.

I heard a growl come from behind the trees. My blood froze. Out walked Kirara, who positioned herself next too Shippo, fully transformed and growling.

"You've gotta be kidding me. The spell works on animal demons too?" I groaned, a small part of me had been hoping that Kirara would be unaffected and that I would have an ally. I should've known that wouldn't happen, not with the luck I was having lately.

Kirara growled again. Her teeth were sharp and menacing. You know, I'd never noticed how big and sharp they were before.

Shippo hopped onto Kirara's back, and with another growl she came charging towards me. I did the only thing I could think of doing.

RUN!!

My legs quickly tired out and I noticed that this running thing wasn't going to work much longer. Especially since Kirara was so fast and catching up rapidly. The only reason she hadn't caught up yet was because she kept running into things. It looked like she was blindly running, focusing too much on the target that it caused her to not realize it if it got away.

That's it!

Before I could be turned into lunch meat I grabbed one of the passing branches above and swung myself up and over in a smooth motion. I'd meant to land perfectly on the other side of the branch like in the movies, but somehow I just ended up hanging there upside down. Hanging there I saw Kirara sprinted on blindly ahead with Shippo on her back as if I was still running away from them. Maybe the flute hypnotizing had side affects on demons.

I started to get down, but stopped. I'd been running forever from my murderous friends now for hours. I needed to stop and think this through. And how better to do that then upside down?

I thought about how Kazue was forcing them to kill me. I think she had another plan than just fun(though I'm sure that was a huge part of the reason). Maybe because if she let me live, she'd be afraid I would somehow defeat her.

I such an idiot!

All this time she's been chasing me away from her. The only way I could possibly free my friends from this was by defeating her, or at least destroying that flute. I AM SO STUPID!!

I sat up on the branch and jumped down into the snow, finally having somewhat of a plan.

A loud growl erupted from behind me. I turned.

Inuyasha!

He must have been waiting there. For me. Somehow this experience wasn't as nice as it sounded.

Not wanting to fight him I turned and ran. I had to find Kazue and get rid of her flute! It was the only way to free him.

"Aaagh!"

I grabbed my my upper arm, feeling something warm I glanced at it and saw blood. But I didn't stop running, I had to find Kazue!

I heard the sound of running water. I quickened my pace until I came to the source of this sound. A river. I dipped my fingers into it, only to quickly recoil. It was freezing cold. I looked behind me and ducked just as Inuyasha slashed his claws through the air me. Not able to think of another solution I held my breath and jumped in the icy river.

The icy water hit me like cement. My body did a double take at the rapid change of temperature. I couldn't stay in here for long. My body wouldn't be able to take it.

I let the current carry me for thirty of the most agonizing seconds of my life. Finally I poked my head out of the water and scanned the shore. All clear.

I grabbed a large root and pulled myself out of the water, shivering uncontrollably I pulled myself into a ball and lay there in the snow for a second, the wind constantly blowing needles at me.

My mind was blank, begging for sleep. Yes, sleep sounded like such a nice thing right now. All I had to do was close my eyes...

No!

My head bolted up. I jumped up and pulled off my now soaked school sweatshirt. My Tai Quan Do uniform was soaked to the bone, but I just rubbed my arms feverishly and headed off into the woods. I would not lose this fight to some cold weather. I had to free my friends.

"I wonder how that girl is doing. Not much longer now till they get rid of her," Kazue smirked and picked up her flute off the snow beside her. Laying there casually she turned it over and examined it. "Still, why wasn't she affected by my tune? Is this thing broken?" She brought the flute up to her eye and looked through the hole.

There was a flash of white light.

"Aaah!" Kazue dropped the flute, it fell to the ground, cut in half.

She stood up and found me standing before her. I was numb with cold. I couldn't feel any of my scratches or bruises anymore, only the icy wind nipping at my skin. Fighting not to to shiver I held my sword before me in the air.

"You're still alive? Well then, I'll have to fix that."

I felt a weird sensation below me. I glanced down and saw the snow below me flatten. It compacted together and smoothed over, shining like a new silver bracelet. I tried to run off of it, but slipped on the ice and fell flat on my face. Before I could pull myself back up my hands and feet were quickly binded down to the ground with ice. I shivered. My left cheek was being pressed against the ice. It was like fire. The coldest fire I had ever felt. I struggled to moved my hand and fingers, my sword rising slowly and shakily into the air.

"Not so fast," a small wave of water washed over my sword, then froze to solid ice as it hit the ground. "We can't have you retaliating now can we?"

I glared at her with utter hatred.

"Aaww, why the mean face?" Kazue grinned with malice. "I'd be begging for mercy right now if I were you."

With a swift hand motion a giant icicle formed over me. I could just barely see it out of the corner of my eyes, but I could tell just fine how big and sharp it was.

I struggled to free myself from the ice chains binding, pulling at my hands and feet. But it was useless, the ice that bound me was more than three inches thick, I'm wasn't strong enough.

"Prepare to die!" Kazue shouted.

I shut my eyes tight, waiting for the unbearable pain that was to come.

Seconds later a loud shrill scream filled the icy atmosphere.

But it didn't come from me.

I slowly popped open an eyelid. Kazue was frozen in place, a look of shock on her face. She slowly fell forward into the snow. Behind her stood someone with long, flowing silver hair. Straining my eyes I focused on the figure through the swirling snow, hoping it was who I thought it was. Finally the figure's face became clear to me. It was...

Sesshoumaru?!

Before you guys get any ideas, no, Kameko is not going to fall in love with Sesshoumaru and run away with him. I just wanted to clear that up.

But if you want to find out why the heck he's even mentioned in this part of my revised Inuyasha story, then you'll have read the next chapter!!(once it comes out of course)

also, you know what would really make my day? that right, reviews!! tell me how wonderful/terrible this was!(you have to have a reason if you think its bad, no random bashing)