Finally, the next chapter! Good news is it didn't take as long.

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Bored. I was so bored! That was all that would come to my mind as Kagura lay asleep a few trees away. Naraku had sent me with her with for a certain jewel shard, leaving Kohaku behind. Too bad, he was more interesting to talk to, and both of us had the whole memory loss thing in common. Because of that we seemed to have a mutual understanding of each other's circumstances, so we got along. Kagura just ignored me and bossed me around. It was a lot easier to get bored when Naraku put me with her.

One thing about not remembering anything is that you have no memories to look back on and keep you occupied. My mind was a hollowed out pumpkin. Someone had scooped out the gross smelly pumpkin guts and thrown them away somewhere.

Not wanting to brood any longer over my missing pumpkin guts for a brain I stood up quietly—careful not to wake Kagura—and tiptoed off farther into the woods. I wasn't too worried about getting lost. Kagura had a recently collected jewel shard, so all I had to do was sense the jewel shard to find my way back to her.

The trees rose up high above, hiding the sun and creating long shadows over the forest floors. A cool breeze blew and rustled the leaves. I took a deep contented breath of the sweet air surrounding me.

"Kameko?"

I spun around at the sound of my name, ready to apologize to Kagura for wandering off.

But it wasn't her. It was a man, dressed in red with long silver hair and two of the cutest doggy ears stick out of it. His golden eyes stared at me in disbelief.

"Kameko, where have you been?" he asked as he came up to me, as if wanting to make sure he wasn't hallucinating.

Who was this guy? He talked like he knew me. I knew only Naraku and his comrades.

Though something did seem almost familiar about him. Especially his face.

"Kameko! Where have you gone? Naraku is expecting us back with the jewel shard," shouted Kagura's voice from deeper in the woods.

The man flinched at the sound of Naraku's name. He seized my wrist and raced in the opposite direction of Kagura's voice. What was he doing? Hadn't he heard her just shout for me? Last time I checked you didn't run away from some one who called for you. Kagura wasn't going to be happy if I made her wait.

I dug my feet into the dirt and forced the man dragging me to a halt. He stared at me as if I was crazy.

"What are you doing? We gotta get you away from that Naraku and his goons," he insisted as he tugged at my arm.

I stubbornly stood my ground, until finally he gave an exasperated growl and picked me up bridal style. My cheeks turned crimson at the embarrassing position I had been put in. I looked up at the face of the mysterious man as he focused intently on running away from the direction of Kagura's voice. Was he trying to kidnap me?

When he finally came to a stop, and I began pounding my fists at his chest, ordering him to let me down. To my surprise he did, though his face depicted that he was utterly confused. Shouldn't that have been me?

"So you found her then, that is one good nose you have."

More voices? I surveyed my new surroundings and found myself at the edge of the woods. Three new strangers stood before me, a man in a robe holding a staff, a woman in a kimono with a giant boomerang on her back(weird) and some puny kid with a foxtail on the woman's shoulder. A small cat demon mewed beside them.

"Yeah, but Kameko's acting all weird," said my kidnapper.

"I'm acting weird? Whose the one that just kidnapped me in the middle of the woods?!" I shouted in frustration.

"See?" he told them. They too assumed the baffled faces.

This was getting really annoying. I was just about to ask who the heck these people were when the wind started to whip around us. I blew the hair out of my face to see Kagura come down from the sky on her large feather. She stopped a couple feet from the ground, floating on the wind. Spotting my kidnapper and his friends she frowned, then turned to me.

"Are you coming? Naraku is waiting," she pointed out sternly.

I nodded and made my way towards her. The kidnapper grabbed my shoulder in protest.

"Kame—"

I whisked out my sword and swung it at him. The blade missing by inches as he jumped out of the way. His eyes looked hurt, asking why I would do this. I suddenly felt bad, though not sure why considering he was the one who had kidnapped me.

Deciding to give him one chance I held out my sword straight before me with my right arm. Turned partly sideways so that I faced him I pointed my sword at him and glared suspiciously, not allowing him to come any closer.

"What am I to you?" I asked.

The man gave me a questioning look.

"What in the world are you talking about Kameko? It's like you don't even know who I am."

Kagura started on again about leaving, but I held my left hand up behind me to silence her. I had to figure this out. She frowned but consented, crossing her arms and scowling at the strangers.

"That's just it. I don't know who you are. I'm pretty sure I've never seen you before in my life, yet you come along and kidnap me and act like we should know each other," I explained as if it was obvious, hoping that he would finally get how he was the one acting weird, not me.

"But—"

"Answer me!" I cut him off and swung my sword threateningly before letting it fall to my side.

The man went silent for a few seconds.

"Isn't it obvious Kameko? You're his lover!" clarified the monk in the robe as he hit the man playfully on the back, whose face immediately turned beet red. He bonked the monk on the head.

"Idiot! She is not! She's nothing more than a jewel tracker to me!" he declared defiantly, his head steaming.
Something in me snapped. That shouldn't have affected me, I didn't even know this person. But it still hurt.

"Is that so?" I confirmed blankly.

He took his attention off beating up the monk and looked up at me in horror, realizing his mistake. Walking towards me he stammered to take back his words. I held my sword back up before me.

"Kameko..."

"You are no different than Naraku," I spat. "At least for him it's to repay my debt."

Not giving him another opportunity to speak I jumped onto Kagura's feather and she happily flew off, leaving my kidnapper and his friends in the dust.

"You were right to leave him, disobeying Naraku would not have been in your favor," pointed out Kagura.

I glowered at her but said nothing. Once I got Naraku those dumb jewel shards I would get far away from this place and reclaim my old life, whatever it might have been.

Still, the image of that man's face wouldn't leave my mind.

This chapter was a fun one, what will Inuyasha do now?

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