Oh my Gosh! I'm so sorry! I've been so wrapped up in all my other stories that I totally neglected this one!
Well, I finally finished another chapter and I shall have the next chapter up real soon to make up for the almost 2 month wait! (It's a long time to me!)
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Naraku
Nozomi growled angrily as she watched the group of humans start to set up camp for the night.
"I thought you said you weren't going to harm them," said Inuyasha, grinning at the thought of killing them.
"I'm not, but I never said I liked them," replied Nozomi, fighting to keep another growl in her throat.
"Then why don't you just kill them?"
Nozomi let out a deadly growl and Inuyasha fell silent. "They'll figure out I'm here really soon," said Nozomi after a few minutes, "we won't stay hidden for long,"
"Keh, I've had worse!" replied Inuyasha.
"And what's bad about this, it was the plan wasn't it?"
"Shut up,"
Nozomi sighed and her eyes wandered over to a group of lone humans. They weren't moving and the pattern that they were sitting was rather unusual. They were sitting in a circle as if to conceal something in the middle. "That's it," she whispered, realising what it could be, "I know what keeps finding me!"
"Can you fill me in?" said Inuyasha, blinking at Nozomi, obviously confused.
"The group of humans by themselves, they're the only ones from my village, and they're sitting in a circle as if to protect something in the middle,"
"That could be it,"
"Exactly, but how do we get to it?"
"Fight?"
"No killing!" ordered Nozomi, glaring at Inuyasha.
"Fine, no killing," said Inuyasha, rolling his eyes. Then, he jumped out of the tree and straight into the middle of the camp, closely followed by Nozomi.
"DEMONS!" yelled one of the humans, springing up to attack them.
"We don't want to hurt you!" yelled Nozomi anxiously.
"Speak for yourself," growled Inuyasha in her ear.
"I'm not,"
"What do you mean?" asked one of the men, "you're demons!"
"And?" said Nozomi, staring at the group.
"And what?"
"What have we done wrong?"
"Nothing, yet, but you're demons, why did you not attack us?" repeated the man, obviously deathly afraid and incredibly confused.
"We don't want to hurt you, not all demons are like Naraku you know!" said Nozomi with a sigh.
"Naraku!" growled Inuyasha, "how do you know about him?"
"Shut it," growled back Nozomi.
"What is it you want?" asked the man, stepping towards them.
"We want you to stop chasing us,"
"Chasing…are you the demon we have been chasing?"
"Yes! And I'm only fourteen!"
"We were told that you were a vicious and deadly demon, that has been attacking and destroying villages for centuries,"
"How can I attack people for centuries when I've only been alive for fourteen years?"
"Good point," said the man.
"Thank you…hey, you weren't here the last time I tried to talk to you guys…half of these people weren't…where'd you come from?" asked Nozomi, studying the group.
"We joined the hunt…the people in the circle told us that they were hunting a vicious and deadly demon, so we joined up…how long ago did you try to talk to them?"
"About…7 months ago, but they wouldn't listen,"
"We joined up about 5 months ago,"
"So you were in the group throwing spears at me!"
"Yes, sorry about that,"
"I guess it's alright," said Nozomi with a shrug.
Inuyasha let out a growl as he looked around and Nozomi sighed.
"Look Inuyasha, this is the right way, if you were even a little considerate you would-"
"Shut up," growled Inuyasha glaring at Nozomi, "don't you smell it?"
"Smell what?"
"Just sniff!" Nozomi rolled her eyes and sniffed. Then, she yelped in terror.
"Naraku," she whimpered.
"You have to tell me how you know him!" said Inuyasha, staring at Nozomi in wonder.
"Later…he's got Kagome!"
"WHAT!"
"Don't you smell it!?" said Nozomi, repeating Inuyasha's words.
"Damn it! That bastard!" yelled Inuyasha in fury.
"Geez, calm down Inuyasha, he's coming here!"
"Fantastic, I can rip his head off then!"
"Don't get too excited,"
Naraku started getting closer and closer and when he was almost visible, he let out an evil laugh.
"Kekeke, you have lost dear Nozomi," he said, coming into the light of the campfire, holding Kagome, "now give up and come quietly, and maybe I'll let your little friends live…for a while anyway,"
"NARAKU!" yelled Inuyasha, pulling out his tetsusaiga, "LET KAGOME GO!"
"Only if dear Nozomi comes with me,"
"What? Kid, is there something you forgot to mention?"
"Not forgot…just purposely left out," replied Nozomi, staring at Naraku with wide, terrified eyes.
"Why you little-"
"Shut up Inuyasha,"
"Well? What will you do dear Nozomi?" asked Naraku, coming forward.
"Let her go," said Nozomi in a trembling voice, "I'll go with you, just let her go,"
"I knew you'd come to your senses sooner or later,"
Naraku dropped Kagome onto the ground, grabbed Nozomi with no resistance and quickly disappeared.
"Kagome!" exclaimed Inuyasha running to the unconscious girl, "are you alright? Answer me!"
"Inu-yasha?" said Kagome, slowly opening her eyes, "where's Nozomi?"
"She went with Naraku,"
"Went with him! What do you mean? What happened?"
"She offered herself to him to let you go,"
"She did! She shouldn't of, this is terrible Inuyasha! Absolutely terrible!"
"Why"
"Because Nozomi is a VERY talented demon,'
"What?"
"Look Inuyasha, she can do things that no other demon or half-demon can do! If Naraku can get a hold of those talents, the whole world will be doomed!"
"I didn't know that,"
"No one does!"
"Then how do you know!?"
"Naraku told me,"
"He told you,"
"He was talking out loud and I was awake, he thought I was unconscious," said Kagome, "he also said something else that I don't think I should mention..."
"Okay…so what do we do?" asked Inuyasha.
"We find Naraku and help Nozomi!"
"What! That kid doesn't need our help!"
"This time she does,"
"Kagome! I am NOT going searching for some bratty little kid!"
"Inuyasha-"
"No! I don't care! She's just an annoying little brat!" yelled Inuyasha.
"SIT!"
Inuyasha cringed as he plummeted to the ground.
"We are going to help her," growled Kagome.
"Fine,"
"I thought you'd be happy, we get to foil one of Naraku's plans!"
"We do!"
"Yep, now let's go!" Kagome jumped onto Inuyasha back and smiled. "Come on! Hurry up!" said Kagome, her smile growing wider.
"Stupid," growled Inuyasha, shaking his head.
"WHAT!" yelled back Kagome angrily.
"Nothing,"
"Good, now let's go!"
Inuyasha growled as he leapt into the sky, chasing after Nozomi.
Ooh! It's a twist! I bet ya didn't see that coming and if you did... well done!