Well guys. This next chapter is going to be one with only Kouga and the rest of the gang I think. Theirs thoughts and feelings are important to, don't you think?

Disclaimer: I don't own InuYasha. If I did however, I wouldn't have to go to school. InuYasha characters belongs to Rumiko Takahashi.

"Have ya found her yet?" Kouga was furious with worry and fear. He was constantly on the move, making it hard for his companions to keep up with him.

"No, and neither InuYasha! Kouga, please slow down!" the woman, Sango, yelled at him from the cat-demon's back. "We won't be able to come up with a plan if we can't even catch our breath!"

The wolf youkai slowed down a bit, but kept up his steady walk. Kagome hadn't been there when he woke up to the morning light. None of the other humans had seen her either. The worst thing seemed to be that the dog-turd also was gone.

What if our woman has gone with the half-breed?, a cool voice asked in the back of Kouga's mind.

The wolf shuddered at his inner youkai's drawled suggestion. His inner beast was not one of those that appreciated a good joke once in a while, but more of the Lord Sesshomaru-kind; cold, menacing and most of all cruel. No one except Kouga's brethren knew of this of course. That was, Kouga mused silently, because he could control the beast rather good after 200 years of living with it. Only on rare occasions (near death, near Kagome that special time in month) he could lose control and his beast take over. Thankfully, that had yet to happen to Kagome.

'Then she would have told us before she left,' he answered carefully.

Our woman never relied upon us before; why would she do so now?

Kouga frowned. That was a fairly good question. Before, when Kagome had saved him from the Birds of Paradise (dog-breath was only in the way!) she had left right away. And without telling Kouga, as a matter of fact. He didn't complain however; if she had been with him when he had that injury, he didn't know what would have happened.

"Kouga!"

He started and swept his gaze to lie upon his brethren Hakkaku and Ginta, who were panting heavily with lack of oxygen and lying on the ground.

"Found anything?" he asked, while casually crossing his arms over his chest in a show of calm. Which he wasn't by the way his jaw was working.

"Actually, yes," Ginta panted. The younger wolf straightened and rummaged through his chestplate. With a tiny smile of success he drew out a piece of green clothing.

"That's all? If ya' hadn't noticed it earlier, there's quite many human villagers that goes around dressed in that crap," the wolf prince snorted.

Ginta whimpered. "But Kouga, just smell at it. It bears Kagome neechan's scent."

Kouga whirled around and nocked his subject over as he snatched the cloth from him. He pressed it to his nose and took a deep sniff, feeling the smell of strawberries and forest dance in his muzzle. Kagome's scent. He held his breath for as long as he could, letting the amazing scent whirl inside him, before he had to let it out. Kagome's scent.

Taking another, more careful sniff, he tried to make out other scents other than the intoxicating aroma; it was damp and cold from the morning dew, some small animal had skidded across it and there was a weak scent of… some sort of herb on it.

"What can you sense?" Hakkaku asked while lying sprawled out on the ground, his chest rising and sinking rapidly.

Furrowing his eyebrows Kouga glared at his brethren. "What I sense is that you two lazy bags of fur found this valuable thing now, when Kagome supposedly got," another sniff," drugged and abducted sometime tonight. While you had the watch!"

Ginta narrowed his eyes, while he wrung his hands. "Kouga, you actually said we could take the night off. Ya' know, because neechan was with you and all… you wanted quality time with her?"

The wolf prince growled at them, letting his youkai take over for a mere second before bracing himself. He turned his back to his brethren, closed his eyes and took a third, final sniff. 'Had dog-breath been with her?'

The usual scent, strawberries and forest, waltzed by his nose before the next, the herbal drug, made him faintly groggy. Then he felt something that made his skin crawl with invisible cockroaches; the heavy scent of leather with some sort of bittersweet aroma around it.

"Found anything?"

He snapped his eyes open and peered down at the kitsune child's huge, watery eyes. The poor boy had been frantic at his 'mama' not being there, and had blamed her disappearance on the half-breed. He had told Kouga that when Kagome disappeared like this it mostly was because dog-turd had insulted her badly, one way or another.

"Yeah," he murmured to the kid. "I know what happened to her at least."

Shippo's eyes went wide with excitement, starting to bounce up and down while tugging on Kouga's arm. "So? Tell me, tell me, tell me!"

Lifting an eyebrow at the boy, the wolf prince ruffled the kitsune's hair.

"A'right, kiddo, settle down. Your making me look like an monkey soon if ya don't stop tugging." The kid immediately stopped and scrutinized the arm carefully, making Kouga laugh. "They doesn't grow larger from that short time. Now, what I could smell – "

"Kouga!"

He glanced over his shoulder at the approaching monk and demon slayer, before sighing dramatically. "Mind if I tell what I found now?"

"Hey!" his brethren said in chorus, but quieting when their boss glared nastily at them.

"Please, Kouga," the monk said with a strained smile," what is that that you have found?"

Showing them the piece of Kagome's clothing he sniffed. "This is Kagome's. Sometime last night someone drugged her with some kind of herb before dragging her off. Animals have crossed over it and the dew has made it lose some scent, but I can still sense the bastard that took her. " He paused.

"So?" Sango hissed impatiently. "What did you sense?"

He cocked an eyebrow at her, before throwing the clothing to her. She held it a few seconds before letting it slide down to the ground, leaving the demon slayer with wide eyes in a suddenly pale face.

This woman reminds us of a snowman, his beast mused silently.

"You don't mean..?"

"Yeah." Kouga cracked his knuckles. "I guess it's time to track down some bastard-worms for actually daring to touch my Kagome."

Sorry guys that I haven't uploaded anything until now. I have been busy with a group-work that is supposed to be sent to my teacher today. Well, um, sad story incoming. My group dissolved earlier this autumn since the guy I was with changed class, so I was forced into another. At the moment, I had missed about 1/3 - 2/4 of what the other two had done, so I wasn't really into the "buying" of a house or taking a "loan" so, yeah. But now, they want to kick me out of the group since I "doesn't drag my straw to the stack". Meaning they don't think I'm working hard enough. They want me to stay at school and work with this thing until 21.00. Which means I'm home at ten, and royally mad and sad. I can understand that we have to work with it some hour after school, but what I don't understand is why we need to write a report in 20 pages, and why we haven't sat together earlier?
So... now my friday is ruined...