Note: Kouga and Sesshomaru are in the story, but are not a couple. I want to get that settled. The only couple here is Naraku X Inuyasha. If this couple bothers you, don't read.

Although, there might be slight Sesshomaru X Inuyasha and Kouga X Inuyasha that is completely one sided. However, it's as visible as it is in the anime. Which means that it's barely there.

Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha.

Running through the forest as fast as his human ability could allow him to, Miroku glanced back at miko who was not too far behind him. "Are you sure that it's this way Kagome?"

"Positive." Kagome said, confident in her sensing skills, as she too ran as fast as she could, with the fox demon tailing behind, "I'm positive that there are multiple jewels shards up ahead. Could it be Naraku?"

Nodding his head in agreement, Miroku averted his eyes to what was in front of him, "Definitely, besides I'm starting to sense his demonic aura up ahead as well."

"But I wonder what he's doing there anyway. Especially so close to Kaede's village." Sango asked, running alongside the monk. "Usually he doesn't show up unless a new jewel shard appears or when he has something in store of us. Although during neither one of those times, did he ever show up this close to us."

"You're right." Miroku agreed, "Whatever his reason is, for him to show up so close to us, must not be good. He probably has something in store for us."

"Look!" Kagome exclaimed, drawing the attention of the monk and the demon slayer to the dark gray cloud of smoke that erupted from their destination up ahead, rising high into the sky. "We must getting closer."

As soon as she said that, multitudes of villagers from their destination all ran towards the group, passing them in a hurry, as they ran for their life. "No, I think we are here." Miroku said, approaching the burning village as even more villagers ran past them, and some even collapsing right in front of him.

As Miroku crouched down to help the people who had fallen, Sango immediately diverted his attention to the figure floating in the sky, who was not too far from them, watching his demons do his dirty work of destroying and terrorizing the village. "Naraku!"

Naraku, hearing his name called, turned around and face the group of his enemies that he had dealt with many times in the past, and smirked.

"Dammit…" Inuyasha cursed, as he struggled with the chains, 'What is with these chains? Why the hell won't they come off already?'

He's tried everything to get them off. He's tried raking at them with his claws, picking at them, and even tried using his two signatures moves; Iron reaver soul stealer and blades of blood on them, but they still wouldn't budge. In fact, there wasn't even a scratch on them that showed that he even tried to destroy them in the first place. The chains remained as untouched as it was before when he first saw them.

'What's in these damn things?' Inuyasha growled, still continuing to attempt to break free from them.

"Those chains are made with the bones and weapons of many great demons that Master Naraku has collected in the past." An emotionless voice said, drawing the dog demon's attention to its owner. "There is nothing you can do to break them for those chains are unbreakable. It is the way that they are designed."

"Well then, Naraku must be pretty damn proud of himself." Inuyasha in annoyance, glaring at the little pale girl that stood before him. "Making something like this, you know you could've told me earlier!"

When all he met was silence from the pale incarnation, Inuyasha asked, "What are you here for anyway? I'm feeling a lot better than I did before, so there's no need for you to keep checking up on me."

"I was told to show you something." Kanna said, putting forth her mirror, in front of the dog demon. "Come and take a look."

Growling annoyance, Inuyasha said, "Why the hell should I? Since its Naraku it's most likely no good. It's probably even part of his big scheme too!"

"Are you sure that you won't look?" Kanna asked, in her emotionless voice, still holding out the mirror in front of him. "Master Naraku wanted me to show you this for a reason."

Peering at the pale incarnation suspiciously, Inuyasha huffed and looked away, "I'm positive. And since he wants me too, I definitely won't look. Not even if you beg me."

Kanna just stared at the dog demon as the mirror suddenly to come alive its own. Glowing as it reflected a certain scene with certain people in it, which instantly caught Inuyasha's attention.

"N-No way…" Inuyasha gasped looking at the mirror incredulously, "G-Guys?"

There reflected in the mirror, was his old group of friends and teammates in a destroyed burning village, glaring at the mirror with their weapons raised at it. "What's going on?" Inuyasha asked.

Kanna watched as the dog demon slowly began extending his fingers to touch the mirror, almost as if he wanted to be sure if what he was seeing was real. However, as soon as his fingers touched the mirror, large strange water ripple like circles appeared from it. Coming out of the mirror and coming onto him. Surrounding him.

As this happened, at the same time the room seemed to faded away and turned into a strange dark blue and purple place, before changing into the place that reflected in the mirror. 'What the…'

Now out of the trance like state he was in, Inuyasha looked around and immediately noticed that he wasn't in the accursed room anymore, neither was he bound by it. No, but instead was in the place that he saw in the mirror.

'No way…' Inuyasha thought, as he looked around the burning destroyed village, 'How is this even possible…?'

However, as he took in his new surroundings, he spotted something out in the distance that was not too far from him, that quickly made him speechless. 'G-Guys…'

There, not too far from him, was his old group of friends glaring at the figure in a pink-purple barrier, floating. 'What's going on here?' Inuyasha thought, as he beheld the scene right before him.

"You've gone too far this time Naraku!" Shouted Miroku, staring at the floating spider demon, with rage. "Attacking and destroying a village of poor innocent people for no reason! We will stop you!" The demon slayer, miko, and fox demon besides nodded in agreement, ready to fight at the given signal.

"Oh but I do have a reason." Naraku said, looking down at the pitiful group before him. "It was to simply bring you guys out. And as expected, you foolishly fell for it." He finished with a sinister smile.

"N-No…" Inuyasha said, as he shook his head at the scene before him, fearing the worst. "He wouldn't…He couldn't possibly be thinking…No…"

As plainly obvious as anyone could see, the human group stood no match against the spider demon. Neither were they even close, for the spider demon was too strong for them. And if they fought, there was no way that human group would even survive.

'No, guys run away!" Inuyasha yelled, hoping that his group would hear him and listen, "You're no match from him. Run away!"

But alas, it seemed that his words had no effect on the situation. No matter what he did or how much he yelled, he couldn't get his group's attention. It was almost like they couldn't hear them.

"Why can't they hear me? Don't they hear me calling them?" Inuyasha said, desperate to save his group, "I-I've gotta do something. I've have to save them or else they'll get killed." He finished about to run towards his group when a small pale hand grabbed the red sleeve of his robe; immediately, stopping him.

"H-Huh?" Inuyasha said, as he felt something hold him back, quickly looking down at the pale incarnation responsible. "What the hell, brat? Let me go. There's nothing that you can do that'll stop me!"

Shaking her head, Kanna remove her hand from his robe, and held it up in front of him.

"W-What…" Inuyasha said, staring at the pale girl's hand, noticing how transparent it was. "Y-Your hand, it's…I…"

He could see through it! And now that he realized it, although the pale incarnation looked the same, he could see right through her. Instinctively, he looked at his own hand and examined himself, noticing that it was also the same way. He was transparent as well.

"As mere reflections of the mirrors, we are transparent." Kanna spoke in emotionless voice, "We can be neither seen nor heard by those on the outside. While we can see and hear them. As transparents, whatever we do or touch, will not affect the outsiders or outside event. For we are mere observers who can only watch."

At this, Inuyasha shook his head in disbelief. Not wanting to believe what he just heard. He was going to watch his friends get killed and was nothing he could do about it. "No, No! There must be something we can do. There just has to be!" He said desperately, as he beheld the scene before him.

"There was a reason why Master Naraku wanted to show this to you." Kanna coldly said, as she observed the scene before her. "So watch for it's not over yet."

"Screw Naraku! How in the hell can I just heartless watch my friends get slaughtered by him?!" Inuyasha demanded, glaring at the pale incarnation. "Damn bastard probably thinks of this as a sick joke of his. Too bad for him, because I'm gonna find some way to beat him and save my friends!" He finished, running off to the battle scene, before the pale incarnation could stop him again.

"I've had it with your damn games Naraku!" Inuyasha shouted, charging towards the floating spider demon, as he dug his claws into his skin. "BLADES OF BLOOD!" He cried out, releasing his attack upwards, in the direction of the floating spider demon.

Yet to his surprise his attack just went through the Naraku, not even deflecting or bouncing off the spider demon's barrier. In fact, Naraku himself seemed undisturbed by his attack as well.

"Huh?" Inuyasha said, noticing this, just growled in annoyance before trying again. "BLADES OF BLOOD!" Nonetheless, his attack just met with the same results.

'What the hell is going on? Why won't it-' Inuyasha thought, as he quickly recalled the words of the pale incarnation why his attack wasn't working.

'As transparents, whatever we do or touch, will not affect the outsiders or outside event. For we are mere observers who can only watch.'

'So that's it, huh?' Inuyasha thought, glancing back at the pale incarnation as she just quietly observed him. 'There really is nothing that can do, but…' He turned his attention to his group, 'I still gotta try, for them.'

Inuyasha ran towards his group and stood in front of them, acting like a shield in place for them, "Come on at me Naraku! I'll die trying before I let you kill my friends!"

However as Kanna said, he was only just observer in the battle before him.

"What do you mean by that, Naraku?" Miroku demanded, as a wave of uneasiness ran through him. "Why did you want to bring us out?"

"If you're planning to kill us, you better think again!" Kagome said, aiming her sacred arrow at the floating spider demon. "We'll kill you, before you kill us!"

"That's right!" Sango said in agreement. "Although it may not look like it, we're stronger then we look!"

'Guys…' Inuyasha thought, glancing back at his group, before turning his attention back to the spider demon.

"Don't make me laugh." Naraku chuckled, looking down at the group before him, "The only person, in your group, who I saw as a real threat was Inuyasha. The rest of you just followed behind after he's done all the work." And as he expected, the group tensed at the mention of the dog demon.

"Speaking of which, where is Inuyasha anyway?" Naraku asked, even though he already knew the answer. "He doesn't seem to be among anyone of you right now, is he?"

"Where he is right now is none of your business Naraku!" Sango said, glaring at the spider demon with even more hate in her eyes for mentioning the dog demon. "We don't need him to beat you, we can manage just fine without him." The rest nodded heads in agreement, at this.

"Is that so?" Naraku asked, almost intrigued, "Then I guess you won't mind what I'm about to say. After all, it is the reason why I brought you bunch out." The group prepared themselves.

"You see, I met with Inuyasha a few days." Naraku said, smirking as he recalled his meeting with the dog demon. "He was badly wounded from head to toe, to the point he could hardly move by himself. He had to have assistance from his sword. And he was so absorbed in trying to get to a place where he could rest, he didn't even notice when I approached him until it was too late. Can you guess what I did to him?" And when the group didn't answer, he smiled a cruel smile that caused a sudden chill in the air.

"I killed him." Naraku coldly said, smirking as he continued, "I slayed him down with my own hands. After all, the best way to get rid of a persistent enemy is to get him when he's down." He said in a taunting voice, causing the group to gasp in shock, while Inuyasha just stared in disbelief.

"Naraku, you damn liar. You didn't kill me!" Inuyasha shouted, fed up with whatever the spider demon was trying to pull, "You just captured and trapped me in your fucking castle against my will! Why don't you tell them the truth, you jackass? I'm standing right here anyway!"

Unfortunately Inuyasha's words went unnoticed by his group, who just shook their heads in disbelief at what they just heard from the spider demon.

"N-No, you're lying! Inuyasha can't be dead!" Kagome cried out, "We don't believe you!"

"Yeah, the Inuyasha we know is a fighter!" Sango argued, "He would never allow someone like you to kill him!"

"If you're trying to look for people to fool, you better look again, Naraku!" Miroku shouted, glaring at the floating spider demon. "There's just no way Inuyasha can be dead!"

In a way, Inuyasha was touched. Even though his group didn't believe him about the whole Kikyo incident, at least they still believed that he was alive. "You see Naraku, we will stop you. No matter what kind of trick you pull!" Inuyasha said, confident in his group. Perhaps after this, they would go looking for him, to save him from the spider demon's captivity. Not that he needed their help though.

However, instead of Naraku to growl in frustration at how his plan of deceiving the group failed, like Inuyasha expected he would, Naraku just sneered at them.

"Oh? You don't think that I'm telling the truth?" Naraku sneered, as he put his hand into his amour pocket pulling out a small light blue bag, "Such a shame, then I guess I'll have to show you this then."

"What is that?" Miroku demanded, thinking that the bag was some new weapon of the spider demon.

"I don't know, you tell me." Naraku taunted, as he dropped the bag near the human group, watching them hesitantly approached it. "By the way does it look familiar?"

After poking at the mysterious bag for a few seconds, Miroku reluctantly picked it up and opened it. "H-Huh? Th-This is…" He gasping staring at the contents that the bag contained. The group slowly gathered around the monk, horrified at what they saw.

"The Beads of Subjugation, is it not?" Naraku said, recalling what he knew about it. "Prayer beads that forces its wearer to be subdued to the user's control by the command of one word. Isn't that what Inuyasha usually wears around his neck?"

'Huh?' Inuyasha thought, checking his neck for the beads, only to find it missing. 'H-How did he…?'

Naraku watched the group take the information in before cruelly adding, "As for how I got it off, it wasn't hard at all. I just simply chopped off Inuyasha's head. That why you see some blood on it."

Kagome let out a blood curdling scream causing the monk to drop the necklace, in shocked.

"Y-You mean you reall…" Miroku unable to finish what he was trying to say. He couldn't he was too horrified to. "Y-You reall…"

Screaming, Sango threw her Hiraikotsu at the floating demon, and quickly dodged it when it came flying back to her, after it bounced of the spider demon's barrier. "Today is the day, you die Naraku! Come on out of there!" As she threw her weapon at the spider demon again. "Come on out and fight me you coward!"

Watching his barrier deflect the demon slayer's weapon, Naraku smirked "Seeing that I have fulfilled what I came here to do, I must take my leave now slayer."

Kagome tried shooting her sacred arrows at the leaving spider demon, but the tears in her eyes blurred her vision causing her arrows to miss the spider demon every time she shot. As soon as he was out the clearing, Kagome fell to her knees and cried. Shippo and the rest soon joined her.

"Oh, Inuyasha!" The time traveling miko cried, her face buried in her knees. "Inuyasha!"

Inuyasha seeing this, couldn't say anything. He was speechless. He didn't want to be the reason why his group cried. He hated seeing them like this, but what could he do? He was a prisoner in Naraku's castle until the spider demon saw no more use for him and kills him. Walking towards the young miko, Inuyasha crouched down, trying to say something but couldn't, for he knew that his words wouldn't reach her or any of his group mates. After all, he was only a mere observer of the mirror.

"Kagome…"Inuyasha began, wanting to tell her that he was right there. That Naraku was lying. "I…I'm right her…"

"If only you weren't so stupid…" Kagome interrupted, not knowing that the dog demon was there. "If only you had taken the responsibility that you were supposed to take, you wouldn't have died! …Sob…Sob… Now what's Kikyo supposed to do?! How is she going to handle the news when I tell her that you're dead…she's been through too much already… Stupid Inuyasha, you're such a jerk! Going ahead and dying like that…You're such an insensitive jerk…You really are a deadbeat…"

"You said it!" Shippo cried out, rubbing his face on the young miko's leg.

"What…?" Inuyasha said, shocked. He couldn't believe what he just heard. "K-Kagome…Shippo I didn't…"

"Of all the most idiotic things that you done, Inuyasha…"Sango begun as she cried, diverting the dog demon's attention to her. "Running away and abandoning the woman that you impregnated and your unborn child, really takes the cake. How could you be so heartless? How could be so selfish? I really do hate men like you. Poor Kikyo how is she going to handle all this?"

"What do mean, 'poor Kikyo'? I'm the one that apparently died over here!" Inuyasha tried to argue his case with the demon slayer, but knew it was pointless since she couldn't hear his words. "How come I'm the bad guy here?"

"Hey Miroku, tell them…"Inuyasha said turning to the monk, hoping that he had some good things to say about the half demon. However, as Inuyasha turned to face the monk, the sight before him, made all words die on his tongue. "M-Miroku…"

The monk was on his knees in a praying position, with his eyes closed saying, "Oh Inuyasha, you were very foolish and irresponsible to the point that you caused your own death. The reason why you died was because you ran away from us, when we were just trying to help you. Although I don't approval of your death, you only had what was coming to you for abandoning Kikyo and your unborn child. My heart goes out to them, and especially Kikyo when all she wanted was for you to come back and help with raising your child. May Buddha have mercy on your soul, Inuyasha. For you will need it."

Stunned, Inuyasha backed away from the monk and his group. He couldn't believe it. After everything that had happened, they still believed that he really impregnated Kikyo and abandoned his own child. Even though he already told them many times that he didn't. And they weren't even crying about him, they were more concerned about Kikyo and his so called child. Didn't he matter to them? Didn't his death even bother them at all?

"G-Guys…" Inuyasha began, tears pooling in his eyes, as he tried to explain himself once more. "I-I didn't do it. How many times do I have to keep telling you that?... I didn't do it!"

Shaking his head, as tears fell down his face, "I-I didn't do anything…I didn't do it…Why don't you believe me? It's Kikyo who's lying, not me… I really didn't do it…" How much longer will he continue to plead his innocence, until they finally believed him? How much longer will this unfairness continue? He was already dead. Who will stand and fight this for him, when there was no one who believed him?

"No… No… No!" Inuyasha cried shaking his head, as more tears proving his innocence fell down. "I didn't do anything. This is not fair. This is not fair!" He fell to his knees, as he continued to sob.

Even though the pale incarnation touched his shoulder and brought them back to his room in the spider demon's castle, Inuyasha still didn't look up. He just couldn't, for he felt like if he did, nobody would care. Nobody would care how much this hurt him, or how many tears he would shed until his innocence was proven. The amount of betrayal and unfairness involved was too much he could bear on his already wounded heart. He felt so heartbroken.

Sobbing even more, Inuyasha tried to wipe his eyes, but as he tried to do that, the feeling of the hard cold chains around the warm skin of his wrist and ankle, reminded him how alone he truly was in this cold, dark and cruel world. A world that he has known for a long time. A sinking feeling settled in his heart. There was no one coming to save him from Naraku's castle. For he now knew that very well.

More tears pooled up in Inuyasha's eyes, as he tried brushed them away. What was the point of even crying anyway, if this was the life meant for from the start. Crying tears won't change anything. Besides, his eyes were starting to feel heavy.

Sniffing, as he tried to clear up his nose, he finally noticed the presence of the person that had trapped in this room in the first place. "N-Naraku…" Inuyasha said, immediately hating how weak he sounded.

As Naraku stared at him with emotionless eyes, Inuyasha wondered how long the spider demon's been in the room with him. "H-How long hav-"

However before Inuyasha could finished, Naraku suddenly approached him and went down on one knee right in front of him. Blinking in surprise, Inuyasha was about to ask the Naraku what the hell he was doing, until he felt the spider demon's cold hand touch his wet cheek.

"I know that you didn't do it Inuyasha." Naraku spoke, gazing at Inuyasha with solemn look on his face, as he wiped away the tears from the dog demon's eyes "I know that you didn't get Kikyo pregnant."

"W-What…" Inuyasha said, his golden eyes widening in shock, as he stared at his enemy in astonishment. "Y-You believe me?

Naraku nodded his head, as he gazed at the dog demon with an sincere expression. "It's just not possible. There's no way you could be able to do that."

Inuyasha felt his heart beating in exhilaration. He couldn't believe it. Even if it was his own enemy, there was somebody who believed him. "R-Really? You think so?"

"Of course I do." Naraku smirked, "You couldn't impregnate anyone even if you tried."

Inuyasha stared at the spider demon in disbelief. Was Naraku making fun of him? "What are you-"

"You couldn't impregnate anyone if you wanted to because" Naraku interrupted, as he continued, "You're a bearer demon."

The next chapter will finally have some NaraInu but don't expect so much from it.

Also I did not bash on any characters. I like the series' characters. I try to write them how I think they would've reacted in the anime towards this situation. If that seems not to be the case, all I can say is hang on.

In other news, I have finally finished the chapter of this story that I was stuck on for a few years now. I mean, I worked on the chapter over the years and now that it's done, I'm working on a new chapter. However, I have taken a small break from this story-fandom to focus on other things, but I hope to be back soon. I also am working hard on my other already published stories. I hope to release a new chapter once it's done and few other chapters of the story are done as well.

Thank you.

Positive reviews are greatly welcomed :-)