Toying With Innocence

Disclaimer: The same, I dont own Inuyasha or any of the others...and never will. T.T

A/N: Please review, and to my Betas Reiver Vicious and Laura, Thank you.

Chapter 2

~*~Flashback~*~

The Inu-group was heading towards a jewel shard that Kagome had sensed. Kagome was riding on Inuyasha’s back as he jumped from tree to tree. Not too far from them was Kirara carrying Sango, Miroku, and Shippo on her back.

“Inuyasha, the jewel shard is just up a head,” Kagome yelled down to him. She then grabbed an arrow and readied her bow for when they reached the shard.

Inuyasha landed on the ground at the edge of a clearing and Kagome jumped down from his back. They both started to look over to where Sango and the others had landed, but their gaze ended up following the path of Sango’s Hiraikotsu as it flew by. “Watch out, guys!” Sango yelled at the two of them.

Inuyasha wasted no time in turning around to face the demon and unsheathed Tetsusaiga. The demon was standing near the middle of the clearing with an amused look in her eyes after she had dodged Sango’s attack. The demon was at lest 7 feet tall and looked very human except for the half bat like, half bird like wings that were on her back. She was holding a pair of long daggers in front of herself.

Inuyasha looked over at Kagome, who had her bow drawn and was aiming it at the demon. She also looked at Inuyasha and gave him a nod before he ran at the demon, slashing his sword at her. She brought up her daggers and blocked his attack. “Is that all you’ve got, Inuyasha?” she said with her very smooth voice, dripping with mockery.

Inuyasha growled out his reply. “You haven’t seen anything yet, bitch!” As he said that, he jumped back and sent the Kaze no Kizu at her. Only half of it made it through her barrier. She let out a yell of pain before she glared up at Inuyasha. “Now you’re dead!” She yelled as she ran towards him, but was stopped up by a few sutras, but only for a moment as more pain coursed through her body. She quickly recovered and rushed forward at Inuyasha again. As they met the sound of clashing metal filled the clearing.

Kagome was aiming her arrow and about to shoot when she heard a sound in the bushes behind her. She started to turn and look, but was grabbed by a very rough pair of hands; one was around her waist and the other over her mouth. She tried to yell but it was impossible because of the hand. She was pulled back into the bushes kicking and punching. Then, she heard an all too familiar voice in her ear. “You’re mine now!”

She managed to momentarily ripped his hand from her mouth and screamed. “Help me! Someone!”

“You little bitch!” Naraku snarled at her before hitting her with a reeling blow to the side of her head, knocking her out. The rest of the group spun around to see Naraku disappearing into a dark cloud, holding an unconscious Kagome to him.

“Naraku! Let her go!” Inuyasha yelled as he ran at him but was hit from behind by the other demon.

“You’re not go…” she was starting to say, but was cut off as Sango’s Hiraikotsu cut through her middle. She died instantly and then turned into a pile of ashes. Sitting in the middle of the pile was the jewel shard, which Miroku went over to and picked up. “I will hold on to this till we get Kagome back.”

Inuyasha slowly started to stand up and as he was doing so he said, “We have to go and get her back, now!”

“Yes, we know that, Inuyasha,” Sango replied as Inuyasha sent a nervous look to the sky. The others looked up at the sky to see that the sun was almost down. “This day just keeps getting better and better,” Inuyasha said sarcastically. He was frowning as he tried to find Naraku’s scent. He caught it and started to run in the direction it was coming from.

The others were confused as they looked at each other, and then remembered that, that night was the night of the new moon. Kirara turned into her larger form as Sango, Miroku, and Shippo jumped up onto her back. “Is Inuyasha really going to go against Naraku while he’s in his human form?” Shippo asked the others.

“I think he’s going to try. He won’t let the bastard keep Kagome for long, even if it means doing so in his human form,” Miroku answered. “And we will be there to help him.” A few moments later they had caught up to Inuyasha just in time to see his transformation complete itself. Shippo jumped down form Kirara and turned himself into his balloon looking form. “Inuyasha, climb on. If we all fly, then we will get to Kagome faster.”

Inuyasha sighed, not feeling like arguing and he knew that Shippo was right. The group was soon flying over the forest again and had spotted Naraku’s castle in the distance. Miroku shot a quick glance at Inuyasha. “Are you sure you don’t want to wait till morning to do this?”

“I’m very sure, Miroku,” He said in a quiet voice. A few moments later, his eyes shot open with fear. The others looked at him as he yelled. “We have to get there now, before it’s too late!”

“Inuyasha, what did you see?” asked Miroku, knowing from the look in Inuyasha’s eye and the way he was acting that he had just had a vision.

“I saw…Naraku…and he was hurting Kagome…I think if we don’t get there soon, he might kill her,” he stammered in reply.

Several moments later they were landing in front of Naraku’s castle.

~*~ Inside ~*~

Kagome struggled to throw Naraku off of her as he ripped his claws out of her. He laughed as she yelled out in pain again. “That’s only just the beginning of the pain you are going to feel, my dear.”

She glared at him as he got up. “But we will finish this later. Right now we have to go and welcome your troublesome friends,” he told her as he unlocked the chain from the wall and hauled her to her feet roughly.

A/N: I know that this chapters a little short and a little slow...but I promise next chapter will have more action. ^.~