Chapter 9:
Naraku's New Trap
(Opening: Owaranai Yume)
Naraku had caught Kagome between his tentacles in such a way that she was unable to move or escape from him.
- "Naraku! What do you plan to do to me!?" – asked Kagome furious.
- "I've had enough of your meddling. Your purification powers have been a thorn on my side for long enough, so it's time to get rid of you…" – said Naraku in a low but delighted voice, which he accompanied with a psychopathic smile.
- "And you think I'm going to let you kill me so easily!? You're insane!" – shouted Kagome as she concentrated her energy, and released a flash of blue light from her body. However, this didn't seem to affect Naraku at all.
- "Your spiritual powers are useless against me… now, die…" – said Naraku as he turned two of his tentacles into needles and jammed them into Kagome's back and right arm. Kagome began feeling that something was entering her body, and she noticed it was a dark pink liquid when she saw it dripping through her arm. However, her view then got clouded and everything around her faded away in a whirl of dim colors.
- 'This… can't be… Inuyasha… everyone… please… someone… help me…' – such were the last thoughts Kagome had before her consciousness faded away. However, she also had some dim whims of wanting to have pretty flowers in her hands.
Meanwhile, Inuyasha's and Sesshomaru's groups were searching throughout the forest for any traces of Naraku and Kagome, but so far, they were unable to sense his demonic energy and Inuyasha couldn't find the smell of either of them. The only trace of her they found was her memory medallion dropped in the grass near the place where Naraku abducted her.
- "Damned fuyouheki!" – shouted Inuyasha after searching in vain for two hours.
- "Now we can't feel his demonic energies, it'll be harder to find him…" – said Miroku, knowing that the fuyouheki: the magical stone that had the power to mask the demonic energies of the youkai, was the cause of their current predicament.
- "And we can't locate her with the Dragtemns because something is also jamming the signals from Kagome's one!" – said Gerardo irritated upon seeing how only Kagome's Dragtemn was missing from the radar in his Dragtemn's holographic map.
- "Ehh… shouldn't we rest a bit?" – asked Shippou as he gasped in exhaustion.
- "Are ya crazy!? Kagome could end up dead if we take any longer!" – screamed Inuyasha as he continued searching around, until he crashed face first into a barrier.
- "Looks like we got a stroke of luck here" – said Gerardo as he adjusted his glasses while he looked at the barrier, which was of the classical dark purple color used by Naraku.
- "Keh, I'm gonna get rid of it now!" – scoffed Inuyasha as he drew Tessaiga and transformed it into its Red Tessaiga form – "Shatter, damn barrier!" –
Instantly, he swung the sword and launched a beam at the barrier, which shattered it like a window hit by a stone as soon as it struck it. However, they all felt dismayed when they noticed there was another barrier of the same color right behind.
- "This is pathetic! Naraku doesn't know how to do anything else? I'm sick of him always repeating the same old dirty tricks!" – said Gabriela enraged, and from their irritated faces, it was obvious Gerardo and Inuyasha were feeling the same.
Inuyasha just snorted and transformed Tessaiga into its crystalline form.
- "Kongosouha!" -
He swung the sword and launched at the second barrier a volley of diamonds that pierced and destroyed it. However, there was another barrier behind it, but this one was of a very dark gray: dark enough to look black…
- "Where in Earth did Naraku get that color? – asked Sango worried.
- "I don't know, but this time I'll be who destroys it" – said Gerardo as he unsheathed Ryuuga and he placed a hand over it.
- "Alt tok nulast tast maha ika" – he chanted, and as soon as he did, the sword's blade began softly shining in blue.
- "Your sword can also destroy barriers?" – asked Miroku intrigued as all the others looked at him in surprise.
- "Yeah, but it'd be better to say that it serves to dispel any sort of reinforcement spells than to merely break barriers. I'd say Inuyasha's Tessaiga does a better work when it comes to that" – said Gerardo as he looked at Miroku, but then he turned to face the barrier – "Dragon Dispel!" -
He swung Ryuuga with force, making it shoot a blue beam that struck the barrier and destroyed it. However, another barrier was revealed to be behind, which left everyone shocked: it was pink and blue.
- "What the!? Naraku's now manipulating Kagome or something for his barriers!?" – said Inuyasha as he did everything he could to not explode in anger.
- "Looks like it…" – said Miroku as he looked at it worried – "Otherwise, what reason would there be for that barrier to have the same colors as Kagome-sama's auras?" –
- "We'll just have to break through it then!" – said Gerardo as he executed again his Dragon Dispel magic, but it didn't have any effect on the barrier. The same thing happened when Inuyasha tried both the Kongousouha and the Red Tessaiga: the barrier seemed to be indestructible.
Meanwhile, behind the barrier and inside Naraku's hideout…
- "Child… child… wake up… we have many tasks to take care of…" – said Naraku's voice.
The girl opened her eyes, very scared due to being in a weird place and with people who were very strange to her eyes. They were Naraku, Kagura, Hakudoushi and Kanna.
- "Would you please tell us your name?" – asked Naraku gently, who had hidden his tentacles and closed the eye he had on his bone armor – "Or where did you come from?" –
- "My name is… Kagome" – replied the girl as she stood up and looked down at herself: she was wearing a plain black kimono, without any kind of decorations, wore a wristwatch-like artifact on one of her wrists and was barefoot – "But I can't remember anything else…" -
- 'Perfect… my plan is coming out just as I expected… this is going to be so easy…' – thought Naraku evilly.
- "How… how I got here?" – asked Kagome as she put her hands before herself scared.
- "My children and I found you collapsed on the road and picked you up" – replied Naraku again with his falsely sweet voice – "Don't be afraid. We won't harm you…" –
- "Ah okay! Thanks everyone!" – said Kagome cheerfully, but still that people continued being very strange to her, particularly because of Naraku's bone armor and Kanna's empty gaze.
- "Oh, excuse my lack of manners! I am Naraku, and these are my children Kagura, Hakudoushi and Kanna…" – said him as he showed them all.
- 'Damn Naraku! He's not only making me part of another of his dirty schemes, but he's also having the gall to say I'm his daughter!' – thought Kagura enraged.
- "Pleased to meet'cha!" – said Kagome as she tried to bow in front of them, but she tripped and tumbled into the wooden floor – "Ugh, this floor's so hard!" –
- "Don't worry…" – said Naraku as he wove his hand towards her, changing the wooden floor of the room into a flower patch – "The floor won't be hard anymore…" –
- "Thank you! Oh, Kagura-nee, can I borrow your fan? It's so pretty!" – said Kagome giggling.
- "What the...!?" – said Kagura shocked and feeling slighted, but she fell silent when he saw Naraku's gaze. He was telling her with it: – "Do what the brat tells you, or you're dead…" –
- "As you want…" – said Kagura sighing in irritation as she gave Kagome her fan. Kagome played a bit with it, trying to imitate a maiko, but in the end she got bored of it and gave it back to Kagura.
- "Kanna, Hakudoushi… wanna play?" – asked Kagome.
- "Yes, of course. We're going to play Preparations for the Shadow Ritual" – said Hakudoushi with a wicked smile.
- "And how do we play that? I've never heard of a game like that…" – said Kagome worried, but she also felt something telling her it wasn't a good idea to go along with it.
- "You'll see very soon. However, we'll be only you and I, as Kanna has to help father…" – said Hakudoushi as he dragged Kagome to another room.
- "Kanna… show me what Inuyasha and his group of fools is doing…" – said Naraku as soon as Kagome left the room. Kanna obediently went close to him and projected in her mirror the image of what was happening outside: they were doing what they could to destroy the barrier, but with no success – "Mwahahaha… these idiots will never be able to break through that barrier: I made it with my powers, Tenebross' shadow powers and the powers I extracted from Kagome…" –
Meanwhile, outside…
- "Hey, how about combining our techniques again?" – suggested Inuyasha excitedly – "That way, we'll be able to destroy it for sure!" -
- "Let's go ahead with it!" – said Gerardo. Both executed their techniques at the same time…
- "Dispelling Blast!" – they both shouted as a purple whirlwind emerged from their swords and crashed into the barrier. However, instead of destroying it, it merely caused it to fade away, opening up the road to a dilapidated old shrine.
- "Okay! Now let's go rescue Kagome!" – said Inuyasha. They ran into the zone that was protected by the barrier and went into the shrine.
- 'Damn it, these idiots broke into the barrier… and we still need more time to carry out the ritual…' – thought Naraku gripping his teeth when he saw what happened through the mirror.
- "Hakudoushi, what's happening outside?" – asked Kagome scared when she heard the rumble of the Dispelling Blast crashing into the barrier.
- "It must be a mere storm…" – said Hakudoushi calmly, as if he was trying to keep Kagome's thoughts away from what happened outside.
- "NARAKU!" – shouted Inuyasha as soon as they entered the shrine – "I've come for Kagome… AND FOR YOUR HEAD!" –
- "I'm sorry Inuyasha, but I'm afraid I've got no time for you and your foolish friends right now… Especially for your insignificant brat form" – said Naraku in a calm and mocking way.
- 'What do these people want with me? Do they wanna harm me?' – thought Kagome scared as she looked at the people who just entered into the room after she heard Inuyasha saying her name.
- "Speak up at once! What are you intending to do to Kagome!?" – said Gerardo angry as he pointed to Naraku with his sword.
- "Huhuhu… so you're the chosen one of the dragons?" – said Naraku in a mocking tone.
- "Yeah, I am! And you should practice that evil laughter some time, monkey man! It's the most pathetic one I've ever heard!" – said Gerardo mocking him as he put on a smug smile.
- "Oh? Care to show me how it is done, then?" – said Naraku annoyed.
- "Gladly! Gaby, give me the lantern" – said Gerardo, but Gabriela handed her a wooden stick as she giggled – "I said lantern, not stick!" –
He turned on the lantern and illuminated his own face with it, to then begin laughing like a madman. When he finished, everyone was looking at him as if they were looking at a psychopath.
- "Okay, okay. Leaving games aside, what are you going to do to Kagome!? Are you planning to…!?" – said Gerardo, but he cut himself at the middle of the phrase.
- "Oh, you realized it? You're right: I'm going to corrupt her powers to stain the Shikon Pearl and the Crystal of Shadows with the purest evil you can ever imagine…" – said Naraku between bouts of sickening laughter.
- "Don't even think we're letting you do that!" – said Gabriela preparing an arrow in her bow – "Ikuyu poak lay lusya wiras sos couyuu,yst sos royawfle hakaisa tast ika. Light Arrow!" –
She shot an arrow enshrouded in white light, but Naraku dodged it in the last second.
- "So that is the power of Light… huhuhu, it looks more like a bad copy of Kikyou's power…" – he said mocking her.
- "How dare you!?" – said Gerardo irate.
- "I'm not a bad copy of anyone! Ikuyu poak lay lusya iarae sos, yst pitzneal kyus ika! Brilliant Ray!" – said Gabriela enraged as she shot at him a ray of white light from her hands. This one did land a hit on Naraku, which destroyed his left arm.
- "Hmm, very powerful despite being so young..." – said Naraku thoughtfully.
- "So that didn't harm you at all!? Hiraikotsu!" – screamed Sango as she threw her boomerang, though this time the attack didn't work because Naraku enclosed himself in his barrier.
- "Hell! Why did that bastard have to remember about his stupid barrier now!?" – shouted Inuyasha furious as he crystallized Tessaiga.
- 'Naraku-sama wants to do something bad to me? And these people came to save me?' – thought Kagome scared and confused from the place where she was watching the battle.
- "It's time to carry out the ritual…" – said Hakudoushi as he took Kagome by the arm and began dragging her over to a magic circle that was drawn on the floor.
- "I don't wanna! No! Lemme go!" – shouted Kagome as she tried to struggle against him.
- "Kagome! I'm going for you!" – shouted Inuyasha when he heard Kagome's voice, so he forgot about Naraku for now and ran off to the place where her voice was coming from.
- "Come back here, damn hanyou!" – screamed Naraku with fury upon noticing his plans were in danger. He tried to stop Inuyasha, but Miroku, Sango, Gabriela and Gerardo cut off or disabled his tentacles before he could do anything.
- "Look at who's speaking! We won't let you stop him!" – said Miroku as he cut off another of Naraku's tentacles with his shakujou.
- "That's true, and now we'll teach why you can't underestimate any of us. And also, we'll show you we Seirei magic users aren't copies of anything!" – said Gerardo as he did the preparations for his transformation - "Ist Wasriats Oschmere Iadlast Kiabze Pawatz Zosph, Phaph Myya Zosph Phiaphz Ical! Iadlast Pawatz! Dragoon!" -
There was a flash of white light, and when it dimmed down, Gerardo was wearing his blue dragon armor.
- "That is the Power of the Dragon?" – muttered Naraku shocked, but he received a good slash from the back due to him dropping his guard.
- "That is correct, Naraku. That is the power that not even I, Sesshomaru, can allow myself to underestimate…" – said Sesshomaru as he came out from the shadows behind Naraku with Tokijin unsheathed. He then stepped in front of Naraku and turned around to face him again.
- "Nice surprise attack. However, what happened to Rin and Jaken?" – asked Gerardo worried.
- "I ordered them to wait for us outside…" – said Sesshomaru with his eyes fixed on Naraku.
- "You're screwed, Naraku! We've got bigger numbers, and we've also got better abilities than yours!" – said Shippou in a very confident tone: this seemed to be the end to their eternal battle.
- "I wouldn't say that yet…" – said a sinister voice behind Naraku. This voice was so cold and eerie that everyone felt shivers down their spine when they heard it.
- "Who's there!?" – said Miroku scared.
Meanwhile, Inuyasha was fighting against Hakudoushi to rescue Kagome.
- "Leave her alone, you bastard!" – said Inuyasha after he slashed at him twice.
- "Sorry, I can't. We need her powers to get rid of you…" – said Hakudoushi as he laughed evilly.
- "And you think I'm gonna let trash like you do that!? Only over my dead body! Kongousouha!" – said Inuyasha as he released volleys of diamond that pierced Hakudoushi's body and gravely injured him.
- "I can't continue fighting… I'll make you pay for this next time…" – said him as he enclosed himself into a barrier and teleported to somewhere else.
- "Okay, we're done here… Kagome, are you…" – Inuyasha couldn't finish the phrase, as when he turned around to meet Kagome, what he saw was a little girl even younger than Kagome in her child form wearing a black kimono. As she was behind him all this time and he was so concentrated in the battle, he didn't notice her at all.
- "What… what… do you want from me…?" – she asked scared as her eyes began filling with tears.
- "What's up with you? I came to save you from Naraku's clutches!" – said Inuyasha shocked upon seeing her reaction.
- "And how can I know you won't harm me? You aren't even human: you're a monster, a monster boy!" – said Kagome as she shrank back in fear into the corner of the room where she was. Inuyasha was shocked and hurt from hearing these words from who he thought never would say that to him. But he then noticed something weird…
- "Wait a second… the Kagome I know would never tell these things to me because of how much she knows I hate hearing that… Are you missing your memories or something?" – asked Inuyasha as he cautiously walked to her.
- "No… I can only remember my name…" – said Kagome as she looked at the ground.
- "You better come with me then. You'll be able to remember everything for sure when we get back to our friends" – said Inuyasha thinking that the memory medallion she left in her backpack would solve this.
- "Our… friends?" – said Kagome confused. However, Inuyasha took her from the hand, and after making her stand again, he began leading her outside.
- 'For some reason… I feel safer when he's around… maybe I can trust him…' – thought Kagome after Inuyasha took her hand. She wasn't afraid of him anymore.
On the other hand, Miroku, Sango and the others were still trembling in fear, as the voice they had heard came out from a mirror with black borders that was hanging from a wall. This mirror had a Fragment of Shadows on its highest part and it was only reflecting darkness at the beginning, but then a black dragon silhouette appeared on it, which also had two blood-red eyes shining evilly on its face.
- "N-no way! T-that's T-t-t-tenebross!" – shouted Gerardo as he trembled with Gabriela holding on him. They had never been so scared in their lives.
- "Ah, so the new chosen does know me well…" – said Tenebross savoring how Gerardo was so terrorized.
- "T-the D-dragon of Shadows…" – said Gabriela as scared as her brother.
- "How pathetic! If you are so scared before my mere presence, you will never stand a chance against me when I fully regain my power!" – said Tenebross laughing like a lunatic.
- "But you won't be able to recover your strength just with that Shadow Fragment you've got there!" – said Sango bravely, which also gave courage again to both siblings and the others. Gabriela transformed as well in Dragoon, and they all got ready to fight.
- "We won't let you get away with your plans! We'll rescue Kagome and kick both of your butts to kingdom come!" – said Gerardo as he pointed to them with his sword.
- "We shall see about that. I see you are all bark and no bite, though…" – said Tenebross as he laughed.
- "Oh, yeah?" – said Gabriela as she placed a hand over her bow – "Olpla siat lay lusya, iarae sos... cezet ulkiarea ika,yst gaivz saraigal sos! Light Saber!" -
Upon doing this, her bow began shining in white and took the shape of a white light sword.
- "Gaby, wait! Don't be so rash!" – screamed Gerardo, but it was too late: Gabriela flew off at full speed to slash Naraku with the sword, but when she was about to do it, a strong wind came out from behind him and made her crash into the wall. She screamed from pain as she fell to the floor knocked out, nullifying out her transformation. Likewise, the light sword she carried on her hands stopped shining and turned back into a bow.
- "Gaby!" – shouted Gerardo as he ran to her side and examined her – "Thank goodness... She got knocked out but didn't receive any serious wounds…" –
However, this only enraged everyone.
- "You scum!" – said Miroku gripping his shakujou with force.
- "How could you hurt a little girl like that!?" – said Sango extremely enraged as she tried to attack Naraku in close quarters with her boomerang, but he dodged her.
- "Trying to attack me again, huh? Though it wasn't even me who launched that wind draft…" – said Naraku as he stepped aside, revealing Kagura was behind her. It was obvious she was who launched the wind draft, but her face showed a great bitterness and she was biting her lips, as if she didn't want to do that.
- "By the way, my dearest Sango… don't you miss your beloved brother?" – asked Naraku in a mocking tone.
- "Damn you!" – said Sango irate.
- "Don't ever dare to get Kohaku involved, you scourge!" – said Gerardo enraged as he stood up from where Gabriela was and turned to face the villains.
- "Gerardo-kun..." – said Sango surprised.
- "I'm sick of this! I've seen enough of the suffering you've caused everyone! To Inuyasha, Kikyou, Sango, Miroku, Kohaku, Kagome, and to so many innocent people… I've felt their suffering as if it happened to me… and I'm never going to forgive you for having killed and tortured so many! And you also did the worst thing you could do in my presence: harming my sister!" – everyone was shocked after Gerardo finished saying these words, but Naraku and Tenebross only laughed at him, which enraged him even further – "It's time to wipe you off from the face of this world!" –
- "And what do you plan to do, presumptuous fool?" – said Tenebross as he laughed.
- "THIS! Ist Ikuak, ah... Leiya Iadlast, Clyezet Pawatz ical, Oli HalkeiZa Myallade Ical!" – he clapped his hands and he made again the movements he did when he was training with Inuyasha to create a large water wall he then threw to Naraku and Tenebross – "TSUNAMI!" –
They couldn't escape due to the sheer size of the wave, so they received a large amount of damage.
- "Damn it… he's strong… we better run away for now…" – said Naraku as he enclosed himself, Tenebross' mirror, Kanna and Kagura in a new barrier and blew up the roof of the shrine to escape flying.
- "What's happening here?" – asked Inuyasha when he noticed Naraku was escaping. This made him let go Kagome, who simply stood there looking at what was happening.
- "Naraku is escaping…" – said Miroku bitterly.
- "I know that! And what do you think you're doing!? Stop him!" – shouted Inuyasha as he tried using the Kongousouha, but the spears missed their mark due to the distance.
- "I think it's my turn now…" – said Gerardo after he healed his sister and left her leaned against a wall – "I'll make him suffer horribly to see how he likes it…" –
He then took off and flew at full speed to chase after Naraku.
- "What the…!?" – said Naraku exasperated.
- "You won't escape, bastard… Tsunami! TSUNAMI!" – said Gerardo as he threw two large waves at him, but he missed and Naraku managed to escape – "Damn…!" –
- "We'll meet again very soon, fool!" – shouted Naraku as he laughed – "Kagome, I'll make sure to corrupt and steal your powers, so you better be ready for it! Mwahahaha!" –
Gerardo went back to the floor of the shrine near the others, but as soon as he touched ground again, he fell unconscious and the transformation nullified itself. Miroku caught him to keep him from crashing into the floor.
- "Dammit, he got away again!" – said Inuyasha irate as he sheathed Tessaiga – "And I wanted so much to make him pay for what he did to Kagome!" –
- "How's Gerardo-kun, Houshi-sama?" – asked Sango after he finished examining him.
- "He is fine. He just lost consciousness" – he replied relieved.
- "By the way Inuyasha, what happened to Kagome?" – asked Sango.
- "She's over there, but…" – replied Inuyasha as he pointed to the corner where Kagome went to hide.
- "Kagome, are you okay?" – said Sango as she ran to see her along Miroku and Shippou, but they were pretty shocked when they saw how she was now, not to mention she also was curled up in the ground and trembling in fear.
- "Kagome, you didn't drink the water to get older?" – asked Shippou confused.
- "I dunno what you're talking about… are you friends with the dog-eared boy?" – she asked nervously.
- "You don't remember us?" – asked Miroku worried.
Kagome just shook her head 'no'.
- "Don't bother doing that. Kagome can't remember anything aside of her name…" – said Inuyasha as he went closer to them with a sad face.
- "So that woman fears you now… interesting…" – said Sesshomaru with a sadistic smile: he seemed to be enjoying that his little brother was suffering because of this.
- "Well, we're Inuyasha's friends and…" – began Shippou.
- "And you won't hurt me? Because that man said the same thing and I heard he wanted to do bad things to me…" – interrupted Kagome with her eyes filled with tears.
- "Of course not! We're your friends, and we'd never hurt you!" – exclaimed Shippou.
- "Well, we better go outside so you can regain your memories…" – said Miroku as he walked ahead of the others to the exit – "I'll carry little Gabriela and…" –
- "Houshi-sama, you'll take care of Gerardo-kun. I'll take care of Gaby-chan" – said Sango as she glared at him.
- "Uh… great idea, Sango!" – said Miroku laughing nervously as he picked up Gerardo and carried him on his shoulders outside. Next was Sango carrying Gabriela piggyback-style, then was Shippou, and finally were Inuyasha and Kagome taken by the hands.
- "Um… where are we going?" – asked Kagome after a while.
- "You'll know once we're there…" – said Inuyasha in a mysterious tone.
A few instants later, both Gerardo and Gabriela began stirring, and they finally woke up.
- "Could you set us down, if you please?" – asked Gerardo a bit annoyed.
After the others set them down, they stood with their own strength and began contemplating the situation. They had reached the forest's border.
- "And Kagome?" – asked Gerardo.
- "She's there, next to Inuyasha..." - said Shippou signaling at her with the head.
- "How weird… she looks even littler than before… didn't she drink the aging water?" – asked Gabriela confused after they both blinked a couple times in reaction to seeing the small girl she was now.
- "Doesn't seem like it, but we'll know what actually happened if we restore her memories" – said Miroku – "Gerardo-kun, could you…?" –
- "You don't need to ask" – said Gerardo with a smile as he took out Kagome's backpack out from his Dragtemn. Sango then looked inside until she found the silver medallion and she gave it to Inuyasha.
- "Kagome, put this on" – said Inuyasha as he tried to put it on her, but Kagome avoided him.
- "What's that for?" – asked Kagome with suspicion.
- "It's for you to regain your memories, or don't you wanna know who you actually are?" – said Inuyasha a bit sad. Kagome then went up to him and let Inuyasha put it on her. Instantly, her eyes began blinking, but unlike earlier times, the medallion began releasing electric discharges and sparks, while Kagome began holding her head with her hands as if she was suffering from a migraine.
- "Should this happen!?" – asked Gerardo to Miroku with a look of great worry on his face, which all the others shared.
- "No, nothing like this ever happened in the other times we put the medallion on her!" – said Miroku. A little explosion was then heard, and after looking around to find where it was, they noticed that the sapphire that Kagome's medallion had embedded had disappeared, while at her feet there were some shards that seemed to have come from a blue jewel.
- "I wonder… is it that important that the sapphire ended exploding…?" – asked Gerardo a bit worried, but the answer to his question came by itself: Kagome was looking around like a lost child in search of her parents.
- "Where I am? Where are daddy and mommy?" – she asked after a few instants as her eyes began filling with tears.
- "Uh oh… looks like she didn't get all her memories back…" – said Gabriela biting her lip.
- "Kagome…" – said Inuyasha as he sat in front of her – "Are you okay?" –
- "H-how do you know my name?" – asked Kagome scared.
- "Don't tell me you don't remember us again!" – said Inuyasha annoyed as he punched the ground. This made Kagome shrink back in fear.
- "I dunno know… who you are… I just remember being home, that I went to take a nap, and I woke up here…" – said Kagome scared.
- "Looks like we've got ourselves another problem in our hands…" – said Miroku crossing his arms.
- "Kagome, how old are you?" – asked Shippou, which made the others realize they should have asked this from the beginning. Kagome just raised a closed hand.
- "She's five years old now!? But how!? Wasn't she supposed to be eight when Naraku kidnapped her!?" – said Inuyasha irritated.
- "Looks like Naraku did something that made her even younger, and maybe that was the reason the sapphire of her medallion shattered…" – said Sango thoughtfully.
- "And that sapphire is what makes possible the restoration of her memories…" – said Gerardo connecting ideas – "Well, do you think we should use the aging water and get her back to her normal age?" –
- "No… I think that'd only make everything worse…" – said Inuyasha a bit more calmed as he began thinking about the situation more slowly – "What do ya think would happen if she goes back to her normal age but having the mind of a five-year old?" -
That made everyone discard that option at once, and they began trying to come up with another plan. However...
-"*sob*… *hic*… I wanna go home!" – screamed Kagome as she began crying.
- "Hell, as if it wasn't enough that I had to deal with Gaby when she got like this!" – said Gerardo exasperated while Gabriela and Sango ran to her.
- "There, there, Kagome. Calm down. You'll see your family again soon!" – said Sango as she picked her up and trying to calm her down.
- "Re… really?" – asked Kagome as she sobbed.
- "Yeah, we'd never lie to you!" – said Gabriela with a smile.
- "Really! Gerardo-kun, any ideas of what we could do for her?" – said Sango as she began patting Kagome's head.
- "Hmmm, I'm thinking the best we could do for her is taking her back home" – he said thoughtfully.
- "Agreed. This isn't the best place for a girl as little as her" – said Inuyasha as he crossed his arms and prepared to get going.
- "Oh, Inuyasha? Planning to run away like a coward?" – asked Sesshomaru, who had just arrived followed by Jaken, Rin and Ah-Un.
- "I'm not doing that! I'm just taking Kagome home!" – said Inuyasha as he let Kagome ride on his back.
- "Hehe, this looks so fun!" – said Kagome laughing.
- "Is Kagome-sama okay?" – asked Rin as she dismounted Ah-Un.
- "Yeah, but I don't think you can call her 'sama' any more…" – said Gabriela as she walked along her to look at Kagome. Rin was a little surprised upon seeing Kagome even younger than she ever had seen her.
- "Ah, she's now Kagome-chan then!" – said Rin cheerfully.
- "Yeah, I'm Kagome!" – replied Kagome cheerfully – "And you're…?" –
- "I'm Rin!" – said Rin with a smile – "Pleased to meet you!" –
- "I'm really wanting to play with you, Rin-nee!" – said Kagome excitedly.
- "But that will have to wait for later" – said Gerardo with a bit of a severe tone.
- "Boo…" – said Kagome a bit sad.
- "Hehe, it's okay. I'll wait for you here!" – said Rin with a smile.
- "Okay Gaby, are we ready to go with Inuyasha?" – said Gerardo as he began getting ready to go.
- "And why are you going to follow me?" – asked Inuyasha with suspicion.
- "Well, just in case you need help with Kagome: little kids can be a handful, and remember we can cross the well's portal too" – said Gerardo.
- "And I wanna play with her! I just hope you don't end being sat down too much!" – said Gabriela giggling, which made both him and Gerardo end up eating dust again. This was particularly painful for Inuyasha due to still having Kagome on his back. After they recovered, they bid their farewells to the others, Gerardo and Gabriela put on their armors, and they began their trip to the well.
(End of Chapter)
(Ending: Dearest)
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