Lord Sesshomaru approached Inuyasha, who had been sitting outside next to the big oak tree on the grounds of the palace. He had hoped to protect himself from the wrath of his stepmother. He was sharpening his sword and looked up when his brother got close enough. Sesshomaru said nothing but placed a page of a book at his feet. Inuyasha looked at the picture and scoffed. "It's a mouse" Sesshomaru glared at him and muttered "The Great Animal" and Inuyasha looked up at him. "It's kind of small wouldn't you say?" Sesshomaru then set another picture down on top of the last one. This time it was the picture of a dragon.

"Yeah, until it changes into this" Inuyasha looked at him confused and Sesshomaru rolled his eyes at having to explain it. Sesshomaru picked up the picture with the dragon. "Let me put it this way for you. An animal that can change its shape. A harmless creature approaches," he dropped the paper, "and then suddenly its too late" "You mean that the Great Animal could be anything?" "Anything", Sesshomaru whispered before taking back towards the castle to get his arrows and sword. A dragonfly flew around Inuyasha's face and he lent backwards falling on his back.

Naraku's Castle After the team had recovered from their previous mission, they formulated a plan on how to get Lord Sesshomaru to the castle. Yukiko was swimming the water of the lake while the others walked along side of it. Miroku had been awfully quiet and just as Yukiko was about to ask, he sprung on her an apology for the way that he had acted, that he wasn't doing things to where he could help her. After some banter back and forth, "Okay…I accept". Miroku's face lit up. "Good, now later we can try…" Shippo put a hand over his mouth. "Be quiet Miroku" "What…what did I say?"

Before he could say more, Sango presented everyone with the plan. Sango was so bent on helping Yukiko that she took the position of leader. "Yukiko you and I are going to go together, so you have to be ready." "Right!" she replied and swam away from the group. Sango then gave everyone else their positions. While her and Yukiko traveled to the castle Miroku, Shippo, and Kagome would keep watch and make sure that Naraku didn't come looking for her. Yukiko and Sango flew into the air and made their way towards the castle. What they didn't know was that their target was setting out on a mission of their own.

(I'm sorry that the last couple of chapters haven't been that long, but I wanted to space them out so I had more chapters. The next one will be longer, I promise. Speaking of the next one I plan to get my next chapter done by the weekend)