Hey, guys. Sorry it's been forever. I did some very, very light tweaking in chapters 3, 4, and 5, and I scrapped the original Ch. 6. This is Ch. 6 version 2.0! :D But fer serious, I scrapped the old Ch. 6 and Ch. 7, and this is how it is now. The old one had some stuff in it that just didn't work, seeing as I actually have the entire plot down now. (I watched the movies again, finally.) Also, I'm a junior in high school now, so these chapters should suck less now! Yay! So, here it is, the new Ch. 6.

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InuYasha sat in the Goshinboku. He had been sitting there for the past day and a half. After their little 'conversation' with Kaede, he burst out of the hut and ran through the forest, coincidentally ending up at the tree. He had jumped into it and crossed his arms, not moving. Just…thinking. If he was to bring Kagome back, then he would have to kill Kikyou and bring her soul with him when he went to find Kagome.

Damn it! This is all so frustrating…He heaved a sigh, and crossed his arms. Frustrating, feh.

Meanwhile, Sango, Miroku, and Shippo were figuring out how to get the last two shards from Koga.

"But when he hears Kagome's in trouble, won't he just hand them over?" Shippo asked.

"Well, that's assuming he doesn't try to kill InuYasha first." Miroku told him.

"Speaking of InuYasha, has he come down out of that tree yet?" Sango wondered.

Miroku shook his head. "No, he hasn't."

Sango sighed. "Well, he better come down out of that tree so we can hunt down Koga. He can worry about Kikyou later." Sango stood up, and stomped out of the hut, ready to drag him out of the tree.

Miroku smiled perversely and watched her ass, as her hips moved back and forth. She was quite beautiful when she was pissed…. Miroku felt a knock against his knee and saw Shippo staring at him.

"Ahem! Right," he said and followed after the demon slayer.

"InuYasha! Get your butt down here! We need to find Koga!" Sango glared up into the tree. InuYasha groaned and jumped down from the tree.

"What for? He's a bastard! I don't want to go find him."

"But you do want Kagome back."

InuYasha sighed. Koga did have two shards. And he'd need both of them to get Kagome back.

"Alright, fine. We'll go find the wolf." InuYasha smelled the air, trying to pick up Koga's scent. It was very faint, but it was definitely Koga's. InuYasha took off in the wolf demon's direction.

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Over the next four days, the Fellowship changed their path twice. First, they went from the Gap of Rohan to the Pass of Caradhras.

The afternoon was bright, and the Fellowship stopped for lunch. After they'd eaten, Merry and Pippin sparred with Boromir. The three carried on quite the mock fight. Aragorn and Kagome watched, entertained.

"Good, boys. Good," Boromir encouraged. He parried a blow from Pippin, and returned with a strike of his own, accidentally catching the hobbit's hand.

"Ouch!"

"Sorry!" Boromir hastily apologized. Pippin glared up at him and swiftly kicked him in the shin. "Ahh!"

Merry shouted, "Get him!" and proceeded to tackle the two of them to the ground. Aragorn and Kagome laughed in delight as Boromir struggled to lift the two hobbits off.

Their mock battle continued joyously as Legolas noticed something out of place towards the south. He leapt gracefully onto a large flat rock and gazed intently towards the south.

Sam noticed him and inquired, "What is it?"

"It's nothing," Gimli answered matter-of-factly. "It's just a cloud."

Boromir looked to the south, his eyes narrowed to see more clearly. "It moves quickly...against the wind."

Legolas's eyes widened and he shouted "Crebain from Dunland!"

Everyone started moving in a hurry, fussing about putting out the fire and getting their packs under cover.

"What?" Kagome asked. "What's going on?"

Aragorn grabbed her arm and pulled her along to hide under a boulder's overhang.

"What--?"

"Shh." Aragorn pressed a finger to his lips. They waited in silence and listened.

At first, Kagome didn't hear much. Then as the minutes grew longer, she began to hear the beat of wings. And then suddenly the cawing of a thousand birds filled her ears. She covered them against the noise. The large black birds circled overhead once or twice, then flew back from the direction they came. A collective breath was exhaled from the Fellowship, and after another moment in hiding for caution's sake, they crawled out from their hiding spots.

Gandalf stood tall, stretching his back and staring after the birds. Kagome came up beside him.

"What were they?" she asked innocently.

"The spies of Saruman," he replied simply. He then turned to Aragorn, and said, "The road south is being watched. We must take the Pass of Caradhras."

And so they had. They'd made their way to the foothills of the mountains, and by late afternoon the next day they had reached the mountain path. They made camp early, as Gandalf had told them of the rigors of the trek through the mountains, and suggested that they all get an early rest. The hiking would be hard for the next few days, he said. They started up the mountain path, and soon they had to change their route for the second time.

Kagome shivered- it was absolutely freezing up here. Snow covered the ground and reached up to her knees. Even with Legolas's thick elven cloak, the cold chilled her to the bone. Her thin school uniform was definitely inappropriate for this kind of weather. The wind whipped at her hair and her teeth began to chatter. She cursed herself for not thinking to wear something warmer to the feudal era. Or at least more durable.

"You alright?" Aragorn asked, obviously noticing her shivering.

"Yeah," she lied. 'If only I could go home and change into sweatpants,' she thought. Aragorn nodded and continued ahead, checking with the hobbits next. They were huddled together, stumbling through the deep snow.

The wind blew harder and flew up under the cloak. 'Forget sweatpants- I want snowpants!'

Before Kagome could take another step, she heard a very loud cracking sound from above. Looking up, she saw heavy blocks of ice falling towards them. She trudged out of the way as fast as she could, and it crashed along the edge of the path and tumbled down to mountainside.

Legolas came up behind her and shouted over the wind to Gandalf, "There is a foul voice on the air!" Kagome could not fathom how he could hear anything over the howling of this blizzard. Nor how he could prance right past her over the top of the snow with his light step, staring right into the face of the storm and listening for the words of the voice that Kagome could not hear.

"Saruman!" Gandalf realized.

Aragorn called to him. "He must be trying to bring the mountain down upon us! We must turn back!"

"No!" Gandalf replied. He stood tall and raised his arms, staff in one hand. He began to chant something in a language she could not understand. The ice seemed to stop crumbling onto them for a moment, but then lightning struck the mountain, and a huge avalanche of snow fell onto the group. They were all buried.

Kagome pushed herself upwards through the freezing snow and poked her head out into the cold air.

"We must turn back and make for the Gap of Rohan, and from there to my city!" Boromir yelled.

"No!" Aragorn called back. "It would bring us too close to Isengard!"

"The mines! If we cannot go over this blasted mountain, let us go under it!" Gimli shouted after pulling himself out of the snow.

In the end, Gandalf let Frodo decide. He was uneasy, but accepted the decision to take the trip through the dwarven tunnels.

So they doubled back and wrapped around the mountain, finding their way through an overgrown path to the west gate of Moria. They reached there by nightfall.

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Okay, so it's not as spectacular as I'd hoped, but meh. The next one should be better.