She grits her teeth, and sighs, "...Fine. I'll send you back, but ONLY until the mission's over!! And if I find out you so much as have second thoughts of fulfilling the mission, I'll personally send you to the Great Void of Hell!!!"

The demon bows, "I understand. You will not regret this decision." And in a cloud of smoke, he disappears!

Cassandra sighs, "Finally... alone at last!" she reaches under her robe... but notices SOMETHING'S missing! "What the??!! WHERE THE HELL IS IT??!!!"

--Back in the living realm--

Inuyasha charges to whatever direction he's running toward!!

"I..INUYASHA!!!" Kagome screams, "WHERE ARE WE GOING??!!"

He looks down and says, "The mountain where that.. rod is kept! We gotta find it! It might be our shot at defeating Naraku once and for all!"

Sango asks Miroku, "What do you know about this rod?"

Miroku thinks, "Uh.. if remember correctly, it was an ancient scepter made out of the tree, um.. Ig...uh... Yggy...umm.."

"Yggdrasil. The Tree of Life."

Inuyasha heard another voice! He immediately stops in his tracks and turns his head..
He seems another giant.. with long black hair, eerie black pupils, wearing a dark-tribal robe..

The man smiles showing a pair of razor sharp fangs and bows at Inuyasha, "Hello there sir."

"Um... who are you?" Inuyasha asks him.

He just pulls out a certain piece of paper and asks him, "Are you this man?"