Hikari leaned back in her tree. Life was good. She was free, she was happy, and she'd just got back from her visit with her mother. In fact, her fur had just finished drying. She was just about ready to resume her everlasting search. It never seemed to end.

Would she ever find who she was looking for? Not likely…

With a sigh, Hikari let herself slide down from the tree branch. Her staff fell a few seconds after she did. The feel of the dark wood in her hand made her smile. Her staff had been well used. At the top of the pole was a twisty silver design, a gift her mother had sent. The design featured an ocean wave, a crescent moon, and crossed blades.

Hikari smiled brushed her long silver hair out of her face as she started walking through the trees. Suddenly her ears start twitching like mad. The cat tail behind her flicked with annoyance as the loud whistle she knew was coming pierced the quiet air. She'd have to get another signal. Any animal youkai within miles would be able to hear that…

Sighing she muttered to herself in her usually quiet soft toned voice. "This had better not be a false alarm…"

She reached into her pack and pulled out a piece of chalk, blue like the water with flecks of white, like sea foam. Hopefully, the idiot had decided to get ill near water. If he was even ill at all.

She drew a circle on the ground. . As soon as the shape was complete, it began glowing. Taking a deep breath, Hikari takes a step and whispers to the glowing circle.

"Take me to the sound of the whistle."

"Any idea what's wrong with him?"

"Not a one."

"Hn. He's probably faking it…"

"He is not…"

"Oh I bet he is… the lech…"

"SIT!"

A loud thud is heard, and then an incoherent mumbling.

"Serves you right…"

"Why did he ask for that whistle thing?"

A small fox demon held out a small blue whistled, carved out of a shell.

"I don't know…"

None of the people in the room noticed the glowing in a well outside, nor the sputtering noise. They did notice though when some one, who was half wet, with her hair still dripping, came into the hut.

A hanyou with silver hair and ears stopped the girl in the sopping wet kimono that seemed to be drying rapidly.

"What business do you have here?"

"I suggest you move…"

"And if I don't want to?

"I can very well make you."

"Yeah, well I don't think-"

"Oh, Inuyasha, let her in for heaven's sake!"

The hanyou grunted, but moved aside. The girl continued her path. She knelt beside a girl dressed in strange clothes.

"I am a healer. What happened here?"

"But we didn't send for anybody."

"I was sent for…But no matter. What happened?"

"Well, I just got back, and Inuyasha and Sango met me to bring me here. Only one person was here and his back was turned."

Hikari simply nodded. Her staff had been laid beside her but she now picked it up and attached a small crystal to the top. Passing it over the victim, several times it glowed near his ankle. After detaching the crystal she examined the ankle closer.

"He was bitten by a snake. Not too lethal of one, but the venom has knocked him unconscious… funny, I've never seen anything like it before…But nevermind…"

She dug in her bag for a moment before lifting a small vial from it. "One drop should do…"

One drop of the bright blue liquid was enough. The bite wound healed up instantly. But the victim didn't wake up.

Hikari stood and kicked the man on the floor. "Get up Miroku. Lecher of Lechers, move your perverted butt, before I drop it in lake."

"Don't kick him! What kind of healer are you?"

"A temperamental one…MIROKU!"

Miroku opened one eye, to see the fold of amethyst colored material and smiled as he looked upwards at her face. "Ah, tenshi, so glad you made it here. I was afraid you were going to ignore me."

"I seriously considered it, trust me. And don't call me tenshi…"

Miroku sat up before he was tackled back down by a girl in a pink kimono. The girl Hikari had been kneeling next to stood up and smiled.

"Thank you. I am Kagome Higurashi."

"Hikari Mizukami. How do you put up traveling with that lecher?"

She laughed. "I guess you've met him before… It's not that bad…"

"Met him before? I trained with him. Geez, he even followed me around after wards… until I gave him that whistle and threatened to drown him unless he went away."

"Huh… why did he call you tenshi?"

Hikari stiffened slightly. "Some humans call me the Amethyst Angel…"

"Why?"

"Because when I heal them, often their vision is a little blurry, and to them, my kimono and eyes, both purple, seem like those of an angel… Basically, they're delusional…"

Hikari turned her eyes upwards as she said this. "I don't care much…"

A small voice behind her makes her turn.

"Auntie Hikari?"

"Shippou?"

"Auntie Hikari!"

The young fox demon tackled Hikari to the ground. "Auntie Hikari, it's been so long! Where've you been."

"Oh…around… I've been looking for-"

"Will you be staying with us long?"

Hikari sighed and gently pushed Shippou off..

"Afraid not. Number one, I can't stand Miroku, number two I'm looking for someone… and I've postponed the search long enough…Speaking of which, I'd better go…Good-bye Shippou. I'll visit soon, okay?"

Shippou didn't look very happy, but managed to smile.

Returning the smile, Hikari started off into the woods wondering where her search would take her now. She sighed and resumed her walk, leaving the strange group of travelers behind.

Glowing eyes watched her from the shadows of the woods. A snake wiggled it's way toward the eyes and disappeared at contact.

"So… she hasn't changed at all and is nearly exactly like her mother… My little experiment went well… I shall have to keep an eye on her…and strike when she is weak…"

The laugh that followed the statement made the trees around shiver. But Hikari noticed nothing, and continued on her way. She was on her way back to where it all started…

Welcome to the longplanned ficcy, which I think is really stupid, but will perhaps get better. Pairing that have been defined are as follows

Sango/Miroku

Inuyasha/Kagome

And Hikari/Sessomaru, slight Hikari/Koga... but only for a little bit. And a surprise pairing with Hikari. Very slight, nothing happens, even less of than the Koga-ness...And trust me, when you findout, anyone who's reading thiswill want to kill me... But then you'll never find out who shereally ends up with...

Next chapter should be out tomorrow, or earlier or later, definitely in a week...