Disclaimer: I dont own anything except the plot. no characters or anything... :(

FYI, i wont update anything a lot. ever. except for email...

Kagome was currently sneaking around her home village, the one near the well to her own time. She was looking for someone, and they were here the other night too. She must drive him away. She must protect the innocent people. Finally, she spotted a tiny and well concealed movement inside a hut.

She snuck inside, and saw a certain someone couched over an unconscious person, all three of them hidden in the dark shadows.

"Naraku!" Kagome cried. She had caught him in the act of stealing a priest's life.

He looked around, searching for the sound's source. Making a 40 degree turn to the right, he sensed spiritual power and stopped. The miko stepped out into the light of the moon and showed herself, eyes narrowed.

Naraku cursed silently, for she had disrupted the thin barrier he had put up around him, and the spiritual power of the old man pulsed silver in the darkness was obviously there, ready for Naraku's taking.

He would have to come back another time.

He pulled his baboon pelt around him and leapt deftly out of the open window, leaving the confused miko why he didn't just confront her. She could still see him running, slightly slower than usual, into the forest.

Someone tapped on her shoulder, and she jolted around, expecting some small youkai, to steal the leftover spiritual power. Instead, she found Sango, all sleepy, standing in her night gown staring intently into Kagome's eyes.

"Kagome, what's wrong? Couldn't sleep?" Sango asked, slightly more awake with each passing moment.

Kagome debated on whether to tell her Naraku was doing a nightly visit for the past day (night, actually) to steal some spiritual power. Her warning senses told her to explain what she had seen.

Sango's eyes widened, glinting off the waning moon, currently working to stay away from the clouds, and failing.

A breeze carried on through the night, floating through the unsuspecting peoples' dwellings, and through the house they had been currently sleeping in.

There was a tiny flurry of movement, and the next thing the two girls knew, Inuyasha was holding a struggling but helpless kitsune, dangling from his hand. Shippo crossed his arms and pouted and begged all in the same, darling look.

"Inuyasha," Kagome whispered warningly into his twitching ear. "Put him down. I swear he's going to put a restraining order on you some day, when he can."

The hanyou looked confused, still holding onto the still-struggling kid. "HUH? What's that?"

Kagome sighed impatiently. "Never mind. Just let go of the poor baby, will you?"

At this, the kitsune looked indignant. "I am NOT a baby! Sheesh! What's with you two?" he said, looking between Sango and Kagome.

Inuyasha took the words differently and ignored Miroku when he entered and announced, "I'm here!". He cocked his head slightly and asked, "So, tell me the reason you're here, taking this late night stroll, in another's house. A village priests, to be exact." He looked down at the man regaining consciousness on the floor, his aura around him getting slightly stronger and more silvery.

"Yeah, fine. Go ahead and ignore me." Miroku complained, just as Shippo said, "Since when are you all perfect when talking?"

Inuyasha took no notice of them and kept asking annoying questions. "So who was here? Why's the old man just lying there? What, you didn't break his back, did you Kagome?"

Shippo, knowing it would attract his attention, muttered something that sounded awfully like lovebirds.

Inuyasha shot him a look of loathing and Shippo, deciding it would be more convenient to keep his head, shut up.

Miroku sighed and rolled his eyes. When was Inuyasha going to admit being in love with the girl? Better yet, when was he going to get along with the kid? The little fox youkai didn't do anything wrong…yet. And, he was scared of Kagome, because it looked like she was close to her breaking point and was about to scream her head off at Inuyasha, that forbidden word she couldn't say around him (unless being punished).

Inuyasha seemed to notice the same thing and said, "Just tell me what happened. God."

Kagome took as fast as she could to her explanation; she didn't want to talk all night. Seriously, even she needed her beauty sleep sometimes.

Finally, many minutes later, Kagome asked why Inuyasha was there and how he found them so fast with that wary expression on his face.

He was playing with his ears until that little question of hers. All of a sudden, he was alert and said, "I smelled Sesshomaru nearby, and that bitch Kagura. Naraku apparently went downwind from me, so I didn't notice him."

Sesshomaru? Kagome wondered, exchanging a glance with Sango. What was he doing here with them?

Ch 1 done