Part One

I whimpered as I dragged my sore feet down the road. The rope around my neck tightened as the cart kept moving. My tail slumped to the ground. I was nothing more than a slave. My current owner was taking me to the closest village after I tried to attack him when he tried to have his way with me, I haven't eatin anything since, nor have I been aloud to get more than a few minutes sleep.

I am nothing more than a mutt. My mother was a beautiful dog demon, and my father was a powerful wolf demon. Last I had seen my once brown hair looked almost black from grease and dirt, and itched all the time. My skin, once a delicate white, now covered in dirt and grime. Me eyes were green, once, now they have died down to a dark grey. My lips cracked, and would start bleeding whenever I open my mouth to wide. My claws, once deadly and beautiful, cut down to my fingers so I could not use them.
Looking at my outfit I whimpered again. The kimono left next to nothing to the imagination. It was way to short in the front, stopping several inches above my knees. It was low cut, to where if I moved my arms to much my breast would be exposed.

Finally I saw a village come into view. As we were walking threw the village I kept my gaze in front of me as I heard men whistling at me and felt their stares all over my body.
Glaring at my owner, I thought about how I came into this disgusting human's possession; my original owner, who had kidnapped me, was a snake demon. He was good to me; he never made me do anything I wasn't comfortable with. But, a man with black hair and red eyes killed him, taking me away for several years; he would punish me for no reason at all. For some reason one day he forced a jewel shard into my arm, but when nothing happened and it remained pure, he gave me to the human that tried to attack me. Coward, that's what my current owner is, he had refused to feed me for five days before attempting to take advantage of me, but I managed to protect myself. Forcing him to hold me down and cut my claws off, that had been the worst torture I had ever been threw.
Coming to a stop my owner spun me around to face the growing crowd, after announcing that I was for sale, the men started bidding.
I heard the price rise higher and higher, feeling my heart ache I started crying and that made the men bid more.
I didn't understand humans, why would they do this to me?

All of a sudden I heard a fight break out and people began to panic. Looking up I saw a group of people walking threw the village, aiming directly towards my master, who refused to move.
As the group got closer I looked each person over in the small group.

The first was a man dressed all in red with white silver hair, dog ears, and gold eyes. He was obviously a half demon. The girl next to him was dressed in strange clothes; her skirt was as short as mine was. She had black hair and carried a small fox demon on her shoulder. He was adorable, red hair, red tail. The woman next to them was dressed like a demon slayer, making me nervous, her black hair was pulled back into a high pony tail and he man next to her was dressed like a monk, and carried a gold staff. His black hair was pulled into a short small pony tail.

As they approached my master, he became nervous. Finally at a panic he yelled that they could have me as he shoved me to the ground, and ran off.
Coward
I looked up as the half breed knelt infront of me and smiled at me. Reaching behind me he lifted me to my feet. By that time everyone had fled to hiding places.

"Thank you…for saving me…how can I repay you?"
"Hand over your jewel shard."
With a nod, I pulled at the ribbon around my wrist, revealing the pink shard.
Gently I handed it to the human girl wearing the strange outfit.
"You're handing it over? Just like that?"
"It never helped me before, why should I keep it?"
With a nod the human decided I should travel with them, not really giving me room to argue.

As we were walking I was introduced to everyone.
I explained that my name was Yuki.
After a few minutes we decided to make camp. As this small tornado headed right towards us. Everyone else didn't seem worried about it, but I kind of was. Until a demon jumped out of the tornado and walked over to Kagome. Towering over her the tan, black haired, wolf demon grabbed her hands.

"Kagome"

He trailed off as he started sniffing the air. His eyes landed on me, as mine immediately went to the ground.

"Kagome? Who's that?"
"Oh! That's Yuki. We just rescued her."

Kagome smiled at him and introduced him to me, apparently his name was Kouga.
I couldn't help but smile at the wolf demon.
With a laugh Kagome and Sango started dragging me to the hot springs saying something about me really needing a bath.

Reaching the hot springs, I stripped down, and slid into the relaxing water.
Kagome started digging in her yellow bag as Sango joined me.
Pulling out a strange looking bottle, wading in next to us she pored some of the liquid into her hand and asked if she could was my hair. I just nodded as she and Sango started rubbing the liquid into my hair. It felt absolutely heavenly, until Kagome started speaking.

"What happened to you Yuki? You're a mess."
"I was kidnapped from my family and my betrothed when I was only a pup. And I was sold into slavery; my kidnapper wasn't that bad, but he was murdered, and I was taken by the man that murdered my kidnapper, when he inserted a shard of the jewel into my wrist he expected it to become tainted, but it remained pure, so he gave me to the man you saved me from, when he thought I as old enough he tried to have his way with me. But I attacked him and he had my claws cut off and took me to the village to be sold again."

I hissed when Kagome hit a particularly sensitive spot on my shoulder.
Quickly she apologized.

That's when Sango started asking questions.

"I've never seen a demon with both a tail and ears. So what are you Yuki?"
"I'm a mutt, my mother was a dog demon and my father was a wolf demon."
"Who was your betrothed? Maybe we have met him before?"
"He was a powerful dog demon."
"If he was so powerful then why didn't he protect you?"
"He was patrolling the lands when I was taken. I could feel his distress when he found out. But when we got to far away I couldn't feel him anymore. But I can sense him now. He's close by."
"We will look for him the morning, ok?"
"Thank you."

We sat in silence as all of us finished up, breathing a sigh of contentment at the feeling of my clean skin and hair.
Getting out we headed back to camp when we heard Inuyasha yell; running back to camp we saw Inuyasha fighting a dog demon.

Who was screaming at Inuyasha.

"Where is she?"
To which Inuyasha kept asking
"Who?"

After taking in the demons appearance it finally hit me.
My betrothed had finally found me…and he was fighting my new friends.