Disclaimer: Sadly, I do not own any of the InuYasha characters, but I do own Kikitoi. =P

Kikitoi's deep purple eyes began to glitter with fury as she looked at the innkeeper standing in front of the inn.

"Are you saying you aren't going to let me stay at your inn because I'm a half-demon?"

The mans eyes narrowed. "Look you hybrid scum, we don't allow any half-breeds in our inns, it doesn't matter how much you pay, so I am telling you to leave this village or I will get the soldiers to come and take you away."

Kikitoi looked at the man with disgust. She turned around and walked away. 'Looks like I'm sleeping outside tonight again.' Kikitoi was an inu-hanyou, she had blonde hair and a pale complexion. Her eyes were a deep purple, and she had two reddish-brown ears perched on top of her head. They were quite large for dog ears she knew, and a few times, she had even been mistaken for a cat. Anytime that happened, the person that thought wrong was quickly informed by her dog tail and canine like personality. Kikitoi walked to the edge of a tree and sat down to enjoy some peace and quiet in the forest…. Or so she thought.

Within five minutes of Kikitoi sitting down in the comforting shade of the tree, her dream like state was interrupted.

"INUYASHA. SIT!!" Kikitoi's eyes flew open at the sound of a crash, a yelp, and somebody storming off screaming, "I'M GOING HOME YOU JERK." Curious, Kikitoi walked out onto the path where she heard the noise. When she emerged, the first thing she saw was a large cat-like demon flying away with a girl in very skimpy clothing on her back. 'Geez, put some clothes on.' Kikitoi thought. The next thing she noticed was 4 pairs of eyes staring at her with obvious confusion on their face. 'Huh…. Another inu-hanyou,' she thought, looking at the dude which was halfway to hell in the ground. "Um… Hello." Kikitoi said with uncertainty. "Nice weather we're having huh?" A monk covered in purple with a large golden staff walked up to her. "Yes, certainly, indeed! Wonderful weather! My name is Miroku. I was, wondering, would you care to bear my child?" Kikitoi's eyes zoned out for a minute, before she slapped him across the face. "WHAT IN KAMI'S NAME IS WRONG WITH YOU? WHO DO YOU THINK I AM?" Miroku looked taken aback.

Sango came up behind Kikitoi. "Please ignore him. He's just a perverted lecher."

Miroku looked hurt. "Sango, how could you say such a thing?"

"Don't you come near me Miroku."

Sango turned back to Kikitoi. "Can you perhaps point us to the nearest village? We need to stop and rest."

Kikitoi frowned. "I can, but they won't let your friend stay," she said glancing at InuYasha.

"Why not?"

Kikitoi scowled. "Apparently half-demons aren't allowed in their inns. Trust me, it's from personal 10 minute ago experience."

Miroku frowned. "Well then, I guess we are sleeping outside again tonight. Care to join us Lady…?"

"Kikitoi." Kikitoi said acknowledging them with a nod. "Sure, it couldn't hurt I guess."

InuYasha finally recovered from being sat. He got up and brushed himself off. "Look wench, I don't care if half-demons aren't allowed. I'm staying in that inn." He said marching off towards the village.

Kikitoi's eyes narrowed. "What did you call me?"

InuYasha turned around to look at her, and returned her glare right back. "Wench. Got a problem?"

A growl rumbled deep in Kikitoi's chest. "Bastard." She said with a smirk.

"Bitch." He said with an evil grin.

"Cut it out!" Screamed Shippou, completely ignored.

Miroku sighed. "Kagome left with all the camping stuff. I guess we won't have the conveniences of her era tonight."

Kikitoi and InuYasha continued flinging names at each other, which got worse with every turn. Kikitoi's ears perked up at Miroku's remark. "Huh? What do you mean era?"

"Our friend Kagome, you might have seen her flying off just now, is from the future. She has many things that we couldn't dream of now."

Kikitoi looked confused to say the least. Oh well. It was none of her business anyways.

Sango walked up to her. "Sorry, I didn't get to introduce myself." She said smiling, as the demon cat landed beside her. "My name is Sango, and this is Kirara. That's InuYasha," she said nodding her head in the direction of the hanyou.

Kirara all of a sudden transformed into a small kitten and jumped up into Kikitoi's arms. "Aww, how cute!" Kikitoi exclaimed. She stroked the fur on the cat's head. "Kirara was it?"

Miroku walked off to the side to search for a campsite. "Aw, Kagome-sama, could you have at least left us some of those Wateer Boutuls?" Kikitoi gave Miroku a weird look, before returning to petting Kirara. Though she was half-inu, she had always liked cats. As she was petting Kirara, she noticed something under her fur. "Hmmm?" Kikitoi exclaimed as she pulled off a flea. "A flea?"

It jumped out of her grasp and onto her neck where it bit her. "OWW!" She growled before smashing the thing. Miraculously it was fine. "Hello there I'm Myouga the flea!"

Kikitoi's eyes got wide. "A flea-demon? That's new." When she finally looked up, she noticed Miroku and Sango were gone, and InuYasha was sitting up against a tree across from her staring at her. "What's with you?" She said with little interest, even though she really wanted to know.

"Keh."

'Keh? What the hell was that?' Kikitoi thought. She turned around and noticed the flea was gone. 'What is it with people around here? They run off without a damn trace!'

All of a sudden the sky darkened above them. "What the…?" Kikitoi murmured. "An aura?" InuYasha jumped up all of a sudden clenching his sword. "NARAKU!" He said looking up at the sky. Kikitoi looked up and saw a figure in a white baboon suit floating above them.

"Ah, InuYasha. And who might this be?" He cackled looking at Kikitoi. "Another half-breed?" InuYasha growled and looked at Kikitoi. "Look wench, can you fight or not?"

Kikitoi looked at him with a skeptical expression. "Of course I can fight damnit. How do you think I get by?"

"Good," InuYasha said before unsheathing his sword, which changed into a huge fang. 'Damn.' Kikitoi thought. She got up and took out the two swords that were slung behind her back, which both glittered a different color, green and purple. Demons swarmed around them on all sides. Her and InuYasha backed up back-to-back. "So who is this son of a bitch?" She said calmly, pushing one of her bangs to the side of her face. "Someone that needs to die." InuYasha said simply. "I'll take your word for it." She mumbled.

Naraku was above them still, and emitted such an evil aura that it was making Kikitoi sick. "Let's see what your new comrade can do, InuYasha," Naraku said while cackling. 'This wench better be able to do some damage, there is too many demons here for me to handle alone.' When he was getting ready to attack the thousands of demons he noticed that Kikitoi was gone. "Huh?" He said turning around.

Kikitoi was looking back at him with blood staining her features, and at least 20 dead demons lying at her feet. "Look, are you going to sit there and think or are you going to fight?" She said jumping up into the air lunging at Naraku. "Why are you here bastard?" She said slashing the green sword at him. It left a bubbling green mark across his chest. She flipped backwards and landed on the top of a tree. "Damn you…" Naraku said holding his stomach where the slash had been made. "Aww, did my Rinaktsu cut you?" She said mocking him. Meanwhile, InuYasha was clearing out all the demons below Kikitoi.

"Bitch, get down here and help me!" Kikitoi glared at him before jumping down and holding up the purple sword. "KURO NAIYOU!" She screamed swinging the purple sword with incredible speed. A light shone wherever she moved the sword, until the light spread out in front of her wrapping itself around the demons and choking them. InuYasha looked at the demons with amusement. 'Bastards that's what they get.' He said mocking them in his head. "KAZE NO KIZU!" He yelled as he swung at the demons in front of him. He began to notice that the demons were stronger then they were when he had fought them before. And why were there so many? He could tell both him and Kikitoi were beginning to tire.

"Damn." She said panting. Naraku laughed at her. "Are my demons too much for you?"

"I am not going to be provoked my your insults, bastard."

"Not much like another inu-hanyou I know, are we?"

"Back off Naraku!" InuYasha said.

Kikitoi jumped up and stuck the purple sword through Naraku's chest, but not before she had a full dose of his miasma right in her face. "Damnit…" She murmured as she hit the ground below them. Naraku gurgled and fell to pieces from the blow, leaving a small voodoo doll in his place with a single piece of hair wrapped around it. The demons around them also fell to pieces. 'What? Why were the demons destroyed? And why did he show up in the first place?' InuYasha pondered before he noticed Kikitoi lying on the ground, her face covered in a purple dust. "Hmm?" He said walking over to her.

She opened her eyes all of a sudden. "That bastard, let me at 'em." She said sitting up.

"So you're not dead." InuYasha said like he hadn't cared, even though he had.

"Of course I'm not dead! That miasma was barely toxic!"

"Really?" He said before putting his finger on her face and wiping some of the powdery stuff off. He sniffed it cautiously. "What the….?" 'This isn't strong at all!' InuYasha thought confused.

"Uh… Maybe it was a test miasma or something." Kikitoi said lamely.

"Are you stupid?" InuYasha said, still sitting on the ground next to her.

Kikitoi just glared at him. But her glare was quickly replaced by a look of pain. "What the hell?" She said as blood began dripping from her face. "Damn it hurts!" She squealed running off to a nearby creek. She quickly dipped her face down into it. The water turned red around where she stuck her face in. Her ear twitched as she brought her face back up. InuYasha was behind her. She had a bunch of cuts on her face now. "Must have been the miasma." He said crouching down beside her. "What the hell kind of miasma is that? Annoy-the-shit-out-of-you miasma?" She rambled on. Suddenly she stopped.

Kikitoi looked around aimlessly for a moment. "I can't see." She said blankly.

"Really?" InuYasha said, a little worry evident in his voice.

"NOPE!" She said snickering.

InuYasha looked at her with a cold look. "Bitch." She got up. "Well I guess that's half true." She said walking back towards where they had fought Naraku. 'Well, the wench can fight, I'll give her that.' InuYasha thought walking back also.

Shortly after they returned, Miroku and Sango landed back beside them. They sat there awestruck for a moment, noticing InuYasha and Kikitoi covered in cuts and blood, the hundreds of demon bodies around them, and Kikitoi standing there cleaning two swords acting like nothing was out of the ordinary.

"What happened?" Sango wondered aloud looking back and forth from InuYasha to Kikitoi.

"Naraku came, but it was different." InuYasha told them.

"Different? Like how?" Asked Miroku.

"The demons were stronger, and he had a new miasma. He popped up out of nowhere too, the bastard, I don't even know why he came here."

"I didn't like the smell of him either," Kikitoi said as she got up from her spot on the ground.

Sango walked over to inspect the demons that Kikitoi killed, who still had the purplish light engulfing them. "What… Is this?" She said touching the purple stuff.

"Hmm?" Kikitoi said looking over at her. "Oh. That is Kuro Naiyou, one of the attacks of my Minaktsu."

"Dark… Matter?" Sango said curiously.

"Yes," Kikitoi explained, "My swords, Minaktsu and Rinaktsu, were given to me by my mother. Minaktsu is the sword of dark matter, and Rinaktsu is the sword of poison."

"Interesting." Miroku said. "Kikitoi-sama, do you mind telling us more about yourself, after you get cleaned up of course?"

"Um… Sure." Kikitoi said uncertainly. Kikitoi never told anyone her past, but for some reason, she trusted these strangers.

She walked off to the creek where she washed the rest of the blood off her arms. Her clothes were stained too. 'Damn.' She thought, slipping out of them to wash them along with herself. She sunk down deeper into the water and blew bubbles in the water absentmindedly. 'Why do I trust these strangers? They may be considering robbing me of my possessions while I'm asleep or something.' She knew they wouldn't though. She jumped at a rustle in the bushed where she looked over to see Shippou.

"Shippou? You scared me. I thought you were that hentai or something."

"Kikitoi-chan, can I take a bath with you? I usually take a bath with Kagome, but she's not here."

'Who is this Kagome everyone is so fond of?' Kikitoi thought curiously. "Sure Shippou."

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"So… My past, huh…" Kikitoi said timidly. "It isn't the happiest thing, but I guess it wouldn't hurt to tell. To begin with, I was born in the village of Naisha. Naisha was our leader, and she wasn't the nicest person in the world, to say the least. In fact, she is the reason I am alone…"

~Flashback~

"Kiki? Where are you?" Kikitoi's mother shouted out from the yard.

"Coming mother!" A young Kikitoi exclaimed as she ran out the door of the house.

Kikitoi's mother was a beautiful woman with golden hair the color of the sun. Her red eyes, though they could be scary, were soft and gentle. And most of all, the reddish-brown ears on top of her head made her look like the most welcoming person in the world. Though she was a dog demon, she loved humans. She never had had anything against them.

Kikitoi's mother grabbed her arm and whispered hoarsely into her ear, 'Kikitoi, go inside," she choked, "and hide. Don't come out. No matter what."

Kikitoi was scared by her mother's voice and expression, but she willingly obeyed.

She ran inside and hid up on the rafters of their houses roof. She could hear screaming outside. 'What's going on?' She wondered. She heard her mother's scream, and she could barely sit still. But when she looked out the window and saw a man push her mother to the ground, it sent her off edge.

Kikitoi ran out of the house to stop the man. She knew her mother would never harm a human no matter what. "STOP! DON'T HURT HER!" She screamed tears coming out of her eyes. She looked at the man who had pushed her mother, only to see her father's evil eyes looking back at her.

"YOU EVIL MAN!" Kikitoi ran towards him but he grabbed her and pushed her back to the other men. "Tie her up, and take her to be burnt." He told them. "NO!" Kikitoi's mother screamed, and lunged towards Kikitoi. Before she could reach her she was stabbed through the heart with the Minaktsu in her father's hand. "Kikitoi…" She said as she fell to her knees and materialized into the air, as her soul left her body and swirled up into the air.

Kikitoi was too shocked to speak. "Mommy…" She stammered. The men tied her up and walked her back to the castle with a knife to her neck. Kikitoi didn't care. She could be with her mommy soon.

They walked up to the castle gates and pushed Kikitoi in front of Naisha.

"I see you brought her… Good job men. Now burn her until she dies."

At that moment something registered in Kikitoi's mind. Her mother wouldn't want her to die. Her mother would want her to live.

Kikitoi jumped up unexpectedly, dispite the ropes that bound her hands together. She ripped them apart easily and jumped in front of her father. She snatched the Minaktsu and Rinaktsu her father had slung over his back. 'Mommy said I could have these when she passed into the Netherworld. Mother… Why did you give them to father?'

Kikitoi didn't look back at her burning house, or the screaming men as she jumped into the forest, never to return to the village of Naisha again.

~Normal Time~

Sango looked at Kikitoi with tears in her eyes. "That's…. That's horrible."

"Oh, it's alright Sango-chan, cheer up!" Kikitoi said trying to make Sango return to her happier mood. "It was a long time ago, and my father died shortly after."

InuYasha had a knowing look on his face, and Miroku was looking away distantly. "I am sorry to have asked you to recall such painful memories." He told her.

"It's okay Miroku. I know one day I will see my mother again."

Miroku sighed. "It is late. We should get some rest." He said, leaning back against a tree. Sango nodded. "Yes. We should sleep shouldn't we." Kikitoi could tell she was still upset about her story. Kikitoi leaned back against an old log. 'Damn Father. Why did he have to torture me so?' Kikitoi thought as she drifted off to sleep. She knew she shouldn't think bad thoughts before going to sleep, that it would giver her nightmares, but it was pretty much impossible when she just resurfaced her cruel memories. She fell into a restless sleep.

Okay, so what do you all think? Good? Bad? All reviews welcome. Also, Minaktsu and Rinaktsu do not mean anything in Japanese, they are just names I made up. Kikitoi's dark matter attack translates to dark matter. Ironic, huh? Please review so I can continue. =)