I do not own Inu Yasha or Yu Yu Hakusho. I would like to thank Speedykitten1463 for the idea of this story as well as Little Benzai-Ten for the ideas on what to do with this story. I hope you enjoy it. Sugar

The sun was just starting to rise over the horizon only to find a young Miko running away from a clearing and deeper into woods. The dark blue kimono that she wore got caught every so often on the thorn bushes below the trees. I should have known that he would have done this to me eventually as long as she is still walking this earth, the distraught female thought as she stumbled into a clearing before she crumpled into a ball. She sobbed into her knees not caring if someone would come along and end her life.

When the sun reached its zenith, the growling in the young woman's stomach could no longer be ignored. She slowly made her way back to the village that allowed her to stay after Naraku had destroyed the bone eaters well and her only way home. At least Shippou isn't here to see me like this, she thought as she started in the wrong direction. The deeper she walked into the forest the more she realized that she was lost and that she felt eyes watching her from a distance.

A few feet away from where she was walking on the "path" she saw something reflecting the sun. She figured that it couldn't have been water, for it had not rained in about a week, she went to inspect it only to see that it was a pool of blood with a black haired yōkai laying in it. From the looks of his wings he was a koumori yōkai. "What happened to you?" She asked even though it was obvious that he wouldn't answer. She rolled him over, gently so as not to harm him further, before she took her long bow and quiver off and kneeled down beside the unknown yōkai.

"Why be gentle with me when you could just kill me like all of your people want to do, Miko." The yōkai groaned out making her jump. He opened one of his black eyes to look at her, what he thought was going to be the last one that he saw before he left this world.

"The name is Kagome and I will not kill you, you are in need of aid." She told him as she started to look in her bag for bandages. Thank the gods that I had the foresight to bring this monstrosity, she thought as she found her first-aid kit. "All I ask is that once you are better you don't kill me right away, give me a chance to run if I must." She told him as she started unlacing his top to see the extent of the damage that he took.

"I don't need your help!" He growled out trying to sit up only to be pushed down once more by an irritated ningen.

"It looks to me that yes you do need m y help. Now please let me help you," she begged him making sure not to look away from his eye that he opened. Receiving no further argument from the koumori she once again started to open his black shirt to see the extent of his wounds. They were deep and she was sure that if she would have come by any later, he would no longer be with the living. "Do you know a place that I can get some water to clean out your wounds and a place that we can stay as you regain your strength?" She asked still looking around for something, but there was nothing but a trail of blood and woods.

"There is a cave," he winced as he tried to sit up once more, wincing as she helped him stay upright. "It should be about a few hours walk from here, if I'm not mistaken." He told her as he tried to calm his reaction to the pain that he was in. "Find a small spring and you can find the cave in the rocks to the left. The bad news is that you will have to help me get to it."

"Let me put something on your chest before we start walking," she told him as she grabbed a gauze pad and some medical tape from the kit that she had placed between them. "This is only to make sure that you don't bleed out before I can treat you properly." She told him before she taped the pad to his puncture wounds before she placed her kit back in her bag and helped him to his feet. "Please lean on me as much as you need." She told him as she started walking to the right.

"Why are you so kind to those that you should hate?" The koumori asked the ningen as he started to lean more heavily on her.

"I'm not your average miko," she told him with a slight chuckle. "I help any that need it." She smiled up at the yōkai, making him drown in cerulean depths. "What is your name?" She asked him as he looked away from her. "I would hate to keep on referring to you as 'the yōkai' or 'koumori' in my mind." She told him as she made sure that she was going in the right direction for once.

"Kuronue," he gasped out as he started to cough, causing him to groan in pain once more. "It is strange though, not long ago I was thinking that death was inescapable now I am walking with my kind's enemy." He said between deep breaths trying to keep the level of pain out of his voice. "I am glad that it was you who found me and not the miko that reeks of graveyard soil and death." He told her as he looked up at the sky.

Despite herself, she could not help but to laugh at his words, he did not even know Kikyou and he was making fun of her scent, even though it was true any ningen could have told you that. "I will give you that, she probably would have killed you without a second thought. All that would matter to her is that you are a yōkai and should would not care that you are injured. How did you manage to get so wounded?" She asked not able to stop the question from leaving her lips. "I'm sorry you don't have to answer that."

"Have you heard of the kitsune Yoko Kurama?" the yōkai asked after a pause. He is the best silver kitsune that has ever lived, Okaa-san! She heard the voice of her kit and how he later went on about the kitsune as if he was best thing that ever happened to their species of yōkai.

"Yes my son can go on and on about the great thief Yoko Kurama, the silver kitsune that has his eye always on a treasure of some sorts for hours at a time." She told him with a smile on her face as she thought of her kit.

So lost in her thoughts she did not see the look of shock that flashed through his eyes before he continued his explanation. "Well your son would be right about that. He and I were partners, our last raid ended badly for the both of us. He did manage to get away even though his arm was just barely connected to his shoulder. I on the other hand was not as lucky as you can see." He lifted up his arm that was not around the miko to point at his chest. "We were looking for information about the Shikon no Tama. It wasn't to use it, trust me we didn't want to become pawns to the tama." He added quickly when he felt her tense under him. "I personally just wanted to see it for myself just once before I go onto the next relic that catches my fancy." He attempted to joke around with her.

"Is that all you wanted from it? Just to look at it once?" She asked as with her head down.

"Of course it is. Power gained from that cursed object is not ones true power," he told her as he tried to figure out why she would care so much about the damned thing. "Besides the guardian of the tama will eventually fuse it back together again and what good would it do to have a piece? She would just come and destroy us when she found us," he told her as they stopped walking. "Kagome are you alright?" He asked her.

"Yeah, I'm fine it's just that most would want increase their power no matter the risk." She told him as she looked into his black eyes once more. "We really do need to hurry up at get you lying down again so you don't injure yourself further." She finished as she started to walk once more with him not having much choice but to walk with her.

The rest of the way to the spring they walked in silence, but both minds were running at a million miles per minute. One was trying to figure out the reason for his companion to shut down like she did. The other was trying to figure out if he could be like Sesshomaru and not want the tama at all.

"Go left Kagome," Kuronue was the first one to break the silence that had fallen upon the two of them, when they got to the spring near twilight. "It should be here somewhere." He said as he started looking at the rocks to the left of the two of them. "I need to start marking the caves that I find with something," he mumbled to himself thinking that the female would not be able to hear him. In the midday sun it would have been hard to spot let alone when the sun was giving her place in the sky for the moon.

"I think that I can see the entrance," the miko said as she walked the two of them over to what she thought would be the mouth of the cave. The cave was small but at the same time big enough for the two of them to stay in for no more than a week. The moss on the floor would give them both some padding but it would still get quite cold at night. "Let's get you something for your head," she told him as she laid him down on the ground. Digging around in her bag she found the spare blanket that she packed the last time she was home. "I know that this isn't much but it will help," she said as she placed it under his head before she went out to the spring, with a bowl in hand, to get some water to wash his wound as well as the area surrounding it.

When she returned she was, at first, surprised to see that he was in a deep slumber, but the more she thought about it the less it surprised her he was trying to heal from a possible life ending injury. Do this quickly but gently she thought to herself as she started to remove the gauze pad and medical tape to clean his chest off. Please don't wake up, she thought as the last of the tape came off with the gauze showing the wound that would surly leave a scar. She pulled out her first-aid kit once more grabbing more bandages as well as some plants that would fight infection and speed up healing. She then dug around in her bag until found some clean rags to wash the blood off of him. Slowly she began the process of cleaning and treating his wound then wrapping it so the medical plants would stay where they needed to be.

She grabbed a little bit of the smoked fish that she was saving for a time in need, as well as her sleeping before she set up her sleeping space for the night. While she ate the small amount of food that she had, she placed a barrier around the entrance of the cave to keep everyone out. The last she did was start a small fire, which was more for her than him, to help fight off the chill of the night air before she climbed into her sleeping for the night.

AN- I know what you all are thinking… Why would she (me) start a new story when she has three others still needing to be completed? I felt like it, that's why. I hope that you like this chapter let me know what you think, if I like your review (should you post one) I will post it on my Twitter page :) Sorry that it took me so long to get this chapter out, but between graduating, getting married and Diablo 3, I forgot to write.

I love you all, Sugar