It was a cold, rainy day. The air was heavy and filled with the terrible stench of demons. The aura was extremely strong. "I sense a shikon shard!" Kagome a Japanese girl announced suddenly. "But what's strange is it's going the opposite way of the demon aura!" she finished as InuYasha turned and slowly pulled out his Tetsusaiga.

"Well I've been looking foreword to a fight. This'll be fun!" he said with a funny glint in his eyes.

"InuYasha….wait. We can't just go attacking random people. What if it's a harmless old lady? You don't want to kill an innocent old lady, do you?" Kagome asked InuYasha.

"And what would some old hag have to do with the shikon shards?!" he snapped back. Kagome suddenly looked very angry and InuYasha knew he shouldn't have said that.

"InuYasha…SIT!" she shouted then said "I can't believe you! That was so rude! You need to learn your lesson…so sit boy!" right after she said that all her anger left and she started to laugh as InuYasha lay face down in a huge puddle of mud.

"Wow! InuYasha you take mud baths?" Miroku said appearing from the forest behind them. Behind him came Songo, Shippo, and Kirara.

"I'm surprised you even bathe at all!" Shippo announced.

"Ha ha very funny." InuYasha said getting up. His whole front side was covered in mud. "Hey Kagome…how about a hug!" he yelled playfully as he leapt at her.

"Sit!" she shrieked back playfully and he fell to the ground directly at her feet. "Hey, the shard stopped moving!" she announced. "It's that way." She pointed foreword.

"Are we going to go after it?" asked InuYasha.

"Yes! Hey Songo…can I ride on Kirara with you? I forgot my bike and I don't want to get all mud all over my clothes." Kagome said.

"Sure." Songo replied.

"Okay let's go!" Kagome shouted and the five friends started towards the shards.

"I wonder why the shards are heading away from the demon aura." Kagome asked herself. "Is that a good thing or a bad thing?" She wondered. "It's coming from right over that hill!" she stated. Suddenly a demon aura hit them.

"I told you it was a demon Kagome!" InuYasha shouted.