DISCLAIMER: I don't own InuYasha & company but I do own kaei
The Shikon Shards and the Little Black Book
"I'm hungry and tired." Shippo complained as the group walked deeper into the dense forest.
"And what do you want me to do Shippo? Do you really want to sleep here?" InuYasha yelled at the little kitsune. He didn't have time to play baby-sitter for anyone, especially not Shippo.
"Kagome!" Shippo yelled as he usually did when he felt threatened by InuYasha.
"Oh, stop being so stupid, InuYasha." Kagome said exasperated by InuYasha's behavior. "Can we please stop?"
"It's not as if we are doing anything important. We are just wandering." Miroku argued.
"Pointlessly, might I add." Sango put in while trying to stifle a yawn.
"Fine then. If you all want to sleep then sleep." InuYasha crossed his arms and sat down. The group sighed exasperatedly.
"But cant we just-" Shippo began but was cut off by Miroku smacking him on the head with his staff. "What was that for?" Shippo clutched the top of his head.
"Don't piss him off any more. We got him to stop, even if it's not in the most convenient of places, we should pretend to act grateful." Miroku explained. Sango and Kagome nodded in agreement.
A half-hour later, a fire blazed cheerfully in their makeshift campsite. It seemed to be out of place in the dark bleakness of the forest night. It cast eerie shadows across every person there. It showed who was asleep and who wasn't. Which of course was none other than InuYasha and Shippo.
"That's one thing about him that never ceases to amaze me." Sango commented.
"About who?" Kagome asked sleepily.
"InuYasha. He always complains about stopping but is sometimes the first to take advantage of it." Sango said, tapping Kirara on the head.
"I guess he's just more tired then he lets on." Miroku said, leaning back against a tree.
They sat in silence for a while just watching the flame's dance. They were jerked out of their reverie by a harsh wind that blew through them. The fire was nearly put out. With the wind came the sounds of a battle.
Kirara sat up in Sango's lap. Her fur bristled and stood on end. Then she started to growl.
"What's the matter, Kirara?" Sango asked her pet demon.
InuYasha's head snapped up.
"There's a fight nearby." He said. His ears twitched a bit as he said this.
"A fight?" Shippo whimpered. He crawled onto Kagome's shoulder.
"Umm....I think I'm sensing Shikon shards....A lot of Shikon Shards." Kagome said pointing off into the direction of the battle.
"Shall we go then?" Miroku asked pointlessly. He already knew the answer.
"Like we have a choice, idiot." InuYasha snapped.
"Let's go then." Sango said. She had changed into her exterminator's armor while the group had been debating. Her hiraikotsu was slung over her shoulder as usual.
After about five minutes the group came upon the scene of the disturbance. It was a small clearing hidden in the depths of the forest. Only one figure could be seen.
It was a demon. A very large snake demon to be precise. It had a snake's tail but from the waist up it had the features of a man. Large fangs protruded from the mouth. They looked highly venomous.
"Amazing." Kagome wondered aloud "We were so close and yet no one sensed this." Her hand rested on her bow.
"Do you think it's won already?" Sango asked her eyes settling on the hole in front of the demon.
"No way. We would have heard something, besides I sense another presence." InuYasha said. He narrowed his eyes and then they focused on a figure that jumped out of a tree.
"There!" He pointed at it. The group's eyes followed the motion until it came to rest on the figure.
"Do you honestly think a little trick like that would finish me off?" the figure said arrogantly.
It stepped out of the shadows and in to the dim moonlight. Everyone stepped into the clearing to get a better look.
It turned out to be a girl in her teens. She was short and slender with long fire red hair that hung down past her shoulder blades. There were two chunks in the front that were shorter than the rest and were black. They couldn't see her face. A sword was held in her right hand.
"You think she's human?" Shippo asked.
"Are you blind!? Of course she's not, look at her hair! She smells of half-demon blood." InuYasha said.
"Shippo....you have the worst demon sense." Miroku commented. Shippo glared at him.
"Pervert." Shippo argued.
"Shut up!" InuYasha yelled. He for once was trying to be serious.
"You've got a mouth on you but it shouldn't take much more to destroy you, stupid half-breed." The snake demon taunted. Its statement had confirmed their suspicions of the girl's breed.
"Then why am I still here?" the girl mocked. Then as if a flip had switched in her head, she threw her sword at him. It landed right in front of it, leaving him completely unharmed. The group looked at each other confused.
"What was that?" he laughed.
"Distraction, shitface" she put her hands together so that they were almost touching and immediately a glow came. It grew into a baseball sized fire ball. She stretched her right hand back and threw it at the demon. It made contact and took off the demon's left arm.
"Hahahahaha!" She laughed as the blood poured from the demon.
"Sadistic much?" Sango muttered at the half demon.
"Kagome, do either of them have jewel shard?" InuYasha asked.
Kagome squinted. "Yea, the demon has 2 but the girl.....I can't count them all."
"Well then I think im going to go join the fun." InuYasha said as he unsheathed the Tetsusaiga and headed out into the clearing where the girl stood.
"Should he be doing that?" Shippo asked.
"No, not at all." Miroku answered.
The group sighed deeply and followed InuYasha a little ways out into the clearing. This was going to be interesting.