Disclaimer: Sadly, Inuyasha and everyone else are in Rumiko Takahashi's possession. The green-yed girl is mine. (but I wish I could have Inuyasha!!!!)

A Burning Heart

Scroll 1: The Green-Eyed Girl

The village was bustling with activity beneath the hot, noon-day sun. People went about their chores with quiet determination. Only an occasional stirring of wind brought them relief from their toil. The priestess Kaede straightened up after arranging the flowers she had just placed on her sister's grave, or what was left of it. She looked up at the sky with a deep sigh and gazed in thought. Kagome and her friends would be returning today, or so they had promised a few days ago. She wondered if they had succeeded in obtaining another Jewel fragment. Without warning, a soft voice spoke very close by.

"Excuse me, are you the priestess of this village?"

Kaeda started as she saw a young woman around Kagome's age standing right in front of her. She did not even see her coming. The old woman recollected herself and nodded. "I am Kaede. What can I help ye with, child?"

"I wish to ask if you've seen an unusual-colored sparrow lately." The girl had gentle, smiling, jade green eyes that the priestess could not look away from.

"No, I am sorry. I have not seen this sparrow you seek. Would you like some foo--"

"Thank you anyway, Lady Kaede," she cut in.

Before Kaede could say anything else, the girl tuned and began heading towards the edge of the village. "Take care, child," she called after her. A moment later, her eyes widened as she realized something. "White hair?! That girl is not human! She is a demon!" She had been so focused on her eyes that she did not notice anything else about her before.

"Kaede! We're back!" Kagome's voice carried all the way from the priestess' hut.

Kaede turned and blinked in its direction, then looked back to where the girl had been walking, but she was gone without a trace. Pondering the demon's appearance, she began making her way slowly towards her home. When she arrived, she found that there was a large hole in front of her hut, a certain tempermental half demon sitting in it it trying to wrestle his necklace off. Kagome stood fuming next to him, her back turned and arms crossed. Miroku, Sango, and Shippou watched them both in amusement.

"Well now, look who's back. Did you find any shards during your journey?"

Kagome's bad mood seemed to shift when she saw the priestess. "Oh! Kaede! We didn't find any shards, but we did manage to fight off some demons that were attacking a village."

"Feh! What do you mean we?!" Inuyasha interupted irritably. "I was the one doing all the work! And for what? We didn't even get any shards of the Jewel!"

It was Sango's turn to cut in. "Inuyasha! What do you mean you were doing all the work? Kirara and I fought as hard as you did!"

"That's right," Miroku said, adding his voice to the arguement." "In fact, I did not hold back myself."

Sango's eye twitched, and second later the ambitious monk had a glowing red cheek and smug smile on his face.

Kagome gazed at Miroku impassively. "You sure didn't."

"Speaking of demons, I smell one very near." Inuyasha leapt out of the hole as everyone turned to look at him. He started walking around Kaede, suspiscion rising with every step. "Kaede, have you seen anything strange lately?"

"In fact, I have," the old woman replied. The group took in their breaths."I met a demon just before ye all arrived."

"What did it look like?" Inuyasha demanded.

Kaede gazed up at the sky as if trying to remember something lost. "It was a female. One with green eyes. She had long white hair like your's, Inuyasha, and now that I think of it a haori also made from a fire rat, but dyed green like her eyes."

Everyone looked at Inuyasha.

"You don't happen to have a sister too, do you, Inuyasha?" Miroku asked.

"Are you kidding me?! Sesshoumaru's bad enough!"

"I believe she was a tiger demon. She had stripes on her cheeks," Kaede ventured.

"Sounds dangerous," Kagome thought aloud.

Miroku took a step towards the priestess. "Lady Kaede, why were you not cautious? What did she want?"

"I did not believe her to be a demon until after she turned to leave. I could not lookaway from her eyes. She looked a simple human girl with very polite manners. All the wanted to know if I'd seen a discolored sparrow."

"Heh, I don't care about no dumb sparrow, but this tiget demon could have some Jewel shards with her! Come on, Kagome!" Inuyasha hurried towards Kikyo's gravesight where he was picking up the demon's scent.

--There. That wasn't too bad as a first Inuyasha fanfiction, now was it?

Inuyasha: Feh. If you consider this short, pathetic chapter part of a story...

--Now, now, there's always more to come.

Inuyasha: I bet they're all this pathetic.

Kagome: Inuyasha, SIT!!

--See what you get for not being nice?

-:curses are heard from the Inuyasha-sized hole:-