I want to let anyone who has(had) been reading this previously, that I am going to edit this story to sound better and make changes to the grammar. I know it has been a while since I have been active on here and I greatly apologize for my absent.

Darkness loomed onward into a large hole that seemed to have been carved out of the side of a large hillside. Two large oval stones sat at each side of the entrance, like guardians posted to watch over the hole. Hikari looked at it in confusion, not entirely sure how she ended up here. The last thing she remembered was picking up something sparkling and then a bright flash of light before she suddenly here. She looked around her, her brown ears flickering in different directions in search of any odd noises. She sighed and pushed her waist long auburn hair to the side before taking a step forward towards the hole. She placed a hand on her chest, jumping in surprise at the realization she had on an amulet. She picked it up with her pale hands to look at it. It had a black glass like surface to it with a turquoise edging around it. She looked at it, able to see her own reflection. She admired it with her crimson eyes, poking at the smooth blue beads that kept it around her neck. Who in their right mind would lose something that could possibly be worth a handful of coins? She shook her head before letting it fall back against her small chest. She looked back again to the hole and quickly made a small flame in her palm and walked forward again. When she made her way barely into the entrance did she feel a chill rush up her spine and making her tail fluff up in fear. A small breeze seemed to push her along further into the dark cave. Even her rather bright flame didn't seem to make a dent into the darkness. The further she moved, the more the amulet on her chest began to warm and produce a slight humming sound. Suddenly there was a flash of light that caught her off guard and causing her to fall backwards onto her rear. When the light cleared, she had to blink a few times to get rid of the spots in her vision.

"What the hell?" She asked herself before standing up again.

What lay before her made her gasp, her eyes widening. A large hole that seemed to stretch out forever lay before her. She scooted closer and looked over the edge, maybe thinking she would be able to see the bottom. As the amulet hung over the edge, it glowed faintly and suddenly, moving on its own, pulled her forward. She gasped and tired to reach for the edge of the hole but failed to grab onto it. She screamed as she fell into the darkness reaching out to try and find something to hold onto to no avail.

After a moment, which felt like hours to Hikari, the amulet began to glow brightly, enveloping her body in a blue light. She slowly stopped falling and found she was now floating. She stared down at the amulet as its once black surface shined bright like the face of the moon. Its surface swirled and a strange light came from it and moved away from her. She watched in awe as it swirled into itself before becoming something rather solid. A figure stood, covered in the same blue light, his eyes white orbs to match his hair that shimmered like the stars.

"Finally, someone found me. I thank you." He gave her a dazzeling smile that made her heart jump in her chest.

"F-found you?" She asked him

"Why of course. My father trapped my soul into the amulet you wear and had my body tossed into the deepest pit he had his minions find." He looked around, his white kimono flowing like water with the motion.

"Your father…why?" she asked him. Why would someone toss their own flesh and blood into such a hole and trap their soul?

"He was afraid of my power. He thought I would over throw him." The light around him shimmered with anger as he clenched his hands into fists. "But now, I will show him power. With your help of course." He smiled again at her.

"Me? But I am just a lowly cat demon. What can I do?" She asked him, averting her eyes from him.

"Oh Hikari…" He cooed as he came forward and touched her face with his hand, making her look into his white eyes. "You will bring me lost souls to devour…Or I will devour yours." He whispered to her.

She knew what he told her should have put fear into her being, but it was like his eyes were making her calm. She slowly felt herself relax and her mind was pushed back. It was like she was now looking through someone else's eyes. "Yes…"

"That's my good kitten." He grinned wickedly, his handsome features contorting to something far more hideous.

Shippo had decided to go out and test himself again. He didn't want to go too far from the village, even if he was a fox demon, he wasn't that strong to take on a creature bigger then him. He found a hole that reeked of a lesser demon and he waited for it to come out. When it didn't, he took a pebble off the ground and tossed it into the hole and waited for anything. Still nothing. In all honesty it made him kind of relived to find nothing was there.

A noise behind him made him nearly jump out of his skin. Turning around with a cry he tossed a few fox fires into the grass hoping to get whatever it was that was there. A few second later, a rabbit hopped out and looked at him before hopping away again. He sighed and sat down on the ground in defeat.

"Man, this Kitsune training stuff is hard..."

He didn't notice the huge shadow that seemed to loom over him as he kept sitting there until the creature made a noise. Turning his head, his face paling at the look of the beat. Its skin looked like it was falling off its bones and it hard horns that went towards the sky. Shippo screamed, jumping up from his spot and running back to the village with his tail between his legs.

Inuyasha stood with Sango's two daughters in his hands and arms stretched out to keep them away from his face. They kept climbing onto him and touching his ears and they did so with squeals and giggles. He couldn't hide his irritation from appearing onto his face.

Kagome walked in on the three carrying firewood to place inside. Her hair was pulled back and she wore the traditional priestess garb like Kaede. She had to stop and look at Inuyasha with the two and couldn't help smile. She had done that ones, touched his ears so she got why they would want to touch them too. A familiar scream came as a familiar fox demon came bolting from the tree line and quickly hid behind Inuyashas legs, quivering like a leaf from fear.

"In- Inuyasha... There...There was a huge demon in the forest... Something I've never seen before..." He looked up at his friend. His eyes were filled with fear as he looked back to the forest.

"Oh I bet it was just a puny bug that made you so scared you turned tail ad ran." Inuyasha rolled his eyes at the fox demon as he pushed him away. "But if it's sooo terrifying I'll go destroy it for you, wimp." He huffed and walked towards the forest after giving the two children back to their mother. Miroku followed after Inuyasha and looked back at Shippo.

"Shippo, you need to learn that we won't be around forever to protect you, you know."

"I-I know that! What do you think I was trying to do!" Shippo ran after them leaving the girls behind to tend to the children.

"Maybe one day Inuyasha will realize he can't always be such a pain to children if he wants to have his own." Sango shook her head as she watched them walk off setting her daughters on the ground to play.

Kagome nodded her head in agreement at her friends' statement. Though she couldn't say that he wanted any at all with the way he acted.

Inuyasha stopped on the path that Shippo had told him he saw the fiend and scrunched up his nose. "There was something here alright. It reeks of death." He knelt down and noticed the trail of rot following in the creature's wake.

"I have never seen anything do that before. Besides Miasma." Miroku commented feeling like his thoughts should be heard.

"See!? I told you! It was huge! and really scary..." Shippo shook like a leaf in autumn at the thought of encountering the creature again.

Inuyasha snorted at the tikes comment and started following the scent. He didn't even have to get on his hands and knees to follow it. Wherever it went it left a trail of rot, the trees and grass lay withering. "whatever it is, I'll make sure to get rid of it. Then there wouldn't be a problem with the damn thing."

The trail led on for a few minutes before they came upon something strange. It was a torso of a monster. There wasn't any blood to show it had been attacked to make it look that way.

Shippo whined and hid behind Mirokus leg. "T-that's the monster..." He stuttered. He squeaked when it started moving again, using its hands to crawl forward.

Miroku had to cover his nose with his sleeve as a dark mist started pouring out of it when it moved, causing everything around it to die. "That is definitely miasma... Wait, it looks like it's crumbling."

Inuyasha had made that observation just as the monk did. He too covered his mouth before walking over and stomping on the creature's head, crushing it and causing more Miasma to erupt form it. It stopped moving finally and then it just turned to dust, a blue glowing orb flew from its remains and disappeared into the sky.

"What was that?" Shippo asked to no one in particular. "Was it a soul?"

"I don't know, but I fear we are going to have a change and I reckon it won't be a good one either."

Inuyasha looked at the monk before placing his arms in either side of his kimono sleeves and started his walk back to the village. "If it's anything bad we can handle it. But..." He didn't like the fact it got close to the village. And with the Miasma it has, and no one being prepared for it, it could harm people. People he cared about.

"So, are you suggesting we go after it?" Miroku responded to the Dog demon. He knew what he was thinking. He was thinking the same exact thing.

"Well if we don't, who will? People who will just get themselves killed for being stupid." Inuyasha hadn't really had a good fight in a while. And maybe this was a chance to battle some formidable foe. "Besides, I think Shippo needs the training of real fighters if he wants to protect himself besides fleeing away at the sign of danger."

Shippo froze in his steps when Inuyasha looked at him with a devious smirk on his face. "W-wait!? I do not!" Though he said that, he knew he was in a world of trouble.

Indeed Shippo was in trouble. When they got back, Miroku told the girls what they had found and that they were going to follow its trail of death and where it came from. From what Shippo had described of the creature before, no one in the hut could figure out what it could have been. It even had Kaede stumped and she knew a lot about demons.

"Why does Shippo need to go? I know he found it and all but are you sure?"

Shippo looked at Sango as she fussed. Kagome had grabbed her bow and arrow since she was going with them, not taking a chance that and knowing they probably wouldn't make it without her there.

"Don't worry Sango! I'll be fine!" He tried to reassure her, or was he trying to reassure himself? What difference did it make anyhow? He was still scared out of his mind. It might even not be anything to worry about but, it would give him a chance to help out more.

"Are we all ready to go?" Miroku asked as Inuyasha grabbed Kagome's bag to carry. It happened to be the one she had brought with her every time she came through the well. It was the only thing she had left from her era when the well closed up on her.

"Yes. Let's start heading out." Kagome announced, kind of glad to have an adventure to go on. She looked at Inuyasha and smiled a little, he just giving her a side frown before they started heading out. "

What the hell was she happy about?" He asked himself as they left the village.