Summery: Four years after the defeat of Naraku, a stranger from Sesshomaaru's past shows up, her heart lost and clouded. Driven from her kingdom, she finds comfort in her old childhood friend... but old feelings surface into something more then just friendship.

Disclaimer: I do not own any Inuyasha Characters or their stories, they are to Rumiko Takahashi.


His ground was being lost! She was too strong and was able hold to Tessaiga at bay with her bare hand and this was worrying to him. Inuyasha was at a loss here and everything that was thrown her way she was able to block or avoid. She was showing him up at most every angle since he'd run into her. She was proving to be annoying and almost seeming to toy with him.

"Damn you!" He shouted and put all his might into shoving her back.

'Yes!' She was moving and his blade was giving way, but only for a moment. In those seconds, his friend made their appearance to aid him. This female had beaten him to the demon that stole Kagome's pendent necklace.

"Why do you attack me half-breed?" she questioned as she jumped away to avoid an arrow from his companion Kagome.

He steadied himself so not to fall by her sudden release of his blade. He swung it once and pulled it into the read in front of him.

"Why else, you have something that's not yours!" He said in a cocky tone.

This woman looked up at him with piercing steel eyes, her attire telling him she was a warrior. She dressed just as fancy as his brother. The markings like mild red-violet waves and a golden dot with waving rays fluttering in the same direction around it, just like a sun, on her forehead. This told him she was a possible dog demon, but maybe not, because her scent, it was far from it. It was something similar to a reptile but not. Something foreign, purer then what he was use to… dragon… dog… both but not. Dragon he decided. It was most similar to the dragon he had finished off that his father had failed to. Only, not tainted with a sour odor, it was hard to explain and decide what type of demon she was, other then a foreign dragon to the fullest.

"I have nothing of interest for you boy, so take your friends and leave me be, or you'll lose your lives." She stated coldly and as a matter of fact.

"It's on her wrist!" Kagome shouted as she aimed her bow for the stranger's left arm.

She let her arrow go, and he finally saw a look of shock from the demoness as she drew the sword on her back and slashed downward. The arrow's light being overpowered by the female's downward slash. She was as bad a pain as Sesshomaru was, only she was defending instead of attacking. The demoness glanced at her sleeve before looking to the Kagome. To Inuyasha, she seemed to be thinking, but that left her open and he took the mark. He charged. His blade clashed with hers and she pulled a move he never even saw coming, she knelt downward and pushed as she spun around and kicked him off his feet with something he didn't see at first until she slashed down at him with it. A tail? It held a second blade.

He rolled away and moved to his feet into the offensive. His companions joining in as the massive slayer's scythe like weapon flew by him and was knocked back toward it's user with a slash of the female's blade in hand. Kohaku's blade barely touched the back of her head, cutting the tie that held her hair in a loose braided bun and sending it cascading down her back.

He moved in another time as the long silver furry tail whipped forward dropping the blade in the female's hand and seemingly vanished as she grind the two weapon's together and sparked fire and lightening as she slash down to the earth. The attack sent Inuyasha flying back into the trees, his companions being thrown back with him. He hit hard on a tree and felt unable to move from the heat and literal shock his was hit with.

As the woman came closer, moving branches aside as she looked to him with pity, she brought up her blade, ready to strike. Inuyasha however had other plans as he slowly rose, able to stand and raise his blade. He slammed it to the ground sending a clawed attack of blinding light at the female. He grinned when he heard the sound of a snarled and pain. But, it was short lived as something moved from the attack in a fire shape like a comet. He followed it with his eyes as he heard his friends clamoring as they helped each other from what had hit them before. Kohaku moved in to assist him by launching his weapon skyward only to have it knocked back by a loud echoing roar.

"The Wind Scar? I thought that blade smelled familiar." She said as the light she escaped in moved about above him, it was huge and hard to see inside. The voice that echoed from it was her hushed voice with the deep growl of a beast.

"Hey, wait a minute.." he wheezed as she started to move away. He was still out of breath slightly from a direct hit.

"If you have that blade, you must be his son. I will not harm a son of the west without a right reason. I owe him that much." Her voice echoed as the silver light pulsed in the air, a dark shadow shaped like a massive dog with a slightly longer body and horns, stood still with only what could be fur and tail shifting about.

"Here, if you picked a fight with me just for this trinket, it must be important to you. I have no use for it after all." She said as the necklace came into view and fell before him from the ball of light.

Her voice was strong and even toned, even enchanting, but she made him now feel dumbfounded as to who the hell she was. He fell to a sitting position with his blade in the ground at his side. "What the hell was that?"

It was a confusing turn of events for the evening. This demoness beat them to a demon that had taken the necklace, apparently slaying it, then picking it up as a bracelet. He was starting to wonder if she was even from around here to have known his father. It was all weird to him. Slowly standing, he took the Tessaiga and sheathed it swiftly as he turned his attention to helping his friends after taking up the pendent the female discarded. All the while he faltered in his own thoughts that began to confuse him.

"You okay Kagome?" he asked as he pulled her to her feet after she recovered from being knocked out cold and Kohaku assisting in waking her finally after having to dodge his own weapon twice before the female left.

"What… ow… I'm ok. Did she get away?" she said lightly.

"Not really, more like…. she left. She left your necklace too." He told her.

"That's weird. Last I remember was being hit with a fuzzy feeling, wind, and tossed twenty feet." She stated annoyed as she rubbed her head, then wiping her kimono sleeve over her forehead.

Inuyasha did not answer her, merely stood and looked to the night sky that was coming and it was empty. No sign of the unknown demon or her aura. She was gone, as if she vanished into air. Hell, he didn't even know if his wind Scar even had an effect.

Though, if she had to transform as it appeared she had, it must have. The annoying part was the fact she had them where she wanted them, stunned enough to kill them all, but didn't. all because she apparently 'owed' his father.

"She let us live and just left…. who the hell is she?" he questioned to himself mainly.

"What?" Kohaku asked as he helped Kagome to her feet.

Inuyasha proceeded to tell them what the demoness said and how she just left. It was clear in his voice that it agitated him to no end, but there was little he could do about it now but continue their journey but, rest was first on their path.

They all took a beating, mainly him from being tossed about at the start of the battle. But, his friends were human and a demon too, but they all took a heavy hit by a powerful demon. He still shook and felt the pain tingle his body from the shock.

This encounter would leave questions for a long time to come. He had the feeling however that they may cross paths again in the future.

"So, a mischievous little demon steals my necklace and takes off, then we run into a stranger whom makes me nervous. Inuyasha, she might be trouble." Kagome said.

"Or a person from my past… or rather, my father's." he said slowly uncomfortable by the new demon that was likely still to close to home for his liking.

They needed to have Miroku check into this new demon if at all possible. Maybe even resort to asking Sesshomaru if worse came to worse. If she could vanish like she just had and leave little to no trace, then that may be their only option.

"Let's get back, everyone took a bit of a beating, we all need a check. You to Inuyasha." She said, pulling his mind from the thought.

"I'm coming!" He said as he moved after his two companions.

He suddenly felt a gnawing at his gut. It felt like something was going to happen. The woman that he had blindly started a fight with made him feel like he had opened a box with a bad omen inside, one that waited for freedom. Would their peace be leveled after these four years?

The thought made his stomach lurch in agony.

'Who that was that?' his thoughts echoed as he followed his party home.


End Note: I do hope you will enjoy my story as I progress it farther and note that later on, some characters in the story are not mine, every chapter will have an either and End note or Credits for characters in the story other then the Inuyasha based one. I hope to hear from the readers about what they think about the story as well as earn some helpful tips if you you are a better writer then I. I know I'm good enough, but I am not great and still need to learn how to properly write. So stay tuned for more and i hope to improve as I go.