Prologue


"Inuyasha, look out behind you!!" Kagome screamed as Sesshoumaru appeared from out of no where, preparing to strike his younger half-demon brother down with his poisonous claws. Inuyasha whipped around and dodged, just as Sesshoumaru brought his fist down in the spot where Inuyasha had been standing just before. Kagome reached for her quiver and grabbed an arrow, filling it with her own mystical energies. Beside her, Miroku, the monk, was preparing to unleash his wind-tunnel, a hole burned in his right hand by Naraku a most vile demon.

Inuyasha was able to back Sesshoumaru up toward the forest when Kagome and Miroku appeared.

"Give it up, Sesshoumaru! We've got you surrounded. Hand us the jewel fragment and we'll let you go!" Kagome shot an arrow toward Sesshoumaru and lodged it deep within the tree that he was backed against, just to make her point.

Sesshoumaru glanced around for his little imp Jaken, wondering if the aquatic misfit was going to jump in like he usually did. That's when he noticed Shippo, the fox child, had his servant tied and dangling from a limb not far away and was getting ready to fry him. With a growl, Sesshoumaru dropped the jewel shard and in an instant he had freed Jaken and was soaring away at the speed of light.

Kagome retrieved the fallen shard from where it lay and melted it in with the rest of the fragments. With a sigh she sat down, removing her quiver and setting her bow aside. Miroku and Shippou walked over and sat with her, Inuyasha cursing to himself about Sesshoumaru having gotten away.

"Damn him for being so swift! Every time we have him he puts on the afterburners and leaves us in his dust. It's sickening!"

Kagome sighed again, this time saying, "Give it a rest, Inuyasha. We've got the jewel shard, you still have the Tessiaga, and we're all alive. I think this has been a pretty good day."

Inuyasha snorted and replied, "Yeah, well, for you maybe. We dont have the man power to take down Sesshoumaru and to go looking for him would be to commit suicide. Whether or not I like to admit it, we need someone else to help us." He sat down, heaving a defeated sigh. After a moment he said to Miroku, "Hey, Miroku, you know anyone that can give us a hand with this 'mission' of ours? Preferably a demon." Inuyasha shut up after that, seeing the look on Kagome's face. Thank god I'm already sitting or else she would have sat me before I could apologize. He grinned at her apologetically. "Nothing against humans of course... anyone would be helpful."

With that statement, Kagome's mind jumped. Anyone would do, huh? She had the perfect girl in mind. Violent, ruthless, cunning... Inuyasha would like her. "C'mon guys, let's go. Miroku, we're going to need Haitchi to give us a ride back to the Bone Eater's Well, okay?" All three boys looked at her as if she had lost her mind.

"Uh okay, Kagome. But hey, mind telling us what your brilliant idea is?" Miroku asked, puzzled.

"And why are we going back to the well?" Shippo piped up.

Kagome grinned to herself. "I have someone in mind but it's going to require going back to my era..."