Hi there. My first epic Inuyasha. Will be mostly IY/Kag, Mir/San, Ayame/OC and Kouga/OC. How's that:DDDDDD RnR. I changed Miroku's background a little. He shall now have lived in a village.

I don't own Inyasha, Rumiko Takahashi does. Jingo is a name of a Japanese empress/goddess, by the way. Izanagi is a god name, too.

May 17, 2005.

Swift of Foot

"Feh. Why should I care if the brat falls in the river? Why should I get him out? Tell me Kagome!"

"Inuyasha?"

"Hmm?"

"Sit, boy."

Inuyasha hit the ground with such force that even Miroku had to be astonished. How the hanyou could take it, he didn't know. Although Miroku had had a fine share of boomerang hits from Sango, bless her beautiful soul, it looked like a lot of pain.

Inuyasha mumbled something that sounded suspiciously like "Osuwari my ass…" and pulled himself out of the hole. In an amazing act of kindness, however, he pulled the exhausted Shippo out of the river, and, dropping the kitsune in the grass, ran off into the surrounding forest.

"Houshi-sama, did I just see correctly? Did Inuyasha do something kind for Shippo?"

"Yes, my dear Sango." The demon exterminator suppressed a giggle at this. "He has done the first nice thing in his life."

Shippo grinned and said, "Wow! Who thought he had it in him!"

Kagome sighed, and replied, fixing Miroku with a glare when she noticed Sango was within groping range, "Shippo! You stop laughing! Inuyasha is doing his best to be nice! And Miroku. Be good! Or you may get an Osuwari, too."

The quiet observer chuckled softly and ran to his sister.

"Jingo!" The boy called when he was within range. "We have visitors!"

Inuyasha ran deeper and deeper into the forest, rather embarrassed by his kind actions regarding Shippo. He liked the brat, it was true, but Kagome wouldn't need to know that, would she?

Wait. He smelt a demon. A cat-like one.

Jingo grinned and flicked her tiger-like tail. A hanyou was nearby. Would this result in some fighting? She hoped so, and called in her tigers.

Izanagi, her brother, grinned. Those people hadn't got a chance.

The two twin tiger-demons armed themselves, Jingo with her brass knuckles and Izanagi with his two katanas.

Inuyasha loped to Kagome, hoping the cat-youkai didn't attack them. Sango and Miroku were well enough fighters, but a pack of demons were not exactly the easiest foes.

"Kagome!"

The young miko looked up from a small pot of ramen. "What, Inuyasha?"

"I smell demons."

This was all the explanation Sango needed. She swiftly lost her kimono and armed herself with the Hiraikotsu, while Miroku loosened the prayer beads.

Inuyasha led the way to the demon-hiding place. He explained that he thought that there were tiger demons in the small glade, and that they were most likely, "...like that mangy wolf and his friends."

Jingo felt suddenly nervous. Would her amazing speed, from the strange jewel shard in her left leg, be enough to beat this inu-hanyou and his friends? The monk unnerved her. He seemed like someone from the past, the past before the accident leading to her transformation to a demoness.

Oh well. Fighting had to be done, and, seeing that the tigers were back, she told the tigers to wait while "Jingo and Izanagi the leaders of the pack, the generals of war" went to investigate.

The hanyou led the way to the only accessible opening, and was met by a very war-like Jingo.

"Who are you that wants business here?" Her white hair tied back, and dressed in tiger skins, she was a strange sight, rather fearsome. Her brother was dressed much the same, yet he had two visible katanas on his back, where the girl had no weapons. They should be easy to fight, he thought glibly.

"I am Inuyasha, and these are my friends and comrades." Inuyasha drew the Tetsusaiga and Sango loosened her boomerang. Kagome got ready to draw her bow, and Miroku stood in silence, trying to find the problem in this scenario. The demon was oddly familiar.

"Hanyou, I would wish to fight you. No one else" The demoness fired a icy glare at the demon exterminator "No one else. Understood, hanyou? Good." Inuyasha flinched, the word 'hanyou' stung like a whip. "Although, I might request that you relinquish the sword which tears the Wind-Scar. I have no fondness for wind. Iza, leave. Look after the tigers." Her brother grumbled and stomped off.

Inuyasha blanched. How did the wench know of the Wind Scar? No matter. She can have it her way, he thought, I will still win this fight. He handed the Tetsusaiga to Kagome, warning her not to try to draw it, and got ready to kill this prideful cat-youkai.

"My name is The Tiger Princess, a name you all will fear once this battle is over!" Jingo cried.

No one noticed Miroku's face, as he put together the pieces of a puzzle long unsolved.

Jingo clapped on her brass knuckles, and struck the half demon in the stomach with such speed and ferocity that Inuyasha had to reel back. They continued like this, with Jingo not quite beating him, but keeping the upper hand in the battle.

Miroku finally got the whole picture, and jumped in, as Jingo dodged the blows dealt by Inuyasha. "Jingo! Jingo, don't you remember me?"

Jingo stopped moving, and took time to study the monk. Her face slowly turned from an angry warrior look, to a reminiscent grin. "M-Miroku? Is it really you?"

"Who else could it be? I was your best friend." He strode over and hugged her, oblivious to the confused, shocked, and, from one woman, jealous looks he was receiving from his companions. "What happened to you?" He looked her over. "You used to be human!"

"Used to. When I disappeared, something happened, and I was changed into a demon." She cast an untrusting glance towards his companions. "We'll discuss it later. Now, may I be introduced?"

"Oh yes. Inuyasha was the man you were fighting, and," He grinned mischievously. "Beating. Inuyasha, this is Jingo, my best friend while I lived in the village."

"And nothing more!" Jingo added nervously.

The inu-hanyou and the cat-youkai shook hands nervously. "I bet you would've fought better with the sword." Jingo said, in an attempt to make up for her rash actions regarding the fight.

"Damn right. Would you happen to know of a demon called Sesshoumaru?"

Jingo's face darkened. "The bastard. He was the one who did this to me."