Ok, so due to the inspirational one review I thought I would write another chapter!

Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha or any related characters. Yay Rumiko Takahashi.

Chapter 2

Inuyasha was not happy. For once, he refused to lead the group or even walk in front. The trembling fox demon perched on his shoulder, alert and terrified. Kirara stood on the other shoulder, eyeing the ground and the three humans that walked ahead of them. Inuyasha kept full control of every sense he had, despite the overwhelming feeling of despair that gripped every inch of his demonic body. The overpowering scent of horse, blood, and something he could not describe attempted to distract him from the present.

Kagome walked in front. She watched as the sparkles in the dirt at her feet, embedded in the hoof prints, faded slowly.

"Come on!" she yelled, picking up to a run. "I sense something!" Unlike the feeling she had when she sensed a jewel shard, she was filled with every emotion she could remember. Her body was brimming with excitement, but her stomach ached with guilt. Her heart was exploding with joy, but cracking with sorrow. 'What is going on?' she thought to herself.

"Kagome," Miroku called to her. "You should know, unicorns are very violent, and the wounds are almost impossible to heal. Lets not do anything rash!" He too, seemed very nervous.

Then they came to the disaster zone.

"Oh Kami."

What was once a large town was torn to shreds. The dirt was shuffled from the rapid movement of hooves, and had a slight glow eminating from it. The homes and buildings were splintered and crumpled to the foundations. Kagome was the only one to continue into the heart of it all. The others stood at the forest edge.

She walked in to see a massacre. While not a single unicorn was in sight, their marks were left clearly. Herded together in large groups were the townspeople. They were all dead, unknown faces and bodies trampled and stabbed. It was more brutal than a demon's destruction. A few silken silver strands of mane decorated the destruction.

"Why did they do this?" Kagome gazed into everything. "Why did they do this!?" She yelled to her team.

"Kagome! Look!" Miroku pointed to the only standing structure. The gateway to a shrine, and the small shrine itself, balanced in the mix. Kagome ran to it.

"No!" Inuyasha finally found his voice and his feet. He lept to Kagome's side and pulled her back. Just in time to avoid a white beam that burst where Kagome's path would have lead her. "If they left it there, it must contain their power." Kagome looked at him in confusion. "They would not leave the shrine unless there was a reason!"

Light burst into the night sky.

Emerging from the shrine's tiny hut was a ball of light. Inuyasha fell to his knees, overcome by the oppressive power. Soft thuds of Shippo and Kirara were heard as they too could not stand in its presence.

Kagome was transfixed.

A girl, who appeared no more than 16, gently paused at the gate to the shrine. No more than 10 feet from Kagome, her features were clearly seen, from her short fluffy white hair, to her piercing blue eyes. Her clothes were torn and simply thrown together, but appeared as silk and were the color of the sky before sunrise. At the center of her forehead was a small stubble of a diamond hard horn. The source of light came from it.

"What the hell do you want!" the girl's voice was surprisingly high pitched.

Kagome was speechless. She stared, ignoring how Sango and Miroku rushed to pull Inuyasha and the other demons far from the light.

"Look, I know I'm gorgeous, but that's no reason to trespass. This is now Unicorn territory, and I know you really don't want me to call my sister," the girl laughed cockily.

"But this isn't Unicorn territory!" Sango could not help but yell from the tree line. She could barely see Kagome from the light, and was far and could not hear clearly what the girl was saying.

"Excuse me? Are you insinuating that I'm wrong?" the girl laughed. Her mood changed instantly. "Listen slayer-bitch. You may be able to mouth off to others around you, but mind your manners. Take your filthy ass and wretched demon-crap and get the HELL out of this town. I don't think you want your blood on the dirt too." Her eyes narrowed dangerously.

"I'm sorry," Kagome quietly whispered. "But was it totally necessary to kill an entire town? What did they do to deserve it?"

The glowing girl smiled and regained her haughty attitude. "Miko-slut," she laughed at her own oxymoron. "You are obviously not from this town, and you are also not from this time period."

Everyone gasped. How could she have known that?

"Yea, yea. Surprising right?" She grinned, showing stark white teeth. "But come on now. Those are clothes from your school, and while I don't know how you got here, you are here. Im not going to kill you because of the fact you don't know anything. But-" again her mood changed to dangerous calm. "You better back the fuck out of this town, and far from the woods. It's your damn fault we had to crush it, so I expected you would be more remorseful."

Again, Kagome looked confused.

"Ugh," The girl began to pace back toward the hut she emerged from. "If you had not broken the Sacred Jewel, the people of this town would not be corrupted."

A low rumble stopped the conversation.

"Now, if I were you, I would run." The girl laughed like a horse's neigh. "My older sister just sensed you were here!"

Miroku's harsh grasp on Kagome's arm snapped her into reality. He forcibly pulled her away.

"We need to leave! This is not going well!" He was paniced, and his face matched Inuyasha's hair. The trees were around them as they raced to get away, the sound of hooves growing despite the desperate attempt to escape. Inuyasha's strength began to return.

They ran the rest of the night until they finally fell into a river, running calmly. The thunderous roar of horses had died as they got further away, and the group marveled at how they had barely escaped.

Covered in sweat, their bodies steaming from the exertion, they panted in silence in the placid water.

"I told you it was suicide." Inuyasha at last said. His eyes seemed sad, and his body seemed broken from running.

Kagome looked up at the morning blue. Tears filled her eyes.

"Kagome?" Sango asked gently. Then realizing the meaning said, "It's not your fault. The shard has nothing to do with the unicorns. It isn't possible." She said with lighthearted pursuation.

"Let's go to Kaede." Miroku quietly ordered.

"Yea," Shippo touched Kagome's arm. "She will probably know what is going on." He smiled. "And besides, we know that is nowhere near unicorn grounds!"

"ok." Kagome's voice was meek and distant. Her eyes never left the sky.

Inuyasha looked at Kagome. His heart was breaking to see how frail she now looked. His heart skipped a beat. 'I will not let them do that to her again,' he thought. There was an internal pull on his lower throat, and his eyes felt irritated. Quickly he looked away and tried to brush off the feeling.