Faceoff

A/N: I'm sorry! I know I was supposed to write a couple days ago . I was procrastinating again. Dammit Caitlin, get it together. I will write as much as I can the next couple of days. I just came back from a funeral today, my nana died on the 27th. I lost two family members last year so it's nice to get 2012 out the way. Now that its 2013, I'm going to try and make as big of an effort as ever! Thanks for sticking around guys! Love ya!

DISCLAIMER: None of Inuyasha, including Inuyasha's fuzzy ears *cries* are mine. ALL of it is Rumiko Takahashi's. All credit to her.

Chapter Three:

The Headman's House

I ran to the nearest house, my eyes darting across its interior looking for supplies.

Nothing, dammit.

I dashed out of the house and into the next one, finding an empty quiver. It was frustrating that it didn't have any arrows and I still needed a bow. If I get a bow I may stand half a chance. It didn't take long to search most of the houses around me and managed to get a small dagger, a katana, a loaf of bread, a bunch of fruit and a wooden bucket full of fresh water that I poured into a canteen I had in my pocket.

I don't know how to use a dagger or a katana! What if Kikyo has a bow? I'm doomed!

I took a deep breath; I had to believe in myself. I calmed down and kept thinking to myself,

I can do this, I can do this. Freaking out will only make me vulnerable. I need to be focused if I want to win. I have a weapon, water and food, I stand a chance.

It was then I realised that I was going to try to win; I wasn't going to back down like I always did.

Despite Inuyasha's despair over Kikyo's death if I win, I don't want to die and he should know that I only will kill her because she is trying to kill me. Hopefully he will understand.

After I had strengthened my resolve and determination I kept moving, it was inevitable that she would eventually find me. But I wanted to make her come to me rather than me come to her; it would give me a better opportunity to attack when she's in territory that she's not familiar with. If I can wall myself up in a large house then I can guard it and I can set up traps and probably store all my supplies and have lots of room to hide, fight and run if needed.

The headman's house!

The biggest house in the village is the headman's house, and it may still have my stuff there if Naraku didn't take it. I started to hurry, the sun was almost rising and I was easier to spot in the daylight. I was starting to get hungry; I hadn't made dinner before Naraku interrupted. I forced thoughts of my hunger out of my mind and focused on reaching the headman's house. The barrier around the headman's house may have been taken down because of the larger barrier that had been formed around the whole village. I started to walk toward the middle of the village where the house is. Unfortunately it meant I had to abandon my plan of her coming to me for a while because I was walking right toward her, if she was still around her starting point that is. She probably wasn't, I just hoped she hadn't gathered such a massive amount of supplies that she would be impossible to fight. The sun was now touching the village with its glow. In any other case it would have been beautiful but I no longer had time to admire the scenery, it would take several hours to reach the middle again, the village was huge making it a perfect place for this battle. I looked up to the sky Naraku couldn't be seen from here and I realised that the Naraku and Inuyasha that were there at the start of the fight were probably just projections from Kanna's mirror made bigger so I could see them. I was still checking houses as I went, I didn't want Kikyo to get any advantages that I could have had if I had bothered to check the houses. I now had a bit of rice, an axe, wooden container of water, a set of throwing knives and a longsword. I stopped moving forward and, with a lot of effort I might add, I got some wood with my axe and made two makeshift scabbards. Honestly, they were really bad with a piece of cloth left in one of the houses as a handle and the actual scabbards bound to give me splinters but it was better than nothing. I had been carrying the dagger in my quiver which wasn't very practical if I'm attacked but I couldn't put the sharp metal in my pocket because it would probably do one of two things: rip the pocket or cut me or both. If I was injured then I was vulnerable and if I ripped the pocket then I couldn't carry anything else and I had a lot of stuff. I had been carrying everything sharp in my quiver and anything else was shoved in my pockets. I hoped that my bag was still there, it would be insanely useful to carry things. I continued down the path, checking houses as I went but didn't find anything new.

It was near nightfall when I finally saw the house, I ran behind the house near me and looked out and checked that Kikyo wasn't in sight. She didn't seem to be around, though I knew she could be hiding nearby, waiting. She was smart; it was pointless to argue that. I cautiously approached the house and opened the door and saw my bag, though the jewel shards were gone that but that didn't surprise me. Just because he wasn't trying to kill us quickly doesn't make him that much different than his usual wicked self. I had my bow, the bow I was used to and loved and my quiver full of arrows. I emptied my bag, leaving out my textbooks; I would have no time to study with the inevitable battle ahead. I luckily had a bunch of food, ramen. Ramen made me think of Inuyasha, I thought of him with Naraku just watching me and Naraku taunted him. It made my blood boil; Naraku was such an evil bastard. I wondered who Inuyasha wanted to win, if he had decided. I prayed he knew that I planned to stay alive. Though by my extensive weapon stores I think he got the point. I unstuffed everything in my pockets, all the food and my water went into the front pocket of my bag. I then got my axe, dagger and throwing knives out of the quiver and put it in the back pocket. I then searched the house, there were countless rooms. All filled with different things, some things useless and some not. I found lots of leather, I didn't know where it came from but I made a belt to hold my knives and dagger. I had enough weaponry for the time being so I hid the rest in case Kikyo searched the place at some point and uses them against me. I then made a huge find, explosives. A bunch of explosives stashed away in a back room. I planted mines in the entrances and used some techniques Sango once taught me to rig it up. I found some priestess uniforms that I had no idea why they were there but I put one on thinking that it might be slightly more protection than my school uniform. Satisfied that the place was well protected I finally went back into my room and realised I was starving but didn't notice it with all the adrenaline of the day so I ate a slice of bread with an apple and drank some water. I was curious as to why Kikyo hadn't made an appearance at all that day. I decided that she was either still preparing or waiting for the right moment. I laid down and was instantly tired, considering the fast-paced actions of the day I hadn't had time to be tired. I fell into a cautious sleep, my dagger hidden under my futon.

Meanwhile with Inuyasha and Naraku…

"So Inuyasha, enjoying the view?" Naraku asked me in that goddamn cocky tone of his.

The way he's going, I'm going to rip that tongue out of his mouth.

"Shut up," I replied to him. "When I get out of here I'm going to kill you. Slowly. Painfully." He just laughed irritatingly. I may go insane before getting out of here. I turned back to Kanna who was suspended next to us showing the two girls in her mirror. Kagome was sleeping with a dagger under her futon, a smart idea. She may need it. Kikyo was in a small house surrounded by her supplies. She had a bow and some arrows, a sword and an ample amount of food. She looked outside and I could see the headman's house.

She is really close to Kagome! She must have travelled a fair distance when I was watching Kagome.

She looked like she was going to attack that night! I had no goddamn idea what to do about it. I still didn't know who I want to win but I was worried by that look in Kikyo's eyes before. She isn't the Kikyo I knew. I knew that she would take a shot at Kagome, she was bloodthirsty. She really wanted this special prize, Naraku told me what it was, me. The winner gets me.

A/N: So was that any good? Now if you're wondering about the end bit, I thought it would be nice to have a little look into how Inuyasha is coping every now and then and what Naraku is plotting. Tell me if you like the idea if not tell me in your reviews so I know whether to do it in future chapters.

Thanks for reading,

Love you!

Caitlin