Chapter 4

Inuyasha looked up in surprise at the girl sprinting franticly toward him, not expecting a reaction like this. He'd only done what he usually did, nothing more nothing less.

Kagome reached out to stop her, but missed and fell on her face. She had a bad feeling about this, and sensed another presence. There was another demon hiding down there, waiting for the ideal moment to strike.

Karin's eyes watered under the pressure of this feeling, which was still rising through her chest. She just wanted this sensation to disappear, and would do what she had to in order to make it do just that.

"Inuyasha!" Kagome yelled, pointing to the trees behind him. She could sense a demon hiding there, and he seemed unaware of it. Has she had her sacred arrows with her, she would have taken care of it herself.

He looked around just as it leaped at him. With Tetsusiaga held firmly in his hand, he swiftly sliced the demon in two. He had no time to launch a special attack, so he used brute force instead.

Blood splattered everywhere, including onto Inuyasha and Karin. The demon, though sliced in half, continued to sail through the air. Karin had to lunge out of the way to avoid getting hit by its right half.

She stared in horror at the bodies all around her, but the feeling soon returned when she saw that Inuyasha was bleeding slightly too, and it was stronger than ever. The demon has managed to lay a claw on him, and seeing the half-demon's blood pushed her over the edge.

She got up off the ground and looked up at Inuyasha. He gave her a dirty look and said nastily, "What the hell was that for? If there'd been more of them hiding, you'd have been easily killed!"

She just stood there, continuing to look up at him. Her blank stare was starting to creep him out slightly.

"Kagome, it's all clear now. You can bring the others out here if you want," he called up to Kagome. She in turn emerged from the bushes alongside Anju and Shippo.

Miroku and Sango, who were flying through the air on Kirara, gently floated to the ground by Kagome. They could see no more demons, and knew that for the time being it would be safe.

They were all quite a ways away when Karin couldn't possibly hold it any longer. If she kept it to herself any longer, she felt like she'd implode.

In a hug-type stance she leaped at Inuyasha. She hit her target, and was soon draped over his chest, her arms wrapped loosely around his neck.

"H-hey!" Inuyasha started, a deep red blush beginning to appear over his cheeks. He didn't know what had gotten into her so suddenly.

She ignored his startled cry and continued on her business, oblivious to everything but her and Inuyasha. She looked up at him again, and leaned forward as if to kiss him. By now she too was blushing, though she couldn't explain why.

"Hey! W-what-" Inuyasha yelped, this time a little louder. He had to admit she was cute and all, but doing something like this in front of Kagome just didn't feel right. Of course, he didn't know what she was actually going to do.

Still she didn't stop, and instead continued advancing on him. She could feel his shallow breaths washing over her face, and gingerly closed her eyes, holding off as long as possible.

Kagome looked on at the two, a sickened and horrified look on her face. She couldn't believe that he was actually letting this happen, and in front of her no less! It truly broke her heart, even more than when she saw him with his former love.

She collapsed but still didn't look away, wanting to see if he'd remain true to her, or at the very least Kikyo.

A sort of satisfaction filled her when she was what happened next, though that didn't stop her from not liking it at the same time.

Just at the two's lips were about to touch Karin jerkily pulled away. She looked up at her victim once more before quickly plunging her fangs into his neck.

A surprised look crossed Inuyasha's face and he tried to move away, but found that he wasn't able too. Soon he lost consciousness and slumped to the ground. Karin wasn't able to hold him up so she fell with him, still sucking his blood.

His blood, she found, was very tasty. A mixture of stress, sadness, confusion, and joy. It was unlike anything she'd ever tasted, and found it hard to pull herself away.

She managed to pull away, though only with the help of her sister, Anju. She'd continued to follow her when she'd seen what was going on, and had pulled her away from Inuyasha

Once Karin was safely out of the way, she began to erase Inuyasha's memory of the event. She knew that she'd have to do this to everyone to keep it a secret. Everything was going smoothly until something very unexpected and strange happened.

In the middle of Anju's memory loss spell, Kagome's shards of the Sacred Jewel started to act up. For some unknown reason they reacted, mingling with her magic, and creating a bizarre result that shocked them all.

There was a blinding flash of greenish-pink light, one that enveloped the entire area. When it finally dissipated after a few moments and the lighting became normal again, they all looked at the small battleground to find quite a surprise.

Everything was exactly as it had been before the random flash of light, aside from one very key thing.

Inuyasha was still sprawled out on the ground with Tetsusiaga held in his hand, but he looked so much different. It was obvious he'd been transformed, but into something unlike the Inuyasha gang had ever seen before.

Inuyasha had regained consciousness and tried to move his head to look around, and found that he wasn't able to. He could feel that something was different, but he couldn't quite tell what.

Anju leaned down and picked up Inuyasha, which actually wasn't very hard at all. She held him in her arms so that he was facing away from her. While in her arms he slumped forward a little, giving him a good view of the ground below him.

Reflected in the massive pool of demon blood was himself, and he nearly screamed out in surprise. The longer he looked, however, his surprise quickly turned to anger, and then to rage.

Staring back up at him was the face of a doll, but it had all of his exact features. The amber eyes, the pearly long hair; everything. His arms and legs, as far as he could see, were relatively normal, besides the fact that they were as small as a teddy bear and made out of fabric.

Tetsusiaga had shrunk as well, but it still looked the same, and was still in its powerful form. It would stay that way too. All of his skin had turned to cloth and his limbs were stitched together, and he could feel that his insides had turned to fluff.

He was a living doll, who could move his limbs freely. His original body had been transformed into a lifeless mass of fluff and fabric, able to move and think only because his soul was somehow still attached to it.

"What…what in the seven hells did you do to me?" Inuyasha roared, his mouth not moving at all. He felt Anju's arms tighten around him slightly.

"I don't know. Something…odd happened," Anju answered truthfully, in a very quiet voice. This confused her as much as everyone else.

"Put me back! Put me back, damn you!" Inuyasha demanded nastily, swinging Tetsusiaga randomly through the air.

"I can't. I don't know what happened, so I can't reverse it," she told him shyly. When he began to act out in rage Karin, who'd just recovered, stepped in.

"She's telling the truth. She preformed a simple memory loss spell because I can't do it yet," she told him, taking away his demon sword as not to let him hurt anyone.

Inuyasha gave up for the time being, knowing that he was powerless like this. Anju carried him to the rest of the group, who had all gathered around Kagome. They knew they'd have to come out into the open eventually.

Kagome was the first one to spot the pint sized Inuyasha and when she saw what had happened to him she burst, "What did you do to him? What did you do?"

"We don't know. Something interfered with her memory spell, and this happened. As far as we knew, he'll be like this forever," Karin answered for her sister, knowing she'd be too timid and shy to be heard.

The Inuyasha gang fell silent, and only then did they notice the small glimmer of purple light emanating from inside Kagome's shirt. She tugged on the necklace around her neck and her jar of Jewel Shards was pulled out with it.

They saw that the shards were still acting weird and reacting, but they soon dimmed down and became normal again. That alone convinced all of them that the Jewel Shards were responsible for all of this.

Knowing that there wasn't much of anything they could do about this, Kagome and friends decided to look at the pros and cons of the situation.

After realizing that in this state he'd only slow them down, they decided that if Karin and Anju were willing to, they could keep him. Anju seemed to be getting attached to him already, and he'd only complain if he stayed with them.

His constant complaining was already starting to get to them, and it had only been a mere few minutes since the incident. This only strengthened their resolve to get him out of their hair.

They made their way over to the Bone Eater's Well and prepared to send the three of them off. They were sad to admit it, but they didn't want Inuyasha around if he was like this.

"Well…good luck, Karin and Anju," Kagome said kindly, patting Inuyasha on the head, "And you too, Inuyasha. Sorry we're doing this, but you'd only be vulnerable to Naraku if you stayed here like this."

Inuyasha looked up at Kagome. Had he been able to move his mouth she would have seen that he had a disbelieving look on his face. He was about to protest, but saw that it would do no good; he was still powerless.

"Thank you, Kagome, and all of you too. I'm SO sorry this happened…nothing's ever gone wrong with her spells before today," Karin apologized. She truly was sorry, but didn't know how to make it sound sincere.

"No worries," Miroku said, comforting her, "As long as we all agree, it's alright. Now, I think that before anything, we should see if you can go back through. Just in case."

They all lined up and said good-bye in case it did indeed work. After all was said and done, the three of them entered the well. To their surprise, they received the same feeling they'd gotten on the way there, and they knew that it had worked. They were being transported back to modern time.

::end of chapter 4::

Yes, I thought I'd put a little would-be fluff in here to test myself a little. How did I do? Just wondering...

WOO! Random twist! I've had this concept brewing around in my head for quite a while. Didn't exactly know how to finish it off, though...so I just went with this. Might change it later, but I don't know. And there will be one more chapter after this, though it might be a lot shorter than usual. I just can't bring myself to leave it here...

Start Planning 10 in school today, but I don't think I'll learn too much from it. I already have a job and a good resume and everything. But I'll go along with it. At the very least it'll be a class that I can loaf around in, or I could use that time to write some more stuff. I'll probably use it to write.

I write too much...I still have over 50 pages of different stories to type up...bleh. It'll get done eventually.

Anyway...yeah. That's about all I have to say for the time being...stay tuned for the final chapter, coming soon to a fanfiction near you!