Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha and co. that is Rumiko-san's privilege… (sighs deeply)…but I wish I did own him cause if I did you wouldn't be reading this now would you!

'single quotes' are thoughts

"double quotes" are English

Bold- inner youkai talking

Chapter 6-New Unblessed Enemies

Inuyasha's POV:

'Why?!' that was the single question running through my head. Here was a mere ningen girl that knew too much and has too much power for comfort with a picture of my father dressed in all his armor with all three swords of Complete Conquest under his command; Tetsusiaga, Tenseiga and Sounga. 'Why…?' It was question I couldn't get the answer from without asking her and I didn't want anything more to do with the girl before me smiling sweetly…too much like Kagome did.

I was shocked and only took notice of it now as my knuckled were white while gripping Tetsusiaga. But I grew out of my shock as I stared at the picture hanging before my very eyes. The man I despised and the man I couldn't help but respect and admire…my father; I glared at it as hate and rage filled my very core.

End Inuyasha's POV:

"How in the hell to you have a picture of my old man!!!?"

Sachi flinched by Inuyasha's tone of voice; this reaction she wasn't expecting. Surprise was expected and maybe anger but not nearly as much as the hanyou showed. It threw her as to how he was so furious at her as well as his eyes never seemed to stop glaring at the picture held up to his face. Finding at last her breath Sachi calmly inhaled. "So Touga is your father; you look a lot alike" she sad with an innocent smile trying to ease the tension that crackled in the air.

Inuyasha snarled tarring his eyes from the picture to the flaming girl and swiftly took her by the front of her uniform pulling her toward him roughly so she was mere inches from his snarling, furious face. "You didn't answer my question wench!!"

Sachi mentally gasped at the look he gave her as he looked down at her with his piercing gaze that seemed to penetrate her very being down to her dark soul; it made her more uncomfortable then being so close to him. "Let me go Inuyasha" she said softly slightly struggling against his youkai strength but his already iron grip only seemed to grow tighter at her feeble struggles. "I said let me go!"

"Answer my question first!" he said growling.

Sachi glared into the honey-gold of Inuyasha's eyes. "It was in an ancient book that my okaa-san owned. She had them ever since I could remember and I always asked her to read a story about you father. My okaa-san's books were rare because they mentioned his name instead of his title. The stories of your father gave me strength when I thought I had no more strength to move on."

The hanyou threw Sachi aside like a rag-doll with his head still bowed. Then swiftly standing with his youkai canine grace Inuyasha snatched the picture from the young miko's grasp as he turned to leap off the roof to bullet into the nearby forest.

"Give that back you fucking bastard!" screamed Sachi as she went to half-tackled and half push Inuyasha.

Inuyasha had spun just in time to have the young flaming haired Sachi wrap her arms around his waist forcing him back so that they both fell off the roof. And once again the two battling teenagers found themselves as they were before; Sachi straddling a very dazed Inuyasha who lay motionless on his back in the dirt.

With her quicker then ningen reflexes the emerald eyed girl snatched the picture out of the inu-hanyou's hand and leapt a safe distance away. As he rouse Inuyasha saw the bandages on Sachi's arms falling away to reveal the scarred flesh that lay beneath. Seeing his eyes move from her face to her arms and seeing that her arms were now bare to the cruel world she struggled to cover them but it was all in vain for he had already seen and already read the message carved right into her very skin.

"Oh that's really interesting" smirked Inuyasha mockery in his eyes. "Death to all I love…what have you lost? Nothing more like; you're just a spoiled brat that doesn't understand the meaning of lose!"

Sachi nearly broke down at his harsh words. 'What little he knows' she thought her eyes clouded as she was lost in dark thoughts. Barring the pain down deep within her soul she replaced it with flaming rage that matched her silken curtain of hair. "Don't make the mistake of knowing me Inuyasha" she warned in an icy, low, furious voice.

Inuyasha grinned the warning ignored as he walked a wide circle around the young, furious fiery, miko. "Oh really, from what I can tell you're nothing but a girl trying to hide everything about herself. You regret getting yourself into the wrong profession I assume" he said cocking an eyebrow at Sachi the comment of her selling herself on the street the hidden beneath his cruel words.

Her body grew rigid at his words. She had caught those hidden words and it hurt to be called a whore even indirectly. The pain was like a burn on her spirit, it was painful as it burned away her confidence in herself; the hanyou had hit a soft spot.

She glared at him as he circled like a predator watching its prey become panicky and distressed under the pressure of certain death, but Sachi was never one to become prey willingly. "How dare you assume that of me!"

The inu-hanyou laughed mocking Sachi as flames burned in her eyes. "So I am right in thinking you're a girl that sells herself on the street."

Sachi's whole body seemed to pulse with sheer shock as her heart felt like it stopped in mid beat in her chest making it ache painfully. He had spoken those hurt words aloud and the tears that once were kept at bay swelled to life and overflowed to stain Sachi's cheeks with their mournful paths. He didn't know how close he was to the raw hurtful truth but she would never give the poor excuse of a hanyou and a waist of breath and life the complete victory of her humiliation, she did something she never really did to anyone.

Quicker then Inuyasha could react to Sachi had leapt at him.

WHAM!!!!

The ringing sound echoed in through the midnight air matching the ringing in the hanyou's silver dog ears. Lifting a hand slowly to his stinging cheek he turned his dazed face back to gaze at the girl that has struck him, but found her eyes eclipsed from view by smoldering tresses. Inuyasha may not have seen her eyes but he smelled them; salty, bitter, mournful tears, he smelled them all to well.

"Don't," her soft yet hard and icy voice rang out. "Presume to know my past or my business half-ling, because it will be the lost thing you ever do." Sachi lowered her hand slowly not looking at the insulting hanyou knowing if she did he'd see her tears and she would loose all sense of control over her irate temper.

Before Inuyasha could yell and curse her for calling him a half-ling she was gone. Walking away from was him was the young miko her fists clenched tightly at her sides. He couldn't help but notice that the night and its darkness just seemed to clock the girl in before him; she was indeed as sorrowful soul and he'd be a fool not to see it, but he pushed it aside.

"Feh! Woman" he said roughly touching his cheek again to stroke the pain away but pain sparked to life and his hissed in pain. He had never been slapped before except when Kagome has slapped him out of reflex when woken suddenly; Kagome didn't have the nerve to out right slap him for no simple reason. 'But Sachi…' he thought as her eclipsed face appeared before his inner eye. 'She's a fighter and a ruthless one too. She wouldn't run like Kagome would; this fiery bitch would face it with an icy glare and a fucking scary temper!'

Heading back to the door to the hut Inuyasha found the main room of the hut eerily quite with tension crackling in the air like an electric charge building any second it would go off. All faces were turned to look at him and there wasn't a friendly glace among them.

"Nani!!?" Inuyasha snapped like he always did.

"Nani…nani indeed" scorned Miroku sipping his tea.

Sango quickly rouse to her feet and stormed up to the arrogant hanyou that she idiotically called friend with a fist tightly grasping her weapon. "What did your rough and tactless tongue say to Sachi to make her so upset!!? She was in tears and her arms were bear; did you see them!? Tell me you baka inu, did you insult her pity her!!!?"

Inuyasha was to nervous to answer as his golden orbs trailed from the taijiya's face and her weapon that she tightly grasped. "Uhh…"

"YOU ARE SO HEARTLESS!!!" screeched the taijiya bring her Hirikostu down on Inuyasha's head then flung herself to the floor by her houshi husband. "I thought with Kagome you would have grown up a little."

Inuaysha holding and nursing a giant lump on his head rouse slowly to his feet.

"Sachi's been through a lot" said Shippo standing tall before the towering hanyou who would pumble the poor kit in past cases, but now stood to shocked to do anything much less speck. "I smell he sorrow, can't you?!!" and the kitsune child ran bulleted into the room Sachi had invaded.

The hanyou bowed his head. 'Yea, Shippo I do' he thought just standing there he's mind so confused and bustling with thought it just suddenly froze in mid thought and everything just went dead quite to the hanyou who just stood there so lost in thought that he knew nothing of what was going on around him.

Kaede hearing the silence spoke up knowing the harsh words that wend unsaid would be used in coming argument. "Let us rest; ye all have had a long trying day."

All the others quickly found their placing for sleeping and Inuyasha shock his head to read it of the fuzzy cloud of nothing that had just taken over his perplexed mind. 'Yea…rest…that's what I need' Inuyasha thought as he placed himself in the corner with his fang resting against his shoulder as his head and eyes began to fall forward as the world of dreams swept him away to become dead to the world.

Sachi's POV:

I knew I shouldn't have slapped him but his mouth had hit a soft spot and I had refused to listen to more his assumptions on my miserable life. The cord he had struck had forced me to shed tears and I hated him more for it. I hated crying and they were never supposed to be seen just because some baka said something.

'I'm getting weak' I said scolding myself in the darkness that was illumined by the light of the waning moon.

I felt something curling up close at the small of my back I looked over my shoulder to see Shippo the small kit sleeping blissfully there. I smiled as I looked at him, but frown at I thought of what Kagome meant to him. She was like a mother to him and now once again a parent ha died on him. I knew how felt, I knew all to well, yet none of them knew the cruel hardships I had to go through. None of them knew and I hoped as I felt myself wonder down the path in dreamless sleep that they never would find out; I didn't need more deaths on my conscience.

'I won't let them be my fault' was my last thought as dreamy oblivion took me over.

End Sachi's POV:

As the dawning mourning light crept through the window to flow over Sachi's pale and passive face she slowly woke from the Land of Dreams to greet the burning orb that traveled the sky. Rising slowly so not to wake Shippo Sachi stood and stretched long and hard letting her long nails grow into claws and paw the air as she let out a yawn. Walking silently out of the room making sure the wooden floor boards didn't creek in her wake she found all the others still sleeping blissfully. Her emerald-gaze drifting to the red clad hanyou in the corner Sachi was surprised to find him so serene. She smiled at him; last evenings harsh words and forgotten in that moment.

Greatly suppressing the urge to stroke the fuzzy little dog ears on his head Sachi turned from Inuyasha and strode out of the hut letting the sun warm her tan skin while inhaling the pure freshness of the Sengoku Jidai.

"Since I'm up might as well-"

"And where are you of to? Home, I hope" said a certain hanyou from behind the fire haired miko as she turned to him. Said hanyou stood in the door way of the hut the morning light flash over his silver tresses given it a golden shine to match the even brighter gold of his eyes in the dawning light.

"Huh" huffed Sachi turning her back to him. "I was going to go for a walk around the village if you don't mind!" And the young darkly clad miko walked away ditching the self-centered Inuaysha to his own company.

The village Sachi noticed was a small and slightly poor one, but a happy one at that. There were children playing in the street as she walked by. Laughter filled the air and causing Sachi to smile even more causing her to leave behind her frustrations with Inuyasha and the burden of her promise to Kagome. Soon after playing some ball with some children as the modern day miko walked down the street she noticed a group of bandaged villagers walk toward her. It was then that she felt prying eyes on her and felt the presence of Inuyasha. He was watching her; he didn't trust her.

'Course he wouldn't, I don't blame him though. I wouldn't trust him either if Kagome didn't hold him in such high esteem' Sachi thought as she ignored the watchful eyes of the hanyou she turned to the wounded villagers as the stopped and bowed respectably. 'Uhh…ok…'

"Miko-sama" they rang out in unison as the staying at their waist bow.

They all assumed their original heights, as a man came forward and bowed again before Sachi. "Airigotu for saving us all last evening; you saved us from certain death. We are eternally grateful miko-sama, but may we have your name?"

Sachi stood there speechless, but she mentally shock herself of her daze. "Sachi; my name is Sachi."

They all smiled happily with joy. "Airigotu, Sachi-sama, what will you have of us to show our thanks" asked the same man before Sachi who noticed had a bandage around his head and a limp to his right leg.

"Have of you?! Oh no, I couldn't do that; I couldn't take anything of yours!" Sachi said lifting her hands and waving them before her to show she really didn't want anything.

A young woman came briskly to kneel before Sachi who became even more dumbfounded as the pleading woman spoke holding a fairly new born baby in her protective arms clasped to her chest, asleep. "But you must Sachi-sama" she pleaded on her knees. "You saved our lives! You rescued us from the very clutches of death when you were obviously out number knowing you were risking your life" she whispered as she looked down at her new born baby in her arms. "You saved me and my baby; she's the last thing I have of her father."

Sachi thoughts saddened by the woman's words who wasn't much older then herself felt her face soften at the look of loving affection in the mother's eyes. Kneeling down with a soft knowing smile at the woman Sachi placed a comforting cheek on the girl's cheek and found it sleek with tears; Sachi smiled her eyes closed to slights.

"You're right, I could have died yet here I stand" looking up to them all as she still kneeled by the silently weeping mother. "You all have already given me a most precious gift."

They all looked at the flame haired miko confused as she slowly stood.

Knowing they wanted and needed and answer Sachi gave them that answer. "The gift that I was able to save someone for once" smiled Sachi masking her pain on her face, but not in her emerald eyes that darkened in her mental pain; they caught the sadness laying in her gorgeous jeweled eyes before she turned away briskly walking away after giving a respectable bow.

-With Inuyasha-

Inuyasha had followed Sachi through the village watching her thoroughly for any threats; he found none. The hanyou saw just how good she was with children; how she always had that cheerful smile on her face as she passed people waving to a good morning to those that greeted her with one of their own.

When she had stopped suddenly Inuyasha thought she had picked up his aura, but seeing a large group of people heading Sachi's way covered in bandages. They walked to her with purpose and Inuyasha risked looking over the edge of the hut he was on to hear and watch them.

Inuyasha heard them thank Sachi for saving them. Asking Sachi's name and she gave, but when she heard them ask what she wanted from them she was shocked and in turn Inuyasha was shocked. As he listened he truly perplexed over what Sachi said and just her in general.

Inuyasha heard her: "You have already given me a most precious gift; the gift that I was able to save someone for once."

'What the hell was that?!!' The silver haired hanyou thought as he watched her leave them all with a smile on her face, but sorrow in her emerald-indigo eyes.

Inuyasha leaping from roof top to roof top in silence and hidden followed the strange girl of the future around the village. As her feet lead her all around soon those black booted feet traveled up the old stone steps of the temple and stopped in the center of the stone courtyard like a dark statue with flaming hair caressing the air from the breeze that swept it aside.

-End with Inuyasha (just normal :P)

Sachi slowly closed her eyes as a playful grin spread across her flawless face. "Inuyasha I know you watching me. Why don't you come down join me?"

A wave a shock flew through the young man's veins at the words the miko had spoken bringing back age old memories. 'Kikyou…those were the same words Kikyou said when we first sat down to talk' Inuyasha said to himself. Against his better judgment he found himself reluctantly leaping down to land behind the young miko a stern look on his hanyou face and his hands up his haori sleeves.

"What do you want" he asked roughly.

Sachi smiled looking over her shoulder at him. "I should be asking you that question since you're the one following me not the other way around."

Inuyasha simply huffed turning his amber gaze from the ningen girl as the conflicting pair made their way around the grounds of the small the shrine/temple that was unexpectedly quite and calm with villagers giving thanks and saying prayers. Neither said a word to the other just taking in the sweet silence; till Inuyasha broke it.

"Wench" he snapped. "How long are you going to stay here!?"

Sachi was thrown from her thoughts from the inu-hanyou's sudden outburst as his voice rattled her head making her flinch as a new headache started to form at her temples. "What?" She asked not hearing comprehending the words the first time they were yelled at her.

"How long are you going to stay!!?"

The modern day shrine maiden snarled at his frustrating attitude. Here she was trying to get along with him and he had to go blow the whole thing in her face for no reason. "As long as I see fit!" Sticking her nose in the air and her hands clasped behind her back walked off ignoring Inuyasha's ravings.

Inuyasha growled as angry flames burned in his honey-amber orbs. This is just what he needed a stuck up wench that had Kikyou's and Kagome's fighting abilities and spiritual power combined with Kagome's temper and stubbornness. 'Just great…just fucking peachy!' Taking off after the girl that smelled of flame engulfed roses; the scent he hated so much. 'Her scent smells too much like…' he trailed in thought as Sachi turned to him a brow rose in question.

"I get the impression that you're stalking me?" The hint of laughter and mischief made the stubborn boy nervous as he stopped 3 feet from the girl.

"Ehh?" groaned Inuyasha shocked, but he threw it off and recovered his poise quickly. "As if I would stalk an annoying, stubborn, good-for-nothing wench who thinks she knows everything about the burdens of life!!"

"Damn him" she said under her breath to softly that the fuzzy silver ears upon the hanyou's head couldn't catch it. "Don't talk to me about the burdens of life" she snapped harshly surprising the hanyou, as the overwhelming urge to punch the inu-boy nearly caused her to act, but smirked as a thought came into her miko head. "Oh, Inuyasha" said in a sing-song voice; the hanyou stiffen at the tone knowing what was coming. "Osuwari, dog-boy!"

SMASH!!!

And sure enough Inuyasha found himself suddenly face down in a hole in the ground. Raising quickly he snarled and started to yell and curse at Sachi only to find her walking past and way from him. 'Bitch' he thought. 'How could Kagome do this to me; letting that spit-fire fucking sit me" he said to himself clenching his fists and leaping away from the retreating form of Sachi.

Sachi sighed as the sound of cloth leaped away. "Kagome you could have warned me that this is no simple walk in the park; you wouldn't have known more so then the rest of them" she said sighing again as her head was tilted to the side slightly.

She downed the stone stairs of the temple making her way silently and slowly to Kaede's hut. As she took the last turn she slammed into someone or something that bore a large basket in their arms. Sachi recovered her balance in time to catch the loaded up basket, but the other person ended up flat on the ground.

Struggling to look over the basket of vegetables to see if the person was alright but she sighed in defeat; the veggies had won. "Sorry about that!" she said from behind the wall of vegetables.

The last person the young fiery miko wanted to see stood up dusting off her miko robes. "It's quite alrigh-"Fu cut off at the sight of Sachi. "Oh…it's you" she said with disgust in her voice while it dripped with venom.

Sachi had caught the tone of voice and the venom that came dripping from it like hot molasses. "What do you mean…Oh…it's you!?"

The plain looking Fu smirked evilly with scorn. "I have to need to explain myself to the likes of you." Then the creepy miko in Sachi's opinion snatched the basket of garden fresh vegetables from Sachi's grasp.

"To the like of me huh…what's so wrong with me Fu? I haven't done anything to make you mad at me…I've barely talk to you!"

Fu snarled fire in her brown bur nearly black eyes, but it had no effect on Sachi. "THAT FU-SAMA TO YOU!! As for doing nothing to me you are terribly wrong! I have trained hard to be the miko I am, I will not have some annoying, breed confused untrained brat take away my chance of being the High Miko!!!"

Sachi huffed annoyed and bored as she rolled her eyes making Fur furious. "Oh, forgive me…Fu-sama" mocked Sachi giving the other girl a scornful bowed at the waist. "I didn't know that a bitch like you could be a miko let alone…High Miko!"

"Retched girl!" screeched Fu. "How dare you insult me! You will regret this you freakish animal!!"

Fu had stormed off in a huff but not before having the satisfaction of seeing turmoil written across Sachi's face.

The young darkly clad miko looked at in hands in distain and turmoil as claws grew there out of sere will of the thought of them being there. 'Am I really a freakish animal?' Sachi shook her head to reed it of such gloomy thoughts. 'No, don't think that way, Fu was just calling me that to get a rise out of me…and of course to insult me, but that doesn't mean she's right!'

Sachi finally making it to the hut in peace pushed aside the bamboo curtain with a smile on her face as all eyes turned to greet her's.

"Good morning" Sachi chimed.

"Good morning" chimed back Sango, Miroku, Shippo and Kaede as Kirara simply meowed happily to get Sachi to giggle at the neko's utter cuteness.

"Where have ye been child? Ye had us all worried due to ye's injuries" said Kaede as Sachi came and sat beside the elderly miko.

The young miko scratched her head awkwardly grinning with her eyes closed. "Gomen about that; I just wanted to go for a walk in the village. I met the people I saved yesterday; they thanked me."

"Hai child, they were very grateful and one told me how you defeated the youkai. Ye are truly gifted with so much power."

Miroku nodded in return. "It's extraordinary that you have so much power; it nearly rivals that of Midoriko-sama."

"Midoriko?" inquired Sachi the lecherous houshi coughed. "Sama" Sachi quickly answered giving the miko her rightful title as she rubbed her forehead where the mark now lay, visible but not nearly as bright as when it first showed up. 'I haven't even looked at this thing yet' Sachi thought but her thoughts were disrupted by her new female friend.

"Yes, she was the strongest miko known to us. It was from her that the Shikon no Tama came to be" said the warrior woman sitting proudly. "The image of that sacrifice is set in stone at my village."

"I don't really follow…" answered Sachi eating her breakfast of rise and fish slowly as Shippo came to sit next to her.

"Let me tell the story" smiled Sango. "There was a time long ago when youkai of every shape and form came together to fight as one. They all had a common enemy and it was the most powerful miko known throughout Japan…Midoriko-sama. She was so powerful that she could cleanse a youkai's soul that it became pure and no longer threatening. The band of youkai bind together to fight the last battle that lasted for three days and nights. When the youkai had finally set it fangs in Midoriko, she used the last of her strength to purify the youkai's soul but in the process she forced out her own soul. So even now she still fight that infinite battle…within the Shikon no Tama."

As Sango finished her story Sachi's face grew blank. Reaching beneath her blouse she pulled out the Shikon on a string of beads that Kagome had put on it. Straining her emerald eyes on the pink flawless surface Sachi looked for the battle that lay within; there was none that she could find.

Miroku lad down his tea and for once Sachi really looked at him and found that at the moment that he looked very holy and like a true houshi, but knowing his character she knew better.

"As the soul of Midoriko and youkai fight" began Miroku sitting in the cross-legged hands in his lap. "Their fight is swayed by the pureness of the Shikon. When it is pure and within the protection of one that is pure it remains as such and Midoriko-sama remains in control. When it becomes tainted with malice and hate it becomes black and corrupted, so the youkai is in control of the Shikon no Tama and its limitless power."

Sachi held the Shikon up higher as it flared slightly for an instant then its light seemed to flicker out. The fire-haired girl couldn't help but feel sorry for the ancient miko that was trapped and condemned to fight for all eternity inside a small pink glass ball.

Sachi mentally sighed as her emerald-indigo eyes became darker with concern. 'It truly is unblessed…' she thought and sighed again. 'We're a perfect match.'

The sound of the door hanging swaying and the crashing in of light alerted the group of someone's entrance. And looking up there standing in the doorway was a silhouette of none other then the retched apprentice Fu.

Sachi smiled up at her letting a snarl lay in between her rosy lips and the fiery look in her eyes. Fu who saw this visibly glared back and proceeded to grab a herb basket and only to leave once gain to go out back to the garden.

All eyes turned to Sachi who still was smiling/snarling at the entrance where Fu had vanished. Seeing them all look at her she replaced it with a cheery smile. Thought the smile was trust worthy it caused them all to worry and become nervous.

Trying to break the slight awkwardness that Fu had brought to the group Shippo spoke the first thing that came to mind. "Hey Sachi, have you seen Inuyasha this morning?" And he hopped onto the young miko's shoulders as his tail tickled the back of her neck.

They all watched the fiery haired miko's face become annoyed and angry, but watched as the angry look turned into an amused smile full of mischief.

"Last time I saw him…he was face down in the dirt" laughed Sachi then dramatically stopped when her eyebrow began to twitch. Looking slowly over at the houshi by her side Sachi caused him to freeze in mid action with her icy yet flaming irate eyes.

"HENTAI!!" Screeched Sachi and seeing Sango's Hirikotsu next to her grabbed it and knocked the leech unconscious.

Sango seeing that her husband's wondering hands had found themselves a new victim and in her fury stood swiftly shocking Sachi at the rage in her eyes. Firmly taking hold of her husband's wrist dragged his unconscious ass into Inuyasha's room for a further beating when he woke; Sachi could help but smile weakly at Sango's actions and feeling bad for Miroku at the sight he was going to see when he came out of La, La Land.

Shippo tapped Sachi's shoulder to get her attention back to him and she smiled at him and was proud to find that he smiled brightly back. "So you don't know where Inuyasha is?"

Sachi huffed crossing her arms before at mere mention of the dog eared, silver haired insulting hanyou. "I could care less about where that insensitive jerk ran off to!!"

Shippo and Kaede sighed in unison. 'So much like Kagome' they thought.

Working in the garden or doing whatever else the village need had caused the day to fly by in a flurry of the blazing sun that bore down on their backs. Lunch had come and gone before Sachi had time to truly think anything over about what happened, and the afternoon of hard laboring work didn't help. The sun had started to find its way to the horizon as the colors of blue where tinged with oranges, yellows, purples, pinks and bright blood reds. Seeing the sun slow fall to earth signaled the workers that the work hours and the day's labors were over and all villagers headed to their homes to take on the taste of making dinner.

Soon dinner too flew by in blissfulness of drowsiness and the warmth of food and having her belly full of delicious food. Sachi stood at the open doorway starring at the setting sun that half hid itself in its bed of green healthy earth. Inuyasha had yet to return and Sachi couldn't help but worry even slightly. Turning away from the door the modern day miko saw her silent friends.

"Are there any hot springs, waterfalls, or a private part of the river near by? I seriously need a bath" Sachi said to Sango, them both ignoring Miroku's perverted look.

"There is, but…" a worried taijiya said eyeing Sachi her eyes pinned to the hidden bandages beneath the black blouse. "It's dangerous to go alone in your condition and so close to night too."

Sachi laughed sweetly at Sango's sign of worry. "Thanks for the concern Sango-chan, but trust me when I say you should be more worried about the things that come my way instead of the other way around, cause who knows what we'll happen to them."

Sango's face had brightened when Sachi had given her the familiarity of friends to her name and she had given in, in that very instant. Sighing she nodded. "Alright Sachi, but take Shippo; he'll make sure you don't get lost on your way there."

"Yippy" cried out Sachi like she was a little girl.

And soon Sachi and the young kitsune walked out of the hut into the nearly setting sun. Sachi held her flute in hand and waved goodbye to the group at the entrance to the hut as the kit led the way on all fours in a cute little run.

It didn't take long to get to the hot spring and it was a peace filled walk of swelling bright green hills covered in meadow flowers. It was an easy 15 minute walk out of the village and not to far into the Inuyasha Forest either. As they came to the mist filled clearing with large rock formations all around giving it the privacy all people craved when bathing.

Sachi sighed a dreamy look in her eye as she looked at the mineral filled waters. 'Finally' she thought sighing again. 'Some relaxation.'

Shippo hopped onto a nearby rock and sat there starring at Sachi with a speck of caution and concern in his eyes. "Will you be alright Sachi?"

Sachi smiled own at the fox kit and ruffled his orange hair playfully. "Course I will be! I might be a woman, but I can take care of myself."

"Ok…" he said still unsure but took off back to the village through the overwhelming underbrush surrounding the spring giving it a protected feel along with the rocks.

Peeling away her dirt, sweat an blood incrusted clothing Sachi slipped into the healing mineral waters of the hot spring. Sing to her neck in the water the miko found she could swim in the overly large spring. Swimming calmly through the waters that reflected the glories of the Heavens Sachi found that her mind began to clear and finally being able to register that she really was here, in the Sengoku Jidai. With youkai, houshies, mikos, lords and ladies…and hanyous across the country side that was untamed and free. Looking to the to the sugar crystals flickering in the velvet sky Sachi found that the moon was far more breathtaking here then in the modern area. The pale light the moon and stars cast made the spring waters become a deeper indigo and darken the depths below. Slowly standing with angelic grace the indigo water reached her waist as her eyes seized to leave the captivating moon the loomed above her.

Soon though she had to do that task she had come here for and finding some soup-stone (A/N: don't' know if there really is such a thing but whatever in my story there is XD) on the edge of the spring Sachi scrubbed herself clean of blood, dirt and sweat from her labors here.

Once done taking a deep breath of night and mist filled air the young girl dove into the navy depths of the water around to vanish under the small waves of her passing. It was in those depths that the young miko was oblivious to apposing danger that drew nearer. Multiple steps and pairs of feet were coming her way and soon they would break through the greenery barrier that surrounded Sachi in the sereneness of the night. Some of the steps were far closer then the others; weather or not they were friendly the owners were the only ones to know before the young miko had time to detect the danger and flee, course Sachi was never one to flee.

A/N: ok how about that? Good chapter…get anything knew info from it or did it just make it more confusing? XD i want to thank all those that review and keep doing it cause I love to have more! And sry about the late update…i've been busy with work, and babysitting so yea i only get so much time on the compute b4 my mother kicks me off the computer…MY OWN FREAKING COMPUTER!!! But ok I'll try to update ASAP well maybe not that fast but still not as long as it took me this time.

chao,

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