Chapter 6

Yuna jumped from the cave to go back to the cold stream where she caught all of their dinner. This was the first time they had really separated since the start of their journey. It made her uncomfortable that she was leaving a now human Inuyasha in a cave by himself. She had to get the sweat from the travels off of her and he didn't seem in the best of moods to try and talk him into at least sitting near the river. She understood though. Her human nights were always painful. She didn't fit in as a demon and she didn't as a human. At least Inuyasha looked normal. He could walk into any village around here and he would blend right in. She ran on both nights.

Sighing, she slipped off her dirty traveling clothes and gave them a thorough rinsing. She sat them on a near by rock. The air tonight would make sure they would be ready to be packed up tomorrow. She shook her hair out before stepping into the cool stream. True, temperatures did not affect her like it did humans, but she couldn't help but feel excitement at the thought of being cold again. The cold, that's where she thrived. Taking deep breaths she slowly urged the feeling in her fingers forward. Yes she had been almost right when she told him that her mother was a half breed. It was only a little off from the truth. After all she was a half-breed, from an elemental.

Her mother could control water. Yuna remembered her mother sitting under the trees and pulling water from a nearby well to feed them. She could even remember the trees giving off a slight sigh, as if saying thank you. Yuna had been the best of both worlds. She inherited her mother's elemental control and her father's demon side. Together they made ice.

Yuna guided her fingers over the surface of the water. Slowly little ripples appeared and she pulled the water around her into the air and made it fall on her. Diving under she moved the current to carry her. She continued on and on, even after she was her time she almost missed the smell that was now in the air.

She turned stiff. Dirt, blood, and a scent she recognized. 'Ogres.' She leapt out of the stream and wrapped her yukata around her. She grabbed her clothes that were still drying and raced to the cave.

"Inuyasha." She stood outside the cave,not wanted to make to much noise but knowing that they were in there. She slowly crept forward. And then she found him.

The Ogre was around a curve in the cave. It turns out they had both been wrong and the Ogre had been sleeping in the cave for the past two days. Smelling any demon blood it stayed hidden. It wasn't until the smell of a human left unguarded entered its nose that he began to come out of his hiding place.

Yuna took deep breathes, she was not afraid. An ogre? How small in comparison with, well, everything. What made her nervous was Inuyasha. He was so deep in thought about something that he didn't notice the Ogre making it's way to him. In one bound Yuna made it from the cave entrance to behind the ogre that was almost in front of Inuyasha.

"Inuyasha!" She called from behind the ogre. She took her clawed hand and forced her way through the Ogre's rib cage. She felt bones break and organs give under her fingers. She tore straight through in a swift motion with her fist. Once she was satisfied that she ripped through his stomach, she brought her other hand through his chest. She took both fists and pulled away from each other, ripping the Ogre in two.

Inuyasha stared at the clawed, bloody hand in front of him. After hearing his name he looked and saw an Ogre standing over him with two hands through his body. He cringed as he watched Yuna tear the Ogre apart. He began to blink rapidly when the blood from the Ogre poured on his face. He watched as a tiny Yuna ran forward. He thought he was covered in blood until he saw her. Her once silver shining hair was tainted red, half of her face covered in blood, while almost her whole front was stained. She wasn't even breathing hard from ripping apart the Ogre. Instead she did the only thing she wanted to do.

She grabbed Inuyasha and wrapped her arms around him. She brought him into the corner of her neck, nuzzling his now human ear in the process. Inuyasha kept his hands by his side, unsure of how to act.

"Inuyasha! What were you doing? What was so important that you couldn't stop thinking long enough to call me? You know ogre's love humans! I smelled it from the stream and was afraid I would be to late! Inuyasha, you have to be more careful!"

On and on she carried on, starting in a fit and ending in tears. The whole time Inuyasha sat there, letting her worry over him. His nose was filled with her scent. Even as a human he could smell her as if he was still a demon. He began to nuzzle back, not wanting the smell of her salty tears to ruin her scent. He turned abruptly and watched her. Her could tell she was talking but he couldn't understand what she was saying. He did the only thing he felt he could do. He forced his lips on hers. Immediately she went quiet and limp in his hands. Afraid that he had done something wrong he began to pull away before she started to kiss him back. Their lips fighting each other. Feeling brave he begged her lips to let his tongue pass. She let his tongue through with a soft moan that he would have heard if he still had his demon hearing.

Unable to bring herself away from him she let his tongue roam her mouth. She couldn't get close enough to him. She pressed her body near him, wanting to become one. After what seemed like forever they pulled apart. Her eyes were glassed over and his shone brighter than they had in the past couple of days.

"Um...I will be back. I need to..blood." Yuna turned and walked out of the cave. Taking slower steps than she had before she reached the river and dove back in. She washed all of the blood off of her before touching her lips.

'How interesting...'