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Welcome faithful readers to my next chapter!

I am SOOOO sorry it has taken so long to update but I'm about to fail yr9 Chemistry so I've done a bit of last minute cramming, which hasn't left much time for writeing!!!

I know I'm going to fry in hell for this but…

I can't be bothered to write anything here because I have limited time and just want to get on with the story

Go easy on me because this is my first fan fic EVER! But I'd still like to know what I'm doing wrong

Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha

I only own Hikaru and she's more than a handful!

Last Time;

"Hi Kagome! I hate to talk and run but this is just a little too close to the village for my liking. See ya!"

she changed back into her fox form and ran off into the trees.

Inuyasha shrugged and started back towards the village, Kagome looked worried for a moment then followed him.

'Well that was an anti-climax!' she thought

Chapter 7:

The Shit Hits The Fan, for Hikaru

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When they got back to the village headman's house where they were staying, Kagome was deep in thought.

"What's wrong Kagome?" asked a concerned Sango

"Why would Hikaru want to avoid the notice of the village?"

"Why not, she's a demon after all! And a tricky one at that." said Shippo

"Yeah, but this village isn't particularly hostile, we come through all right" added Sango

"Maybe they've got a grudge against her or something" said Inuyasha lazily

wonder what sort of grudge they could have against Hikaru that…"

"Excuse me," it was an old woman from the village, "did I hear you mention the Kitsune Hikaru?"

"Yes, what can you tell us about her?" said Sango

"She is an unruly demon! Hunted for crimes against our village as well as others I am told"

"What exactly did she do to the village to receive this condemnation?" asked Miroku, interested.

"She possessed the headman's daughter!"

"How do you know it was her" said Inuyasha

"we caught her off guard and in her confusion the headman noticed that his daughter doesn't usually have a tail."

"That's a pretty solid way to tell if a Kitsune is about" said Shippo

"so we tried to catch her but she fled the village, luckily the headman's daughter made a full recovery"

"That's good to hear!" said Miroku a little too cheerfully for Sango's liking, who gave him another of her paralyzing death stares.

"By any chance would you have seen the devious vixen?"

"Yeah but she's probably long gone by now" said Inuyasha,

"Thank you sir, we'll send out a search party at once" the woman left

Kagome glared at Inuyasha,

"What?!"

"Now they're going to hunt her down and kill her!"

"Quit worrying, she can look after herself"

"Yeah! But she doesn't need us making it harder for her!!!"

(A/N; Wait for the irony, wait for it… wait for it…)

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Hikaru sped through the forest in the dark,

her clothes torn and dirty from a hasty attempt at escape

'Damn it!' she thought as the angry voices came nearer 'how did they know I was here!!!'

She reached a clearing and looked back; well over fifty demons were only a few hundred meters away.

She turned to run but caught the glint of steel and the glow of torches beyond the trees.

' the villagers!'

she was surrounded and had only one choice, the demons or the villagers.

One of the two would catch her, probably the demons it didn't matter if they got there first, they'd just massacre the villagers if they got in the way.

There was no way out and Hikaru realized that they were going to kill her, there was no avoiding it

But the were not leaving unscathed

She drew her blades, she was gonna bloody well go down fighting!

She turned to face the onslaught of demons

She noticed that they were accompanied by a swarm of strange wasps, a frown crossed her face, she'd never encountered these before.

She shook herself mentally, it didn't matter, she'd kill them too if she got the chance before she was struck down, hopefully…

She let out a feral snarl and hurled herself towards the hoards of monsters

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The next morning Inuyasha and the others left the village to continue they're search for the jewel shards.

"So Kagome, you sensing any jewel shards?" asked Inuyasha

Kagome frowned, "three and they're very far off, and they were a lot closer yesterday"

"Hmmm, I wonder if this has anything to do with Hikaru?" said Miroku

"I think they're her shards, I just don't see why she would just up and leave!" she said glaring at Inuyasha

"Something must've happened" said Inuyasha "let's go check it out, which way Kagome?"

"That way!"

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Some time later they came to a large clearing, it looked like a battlefield

The bodies of demons and the occasional villager were scattered about the place

"Whoa! What happened here!" gasped Shippo "we came through her two days ago and it wasn't like this!"

Inuyasha sniffed around a bit until coming to a conclusion,

"Hikaru was here, it seems that she was attacked by the demons and the villagers,

By the looks of it they didn't join forces; they just caught her at the same time."

"Talk about bad luck!" said Sango

"There's a hell of a lot of blood around…" said Kagome apprehensively

Miroku went around poking the various demon corpses with his staff

"Well none of them are her and I don't think she would have escaped from this, so she has most probably been captured."

"She went down fighting that's for sure," said Inuyasha with a raised eyebrow.

"Should we look for her or keep going?" asked Shippo

"Feh! She can look after herself" scoffed Inuyasha "It's her fight, not ours"

"Are you sure about that Inuyasha?" said Miroku lifting the shredded carcass of one of Naraku's hell wasps.

Inuyasha swore then turned to Kagome with a questioning look.

"Nope, can't sense anything now. Any shards that were here are out of range now, even Hikaru's ones from before!"

He strode over to the middle of the carnage and started sniffing around on all fours, starting at a large patch of blood and following its scent north-west.

The others followed…

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Hikaru slowly came to and tried to get a grip on her surroundings

She was in a large mansion, bound hand and foot; her bonds were spelled to prevent any 'Kitsune Magic' helping her escape.

A woman with a large fan and a cross expression sat at one end of the room (A/N: Kagura obviously)

"So you're finally awake…" she said lazily

Hikaru glowered, "Who are you? What do you want with me?"

"Beats me, I'm not the one in charge here! But I guess you'll get to ask him yourself sooner or later" she yawned and went back to staring into space.

'Keh!' Hikaru thought 'well I can see I'm going to get nowhere with her!'

She tried to sit up but found it to be a very painful exercise

She had deep gashes on her arms, legs and torso as well as an impressive collection of bruises and other painful injuries.

They had stopped bleeding and she was already starting to heal,

She estimated that she had been out for only a few hours, half a day at the most.

Her bindings prevented most movement but she was able to determine if they had managed to strip her of all her weapons.

Unfortunately they had, even the ones that didn't look like weapons!!!

'I don't believe this!!!' she thought angrily, 'who ever these bastards are, they sure know what they're doing!!!'

This had never happened before, any fool that thought they could seize her had always left at least one sharp pointy object of use, ether that or one of her Kitsune magic workings.

Hikaru scowled, 'why the hell do they want me for?!!' the realization hit her like a mallet, her eyes widened

'Oh , I am so dead…'

-To be continued…-

Yay! Another chapter out of the way and I still haven't slept for days! (God knows why?)

In that chapter Hikaru displayed the famous Kitsune philosophy of;

'I could probably win but if there's a way out then I'll run for it!'- By Kitsune's throughout the ages

Please review! C'mon! You're driving me insane!

I can't stand staring at the screen waiting for you guys to review!

I will post the next chapter (The Sakurazaki Family Curse) when I get more time and reviews.

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