Me: Hm...

Inuyasha: Oh, no. Ever time she says 'hm', something bad happens.

Kimi: Kimi don't think so.

Kouga: ...does she always refer to herself in third person?

Me: Yeah, pretty much. You'll get used to it... eventually.

Kouga: Did you get used to it?

Me: ...not yet.

Inuyasha: Then why the hell are we expected to get used to it?

Me: Hey, I said 'eventually'.

Kimi: Start! Start! akuma no own anything. Start!

Me: But I could get used to not having to ask anyone to do that. -smiles- And start we shall, Kimi.

"Yuki... feeling better?" Rin asked, sitting beside Yuki. Yuki smiled. She'd gotten so used to the little girl being there.

"Yeah, Rin. Thanks for asking." And, for once, it wasn't a lie. She stood and stretched, feeling a lot better than she had a few days ago when she'd first passed out.

Rin, grinning broadly, nodded her head vigorously. "I'll go tell Master Shesshomaru! He'll be pleased!" And she darted into the forest to go look for Shesshomaru.

Yuki yawned and cracked her jaw, then walked into the forest after her.

"YUKI-CHAN BETTER! YUKI-CHAN BETTER!" Yuki jumped quickly, narrowly dodging Kimi, who had come rushing at her. Landing on her good leg and turning around, hands in her pockets, she smiled.

"Yups. I'm better."

"WHO THE HELL IS SHOUTING?!" Inuyasha stumbled through the forest, coming out and looking like he should still be sleeping.

Yuki laughed and pounced on him, almost knocking him over, but waking him up. "You are, Nunu-cha." Pausing and letting go, she smirked at him and said, "But that was Kimi before."

Inuyasha shook his head. "Do you know what it's like living with a maniac like her? She never sleeps- EVER. She only sleeps every couple days, and even then she woke me up by trying to eat my tail! How the hell did you find her, anyway? And why are you traveling with her?"

Yuki shrugged as Kimi tackled Inuyasha, shouting, "KIMI NO THINK THAT'S NICE!"

"GET OFF ME!"

"NO!"

Yuki shrugged again once Inuyasha had managed to stand up, but was still pushing at her face, while Kimi pushed back, both locked in a very hilarious fight. "Anyway, I told you. I'm on Departure. And because of that, and because I was the first girl born into the family in a couple centuries, my family assigned her as my 'bodyguard'."

Yuki thought she heard Inuyasha say something about how it was impossible to imagine Kimi 'guarding' anyone, more like trying to eat them in their sleep, but before she could say anything, he asked, "And what the hell's the Departure, anyway?"

"You're an idiot," Yuki observed. "And the Departure-"

"The Departure is something that Yuki's clan has been doing for thousands of years," Shesshomaru said, coming up behind Yuki, Rin right on his tail. Kimi looked like she had to restrain herself from jumping on Shesshomaru and playing with his fluffiness, but she didn't actually do anything. Yuki could tell that she had tried before, though.

Shesshomaru looked over at Yuki and nodded. "Good morning. Anyway, the Departure is something that the next in line to inherit the clan has to do before they can actually inherit the clan- that's all I know of it." He looked at Yuki. "Care to elaborate?"

"Kimi do, Kimi do!" Kimi shouted, bouncing up and down.

"I'll do it, Kimi," Yuki said, sitting down. Shesshomaru stayed standing, but everyone else followed her. "Anyway, the Departure is something where a Prince- or Princess, even though it doesn't say that in the damn sexist rules- is something that the heir has to do to prove herself. Now that I'm 'of age', I have to go through with it." She rolled her eyes. "It was so irritating. Every night for the year before I had to start, I got to listen to my mom say that I shouldn't have to do it, and my dad say that tradition demanded it. In the end, though, dad won and I had to go, but Kimi got to come along to keep me company. During the ceremony before I had to go, they took both mine and Kimi's powers."

"Wait, you mean she was even more stupid before this?" Inuyasha looked over at Kimi, horrified. "What the hell were you like when you had powers?"

Before Kimi could answer, though, Rin asked, "But why can you still transform?"

Yuki patted her on the head and answered, "Because that's nature, not power. I have to be able to transform every full moon or I'll die." She crinkled her nose a bit in disgust. "That's why I passed out before. But it was either leave transformation or take it away completely, and that just wasn't possible. Anyway, they took our powers and sent us off."

"What do you have to do?" Shesshomaru asked, eyebrow raised.

"KIMI ANSWER!" Kimi squealed. Before Yuki could inject, though, Kimi continued, "Kimi and Yuki need to go do something special. Then we get powers back and everything better!"

"To elaborate on the idiot word, we have to go do something major- something that would effect even my remote wolf clan. If and when they hear about it, they summon us back, and from there they decide whether or not it's worthy of clan leadership. If it is, we get our powers back and I become leader of the clan, if it isn't, we get sent back to where we were and we have to do something else." She shrugged.

"How's that so hard?" Inuyasha scoffed. "Sounds easy enough for me."

Yuki was up in an instant, Kimi right beside her. "How'd you like to have to do something extraordinary in a limited amount of time? If we can't find anything to do within in a certain amount of time, they feed our powers to a demon, one that can travel through time, and we have six months to get them back before the seal on them breaks and the demon forever has our powers. From there, we have no powers and no chance of ever getting them back, but we have to kill the demon or die in the attempt to finish the Departure."

Inuyasha sat, stunned for a moment. "Thats... not good."

"No. It's not."

"But why do you have to finish the Departure, anyway? Can't you just... leave?"

Yuki shook her head. "Nope. At the moment, both are clans are out-casting us. So the most powerful wolf demon clan, as well as a dragon demon clan, is, at the moment, ignoring us. If we were to just walk away, we'd be killed."

Inuyasha looked like he was about to something, but his mouth snapped shut and his head swiveled to look at Kimi, who was now attempting to do a hand stand... in a near by tree. "YOU'RE A DRAGON DEMON?!"

Kimi:Bum bum bum BUM!!

Me: Bum bum bum bum is right, Kimi.

Inuyasha: Hey, how come you didn't bring anyone else in?

Me: Why, are you complaining that I didn't bring Kouga in?

Kouga: Yes!

Inuyasha: No!

Me: Then don't question the all powerful writer. SEE YA NEXT TIME!