Chapter Ten: Main Dish!

Nikkita decides to travel with the group since Sesshomaru left her. She thought she would never see him again.

"Grr… So you are stuck with us again?" Inuyasha says annoyed.

"Yea, got a problem with that?" She barks back.

The time passed by slowly as they laugh, fought the demons, and travel.

Every time when they would make a camp for the night Nikkita would disappear somewhere in the woods, if there where any. She continues her training although 'he' wasn't there, and no one bothered her until one night.

"Where is Nikkita?" Sango asks when it really got dark and Nikkita didn't return to the camp.

"I think I saw her going in this direction." Miroku points north, to a not so big forest, with his golden cane.

"What's she's doing there all by herself?"

"She trains that's what she does. She thinks that she will get stronger. Feh!" Inuyasha mocks Nikkita.

"Inuyasha? Osuwari!" Inuyasha went flying to the ground. "I'm worrying about her."

"Grr… I will go look for her." Inuyasha barley got up from the ground when they heard a scream which seem to belong to Nikkita. "Stay here. I will deal with this. If not I will call." He says and he takes off in the direction of the scream. When he got there he saw Nikkita in a den tangled in vines.

She struggles to get out. "Get off of me you weird thing! Ouch! Owie! That stings!" She struggles with the vines as the leaves of stinging nettle stung her. Then she hears a laugh from above. Nikkita looks up to see Inuyasha laughing at her in the messy situation. "Inuyasha! Just let me get out of this and I am going to kick your ass!"

"You are pretty brave in talking to someone way stronger that yourself. I will let you chill here for a while until you going to cry for my help."

"Forget about it you little brat!"

"Then see ya later!" He was leaving very slowly.

"If you are standing there and waiting for me to cry for you to help then you can stand there forever cause I'm not calling! I can get out of this by myself if I have to!"

"It's your choice. Just remember we are leaving at sunrise." He says and starts to leave for real.

"Baka…" she whispers when he was in good distance away from her, at least she thought that he was.

"I know you are!" He yells after her. When he returns to the camp he says, "She's fine. She will join us later."

After hours of struggling Nikkita gave up. Her arms and legs had little swollen bumps from the poisonous leaves of the stinging nettle, that stung her. Nikkita didn't have any strength left to struggle. "I'm such a klutz, which always gets in trouble." She sights. "Maybe I should call Inuyasha for help."

"What did I tell you about giving up?"

Nikkita looks up and her smile lit up her face. "Sesshomaru!" He just looks at her with his golden eyes. "Can you get me out of this?" She looks with her puppy look.

"You got yourself into it then get yourself out of it."

"Grr… thanks a lot…" She growls at him and looks to the side as she finds new strength.

"Temper and anger still not in control, I see." She froze and looks at him. "Use your head once in a while."

"What do you mean? Are you implying that I am stupid?! Hey! Don't walk away from me! I'm not fin...!"

"But I am." Sesshomaru was almost gone from Nikkita's eyesight.

Suddenly Nikkita's anger was gone. "Don't leave me! Please!" She cries.

"You are in a knot. What you do with knots? You untie them. So become a knot and untie yourself out of it."

Nikkita tries, but then she feels the vines move and over lap her. "Hey! What's going on?!" She panics as the vines tighten around her legs and arms.

"What a nice dinner I have." Someone whispers into Nikkita's ear.

Her eyes widens in fear. "Help! Sessh…!" She didn't finish saying it, because the thing wraps the vines around her neck and starts to slowly choking her. Nikkita thought that she is a goner until she saw a green/golden light of rope that was whipped around her. Thick vines loosen up so she takes the opportunity to escape. The girl scrambles out of the den, but then the vines wraps around her ankle and starts to pull her down as a vine after vine is added. "Aaahhh!" Scrambling and kicking she tries to get out. Then in a split second she was hanging upside down over the ground. A pile of vines risen up holding Nikkita upside down by her legs. With fear she screams, "What is that thing?!"

"That is a demon if you did not noticed you baka!"

"Hey! Who are you calling that you Lord Fur-ball?!" She swings her fist in the air. Then suddenly she is shaken in the air causing the fear to comeback. "Aaahhh!!!! Help!!"

"Apologize first, you human!"

"Me to you? Never!"

"Suit yourself." Sesshomaru starts to leave. The hideous monster shook Nikkita again as it laughs wrapping vines around her curvy body slowly squeezing her breath out.

"Hey come on take a joke…" There was no more time as the vines squeeze harder. "I'M SORRY!!" She screams with the last of her breath before fainting. Sesshomaru turns back around and use his poisonous rope to slay the demon. The demon release Nikkita, but she didn't hit the ground. Lord Sesshomaru caught her in the last moment.