So Midori had a brush in with Kikyou and she was not happy about Inuyasha picking Midori over her. There was a bit of fighting, noting too serious. Just Kikyou being a heartless zombie again. Sorry, I shouldn't be bringing my bias into this. Can't help it sometimes. But now Midori knows she has to find the group soon.

Disclaimer: If I owned Inuyasha, I would be the luckiest person in the world, but I'm not. So I don't own Inuyasha =[

Chapter 10: Went Right Past Us

I flipped my eyes open, realizing I fell asleep. I sat up and found myself on Ahun. Since I sat up so suddenly, my head pulsated and spun.

"Midori, you're awake!" Renki announced happily, walking next to Ahun.

I put my hand on my forehead and winced when I touched the bump. "Ow, what the heck happened?"

"Right after you told me 'It's about time we find that hero of yours' you passed out cold and knocked yourself on the head," he explained. "You slept more than a day straight!"

My eyes grew. "Have any stray demons gone down to mountain?!"

"Yeah, this morning a huge pack headed down that way," Rin replied, walking next to Jaken and Renki.

"Why didn't you stop them?!" I yelled at Sesshomaru.

"They had no intention of coming at us. I'm not going to pick a fight unless I must," he responded, without any emotion, as usual.

"How dare you yell at my Lord-!"

"Shut it Jaken!" I growled. "You're not stupid Sesshomaru; you know who they were after! And you just let them go right past us!"

"Instead of sitting there, shrieking like a banshee, how about you go find that half breed and his cohorts," he recommended, glaring at me. "That appears to be more effective than what you're doing now."

"You're right!" I jumped off of Ahun and wobbled a little on my bare feet. "Come on Renki! We have to go find them!"

He broke out of the group and smiled at me. "Are we going to help Inuyasha out?"

"I sure hope he doesn't need any help." I called as we started to run down the mountain, "Thank you for helping us Lord Sesshomaru!"

Renki used his nose to follow the scent of the stray demons, down the mountain. I didn't ask him anything like if there was a smell of human blood, even though I really wanted to know, because he was young and wasn't the best tracker. He needed to put all his effort into concentrating on following the scent.

I ran as fast as I could to keep up with him and I was so happy I was in good shape, because if I even slowed down to rest for a moment, Renki would be out of sight in no time. I would be lost and alone again.

What if I'm too late to help? What if everyone was killed? What if they all perished because I wasn't there? I might not be a huge help but I still could have made a difference! Why did I fall in that river?!

I would be yelling my head off, calling to them, but I won't be much help if I'm dead. Demons could be following us and waiting for us to reveal ourselves.

I shook my head. I need to work on freaking out less. They're just a bunch of wimpy demons, they can all handle it…I still have a bad feeling though.

Why couldn't Kikyou just work with me and tell me where they were? Cold hearted clay bitch. If she actually cared about Inuyasha, she would have told me where he was. Just proves that she's selfish. But she must have been pretty angry if I got her to break that cold façade of hers. I still want to know what he said to her, that would make her so pissed off. I hope I get the chance to ask him.

"Midori," Renki called from not too far ahead of me. He was running slower since he was trying to track. "I think they're right up ahead, about a mile."

"Any good or bad signs?" I asked frantically.

"I can't really tell, sorry," he apologized, looking back at me.

"It's fine Renki, we'll know soon enough." My stomach tightened as I said that. I felt like I was drowning in my nervousness. I just kept repeating to myself, "Please be okay" over and over again.

As we got closer, I smelt a scent I was all to use to, dead demon bodies. I heard fighting a head but it sounded like just two demons fighting over food. As soon as they saw us, they attacked but I easily took them out with my fan. Renki held his sleeve in front of his face as he ran; I can't imagine that he's use to this sort of smell, unlike Inuyasha.

That mile was the longest mile of my whole entire life. It felt like I wasn't getting as I jumped over the demon carcasses scattered everywhere, including in the trees. It was disgusting but, as I said, I'm use to it. I'm just so ready to be back with the group, if they're still there.

"I wouldn't have let those demons go by Midori, but I didn't know that they were going after Inuyasha," Renki mentioned, looking around the gory area. It's awful that someone at his age has seen something like this. "And Lord Sesshomaru freaks me out, even if he is my hero's step brother."

"He freaks everyone out, it's something he does." I looked around and then spotted a cave in the face of the mountain. As soon as I saw it, it started to downpour like crazy. The rain flew in at an angle and it nearly felt like hale.

Within seconds we were both drenched. "Come on Renki, to that cave!" I called over the sound of the storm.

He nodded and took my hand. We ran over to the shelter and noticed the light inside. Before I could fully process this, we went inside and saw everyone around the fire sleeping. I gasped and dropped Renki's hand in shock.