"Are you okay InuYasha?" Sheumaru asked, grunting she rolled over so she was off her bad leg.

"I'm fine. What about you?" He looked over at her. His voice was raspy, landing that hard on his back had caused the wind to be knocked out of him.

"I've seen better days.. Where did the wolves go?" She looked around realizing that the wolf stench had dissipated, there were no more wolves around them.

"They're gone, Kōga called them back." InuYasha said getting up dusting off his red Hakama.

"I really hate wolves," Sheumaru remarked, groaning as she got up, she felt around for her sword, "those muts took Tensing!" She growled now, no longer feeling the pain as she began to climb the cliff they were thrown from. Powered by anger she made it up the side of the mountain in less than a minute.

"Well?! What's taking so long? It's best we get going before the demon blood starts coming alive!" She yelled down at InuYasha, her brother began to scale the cliff.

"I am going to gut them alive, the nerve-!" Sheumaru cut herself off making a nasty gesture with her hands that resembled the snapping of someone's neck.

"We'll get your sword back, don't worry." InuYasha put a hand on her good shoulder.

"You say that until I get red eyes and it's your throat I'm ripping out." Sheumaru sighed.

"Just don't think about it." InuYasha tried.

Sheumaru gave a weak sarcastic laugh.

"Come on we'll get there quicker if you get on my back." InuYasha knelt in front of her, and Sheumaru, swallowing her pride, reluctantly climbed on.

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They finally reached the cave in which the wolf scent was strongest. Refusing to show any sign of weakness in front of her enemies, Sheumaru climbed off of InuYasha before they got to the cave.

Her demon was already itching to get itself free, without Tensing on her hip it knew it had a chance.

"Get out of here! No dogs allowed!" Growled a heavily armored wolf demon from the corner, Sheumaru laughed.

"We don't want to be here, but I'm afraid you took something from me, and him, mine's a nice shiny sword, his is a woman. Care to point us in the right direction?" She snarled the last part, making it clear Now was not the time to jest.

"We're not telling you half-breeds anything!" Snarled another.

"I don't have time for this.." InuYasha trailed off, pulling out Tetsusiga.

"Wait. InuYasha, there are pups present." Sheumaru whispered to him, pointing to the baby in one of the wolf demon mother's arms; there were few children around the ages of five that seemed to be amongst the legs of the adults as well.

"Listen. At least give me my sword. I need it." Sheumaru tried, a few of the men let out laughs.

"I don't like to do violence in front of pups. It can be scarring but then again they aren't mine and I can murder you each in front of them. Give me my sword!" She growled, her demon blood sensing she was in danger began to transform her features.

She held her head in her hands, "please.." It came out whispered and broken but still intimidating.

"Something strange.." muttered one demon closest to them.

"Her scent.. it's changed.." muttered another.

The children in the room gave a little cries of fear and ran to their parents.

"Do you want her to slaughter you?! Get her her sword!" Barked InuYasha suddenly.

With the danger of the other demons and the fact that she was already hurt was causing her demon blood to kick into overdrive.

"You!" Sheumaru snarled, "You hurt me! You made me weak!" She was facing InuYasha now, all sense gone.

Foaming at the mouth like a rabid dog she turned to the others, "you will die! All of you!"

The children screamed, parents held them close to their chests. InuYasha suddenly shoved something in her hands, her sword. Suddenly her power drained, she was feeling the pain in her leg and shoulder again.

"Come on, if they won't tell us where Kagome is, I'll just sniff her out." InuYasha instructed her to climb on his back again, she did.

"I'm sorry.." She said to the wolves, her voice muffled by InuYasha's hakama, but she knew that the wolves could still hear her. The pups were still clutching to their mothers. The fathers standing in front of his family, glaring at them as they left the cave once more.

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"There she is!" Sheumaru pointed up, Kōga was dragging her up through the air, fighting with some bird demons.

"That bastard!" InuYasha yowled, dropping Sheumaru off by Sango who was still riding on Kirara and went off to go fight him.

"KAGOME!" InuYasha roared from above, slicing easily through the birds with his sword.

"InuYasha!" The girl responded, Sheumaru didn't miss the note of relief in her voice.

Sheumaru turned her attention away from her brother, he would be fine; placing her hands through the sleeves of her hakama, she turned to Miroku and Sango.

"What's with some of the tribe being here? What are those birds?" She asked, intrigued.

"It seems that the wolves and these birds have been in battle for a long time, and Kōga is after their leader because he has a shard, but he needed Kagome to see the shards." Miroku explained.

"I see.." Sheumaru said thoughtfully.

"What exactly took you and InuYasha so long? I thought he'd come to Kagome's rescue as soon as he realized she was gone." Sango asked looking up at the fight above.

There were only few bird demons left, having been mostly cut down by InuYasha. They had seemed to find the king and were focusing on dislodging Kōga's arm from the birds mouth.

"The wolves stole my sword." Sheumaru said, leaning heavily on it, all this moving around was too much but she would never admit it.

She was too prideful damnit!

"They did what?" Sango breathed, horrified.

"Did you-" Sheumaru cut across the monk.

"Yes but only for a moment. You should have seen the looks on the pups faces.. they were terrified of me." She sighed, she didn't like it when a child was sad, let alone be the reason to cause such emotion.

"It looks like they're done.. shall we join them?" Miroku asked, looking up again.

"That sounds good.. you should hear what Kagome is saying right now.." Sheumaru said sorrowfully, but there was really a laugh behind her words.

A: There a longer chapter, I hope you are enjoying this so far, and if you are please tell me what you think in the reviews!

Also you may have noticed that instead of calling InuYasha's a Kimono for the first like three chapters it has now been named hakama, I realized that Kimono was a completely different thing and I am sorry for my lack of culture but it is my first time writing anime/manga fic so I'm still getting used to certain names.

If I still am getting it wrong please tell me! I hate to be wrong the entire time and nobody tell me and find out later and be completely embarrassed :(

Sorry for that long tangent.. Bye Bye now!