"I will be back in three days, I need to travel to my old village to restore Hiriaikotsu." Sango explained, making sure everything she had was in order before leaving the group.

Sango's Hiriaikotsu was damaged in the fight with a coyote demon who pretended to be a beautiful princess and lured men in to suck the youth from them.

"Three days exactly you hear?" InuYasha asked her, already uneased that she wanted to go alone.

Sango nodded and Kirara transformed and the two flew off, now leaving the half demon siblings, Kagome, Miroku, and Shippo alone by the fire.

Sheumaru couldn't help the nervous bounce of her leg as she sat down, any moment now the moon would rise and she would be human. She watched as the sun sunk behind the peaks of the mountains, and saw as the moon was allowed to have its reins over the sky for another night once more.

A twig snapped behind her and she jumped, her very human eyes trying to search for the source of the noise.

"It's alright, it's just me," Kagome said sitting behind her.

"What are you doing?" Sheumaru asked as she felt Kagome's hands in her hair.

"I'm braiding it, my mother does this a lot to calm me down too, so I thought I would try it on you," she said.

"Oh," Sheumaru shrugged, maybe it would help, her hands went on the inside sleeves of her hakama.

"I'm hungry!" Shippo whined.

"I don't have anything, I ran out, I'm sorry," Kagome said from behind her.

"I'll go get some fish, a river's not that far from here," InuYasha grunted as he got up.

Sheumaru noticed that the bounce in her leg was gone and that her breathing was slow, almost as if she were going to fall asleep.

"This really works," she sighed as InuYasha ran to the river.

"Good I'm glad," Kagome giggled.

"So I've been thinking," Miroku said suddenly.

"About?" Sheumaru asked him, her eyes still closed.

"Why you could go through the Well.." Miroku continued, "I think it's because Kikyo shot those arrows, and because Kagome is Kikyo's reincarnation, it would make sense why only you and InuYasha could go get her. It's because you are connected to her."

"That makes enough sense for me," Kagome piped up, "there I'm done, your hair is officially braided."

"Woah," Sheumaru said as she felt her hair all clumped up and not out and knot infested.

InuYasha came back not a moment later with two fish for everyone and some sticks to skewer them.

XxXx

It was next morning and they were walking beside the river in which InuYasha had caught the fish for their dinner; intending to cut through the mountains before the sun set.

"What's this?" Kagome asked looking down into the river.

"I saw those last night too," InuYasha said following her gaze watching the fruit with human faces float down the river.

"Those are human faces fruit!" Miroku exclaimed when he knelt down closer to inspect them.

"What?" Sheumaru looked at the monk, a confused expression written across her features.

"There is a demon tree called Ninmenka, it uses humans as nourishment that's why it's fruit resembles human faces." Miroku explained, "with this much fruit the tree must be large." He looked back down into the water.

"With all these wars going on the tree has to get a lot of nourishment," InuYasha tried to reason.

"But there isn't a lot of fighting in the mountains," Sheumaru pointed out.

"I guess that's true, let's get going," her brother urged and they all nodded, walking with him.

"That must be it," Miroku pointed up the mountain at the tree that sat on one of its cliffs.

They had only been walking for a couple hours when the monk spotted it.

InuYasha nodded and jumped up the side of the mountain.

"What are you doing?" Kagome called after him.

"What do you think? I'm going to cut down the tree!"

"Take us with you! It might be dangerous!" Miroku yelled now.

"I'm not wasting my time lugging each one of you up, that'll take the whole day!" He argued, reaching the top of the mountain.

"He's never done that before," Kagome remarked.

"Tonight's the beginning of a new lunar cycle, he's on edge." Sheumaru explained.

"I nearly forgot!" Kagome explained in shock.

How could you forget when last night was my turn? She thought, chuckling slightly.

"He's taking too long and the tree hasn't fallen, I'm going. You stay here." Sheumaru suddenly growled at the scent of blood.

"But-" Kagome started but Sheumaru was already half way up the mountain.

I'm coming InuYasha, just hold on.

When she reached the top, she saw the back of a giant of a man.

"Where's my brother you pig?!" She growled, afraid of where her brother might be with it so close to nightfall.

"Oh? Another demon are you?" The man turned and the ground shook slightly under his weight, "with you and the other demon's essence in the mix, I shall have the fruit of longevity by morning!"

"You didn't answer my question!" She hissed, drawing Tensing.

"You'll see him soon enough, you will." The being laughed and it made the uncomfortable centipedes crawl with their little legs up her neck.

She was about to charge at him but something strange happened that made her stop.

The giant had taken the lid of his gourd and in doing so, the gourd was getting bigger.

"What in all the hells?!" She tried to run, but she tripped over something, her sword. Her sword which somehow grew with the gourd and the being controlling it.

Wait a second, everything isn't getting bigger, I'm shrinking! I'm being drawn towards it.

Sure enough, she was being sucked towards the gourd, and the evil giant of a human laughed as she entered it and put in the cork.

"Have a nice family reunion before you die!" She heard his voice through the gourd walls.

"InuYasha! Wake up!" She pleaded as she saw her brother out cold and leaning against the wall.

The fumes of the liquid inside the gourd, reached her nose and she felt her eyes droop closed.

A: There we go, another chapter. As always please leave reviews, bye bye now!