Set during episode 13, "The Mystery of the New Moon and the Black-Haired Inuyasha".


Ally

After the death of her parents at the hands of spider demons, few could blame Nazuna for her hatred. Many villages had been decimated as a result of the vicious attacks and she was certainly not the only one to hold a grudge against all demons as a result.

So it was that Nazuna felt quite within he rights to turn against the half-demon after she discovered what he really was. Saving her life from those demons and her fall from the cliff did not make up for the tainted blood that flowed through his veins, nor for the cruel nature that surely lurked beneath his exotic appearance. So what if she was being rude or ungrateful? He was a demon…worse, a half-demon, a manifestation of an alliance between two races that were only meant to be enemies. That was the natural way of things, not this…this creation and his equally strange looking miko companion. To think, a demon and a miko working together. It was absurd.

Nazuna felt validated in her hatred, but even she could not deny that the half-demon – Inuyasha – had done his best to defend her and Kagome; had tried, despite at great cost to himself, to fight off the spider demons. And was the enemy of her enemy not to be considered a friend. Could she, in this time of danger, not consider him an ally for the strength he brought to the group?

When it was over and she had nothing left but the ashes of the temple in which she had been cared for and the ashes of her convictions, Nazuna had to admit that her hatred had been unfair – in some regards at least. She had seen Inuyasha and Kagome off; had heard them engage in another one of the arguments they seemed so fond off and it had made her smile at the time. She had a lot to think about, because of those two.

Humans and demons: maybe they could be more than allies?