VAMPYRE
Chapter Five: Never Annoy a Demon on the First Date (Part B)

Author: Hoowee
E-mail: hoowee_darkelf@yahoo.com
Warnings: Gothic horror, Blood and Strong Language.

Disclaimer: Inuyasha belongs to Rumiko Takahashi, not me.
The original characters of Nathania and Colvin do belong to me.
No profit is being made from this fanfiction, kindly do not sue.

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Additional Warning: Usually there is a little bit of swearing in my fics but at the moment it is getting worse with peoples attitudes. The more angry and annoyed they are, the more they swear. I hope this doesn't turn you off reading my fic, I just see it as character development.

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"YOU FUCKING BITCH!!" Inuyasha shouted drawing the Tetsusaiga from its scabbard, pleased to see that it powered up to full fang size.

Nathania twisted around dragging the struggling Miroku with her, her mouth still sucking greedily at the puncture wound she had made at his throat as she held him tightly against her body.

'Crap she's strong.' Miroku thought as he tried to pull away from her but only succeeded in helping her tear more of the skin away from his throat. Feeling some of his own blood spurt from the wound Nathania had created he started to sweat and stopped struggling, trying to keep the deep gash from becoming any deeper. 'No sense in tearing my own throat out.'

Kagome just stared in shock at the scene in front of her, an eeping Shippou hiding beneath her hair. How had this happened? When had Nathania become one of the bad guys? Shaking her head to clear her thoughts she felt an anger build up inside her along with a sense of confused betrayal. "Nathania stop!! Why are you doing this!?" she shouted over to the vampire, hot tears welling up in her eyes. 'How could she do this to us? She said we were friends. We WERE friends!' her thoughts clamoured for answers.

Nathania didn't respond, her eyes remaining on the seething dog-demon who stood before her.

'Shit. I can't use the Tetsusaiga because the fucking houshi's in the way.' the youkai fumed. Snarling at the girl, Inuyasha watched with the eyes of a predator, waiting for her to slip up and provide him with a chance to use his fathers' fang. Behind him he could smell Kagome's anger at Nathania's betrayal and it tore at his heart that she was hurting so bad. But in a way he felt glad. Finally his unnatural hate of the gaijin had been verified. She was evil, therefore he had been right to hate her. "Let him go bitch!"

Miroku groggily lifted his head trying to pinpoint were the shout had come from. Everything was becoming heavy, from his thoughts to his body, and his eyes were having trouble focusing. Was that Inuyasha over there? He couldn't quite tell if the smudge of white in his vision was the half demon or just his eyes giving out.

Kagome caught her breath. Miroku looked like he couldn't last much longer. Why hadn't he used the air rip?

Looking around for something that could help she spotted the groups packs some few steps from where she stood, her bow and arrows laying next to them. Swallowing hard she chanced another look at the stand off occurring between the two demons and then made up her mind. Nathania might have proclaimed to have been her friend, but obviously something had changed that during her week long hiatus and no matter what the vampires reasons, Kagome couldn't let her kill one of her Miroku.

Scrambling suddenly over to the packs, Kagome stretched out with her hands, trying to grab her bow as quickly as she could.

Shippou eeped loudly as he lost his grip on Kagome and fell from her shoulder onto the ground with a thud.

"Stay there Shippou." Kagome told him absently, her mind already back to the fight against Nathania.

"But Kagome... " Shippou protested. Too late he noticed that Kagome had already run of back to where Inuyasha was. "You're not gonna leave me out of this." Shippou scowled, leaping after her.

Running quickly, Kagome circled the vampire to the left until she was at a right angle to Inuyasha. Taking in a deep breath she knocked an arrow in her bow and brought it up to point at Nathania and shouted, "Let Miroku-sama go vampire!"

Inuyasha tensed up hearing the girls' threat. 'Kagome you idiot, what the hell do you think you're doing? You're not THAT good with a bow. You'll skewer them both.'

Flicking her line of sight from Inuyasha, Nathania eyed Kagome warily but kept the houshi positioned between herself and the half-demon, still seeing him as the main threat.

"From this angle I can hit you without hurting Miroku-sama, vampire!" Kagome's hands trembled slightly and she could feel sweat bead up on her brow. 'Come on vampire, turn towards me.' she thought, breathing in short gasps. 'Please, just turn towards me and give Inuyasha his opening.'

Nathania lifted her red-stained mouth from Miroku's neck and seemed to waver between Kagome and Inuyasha, not quite sure who was the most dangerous. A seriously peeved half-youkai or an angry, betrayed friend.

Miroku, almost unconscious now from blood lose, felt the iron bands that had kept him held tight loosen slightly with Nathania's indecision and bit down hard on his lip so that the pain would keep him awake. Whenever his chance came, he had to be awake and ready for it, he just had to be.

"AAHHHH!!" Nathania suddenly shrieked as something bit into her calf muscle.

'Oh my god... ' Kagome's thoughts screeched to a halt upon seeing the small kitsune firmly attached to Nathania's leg. 'Shippou-chan, you'll get yourself killed. Unconsciously she stepped forward, her bow dipping slightly.

Turning slightly the vampire reached down with one hand, tightening her grip on Miroku with the other, and caught Shippou by the head and pulled.

'Come on you dog-breathed jerk, here's your opening.' Shippou thought, squeezing his eyes shut in pain as he felt Nathania's grip on his head tighten like a winch.

"Gotcha you fucking vampire." Inuyasha smiled evilly and shifted the Tetsusaiga's grip, then dashed across the open ground between him and the vampire and brought the fang down across her back, a sudden spray of blood spurting across his face.

"Eep!" Shippou yelped as he was jolted into finally letting go of his grip on Nathania's lower leg and landed face first in the dirt at her feet.

"Yeah? Well fuck you arsehole!" Nathania snarled, ignoring the blood dripping from her back onto the ground and turning around scowl at Inuyasha.

Miroku swallowed. The vampire was as about as distracted as she was going to get. If he wanted to get free it was now or never. Twisting suddenly in Nathania's slackening grip, he managed to free one of his arms and focusing hard, he swung it round to land a punch straight against the side of the vampire's head, surprising her enough that she lost her hold on him entirely.

Stumbling back away from her his hand caught on something at the side of her arm, but he was already off balance and the object slid from the vampire's arm with ease as he continued backward and then fell to the ground to be hidden in the grass and dirt, unnoticed be everyone else and forgotten by Miroku as he fell to the ground, finally blacking out.

Inuyasha grinned to see the houshi out of harms way. Finally he could get in close and do some damage without repercussions.

Watching Nathania turn away from the priest and give a wide eyed glare in his direction he smiled arrogantly back at her, feeling that strange bubbling anger lend his body added strength. "You're dead bitch." and moving with incredible demon speed he swung the Tetsusaiga towards her mid-section, intent on cleaving her in two.

The move itself took only seconds to complete but somehow during all this Nathania had time to smirk and then with a speed comparable to Inuyasha's she vaulted over his head, landing facing Kagome.

Kagome blinked at suddenly being confronted by the girl and let loose a startled scream. "AAHHHH! Inuyasha!!"

"Kagome, calm down." Nathania frowned, reaching out to place a hand on the girls' upper arm only to have Kagome skitter backwards out of her reach.

"Don't you dare touch her!" Inuyasha yelled, seriously pissed that the vampire had come so close to his... to Kagome.

"Oh just fuck off." Nathania growled over her shoulder then eeped and ducked into a forward roll as the Tetsusaiga sailed through where her head had just been. Standing up she cursed and turned back to Kagome, ignoring the fact that Inuyasha was standing next to the girl, intent on protecting her, only to find that Kagome had finally remembered that she was holding her bow in her hands and had raised it so that the arrow was pointed directly at Nathania's heart.

Nathania raised her hands in protest. "Wo wo wo... I didn't kill the priest, I just had a little snack."

Kagome couldn't believe what she was hearing. "A little snack! A LITTLE SNACK!" Clenching her hands around the smooth wood of her bow Kagome trembled with held in anger. Gods how she wanted to hit her over the head with it. How could anyone be so callous?

"And you having gold eyes and the stench of Sesshoumaru in your blood would have nothing to do with this would it?" Inuyasha growled. He hated talking. Talking got you nowhere.

Nathania raised an eyebrow as a look of puzzlement crossed her face. "Sesshoumaru?" The vampire's golden eyes rolled back in her head as she thought.

Inuyasha growled low in his throat. Just what the hell was this demon playing at?

Suddenly Nathania snapped back to attention and slapped her palms together as the answer hit her.

"Ah! You mean Mr Fluffy-thing!"

"Mr... Fluffy-thing?" Inuyasha half choked on the name, a large sweatdrop running down the side of his face. Imagining anyone calling his older brother 'Mr Fluffy-thing' and getting away with it was... was... until this moment, unthinkable.

Nathania didn't seem to notice Inuyasha's expression. "Yeah. I came across this girlie haired youkai during the week that I was gone. I didn't ask for his name so I just dubbed him 'Mr Fluffy-thing' on account of this huge fluffy boa thingie he had over his shoulder." Nathania thought a bit more. "... Plus, I was slightly drunk at the time."

Inuyasha and Kagome exchanged surprised glances.

Nathania continued. "I was just soooo hungry and having him appear when he did was like having pizza delivered. So in all good tradition we fought and I managed to keep him off balance by making him sleepy. There was no way I could of won if I hadn't. Something which I DIDN'T do to you, Nasty-san." She added, pointing an accusing finger at Inuyasha. "I easily could have you know."

Inuyasha felt dazed. "You drank my brothers blood?"

"Absolutely ripped his throat out... wait a minute, your brother? Oh shit." Nathania's shoulders slumped with defeat. Mentally she was kicking herself and her stupid hunches. 'Great, you did kill Nasty-san's brother. Absolutely fucking wonderful Nathania.'

"Maybe it would be better if I returned to modern day Tokyo. I seem to find less trouble there." the vampire said softly, her head still bowed.

Kagome tightened her grip on her bow and steamed. "You kill people and then just say 'Oh well, I better go home'?!" She practically screeched, making Inuyasha wince and slightly flatten his sensitive ears. "I can't believe this. I can't believe that I trusted you enough to become your friend." tears of anger started to seep from the corners of Kagome's eyes, so she blinked them rapidly to clear her sight. "You make me sick, vampire. You make me feel like I've swallowed something disgusting and I can't quite vomit it up." She was shaking now, all her muscles tensed. Pulling back on the string she pulled the bow taunt and straightened her shoulders as she aimed.

"So now you're going to kill me?" Nathania asked as calmly as she could. But try as she might, she couldn't stop the underlying sadness from creeping into her words.

Inuyasha kept quiet. This was Kagome's moment, her decision. Somehow she had to decide for herself. And if she couldn't do what had to be done, he would.

Sitting next to Miroku, Shippou swallowed hard. It looked like Kagome was really going to kill Nathania. With that thought came a buzzing in the back of his skull. It wasn't supposed to end like this, he was sure of it. There was supposed to be more to the... story? Now where had that word come from? The little kitsune frowned at his inward thoughts.

Kagome ran her tongue across her lips trying to put some moisture back into them. Her fingers ached where they held the string back and she could feel sweat slicken her grip on the wood. Lowering her gaze from her one time friend and letting the tears finally flow free she whispered "I can't."

"Well I can." Inuyasha lifted the Tetsusaiga with every intention to slash it across the vampire's throat. 'Heh, let her feel what it was like to have her own throat torn out by someone's fang.'

"If you went back, what would you do?"

"What!?" The half demon spluttered in surprise. Surely Kagome couldn't be even considering letting the vampire go back to her time.

Nathania let the silence stretch for a while, then answered. "... I haven't been to Australia for a long time, or America either. There are people there that I need to talk to.

"... And Japan?"

Inuyasha started grinding his teeth in anger. She was. She was going to let this creature go back, the stupid girl. Growling he made ready to leap at her and slash out her insides, but Kagome seemed to second guess him and with a quick 'Sit!' his motion was stopped.

Neither of the two girls batted an eyelash.

"I only came because of a rumour. I have no more business here."

"The rumour's gone?" Kagome asked, head still lowered, her fringe hiding her eyes, so that she didn't have to see the vampire's face, so that she didn't have to see a stranger in a friends place.

Nathania nodded. "It's been dead for centuries, I was just making sure of it."

A cool night breeze swept across the ground tangling about their ankles the smell of spilled blood. Above them in the sky, the moon reached it's nightly crest and bathed the world below in shades of silver and shadow, giving a devilish hint to everyone's faces.

"Wait a minute, what about the Shikon shard she has." Inuyasha interrupted from the ground, the silence that had coiled around the group, unwilling to see Nathania get off scot-free.

"Oh no, Nasty-san. I still need that little shard, I'm not handing it over yet." The gaijin crossed her arms and sent the dog-demon an impassive stare.

Kagome lifted her eyes and sent an impassive stare of her own. "It's right above her heart Inuyasha." Her voice was cold, no emotion seeped into it.

Nathania's eyes widened in surprise. "K-kagome... ?" Her hand fluttered up to cover her chest, right above her heart.

Inuyasha smirked. Now this was more like it. Heaving himself of the ground he took a step forward, the blade of the fang deceptively lowered.

"And you'll hand it over to us as soon as we return through the well, won't you." Inuyasha stopped walking and looked over his shoulder at Kagome. There was no question in her voice.

Nathania's face twitched with the statement and her hand tightened it's grip above her heart. "Kagome... I need it." she said, her voice almost a plea for understanding.

"You want to go home, I want the Shikon shard."

Nathania screwed up her face in despair. "You know I could always go through the well by myself, that's how you do it isn't it... so I don't need you." She said softly, without conviction.

"Yes you do vampire."

Nathania flinched. It hurt that Kagome would no longer call her by her name, only 'vampire'. Closing her eyes and breathing in she dropped her hand back down to her side. "As soon as we arrive back in modern Japan I will hand my shard of the Shikon Jewel over to you. The promise sounded stilted, forced, until Nathania opened her eyes and smiled faintly. Cross my heart and hope to die."

Kagome shivered. Something about that sounded... prophetic.

"You'd make a very good vampire Shippou." Nathania semi joked, looking down and wincing slightly at the teeth marks the little kitsune had left in her leg.

Shippou ignored her and continued tending to the priest.

"Shippou-chan, it might be an idea to take him back to that village we last past through. After Inuyasha and I take the vampire through the well we'll meet you there." There's so much blood here... I don't know what that could attract. Can you do that?" Kagome asked the little kitsune, kneeling down next to him.

Shippou nodded, but remained silent causing Kagome to frown in concern. Sometimes it was easy to forget that Shippou, for all being a kitsune, was still a child. None of this could have been very easy for him.

Inuyasha growled something and hauled Kagome to her feet. "If we're gonna do this let's hurry up and get it over with."

Kagome nodded absently as she climbed onto his back, her thoughts still on Shippou. She'd have to do something to cheer him up when they got back.

"Try not to get lost bitch." Inuyasha called out over his shoulder to Nathania as he started flying towards the well.

"No we wouldn't want that to happen would we?" The vampire muttered sarcastically under her breath, flying after them.

Shippou looked over his shoulder at the departing group and stifled a shudder. Something was not right, but he had no idea what.

Looking back down at Miroku he noticed that the houshi's neck wound was already healing. This time the shudder managed to work it's way free. 'Popping' out some kitsune magic he started moving Miroku towards the village.

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Sesshoumaru bounded through the forest, trailing his own scent mixed with another's through the night, feeling a strange sort of bubbling anger boiling through his veins and his neck throbbing from where it had barely healed. "Fucking bitch. I'll tear out your fucking throat, then pull your heart out through your neck and feed it to you.' Skidding to a halt he tested the air again, delicately raising his nose and sniffing slightly, trying to find the mixture of vampire blood. If anything, it was not something he had ever expected to do. To follow the scent of his blood when he knew that it was no longer contained and kept warm within his own body. In fact he could not remember a time when he had had to trail his own blood scent at all. The whole matter suddenly seemed rather perverse in that light.

A cloud shifted from the moons face allowing a stream of silver to pierce through the tree's canopy and surround the youkai as he stood in silence. Pale and beautiful almost to the point of pain, containing a grace that the cool nights breeze could never touch, Sesshoumaru made a picture of deadly elegance against the canvas of forest dark colours of night.

There, it went that way. His feet sped after the blood warmth on the air, his thoughts moving just as fast but taking a different path to those previous as he picked up the faintest scent of Jaken in the recipe that was the vampire's blood. 'Bitch even drained my servant.' the thought wasn't one of anger over how Jaken had been hurt but one of petulance that someone had dared to touch something that he thought of as his. His servant, his right to hurt and maim, not some fucking gaijin demon's. 'It'll take hours for the little toad to heal.'

Suddenly the wind shifted in it's river course through the trees, bringing with it new scents to mingle with the ones he had followed.

"What the... " A surprised 'o' formed on his lips as another delicious smell swept across his senses. "Inuyasha... " an almost smile curved at the corners of his mouth. "What have you gotten yourself into little brother?"

Slapping a branch out of the way he sped into the middle of a clearing soaked in blood and spun around noting the silence of the grave that seeped from the ground as the spilled blood seeped in. "Interesting."

He could taste the tang of betrayal in the air mixed with human sweat and fear so much that it was almost palpable. Anger and pain radiated through the spilt blood in a most delectable way.

Shifting slightly a glimmer of gold caught the interest of his eye. "Eh?"

Stepping carefully over the red earth, Sesshoumaru made his way over to the object, bored curiosity alive in his eyes.

Leaning down he picked the glittering object out from it's cushion in the sticky, wet grass and held it up under the moons light, inspecting its curves with a dull curiosity.

Strange how it seemed almost alive, a warmth all of it's own pleasantly soaking into his fingers as he held it.

"Hmph." Stuffing it away he checked the clearing once more, already sure that there was nothing more to be seen then when he had first entered the glade. His nose had told everything he needed to know within the first few seconds that he had stepped from beneath the trees shadowed embrace.

The demon gaijin had left with his accursed brother and he wasn't quite ready for the little bastard half-breed to see him again yet. Looking down to his empty sleeve he sneered. There was much to do and if that girl was with his brother when they next met he would kill them both, and if she wasn't... he could easily hunt her down again and kill her slowly at his leisure.

The thought brought a small smile to his lips as he stepped once again into the shadowed darklips as he stepped once again into the shadowed dark.

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Kagome sniffled softly against Inuyasha's back as he flew through the forest towards the bone-eaters well. 'It's not fair. She seemed so nice but she, but she...' Kagome's thoughts trailed off as she saw Nathania tearing into Miroku's throat so she could drink his blood in her minds eye. 'It's just not fair!' The tears burned hot down her cheeks and she buried her face against the demons coat to try and hide the fact that she was upset from everyone.

Inuyasha felt uncomfortable with Kagome crying against his back, her tears soaking through his coat and undershirt to his skin staining him with her sadness. In fact he felt so horribly uncomfortable and unsure of himself that he reacted the only way he knew how, he insulted her. "Would you fucking stop using my coat as a nose rag."

Kagome snapped her head up to stare at Inuyasha, her tears drying in the shocked anger she felt at the demon, "Well excuse me!" Inuyasha snorted and continued his flight onwards, glad that the girl was no longer sobbing.

Kagome looked back to see Nathania keeping pace with them but deliberately staying a few feet behind the half-demon. A shudder worked it's way free of her and rattled through her body. 'She looks so...' She wanted to say normal, just as a comfort blanket so that she didn't have to think about what the Nathania really was. She just needed something to bring a little bit of normalcy to here life. 'Say something, fill in the silence.' she thought and then let the first thought in her head tumble out across her tongue. "Why were you... vomiting human blood?"

Nathania looked at her with wide, surprised eyes and Kagome grabbed onto Inuyasha just a bit tighter, mentally kicking herself for bringing up such a bad topic. Yet she couldn't help but feel curious about the answer and by the way that Inuyasha's ears were swivelling, she guessed that he was interested in what kind of explanation the girl would come up with.

The vampire pulled a face in the silence and then took a deep breath. "My body was just purging itself to make room for the new improved blood that Mr Fluffy-thing so nicely supplied." she replied to the question, running up from behind so that she was next to Inuyasha, her new golden eyes gleaming in the darkness. "The thing is, if my body kept only the youkai blood I would've started taking on more youkai characteristics and I didn't wan that. My bodies only human, it's the blood that makes me a vampire and the youkai blood would have eventually eaten my body away so I needed to dilute it again and quickly. Miroku was the only human around who I had not promised to bite."

"And if I had been the only human?" Kagome asked from Inuyasha's back, the words slightly muffled by the dog demons coat and the rushing wind.

Nathania's carefree expression saddened and she looked away from the angry girl, not wanting her to see the look of hunger that had come into her eyes. Reaching down inside herself she mercilessly squashed that hunger. There were so few people she cared about in the world that she was not about to let her vampire urges kill this one. At the same time she was not ready to lie either. "I had to feed on a human Kagome."

Kagome swallowed and nodded. "I see."

"No you probably don't." Nathania replied, shaking her head.

"Nice to see that you'll kill your 'friends' to save your own fucking life." Inuyasha growled under his breath but Nathania's ears caught the sentence anyway.

"I almost did... "

"Miroku-sama wasn't your friend! You barely knew him! He was only trying to help you!" Kagome shouted, gripping Inuyasha's coat in her hands, the tears that she thought she had cried out welling up in her eyes, blurring her vision so that she had to blink rapidly to see clearly again. In a smaller voice she repeated herself to reinforce the statement "He was only trying to help you."

A silence descended upon the group as they travelled along, no one feeling comfortable enough to speak as they pushed through the forest fauna at an incredible rate of speed.

Can you use the 'cutting wind' yet?"

Inuyasha looked over to the vampire like she had just sprouted another head. "The what?"

Nathania sighed. "I don't know how to say it in Japanese. Don't worry, it's not that important." She grinned at the joke only she got, receiving a growl from the half demon. "Yeesh, somebody got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning."

Inuyasha felt a sweatdrop slide down the side of his face as the gaijin cracked herself up over her joke.

Kagome could barely believe it. Not that long ago the vampire had been locked in deadly battle against them both, yet here she was cracking jokes and acting like the girl that had gained Kagome's trust enough to become her friend in such a short period of time. It was almost like she had two personalities. One a morose demon, the other a silly gaijin joker and it almost made Kagome want to scream at her or just do anything to get that stupid smile off of her face. She was a blood-sucking vampire who killed people to survive, who had admitted to almost killing one of her close friends. It was wrong that she could smile, just so incredibly wrong.

Nathania grinned at Kagome, "What's up? You look like you've swallowed something you didn't like the taste of.

She probably meant it as another joke but... "I have." Kagome stared at the gaijin girl, knowing that she would understand what the look coupled with the words meant. Nathania blinked at the comment, hurt flashing in her eyes and the smile fading, but she continued to race along side them until they came to the bone eaters well all of a sudden, both demons skidding to a halt beside it.

"You know, I could get used to this youkai blood thing." Nathania said, sitting down on the edge, dangling her legs over the side of the well and looking back the way they had come. "It sure cuts down time. There'd be no way I could fly here even half as fast." 'Even if I'd just feed on a whole group of people before hand.' she added silently to herself.

"Feh." Inuyasha growled from behind her, Kagome sliding from his back to the ground, "Just move it bitch." He punctuated his words with a shove to Nathania's back, pushing the only half startled Vampire down the well.

"Inuyasha! What are you doing?!" Kagome wapped Inuyasha over the head. "There was no reason to do that!" Inuyasha snarled at her and received a snarl from Kagome in return. She had cut off her emotions to deal with the vampire during the fight, but now they where flooding back into her as if someone had turned on the tap of feelings once more and she just couldn't deal with Inuyasha's childish temper at the moment. If she wasn't careful she thought that her she just might hit him with the Tetsusaiga.

Inuyasha almost eeped at Kagome's reaction but managed to keep the surprise hidden from the girl. "I'm going with you." The words popped out of his mouth before he knew it.

"No you're not." Kagome told the half demon as she put one foot on the side of the well, making ready to jump down after the vampire.

Inuyasha looked quickly to the side for a second and then looked back at the girl, his golden eyes burning with intensity. "I don't trust her-" Kagome's heart began to swell at the thought that Inuyasha was trying to protect her, "-and you'll start doing something stupid if I leave it to you." Pop! There went that warm fuzzy feeling. "Why you dog-breathed jerk!" Kagome squealed in outrage as Inuyasha grabbed her about the waist and jumped into the well after the vampire.

Touching down at the dirt at the bottom of the well Kagome distinctly heard something go crunch under Inuyasha's foot. Apparently so did Nathania who had appeared next to them as they had landed. "Hmm... wonder what... !" Nathania's eyes widened and one of her hands drifted up to her head, brushing back along her hair looking for something. "Oh no. My sunglasses!" Inuyasha raised his foot and sure enough, underneath were the shattered remains of Nathania's sunnies. "Damn it. They must've fallen off when I came through. Oh this sucks."

Kagome wiggled out of Inuyasha's grasp and started climbing out of the well. 'The sooner this is over with the better,' was the one thought she managed to get out before a strong hand reached over the side of the well and hauled her out by her hair.

"Kya!"

Inuyasha looked up at her startled scream, his eyes wide in surprised anger. "Kagome!" Somehow his body always took over at times like this and without even thinking about it he found himself landing with a canine grace beside the well in modern Tokyo facing a group of young women who were looking at him with shock in their eyes.

His eyes roamed the group for mere seconds before coming to rest on Kagome, and sharp wooden stake held to her throat by a pale, leather clad gaijin. A growl echoed up from his chest at the site of the pointed wood against white skin and the same bubbling hatred that always appeared when Nathania was around suddenly grew teeth and started biting at his blood.

"Get away from her now."

To Be Continued...

Notes from Hoowee:
I'm trying to keep the continuity as close to the real thing as possible but I've just realised that going by the Inuyasha timeline, Miroku wouldn't know who Sesshoumaru was at this point. (ARG! I keep typing 'Sesshoumary' by accident.) What with all these people mentioning Fluffy's name wouldn't he want to know who it was? Oh well... just label it under 'big plot hole'. (Damn things keep popping up all over the place. Someone should really invent some sort of spray or paper or something to get rid of the sods.)
And please note that where it says that Nathania killed Sesshoumaru it is always from her viewpoint, she actually does believe she killed him. (though we all know that would be impossible... I'd be staked by all the Fluffy lovers if I wrote that. Run-away, run-away!)

Quote: There is a little bit of destiny in everyone, and a lot of free will - This quote comes from a Legend of Zelda fic I stumbled across one day when I was surfing the net. It's written by a great author called Jules. It's called 'Into the Void' and I highly recommend it. You can find it at Zelda: Grand Adventures