Author's Note: This is the last chapter for Cat Tricks!! I hope y'all enjoyed it. . .I sure did. I left it open for a sequel. . .if you want one. Please tell me! *This* means italics.

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Nekoiya stared, too. Then she looked up, and saw a familiar white-haired figure clipping the Tetsusaiga to his belt. A snarl escaped her lips.

"I guess you're too late," said Inu-Yasha smugly. "I got it back. *And* some Shikon shards, to boot."

"Feh!" snapped Nekoiya. She made a jerking motion with her hand, and there was a burning smell from Inu-Yasha's cloak. He reached inside and brought out four smoldering lumps of wood, then snarled in rage and threw them into the grass.

"A spell of illusion!" Miroku whispered. Shippo, riding on his shoulder, hopped off to peer at the wood chips.

Tsume glanced at the group behind her, and then back to her enemy. "Looks like you've lost, Nekoiya," she smirked. "You've lost the sword. Ha. Ha ha ha." And then, to everybody's discomfort, she started laughing hysterically.

"What's with her?" Kagome shout-whispered across to Nekoiya.

"She's crazy," came the answer.

"That explains it," observed Myoga.

They all stood staring at Tsume, and then Inu-Yasha drew his sword. Tsume abruptly stopped laughing to gaze at the long shining blade. Inu-Yasha pointed the sword at Nekoiya.

"You're going to die," he said, and leaped.

"Yeah, you're going to die!" shrieked Tsume, and attacked Nekoiya also.

"I wonder what we should do," said Shippo thoughtfully.

"Help!" yelled Nekoiya.

"SIT!" hollered Kagome.

"Air Rip!" said Miroku, taking off the prayer beads. Everything in front of him began to be sucked into the tunnel in his hand.

"Sit!" yelled Kagome again, effectively stopping Inu-Yasha from flying into the hole.

"Dammit, can't you find a less painful way to do that?!" he shouted.

"If you want to die, then die. No? Sit!"

"Hyaah!" said Tsume, throwing a small box into Miroku's hand. He closed his hellhole immediately, feeling evil power from it. The box fell to the ground and exploded, letting out a cloud of red smoke that covered everything and smelled sickly like blood. When the cloud disappeared, the gang discovered that the two cats had run off.

"Sit!" said Kagome a fourth time as Inu-Yasha began to give chase.

"But. . ."

Sango slammed her boomerang down by his head. "They didn't harm us. You even got your sword back. So shut up and sit down - pun intended."



"Gomen nasai, Sesshomaru-sama," said Nekoiya, kneeling before the demon. "I failed in my duty to you."

"You didn't even kill him?" asked Sesshomaru in a plaintive voice, looking vaguely at a vase next to him. "Bad." He reached out and crushed the vase with one hand. "Now you're dead and you can't fail me any more."

Nekoiya and Jaken glanced at each other.

Sesshomaru slid further down in his chair, muttering to himself. "I hope Tsume comes back soon," he said aloud. "I have further use for her."

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So, yeah, that was my story! That's the end of Cat Tricks. Like I said, I'm open to sequel ideas. E-mail me at dragongirl453@yahoo.com or tell me in a review. Bye-bye!!