Hey! Thanks to all who reviewed my story! *gives cookie* Okay.. here we goooo!
(P.S. - the forest i was talking about in the last chapter was on a mountain... ^^ Just so ya know...)

Anyway, before you read this, I don't.. I repeat DO NOT own Inuyasha. The only characters I own are Riokui and his two sisters.

-P.s. - chibi-youkai: Thanks ^^ I didn't notice that until now... I'll be more carful of that...-



-.Chapter Two .-. Thief Unveiled .-



It was a bright sunny morning over a forest on a mountain, and dew rollde off the leaves, making the ground a bit fresh and moist. Inuyasha and the rest of the group made thier way through the forest, Miroku, Kagome, Shippou, and Sango seemed tired.

"I can't belive it took you all night to catch up to me!" Inuyasha said angrilly.

"Well, we all can't run as fast as you do, Inuyasha..." Shippou explained. He was being held in Kagome's arms with his tongue licked out at Inuyasha.

"We need to find the kid that stole the tetsusaiga..." Inuyasha looked straight ahead, like he was listening for something. Miroku but his hand to his chin thoughtfully.

"I've heard from local villagers that a small band of thieves live on this mountain. Of course, I've never expected that it would be a child..."

This stirred Kagome's curiosity. She turned to Miroku. "What other things did you hear about this mountain?" she asked, Miroku seemed surprise that she wanted to know more.

"Well," he started. "I've also heard that the whole surrounding area's agricultural system depends on this mountain."

"You mean, they come here to pick fruit and things like that to sell?" Shippou asked. Miroku shook his head.

"Every few days, someone can be seen on a cliff of the mountain playing a flute. The music carries all the way down into the valleys, and for some reason all the crops and plant-life there grow at a radically abnormal rate."

"I wonder why?" Sango petted Kirara, who was in its untransformed state and sitting on her sholder. Miroku smirked and leaned closer to Sango.

"I don't know, but I'm sure we could find out..." Miroku's hand of course went a-wondering and Sango of course found it, even though she didn't really want to. Miroku pulled her closer to him, only to recieve a fist practicly lodged in his face.

"Hentai..." Sango muttered as she pushed Miroku away. Miroku had those .. swirly..eye.. things...

"D$&@! Where is he?!?" Inuyasha was looking around, Kagome walked up to him.

"Inuyasha, can't you just sniff him out?" she asked, Inuyasha shot her a mean look.

"Wench, don't you think if I got his scent, I would have found him already?"

"SIT!" Kagome commanded. Inuyasha fell to the floor almost immediately as usual.. Kagome looked down at him. "I told you not to call me that anymore!"

Shippou burst out laughing as Kagome scolded Inuyasha. Inuyasha heard this and frowned as he regained his balance again. Shippou stopped laughing when he saw Inuyasha standing again, but he resumed laughing, remembering how Inuyasha's face looked when he got forced to the ground.
Inuyasha couldn't restrain himself anymore.

"Shut up!" Inuyasha punched Shippou and glared at him.

"Owwie! What was that for?!?" Shippou held his head, which had a HUGE lump on it. He looked at Inuyasha, to see what he had to say, but he was preoccupied with something else. Shippou jumped in his face.

"Helloooo! I'm talking to--" Shippou was cut short however, by Inuyasha. "Shut Up." he said as his ears were twitching slightly.

"Do you hear that?" He asked. Kagome put a hand to her ear.

"I don't hear anything--" Inuyasha grabbed Kagome and started leaping north, higher up in the mountain, leaving Shippou, Miroku and Sango behind.

"Hey! Wait for us!" Shippou called after them. Sango and Miroku suddenly appeared on the now transformed Kirara, in front of him and Sango stuck her hand out to him. "Jump on!"

"Right!" he got on and they took off after Inuyasha and Kagome, who were pretty far ahead by now.

*.*.*.*.*

Inuyasha was dashing through the forest at a high speed, Kagome on his back with a very puzzled look on her face. They finally came to a clearing, the one the boy and Sessho-maru were at. Kagome climbed off of Inuyasha's back and looked around curiously.

"Why are we here Inuyasha?"

Inuyasha was sniffing the ground, and sort of scowled. He resumed a standing position and looked Kagome in the eye.

"My brother was here." He pointed to a few puddles of blood on the ground. They were still fresh. Kagome looked at the puddles with a worried look.

"Who's blood is it? Sessho-maru didn't kill anyone did he?"

"No. It's his own blood."

"You mean something did that to him?"

Inuyasha nodded. He got into an attacking position, facing the shack that was in the clearing before.

"Yes, and I think I know who did that to him. The kid who stole the tetsusaiga."

Kagome watched in surprise as Inuyasha leaped into the air, his claws out, toward the shack.

"Soul Shattering Claw!!" he cut through the shack, turning into a pile of rubble. Inuyasha landed a few feet away from it. Kagome looked on in awe.

"Inuyasha! What are you doing?" she asked as Inuyasha started digging in the pile, pulling out a boy. The boy was unconsious (who wouldn't be after having a shack fall on your head... ^^ LOL )

"Catching a thief." Inuyasha answered.

*.*.*.*

Somewhere, maybe on the other side of the mountain, Jaken and Rin were camping out in a cave. Rin kept annoying Jaken by rambling about how many flowers there were and how they were so pretty. Jaken seemed to be trying to ignore the girl, until Sesshy returned.

'When we start traveling again, I hope Rin gets lot near a cliff or something..' a smirk appeared in his very ugly face. 'I can help with that...'

Rin kept on blabbing, and blabbing and blabbing, until she saw Sessho-maru coming toward the cave. "Yaaaaay! Lord Sesshomaru's back!"

She ran over to him and gave him a hug, only to find her kimono stained with blood. She looked Sesshomaru in the face, and he looked at her. "What happened?" She asked him.

Sesshomaru remainded silent as he walked into the cave and leaned against the cave wall. Rin came over agian, only this time accompanied by Jaken. Jaken eyed the blood on Sesshomaru's clothes.

"Lord Sesshomaru?!? What happened to you? Your clothes are stained with blood!"

Sesshomaru looked at the two out of the corner of his eye. "It is of no concern to you. Now leave me be."

Jaken and Rin sort of backed off, and went off to do other things. Sessho-maru put his hand over his chest, where his wound was. He then looked at the blood on his hand. Sesshomaru sort of scowled at it, out of hate most likely.

'That child.. I was a fool to let him get that close to me. He prevented me from stealing the Tetsusaiga.' Sessho-maru stared at the roof of the cave angrily. 'I will kill him with my own two hands...'

*.*.*.*.*.* Yay! Back to Kagome!

"So this is the kid that caused all that trouble?" Miroku asked looking at the boy who was still unconsious on the ground.

It was later in the day, and Sango, Miroku and Shippou had caught up with Inuyasha and Kagome. They were resting in the clearing where the shack once stood, it was in a pile still. Inuyasha was digging through it however, quite franticly, looking for the tetsusaiga.

"God! Where is it?!?" he lifted up a few more pieces of wood. Kagome sweatdropped (Is that a word?) and sighed.

"Inuyasha, you've been searching for three whole hours, now! The tetsusaiga's not there!" she yelled.

"Do you think that Sessho-maru took it?" Shippou asked. He was sitting near the boy's head, ready to let them know if he woke up.

"If he did, he's probably far away by now." Miroku's hand, once again got lost, but Sango caught him in the act.

"STOP IT!!" She screamed as she whacked him over the head with her boomerang. HARD. "Stupid Pervert." she sighed, looking at the now unconsious Miroku.

"Wow, Miroku's really on a roll today, isn't he." Shippou sweatdropped.

"Great, now we have two people unconsious." Kagome sighed again.

"Kagome?" Kagome turned to Shippou who was looking at his feet and fiddling with his fingers. "If Inuyasha tires himself out from digging forever, can we leave him here?"

POW! Shippou was on the ground, again with a lump on his head, only this time unconsious. Inuyasha had his fist out, with a vein-thingie on his head. This flipped the switch in Kagome's head.

"SIT!" Kagome practically screamed. Inuyasha fell face first to the ground, and tried to say something to Kagome, but his mouth was chock-full of dirt. Kagome leaned over closer to Inuyasha.

"What was that?!?"

Inuyasha lifted his head and spit out some dirt. "I said 'Stupid wench!'" He replied, but that only made Kagome even more insane than she already was at that point.

"SIT! *whap* SIT! SIT! *whap, whap* SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT!!!!!*whap, whap, whap--(aww, pooor inu... sniff..) "

Inuyasha's head was slammed down in the ground, so far that dirt was up to his shoulders. There was a groaning sound nearby, (no not the muffled curses of Inuyasha) and Kagome looked to see who it was. The only thing was, when she turned around, she was a sword at her throat. It was the tetsusaiga, but at the other end, it wasn't Inuyasha, not even Sesshomaru, but the boy.

"What are you--" Kagome started but the sword suddenly got an inch closer to jabbing her neck.

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ChibiKid: *singing* (I am - the second series opening theme)

sagasou yume no KAKERA hiroiatsume
setsunakute mo ima nara sagaseru darou
mekurumeku mainichi no katachi kaete
setsunakute mo tashika na ima o kanjiyou--

*notices you* !!! Oh my God! You're done already? *puts headset away*

Okay. What will happen? Is this boy MAD??? Will Kagome be killed and I stop writing forever? Duh, NO! Well anyway, Chapter Three Is coming soon... SO HOLD ON! ^^
Hee Hee, this chapter was longer, wasn't it...

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