A/N: I do not own Inuyasha, I wish... oh hell yea I wish but sadly no. I don't... But Enjoy my first Inuyasha fanfic =D But I do however own Konja and Kanja, the Kappas (Thank you Chris my 'brother' from FL for helping me with this chapter) =) BaKa-Naraku-BaKa

Chapter 4: A New Friend

Inuyasha and his friends walked through the forest on the search for more Shikon Shards, and a hope to find Naraku. They reached a lake where Kagome asked Inuyasha if they could stop and make camp.

"What do you mean you have to bathe? You smell fine, err, I mean you smell like you usually do!" Inuyasha glared at her. She rolled her eyes and made Inuyasha set up camp.

*GRUMBLE GRUMBLE*

Kagome grabbed a towel from her pack and started towards the little lake. She quickly undressed and slipped into the cool clear water. Suddenly she heard something splash behind her. She turned around sharply but saw nothing. She continued to soak. All of a sudden Miroku ran out of the bushes.

"KAPPA! KAGOME RUN!" Miroku screamed as he raised his staff. The Kappa opened its mouth and shot a stream of hot water into Miroku's face. "AHHH! It burns!"

A/N: A Kappa is a turtle demon, believed to be alive in real life. They live in lakes and they tend to drag people to their deaths by dragging them into the water and drowning them. They will suffocate with out water, unless they have a bowl on their head filled with water, but if the water is spilt out they will die. Also they have claws so they can scratch their enemies. In my story, I've revised them a little bit, they can walk on land without the bowl, they can shoot either hot or cold streams of water at their enemies either making them freeze or scalding them. If they are near a lake or river, they can also drown them. In my story as well, they have the ability to change the temperature of any lake they are in to either hot or cold, or good enough to bathe. Enjoy the rest of the story. Also a thanks to my friend Christopher for helping me with that demon.

A little Kappa poked its head up and looked at Kagome, who had already scrambled out of the water and had a towel wrapped tightly around her slim figure. It smiled then swam towards her, but Inuyasha jumped out of the tall grass and landed in the creature's path.

"I'm sorry, I only wanted to say hello. I'm only a child you know, the second oldest in my litter, but a child nonetheless. I never meant to harm anyone." The little Kappa looked up at Inuyasha with big sad puppy eyes. Kagome pushed Inuyasha to the side and knelt down to see the young Kappa. She rubbed its head, but pulled back when she heard clicking sounds. She then realised that was it's way of purring.

"My mother and father have died, so we all had to leave the nest to try and make it on our own, my younger brothers and sisters went with my big brother, Konja

"You hurt Miroku but shooting a stream of hot water in his face. What other tricks or powers do you have?" Inuyasha looked at the creature.

"I can shoot either cold or hot streams of water through my mouth, I can also change the temperature of the lake I am in. If I didn't want that one you call Kagome in my lake, I could have made it really cold, or really hot. I can also scratch the enemy." The Kappa replied. "Oh and by the way, my name is Kanja. Kanja the Kappa!"

"Nice to meet you Kanja." Everyone said.

"Hmm. You might come in handy. How hot can that stream of water get? And how cold?" Inuyasha asked. Kanja leaned over Inuyasha's bare foot and let a tiny stream of extremely hot water fall on Inuyasha's foot. In an instant Inuyasha had grabbed his foot and was bouncing around screaming in pain.

"HOT HOT HOT HOT HOT! TOO HOT!" Kanja leaned over onto Inuyasha's foot that he was holding and sprayed it lightly with a cooler stream of water. Inuyasha calmed down.

"Yea, you'll come in handy. Would you like to join us?" Everyone just stared at Inuyasha; Kagome placed her hand on his forehead.

"Inuyasha, you feeling OK? Did I just hear you ask Kanja to join us?" Inuyasha batted Kagome's hand away telling her he was fine.

Kanja walked onto the land and stood up on her hind legs and looked around. Inuyasha poked her stomach and she fell over. She placed both of her webbed frog feet over the place Inuyasha poked and groaned in pain.

"If I get flipped, I can die. My shell is very strong therefore it will save me if it gets hit, but I have a very soft stomach."

Shippo jumped up onto Kanja's stomach. "You OK? Kanja? *POKE POKE*"

Kanja screamed and shot some cold water at Shippo. "GET OFF ME, STOP POKING!" Kanja glared at Shippo. After everything was settled, and Inuyasha had stopped pelting Shippo for hurting their new ally, they were on their way.

They started to pass a lake when Kagome told them to stop. She started searching around, and then she looked into the water and gasped. Kanja waddled over to the shoreline and looked down, her eyes narrowing. At the bottom of the lake Kanja could see her big brother, Konja. Kanja let out a deep growl from her throat. Kagome could have sworn it was Inuyasha. She dove under the water and swam towards her brother.

A few feet away and a few minutes later, two green things came rocketing out of the water, and landing on the shore. They were wrestling; one green thing was larger than the other implicating it might be male.

"Konja, what the hell are you doing down there? Where are our brothers and sisters?"

"Ha, I killed them, they were of no use to me, why would I let them tag along? I work for Naraku now!" Once that was said, Inuyasha dove at the larger green thing to find it was another turtle demon.

"Oi, what did you say about Naraku bastard?" Inuyasha spat in Konja's face but got a hot stream of water right between the eyes. "Gah!"

Kanja sprang into action, she shot a stream of cold water at Inuyasha's face to cool him off and pounced on Konja yelling, "FIREEEEEEEEEEEEE" Konja just froze, his face going slightly pale green and he began to shake.

"Another thing I forgot to mention," Kanja exclaimed as she got off of her brother. "If you scream 'Fire' then we normally freeze, scared our water will dry up and we'll die." Inuyasha, having recovered from being showered with hot then cold water glared at Konja. Kagome slowly approached Konja, looking him over slowly.

"He has a Shikon shard on him somewhere, I just can't tell where." With that, Inuyasha flipped Konja over and told Kagome to look again, she finally found it, in one of his scales on his shell. Kagome grabbed one of her arrows, just as Konja was waking up from his fire shock. Kagome plunged the arrow into the shard, extracting it from his shell.

"What happened? Where am I? Who are you? Kanja! How are you child?" Konja's head started to swim with confusion. Kanja just glared at him then slowly shot some hot water at his stomach.

"Ow, what the hell did I do to you?"

"Try to kill me!"

"Oh, that, oh come on Kan! You know I wasn't serious about shooting you in the face with really hot water and trying to kill you, come on!"

Kanja turned up her nose and looked at Inuyasha. They began to walk away and Kagome started to follow.

"Hey which one of you is Inuyasha? I have orders to burn you to hell." Konja looked at Inuyasha, knowing it was him but trying to fight Naraku's orders. "You fit the description that Naraku gave me."

"Yea? So what if I am bastard? You think you can hurt me?"

The Kappa lunged at Inuyasha, shooting a large stream of hot water at him. Inuyasha blocked it with Tetsusaiga. Cool water sprayed off as it hit the cool blade. Inuyasha then slashed at Konja's shell. He went vibrating all over the place because the shell was so hard. After, Inuyasha sliced at Konja's leg but hardly got through.

"Inuyasha! Konja rears up and shows his front before he shoots water! Aim there!" Kagome screamed half-desperate.

Inuyasha waited until Konja reared up and then lunged! He slashed Konja across the front making a big "X" with his blade. Konja fell to the ground in agony.

"AHHH my tummy!"

Inuyasha looked at him and turned to walk away, grabbing Kanja and Kagome and dragging them with him. "Hey baka's you coming with us?" He turned just so he could look out of the corner of his eye at the rest of the gang.

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A baboon skinned demon suddenly dropped behind a young male Kappa basking in the sun.

"Konja, you've failed me, haven't you?"

"Naraku! Err, I have no clue what you mean Naraku!"

"You have failed to kill your little sister and Inuyasha."

"Now, Naraku, I can explain!"

"No more explaining Konja." The young Kappa turned around to face Naraku, his face pale green. Naraku plunged his hand right into Konja's chest and yanked out his heart, squeezing it firmly as the Kappa gasped for breath. Naraku squeezed the juices out if his heart then pushed the lifeless body into the lake.

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A little ways away, a strong, young Halfling demon, a young girl from the future, a little kitsune, a monk, a demon exterminator, a wind demon, and an untransformed demon cat walked with no worry. A young turtle demon suddenly clutched her chest and felt her heart go dark from another death in her family. Silently she wept.