A/N--No I don't own Inuyasha. This is my first fanfiction and it is loosely based on the book 'Huntress' by L.J. Smith. This is my take on the story with a twist. Enjoy!

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This.This was what she loved. Feeling the wind rush through her hair as she ran as fast as her legs would carry her. Suddenly she stopped.

It was a dark night. The only light was the full moon shining brightly above. Almost midnight, she assumed by glancing up at the moon. She had heard a noise to her left as she was running and stopped quickly to see what it was. In the back of her mind she heard the others talking to each other telepathically. Right now her focus was on the noise.

'What could that be?' Kagome thought to herself laughingly. She and her friends, Sango, Miroku, Inuyasha, Shippo, and Kouga were out hunting humans that night. Inside, she smiled evilly to herself thinking of the pleasures she would have from this kill. As she neared the sound she saw three men that were camping in the opening. From her point, she could tell that they were rogue soldiers. Their clothes used to be nice, but now were worn and torn looking from constant wear. 'They're not asleep, though.' Kagome thought as she crawled closer to them. It seemed as if they had just lain down to go to sleep.

Suddenly, one of the men sat up quickly and looked around warily. He nudged his companions to get up. 'What the.?', she thought to herself. The men stood up completely and grabbed their weapons, getting into fighting stances. Kagome remained quietly hiding for a moment, but then decided to make her entrance.

As she stood up, the men gasped as they saw her. She had on a completely black haori and her hair was pulled back into a loose ponytail with some tendrils falling around her face. She had pitch black hair that contrasted greatly with her pale skin. What surprised the men the most was that she carried no weapon with her. To them, she looked like a demon exterminator, but how would she be able to kill demons without any weapons?

Then she smiled, letting her fangs show slightly through her lips. The men were taken aback and noticeably shuddered.

"Hello." She said. The men raised their swords, as the leader said as calmly as he could, "Stay away monster. We've done nothing to you. Leave us be!" She walked towards them saying, "Why should I? Here are three perfectly fit men, what better to practice my skills on?" She paused, waiting for their responses. She could smell the fear coming off them in waves. Finally the leader spoke up, "Fine then! What could you, a female, do to the three of us soldiers? I'm sure we could knock you down with our first strikes!" The other two men started to join in as their confidence was boosted. She started to sense their arrogance now overpowering their fear. This angered her. She stepped closer. "Okay, then." she said to the leader. "What do you think of this?"

With a snap of her wrist the other two men were down on either side of him. It happened so fast that he didn't see her power shoot from her hands to his comrades. He jerked back suddenly and looked to his fallen companions. They were both not moving and didn't look to be getting up again. 'She killed them.how? What type of magic is this?' the man thought to himself, getting more frightened every minute. Kagome was looking at the fallen men, her hair tendrils falling in front of her face, blocking her eyes.

Then, she raised her face and looked the man left standing straight in the eyes. If he was scared then, the look in her eyes made him even more afraid. Her normally brown eyes now had specs of red in them, giving her a very evil look.

"Run." she said.

The man paused a second before his common sense kicked in and he ran the opposite way of Kagome as fast as he could. Kagome laughed to herself, 'I think I'll give him a couple minutes to try to get away.' As she waited to give him time, she looked at the camp that the men had occupied. Once she surveyed what they had, she thought to herself, 'I bet Miroku would enjoy these goods.' She laughed again remembering how he had a wandering hand in everything from stealing goods to groping women.

'Okay, I think that's enough time.' Five minutes had passed and then she took off, running in the direction the man had taken. As she ran along she took in everything, from the animals stirring while they slept to the dew starting to form on the leaves of trees and grass. She loved running through the forest because it gave her a feeling of well-being. When running, she felt alive and invincible. Not a few seconds after she started running after the man, she spotted him still sprinting as fast as he could, but she could tell he was becoming fatigued. She ran straight towards him willing him to look back at her. He did, glancing back at her fast approaching, when all he saw was her hand reaching out for his neck. 'She has claws.!' he thought to himself. Then her hand grasped his neck as she reached him and he was shoved hard into a tree.

She had him pinned to the tree by her hand around his neck. She tightened her hand, her nails digging deep into his skin, drawing blood, as she said, "Still think you can beat me because I'm just a female?" He tried to respond and plead for his life, but her claws were cutting off the air supply. He only gasped in reply. She tightened her grip again, causing more blood to flow.

The more blood flowing from his injuries in his neck made her inhale deeply so she could enjoy the smell of victory. Suddenly her head began to ache terribly. She was overcome with pain in her mind, as if someone had hit her. But she knew that wasn't possible. The pain continued until it seemed to explode in her head. All she saw was white light as everything then faded to black.

"Get that monster! Kill her! Don't let her get away!!!" Someone screamed. Blood, all around her was blood. Staining her hands and body. She ran, ran until she didn't have the energy to run anymore. They were gaining on her, she could hear them. 'I have to find some place to hide.quickly'. She had run from her house and was now running through the forest as fast as she could. She jumped over tree roots and ducked to miss low branches. She tried to jump over a tree root in her way, but tripped, falling down hard on the forest floor. She would have slowly gotten up to check her wounds, but knew she couldn't. Her life was hanging by a thread now. She got herself up quickly and started back on her way, running again. She ran a few hundred feet more when suddenly she fell down through the earth. It was a large hole in the ground that she fell through. She remembered falling until her body came in contact with something hard. That was the last thing she remembered before it all going black.

Kagome jerked back to awareness to find herself lying on the ground. Her head no longer hurt. She sat up quickly remembering her victim. He was on the ground stirring next to her, puncture wounds still seeping blood from his neck. She quickly lost her will to kill the man, after remembering that scene of the little girl. 'Where did that come from? Who was that girl? What does it mean?' she thought to herself as she sat there. The man finally had regained enough of his strength to turn his head towards her and flinched in recognition and remembrance. She turned when she heard his slight intake of air. He saw that her eyes were now back to their original brown color. She just looked at him for a moment then said, "Get. Get away from here. I've changed my mind." The man hesitated for a moment, unbelieving what he just heard. "Go! Now!" she yelled at him.

The man no longer wasted any time. He heaved himself up with his strength that was remaining and started running away from her. She sighed deeply as she heard his footsteps retreating away from her.

"'Kagome!'" She jerked back as she heard her name called in her head. 'Inuyasha'. Out of all of her friends, he was the only one powerful enough to be able to communicate telepathically over this great a distance. She should have known he would have missed sensing her presence when she blacked out. "'What?'" she asked back to him, knowing that he was going to make a big deal out of this.

They were both the leaders of their group, kind of a joint commanding role they both shared. If he felt that she wasn't doing the work required of running their group, he would challenge her to a fight, the winner commanding the group. They never fought though, it had just happened. They were best friends; from as far back as she could remember. Their little group had just formed naturally on its own. Collecting people into their group seemed as natural as Kagome and Inuyasha both running it, though they made it perfectly clear that if anyone wanted to become the leader, they had to fight for it. Both Kagome and Inuyasha made it clear to the each of them also, if either one of them wanted to take complete command, they would fight the other. It just never happened. Combined authority just seemed right, which never went to say that they never fought. They fought all the time. She remembered a time that he had angered her so much that she ended up hitting him with some of her powers and him ending up sitting on the ground. She laughed so hard to see him just sitting there with a bewildered look on his face that she threatened him that she would make him "Sit" on the ground again if he angered her.

She was snapped out of her memories when she heard him yell this time "'Kagome, where the hell were you? Kagome!'" 'No ignoring him now when he gets into one of his moods' she thought to herself. "'I'm fine. Just went on a little hunt of my own.'" She replied. "'What the hell happened? I couldn't sense you for about five minutes.'" He said as he calmed down a little, but not much. "'Just get everyone back together and meet me back at camp.'" She quickly replied and blocked him out of her mind so that he wouldn't be able to sense what she had seen.

She needed questions answered and knew only one person who could help her.