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AN- Thanks to those who reviewed! It really feels great to know people actually read my story! I kind of rushed through this scene cuz I wanted to get to the good parts. Okay, that's all, enjoy!

Aria of Life

Chapter Two

"You! You' re still alive!" Kagome's eyes widened in shock.

"You better believe it." Inuyasha sneered and cracked his hand, "You tried to kill me with that stupid sealing arrow. Well it seems like your plan backfired on you."

"Wah?" Kagome took a step back. Kaede-sama intervened, "Your wrong Inuyasha, this isn't Kikyo, this is Kagome!"

"Shut up you old hag!" he yelled and lunged at Kagome. She jumped up quickly just in fast enough to dodge his claw attack. Wasting no time, she shot off for the river. She could hear him coming fast. 'What to do? My flute seems to be immune to him. I'm gonna have to rely on Kaede-sama for help this round.' She stopped running to dodge one of his attacks only to see Inuyasha's claw swipe across her face grazing her nose.

She didn't stop running after that. Her nose stung, her feet hurt from the trek in the forest, the run in with the monster and now this. God, is life full of running or what?

"Can you do anything Kaede-sama?" one villager asked the old miko women.

"Yes." She pulled out an odd sort of necklace with round beads separated by a tooth in each section. She mumbled a chant and the necklace broke apart only to shoot at Inuyasha. Inuyasha, who was in mid leap for another blow, blinked in surprise as the necklace formed around his neck. He landed on a rock cursing,

"What the hell is this?" he tugged at it trying to take it off.

"Kagome, give Inuyasha a restraining command!" Kaede shouted.

"Restraining?" she stopped to take a breather in the middle of a bridge she was crossing, "Command?"

"Yes! Anything will do!"

Kagome turned around to see Inuyasha run toward her. She gave a frightened cry and said the first thing that came to her head,

"SIT!" she bellowed.

"AHH!" Inuyahsa's face crashed into the ground. He tried to get up only to fall down again when Kagome yelled again. She finished crossing the bridge and turned around to see a very pissed off dog demon wrestle with the necklace,

"The hell? Why won't this fucking thing come off?!"

"You can't do that Inuyasha, only the person who says the command can take it off." Kaede looked relieved that it worked.

"What?!" Inuyasha looked outraged, "Alright now I'm going to kill you old hag, not that you were far off from death in the first place."

"Kagome." Kaede looked at her.

"SIT!"

Inuyasha yelled, crashed into the bridge but then collapsing it in the process. They could hear him scream as the water washed him away. Kagome gave a sigh of relief and then stared at the flute in her hands. 'How come it didn't work?'

"It seems that your flute only works on full youkai." Kaede-sama said putting some disinfecting ointment on Kagome's nose, "It seems to have an opposite effect on him instead and broke the seal that pinned him on that tree."

"Ah." Was all Kagome said, "But why were you so intent on killing me…or Kikyo might I ask?" She addressed to the honyou lying on the floor in a 'I don't care' position. He didn't say anything except for a 'keh' and then remaining silent. He seemed more subdued after learning that she was not Kikyo. Kagome frowned slightly at the strange honyou but then brushed it off.

"Kikyo was the one that sealed Inuyasha to that tree. He wanted to kill you I suppose to also acquire the Shikon noTama to become a full youkai." Kaede answered for him.

Inuyasha slammed his fist into the floor making a nice hole, "Alright old hag, I had enough of you acting as if you know me! Who are you?"

"Oh? So I see you don't remember me." She took some firewood and placed them in the stove, "I am Kaede, Kikyo's sister. It's been fifty years since you last saw me."

"Eh?" he raised an eyebrow.

"Unlike you Inuyasha, humans do age you know."

"Keh, fifty years," he sat down Indian style, arms folded, "humans are so weak, they age so fast in such a short amount of time. So where's Kikyo now? Is she an old hag too?"

"Kikyo died shortly after she sealed you to that tree."

Inuyasha's ears flickered and he opened his eyes. The fire crackled.

"And along with her body, the Shikon no Tama burned with her."

"Crap, are you telling me the Shikon no Tama doesn't exist anymore?!" Kagome abruptly stood startling both. Inuyasha frowned, stood, and exited the hut.

"Was it something I said?" she mumbled and sat back down.

"I think he really wanted that Shikon no Tama and the fact that it might not exist anymore upset him a bit." Kaede also sat next to the fire.

"But it does still exist doesn't it?" she asked her slowly.

"Well yes, if Kikyo's soul was reborn then most likely the Shikon no Tama was reborn as well."

"Well great!" she stood again grinning, "So we just find this reincarnation of Kikyo's soul and then find the Shikon no Tama and then bingo, there's my cure!" she was about to leave when Kaede stopped her,

" But how are you going to find the reincarnation of Kikyo out of billions of people?" Kaede asked, " Besides, you don't know if she was reborn yet."

Kagome grinned, "I know a way to find out. Tell me, where is Kikyo's grave?"

Inuyasha sat brooding on his tree. Fifty years have gone by. Kaede an old women, Kikyo dead, and the Shikon no Tama, gone. Has fifty years really changed that much? His eyes scanned the village. More villagers, more huts, and it seemed the place was more quite then before. He was about to close his eyes again to brood some more when a flicker of black caught the corner of his eyes. She looked strikingly like Kikyo but younger, more innocent. He could tell she was up to no good due to her quickened pace and mischievous grin. Out of curiosity, he decided to follow her. Maybe there was something that even he can't sniff out.

She climbed up some steps to a shrine. In front of it were a couple of graves. She knelt by one and took out something. He frowned. Her back was against him so he couldn't see what she was doing. Crossing his arms, he stood out of hiding and approached her,

"What do you think you're up to?"

She gave a startled shout and jumped to her feet a dagger in her hands.

"You really think that needle is gonna prick me?" he asked dryly.

Kagome glanced at the dagger and then looked at Inuyasha's claws. She gave him a weak laugh and stuck it back in her ankle boots.

"Man, you freaked me out there. Did you really have to sneak up on me?"

"What are you doing there?" he asked again and nodded his head towards the grave. At the foot of the headstone were a pouch and a variety of vials. The flute he noticed was in her hands.

"Nothing," She said and knelt back at the foot of the headstone gathering her things, "Except looking for the Shikon no Tama."

"Keh, with your stupid powders, what's that going to do?" he leered at her.

"Just watch." She gave him a look that said 'shut up' and started pouring a mixture of two liquids onto the headstone. There was a hiss and smoke rose. She stood up and positioned her flute beneath her lips. She mumbled something, a spell Inuyasha guessed, and started playing. It was a sad tune, not like the one he woke up from that damn tree, it was more mournful. The smoke still rose from the headstone and smelled faintly of orchids. His ears twitched uncontrollably. What was that wench doing?

Abruptly she stopped playing and clapped her hands together,

"Alright! I'm done. I guess I'll reward myself with a quick bathe, some grub, and a nice long noon nap."

"What? You didn't even do anything and you're already congratulating yourself?!" he turned around and starting walking away, "I knew it, all that powder and music is just for show, how stupid."

"For your information, that was a soul summoning spell! If Kikyo's soul weren't reborn, then the soul would've shown up! However, because it didn't appear then that meant Kikyo's soul was reborn and the Shikon no Tama exists! What do you think of that?!"

Inuyasha paused long enough to throw a 'keh' over his shoulder and stalked away.

Kagome frowned, "Jerk." She said uner her breath and turned around cleaning up the mess she made. It wouldn't be respectful to leave such a mess on a miko's grave. She finished and stood looking at the headstone.

'I wonder why Inuyasha hates Kikyo so much…' she thought. Then blinked in surprise, 'Huh, why should I care what dog face's problems are. I got enough to worry about.' She looking down at her flute then slipped it away,

"But first a bath!"

"Ah, that was SO good." Kagome stretched on a sturdy branch in a tree over looking the bridge and partially the village. The bath was luxurious after the chaotic night resting her sore muscles. The food was great as always, and there was a nice breeze blowing relaxing her even more.

"This is the life. No youkai, no worries." She smiled closing her eyes playing a happy tune on her flute. It was a simple five-note melody that she made up when she was a child.

"Hey wench!" a voice called below her.

"Except for Hanyous." She mumbled to herself. Louder she called down, "What do you want dogface?"

He exploded, "For your information my name is not dogface!"

"Well it is to me dogface!"

"Old Witch!"

"Bastard!"

"Bitch!"

"Asshole!"

"Weak, Scrawny Two-Eyed Freaky Bitch!"

"Decapitated Cow!"

"WHAT?!" he screeched.

"You know, I had a very nice day so far and then YOU had to show your stupid face and ruin it!"

"Yeah, well you started it!" he yelled back.

"Just go and bark up another tree why won't you!"

"You Bitch Witch!"

"SIT!"

WHAM. Inuyasha crashed into the ground. Kagome's mood spoiled, she jumped off the tree and purposely landed on him gaining a satisfactory yelp. She stalked away cursing the white haired honyou. From afar, Kaede shook her head,

"Kids these days."

AN- ah, finally got that chapter done. Really not much covered but it's a start. I know the characters are acting a little OOC so it'll really be helpful if you guys would R&R. Any impute are welcomed. THANKS!