Kagome stared ahead as she rode her bike at a leisurely pace along the dirt path. She glanced over at Inuyasha, his arms folded over his chest in that I-am-so-above-everybody-else posture. She shook her head and look over at Sango just in time to see her slap Miroku. She smiled. Secretly, she thought that those two really liked each other. If only Miroku could put a stop to his lecherous ways, the two might actually get somewhere, but it didn't seem like that would be happening anytime soon.

"A town is up ahead," Inuyasha said. Kagome looked up and didn't see anything.

"How can you tell?" she asked curiously.

"I smell blood." Kagome looked ahead nervously. Blood?

"How much?" she asked, wondering why he wasn't running ahead like he usually did to investigate.

"Just from a few people. But I don't smell any youkai."

Kagome huffed. She had only slightly hoped that there would be a youkai so that there was a possibility of them finding a shard, but it seemed that there was no such luck.

"I'm going to go ahead and see what's going on," Kagome declared. She rode past everyone before they could say anything.

"Oy! Kagome!" Inuyasha called. "You baka! Just because there are no youkai doesn't mean that it isn't dangerous!"

Sango shook her head as Inuyasha went running after Kagome. Those two…………………………….

Kagome came to an abrupt halt when she reached the town. What the hell??? There was a girl tied to a pole that was stuck in the ground. The fact that there was a girl tied to a pole in the ground is not what surprised Kagome; it was the look of the girl. Her hair was wild, it stuck out all over the place with branches and leaves in it. She wore what looked to be a loin cloth and a bra made out of leaves. Dirt was smudged all over her face and her feet were bare.

Kagome let her bike lean against a tree as she walked into the town. She noticed that Inuyasha was now beside her, apparently having caught up to her a bit ago. He was staring at the girl in the same manner that Kagome had. She turned to him and began to speak.

"Should we?………" she left the question open, not sure of how to end it exactly. Inuyasha just looked at her.

"It's the town's business. I don't see why WE have to interfere when a Shikon shard isn't involved."

Kagome hit him in the back of the head, leaving a large lump.

"Oy! What was that for?!" he cried, holding his head in both his hands.

"You're such a JERK Inuyasha!" Kagome stomped into the town, her hands balled into fists at her sides. She walked up to the men who surrounded the girl, deciding to inquire as to what was going on.

"Um, Excuse me?" They didn't seem to notice her.

"Excuse me," she said a little louder. Still, there was no reaction.

"Excuse me!!!" she yelled. The men finally turned around to face her.

"Yeah? What is it?" the tallest one asked.

"I was just wondering why you have this girl here tied up."

"Because she's a menace," the man, whose voice sounded like gravel, said, clearly annoyed by Kagome's presence.

"What did she do?"

"She hangs around here and won't leave. She's stolen food and kidnapped some of the town children."

Kagome looked over to the girl, who was sticking her tongue out at the men. The shortest man reached out and backhanded the girl. Her head snapped around, but she turned it back quickly and stuck her tongue out again. The man reached up to hit her again but was stopped by a voice.

"Oy. Don't do that," Inuyasha said, his hands on his hips.

"Oh? And why not?" The man asked, hitting the girl again.

Inuyasha's eyebrow twitched. "Because all she did was stick her tongue out at you." Before anyone could say anything else, Kagome decided to ask this girl a question.

"Did you really kidnap the kids?" she asked, squatting down so that she was eye level with the girl sitting on the ground. The girl seemed to consider her for a moment before answering.

"No. Why would I do something like that? We were all just playing a game." She turned her head away from Kagome and turned to Inuyasha, a slight gleam in her eyes.

"What's your name?" Kagome asked politely. The girl looked at Kagome and just stuck her tongue out.

"She wouldn't tell us either," one of the men said, crossing his arms over his chest.

"Why don't you just tell her," Inuyasha said, bored with the situation and become frustrated fast. He just wanted to leave so that he could find more shikon shards. The girl's eyes lit up and she tilted her head up at the hanyou.

"I'll tell YOU," she said, smiling at him.

"Fine then, tell me," he said, not even looking at her.

"Come here."

"Fine, if we can leave after Kagome knows your name, then I'll do ANYTHING to get out of here." He walked over to the girl and stood in front of her, looked at her expectantly.

"Closer," she whispered. He leaned over. Nobody noticed until it was too late that one of her hands were free. She reached up quickly, grabbed Inuyasha behind his head, and pulled his face to her, pressing her lips against his hard. Kagome's jaw dropped open, as did that of the men standing around the girl. Inuyasha's eyes were wide open in shock.

The girl pulled back and put her lips next to Inuyasha's ear. "My name is Kwewe," she said silkily. Kagome's fists were balled at her sides again as her eyes closed in anger. Inuyasha backed quickly away from the girl when she released his head, his eyebrow twitching.

Before anyone could recover from their shock, the girl had freed herself from the rest of her binds and hopped away from the pole, running into the town. The men ran after her while Kagome and Inuyasha stood frozen to their spots. They barely heard the girl's yelling and whoops anymore as she ran further and further away from them.

Inuyasha looked up at Kagome hesitantly. She still had a look of extreme anger on her face. Kagome let out a sigh/grunt as she stalked off, heading back in the direction that Sango and Miroku were coming from. Inuyasha walked numbly behind her, still not quite recovered from the shock of that. He'd only ever been kissed by Kikyo before.