*THIS IS JUST A TEASER CHAPTER!*

A/N: Hey everyone! Anyone missed me? *hears complete silence* ...Ok... *sniff* I hope you guys who read my story at least missed my story. *hears complete silence again* Well, hopefully my writing improved over the summer (which I doubt). Now on with another chapter.

*Disclaimer* Again! I don't own Ranma, Inuyasha, or any of the characters in those two stories by Rumiko Takahashi.

Invisible Walls by animecartoons

Chapter 6: Manifest

The first thing that Inuyasha and Miroku could see after reaching the sight of the village were the fire and smoke rising up from some of the burning huts and a few injured villagers' bodies scattered across the ground. The terrified screams that were heard coming from them earlier stopped minutes before Inuyasha and Miroku even got to the village, so that meant maybe the attacker was long gone or in hiding, waiting for them to let their guard down so they could attack without warning. But, to their surprise, there stood the enemy, in the middle of all that destruction.

Inuyasha looked fixedly at the new enemy in front of him who wore the strangest clothes he had ever seen, other than Kagome, and black hair that was tied up in a pigtail. Of course, Inuyasha didn't recognize this newcomer. "Who the hell are you?!" The attacker met Inuyasha's gaze as if he had just realized someone was there, and all he did was look back at Inuyasha with a placid stare, never answering the question.

"Rrrr... what are ya starin' at?!" Inuyasha yelled again at the stranger but he didn't recieved an answer which made him even more irritated. Before Inuyasha blew his top, Miroku whispered to him, "Calm down, Inuyasha. That must be the human Myoga was telling us about. If he is under Naraku's spell as Myoga said, then we need to be careful because he might have a jewel shard embedded in his body."

Inuyasha sniffed the air. "Well, he definitely smells like human. I guess I can't use the Tetsusiga against him, not that I'm going to need it to defeat him anyway."

After that was said, a small laugh was heard coming from the person standing a couple of feet away from them. Inuyasha clenched his teeth, "What the hell are you laughing at?!"

There was a small pause, but finally, the unknown foe spoke, "So, you think you can defeat me?"

"Tsk. Of course." Inuyasha answered with a confident smirk.

In the blink of an eye, the human appeared in front of Inuyasha ready to send a punch into his face, but before it connected, Inuyasha blocked and with his free hand sent his own punch towards the other fighter which was easily blocked too. The battle continued on like this the whole time with a combination of punches and kicks coming from both fighters, some landing on their mark but most didn't which clearly angered them both.

Miroku had backed away as far as he could from the match so that he wouldn't be in anyone's way, and he was stunned by what was happening before him. He couldn't believe that the human could keep up with Inuyasha, much less still be able to throw his own kicks and punches and block at the same time.

"Inuyasha! Stop!"

'Huh?' The monk's thoughts were cut off by someone's yell and quickly his eyes averted towards where it came from. There he found Kagome approaching the battle on the other side, and beside her was a girl he had never seen. Before they went too close into the danger range of the battle, he yelled, "Wait Lady Kagome! Over here!"

Both the girls stopped in their tracks and saw Miroku waving at them to come over to him, but suddenly Kagome heard Inuyasha shout, "Move out the way!"

Kagome and Akane glanced up and saw a ki blast headed straight for them at a fast speed. It felt like time had slowed down as they watched Inuyasha jump in front of the blast, blocking it from them. When the smoke from the ki attack settled, Inuyasha fiercely glared at the human who had purposely thrown that attack in Kagome's direction. "You'll pay for that."

After seeing who was behind the ki blast, Akane gasped.

It was Ranma.

Without even thinking, she started to run to him, but she was abruptly stopped when someone firmly grabbed her wrist.

"Hey, you! Where do ya think yer going?!"

Akane saw that it was the demon Inuyasha, Kagome had told her about, who had saved them eailer. "Let me go!" she shouted, trying to pry out of his grasp so she could reach Ranma.

"Wait, Akane!" Kagome said as she stepped up and placed her hand on Akane's shoulder. "I don't think he's the same Ranma. See?"

Akane didn't want to believe that Ranma had changed, but when she looked into his eyes, she knew. His eyes were different; it was as if he didn't even recognize her. All she saw in them was hatred and anger. "What's wrong with you, Ranma?"

Ranma only stared at her with nothing but disgust, then he said to Inuyasha, "Seems we have to finish this another time. Don't bring anymore distractions or next time I'll make sure not to miss my target and all of you will die together."

"Ranma!" Akane cried out to him, but he didn't pay any attention to her as he disappeared into the forest.

Inuyasha faced Kagome and practically screamed at her, "Alright, what the heck is goin' on?! And what the heck do ya think yer doin' here, Kagome!?! You're suppose to be in your time!"

"Ugh! Stop yelling at me! Why are you getting so angry?!" she screamed back at him, " I came here for a reason you know!"

"What reason would that be?! To almost get killed?!" Inuyasha pointed at the girl with short blue-black hair, "And who the hell is she?!"

Kagome had had enough of Inuyasha's behavior, so she did the only thing she could do. "Stop being so rude, you idiot! SIT! SIT! SIT!!!"

"... you... ugh... little..." Inuyasha struggled to say something foul to Kagome and at the same time try to pick himself up.

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A/N: You can tell that I'm really not finished with this chapter, so don't start complaining about any missed spelled words or anything, yet. ^_~