Mountain Dew just exploded in my face. I now hate mountain dew.

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The gang started out early in the morning.

"Miroku, are you SURE there's a village up here?" Inuyasha asked.

"Positive." Miroku said, rubbing his cheek which was still red.

They walked for another half and hour before Inuyasha stopped in his tracks.

"Inuyasha, what is it?" Sango asked as she walked over beside him. She gasped at the sight.

Kagome had her hand on her mouth and Miroku stood there stunned.

The village, and some people, had been burned to ashes. And there were bodies laying everywhere with bite marks and slashes all over their corpses.

They quickly made their way to the village incase the menace who had done the damage was still there.

Sango thought of her village. How it, also, had been burned and the people killed. /This is worse than that…./ Sango thought.

Then, Sango realized that there was someone standing in the middle of the village. She strained her eyes to see who it was.

"Its that girl, the one with the jewel shards." Inuyasha muttered.

Sango ran forward until there was only 30 feet between them.

"You…." Sango bitterly said. "You DID THIS!" She flung her boomerang towards the girl who dodged it easily.

"Fool!" The girl said icily. "I did not do this."

"Oh yeah?" Inuyasha stepped to Sango' side. "I'd like to see you prove it!"

The girl narrowed her eyes.

"And just what do you plan on doing with those jewel shards you carry?" Kagome said, finding her voice.

The girl smirked.

"I plan on making sure they don't fall into the wrong hands…"

Kagome was taken aback. She studied the girls' face. /She doesn't look like she's lying/ Kagome looked at Miroku who hadn't said anything. He had his head bowed and didn't look like he was even paying attention to what was happening.

The girl turned her back to them and continued to survey the scene.

"Err. HEY YOU! DON'T JUST TURN AWAY WE AREN'T FINISHED YET!" Inuyasha shouted and charged forward with his Tetsiega, Only to be countered by her sword.

She backed up releasing her sword, then charged forward unexpectedly and cut Inuyasha's sword hand.

He dropped his Tetsiega and clutched his bleeding hand. The girl pressed her sword to his throat.

"heh, now I'm convinced." Inuyasha said while grinning.

"Huh?" She said studying his face

"You did kill all those people and destroy the village."

Inuyasha had hoped that saying that would make her angry and he might have a chance to grab his Tetsiega, but she looked more hurt than angry. She took her sword from his throat and put it back in the sheath.

"I did NOT do this" She said in a surprisingly cold and bitter voice.

Inuyasha was surprised that she had put her sword away, this didn't happen often.

"Oh yeah? Well, then who did?"

"I…don't know." She said.

"Well" Inuyasha said and lowed his head slightly "Normally, I'd let you off the hook, but since you DO have jewel shards…" He looked her in the eye. "I'm going to have to take them from you."

She laughed

No one expected it, but she laughed. It was a chilling laugh, and everyone found it hard to believe that she HADN'T destroyed the village. Yet, they all knew she hadn't, almost as if innocence radiated from her. It was odd, seeing as how she hardly gave off that impression.

"Huh? HEY! Why are you laughing?" Inuyasha asked in an annoyed tone.

"You aren't the first person that's said that to me." She smirked. "And, believe me, you wont be getting the jewel shards…"

Inuyasha angrily picked up his Tetsiega. "Is that a challenge?"

The girl was about to answer when all of sudden, Sango, riding on Kirara, swooped down close enough to snatch a small bag containing the jewel shards that was around the girls neck.

"Got em'!" Sango cheered.

Before she could even get back over to Kagome and the rest one of the sharp circular things had pinned her to at nearby tree. Sango stood wide eyed while the girl was nose to nose with her. The girl took the shards from Sango's grasp.

"I suggest you not do that again if you plan on living a long life." The girl said as she retrieved her weapon.

"HEY!" She heard someone call.

She turned around as Inuyasha swung his Tetsiega, she tried to get out of the way but wasn't fast enough, the sword catching her on her left arm.

"Hm.."She said looking thoughtful. "I always wanted a scar there."

Inuyasha continued to charge as she dodged his attempts.

"Inuyasha! We found a survivor!" Kagome shouted.

The girls gaze drifted over Inuyasha's shoulder to where Kagome and Miroku were trying to help a villager who had survived the attack.

The girl looked back towards Inuyasha as his Tetsiega ripped through her side. They both stopped.

"Hey! Why aren't you hitting me?" Inuyasha asked.

She looked down at her side and then to Inuyasha.

"I'm going to leave now, with the jewel shards, and forget this ever happened to prevent your death" She said with a smile.

She leapt onto a tree and ran North. She was so fast it gave the illusion that she was flying over the treetops.

Inuyasha growled and slowly made his way over to the Villager.

"Who did this to you?" He asked.

"Inuyasha! Don't you think this man has been through enough? Let him rest!." Kagome snapped

Inuyasha shrugged and plopped down on the ground Indian style.

"It….was..him.." The villager muttered.

"And who exactly is him?" Miroku asked. Then he noticed the villager was shaking violently.

"Huh? What's wrong with him?" Sango asked nervously.

"I don't know…" Miroku said.

They all gathered around the villager as his life force slowly died out.

/Great./ Inuyasha thought /We're going to have to bury all these bodies which will put us way behind schedule/

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Yuki soared across the treetops, ignoring the severe pain in her side. She headed towards her cottage out in the woods.

/I shouldn't have toyed with them, I should have killed that demon and been done with it./

She glanced down through the trees and though that she saw someone laying there.

/there aren't people around here…better check it out/

She abruptly stopped, infact, she stopped too fast. She struggled to keep her balance, flapping her arms out to her sides, but ended up falling through the trees.

"AAAAAAH….oof."

She landed on her knees with her hair surrounding her.

"Damnit!" She cursed aloud.

It was then she saw a leg protruding from a bush.

"Well, that's not right.."

She blinked and walked closer to get a better look.

"A youkai." She muttered.

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R&R!