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           = Memory

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Inuyasha bounded off through the forest quickly; happy the cries of Marcella had left his ears. He moved as fast as he could go. He knew that he didn't have much time. The half demon landed on the trees with ease and he jumped just as easily.

'I have too get there before he does! Or else our kingdom… no possibly the world, is going to be in trouble!' Inuyasha thought as he made his way desperately through the forest. 'Dad should be leaving soon…. It's a good thing I got a head start.'  Inuyasha thought back to the memory from the night before….

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Inuyasha's pov.

I could here the yells out of the walls. The pain, the agony. I could hear the fire crackling and the houses falling. I wanted more then anything to go out and fight with my brother and father, but no…. a half ling like me would surely die out there…. Or so my brother says.

Whatever my brother says, my dad believes and there is nothing I can do about it, which really pisses me off! I could take down Sesshoumaru any day! But nobody gave me the chance…. So I sat in my room starring out at the battle sight hopelessly.

This was going to really hurt our kingdom, and there is nothing I can do! There is nothing I can do! I wanted to scream my head off! I wanted to go down there and do some serious damage! But I couldn't because I'm cooped up in this annoying castle. 

I growled and walked away from the window to the grand hall, in the center of the castle, where, I hoped the sounds would leave my dog-ears. But it didn't. And I listened…. I listened through out the night.

At about 12:00 am I heard a noise though. It was in the castle I knew. So I jumped up and fallowed it. I ran as fast as I could after it. I saw a flash of black round a corner and I knew that if I didn't slow down…. I wouldn't be able too see what was going on. So I stopped running.

Finally I looked around. I was in the sacred part of the castle…. The wing devoted to the sacred jewel! Someone was going to try and steal it, but I wouldn't let that happen! Not over my dead body. So I fallowed the black hair through the halls.

Then there it was. We entered a room, and I hid in the shadows. The stone was glowing bright pink. It was as if it was calling me to it, telling me to save it. There was an evil laugh as the figure approached it.

"Hay!" I shouted at it. I steeped out of the shadows. " Don't touch that!"

The figure turned to me. It was a man…. He had long black hair and it looked like he was wearing eye shadow. He looked very formal and totally evil. The man gave me a sour look. " Oh no…. the little one has come to stop me." The man said sarcastically. I wanted so bad to rip out his heart with my claws and feed it to my brother.

"Yes, I have now step away from the jewel." I demanded. The man gave me a look and stepped towards the jewel. "Wrong way…." I growled dangerously.

My hot head got too hot and I attacked the man. I slashed at him with my claws dangerously. He jumped out of the way and I positioned myself between him and the Shikon Jewel.  He wouldn't get it.

He gave an evil laugh, which only angered me more…. So I attacked again, viciously.

After many misses I finally landed one good claw on his chest. It ripped his clothing and he was thrown backwards. I smiled triumphantly.

But what happened next puzzled me. The man had left my sight and was now standing behind me…. And he grabbed the jewel! I went after him as fast as my doglegs would take me, as he made a run for the exit.

Unfortunately, right then the door burst open and my brother was standing there. He gave the man a look, and noticed the slash on his chest. "Good work holding him off…." He muttered and attacked. My brother obviously wasn't proud of me in the least bit. His face held annoyance, why he didn't yell at me; I don't think I'll ever know…

The man looked up at him and ran out of the room, Sesshoumaru at his heals. I ran after them…. But they were going really fast. He chased him out of the castle and into the forest. I couldn't go any farther….  My father found me and made me go back to the castle…. I tried to explain, but it was hopeless.

So I glumly walked back to the castle, cursing myself for not being able to help…

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At about 6:00 that morning my brother came limping into the thrown room. The battle was over… One arm was bleeding non-stop and he had the other on his bleeding waist. My brother was a full demon, so by tomorrow he should be fine, if that happened to me though it would take me at least a week to recover.

"Did you retrieve the jewel?" My father asked. After the battle I informed him about what happened. Sesshoumaru looked angry more then anything else.

"No.…" He muttered dangerously. "But Naraku doesn't have it…." He added at the look on my fathers face. My father gawked at him angrily. I snarled.

"What do you mean?" He asked.

"After I attacked him… it fell into the forest," He said looking at his feet, " I couldn't go after it. There are too many demons in that forest for my week condition." Excuses…. Always excuses, but my brother had a point.

"And what of Naraku?" My father asked him. Sesshoumaru's anger blew high.

"He got away." He said his fist clenching dangerously. Naraku…. Why did that sound so familiar? I starred at the floor in thought.

"First thing tomorrow morning you, me, and a dozen men will go out too look for it." My father said quickly and was about to leave to organize this hunt when what he said hit me.

"Hay! Don't I get to come!" I shouted after him. My father gave me a forbidding, yet sad look.

"No Inuyasha…. You don't," He said. I stared at him angrily. How dare he forbid me from such a thing? I was about to ask him why and he probably read my mind, "Your too young, and he's too strong, if Sesshoumaru or I die, you have to take care of the kingdom. You should never underestimate Naraku. He's dangerous."

He seemed to be thinking something in his mind and his eyes fell to the floor. "What! Tha-" The man gave me a stern look.

"No Inuyasha!" He shouted at me and I closed my mouth. I glared at my brother before storming out of the room. Then it hit me who Naraku was….

He was our kingdom's worst enemy! The man who was plotting to destroy our kingdom! He almost took the jewel! Oh god! I was so pissed….

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Inuyasha stopped and sniffed for Naraku's sent, he couldn't small him at all. He had been jumping for quite a while now, at least an hour, and he still hadn't seen anything. So he sat down for a short rest.

There was a lake bellow the tree he was sitting on. He closed his eyes peacefully and listened to the water flow. But then he heard something else, it was a grunting sound. He opened his eyes and then blinked.

He listened closely and he could make out a few words. Sounded like, stupid…idiotic…perverted…boring. The voice was low and annoyed and it belonged to a girl.

Inuyasha sniffed the air again, wondering how he could have missed it. Finally he caught a smell. It smelled like a human, but it was a funny smelling human. It had magic or something mixed in with it.

Inuyasha looked down at the lake and he saw her. She had black hair and was wearing some brown material. It covered only her privet areas and showed her stomach and legs. The top was like a tank top.  It was ruff around the edges though.  And her bottom was a skirt that was really short and it was ragged as well.

She had on some brown high boots as well; they went to about her knees. And in her hand she held a spear. Inuyasha was curious and leaned down too observe her more. She was poking at the lake with her spear.

Inuyasha moved in even father to her and he felt the tree under him creek a little. The girl stopped what she was doing and snapped her attention to the tree. She got in a fighting stance, ready to attack.

"Who's there!" She shouted at him. Inuyasha jumped down. No use staying up there, the girl had caught him.

"Don't worry…. I come in peace, " He said sarcastically. The girl didn't move from her spot though.

"Who are you and what the hell do you want?" She asked him roughly, but her voice had a hint of kindness that seemed impossible to get rid of, it was berried deep down though.

Something puzzled him though…. The girl was looking in his direction, but she seemed too be looking past him. Her eyes were a light blue gray and held many different emotions, but they weren't on him.

"Don't you like to look at people when you are talking to them?" Inuyasha asked. The girl scrunched up her face and was about to let her guard down but she didn't and she ignored the question.

"Who, are, you?" She said plainly. Inuyasha sniffed at her stubbornness.

"Inuyasha." He said quickly, and before he knew what was happening the girl was on her knees.

"Oh your majesty!" She cried out, " I'm sorry! I didn't know it was you!" She said bowing. Inuyasha thought to himself, 'is there anyone else with dog-ears? If there is then I want to meet him.'

Inuyasha starred at the groveling girl for a second pondering. "Stand up." He said quickly and the girl did as she was told. She looked about his age… maybe younger. When she was up she looked in his direction but starred over his shoulder once again. "Have you seen anything suspicious lately?" He asked her.

The girls face faltered and she stared at the prince. " I can't your majesty…." Inuyasha lifted an eyebrow.

"What? You can't what?" He asked her, his voice full of suspicion.

"I-I can't see…" She said and as she as if she felt the look on the man's face she added, " I'm blind." Inuyasha stared at her for a moment.

"Oh! Oh…. I'm sorry." He said quickly. That explained why she wasn't looking strait at him. She faced the ground.

"Its ok…. You didn't know." She said. She was out of her fighting stance and standing up again, her spear at her side and looking a little sad and a little bored.

"So you haven't…." Inuyasha tried to think of the right thing to say.

"No… I haven't seen anything…." She whispered. Inuyasha turned to continue his search.

"Well thanks anyways." He muttered before he was about to jump off.

"But I did feel something…. a strange warmth calling out to me. It was moving and I could feel it shining." The girl said starring out over the lake. Inuyasha stopped and turned around. "Your majesty…. You didn't answer my second question." She said and he looked at her puzzled.

"Oh yeah…. I'm looking for the Shikon Jewel, from my kingdom; it was stolen, and then lost. And if it happens to fall into the wrong hands…. Well I think you would know what happens." Inuyasha said a little grumpily, he was being way too nice today…. Humph.

The girl nodded. " I see…. My name is Kagome by the way…. I think I can help you." She said as if sensing the bewildered look on the boy. "Come with me…." She said before turning onto a trail. Inuyasha fallowed her with his puzzled face. 

Kagome led him down the trail with her spear out, making sure there weren't any stones or anything to trip on. Inuyasha walked behind her. Then Kagome stopped suddenly. Inuyasha nearly ran into her.

"Hay! Why did you stop! You could have said something!" Inuyasha yelled at her, Kagome ignored him though.

Kagome didn't move either, she had her eyes closed and was listening closely. Inuyasha perked up his ears too and heard some footsteps walking up to them. A gentle smile crossed Kagome's face. She turned abruptly to the left of her, were there was a tiny trail. "Miroku!" She greeted happily. "What took you so long…. It's been like four days! Were have you been!" She added still with a happy smile on her face.

Inuyasha looked at the trees and saw a boy his age coming out of them. He had black hair tied in a tiny ponytail and violet eyes. He was wearing a purple robe. Inuyasha had concluded after looking at his staff that he was a monk. Kagome flung herself in his arms and hugged him tightly.

Miroku laughed and hugged back. Then all the sudden he was on the floor with a huge bump on his head, Kagome had hit him with her spear. "Pervert!" She shouted at him, but she was starring at the trees were Miroku had been. This didn't bug the pervert in the slightest.

He laughed again with a huge sweat drop. Kagome smirked and continued on her way down the road. Miroku had loves of bread and meat in his arms. He finally looked to see Inuyasha and nearly dropped them all.

"Your majesty!" He said and tried to hide the food behind his back. "Ummm…. These are from a cousin of mine who lives in the village. He owns a farm." He said and walked quickly too Kagome, Who was a couple of feet ahead of him. Inuyasha lifted an eyebrow at him.

"A guilty conscience huh…" he said and added a 'feh' before fallowing them. Kagome giggled and continued to lead the way, with the boys in toe.

"We are almost there…." She said and they were coming to an opening. They walked up too a gate. Inuyasha was looking around suspiciously. Why had he never heard of this place? He was a prince; he was supposed to know this stuff! She stopped in front of the gate.

"Welcome…. Prince Inuyasha, to my village." She said with a smile looking between Inuyasha's and Miroku's shoulders. Inuyasha lifted his eyebrow. The gates opened behind her. Miroku and her walked in but Inuyasha starred at the site before him.

There were about three houses on the ground…. Who could call this a village? It was so small. Why would there be gates to such a tiny place. Ok the surrounding was huge and Inuyasha couldn't see the other side of the gate. This wasn't even a tribe.

He walked in and he was amazed. It was a village…. In the trees. There were tree houses on almost every tree. Inuyasha smiled at the thought of owning his very own tree, he snorted a little and looked around. There were bridges that connected to the balconies in front of the houses. And here and there, there was a latter. Men and women and children starred down at the three of them as they entered the village. Many called to Miroku smiling and waving.

Then Inuyasha saw an enormous house away from the three houses he saw when he walked in the village. ' It must belong to their leader…' He thought. The prince got many stares and people were talking about him behind their hands. He just folded his hands in front of him and looked around. Kagome's house was one on the ground. She walked into it and Inuyasha heard a laugh from inside and someone shout, "Kagome!"

He walked to the house slowly and when he looked in the doorway he saw Kagome in the middle of an almost empty room giggling with a little fox demon in her lap. The child demon was hugging her tightly and she just hugged him back. "Someone is at the door Kagome…." The boy said.

Kagome's face went into surprise. "Is it you your majesty?" She asked him. Inuyasha was about to nod but then remembered that she couldn't see. She he said 'yes' quickly. "Sorry…. Come in." She said standing up with the boy in her arms.

The boy was eyeing him. Inuyasha wanted to smack the little boy. Miroku walked in and the boy hugged him. "Miroku! What took you so long?"

"Um…. There was a problem in the village." The monk said quickly. Miroku put some of the food in his arms on a table in the room. "I brought some food for you too Kagome…." He said softly. Kagome smiled and said thank you happily. Then from the back room a women came storming in.

"Miroku! What in gods name took you so long!" She had long, long black hair and brown eyes. Some hair framed her face and above her angry eyes was some pink eye shadow.

"There was a problem at the village." The boy said from Miroku's shoulder. He was so small! Inuyasha just stood there and watched the friends. Miroku was trying to grab the girl's ass and she just kept on smashing a boomerang thing on her back on Miroku's head.

Kagome and the boy were laughing in the background and sitting on the floor. "Inuyasha…. Are you still here? Shippou is Inuyasha still here?" The boy gave her a funny look then remembered the stranger standing beside Kagome. Kagome was 'looking' in the direction of the door.

Inuyasha was quite and didn't want to disturb the people. Kagome was 'looking' around and her eyes led to him at least 3 times.

"Yes, Kagome I'm here." Inuyasha said still standing. Kagome fallowed his voice and smiled.

"Good, cause your staying for dinner!" She said.

"What! I am not! I have a jewel to find!" He shouted at her. Kagome shook her head.

"If you go out there with an empty stomach…. You're going to be killed." She said matter of factually.

"I'd like to see you stop me wench!" He said and started walking to the door stubbornly. Kagome stuck out her staff and Inuyasha fell down. She felt her way to a drawer and took something out. Then she felt her way back to Inuyasha, searching for his head, and when she found it she put it around his neck. Miroku was smiling like a fool.

"Yes! Thank god!" He exclaimed happily. " I was so scared you would put those on me one day!" He laughed happily before saying, " She means good your majesty…. Don't have her executed!" Miroku said cheerfully. Inuyasha was confused. He looked down at his neck and saw a necklace of beads. He tried to take it off but it wouldn't go.

"You're not going anywhere Inuyasha!" She said triumphantly, and sat down again. Inuyasha stood up and stormed to the door, and then Kagome said the magic word…. "Sit…."

Inuyasha came crashing to the floor. His eyes swirled and he was plastered to the ground. "What did you do to me you witch!" Kagome giggled.

"My mother gave me those beads when I was young. She told me to use them for good…. I am doing well. Its just some beads Inuyasha don't worry, when we find the jewel, I'll take them off." Inuyasha jumped up at the word 'we'. There would be no we… only he!

"We! No! I am doing this alone." He said putting his fists up. Kagome shook her head and began too eat some bread, " Did you hear me wench I said alone!" He yelled.

"My name is Kagome, and yes I heard you and no you aren't. Now sit down and have some food! Why don't you all sit down…. Gosh…. You know I could just sit the day away…. Don't you like to sit Inuyasha?" Inuyasha fell to the ground 4 times and made a hole each time. He growled. He did not like this person…. He didn't like her one bit.

He heard the 3 other people in the room laughing. He rolled his eyes and began too eat some meat. This was going to be a long journey…. Yes it was going to be a long journey indeed.

Just then an old wrinkly woman came into the house. What didn't anyone nock? She had a panicked look on her face.  "What is it Kaede?" The girl asked. (A/N: how do you spell that?)

"Kagome! Kouga is here!" The woman shouted. Kagome nearly dropped her tea.

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Pa: *death glare * Smacks Miroku * Pervert! And yeah I better! OR I think I'll just die.

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