A Single Red Rose
Carefree Days Lead to Troubled Times
The kitsune and inu-youkai stood there a while longer, just looking at each other. That is until Kagomes' had flew up and slapped against her forehead. "The others! I forgot all about them!" She rubbed the back of her head a bit. "Uh, Shippo, do you think you can let them through? It's only two humans and a hanyou. Though the hanyou has an attitude problem."
Shippo blinked and nodded. "Uh, sure." Moments later the others appeared in the small clearing.
"Its about time bitch. We were beginning to think you had forgotten about us."
Kagome rolled her eyes and scoffed, folding her arms over her waist. "Well, I wish I had forgotten about -you-, I like Sango and Miroku a whole lot better." Inuyasha just fehed at her comment and looked away. "Anyway, guys, this is Shippo. Shippo this is Miroku, Sango, and Inuyasha." The two humans greeted the kitsune with a polite hello but the hanyou just looked him over and gave off a feh. "What did I tell you, Shippo? Needs a major attitude adjustment, don't you think?" Shippo just nodded in agreement.
So, our group has been built up to five, six including the fire cat, and are now continuing on the path they had set out on. Weeks passed and the group became closer friends, with few demons attacking during there travels, but the peace that had lasted for a month or so for the group was not to last. After all, how could it? Yet how it changed was not pleasant and it confused the group to no end. For, you see, as they traveled on deeper into woods and unknown territory, a demon they encountered had demanded for the Shikon no Tama. And it is well known that the Shikon no Tama had vanished years, almost centuries, ago when the priestess Kikyou died and had it cremated with her. So our group puzzled about that and what it could mean.
"If the Shikon jewel is back again then our times of peace are over. Demons from everywhere will start attacking villages demanding for it. Even if it isn't there. You all know the legend of it. How Kikyou was given power over it because she had the power to purify it, keep it natural between darkness and light. Then a great demon had challenged her for it yet she refused to give it over and ended up giving her life for it. Since then there has been no sign of it. So why now?" Miroku was leaning against the trunk of a tree with his arms folded over his staff, looking a lot like Inuyasha with his Testsiga, his eyes closed as he spoke.
"We've got to find the location of the jewel. I have a feeling that if we don't something evil will and use it to destroy all we know." Sango added her two cents in while Kagome nodded in agreement with her.
"Feh, well as long as it's back I can use it to become a full fledged demon. Finally."
Kagome glared at him. "Inuyasha don't you know that the Shikon brings nothing but sorrow and misery to people? Besides if, and that's a big if, you manage to get hold of the jewel to wish that you'll just taint it even more than it already is and then it'll never rest like it should."
"Look, bitch, I don't care what happens to the jewel. I just need it to make me a full demon." Before Kagome could retort the hanyou leapt into the trees and vanished within their foliage, leaving the rest of the group to wonder which tree he was in.
"Stupid Inuyasha, he doesn't get it. If he makes that wish nothing good will come of it. Say he does become a full demon; because the jewel is already tainted it might make him a killer. And we all know that Inuyasha would hate to kill anything but demons that attack helpless villages, even if he does say he doesn't care." At Kagomes statement all four grounded people looked towards where the hanyou had vanished. "I hope you'll let go of that dream Inuyasha. For all of our sakes if not yours."
The conversation stopped there as every one prepared for bed, minus one hanyou who was deep in thought. What Kagome had said struck true to the demon. "Feh…stupid wench."