ppls! This story is flyin' high! Even though when I wrote this chapter I only got ONE, yes, count'm. . . or rather, count IT. . . ONE REVIEW!!! WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE!!

Dedication: This chapter is dedicated to Three-Letter-Word! She's my only reviewer! ::glares evilly at un-reviewing people:: . . . Is my story really so boring-sounding?

I'm about to make a big speech. If you don't wanna read my crap about reviewing, skip down to the disclaimer.

Anyway, I got this theory on this website. If you write a story, and you post it on some small subject, you'll get a small, but warm moderate amount of reviews. However, if you post on the BIG boards, you won't get many anyway. This is because there are already loads of other stories, possibly JUST like yours, with the SAME title, SAME subject, and SAME storyline. If the story summary does not sound interesting, people won't look at it. On small boards, people WILL, however, look at it, because there are fewer fanfics anyway. Either way, you will not get reviews unless you write an AWESOME story. I'm not saying people can't write for shit, in fact, a lot of people write hell of a lot better than me. That's my theory.

I'm not going to beg for reviews, but I will ask politely for you to review.

Please review. You do not need to if you do not want to, but it will make me happy.

See, I asked politely.

Disclaimer: Lemme spell it. I-D-O-N-T-O-W-N-I-N-U-Y-A-S-H-A.

Demon Within
Chp. 2 Blood

"What are we going to do, Kagome?" Shippo asked.

Kagome clutched the Tetsusaiga tightly. "I don't know, but we have to find Inuyasha and help him before it's too late."

"Perhaps we can postpone the search for the shards and instead search for Inuyasha?" Miroku stated.

"Yeah. Let's do that, but we have no clue to where he is or where he's gone. And," Sango added, "Kirara is still healing, plus I need to repair my boomerang." She looked sadly at the crack lines on the surface of the bone.

"Do not worry, my dear Sango! I will protect you!" Miroku said. Then he groped sango.

"PERVERT!!" Sango screamed, using the broken boomerang to bash his skull in. "You can start by stop groping me! . . . Crap, I made the lines even longer," Sango said mournfully. She walked over to Kirara, taking care to step on Miroku's back.

"Why yes, I like monkeys too. . ." Miroku mumbled from his spot on the ground.

*~*~*~*~*~

"Run! `Tis a demon!"

"Hurry! Escape with ye lives!"

Villagers shouted out to each other as they ran out of the village into the surrounding forests, hoping to escape the claws of the demon destroying their village.

"Get away, get away!"

Another burning hut crumbled to the ground, ashes scattering over. A burning stick of wood fell down onto another hut and the flames began to devour the oaken boards.

Inuyasha snarled and sliced a hut neatly into the boards it had been built of. The terrified villagers backed off and ran away.

"Mommy!" A little boy called. He tripped on a plank of wood and fell to the ground crying.

Inuyasha turned around and prepared to kill the boy. . .But his claws stopped inches before his face. Something in his mind told him not to. He growled and shook his head. In this state he wasn't supposed to have a mind!

With his inner battle keeping himself busy, he let the child live.

*~*~*~*~*~*

"Kirara, are you sure you can take all of our weights?" Sango asked the transformed Kitty-cat. She roared in approval and Sango turned to Miroku. "You're sitting in front," she commanded.

"Why, my dear Sango, I am affronted that you would think so lowly~"

"Just get your butt moving." Sango turned to Shippo. "You need to transform into something, okay Shippo? You're very light, but Kirara already has to carry a lot of weight."

"Okay!" shippo said.

"Good boy." Kagome smiled and patted the head. Then she got on Kirara with Sango and Kirara took off.

Shippo put the leaf on his head and turned into a bird. He flew alongside Kirara and they circled a wide range around the canyon, into the surrounding forest.

"He won't go to far," Sango said. "I think Inuyasha has marked this territory as his own."

"Look! Over there!" Kagome cried. She pointed at a column of smoke far away. "He's probably there!"

Sango looked troubled. "He's moving pretty fast. If we don't catch up to him and knock him out, he'll go on a killing spree. And if we can't stop him he'll eventually kill himself. Kirara! Can you fly over there?" Sango asked the cat.

Kirara roared and changed directions.

~Hold on Inuyasha. We're coming. . .~ Kagome thought.

~*~*~*~*~*~*

Inuyasha snarled at the cocky young man in front of him. "Oh ho!" The man cried. "So the demon thinks he can take me down!" He threw a punch at Inuyasha.

It felt like he was trying to tickle him.

Inuyasha snorted and prepared to slice him into five neat bloody pieces when. . .

"INUYASHA!"

Inuyasha whipped around at the sound of that voice and growled at Kagome, Sango, and Miroku. (Shippo sat in a tree posing as a odd bird with big eyes). He growled at them, and launched himself at Miroku.

Miroku blocked all of Inuyasha's moves with his staff and tried to throw an ofuda at him.

Inuyasha ripped it to shreds before it came close enough to have any effect. He growled and clawed at Miroku, succeeding in tearing the front of his robes.

~*~*~*~*~*~*

Sesshomaru continued walking in the wasteland he, Rin, and the annoying toad were traveling through.

"Sesshomaru-sama! Rin is tired!" Rin called out. She was lagging behind, almost as slow moving as Jaken.

"Quiet, you stupid little human!" Jaken snapped. "Sessy doesn't need you bothering him." He poked her with the head-staff.

"Oww. . ." Rin tripped and fell to her knees, panting and struggling to get up.

Sesshomaru glided over (yes, glided, the way he walks doesn't count as walking) and picked Rin up.

They continued walking, Rin happily snuggled in "Fluffy-sama's" chest, smiling while Jaken looked jealous. (yes he is GAY!)

Suddenly Sesshomaru stopped. He sniffed the air. The wind brought the smell of smoke, ashes, and. . .

His brother.

He was demon again.

"Jaken, you will stay here. I need to. . . check on my brother." Sesshomaru took off in the sky, heading into the direction he smelled Inuyasha.

"Sesshomaru-sama?" Rin piped up. "Why are you taking Rin with you?"

Sesshomaru actually shuddered. "Because I don't trust that gay toad. . ."

"What?"

"Nothing."

"If Rin is good girl, can Rin play with Jaken later?"

Sesshomaru almost smiled. Rin's games with Jaken consisted of See-how-many- times you can hit the toad, hide-and-go-kill, and target practice. . . using Jaken as the target of course.

"Maybe."

Sesshomaru glanced at the child in his arms as she smiled happily and started petting his tail.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

"Sango, look out!" Kagome cried.

Sango jumped as out of the way as a large crater formed in ground, courtesy of Inuyasha.

Inuyasha turned and attacked again.

Sango couldn't move.

~*~*~*~*~*~*

Could this be the end of sango?

Nah. Wouldn't happen.

Anyway, that's all for now, please review!

It would make me very very happy! ^_^

Plus today is my birthday! Can you at least review as some sort of present?

Anywayz, until next time.

Ciao!

Falcon