A/N ~ Hey Kya-chan here. Wow I just realized, I forgot the disclaimer to the last chapter…opps. Ok just pretend it was there ok. Hey I bet no one even noticed, right? Right. Ok but yah sorry for the shortness of this one, it's sort of a filler. Next one will be out sooner, I hope. And if anyone gets confused or something just ask me in a review and I promise I'll answer to the best of my abilities. (With out giving away anything.)

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Annnyway…On with the story all ready.

Disclaimer (hehe check): I do not, I repeat do not own Inuyasha. I am in no way that smart or creative. I only own Libby, Elizabeth, Miss Sarah and the plot. Whew I feel better now that I got that off my chest.

******Helpful hints******

" Talking in Japanese " 'Thinking in Japanese.'

"Talking in English" 'Thinking in English.'

Flashbacks

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Chapter 3

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To say he was confused was an understatement. One minute he was completely in control of the situation, fighting Kagura, the next he was lost. Kagura was gone and Kagome, the girl he had known for two years now, and some child he had never seen before, were talking to each other in a strange tongue. It sounded so familiar to him though. He racked his brain for where he had heard it before.

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"Inuyasha." Came the sweet voice of a woman to his ears. She had a strange accent to her voice and, as he knew, didn't speak Japanese well either. "Why ..you…not come ..with me?" She asked reaching up to put her hand on his face, tears in her blue eyes. "You must. You-" She said, lowering her hand to her stomach but not losing eye contact.

Inuyasha frowned and cut her off. "I don't have to do anything bitch, you got yourself into that problem. Don't think just because of it I'm gonna follow you to the ends of the earth." he spoke to her sternly and looked away, not at all happy about being where he was. 'As soon as this bitch gets lost I need to head inland. To search for this Shikon no Tama I've heard so mush about.'

The young woman looked stunned and stepped back a step. Her beautiful face turned stone cold. "You Bastard!" she yelled in his face, hitting him hard in the chest. "How could you, you incompetent JERK!" She turned around fast, her golden hair swishing out around her face. She started to cry, putting her face in her hands.

Inuyasha was completely baffled. He had not understood a word that had just come out of her mouth. He knew her was angry and sad, it didn't take a genius to know that. But the words that she had spoken, he had never heard them before. "E-Eliz..abeth?" he asked a little unsure.

He started to notice a large group of the strange looking people Elizabeth came with surrounding them, all with scowls on there faces.

"Miss Elizabeth? Do you want us to get rid of the beast for you? We'll kill him, if only you ask." A man who also had blond hair asked looking from Inuyasha to Elizabeth with a deep scowl on his face.

Again Inuyasha had no clue what this man had said. He wasn't even sure who he was talking to. He watched as the woman in front of him stood up straight and turned toward him slowly. She had on the coldest face on that Inuyasha had ever seen on her. Her blue eyes bore coldly into his own. Inuyasha took an uneasy step back.

"Yes, Kill him."

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Inuyasha remembered now. He had heard that same language, what was it, 55 years ago, maybe. This girl, she had to be from the same land that Elizabeth had been from. She sure had the strange look down.

'Still, why does Kagome know this language too?' He thought to himself taking a small step forward. Things weren't adding up to him and he was confused beyond all belief. "Oi Kagome, what the hell's going on?"

Kagome turned toward him and frowned slightly, she put a finger to her lips and shushed him. She turned back to the little girl who she was knelling in front of. The child looked like she was about to pass out. "It is ok, Inuyasha and me can…help you."

Libby's eyes widen at Inuyasha's name and a small smile came to her lips. "Inu-yasha? ….hanyou Inuyasha?" She said weaving a bit and falling over. Kagome leaned in quickly and caught her, gently easing her into her lap.

Libby looked up at her with sleepy eyes. She felt so tired, like all she wanted to do was sleep, and she couldn't quite think straight. She could feel the blackness tugging at the corners of her mind. This woman, the pretty one who was holding her, she felt like she could trust her. Something inside her told her it was ok to be with her, that she was good.

Kagome and Inuyasha both looked at each other in surprise. Inuyasha could even understand what she had said.

"Yes, hanyou Inuyasha. Do…you know of him?" Kagome turned back and asked the child. 'I'm so confused, how dose she even know off Inuyasha if she's so young, and speaks English.'

Libby closed her eyes, her head falling to the side a little. " I, I was suppose…to find him." She mumbled out before losing complete consciousness.

After a few seconds Kagome turned and looked at Inuyasha. "Well that was weird." She looked back down at the little girl in her arms. 'She has to be 5 or 6, no older than that.' Kagome could not understand why a child as young as her was out alone and in a different land. "She looks so exotic." She said quietly as she brushed a strand of her silky platinum blond hair out of her face.

Kagome gathered the child up in her arms and tried to stand. After a small struggle she fell back softly on to her butt. She sighed. "Little help?"

Inuyasha snapped out of his daze and hoisted her up onto her feet easily. Kagome tired to position the child in her arms so she could hold her comfortably, finding it difficult since she was pretty awkward to hold.

"What the hell is going on Kagome? What tongue were you two speaking to each other in and how did she know who I was? And that I was a hanyou?" Inuyasha asked, completely unaware of her current struggle to hold the girl.

"I don't know what's going on Inuyasha, I think she said, before she passed out ... That she was looking for you." Kagome shifted her again, "And she spoke English, I have to learn it in school. That's how I knew what she was saying."

Inuyasha rolled the strange word off his tongue. "En..glash.."

"Yes, English, its a language from a land pretty far from here."

"Then why the hell is she here?" Inuyasha asked childishly.

"Now how would I know that. I didn't really understand some of what she said. English isn't my best subject at school." Kagome shifted again, the child's height already becoming to awkward for her to hold comfortably. "Uff, Inuyasha here, take her."

"What? Hell no."

"Come on Inuyasha, she is to heavy for me. Just carry her back to camp." Kagome pleaded.

"Feh, don't think so bitch. She can't be that heavy."

"Inuyasha," she warned. "Don't make me threaten you with 'it'."

Inuyasha looked over at her for a moment, scrunching his face up into a scowl. He watched as she struggled to shift the child in her arms yet again.

"Feh" he grumbled and held out his arms.

"Ohh thank you Inuyasha." Kagome thanked as she handed the child over to him. He held the little girl in his arms like someone would hold firewood, both arms under her body and slightly away form his own body. Kagome smiled at him. "Your a good man Inuyasha." she joked patting him on the arm. He scowled at her. "Opps, I mean good demon." she laughed.

Inuyasha rolled his eyes and scoffed. "Come on, lets get back to the group."

Kagome turned to follow him but stopped when something caught her eye. By an old tree lay a bundle of red cloth. "Hold up a sec ok." She called to Inuyasha as she walked toward it. She knelt down beside it and opened it slightly. There was a small amount of food, some paper scrolls, and a doll. 'This must be the little girls stuff.' She picked the bundle up and walked back to Inuyasha, who was waiting impatiently.

"What may I ask is that?" he asked in an annoyed tone.

"I think its the little girls stuff." Kagome replied looking down at it.

"Feh, whatever. Lets just get going."

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"They're coming! There coming!" Yelled a tiny kitsune jumping up and down on Miroku's shoulder.

"Ai, I can see that Shippo," Miroku said, eye brow twitching slightly, "Now, could you please stop jumping on me."

Ignoring the monks statement Shippo bound off his shoulder and toward Inuyasha and Kagome. Sango and Miroku following after him at a slower pace.

"Kagome, Kagome! What took you so long?" Shippo yelled running toward the two who were off in the distance. He took a flying leap and jumped into Kagome's arms, making her take a step back a step. "We were start-" he cut himself off when he saw the child in Inuyasha's arms.

Intrigued, Shippo jumped over onto Inuyasha's shoulder. "Oo who's that?" he asked leaning down to look at her closer.

Inuyasha rolled his shoulder attempting to dislodge the kitsune while still holding the girl. "Get off will ya."

Shippo turned and jumped back to Kagome. He was about to ask Kagome the same question when Sango and Miroku walked up and beat him to it.

"Kagome, who's the child in Inuyasha's arms?' Sango asked talking a hesitant step toward the growling hanyou and sleeping child. She reached her hand out and pushed some of the child's platinum blond hair out of her face, looking at her abused skin. "Why is she so injured?" She asked turning toward Kagome.

"Inuyasha and I found her." Kagome explained. "Kagura was trying to take her or something, so we saved her."

Inuyasha shifted uncomfortably and growled louder. There was something about this child that made him uneasy. He didn't know what it was but he wanted to get as far away from her as possible. "Hey Monk." he called to Miroku.

Miroku rolled his eyes and turned to the hanyou. "Yes Inuyasha?"

Inuyasha walked closer to him. "Take her." he said holding out his arms and dropping the girl. Miroku quickly dropped his staff and threw his arms out to catch her. He scowled at Inuyasha as he stood up holding the little girl.

"Inuyasha!" Kagome yelled. "What the heck did you think you were doing? What if Miroku hadn't caught her, she already hurt enough."

Inuyasha just scoffed and jumped up into a nearby tree, keeping on the lowest branch.

Kagome glared at him. 'What a jerk.' She thought. She turned back toward Miroku and Sango. "Come on, I think we're staying here for the night." As they walked back across the field toward their makeshift camp Kagome explained to them some of the details about how she and Inuyasha found the girl.

As they reached the camp Kagome pulled walked over to her pack and pulled out her sleeping bag. "Here, put her on my sleeping bag Miroku."

Miroku gently set her on Kagome's sleeping bag and sat down near Sango, who was sitting under a nearby tree. Kagome started digging through her pack looking for the first aid supplies to clean up the child's cuts. As she was reaching into her enormous pack her hand came across the bundle of books her English teacher had given her. 'Ohh that's right.' Kagome thought pulling the small books out of her pack and flipping through it. 'A English-Japanese dictionary, alright Mrs. Yukino, this will really help.' She placed the books next to her and continued through the pack.

"Kagome?" Sango asked watching her tunnel through her pack. "What are you planning on doing with her?" Sango questioned glancing at the sleeping girl. "I mean, do you think we should drop her off in the next village or what?"

Kagome turned and glanced at the girl with a thoughtful expression on her face. "Well, I don't think we can leave her any where around here. She doesn't speak our language."

"She doesn't? Then what does she speak, can you understand her? Can I?" Rambled Shippo from his spot by the little girl.

Kagome smiled over at him. "She speaks English, Shippo. It's a language from a place far away from here. And yes, I can understand most of what she says, not everything though."

"If she is from a land so far away, why is she here?" Question Miroku, looking seriously at the girl. To him the last two days have been really strange, and if he was a betting man, which he was, he would bet that somehow, everything was connected. It was just their luck.

"I don't know Miroku, I'm going to try and talk to her when she wakes up." Kagome said pulling out the first aid kit. "I'm pretty sure she said she was looking for Inuyasha so I need to ask her about that."

Miroku and Sango both looked slightly surprised about that bit of information but they both nodded. Kagome started to wipe away some of the blood on the small girls face, she was surprised, some of the smaller cut on her face seemed to be healing already.

"What about him?"

"Huh?" Kagome looked up surprised at Miroku's question out of thin air. She followed his eyes to the tree Inuyasha was sitting in across the small field, the burgundy sleeves of his kimono hanging lazily from the bottom branch.

"Ohh Inuyasha, he'll live. He's in a bad mood for some reason or another. He'll get over it." Kagome said watching the tree he was sitting in.

"Shippo don't." Sango scolded bring Miroku and Kagome's attention to the kit by the girl. "She's hurt, you can't climb on her like that, ok?"

Shippo jumped off of her and pointed his arm at her face. "I was just smelling her I swear. She smells sort of funny, like almost youkai. I was just trying to figure it out."

All three of the teens looked at Shippo funny. "Don't be silly Shippo, she human." Kagome said looking at the child.

"Not ah, she not all human, she part demon to, I can smell it." Shippo said shaking his head back and forth.

"You mean she's hanyou?" Sango questioned.

"No, yes, ah I don't know. There's a difference, I can tell, but I can't tell what." Shippo whined putting his tiny hands to his head.

Miroku, Sango, and Kagome all glanced at each other, not quite sure what to do. "Well, what do you smell Shippo?" Miroku tried asking.

Shippo looked up at him then leaded over and sniffed the girl by her neck, careful not to touch her. "It's strange," he said while sitting up. "She smells like Inuyasha just, more human."

"Maybe she's an inu demon, or inu hanyou, like Inuyasha. She does look quite strange to be human." Sango suggested. Kagome shrugged but Miroku frowned.

"I do not sense any demon in her at all." Miroku stated looking thoughtfully at her. "It is very strange."

"I don't sense any demon either." Kagome said, talking slowly, very mush like she just realized it. They all sat in silence for a moment thinking to themselves. "Well maybe," Kagome began slowly, "Maybe she really is human, and Shippo just think she smells like Inuyasha because he was holding her."

Sango and Miroku both nodded and shrugged slightly but Shippo looked doubtful. "Yah that's probably it." Kagome said, trying to make her self feel better. She was starting to realize she couldn't feel anything around her. Shippo, Kirara and Inuyasha's demon auras, which she was so accustom to, she couldn't not feel at all. Even Sango and Miroku's human auras, as strong as they usually were, she couldn't feel at all.

'Don't worry Kagome,' she thought to herself, 'I'm sure there is some logical reason to this. It will be alright.' She took a deep breath and let it out slowly. 'You still have to finish cleaning up this girl's wounds.'

She took a wet cloth and went back to cleaning her face. She washed off her forehead and cheeks removing all the dried blood and dirt. 'She really is quiet beautiful, very exotic looking for such a young age.' Kagome went do push a strand of her gorgeous white blond hair behind her ears and froze. "Uhh guys," she said keeping her hand on the child's ear, "I think maybe Shippo was right."

Sango and Miroku both leaded over to get a better look at what ever Kagome was talking about. Kagome moved her hand from her ear and looked down. There on the side of her head was a point, slightly fuzzy, ear. It didn't look, or feel, human at all.

Shippo couldn't resist. "See, I told you so."

Kagome sat back, a little shocked. 'Something is most defiantly wrong. Why can't I feel her demon aura?' She ran her fingers over the child's soft ear. "Umm, Miroku, c-can you feel her aura, at all?"

"Yes, I can now, but only a little. It's quite difficult for me to do. I have to think about it." Miroku said watching the girl, a strained expression on his face. He watched Kagome run her hand over the girls ear again. Her ear reminded him of Shippo's ears, pointed, but the difference was hers were covered in a fine coat of white fur. They looked incredibly soft, and by the way Kagome kept running her hand over it, they must have been.

Kagome swallowed consciously, "I can't feel a thing, not even Shippo's aura." She said turning to him. "What do you think is wrong?" To Kagome, it was slightly disturbing. She was so use to feeling everybody aground her, especially demons, and now nothing. And she felt so tried.

Miroku put a hand to his chin thoughtfully, "It seems you now have whatever was plaguing me earlier." he turned toward Kagome. "Tell me, are you feeling tired and out of energy?"

"Yah, a little."

"It happened to me yesterday, and I am just now getting my powers back. When we go back to Keade's village we can ask her. Until then I don't think it will hurt anything." Miroku replied, trying to keep Kagome calm. In truth he was quite worried about it but he did not feel the need to concern Kagome, Sango or Shippo. After all he was starting to get his powers back in a day's time, it should not be to bad.

Sango reached forward and touched the little girls ears. "There so soft." she said running her fingers over it. "What kind of demon do you think she is, inu?"

Kagome shrugged. "Maybe, after all Shippo said she smelled like Inuyasha. I'll have to ask her when she wakes up." Kagome turned back to her pack. "Until then how about we have dinner."

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Inuyasha scowled as he watched the group talk through the leaves of the tree he was sitting in. His ears twitched every once in a while in an attempt to catch parts of there conversation. He was slightly concerned about the fact that Kagome and Miroku's powers weren't working as well as usual, it made them unaware of any demons in the area.

"Feh, just makes my job harder." he scoffed out loud. Kirara mewed in response and leaned her head into his hand more. Inuyasha scratched her ears softly and glanced at her before turning back in the direction of the group. It was almost dark now. He could tell, without even looking behind him at the sun, that it would be night soon. He cursed out loud, he hated his human nights.

Kirara mewed again and jumped to his shoulder and rubbed her head against his cheek. Inuyasha leaned his head into her a little. Kirara had just recently started staying with him during his human nights, particularly when they were out in the woods, like tonight.

He sighed as he felt the familiar pulse of his demon blood fading. After a few strong pulses he felt his ears shrink down and move as his hair turned black. It was relativity painless but slightly uncomfortable. He gripped the branch a little tighter with the loss of his natural ability to balance.

He leaned back, ready to spend the night awake in this tree, when a high-pitched scream startled him into almost falling out of it. He grabbed the branch in front of him catching himself and whipped his head around in the direction of the camp, where the scream had come. Kirara jumped off his shoulders and out of the tree. He cursed and jumped out the tree after her. He stumbled a bit but took of running toward the camp. He skidded to a halt near the edge of the camp to find everyone huddled around Kagome sleeping bag and the sleeping girl.

"What the hell is going on?" Inuyasha asked, slightly out of breath.

Kagome turned and looked at him, noticing the black hair and lack of dog ears. She pointed to the little girl who was now laying on the sleeping bad. Inuyasha frowned his brow a little and walked over. He looked over Kagome's shoulder at the sleeping girl.

She looked perfectly fine, sleeping there peacefully, with dark black hair and rounded human ears.

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End Chapter 3