A/N:hey this is also dedicated to Lare  and my 50th reviewer sakuul. Oh for the beginning scene, I got the idea from an artist I know. Her name is Druihd and she is very talented. Go check her out! The address is in my bio page so go check it out or no new chapter! Oh almost forgot. THANK YOU DRUIHD FOR LETTING ME USE IT WITH URE PREMISSION! ^_^

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He awoke to a searing pain running through his back. Eyes shut firmly against their lids; he waited for the pain to pass before he decided to move.

'This shouldn't be happening. I should have been healed by now'

The pain finally stopped and he blinked opened his eyes. He tried to look around at his surroundings but all he got was pitch black.

'What the hell is going on around here?'

He tried to turn his ears to listen for anything unusual but all he got was silence.

'What the hell. Wait. I can't see, I can't hear" He tried to smell the scents around him. "And I can't smell, damn it must be the new moon. How could I forget? I'm now a pathetic, weak human.'

He was about to get up when he felt a weight on his chest. Even if it was the new moon he could tell it belonged to Kagome. She had managed to move herself to lay her sleeping head on his chest. On his side was a roll of gauze that was unrolled and the line of the bandage led to where her hand was over the side of his chest. The medical box she always had was beside her feet as she slept. Apparently she had just finished redressing his wounds and had fallen back asleep. He sat up slowly and carefully removed her arm and head away from him. He laid them down on the bag and painfully got up with the help of the wall. Now balancing with one hand held fast to the hut and the other hanging by his side he slowly moved to the exit. Along the way out he grabbed Kagome's bag with his hanging hand and dragged it beside him. With that he made his way outside into the darkness.



She continued to slightly whimper in her sleep. With out the warmth near her she was starting to get uncomfortable and restless. But the worse part was she was starting to think about that voice again. She fisted the sleeping bag tighter in her hands as she curled up in a tighter ball, willing no wishing that everything would just stop processing itself in her head and let her sleep. Unfortunately that wasn't going to happen anytime soon.

'What did it mean by "I will help you?" What does it want with me anyway? What did I do to deserve all this? All I'm trying to do is find the shards of the jewel, what's so wrong with that.'

She whimpered again as something ran through her body making her shiver.

'What was that? It felt like…a surge of power? Or was I sensing something? Oh forget it. If I'm thinking I'll never get back to sleep; I mind as well just wake up for kami's sake'

She blinked her eyes open. She hated it when that happened. She slowly rose up from off the sleeping bag and noticed at once something or more like someone was missing.

'Where's Inu-Yasha?'

She stood to her feet as quietly as possible and made her way to the exit. For someone who was literally blind she did pretty well. When she got outside she started towards the forest area she had saw that evening. She could barely make out her own hand in front of her face but she could see a little bit.

'Wait, if it's this dark…'

She looked up to the moonless, star blanketed sky.

'No moon. Oh no Inu-Yasha's human. That's why he left.'

She continued on her way of finding him. She had to get him back. Even if he was stronger than the average human he was still injured and if someone attacked him…

'Inu-Yasha'



She made her way to a clearing. Wiping her forehead with her hand, she searched around, or she searched as hard as she could in the dark, for any sign of him. She barely saw the shadow of a person lying in the grass. Breathing a sigh of relief she made her way over to him.



He was looking up at the sky just watching the stars. He had used Kagome's bag as a pillow to rest on and he wasn't really thinking of anything but was more of like in a daze. That's why he didn't hear Kagome walk over to him and sit by his side. She was leaning back on her hands with her leg stretched out in front of her, an angry expression growing on her beautiful face. And because he was in that state he didn't see what she was about to do.



She looked at him waiting for him to acknowledge her presences. After sometime though of apparently being ignored she got frustrated. Now angry at him she really didn't want to do it but had no choice.

"INUYASHA WHY HAVEN'T YOU SAID ANYTHING TO ME YET!!!!!!"

He jumped at the sound of her voice. It was so close and so loud who wouldn't. With his heart pounding in his chest, he turned to his side and glared at her while she was glaring right back.

"What the hell was that for wench."

She was angry at the wench comment but would let it slide. Schooling her features to those of caring she looked back at him. Even though it was still dark she could see his violet eyes pierce through it.

'Just like his golden'

She mentally shook her head

"Inu-Yasha I was wondering why you were out here."

He turned his head away from her and back towards the sky.

"Feh. I could ask you the same."

She sighed and moved to sit in a comfortable position by bringing her legs up to her chest and resting her arms on them. She then looked up to the sky and continued talking.

"Inu-Yasha I was just wondering because you're still hurt. You should be resting and to answer your question I was worried about you when I woke up and couldn't find you."

"Why'd you wake?"

She was silent for a few minutes. 'Should I tell him my dream?' She shrugged her shoulders and said nonchalantly

"Couldn't sleep"

"Oh"

They fell into a comfortable silence, each within their own thoughts. That's when Kagome actually tried looking where they were at. She could tell that the mountains weren't that far away from them. The trees blended in with the darkness but the sky was pretty shades of different hues of dark blues. The stars weren't that bright but they still fit in perfectly with the scene. The jade green grass underneath their bodies swayed when a small breeze brushed over it. She could make out Inu-Yasha a little. His haori top was off and probably back at the hut. His chest bandaged with now clean bandages and pressed firmly but not tightly against his chest and back. His now black hair was pressed in-between her bag and his head, and his bangs were in his face—some covering his eyes while the others were just framing it. The purple prayer beads were hanging loosely around his neck and were sitting on his chest.

(A/N: Anyone else wondering if he can take off the prayer beads while human. I'm curious as to if he can or not now. Oh sorry….)

Her thoughts were broken when he spoke.

"Why do you stay here?"

"Nan?"

"Why do you stay here? I mean why not just go home and live a normal life?"

She stared at him blankly.

"'Why is he asking me this now?' I don't know"

"You have to know?"

She unfolded her legs and stretched them out, her hands behind her for support. She then rolled over to her side and with one of her arms supporting her weight, the other on her side; looked him in the face. He was watching her the whole time.

"I guess it's because I have to finish finding the jewel. It was my fault it is shattered and my responsibility that I find the rest of it before Naraku."

He closed his eyes and looked back at the sky.

"When the jewel is finished and whole again, will you stay?"

"'Will I stay?' We will see Inu-Yasha."

She turned more till it looked like she was on top of him. She looked into his eyes as she place a hand on the bandages on his chest; her other one supporting her. Brown meet violet as she continued speaking

"Until then you know I will always be by your side. I promised I would Inu-yasha and I will try not to break my promise. You know I love you and I know that you still love Kikyo….no matter how hard you try to deny it in front of me. I will always respect that and I will do nothing to jeopardize that over our friendship."

He placed his hand on top of her wrist as she was speaking. When she was finished they just looked at each other.

"'Oh how I want to tell her. But what will she think. Will she believe me or will she just think I'm lying to her again.' Kagome I…."

She cut him off

"Hush Inu-yasha. We should be getting back. It is still night and we wouldn't want the others to worry if they suddenly woke up now would we."

She lifted herself from above him and sat on her knees—dusting off her skirt. She stood and offered him a hand up. He accepted and grabbed onto it. Lifting himself up, he stumbled a bit from the wound but corrected it. He was about to pick up the bag but Kagome beat him to it. She grabbed the strap and lifted it onto her shoulder. She then took his hand--his hands were always bigger than hers but they just seemed to fit so perfectly together. She intertwined their fingers and looking up at him for a moment, smiled and led the way back to the hut.



They had made it back to the hut with no problems and now the sun was rising over the horizon. Inu-yasha could feel the demonic power surge through his blood as he was turning back into a hanyou. Now that he was a demon again his healing would take no time. He sat up and looked around.

'Typical. I'm the first one up again'

It was always this way. He got out of the sleeping bag and went over to Miroku's side.

'Hump, the letch moved over closer to Sango last night.'

True. Miroku and Sango had gotten in a few minutes after Kagome had fallen asleep.  They saw that everyone else was asleep, and not really wanting to wake everyone they decided to get some rest. Sango took what was left of the second sleeping bag and Miroku sat in a corner. Inu-yasha stood there at Miroku's side then kicked him.

"Feh. Wake up letch."

Grumbling incoherent words at Inu-yasha—though he could here them just fine, he glared at him.

"You know Inu-yasha you don't have to kick me awake."

"Much more fun then shaking you"

Miroku got up and went outside with Inu-yasha to see how far there quest would take them this morning.

"Hum. Looks like it will take us at least two days time to just get the village. There is a lot of walking to do."

"Keh. It wouldn't take so long if you humans weren't so slow"

"I resent that Inu-yasha, being that I'm a human."

They fell into a comfortable silence until Miroku face turned to a big grin. Correction a big, lecherous, scary looking grin. He turned to Inu-yasha who was looking at him as if he had just grown a second head.

"So Inu-yasha………………what were you a Lady Kagome doing while we were gone? You two looked very com…"

POW

Miroku never got to finish as he was now on the ground with swirling eyes. Inu-yasha had his fist positioned in a hitting position and a twitch in his eye

"Letch. WE DID NOTHING!"

Awoken by the sound of yelling the girls woke up much to there displeasure. Kagome yawned from her place on the floor and looked at Sango.

"Sango. Do you think we should go kill them for waking us up at such a un kami like hour?"

Stretching herself while listening, she awoke Shippo and Kirara.

"I would so like to Kagome unfortunately we sort of need them to help us defeat Naraku."

"Oh yeah. Well should we have them fix there own breakfast then for making us angry."

"That sounds like a good idea. Especially since we can actually make breakfast this morning since Miroku and I found some wood yesterday."

"Ok. I'll start getting the stuff out and you make the fire."

As all this was going on Inu-yasha and Miroku were still outside. Seems a few milliseconds after Inu-yasha had hit him he had bounced back up.

"But Inu-yasha, I was only commenting on how comfortable you two looked in the….

POW

"But Inu-yasha…"

POW, POW, POW

Swirly eyed again from so many hits he finally passed out. Still eye twitching he looked at his "friend" so to speak

"Miroku it would be best if you just keep quite."

He dragged the unconscious Miroku in the hut. He saw the girls all ready cleaning up and packing.

"Hey what about breakfast?"

Kagome stopped and glared at him. A shiver ran down his spine.

'She's scary when she's angry.'

"Well Inu-yasha" She purposely drawled out his name. "Because you two were acting like idiots and woke us up, we already ate breakfast and are now packing to leave."

She went back to her packing. He stared at her in disbelief.

"But what about us."

She turned back at him disbelievingly. Sighing she returned to packing.

"You will just have to wait till lunch. We are not cooking anything else and you should not have woken us up this early with your antics."

"But…"

"No buts….."

"But…"

Unbeknownst to them, Miroku had come out of his stupidor and was on his way to Sango and was by her side in an instant.

"Ahh lovely Sango. How are you this fair morning?"

"Just fine Mir……"

She closed her eyes as the vein in her forehead grew. He was in for it. The two arguing over getting food or not stopped and looked at Sango once they felt her angry aura. She slowly turned to Miroku with death in her eyes. He gulped and slowly tried to move away.

"Hehehe……ummmm Sango…I didn't mean it really. I just couldn't resist. Ummm Sango..."

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HENTAI!!!!"

Before anyone could stop her she pummeled him to the ground. Standing over his body with fumes consuming her body, she looked…no more like glared at him. Kagome came to her side and kneeled down next to him, poking him with a branch. He twitched but didn't move anymore than that. Looking up to Sango

"Ummmm……I think you killed him this time."



Naraku—in his trademark baboon cloak, looked at the place he had to be. The shrine of the powerful onno-shijin.

"You have eluded me so far onno-shijin but not anymore. And for one with so much magic around her, it was easy to break through the barrier."

He started to ascend the steps. It was rare for him to actually do anything himself. Usually he would have sent Kanna or Kagura but he wanted to see what her reaction to him would be. He was nearly there when Rubi-Yue came down from the sky.

"Halt. Who dares to enter……YOU!!"

She stared at the demon with frightful red eyes. It was him—Naraku. So far almost every demon and human in Japan had heard of the hanyou. She schooled her features to that of stone and her eyes held malice and discuss for the creature before her.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE!"

"Kukukuku. Is that anyway to treat a guest."

She snorted very un-lady like. Crossing her arms but being on her guard, she looked at the demon with no fear showing through her.

"You are no guest. You should not even be here. What do you want before I kill you and leave your carcass for the animals to devour!

"Hahahahahahaha. I'm here to see your onno-shijin yasha. And you kill me. I've had many attempt to take my life and you yasha couldn't even begin to kill me if you tried."

"Why you!"

In a flash she had uncrossed her arms and unsheathed her kanta. The blade was made of pink energy and was in a crescent shape—about the width of her arm. She drove the sharp and deadly kanta into his chest; right were his heart was, and let out pink energy into it. Her eyes opened in shock as he just laughed at her.

"Didn't I tell you yasha that you wouldn't be able to kill me."

 He let some of his miasma twist around the delicate blade. Rubi-Yue's hands still held onto it and since she was glaring at the hanyou she didn't see the miasma slowly engulf her sword. When the purple fog reached the kanta's handle it burned her skin with such pain. She would not release her sword though as she pulled it out while blocking out all the pain in her hand. Still holding the sword in her hand, she sent pink energy off of her body and onto the sword, neutralizing the purple mist and making it vanish.  When she was done she smirked at him.

"I am stronger than I look Naraku."

She moved her majestic wings as if she was about to fly. They slowly picked up speed but instead of flying into the blue sky she used the momentum to launch herself at the demon. She managed to use her speed and gracefulness to temporarily overpower him, taking strike after strike and making contact with skin. She started to lose speed and floated back a distance from him. She still had a smug look on her face and her blood red lips were still turned in a smirk.

"Still think I'm weak hanyou..."

He grinned at her from under the baboon cloak. A dark grin that looked as if he was holding a terrible secret.

"As a matter of fact yes."

He used his power to send a powerful blast at her. She felt it coming and using her kanta, blocked it the best she could. The blast made contact with the sword and she held her own against it. She struggled to keep it from moving towards the shrine and with most of the power she had, deflected the power off of the kanta and threw it into the forest. The evil energy at once killed everything in its diameter. Now over a fourth of the forest was destroyed. She looked at the spot now black and dead. She then turned to him and narrowed her eyes more.

"You will not get past me!"

Rubi-Yue pulled her blade back and thrust it forward. A tornado of pink wind formed around her arm aimed for Naraku. She flapped her wings and lunged for him, punching him in the spot he was standing in before he leapt out of the way. The tornado smashed into the ground and spiraled into the sky before disappearing—leaving a crater in its place. She switched the blade to her other arm and did the same thing, just this time aiming for Naraku's head. She was so close to him that when she was about to release her attack he grinned and flung her arm away from him. Her attack hit the pavement creating another giant crater and disappeared like the first one.  Her eyes opened in shock as she looked into his.

"Now I shall show you how it's really done."

She gasped and watched as the sky turned from its beautiful blue to a dark, sinister black and purple. Miasma formed around his body in seven tornado's reaching up to the heavens. He sent one at Rubi-Yue and she tried to block it with her kanta. Struggling to keep the object from getting to her, she used her attack to fight a tornado with a tornado. Pink and purplish-black fought each other in a battle of will. Rubi-Yue managed to deflect and neutralize his attack with her's but not without sapping most of her energy. Panting as she kneeled down on the steps, she used her sword to keep her body steady and so she could look up at him. He just stood there calm and almost not caring.

"You impress me yasha. But let's see how you deal with this."

The rest of his tornado's formed into a giant one, heading strait for her. She powered up for another attack.

'I will not let him through'

She was about to release it when a silver figure step in her path. He drew out his sword and held it up high.  Winds of blue and white swirled around it till a tornado of silver surrounded the sword. He looked up at his target and swung the sword down. The tornado came off the tip and went to the darker one. It collided with it and a battle just like the pink one ensued.

He turned to the yasha behind him and helped her up.

"Rubi-Yue. WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOUR DOING FIGHTING HIM!"

It was her partner. He was finally back and all she could do is cry. She looked up to his jade eyes and a smile formed on her red lips.

"You're back!"

She collapsed in on him from lack of energy. He held her tight to him as she fell. He turned his head to see how well his energy was lasting. It wouldn't be long till it was over and he'd have to fight the demon. He picked up his partner bridal style and with a speed and gracefulness that matched hers took her onto the shrine grounds. He spotted Shriuba-ken securing the area and looking up at the now dark sky.

"Shiruba-ken!"

Said demon turned his head to look at him.

"Hisui you're back! When did you…"

"No time to explain Shiruba-ken. Rubi-Yue was drained fighting Naraku and..."

"Naraku. Damn I thought I felt that bastard here. No wonder the sky turned dark so fast."

"Yes. I took her place fighting. You have to get to our onno-shijin and tell her. I have to go back."

"No. I will not allow you to go back alone."

"You must go and take care of her. And if need be protect our onno-shijin. I must get back; my energy will not last for much longer. Oh and give these to our onno-shijin. Tell her it was very hard to find."

He threw a small package to the demon, who easily caught it.

"It was finally nice to see you again Shiru."

With that he raced back to the battle while Shiruba-ken raced to his onno-shijin to warn her and to help Rubi-Yue.



He raced back to the battle ready to face Naraku. Right when he arrived his energy ran out and descended into the black sky.

"Kukukukuku. Is that all you've got."

A growl resonated in his throat. He would tear this demon apart with his own claws.

"You Naraku! How dare you hurt Rubi-Yue. How dare you put your filthy self on her!"

He looked at his new opponent. This one was wearing a lot of white.  His hair was short and went to shoulders. It was a deep ice-blue color and his jade eyes looked angry with hatred. His kimono looked like a regular fighting kimono (think Sesshoumaru's without all his armor and without sleeves). On the bottom were green flames dancing all around it. Going up in a strait line one both sides of the pants to the dark evergreen sash around his waist, were the symbols that Rubi-Yue and Shiruba-ken had on their outfits, just his colors were royal blue, dark green and black.. He had a chest plate made of some demons bones going around his chest and two separated pads on his shoulders. There was some material, probably armor of sorts, going from the shoulder pads to his hands, a material of black and green underneath it on his skin.  (think Hitan's outfit).

He was wearing black shoes (think Sesshoumaru) that if you looked close enough there was also a tiny hint of green in them. His face was a pretty cream color (again Sesshoumaru) and on his forehead was instead of a sun, a green flame (A/N: I like dark green sorry). In the sash around his waist was his sword and sheath that he had used not to long ago. He had youkai ears and in one of them, the one on the right, there was a silver moon earring. He had his deadly claws out and ready to use. He was staring at Naraku mindfully willing him to do something. Naraku just looked at him mockingly.

"Mwhahahahahahhah. Did I make you angry? What are you going to do about it?"

He put on a grin and cracked his knuckles.

"I'm going to tear you limb from limb."

He lunged at his opponent, intent on killing him. Using his claws he swiped at Naraku as the hanyou dodged his attempts one at a time—laughing at the youkai as he did so. Hisui quit with his claws and tried to side-kick him in the air. Naraku held his foot but that what Hisui wanted. He spun around in his hand and did a back kick to his head. Naraku let go of his foot and fell to the ground. He slowly let miasma form around his form and started to create his tornados again. The dark funnels combined into a gigantic one. Hisui wasted no time and drew his sword out its sheath. He concentrated on the blue and white air forming around his blade. With a sweep of his sword the tornado was formed and the two forces went at it again. They collapsed on each other since they were of equal strength and disappeared into the sky. Now bored with his attempts to stop him Naraku let out a power blast of energy, hitting Hisui in the stomach. He collapsed over and onto the ground. Naraku just stood there laughing at him as he continued to knell. Hisui looked up at the demon, more determined to fight.  He grinned an arrogant grin as he stood back up.

"Lucky shot"

This made Naraku quit his laughing and look at him.

"You think it was a flaw."

"Of course I do. What else could it be?"

He angrily glared at the demon.

"You will regret those words."

"Hump. I don't think so Naraku because you haven't even seen my true power."

He stood back as winds came from under his feet. They were at first strings of blue energy until they grew in size and engulfed his body. Hisui's body was changing underneath the force of the winds as they continued to swirl around him. Then the winds disbursed and in their place was a giant silver blue fox. The fox still had jade eyes and on it's for paws were the green fire symbols. The symbol was also still on its forehead but instead of one tail, he had four—each with a green tip. The giant demon leapt at Naraku and tried to bite his head off. He dodged it and ran towards it. The fox used its paws to try and swipe at him, letting poison drip out of them freely and destroying the place around him.  Naraku dodged all his attempts and jumping up to his eyes and let his mist out into them. The fox yelped and tried to clear his blindness. Naraku took this as an opportunity and blasted the fox with his energy. Hisui yelped in pain as he was flying backwards towards the shrine. He collided with one of the walls and fell to the earth—bringing the wall with him to be buried underneath. Naraku looked at the place the fallen fox was as he continued his way up.

"If that was your true power then it will be easy to get what I want."

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A/N: Hey I got over 50 reviews! Yay! *jumps around room and does over 50 reviews dance*

Come on people, I only need 50 MORE TO GET 100! I'm going back to my dance.

Hey people I'm InuLuv. Ummmm unfortunately I'm Da's friend so I'm taking over for her right now.

She would like to say sorry for the lateness of this chapter. Right Da

Da: Huh? Oh yeah SORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRYYYYYYYYYYY! ^-^

InuLuv: U_U Yeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh. *whispers only to audience* She's scaring me.

Da:  ¬_¬ I heard that!

Inuluv: Anywayz she would like to thank all her new reviewers but she'll thank you later cuz she's still busy with her dance. I'm going to make her stop now so she can talk to you. *grabs her and sits her in chair*

Da: O_o Ure no fun. Ok well now that I'm back and now that I've kicked inuluv out the room *grins* I made this chappy extra long for u or so I thought. *sigh* only 15 pages. Hope you like though I cut it off at a rotten point. Gomen I just don't have anymore time. Ummmmmmm that should be it since I can't think of anything else. If I have anything important u will no in the next chappy or in a a/n I post *though ff.net said to stop posting them……..oh well!* Byz till next chappy~

New words



Hisui-jade

Nan-what

Yasha-female demon



""-talking

''-thinking

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DISCLAIMER: I unfortunately have to say this. I don't own inu-yasha and co. but I do own my loveable unique characters that I have all for myself ^-^

Shout outs: Two people. One is to Tiger of the Wind1. Her characters Rubi-Yue and Kitsu. And I used her attacks for Rubi-Yue to. Thank you. And last but not least Druihd. She has great pics of the inuyasha cast and that's where I got the inu/kag moment. Visit her @ the address in my bio.

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I want reviews, I want reviews, I…………..Want………………Reviews!

Inuluv: please review people so she will quit!

Da: hey I thought I kicked u out O_o