Inu: So it isn't going to be a one-shot. Oh well.

(Muffled screaming)

Inu: What? ( pulls tape off Hiei's mouth.)

Hiei: Shut Up!( screams) How did I end up like this?

Inu: I should I know?

Hiei: ( muttering) Human.

Inu: I poke your third eye if you don't be quiet.

Hiei: (mumbling)

Inu: Heard that.

Hiei: Hmph

Inu: Arrogant little....

Who Are You? Where Are You?

" Kagome .....LEAVE!!!" Inuyasha forces " RUN!!!" he demands

" Inuyasha, what's happening?" Kagome asks

Inuyasha jumps in front of her.

" KAGOME I SAID RUN!!!!!" Inuyasha forces a yell

Inuyasha's eyes lose all emotion.

" Inuyasha stop."

Inuyasha doesn't move at all.

"Sit." Kagome states calmly. Inuyasha's rosary glows but he doesn't slam into the ground. Kagome gasps.

" Inuyasha, onegai , take control. You can do it." Kagome encourages him " Inuyasha please."

Kagome hears a whistle like sound.

Inuyasha's emotionless face looks towards the sound. Sango's boomerang barely misses them.

Sango and Miroku come up behind them.

Inuyasha takes another look at Kagome. He growls.

" Koi..." came from Inuyasha's voice.

" Inuyasha remember. It's me, Kagome." Kagome tries to persuade him.

Inuyasha turns around and runs into the woods.

"INUYASHA!!!" Kagome shouts after him.

~_~_~

Kagome sits up quickly. She looks around, Kaede's cabin. The familiar settings usually so warm and inspiring seemed to have lost its inspiration in the past few weeks.

' I keep having this memory.'

Kagome feels her cheeks. They're wet from tears.

' Crying in my sleep?' Kagome looks at her surroundings once more. Shippo cuddled up with Kirara, and on either side of them Sango and Miroku.

Kagome notices the rising sun through the window. Light creeping into the room, illuminating it little by little.

" Might as well start breakfast." Kagome sighs.

Minutes Laters

Shippo rubs his eyes and gets up. He nudges Kirara waking her up.

Sango gets up to make sure that Miroku keeps his hands to himself.

Finally Miroku wakes up, disappointed that Sango's already awake.

" Morning." Greets Kagome to the waking gang.

" Good morning, Kagome. How did you sleep?" Sango knows the answer by her silence and releases an audible "oh."

" Kagome how long have you been awake?" asks the curious Shippo.

" Since sunrise." Kagome replies to the kitsune.

Inuyasha's Forest

Inuyasha stops in his tracks picking up a familiar scent. The breakfast, that served to the gang every morning.

' I know what that is.' thinks Inuyasha lowering his head.

Everyday since the red moon he's wanted to go back. He knows he can't. Not yet.

Inuyasha falls to his knees grabbing his head.

His eyes flash red. Amber. Red. Amber.

Thinking he has control Inuyasha stands up. Inuyasha puts his hand on Tetsusaiga. Even the protector sword can't help the effects of the moon.

" Why does this keep happening?" Inuyasha mutters very aggravated.

His ears twitch at the 'mew' he heard behind him. He quickly turns to see the small firecat, Kirara.

" Kirara?" Inuyasha asks.

Kirara lets out another 'mew'.

" Kirara, please don't tell them I'm here." Requests Inuyasha.

Kirara tilts her head to the side as if to ask 'why?'.

" Kirara, I don't want them to find me. Please don't tell."

Kirara nods skeptically ands runs off.

' I hope I can trust her.' Muses Inuyasha

He turns and walk deeper in the woods. His hand firmly on Tetsusaiga.

' Even if it doesn't control it. It still keeps it reasonably under control.' Inuyasha finds the bright side.

' Isolation can sure change a person.'

Back At The Hut

Kirara arrives on the scene. The joyful Shippo quickly joins her as company.

" Where'd you go, Kirara?" asks the young Shippo.

Kirara looks up to Shippo, trying to keep her promise to Inuyasha. She smiles as much as a cat can. It seems to satisfy the naïve Shippo.

" Come on, let's play Kirara." Shippo runs into the village followed my Kirara.

Everyone comes out of the hut.

" Should we continue for the shards?" asks Sango.

" Hai." Kagome answers " We must find the shards with or without ...him."

Sango can easily see Kagome trying to be brave.

" Then shall we take our leave?" Miroku gestures with his hand.

" Let's." Kagome replies and walks off

Inuyasha's Forest

Inuyasha's sees the gang walking through the forest.

" I was wondering if they'd start without me." Inuyasha laughs to no one inparticular.

Inuyasha jumps to a tree right above the gang.

" Did you hear something?" Kagome says below him.

" Nope." Miroku answers bluntly.

Kirara stops and stares right at Inuyasha.

" Come on, Kirara." Shippo says.

Kirara follows the kitsune knowing Inuyasha's still watching them.

Inuyasha watches the gang walk by then gets a look of glory on his face.

" I know what I can do!" Inuyasha yells and starts to run.

A Village

The gang is coming upon a village.

" Do we see a horrible shadow Miroku?" Sango sarcastically asks.

" Why yes. We might even have to stay the night." Miroku plays along.

After conning the village elder Miroku begins a fake exorcism.

" So what should we do, Kagome?" Sango interrogates " There's still plenty of night left."

" How about a tour of this village?" a voice comes from behind them. Sango and Kagome turn around to see a boy.

A boy about their age stands the size of Miroku. He has green eyes with black hair to right under his ears. At his waist is a sword. He where's the same type of clothes as the villagers.

" Well, do you want a tour?" the boy asks

" Why not?" shrugs Sango.

" What's your name?" Kagome asks.

" I'm Taisho Inukoi." He introduces himself.

' Inukoi?' Kagome thinks. ' That's odd.'

" This way." He motioned a direction.

Minutes later, Taisho seems to talk to himself while Kagome and Sango talked among themselves.

" He looks familiar." Kagome informs.

" I know, and his name. It means ' dog-love doesn't it. His first name is part of Inuyasha's dad's name." Sango continues.

They stop seeing Taisho stopping in front of them.

" Something wrong?" Sanfo asks curiously.

" See that wreckage." Taisho points to a fallen house. " That was my home until a demon destroyed it. He killed everyone that he could before we killed him. I still have a part of his pelt."

Taisho clutches his hand in a tight fist.

" What do you mean 'we' and 'pelt'?" Sango interrogates.

" We, as in a hanyou that stopped by here a few days ago. Pelt, as in part of the baboon pelt the demon wore. I think he said it was actually a puppet." Taisho explains.

" What was the hanyou's name?" Kagome yelled turning around Taisho.

" Inuvasha or Inuyasha. What's it to you?" Taisho asks.

" Which way did he go?" Kagome interrogates.

" I can show you, but do you happen to be Kagome?" Taisho offered.

" How do you know my name?" Kagome asks.

" Inuyasha told me to tell a girl named Kagome a message." Taisho explained.

" What is it?"

" I'll tell you at the elder's. It's a long message." Taisho informs Kagome

The Next Day

The whole gang, now including, Taisho walks down a dirt path.

" So you all know Inuyasha?" Taisho asks

" Yes, Inuyasha has saved each of us on a number of occasions." Explains Miroku.

" He saved me from killing my brother." Sango says

" Ki-kiling yo-your brother?!" Taisho stops walking why the others continue.

" It's a long story." Sango says over her shoulder.

" Well I think it'd help if I knew who was trying to kill me." Taisho exclaims.

" We got some time." Miroku says.

" O-kay, it starts with a demon named Naraku..."

Elsewhere

Sesshomaru walks through a wasteland with Jaken, Rin, and Ah and Un. Sesshomaru seems to show a little of a troubled expression.

" What's been bothering you lately, milord." Jaken asks of his lord.

" If you must know, Jaken." Sesshomaru says in his usual calm voice " A few weeks ago was the red moon. Last time on the red moon Inuyasha transformed for the first time and slaughtered his own village."

" Inuyasha killed his own village." Jaken repeats.

" Yes, including his own mother."

Back in the Other Forest

" So Inuyasha turned full-demon on the red moon and you haven't seen him since?" Taisho made sure he got it " And Naraku is the demon you're after."

" You got it." Kagome answers him.

" To make sure I got the names. You 're Miroku."

"Hai."

" You're Sango."

" Correct."

" You're Shippo."

" Yep."

" And the kawaii cat is Kirara."

He heard a 'mew' from under him.

" You have all our names." Sango informs him.

" I kinda like you, Kirara." Taisho looks down at Kirara.

Kirara stares at Taisho curiously. Even more surprised when he blinked.

That Night

Everyone is eating quietly.

Kagome is thinking of the message that Inuyasha trusted Taisho to tell her.

' I want you to know that you can't come after me yet. I have to find myself. I have to fight the urge to come back everyday. Even if did find me you wouldn't recognize me. If you find me I'd have to go away again. Most importantly I want you to know.....' Kagome recites the message in her mind.

" Why is everyone quiet every time we eat. I mean, not one sound , I feel like I'm deaf from the loss of sound." Taisho complains

" Since Inuyasha left us, we kind of do this to honor him. Inuyasha always could always find anything to complain about. That's how we always started our 'conversations'." Miroku explained.

" Yes Taisho, you need to respect that." Kagome says.

" Feh!"

" What did you say?" everyone yells at Taisho in unison.

" Sorry, Inuyasha rubbed off on me. He even helped our village for a while." Taisho explains rubbing the back of his head.

" He did put a impression on you, didn't he?" Miroku asks.

" Hai, he tried to help me protect my family."

" What do you mean tried?" Kagome asks.

" I'm saying that I'm now an orphan." Taisho put it as well as he can.

Taisho suddenly gets serious.

" We have a visitor." Taisho states loosening his sword.

Taisho and Miroku run outside.

" Sesshomaru!" Miroku shouts.

" Don't be stupid." Sesshomaru starts " I'm here for my brother."

" We know not of Inuyasha's present location. So what do you want?" Miroku yells.

" I do though." Sesshomaru states.

An arrow shoots at Sesshomaru, passing right by his head.

Kagome steps out of the hut.

" Sesshomaru, where is Inuyasha?" Kagome orders.

Sesshomaru takes a glance at the three humans in front of him.

The miko with the sacred arrow, and the monk with the accursed kazaana ,and the new person with a familiar scent,but obviously human.

' I tracked my brother's scent here and no Inuyasha.' Muses Sesshomaru.

" Leave if you don't have business!" demands Taisho, his hand not leaving his sword.

" I will see you when I find Inuyasha." Sesshomaru says, turns around, and walks away.

" That guy is creepy." Taisho says his opinion.

" He is Inuyasha'a brother." Miroku tells him.

" Poor fellow." Taisho says going back in the hut.

" Sango why didn't you come out?" questions Kagome

" I didn't think I was needed, and plus I think Taisho has a new friend." Sango laughs at Kirara rubbing against Taisho's leg.

Taisho pets Kirara's head as Miroku and Kagome make their way in to the hut after making sure Sesshomaru left.

" I feel like I've known her for a while." Taisho smiles. " I grown attached to her."

~_~_~_~_~

Inu: There's chapter two.

Hiei: It sucked. ( screaming out of pain ) You poked my dugong eye!

Inu: Told you. Love and peace, except for Hiei ( pointing at the shrieking character in the background) Later! ~_^ ^_^