DISCLAIMER: I do not own Inuyasha... *sob* although I want to...

(Ashley): *Grabs hold of Kayashi* BUT THIS ONE IS MINE!

(Kayashi): *Looks annoyed* HEY! I'm not something you own!?

(Ashley): Eh... YES YOU ARE!!!

(Kayashi): OKAY! But let go! I need to practice my lines!

(Ashley): *Lets her go* Ok... Go on...

(Kayashi): *shakes head and walks off* Strange girl you are sometimes...

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I hope I can get some reviews on this chapter; last one didn't get so many...
it was... one :P

And I have a small thing to say, in case anybody wondered.

In the first Chapter (also called prologue here :P) Kagome says this to
Inuyasha:

"Why won't you sit down?"

Now some of you might wonder why he didn't fall like on "Osuwari". Well it is because I, when I think off it, find it quite weird that Kagome is not aloud to say 'sit' in a normal way, 'Osuwari' is (as far as I know) said as a dog command, that should mean they have different names in Japanese ('Dog- sit' and 'normal-sit') In my story is 'Osuwari' restraining spell and 'sit'
is just normal, ok?

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*Last chapter IMPORTANT (:P) happenings*

"She also told me to say that she did love you from the start... and to the end" Kayashi turned around. Bitter tears where burning in her eyes, and she started to walk away. Inuyasha cast Sesshomaru a last look before following.

"Wait... Kayashi..." Sesshomaru began, the girl turned around.

"Hai?" she asked. Inuyasha continued to walk past her, heading back.

"Thank you..." Sesshomaru turned around. "Maybe you truly are my daughter..." He disappeared into the forest, his hand clutching the golden plate. Kayashi looked after him for some seconds before turning around. Of some reason, she felt light at heart; she had fulfilled her mother's last request.

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CHAPTER 8 – Important feelings! "We need to know each other better..."!

Kayashi sat up from her sleep with a slight groan of pain. Her shoulder was aching from last evening.

"Good Morning" She heard from besides her. She looked up to see Kagome smile at her from the fireplace. She was making breakfast for everyone.

"Morning" She replied and got onto her feet. She yawned one time and got over to the others. With a sigh she sat down next to Sango. The Exterminator watched her for a moment.

"Does your shoulder ache much?" She asked. Kayashi shock her head.

"Nothing I can't handle" She said. Shippou, who sat next to Kagome while watching her cook, looked over at her without saying anything.

"Now, can we go find that Youkai?" Everyone turned their heads towards the tree. Inuyasha growled at them. "WHAT!? What's that weird look?" Kagome shock her head with a sigh and took of the hot water from the fire. She grinned evilly and Kayashi got an interested look. Kagome got something from her bag.

"Say Inuyasha" she said in her sweetest voice. "Wouldn't you have some Ramen before facing that Youkai?" The Hanyo quickly turned his head towards her.

"Eh... I guess the Youkai can wait... for a while" He says slowly and gets down from the tree. Sango giggled with her hands over her mouth, while Kayashi and Shippou just grinned. Kagome put the hot water into the package of Ramen. She waited for some minutes before giving it to Inuyasha who was waiting patiently. He took the package and turned to walk away to the tree again. He turned back and glared at everyone.

"Is something funny?" He said in a dangerous voice. The others shock their heads, but right after he had gotten up in the tree, they started laughing.

"I'm gonna beat you all to a pulp one of these days!" They sighed and got their own breakfast. Kayashi got a bowl of soup when she felt a sting at her neck. She smacked her hand against her neck and found a flea in her hand. "What the..."

"Oh, that's Myoga-jichan" Kagome said while the flea demon got back from his eh... flat form.

"Myoga?" Kayashi frowned while looking at the strange flea.

"Hai, that is me" The flea said. "You have delicious blood young miss, is there a possibility that you..."

"Hai, I'm a family member of Inuyasha" She said while looking boredly at Myoga. He jagged back a little while the other group members laughed at the scene. Even Inuyasha in the tree smirked.

"Eh... oh, like I thought then..." Myoga said while scratching his head. "In which way..."

"Daughter to Sesshomaru" She said, still looking bored. She looked over to Shippou and rolled her eyes, which made the Kitsune start laughing even more. Inuyasha threw away his Ramen package and jumped out of the tree again. Myoga stared at Kayashi speechless. Inuyasha picked him up from Kayashis hand.

"Just tell me Myoga-jiji" He said with a bored tone. "Where have you been?"

"EEH!" He yelped before thinking for a second and then answering: "Searching for you?"

"Sure" The male Hanyo cast Kayashi a look which said the same as he thought: 'That means he ran away, just to keep out of danger' the female Hanyo laughed.

"But if you had been here, you would have known all the information about Kayashi" Inuyasha said.

"Kayashi???" Myoga looked confused.

"Aka Sesshomarus Daughter, aka the girl you sucked blood from, BAKA!" Inuyasha threw the flea away and sat down. "Damn flea" Sango stopped laughing and looked around. The others immediately did the same. Kayashi growled.

"It's a Youkais Youki" She said. Kagome continued: "And it has a Shikon shard... And it is near around here"

"Guess it's time to get going" Inuyasha stated and stood up. Miroku did the same.

"Wait a second" Kagome said. "We need to get a plan for this; we can't be running around alone"

"We can send Kirara for a lookout and get our self ready, the best would to be back to back" Sango continued.

"I would love to stand Back to back with you my lovely Sango" Mirokus statement deserved him a red handprint on the cheek.

"In a circle you mean?" Kayashi said without even looking, she was gazing out in the forest.

"Hai that would be the best thing" Kagome said. Inuyasha was watching them boredly.

"Why don't we just take it from the front?" His words made everyone stare at him. "What?"

"You already forgot what Kiasa said?" Kayashi said. "We don't know if it hurts us, but it surely can make half the group out of use with just one attack, we need to be careful!"

"What? I just cut it down with a swing and we're finished!" Miroku shock his head and muttered something like: "Underestimating Baka" This made Inuyasha glare at him.

"But Inuyasha, it has a Shikon shard, if it makes me down, we can't direct the shard" Kagome said. "How are you supposed to beat it then?"

"And what IF we Hanyos are affected as well? Then we are all gone-bys" Kayashi followed. Inuyasha opened his mouth, but got cut by Sango this time.

"Let's say you cut it, and it turns out you need something else? You need to think, not all Youkais can be cut with Tetsusaiga" Inuyasha shut, knowing he was defeated and sat down.

"Okay, do it your way!" He snorted and crossed his arms. Kagome sighed and turned to the others.

"What kind of elemental did they have?" She asked. They thought for a while.

"Flaming hoofs, probably fire, Horse head is ground and stone, snakehead is poison and acid, boar head is that freaking sound you all worry about" Inuyasha said from his place barely above a growl. They stared at him. "WHAT!?" he yelled.

"You remembered all that?" Shippou said. "Amazing! I never thought you could remember anything!" Inuyasha growled warningly and Shippou shut up.

"Okay, probably is the Shikon shard in the horse head, because it was there it started, right?" Sango said.

"Could be, but not needed too" Miroku said.

"We need at least to find the Shikon shard, and get the Boar head cut of, then the sound at least is gone" Kayashi suggested while eating some of the soup. "Mm, Kagome, this is delicious!"

"Thanks" Kagome replied. "And I think Kayashi has a point. Even with the Shikon no Tamas regenerating, it still would give us time" Sango and Miroku nodded, while Shippou still seemed to think.

"Shippou? What do you think?" Kagome asked him. The Kitsune jumped a feet and stared at her.

"Eh? About what?" The others sighed, except for Inuyasha, who growled: "Fox- brat".

"Okay, if that is settled, then let's get going" Miroku suggested. Inuyasha was the first to stand up.

"Finally someone says something useful" He said boredly. "But I'm surprised that YOU would be the one, Bouzu" Miroku sighed. 'He's bored, that's for sure' Kagome took her bag and her bow.

"Well, everybody ready?" She said while picking down the last things into the bag and putting out the fire. They all nodded. Kagome put the bag on her bike and started walking.

"Kagome-chan, where to go?" Sango asked. Kayashi rose up, still looking around. She found a familiar aura and smirked.

'Hm...' Kagome looked at Sango.

"We need a more open space" she said. Kirara got into her big form and on Sangos comment she went of.

"Then I understand" She says. "Kirara will search for the Youkai" Miroku and Inuyasha where going in the front, while Kayashi, Sango, Shippou and Kagome where behind them. Sango and Shippou trailed of a little behind Kayashi and Kagome while talking. Kayashi turned to Kagome.

"I know you come from the future... but..." She started. Kagome smiled at her.

"You wonder how it is there?"

"I know, but I don't... understand some things..." Kagome started to explain about her house, her family and her school. She had some pauses when to think of some answers, like what a TV really was, or how it comes that you can speak to others trough thingies on the wall, as Kayashi said it. They got interrupted when Inuyasha hit Miroku on the head VERY HARD.

"BOUZU! NEVER GET INTO THAT AGAIN, GOT ME!?" He yelled before walking of, leaving Miroku on the ground.

"What was that about?" Kagome asked Kayashi and Sango, who had come closer again, both shock their heads.

~*~

Miroku and Inuyasha where walking in front of the others.

"Where is that damn Youkai?" Inuyasha muttered. "I can't wait to get that Shikon shard!"

"Say Inuyasha" Miroku asked, not listening to the Hanyos muttering.

"What?" he snapped. He wasn't even looking his way, but Miroku took a breath before asking:

"Yesterday, when you told Kagome-sama you loved her, why didn't you kiss her?" This made Inuyasha to turn in an instant, hitting him with all his strength.

"BOUZU! NEVER GET INTO THAT AGAIN, GOT ME!?" He yelled before walking of, leaving Miroku on the ground. 'Damn! CAN'T he keep his DAMN mouth shut?'

Miroku got up and looked at the girls (not including Shippou).

"Don't ask me what happened... I just..."

"Touched a painful spot" Kayashi said.

"How could I have done that when I just..." Kayashi gave him a look that told him to shut, which he did. They started walking after the angry Hanyo. Kagome looked strange at Miroku. 'What can he have said to make Inuyasha THAT mad?' Kayashi turned to her.

"He came into the... well... 'Yesterday' spot" She said. Kagome opened her mouth in an: "Oh" look, nodded and walked a little faster to catch up with the Hanyo, who angrily stepped on. Kayashi smirked again, and even Miroku smiled, but with a painful look while holding his aching head.

"You're a great love-angel, Kayashi" he said. The female Hanyo stared at him.

"Really? I never thought of it..."

"To Miroku, all girls are" Sango said. "But you really got them together more than before" Kayashi smiled and Shippou stared at the two persons in front before shaking his head. 'Adults'

~*~

Inuyasha heard footsteps and the sound of Kagomes bike behind him. 'Damn... not now! I won't even be able to look her in the eyes! I...' He felt her hand on his shoulder and turned to her, even though he hesitated in his mind. As his eyes met hers, he quickly turned away again, a slight blush turning his cheeks red.

"What do you want?" he asked, trying to sound grumpy, but failed.

"Just talk" Her voice was as clear and beautiful as ever... he pushed away the thought, trying not to blush more. She still had her hand on his shoulder.

"Why did you get so angry on Miroku?" She asked softly. He shrugged his shoulders.

"Dunno" He said. She sighed and walked faster so she was right besides him.

"Come on, at least LOOK at me!" he remembered the first time she said that...

*Flashback*

He was sitting under the tree after the news about Kikyos bones stolen, and asked Myoga about that Ogress, Urasue.

"I just know she's an ogres and sorceress" Myoga said before disappearing. Kagome came up to him.

"Inuyasha, shall we go?" Inuyasha turned his head away.

"Where?" He muttered. She sat down next to him.

"Come on, even an enemy need a place to rest in peace" She said softly. "Kikyo did die a long time ago, didn't she?" He didn't answer; he was just gazing out in the air, not looking at her.

"Surely you can forget about what happened between you? Can't you?" She continued and waited for an answer. He didn't say anything, and was still looking away. She lost her temper.

"LOOK at me!" She shouted.

*End flashback*

"Inuyasha? Answer me!" He jumped and looked at her.

"W...What...?" He said, realizing her looking at him. He was still blushing. 'Damn it!'

"You're so off today" She said. "Is it because of yesterday?" He snorted.

"Of Course not! What do you take me for?" She raised her hand and stroke him on the cheek, which made him blush even more.

"Why are you so off then? Because of what Miroku said?" She asked.

'Did she hear him... no it can't... right?' He thought. "Uhm... no... I guess not... or..." He stammered.

"Or?" She said, laying her hand on his shoulder again.

"N...nothing..." He muttered, looking at her. 'Her face... she's so innocent and... DAM IT! BOUZU! Why did you start this!?' She looked away, and he swore he saw sadness in her eyes.

"Oh... well... Okay then... if you don't want to talk about it..." She slowed down to come to the others, but he stopped her.

"Kagome..." She turned her head towards him again.

"Hai?" She asked. Inuyasha looked over at the others, who suddenly seemed to be in a DEEP conversation.

"I... um..." He started, searching for words. She looked the way he looked.

"If you don't want to talk here, we can go somewhere else" She suggested. He nodded slowly.

"Wait a second then" She said and got back towards the others. They where in a meadow now, so they should be able to stop there too. He stopped and saw her go back to the others. 'Damn you Bouzu! How do you suggest I handle THIS now?"

~*~

When Inuyasha looked their way, they all started to mumble each another.

"What do you guess?" Sango asked.

"I place a bet he doesn't want to talk here" Kayashi said smirking.

"Cheater! You read his mind!" Miroku muttered.

"Okay, you can guess" The female Hanyo said.

"I bet he really kisses her" Miroku said. "Since I got him on the subject and all"

"I go for that too" Sango nods while saying it. "Here she comes" they started talking about the Youkai when Kagome came closer.

"We suggest we stop here" The sixteen-year old girl says. The others nod and put their stuff on an empty spot.

"We'll be right back" Kagome smiles, puts her bike and bag on the spot and gets back to Inuyasha. When she gets out of hearing range, the others smirk at each other.

"Who wants to follow?" Miroku says.

"A say we stay here this time" Kayashi said. Sango and Shippou nod.

"As a safety" Sango said. The watched the two leave and then leaned back at some trees.

~*~

Sesshomaru jumped up in a tree as his brother and Kagome came near.

'What are they doing? Ah well, It's not them I'm here for...' he thought and gazed out to the meadow. He took forth the medallion he had around his neck, the one with the glass feather on.

'I really need to know her better...'

~*~

Inuyasha and Kagome walked quietly through the forest.

'How am I going to start this...?' Inuyasha thought and glanced over to Kagome next to him, who was playing with the bow string as she walked. 'I don't know how...' She suddenly looked up, as if sensing he was watching her. He swallowed as her chocolate eyes questioning were looking into his own.

"Eh..." He said, trying not o blush... again. It seemed so stupid to do it right now...

"What is the matter?" She asked him. She had stopped and he did the same.

"N...nothing... I just..." He stammered stupidly. 'Damn, why do I always start talking like an IDIOT when this comes up?'

"Are you lost for words?" Kagome giggled. "I never could imagine that you would be lost for words!"

"Sorry then..." He muttered, looking down.

"I didn't mean that way" She said. He still looked down. 'What now? How the HELL am I going to get myself out of this...' he thought.

"Hey" Kagome said. 'What is wrong with him? What DID Miroku say?' He looked up, but not at her. He was looking around, found that they where really alone and turned to her.

"I... Yesterday... did you believe what I said?" He asked her. She blinked a few times, this she hadn't expected.

"Well... Um..." She said, thinking back. 'What can he mean? That he didn't mean it yesterday... or what...?' He was looking at her, trying to find any answers in her face.

"I guess..." she finally said.

"Guess?" He asked. 'What does she mean by that? Did she or not?' Now it was her turn to look down.

"Well... Not that I don't believe you... but..." She fumbled with her words, not knowing what would hurt him and what would not. He looked away for a second.

"Oh... well..." He said slowly. 'Now what!?'

"Did you believe me?" Kagome asked. He snapped out of his thoughts and looked at her. Her eyes where so full of emotions.

"Hai" He answered honestly. There was no other answer; he should believe her whatever she said.

"Really? I thought you maybe just... you know... let it pass through and..." She stammered, tears filling up. 'Why am I crying now? Am I Delighted? Or Why?'

"I would never let anything you say just 'pass through' Kagome" He said softly, wiping her tears away, which made her feel a shiver down her spine. His hand rested on her cheek for a while, as he was just looking at her.

'What... what is that face...' Kagome thought. He moved his hand to under her chin, and made her look into his eyes.

"If you didn't believe me... I say it again then..." He started and bent forward, his face just inches from her. "I-Love-You" Then he kissed her. She widened her eyes in surprise before returning the kiss while she wrapped her arms around his neck. It was not a kiss to apologize or something. It was a real kiss, passionately and loving. He wrapped his arms around her waist and deepened the kiss.

'I could stay like this forever...' both thought.

~*~

Miroku looked at the smirking Kayashi with jealousy in his eyes.

"It's no fair!" He yelled. "You can hear what they think! And I don't even get too see!" Sango slapped him.

"Stop being a cry-baby!" she said before sitting down next to Kayashi. "Well?" The Hanyo looked at her, still smirking. Then she glanced over to Miroku, before opening her mouth.

"Did I hear a vote for kissing?" She asked. Sango turned and she and Miroku did the high-five. "We did!" Shippou stared at them.

"Adults..." He muttered. Sango turned back.

"Sometimes this is easier than watching" she said. Miroku added: "And much safer!" Everybody laughed. Then Kayashi spun her head around and stared right into the forest.

"What's the matter Kayashi?" Shippou asked. She didn't look at him.

"Stay here" she muttered, rose up and walked towards the edge of the forest.

"What was that about?" Shippou asked confused, looking at Miroku. He and Sango had both nodded.

"You will understand when you get older" He just answered as he watched Kayashi enter the forest.

"Kirara still hasn't come back..." Sango sighed.

"Be glad about that, because now both our Hanyos and our Shard finder are out of use" Miroku said.

~*~

Sesshomaru watched the Hanyo, his daughter, get up and walking straight towards him.

"Heh, guess she is something after all" he murmured. He leaned towards the tree nonchalant while gazing at her in the corner of his view.

~*~

As Kayashi passed the first bushes, the first thing she did was looking up, straight into the amber eyes of her father.

"You didn't have too much of a haste" He said and looked up again, the leaves of the tree suddenly got very interesting.

"Didn't want to make a scene" She answered and got up into the tree next to his.

"Oh, really?" He said silently, cold, while he gazed over at her. 'What did she want now?'

"I should ask what you wanted" She said in the same tone of voice. He still hadn't got used to that voice, so alike his.

"What I wanted?" He chuckled coldly. "You should already know, I want Inuyasha dead, and I want the Tetsusaiga. Anything I forgot?" She smirked.

"You have this strange thought behind those you said" she said. "What can that be?"

"What?" he said. He didn't look at her; if he had, he maybe should have seen that little playful smile she had.

"For some minutes ago, you wanted to know me better, am I correct?" He grumped.

"Maybe" He sounded somehow disturbed. He didn't think anything, which Kayashi found pretty weird.

'Maybe he finds a way to come around it... like my mother could...' she thought before asking him:

"You still want to know me better?"

"Maybe" he said again. She sighed.

"What is it with you and short answers?" She growled.

"Short answers? What else should I answer, yes or no are short as well" He said this as it was the most intelligent answer in the whole world.

"Eh... well... that is true too... but..." She mumbled. "Do you or do you not want to know?" he looked at her, and she could feel his aura again. 'What is it with him? Sometimes the aura is readable, and sometimes not!'

"Well..." He said. He glanced down on the medallion he still held in his hand. "Yes..."

"Okay, how to start?" She asked.

"What? You mean where in your life or what?"

"Yes, kind of... But you then?"

"Well... I'm not alone around if you thought that, I am being accompanied by this Toad-Youkai, Jaken, who is in fact pretty... useless sometimes..." He started while thinking. She watched him curiously as he talked. "And there is also this two headed Youkai Horse, its called Ah-Uhn..."

"Ah-Uhn?" She said with a giggle. "Who named it that?"

"I was coming to that, a little human girl called Rin named it... I rescued her life once... She had been killed by wolfs and I used my sword, Tenseiga, I got it from my father, to bring her back to life... Don't ask me why, because I really don't know myself..." She continued to listen to him tell about what he had been doing for, mostly, the last year.

~*~

Kagome and Inuyasha broke the kiss in order to breathe. She leaned towards his chest and closed her eyes. He held her tighter in an embrace and looked out into the forest. 'Well... I guess she believes me now?' He thought with a smile. He sat down there, in the middle of the forest, towards a tree, Kagome still at his chest.

'I never had believed this would happen... at least not in the beginning...' He played a little with her hair as he thought. The sky was starting to go for the afternoon; the sun had passed middle-sky.

"Maybe we should head back" He whispered in her ear.

"Mm..." She murmured into his robe.

"Hey, are we sleeping now or what?" He asked grinning.

"Mm..." She answered again.

"Guess I have to carry you then" He smirked and stood up, holding her bridal-style.

"Mm..." The same answer. He chuckled softly and started making his way back, careful with his burden.

~*~

Sango sighed and looked into the nearby forest.

"GEEZ! Aren't they coming back soon?" She asked herself annoyed.

"Well, some things do take time you know" Miroku answered her. But he was also gazing into the forest. Shippou was annoyed and wasted his time climbing up and down in a tree.

"BORED!" He yelped and got up the tree again, only to get down.

"Come over it Shippou! We are bored as well" Sango said. Miroku moved closer to her.

"We should be able to use the time..." He said grinning. She gave him a confused look, before she frowned. She was feeling his right hand on her butt.

"PERVERT!" She yelled and slapped him.

"I tried..." He said weakly as his now red cheek ached.

~*~

"... In that battle, He really did something that made me think..." Sesshomaru paused for a while.

"What did he do?" Kayashi asked, looking curious.

"While I swung the blade, he just ran right towards it, like he was going to stop it with his own body... And that just for a fox-demon brat and some humans... I couldn't understand him..." He shook his head.

"But how did it end?" Kayashi tried to make him continue while she wrapped a lock of her hair around her finger.

"He got hold of my arm" The Youkai answered. "He held the blade back with his own strength. The others, the humans and that fox, had stopped. And he yelled to them to run. They did so, and then I said to him..."

*Flashback*

"...Fool! Turning your back at your opponent!" He said and stung his other hand right through Inuyashas back. The Hanyo grasped and clenched his teeth.

"Where you buying time for your companions? How courageous..." Sesshomaru started, but he heard Inuyasha chuckle. The Hanyo glanced up at him, smiling.

"Brother, Haven't you noticed yet?" Sesshomaru got a somewhat angry face.

"You..." He started. Inuyasha ripped the Human arm off, together with the Tetsusaiga.

"I am taking my Tetsusaiga back!" He yelled and held the sword in front off him.

*End Flashback*

"And thereafter?" Kayashi said.

"I couldn't wield the Tetsusaiga anymore, it was only a waste of time to be there, so I left" Sesshomaru finished.

"Oh..." Kayashi said slowly. "But is it the way that Youkais cannot wield the blade at all?"

"Apparently not" Her father shrugged his shoulders. "But you never know... At least it is said that you cannot use Tetsusaigas total strength if you are not going for saving a human being... What a pity"

"Then you should be able to use the sword... in order to save Rin" Kayashi said slowly. Sesshomaru frowned.

"Where did that come from!?" He muttered angrily. Kayashi jagged back at his reaction.

"I'm just thinking!" She yelled. She noticed the aura of Kagome and looked down the path into the forest.

"You should go back" Sesshomaru said simply. "My brother wouldn't attack me now as it seems" He smirked.

"Uh-hum" Kayashi nodded and turned to leave, but then turned her head back. "Are you going to keep following us?"

"Maybe" He said. "I haven't heard anything about your life yet" She smiled before jumping to another tree and from there out the field towards her friends.

"Strange girl she is indeed..." Sesshomaru mumbled before jumping higher up the tree. He could hear some crystal clear tones from the field and listened to it.

"Is that she? With Yani's song"

~*~

Sango saw Kayashi approaching.

"Got a nice talk?" She asked. The Hanyo nodded before glancing at Miroku, who was holding his sore cheek.

"You should really stop that" She told him. He just glared at her.

"I'm still BORED!" Shippou yelped from the tree.

"Would you rather meet the Youkai right now?" Sango asked angrily. The Kitsune gulped and shut up.

"Any sign of Kagome-sama and Inuyasha?" Miroku asked.

"Uh-hum" Kayashi nodded. "They're on their way"

"Good" Sango lies down in the grass. "It's quite creepy with that Youki..." The others nodded. A long silence followed. Kayashi took forth a flute from one of her pockets. It was made of bone and had kept it's white colour. She watched it for a moment and then started to play. Crystal clear tones flowed out and made a slow, quite sorrowful melody. Sango closed her eyes and just listened to the melody. Shippou was completely silent. Miroku had stopped rubbing his sore cheek and looked at Kayashi, who herself had closed her eyes and just played. The melody kept its sad tones, but it was still beautiful. The melody speeded up a little as it was turning a bit happier, before it sank back into its original state. Some few notes more passed before ending in a sinking dark tone.

"That was beautiful!" Sango said and opened her eyes.

"I completely agree" Miroku said. Shippou nodded and even gave a little applause.

"That was nothing..." Kayashi said with a pink tingle on her cheeks. "Nothing special"

"I really mean it" Sango said. "Where have you learned that?"

"It's not my song" Kayashi said. "It's my mother's"

"Really?" Miroku looked at the flute. "It's a pretty flute as well"

"Well... yes, I really try to keep it in good state" Kayashi said. "It was my mothers as well"

"When did your mother play that song?" Shippou asked.

"At night, when you could see the stars... and the moon. Especially on the black crescent moon because..." She cut herself of.

"Because?" Miroku said.

"Nothing" The female Hanyo put her flute away and turned around. 'They are not aloud to know... DAMN! What moon faze is it tonight!? I'm getting out of count... oh, wait... Yesterday was one day before new... so today must be new moon... then I have nearly two weeks...'

They all turned to the forest as the sound of crushing leaves was heard. Kayashi flew to her feet and Sango even grabbed her Hiraikotsu.

"Wow, calm down! Damn, it's only we!" They all shock their heads and sat down again as Inuyashas voice was heard. The Hanyo stepped from the bushes, carrying Kagome. "What are those looks?" He then asked.

"What happened?" Miroku asked with tingling eyes.

"Nothing suiting you" Inuyasha growled.

"What's with Kagome?" Shippou asked worriedly.

"Tired" Inuyasha just said and sat down by the trees. Kagome still hadn't let go of his Haori, and now she was sleeping as well. He shrugged his shoulders and let her be. He tried to ignore the others looks as they studied him. He quickly glanced at Kayashi, who shock her head; she wasn't trying to read his thoughts. He closed his eyes, it was better to ignore those foolish looks of them.

'They really are fools... What the hell did THEY think!?' He locked out the voices off his... Irritation friends, they really could be annoying sometimes...

'And tonight... is new moon... Damn it!'

But that thought Kayashi heard...

~*~

"Please Kayashi, just do it for me?" Miroku begged her. She shook her head but read Inuyashas mind. She heard his last thought and then let go, staring at Miroku.

"What is special about new moon?" She whispered.

"New moon?" Miroku got pale, together with Shippou. "What made you think of that?"

"It's new moon today" Now even Sango and Shippou got pale (A/N: Shippou was already pale of the first comment, imagine him more pale :P)

"Well..." Miroku cut of himself. "You must ask Inuyasha about that.

"About what?" The Hanyo growled, his eyes still closed.

"Eh..." Shippou started, but Kayashi finished: "About new moon" Inuyasha growled from deep down his throat.

"Shippou" He said, with a voice somewhere between angry and annoyed. "You have told everyone else, why not her now as well?" The Kitsune gulped. Inuyasha snorted and locked them out again.

"Well?" Kayashi turned to Shippou.

"Eh... it is like this..." Shippou closed his eyes, gathering the words. "Inuyasha... he..." He opened his eyes again. "He goes Human on new moon"

"Oh, nothing more?" Kayashi asked rather questioning.

"NOTHING MORE?" The tree others yelled. Inuyasha growled again.

"Ursai! You wake someone up with that voice" He had heard Kayashi, and smirked at them. "You haven't thought of that we have another Hanyo as well?"

"But what if it is on the same date...?" Shippou started.

"It is not" Kayashi secured them. 'Maybe, if these people already know about the transformations... I can tell them...'

"When is your time Kayashi?" Inuyasha asked.

"Night of the black crescent moon" She said slowly. He nodded, with a smirk.

"How ironic" He chuckled. Kayashi stared confused at the others, but only Miroku got the point, and started to laugh.

"Kayashi, you have seen your fathers mark, right?"

"In his forehead? Yes" She said.

"That is the mark of the Inu-Youkais, lords of the western lands"

"Black crescent moon?" Kayashi asked. "And what about it?"

"Doesn't it seem ironic that the mark for a high settled Inu-Youkai, lord of the western lands, to also be the mark of his daughters human night?" Inuyasha asked, opening his eyes. Kayashi started to get the point and nodded.

"Quite" She said. Inuyasha smirked once again. He closed his eyes once again, and fell asleep.

"Damn it" Miroku whined. "Now I never get to know..." He got cut of by Sango, who slammed Hiraikotsu in his head. A now unconscious Miroku lies in the grass. Shippou pulled out a bottle of water out of Kagomes bag in order to wake him up.

"Sango why...!" He started but Kayashi hissed at Miroku. He turned towards her with a confused look and she glanced at the tree where the two were sleeping. Miroku and Sango smiled. Inuyasha had laid his arm around Kagome in his sleep.

"Quite cute..." Sango said dreamily. Miroku nodded. Sango slapped him immediately after.

"Damn... I wasn't even there!" He shouted.

"Don't wake them up bastard" Sango hissed. Shippou and Kayashi sighed.

"Adults" Shippou said.

"Agreed" The Hanyo answered, and then they both laughed.

~*~

"Black crescent moon... does that filthy... I mean... DAMN! I can't even use the normal words for Hanyo... Just because my daughter is one... BUT does he think he id FUNNY or something?" Sesshomaru muttered.

"At least I know that... need to keep it safe... and to keep a secret she is my daughter... otherwise my reputation would go crashing... down..." He shrugged, rose up and got into the forest, not noticing the figure above him in a tree, the same tree he had been in.

~*~

'Black crescent and new moon? Quite interesting... might use that... new moon supposedly... but then we must get rid of that other one... Sesshomarus daughter...' The shadowy figure chuckled. 'I know just how to do...' An illusionary figure was appearing next to him.

"Ikado, you searched me?"

"Hai, I should need..." The figured man sank his voice to a low tone. The illusionary figure nodded.

"That would be fixed" He said and reached out something. Ikado took it.

"Arigatou" He chuckled.

"Just make it work"

"Hai, Naraku-sama" Ikado said. The illusionary figure of Naraku disappeared and Ikado smiled while holding up something in front off him.

"Now this might work" He chuckled as a red flash emerged from the shard. "I will get rid off two Hanyo bastards and turn down the lord of the western lands!"

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(Ashley): Woops! Ending in a... well not precisely a cliff-hanger... but without the preview from last chapter...! Hm... Well I thought it was a bit a long chapter so I put that one in the next... or a later one... or maybe I skip
it... I might come up with something better... *grinning evilly*

(Kayashi): Don't even think of making me die in next chapter or something!

(Ashley): Of course not... *Start thinking of the possibility*

(Kayashi): I said not even think!

(Ashley): *sigh* Now I know why they let Goshinki die in the same episode
he came in, Mind-reading characters can be sooooooooooo Annoying...

Until next time, CYA!

(Kayashi): *mumble*