*Here's chapter ten, but unfortunately, everything I put in it, had to be lengthened to chapter eleven. I guarantee this is a good chapter.*

Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha and co. although I wish I did, but hey.there's always something like this for people to wish they had.so it's nothing new.

Chapter 10

They came to the inn at around half past eight, when the tiny slit of moon was just beginning to appear in the sky and the stars were spreading like a blanket of diamonds on the deep blue night. Miroku got them in the same way he usually did.

"There's a rather large ominous cloud hanging right over this Inn. I could place seals on your gates and posts if you will let me and my friends stay the night here." He had said.

The owner let them in immediately, afraid that a dark cloud could get rid of his business.

If only he realized it was monks like Miroku that were getting rid of his business, not ominous dark clouds!

Anyhow, the room was of a good size, with plenty of blankets in the corner for several pallets to be made, and a great amount of food waiting for them there.

They ate it of course, after the host had asked them if they had received the food he sent.

Inuyasha had slept the entire day away, and Kagome had sealed his meal up in a few zip-lock bags she had for when he woke up with a hungry stomach like he usually did, and feeling a little tense, decided to go outside and enjoy the fresh night air. Sango, Shippo, and Kirara went exploring, and Miroku left out to go put up his fake talismans around the inn, and so, the room was empty but for Inuyasha.

Kagome smiled at how childlike Inuyasha looked as he slept, and with a chuckle at the thought of what he may have looked like as a kid, she left the room. She found a ladder leading to the roof, and thinking it a good place to watch the stars, climbed it to the top.

Inuyasha awoke to a room he didn't recognize. Ink paintings hung on the wall, the aroma of the meal he had just missed and the scent of Kagome and the others floating across the room like feathers, and the cool night breeze seeping through the bamboo blinds that covered the door way. It was a nice room, but.how had he gotten here and where was everyone?

Inuyasha sat up, blinking a few times to get his eyes used to the candle light that was drifting across the walls like dancing spirits.

It had to be an inn of some sort.

There were enough blankets in the corner to be one.and there was a lot of food present recently.

But where was everyone!?

Inuyasha sniffed the air, and then the hard wood floor boards.

Everyone's scent was very strong, presenting that they had only left a few minutes before in the least.

He decided to go out and find everyone.especially Kagome.

The cool wind welcomed him as he stepped out unto the grounds, his silver hair dancing in the breeze, dog like ears acting like funnels for sound. There was no one to be found.

He looked up at the sky and found hundreds of stars twinkling down on him, and the tiny slit of the new moon beginning to change.

So he was a hanyou again.at least his human night was over.

"Hey you down there." He heard a familiar voice shout. Inuyasha spun to see the silhouette of Kagome on the roof, just above their supposed room. "I'm glad to see you finally woke up!" Kagome yelled to him.

"There you are." Inuyasha was beginning to scream, but he found that the smile on her lips couldn't keep him in rage. "Why didn't you wake me up?" He asked as he jumped up to the roof right in front of her. Kagome was used to his jumping to high places by now, and thought nothing of his landing.

"I tried, but you were sleeping too deeply. So instead we brought you with us." Kagome responded.

"But a demon could have attacked, and I would have known to late." He was trying to keep his voice calm.

"And we would have fought it off Inuyasha. You're not the only one who can fight you know." Kagome told him matter-of-factly. By now, she had her finger pointed in his face and that determined expression watching him. The image of his late master flashed in his head again.

'Why.why am I just now remembering her?' He asked himself. 'Why?'

Inuyasha sat down gently next to Kagome, and looked down at the ground, Kojika's image running through his head.

She.she had died.

And he had had to bury her.tears running down his cheeks.thoughts racing through his head.

She had been killed by those she sought to protect.those she adored and loved.

She had been killed.simply because she was a youkai.

"Are you there Inuyasha!?" Came Kagome's persistent and agitated voice. It was enough to knock him out of his thoughts.

"What?" He began to shout but he stopped himself before he could hurt her feelings. She pushed his gruffness aside, and continued with the question she had asked before.

"Are you angry that we weren't able to wake you up before we left?" She looked him in the eyes, those golden eyes of his, and waited for a reply.

Inuyasha came level to level with hers, and sighed. Beautiful.beautiful brown eyes, far prettier and more lively than Kikyo's could ever be. Why.why couldn't he forget the miko he had fallen for before.

He didn't really love her, but he felt guilty at her death.

"No.I'm not angry. But I would have preferred it that you guys did wake me up." He spoke softly, like the wind in the trees, and Kagome smiled gently to him.

"I'm sorry I was so stubborn last night." She replied. "But I was frustrated and tired from the travel, and I only wanted to find a place to sleep. I didn't mean to keep you worried the entire night because of my stupid needs." She turned away to look at the ground.

"No. Your needs weren't stupid. I was stupid for being difficult with you." He replied, feeling closer to Kagome than to anyone else in the world. She was the only one he could really talk to because he felt that she understood him somehow. Like they had a connection somewhere.. She was the only one in this world he could trust. He used to feel this trust for Kikyo, but then they had been fooled into betraying each other by Naraku, and then that trust had been abolished. He had also held the same trust for Kojika.that demon that was almost like his mother to him.mother and best friend. He truly missed her.

"What's wrong?" Kagome asked.

"What do you mean?" Inuyasha replied, watching Kagome closely.

"You were thinking about something. Your face looked sad. What's wrong?" She was keeping eye contact and only worry was written over her smooth face.

"I was reminded of someone I used to know.Someone who helped me when I was younger." He would tell her now. The first time in years he had ever brought his old friend into conversation. The only time he had ever talked to anyone about her in years.

Now he would explain his tale.

"Inuyasha!" He heard someone shout.

He glanced down to the ground to find Miroku running towards them. Inuyasha was on his feet in a matter of moments.

"What's wrong!?" He shouted down.

"Three demon's are coming this way. I think two of them are Kagura and Kanna!"

Kagura and Kanna, Naraku's incarnations. Coming this way.

"Let's go." Came Kagome's stern voice. "We've got to fight them off and protect the people here!" Inuyasha picked her up and they jumped off the roof together, landing gently on the ground.

"Come on!" Miroku shouted just as the first blast of debris hit one of the small houses of the village. Inuyasha bent down for Kagome to get on his back, and when she was hanging on, they sped towards the attack site, wind whipping roughly through their hair.

Miroku ran as fast as he could, and Inuyasha couldn't help but mutter that this time, they could finally kill off Naraku's two most important incarnations and be free to get at

Naraku without annoyance.

But Naraku wasn't at the scene of the three attacking.

He got there and let Kagome down from his back.

Miroku had been right about Kagura and Kanna though. They both stood there, Kanna's finely clipped white hair, and white child's kimono blowing in the breeze and her dark emotionless eyes never blinking. Kagura had her decorated fan out and in front of her, and her red eyes looked menacing behind her silk black hair. Her many kimono's were also swaying in the breeze. But where was the other, this third demon that Miroku mentioned. Had he spoken falsely?

Sango and Kirara in it's large form came up from behind, Sango already situated in her demon exterminating suit and her boomerang on her back.

"So you're all here. I knew you would be." Came Kagura's mischievous voice.

"What do you want?" Inuyasha shouted.

"Jewel shards of course. What else do you think I want? I don't just go around abolishing villages for nothing you know." Said Kagura.

"You won't get them." Kagome cried, holding her little jar of jewel shards firmly in her hand. "I'd die before I let you have them!"

"That can be arranged." Kagura laughed. She raised up her fan, and with a swift flick of her wrist, sent white blades flying towards them. Inuyasha's only thought was to protect Kagome.

He thrust her out of the way with his own body, and turned to give a laughing Kagura a glare. She had gotten him in the shoulder.

"Inuyasha. Are you alright?" Kagome asked, sitting up and looking at his wound.

"It's nothing." Inuyasha shrugged her hands away from his shoulder and stood up, whispering for her to find a protective hiding spot right away.

"Yes." Kagome answered, running behind a part of the village walls that still remained after Kagura's attack. Shippo and Myoga were with her.

"Good." Inuyasha whispered. "Now it's time to get this over with." He reached into his bloody shoulder, draping his claws in his blood and threw it like blades at the two girls.

"Iron Reaper, Soul Stealer!" He shouted, just before Kagura stepped back and Kanna stepped up, reflecting his attack back at him. He had forgotten her mirror could do that, but he managed to get out of the way just in time.

"Darn." He whispered to himself. They needed a plan.

Luckily, Miroku and Sango had already come up with one.

"Boomerang bone!" Sango shouted from behind the two sisters. She had used Inuyasha's attack as a distraction so she could sneak behind them. Unfortunately Kanna was able to turn in time to reflect the boomerang, in which Sango caught it back in mid air. But her attack had given enough time for Kirara to attack Kagura and Miroku to open up his wind tunnel to suck in the two. Another unfortunate, was that Naraku's bees instantly swarmed in from the forest backdrop just in time.

"Darn." He again breathed. These two were really prepared this time. But wait.there was something tugging at his senses.

There was another one in this area.

Another demon.

But where?

It just barely struck him a moment later.

Underground.heading towards.Kagome!" He turned on a second's notice and raced towards Kagome's hiding spot, just barely shoving her out of the way as a pair of sharp green spikes popped out of the soil and stabbed him right through his chest.

"Inuyasha!" Kagome shouted, but Inuyasha was watching the demon spikes.

They were sprouting leaves.

Those leaves turned into vines and wrapped tightly around his body, binding his arms and legs completely, paralyzing him from the neck down.

It smelled like Naraku.but there was something else there.some other scent.

Female.

"Drat. You weren't supposed to get in my way." Came a feminine echo from the ground.

He carefully looked down to see a head sticking up at him.

Female alright.

She came up, her body that of a women's except that it was completely light green in texture and that vines sprouted and covered her body like a kimono.

"What are you?" Inuyasha croaked. He could feel his blood pouring out from his two wounds.

"My name is Sukira, Naraku's newest incarnation."

*There you go.good eh. I'll try to get eleven up soon.but my computer has a Multiple Personality Disorder and only decides what it likes, to be uploaded.*