A/N: I'm back, with another chap.! Hey look I rhymed! Any ways Inu-chan me
no own. Oh well! WHO CARES! ON TO THE NEXT CHAPTER!!

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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ch. 2 the battle~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~Ichi POV~~~
'This place is beautiful!' " you actually LIVE here?" he looked at me and
smirked his smirkish smirk "is there a problem with that?" I could tell
that he knew that I liked it "no, I like it. It's really neat. But it would
be a lot cooler if you put me down!" He acted like he was thinking about
it, then stated "neah, I think you can just stay like this till we get
inside" 'you big...' I couldn't even finish my stinkin' thought before he
went right through the very cold waterfall. "ah!" 'Cold water. Water cold'
then he looked at me and set me down...FINALLY! "are you all cooled off
now?" he asked smugly. All I could say was "quite" before more demons came
up and looked at me like I was some sort of...MEAL! 'This is getting really
creepy!' I thought while unconsciously ducking behind Kouga.
~~~Kouga POV~~~
I noticed her slowly scooting behind me as my pack came closer to see I she
to nights menu. 'oh boy' "This girl is not for dinner! If you guys want to
eat her go on ahead! But you will pay for this action with your life!" They
slowly started backing away not wanting to risk their lives. Out of the
corner of my eye, there she was looking at my as if I had some sort of
creature on my face or something. That made me wonder about things 'She
acts as if she has never seen a demon before! She also treats me like a
human with abnormal strength or something. She dresses weird and so did the
rest of her family' I wanted to know where she was from so I thought we
might just have a little talk. "follow me" I told her which brought her out
of her amazed trance.
"right" she said while she followed me. Once we got to the back of the
cave, I noticed that she had moved the slightest bit closer to me I believe
in fear of my clan. 'How can she afraid of them when I'm the leader of them
all?' I motioned for her to sit down on some straw that was put into a
rather large pile on the ground. She sat down and kind of pulled herself
in. I could tell that she was not conferrable being here on the cave. "You
don't have to be afraid of them, you know. They won't bother you as long as
I say so" that helped her a little bit. "I wanted to ask you something" she
declared "ok?" "Are you a wolf demon" she was a little nervous with the
question. "Yes. Why do you ask?" Her eyes went wide, and then she smiled
and said "cool! I actually get to meet a wolf demon!" This really shocked
me! I probably looked dumbfounded to her. So I instantly got control of my
face. "you like wolf demons?" was all I could ask at the moment. "Yup!
Here, look at my pocket knife." She took out her shrunken sword and showed
me the handle. It had a picture of three wolves in the snow on it. 'I guess
she does like wolves!' "Oh! I have one more question." she grabbed my right
hand. At this point I was total confused, and nervous "what's this crystal
like thing on you arm? It shines really bright." 'can she see shikon
shards?' "you can see this?" she looked at me like I was stupid or
something "do you think that I'm blind? I can also see the ones you got on
your ankles" 'if she can see shikon shards, then maybe she can help us
destroy the birds of paradise!' "And now it's my turn to ask you a few
questions" "like what?" "Where are you from? And why do you dress so
strangely?"
She thought a moment to gather the correct words, then told me the story of
where she came from, how she got here, and that where she comes from, her
clothes are perfectly normal. "Now, I have one final question for you for
today" her waiting told me to 'go on' "Will you help us with a battle?"
"what kind of battle?" "Remember that giant bird you killed?" "yes" "we've
been in a war with them for long time. One of them has a shikon shard..."
"a what?" "this crystal in my arm" "oh" "it gives demons great power"
"ahhh" "one of them has one. We need to get so they'll stop killing our
tribe. And this is where you come in, you'll find which one of them has the
shard and tell me where it is. So, are you up to the challenge?" "you bet!"
'she's braver than I thought!' "You better get some rest then, Ichi" I
could tell she was tired. She leaned against the rock wall and closed her
eyes then fell asleep. I guess she either didn't want to lie down or she
didn't think she was allowed. I figured that she would be more conferrable
laying down. So I went over to her and put her into a more convenient
position. She then wouldn't let go of my arm. So I sat there until I fell
asleep as well.
~~~Ichi POV~~~
I woke up to something I really didn't expect. I opened my eyes and found
out that I was no longer in an upright position. Then I felt something
behind me. It was warm. And I didn't want to move. In fact, I couldn't
move! There was something around my waist, so I looked down to see that it
was somebody's arm!!!!! I looked behind me to find...KOUGA! I turned around
so that I could face him. 'I really don't know what kind morning person he
is so...' I tried to sneak out of his arm, but he had a really strong grip!
So, I tried to just lightly push myself away. That didn't work. So I pushed
harder. To no avail was I able to get out. Then I took the chance of waking
him. I whispered so not to wake others "Kouga? Could you please let go?
Kouga?" 'this isn't working' my face at the time probably looked something
like this ¬.¬ So then I just thought for a minute, and thought of a way to
possibly wake him up. 'This annoys the crap out of my family, so here it
goes' I leaned over to his ear and blew into it. He started rolling his
head on his shoulder trying to get it to stop tickling him. I blew again,
but this time a little longer. His hand came off of my waist to itch his
ear, but at the same time his other arm came around my waist. 'Crap! This
isn't working at...' then he rolled over bringing me with him. This time I
just flicked his nose. He started twitching his nose. 'He looks so cute!
Crap what am I thinking? But still...' Now I'm just tapping him on the
head. 'He's awake! It's a miracle!' "could you let go of me now? Please?"
He now was awake and aware of his surroundings. "You have really beautiful
eyes. You know that?" 'What was that? A compliment? They're just blue!
Nothing special!' He let go and got up to stretch. "Well the battle will
begin when the rest of he clan wakes up" "which will be how long?" "...a
while" "wanna go outside?" he thought for a moment, but it wasn't too long.
"sure" so we left.
~~~Kouga POV~~~
Once we got outside, we found out that the moon was still out. I don't I've
ever seen the water so clear before. She went over and sat down by the
water. I joined her. We sat there in silence until she asked me a question
"want to go swimming?" "umm...yes?" Before I could tell what was happening
she pushed me in and jumped in after. These are one of those times where
you notice that water is colder at night than in the day. 'I didn't know
that humans could swim' She swam like was she born in the water or
something. "How do you know how to swim?" She looked at me and smiled "I
taught myself! It's simple!" Then she dove under the water, came up behind
me, and dunked me! "you'll pay for that one!" I was swimming after her now.
She was a fast swimmer, and wasn't easy to keep up with! Every time she got
to a fairly sized rock she'd climb on it and dive over me. This went on
till dawn. "the sun's rising we better regain our energy" she had a good
point. So we went back in and sat and quietly talked till the rest of the
tribe woke up.
'This is where it will finally end. We are going to kill those stupid
buzzards and take their shard!' "Are you ready Ichi?" "yup" she had a very
determined look on her face. She was ready. I yelled back to my clan to
take care of the weaker ones while I went for the boss. "Let's go!"
"right!" she smiled at me and we were off up the mountain. 'No turning
back!' "Where is the shard Ichi?" "It's hard to tell! But It's up a little
bit more!" "Got it!" we went up a little more when Ichi froze "It's below
us now!" "What?! Does this mean that this mountain is hollow?" 'he could
attack us from almost anywhere now!' "He's above us again! He's not in the
mountain anymore! He flying somewhere!" "What?" up in the clouds, I could
see something coming out of them. I knew it was the one with the shard, but
when I saw it, it was at least three times bigger than the regular harpies!
He was coming straight at us. So I jumped off the mountain and landed on
the ground. "Ichi where is the shard?" she looked at it a moment the stated
"Inside of it's mouth." "ok! Stay here, and don't let the harpies see you!"
"Hey1 You brought me here! So I'm at least going to fight! It's hard for
birds to fly in heavy wind...so I'll try to knock them off balance!" "Fine
but just stay out of danger!" "oh fine! Take away all the fun!" she smiled
at me to tell me to 'get going'. I nodded. Once I had left, I could already
feel her energy rising. The bad thing was that I wasn't the only one.
Harpies started coming toward her. "ICHI!" But once all the harpies got to
her they we dissolved by her aura. After more than half of the harpies were
killed and she had stirred up a hard wind, she started to weaken.
~~~Ichi POV~~
'oh no! I'm losing my strength!' Kouga started to fight with the leader of
the harpies. I could tell there was no way he could get inside his mouth
without being eaten in the process. I went over to the battle and found two
or three spears that had been tossed away, for the owner was no longer
alive. Kouga had been knocked away by the bird into the rock cliff. Then
the bird saw me. "so YOU are the one who can see the shards? Instead of
working for this pathetic wolf, you can work for me!" "I'd rather DIE
before that day comes!" "FINE! You have sealed your fate!" He dove for me,
and I knew I had only one chance. He came and scooped me up with his jaws,
I immediately put the spears up to keep his mouth open. 'I don't have much
time!' So I quickly grabbed the shard and jumped before another thought. I
was caught in mid-air by none other than...Kouga. "You almost got yourself
killed you idiot!" "so did you!" "but I can actually handle wounds like you
almost got!" "you'd still be hurt just the same though Kouga! Besides, do
you want this or not?" I held out the shikon shard. Now he looked down
right flabbergasted. "But how did you...?" "Why do you think I let him
almost swallow me?! Geez! So much for gratitude! Pft!" "thanks" "no prob.
Now go beat that freak of nature!" he sat me down and was off.
After the battle, we had only 4 deaths and 11 injured. Once we got back to
the cave I jumped right in the water and started scrubbing at my arms,
legs, face, and head. "what are you doing?" Kouga was looking at me trying
not to laugh. "Have you ever been in one of those things MOUTHS?" "no" "IT
REALLY GROSS!!!!!!" so I continued scrubbing. He was still trying not to
laugh once I got out. "SHUT UP!" "I didn't say anything!" "You were
laughing at me because I got covered in SLIME!" "no, I was laughing because
you looked funny while you were washing." "how did I look funny?" he was
really starting to piss me off "You looked like a monkey scratching
himself!" I blushed "SHUT UP! I wouldn't be covered in slime if YOU were
able to beat him first!" 'HA! Top that!' "Well if YOU didn't draw his
attention away, then I would have been able to beat him, AND get the shard
back!" "Yeah! Then YOU'D be in the water scratching like a monkey!" "but I
would have waited for everyone to go to sleep!" 'crap he's got me there' he
smirked...again! "I beat you!" "But I got the shard!" it took him a while
think of something, "can I have the shard? PLEEEEAAAAASSSSSEEEE??"
"depends" "on what? What do you have planned Ichi?" this time I was the one
to smirk "you gotta catch me!" so I dove under water "HEY! You KNOW that
you can swim faster than me!" I popped up about 10ft away "exactly!" So he
chased me till I almost fainted in the water since we started the chase
around four, even though there are no clocks here, and ended close to dawn
the next day! 'he just doesn't get tired!' "gotcha! Shard please?" "yeah
whatever..." I pulled the shard out of my pocket and gave it to him. "Can I
go to sleep now?" I asked "sure" so he brought me in and put me to sleep.
~~~regular POV~~~
The next morning at the village where Ichi's family was staying, her
parents were working out in the field while her sister was working on the
main house doing some cleaning. Then a bright light passed over the land
and they were gone the next minute back into their own time.
~~~Kouga POV~~~
I awoke to some sort of soft noise. I looked over to Ichi to see her
tossing around and acting as if she was in pain. 'She must be having a
nightmare' I started toward her so that I could wake her when she started
to sleep talk, "mom, dad, Haley? Where are you going?" she started to cry
in her sleep "please, don't leave me here! NO!" The loudest she ever got to
was a normal speaking level. It hurt me to watch her like this. 'I will
take you to see your family today.' "I promise" Then I woke her up from her
nightmare. She looked at me with a tear-streaked face. I pulled her into an
embrace to try and ease the pain she was feeling. She accepted it. "I'm
going to take you to your family today. And whether you stay here with me
or go with them is fine. But if you stay here, you may visit them whenever
you wish", I smiled down at her and smiled back and returned an embrace to
me and spoke to me so softly I could barely hear her "thank you".

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~end ch 2~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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