"Hand over the jewel shards now! Or be prepared to be crushed!" it growled.

Inuyasha pulled out tetsega and transformed it.

"Oh no you don't! If anyone here is going to be killed, it's you!" he yelled.

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Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha, or any of the characters from the awesome series, some person in Japan does and had the cool idea to do so, not me. I do however own some characters that are not from Inuyasha, i.e. Chelsea. So no, you cannot sue me! NYA NYA!!! (*_*;) Note:

*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Is a character change.

"This is someone talking"

' This is someone thinking'

This is dog/fox language

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"Your choice has been made! Prepare to die!" The giant insect bellowed, as it lunged at Inuyasha.

"INUYASHA! Look out!" Kagome cried.

Inuyasha bounded out of the way when the praying mantis took a swipe at him. It tried and tried to slash Inuyasha in two, but failed each time.

"I'm getting bored with this game" Inuyasha sneered, and swung tetsega at it, hitting his target. The demon fell to earth and its eyes glazed over. Inuyasha picked up the shikon jewel that was now on the ground. "Feh. That was too easy."

"Inuyasha! Are you okay?" Kagome asked, her eyes full of concern.

"Feh." he snorted. "Lets get out of here before Naraku decides to wake him up." Inuyasha picked up Kagome and leapt up into the air. Pausing briefly to re-adjust the girl on his back.

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Shippo stretched put lazily in the warm evening sun, with his friend curled up next to him, sleeping peacefully. He stroked her long white hair and gave her a quick peck on the cheek before getting up to get himself a drink. He walked slowly, because he was tired from the race he had with Chelsea. 'She's so fun to be around!' he thought, momentarily stopping. He heard a twig snap and loud footsteps behind him. He thought nothing of it. 'Just a deer or something like that, it's okay.' He mused to himself. Reaching a pool of water, Shippo noticed that it was getting dark, so he quickly lapped up some water, and turned around to go wake Chelsea, and take her to her mom. That was when he noticed a large shadow hovering over his friend, and panicked! One word went threw his little head as he ran towards Chelsea... 'Naraku'.

"CHELSEA!! RUN! PLEASE!" Shippo cried.

Chelsea woke up with a start, and looked up to see a pale Shippo running as fast as his little legs could carry him towards her. She looked around for something that could be chasing him, and found nothing.

"CHELSEA! GET YOUR TAIL UP AND RUN!!!" He screamed.

"What are you talking about Ship..." she started, when a huge hand scooped her up into the air. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!! SHIPPO-KUN! HELP ME!!" she wailed, biting the hand as hard as she could, she jumped down into Shippo's waiting arms.

"I've got you!" he yelled, catching his friend "lets go!"

"WAAAY ahead of you buddy!" she responded, taking off at top speed.

"Hahaha... you think you can out run me little youkai? I'll catch you!" said the new enemy. The shadow had a familiar, evil voice.

"Chelsea! It's Naraku! Get out of here!" he cried, huge tears of fear streaming down his face.

"Right little youkai! But it's not you I want! It's your blonde friend here!" Naraku said coldly. "And I always get what I want!"

That was it. Shippo could not stand to hear his friend being put into danger. He stopped dead in his tracks, whipped around and threw his whole body at Naraku.

"Get off me pest. I've already told you, it's not you I want" Naraku sneered.

"What do you want with her?!" Shippo screamed.

"She holds a big chunk of the shikon no tama! I want that part of her!" Naraku replied, throwing Shippo off of him.

Shippo landed with a thud, the last thing he heard was Chelsea's screams for help. "I'm comming Chelsea.... hold on..." he whispered. Then, Shippo's world went black. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

Well?! What did you think? Do you think Shippo will find his friend again? Do you think Chelsea will survive Naraku's wrath? Find out next chapter, Shippo's tail chapter 3... The search. I need input people! PLEASE REVIEW ME!!!!! Give me some suggestions as to what can happen next, and I can more than likely put it in this story! Chibi Mandy is now outty! The_wolfdog@hotmail.com