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Chapter 3
Joining the team.

Jade saw the villagers find the little boy and the wolf demon's body from a safe distance where they could not see her. She then turned back and walked to the clearing. Jade was wondering what she was going to do now that the demon she had been hunting for the past few weeks was dead when suddenly she noticed that Inuyasha and Kagome were still in the clearing.

"Jade we noticed that you were a pretty skilled fighter, especially with a sword and we were wondering if you would like to come with us and help us look for the Shikon Jewel fragments?" Kagome asked when she saw Jade walk into the clearing.

"Fine. As a matter of fact here take these, I don't need them." Jade said tossing a small cloth at Kagome. Kagome opened the cloth and inside there was three jewel fragments.

"Jade how did you get these?" Inuyasha asked looking at her suspiciously.

"I travel around from village to village slaying demons and I happened to come across three that had jewel fragments, so I killed them." Jade said starting to get annoyed with Inuyasha.

"Where are you from?" Kagome asked.

"It doesn't matter, I'm not going back." Jade said turning her back on Kagome and Inuyasha. "If you guys let me go with you, you must under stand that once a month on the full moon my wolf instincts take over and I always end up killing everyone around me which means that once a month I will disappear."

"Ok, don't worry we understand." Kagome said soothing Jade.

"You know I never did catch your names." Jade said looking at Inuyasha and Kagome.

"I'm Inuyasha and that's Kagome." Inuyasha said irritably.

Jade glared at Inuyasha, she was becoming more and more annoyed with him by the minute and as if that didn't help she was injured by the wolf demon and it happened to have poisonous fangs.

"Jade you're injured." Kagome said pointing out the cut on Jade's arm. Jade just opened a bag on her side, pulled out a vial that contained a clear blue liquid and drank it. Just then the wound on her arm disappeared immediately.

Inuyasha and Kagome looked at Jade in pure shock and they were also wondering how she got her hands on a potion that was so powerful. Jade noticed the looks on their faces and immediately explained.

"When I was a young girl after my mother died my father took me to a palace were I was taught how to be a lead warrior in war, the princess's most trusted advisor and protector and last but not least I was trained in the way of a priestess. It was an exchange for shelter and protection from the pack of wolves that kicked my father and me out because my mom was a human."

"That's horrible why would a wolf pack kick out their own member?" Kagome said.

"Because their own wolf demon betrayed the pack by marrying a normal human and having a half demon child with her. Is that right Jade?" Inuyasha said.

Jade nodded her head, but she was looking down at the ground with the look of pure shame on her face.

"Hey, it's not your fault that the pack didn't want you the only thing they did was loose a great warrior." Kagome said cheering Jade up greatly and making Jade smile.

"Hey, um. Kagome do you or Inuyasha know very much about swords?" Jade asked kind of nervously.

"Well Inuyasha and I do know a little bit about swords, why?" Kagome said.

"Do you think you could take a look at my sword. It's not that I am curious about it or anything but if you look at it, it will have the answers to a lot of you questions." Jade said holding out her sword, still in it's sheath.

Inuyasha took Jade's sword in one hand, then he took off the sheath and after a few minutes of studying the sword his eyes opened wide in surprise.

"Jade how did you get this?" Inuyasha asked suspiciously.

"It was given to me a long time ago." Jade said simply.

"What is there that is so surprising about the sword?" Kagome asked apparently lost between the conversations.

Inuyasha bent down, whispered something in her ear and then not to long afterwards Kagome's eyes opened wide in surprise.

"Jade do you know the history of this sword?" Kagome asked.

"Yes I do, but I just wanted you guys to know the background of the sword too." Jade said.

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An: What is the history of Jade's sword? (I just love to leave things hanging like that!) So how was that chap. ^_^ I know it was longer than the others but I have a lot of time on my hands and I was bored silly. Plz. R&R if I get 3 or less reviews I will write the next chap.

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