DISCLAIMER: I still don't own InuYasha. DVDs yes, show no.

Twenty-nine Days

Chapter 4

The next morning when Kagome woke up, she heard Miroku and Inuyasha talking.

"I am going." Miroku said.

"Fine, but don't expect any special treatment!"

"I don't." Miroku walked through the door to where Kagome, Sango, and Shippou were laying.

"Are you sure that you will be ok?" Sango asked, the worry in her eyes betraying her straight face.

"Yes."

"Come on this has to be the tenth break we have taken in an hour!" Inuyasha barked trying to get everyone up. He was anxious today; he always was on the night of a new moon.

"Wh-" Sango started, but was silenced by the look on Inuyasha's face. She looked around; the forest was quiet, too quiet (AN sorry couldn't help it).

"A shard." Kagome whispered.

"Where!"

"There, behind you!"

Just as she uttered the words a giant snake crashed through the brush. Its foot long fangs glistened with poison and its 22-foot body was midnight blue with jagged pink bands. The glittering violet eyes were waxy and clear. Kagome was positive that this is what had a Shikon shard.

"Sankon Tetsusou!!!" Inuyasha yelled slashing the youkai's face. The massive head slammed into the dirt with force that caused a mini earthquake. Kagome ran up to the demon, and easily pulled the Shikon shard from its forehead.

The moment this was done the youkai shrank back into human form. The woman laid, face-up in the dirt, unmoving. She had red hair and violet eyes. She looked to be tall; her deep blue skirt reaching to her ankles and had a pink sword sheath from which hung a sword. Her top was long and had a pink sash that went across her chest and under her left arm.

The group stared at her wondering what to do. Inuyasha was first to approach her; he prodded her with his foot and cautiously shook her.

"Miss." Miroku said, joining Inuyasha now that it was safe. "Miss?"

The demon sat up and eyed them all with contempt. "Who are you?"

"Um, I'm Kagome. This is Sango, Inuyasha, Miroku, and Shippou. And you are?"

"Ringhali."

"Well Ringhali! Its very nice to meet you! I have to tell you, you are the most beautiful woman I have ever seen! Can I ask you a question?" Miroku piped up. Sango whacked him with her boomerang before he could finish his statement. One of these days that's going to get him killed.

"Thank you." Ringhali stood and began to leave.

"Wait, why are you thanking us? We took your shard?" Shippou asked.

"It was never mine." Her voice was as cold as ice and even Inuyasha looked at her with interest. "It belonged to my dear fiancé."

"What happened to him?" Kagome asked, moving closer to her.

"Nothing. He is exactly as I met him. An arrogant piece of shit, with nothing but that damn jewel as a heart." She turned her back on them and continued, "My father betrothed us. Father was out of money and wasn't very strong, and this man offered a lot to marry me, but it wasn't me he wanted. It was my power to use as he saw fit. He put that shard in me the day we met, and controlled me. I...I killed my own father....but I could help it my body was no longer mine! The others at least didn't remember what or whom they had destroyed, but I was the exception, I had to remember and live with it. Those others were lucky, the boy in particular, to have forgotten." Her shoulders slumped, but she shook it off and turned back toward them.

"Who was you fiancé?" Sango asked taking a step closer.

"A man named Naraku."

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