Okay, I'm sorry that it's been soooooo long since my last chapter, but I just have been having too much on my mind lately, lots of thinking and things to do… School, Girls, you know the drill.

Chapt. 14, The Newcomer Arrives

"INUYASHA!!!" Kagome screamed. In the blink of an eye, Kouga was down on the ground, Tetsusaiga in someone else's hand…

"Wh-who are you?" Kagome said sacredly.

"My name is Shikouti, and I don't think we have any more time to talk, your friend here is in really bad shape." He pointed to Inuyasha. There was a loud coughing noise that just kept coming, like a rasping voice.

"I'm okay, cough, cough I just need to rest a bit." choked Inuyasha. He took tetsusaiga from Shikouti's hand, and it turned back into the demon fang. He stabbed Kouga through the chest, and watched as his body dissipated and the shikon fragments appear, as Kagome ran over to them and grabbed them and put them in her little glass jar.

Kagome ran into Inuyasha's arms. "Inuyasha, I thought you wouldn't make it…" then she turned to Shikouti, "Thanks to you, Inuyasha survived, how can I ever repay you?"

Shikouti's answer was simply. "Let me come with you."

Kagome thought a moment as to why he would want to come with them. "Okay." She said happily, seeing no point as to not letting him. Then they returned to the group. Sango, Miroku, and Shippo were pacing around waiting for them to come back. Sango blushed at the sight of Shikouti. She walked up to him and hugged him. Miroku looked at him suspiciously.

"Who's this new guy?" Miroku eyed him over. He looked to suspicious. Sango walked right up to the monk.

"He's my boyfriend, is that okay with you?" Sango didn't notice, but the others sure did. There was such a pain in Miroku it looked as though he were going to collapse on the spot and die. Inuyasha knew that look, because he had had the same one when "Kagome" said she hated him. Of course he knew that it was actually Kikyo, but he didn't know that originally. He imagined what must've been going through the monk's head.

"Well, it's been nice meeting you, Shikouti, but we have to be going now." Miroku said coldly. He turned around, then noticed no one was following him. He turned around, death in his eyes. "Why aren't we moving?"

"Because," Kagome said, "He has requested to come with us, and since he saved Inuyasha's life, he said that was the one thing he wanted."

"No…" Miroku whispered. He turned around so no one could see the anger and fury in his face. He looked ready to kill.

Well, Miroku's kinda jealous, huh? Find out what will happen next time.

Next time, on Inuyasha: Suspicious Eyes.