InuYasha went inside Kaede's hut. "Hey old woman!" He yelled.

"I am not hard of hearing, half demon!"

"There is a demon exterminator that I found that needs a place to sleep. Can she stay with us?"

"Sure. Did you already find a replacement to Kagome? She only left a little while ago."

"No! She has not had a place to sleep in three years."

"Well let her stay here."

"Kay."

InuYasha stuck his head out of the door.

"MEGUMI GET OVER HERE!"

"That is no way to speak to a maiden, InuYasha." Kaede scorned him.

"Well Megumi is not a 'maiden'!"

Megumi hit the back of InuYasha's head with the sheath of her sword.

"What in the seven hells did you do that for?"

"Since when is there seven?" Megumi retied her sheath to her obi.

"Shut up!"

Kaede walked out of her hut towards them. She threw her arms into the air. "Stop your bickering."

Megumi bowed toward Kaede, ignoring InuYasha.

 "Where did Miroku and Sango go?"

"I asked Lady Sango to get some rice for me, Miroku followed."

InuYasha laughed. "He will never learn."

Meumi stood there in shock. "Did you say Sango?"

InuYasha looked over at her. "Yes I did."

"Is she your demon exterminator friend?"

"Uh yeah."

"Oh my Kami! Oh my Kami! I can not believe it.!"

"What is up with you?" InuYasha asked.

"Sango and I used to belong to the same village, we were best friends."

"Whoa that is strange."

"She will be back soon, you two can see each other once again." Kaede said softly. Megumi bit her thumbnail. She hasn't seen Sango since the first demon fight they has ever had. The day Kousuke died. The day she swore that she would never love again. She never said goodbye to her. How would she react when they saw each other again?

15 minutes later a loud crash was heard outside the door.

"PERVERT!"

"I swear I did not touch you this time."

Inuyasha glanced toward the doorway. "They are back."

Megumi twisted her finger around the finger of her other hand out of nervousness. She looked at the ground.

Sango and Miroku walked in to the hut. Sango was furious and Miroku was holding a rather large bump on his head. InuYasha laughed. Sango glared at him so he shut up. Sango noticed Megumi but thought of her as just a girl InuYasha had brought home.

"InuYasha, do you get that desperate when Kagome leaves you?" She grinned.

"What?! I don't care for Kagome. I don't care if she ever comes back!"

"Riight!"

"Feh. Actually this girl needed a place to stay so I told her she could stay here."

Sango shrugged. She knelt down next to her. "Hello my name is Sango what is your name?"

The girl threw her arms around Sango's next ands cried on her shoulder.

Sango looked at InuYasha. He shrugged. She looked back at her.

"Sango…it's really you!"

"…Yes. Do I know you?"

The girl pulled back but still did not look into her eyes. She wiped the tears off her cheek. "You don't remember me?"

Sango paused. "Not really."

Megumi pulled her blade attached to a chain in front of Sango without making eye contact.

"Wait." Sango studied the weapon.

Megumi raised her eyes to meet Sango.

Sango put her hands over her mouth.

"Remember me now?"

Sango nodded. "What happened to you? I thought I would never see you again."

"My father kicked me out. So I left."

"I would have let you stay with me."

"I thought that I had betrayed the village."

"Well, in some people's eyes but not mine."

Megumi smiled then hugged her.

"Where did you go?"

"I wandered around the forest for awhile. Went around from place to place. I joined another demon exterminator village, all they rewarded me with was food and clothing. They didn't really like me so they wouldn't let me live in the village. SO I slept in trees in the forest nearby."

"Are you telling me that you have lived outside for the past three years?!"

"Yup."

"Megumi!"

"What?"

"That is crazy you could have been killed."

"Well I haven't yet so it is fine."

"Good thing InuYasha found you."

"Yeah I guess."

InuYasha and Miroku looked at each other. Miroku shrugged. InuYasha scratched the back of his head in confusion.

Suddenly Shippo and Kirara walked in. Megumi saw him out of the corner of her eye. She ran over to the corner of her eye. She ran over to him and pointed her sword at his throat. Every piece of fur on his body stood straight up.

"Demon!" Megumi muttered.

Sango yelled. "He is our friend."

Megumi placed her sword back into its sheath and smiled. She held out her hand to him. "Hello my name is Megumi what is yours?"

"S-S-S-Shippo." He shook it slowly.

"Nice to meet you."

Shippo swallowed hard.

InuYasha rolled on his back laughing. Shippo glared at him. He then looked at Sango. "Who is she?"

Sango smiled. "A friend, an old friend."

Megumi smiled and seemed occupied by brushing her finger through the end of her braid.