Chapter 2 Rin and I were playing with a little red ball that I conjured up when Sesshoumaru asked if he and I could talk.

"Why does mommy have to go, daddy?" asked Rin.

"Because she and I have to talk."

"Oh ok."

Sesshoumaru told me to follow him and jumped up into a tree and started jumping from branch to branch. I followed, and soon we came to my old village. I stared at it. It was ruined. The buildings were no more than small piles of rubble, and there was bodies strewn about. I realized one of my powers and asked Sesshoumaru to stay back and let me do something. I walked out into the middle of the ruined village and spread out my arms. I felt for my power and prepared myself to pass out.

I watched as Suzume went to the middle of the village. I could sense her preparing herself for pain, and then there was a bright flash of green light. As it faded, I stared. The buildings that were just piles of rubble had returned to their original states. The people were starting to sit up and rub their heads. Suzume looked around, smiling slightly, and passed out.

When she awoke, I was by her, shaking her and telling her to wake up. She immediately tried to sit up, but, from the look on her face, she was too dizzy. I helped her to stand.

As Sesshoumaru helped me to stand, I saw all the people I slaughtered rise and rub their heads. One wasn't getting up, however. I walked over to her, with Sesshoumaru's help, and looked at her.

"She was too close to me when I transformed"

"Being too close does all this?"

Her body was torn to shreds. Her legs were separated from the rest of her body, and they were like two sticks of red, stringy flesh torn into bits. The same was for her arms. Her face was not recognizable, but then I noticed something: a blue-beaded bracelet around what was left of her wrist.

"No" I whispered.

"Did you know her?"

"Yes, she was my only real friend"

I bowed my head over her and started to cry. My tears just fell on her ruined body. Suddenly, a light started to glow where my tears hit.

"What the..."

Her flesh knitted back together, her bones flew back into her sockets, and her skin reappeared. She sat up, and her eyelids fluttered open.

"Suzume?"

"Akia!"'

We hugged, and I was so happy that she was back. The whole time, Sesshoumaru was looking astonished at me. I turned around and looked at him, and was shocked to see that much expression on his face. We just kind of looked at each other for a little while, and then we nodded. I picked up Akia, and pinned her to my back by wrapping her up in my tail. Sesshoumaru and I jumped from tree to tree, heading back towards camp. I did not look back.

(Rin) When Suzume and Sessy came back, I wanted to play some more with my new mommy, Suzume. For some reason, Sessy gave me this odd look whenever I called her mommy. Oh well...

"Yay! Mommy! Daddy! You're back!" (Again, Sessy gave me the weird look). As soon as I saw the lady on mommy's back, I asked," Who's that?"

"She is my friend," replied mom," Akia, this is Rin. Rin, this is Akia."

"Hi!"

"Well hello"

Akia was kind of pretty, but not as pretty as mommy. She had shoulder- length brown hair and greenish-blue eyes. She wasn't especially thin, but not fat either. Her hands showed she had never even touched a sword, much less wielded one. Now mom, on the other hand, had thigh-long jet black hair with bright blue streaks, a black, shiny tail, and sapphire blue eyes. She also had neat irridecant wings and two bright blue stripes on her face and arms that matched her eyes and hair. She was also SKINNY.

"Mommy, will you play with me?"

"Sure Rin, but I will be talking to Akia while I play, ok?" "Ok!" I said happily.

Mommy conjured up a ball, and we started to play.

Sesshoumaru

I watched as Suzume and Rin played and then started thinking about Rin calling me "daddy" and Suzume "mommy". Did she know what that implied? I knew Suzume did from the shocked look she gave Rin when she first called her mommy. I started thinking about Suzume for some reason. It seemed to me like I paid more attention and cared for her a lot, and I mean a lot! In fact, I wondered if I would die for her, as I would Rin. Akia and Suzume talked for a while, and from the looks Akia was giving Suzume, they were talking about Suzume's transformation. It was hard for me to believe that a sweet, innocent looking dog-demon like her could become something so deadly. Just then, Suzume put her hand out, palm up, explaining something to Akia, and a tree behind Akia exploded into flames. I knew Suzume had not meant to do that, because there was a startled and confused look on her face. No one was hurt, but we were all surprised. At that moment, the poisonous bugs came (the ones that poison Miroku's kazaana) from nowhere. Suzume

The bugs were everywhere, and so I decided to see if I could make some of them blow up, as I had the tree. I put my hand the way it was before, and it worked! But, instead of it only killing a few, like I thought it would, it burned ALL of them!

"Whoa," I said under my breath.

Sesshoumaru just looked at me. In fact, everyone looked at me. I looked at my hands.

"I didn't know I could do all that," I said.

"Neither did I. And, I don't think they did either," Sesshoumaru said and pointed to Jaken, Akia, and Rin, who were all still staring at me.

"Ahem," I said, and they stopped staring.

"Mommy?"

"Yes Rin?"

"You're.........................cool! That was awesome!"

Inuyasha (With Inuyasha and Kagome)

When Kagome closed her eyes and squeezed the jewel fragments, she disappeared. I looked around, but she was gone! But, a few seconds later, she returned. I ran up and hugged her, and then I noticed something. She had dog-ears! I pushed her away to get a better look at her. She had two locks of hair around her face, two slited eyes, longer nails, and, of course, the ears. Just then, she smiled (showing fangs), and something tapped me on the shoulder from behind. I quickly turned around and saw a black, shiny tail. I followed to where it came from, and I was astonished to find that it came from Kagome! She smiled, and we hugged.
Later that night, we heard a loud, blood-curdling scream. We both jumped up and ran as fast as we could to get Sango, Miroku, and Shippo ( and Kirara of course!) and ran towards the origin of the scream. We came out of the woods and saw Sesshoumaru, bloodied and bruised, staring up at a huge demon. As I watched, I saw a flying figure soar up to its hand, and saw Rin, the girl Sesshoumaru loved and took care of. The demon roared, and its hand dropped to the ground, sliced off at the wrist. Rin climbed out and ran to hide behind Jaken. The figure landed, and I saw that it was a girl. A full-blooded dog-demon girl! Whoa! Why was she here with Sesshoumaru?!

Sesshoumaru yelled to me and said," Inuyasha! We may have been enemies for all of our lives, but please, please help!"

I was almost to stunned to move. I nodded at him, and waved to Kagome and everyone to follow me. I pulled out Tetsieuga. I was going to need it.

Sesshoumaru

I called to Inuyasha for help. I had admitted to myself that I loved my little brother. Een though I had been trying to killed him; I never had the guts to deal the final blow. He had stared at me, then nodded. I was really relieved because I knew Suzume was bleeding-badly. Her normally black training suit was cut and turning crimson from the heavy amount of sticky, warm blood. She sprouted her wings, and even they were turning red. Surprisingly, she wasn't showing any pain.

Suzume

I was in serious pain. I was bleeding from a shoulder wound, a leg wound, and a back wound. I was NOT going to show my pain to the demon, however. On its shoulders were Kagura and Kanna, and it was an incarnation as well, for it had a spider on its back. I drew my katana, the Flaming Dragon Blades, and they transformed into two flaming sticks that roared like the dragons that they had been created from.

"Come and get me," I whispered, and then leaped, holding my blades, about to strike.