Chapter 2

Koinu had had the best birthday ever. She spent all day with her brother, which was unusual. Then they had her favorite food for dinner, ramen. Then there was a big party in which she was given gifts and hugs. All in all, not a bad day but now it was time for bed. What's better, her, inuyasha jr. and miroku jr. got to camp out under the stars.

The next morning, koinu awoke with the sun, it was rising. She got up and headed for the hut she called home, to get some breakfast. She knew her father was already up, he was always awake at sunup. Always.

When the hut came into view, she saw smoke rising from it. ' I wonder, is dad cooking breakfast?' as she drew closer, she noticed parts of the roof were missing and the front wall was knocked down.

When she made it to the hut, she found the cause of the smoke. It was on fire. Koinu heard screaming coming from inside. "Mom!" she was about to run in when a hand appeared on her shoulder. She turned to see her older brother.

"Moms trapped inside! We have to help her!" inuyasha jr. looked her strait in the eye and said "I'll help mom and dad while you wait here for miroku jr. Got that?" koinu shook her head yes and her older brother was gone, into the burning hut.

When inuyasha jr. first got in the hut, he couldn't see a thing but soon his eyes adjusted to the light. He covered his mouth with the sleeve of his father's harorai. He stepped over debris and junk until he came to his parents room. He entered to find his father on the floor, bleeding badly and his mother being held in the air by a shadowy figure.

He ran over to his father and rolled him on his back. Inuyasha jr. checked his fathers pulse, he didn't have one. Inuyasha jr. then looked toward his mother. Just then the shadowed figure gained a face.

The man whore a baboon pelt and mask. He heard him say something. "Look, kagome, your son has come to say goodbye." His mother looked at him, and opened her mouth to say something but was stopped. "Now you will die and give me what was rightfully mine!" the man then drove his hand into kagome's side and pulled out a pink jewel.

Inuyasha jr. didn't know or care what it was but that man had killed his father and hurt his mother, he wasn't going to let him go unscathed. He slashed at the man with his claws, injuring only his hand, the one with the pink thing.

"You most certainly are inuyahsa's son. Hear this boy. I Naraku, have gained the shikon jewel and I shall become ruler of the world! Kukukuku!" With that, the man vanished and so did the fire.

Inuyasha jr. ran over to his mother and lifted her off the floor. "Mom, are you going to be ok?" Kagome looked at her son and said, "No, no one is if naraku has the sacred jewel. You and your sister must get it back from him."

Inuyasha jr. looked at him mother before something shiny caught his eye. He bent over and picked it up. It was half of that pink thing that man had taken out of his mother. "You have half of it, that's good." He looked at his mother quizzically.

"You mean that this, this thing here is half of the sacred jewel that you and dad told me about?" his mother nodded her head. "Yes, now hurry. Before naraku learns he only has half of it. Go." "But mom..." "Go! And tell your sister that I love her very much. I love you and so does your father, good bye son." With that, kagome died.

Inuyasha jr. set his mother down and said a prayer for his parents. As he walked out of the hut, he tripped over something.

When he looked to see what it was, he saw miroku jr.'s parents. They were huddled together, he checked for pluses but didn't find any. He said a prayer for them and then left.