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Author's Notes: Sorry it has been a while since I updated. Enjoy!

Only Love can make a Difference
Author: Emilee1

Chapter 8: The New Moon and a New Ally or Foe

'Damn..."Inuyasha looked down at his claws. They started to shorten and his hair started to turn black in color.

'Why did it have to be tonight. This is just another reason I want to become a full fledged demon.'

Kagome started to walk his way. Inuyasha covered his head with his gi trying to hide his form.

"Inuyasha? What are you doing?"Kagome asked reaching toward him.

"Stay away!"He shouted slapping her hand away.

"Inuyasha what is wrong? This isn't like you."

He sighed and removed the gi from his head. His ears had disappeared, his hair was black, his eyes were brown, and his claws had shortened.

"W-what happened?"She gasped covering her mouth with her hand.

"I don't want to talk about that right now."He walked off leaving her standing there.

Myoga jumped onto Kagome's shoulder. "Look up at the moon. As you can see it is the new moon. For every half demon there is one given night that they lose their powers and become human."

"So Inuyasha's night is the night of the new moon?"

"Yes and he has always dreaded the night his powers would diminish. He has also been afraid as well."

"Afraid? I could never imagine him to be afraid."

They heard the sound of thunder and looked in the sky seeing lightning striking in all places.

"That must be Matoshiro! I wonder what is happening."Kagome and Myoga ran to where Matoshiro was. There was a girl and a cat demon. The girl had on armor, and her weapong included a sword and a giant boomerang. She appeared as if she were a demon slayer. The cat was large and yellow in color. It had black rings around its legs and tail and red eyes.

Inuyasha saw the lightning as well and ran as fast as he could.

Myoga jumped off of Kagome's shoulder and ran away.

Inuyasha finally arrived. "What is going on?!"

While Matoshiro was fighting he explained. "The girl asked me if I had a sacred jewel shard. I told her that I didn't but she didn't believe me."

"Hirakotsu!"The girl shouted and Matoshiro was hit against a tree knocking him out.

Inuyasha jumped in front of her. "I am the one you want. I posess the sacred jewel shard you desire so you will have to fight me for it."

"You are just a human. You are not even a demon. I can slay demons so you will be easy to push aside."

"Try me! Because when that sun comes up you will be begging for mercy."

"Hirakotsu!"She threw the boomerang and it barely missed Inuyasha but it came back around and nailed him in the back. Then the cat jumped forward and tackled him.

"Inuyasha! Get up!"Kagome yelled checking on Matoshiro.

He tried but the weight of the cat was crushing him.

'Damn. If I was a demon I would not have this problem, but this just had to happen now.

"Kirara, down."The cat got off of him and the girl walked over.

Inuyasha barely made it to his feet. She pulled a powder out of her sleeve and threw it in his face.

He started to cough and he could hardly breathe.

"It is poison powder, and the way it looks now you only have a minute or two to live. So just hand over the jewel shard."

"Nev...er."

He fell to the ground and coughed rapidly. He tried to stop but he couldn't breathe.

'I can't give up! Not now. I have to fight on!'

He struggled and everything started to become blurry. Then a string of light shown throughout the forest.

Inuyasha started to revert back to a demon. He stood up and smiled.

"I told you that when the sun came up you will be begging for mercy."

'How did he survive my poison?'The girl thought. "I am not begging am I?"

"You soon will!"He jumped forward with his claws outstretched.

She shielded herself with her boomerang but Inuyasha jumped off of it and drew his sword.

'If I can hit the windscar then she will be begging.'

He saw the windscar and slashed through it.

The cat jumped in front of the girl as the blast hit them.

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