Ki: WOOHOO!! Chapter 2 Yay! The story is under way and Koinu is gonna spill the beans about herself, well just ΒΌ the can, that won't come till later chapters.

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The Stranger

Chapter 2: You Fight Like A Girl

After everyone calmed down Kagome took them all to the riverside to relax. Shippo was lazily perched on a large rock licking a lollipop when something strange happened. Koinu began to stare at Shippo and watch his every move. She seemed to be examining him to identify him. "Why are you staring at me?" Shippo asked in his usual childish manner. "You seem very familiar. The girl in the old school uniform called you Shippo, right?" Koinu responded. "Of course she did, it is my name." Shippo replied. "Tell me this, you are an orphan aren't you," Shippo bowed his head answering Koinu's question. "And you are a Kitsune kit too?" Shippo nodded his head. "Now, I have one final question. Do you or do you not use illusions to protect yourself?" Koinu politely asked. "How do you know so much about me? We just met a while ago." Shippo asked in awe and confusion at the accuracy Koinu, whom he had only met a few hours ago, possessed at describing him. "That's what you think." Koinu said without thinking, and after hearing what she had just said she began to curse at herself. "I meant to say I have heard of you as well." Koinu said in her defense. "Oh, okay!" Shippo said in belief of Koinu's cover-up.

After a while of relaxation Koinu and InuYasha suddenly jumped to the tops of two large trees and began to smell the air. "Youkai!" Koinu said in an amused tone. "Why are you so happy?" InuYasha asked. "I haven't fought in weeks; well I haven't fought a youkai in weeks." Koinu explained impatiently. "What's that suppose to mean." InuYasha asked. "Just three days before my mother made me come here there was a group of thugs that came downtown. They caused some trouble, but after I kicked their asses they left in a hurry." Koinu said.

Then, as though out of nowhere, the youkai appeared. It was a gargantuan firebird. It was a vivacious shade of orange-red, with an elongated tail that illuminated a beautiful yellow. Its wings were about 10 feet long. Koinu was very amused with the thought of a fight and was ready to strike, but out of nowhere InuYasha was leaping directly over her head and beheading the firebird with one swift strike of Tetsusiga. "What the hell did you do that for?!" Koinu yelled from behind InuYasha. "I killed the youkai, more than you probably could have done." InuYasha replied. Just then the youkai erupted into flames and blew away in a cloud of ashes.

"I could've killed it myself; I certainly didn't need your help. UGGHHHH!! You're just like that arrogant fox, always have to take all the glory, and can't let someone else have some fun, especially not a girl. UGGHHHHH!!!" Koinu yelled to a very confused InuYasha. "What the hell are you talking about, the only fox youkai around is Shippo, and he couldn't even harm a fly, besides if you want to have fun why don't you go somewhere else." InuYasha yelled back.

Kagome noticed that Koinu and InuYasha weren't really making any progress in the friend's category, but exceeding quite well in the rival category, which was easily noticed due to the fact that they were currently at each other's throats. Noticing this Kagome did the only thing she could do "SIT!" BAM InuYasha fell face first into the ground before anything fatal could happen. "My God you two are worse than siblings fighting over a remote." Kagome yelled at the two who currently were holding their heads down in shame like a couple of three-year olds, which suited their earlier actions quite well. Koinu shot her head up and responded by saying, "I don't even know why I agreed to come with you, besides you fight like a girl!!" the last comment was clearly directed towards InuYasha, who replied by saying, "What the fuck is that suppose to mean."

"All I've seen you do is fight with that stupid sword. Why don't you fight like a youkai and use your natural abilities?" Koinu yelled her response.

"I'd like to see you fight a powerful youkai without using some kind of weapon!" InuYasha screamed with furry.

"Really, why don't I fight you now and show you how a real youkai fights?" Koinu screamed back. "Such big words coming from someone who is only one-fourth youkai." InuYasha said while taunting Koinu. "BOTH OF YOU STOP!!" Kagome had had enough and was really starting to show it, "Can you both please, just stop fighting? Come on I think I sensed a shard of the Shikon no Tama coming from the north." Koinu gave one last frown at InuYasha and began to follow Kagome.

"Kagome, can I ask you a question?" Koinu asked Kagome as they were walking. "You just did, but go ahead ask away." Kagome replied. "What did you mean by a shard of the Shikon no Tama?" Koinu continued. "I thought you would know. You are from the future?" Kagome responded. "I heard stories of a time when the jewel was shattered into numerous pieces, but I didn't think that was this era." Koinu told Kagome. "Well, it is in this era. I'm the sworn protector of the jewel an, well since it was kind of my fault it was shattered and I'm the only one who can sense the shards we're searching for the pieces before they fall into the hand of an evil greedy youkai, or hanyou." Kagome explained.

"No your not." Koinu blurted out without thinking. "Excuse me, what do you mean no I'm not?" Kagome said in a rather confused manner. "I probably shouldn't be telling you this but I sense it too." Kagome gave a skeptical look to Koinu," Don't believe me? Fine, you have two shards in a small container made out of glass and the monk has about three in his robes." Koinu explained.

"Oh yeah, and I have this." Koinu said while taking out something from her back pack and showed it to Kagome. It was a small box made of silver with incantations engraved on it. "I'm sorry but what is so special about this box, other than it looks pure silver?" Kagome asked. "It is pure silver. That's not the point though. Now if I show you this do you promise not to freak out or tell anyone?" Koinu said while unlocking with a small key she had on a chain. "Of course I won't freak out or scream." Kagome told Koinu. Then Koinu opened the box. Kagome couldn't believe her eyes inside the small box was a complete Shikon no Tama.

"How? Why couldn't I sense it till you opened the box? .... How?" Kagome said in awe and confusion as to how a complete stranger could have what looked to be the Shikon no Tama. "It's from my future," Koinu explained in a hushed voice, "The box prevents anyone from sensing it. My Mother made it to aid me in my journey protecting the jewel in this time. She said that there were many youkai in this era that would do anything for even the smallest piece of the jewel."

"She wasn't lying." Kagome said with all too much experience on the subject.

After a while of walking the group finally made it back to Kaede's hut. "Looks like the old hag isn't here, but she should be back soon." InuYasha said while entering Kaede's hut and beginning to take a seat. "We should wait till Kaede gets back to see if she knows who you're looking for, Okay?" Kagome said while turning towards Koinu, "Kaede knows a lot of people; maybe she could help find who you're looking for?" "Whatever, the sooner I find who I'm looking for the sooner I can go back to my life." Koinu said with a bored look on her face.

Everyone took a comfortable seat around the fire in Kaede's hut and relaxed their tired muscles. "So Koinu, now that your going to be traveling with us why don't you tell us a bit more about yourself?" Miroku asked. "Sure, why not?" was Koinu's response. This got a small squeak of joy out of Kagome, who did a little victory dance 'way to go Miroku'.

"Umm... I guess I should start with my family." Koinu said while looking around at the others who just nodded, all except InuYasha, who just 'keh'ed in the corner of Kaede's hut. "Let's see...hmmm. Well I have a twin brother named Koinu Yasha. He is about as tall as dog-boy and has silver hair too, but his has streaks of black in it, we got black hair from our mother, anyways, he's got ears that are completely silver except at the tips. The tips are black. And there's our little sister Izzy she looks human except she's got claws and fangs."

"What about your mother and father?" Sango asked. "I'd rather not talk about them, but I could tell you a bit about Popo."

"Popo?" everyone said in unison. "He is a family friend. His parents were killed when he was little and when he met my mom and dad he traveled with them. He is about ten years older than me, but since he is a full demon he only looks about one year older than me. He used to play with me and my brother when we were little, but now that we're older he just hangs out with Yasha while I go off with my friends."

"Do you have someone special?" Miroku was the one to speak this time, and what he had said got him a very large bump on his head. "What was that for Sango dearest?"

"Don't ask questions like that, pervert." Sango said to Miroku. "It's okay I don't mind. The answer is no, it's not that no one asks, it's just there's no one I like that way." Koinu said, after she was more acquainted with everyone she was a lot more pleasant and a bit cheerful. "What about Popo? He seems nice." Kagome quickly questioned. This got a slight blush from Koinu, "He's nice and all, but he can be really arrogant at times and he's also very cautious. I'm too wild for him, and besides he's more of a big brother to me."

"Oh, well what about you and your brother, how do you get along with him?" Kagome asked.

"My mom says we act more like best friends, especially when we fight because ten seconds after it's over we apologize and start having fun again. She says she's not sure where we got our maturity from, both she and my father were very stubborn around our age." Koinu stated. A few minutes later Kaede came back and was surprised to see the new addition to the group. "Who might ye be child?" Kaede asked. "This is Koinu Ashura, Kaede-sama. She is from the future as well, but she is from a future further than Kagome's." Sango answered. "I see, what might you be Koinu?" Kaede asked. "Excuse me?" Koinu answered confused. "What might you be, youkai, hanyou?"

"Oh, neither. I'm only one-fourth youkai. My father is an inu hanyou and my mother is a miko." Was Koinu's answer.

"Do you posses any powers yourself?" Kaede asked. "Don't be stupid you old hag how on earth can someone with youkai blood possibly have holy powers." InuYasha told Kaede gruffly. "It was only a question which I wanted to ask; because of a prophecy I read very long ago when I was training to become a miko." Kaede responded. "I think I've read that prophecy before." Koinu said. "From where did you read it child?" Kaede asked. "I think my mom told me about it before, but I don't remember when." Koinu answered then turned to Kagome and asked, "Kagome, can we go and search now?"

"Sure, InuYasha let's go." Kagome said while heading for the exit still facing everyone. "Keh, I'm not going anywhere she's going." Was InuYasha's answer. "Fine, come on Koinu I know, Sango would you like to come along?" Kagome said while readying herself. "No, I think I better stay and make sure Shippo is out of harms way." Sango answered.

"It's okay, I understand. Come on I think I know someone who could help us." Kagome responded then exited the hut. Koinu, who was still in the hut turned to InuYasha before exiting and said, "If you don't want to help that's fine. I wonder who Kagome is going to get to help us, maybe someone you know. Does Kagome have a boyfriend or someone she fancies around here?" After this was said InuYasha's brain came up with the only answer to the questions Koinu had asked.

Ki: MWAHAHAHAHA!!! I am the most evilest person in the world.

Shi: No your not Sesshomaru and Naraku are tied for that position.

Tsumi-chan: Hey! Maru-chan is not evil. He's just misunderstood.

Ki: Yeah, Yeah! Whatever. Tell me how you like it and maybe I'll update faster.