Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha and Co. But Shimiko and Yori are mine. These mean that the character is thinking. ' '

These mean that the character is talking. " "

Chapter 4: Defeated or Not By InuShemeeko
Shimiko pulled her mangled body of the ground. She was already pissed off and this demon wasn't helping out any.

"You bastard. I don't have time to mess around with you."

She held her stance and charged the demon head on. Her claws stretched ready to attack.

"Bloody Claw Swipe!

Shimiko's claw ripped through the side of the snake demon's head. Instead of falling to the ground dead the wound pulled its self closed. Shimiko landed gently on the ground. She was trying to mind the huge wound in her side. Blood was staining the forest green top, as well as the light blue pants she wore. Shimiko focused hard on the demon her amber-green eyes burning a light blue, that's when she saw the two shards.

"So that's what's making you so strong hey ugly?"

She whipped her bone staff in front of her and braced it in front of her. That's when the snake decided to strike. Shimiko leapt into the air, her shoulder length bronze hair flowing behind her. She focused her senses toward the snake; she was trying to find those strange Tama shards. They felt nothing like pieces for the Ruri Tama. Shimiko sneered up at the demon.

"You missed me, care to try again?"

A tall shadow watched from a distance, his long bronze and white streaked hair blowing in the wind. He then looked up at the sky the sun was about to set. Yasahiro watched the battle from a distance. Every fiber in his being made him want to go too her aid. He knew how much his half sister would despise him if he moved a finger to help her. She had always been like that; growing up she took all the stares she had gotten in strides. However, the villagers that lived in the village they had protected had always given them a great amount of respect. For the priests who had lived there had made their mother the village's protector.

Yes their mother had willingly let the priest bind her to the village and the Ruri Tama. He had placed a magic seal on the back of her left shoulder, forever binding her to protect the village. Yasahiro's father hadn't thought much of it and had left her. Before doing so he had removed the mark he had made on her neck years ago. Yasahiro had been appalled that his father had disowned his mother so quickly. He had sworn to himself that he would never let anything happen to his mother again. Yasahiro smiled to him self.

'Yes, Hoshi, mother you broke the one promise you said you were going to keep. You fell in love with a human; at least it gave you some happiness. It also gave you my little sister Shimiko.'

Yasahiro's thought drifted to another person, who came to his mind, his sister, Saki, she was know as the daughter of Hoshi and Yukio, who was Yasahiro's father as well. Her heart held great bitterness toward her little hanyou sister. Yasahiro knew that Saki would do anything to hurt Shimiko even kill innocent humans. He also knew that Shimiko knew nothing of her older sister. Yasahiro had wanted to keep it that way but he knew that they would have to meet one day soon
A loud hiss drew Yasahiro attention back to the fight at hand. He turned just in time to see the snake demon sink his fangs right into her right shoulder. Yasahiro flinched as he watched her right side go limp. He readied himself to leap into the clearing. Yasahiro thought better of it after a minute. Shimiko was still holding her own, which didn't surprise him. She had always had a strong will to live. Yasahiro then saw a streak of gray flash by. He watched as the coyote-demon Yori bite and scratched at the demon.

Yori was trying to protect Shimiko; her green-blue eyes darted over to the ground. She watched as Shimiko pulling herself off of the ground.

"Yori, you stupid teen, get the hell out of here!'

Shimiko's eyes widened as she watched the demon shake her friend free. The coyote body started to transform back to the young female demon she was. Yori's body then slammed in to a large tree, cracking it with her force of impact.

"Yori! No!"

Shimiko rushed on to her friend's side. As she held back her tears, her anger started to build.

"That's it you son of a bitch, I'm going to killed you."

Shimiko rushed at the demon. "Bloody Claw Swipe!"

The snake shook its head in surprise. However, before it could react Shimiko attacked again.

"Tempest Gale!"

A strong gust of wind ripped through the forest. It ripped into the snake demon chest knocking one of the shards loose. The Shikon shard then fell to the ground. The snake hissed in agony for a minute before the wound healed. Shimiko then remember the shard imbedded in the snake's forehead.

"Damn it, I forgot there was two of them."

Inuyasha placed his nose to the ground. He was trying to get a good lead on the scent. Inuyasha then turned to look behind him.

"Are you all still coming?"

Inuyasha saw Kagome first the other soon followed behind her. He gave he annoyed looked.

"Your suppose to be so good at sensing the shards, so which way did they go huh?"

That when they heard a cry of pain and then a bright light flashed through the forest.

Kagome pointed toward the light. "That way, the shards are over there."

"Fe, I could have told you that."

Just as Inuyasha and the others made their way through the brushes the wind started to pick up. Everyone turned to stare at Miroku. He started to blush and sweat started to run down his face.

Miroku looked down at his cursed hand that held the wind tunnel.

"I didn't do it."

Inuyasha's ears flicked when he heard Kagome gasp.

"Kagome, what is it are you okay?"

He then saw what she was staring at a young beautiful female hanyou. He body was riddled with wounds. Inuyasha watched as the hanyou attacked the demon again, a gust of wind erupting from her claws.

Kagome's eyes soon found the shard lying on the ground.

"Inuyasha, look it's one of the shards."

As soon as she picked it up it started to glow. Kagome then placed in the bottle with the other shards that they had. Her eyes soon found Yori limp body crumpled in front of the tree. Kagome gasped and ran to the girl. Inuyasha turned to see Kagome running toward some trees.

"Hey, Kagome where are you going? Come back here you're going to get yourself killed."

(A/N: That's all for now. I'm sooo evil! Please Read and Review and tell your friends about it. See you guys later.