Disclaimer: No characters that you recognize are my creation. The rest are mine.

A/N: I had to get this piece out before the end of the day. That's why its here so soon. I had nothing to do and the story is kinda going along on its own. Any ideas and suggestions are welcome. Just let me know if you think anyone is out of character and I'll make the necessary changes.

My sister's rantings:

YAAAI! Kouga wants to get Kagome and so does Inu Yasha (Man, kagome is lucky, I WANNA BE HER!) Inu Yasha dies but comes back due to Naraku and Kikyo (Damned woman, KIKYO SHOULD DIE!!!! BURN IN HELL!!!) So anyways, Inu Yasha is back and he is gonna kill Kouga who was making moves on HIS woman... I mean his girlfriend, Kagome (Lucky bitch) So anyways, dog kills wolf and gets girl. Girl and dog live happily ever after (They take over wolf's possessions) And Kikyo dies. By... someone... not significant. Anyhoo!! Naraku continues to do stuff but soon dies too. After dog and girl are old, they die too. But Miroku lives forever!! (I love him) Everybody else dies! Rejoice people!! THE END

The story....

Chapter 9: Twisted Fates.

Sango put a wet cloth to Miroku's forehead. His fever was not subsiding. He had disappeared last night without a word and had returned with a fever. He had been unconscious since then. It was a good sign that he had a fever; it meant that his body was fighting whatever he had acquired.

All Sango knew was that she had seen him chasing after a woman who had her face hidden in a shawl. He had said nothing since he had returned. He had done that before when he had gotten distracted by a mantis with the skin of a woman. Maybe it was a similar case this time, if only he'd wake up.

As if on cue, he stirred and fluttered his dark eyes open. He had broken out into sweat and he closed his eyes immediately against the light in the room. Sango covered the opening to the hut with the straw curtain and Miroku opened his eyes again.

"How are you feeling?" Sango asked him, trying to keep her worry and annoyance out of her voice. If only he could control his lecherous ways then he would not be such an easy target for female demons.

Miroku opened and closed his mouth several times before muttering hoarsely, "water..." and then he swallowed dryly in an attempt to wet his parched throat.

Sango put a pouch of water to his lips and he drank hungrily. He looked a lot better after his thirst had been quenched. Maybe he would talk now. After helping him to sit up, she asked him about his whereabouts last night.

"What are you talking about dear Sango?" He looked genuinely confused. He took another drink of water.

"Where were you last night?" Sango asked a bit more forcefully.

He frowned in concentration and then tapped his chin thoughtfully.

"I was right here, after Lady Kagome left, I came here and I've been here since."

Sango was first perplexed. He had not been there most of last night and had appeared just before dawn. Then she knew it, it was right in her face...he was lying.

"What do you take me for?" She said each word slowly and strongly, "do you think that I am blind? That I would not see you come back at the break of dawn? Do you think that I am so stupid that I will believe your pathetic lie?" She was screaming by the end of it.

"Sango," He looked really confused and even worried...about Sango, "I was here all last night."

He stared at her a bit more and then touched her cheek to show his concern, "Are you feeling all right?"

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"I don't believe him." Sango told Shippo, "I saw him leave with another woman. I was not hallucinating."

"I saw him go with another woman too." Shippo piped in, "You were not hallucinating."

"I don't know, Shippo." She voiced her concern, "he genuinely doesn't remember leaving. Either that or he suddenly got a boost in his acting skills."

"How is Miroku feeling now?" Shippo grabbed a handful of flowers from the bank of the river they were at. Sango was washing her exterminator uniform; it had gotten dirty in their last encounter with a giant cockroach.

"He looks fine. One minute he had a very high fever, next minute he's fine and talking like nothing's wrong with him. He won't even believe me when I told him he had a fever." She rubbed vigorously at her uniform, "Damn stains."

"Do you think he's hiding something from us?" Shippo asked casually. Sango looked thoughtful before trying a completely different approach to remove the stains from her uniform. She stood up and started thrashing the uniform on one of the rocks.

"Damn monk..." she muttered to herself, "first he disappears then gets sick then lies then..." she continued on. Shippo tuned out her ranting before noticing the scent in the air, it was faint but it was there.

Shippo dropped the flowers and stepped out from the flowerbed to take a longer sniff. Sango saw Shippo taking long deep breaths and then drop to his knees to sniff the ground. He had found a scent.

"What is it Shippo?" She forgot her exterminator garb, letting it lie at her feet.

"That scent..." he sniffed once again before breaking into a run. Sango ran after him to see what he had found.

Sango noted that they were nearing the well; from time to time Shippo would stop to smell the air and then continue with his run to the well.

When they got there, they found Kouga leaning against one of the trees looking very frustrated. The side of the well was destroyed and neither of them had to second-guess what had happened to it.

"I assume Kagome hasn't arrived yet." Sango commented, Kouga growled instead confirming her suspicion.

Shippo continued sniffing the air and climbed onto the ledge of the still intact side of the well. "He's..." Shippo shut up when he saw the look Kouga gave him.

"Who?" Sango questioned. They didn't have time to answer as Kagome suddenly heaved herself out of the well.

"Kagome!" Kouga looked genuinely happy to see her and then added later, "Where is he?"

His look soured when a blur of red and silver jumped out of the well. With one swift movement, Kouga grabbed Kagome's arm and pulled her towards himself. Sango gaped at Inuyasha. Inuyasha didn't notice her though, he was glaring at Kouga. He whipped out his right arm and attempted to grab a non- existent sword.

"Miss your sword Inuyasha?" Kouga spat out, venom laced with every word.

"I don't need my sword to kill the likes of you." He said while cracking his knuckles loudly, "Hands off of her!" He yelled at him.

"Yelling will get you nowhere, Inuyasha." Kouga moved in front of Kagome in the pretext of protecting her.

No one, I mean NO ONE protects Kagome but me. Inuyasha lunged at Kouga who grabbed Kagome and held her bridal style and moved out Inuyasha's attack range.

"Kouga let me go." Kagome told Kouga, quietly but firmly. Kouga let her go reluctantly. She ran over to Inuyasha as soon as her feet hit the ground and took his hand. Kouga just watched, his face held an unimaginable amount of hatred and bitterness, which Inuyasha noticed and answered with one of his very annoying smirks.

"Sango, Shippo?" Kagome called to them, Sango's jaw was still hanging. She couldn't believe that Inuyasha was alive and he was fighting with Kouga over Kagome as if nothing even happened.

"Inuyasha's alive!" Kagome said it as if it explained everything. She tightened her hold on his hand and led him towards the exterminator and fox- demon.

Kouga watched. His Kagome was holding the dogface's hand. His Kagome had demanded to be released from his hold. His Kagome had chosen that half-dead bastard instead of him. His Kagome.

But not for long. He plotted; you will be mine Kagome, even if the bastard has to die a second time for it.

He left the friends to themselves, choosing to devise a plan that would destroy that half-demon's life in privacy.

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Inuyasha was happy to be with his friends again. His mood had been destroyed the moment he had seen the wolf touch Kagome, but he was feeling light again. Another fact that led to his unusual elation was the fact that Kagome was still holding his hand.

They made their way to Kaede's hut. Everybody was chatting non-stop. Kagome kept telling them about the events of last night, they laughed when she told them about a boy named Jonouchi's shirt and how they found Inuyasha. She thankfully skipped the little chat they had after her friends had left.

Shippo was happy, wait... he was not just happy he was way beyond happy. He looked like someone had filled a castle with chocolate and given the key to him. Inuyasha didn't have the heart to hit him on the head as he normally did whenever he said something stupid. He just looked so damn happy.

"I see you're alive, Inuyasha." Everybody looked up to see a purple and blue clad person standing a few feet away from them, the rings in his staff jingling pleasantly.

"Miroku." Inuyasha moved to greet his friend. They had started off at the wrong foot but this perverted monk had earned Inuyasha's trust.

Everyone froze as Miroku took his staff and struck Inuyasha on the side of his head just as he reached him. Inuyasha, caught by surprise, didn't have enough time to duck or move out of the way. The staff connected painfully with the side of his head propelling him sideways. He landed on his knees and shook his head to get rid of the increasing pain. Bad idea, the shaking made him dizzy instead.

Kagome and Sango moved to restrain Miroku.

"Miroku!" Kagome yelled.

"What the hell is wrong with you monk?" Sango screamed into his ear. Miroku didn't seem to notice the two girls dangling off of his arms. His eyes were fixed on Inuyasha, murder clear in their dark depths.

"You will stay away from me if you value your life." With that he pushed his arms back throwing Kagome to one side and sending Sango propelling in the other direction. He moved to remove the beads from his right hand, "I almost got you once half-breed, and I won't lose again."

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I cannot believe he escaped me. How could he? The wards could hold a hoard of demons twice as powerful as Inuyasha, then how?

Kikyo summoned her soul demons since last night's events had exhausted her. She had revived Inuyasha three months ago; he had never caused any trouble. Well, apart from the fact that he was a full demon and didn't lose any chance of putting her down. She had suffered more insults in those last three months than in her years of hunting demons. He had criticized her, hurled such obscenities at her than the undead miko had cringed.

Three months... three months and he had caused no problem. She had hidden him the farthest room in the basement of an unknown ruined temple. There was no way anyone could have known Inuyasha's current residence let alone break through the wards and assist his escapade. Then how?

All she knew was that he had started to scream and snarl suddenly and had started to pound the walls with his bare shoulder. She had put up purifying wards to discourage Inuyasha from attempting an escape. Each thrust burned a little more of his shoulder, before long the floor was coated in blood. Inuyasha, however, was just starting. When his one arm went limp from all the burns and numbing pain, he turned around and began the assault with the other one.

Kikyo had been forced to strengthen her wards. Never in her life had she been forced to do such a thing. One flick of her hand was enough to put up barriers of the strongest kind, nearly impossible to break.

Yet one demon, one half-breed demon had managed to break the wards. One Demon.

His assaults on the wards increased as Kikyo strengthened them. Eventually, her power started fading and her wards reduced in strength. Inuyasha had been bloody; his silver hair brown with oxygen deprived blood and covered in debris from the crumbling wall. It was a matter of time before he broke through.

And he had. He had broken through.

Kikyo absorbed the souls her demons had brought her. She needed her souls; they will replenish her exhausted power.

She knew where he would go. He would go to her reincarnation. He would seek her out. Once again, he would leave her for her reincarnation. She noted that it was a new moon that night, it proved nothing, and she had had Inuyasha for three months, which was three moon cycles. The new moon had not initiated the sudden attempt. Then what?

She will have to find him. He was a danger to the people. He was raw power, controlled by no one including himself. He would kill people in the blink of an eye. (drool) If he killed anyone, then she would be to blame. She couldn't let him sleep in peace. She had to bring him back. She wanted him to suffer a similar fate as her. She wanted him to feel unwanted, to not belong. She wanted him to be alone. So alone that they would be together.

But something had gone wrong. She had revived the part of Inuyasha that she despised the most. She had revived his demon half. Somewhere along the whole process, the soul had been split. Who was to blame? She had no idea. Maybe it was her? Maybe it was someone else. No one had ever attempted to bring back a half-demon before and thus Inuyasha was the first.

Maybe after death, Half-demon souls are tried separately. Kikyo was confused. She didn't like being confused and to seek answers she would go to Naraku. He was half-demon and had returned from several near deaths. He also had his incarnation, what's that girl's name? Kanna yes. She was an expert on souls. Maybe she would know the cause of this.

Pitiful. Pathetic. That's what she was, reduced to seeking her enemies for answers. But Naraku had Oni gumo's heart; he couldn't resist her. He would help, even if he asks a ridiculously high price for it.

She will have her answers. But first, Inuyasha has hell to pay.

A/N: So how did I do?????