Tatsuya and the others reach the clearing and Tatsuya grabs a couple of dry branches and makes a fire by lighting it with her energy orbs.

"Wow…" Yuki mutters.

Tatsuya sits next to the fire and takes out the jewel shard to examine it.

"Impressive." Shigure says and sits next to the fire, followed by Yuki.

"How does she do it, Yuki?!" Ayame asks while sitting next to his brother.

"Why can't you leave me alone?" Yuki asks back.

"What's that?" Momiji giggles and runs over to Tatsuya to sit next to her.

"Nothing you should be messing with" Tatsuya answers and smiles at him.

"We left Ritsu back at that castle!" Ayame gasps.

"Dammit Sesshoumaru… why..." Stella mutters.

Stella picks up her stuff after wiping her eyes and walks slowly towards camp.

Tatsuya stands up. "Do you guys mind staying here for a while? I have to go somewhere real quick."

"I'm sure we'll be fine." Shigure answers.

"Okay then, I'll put up a barrier so you guys won't be eaten alive. See ya!"

Everyone sweatdrops as Tatsuya uses her energy orbs to put up a barrier around them and runs into the woods just as Stella arrives.

"…Dammit Tatsuya! How am I supposed to get in?!" Stella exclaims and plops on the ground outside the barrier.

Not too far off, Tatsuya arrives at another clearing. Making sure nobody is around, she spreads her energy orbs to reveal a barrier and creates an opening, walking through it. Inside is a really ugly shack-looking place. Tatsuya walks inside.

"Welcome back." Shigure greets Stella.

"Eh." Stella mutters.

"You didn't happen to bring back Ritsu did you?" Ayame asks.

"…"

"Well the nerve of some people!" Ayame exclaims when he gets no answer.

Tatsuya walks to the end of the hall and turns at the last room.

"Hey dad, I brought you a jewel shard." Tatsuya says as she opens the sliding door and throws the jewel shard at a random dark figure in the bare room. The jewel shard lands in the dark figure's hand.

"Anything new?" the deep almost monotonous voice asks while closing his hand.

"Not really." Tatsuya says and leans on the doorframe. "Though… a whole bunch of very oddly dressed humans popped out of no where and now they're following us. Nothing important though, they're actually pretty useless". From the corner of her eye she glances at the two figures standing against the wall. One small and seeming to give off a white light in the dark room, and the other about twice the small ones size… not giving off any light.

"Do not become attatched…"

"I know what I'm doing."

"So you ran into Inu Yasha earlier…"

"Yea... his bitch burned my arms." Tatsuya growls.

"Do not kill her."

"Why the hell not!?"

"She is an important part of InuYasha's weakness. Her death would cause a great flaw in my final plan."

"Fine…"

The figure turns towards his "window" [keep in mind there is no glass] and looks out into the dark forest.

"It seems that your sister may return to Sesshoumaru…"

"Yea, so what?"

"Warn Sesshoumaru that if he doesn't take all of Inu Yasha's jewel shards by next week, Rin shall die."

Tatsuya nods. "See ya later, Dad." and with that she runs off back to camp.

"Where did Tatsuya go?" Stella finally asks.

"She went into the woods." Shigure answers.

"Oh… whatever… are you guys hungry?" Stella asks while standing up.

"I'm hungry!" Momiji exclaims.

Shigure and Yuki nod.

"If I eat, my beautiful figure will be ruined." Ayame answers.

"Whatever, I'll be back soon." Stella says and rolls her eyes then runs off really fast. After a few minutes, she comes back with a random dead animal.

Tatsuya arrives and sniffs in joy. "Yay! Pig demon!"

Stella starts skinning the animal

Momiji's eyes water. "I-I can't watch!!!" he cries and covers his face.

"Weaklings…" Stella mutters from her spot under a tree.

"AWWW!!!" Tatsuya exclaims and hugs Momiji in comfort.

Momiji changes into a rabbit.

"…"

"LOOK HOW CUTE IT IS!!!" Tatsuya exclaims and snuggles Momiji.

Stella stops and stares. "What the hell…?"

The "FB Gang" freeze.

Tatsuya shrugs and looks around. "Hey, where's that crybaby human?"

"Ummm.. heh heh… he's still at that castle…" Shigure says nervously.

"Idiot, she'll catch a cold at this time of night... I'll go get her." Tatsuya says while setting down Momiji and standing up. "And why are you so nervous?"

"Ritsu is all man." Ayame says.

"Uh huh…" Tatsuya says and sweatdrops. "Right, I'll go get him anyway." She runs off towards Sesshoumaru's castle.

Stella continues to skin the pig demon.

"Isn't your name Stella?" Ayame asks.

Stella nods and starts cooking the pig demon over the fire.

"Stella... it's quite a boring name if you ask me… now I really like the Tohru for instince."

Stella glares at him.

"I also LOVE the name AYAME, it just fits me perfectly."

"It should be, ANNOYING." Yuki says.

"Stella is just my nickname, my real name is Stella Luna." Stella says.

Tatsuya runs past Jaken into the castle and into Sesshoumaru's bedroom. Sesshoumaru is sitting cross-legged on the floor, staring at his futon.

"What do you want?" he mutters

"My father wants you to know that you have one week to get Inu Yasha's jewel shards or he'll kill Rin." Tatsuya replies bluntly.

Sesshoumaru growls and his eyes flash red.

"I'm sure you will have no problem retrieving the jewel shards?"

"Yes…"

"Good." Tatsuya says and smiles. "I'll come for them next week." she says as she walks out the door and to the springs where she picks up Ritsu and runs back to camp.

"Foods done!" Stella says.

"Yay!" Momiji exclaims and turns human.

O.O is Stella's reaction.

Momiji quickly gets dressed and runs over to Stella. "Can I have some?"

Tatsuya comes to the camp and drops Ritsu on the ground. "'Bout time you finished." she says.

"Of course!" Stella answers and hands out food to everyone but Ayame.

"You'll starve if you don't eat, Ayame." Yuki says. "I hope you do…" he mutters quickly.

"I'll eat for you, Yuki! Where are the plates?" Ayame asks.

"There are no plates." Stella replies.

"How do you expect me to eat!?"

"With your hands."

"But…my hands!?"

"I'm sure there's a stream near by." Stella says dryly and jumps into a tree.

"Fine… I'll do it for Yuki." Ayame sighs and takes some meat.

Everyone else eats.

Stella finishes and jumps out of the tree. "I'll be back." she mutters and runs off.

"Where is she going?" Yuki asks.

"Probably to Sesshoumaru's…" Tatsuya mutters.

Sesshoumaru's castle…

(#!#)(#!#)(#!#)(#!#)(#!#)(#!#)(#!#)(#!#)(#!#)(#!#)(#!#) [Kai: I always crack up when I see that… it looks so much like a butt]

OUTTAKES!!!!!!!!!

"Anything new?" the deep almost monotonous voice asks while closing his hand.

"Not really" Tatsuya says and leans on the doorframe. "Though… a whole bunch of very oddly dressed humans pooped out of no where and now—" Everyone bursts out laughing.