Disclaimer: whisper Ok, I am writing the draft for this in my Geometry class I have just finished a test. Shhh. I do not own Inuyasha, but I own the story and Shawn/Shanko and Harashi.

Chapter 10: The Return of Harashi!

Inuyasha and the group slowly walked through the castle gateway. They were finally at Naraku's castle and they had to be very careful.

'Shawn, where are you?' thought Inuyasha, 'You're sent is nearby, but I can't see you!'

"It seems deserted," said Miroku, meaning the castle.

"It always does," replied Inuyasha.

Then over on the other side of the courtyard a screen was pulled back and Shawn walked out. She was dressed in a black kimono, her hair was down and her feet were bare.

"Shawn!" called Kagome.

"Hold up, Kagome. Something isn't right," said Inuyasha, 'This is too easy,' he thought. But Kagome was already running towards the darkly clad girl.

"Shawn!" she called again, waving.

Shawn lifted her hand, "Stay back," she said emotionlessly and blue light shot from her hand. Kagome flew back and screamed.

Just in time Inuyasha jumped up and caught her. He set Kagome lightly on her feet and asked, "Are you OK?"

"I … I think so," she stammered, "Why did she do that? What's wrong with her?"

"That's not Shawn," said Inuyasha. With his demon vision he could see her eyes; cold and totally black, "Something must have taken over her body!"

"Very good, Inuyasha," said a cold voice. A swirling cloud of Miasma appeared. Naraku stepped out and he put his arm around Shawn's body, "Summoning Harashi's spirit from the dead and into the girls body was very easy. However, Shawn's restless spirit proved hard to control. But everything turned out well in the end. Well for us anyway," Naraku held up a glowing green crystal that hung on a chain, "I finally managed to contain her spirit in here."

Inuyasha growled, "How dare you???? Using her body as a puppet! You make me sick!"

"You must not have heard me, Inuyasha. I said this was Harashi. I summoned her spirit back from the dead and placed it in this body," Naraku repeated and her ran his hand down Harashi's (Shawn's) arm, "I don't control her at all. She will kill with her own free will," he turned Harashi, "Won't you?"

"Of course," said Harashi smiling, "The question is how long should I make them suffer?"

Naraku smiled coldly, "As long as you like," he handed her the green crystal, "I trust you will take good care of this."

Harashi took, tossed it into the air and placed around her neck, "Certainly."

"Then I shall leave you. Farewell Inuyasha," and with that Naraku stepped back into the Miasma.

When he was gone Harashi turned to the group, "Let's have some fun. Who wants to die first?" and she shot blue power out of her hands and knocked the entire group on their backs. She laughed.

"I don't want to hurt you," said Inuyasha standing up.

"That's fine. You can stand there and DIE!" Harashi shot the blue power again. Inuyasha dodged it just in time, but Miroku and Sango got a full blast of it.

"She's strong," said Miroku.

"How are we supposed to get Harashi out of Shawn's body with out killing Shawn?" asked Sango.

"The crystal!" said Kagome, "Naraku said that Shawn's spirit is in the crystal. We have to break it!"

"But how?" asked Sango.

Inuyasha jumped at Harashi pulling out Tetsuiga, "Just because I don't want to hurt you doesn't mean I can't!"

Harashi flew up and out of harms way. Inuyasha jumped about on buildings just below the flying girl. He leaped and was about to bring Tetsuiga crashing down when Harashi conjured up a staff made of blue energy and she blocked Inuyasha's swing

"I see your arm is better," said Inuyasha.

"My arm never was hurt, that was Shawn's. And Naraku healed her arm anyway," laughed Harashi swinging her staff at Inuyasha. He blocked it. Then he tried to hit Harashi, but she dodged. She let go of the staff with one-hand and shot blue power balls in rapid succession. Inuyasha dodged or blocked all of them, "Nice moves. But can you block a twister?"

Harashi spun the staff around in the air and a small twister formed. She threw it at Inuyasha and he was caught up in the wind and tossed violently across the courtyard. Then Harashi turned to the others.

"Who's next?" Harashi asked viciously.

"Not yet!" cried Inuyasha, jumping back at Harashi. She spun and blocked up with her energy staff, "I'm still in the game."

They shoved against each other, both trying to force the other one down.

"Fool! You think you can defeat me with that piece of metal you call a sword?" said Harashi mockingly.

"I've beaten every other demon bitch with it," Inuyasha replied coolly.

"I am no demon," said Harashi jumping backwards suddenly and into the air again, "I am a dark Miko Sorceress!" dark energies flowed around her creating a cloud of mystical power. She shot blades of her blue power again and Inuyasha blocked.

Suddenly Sango's giant boomerang flew through the air and knocked Harashi to the ground.

"Nice shot Sango!" Inuyasha heard Kagome say.

Harashi growled, "You think that's enough to stop me? I was careless! That attack won't work again!" Harashi shot blue ropes out at Sango and pinned her hands to the ground.

"Sango!" cried Miroku. He started to run to Sango's aid.

"Stay back!" commanded Harashi. A blue fire barrier sprang up between Miroku and Sango. Miroku tried to touch it, but he pulled back immediately when the barrier gave him an electric shock.

Harashi turned back to Inuyasha, "Let's finish this uninterrupted."

"I couldn't agree more," said Inuyasha.

Harashi set up her power barriers all around them. No one would interfere. Harashi made sure of that.

Author's Note: Ha ha! Another cliffhanger! I'm sorry. I can't resist! Besides, would you really be dying to come back and read the rest if I didn't put in the cliffhangers? I doubt it.

I'm almost done with this story. I have at least one more Chapter to go. I have a great idea for my next story already forming. If you want to see more of Shawn in later stories please review! But for those of you who are dying to see Inuyasha and Kagome get together, sorry. Any story with Shawn is a story without the Kagome-Inuyasha relationship, because in those stories there's a Shawn-Inuyasha relationship instead.