Hey all! I apologize for taking things too fast, so I'll try tot sloooooooooow dooooooown in this chappie, k?

Disclaimer: Still don't own IY.

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Inuyasha, Kagome and Setsuna got back to Kaede's hut, about an hour before sunset. When they stepped through the doorway, Sango stood up, ran to Setsuna, and hugged her tightly.

"Setsuna! Are you okay?" she asked.

"I'm fine." Setsuna said, very calmly, as if she hadn't been gone at all.

"Are you okay Lady Setsuna? You must've been scared." Miroku said as he stood up and walked over to her. Then he went to put his arm around her shoulders, but that famous hand went down to her butt and…

SMACK!

"HENTAI!!!!" Setsuna shouted and Miroku stood there with a red handprint on his cheek. "What do you think I am, public property???"

Miroku sighed sadly. "It's a curse I'm afraid."

"Yeah right…" Setsuna said under her breath.

"Setsuna, how did you get through the well? I wanted to ask you earlier, but you wandered off." Kagome said as they all sat down.

Setsuna sighed. "I…don't know. I guess it's because…nah, that couldn't be it."

"What couldn't be it?" Kagome asked, her mind full of questions.

"Well," Setsuna began "You know the shrine a few blocks away from yours?"

Kagome nodded.

"Well…I'm training to be the head priestess there."

Kagome looked at her friend in disbelief.

"I am!" Setsuna sighed in exasperation as she continued. "This is something I haven't told anyone. But I…I have powers similar to the Shikon No Tama you all were talking about earlier."

At this point, they all looked at her in disbelief…except for Inuyasha.

'Does that mean she has a Jewel Shard?' he thought. Out loud he said, "If you really have powers that are like the Shikon Jewel, prove it."

Setsuna looked down at her lap. "I…I can only use the power once a day until I get stronger."

'Wait,' she thought, 'If I already used my powers to get down the well, and then I used them to heal Sesshomaru…does that mean I'm getting stronger? Oh, but they won't believe me. I can feel that my power is used up for the day. How do I prove it to them? How?'

"Once a day, huh?" scoffed Inuyasha. "Well, how did you get here?"

"I used my powers, stupid mutt." Setsuna said, getting very angry with the people she thought were her friends.

"What did you call me??"

"You heard me, baka inu."

"Why you…let's take this outside!"

Setsuna smirked. She could feel her powers returning. But she didn't know that it was false power generated by her anger. "All right. Let's go."

Kagome worriedly looked from Inuyasha to Setsuna, who were shooting death glares at each other (A/N: If looks could kill, Inuyasha would be looooong gone by now.). Why were they fighting? Kagome didn't know whether or not she should believe her friend. She was very scared for the both of them. If she had a Jewel Shard, they would have to kill her!

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Inuyasha and Setsuna walked outside, while the others stayed inside. Setsuna stood about twelve feet away from Inuyasha, her arms crossed over her chest. "Well, you want me to hold back so I don't kill you?"

"Feh, you better not." Inuyasha said, drawing the Tetsusaiga. Setsuna stood her ground.

"Well, aren't you going to attack me?" she asked.

Inuyasha didn't know what to do. Should he attack a defenseless girl? Well, this girl had pissed him off something awful, so he ran to her, the Tetsusaiga up over his shoulder and ready to slice down. Just before he cut her though, she dodged it with lighting quick speed.

'What the hell?' he thought as he prepared for another strike.

Meanwhile, Setsuna was fighting a battle against herself.

Vent your anger! One side of her heart was telling her.

No! Surrender the fight and apologize! The other side told her.

She didn't know what to do. She stood there, her arms shielding her face as the Tetsusaiga sliced them. She grunted a little as she slid backwards. Her arms had many cuts across them, and her blood was dripping on the ground. She crouched down to the earth and placed her palms flat against its surface.

"I SUMMON THE POWERS OF EARTH!!!" she shouted and her eyes began to glow a forest green. Her hair flew up around her and she tilted her head towards the sky, a green aura surrounding her body. Then, she stood up, and a dragon made of dirt and clay rose up behind her. It snarled and growled, and then, curled around its master. Setsuna pointed at Inuyasha, her voice sounding deep and warped.

"There is your opponent! Kill him!"

At that command, the dragon raced forward and had its mouth open, prepared to swallow Inuyasha. He jumped out of the way, just as the dragons face hit the earth.

"Heh, your dragon is worthless! It's disappeared!" he shouted, but Setsuna simply stood there and smirked.

"Did it?"

Inuyasha looked around, and felt the earth beneath him shake. Then, the dragon came out from under him and for a second, he was lying across the dragon's closed jaws. Then he ran down its back and stabbed it. It roared and fell to the ground. Setsuna had her hand on her forehead, and the aura around her disappeared, and the dragon disappeared at the same time. Then, she fainted, and before she blacked out, she whispered something that Inuyasha caught with his ears.

"Inuyasha…I'm…sorry…"

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Inuyasha ran into Kaede's hut, carrying Setsuna's limp body in his arms.

"Hey! Setsuna needs help!" he shouted.

"SETSUNA!!! Oh my god Inuyasha! What happened to her??" Kagome shouted as she ran up to him, taking her best friend's limp hand in her own.

"She showed off with her powers, that's what happened!"

"You mean she really DOES have powers?" Miroku asked, his voice rising with curiosity.

"Yeah. She controlled earth!"

"Well, lay her down over here." Sango said, pointing to a small mat next to where she was sitting. Inuyasha laid her down, and walked back outside, just as the sun was setting. Setsuna slowly opened her eyes.

"Ka…go…me…" she whispered. "What…happened…to me?"

Kagome rushed to her friend's side. "Inuyasha said you used your powers. Oh, Setsuna, I'm sorry we didn't believe you." She said as tears welled up in her eyes.

"It's…okay…Kag. Don't…cry." She whispered, wiping away her friend's tears. "Where's…Inu…yasha?"

"He's outside. Do you want to see him?"

"…yeah…I…need to tell…him…about my powers…they…weren't…my real…powers…" Setsuna tried to push herself up.

"Setsuna, just lay there. I'll go get Inuyasha." Kagome whispered as she stepped outside. She saw Inuyasha sitting there, facing away from the hut, in his human form. "Inu?" she called.

He turned his head towards her. "Oh. It's just you. What is it?" he asked as Kagome sat down next to him.

"It's Setsuna. She's awake, but she's very weak. She wants to see you."

"Not until morning. I don't want her to see me as a human. She might blow my secret!"

"But Inuyasha…She might not make it till morning." Kagome whispered and she began to sob. "I don't want her to die!" she cried as she threw herself into Inuyasha's strong chest. He stroked her hair.

"Shhh…it'll be okay…she won't die." He comforted her as he pulled her into his lap.

"You think?"

"Yeah." Inuyasha whispered as he pulled Kagome closer. "You'll see. She seems to stubborn to die."

Kagome stood up. "Well, are you going in or what?"

Inuyasha stood up too. "Yeah, I guess I will."

They began to walk back to the hut, when Miroku, Sango, Shippo and Kaede (A/N: She went into the hut while Inu and Kag were talkin.) walked out of the hut.

"Setsuna needs to be alone for a while until the herbs I gave her take effect." Kaede said as she walked past them and went into her own hut.

"Well, I guess we'll have to wait until morning, Yash."

"Oh, all right Kagome. I'll wait."

They all walked into the hut beside the one where Setsuna was sleeping.

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Setsuna lay in the hut, her body numb from the herbs that Kaede had given her. She turned her head so that she could look out the window. It was the new moon. She sighed.

"Where are you Sesshomaru?" she whispered. Then, she felt a demonic presence outside the hut.

"Sesshomaru?" she whispered, pushing herself off the mat she was laying on. She walked out of the hut, very weakly, and stopped when she saw who was standing there. "…Sesshomaru…" she whispered, trying her hardest to run to him. She tripped and fell into his arms. "I knew you'd come…" she whispered, smiling. Sesshomaru smiled back, and picked her body up in his arms, carrying hr off into the forest.

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"I'll be right back, okay Inuyasha? I want to take another blanket to Setsuna. It's getting colder." Kagome said as she stood up and walked out of the hut. Inuyasha sat there and stared at the ceiling.

'How do I tell her the way I feel about her?' he thought. 'I feel for her stronger than I did for Kikyo.'

Then he heard Kagome cry his name from the hut next door. He stood up and ran to her, and she ran into his arms outside the hut.

"What's wrong Kagome?" he asked, very concerned.

"It's Setsuna! She's…she's gone!"

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A/N: I really like this story so far! I hope you do to! Please review!

-AnimaeGurl-