DED: Hey, long time no see, eh? Did ya miss me? Did ya? Did ya?!?! I thought so….

The door to Slagar's room slowly swung open, revealing a shadowed figure in the hallway just outside. Slagar was in a deep sleep and hardly noticed as the figure slipped into his room and moved stealthily up to his bedside. The person rose up above the young demon.

"WAKE UP!!" Slagar's eyes bolted open as his sister Kayasha pounced on him, pinning him to his bed.

"Kayasha! Get off of me!" Kayasha only smirked and flicked his forehead.

"Why should I move?" she asked smugly.

"Just GET OFF!" Slagar struggled but his sister clearly had the advantage. She was about to burst out laughing when she noticed something at the edge of Slagar's pillow. She reached down and pulled out the small black stone he had been holding last night. She rolled it between her fingers as she examined it and noticed his name set into the stone with amethyst.

"Do you collect rocks or something?"

Slagar stopped his struggling to notice what it was that she was holding before thrashing even harder, nearly bucking her off. "Don't touch that! Give it back!" Quickly realizing she had found something that he didn't want to lose, she grinned mischievously and charged out of his room with it. Slagar was off of his bed instantly and chasing after her.

Kagome had been in the kitchen, making breakfast, and was about to call down her two children when they blew right past her, causing her hair to whip around her head. Brushing the long black strands out of her face, she looked to where the two kids had run. "Kayasha! Slagar! What are you two doing?!" A moment later Inuyasha came into the kitchen with a quizzical look.

"What happened here?" the hanyou asked.

"I don't know, Kayasha and Slagar just took off!"

Outside Kayasha was slowly beginning to lose the gap between her and her brother in the forest. It wasn't the more dangerous part of the woods, so she knew she couldn't get in trouble for being there at least. She came upon a fairly large river, one that was big and fast enough to keep Slagar out of it. She tossed the stone into the water just as Slagar came into view of her action. He stood, wide-eyed, staring at the water. When he turned to look at Kayasha who seemed very proud of herself, his eyes flashed red and he was on top of her in an instant.

"What did you do? What did you do?!" he screamed. Kayasha was surprised by her brother's outburst, and even a little scared. It seemed like he was about ready to hurt her and she couldn't get out from under him. She was confused as to why he cared so much about the rock, but she was still frightened and near tears. Slagar might have done something he would've regretted had his father not intervened, wrapping his arms around the struggling shadow demon and hauling him off his sister.

"Whoah! Take it easy there, Slagar!" Slagar finally tired himself out in his dad's arms, panting and still glaring at Kayasha. "Alright, someone tell me what happened, right now!"

"Nothing! Just let me go!" The enraged shadow demon squirmed out of his father's arms and ran back towards the hut. Sighing and shaking his head, Inuyasha went to his daughter and helped her up.

"Are you okay?" he asked as he looked her over for any sort of wound. Kayasha was still looking the way that her brother had run off.

"Daddy, what was so special about that rock?"

Inuyasha looked up at her. "You mean you found his stone? That would explain it…what did you do with it?"

She hesitated a moment. "I…I threw it in the river."

"Kayasha, do you know where that stone came from?" When she shook her head, he continued. "He had it with him when we first found him, that's how we knew what his name was. He had received it from his family, his real family." Kayasha's eyes soften as the weight of her actions finally hit her. She had no idea what the stone had meant to him, thinking it was just some rock. Breaking free of her father's grasp she hopped through the forest back to their home and found Slagar sitting in the front doorway. Kayasha approached her brother slowly.

"Slagar?" He looked up at her with cold and bitter eyes as she sat down next to him. "Dad told me what the stone was, why didn't you tell me a long time ago?"

"I didn't think you would care," he replied evenly.

"Slagar! I may pick on you, but that doesn't mean I don't still care about you! I'm sorry I through it in the river, I promise to get daddy to take us to where the river dumps off so we can find it, okay?" She looked at him pleadingly for a moment before he spoke.

"Okay, thank you…" She sighed with relief and hugged her little brother, surprised to find him hugging her back. From inside the hut and outside, both Inuyasha and Kagome smiled at their two children. It was very rare to see Kayasha and Slagar getting along, and the parents always loved every minute of it.

DED: Another chapter, another….something. Review please!