A/N : I had a little bit of a problem with the story at first because it's the first one I've written and I was a little confused as how to rate it. But now it's fixed, and I'm sorry for any inconveniences.

--------------------Chapter 2: This Can't End Well--------------------

Kira kept on running until she ran out of breath. When finally, she couldn't run anymore, she looked around intently and decided it was safe to stop. She took a long, much needed rest. Everything was going crazy today. She couldn't believe what was going on. It all felt like a dream. But at least she was rid of that perverted monk and that crazed stranger. No such luck, though. Inu-Yasha immediately crashed through the bushes and landed right in front of Kira.

"Wha?....How?....Gah!....Crap!" Kira was stunned. How did this strange man catch up to her. She was the fastest person she knew.

"Give. Me. The. Jewel. Shard." Inu-Yasha hissed through gritted teeth.

"No!" Kira stood up, furious. Who did this guy think he was. No one could just walk up to someone and demand to have something that belonged to them.

Inu-Yasha put one hand on the hilt of his sword and the other on the scabbard, ready to draw.

"All right! All right! Don't kill me!" She shrank, like a coward. She hated to do this, but she wasn't ready to die just yet. "Just tell me why you want it so badly."

"That's none of your business."

"Then you can't have it," she said. Inu-Yasha pulled his sword out until it clicked. Kira shrank again. "Gah! I was just kidding!"

The rest of the group came into the clearing. Kagome saw the girl and jumped off of Kirara's back. "Inu-Yasha! Stop!"

Inu-Yasha saw her and immediately put his sword back in place, obviously unhappy about the interruption, but he wouldn't refuse an order from Kagome. He couldn't.

Kagome walked up to the girl and took a good, long look at her. The girl couldn't be more than 14 years old. She was wearing a tight black t-shirt and long blue jeans. She had gloves on her hands, a chain attached to her belt, and a jewel shard on a chain around her neck. Her hair was a deep raven black, like Kagome's It was tied back and fell to shoulder length. Her eye's were a deep, almost glowing, green. She was strange, all right. At least to the standards of the feudal era. She definitely couldn't be from this time.

"What's your name?" Kagome asked kindly.

"Why don't you ask your perverted friend?" she said, irritated, not looking at any of them. She turned then, and looked at Kagome. "Sorry," she said quietly. Kagome thought she could see a small tear in the girl's eye. "My name's Kira."

"How did you get here?" Kagome asked.

"I don't know," Kira sat down on the ground. "I was in my backyard. I found this jewel and put it on a chain. After that I went into a cave, which I thought had a dead-end, because I'd been in there before, and ended up here."