The young girl wandered away from the shrine that surrounded the well, looking back wistfully at the well that she had come from. She half hoped that Inu Yasha, dog demon of the Dark Woods, Miroku the monk, Kyara the executioner, or even Kiara the tiger would come out of the well. But then, she remembered that she wanted to go home.
She wandered along the path to her house. When she arrived, her mother rushed out to meet her daughter.
"Oh Kagome! I was so worried! You stayed away for so long this time! I thought for sure that I had lost you forever. I had to restrain your ather from clbing into he well himself. We've been so worried. What have you been doing?"i
"I'm okay, mom. I live to fight another day. I was captured by a woman who valued hair too much. That was the end of her. There was Inu to save me, with not a word to me but onl about how he was going to kill her. Then he just cuts her hair and just let her run away. He never does what he says he was going to do! That's the only reason I came home now. I'm testing his love, and the desoire to protect me from all of them. I wish that the old crone had finished teaching me how to use the crystal shards...But that's all over now. She's dead"
Kagome slowly wandered off to her room, crying. She remembered all the good times she had had with the old crone, Kaede. She had been Kyara's mother, and a darn good healer. She was a magic-user, but she only aimed it toward healing or stopping harm. Just before she had died, she had stopped a huge pack of human-eating wolves. Their master, Koga, leader of the wolf demons, had almost been killed by Inu, but had run away when Inu had pulled out Tesengia, his magical sword. Inu had een wanting to try out tghe 'Scar of the Wind,' which is famed for taking down hundreds of demons in one swing, and thousands of humans in one swing.
Inu had felt bad after that battle, since he still did not know the full power of Tessie, as he lovingly called it. But it was still a time that Kagome was in trouble, since she had been captured by Koga, and Inu hadn't killed the torturer. Even though Inu had become very angry when Koga claimed love for Kagome, Inu hadn't killed Koga or even confessed his own love for Kagome. It all irked her, and she just finally burst. It seemed like a good time to do so, walking out of the wreck of building. She had been caught by a Koga himself. They had been looking for Shikon shards when they had found a village with only the humans killed. Inu smelled wolves, and the executioner said that they were man-eating wolves. Of course, it was only a matter of time before they caught up with the wolves, but then Koga had captured her when he noticed that she could see the shards. He wanted to use her for his own purposes.
Inu came in while the wolf demons were dueling the harpies. He had killed the king of the harpies with Tessie, and that was the first demon he had ever killed. He'd killed the centipede woman, but that was not a demon. When she got hold of the Shikon Jewel, she had become a goddess. Of course, he had to kill her in order to get at the Jewel, but then Kagome managed to keep it away from Inu until Kaede cast a magical necklace over his head. From then on, all Kagome had to say was 'sit', and he would fall flat on hs face, no matter what position he was in. His nose was building up a resistance to harm, but it still infuriated him to be found face-down, being told off by a young girl.
