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"I'm sensing a shard nearby!" Kagome said.

"Well it's about time!" Rainey exclaimed. "I was starting to think there weren't any left in all of Japan!"

Inuyasha had decided to let Rainey come along. (Well actually, he was bullied into it)

"Hey, will you watch where you're swinging that thing!" Inuyasha yelled. He had been trying to teach her to use a sword for a full 3 weeks now.

Inuyasha felt that if she was going to be apart of the group, she had to pull her weight. Since she didn't know how to fight with a sword, he had insisted she learn to. So, since he suggested it, he got landed with the job of showing a completely amateur with a weapon and short temper at times, to fight.

"Oops, sorry!"

Kaede had provided her with the sword, saying she no longer needed it, since she was better with a bow and arrows anyways.

"I need a break anyway. We'll practice later. Kagome, where'd you see the shard?" Inuyasha asked.

"Over there, but I don't sense any demon presence near it."

"Then let's go."

Kagome and Inuyasha went off into the woods. Rainey was about to follow when Sango held her shoulder.

"Wait. Sometimes we let them go alone. If you're gonna be apart of this group, I guess you should know-"

"Kagome and Inuyasha like each other, huh?" Rainey interrupted.

"How'd you guess?" Miroku questioned.

"No guesswork involved. You'd have to be an idiot to miss it. I think it's cute. But do they work well together? I mean with his temper and all, don't they fight a lot?"

"All the time" the group said in unison.

"Thought so."

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"They did it again!" Kagome said.

She and Inuyasha were standing in a forest clearing, looking around them. Inuyasha scratched his behind one of his ears.

"Why do you suppose they keep ditching us like this?" Inuyasha asked completely missing the point.

*sweat drop*

[Author's note: the sweat drop is from the rest of the group. They've been watching Kagome and Inuyasha from their hiding place.]

"What a moron!" Shippo exclaimed.

"No kidding." Miroku agreed.

'How does he not get that? Is he a complete retard?' Rainey thought.

"Inuyasha, I'm picking up less and less senses of the shards. And Naraku hasn't struck in a while. I think he's planning something. What if he tries to attack us? I'm kinda worried." Kagome confessed. She walked over to the jewel shard on the ground and picked it up. "A demon must've dropped this. We'd better be careful. It's probably nearby."

"Don't worry. I'm protecting you." Inuyasha replied.

"Aww, that is so sweet!" Sango said from her hiding spot.

'It looks like he really cares for Kagome, I wonder-'

"ROAR!"

The thundering of a huge monster/demon charging right at the group interrupted Rainey's thoughts. Everyone else ran out of the way, but Rainey conveniently tripped over some unseen root. She looked up just as the beast was about to trample her.

"Stand back!" Inuyasha said as he threw Rainey out of the way of the beast making all the noise.

The monster loomed over the group, boring holes through them with its cold, green, merciless eyes. It looked like a cross between a bull and a gigantic lizard.. Its long scales covered its humongous body. It snorted through its bull nose and pounded the ground with its scaled, lizard tail. It looked at each of them, until it spotted Rainey. All of a sudden something seemed to click in its eyes, as though it just realized something it forgot.

*ROAR*

It let out another earthshaking roar and charged- right at Rainey!

"Oh no you don't!" Inuyasha yelled.

He jumped in between Rainey and the demon. Or at least he tried to. While in mid-air, another demon (A funny looking catlike one) collided with him, and sent him hurtling back into a nearby tree.

"Ugh!" Inuyasha groaned as he stood up. "You are gonna pay big time for that." He rushed at the demon, and vice versa.

"AAAAHHHHH!" Rainey screamed. The monster swung its tail at her. She ducked a second before inevitable destruction.

"Rainey! Hang on!" Miroku shouted. He, Sango, and Kagome rushed for her. All of a sudden they were surrounded by a horde of demons.

"Rainey, hold on. We're coming!" Kagome said and she shot an arrow at an oncoming rooster demon.

"She's gonna have to fight. You can do it. I am, after all, a great teacher. Just remember what I taught you!" Inuyasha hollered as he pulled Tetsuiaga out.

'WHAT? I can't fight! I can barely hold my sword up!' Rainey thought as she rolled, ducked and jumped from danger. 'Wait a minute! Why couldn't Kagome sense these demons? And why is the leader coming after only me?' then it clicked. 'This whole thing was planned! I'm gonna have to fight. Oh man!'

"All right, I've had enough!" Rainey yelled to the demon, sounding much more confident that she actually felt. "You want some, come and get it!" She unsheathed the sword hanging at her side.

*ROAR*

As if responding, the demon charged at her again. She ducked another attempt at near decapitation. She tried running around in circles to confuse it, but it kept locked on to her. She knew she couldn't kill it off by herself. She looked around for something to push it into, like a river or over a cliff.

'Yeah a cliff would be good right about now. At least it's kinda of a dumb, slow demon.' She thought, as she jumped out of its way.

Without warning, its tail came in for another hit. She held up her sword in front of her as a shield.

'Oh man! Here it comes.'

END OF CHAPTER 5

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