Eh, heh, heh. :nervous chuckle: Um yeah, Hi everyone, I'm not dead! GOMEN NASAI! I should have updated about 3 months ago, but I couldn't get off my lazy ass to start typing this and I was on a stupid, freakin hiatus! I'm gonna KILL my MUSE! ARGH! Ok I apologize to you all for my major delay and my comments on the reviews will be at the end so I can get this party started! Without further blabbering I give you the third chapter of de fic.

And no I don't own Inuyasha, but I do own a Miroku plushy and Inuyasha calendar! WooHoo!

"talking"

'thoughts'

"Hi everyone! Were back!"

"Kagome!" Cried Shippo as he went running towards Kagome and jumping into her arms.

"Ha! Ha! It's good to see you too Shippo."

"Welcome back Kagome." Sango said as she quickly stood up and faced towards the others.

(if ya don't remember in the last chapter Sango and Miroku were lost in their own worlds)

"Inuyasha I'm surprised to see you…" Miroku's sentence was cut short as an arrow flew past him a landed just where he sat only just a few seconds ago.

"Wha…What was that?"

"An arrow? Who would've shot that? It wouldn't have been…." Kagome was about to say Kikyo, but on close inspection of the arrow she quickly stopped herself. The said arrow was much shorter than Kikyos and unlike hers it had a strange bluish glow to it and green feathers attached to the end.

"What a strange looking arrow. Kagome do you sense any jewel shards around here." Sango asked even though she already guessed she knew the answer. Kagome shook her head 'no.' Just as she thought. Kagome was usually pretty quick on sensing the small shards.

"Inuyasha do you sense any demons around here?"

Inuyasha was one step ahead of Kagome and already his ears twitched around trying to pick up any noise around them. He thought he could smell something demon like, but he wasn't quite sure. Something seemed to be blocking the scent.

Not far away from this there was a shadowed form sitting in the trees.

"What a bunch of idiots. Thinking they can sense me? The great Shika! I think not. Ugh! Damn that Inuyasha and his 'ittle girlfriend! Popping up out of the well and making my targets move! Oh well. At least they got the message. And maybe it best that I not hit my target just yet. Heh heh heh. I think I'll just have a little fun with them first, freak em out a bit and then attack them when they wet their pants. Oh yes this is gonna be fun. Now, when should I make my next move?"

Shika stood up and gracefully jumped onto another tree's branches just slightly closer to her… :cough, cough: 'toys.' There she lay lower down on the branch letting herself down slowly as not to make the branch creak. Her forest green clothes blending in perfectly with the emerald leaves of the trees. She lay there for only a moment though. Just long enough to hear what they were saying. Something about jewel shards and whether or not they should touch the arrow. Bunch of dorks. From there she quickly stood up and leaped up again through the trees only this time once she landed she took off again. Going about five or so miles west she jumped down from the trees and landed gently on the ground. Looking around she saw herself in a small opening where the forest continued on one side and a small drop off of a cliff on the other.

"Hmmm. I do believe this would be the perfect spot for the first initial hit. And by the time they reach this place the sun should just be setting and all the creepy little forest night creatures will come out and they will be a perfect distraction for me. Hooray. Hooray! Now just to get those dumb asses to come this way." Here she took off again and headed back to our heroes who were, unfortunately for Shika, heading in off in a northern direction.

"Bunch of idiots!"

"I'm telling you Inuyasha that arrow had some kind of curse or spell on it. I could sense it! Besides, why else would it be glowing?"

"Oh come off it Miroku. Your just saying this cause that thing about sliced your rear end off."

"Come on Inuyasha I believe Miroku. That arrow really didn't feel right. It was creepy."

"Your one to talk Shippo. You get scared at even at the smallest of demons cross our paths."

"Humph! At least I'm not scared to take a bath with Kagome!"

00''' "Bu..bu..bu..but, that's different!" Inuyasha stuttered at loss of words and his faced turned such a deep red that if it wasn't for his hair he would have been lost in his clothes. Kagome's face also turned as shade of red, but she soon joined the laughing Miroku and Sango.

'Ha ha ha. Shippo you may be right, well possibly about the bath thing. Although, I was thinking more about that arrow. It was definitely cursed and definitely directed at either me or…' Here Sango stopped and looked at Miroku who was still laughing at the 'just slapped in the face' expression of Inuyasha. 'He looks so carefree, like a child. How does he do it? Always smiling even through all of our experiences and his own hardships. He must have a lot on his mind. Unless, all he ever does think about are women's assess. What a pervert.Still I couldn't even image what it would be like if he was ever to get injured so badly that he could possibly…No, he can't. I can't even think about it. What ever it is out there, I hope it leaves. Yet I know that with our groups luck it won't. All I can really hope is that no one gets badly hurt.'

"Sango, are you all right?"

"Huh?"

"I asked if you were all right. You were staring at me with a strange look."

'I was staring at him? Baka! I gotta stop doing that!' "Oh, no. No. I'm fine. I was just thinking about something."

"Are ya sure?"

"Yeah, positive."

"Okay, just don't let your guard down."

Sango nodded at this. 'Let my guard down? Never! I'm a taijiya and taijiyas don't ever let their guard down!'

Miroku smiled and turned his head back to the path ahead of them. 'Sango better not let her guard down with this unknown creature running around and aiming at us. None of us should let our guard down, but especially Sango.'

Of course not far from all this was Shika standing once again up in a tree and fitting a whitish colored arrow into her bow.

"Jeez all their flirting is getting really annoying. All right now it's time to get these dumb assess turned back around." Here she pulled back her bow and once again let her arrow fly.

Well there ya go another chapter and another cliffy! So I like to say thanks to all my reviewers and to kirara980 I've never heard of Sango-samas Black Widow till now! To YoukaiTajiyaSango sorry for spelling 'sayonara' wrong and thank you to everyone else again for reading my story and keep reviewing, please! Arigato! Sayonara till next time! Dreamerchan