A/N: Hey everyone! This is my very first story here in Please go easy on me...well anyways, I don't own Inu-Yasha nor Tenchi Muyo...so enjoy! Umm..oh and flames and suggestions are welcome.

New Beginnings

Chapter one:Thieves

It all started on one autumn day in the Feudal Era. Inu-Yasha and the gang were walking around in the fields and woods, searching for the sacred jewel shards. So far, they had eight jewel shards in all. Kagome and Miroku each had three while Sango had two. They've been walking the whole day, non-stop. You can definitely tell that they needed a good bath because every one of them were caked with thick mud around their bodies. As they were walking, Inu-yasha noticed a good spot on where they can stop and spend the night. It had some big logs to sit at and a large hot spring divided into two parts.

"You guys want to stop?" Inu-Yasha questioned out as he turned back to look at the rest of the group.

"Yes, PLEASE!" Kagome yelled out as she sighed in relief.

"Soooo...where are we supposed to stop at?" the little fox demon said as he was looking around the woods.

Inu-Yasha heavily sighed as he grabbed Shippo by his shirt collar, "Over there, STU-pid!"

Shippo pouted as he was dropped to the ground. His cheeks flushed with redness because of the fool he just made himself.

The girls settled their equipment as the guys made a small fire.

"There," the monk responded as he got up from his kneeling position, "if we go take a bath in the hot spring, we can already have this fire ready to warm us up."

Everyone nodded in response. After that, they left to the hot spring. The boys departed to the left side as the girls departed to the right.

Inu-Yasha jumped in the warm water and rested lazily on a corner, the mud slowly fusing with the water. Miroku was still barely taking his shoes off.

"Hey, Miroku. Are you gonna go somewhere?" Inu-Yasha questioned as he smirked at him. Miroku is such a womanizer. He was gazing at the trees. He felt that something was going to happen.

"HEY!" Inu-Yasha broke the silence, "are you coming in!"

"Oh..um, yeah."

BEEP! BEEP! The small mechanical device siren out as the demon held it in her palms. Washu was so kind to make one for the two companions.

"So, there is eight jewel shards over there.." the swordsman whispered as he looked at the screen of the devise over the demon's shoulder. His name was Tenchi and he was 18. He had jet black spiky hair, which was tied into a small ponytail, much longer than Miroku's. He had extremely high rankings of Jurai powers.

"Ey!" Ryoko yelled out when he did that. Ryoko was a 17 year-old woman..umm.. physically. She has great energy, which is actually her weapon for battle. She has changed a lot in the past years. Her hair was straight down until the end of her shoulder blades, which slightly stuck out, (flipped) and she's not as crazy as she used to be.

"C'mon," suggested Tenchi as he patted her shoulder, "we gotta go get them...I'll get the ones in the purple and blue clothing while you get the ones in the green and pink."

"Ok...Dad." Ryoko joked as she silently jumped from branch to branch, each jump getting closer and closer. Tenchi just sighed as he slowly walked to the blue and purple robes.

"Ohh!" Kagome softly cheered as she added shampoo on her hair. "It's feels sooo good to be clean."

Sango looked at her and smiled, "Definitely. Geez, when was the last time we took a nice, hot bath?" As they were talking, Ryoko rummaged through their pile of clothes. After a few moments, she found five of them. ' Perfect.' she thought as she gripped the shards tightly in her left hand. She then slipped them into her pants pocket as she silently went back to where they first were. "God, Tenchi is slow.."

'Where ARE they?' he thought to himself as he searched through the robes. He has been searching for the 3 shards and only found one... five minutes had already passed by.

Inu-Yasha ears rapidly perked up as he heard the shuffling noise ahead.

"Who's out there!" he yelled out defensively as he started getting out of the water. Miroku followed behind.

'...They're coming!' he nervously thought. He had only gotten two shards. 'Forget it!' He then got up and started running, clutching hard on the two shards. After about a minute, he returned to their same meeting spot. Tenchi noticed that Ryoko was frantically walking left, then to the right..she looked up and her eyes glared at him.

"Why did you took so LONG!" she yelled out as she shook him. Tenchi just stayed calm. It was practically a routine: every time he took long at something Ryoko would violently shake him by his shoulders. Tenchi's eyes snapped wide open as he remembered the incident that happened a few minutes ago.

"Um...Ryoko?" Tenchi half whispered, expecting the worst out of Ryoko. She stopped shaking and let him go. "I forgot a shard from the monk..."

"WHAAAAAAAAAAT!"

"Sango, you heard that?" Kagome explained as she looked up at the sky.

"Of course...it echoed trough the forest." She answered as she mimicked Kagome." I think we should go change, there might be danger near here." They both got out and got changed. Kagome stopped dead. "The jewel shards!" She freaked out and started looking for them. Sango noticed that hers, too, were missing. "Oh noooo..."

While the girls were searching for their shards, the guys were at the campsite. They never found out who was making that sound back at the hot spring. Miroku was looking thru his pocket robes trying to find a rubberband to tie his hair up when he stumbled across his shard pocket: it felt empty. He decided to look if something was wrong..and there was! He only had one of his shards! Miroku closed his eyes and sighed deeply... "I've been robbed."

"US TOO!" yelled Sango and Kagome as they were coming from the hot springs. There hands were dirty because of the scattering they did in the ground to find their shards.

Inu-Yasha's face began to heat up. He was really mad that his fangs gritted with frustration. "I'll hunt the thief down!"

"Well... One of us has to go back and get it," Ryoko demanded. There was a long silence." sigh...Ok, I'LL go while you run off with the shards. Here," she said as she gave him the five shards that she stole. "Go on, I'll meet you later back at the cave."

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"I will cut the thief down into little pieces and throw them in the river..." Inu-yasha kept nagging and nagging. They were too tired to go look for the burglar right now, so they decided to find him... or her... tomorrow morning. They were just sitting there, deeply into their thoughts, except for Inu-Yasha, who was still complaining.

While Tenchi started running back at their hideout, Ryoko started stretching her muscles while she was thinking on her plan... 'Let's see... I can just kidnap the monk, or I'll just fight the whole gang.' "Reaoow!" the cabbit mewed to her master while she was thinking. "Hey I got it!" she thought out loud as her eyes moved slowly to Ryo-ohki.

Back to the gang, we see our heroes getting a bit tired. Shippo and Kagome are already sleeping. The only ones that are awake are Inu-Yasha, Miroku and Sango.

"Dammit!" Ryoko whispered out when she peeked out to look at them. "Oh well... Ryo-ohki, go get the shard from the monk. I think it is riiiiight...there." She pointed somewhere in Miroku's chest. Ryo-ohki nodded intelligently as she started running to the monk...

CLIFFHANGER! I'm sorry, but I couldn't help it! Please review and I'll update soon...well I'll try... I have a lot of stuff to do right now! See Ya! Oh! And read Kagome1514's Tasukete... It's one of the best fanfictions I have ever read! Help her get to 1000 reviews, she deserves it dammit:)