Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha. If you have read my other fic "Sesshomau's Forbidden Bonds" somethings in this may sound familier. If you haven't you're in for a treat.

The sun shone brightly in the clear cool sky as the Inu gang continued along their journey to find all the sacred jewel shard pieces.

Kagome: "Aaahhh, this feels nice, the sun is up the breeze is cool. Just the perfect time for traveling."

Sango: "You said it. Honestly I hate walking in hot weather."

Kirara snuggled closer to Sango's neck and resumed her little catnap.

Unknown to them two sets of glowing yellow eyes were watching them from the bushes lining the forest. Shippo glanced behind him to the brush to see nothing there. "That was odd."

Inuyasha: "Sano and Hegiowu

Tricksters of Undying Loyalty"

"Okay. And this is an armadillo. It can roll itself into a hard ball to protect himself if he's in danger." Kagome said to the fox demon Shippo who was sitting on her lap gazing at her biology book.

Shippo: "It looks like a plated rat."

"Yes, but the oddest thing about it is that when it breeds it always has quadruplets."

Inuyasha interrupted the lesson with his usual grunt and groan, "What are you doing with the kid? If he really wants to be useful around here he should be learning how to fight instead of looking at all that ridicules stuff from your time."

Annoyed Kagome sprung to her feet knocking Shippo off her lap, "For you information it's called biology and it wouldn't hurt for him to learn some modern education."

Inuyasha: "Yeah right. Next thing you're going to make the poor guy worry about 'tests' and these 'exams' you always seem to be afraid of."

Kagome: "They are not scary! Just so you know some quizzes are quiet fun if you've studied hard enough."

Inuyasha: "Feh. Like it's going to us any good in this place and time. He should be practicing his fox fire so it can do more damage then just annoy the enemy"

Kagome: "It's always fighting with you isn't it?! What would you do when all these wars end? With just a basic education Shippo can be more successful in this world than dumbfounded goof like you will ever be."

Inuyasha: "GOOF?! What kind of insult is that?!"

The demon slayer Sango and the monk Miroku were sitting at the opposite side of the camp watching yet another argument of their personal soap opera.

"They sound like two bickering parents discussing their child's future." Sango said nibbling slightly on her chopsticks. Miroku held up a piece and candy octopus just a foot away from her face, "Two minuets until Kagome says 'sit'."

She grinned and put up a piece of squid, "Two seconds."

One-one thousand, two one thousand….

"SIT!"

BANG!

They gazed through a thick cloud of dust to see a flattened hanyou laying face first in the ground. Sango snatched Miroku's candy octopus and plopped it in her mouth, "Better luck next time."

Miroku: "You're so cruel."

(A few moments later)

"It's strange that we've haven't found anymore jewel shards other than Naraku's huge one." Kagome pondered as she starred thoughtfully at her lunchbox.

"It maybe that there are no more jewels left to be found." Miroku said finishing off the last of his soda.

At that moment everyone was either backwashing or practically choking on his or her bite of food.

"What makes you say that?" Shippo asked while he still had a bit of fried ship sticking out of his mouth.

Miroku: "Think about it. Lately when we've seen Naraku using the sacred jewel it was always near completion, we haven't found many shards lately and the empty gap in his grows smaller."

Kagome drew out the vile that contained the three jewel shards they've collected, "So you're saying that we have the last shards."

The monk nodded, "Indeed, and that means we'll have to face Naraku sooner or later to get his piece."

Suddenly the sky began to darken and an eerie wind blew slowly across the valley. Inuyasha glanced over to the little fox demon, "Shippo, are you playing your tricks again?"

"That…. isn't…. me…." said the kitsune shaking nervously.

A fiery blue flame materialized on the horizon, "Wondering travelers, you have trespassed into the territory of the Great Hound Demons!"

Kagome trembled slightly, "Hound demons?"

Inuyasha just humphed, "It's just a little trick."

Blue Flame: "A TRICK?! Let me tell you half-breed that my power is very real, and immanent. No one has ever faced my wrath and lived to tell."

"He sure sounds confident." Sango said as she readied her boomerang.

Miroku: "I wonder how it knows Inuyasha is a half demon."

Inuyasha lunged at it with his deadly claws. The firey mist and darkness disappeared as soon as he touched it.

Kagome blinked with surprise, "It's gone."

The hanyou flecked his fingers annoyed, "Well that didn't put much of a fight."

Shippo turned back to the camp quickly as he heard a rustling sound coming from Kagome's large yellow bag. He crawled on top of the bag to take a look when something sprung out and raced toward the woods. "Kagome, Inuyasha, something came out of the bag ands heading to the brush!"

Immediately everyone raced to the scene. A small silver ball of fluff was rolling in the tall grass when Inuyasha plucked it out like a weed. "Now this is strange."

The others caught up with him to see the unusual critter.

Miroku: "What is it?"

Sango: "Looks like a ball of fur."

Shippo: "I've heard of wild hairballs but this is ridicules. Kagome, is that what you call an armadillo?"

Kagome: "Is it alive?"

Inuyasha rolled it around in his hands trying to keep a firm grip on it, "I don't know, I can't get a good scent from it. Like it's not alive." He just inspected it for a moment, then lightly tossed it in the air. It was about 3/4ths the size of Shippo, just as light, and sat motionless in his hands. The dog demon glanced at the little fox sitting on his shoulder, "Are you sure this is what came out?"

Shippo: "Ah huh. Positive."

Kagome then leaned closer to get a better look, "It must have; because I can sense the jewel shards we collected in it."

At that moment the sky went dark again and the same cold wind started to blow fiercely.

Sango: "Here it comes again."

Inuyasha turned his head from the ball for only a second. The next moment when he looked back to find that the thing was gone and red bite marks on his hands took its place. "Aaeeeeoooowwwww!"

The gang turned back to the demon to see that the little hairball was rolling away again. And at full speed.

"Oh no you don't." Shippo pounced onto the rolling fur ball, only to get caught up and carried around for the ride. The little kitsune tightened his hold on the thin coat of fur and resisted the urge to throw up. "Soooooommmmoooonnnnnne hheeeeelllllp meeeeeeeee!!!!!!"

"Hang on Shippo! Sango shouted as she threw her hiraikotsu ahead of the fur ball. The giant boomerang dug a deep trench in the ground forming a circle around the renegade fluff. The ball and Shippo fell into the ditch and stopped immedeitly.

"Shippo are you alright?!" Kagome asked worried as she lifted the dizzy kitsune from the hole. The little demon had swirls around his eyes from the long spin. "Uuuuuuuuug I think I'm goanna throw up."

Irritated by the constant nonsense Inuyasha reached into the ditch and grabbed hold on the 'very' fuzzy ball, "Alright we know you're not just some hacked up hairball, now uncoil and give us back those jewel shards!"

The ball just shook slightly and remained still.

Inuyasha: "Are you saying you don't want to come out?"

The ball shook again, only in an attempted up and down motion agreeing.

"Well that's just too bad!" The hanyou grunted as he tightened his grip on the ball to force it open.

The little ball just clamped itself tighter against the hanyu's claws.

"Inuyasha let me try." Kagome said as she grabbed the fur ball from his grasp. "Hey come on out little fellow. We're not going to hurt you."

The white ball shook again.

"Kagome them snatched a piece of cooked pork and hovered it near the ball, "You can have some of these yummy goodies if you come out."

The ball slowly uncoiled reveling a small white haired demon with black highlights, golden eyes and faint fur on his skin the same color as his hair. He wore a bluish tan cloths similar to Shippo's.

Kagome: "Awww. He's so cute."

Sango: "He sure doesn't seem harmful."

Miroku: "Yes, and hardly one to project some frightening illusions."

Suddenly a black silver flash whizzed passed them grabbing the little demon from the girl's grasp.

"Hey?!"

Everyone looked ahead to see a small dog-like demon with the same color fur holding the hanyou in its jaws. "Leave this place of feel our wrath!"

Kagome starred in surprise, "So it's the dog who's talking?"

Inuyasha glared at her for a second, "And what you have against that?"

The dog and cub raced down through the valley and toward the forests.

"Hold it right there!" Miroku shouted as he drew out his charms and threw them at them. The talismans struck the demons with strong magics and knocked them out.

"Oh you poor things." Kagome exclaimed as she and Sango gathered up the little puppies and carried them back to the campsite.

"Great job Miroku. Now what do we do with these guys?" Inuyasha asked grumpily as he inspected the two tricksters while the girls set them doen on the blanket. Aside from the demon's physical appearance they were remarkably identical in color, size and were about the same age as Shippo.

Kagome starred at them restraining all temptation to smother them, "I don't know but that one looks like either a white Shippo clone or a minne Yasha."

Miroku examined their body structure with a charm ready, "Judging by their appearance they appear to be canine demons, wouldn't you say Inuyasha?"

"Yeah I would say, but it's strange they smell somewhat familiar but I can't tell why. Their human blood is covering up most of their scent." Inuyasha answered as he held the more humanoid demon by the tail and sniffing.

Shippo: "Huh? They're half demons?"

Inuyasha: "Yep, one half each."

Kagome: (slant eyed) "Bad."

The little demon that Inuyasha was holding slowly opened his eyes. His tiny yellow eyes met his captor's gold ones and was in a trance for a short while.

Mesmerized, the large hanyou set the little one down on the blanket with the other one, "It's alright kid. No one's going to hurt you."

Just then the young puppy started to howl to the sky in a high whimpering voice. (You know like little Lady on 'Lady and the Tramp')

"Now look at what you done you made him cry." Kagome scolded trying to calm the little guy down.

Inuyasha was infuriated, "What I'd done?! I haven't done anything!"

Fwet!

Suddenly out of nowhere an arrow was shot at the group and struck Inuyasha in the arm.

"AAAOOOWW! Alright who shot that?!"

Uh oh, someone's heard the pupy's call. Read and Review.