No major plot devolopements, no new charactors this time. So why should I read it you ask? I find your lack of faith disturbing I reply. But really, you shouldn't be reading this and I shouldn't be writing it, we should be watching Star Wars!

-Johnny (Sky)Walker

Also yeah, there in the Midwest now. Like I know what fucking Japan looks like! I don't live in Japan!

Finally, the new theme song for the awsomely metal biker story is, "With a Wonder and a Wild Desire" By Flogging Molly. Go out and Buy "Within a Mile of Home" NOW! or Download it, but if ANY band deserves yer 16 bucks its Flogging Molly. Now we just need a title.

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Kagome watched with amusement as InuYasha bravely tried to light the cigarette clecnhed in his teeth in the small fire between them.

"Lighter not working?" Kagome asked looking over the small field in the middle of no where where they just happened to be when night fell. "Shut it." He inched closer. Kagome tried not to laugh at the effort he was putting into this. A spark leaped up and caught InuYasha in the forehead. He leaped back amid a torrent of profanity. Kagome sighed, picked up a stick at her side and layed it so the flames began to lick the edge of the wood.

InuYasha went back in a second time, this time more cuationsly. A shift in the wind sent embers in his direction. He fell back and flanked to Kagome's postion and began to anaylize the fire's pattern of attack.

Kagome picked up the stick she had lain in the fire, held the glowing end up to InuYasha's cigarette, and tossed it into the fire, quite pelased with her self.

InuYasha glared at her and searched his vocabulary. Eventully he just mutered something and began to walk over to the bike. He sat down and rested his back agiast it. From across the fire, Kagome just grinned at him. "Go to fucking sleep." He griminced and closed his eyes. "You're welcome!" Kagome replied overly cherrfully. InuYasha curtly extended his middle finger.

Kagome crawled into her sleeping bag still grinning, quite proud of her self. Well, one good thing abou her new life, she thought looking up at the stars, was that she got alot of fresh air. And though orginally boring, she was begining to fall in love with the vast open praries and dense forests of the great plains. And she didn't have to get up in the morning. Always a plus.

She woke up early. The sun still hadn't come up. The first rays of daylight had gotten traped by the atmoshpere and had bounced back, giving the world a light blue tinige that seemed to come from nowhere. A slight chill acompained the fog that hung in air. The silence of the world was so thick that it seemed to have a real preseance in the air.

She decided to walk around a bit, stretch her legs. As she got up InuYasha opned his eyes briefly, looked at her, checked to make sure there was no one else around, and promptly went back to sleep.

Kagome walked around the make shift campsite and admired the stillness of it all. Kind of made her wish the sun didn't have to rise.

"InuYasha?" "Yo." He opened his eyes immdeatly. He wasn't asleep after all. "I'm hungry." "Well," He began getting up and stretching his back, "we're about an hour out of a town, we'll stop there." "Can't we just heat something up in the fire?" "We're low on supplies you can wait." "No were not! You're just lazy!" "Fuck you, wait the damn hour." "OK fine, but I get to pick where." "Fine.."

InuYasha yawned as they walked out of the small pancake place. Kagome suddently seemed to be listing for something. "Why the hell did you have to get up this early?" She didn't reply. "Yo, what's up? See something?" "Yeah.. there's a shard in this town." That woke him up. "Sure?" "Yeah." "Well it's a small town, not many places it could be."

After searching several trinket and jewel shops, it still had not turned up. Kagome decided to check the phone book at a pay phone. InuYasha stood out side and lit up with a zippo he had bought along the way.

"Wait a minute." Kagome hadn't noticed that the jewel was closer now. She looked around and noticed a small shop she had over looked. "InuYasha." "What?" "That store, I think it's there." She said pointing at it.

InuYasha headed for the store. Kagome frowned. He was still limping a little. She caught up with him. "Your side Okay?" She asked with concern. "Yeah.. it's fine." They walked in.

The store was emptey save for an old man behind the counter. The store sold fruits and such things. Lo and behold, a shard lay on a counter behind the old man.

Kagome pretended to look around a bit before noticing the jewel. She headed up to the counter.

"Good morning Miss" "Good morning, I was wondering how much that small jewel up there is?" "That thing? I'm sorry but were not selling it." InuYasah heard this and walked over. Kagome shot him a keep-the-fuck-quiet look. He muttered something under his breath.

Kagome went back to trying to change the man's mind. "I'm sorry, but you see it's kind of a good luck charm young lady." The back and forth continued, InuYasha grew bored, then annoyed, then fustrated. Kagome noticed his hand creeping under his jacket.

"Excuse us for a moment." She said with a smile to the old man. She grabbed InuYasha by the arm and stormed out. Any sympathy she had for him for his wounded side was gone. She pulled him through he door as several young men stepped in.

Outside she tightned her grip and turned on him. "We are NOT going to rob him!" she said forcefully in a hushed voice. "Why" he griminced as Kagome's dug her nails deeper into his arm "Not?" "Because stealing is wrong, and we are good people!" "OW! all fucking right!" Kagome let go. "Jesus.." InuYasha muttered rubbing life back into his arm.

Just then the men they had past coming in charged out of the store, one had a gun, and into a waiting car, which sped off. "One of them had the jewel shard!"

"Oh for fuck's sake!" InuYasha lamented as he ran towards the bike.

Kagome tried not to scream as they flew down the high way. She tried not to grip InuYasha to tight, lest she end up squeezing his wounds, but damn was he going fast. They topped a small hill. The bike left the ground. Kagome held on for dear life, wounds be damned.
She felt InuYasha twitch as she tightened her grip, but hey, at this speed that wasn't his biggest problem. They returned to the earth. InuYasha grinned at her over his shoulder, "ALOT MORE FUN THE SCHOOL, EH KID?" he yelled over the roar of the wind. "YOU'RE ENJOYING THIS ARN'T YOU?" "AW, DON'T TELL ME YOUR NOT HAVING FUN, I MEAN WOULD YOU RAHER BEING DOING NICE, SAFE BORING USELESS MATH RIGHT NOW?"

Up ahead a some steel had fallen of a truck, froming a small ramp. Kagome stared at InuYasha in terror. He looked over his shoulder and grinned, for the first time his face betrayed his youth. He was well and truley enjoying himself. The wind seemed to die down enough for Kagome to hear him speak six words that filled her with parlyzing terror.

"Do you want to live forever?"

Gravity left them. The bike hung in air. Kagome was vaugly aware of her self screaming. She bounced up about a foot on landing and managed not to fall off only by trying to squeeze the air out of InuYasha's lungs. He deserved it.

"YOU.... FUCKING... ASSHOLE!" InuYasha laughed and slowed down. The car was in sight now. No need to rile them up. Just follow 'em home. "HAVIN' FUN BACK THERE KID?" Kagome vowed to get him for this.

The car pulled into the lot of a bed and breakfast. InuYasha pulled in as the teenagers were getting out of the car. Kagome pointed to the guy in the lead. "He has it." "Alright, wait here."

InuYasha headed for the door, making sure he got there the same time as the group. The kid with the jewel was stupid enough to bring it out and show it off. He flipped it into the air like a coin! Jesus! He was making it easy!

InuYasha caught it a good foot above the kid's hand. "HEY JACK- InuYasha inturped this outburst with his fist. To ensure no one else was going to be a smart ass, he pucnhed the nearest standing thing in the stomach hard enough to make him kneel over. The remaining two scattered.

InuYasha walked back to the bike and flipped the jewel to Kagome. "OK let's head back to the shop!" She said, glad that no one had to die for this shard. InuYasha was dumbfounded. "Wha.." "Just because it was stolen that doesn't mean we can keep it!" InuYasha just stared at her in disbelief. "'Sides, we'll probably get an award!" This did not conoul InuYasha, who robbed of his prize, wasn't in the mood for thanks.

Back at the shop the old man was grateful, and as a sign of thanks, insited they stay for dinner. InuYasha was not one to pass up free food, so he took the old man up on the offer.

Kagome was enjoying the food and company of the old man's family after so long on the road. InuYasha, however had grown quite reserved and quiet. He excused him self and walked out of the room, Kagome assumened he was going to the bathroom. She turned back to the conversation. She looked back after several minutes but he still wasn't back. She excused her self and went to go look for him.

Passing the coat rack she noticed his jacket was gone. She walked out the door of the house into the back yard in search of him.

About a quater mile away a small orange dot floated next to a tree on a hill. The moon burst through the clouds and see could clearly see InuYasha sitting agiast the tree. She headed towards him.

As she came up to him, she thought she saw that sad, lonely expression in his eyes again as he gazed out across the plains. But in a moment it was gone, replaced with boredom mixed with resignation.

He offered her the flask in his hand and once again she refused. She had seen him drink before, he never got truly drunk, just enough to 'keep him sane' as he put it.

"What's up, kid?" "I was wondering why you left." "Eh... I just don't like social situations." "Well you could of told me." She said sitting down next to him. It was a pretty view of the landscape. Like the rest of state it was more or less flat forest.

"I've been thinking" Kagome stated "Yeah?" "Well.. those kids, who stole the jewel, they didn't look like the kind of guys who know about the jewel.. just some punk kids." InuYasha scowled "Your probably right.. damn.. we gotta get the jewel from that old man or he's in for some hell. Well, nothing will proably happen this soon, we can relax a little." InuYasha took a swig and turned his gaze back upon the moon light forest. Kagome leaned back and rested on her hands. She looked up at the stars she had been sleeping under for a lifetime now. The clearity of the country air and sheer awsomeness of the night sky still struck her.

Eventullay her thoughts turned to the boy sitting next to her, he was still a boy, no matter how mature he acted. Why was he so serious all the time? There were moments where he joked around, but never for long. Like he was afraid to enjoy himself. Why had he rejected society? Was he the last of a dying breed,the anti-hero who lived for him self, who was filled with hatred for the weakness and moral corruption of society around him and yerned for when men were men and settled problems with in the street, not in the courts, not with the police? Maybe he had been hurt somewhere in his past, she didn't know anything about his past, it was possible. Would also explain why he was so cynical and suspicous of every one.

Kagome stared at the stars and wondered for a while. Eventully InuYasha stood up. "Cmon, let's head back, kid." Kagome got up and caught up with him. He was still limping. "Are you sure your OK?" She asked walking next to him. "Yeah, I'm fine." Kagome continued to look at him with concern. InuYasha stopped. "I'm fine, my side is just a little sore, ok?" Kagome saw there was no point arguing but walk right next to him, just in case he stumbled.

They walked into the house and found the old man alone at the dinner table. "There you two are! We were wondering where you got to." InuYasha sat down across from him, all buisness. "Listen to me old man. That little shard is going to get you and your family killed. There are men after and they will not stop coming after it. Either you give it to us or you spend the rest of your short life protecting your family. " His statements were punticated by the slamming of car doors out side. InuYasha stared at the old man as he got up and walked to the front door. He paused to light up a cigarette before stepping out.

InuYasha stood on the porch. Five men stood in front of two cars. InuYasha pointed his .45 at the man in the middle. They pointed their guns at him. InuYasha pulled back the hammer with a click that echoed through the night.

InuYasha fired first, someone went down. Automatic weapons fire cut through the night. Splinters of wood and clumps of dirt flew up as bullets traced their way through ground and wall to InuYasha. He fired again, one more went down. A pillar holding up the over hang above his head exploded in a shower of wood. He dropped to his knees and fell over on to his side firing as the wood panel crashed down on an angle around him. The third man went down. Over half way done.

Kagome hit the deck as soon as the shooting started. Bullets flew over her head, ripping the house apart. Moonlight shown through the holes in wall.

Inuyasha lay on his wounded side gasping for breath, his gun locked back to reveal an empty chamber. No one moved. They were all dead. He lay there waiting for the pain in his side to die away. He rolled a little too fast and pain shot through his side. He closed his eyes.

When he opened his eyes kagome was there. "InuYasha! are you ok? have you been hit?" She said, her voice filled with worry. InuYasha managed a small re-assuring smile. "Yeah I'm fine, just fell down on my side a little too fast." "Sure?" "Yeah.."

Kagome helped him up and after a moment pause for InuYasha to get his wind back, they walked into the house.

The old man gave up the jewel quite readly. InuYasha and Kagome returned back their life on the road, that night being just anther chapter in thier lives. Already Kagome was forgetting what life back home had been like...

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Yeah no picture this week. Not like they were any good any who. Anywho, next episode Miroku joins the fun, so you can put up with this filler-ish episode.

-John

NEXT EPSIODE: PALEMLA AND HER FIVE SISTERS, RIGHT HAND OF MIROKU!

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