I don't own Inuyasha and his story line or fellow characters. I also take no ownership of the name Akechi, ALTHOUGH I do own Ari and his girl friend Andi. Please read, review, and enjoy.

Last time...

Sango tended to Miroku's wounds and glared at Ari doing so. Beads of sweat formed on Ari's forehead. He started to pant, his vision bleared. Faintly, he heard a voice. The voice was too fuzzy to make out. He stumbled to his knees, sweating profusely. He felt someone lift him and shout something. Blackness drifted around his vision, trying to shake it off. He pushed off of the person holding him up and stumbled for balance.

"I'm fine," he muttered, "I'm...fine." He fell; too hot to catch himself, he felt his head hit the floor hard. The blackness around his eyes engulfed his vision.

Begin Chapter 8

A faint voice in the distance called, repetitively, "Ari." Ari stirred for a moment while the voice called louder. The voice was that of a man, from what he could tell, and he sounded fairly young. "Hey asshole!" said the man as he popped Ari on the stomach.

"Ow! Mother..." Ari said as he shot up in pain and stared at the man. He was dressed in what Inuyasha was dressed in; a dark blue long shirt with fairly baggy pants, but Inuyasha's is red. He looked similar to Ari, except with no glasses, pierced ear, or short hair. His hair was down to his shoulders, blackish brown, and had one dark blue eye and one hazel eye. Ari staggered for a minute, and then popped his neck. "Who the hell are you?" he finally asked.

"Don't you know, I'm Akechi you ass!"

"Akechi you ass, never heard of... ow!" Ari said as he was being struck over the head with a heel of palm strike.

"Gods, your such a dumb-ass."

"Haven't you said ass enough already?"

"Well you are an ass. Anyway, I wasn't summoned from the dead to tell you that. The Gods wanted me too..."

"You're dead! Whoa, I thought you'd kick ass man!"

"Listen to me you stupid ignorant little brat! Naraku wants the jewel of the lost, and you and your girl have a half, if one dies, the other is in morning and gives the other half a solid form, forcing the other to come out. That makes the jewel useable and allows demons to use it too," he said, "There Gods, can I please leave this guy now?" he said suddenly.

Outside of Ari's mind...

Andi was in a panic, after getting over the hangover. She ran back and forth to get the water from a nearby well. Inuyasha was with Kagome to get Lady Kaede from a town not too far off. She carried a bucket of water to Ari and removed two pieces of cloth and placed it on the bends of his arms. She placed a third on to back of his neck and wrapped it around. Ari was drenched in sweat; his checks were a bright red and the clothes dried up faster than Shippo and Andi can place the wet cloth on. Just then an old priestess with one eye walked in carrying a midnight blue beaded rosary in one hand while chanting a spell.

She gave the rosary to Andi and said "Toss this around his neck and say some word, child." Without hesitation, she tossed the rosary around Ari's neck and said the first thing that came to mind, "Sedebis!" The rosary glowed a silvery white and pulled Ari to the floor.

Inside Ari's mind...

"Well, tell me who killed you, and maybe how to use my power," Ari said standing up. Just as he did, a rosary appeared around his neck and weighed so heavy he fell to the floor on his back. He landed so hard he was unconscious for a couple of minutes. When he awoke he was back at the inn where they were staying. He rose up slowly, then turned and looked around.

"Are you ok young man?" asked the priestess.

"Uh, yeah, I guess. What the hell happened?" Just as Ari finished the statement, a sharp blow to his cheek knocked him to the floor. "What the hell?!"

"That's for making me worry about you," Andi started to cry. "Don't ever do that again..." her eyes held a sense of anger and fear about them. She lunged at Ari and wrapped her arms around him. Her warm tears flowed down his chest. For the first time in a while, Ari saw Andi cry. He enveloped his arms around her and held her close.

"I'll never leave you. Never," he whispered. She continued to sob until she had cried out.

The next day, Ari was well enough to start walking back to the town that the priestess is from. Ari walked next to her trying to pull off the rosary. "What the hell is this thing anyway?" he asked.

"That is an enchanted rosary. Only the one who applied it may remove it. If a certain word is said, then the rosary will do different things," she explained.

"Like?"

"Sedebis," Andi said. Suddenly, the dark blue rosary glowed silvery white and made Ari fall to the ground. Inuyasha snickered.

"Heh, I wouldn't fall for something that stupid," he boasted.

"Inuyasha," Kagome called, "Osuwari!" suddenly the same thing that happened to Ari happened to Inuyasha.

"Wouldn't fall for it, eh?" scoffed Ari.

"Don't start with me."

Well, sorry for the long update, school has been a real drag. And fyi, the Osuwari, and Sedebis are the commands for the rosaries. Sedebis is Latin, and Osuwari is Japanese. Sorry for it bein' short, I'll make the next one longer. Thanx for stickin' with me!