Several days had passed and still nothing had changed, no excitement, no action, not even a measly jewel shard. Kyoji stared up at the night sky trying to fall sleep. He sat up and moved closer to the fire that burned brightly in the campground. There was no point in trying to talk to someone considering they were all sleeping.
As he began warming up, he laid back down wishing he could hear someone say something. He began to wish for something exciting to happen on this journey, he was getting bored, and quickly. He closed his eyes and fell into a deep sleep thinking of Hyrule once again.
The next morning he awoke to five pairs of eyes starring down at him. He lay there starring back at them confused. "Has anyone ever told you that you sleep late?" Kagome asked as he sat up.
"C'mon we have much ground to cover." Miroku told them as he walked off ahead.
Kyoji stood up, stretched and began to follow after the others. "Where are we heading today guys?" he asked. He didn't expect much of an answer considering he held them up. He watched after everyone and noticed that they seemed to pair up, he was used to just walking and the fastest was in front, so this was something to get used to.
"Told ya I shoulda woken him up." Kyoji heard Inuyasha talking to Kagome, "we'd be farther right now if we hadn't of waited so long." He couldn't help but listen in then. He caught up to them walking next to Miroku trying to hear what they were possibly arguing about.
"He's new, give him a break Inuyasha. It's not like we have to be at the next village yesterday."
"I hate waitin on slow people. If I woke him up earlier we'd be farther by now."
"It's not that big of a deal. Just give it a rest will ya?"
There was a little more to the argument, but Kyoji didn't seem to care by that time. He leaned toward Miroku and asked, "Why does Inuyasha seem so impatient today?"
"What do you mean today? He's always like this." Said Sango who was on the other side of Miroku.
"I mean he seems more so today then usual."
"I'll tell you later." Miroku responded. "Right now isn't the safest place for me to explain it. You understand, right"?"
"Yeah, sure I understand." Kyoji's thoughts started to shift back to Hyrule. How he missed that wonderful land right…
"SIT!" BOOM. Inuyasha must have pushed Kagome a bit far, because now he was quite a ways into the ground now. It at the least got a laugh out of the four in the back. They continued walking toward the next village or at least until Kagome sensed another jewel shard. Inuyasha was careful to not get on her bad side the rest of the day.
Dark clouds rolled in over the grassy plain. The itch black sky blocked out all light from entering onto the meadow, and a strange wind blew across the way giving it an eerie feel.
From the darkness emerged four figures seemingly unafraid. The tallest of he four stopped in the middle of the plain as the wind blew passed him. As for the other three, the wind stopped them far behind the other. A human child kept tightly by the two headed demon dragon, afraid to advance, and the little demon next to her stopped close by as well.
"Master Jaken, that wind doesn't seem natural", said the little girl. "I'm scared."
"Don't worry Rin, it won't harm you", said Jaken trying to hide his fear for the girl's sake. "We're safe as long as Lord Sesshomaru is with us."
Sesshomaru, who was doing quite a bit of examining of the dark sky, began to speak to the air, "Who are you?" At first you'd think he had lost his mind, but then the wind spoke back.
"Lord Sesshomaru, I am Kezenmaru, demon of the wind." Still unable to be seen, the wind continued to speak. "I had a feeling it was you. No other demon has this strong of a presence. However I cannot allow you to leave here alive." The wind blew hard once again knocking over Jaken and Rin, but Sesshomaru didn't budge.
"So that's how this will play out", Sesshomaru said confidently, "you may know who I am, but you don't know me the way you think. I will be going now. I'd rather not waste my time here any longer." He started walking again not worried of the wind demon in the least. As he took his first steps a strong gust blew at him. Thinking this as the demon's way of attacking, Sesshomaru pulled out Tokijin and slashed through the wind as if nothing. "Why should I bother fighting you when you don't show yourself." Sesshomaru sheathed his sword and began walking away.
"Good job my lord", Jaken said running up closer to the dog demon, "he didn't have a chance challenging one as powerful as you."
Rin, who was still behind, jumped up to ride toward Sesshomaru on Au-Un, "What was that Lord Sesshomaru?" she asked innocently. "I didn't see anything."
"It was nothing Rin. Forget about it."
"What are you starin at? Haven't ya ever seen a human before?" Inuyasha snapped at Kyoji who was busy inspecting his change.
"Well, yeah, but—"
"But what? I wish you'd quit."
"I just thought you were a demon. At least that's what I was told." Kyoji still couldn't help but look for his ears.
Miroku stood up and walked toward Inuyasha. "You wanted to know why he was so nervous today didn't you?" Kyoji nodded as Miroku stuck his fingers in Inuyasha's mouth and pulled. "As you can see he has no fangs."
"Miwoku, get your ands owt ob my mouf!"
Miroku ignored him and started messing with his hair around where his ears were. "He also doesn't have his ears anymore, in fact they are right here", he began pulling at Inuyasha's human ears getting a few 'ows' and 'quit that'. "As you can see he was a demon earlier today, and now he is a human. In fact he is a half demon and half demons sometimes go through times as humans." He pointed up at the sky, "See the moon?"
"There is no moon tonight", replied Kyoji still confused.
"Exactly." Miroku stepped away from Inuyasha to sit back down. "half demons have moments when they lose their demon power; Inuyasha's just happens to be on a moonless night."
Inuyasha stood up and wsalked away as Kagome sat down. "What's wrong with him this time?" she asked.
Inuyasha answered for her before he walked off, "That damn monk needs to keep my secret to himself."
Kyoji picked up his sword and started examining it. It glowed just briefly, but enough for Miroku to ask about it. "Your sword seems different from other swords around here. Do you know why, Kyoji?"
He sheathed it and the blade was glowing brighter now, and he too started asking the same question. He shrugged at the question.
"And why was I the only one who could move it?" asked Sango. Kagome too asked the same thing, it seemed as though the sword chose its wielders instead of having anybody use it.
"I'm pretty sure you too can touch it Kagome, but the others, I don't know. Everyone back home was able to use it no problem. "He handed Miroku the sword beckoning him to hold it. "Go on, take it should let you hold it."
Shippo jumped on Miroku's shoulder and started to nervously touch it. This time the sword didn't feel like a two-ton brick when Miroku took the sword from Kyoji. It started to glow bright while it accepted the monk's handling. "Wow, it must be special to glow like that", Shippo said amazed.
"Yes, it must be special, does it have spiritual powers? It seems to be able to choose its own wielders," Miroku said studying the sword.
Kagome and Sango moved closer to the monk to get a better view of the sword. "What are these markings on the blade?" asked Sango.
"Those are Hylian markings from the ancient Sages. They built that sword to help empower the sacred Triforce. It still haven't learned how to read Hulian, but I do know or have an idea o how to use the sword's power."
"It's power?" Inuyasha came back to the group; he must have forgiven Miroku and Kyoji for earlier. "I don't care what kind of power it has, it can't rival my Tetsaiga", he bragged patting his sword. Everyone seemed to ignore him, because no one seemed to answer.
The night went o, and everyone was quiet as they talked among the group. Kyoji felt much better about this journey. He has made new friends, friends who have accepted him as part of the team, and he didn't feel bad about knowing Inuyasha's secret either. He laid back wishing he could stay longer, but he also thought of what else could happen while he was here. His new friends enjoyed his company, but he thought, just wait till they know my little secret.