Tesse: I'm back, chapter #3 !yahoo!

Hero: You have issues

Tesse: Wheres your story writing spirit

Hero: Wopidy doo! [looks annoyed]

Tesse: Anyway, I don't own Inuyasha

Inuyasha: Heritage

Chapter 3: Peace Disturbed

Kayori sat in her favorite cherry blossom tree as the little pink flowers wafted their sweet scent. She was only half conscious, her feet were bare and her light silver hair blew in the soft warm breeze. She wore a light blue kimono littered with the pink cherry blossoms from the tree.

It had been three weeks since Miroku and Sango had arrived with Ryku. Kayori had done her best to avoid him, seeing as how she thought he was a pervert, but had to constantly stop herself from daydreaming about him.

Suddenly a new scent reached her nostrils. BLOOD! Kayori leapt from her spot in the tree, and sniffed the air again. It was coming from the woods. She followed it as best she could but the smell was faint.

She had continued through the forest foliage, the scent was getting stronger. Kayori had been sure that it was a traveler attacked by some kind of demon. She entered the clearing where the smell was.

Kayori gasped. Blood was everywhere. Kayori couldn't even figure out who or what it belonged to. But there was so much of it that she was positive that it came from more than one person, perhaps a whole group.

Suddenly she felt someone's gaze on her back, their scent reached her nose. Kayori immediately sensed danger.

She leapt into the tree above her right as a strange blade of wind shredded the ground in which she had stood on.

"Well, well, well, if it isn't Inuyasha's little brat!" A feminine voice rang as a young woman with raven hair and burning red eyes entered the clearing. She was dressed in a fine striped kimono.

"Who are you!?" It was more of a demand than a question.

"I am Kagura. Naraku's faithful servant," she answered calmly, "I'm here to see to it that Naraku's command is carried out." Then Kagura laughed sadistically. The name Naraku sent shivers down her spine. Her father had always told her stories of how he and his companions collected shards of the legendary Shikon Jewel and finally put Naraku's evil to rest. Kagura was always part of the stories playing the part of Naraku's first incarnation.

"What would that be?" Kayori questioned with an obvious venom in her voice.

Kagura laughed again. "To see to it that you never claim your birthright!"

Kayori stepped back as best she could on her protective perch in the tree. Kagura opened her fan with the flick of her wrist. "Scared little one? You should be!" then waved her fan. The bursts of wind was sharp, Kayori leapt from the tree right as the blades had torn it to shreds.

Kayori landed softly on the ground with a small "thud", but Kagura just laughed and waved her fan again, but this time one of the wind blades caught her in the side. Kayori fell back in pain and shock.

She looked up at Kagura, not in fear, but in anger. Kagura noticed that Kayori was pissed, and cautiously took a step back, partly scared that the girl was stronger than she looked. 'Oh SHIT!' Kagura thought, unfortunately that was all she could think.

Kayori picked herself up of the ground, the pain had vanished, and her eyes turned completely red. She brought her hand up to the wound in her side, blood dripped onto her hand. She looked sadisticly at Kagura...

"BLADES OF BLOOD!!" Kayori shouted, throwing the blood on her hand at Kagura. Kagura tried to escape its path, but failed.

Kayori suddenly snapped back to reality. She saw Kagura's lifeless body, and stumbled away from it. She turned and ran through the forest, not really caring where she was going, all she knew was that she had to tell her father what had just happened, what she had just heard. But the pain from her wound slowed her down. She had lost too much blood and she knew it. Her face had become pale and Kayori was to weak to keep herself up.

Suddenly everything went black.

...HOURS LATER IN THE VILLAGE...

Keade exited a local villagers hut, looking tired.

"KEADE!!!" the old miko turned to see young Ryku carrying a lifeless Kayori.

Keade gasped. Kayori had a huge wound in her side. Ryku had torn his sleeve off and had pressed it to the wound to stop the bleeding. Keade met the young man half way.

"Quick to my hut!" she said urgently. Ryku nodded, and they hurried off to Keade's hut.

They had laid Kayori on the futon and Keade started to boil water and dampened a clean white cloth, and removed Ryku's torn sleeve. Luckily the bleeding had stopped. "Ryku-chan, go fetch Inuyasha and Kagome." Ryku nodded and ran from the hut.

Meanwhile... Inuyasha and Kagome were sitting in their hut calmly eating a lunch of ramen and talking about various things.

"You know Inuyasha the school year well be starting soon, you know what that means right?" Kagome questioned.

"Kayori is old enough to make her own decisions we should ask her what she wants," Inuyasha added. He was interrupted by Ryku who had just burst into the hut. The first thing Inuyasha noticed was the fact that he was covered in blood, Kayori's blood!"

"What the HELL!?" Inuyasha shouted in anger

"Ryku-chan!?" Kagome gasped.

"It's Kayori... She was injured... In the woods!" Ryku gasped. Inuyasha leapt up from his place next to his wife.

"Where!?" Inuyasha demanded.

Ryku pointed towards Keade's hut, "With Keade," he answered urgently.

Inuyasha and Kagome rushed out of the hut, closely followed by Ryku.

A few minutes later they burst into the old miko's hut. The first thing everyone noticed was an unconscious Kayori laying in the center of everything. She had a cold damp cloth pressed to her forehead, and a thin blanket lay over her thin frame. She mumbled something in her sleep. Keade bent over her, pouring a strong-smelling through her parched lips.

"What happened Keade?" Inuyasha asked, fear of losing his only child was completely obvious in his voice. Kagome rushed up to Kayori's lifeless figure, and carefully lifted her head onto her lap.

Keade looked up it Inuyasha, "I don't know what happened, but if Kayori had stayed in those woods, she would have bleed to death."

"What was she doing in the woods?" Inuyasha asked.

Keade shook her head again, "Ryku brought her saying he had sensed an unusual demonic aura and went to what it was. He so happened to find Kayori, wounded," she looked down, seemingly interested in the floor.

Inuyasha looked at the entrance of the hut, Ryku was waiting for the news on Kayori's condition outside.

"If it weren't for him, we would have lost our Kayori, Inuyasha," Kagome said from her place next to Kayori.

Suddenly Kayori moaned and her eyelids fluttered open.

"Where am I?" she asked as the room came into focus.

"Kayori are you alright?" Kagome looked down at her worriedly.

"Mom? Dad?" she said as her parent's faces became clearer.

Inuyasha kneeled down next to his daughter. "What happened, Kayori?"

"It was Kagura!" Kayori said in a rush. Inuyasha and Kagome exchanged nervous glances. If it was Kagura, then Naraku was behind it.

"Are you sure?" Inuyasha asked nervously. "It couldn't have been Kagura she's dead so is Naraku."

Kayori shook her head. "It was her, I know it."

"What did you do?" Kagome asked.

Kayori shook her head, "I don't know, after Kagura attacked, I, I kind of went blank, lost control. And when I snapped back Kagura was dead. Then I just ran back through the forest until I, I collapsed," Kayori said quickly.

Tesse: that's the end of chappy three please review!