Inu Kaiba: Here's a new chapter for all you patient people. By the time I realized I had 14 reviews for only one chapter, I decided it was time to update. And I'm very sorry for not updating this, IM Me or any of my other popular stories, I'm having a slight case of Writer's block and I'm going to try to update IM Me as soon as possible. And Pieces is on the radio, which is very ironic if anyone remembers my Naruto song fic.

This chapter is dedicated to Ash, because she is one of my best friends ever, and she' does too much stuff for her own good, overworking herself. Right now she's away at a parade. This is for you Ash because you deserve more than you get. Insert hearts and emoticon rape here.

These people had no heart, really. So far I'd brushed my head against the dirt twice, banged one or both of my knees on a stone or wall three times, and been smacked almost everywhere on my body too many times to count.

Finally, I was set down somewhere in the middle of the village, where everyone chose to gawk at me the way people gawk when someone runs down the street naked screaming Ricky Martin. It doesn't happen, really, but it's very, very strange and you feel the need to stare at whoever is doing such a stupid thing. This was a similar situation, except in this case, I was an outsider and they were staring at me because I looked nothing like any of them did.

Which reminds me; these people are wearing gaudy fashion styles from those ugly History text books. No one knew what fashion was then, but that's no excuse to mix hot pink with midnight blue. That's like, one of the major rules in fashion.

Then again, maybe when I fell down the well, I fell asleep and Grandpa and Mom and Souta had been setting up for one of those Historic plays about the 14th century. But we rarely do any of those, and last time I checked, Mom didn't say there were any of those plays set in the near future.

So, that could only leave one solution… Which I'd been about to voice aloud, when the people who were gawking at me began to speak even louder than they'd been before, interrupting my train of thought.

"Think it's one of those 'Kitsune' foxes usin' magic to look like a girl?"
"Nay, it could only be an inexperienced one. It's obvious it was trying to look like a girl, and got a few more male traits then it wanted to."
"Then what's it doing around here if it's so inexperienced?"
"Who knows, perhaps it's trying to prove something to its master?"

Now, that's that. I wasn't going to be treated like a goddamn fox, of all things. It was already bad enough they thought he was an 'it', but a fox who was trying to be a girl and ended up an it? That was just pathetic.

But before I could open my mouth to tell these people off about just how fucking rude they are, a hushed silence befell everyone and a man yelled out that 'Lady Kaede' was coming.

'Hadn't somebody been talking to a 'Kaede' earlier?' I inwardly wondered to myself.

Just then, a lady stepped into my view point. Actually, lady is much to kind a term. Grandma, old lady, even hag would have been a better substitute for 'Lady Kaede'.

But then I took in her attire, mentally matching it with that of my History textbooks, and realized it was the attire of a simple village priestess from the early toward mid 16th century.

The priestess seemed to catch on quick that I wasn't some pathetic fox child despite what the village people thought. "Child," I winced when she spoke that word, that word was used to describe Souta, not me. "What was thee doing in The Forest of Suikotsu?"

"Huh?" I said aloud, immediately realizing what a pathetic response that was to her question.

"Oh…" She said; her eyes which had been roaming my body before; grew wide. It appeared she'd found something about me that she didn't like.

She carefully shuffled forward, so as not to trip on a rock wearing those awfully flimsy sandals. She slouched a bit, and reaching behind me, undid the hair tie holding my hair out.

With that, all the hair that'd previously been held up; fell out of its hold and around my face. "Just as I thought."

"What the hell are you doing old woman?" I snapped, my patience worn thin. She was lucky I hadn't lashed out on her; I didn't like it when anybody touched my hair, especially people I didn't know.

When I got no response, I held out my hand for my hair tie. She just stared at me as if I had three feet or something. Figuring I'd just have to show her, I took her hand in mine, pried open her fingers, and grabbed my hair tie.

Having retrieved it, I redid my hair up in a ponytail and wrapped my arms around my knees hugging them to my chest.

"Are you done gawking at me as if I'm on display? Or is there something else you want to try?" I asked snappishly, fed up with these god damn people and their staring and shitty 15th century vocabularies.

"You look just like her…" The old woman finally said, blinking a few times as her eyes returned to normal.

"Like 'her' who? Your sex slave?" I asked.

"Nay, child. My elder sister Kikyou." She replied.

This woman does not understand sarcasm. Hell, she probably doesn't know what a sex slave is. Not that I care. All the better to backtalk her.

Getting no response, the lady then offered her hand towards me to help me up. I shook my head, and gently this time, pushed her hand aside and got up myself, dusting my pants off.

"My sister Kikyou is, or rather, was the village priestess. Our cherished protectress. 50 years ago, she took care of the village and the Shikon no Tama. One day, a strange young man named Suikotsu came to the village, clothes torn and looking like he'd seen better days. Kikyou approached the man and seeing nothing wrong with his heart, offered him a place in the village. Time passed and Kikyou grew quite fond of Suikotsu and we were almost sure it was likewise. Almost, until the man attacked Kikyou and went after the Shikon no Tama. Kikyou told me afterward, just before she died, that Suikotsu wasn't a bad man, and that she'd witnessed this problem before. Apparently Suikotsu was born with two people inside of him. We'd all only seen the good side, until that day. That day he'd attacked we witnessed the bad side. She said that she'd been going to see Suikotsu to fix the two people inside of him and unite them into one when he'd attacked her, something he'd never done before. Kikyou never felt bitter towards him, even when she pinned him to the Sacred God Tree outside the village where we found you. But Kikyou didn't tell me more than to burn the Shikon no Tama with her remains and that bit about Suikotsu. The entire tale truly is shrouded in mystery."

By the time Kaede had finished explaining, we were tucked away in her hurt and she was stirring soup in a pot above the fire. She offered me a bowl along with chopsticks and I dug in, muttering a half hearted 'Itadakimasu.'

"Is something wrong child?" She asked when I mostly picked at the food.

"Well it's just… I don't s'pose this is Tokyo, is it?"

"Is that your birth land child?"

"I guess so. I was actually trying to find my way there when you found me." 'And most likely stopped me of finding a way to return home.' I added to myself.

"Ah." Kaede said aloud, obviously not understanding, particularly because she didn't know where Tokyo was.

We sat in silence eating our food. Well I shouldn't really say it was silent, because you could hear people outside doing things and us munching our food, but it had that kind of country quiet. I wondered to myself how quiet it must be in the dead of night, without the sound of cars driving by the window, or in this case, the door.

All of a sudden, the quiet was interrupted by some noise outside. Well, I suppose some noise wasn't enough to describe the chaos we could hear outside since these thin wooden walls weren't hindering the sound at all.

Kaede was too slow, and I got to the door before her. I peered outside to get a glimpse of what was going on. Something landed with a thump right in front of me and I slowly lowered my eyes to find the carcass of a horse with blood red ribs around a stomach wound, hell, whatever it was had plainly eaten the stomach out of the horse and left it to die.

I shuddered, tearing my eyes away from the bloody wound, almost getting sick all over myself. Hesitantly, I shoved the image to the back of my mind and dashed out the door.

Scanning the surrounding area for real this time, I saw the exact same creature that'd pulled me down the well in the first place. Turning around from its killing rampage, it saw me.

Well, it certainly seemed like this creature had a thing for me as it forgot what it was doing and dashed, or rather, came at me, screaming something about the Shikon no Tama.

Putting two and two together, I realized it was after me. So, I ran. I ran towards the light I could see in the distance, paying no heed to Kaede's cries to come back that instant. I just kept running, even though my lungs had long since run out of air my feet weren't going to stop anytime soon and I continued running until I reached the source of the light.

I fell to the ground just as the creature rushed at me, covering my head with my hands. That's when I heard a male voice, seemingly speaking towards me. "Who the fuck do you think you are; thinking you can run without fighting Mistress Centipede?"

I looked up at whoever was speaking towards me, long hair spilling out around my shoulder since it'd long since fallen out of it's ponytail. "And why are you trying to dress like Kikyou; that bitch?" He added almost as an afterthought, eyes boring into me with hatred at the resemblance I bore.

"Suikotsu?" I asked. I was in shock, wondering how he'd woken up from his sleep.

But there was no time for him to answer me because at that moment, Mistress Centipede or whatever that thing was called had doubled back to attack again. However, Kaede had had the village people follow me into the forest and were currently trying to bring down this monster.

"Really Kikyou, I'd think you could do much better, seeing as how you pinned me to this tree."

That was as good an answer to me as any but I definitely wasn't this Kikyou whore he thought I was. "I'm not Kikyou!" I snarled back at him. "My name's."

But before I could get out anymore, the centipede creature took a big bite out of my side. I wasn't totally helpless however and I shoved her away with my hand. She flew back, limbs flying off her body, and I landed on the ground along with this glass jewel that Kaede was raving about and calling the Shikon no Tama at. Come to think of it, it did bare this uncanny resemblance to that of the keychain things in our shop.

I figured it had to be important so I slithered over to it as best as I could with a giant, bleeding wound in my side. "Almost… Got it." I gasped, hand about to enclose around the oversized glass bead when I was shoved against the tree with Suikotsu by Mistress Centipede's long hard body. She circled the tree once, effectively fastening me to Suikotsu and the tree. It was almost as if her body was a rope.

Mistress Centipede bent her head down in the grass where the jewel was and scooped it up with her tongue, swallowing it whole. "YOU FUCKING BITCH! THAT'S MINE." Suikotsu roared, half bursting my eardrums since I'd been so close by when he screamed.

All of a sudden, all her arms reattached and she shed her skin. It was gross, let me tell you. Being stronger now then before with this Shikon no Tama adding to her power, she crushed me even further into the tree. "Oi, bitch. If you remove the arrow, I can take care of this fucker." Suikotsu told me, seeing as how he had no choice left.

"Ah." I said, just from lack of anything else to say and reached up toward the arrow.

"Don't!" Kaede screamed, noticing what I was going to do. But she was too late. My hand closed around the arrow and the arrow faded away, turning into tiny particles which were the remains of the spell.

With the arrow gone, Suikotsu sure as hell wasn't going to waste anymore time after fifty years being stuck on that tree. He pulled his arms forward, easily breaking the roots that had wrapped and grown around him as he slept. His power was much greater than that of Mistress Centipede and her body which had previously been crushing me reduced the pressure, and I fell to the ground.

I could only sit on the ground and helplessly watch as Suikotsu got Mistress Centipede's attention. He tore his claws through Mistress Centipede in a single stroke, and I couldn't help it, I gave a small gasp. I think everyone did, for we all had never realized nor witnessed Suikotsu's true power.

That's when I noticed the carcass of Mistress Centipede was still moving. "Remove the jewel child." Kaede told me. "With your power, you should be able to see a spot that's glowing. That's where the jewel is."

I nodded and crawled over to the jewel retriving it from the dead remains. The body twitched a bit, froze and completely stopped moving all together.

"Are you sure that thing's dead?" I asked, as Kaede came over to examine the jewel properly.

"Yes, that jewel gives power to demons and one of its powers is extremely fast demonic healing. It has other powers to."

"Other powers that are useless to humans. Give it here boy or I'll slit your throat faster than you can say my name." Suikotsu said, coming closer to me, claws pointed at my face.

Inu Kaiba: Dananananana. Three manga chapters completed. And I just realized there's no page breaks except at the beginning and end of the chapter. Oops. Anyways, I'm sorry that this chapter was shorter than the other one and if it was poorly written as well. I'd also have to ask if you agree with me when I say it doesn't make any sense. Does it make sense to you? If it does, that's good. But if it doesn't, people like YOU Alice, are going to tell me where it doesn't make sense, and why it doesn't make sense. Please review, okay, thanks.