The four quickly made their escape from the thunder brother's castle with the help of the young fox demon and Rei's ward. By evening they figured they were far enough away from the thunder brothers to rest for a while and after making sure there were no markings on Usagi, they rested.
"Feh, I don't know why we ran, I could've finished him," Inuyasha complained and Rei rolled her eyes before sitting on a log with a clear view of the sky gazing Usagi.
Usagi lied in the grass after being forced to bathe in the icy cold river with Rei to throw the thunder brothers off their track for a moment. Shippo sat besides her enjoying a chocolate bar happily while watching the sunset on the horizon.
"What are we going to about that fox demon?" Rei asked interrupting Inuyasha complaining about avoiding a fight.
"We'll leave him here tonight, he's the one who got us into trouble in the first place," Inuyasha said pointing an accusing finger at him.
Shippo whimpered quietly before biting into his chocolate once more, Usagi may not have heard them talking but he did. He finished his chocolate bar licking his fingers making Usagi smile slightly as she turned over to him propping herself on her elbow to meet his confused look.
"Chocolate is the comfort food, don't worry Shippo, I won't leave you here by yourself," Usagi said with a warm smile.
"Who said I needed your help, I'm outta here," Shippo said getting up and walking away, Usagi smiled shaking her head before getting up and dusting herself off.
She walked over to her companions to see them still arguing about Shippo but it was obvious Rei was winning from Inuyasha back stepping.
"He's staying here, end of discussion!" Rei shouted ending the argument as Inuyasha coward at her angry shouts.
His ears fell to his head as he muttered something about mortal women, Usagi saw Rei turn around and throw something at Inuyasha. He suddenly stiffened with a surprised look on his face as he fell forward revealing a demon ward on his back.
Usagi bent down removing it, it wasn't because she wanted to but because she was compelled to for some strange reason. Inuyasha looked up at her strangely as she went to Rei who shot him a glare before looking at Usagi with anger written clearly on her face.
"They're getting closer, I can feel the four shards they have coming closer by the second," Usagi said knowing Inuyasha could hear them.
"Feh, I told you with should've finished them off when we were at the castle, now you two expect me to save your sorry asses," Inuyasha said cracking his knuckles.
"We can handle them ourselves," Rei said shooting him a glare while preparing an attack while Usagi's eyes scanned the sky.
"The moon," Usagi said absentmindedly as she could see the hint of white the moon offered while the sky of night covered the orange of the sunset before a cloud covered it.
"You thought you could get away from me," the anger voice of the older thunder brother said as lighting hit the ground making Usagi shriek.
Rei set off her attack directly at Hiten only for him to deflect it with his staff as his brother grabbed Usagi from the cloud above.
"Manten," Usagi said with disappointment clearly in her voice as she glared at him.
A look of guilt came upon his face before a fire arrow found its way to his forehead knocking him off. Without him on the cloud, it disappeared and Usagi began downward to the earth praying silently to herself.
A sudden gust of wind slowed her down gently bring her three feet from the dirt before dropping her none too gently. Hiten was busy battling Inuyasha while Rei was dodging Manten's thunder blast, Usagi stood before sending out her tiara slicing the three hairs off his head.
Tears filled his eyes as the three strands came into his eyesight and anger filled him. Usagi jumped in time to get out of the way of his powerful blast as Rei launched a fire attack singeing his back.
He began charging for Usagi when blue fire came from behind a rock allowing Usagi to get away while Rei ran toward her. Usagi saw the soft looking fox tail from behind the rock along with Manten and sent her tiara out to warn Shippo but Manten had taken a step forward as it passed him. He looked at her with confusion written on his face as Usagi lowered her head and turned away from him exposing herself to any attacks.
"I'm sorry," Usagi said as her tiara came from behind going through Manten's heart and returning back to Usagi's hand with his blood on it.
"Manten," Hiten said jumping to his brother as everything came to a halt and they looked at the two siblings last contact.
"Hiten, all I ever wanted was to be like you," Manten uttered before dying, anger filled Hiten as the small fox demon hurried behind Usagi's leg.
"Don't worry brother, I'll avenge your death," Hiten said before swallowing the two shards he had in his forehead and standing.
"He has five shards now," Rei said as she felt his power level rise, Usagi took a step back still looking at her bloody tiara.
"Usagi," Shippo said concern noticing the shock and yet shameful look on her face as tears welled up in her eyes.
Hiten charged for Usagi only to receive Inuyasha's fist connecting to his jaw knocking him away from her.
"You ain't hurting any of them as long as I'm around," Inuyasha said raising the Tetsusaiga for an attack.
Hiten said nothing but responded by flying head first and disarming Inuyasha as Rei ushered Usagi and Shippo to a safer distance from the fight.
"Use your sheath to block the attacks master Inuyasha," a voice said as Hiten attacks came down upon Inuyasha harshly.
Rei watched the fight from behind a rock as Usagi sat looking at her bloody tiara with tears in her eyes before bringing her knees up to her chest.
"I killed him," Usagi said dropping her tiara to the ground with a slight clatter as Shippo looked up at her sad features and tears.
"Usagi, you did what you had to do, you're a senshi and we do what we have to do to make things right besides you killed all those youmas," Rei said angrily.
"But I killed something with an actually soul Rei, even with the created Youmas I reduced them to a seed and released their souls, I never killed them," Usagi said sadly.
Shippo held his father's fur in his arms looking at it before rubbing it against his face and sitting next to Usagi.
Inuyasha could do nothing but block and dodge without his sword against Hiten's attack, he growled a bit before jumping back.
"Usagi if you don't do something now your brother will be killed," Myouga said hopping on Usagi's shoulder.
Usagi sniffled before standing up and looking around the battlefield for Inuyasha's sword so he could defeat Hiten. She spotted it and ran for it with Rei and Shippo; she reached it and threw it to Inuyasha just as Hiten's attack reached them.
"Now you know how I feel Inuyasha," Hiten said as he watched his attack fester upon the two girls and young fox demon.
"You bastard," Inuyasha said angrily as a fire arrow sliced one of his wheels making him fall to the ground.
He charged up to Hiten and sliced him in half with no regrets as a blue fire came and their three figures could be seen standing in it.
"It's their souls saying goodbye, I'm sorry for your loss master Inuyasha," Myouga said sadly with his head down.
The fire began to disappear and Inuyasha rushed to the fire holding out his hand and discarding his sword to reach them.
"No, don't leave me alone," he shouted as the fire died leaving the three standing with confusion written on their faces.
"Inuyasha, you care about us and we've only known each other about a week," Usagi said running out to him and hugging him tightly around his neck with a small laugh.
"What...no I don't get off of me, I only want you to get the jewel shards for me," Inuyasha said trying to pry her off meekly.
"Yeah right, anyway Usagi, if you wouldn't mind getting the shards," Rei said pointing to the halves of Hiten.
"I want to give them a proper burial," Usagi said walking over to Hiten and closing his eyes before retrieving the five shards from his head.
"We are not wasting our time with their burial," Inuyasha complained but found himself digging to graves as Shippo helped Usagi with tombstones.
After burying the two brothers, the company went on their way with five new shards and a new member. Usagi was still somewhat upset that she had killed someone but with Shippo around there was little she could do to show her sadness after he tried her spicy candy.