"Shards, fast. Faster than Kouga." Kagome said, hearing the low growl, which could have only come from Inuyasha.

"Then--" Shippou started.

"Either cats, Sesshoumaru, or Naraku has a new reincarnation." Inuyasha said as he gripped his Tetsusaiga. The Yasha gang went outside to see who was coming. Kagome gripped her bow and arrows, Inuyasha unsheathed the Tetsusaiga, Miroku took out sutras, and Kirara grew to her massive, fierce self.

NOW

Within seconds a female stood in front of them, panting in fear. "Uh... Nani? An inu hanyou?" Kagome blinked curiously.

"Are you talking about me?" Inuyasha asked, baring his teeth at Kagome.

"No. The demon in front of us, Inuyasha. Pat attention! Look!" Sango and Miroku pointed behind Inuyasha, where a female girl stood. She wore a blue male kimono, that looked exactly like Inuyasha's. She was technically the female version of Inuyasha, if to get logical.

"W-who are you all?" the girl said in a shaky voice.

"We'd like to know the same." Shippou said, behind Inuyasha. The girl sighed.

"My name is Shuichi." she smiled, "I was fleeing from the -- GAAAH!" Shuichi heard a female voice, a cracked old voice.

"Demon! Come back with the sacred jewel fragments which guard us from evil!" the old priestess shot an arrow at Shuichi. Inuyasha sighed and broke the arrow with his Tetsusaiga.

Kagome and Sango sweatdropped, "Great, just like Inuyasha, too..." both said.

"But somehow gorgeous..." Miroku was getting flustered in his own thoughts. Until Sango hit Miroku's head with the Hiraikotsu.

"No, you pervert!" Sango snapped.

"B-but... You don't know what I was thinking..." Miroku rubbed his head.

"Right, and I'm not Kikyou's reincarnation." Kagome said, folding her arms.

As this was happening, Inuyasha was having some fun destroying some arrows, "Demon! Get out of the way!" the priestess yelled.

Inuyasha grinned, preparing to do Wind Scar. "SIT BOY!" Kagome screamed, "You know better than to attack the innocent!"

"She ain't innocent!" both Shuichi and Inuyasha retorted, Inuyasha on the ground.

"Oh? What did she do to you, Shuichi?" Sango asked. Shuichi sighed and shook her head.

"Not now. Can we flee though?" Shuichi asked. Miroku nodded.

"That old woman is giving me a weird look..." Miroku shivered. The look was the look Miroku would give young, gorgeous women. Sango sighed.

"Come, Kirara." Sango said. The large beast transformed into a small two-tailed neko once again.

"How'd she do that?" Shuichi blinked in thought.

Kagome giggled, "Let's go. Come on, Shuichi." She said as she followed Inuyasha and Shippou, who was hitching a ride on Inuyasha's shoulder. Miroku and Sango followed after Shuichi, soon all of them were aligned in a long row.

"So... Shuichi..." Kagome poked her head from Inuyasha's side, "Tell us about you." She said, smiling.

"What's there to tell?" Shuichi asked.

"Well, why does that old hag have it out for you?" Inuyasha asked.

"IZUI has it out for me because when I lost control over my body, I accidently killed her whole family. I am cursed to remember these images, unlike most hanyous." Shuichi sighed and looked at her left hand, which had a large line across it, from a villager, "It was 10 years ago."

"Oh... How old are you?" Shippou asked.

"Um... About 300 years or so..." Shuichi began to think.

"Wow, only 11 years older than me." Inuyasha muttered.

"NANI!" Kagome gasped, "Both of you are 300 years old!"

"In human years? Or demon?" Shuichi asked.

"How old are you human wise?" Miroku asked. Shuichi began to do math in her head.

"18." she said after a few minutes.

"And you, Inuyasha?" Kagome turned to Inuyasha.

"17." Inuyasha said, without thought.

"Wow." Sango sighed, "I will never understand how that works."

"Same here." Kagome nodded. 'It's been so long since I first met Inuyasha, and just now I learned his true age...' Kagome thought.

"Hey, who is your mother?" Shippou asked.

"Mother? I never knew her... I lived with my father, but he was barely home. So I can't remember his name, or face. But one day he didn't return. For a year, I waited at his castle, until my older brother came and chased me out..." Shuichi sighed.

"Oh? How sad... Makes me grateful to have family." Kagome had a shaky voice, as though about to cry.

"No crying." Inuyasha said sternly.

"..." Sango looked down, "Kohaku..."

"K-Kohaku? Did you just say Kohaku?" Shuichi looked petrified.

"Yes. He's my younger brother. Why?" Sango asked.