Hey guys! Just like I promised, two chapters in one day. It's my apologies for missing last week.

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Many Fights: Inside and Out

Azurine blinked awake sometime around noon. She sat up, rubbing the back of her head. Everything ached.

"Ugh. Where am I? What happened? Where's Cain? He's going to kill me..." she groaned.

"Why the heck did you let him do that to you?" Yukito asked her, sitting at her feet.

"Leave her alone, Yukito; she just woke up and her it's warped sense of gratitude," Sarah called. She was sitting by the fire stirring a pot of stew. "You hungry, Azure?"

She shook her head. "No, I'm OK."

"Warped sense of...gratitude? What did he make you grateful for?"

Azurine shrugged. "He let me live with him. I lived in foster home after foster home for years before I met him."

"Azure, you're not starving yourself," Sarah said, folding her arms across her chest.

"I'm not. I'm just...not very hungry."

"Azurine..." Yukito began, moving toward her.

"Get the hell away from me!" she yelled, taking them aback. "I just want to have sometime to think! Is that so wrong!"

Yukito drew back. "I'm sorry..."

Azurine got to her feet and spun away from them. She ran. She kept running. She didn't stop running. Finally, she ran out of breath, but still she ran until, she ran straight into Miroku...literally.

He put his hands on her shoulders to steady her. "Whoa, Azure. Where are you going?"

Azurine fell forward into him, weakly gasping for air.

Miroku blinked. Far too lecherous to pass up the chance, he wrapped his arms around her.

Once her air and energy returned, she slapped him, hard, across the face. "You selfish, inconsiderate, perverted jerk!" she cried pushing past him.

Gee... what did I do? Miroku thought, rubbing his face.

Finally, far away from the rest of them, Azurine slumped to the ground. She recognized the area as the woods near the well. Her hands went black and a pillar of darkness shot into the sky.

InuYasha saw the pillar. "That idiot!" he cried, racing for it.

Azurine was still gasping for breath. What's Cain going to do when he finds me? I don't want to die!

Shippo, hearing Azurine, left his spot near the well. Once he found her, he sat on her shoulder. "What's wrong?" he asked.

"Shippo?" she sniffled gently.

"Yeah? Azure, why are you sad?" Shippo asked. "Did I do something that I wasn't supposed to do?"

"No, Shippo, it wasn't you. It's the whole thing with Cain..." She sighed, and hugged him. "What are you doing here?"

"I'm waiting for Kagome. She said she'd be back soon..."

InuYasha rushed in. "What do you think you're doing? You'll attract every demon within 100 miles!"

Azurine released Shippo. "Let them take me." she replied, glumly.

InuYasha glared at her sternly. "No."

"Why not?" she cried.

"You wouldn't understand," InuYasha muttered. "You're too young."

"I'm the same age as you!" she shouted.

InuYasha sighed. "You're going back. You're going back n—"

He was not able to finish, because at that instant, a demon plunged upward from the ground. It appeared to be a spider demon. Azurine grimaced as dirt and pebbles showered her.

"Damn it!" InuYasha cried. "See what I meant?" He drew Tetsuseiga, but the spider jumped backwards. One of its legs crushed Azurine to the earth. She cried out pain.

Miroku rushed into the clearing. "Azurine!"

She whimpered slightly, and saw InuYasha swing the Tetsuseiga back.

"No!" Miroku threw his arm in front of InuYasha. "Don't do that! Your kill her, too!"

InuYasha froze and lowered the Tetsuseiga. Damn. The monk's right. If I kill the bug, I kill the girl.

The spider, seeing his hesitation, lunged forward, letting up on Azurine's body. She gasped, and stood shakily to her feet. Miroku pulled her out of danger, from both the spider and InuYasha's blade.

"Are you OK?" he asked. She nodded... and then of course, he had to ruin the moment by rubbing her butt. As her usual reaction, she smacked him across the face, leaving a black mark. "I'm sorry! You're just so beautiful, I couldn't help myself," he cried.

At that moment, by the well, someone was climbing up from inside. A few moments later, and Cain pulled himself over the edge.

"Damnable girl! How far could she have gotten?" he muttered bitterly to himself.

He shook his head and, silently, began to change. A few moments later and Cain no longer stood there. Instead, there was a large, shaggy dog. There was an evil look in its eye as it began to sniff out to Azurine.

Azurine cried out as pain, and spider venom, rippled across her body. Miroku caught her and her bloody arm, and held her steady.

The battle was not going well. Kagome was not there to sense for the jewel shard that the creature obviously possessed. Sarah, Yuto, and Yukito had arrived. Both girls were its main targets, and, so far, Sarah had been swept aside, and Azurine had been bitten. The Kazana was useless in such tightly packed space, and InuYasha was having trouble keeping up with the already shard-powered, giant spider. Azurine grew dizzy and Shippo sat on her shoulder ' protecting' her.

"Wait a minute!" He cried. "Azurine! Your shards are gone."

The weak girl felt for her necklace. He was right. "They are!" A wave of dizziness overcame her. "Ooh... pretty ducks..." She collapsed.

Yukito and Miroku both spun around. Yukito stopped Miroku. "You keep fighting. You're a lot more useful than me. We don't both need to watch her."

Miroku shot him a glare, but sighed. "All right."

Yukito sat at Azurine's side. He pushed her hair from her face. "Azzy, come on... wake up...can you hear me?" Azurine twitched twice, but there was no other reaction. "Azure, come on, answer me…" he pleaded as a tear dropped from his eye and landed on her lips.

Behind them, the battle raged. It was still not in their favor. By this time, Yuto had also been bitten, in his leg. He currently couldn't stand, nevertheless fight. InuYasha's Tetsuseiga had been ripped from his hands and Miroku's staff laid beside Azurine.

InuYasha jumped into the air. "Iron Reaver Soul Steal…" he began. The demon sprayeda jet of strong, foul-smelling poisoninto his face. He coughed and hit the ground with a dull thud.

Miroku looked around. This... could be bad. I would normally say 'run away', he glanced at Sarah and Azurine, but I couldn't leave such lovely ladies here defenseless, could I?

Azurine stirred. Her eyes blinked open. "Yu…Yukito? Where am I?" She broke off, grimacing in pain.

The spider's attention wavered. It refocused on Azurine's weak form, shoving Yukito out of the way. It lowered its claws to her throat. She was paralyzed.

Yukito got to his feet and glared at the spider. He felt a surge of power flood through him. The light burst from his form and he cried, "EXORCISM!"

With a flame, the spider was destroyed. Yukito, momentarily shocked, went to Azurine.

Yuto, fighting poisoning, crawled over to Sarah. "Sarah?" He asked. "Can you hear me? Please, Sarah... answer me."

Sarah, unconscious from a nasty crack to the head, muttered in her sleep. "Mum...neh... DOWN!" She trailed off again as Yuto was pulled to the ground with an: "Ow, my body hurts."

"Yuto!" Yukito called. "Stop moving! It will spread the poison!"

"All...right... all right, Kito..." He passed out as he spoke.

Miroku looked around. This was bad. InuYasha paralyzed; Kagome gone; Sarah passed out; Yuto and Azurine poisoned. He and Yukito were the only ones left unharmed. Luckily, InuYasha was quickly recovering. "InuYasha, we've got to get these three to Kaede."

InuYasha sighed and pointed to Yukito. "You carry Sarah. She's the lightest. Monk," he muttered, untrustingly. "Take Azurine. I'll get him," he said, pointing at Yuto.

There ya go! I'm really sorry for the sucky editing job. I was trying this new program where I talked and the computer wrote what I said. I was so busy concentrating on enunciating properly that I didn't pay attention to detail very well. Gomen nasai!