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Chapter 8, Searching for help

In the morning everybody noticed the dark clouds covering the sky. There was no doubt about where they had come: it was Kagemaru's doing.

"Keh!" Inuyasha mumbled. "He's trying to scary us!"

"Well it works on me." Said Shippou, making Inuyasha hit him again.

"Coward! He is not coming here, he waits us to go after him!" Inuyasha snapped.

"Calm down Shippou. You will stay here when we go after him, so don't be afraid." Kagome reassured.

"Let's go build that village already, I want to go kill that Kagemaru bastard as soon as possible!" Inuyasha said impatiently.

"Maybe we should ask for help so the work would be done faster." Kagome thought. "Ayame, Kouga?"

"What, more wolves? No way!" Inuyasha yelped.

"Well if you want this to take longer…"

Inuyasha sighed, very fatalistic. "Okay, okay… go already!"

Ayame glanced at Kouga. He seemed to be ready to go, so she agreed too. Their tribes were going into same direction anyway, so it would be easy to find them both.

"Don't be long." Kagome asked for. "We really need help here."

"Don't worry, we'll be back in no time!" Promised Kouga, without even realizing that 'we' again.

So they two left as fast as they could, but of course Kouga was a bit faster. On the bottom of the mountain, in a deep forest, Ayame left behind and stopped resting.

'Damn… he's fast! At this rate it'll be futile for me to go…' She thought.

Suddenly she heard a voice from behind her, and when she turned she saw a giant youkai. It was like a wolf, but it was all black and almost ten times bigger than her tribe's wolves.

"Wha… what are you?" Ayame asked, standing up ready to fight.

The demon wolf growled. Ayame realized that it couldn't speak, so it had to be some of Kagemaru's servants. The demons like him always wanted big, dumb and strong servants.

"I have no time to play with you." She said. "Go back to where you came from!"

And then she started to run away, but the demon was amazingly fast. It jumped only one stride and caught her between its fangs. She yelled in pain.

"Let me go you overgrown monster!" Ayame shouted, but suddenly the demon yelped in pain. It dropped Ayame onto the ground, and she noticed two small wounds in her both sides. When she turned she saw Kouga fighting with the demon.

"Go find the wolf tribes! I'll take care of this one!" He yelled to her.

Ayame nodded and started to run away, bit worried about Kouga. Soon she reached both tribes, walking together higher to the mountain. Ginta and Hakkaku noticed her first.

"Ayame-chan. What are you doing here?" Asked Ginta.

"And where's Kouga?" Asked Hakkaku.

Ayame told them everything. The others had listened too and they were ready to help re-building the village. So they all started to run down the mountain, and Kouga joined them after a while. He had killed the demon and wasn't badly wounded.

"You came back because of me?" Ayame asked, then blushed and turned away. "Forget it."

"If you die, who's going to lead your tribe after Elder?" Kouga asked back, trying to act casual.

Ayame blushed a bit more, running faster that Kouga wouldn't see her red face. He had never said something like that to her.

When they arrived into the village, it was midday already. And the work was really much faster when all the wolves were helping. Until the night there was already few houses upraised. Everyone went to their beds totally tired.

"This was a hard day." Sighed Kagome.

"Tomorrow will be the same." Remarked Miroku. "But after village is done, we can go after Kagemaru."

Inuyasha was fighting with Kouga again, and the others couldn't make them stop. Until Kagome did.

"Osuwari."

Next chappy: Long journey begins