Chapter 2: Myou's Two Sides
"I still don't see what's the big deal," Inu-Yasha said, his eyes on Myou, who had been the center of attention since he had found her.
"She's a human, Inu-Yasha, not a normal demon we usually face everyday!" Kagome argued. She didn't want any harm to befall this girl she knew so little about.
Inu-Yasha let go of the Tetsusaiga's hilt, but flexed his clawed hands.
"I still want to get that shard," Inu-Yasha said impatiently. "The Shikon Jewel will be useless without ALL the pieces." He reminded Kagome, getting annoyed that she was delaying the inevitable.
But suddenly the tables turned, when they heard a laugh from Myou.
"So, you think that killing me will get you what you want, huh?" She said, her voice changing slightly, as her eyes started to turn red. "Well then you're sadly mistaken!"
Oh, s***! Inu-Yasha thought. Her Demon Blood is taking over. Best get Kagome outta here.
"Kagome, run for it!" Inu-Yasha commanded her.
"Why?" She asked.
'Why?'?! Inu-Yasha didn't have time to deal with this. He sighed.
"Her Demon Blood is taking over! So, if you don't want your head ripped off, I suggest you RUN FOR IT!" He yelled at her.
Kagome didn't say another word, as she high-tailed it out of there.
A large gust rustled the leaves on the ground.
"Now it's just you and me, Myou," Inu-Yasha said, getting into a fighting stance. "So let's get this started!"
At first, Myou just stood there, her now red eyes fixed on Inu-Yasha. Then suddenly, she disappeared from Inu-Yasha's sight.
What the-?! He thought to himself angrily.
Before Inu-Yasha could move, Myou struck him.
"Reverse Soul Stealer!" Myou yelled, as she badly wounded his back.
Raging, Inu-Yasha yelped in pain, and grabbed her by the ankle before she could disappear again. With his right hand he grabbed her by the throat, and began to choke her. She wouldn't give up so easily, though.
Myou scratched Inu-Yasha's face with her right claws, and bit his right wrist. The fight continued like this, violent, their bare claws and fangs, until Inu-Yasha was able to render Myou unconscious.
When the struggling Myou had finally ceased to move, Inu-Yasha knelled on one knee, nursing his left arm that had been wounded in the fight.
"Everything is safe now, Kagome." He called out, as he knelt on the ground, cringing in pain.
Kagome tentatively walked out, and as the unconscious Myou and hunched over Inu-Yasha came into view she quickened her pace.
"What happened, Inu-Yasha?!" Kagome asked, worried.
"She tried to kill me, didn't you know that before I told you to leave?" He said irritably. "At least she has little experience in fighting, or else I would have been injured even worse."
He looked Myou over. From her dog-ears, down to her tennis shoes, as Kagome had called the slippers that she usually wore herself. She looked like a human from Kagome's time, but she seemed to have the essence of Sengoku Jidai.
"You say that she goes to your school?" He asked after what seemed a long moment of silence.
Kagome was taken by surprise, and it took a few seconds for the question to register.
"Oh, yeah she does. I've seen her in a few of my classes," Kagome responded, as she too looked at the features of this girl.
Inu-Yasha got up, and tested his left arm, to make sure that it was healing correctly, and if he could use it yet.
"I'm taking her back with me." He said absently, as if Kagome wouldn't mind at all.
Kagome looked shocked at first, then she was irritated and suspicious.
"And why so, Inu-Yasha?" Kagome asked, a vein or two popping up on her forehead.
"Because I think that she'd be safer over in my time than yours, since the people here aren't used to demons suddenly appearing in their village." He pointed out, as he picked up Myou, and put her on his back.
Kagome thought about this, and realized that Inu-Yasha had a good point.
"I'll come with you, then." She said to him.
Now it was Inu-Yasha's turn to be annoyed.
"But why? You said you had a 'vacation' to attend to." Inu-Yasha said as he walked in the direction of the ancient well.
"Well, with this sudden turn of events, I think that I should at least be there when she wakes up, because she knows me, and would probably try to attack you, again." Kagome pointed out, as she caught up with Inu-Yasha.
Inu-Yasha grunted in annoyance (and defeat), as they jumped down the well and back into his more familiar time.
"Inu-Yasha, what brings ye back so- Oh!"
"She attacked me when I went to get Kagome. I think that she's-"
"-Another half-demon, like Inu-Yasha. I think that she attends my school."
Myou's head ached. She felt confused.
What a strange dream I'm having this time. She thought, as she slipped into a deep sleep.
Inu-Yasha sat in the corner cleaning his wounds, while he looked on as Kagome and Lady Kaede (Old Hag) examined the half-demon Myou.
"But why now?" Kagome asked Kaede once more.
"I do not know, child," Kaede told her once more. "This one is quite a puzzle in herself." She said wearily, as her one good eye noted once more the likeness between this girl and Inu-Yasha: the dog-ears and claws. But she had an extra addition that Inu-Yasha did not. Silver stripes on the wrists.
"How long until sunrise, Old Hag?" Inu-Yasha demanded rudely, as he slipped his Fire-Rat haroi top back on.
"The sun will rise shortly, Inu-Yasha," Kaede replied, ignoring his rudeness. "And when it rises, we will find out just how much of a demon this human really is."
"I can tell you that without waiting for the sun," Inu-Yasha said, scratching behind his ear as he spoke. "She's not even half, from the scent I'm picking up."
"Then let's just see how right you are, Inu-Yasha," Kagome said, as she mopped the sweat off of Myou's forehead once more. The girl had been tossing and turning ever since they had jumped into the well. She seemed to be in a constant nightmare.
The sun's gentle rays peaked over the trees, and the dew on the grass glistened, as a new day began. Inu-Yasha got up, and crept closer to see if his hunch was right.
Right before their eyes, Myou's long, black hair shortened and turned to a dark brown, and her dog-ears disappeared into her head, while her human ears reappeared. Her claws turned into short fingernails, and the stripes began to fade. When the transformation was completed, she was coated in sweat, and breathing heavily.
"Must have been her first transformation." Inu-Yasha commented, as Kagome quickly mopped up the sweat on the girl's forehead.
"That was strange to watch," Kagome said, looking at where the ears use to be. "Seeing a demon turn human like that is one interesting sight. Why don't you do the same on the New Moon, Inu-Yasha?"
Inu-Yasha rolled his eyes at her.
"Because, Kagome, I've been transforming since I was born. Idiot." He mumbled under his breath.
"Sit, boy!"
As it had happened many times before, Inu-Yasha fell flat on his face, and the whole hut shook. That's when Myou was awakened.
Myou groaned, as she sat up slowly, rubbing her eyes.
"Is it morning already?" She asked sleepily.
Everyone was taken by surprise when Myou had spoken.
"Welcome back to the living," Inu-Yasha said sarcastically, as he got back up, wiping the dust and dirt off of his front.
Myou opened her eyes, and the first person her brown eyes laid upon was Inu- Yasha. She was surprised and scared at first, but then she didn't feel frightened. She didn't know why, but she felt no danger.
" W-who are you, sir?" Myou asked cautiously eyeing the ears on his head, his silver hair, and golden-yellow eyes.
"Wha-?!" Inu-Yasha about did another 'Sit, boy!' routine. "You don't remember last night?!" He was annoyed, now that he was his normal self.
Myou looked puzzled.
"What happened last night? All I remember is sitting in my room, wondering why I was always having these nightmares, and wanting to go over and ask Kagome about them. Then after that, everything is. blank." She said, looking Inu-Yasha straight in the eye.
"You were planning on seeing me, Myou?" Kagome asked, Myou taking notice of her for the first time.
"Yeah, Kagome. But, where are we?" She asked, looking around the hut, and noticing an old woman dressed in feudal Japan clothing. "Why, you're in Sengoku Jidai, Japan, and that's Inu-Yasha, a half-demon from this time, and Lady Kaede, the priestess of this village." Kagome told her with a smile.
Myou just blinked several times, trying to soak in all this information at once.
"Do not confuse the young lass, Kagome. Ye have given her too much after just awakening." Kaede scolded Kagome gently.
"Y-you mean that we've gone into the past?!" Myou's voice shook a little, as she gazed around the hut once more. "B-but h-how?"
"It's a LOOONG story," Kagome told her, a sweatdrop rolled down the side of her face, as she waved the question away.
"No, its short and simple," The one Kagome had called Inu-Yasha interrupted. "You fell through the old well in your time, and wound up here. The Shikon Jewel burst out of your body, and a day later, you shattered it to a million pieces. Now we're trying to collect all the Shikon Jewel Shards, and one of them is embedded in your heart, at least that's what Kagome said." Inu-Yasha explained, as he looked out the window.
Even though Myou hadn't heard of this 'Shikon Jewel', it seemed to sound familiar.
"A Shikon Jewel Shard in her heart? Why didn't you say something before, Kagome?" Lady Kaede asked, as she stoked the fire.
"Why? What would it deal with besides preventing Inu-Yasha or any other demon from ripping it out of Myou's chest?" Kagome asked in response.
"Rip it out of my chest.?!" Myou said, a little fearful now.
Kagome realized her mistake, and placed a hand gently onto Myou's shoulder.
"Ignore what I just said, ok? ^^;" Kagome said comfortingly.
"The shard is what provoked her demon side to fully emerge," Lady Kaede suddenly said aloud.
"Really?" Kagome asked, interested now.
"And when the young lass' demon senses picked up Inu-Yasha over yonder, she completely lost control over her demon side. That is why she cannot remember anything from last night." Kaede explained.
"I-I have a demon side?" Myou asked, her eyes reflecting confusion and fear. "But aren't demons evil creatures that do nothing that is good, but do everything that is evil?" Myou now looked at Inu-Yasha a bit differently, now that her mind had caught up a little on the things Kagome told her.
Inu-Yasha just looked back at her like she had lost it.
"Kagome, you've done it this time," Inu-Yasha sighed, shaking his head. "You've gone and confused her beyond confusion."
Kagome stood up, and walked over next to Inu-Yasha.
"Myou, you see Inu-Yasha here, right?" She asked.
"What are you doing, Kagome?!" Inu-Yasha yelled at her.
"Um. Yes." Myou replied.
"Ok, now, Inu-Yasha is a half-demon, and you're basically a half-demon too. But not 24/7, like dog-boy here." She explained.
Inu-Yasha just stood there, a vein throbbing on his forehead.
"Ya see, when you're a demon, you look a little bit like Inu-Yasha," Kagome tugged on Inu-Yasha's ears. ("HEY!")"You have black dog-ears on top of your head, sorta like Inu-Yasha's. And your hair grows long and turns jet black." She said as she tugged on Inu-Yasha's silver hair. ("WOULD YOU QUIT IT?!") "And long claw-like nails on your hands." Kagome held up Inu-Yasha's right hand by the wrist, showing Myou. "And you also have-"
"Silver stripes on my wrists, but he doesn't have any of those." Myou finished, understanding crossing her face. "So, am I related to him in anyway-?"
"Ok, that's it!" Inu-Yasha removed Kagome's hands, and growled. "I'm not something just to show off, Kagome! And I'm not related to her, because if she was, I'd smell it in her blood!"
"SIT, BOY!" Kagome shouted, and Inu-Yasha fell FLAT on his face. "You don't yell at girls like that, mister!"
Inu-Yasha had hit a large rock hidden under the floor, and he was feeling a bit light-headed from the blow.
"But why am I half-demon, Kagome?" Myou asked her curiously, seeking an answer to why she was who she was.
Kagome sighed.
"I wish I knew, Myou. It was probably because somewhere along your family line, someone was a full demon, and it passed along." Kagome said this, as Inu-Yasha was coming to.
"Then what can I do to stop me from turning demon without warning?" Myou questioned, hoping for an answer.
"Feh," Inu-Yasha said, as he dusted himself off once more. "You'll have to figure that out on your own, Myou. You alone will know how to control your demon side." Inu-Yasha told her, trying not to sound like he was being nice.
"Is that really true, Inu-Yasha?" Myou asked him, and Inu-Yasha was a little surprised by the softness in her voice. "I just don't want to hurt anyone. In my dreams, I'm killing a human being, and I get dreadfully worried when I hear that someone was killed on the news."
"Don't get yourself worked up about it, Myou," Kagome told her, as she glared at Inu-Yasha, he himself was clueless as to what he had said wrong. "I'm sure that you'd never kill anyone."
"I hope that you're right, Kagome." Myou said, suddenly going into deep thought.
"Well, let's hope that Miroku doesn't go grooping all over her," Inu-Yasha said absently.
Kagome looked angrily at Inu-Yasha.
"You're expecting Myou to stay here with us and hunt for Jewel Shards?!" Kagome almost screamed at Inu-Yasha, who also got angry.
"Well if she wants to find out how to control her demon side, then we'd best help her out!" Inu-Yasha yelled back.
"Inu-Yasha, Kagome, calm down!" Kaede scolded them, as Myou sat there still in deep thought.
"Do you mind if I stay here, Kagome, Inu-Yasha?" Myou suddenly spoke, cutting them both off from arguing.
"Well, I don't know-" Kagome began.
"Yes, young lass, why don't you stay with us for awhile?" Kaede responded to Myou, Kagome now speechless being interrupted by Kaede.
"Really?" Myou asked hopefully. "I feel safer here that I did in my time. Is it ok, really?"
Kagome sighed, then smiled.
"Ok, why not?"
"I still don't see what's the big deal," Inu-Yasha said, his eyes on Myou, who had been the center of attention since he had found her.
"She's a human, Inu-Yasha, not a normal demon we usually face everyday!" Kagome argued. She didn't want any harm to befall this girl she knew so little about.
Inu-Yasha let go of the Tetsusaiga's hilt, but flexed his clawed hands.
"I still want to get that shard," Inu-Yasha said impatiently. "The Shikon Jewel will be useless without ALL the pieces." He reminded Kagome, getting annoyed that she was delaying the inevitable.
But suddenly the tables turned, when they heard a laugh from Myou.
"So, you think that killing me will get you what you want, huh?" She said, her voice changing slightly, as her eyes started to turn red. "Well then you're sadly mistaken!"
Oh, s***! Inu-Yasha thought. Her Demon Blood is taking over. Best get Kagome outta here.
"Kagome, run for it!" Inu-Yasha commanded her.
"Why?" She asked.
'Why?'?! Inu-Yasha didn't have time to deal with this. He sighed.
"Her Demon Blood is taking over! So, if you don't want your head ripped off, I suggest you RUN FOR IT!" He yelled at her.
Kagome didn't say another word, as she high-tailed it out of there.
A large gust rustled the leaves on the ground.
"Now it's just you and me, Myou," Inu-Yasha said, getting into a fighting stance. "So let's get this started!"
At first, Myou just stood there, her now red eyes fixed on Inu-Yasha. Then suddenly, she disappeared from Inu-Yasha's sight.
What the-?! He thought to himself angrily.
Before Inu-Yasha could move, Myou struck him.
"Reverse Soul Stealer!" Myou yelled, as she badly wounded his back.
Raging, Inu-Yasha yelped in pain, and grabbed her by the ankle before she could disappear again. With his right hand he grabbed her by the throat, and began to choke her. She wouldn't give up so easily, though.
Myou scratched Inu-Yasha's face with her right claws, and bit his right wrist. The fight continued like this, violent, their bare claws and fangs, until Inu-Yasha was able to render Myou unconscious.
When the struggling Myou had finally ceased to move, Inu-Yasha knelled on one knee, nursing his left arm that had been wounded in the fight.
"Everything is safe now, Kagome." He called out, as he knelt on the ground, cringing in pain.
Kagome tentatively walked out, and as the unconscious Myou and hunched over Inu-Yasha came into view she quickened her pace.
"What happened, Inu-Yasha?!" Kagome asked, worried.
"She tried to kill me, didn't you know that before I told you to leave?" He said irritably. "At least she has little experience in fighting, or else I would have been injured even worse."
He looked Myou over. From her dog-ears, down to her tennis shoes, as Kagome had called the slippers that she usually wore herself. She looked like a human from Kagome's time, but she seemed to have the essence of Sengoku Jidai.
"You say that she goes to your school?" He asked after what seemed a long moment of silence.
Kagome was taken by surprise, and it took a few seconds for the question to register.
"Oh, yeah she does. I've seen her in a few of my classes," Kagome responded, as she too looked at the features of this girl.
Inu-Yasha got up, and tested his left arm, to make sure that it was healing correctly, and if he could use it yet.
"I'm taking her back with me." He said absently, as if Kagome wouldn't mind at all.
Kagome looked shocked at first, then she was irritated and suspicious.
"And why so, Inu-Yasha?" Kagome asked, a vein or two popping up on her forehead.
"Because I think that she'd be safer over in my time than yours, since the people here aren't used to demons suddenly appearing in their village." He pointed out, as he picked up Myou, and put her on his back.
Kagome thought about this, and realized that Inu-Yasha had a good point.
"I'll come with you, then." She said to him.
Now it was Inu-Yasha's turn to be annoyed.
"But why? You said you had a 'vacation' to attend to." Inu-Yasha said as he walked in the direction of the ancient well.
"Well, with this sudden turn of events, I think that I should at least be there when she wakes up, because she knows me, and would probably try to attack you, again." Kagome pointed out, as she caught up with Inu-Yasha.
Inu-Yasha grunted in annoyance (and defeat), as they jumped down the well and back into his more familiar time.
"Inu-Yasha, what brings ye back so- Oh!"
"She attacked me when I went to get Kagome. I think that she's-"
"-Another half-demon, like Inu-Yasha. I think that she attends my school."
Myou's head ached. She felt confused.
What a strange dream I'm having this time. She thought, as she slipped into a deep sleep.
Inu-Yasha sat in the corner cleaning his wounds, while he looked on as Kagome and Lady Kaede (Old Hag) examined the half-demon Myou.
"But why now?" Kagome asked Kaede once more.
"I do not know, child," Kaede told her once more. "This one is quite a puzzle in herself." She said wearily, as her one good eye noted once more the likeness between this girl and Inu-Yasha: the dog-ears and claws. But she had an extra addition that Inu-Yasha did not. Silver stripes on the wrists.
"How long until sunrise, Old Hag?" Inu-Yasha demanded rudely, as he slipped his Fire-Rat haroi top back on.
"The sun will rise shortly, Inu-Yasha," Kaede replied, ignoring his rudeness. "And when it rises, we will find out just how much of a demon this human really is."
"I can tell you that without waiting for the sun," Inu-Yasha said, scratching behind his ear as he spoke. "She's not even half, from the scent I'm picking up."
"Then let's just see how right you are, Inu-Yasha," Kagome said, as she mopped the sweat off of Myou's forehead once more. The girl had been tossing and turning ever since they had jumped into the well. She seemed to be in a constant nightmare.
The sun's gentle rays peaked over the trees, and the dew on the grass glistened, as a new day began. Inu-Yasha got up, and crept closer to see if his hunch was right.
Right before their eyes, Myou's long, black hair shortened and turned to a dark brown, and her dog-ears disappeared into her head, while her human ears reappeared. Her claws turned into short fingernails, and the stripes began to fade. When the transformation was completed, she was coated in sweat, and breathing heavily.
"Must have been her first transformation." Inu-Yasha commented, as Kagome quickly mopped up the sweat on the girl's forehead.
"That was strange to watch," Kagome said, looking at where the ears use to be. "Seeing a demon turn human like that is one interesting sight. Why don't you do the same on the New Moon, Inu-Yasha?"
Inu-Yasha rolled his eyes at her.
"Because, Kagome, I've been transforming since I was born. Idiot." He mumbled under his breath.
"Sit, boy!"
As it had happened many times before, Inu-Yasha fell flat on his face, and the whole hut shook. That's when Myou was awakened.
Myou groaned, as she sat up slowly, rubbing her eyes.
"Is it morning already?" She asked sleepily.
Everyone was taken by surprise when Myou had spoken.
"Welcome back to the living," Inu-Yasha said sarcastically, as he got back up, wiping the dust and dirt off of his front.
Myou opened her eyes, and the first person her brown eyes laid upon was Inu- Yasha. She was surprised and scared at first, but then she didn't feel frightened. She didn't know why, but she felt no danger.
" W-who are you, sir?" Myou asked cautiously eyeing the ears on his head, his silver hair, and golden-yellow eyes.
"Wha-?!" Inu-Yasha about did another 'Sit, boy!' routine. "You don't remember last night?!" He was annoyed, now that he was his normal self.
Myou looked puzzled.
"What happened last night? All I remember is sitting in my room, wondering why I was always having these nightmares, and wanting to go over and ask Kagome about them. Then after that, everything is. blank." She said, looking Inu-Yasha straight in the eye.
"You were planning on seeing me, Myou?" Kagome asked, Myou taking notice of her for the first time.
"Yeah, Kagome. But, where are we?" She asked, looking around the hut, and noticing an old woman dressed in feudal Japan clothing. "Why, you're in Sengoku Jidai, Japan, and that's Inu-Yasha, a half-demon from this time, and Lady Kaede, the priestess of this village." Kagome told her with a smile.
Myou just blinked several times, trying to soak in all this information at once.
"Do not confuse the young lass, Kagome. Ye have given her too much after just awakening." Kaede scolded Kagome gently.
"Y-you mean that we've gone into the past?!" Myou's voice shook a little, as she gazed around the hut once more. "B-but h-how?"
"It's a LOOONG story," Kagome told her, a sweatdrop rolled down the side of her face, as she waved the question away.
"No, its short and simple," The one Kagome had called Inu-Yasha interrupted. "You fell through the old well in your time, and wound up here. The Shikon Jewel burst out of your body, and a day later, you shattered it to a million pieces. Now we're trying to collect all the Shikon Jewel Shards, and one of them is embedded in your heart, at least that's what Kagome said." Inu-Yasha explained, as he looked out the window.
Even though Myou hadn't heard of this 'Shikon Jewel', it seemed to sound familiar.
"A Shikon Jewel Shard in her heart? Why didn't you say something before, Kagome?" Lady Kaede asked, as she stoked the fire.
"Why? What would it deal with besides preventing Inu-Yasha or any other demon from ripping it out of Myou's chest?" Kagome asked in response.
"Rip it out of my chest.?!" Myou said, a little fearful now.
Kagome realized her mistake, and placed a hand gently onto Myou's shoulder.
"Ignore what I just said, ok? ^^;" Kagome said comfortingly.
"The shard is what provoked her demon side to fully emerge," Lady Kaede suddenly said aloud.
"Really?" Kagome asked, interested now.
"And when the young lass' demon senses picked up Inu-Yasha over yonder, she completely lost control over her demon side. That is why she cannot remember anything from last night." Kaede explained.
"I-I have a demon side?" Myou asked, her eyes reflecting confusion and fear. "But aren't demons evil creatures that do nothing that is good, but do everything that is evil?" Myou now looked at Inu-Yasha a bit differently, now that her mind had caught up a little on the things Kagome told her.
Inu-Yasha just looked back at her like she had lost it.
"Kagome, you've done it this time," Inu-Yasha sighed, shaking his head. "You've gone and confused her beyond confusion."
Kagome stood up, and walked over next to Inu-Yasha.
"Myou, you see Inu-Yasha here, right?" She asked.
"What are you doing, Kagome?!" Inu-Yasha yelled at her.
"Um. Yes." Myou replied.
"Ok, now, Inu-Yasha is a half-demon, and you're basically a half-demon too. But not 24/7, like dog-boy here." She explained.
Inu-Yasha just stood there, a vein throbbing on his forehead.
"Ya see, when you're a demon, you look a little bit like Inu-Yasha," Kagome tugged on Inu-Yasha's ears. ("HEY!")"You have black dog-ears on top of your head, sorta like Inu-Yasha's. And your hair grows long and turns jet black." She said as she tugged on Inu-Yasha's silver hair. ("WOULD YOU QUIT IT?!") "And long claw-like nails on your hands." Kagome held up Inu-Yasha's right hand by the wrist, showing Myou. "And you also have-"
"Silver stripes on my wrists, but he doesn't have any of those." Myou finished, understanding crossing her face. "So, am I related to him in anyway-?"
"Ok, that's it!" Inu-Yasha removed Kagome's hands, and growled. "I'm not something just to show off, Kagome! And I'm not related to her, because if she was, I'd smell it in her blood!"
"SIT, BOY!" Kagome shouted, and Inu-Yasha fell FLAT on his face. "You don't yell at girls like that, mister!"
Inu-Yasha had hit a large rock hidden under the floor, and he was feeling a bit light-headed from the blow.
"But why am I half-demon, Kagome?" Myou asked her curiously, seeking an answer to why she was who she was.
Kagome sighed.
"I wish I knew, Myou. It was probably because somewhere along your family line, someone was a full demon, and it passed along." Kagome said this, as Inu-Yasha was coming to.
"Then what can I do to stop me from turning demon without warning?" Myou questioned, hoping for an answer.
"Feh," Inu-Yasha said, as he dusted himself off once more. "You'll have to figure that out on your own, Myou. You alone will know how to control your demon side." Inu-Yasha told her, trying not to sound like he was being nice.
"Is that really true, Inu-Yasha?" Myou asked him, and Inu-Yasha was a little surprised by the softness in her voice. "I just don't want to hurt anyone. In my dreams, I'm killing a human being, and I get dreadfully worried when I hear that someone was killed on the news."
"Don't get yourself worked up about it, Myou," Kagome told her, as she glared at Inu-Yasha, he himself was clueless as to what he had said wrong. "I'm sure that you'd never kill anyone."
"I hope that you're right, Kagome." Myou said, suddenly going into deep thought.
"Well, let's hope that Miroku doesn't go grooping all over her," Inu-Yasha said absently.
Kagome looked angrily at Inu-Yasha.
"You're expecting Myou to stay here with us and hunt for Jewel Shards?!" Kagome almost screamed at Inu-Yasha, who also got angry.
"Well if she wants to find out how to control her demon side, then we'd best help her out!" Inu-Yasha yelled back.
"Inu-Yasha, Kagome, calm down!" Kaede scolded them, as Myou sat there still in deep thought.
"Do you mind if I stay here, Kagome, Inu-Yasha?" Myou suddenly spoke, cutting them both off from arguing.
"Well, I don't know-" Kagome began.
"Yes, young lass, why don't you stay with us for awhile?" Kaede responded to Myou, Kagome now speechless being interrupted by Kaede.
"Really?" Myou asked hopefully. "I feel safer here that I did in my time. Is it ok, really?"
Kagome sighed, then smiled.
"Ok, why not?"