I dedicate this chapter to my sister in hopes that she will now get off my back and let me write at my own pace.

The journey to Mushin's home was long and hard. Sango was always in a bad mood and Nadia was always the reason she was mad.

It was obvious to everyone that the demon slayer didn't like this girl so close to the monk, but they were forced to endure it for now.

Finally they reached the home of Miroku's mentor. Nadia was never happy to see a house as she was at that moment, despite the fact she was growing rather attached to the young monk.

Every night she was forced to sleep next to him and every morning she found herself waking up to his sleeping face. It caused her to feel safe and protected, and she was reluctant to give it up, but the fear of being attacked by a demon slayer forced her to have to accept the prayer beads.

Mushin was, as usual, drunk and Miroku sighed at the way his mentor was carrying on.

"We need some more prayer beads," he told him. Mushin nodded and ran to get them. Even Nadia was ready to get away from this crazy drunk man.

Mushin finally returned with a set of beads. Nadia reached out to take them, but Miroku stopped her. His hand grabbed her outstretched one.

"Hold on, I have to bless them first."

Nadia nodded, more involved with the strange feelings erupting from her stomach and the feel of Miroku's hand on her own.

Miroku was having a slight problem of his own. He didn't think that touching the girl in such an innocent way would affect him as much as it did, but it did. For once, he was actually glad that his robes hid his body so well.

Miroku quickly blessed the beads and then threaded them around Nadia's hand, sealing her Wind Tunnel for the time being.

Nadia lifted her hand up and looked at the palm. She could see a slight black place behind the beads, but nothing more.

"Thank you Miroku," she said lowering her hand to her side.

"It was nothing, but now we need to find Naraku more than ever."

Nadia nodded in agreement, not noticing as Miroku had now moved behind her, until she felt his hand on her backside.

"PERVERT," Sango yelled slapping Miroku across the face. Nadia looked at the scene in shock before laughing out loud.

Both Miroku and Sango turned to the laughing girl, apparently unaffected by Miroku's wandering hand.

"I'm sorry to laugh, but I don't think that Miroku is a pervert," Nadia said. Sango and Miroku looked at the girl in confusion. It was obvious to him that he was a pervert. "I mean, at least in this particular instance, cause I personally enjoyed that."

Nadia turned and walked out of the room leaving a shocked Miroku and Sango behind.

InuYasha was sitting in a tree just outside when he heard Nadia approach. He saw that she was alone and decided it was time for the two of them to have a little talk.

He jumped down in front of her gracefully. Nadia was slightly shocked, but got over it quickly.

"What's up InuYasha?" she asked. He narrowed his eyes in confusion and then looked up to the sky before looking back at the girl. She shook her head. "Never mind. What do you want?"

"I want to know which side you are really fighting for?"

Nadia blinked at his abruptness and then sighed. "I am fighting for my side InuYasha."

"And which side is that?" InuYasha said with some anger coming through.

Nadia was getting pissed. He was pissing her off and she didn't know how much she could take of this.

"My side InuYasha. I am not fighting for your cause. I am not fighting for that bastard Naraku. If I fight, I fight for myself."

"That is a bunch of bullshit," InuYasha suddenly yelled. Their argument was now attracting the attention of everyone in the house. Kagome was watching InuYasha carefully, hoping that he would keep himself under control.

"You know what InuYasha, you may be a half-dog demon, but you act like an ass most of the time."

"Bitch."

"Thank you, Dumbass."

"Wench."

"Whatever, Shithead."

InuYasha was really angry now. "How the hell can we trust you? For all we know you could be another one of Naraku's incarnations sent to destroy us from the inside."

"You are just upset cause your little dead priestess has joined the dark side and there is nothing you can do about it."

InuYasha saw red and jumped toward Nadia ready to slash her into a million pieces.

"SIT!" Kagome yelled causing InuYasha to fall to the Earth at a rapid pace. The crater he made was quite large, and it was obvious he was in some pain.

Kagome rushed to Nadia, who was still standing there looking at where InuYasha had fallen. "Are you okay?" she asked.

Nadia shrugged her shoulders. "I guess. He was really ready to kill me wasn't he?"

Kagome nodded. "Thought so," Nadia said before heading back up to the house. She didn't even seem to care that InuYasha was about to end her life a lot sooner than Naraku's curse would.

Miroku watched the whole thing in awe. The girl hadn't even flinched when InuYasha had almost killed her and now, watching her walk back up to the house, it was obvious that she didn't care.