Harvest Moon

By Jessica the Hanyou

Rated: T

Warnings: Violence. Coarse Language. Evil-ness.

Disclaimer: I own nothing created by other people and Rumiko Takahashi owns Inuyasha. That also means I don't get any money for this story. HAPPY NOW! ((Pushes away lawyers))

WHEEE! It is chapter three! Rhyme-eth!

Sango: ...O.o;

Jessica: Hey! Where'd Inuyasha and his demonic self go?

Sango: They said something about 'getting out of reading the reviews'.

Jessica: T.T...There are no reviews.

CHAPTER 3

"Argh...Shippou, I can't find any traces of Kagome's scent!" Jessica admitted, seeming quite agitated. She sat down on the dirt ground, frowning and turning her head towards the kitsune next to her. "Maybe she isn't here?"

"Maybe not. But we haven't searched the whole area yet..." Shippou replied, still sniffing the dirt around him. He crawled around for a short time and finally sat down as well. " I guess you're right. I can't smell her either," He announced.

"I guess we'll have to look somewhere else. Where haven't we looked yet?" Jessica began to mumble, putting one clawed hand under her chin.

"Wait! Jessica, you were where Kagome was last at, why don't we track her from there?" Shippou jumped to his feet and ran to the girl. "I bet we could catch her scent from there!"

"Yeah!" Jessica piped up. "The only problem is...I can't exactly remember where that was,"

Shippou preformed a perfect anime fall.

"What do you mean you can't remember where she was?"

"Well...we were running so fast...I couldn't catch any land marks," Jessica retorted with a yawn. She was tired. Slowly, she began to nod off, but soon catching herself. An insane Inuyasha was out there!

"But how are we supposed to find Kagome now!" Shippou began to cry. His mother idol could be dead! It wasn't fair!

A voice shot through the night. Two voices actually.

"Shippou, Jessica!"

"Are we glad to see you two!"

Miroku and Sango ran through the bush, waving their hands in greeting.

"Miroku! Sango!" Jessica and Shippou exclaimed.

"Any luck finding Kagome?" Miroku asked.

"We haven't found a thing. If someone remembered where she was when she ran off, we might have found her already!" Shippou mumbled in an accusatory tone; shooting a glance at Jessica, who just snorted and turned away.

"It isn't my fault! And who are you to talk? You were off in dream-land when Kagome, Sango and I were running for our lives!" Jessica snarled, not even giving Shippou a look.

"This isn't any time to argue, you two! We have to find Kagome!" Miroku scolded. "Sango, do you remember anything?" He asked, turning his attention to his kimono-clad companion.

"Actually...I think I sort of do!" Sango exclaimed, "I remember running through here!"

"Well, then, let's go! We have no time to waste!" Miroku replied, watching as the girl began to lead the way.

Inuyasha angrily struggled against the seal on his body. The stupid monk had actually restrained him with a piece of paper. This made him beyond angry, which made him come to the decision that the monk would die first. He growled, as if he could 'scare' the paper away. This didn't help at all.

"Damn it!" He hissed, trying to move his body. His arm proceeded to move. Finally! It was wearing off! Inuyasha grinned manically and noticed that he could move. He chuckled diabolically when the sutra wore off and he returned to a normal standing position.

Oh, they would die now.

"Kagome!" Shippou squeaked, running toward his mother idol desperately, stopping next to her. Shippou immediately began to cry.

"Ohhhhh! She's dead!" He cried, expecting the worst. "Kagomeee! Inuyasha killed you!"

"Actually, I think that she just passed out," Jessica chirped, kneeling next to Shippou, and checking Kagome's pulse. "She's fine, I'm sure,"

"I'm glad that no real damage has been done," Miroku sighed, relived.

"Yes. I'm happy to see that Inuyasha did nothing to harm her," Sango cut in, catching up. Though she had shown, them the way, but Jessica and Shippou had soon caught Kagome's scent, leaving her behind.

"Why has Inuyasha transformed though?" Shippou asked the group, baffled.

"I can answer that," Jessica responded. "I was reading this library book I had in my bag, and it was all about legends. It was talking about 'half-demons transforming into demons every hundred years on the harvest week'... or something like that,"

"So the moon is to blame?" Sango asked.

"I guess,"

"So, we have to live with a demonic Inuyasha for the week?" Shippou shivered. Like most, Inuyasha's youkai form scared him beyond belief. It had been this form that had even--briefly--frightened Sesshoumaru, and it had been this form who had killed an army of bandits single handedly without a second thought. Shippou had a right to be scared.

"Unfortunately, yeah..."

"There has to be a way to break the curse, as I see you haven't transformed, Jessica," Miroku insisted, peering at the girl and noticing she hadn't transformed.

"Well...hm...let's see..." Jessica thought for a few seconds and spoke in realization, "It said 'on the nine-hundredth year, the curse was broken' or something like that...so maybe when Inuyasha came here, his curse hadn't been broken!"

"I suppose that explains it," Miroku replied.

"Maybe, before Inuyasha get's here, we should hide Kagome?" Sango cut the conversation, emphasizing her words by lifting the teenage girl over her right shoulder. "She's in no condition to protect herself, and she's unarmed,"

Jessica's nose suddenly twitched, and she began growling on instinct, and out of fear. Jessica was deathly scared of Inuyasha's demonic side, and the angered version as well. The scent that had reached her nose was dark, demonic and stank of evil. It had to be Inuyasha, after all, that was his demon's scent.

"Hurry! We need to get out of here!" Jessica desperately informed the others, her eyes growing wide as she began to hear a low growl from a distance. "He's coming!"

Miroku, Sango and Shippou immediately understood. As if on cue, the three took to their heels and ran as fast as they could, Jessica slowly catching up behind. They weren't sure if they could take another encounter with Inuyasha.

"You can't run from me!" Inuyasha's voice reverberated from the trees, giving the eerie impression that he was everywhere.

"Ohh crap..." Jessica mumbled, looking up at a tree right next to her, where two red eyes flashed menacingly. She took a few steps back, her tail falling and a small dog-like whine escaping her mouth. At that very second, Inuyasha dropped from the tree.

"Now there is no escape," Inuyasha chuckled devilishly, advancing towards the girl. Soon, he was right in front of the younger hanyou.

Jessica had never really noticed how much taller Inuyasha was than she. She had known she was tall for her age, standing about 5' 5", but Inuyasha...he seemed to tower above the girl. This didn't help much, because she could die at any second...She had to try to get away...

"Flames of the Forest!" Jessica screamed out, the green fire about to hit it's target, when the unimaginable happened.

"Not this time, wench," Inuyasha hissed, savagely slicing at Jessica while she was in mid-attack. Blood spurted from the girl's arm with a sickening sound.

"Ah..." The hanyou girl winced in pain, looking at her arms and hands, then at Inuyasha, and then towards where her friends had escaped. She fixed her gaze on the being who had cut her. She knew now, she didn't stand a chance against this foe. Her father's words reverberated throughout her head.

"Remember, Jessi, if you are ever attacked by someone, use all your skills and get away. Do not fight them if they are stronger than you. I don't want you to get hurt." The hanyou lectured his daughter firmly.

"Yeah, yeah. I've heard this since I was five. You don't need to tell me again," The girl replied casually, folding her arms behind her head. The chances of her being attacked were slim to none.

Jessica continued staring at Inuyasha for a couple seconds. He was smirking. The bastard was smirking...! Now she was mad. Her pain was amusing to him! He needed to be taught a lesson. Jessica promptly preformed a 'Jumping Front Snap Kick', hitting Inuyasha directly in the face and followed through with a sharp 'Back Kick' to his stomach knocking him back a few feet, and onto the ground. After the anger induced attack, Jessica turned and ran. Oh, she needed to run. She knew Inuyasha would be royally pissed off now, and in that state...he would make easy work of her.

"MIROKU! SANGO! SHIPPOU! HELP!" She screamed out, hoping someone would hear her. She continued running through the forest, not looking where she was running, she tripped over an inconveniently placed root, crashing into a large tree stump. She slowly rubbed her head in pain, ears twitching as she caught footsteps.

"Oh no, not again!" Jessica moaned, staggering to her feet, preparing for the worst. She focused her eyes on the point where the sound was coming from, straining to see through the dark (She doesn't have night vision).

"Jessica, are you okay?" It was Shippou! Jessica sighed with relief. Shortly after, Miroku, Sango (Who now had her Hiraikotsu and was in battle costume) and Kagome arrived, looking equally relived.

"Where were you guys?" Jessica asked, almost scolding the three.

"We headed back to the cabins to get my Hiraikotsu and battle costume," Sango retorted ,"We also got Kagome to wake up,"

"Well that's good to hear. I was attacked by Inuyasha back there..." Jessica sighed. "Oh! Did any of you see the time?"

"Uh...I have a watch!" Kagome chimed in, looking at her wrist. The digital watch read 10:00 P.M.

"Two more hours..." Jessica groaned.

"Two hours? What do you mean by that?" Miroku questioned the girl curiously.

"Oh! I forgot to tell you guys," Jessica said sheepishly. "The book also said that he'll stay in demon form until day...so that must mean midnight,"

"I'm not sure if we can stay alive for that long..." Sango growled, looking around cautiously.

"I know...Inuyasha could show up any minute!"

"Oh...I'd say I'm already here!" Inuyasha growled, standing right behind the group. "Heh...So I have until midnight, eh? I'll kill you in a mater of seconds!"

"Hey!" Kagome broke in. "How long have you been listening to us?"

"Hmph. What's it to you?"

"SIT!" Kagome shrieked. "SIT! SIT! SIT! SIT! SIT!"

"DAMN WEN---" Inuyasha was pulled to the ground painfully once more.

"Let's get outta' here!" Jessica exclaimed, only getting nods from the rest of the group. She, and everyone else ran off towards the direction of the cabins.

Kagome sat down next to the cabin. This had all supposed to be fun, and now it had turned into a complete disaster. 'It's all my fault,' she thought,'If I hadn't brought them here...none of this would have ever happened...' Kagome continued beating herself up mentally. She thought she could cry...but this was no time to cry. They all still had to wait until the Sun would rise.

"Okay...Inuyasha could show up any minute. He seems pretty bent on killing us," Sango said, taking charge of the group. She knew what would happen if they sat in one place for the rest of the night.

"So? What are we supposed to do?" Jessica growled, frustrated.

"We need a plan," Sango replied.

"Yes. That would be a good idea," Miroku cut in bluntly.

"I guess it couldn't hurt," Kagome added.

"Just tell us what to do!" Shippou chimed in.

Sango gestured to everyone to make a group huddle. "HENTAI!" she shrieked when she felt a familiar rub on a 'forbidden zone'. A slap noise could be heard everywhere.

"Please, Sango! It may be the last time I get to feel your exquisite---" Miroku was cut off almost instantly.

"Miroku, this isn't the time!" Sango hissed. "All right, here's the plan..."

The rest was completed with whispers.

Inuyasha rushed through the forest, cursing. There they went again, making a pathetic fool of him. Now, there was even less time to kill them off. He bounded from tree branch to tree branch, looking pissed off, and even more ready to kill something. Fortunatly for him, something whipped passed him, using the tree branch that he was. Instantly, his lips turned upwards into an insane grin and his changed his course to follow the "thing" that had whipped by.

'Good, he saw me,' Jessica thought as she kept jumping from branch to branch. So far so good. Now all she had to do was head towards "step two". She dropped from her tree, and in a blur, she raced off as fast as she could, knowing Inuyasha wasn't far behind.

The girl was right. He wasn't far behind. In fact, he was getting closer every second, thanks to the fact that he was much faster than her in his youkai form. One could say that he was toying with the child, waiting for the right second to snap up his prey. To tell the truth, he was enjoying this. He could smell fear emanating off the twelve-year-old's body. He smirked when he was a mere two feet away from her, raised his claws to strike and...

"SHIPPOU! NOW!" The fox-dog girl shrieked, spinning around in a blur. Before Inuyasha could even comprehend what was going on, he found himself in a pile of...mushrooms?

"WHAT IS THIS?" He roared, struggling against his sticky restraints, but with no avail.

"Crying mushrooms." Was all the fox kit --who had been hiding under Jessica's mess of brown hair-- said.

"Okay...now what?" Jessica asked Shippou stupidly.

"Uh...Oh! We wait for the others!" the kitsune replied.

"Alright,"

So that's what they did. The two creatures sat down about four feet away from Inuyasha, waiting. They waited for about ten minutes until Kagome, Sango and Miroku finally arrived.

"It's about time!" Shippou scolded.

"We came as fast as we could! We had to find all the ingredients for the potion!" Kagome countered, putting her hands on her hips.

"What do you mean by ingredients! What are you planning?" Inuyasha barked, sounding much more angry than nervous. He struggled a few times, not liking where this was going.

"It's a special serum known as the 'Kuroi Tsuta' that the people of my village used to use on demons. It can paralyze a large demon for up to three hours." Sango said simply. "Ready, Kagome?"

"Yep!" Kagome held out a plastic bottle filled with a foul-smelling, blackish-orange liquid inside it. Inuyasha began struggling madly against the fox-demon's mushrooms. One disappeared in a puff of white smoke. Then another, and another.

"Hurry, Kagome!" Miroku yelled to the miko-in-training, who almost immediately obliged. The girl ran over to Inuyasha and poured the contents of the bottle all over him. Immediatly, he was frozen in place.

"Rrrrgh...Damn it!" The demon cursed, noticing only his eyes and mouth could move.

"Now, what do you say we all get a good night's sleep?" Miroku asked the group happily.

"Good idea!" Sango, Jessica and Shippou all said at once, the whole group slowly heading back to the cabin, leaving an infuriated Inuyasha by himself it the forest.

Third chapter is done! I know you guys are reading this too, so please tell me that you are reading this. I look at the stats page!

Inuyasha: TT;;

Jessica: If I get any reviews, you have to read them!

Inuyasha: Isn't that against the rules though?

Jessica: No. I'm pretty sure it isn't. I read the rules.

Inuyasha: T.T

Jessica: Oh! Here is a little thing for you:

Jumping Front Snap Kick: A Tae Kwon Doe kick that involves raising one knee as a fake, then jumping off of the other leg and performing a snap kick in the air.

Back Kick: A Tae Kwon Doe kick that involves kicking like a donkey.

Kuroi Tsuta: Black Ivy

Sango: See ya!