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Chapter 2: Enter Mystery Woman

They traveled down the dirt road, looking for Naraku and the jewel shards.

Kagome sighed that woman…who was she? She looked at Inuyasha, he was lost deep in thought.

"Inuyasha?" Kagome asked she was worried about him; something had him worked up enough to actually be lost in his thoughts.

He looked at her, his amber eyes hard for a moment, and then softened when he caught Kagome's worried expression "What's the matter Kagome?"

She shook her head "Nothings wrong, I was just wondering what you were thinking about…"

His eyes grew hard again "I-I was thinking about last night…"

Miroku looked over "You were thinking about that strange woman last night weren't you?"

Inuyasha nodded slightly "Yeah, her scent…it was strange."

Sango held Kirara in her arms "What was strange about her scent Inuyasha?" she watched the Hanyou closely, pondering the strange woman herself; she hadn't seen her with her own eyes but she had been told about her earlier this morning.

Inuyasha growled "She smelled like-"

Kagome's back stiffened "I sense a jewel shard! No...wait...two!" she looked up Please let it not be him…please…

Inuyasha growled "God damn wolf!" he drew tetsuaiga and stood in front of Kagome.

And right on cue Koga showed up in his usual tornado "Ah Kagome my love! I thought I smelt you around here!" he walks up to her, pushing Inuyasha aside "Move it mutt-face."

He grabs Kagome's hands "I pray that Dog-crap hasn't hurt you any?"

Kagome smiled nervously "Now Koga, you know Inuyasha wouldn't let anything bad happen to me." She took a tentative step back from Koga as the Wolf prince leaned towards her "Kagome, I shall make you my woman so you'll never have to see Mutt-face again."

Inuyasha growled "GET YOUR HANDS OFF OF KAGOME YOU MANGY WOLF!" he ripped Koga away from her and swung Tetsuaiga at him "WIND SC-"

"SIT"

WHAM-

"Whench!"

"SIT! SIT! SIT! SIT! SIT!"

"AHHH!"

Inuyasha grumbled from his hole in the ground.

Koga kissed Kagome's hand and bowed slightly "I shall return with Naraku's head for you Kagome, Farewell!" and with that the wolf prince left just as he came.

Inuyasha slowly stood up out his hole "Kagome…WHY ARE YOU ALWAYS HELPING THAT STUPID WOLF?"

Kagome glared down at him as the others watched on in amusement.

She sighed, He never gets it does he?

She walked away, heading along the road again "Come on guys, Inuyasha can catch up on his own!"

Shippo leaped onto Kagome's shoulder "Wow…"Looks back at Inuyasha; trying to get up out of his crater "You sat him good that time Kagome."

Sango nodded "Yeah, what got you so upset Kagome?"

Kagome looked at Sango "He just doesn't get it, there is no point in attacking Koga, I don't like him like that and Inuyasha is just being stubborn! So I sat him." She crossed her arms as she heard Inuyasha bound up behind them "Quit talking about me like I can't hear you wench!"

Kagome looked at him menacingly "Sit Inuyasha."

WHAM

Kagome walks quickly away from Inuyasha, Sango Miroku and Shippo all followed her, not wishing to anger her further.

Inuyasha pulled himself out of the dirt and ambled after them "Damn wench...always sitting me…"

The small group finally made it to the small village; there were no children playing outside and all the adults looked awfully frightened about something.

Miroku walked up to an Elderly man "What is going on here good sir?"

The man peered up at the young monk "Awful things good Monk, A beast has been terrorizing our homes and stealing our children." The old man looks around sadly at the empty looking town "Our children don't play outside anymore now."

Kagome looked around seeing little faces pop up at the windows now and then, eyeing the travelers.

"What does the monster look like Old man?" Inuyasha asked sternly, surveying the small town, tentively sniffing the air now and then.

Kagome looked over at Inuyasha; he had his arms crossed and a very serious expression on his face.

The old man looked up at the Hanyou "It was a large furred and scaled beast, with a long neck and a huge tail."

Kagome gasped "That's-"

Inuyasha looked at her "the same monster that almost attacked you last night."

Kagome nodded "then that must mean that strange woman is around here somewhere."

"Looking for me Puppy?"

Inuyasha turned quickly and the woman with gold eyes stood behind him "You?"

Kagome watched her "Who are you?"

The woman watched Kagome for a moment and smiled "My name is Eriani." She studied Kagome closely "Little priestess… your different from these others aren't you?"

Kagome looked at Inuyasha and the others "What do you mean I'm different?"

The woman walked up to Kagome and grabbed her face in her hand; her hand was soft and very warm. "Well…besides your clothes… your aura is different from other priestess's I've seen around here."

Inuyasha growled and pulled Kagome away from the strange woman "Who the hell are you!"

The woman growled back at him "Keep your fur down Mutt! I am not the threat here! Now do you want to work together on killing the beast or not?" her and Inuyasha were glaring daggers at each other.

Sango and Miroku looked at the two of them, then at the confused Kagome

Sango frowned "Poor Kagome, now we have two temperamental people on our hands" She sighed, and then looked at Miroku, who was currently ogling the newcomer.

SMACK

"Ow! What did I DO?" Miroku held his face, and looked at a fuming Sango

"You were OGLING her you lecher!" she stomped off with Kirara on her shoulder.

Now everyone was staring at Miroku who had turned a lovely shade of red

Inuyasha 'feh'd and walked away "whatever, I'm going to go find this monster"

The woman growled "You go and find that monster and you'll die Inuyasha! Don't be foolish and throw your life away!" she grabbed Inuyasha's shoulder and turned him around and whispered harshly to him "Do you really want to leave your woman unprotected?"

Inuyasha's eyes widened "Kagome is not my WOMAN!" he growled at her "How the hell did you know my name?"

The woman saw the look in his eyes when she spoke of the Priestess "Oh, did I hit a soft spot Inuyasha?"

Inuyasha was about to shoot something back at her when he heard some villagers scream in terror; he turned to find the beast had arrived and had a small child in his arms.

He looked over at Kagome and saw her expression; it was last night all over again!

Kagome felt frozen again I-I can't move! What is going on?

The strange woman ran to Kagome "Damn it! That damn monster…hold on priestess, I'll help you." She pulled out a small necklace with a small bright red gem on it, placed it around her neck and stepped back "You should be able to move now! Go, help Inuyasha!" She ran to help as well.

Kagome could move again! She looked around her "Oh god…where is shippo?" Her head shot towards the monster as a small voice screamed for her.

"KAGOME! INUYASHA!"

Inuyasha was already running towards the monster when he smelt Shippo's fear, and then he heard the little kitsune's scream. He growled how that filthy beast dare attack Shippo?

Inuyasha leaped up and swung his sword in anger "SHIPPO!"

He could smell Shippo's salty tears on the wind.

Kagome was in tears "Oh my god! SHIPPO!" She ran as fast as she could to the battle, she stopped at the foot of the monster and screamed for Shippo.

She was so in such a distraught state that she hadn't noticed she had began to glow a light blue color.

Kagome had her eyes up towards Shippo's small body in the claws of the monster before her "Shippo! I'm here Shippo!"

All the others were also attacking the Beast with no luck, he kept blocking Inuyasha's sword and Miroku's sutras had no effect on it. The beast was dodging all of Sango's attacks as well.

Kagome had no arrows; she had planned to get some here in the village, all she had was her bow.

The woman called Eriani ran to Kagome's side "Priestess, pull the string back on your bow, just like if you had a real arrow!" She threw a bright violet shield around herself and Kagome.

Kagome looked at her "What is that supposed to do?"

The woman growled "Just do it!"

Kagome did as she was told, a slight shimmer of blue light began to form in the bow

Eriani grunted with the effort of keeping up the shield "Now, on the count of three, release the bow string!"

Kagome nodded, she focused on the beast.

"One"

She drew her bow back tightly

"Two"

Shippo screamed for her again.

"THREE!"

The woman immediately released her shield as Kagome shot forth an arrow formed of blue light, the arrow of light shot the beast right through its heart, turning the beast into a fine mist.

Inuyasha caught Shippo as he fell "you ok?"

Shippo nodded weakly "yes…but what was that light Inuyasha?"

Inuyasha looked down at Kagome and the strange woman "I don't know, but I have a feeling we're about to find out."

Kagome watched everyone come towards her and smiled when she saw Shippo in Inuyasha's arms "Oh good…Shippo's…ok…" And with that she fainted, she could feel strong arms around her, holding her as the blackness claimed her.

A/N haha! Cliff hanger! Review and I shall continue to add to these chapters, and maybe I'll take suggestions too? Maybe...anyways, REVIEW PLEASE! Ja ne!