Maritza: "Well, I've had my fun. Onto important things- like the storyline." (laughs evily) "Thank you, TomokoLee, for your input. I hope this will please you." ;; "If it doesn't... I'm sorry! It is the storyline."

Stacy: "Someone should've mentioned it."
Maritza: "Oh, shush, you could've said it if you wanted! Now, anyway, since I threw in that weirdo-chapter two days back, I decided to throw in another chapter... because I was two months late with 12." u.u

Stacy: "Mari does not own Inuyasha."
Maritza: "Time to get my Kikyo-Mikuro-meeting chapter up."

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Chapter 13

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Mikuro woke up to the sound of Senshi moving around, kicking the den walls and the other girls sleeping there.

"Senshi, cut it out." Kagome murmured to her in mid-kick.

"Hu-wha?"

Once she heard the heavy breathing again, Mikuro shot up and scurried out.

"Finally! Time to myself!"

Mikuro rejoiced by herself, skipping around the outside of the den. "Whenever it's just Kouga and me, he watches me like a hawk. With mutt-mutt and the others, though..." She grinned evily and made her way down to the waterfall edge below the wolves' home.

"Nice... I'm never allowed to come by myself because of Ginta and Hakkaku... but..." Mikuro's eyes flashed over to where the two wolves were resting. "They're sucky guards. Sleeping on the job."

That was when a sudden flash of blue-white caught Mikuro's attention. She snapped into action- jumping into an attack stance, looking for what she thought was an evil demon coming to murder the others.

Instead, Mikuro found a long, snake-like creature hovering above her head.

"What... a... creepy... demon." Mikuro dragged out, dropping her guard and looking up. The creature seemed to float on air, slithering around aimlessly.

Awww... it looks kind of lost. Mikuro thought, feeling a bit gloomy and sorry for the demon. "Hey... were you looking for something?"

The demon seemed startled, but quickly regained it's composure and elegantly made it's way down to where Mikuro was standing. The young ice-demon girl lifted her hands, as if to catch the creature, but it simply floated above her hands.

"Umm... lost?" Mikuro offered again, as the blue-white creature eyed her with huge eyes. Now that she looked at it, Mikuro was kind of scared. Snakes could be deadly, even to demons. Especially to younger demons. Then again, this wasn't an ordinairy snake...

The creature suddenly shot towards Mikuro, who shut her eyes in fear. The snake was circling her quickly, and she was scared that any moment it was going to-

Something scaly yet soft rested itself on Mikuro's shoudler. Opening her eyes once more, the snake had sat itself calmly on Mikuro's silky sleeve.

"Uhhh... I think it likes me." The demon girl muttered to no one in particular, feeling foolish for being scared of such a beautiful creature.

And as if responding, the snake-like demon floated up again, circled her once more, and nudged her towards a tree-filled area near the waterfall.

"The forest? You want me to go... in here?" Mikuro questioned, and the demon fluttered in front of her, headed for the enterance.

"Hey... I'm not supposed to be out... can't this wait?"

Hiss.

"Eh?"

Hiss.

"Where are you taking me, then?"

Mikuro found herself following the snake for what seemed like only a few moments. Before long, she was standing in another field with a large lake that reflected the moon directly in the center.

"What did I come here for?" Mikuro asked, indignantly. She was starting to lose her patience. Then, a flash of blue-white again. And another.

"Hey! What's going on?"

Many identical snake-demons were fluttering past her, towards the other end of the lake.

"What are they doing?" Mikuro was confused, angry, and flustered. She had no idea why she had followed- now she might not even make it back to Kouga's den... wait.

Squinting, Mikuro saw that all of the demons were headed towards a certain shadowy area, near a few enormous rocks that could be small mountains themselves.

"Did... my shikigami find you?" A voice asked firmly.

Mikuro's head shot up. "Who...?"

Then, a young woman, probably in her twenties, stood from the shadows, her gaze locked firmly on Mikuro.

"Who are you?"

Mikuro gasped.

This was the woman she had seen InuYasha with... the night before she had run away.

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DRAMA. uu;;