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Last time: Kagome dropped a jewel shard down the well and returned home. Now in the dead of night something is wrong with the well, what could it be?

Chapter 2: Those Who Fight Demons

Kagome hurried downstairs and threw open the door to the shrine. She instantly closed it again at what she saw there and hurried back into the house, knowing that the rest of her family was in trouble. Serious trouble. Once inside she ran to the first thing she found and the first thing she thought might help her: the phone book. Now, one might not be thinking this a logical deduction or a helpful thing but she did it any way. She quickly began flipping though the pages. While she was in the middle of a page Sota came downstairs rubbing his eyes, "Uh oh. What's going on, sis? The ground keeps on shaking." It was easy to hear the fear in his voice.

Kagome looked at her brother calmly and kneeled down so she could see straight into his eyes, "It's a demon Sota, and not a very nice one. I want you to go and get grandpa and mom and take them downstairs. Okay?"

Sota looked up at her and smiled, "But Inuyasha will come, won't he?"

Kagome managed a smile and tried to look calm while answering her brother, "No Sota, Inuyasha won't come this time."

"Why not?"

"Because, I wasn't very nice to him. And I told some other friends that I made not to let him come back for me."

At this remark Sota looked sad and hung his head dropping his eyes from his sisters, "Do you hate Inuyasha, sis?"

Kagome laughed, "No, I don't hate him. Although his pig headedness does get on my nerves sometimes, now go, I have thing I need to take care of."

Sota scrambled off and Kagome watched him go, smiling at his child like behavior. She looked down at the phone book and a strange scripture caught he eye. She had seen it before in the village of the demon slayers. It was their symbol, one would say, the sign of their services. She had never seen it in the present before. The rest of the ad was for a respectful looking dojo. Hesitating for a moment, she finally she picked up the phone and dialed the number: 1-800-3-897-5667 and listened to the phone ring in her ear. Finally a chipper female voice answered the phone, "Hello, this is Sukiji! How may I help you?"

"Hi, this is Kagome Higurashi, I noticed the scripture on your add in the phone book and was actually wondering if you could help me."

There was a deafening pause at the other end of the phone and then the sound of a stunned voice, "Can you repeat that again?"

"My name is Kagome Higurashi, I noticed your add in the phone book and I need your help."

The silence on the other end of the phone continued and then Sukiji spoke again, still with a sense of disbelief in her voice, "Can you wait one second?"

On the other side of Tokyo, in a large dojo, Sukiji jumped through open her door and yelled across the hall, "HARU!"

There was a thud, followed by a few curses and a few doors down one of the many door in the halls slid open and a tall young man about 18 stepped out of the door. His ears were slightly pointed and his long platinum-blonde hair was tied in a loose braid. His eyes were a shining dark amber and on his hand was a purple stripe that looked like a battle wound. He glared at the shouting girl, "Yes?"

"Phone."

He sighed at took the phone from the smiling girl, "Hello? Ryokuharu speaking. What do you want? Make it quick, okay? I want to go back to sleep."

By now the two other residents who occupied that particular hallway were also up, "Who is it, Haru?"

Ryokuharu looked down at the 15 year old, raven-haired boy who looked almost exactly like his twin, save the fact that one of them was a girl, and scowled, "I don't know yet. If you would shut up then I might be able to figure it out."

He turned back from the boy who had rolled his eyes at Ryokuharu's regular behavior leaned against the wall. Sukiji ran up behind the other young girl, jumping up and down, who had been woken up. This one also with long black hair, but was age 17, "You'll never guess who's on the phone!" Sukiji chimed.

The 17 year old girl looked up at Ryokuharu and smiled smugly, "Is it a your girlfriend?"

He chose to ignore her and listened to the girl on the phone. "As I've said before: I'm Kagome Higurashi! A demon is attacking and I need help, okay? Can you help me?"

"Of course. That's what we do. Okay, just give me your address and we will be there as soon as we can."

The was a sigh from the other side of the phone, "Thank you!" and after a moment Ryokuharu scribbled down the address he hung up the phone with a click.

"I can't believe we actually got a call," the taller girl grinned. "Who knew someone would recognize the scripture."

As soon as the conversation was over Sukiji turned to Ryokuharu and whispered, "Do you really think it's her? It would be awesome if it was her!"

The older girl looked at Sukiji, "Who?"

Sukiji smiled, "Kagome! The Kagome! It would be soooooo cool! Don't you think?"

The boy against the wall pushed off and went over to his twin, the bouncing girl, and put his hand on her shoulder to stop her from bouncing herself to death, "Don't over react, sis, let's just get ready to go."

There was sound of agreement from everyone in the hallway. It was then that the light to the stairs clicked on and a woman walked up the stairs and looked at the four teens, "What are you four doing up? It's the dead of night. Go to sleep!"

There was a groan and a sigh but all four opened their respective doors and went into their rooms. All thinking that they had failed and all thinking one thing: what if today was the day?

Back at her home Kagome sighed and put the phone down outside. The door that held the demon at bay came flying off its track and the demon came lumbering out of the shrine. It resembled a rather gruff and ugly looking lizard-man. At this point Kagome knew that Sukiji and who ever else she called was going to make it. She ran downstairs when she found her mother, Sota, and her grandfather sitting on the couch, she looked at them, "Whatever you see, and no matter how much you want to come out, don't."

Kagome's mother looked up at her daughter, "Why?"

Kagome sighed and looked at her family and smiled slightly trying to comfort them with a security that she didn't feel, that wasn't there. She had never fought a demon alone nor ever had to kill one with out Inuyasha's help, "I'm going out there."

Her mother looked up her daughter, "You do what you have to, dear."

Kagome hesitated for a moment and then smiled back at her mother, "Thanks, mom."

Kagome hugged her ever understanding mother quickly and left the room, making her way to her room where her bow and arrows laid. Forever since the affair with Menomaru she had kept them just in case she truly needed to use them again. She composed herself and then slung the quiver and bow over her shoulder. Then she looked at the demon that was making his way to the exit of the shrine and ran downstairs, outside and then to a perch behind the demon. She pulled out an arrow, aimed and then fired. The tip of the arrow flared blue and skimmed right across the demon's shoulder. The demon turned around and looked at who had dared oppose him and in a gargled voice spoke, "Show yourself."

Kagome kept her spot and fired again. This time the demon was ready for it and, with a grace that a demon of his size shouldn't of had, dipped to the left. Standing again, it started straight at Kagome's hiding spot. Inside Kagome was shaking as he neared on her, but she cleared her mind and had her instincts guide her. She pulled back one more time, knowing that if she missed it would be her last shot. She released the arrow and fired. Its tip exploded into blue light again. The demon indeed saw it coming, but it was going to fast to do much about it so when the arrow came straight at the demon, he could do nothing but let it hit. The arrow hit its mark, tearing though the demon in a bright blast, killing it instantly.

Kagome let out a breath of air she didn't know she had been holding and smiled at herself. She had done it! She had won without Inuyasha. She hooked her bow and arrows over her shoulder and then made her was back into her house to tell her family that everything was going to be okay, as well as get some sleep.

A/N: Next chapter, come on people. Review! It will be fun I swear.