Chapter 13: Shard and A Demon At The Village

After putting up with Shippo for a couple of hours they finally came to a clearing that was just ahead of them.

"Slow down guys and be ready. The jewel shard is in that clearing and we don't know what kind of demon possesses it." Kagome warned

Everyone grabbed their weapons and approached the clearing cautiously. They all crouched down by some bushed and waited to see what the demon looked like. Kagome lifted her head up to see and saw just a little girl who looked about five standing alone in the clearing. She nodded to the others and they stood up and walked into the clearing carefully. They were all waiting for the girl to suddenly turn into a huge demon with great big claws and hideous teeth.

The little girl turned around and stared at the approaching group. Her big brown eyes stared into each of their eyes in turn and she continued standing there. Kagome's face had one of those looks on them and she started to talk quickly "Oh my god! She is the cutest thing I have ever seen! She is soooo cute! Aww she's adorable!" she was gushing.

Inuyasha sweat dropped "You do realize that since she has part of the jewel and is a demon we have to kill her right?"

"Yeah I know" Kagome sighed "But isn't she the cutest thing ever?"

"Uh yeah sure whatever just tell us where the shard is Kagome"

Kagome was daydreaming "Inuyasha if I ever have kids I want them to look like her. With dog ears of course though"

Inuyasha paled "Uh right Kagome whatever you say now where's the shard?"

"Oh its in her hand" she said absentmindedly

"Ok then" Inuyasha grabbed his sword and prepared to take out the girl. "Kagome you might want to cover your eyes because I'm sure you really don't want to watch this" Inuyasha called to her

Suddenly the little girl pulled out a pencil and piece of paper from her pocket and started drawing. Inuyasha stopped and watched her curiously. She finished her drawing and touched it with her hand. The drawing suddenly started moving and it climbed off the paper and turned into a clay figurine that towered over the group. It resembled a huge demon and it started charging at Inuyasha.

"Whoa!" Inuyasha called and cut the clay figurine in half. He then looked at the girl who was furiously drawing more pictures and touching them.

"The jewel must be making them come alive" Kagome called to Inuyasha

"No really?" he called sarcastically to her. He started hacking the clay demons into little pieces then he advanced on the little girl. She stared at him with big puppy eyes "Sorry sister that isn't going to work with me" Inuyasha growled and brought down the sword on her.

Kagome closed her eyes and winced. 'Its just another demon with a shard of the jewel' she kept repeating to herself over and over again. 'Just another demon, just another demon'

The little girl split in half and died. Inuyasha walked over and picked up the shard and handed it to Kagome. "Here you go another shard of the jewel." He said to her.

"Did you really have to kill her?" Kagome asked as she added the shard to the others in her container.

"Yes I did because she was a demon."

"Ok" Kagome said sadly

"I worked up an appetite can we have some ramen to eat?" Inuyasha asked Kagome

"Yeah you can have some ramen" Kagome sighed

Miroku decided to lighten the mood by doing what he did best.

"Miroku!" SLAP

Miroku looked at everyone. "Was it something I did?" he asked rubbing the hand mark on his face

Kagome laughed and started walking back in the direction of their camp. "Well lets get going before Inuyasha dies from starvation" She called lightly over her shoulder

Inuyasha ran up beside her and everyone else followed behind them.

"You didn't seem to have any problems with breaking those clay demons did you Inuyasha?" Kagome asked

"No they were easy!" Inuyasha boasted

"Well then would you ever do that to Kikyo? After all she is just made of clay too"

Inuyasha sweat dropped "Uh"

"Well she is only clay and clay is so easy to get rid of." Kagome said slyly

"I know that"

"Would you ever get rid of Kikyo?"

"Maybe"

"Yes or no"

"Yes then ok? I know I don't love her anymore. So those feelings wouldn't bother me. Yeah I think I could kill her." He thought for a second "Well at least her body that is since she is already dead"

"You mean you really would do that?"

"Yes"

"What if we meet up with her? Would you do it then?"

"Maybe"

"Oh ok then" Kagome continued walking quietly thinking over what Inuyasha had just said.

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"Ok I think we should go shard hunting. We've been at this camp for a while now and we need to keep moving. Lets go and maybe find a village to sleep in tonight" Sango said

"Whoa Inuyasha usually is the first one to say we should go shard hunting. This is weird" Kagome said

"I know but I'm getting bored staying here. I want to get moving again."

Miroku glanced up at her "What's going on? You never want to get moving"

"I know but like I said before I want to get moving"

"Alright Sango whatever you say"

Inuyasha walked over to them and sat down "So when are we leaving?"

Everyone looked up at him

"Hello I have really keen hearing. I can hear you guys from across that clearing you know"

Everyone went back to what they were doing before. Sango continued looking at Inuyasha "Do you think we should get moving today?"

"I'm going to be human tonight so sure we can get moving and stay at a village tonight if you guys want to"

"I forgot all about the new moon tonight" Kagome said "Are we going then?"

"Yeah I guess so" Miroku stood up and looked at everyone "Well are we going right now?"

"Yeah Miroku we are" Inuyasha helped Kagome up and she picked up Shippo. Sango remained on the ground.

"What's wrong Sango?" Miroku looked down at her concerned

"Nothing" She got up quickly and brushed herself off "Well lets go" She said smiling

Everyone gathered up their stuff and packed it away, then started off towards another village.

"Kagome?"

"Yeah Inuyasha?"

"I'm sorry about that demon child"

"Its ok Inuyasha you did what you had to do." Her face brightened up "And we did get another piece of the jewel"

Inuyasha frowned "Yeah we did get another one" He looked away from her "Do you ever want to have children?" he remembered that she said if she ever had children that she wanted them to have dog ears.

Kagome blushed "Well yeah eventually I do want children but I cant right now. If we go up against Naraku I wouldn't be any help if I was pregnant or had kids with me" She gazed sadly at Inuyasha for a minute.

"Well uh, would you want to stop going after Naraku and settle down for a while?"

"No because if we ever settled down and Naraku was still alive then he will try and come after us."

"I guess so" Inuyasha looked sad for a minute then brightened "But if we kill Naraku then would you want to settle down?"

:"Well yeah of course I would"

"Oh ok" Inuyasha pondered what Kagome had said.

Kagome noticed Inuyasha was thinking so she left him alone and continued walking silently.

She occasionally looked over at him and the others behind them. 'I wonder what they're thinking about'

Inuyasha looked at her quickly then looked ahead at the road again. Kagome caught him looking at her and couldn't imagine what he was thinking about.

Miroku and Sango exchanged a few secretive glances and slight smiles. But they didn't say anything until they arrived at the next village.

Actually no one said anything until they arrived at the village. Miroku walked up to the villagers and said something about a demonic aura and everyone gasped. They knew that monks were amazing at sensing demons but not that well. One villager came forward and informed them of a demon that was living at the edge of the town by the forest. Since it was there the village had no way to get any food and they would surely starve before winter arrived.

"Lead us to it" Inuyasha ordered

The village leader walked ahead of them and motioned for them to follow. "He lives up here. He is small but he is fearsome. Do not misjudge him for his size." He warned them

"With one sweep of my sword he will be dead" Inuyasha boasted and withdrew it.

The village leader looked at it and laughed. "That sword?" he pointed at the rusty old sword and laughed again "You are doomed" he said sadly to them.

Inuyasha huffed "Feh"

"He lives just ahead. This is as far as I will take you. If you survive then come back to the village for your reward." He called and walked back to the village.

"I forgot about Tetsuiga not transforming tonight because of the new moon. Oh well I can still defeat the small fry demon"

He ran ahead to fight it when he stopped short and started laughing his head off. Kagome and the others ran forward to see what he was laughing at.

Standing in front of them was a small fox demon that looked like Shippo. The only difference was that this fox demon was darker brown with black and white markings on him. "It's a fox demon like me" Shippo exclaimed

"This is going to be so easy." Inuyasha laughed some more.

"Maybe not" Shippo warned, "Remember when I do my tricks on you?"

"Yeah what about them?"

"He can do the same tricks that I can and possibly even more" Shippo explained

"Bring it on" Inuyasha called and charged forward, black hair flowing behind him reminding everyone that he could be hurt badly since he was human for the night.

"He's such an idiot." Shippo muttered

"What do you mean?" Kagome looked down concerned at Shippo

"It's a fox demon and it's full grown. It can do a lot of damage to Inuyasha with his tricks."

"What can we do to kill the fox demon for Inuyasha so he doesn't get hurt?"

"Well you can always shoot him but you have to hit a certain spot."

"Where is it?"

"I don't know. Every fox demon has a certain spot of weakness and that's the only way you can kill them. They only get their weak spot after becoming full grown though so I haven't gotten mine yet." He explained

"Oh great so I have to guess?"

"Basically yes you do"

Kagome sighed and notched her arrow and decided to just let it fly instead of careful aiming at a certain part of his body. "Watch out Inuyasha" She called

Inuyasha was busy at the moment trying to get a large boulder off of him when it popped and turned into a pebble. Inuyasha jumped up and got out of the way.

Kagome aimed in the direction of the fox demon "Hit the mark" she chanted and let go.

To be continued