Disclaimer: I don't own InuYasha. Now that that's done, on with the show!

"So, where do you think Ceres could be?" Ellie asked her friend one day after they had stopped to rest for the night in a small village.

"I don't know, but I can kind of smell her peony lotion from Bath and Body Works so I'm guessing she's near by," Lexie replied pulling the hair tie off of her wrist and putting it in her hair.

"I am so tired, I wont have any trouble falling asleep tonight," Ellie said yawning, she pulled her school sweatshirt over the rest of her clothing and waited for Sango and Kilala to go through the flap before kissing Miroku goodnight and closing it.

Lexie got up and walked toward a window, listened to the cries of the lost souls, and looked at the sky (that's kind of depressing). It was a new moon meaning that Inu-Yasha would have to stay inside. Inu-Yasha was a half-demon and on the nights of a new moon he lost his powers, he turned into a mortal and couldn't do much more than Ellie could do on a good day. For the past two nights Lexie had gone out at night to search for Ceres with Inu-Yasha with no avail.

For the two nights Lexie could not smell anything that reminded her of her friend, but that night she could and she would take full advantage of that chance.

"Where are you going, Akuzmi?" Kagome asked as she watched Lexie walk towards the flap, pull it open and peer out onto the deserted roads of the village.

"I'm going to go look for Ceres, I can smell her tonight," She replied lifting her head to the sky and sniffing the air.

"Inu-Yasha cant go with you tonight, wait until tomorrow, you don't know the terrain well enough," Sango warned her.

"I'll be fine, I need to find my friend, she doesn't have anyone else out there and she's probably frightened or something. And anyways this is the first time I've smelt her and I don't know if I'll be able to tomorrow," Lexie replied. "I'll be back by daybreak, if I'm not go ahead without me, I'll catch up." With that Lexie stepped outside and began to run to the forest.

"I think I'll go with her, can I borrow Kirara?" Kagome told Sango.

"Sure," Sango replied.

Soon afterwards Kagome was riding on the back of Kirara. On her back she had a bow and priestess arrows, around her neck she had the sacred jewel shards, and Kirara was chasing the scent of Lexie.

Within moments Kagome, Kirara, and Lexie were all following the scent of Ceres when they collided into a whirlwind.

"Koga," Kagome yelled, instantly the whirlwind ceased and Kagome jumped off of Kilala's back.

"Kagome, there you are, and where's that wench Inu-Yasha?" Koga asked, knowing very well where Inu-Yasha was, hiding in some village.

"I went out to help Akuzmi find her friend, Ceres," Kagome replied.

Koga's eyes wandered to Lexie and they lit as he caught site of a female wolf-demon, exactly what he was. "My name's Koga," he said.

"Akuzmi," Lexie replied, "what were you doing out on a night like this?"

"I was trying to find Nuraku to break through his barrier until I ran into two lovely damsels with no man to watch over them. Inu-Yasha shouldn't let you out without him watching you, you could get hurt."

"He doesn't know," the girls replied.

"What he doesn't know wont hurt him, I'll join you, for your safety," said Koga.

They all knew that Koga wasn't joining them for their safety, he had a crush.

"Here you are Milady," Rin said handing Ceres a bowl of rice, and a pair of chopsticks. She ran and got Ceres a plate of fish.

Ceres stared at it for a few moments, when she entered the book she acquired the appetite of a dog-demon and wasn't too keen to the thought of having mortal food, but that was all that was given to her and there was no way she was going to argue. "Thank you, Rin. That's enough, you come and eat now."

"Okay!" Rin said, she grabbed a plate, and a pair of chopsticks and sat down. She waited until Ceres took her first bite of food before she began to eat.

"So, Ceres, how are you apart of the dog-demon tribe?"

Shoot! I don't know how I'm apart of the dog-demon tribe, time to make up a lie. Ceres thought. "I don't really know, I was abandoned at birth, all I truly know is that I'm a full-demon."

"That's interesting," Sesshomaru replied. "Why are you so nice, I mean, I've only met a few other demons who act that nicely, but I don't take so kindly to them."

"I was brought up by mortals, they treated me like their own child, they didn't really care if I was demon or not. And I have a few friends who are mortal," Ceres replied taking another bite of her food.

The interrogation went on for the whole meal. Do you have siblings? No. How old are you? 15 years. Why haven't I seen you in these parts? I worked for Nuraku for a while. Do you know his weakness? I didn't get to know him that well, I've only worked with him for 50 human years. Do you know my brother Inu-Yasha? I know about him, but don't know him. Are there any other demons you know? Other than you and Nuraku, no. How did the humans take to you? They thought I was cute, it was a little annoying being treated like a dog, but life was good. And so on.

By the end of the meal Rin was in a deep sleep, Ceres got up and carried her into a cave so she could sleep in peace. She took a blanket from Rin's pack and started a fire. Ceres then began to walk out, she was going to go away from the three companions, there was too much to worry about and she didn't want them worrying as well.

"Leaving already?" asked Sesshomaru, he was standing on a cliff looking out into the night.

"Yeah, I've got to find my friends. Anyways I don't want to put you in danger, what with Nuraku and all," Ceres said, she looked up at him for a moment, caught his eyes, and looked down at her hands beginning to twiddle her thumbs.

"You don't need to worry about our safety, Rin likes you and I personally think you should stay with us for your benefit, it's not fit for a young lady to be traveling alone," Sesshomaru said, he jumped down from the cliff to right where Ceres was standing. He took her chin in his hand and held it up so that she was looking straight into his large golden eyes.

"I'll be fine, I've done" she began, but she was cut off, the wind had begun to pick up and scents of wolf-demons, a human, and a two-tails got caught in her nose. "What is that?"

"Go wake Jakken and get Rin, I'll watch over you until your out, we have to get out of here, troubles coming," Sesshomaru said taking his hand from under Ceres's chin and walking to a point fifty feet away from the opening of the cave. He pulled out his sword and awaited the arrival of their after dinner guests.

Ceres got up and walked towards the cave; she woke Jakken and Rin, and had them get on their way to a safer area. After the two were on their way she walked out and stood next to Sesshomaru, and pulled out her sword.

"I hope you know how to wield that thing," Sesshomaru said laughing at Ceres.

"Of course I do," Ceres said looking into his eyes and giving him a scornful look.

They didn't know who or what was approaching them so quickly, what they wanted, or if they worked for Nuraku. They just knew that if neither of them recognized any of them they were ready to kill.

Gonna have to cut it off here, sorry. 