A/N Thank some of you for the reviews...as for the others who didn't, I understand about the technical errors. My computer was effected by it too so yeah. I also want to apologize for not doing call outs. But as I sit here writing this, It is 2 in the morning, yet I can not seem to stop writing. SO I will put it to use. Review for the next chapter. Prieview name:Savior From The Near Execution

She sat there hours after the undead miko had left. Finally standing up, she walked on. Twigs and leaves crunched in her wake.

'Kikyou was right. I no longer belong in Inuyasha's heart, yet I want to try to hang on to the idea that he might still be mine,' she stopped in her tracks. The bushes behind her started to rustle with the force of a moving object. Ryu stepped out.

"Didn't I send you back to the little group you belong to?" she asked turning around to face him.

"Yes, you did. But I wanted to warn you, they've decided to avenge the death of our leader. Priestess you need to leave. Go anywhere; you just need to get far away from here."

"What do you care if I live or die?"

"I care…because I just do."

"Tell me, what is your name?"

"Ryu, my name is Ryu."

"Ryu…use the wisdom you have in your head…and stay out the fight that is to come."

"Priestess, this fight will not be safe for you either."

"Oh, this won't be safe? I've been through worse," she said and laughed.

"Worse? Probably not, a girl like you can't defend yourself, they will kill you."

"I've been through things that have hardened me, do not judge whether I can kill them or not. I will not die by the hands of some low life gang. Besides…I need to stay alive to save a few friends of mine."

"These friends…they must be very important, especially if you are willing to sacrifice your life to save them."

"I have to rescue a child in my care…" she said staring vacantly at the ground, her thoughts now consuming her.

'And Inuyasha. I need to save him also, whether he will accept my help is his decision. I said that I could not restore his memories, and that only he could. I lied, I know that I must give him his memories back soon. Even though I do not know how I came to possess something so prescious,' She was disrupted from her thoughts as Ryu spoke.

"Priestess, the people in my gang will soon find out of my disappearance. I need to go back to the camp, meet me tonight at the lake. It is west of here, keep walking down this path and you will find it," he said pointing to a hardly used path. She began to walk down the trail, hearing his last parting words spoken

"I will meet you tonight, I will not be sure when. Wait for me, please." She nodded, even though she knew he would not see. Ryu watched as she started to disappear, and turned around smiling. He turned and ran to the campsite, to be stopped by hand grabbing his shirt.

"Fraternizing with the enemy? Ryu I thought you were better than that," said a man stepping out from the bushes.

"Oh it is just you Jiro. What are you doing here?" Ryu asked.

"I'm following you. I saw you leave in such a rush, you didn't look to well so I decided to check up on you."

"How kind, thank you."

"That is the woman who killed our leader so easily? She hardly seems like a threat to me," Jiro asked pointing towards the path the priestess had left by. Ryu smirked at his statement, for he had not seen the cold look in her eyes when she had killed Habaken. It was as if she wasn't alive on the inside or something, that she was a lifeless woman who walked and was able to talk. He'd never looked her in the eyes, afraid that he would find something horrible. Such as the sorrow she harbored from the rest of the world. Ryu had heard sadness in her voice, although it was concealed well.

"Looks can be deceiving," said Ryu.

"Yeah I guess. So what were you two talking about?"

"Oh…I'm going to meet her by the lake tonight. Come on let's start walking back to camp," said Ryu walking in front of Jiro. Jiro smiled coldly at Ryu, and pulled something from a hidden sheath under his shirt. He ran the small deadly knife through Ryu's gut. Ryu put his hand to his stomach to find blood gathering in the middle of his shirt. He looked behind him to see Jiro standing there with a bloodied knife.

"There is only one problem with your plan; you won't be the one meeting her."

"Why?" Ryu asked.

"You were the only link our gang had to the priestess so we needed to use you to get to her. Now that we know where she will be…we have no need for you."

"I thought you were my friend…"

"It is so sad how you can be tricked so easily Ryu. You need to raise your guard, people will do anything to rise in the social chain," Jiro said walking away, leaving Ryu to die alone on the cold hard floor of the woods.

"Priestess…I am sorry I have failed in trying to protect you from the Namida-shizuku …forgive me," Ryu said before his spirit departed from his body, finally free from his past in the gang.

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Jiro walked away smirking.

'Stupid Ryu, you were just an appendage in the gang…obviously you were expendable. You were weak; you did not deserve to live.' He thought as he came up in the bandit's camp. He walked into his tent, pushing the flap open. The area inside was perfectly clean, for a bandits tent. He looked in the middle of the room to find that his desk had a note, sealed with blood. He walked over to the note and unsealed it, reading the contents on the inside.

-Jiro

I wish you good luck tonight in trying to kill the priestess. If you do in fact succeed, where many others have fail, contact me.

-Naraku

Jiro ran from his tent, and grabbed a random bandit outside. He turned the man to face him in the eyes.

"Do you know if anyone had been in my tent today?" he asked anger welling up in his voice.

"No, sir no one has been in there besides you," the man said cowering. Jiro let go of the man, watching as he scurried away in fright from his rage.

'Who the hell is this man Naraku? How did he get into my tent? It isn't possible that anyone could make it into the campsite, without drawing attention to them. And how does he know of my plans to kill that priestess…I haven't told anyone yet. I want to kill her on my own, and get all the credit. I wonder what Naraku had meant by if I succeed where so many others have failed. Whatever he meant…I still have continue on with my plan to kill the girl.' Jiro thought walking back into his tent to wait until it was time to execute his plan…and the miko.