Disclaimer: MAN! Last night I didn't get much sleep. He he I have a habit of watching really I mean really creepy movies and it keeps me up, and my heart rate…a couple days ago I saw this movie 'Red Dragon' (yell in your review if you heard of it or seen it) where this one man eats people and he bits the face of a police officer and EW! So well it keeps me up some of the night. Yes, yes I am very afraid of the movies. I don't think their bad at the moment but I don't know I am very pokey and if a scary movie comes on I just want to see what its like, well I got what I wanted. It sucked. And it was creepy. Never watch it.

Ekiru

"Thanks for bringing me back Inuyasha." Kagome said once she, Sango and Inuyasha climbed out of the well.

"Yeah whatever." Inuyasha said. "Let's go." Kagome climbed on his back, and Sango on Kirara's. They headed back home, just when the sun was coming up. It had been a very long night and finally the day time arrived and swept away the darkness.

"What happened to Miroku?" Kagome asked.

"The lecherous monk is still sleeping like a baby. We're waking him up and we're gone." Inuyasha implied. Kagome just rolled her eyes. There was no arguing with the hanyou.

They pulled to a stop at the sight of the hut Miroku slumbered in. They walked inside, and of course to no one's surprise he was sleeping. One leg lay over the edge of the bed and his arm stretched across Sango's side where he had it wrapped around her waist.

Sango and Kagome laughed while Inuyasha walked over to his cot. He grabbed him by the collar, lifting him up, waiting for Miroku to open his eyes some. Miroku slide his eyes open half way.

"I don't think he's awake fully." Sango said. Inuyasha smirked and dropped the monk on the floor.

"Oof!" Miroku yelled.

"Now he is." Inuyasha said, smirking wide.

"Sit boy!" 'THUMP'

"Wench!" Inuyasha yelled. Miroku got up, brushing off his clothes.

"Ah my dear Sango you look lovely today." Miroku said. Inuyasha grabbed his collar again.

"We're going." He growled.

"We haven't even eaten Inuyasha!" Kagome argued.

"We'll grab something on the way." He replied. Kagome just rolled her eyes again. "Wait…where's Shippou?"

"I don't know." Sango said.

"Just leave the runt." Inuyasha said.

"Sit!" 'THUMP'

"Idiot." A voice came from the door.

"Shippo! There you are! We were worried about you." Kagome said.

"I was playing with this new girl Kiara. She's nice." Shippou smiled. He walked over to Kagome, climbing up her back and hopped on her shoulder that wasn't hurt. Kagome smiled at him.

"Well, Inuyasha is telling us we must be going." Kagome said. Everyone walked outside, and left the village after thanking the villagers for the hut.

A couple hours later and the gang were between a forest and another forest of trees. They were on a small dirt road and surrounded by greenery.

Inuyasha looked over at Kagome who was playing Tickle Attack with Shippou.

She fears me? I would never hurt her. Why didn't she tell me? W-why…I could've helped. It would have never gotten this bad. When I catch the demon who did this to Kagome……. Inuyasha smiled to himself, watching Kagome happily play with Shippo. So Beautiful.

"What?" Kagome asked. Why is he staring at me? Inuyasha wiped away his thoughts.

"Nothing wench." Inuyasha turned back to watching the road, which wasn't that interesting. He blushed a little.

Kagome smiled to herself. Inuyasha….

"Inuyasha it's getting dark. We are going to stop now." Kagome forced. Inuyasha growled, but stopped and turned into the forest. They all set camp and made a large fire.

Kagome quickly got tired. She laid down her pallet, and crawled inside. She closed her eyes, feeling Inuyasha's eyes on her. When he was near her, she felt safe, comfortable and warm. She didn't waste time. She told herself to stay brave, and fell asleep. Dream, or no dream.

"Heh." Inuyasha sighed, and leaned back against the tree but stayed on watch.

An hour later, the tree's blew furiously. Miroku and Inuyasha stood up, followed by Sango with her weapon. Kagome opened one eye, looked up and saw them standing up. She huffed how she could never get sleep.

"Kagome, cover your nose." Inuyasha ordered. Without a word she followed.

"Where's all this poison powder coming from!" Sango said. Inuyasha pulled out the Tetsusaiga.

"We'll find out." Inuyasha said. A figure came from the shadow's of the forest.

"Miko. I see the dreams aren't working on you. I guess I'll have to kill you myself." The figure came out of the shadows. He had long black hair, and wore an armor suit that had two straps holding up the armor that protected his chest and stomach, and long white pants with black boots that came up half way to the knee. Two armor plates protected his hips.

"Who the heck are you!" Inuyasha yelled, getting in front of Kagome.

"I am Ekiru. You must be Inuyasha. You will stay out of my way half demon!"

"Shut up! Your not coming close to Kagome!" Inuyasha charged for him. Ekiru smirked, and flicked his wrist sending a yellow shock wave just like the one days before.

"What!" Inuyasha stopped, but he was too slow. The shock hit him in the stomach sending him back over ten feet. He landed on his back, but quickly recovered.

"You're the one that cursed Kagome! Bastard!" Inuyasha yelled, he charged for Ekiru again.

"Inuyasha!" Kagome yelled.

"Die!" Inuyasha yelled jumping up. "WIND SCAR!" The attack only caught Ekiru on the shoulder. Ekiru lifted his hand, about to send a shock wave towards Inuyasha. An eagle flew above, cawing loudly. Ekiru looked up.

"This will have to wait. It looks like I have other business to attend to. Until next time miko." Ekiru added. In a second he disappeared with nothing left of him behind.

Inuyasha growled, walking back to Kagome and the gang.

"You alright?" Inuyasha asked.

"Yeah. Who is this Ekiru?" Kagome asked.

"I don't know."

"Naraku is gone, so all sorts of demons are coming out. Ekiru included. Now whats this curse he was talking about?" Miroku asked. Everyone let out a deep sigh. They forgot that Miroku didn't know anything, not that that was any different. Miroku never really knew anything.

"We'll tell you later." Kagome sighed again.

"No, first we have to follow Ekiru." Inuyasha said.

"How! I sensed he had jewel shards but now they completely disappeared. I don't sense them anywhere close." Kagome said.

Inuyasha growled again. "I guess we'll have to wait." Kagome crawled back in her sleeping bag, but kept her eyes open. Inuyasha leaned against the tree again, looking all around making sure Ekiru wasn't hiding in the greenery waiting for them to fall asleep. He looked down at Kagome.

"Go to sleep. Your safe." He said. Kagome looked up at him, and nodded. Sango and Miroku laid down too. They all were worried.

HA HA! You now know who cursed her. He he. Yeah. Anyways thank you ALL for the reviews! All of them were so sweet.

Awards

Well for now on in every chapter im giving the funniest review award to – kutekelcie Your last review just I mean im serious I fell out of my chair laughing at your little impression of the M.I. (mental institution) guys giving you your own crazy jacket and that just made me fall out of my chair and it was just funny. So heres another award for you.

For saying I should get an award – kyoung

For best story – -hands self an award- YES! You deserve a cookie too –mother slaps hand- NO COOKIES FOR YOU YOUNG LADY! –grabs my ear- OW MOM!

For hating cliffhangers as much as me (yes I like writing them too but hate reading them then having to wait for another chapter to see what happens!) – Myst172