Last time: Michelle and Kay find out that they can use their 'light saber' handles as swords, and were able to help fight a bear demon.

Chapter 10: Fights, Frights and Family

"Kagome! What did you bring for me?" yelled Shippo as he jumped on her shoulder and hugged her tightly. Kagome laughed and patted Shippo on the head.

"I brought you some candy," Kagome said, taking her bag off and opening it up to dig through and find what she was looking for. Kagome took out some fruit snacks for Shippo and got a couple cans of pop and candy bars for Sango and Miroku. She then took out and handed a bag of potato chips to InuYasha.

"You know, I don't think that potato chips are that good. They're just addicting," Kay said as she took a potato chip from InuYasha's hand before he had a chance to eat it.

"Hey!" InuYasha said, growling at Kay.

"Just shut up," Kay said, swallowing the chip.

"Well, Kagome, now that you're back, we should probably head off soon. Tomorrow morning would be good," Miroku said, opening up a candy bar after a little bit of struggle.

"Yes, that sounds good," Kagome said, setting her backpack down. She sat down on the floor and Kay sat next to her. Kirara jumped up next to Kay and then onto her shoulder, nuzzling her affectionately.

I haven't talked to you much. How are you? Kirara said, meowing a little bit.

Just fine. You? Kay asked.

Eh. Good. I was wondering what you were thinking about...

Well, I was thinking I should probably train a bit, since I can use a sword now...

You should! InuYasha or Sango would probably help you. I think that it would be best if you asked Sango, since she is better at using her sword and you can easily build your strength to be near the same as her Kirara said. She meowed and nuzzled against Kay's cheek.

"Does anyone want some dinner?" Kagome asked suddenly.

"Sure!" said everyone in unison. Kirara meowed and jumped down to Kay's lap, turning around a couple times before laying down and yawning. She set her head on her paws and closed her eyes, taking a little rest while they waited for dinner to be served.

- - -

Kay handed Kirara a ramen noodle using her chopsticks and then resumed eating for herself, happy on how far she had come on being able to use chopsticks. It was quite an improvement.

Everyone ate their dinner silently, though Michelle and Kay made more noise than the others.

"Ah! Ehahaeha!" Kay said, dropping her noodles back into the styrofoam cup.

Everyone stopped eating to look at Kay carefully. "What the hell was that!" Michelle said, wiping her face with the back of her hand.

"Um..."

"You make weird noises," Shippo said, resuming his meal.

"Weird noises my ass," Michelle muttered, swallowing her ramen.

Kay threw her now empty cup at Michelle's head, getting some of Michelle's hair full of 'ramen juice'.

"Aw, shit," Kay said, getting up and running out of the room.

"You get back here, you bastard!" Michelle yelled, running after Kay.

Kay ran as fast as she could, not paying attention to where she was going. She was pretty sure that she lost Michelle after the first couple minutes, but she had to make sure that she wasn't being followed.

Kay slowed down to a walk and then found herself in front of the Sacred Tree. Why is it always this tree? Why does every person find themselves here? And was that a raindrop I felt? Kay thought, looking up into the sky. As a matter of fact, it started to rain. Kay smirked and walked over to the tree, turning around and leaning against it.

Breathing hard, she smirked and closed her eyes and then slowly fell to the ground, sitting and relaxing.

Then, she felt as if she wasn't alone. Is it a demon? Can I sense their presence now? Kay asked herself, her smile disappearing and her eyes opening a little bit. She looked around and tried to see if she could find the person looking at her, but she couldn't see anything but rain.

Kay blinked once and then knew that someone was there... She looked up. In the branches of the Sacred Tree sat a demon, staring at her with wide eyes.

The girl got up and ran for her life, panting as she sped through the forest. She stopped at a tree and grasped it tightly, her nails digging into the bark. Slowly, but steadily, the bark started to turn into ash under her fingers, leaving small holes in the tree.

Kay turned around and saw the demon walking towards her, his eyes glowing in the night. Though she couldn't see his face, she was scared out of her mind.

"You are so paranoid," the demon said in a gruff voice.

"INUYASHA!" Kay yelled pushing her nails farther into the tree, and making the tree smoke even more. "You almost gave me a heart attack! God!"

InuYasha walked closer to Kay and she growled. "You're killing the tree," InuYasha said, rather calmly. "Why did you leave?"

"I knew Michelle was going to chase me, so I decided to get out of there before she caught me," Kay said, glancing at the tree. She let out a gasp at the bark and then took her nails away from it, hoping that it would grow back just as healthy as before, but she had a feeling that the poison in her nails wouldn't allow the tree to grow back all that well. Naraku couldn't regrow his arm when she clawed him.

"She did chase you. You know her well," InuYasha said, walking back towards the village.

"Well, yeah. She is my best friend. Some friend I'd be if I didn't know anything about her," Kay said, poking herself with her own nail, seeing if she could hurt herself. But it didn't work. Duh, thought Kay as she grabbed for the sword handle that was tucked in her kimono.

"What are you doing?" InuYasha asked, cocking an eyebrow at her.

"I need to train. Would you like to spar with me? So I can practice?" Kay asked, transforming her sword and making the blue blade extend, fire sprouting on the sword and making it look intimidating.

"You could get hurt!" InuYasha said, surprised that a human who knew his power would actually challenge him to a fight. How strange.

"We'll be careful... Please?" Kay said, making her eyes big and shiny, like a puppy's.

InuYasha sighed. "Fine. But be very careful. I don't want to chop a limb off of you."

"If you chop a limb off, then I'll use my poison nails to get rid of yours. If it was your arm, you'd only be able to use half of the Tetsusaiga's strength, so you better be careful where you aim that thing," Kay said, smirking.

InuYasha pulled out his sword and smirked also, and then said, "Well, so you don't get hurt, how about I leave my Tetsusaiga the way it is."

"Leave it as a rusty old sword?" Kay teased. "Fine by me. Actually, I think that would be best, so I have at least a tiny bit fairer chance."

InuYasha started to run at Kay, his sword small and rusty. Kay put up her sword to block his, having to use two hands compared to his one hand. Just after one attack, she was already a little bit tired, but she ran at him and took a swipe at his side, having InuYasha jump over it and land behind Kay.

Kay smirked and turned around quickly, putting her sword out so it would hit him, the blue fire making the area light up around it.

The sound of metal against metal could be heard for at least ten minutes.

Kay took a swipe at InuYasha, but had her sword thrown aside with his counterattack. It flew through the air and landed in the ground, slowly transforming back to it's usual state of being just a sword handle.

InuYasha put up his sword to Kay's face and then put his sword away.

"You know, you did pretty well for your first time," InuYasha said, watching Kay go over to the sword handle.

She picked it up and then started to walk to the village and smirked. "I know you went easy on me, InuYasha," Kay said, her eyes shining. She was actually happy that she got to fight InuYasha, even if he wasn't using his full strength. If he did use his full strength, she would be done in a minute or less. Though he couldn't use a sword to it's full potential, he was very strong because of his demon blood.

"Thanks for the fight, Yasha," Kay said before running through the woods and disappearing.

"DON'T CALL ME YASHA!"

- - -

Kay walked into Kaede's hut, water dripping from her face and hair. Everyone turned up their faces to look at her, and then InuYasha walking into the room after her.

"Where were you?" Kagome asked.

"Sparring," Kay said, smiling brightly.

"You were... sparring?" Miroku asked, an eyebrow raised.

"Oh my God! You pervert! Are you thinking what I think you're thinking?" Kay said, her voice rising with every word.

"What am I thinking?" Miroku said, smirking.

"You are thinking what I think you're thinking! You sick pervert!" Kay said, walking over to him and slapping him hard across the cheek.

"Ow..."

"That's what you get for thinking like a pervert," Michelle said, eating a piece of candy left over from Kagome's stash.

"I agree with Michelle," Sango said, glaring at the monk.

Kay sat down and said, "I promise. All we did was spar."

"And I scared her half to death," InuYasha said with a smirk.

"Well, I thought you were a different demon! I didn't know you were harmless!" Kay said, folding her arms and turning up her nose, making water splash a little bit from her hair.

"I'm not harmless!" InuYasha growled.

"To humans you are," Kay said, smirking and looking sideways at InuYasha.

"Say that to my face!" InuYasha yelled, cracking his fingers.

Kay turned her head to face him and said, "I just did."

"AGH! I'm going to get you!" InuYasha said.

"Sit!" WHAM! Kagome sighed and said, "I told you before, don't go picking useless fights. It'll only get you in trouble."

InuYasha pulled himself off the floor when the submission spell wore off. "What did you do that for!" InuYasha yelled.

"You were picking fights again," Kagome answered.

InuYasha growled and shook his head, sending water splashing all over the place. Kay didn't mind it, but everyone else started to yell at InuYasha.

"InuYasha! What did you do that for!" Shippo asked.

"AGH! Sit!" Kagome yelled before she could stop herself. THUNK!

Kay turned towards InuYasha and sighed. "You could have done that over there," Kay said, shaking her head. She walked over to Michelle and sat next down next to her friend.

Soon, a strange sensation of hands over their bottoms made them twitch and turn around to see Miroku crouching there, smiling widely. What happened to groping Sango? Kay asked herself as she and Michelle slapped Miroku at the same time.

"R! A! P! E! Get your hands offa me!" Kay and Michelle said together, saying their line in a singsongy voice.

Miroku backed off and raised his eyebrows, surprised by their sudden outburst.

"You better back off!" Michelle said, growling.

Miroku went over to his usual spot near Sango.

The rain continued through the night, keeping Charlie up. He was curled up near Kay all night, shivering at each new clap of thunder. He shook when he breathed in, and when the thunder finally quit, it was already late into the night.

- - -

When the morning came, it was still dark and raining. Kay and Michelle didn't have an umbrella, but Kay didn't mind. Kay carried her backpack, a few changes of clothes in it, and a few books, but nothing to slow her down. Charlie stood next to Kay, cowering next to her legs.

Oddly enough, Kay was wearing clothes from her era, though she had a new shirt she bought in Tokyo. Michelle was also wearing such a shirt.

A crack of lightning went through the sky, and some thunder soon followed. Charlie yelped and cowered even closer to Kay, shaking madly.

"Is Charlie afraid of thunder?" Kagome asked, looking at the dog and taking pity on him.

"Yup. Poor, little, paranoid dog..." Kay said, looking down at her dog next to her legs. Kay looked over to InuYasha and saw that his eyes were scanning the area. Another crack of thunder exploded in their ears, and InuYasha's ears flattened and he blinked.

"Are you afraid of thunder too, InuYasha?" Kay said, smirking.

"No!" InuYasha said, closing his eyes and folding his arms in his sleeves. "I just don't like the noise. It hurts my ears."

"And what cute little ears they are, Yasha," Kay said, smirking.

"They aren't cute! And don't call me Yasha!" InuYasha yelled.

"They are sorta cute..." Kagome said, looking at InuYasha's ears. She smiled and giggled a little bit, staring at InuYasha's ears. He glared at Kagome and his ears went down under his hair, water falling down his face.

Kagome came up next to him and put her umbrella up so it went over him and her, shielding them from the rain.

Kay smiled and watched the two as Kagome blushed and InuYasha looked up at the umbrella. He stared at it for a while and then went back to looking straight ahead, his arms in his sleeves and his ears twitching every so often when water would get in his ears.

- - -

"AHH!" Dawn said as she watched her daughter and her best friend being attacked by a demon. It was truly revolting, and Dawn shook the couch. Charlie transformed into a giant dog and then killed the demon, and Dawn's eyes widened. Her dog was huge. Very huge. Like, huge, huge.

The girls figured that Charlie could fly, and Dawn thought that was a stupid idea. "You morons! Why would he be able to fly? He can't even sit when we tell him to!"

Charlie let the girls get onto his back and he then started flying.

Dawn was amazed. How did he do that?

Suddenly the scene changed to show the main characters, some Kagagome or something girl and the Inuwooshi character. Kagagome was in her school, taking a test and then looked out the window to see Inuwooshi watching her, his hat firmly on his head.

Mutters of 'Who's that' and 'What a weirdo' fluttered through the class and Kagagome muttered 'sit' under her breath, making the Inuwooshi character fall down to the ground. A few people got out of their chairs and looked through the window, trying to find the white-haired demon.

If Dawn had learned anything about this TV series, it was that Kagagome liked to tell Inuwooshi to sit, and when she did that, he was pulled to the ground, face first. Dawn secretly found this amusing, but didn't know why he did that.

Then the Kagagome girl left school and chewed Inuwooshi out for following her there. They walked to the store and then came out with many large boxes. Inuwooshi looked inside the boxes, trying to grab some odd cups that Dawn had no idea what they were. But she soon found out as the Kagagome girl told Inuwooshi to stop trying to eat the ramen.

What a strange show.

- - -

Kay played with her sword and sliced it through the air and then looked over to Sango, who was petting Kirara on her lap and enjoying the heat from the fire. InuYasha sulked underneath a tree, black hair playing in the wind.

It was the night of the new moon, and InuYasha was human. He was alert and wasn't going to sleep any time soon. He was always like that, but when he was human, it was pronounced even more. Though, he was thinking a lot and was very quiet.

"Sango," Kay said as she scooted over near the demon-slayer. "Do you suppose you could help me with my swordsmanship? I want to get a lot better at it."

Sango pet Kirara once more and the cat demon looked up at her with cute, red eyes. "Sure. I guess I could do that. After all, we want you to be a good fighter," Sango said as Kirara leapt off her lap so Sango could get up.

The two girls left for a place in the forest where they could spar, and Michelle was left alone with the monk, the half-demon, and a priestess. Fun. The monk was what she was worried about. Charlie and Kirara had followed Kay and Sango into the forest, and they probably weren't going to come back very soon.

Next time: While Kay and Sango spar, Kay sees one of Kikyo's soul collectors. You know what that means. Bad news for Kagome.

Michelle: Why bring Kikyo into this?

Kay: Because I hate her.

Michelle: Are you making her pull InuYasha to hell?

Kay: You'll have to wait, but she's not all like, "DIE YOU SON OF A BITCH, INUYASHA!"

Michelle: Oh.

Kay: The next chapter, I'm Sorry! Make sure to keep checking here to see it!