Last time: The group brought Rin back to Sesshomaru, but now they're going back home. Is the group growing suspicious of Kay's relationship with Sesshomaru?

Chapter 15: InuYasha's Necklace and Dragon Fire

"I'm exhausted!" Kagome said, getting her sleeping bag out and getting inside to warm herself up.

"It looks like someone is even more tired than you," Miroku said, looking at Kay, who was already asleep, leaning against Charlie.

"God, what's her problem?" Michelle asked no one in particular.

"Well, she probably doesn't want to show her emotions. She seems like a very emotional person, but she doesn't release her feelings. Actually, that's a lot like you, but you don't seem to feel anything," Miroku said, throwing a stick into the fire.

"Damn straight!" Michelle said, crossing her arms and sticking her nose into the air.

"She's stubborn. She won't take a rest when she knows she needs it," InuYasha said, looking at Kay.

"That sounds like a certain half-demon we all know," Sango said teasingly.

"Shut up!" InuYasha growled.

"You know it's true, InuYasha," Shippo said, provoking the dog demon.

"Shut up, runt!" InuYasha yelled as he ran after Shippo, chasing him around.

"Sit," Kagome muttered, yawning soon after saying that.

Shippo crawled in her sleeping bag with her and went to sleep, and soon she was asleep also.

- - -

"Finally, Kaede's Village," Kay said, smiling slightly. Michelle growled a little bit. She had this feeling like her best friend was gone... It was strange.

Charlie landed in front of Kaede's hut and they all piled inside, making the hut seem rather small... Kaede turned to look at them all, and she smiled. "Ah, ye have come back? Good. I was getting a bit worried."

"Yes, but I have a problem," Kay said, taking a couple steps forward.

"Oh? What is it child?" Kaede asked.

"Well," Kay started, walking over to Kaede and sitting down, "I recently came into some powers that allow me to know everything that's going on in this world, or whatever I need to know. But I also can't tell lies. I'm afraid that if Naraku finds out about this last curse that he'll use it to his advantage and ask me questions about our group."

"And then ye won't be able to stop ye own mouth from speaking the truth," Kaede said, getting up and going over to get something from somewhere.

"Yes."

"So that's what's been bugging you!" Michelle said, snapping her fingers. "Why didn't you tell us?"

"You didn't ask," Kay said, looking at Michelle. "You talked about it behind my back, but you didn't ask me directly, so I didn't have to answer."

Michelle blushed.

"Oh... Heh."

As Kaede searched for whatever she was trying to find, the rest of the group sat down in various places in the hut. She searched for a long while before finding what she needed.

She got some beads that were like the ones InuYasha wore, except they were all black, except for the pointed ones that were red. She also had a leather glove on her hand and she walked over to InuYasha.

"Open your mouth," Kaede said, kneeling down.

"Oh no! Not again! I'm not having another tooth pulled out from my mo--AAHHGAAAA!" InuYasha said, making the mistake of opening his mouth to speak as to let Kaede reach in and grab a fang. She also plucked a hair from the top of his head.

"OW! What was that for, old hag?" InuYasha yelled.

"If ye don't want ye secrets revealed, ye must do this," Kaede said.

"It's not like I a have a choice now," InuYasha muttered.

"The hair from a demon will never break, and InuYasha's fang is the strongest fang of the demons here. These will allow ye to control your powers completely," Kaede said, threading the hair through the beads and somehow THROUGH the tooth. She looked up at Kay's expression, which was one of shock. "Don't worry. It won't work like the Beads of Subjection that InuYasha has."

Kay's face returned to one that was pretty much expressionless, but inside she was as happy as a kid in a candy store... Or Shippo in a candy store. Whatever floats your boat.

Kaede put the brand new necklace over Kay's head and then muttered an incantation while holding her hands in some weird pose.

"Now the beads will never break, and they will allow ye to tell lies and control ye power," Kaede said, backing up a little bit.

Kay smiled widely, the first time she had smiled in a long time. She got up and hugged Kaede tightly. "Thank you! Thanks so much!" Kay said. She let go of the old woman and then smiled to the rest of the group. "This is so awesome! I will name this necklace 'InuYasha's Necklace'!" Kay held up her finger, making a heroic pose and smirking.

"Hey! Where's my graditude?" InuYasha growled, glaring at Kay.

Kay walked over to InuYasha and knelt down. "Thank you, InuYasha," Kay said in a sweet tone. Kay's smile became evil suddenly and she grabbed InuYasha's ears, tweaking them a little bit.

"AH HA HA HA HA!" Kay yelled as she ran out of the hut at top speed, InuYasha hot on her trail.

The rest of the group walked outside and watched the two run around.

"I'm gonna kill you!"

"Not if I kill you first, Yasha!"

"Don't call me that!"

"Yasha, Yasha, Yasha!"

"SHUT UP!"

Michelle smiled widely and laughed. "Kay is definately back!"

- - -

"HAAAAAA!" Kay yelled as she jumped down and brought an attack towards Sango.

Sango blocked the attack and jumped back.

"You're getting good. You can jump much higher now... Almost like a demon," Sango said, smiling a little bit.

While Kay was fighting Sango, Michelle was fighting InuYasha, training and getting herself stronger. Though, she didn't have a very good style of swordplay. It was really sloppy.

"Ha! You missed!" Michelle yelled as she dodged an attack from InuYasha. She ran at him and struck him with her sword, though only hitting his untransformed Tetsusaiga. He smirked and jumped back, dodging or blocking the attacks she sent at him.

Shippo, Miroku and Kagome sat on the sidelines, watching the four of them fight. It was actually quite interesting to see the differences in fighting styles. Kay relied on speed, smooth movements, and fancy footwork, while Michelle used brute strength, hack and slash movements, and jumping back to avoid blows.

It was odd how the two girls differed. But what was even stranger is their likenesses. They would never give up, always giving it their all. And they kept smiling as they fought.

Sango stood there, breathing deeply, as did Kay. "I think that you've gotten really good at this. All this training has done you good. You've gotten so much stronger since you first came here," Sango said.

"Thanks," Kay said, bowing slightly. Now that they were done, they just had to drag Michelle and InuYasha away from each other.

Kay smirked and ran over to the two of them and just as they were going to strike each other, she knocked Michelle's sword out of her hand and blocked InuYasha's 'rusty old sword', all in one fluid movement.

"Hey! What gives?" Michelle yelled as she went and got her sword.

"We should probably get some food. We've been fighting for over an hour," Kay said, smirking.

InuYasha put his Tetsusaiga in it's sheathe and smirked. "I hope we're having ramen," InuYasha said, hopefully.

"Don't get your hopes up, Yasha," Kay said, smiling.

"DON'T CALL ME THAT!"

InuYasha led them back to Kaede's village, walking quite slowly compaired to his usual pace. Kay smirked and then walked next to Kagome, turning to her and whispering something in her ear.

Kagome smiled and walked up behind InuYasha, grabbing his ears and tweaking them a little bit.

"I told you not to--!" InuYasha said before seeing Kagome behind him. He had turned around so fast, you could have sworn he made a tornado.

"Why did you do that Kagome?" InuYasha asked.

She put big puppy dog eyes on and said, "They're so cute!"

"They are not cute!"

"You know they are, Yasha!" Kay said, smiling brightly.

"You put her up to this, didn't you?" InuYasha asked suddenly.

"Little old me? Yeah. I told her to do it," Kay said, smiling widely.

"Keh."

- - -

Just as they all finished dinner and it was getting dark, they heard screaming outside. Everyone bolted out of the hut at top speeds to see a giant centipede demon, roaring at the top of it's lungs. It bent down to eat a human child, but it was knocked aside with a giant boomerang that flew through the air.

"C'mon!" Kay yelled as she ran towards the demon, sword drawn.

The demon was much stronger than they thought it was at first. Kay smirked and knew what to do. What a perfect chance to try out my dragon fire. Because of my new power, I know how to use it Kay thought, running at the demon.

She jumped up, almost as high as Sango can jump, and fell down to the ground, her sword facing down so it would be stuck in the dirt.

"DRAGON FIRE!" Kay yelled as she hit the ground and was engulfed in fire. Her body was hidden in the fire, her hair flying up from the sheer force of the blue and red flames surrounding her.

"Whoa!" Michelle said, watching the fire carefully.

Suddenly two dragons emerged from the tower of fire that reached into the sky. One dragon was blue and the other red, both made of fire. They both surrounded the demon, burning it and attacking it with fire. The centipede demon screached and then as it's head was sent towards Kay, the blue demon flew in front of her, making the demon's head catch fire.

"WIND SCAR!" InuYasha yelled as he sent his attack at the demon.

The demon turned to ash and vanished with the wind. They stood there, smiling and glad that they killed it.

"What the hell was that?" Michelle asked Kay five seconds after they finished the demon off.

"Dragon fire," Kay said, smiling brightly. She was glad that she could control her powers now, because not being able to smile SUCKED ASS.

"Oh. Well... that's... nice," Michelle said. She paused. "IT WAS FRIGGEN' AWESOME!"

Next time: Hiromasa shows up again, and they meet another incarnation of Naraku! But she looks really familiar! What is she trying to do? Why the hell is she going after Kagome?

Michelle: Why is she going after Kagome?

Kay: You'll just have to wait and see!

Michelle: You little bastard!

Kay: I love you too, bitch.

Michelle: Damn straight!

Hiromasa: Maybe I will finally get Lady Kay to marry me!

Kay: In your dreams!

Michelle: Find out who this new incarnation is in Hiromasa's Return!