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Meeting

Part 2

In the sun's light stood a young woman who looked to be seventeen to eighteen years of age. She had long raven black wavy hair with blue highlights tied up in a high pony tail with her bangs. She wore a traditional priestess outfit except her pants were black, and her top was a dark navy blue and had short sleeves. Her eyes were a claming chocolate brown colour and if someone was to look into them they would feel safe.

Everyone just stared at the young women with wide eyes and open mouths. Shippo still had his eyes shut and was trying to get the sand out of them. He was currently on the ground. The woman was puzzled by the looks on their faces; her glance came over to Kikyou. Their eyes locked for about a minute, Kikyou with wide eyes, and the women with still a puzzled expression.

'That woman…it can't be'. Miroku thought to himself and look over between the young miko they traveled with and the new arrival. They looked like twins almost, if the other woman's hair was blacker. The woman probably noticed this to but didn't show it. Instead her gaze drifted down to the little fox kituse, who was still trying to get sand out of his eyes.

"I hate to be a bother but I believe that you have something of mine." She stated pointing to Shippo, whose ears seemed to have propped up at the sound of her voice. They had first thought she meant the jewel shards but when she pointed to Shippo they became a little suspicious, but only for a second. Kikyou on the other hand just kept quiet the whole time.

"You mean Shippo?" Sango said surprised by the softness and kindness that was in the woman's voice. She had such a strong aura yet it seemed that wasn't even aware of how powerful she was. The wind gently blew by her and blew her to one side with it.

"How do we know that Shippo was with this woman before he came to us and not just someone who was sent to kill him?" Kikyou spoke up in utter disgust of the young women.

"Yup. Shippo." She replied just as the fox kit finally got the sand out of his eyes. He quickly turned his gaze over to her with a huge smile spread on his cute face. He leapt up and ran right into her arms. He snuggled into her chest tears coming down his face. The miko also had a huge smile on her face and was hugging Shippo tightly.

Miroku and Sango were very much convinced at this point, but Kikyou still had a look of disgust on her young face that seemed to make it look fifty years older then it should be. After about a minute the young woman looked up to the group of traveling friends with a smile of gratitude.

"Thank you very much for taking care of my kit." She said with a genuine smile, one that had not came upon her lips from the longest of times. Miroku caught this and felt that the smile was very familiar to him. Sango just happily returned the smile and started to talk with the new comer on various topics. Shippo seemed more then happy to join their conversation so he wasn't left out. Miroku soon enough was out of his little trance and ran right up to Kagome.

"Excuse me Miss, but would you do me the honor of…" SLAP! The young monk could not even finish as he was slapped across the cheek by a very pissed off demon slayer. Shippo's Okaa-san stood there with a confused expression on her face but for Shippo, he was utterly lost as to why Sango had hit Miroku.

"You PERVERT! You just met her and are asking her to bare your child! You're depraved!" She yelled at him with a very angered expression. Kikyou looked over to the two, overhearing Sango's ranting on him. She just ignored them not knowing that, that little line would soon enough become a plan.

"Listen I am really sorry, but I have to get going. But thank you once again for taking care of Shippo, I am in your debt." She gave a small bow to them. Miroku went closer to the young miko as she came up from the small bow. Once she was back up he pulled her into a tight hug. She was shocked by this, as was Sango who had a close watch on his hands. He let go after a few seconds with a large smile. Poor Shippo though had to jump out of his Okaa-san's arms to avoid being crushed.

"Good luck on your travels Miss Kagome" The young monk whispered into her ear, and then let her go. She was surprised that he knew her name, when she hadn't really introduced herself. So she just nodded her head in acknowledgment and turned to leave. Kikyou noticed this and had a secret smile spread on her lips. She loved the thought of having the witch leave. Although, she was also bothered by another thought. How is it that the wench's aura reeks of life, with not one signal once of death?

Kagome gave Sango a quick hug good-bye and made her exit before Kikyou could make any smart remarks about her. Miroku had a true smile on his face as he watched Kagome leave in a flash. He knew they would be seeing her soon enough and looked back over to the two females that he traveled with everyday. There was a weird silence around them for a few seconds, but soon was broken by a certain priestess.

"I still do not trust that woman; she was wearing cloths of a dark priestess for Kami sake!" She stated, fury burning deep in her brown eyes. She crossed her arms over her chest, still pissed off that Sango, and Miroku had gotten along with the woman so fast in a short amount of time and even let her take Shippo. Her plan was definitely starting to go down the drain and she knew it. She had to get Kagome out of the picture for good.

They started walking again, hearing from a passing villager that his village was up ahead and was in need of being demon exterminated. The Inu gang immediately picked up speed toward the village, especially when Kikyou had sensed a jewel shard from the evil aura. They were worried though at the fact that Inu Yasha has still not returned. But they knew that they had to get rid of the demon and retrieve the jewel shard that lay within it.

When they got to the village they saw that there was a good amount of dead villagers. Although the next thing they noticed was the strangest part. All of the dead bodies had no heads on them. They were cut clean off so there was practically no blood coming from the corpses. The sight itself made them, sick to their stomachs. Kikyou although soon enough was able to recover from the site and thought she saw a shining strand of string near one of the dead villagers.

"This is horrible." Sango whispered to herself as she looked around the battle area. She had changed into her battle outfit a few minutes ago and had just joined the others in the village.

"This is not normal. I cannot sense the aura of the demon anywhere. It is as if it was never here in the first place." Miroku pointed this out to the others. Kikyou also noticed that she could not sense the jewel shards at all.

"I can't sense any jewel shards either." Then again, her ability to find jewel shards was weaker then before. Which was really starting to get on her nerves to this point.

Just has the young miko had said that, a huge black stringy object came crashing down upon her. She was lucky enough to get out of the way so it did not hit her. Although right after another one came down at a faster speed this time so there was no way she could move nor have enough time to shoot an arrow. There was a blur of red and white though that sliced the black thing in half.

"Inu Yasha!" Miroku and Sango cried gratefully to their other companion who had just saved Kikyou from an early grave. Inu Yasha looked to his friends with an unreadable expression after he took a closer look at what was attacking them. Before he himself knew what was happening, the same black substance shot through his red haori to his shoulder. Thus causing a nasty wound to appear quickly as he yelled out in pain and surprise from the attack.

The others called out to him in worry. This seemed all too familiar to Inu Yasha at this point. Sango quickly threw her large boomerang to free the half-demon. At that same moment, Inu Yasha picked up a familiar scent from the black substance. Kikyou looked around more carefully now that the black strings were actually hair that seemed to be coming from one point.

"My, my, now if isn't the little puppy. How nice it is too see you again. Along with your wench." An annoying feminine voice called out. The voice sounded like it was coming from every where and the group was trying to pin-point where it was. Inu Yasha looked up to see a figure standing on a bunch of black hair. A growl erupted from his throat as he caught the scent of who was controlling all the…hair.

"Yura. I thought I took care of you fifty-two years ago ya ugly hag." Inu Yasha hissed out with nothing but venom in his voice.

'Yura?' Kikyou thought as she looked up to the hair demon. She did remember hearing about a demon that could control the hair of the dead, with a red comb. 'Wait, what is that in her neck'? Her eyes widen a bit in realization. 'The aura reeks of a jewel shard.'

"Whoa, looks like little puppy is all mad. Oh well, I guess I will have to teach you and your little friends a lesson." She smirked evilly and quickly raised her arm that had a red comb. All of a sudden a whole load of hair came rushing toward Sango right where her heart is. She luckily blocked it in time, while Miroku did the same. Kikyou was getting her arrows ready and almost got hit if Inu Yasha didn't help her out.

Yura though was counting on him to do so. Just then the hair that was going to get Kikyou sharply turned and wrapped around Inu Yasha. He was about to break free when he felt a sharp bolt of electricity run through his whole body. Everyone was shocked by this. Inu Yasha the most, the bolt still hurt but was not enough to cause him to lose conscious.

The half demon could not get free from Yura's trap. Worse of all, she took the tesiga from him so he could not use it to fight her. The other tried to help out the hanyou the best they could without getting electrified themselves. Sango was able to get high enough with Kiara attack Yura a couple of times while Miroku distracted her.

Miroku wanted to use his wind tunnel on her, but she stayed near enough to Inu Yasha. So if Miroku did use it, he would suck him as well.

Okay be this time Inu yasha had tried everything he could think of to get free from Yura's grasp. One major problem was that the last jolt had some how drained half his strength and by each second he was growing weaker. He got one heck of a blot of energy and was knocked out cold. The young miko was to busy trying to purify the threads of hair from wrapping her up. She finally got her chance though and shot an arrow right toward the hair demon's neck. Unluckily for her though, because Yura moved out of the fast enough for her only to blast her arm of.

Everyone thought that was great until some hair came to her and grew her arm back. This only frustrated them some more and made Yura a little angrier. Seeing as she wanted her precious sliver hair and the Inu gang was getting in the way.

"Fine then, if you wish to be difficult then I shall make it that way for you. Arise my precious hair men." She called out, and all of a sudden the thick strands of black hair came from her hair nest and started to take form of humans with skulls for heads. The newly made hair creatures started to approach the Inu Gang. There were at least twenty of them in lines of four by five. Each was ready to attack with large whips charged with electricity.

Okay guys there is the new chapter! I know it is short and I am sorry it took me so long to update. I just never have written a story this long before and had major writer's block. But the good news is, is that I was able to update and write this. '

Well I hope you guys like it and please tell me what ya think of it. Also PLEASE I need ideas as to what can happen in later chapters, so if you have any that would be great, and of course I will give credit to the people with the ideas. One last thing, my next chapter is going to be with Shessomaru. If you don't want it to be with him then just tell me .

Any who, I got to go and figure out what will happen next. PLEASE REVIEW! PLEASE! Bye, bye.

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