DISCLAIMER: Holy crap! I literally said that at work when I saw that I had already OVER 400 hits to this fic, the most EVER! 'WWEZ' doesn't even have 200! Whoa, thank you soo much for reading and to those of you reviewing, it makes me so happy. Oh I'm so sorry for such a late review, my computer's on the frits from being bombarded with spam mail and it pissed me off sooo much... but less excuses and more story. Remember reviews mean updates... And now, I give you, Running From Wolves And Crazies.

"There it is." Miroku pointed to the building down the main road in the town.

"Oh great look." InuYasha groaned, seeing Jaken and Rin riding Ah Un. The boys hurried out of sight into the building.

"Hello in there?" Miroku knocked on the door of the police holding hut the samurai chief spoke of.

InuYasha went to the counter, "Anybody here?"

"Ah, you must be the boys the chieftain spoke of." The lady smiled.

"You have our carriage here and also a sword from what I believe to have heard." Miroku addressed the situation calmly, this lady was NOT attractive to him.

"I'm sorry fellas, but I'm afraid the rental expired early and was already given to another man."

"Who, tell us who it was, please!" InuYasha cried.

"I can't do that. It's the rules, sorry boys."

"Please." Miroku swallowed hard and touched her shoulder.

The woman grabbed his hand tightly, "Touching an officer is against the rules too."

"Sorry." Miroku gulped, holding his hand closely, that had hurt.

"I'll be right back." The lady smiled at him, making him nervous as she laughed and walked off.

"Hey look." InuYasha motioned towards a ledger on the corner of the wooden crate.

"It's a record, I'll bet the name of the man who made the transaction is on it!"

"Yeah, get it." InuYasha played look out to watch for the lady.

"It's too far to reach without going around the boxes."

"Use your stick!"

"Staff, InuYasha."

"Whatever, just do it."

"Alright, quiet." Miroku grabbed his staff and poked at the ledger until the book got caught on it, he started to pull it back.

"Crap here she comes!" InuYasha jumped up and down loudly. The lady looked over so the boys played it cool and waved calmly back at her. "Come on dude."

"I'm afraid InuYasha!" Miroku whimpered as the woman came back.

"Well boys." She smiled as the boys tried to act naturally, which was hard with Miroku reaching over to grab her book with his staff. "Given the circumstances, the boss says that I can give it to you, but you have to do something for me, it wasn't easy to pull these strings." She licked her lips and laughed as she went in to kiss Miroku.

"AIYE!" He shrieked and pulled back with the ledger." You've got a sick mind wench!"

"Look there it is." InuYasha pointed at the name on the line. "Royokaun, that forest guardian demon. Why would he have it?"

"I dunno but let's hurry and go."

"Right." InuYasha nodded and they ran off, the woman still laughing crazily to herself. But outside they ran back into Jaken and Rin. InuYasha sighed, "Great."

"Where's the sword?"

"Alright that's it…!" InuYasha rolled up his sleeves.

"Wait boy heel." Miroku held up his hand. "I think I just had a thought."

"And just ask that lady for the sword?" Rin asked as the boys led her and Jaken to the lady at the grill from that morning.

"Yup, it's all just that easy." InuYasha smiled.

"Thank you very much, I'm very grateful." Jaken bowed and he and Rin went up to the lady as InuYasha and Miroku left laughing.

Miroku sighed as they walked past Kaede's Village, "I'm still worried about the girls."

"Yeah, maybe we should check in with Kaede for some helpful advice?"

Miroku approached the hut and looked inside, "Whoa what happened!"

"The house is a mess and… wait, I smell wolves." InuYasha growled.

Kaede had been kidnapped by Koga and the wolf demons once they came to town, "Alright you old wench, if you won't tell us where the jewel is." Ginta and Hakaku said.

"But I don't know." Kaede cried.

"Boys…?" Koga smirked as the wolves surrounded her, growling. Koga sneered and picked up an incenses and lit it to sniff it. "Hmm? What's this…?"

Shippo perked up at the smell and Kaede realized her chance, "Sick himShippo!"

"Huh?" Koga looked up to see the growling rabid red eyed fox fly right at him to attack. "AH!"

The boy duo walked out to the end of InuYasha's Forest where the deep demon woods began, Miroku sighed, "Here we go, hopefully things will work out okay with this."

"Don't worry,if there are any demons, I'll slay them." InuYasha cracked his knuckles, excited and hoping a demon would show up seeing he hadn't slain one in so long.

"Whoa, what's that!" Miroku gasped as he heard a growl.

"A wolf." InuYasha blinked. "It's not Koga's though."

"No, this looks like on of Royokaun demon wolves of the dead."

"Right, he's not longer the gentle spirit of the forest, but the demon of the underworld. He should call himself Anubus now."

"Meh, guess he's not one to opt for a name change."

The wolf growled and Miroku backed up, "Look let's just calmly turn around and go the other way."

"Right." InuYasha nodded and turned to see another wolf. "Crap."

"We're surrounded."

"Fight them?"

"No, it'd only make Royokaun mad at us and we'll never get what we wanted."

"So, what then?"

"InuYasha, we… RUN!" Miroku started running, as did InuYasha, the wolves going after them.

"Ah man come on just let me kill them! He'll never know!"

"Just please believe me, I know what I'm…" Miroku couldn't finish, he hit himself on the head from a low tree branch.

"Hey Miroku, you alright?" InuYasha looked around as he kept on running and ran strait into a rock, falling over as it knocked himself out.

"And then?"

"And then you give us the sword and I can go take it back to my master!" Jaken cried.

"And then?"

Rin just blinked at Jaken then turned to the lady after a moment, "….do you have any melons?"

"So Miroku, will you give me what I want now?"

"No, I don't think I'm please enough." Miroku said, wearing his fine clothing.

"Will you consider it while I give you more pleasure?"

"Oh, alright." Miroku smiled with a laugh.

"Okay then you." A wolf demon wearing the police lady's clothes giggled.

"EEK!" Miroku woke up.

"Dude." InuYasha gasped as he came to only to find him in a small cage with Miroku.

"Hi there…" A small voice was heard. And they looked up to see a small demon hanging upside down from his feet tied to a rope trap. "I'm Bunza."

"He's InuYasha and I'm Miroku, where are we?"

"Where Royokaun keeps his prisoners who tresspass into his forest, before eating them. I've been here for a month."

"Wait." InuYasha stopped him. "Then why aren't you eaten?"

"I'm so small he wants me to grow so he'll have more of a meal."

"Oh." InuYasha blinked.

"Makes sense I guess." Miroku nodded.

"Alright everyone shut up." A demonic voice slurred and Royokaun appeared growling.

"Look Royokaun please you have to let us go, this is all just a misunderstanding!" Miroku pleaded.

"No I'm hungry and you came to my forest unannounced, you intruded my territory."

"Look all we want is the carriage you rented earlier, please you have to believe us."

"How do I know you aren't lying to me half breed?"

"What." InuYasha's eyebrow twitched.

"I shall ask you a question to prove your true heart, and if you answer it correctly then I'll let you go free. But get it wrong and you'll be enjoying the company of the little lynx boy here until supper time."

"Don't you mean dinner time?" Bunza asked.

"Supper."

"Dinner."

"Supper."

"Dinner."

"QUIET!" Royokaun snarled and Bunza cowered. "Do you want the tickle torture?"

"No not the feather, please!" Bunza shrieked. "…maybe later."

"Now, here's the questions, should you be smart enough to claim to be who you are and why you're here, you will answer truthfully. Both humans and demons are after the sacred jewel now that it's been shattered into shards. But the priestess who chose to guard it taught that it was created from four souls long ago. What were those four souls named?"

"Uh, hang on wait I know this one…" InuYasha thought. Kikyo had to have told that at least one time back when they were going out. But he may have just been pretending to listen, waiting for the making out part.

"Pass, hey pass, pass!" Bunza whispered.

"We'll pass." InuYasha pointed to Bunza.

"NO PASSING!" Royokaun roared, causing Bunza to start crying.

"Here wait, I know it. The sacred jewel of four souls was created in a battle against the demon world by humans led by a powerful beautiful maiden. In the midst of battle, the four souls were trapped inside to form the sacred jewel, they were named from the bonds of friendship, the knowledge of wisdom, heroic bravery, and lastly the purity of love."

"Oh, that's right!" Royokaun gasped.

"Wow." Bunza blinked and frowned sadly. "I said a cougar."

"It's a monk's duty to know these things."

"Yeah right, you only learned it from Sango cause you were interested in that hot dead priestess."

"None the less." Miroku smiled at InuYasha's comment.

"Here I shall set you free for getting the answer. Come with me."

"Thanks. Hey see you around Bunza!" InuYasha waved.

"No, come back for me, don't let him kill me I'm not food!" He sobbed.

"So fellas, how can I be of service to you?" Royokaun asked smiling.

"You rented a carriage from the samurai police station, there was something of ours left in it, we'd like to get it out." Miroku explained.

"Oh of course, come with me please." Royokaun led them to a clearing and gasped. "Oh no, what's going on? It's gone!"

"Damn hoodlum demons." InuYasha growled. "Should've slayed them in my time off when I had the chance..."

"I'm sosorry boys, I guess I can't be of help to you after all." He grew teary eyed.

"Think Royokaun." Miroku spoke up. "Was there anything inside when you got it?"

"I dunno let me see." Royokaun began to think. "Well nothing except this really."

"What is it?" InuYasha looked over Miroku's shoulder.

Miroku smiled as he held up the clue his hand, "It's, a key…?" He matched it to the one he'd found in his coat earlier, it was the top to the chain. "Whoa." They were one step closer to reaching the end of their journey!