Disclaimer: No, I don't own Inuyasha, and maybe, in some other life, I will. Maybe.

I hope you guys continue reading this story, even though I said it won't end happily ever after. Please enjoy the few precious moments theses two shared before they damned each other to hell. Well, Kikyou damned herself to hell and couldn't rest in peace, so her tormented soul was reincarnated while Inuyasha slept for 50 years straight. Yeah...Enjoy! (Computers suck at sarcasm)

(Oh! And Kazuko Aeko! Happy early fifteen! I know your B-Day is on the 28 (I read ur bio) but I just wanted to make sure you read this on time. And because it's a very special age, this will be a very special chapter dedicated to you! That's right! This is 4 U! Feliz Quince y que cumplas muchos mas!)

Scroll Four

Can't Touch This

Kikyou got up early in the morning, as she usually did, and dressed in her new priestess attire. The village women had confiscated the torn up clothes she had arrived in last night; shocked the miko would come back wearing filthy and torn clothes after washing up. They had volunteered to sew them up for her and she didn't object, feeling too tired and confused to say no. There really was no need, actually. Kikyou had endless piles of priestess clothing. But since some village people felt at debt to her for all the help that she had given, they felt that in doing so, they were repaying a small amount of that debt back. Of course, not all people thought so.

Many of her villagers blamed her for all the mayhem and destruction that befell the village. Especially those who were almost victims themselves to the savage raids of demons, but everyone knew that it wasn't Lady Kikyou's fault. Their master had wanted her to keep the jewel safe, and no one disobeyed the master, no matter how harsh the command was. Besides, he really didn't tell her to take it, he asked her to do it as a huge favor. And, of course, Kikyou accepted. She was always out helping everyone. That was the other reason it couldn't be Lady Kikyou's fault.

Even before the jewel had come into her grasps, the demons had always been there, looking for any opportunity to consume human flesh. And she had always tried her best to help out, to fit in with the rest, but she was too different. In fact, many people didn't see her as a human at all. They saw her as a godly figure, an angel almost and some had even gone as far as to worship her. And no matter how hard she tried to tell them she was just a normal being, she knew they continued to praise her secretly. That was when she knew she would never fit in.

After a quick breakfast, she went to pick up the bow and arrows that were always placed next to her futon and saw the one she had cut Inuyasha with. That blood of his refused to come off her arrow, no matter how much she tried to wipe it off. She took that arrow and placed it in the wall right above her futon, so that every time she saw it, she would be reminded of the things that could transpire if she ever let her emotions get the best of her.

'I would not blame Inuyasha if he cannot trust me anymore, even though I do not think he ever truly did...'

With that thought fresh in her mind, Kikyou went out to scout the area around the village and forest searching for any demons that might have trespassed at night.

After three long and rather boring hours, she had found nine demons, all of which she easily got rid of.

The last one was a tough little sucker. Literally. It was a huge bat demon, and she had found it feeding off another demon, which was still half-alive. As soon as the demon heard her approach he lunged at her, blood dripping from its fangs and mouth and black wings extended wide, blocking the morning rays of the sun as its claws prepared to sink deep into the miko's flesh. Kikyou waited for the right moment to let go of her arrow, putting in enough power into it to destroy the demon. As the bat's mouth opened wide and showed it's huge bloody fangs, she let go of the arrow, a strong amount of pink-tinted energy swirling about it as it cut right through the bat's heart. It fell to the ground, leering up at her and letting out a horrible screech of pain and anger as it slowly died and turned to dust as the wind carried it away.

"Good job!" she heard from behind, as the person clapped his hands slowly, approaching her with a slow pace.

"...I do not mean to be rude, but what are you doing here?" asked Kikyou, her back still turned towards the character.

"I merely came to give you my gratitude for helping me out back at the village."

"I believe I told you to maintain in bed while the wounds healed."

"Ah...so you do remember me."

Kikyou turned around to face her surprise guest as she said, "Of course. We only met two days ago, Lord Kurabawa."

"Really? It seemed to me as if it were years ago..."

He looked at her and grinned. His short, shoulder length black hair swayed gently in the breeze as his dark blue eyes focused intently onto her brown ones.

He continued to smile at her, although she didn't return it, and said, "Now I know why my uncle has confided you with the jewel..."

Kikyou said nothing, but was tempted to arch her eyebrow in curiosity. How did he know about the jewel?

"You are strong, defiant, sharp, vehement in battle and in absolute control of your emotions...a true warrior. And if you don't mind me saying..."

He stepped closer towards her, stopping when he thought he saw distrust in her eyes as she kept a composed expression.

"...A splendid beauty."

Kikyou didn't trust him. She didn't trust him at all. There was something wrong about him she sensed, as if he were scheming something evil.

"Spare me the flattery. What are your true intentions?" she said, her eyes openly showing the suspicion he thought he had seen.

His eyes widened in a sarcastic insult as he let out a fake exhale of disbelief.

"Why, my dear Lady Kikyou, I have no bad motives if that's what you mean." He said as he raised a hand to trace it lightly on her cheek.

"I have merely come to...fulfil your...needs..." he said, as a smirk carved itself on his lips, suppressing a want to laugh at his own words. 'And mine as well...'

Kikyou stopped his hand by the wrist, and applied enough pressure to it so as to not let it go any further. She pushed it back slowly, looking up into his dark azure gaze as he continued to give her that hated smile.

"Do not touch me."

Kurabawa laughed. He really did like this woman. He just had to have her.

"Try and stop me."

With his other hand, he grabbed her shirt and ripped it open, pulling it down as far as it could. At the distraction, Kikyou let go of his other hand, trying to get an arrow from the many on her back while trying to fight him off with the left hand that held the bow as well. She had a bandaged shirt wrapped tightly around her chest A/N they had to have some kind of bra in the old days right? and he was about to start removing that as well when Kikyou decided it best to just push him away with her bow. She concentrated an immense quantity of power to her bow, the pink light quickly twisting itself into it, while Kurabawa felt the huge power start to push him back. Kikyou twirled her bow with her hand and pushed it forward towards him, the bright pink light paining his dark aura as he flew back some good ten meters before he hit the ground.

She pulled her top back on, eyes pasted on his motionless figure.

Had she killed him?

'It is his own fault.... I told him not to touch me.'

Kikyou sighed in relief when she heard a painful groan come from the man.

Evil or not, he was still human, and Kikyou could never hurt another human being. Although for the sake of he jewel, she had made some exceptions...

Hiroshi stirred in the dirt he found himself in, noble clothes all covered in filth, and mouth and nose bleeding from the impact of the hit Kikyou had given him.

"Damn you stupid wench..." he hissed.

"Get out of here. I do not wish to shed your blood, no matter how filthy it is."

She watched as he struggled to stand up, a curse was gasped out with every breath that he exhaled as he tried to wipe away his own blood. She turned around and left.

Hiroshi watched as she gracefully walked back to her village, as if nothing had ever happened.

"Fucking bitch..." he said.

Kikyou walked slowly towards her shed, paying no attention to the constant chattering of the women or the loud laughter of the children as her thoughts took her into her own little world.

So many demons she had to fight off, so much pain, so much betrayal... all for the tiny pink sphere that only she possessed. Was it all really worth it? Was so much torture and torment really worth a jewel? She didn't think so. And quite honestly, she was sick of it. She was sick of it all. But she had to keep on going; for the safety of the people. She could never falter and let the jewel fall into the wrong hands. Because only the wrong hands wanted it. And those evil souls that wanted it would stop at nothing from obtaining their source of motivation. They would stop at nothing to fulfill that damned hunger for power.

Her thoughts were interrupted by some noises she heard form her right and, after a moment, sighed inwardly. She took out an arrow and aimed it at the source. When she let go, she got several more, and shot them at her target as well.

"Godammit!" she heard.

"What are you doing so deep inside the village?" she asked.

"Why else would I be?!" he shouted, focusing his amber eyes on the jewel around the miko's neck.

Then his stomach growled loudly, angry that its stupid owner had ignored it for the past few days.

Kikyou raised an amused eyebrow.

"...What?!" he asked, looking off into the distance and pretending he had heard nothing.

"I'm having lunch right now. You can come if you want." she said.

"I am NOT hungry!" he yelled. But his stomach begged to differ as another loud growl left his stomach, as it begged its owner for a bite to eat.

Kikyou smiled to herself, watching as Inuyasha's face turned red as he angrily stared at his stomach and took off the arrows that had pinned him down once again to a random tree.

'Stupid stomach.' He thought.

Why do our bodies betray us at the most unfortunate of times?

Inuyasha's stomach followed Kikyou all the way to her hut, as Inuyasha cursed himself for not feeding it back at the forest when he had a chance. The jewel was just too time-consuming.

Inuyasha was lucky there were not that many people outside near the home of the villagers. It was, after all, lunchtime and almost everyone had gone inside to eat earlier. The only ones who were left outside were the children who had had a fast meal, and they were too busy playing to notice a six-foot demon with a long white mane and piercing gold eyes walking casually in the village, following the Lady Kikyou.

Inuyasha was intent, looking around the village at the many homes that had accumulated. He had completely forgotten where he was going or whom he was following when he smelled a delicious aroma fill the air as he entered the miko's home.

"Sister Kikyou! Ye are home ear—AH! DEMON!" screamed Kaede, surprised to see a demon just walk into her home.

"Shut up kid!" Inuyasha yelled back at her, making a childish face to accompany his yell.

"Sister!" Kaede whined, feeling inferior to the huge demon.

"Kaede, Inuyasha has decided to eat with us today." Said Kikyou, giving her sister a look that said 'behave, will you?'

"As if! I only came for the jewel!" Inuyasha retorted back.

'Stubborn as a brick.' Thought Kikyou, wondering how in the world he had managed to survive all these years.

She served him some rice from the pot and handed it to him, along with the extra chopsticks she had.

He took a moment to smell the food, cautiously picking at it and its contents with the chopsticks he was given as if he had never seen this thing called 'rice' before, and sniffed the vapor that rose gently out of the bowl.

"What are you doing?" asked Kaede. "Are ye going to eat it or not?"

"Why are you so eager for me to eat it, huh?" he asked suspiciously. "You poisoned it didn't you!?" he yelled, pointing at the two very confused sisters.

"Excuse me?" asked Kikyou calmly, raising an eyebrow in question to his outburst.

"This is just payback for what happened back at that waterfall isn't it!?" he screamed.

Kikyou's eyes widened in disbelief and embarrassment as she remembered the events of last night. She had completely forgotten about it.

"Waterfall? Sister, what is he talking about?" asked Kaede.

"N-nothing. Go outside and play Kaede."

"But I still haven't eaten--"

"Please Kaede. Go."

Seeing as how she couldn't win, Kaede slowly made her way out of the hut, leaving an embarrassed miko and an angry hanyou all alone.

"You're just trying to lead me into a false sense of security aren't you!?"

"Look Inuyasha," Kikyou started, but at that exact time, someone from the outside screamed "DEMON!" and they started hearing screams and cries for help. Kikyou wasted no time in getting her bow and arrows and ran out her door, leaving a stunned hanyou all alone. He looked at the bowl of rice and his stomach growled for the third time that day. Then he looked at the pot full of rice. So maybe he wasn't so alone.

"Where is it?" she asked, looking around the area and scanning it for the culprit. At that moment, a huge black bird swooped from the treetops into the sky, seemingly carrying a small bundle within its claws.

"Please Lady Kikyou! Save my baby! Save my baby!" cried out a woman, sobbing out the words as she grabbed onto the miko's clothes.

A village man pried the woman off of Kikyou as she ran off and got onto a horse. She galloped into the bird's direction, hoping that by some miracle, the horse would outrun it or that the demon would turn back.

The enormous feathered wings of the black bird flapped up and down as it flew off into the distance, cawing loudly and pressing its claws into the brown bundle it carried. Had the bird not turned around, it would have enjoyed human flesh that evening. But the power of the jewel made it fly back, its normal hunger replaced by a new hunger for power.

The demon flew straight at Kikyou, the sharp ends of its beak opened wide as it let out a long screech and let the baby fall as it loosened its grip on it.

'Damn. I have to save the child first!' she thought.

Kikyou aimed at the baby with an arrow, concentrating every bit of her self onto that bundle that fell rapidly from the sky. She tried hard not to think of what would happen if she aimed incorrectly and tried to drown out the cries of the woman and the screech of the demon who would devour her if she didn't hurry it up.

' On three.' She thought.

'Three!'

The arrow flew swiftly towards the baby, and she could almost guarantee that it would hit the mark, but she didn't have time to think about that. She hurriedly got another arrow and aimed it at the demon that was at most ten feet from her reach.

A horrible cry filled the air as three arrows pierced through the demon's chest, blood squirting out from the wounds as it fell to the ground beside her.

She looked down at her clothes. Great. Blood stains. She wiped a hand on her forehead. Great. More blood.

She didn't think much of it though when she heard the horrified cries of the woman again.

Kikyou got off the horse and ran towards the spot where the baby should have landed. Sure enough, when she got there, there it was, pinned securely to the tree by its blanket.

She took off her arrow and carried the baby in her arms.

'I can't believe he's still sleeping.' She thought, smiling down at the infant in her arms.

The baby's mother came running from behind Kikyou, tears flowing fluently from her eyes as she outstretched her arms and took her child from the miko's careful grasp.

"Thank you! Thank you so much Lady Kikyou!" she cried.

Kikyou couldn't help but smile at them, and watched as the woman lovingly rocked her baby back and forth in her arms.

She went back to her hut, happy cheers could be heard as she entered her home. When she entered the room, she saw that it was empty, much like the pot of rice and teapot.

"Inuyasha..." she murmured, "I'm still hungry!"

Inuyasha lay lazily on a tree branch, one hand behind his head as the other rubbed the extremely satisfied stomach of his as he looked down at the peaceful river. So maybe it wasn't poisoned after all.

'Today, your food. Tomorrow, your jewel.'

His ears perked up as he heard someone coming down from the village. He looked down and saw the priestess walking towards the river. As she washed some strange red stains from her face that smelled a lot like blood, he heard her stomach growl and complain in hunger.

"You snooze you lose." He said to himself, a smirk twisting itself on his face as he continued to watch her.

But it seemed that he hadn't said it low enough, because she turned around and saw him looking down at her.

"You stink like a bird," he said to her. It was true. She reeked of bird demon blood. "...And like a man!" he added. That was also true. He had smelled it when he was following her to her hut. How she got that smell was beyond him.

She just stared at him, looking too tired to even try to start an argument. "Maybe because I was with a bird," she said, turning around and making her way back to the village, "and with a man."

After that, she said no more and walked back haughtily towards her village.

Inuyasha looked at her until she went out of view.

What the hell did that mean?

"...Bitch." he said, watching as the sun started to set and thinking of how another day passed by without the jewel.

End of Scroll Four

Ah! I have mice in my office! Well, I did. Then my dad got rid of them, but I can't help and think there's still another one lurking around in the dark corners of this room. These stupid rodents are the reason why I haven't updated! I've been too scared to go into the office, so I check my email at school! Of course, I can't update from school, so by the time you're reading this, I have made my dad triple check the place. Well, whatever. I gotta do my Pre-Cal homework! Agh.... It sucks being smart...just kidding. It doesn't suck being smart. MATH IS POWER!!

Adios!

Oh! And for those who don't know, it is true. I'm a chick. Really I am. My mom and doctor say so and so I must be. MATH IS POWER!!