Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha. Never have. Never will…

Dinosaurs?

When they were well away from the carnage behind them, the friends actually decided to stay quiet, out of respect for the lives taken. Even Inuyasha seemed to be at a loss for words, for once… But the welcome silence after hours of his complaining didn't last very long.

"Wait a minute…"

"What is it now, Inuyasha?" –Kagome.

"I smell something."

"What?" –Miroku.

"Human blood."

"Of course you would smell blood! There was a whole bunch of the stuff back at the village!" –Shippo.

"No, this is different. It's definitely more fresh here than back there."

"Let's follow it. Maybe it will lead us to whoever killed all those villagers." –Sango.

"Or what killed them…" –Kagome.

"Which way, Inuyasha?" –Miroku.

"That way." Inuyasha pointed to their right, and took off at a slow run so that his friends could keep up. However, for Kagome, it was still pretty hard to keep up to him; considering the fact that she was human and he was half demon, and there were tons of bramble and thorns to run through.

"Hey! Could you guys go any slower?" –Inuyasha.

"I would speed up, but it's kind of hard to go any faster with all these thorns!" –Kagome.

Inuyasha glanced back over his shoulder in Kagome's direction, and scoffed at her pain of being scratched by multiple thorns.

"Inuyasha, it wouldn't be a bad idea to walk, would it?"

"Shut up, Miroku."

"Insensitive oaf…"

"I heard that, Sango!" –Inuyasha.

After what seemed like fifteen minutes of scrambling through the brush, the group finally emerged into what appeared to be a small clearing. In the center is what caught their attention. In the middle of a pool of blood was the head of a child. Nothing else of her body was seen except for that.

"What happened here?" –Sango.

"Not something good…"

"Thanks for stating the obvious, Shippo." –Inuyasha.

Miroku ignored the bickering and knelt down next to the severed head. He placed an index finger to the wound at the neck. As he pulled his hand back he noticed a sticky substance mixed in with the almost dried blood. "Inuyasha, do you think you can pick up a scent from this?"

"What the hell is it?"

"I don't know."

"Well, if you don't know what it is, than why should I stick my nose into it?"

"Oh, quit being a baby, Inuyasha! It just looks gross because of the blood. You're not afraid, are you?" –Kagome.

"Of course not!" Just to prove Kagome wrong, Inuyasha leaned his face in towards Miroku's extended finger with the sticky substance on it. "It doesn't smell very pleasant."

Kagome rolled her eyes at this, and the rest of them leaned in a little closer to see. "It looks kind of like…saliva?" –Kagome.

"It smells like…a lizard…" –Inuyasha.

"A lizard?" –Shippo.

"That's what I said! A lizard!"

"Well, it would have to be a really big lizard to destroy that village and kill all those people." –Sango.

"The only thing I can think of now, is a dinosaur." –Kagome.

"What the hell is a dino— dino —

"A dinosaur. It was a giant lizard back in prehistoric times." Everyone stared at Kagome, "What? You guys never heard of the dinosaurs?"

"I've never heard of a giant lizard, or whatever you're talking about, Kagome." –Miroku.

"Never mind about the dinosaurs. They're all gone now, or at least they should be…"

"Okay… Are you feeling all right, Kagome?" –Inuyasha.

"Yeah, why?"

"Just asking."

"If you think I'm going crazy, you better think twi— " Just then, Kagome stopped ranting.

"What is it, Kagome? What's wrong?" –Shippo.

"I don't know. I just feel like I'm being watched, that's all."

"By whom?" –Miroku.

"If I knew that, I would tell you." Kagome and the others glared warily at the surrounding trees. "Now that I think about it, I felt the same way back at the village…"

Inuyasha broke the tense silence and shouted to the unknown entity concealed within the trees, "Whoever you are, show yourself!" He cautiously drew his sword, Tetsuiga, as he prepared for an impending attack by who ever, or whatever, was watching them.

"Put up your sword, young warrior. There is no need for it… now anyway…" A voice from the surrounding forest echoed in reply. It seemed to come from everywhere all at once. The sound caused Inuyasha to become ever more tense. A figure appeared from behind, and the sound of the voice startled the group, "What brings you travelers to this side of the mountain?"

There! Chapter 2 is finally done! I kind of got a major case of writer's block on this, which is why it took me so long to update this story. Sorry!