Me: Hn, been a while since I've dusted off this story.

Kita: You don't have any other stories, so you didn't need to say "this"

Me: …thank you for that. Now, on to business.

Inuyasha: He sounds so formal. What the hell?

Me: Shut up, I have the power to torture you endlessly.

Inuyasha: Yeah? HOW!

Me: I'm the author. I can do anything to you as long as you're in my story. Like this. –lights his hair on fire-

Inuyasha: AHH! IT BURNS! –runs in flaming circles-

Me: Hell yes. Now, back to business for real. I do not own Inuyasha or any related characters, symbols, items, or so forth. In fact, the only real thing I own in this story is the story itself. And the disclaimer. Well, I own everything here that won't put me into a mess of piracy laws, we'll put it that way.

Inuyasha: HAVE MERCY!

Me: I think not. LET THE STORY…BEGIN!

Inuyasha had been acting strangely for the past few weeks. Everywhere that the gang went, he searched around as though he were expecting something to jump out of the forest and kill them at any given moment. He didn't act calm and collected, but he never did anyway. The thing that got everybody curious was the way that he attacked random squirrels. Sango and Miroku pulled Kagome aside while the half demon was busy attempting to slay a rodent. Not a rodent demon, just an ordinary rodent.

"You have to talk to him about it," Sango said, trying to convince Kagome to talk to Inuyasha.

"Why do I have to do it?" Kagome asked, not wanting to talk to him. "You're always making me talk to everyone, and always making him talk to me. Why can't you go ask him?"

"Uh…" Sango said, trying to think of a good response. "Because. I'm not going to talk to that psycho. Look at him trying to kill a squirrel," she said, motioning to Inuyasha using the Wind Scar repeatedly. "You're the only one who can get near him without him yelling something and trying to kill us…"

"She does have a point there, Kagome," Miroku tossed in, just needing to have his voice in the conversation somewhere. "Besides, I think it would be a good bonding experience."

"But, I don't have a whip or rope," Kagome said, rather confused.

"No, no, bonding, not bondage," said Sango, slightly shocked at Kagome's response, and also fairly amused.

"Ohhhh," said Kagome, now enlightened by this factor. She then sat down and watched Inuyasha attack this poor squirrel, while thinking to herself what she was going to say to him. What can I possibly say to him? I can't just go up to him and say "Hey freak show, what the hell?" I need to think of a way to put it, because it matters so much that I word this completely insignificant event in the right way. Why am I even thinking like this? At that point, a new voice appeared in her head, in a seemingly schizophrenic moment. It is because the Master wishes it. She nodded, understanding completely, and walked over to Inuyasha, who was lying on his back, exhausted from fruitlessly trying to kill the squirrel, which ran away. "Hey…Inuyasha," she said, sitting down next to him.

Inuyasha sat up, looking over at her. "What is it?" he asked, upset because the squirrel got away.

Okay, here goes, she thought. "Why have you been acting like a paranoid moron more than usual these past few weeks?" she asked blatantly. Yeah, that's a great way to put it, she thought sarcastically.

"Because, that Kai person keeps trying to kill you, and keeps trying to kidnap you. Also, I need to find him so I can buy those pictures…" he said, looking at her to see her reaction.

"Pictures? What pictures?" she asked, having no memory of what had happened when she was under Kai's control.

"Uh, nothing. Nothing at all," Inuyasha said, trying to save himself from torment from Kagome.

"Oh, okay," said Kagome, completely gullible like. She moved over closer to him, and rested her head on his shoulder. He merely glared into the distance, as a voice came from behind them.

"Aww, what a cute couple. I give them 5 minutes until they start fighting again," Kai said, stepping out behind everyone. The group gave him a look of shock at what he said, and he looked at them with a half-glare. "What? You were all thinking it." Nobody had any objections to that, and he smiled. "Right, so let's get down to business. I believe you know why I'm here, Inuyasha," he said, pulling out an envelope of pictures from his pocket. Inuyasha dashed up to him, handing over a wad of money, as Kai handed over the photos. "You know, you're a sick bastard for wanting these pictures. I nearly threw up when I was taking them. Do you like to beat off to hideous women in ungodly revealing clothing? You probably watch fat people porn, don't you?" With that, Inuyasha hit him in the face, and Kai fell over backwards, looking up at him.

"Shut the hell up!" Inuyasha yelled angrily as he pocketed the film. "Mind your own business!"

Kai smiled, getting up to his feet. "I have the money, that's all my job was here. But, now that you've hit me in the face, I know have an obligation to kick your ass."

"What do you mean?" Inuyasha asked, wondering why Kai suddenly wanted to kill him instead of Kagome.

"It's the code," he said, looking at Inuyasha's non-believing reaction. "I'm serious." With that, he pulled out a small booklet, and flipped a few pages, showing it to Inuyasha. "See? Page 184, section 15, paragraph 7, line 2 clearly states that any harmful physical contact shall result in a prompt ass kicking."

Inuyasha pulled the booklet from Kai's hand, reading through the line out loud. " 'Any harmful physical contact done to the holder of the code shall result in a prompt ass kicking.' Wow, he's right."

Kai smiled, placing the booklet back into the pocket he had pulled it from, and then without any warning at all, kicked the hanyou in the stomach, sending him backwards into a tree. "Hm, I bet you I broke a rib or two with that one. Okay, we're even now," he said, turning and walking off. "Have fun with those pictures. Bye," he said, waving as he walked off.

Kita suddenly dropped in out of nowhere in front of him. "Where do you think you're going?" she asked, turning him around. "You can't leave now."

Kai stopped as he was turned around, and looked back at her. "Aww, why can't I leave now? I wanted to go plot some more!"

"But if you leave now, you'll lose the interest of the reader. Also, it'll be fairly hard for the Master to continue to write this story because we make things more interesting than just this bunch of losers." She looked around at the angry group members with a half-glare. "What? You were all thinking it." Again, no objections.

Well, during all of this, Inuyasha had stood up, and Kagome had run over to him asking about the pictures. "Yes, do tell her, Inuyasha," Kai threw in, smiling as he headed back over. "You paid a lot of money for those. Some of it you stole from her, I'm sure. So go ahead, tell her."

The mutt started backing up, away from everyone. "They're nothing. Nothing at all," he said, attempting to avoid the entire mess that was about to unfold. "Oh, look, it's one of Naraku's insects!" he said, pointing. Nobody looked, and the insect merely flew on by.

"We don't care about that," said Kagome, all angry like at this point. "SIT BOY!" she said, as everyone watched Inuyasha's face become imbedded in the ground.

"Wow, you don't even know what the pictures are of," remarked an amused Kai as he took a front row seat to the action. "Inuyasha, you're totally screwed when she finds out."

Shippo jumped over in front of Kai, bouncing up and down. "Hey! Can I at least have one line in this chapter?"

Kai smiled, and nodded. "Sure. You just used it up though." He then looked back over to Kagome and Inuyasha, who were both headed over toward Kai at this point. "Hm, Kita, new theory. Maybe we should leave, end the chapter now, and come back later to cause more mayhem when they're not blood thirsty."

"Agreed," said Kita, as flames rose up in front of them. When the flames cleared, they were both still standing there.

"Oh right…run away…" Kai muttered as he turned and ran off with Kita, thusly ending this chapter.

Yes, yes, an abrupt end to this chapter. Why? Because I simply ran out of time and ideas. I'm not a time and ideas tree! Anyway, please review. I'm serious, I hate you people who read these things and then don't review. What have you got to lose other than 20 seconds of your time? I mean, you already lost plenty of useful time reading this, so you'd might as well waste 20 more seconds.