Author's Piece: Thanks to NefCanuck, this continuing chapter is for you. I hope you enjoy it. It took amazingly long, mainly because Lita isn't around anymore, I couldn't bring myself to work on this – but I'm kinda over that now. Here you all go: The next chapter.

Point of View: Nekogome

It was cold, annoying, dark, and lonely. The last thing on her mind was her condition though. Her mind was replaying the last hour or two over in her head.

"How can this be happening?" Nekogome asked the leaves that she heard rustling overhead.

There was no answer.

"I even screwed up with Inuyasha… I can't believe I was so mean to him," she said to herself, "he must think I'm a jerk."

It was then she smelled something familiar on the breeze.

"What's that?" She asked herself.

The scent was obviously familiar. Nekogome just couldn't place it, and that bothered her. She was sitting rigid, ears perked and tail extended, but she couldn't tell what it was. It was something distant, something from her past…

"Momma?" she mumbled, surprising herself. Was it?

She dropped from her branch, the grass soft beneath her feet. She had to go on, wanting to find out what that scent really was. Following the scent, she ended up traveling in a general direction. East, she had to travel east.

After about a half hour traveling east, the scent was nearly overpowering.

"Damn! Where is it coming from?" she asked herself as she looked around. The clearing she found herself in was quite large, with an opening in the middle that was about the size of her.

"Is… is that a barrow?" She asked anyone. Barrows are the graves of Neko Youkai.

"Yes… yes it is…" said a voice to her left.

She felt it more than saw it, a powerful breeze, the singing heat, and then she jumped, soaring a few feet into the air as the flaming weapon cut into the trees around her. They caught flame and burned quickly, the trunks groaning and the trees falling as the canopy became too much for the weakened trunks to bear.

"Who the hell did that?" Nekogome yelled as she landed, surveying the burning damage around her.

"Why… me, of course. Damn Half-Breed really ARE stupid, aren't they?" said the voice, Nekogome spun around.

"Souta!" she yelled.

"Yes, now… leave this area or be destroyed," Souta said quite seriously.

"But… but why, Souta? I remember when you were smaller than me... you didn't treat me badly… I was your family, your sister," Nekogome said, her eyes stinging with tears.

"Yes… but you disappeared on me, left Jii-chan and I alone. He made me see how worthless Half-Breeds really are. He's the reason I am as powerful as I am," Souta said, his amber eyes glistening in the flames of the burning trunks.

"But… why would he do this?" Nekogome asked Souta, who merely shrugged and laughed.

"I guess he had enough, he always was muttering about how mother was always 'toying with human men', he showed me how pathetic humans are, I've seen them beg for life. I've seen them die by the thousands. It's truly stupid," Souta said, his eyes opening wider as he drew his hand back, "Now… die," he said as he throw his hand forwards, tracing a thin line of heat across the clearing.

Nekogome leapt, barely making it in time as the thin line of heat made the trees around her erupt into flame.

"See the power I wield?" Souta asked her, not waiting for a response as he drew his hand back again. This time, anger made Nekogome act, "Leave my forest alone!" she shouted as she used her demonic aura to launch her from midair into a collision course with her younger half-brother.

The impact knocked Souta off of his feet, and Nekogome hurtled past him, slamming into a tree nearby as Souta slowly got to his feet.

"You've had your time, girl, now I really suggest you die," he said as he drew his hand back again. This time he stopped, eyes widening slightly as he looked to his right.

"Now, now, Souta, it is not the time for this! I thought I told you to leave her alone!" said a barely recognizable voice.

"Jii-chan!" yelped Nekogome as the venerable old man appeared behind a nearby tree.

"Yeah, yeah. Don't cross the great Souta! You're a fool if you do, he's far more powerful than you'll ever be," said Nekogome's grandfather, "I never wanted your mother to marry that human! I always warned her, he'd die long before you ever bear a child! But no! Why would she listen to me? I'm just the overseer of the entire damn clan! So when she died, AFTER having you, no less, I made sure you were left somewhere… if it weren't for that damned guardian… you'd have been dead for quite some time now." Jii-chan said.

"What?" Nekogome asked, eyebrows raised, eyes filling with tears.

"Yes, yes, you pathetic half-breed," Jii-chan continued, "I only bothered with you because of your mother, your father was a repugnant filth in the bloodline."

It was then that all three of them felt an odd pull, like that of a vortex, towards… something else.

"What is that?" asked Souta, his hand erupting into demon-fire.

Suddenly the pull became a violent tug, and Nekogome felt herself being ripped apart, for a split second she thought she was dead. But when she opened her eyes, she was standing atop a massive pile of bones.

The pull was gone, but she still felt the magic surrounding her. She looked on, an extremely large skull was situated on the mountain of bones.

Meanwhile….

((AN: Sorry it took me soooo long. I'm not sure if I could continue this… I'm trying though…))