Kagome walked beside their new members and smiled.
"What are your names?" She asked.
"Thorn." Kayla growled.
"Yamato." Lindsay replied.
"Well those are nice names." Kagome said timidly. She quickly walked to the front of the group.
"Inuyasha, we have to find somewhere for them to go. They can't stay with us."
"They have no family." Shippo butted in.
"They're running away from something." Sango said.
"How can you tell?"
"For the past three nights, neither has slept until morning." Everyone turned around when they heard a growl.
"Was that one of you two?" Sango asked.
"Does it look like it was one of us?" Kayla snapped. Everyone backed away when Kagome screamed. There in front of them was a male's mangled body.
"Who could have done this?"
"Let's go." Inuyasha said and walked around the body.
"WE can't leave him!" Lindsay called, "He's still breathing!"
"What?" Inuyasha turned to look at the man with hair the color of Lindsay's. For the first time, they all noticed Lindsay milky blue eyes that made her look blind. They took a glimpse at Kayla and saw her brown eyes streaked with black and gold.
"We can not do anything for him. He will die soon." Miroku said.
"He has jewel shards!" Kagome shrieked.
"You can't take them from him." Kayla said.
"And why not?"
"Because taking the shards out would kill him."
"We need the shards." Kagome said.
"He needs his life!" Lindsay yelled. Blaze walked over and laid down next to the man.
"There's nothing special about him." Inuyasha looked down at the body, "Kill him."
"No!" Lindsay fell down beside the helpless man. She looked like she was going to cry but when she didn't, Miroku reached down to her.
"WE must leave him, he will die soon, with or without the shards." Lindsay looked up at the man holding his hand out to her. She had never known what having someone care for you felt like. She looked back at the man on the ground, gasping for breath, praying for life.
"I can't leave him." She whispered. "He is my brother."