A growl escaped my throat, Cho had already grabbed her sword as did Inuyasha, Kagome pulled an arrow into position. My ears flicked at the sound of approaching foot steps came through the trees. An axe flew through the trees. Everyone had ducked just in time, Yuki had gained a small cut on her shoulder.

Everyone could sense it they had us surrounded. They came out of the bushes, there was enough for 6 or 7 demons per person in our group. "Look it's the group that he told us about" Spoke a giant bear demon.

"Now lets kill them, he said we'd get great power if we did" Grinned a tiger demon.

Cho laughed aloud, the sound as beautiful as crystal and as deadly as her blade. "You demons are pathetic, like you could take us" Cho was ready to attack; in a swift movement everyone had darted off. We darted to a clearing for more room and more space to kick ass. Once in the clearing we could see there was a giant group. My eyes darted through the group.

"We can't use any serious attacks" I claimed, everyone looked at me as if I was insane. "Behind them…they have children with them." They all looked into the group and spotted the children crying against the foot of a tree. Growling escaped everybody's throats.

The demons charged at us as we charged back. Reina took one down in one slice but was quickly tackled by another. Kouryou blocked a hit but got sliced a few times. Cho was having no trouble and flew through the group one slice after another. She was looking for the kids we all knew she was.

I was slicing demons heads off in quick jolts, my eye caught sight of Yuki as a demon was sneaking up behind her. She couldn't hear me as I yelled at her to look out; I darted through the group and sliced the demon across the face. When I realized that I had made a grave error it was too late. A demon stabbed his sword through my stomach.

I growled deeply Yuki was too busy fighting off two others to notice. Cho landed behind the demon slicing him in half. She helped me up as I removed the sword from my stomach. "You ok Koinu?" she looked from my wound to my face.

"I'm fine, don't worry…this is nothing." I jumped in the air dodging another demon as Cho darted to the side once again killing the demons that came near the children. A snake demon jumped through the group and bit into my arm I growled loudly as I felt the poison go into my blood stream. I stabbed the dagger that Cho had given me through the snake's head, we fell to the ground. I removed the dagger and put it back in its sheath. A bull demon charged at me as I stood up from the ground and its horns stabbed into my stomach I could feel some of my ribs breaking as he threw me into the bushes. I hit a tree and winced in pain as I hit the ground. The last thing I could hear was Cho yelling Koinu as I slipped into darkness.

Cho darted through the group killing anything in her path when the leader of the group stood in front of her. Everyone seemed to stop as she stood in front of the large bull, quivering in fury. "She's already dead, can't you smell it?" He grinned. Cho gritted her teeth and darted at the demon. He dodged and laughed. "Wasting energy fighting when we killed one of your team mates already, but you seemed pissed off. Could it be that that member of your group was important to you?" The demon grinned throwing back his head and laughing. Cho saw the children running away out of the corner of her eye and silently sheathed her sword.

As he threw his head back his head it was sliced off, everyone froze to see the leader fall to the ground and something land behind Cho chuckling. Cho turned around to see Higure but her scent was off, there was no scent of human in it.

As Higure turned around Cho looked behind her at the same time her eyes sad. Higure kept chuckling as her eyes glowed blood red with green slits, she had a black claw slash across her left eye. Grinning Higure said "Now you all die." flexing her claws she darted through the demons slicing their heads of faster then the group could blink.

Reina darted through and tried to knock Higure out but due to her wounds she was a little slow. Higure dodged and elbowed her hard in the back. Kouryou charged at Higure but was stopped when Yuki grabbed her shoulder. Yuki pointed towards Cho who was running at Higure.

Cho darted through as soon as the last demon had fallen and grabbed Higure from behind and held her still. "Calm down Koinu!" Cho tightened her grip as Higure struggled. Cho wrapped her tail around my waist making it so I could not move.

As this women held me I growled, "I demand you let me go before I kill you." Only our group was still alive and they stayed a distance back. Something made me feel that I knew them but I didn't know how or who they were. The woman brought her arm around and hugged me to her form.

I growled and bit into her arm causing her to bleed, she still didn't loosen her grip, she didn't even flinch. She just kept hugging me and began to hum. As the scent of her blood hit my nose my mind reeled her scent smelt like my blood only slightly different. As I tried to figure out what it was someone knocked me out by throwing a rock at my head.

Cho stumbled a bit when Higure went limp but she regained her hold. "We have to move somewhere safe the smell of these dead demons will bring the scavenger demons around and that's something we don't need." Cho claimed her voice as calm as ever. Everyone nodded; they started off into the forest finding a large abandoned hut. They went inside and started cleaning their wounds.

I woke up later in a room that had a lingering smell of Cho and Kagome and some of Yuki's. I sat up wincing slightly I looked down to see my stomach bandaged. I looked out the window seeing it was dark, what had happened the last thing I remembered was being thrown into a tree.

My ears flicked as I heard the door slid open a scent hit my nose as I felt someone touch my ear, I started growling but heard "Shh... quiet down, its only me." At that moment I realized it was Cho, She was the only one who touched my ears without yanking or pinching them. I stop growling and relaxed into her touch. "What happened today, I don't remember a thing after being checked into a tree." I looked up at Cho as she moved and lifted my head and placed it in her lap and returned to scratching my ears.

"You don't remember?" She raised an eye at me and I gave her a confused stare her eyes saddened my first thought was I had killed someone.

"What did I do?" I kept staring and Cho sighed she stop scratching my ears and looked me in the eyes.

"After you were thrown into the bush we all thought you had died my daughter, but you came back out and sliced off the leaders head. We were happy you were alive but you weren't yourself, Koinu, your demon blood had taken over. Your eyes were red and had three black marks across your left eye." as Cho explained it to me my ears drooped.

"So what do we do now?" I kept looking at her trying to sit up, She pushed me back down I knew she wouldn't let me sit up in my wounded state.

"Well I guess we have to find away to control your demon blood, but for now lets worry about getting you healed." She started to rub my ears, a content growl escaped me throat there was no point in hiding it She knew that I like having my ears rubbed. "Go to sleep Koinu, you need rest. You did a good job today my daughter." She leaned against the wall I sighed and I closed my eyes. My content growl could still be heard as Cho kept rubbing my ears

I woke up early in the morning to find myself alone in the room again. I could hear someone talking behind the door I tried to focus on it but the voice was small so I couldn't hear it. I heard someone burst into the room Inuyasha was saying "old man" when I heard Cho jump in and start asking him questions about Inuyashas sword.

Why was she so into his sword, I heard the men say that he could make something to restrain my demon blood. I could hear them talk about making a sword or ring. They finally decided on an earring, problem one my ears weren't pierced. Problem two my ears were sensitive.

I heard a loud growl and a slap in the other room. I laid there as Cho and the old man who's named I found out was Totosai walked into the room, Totosai had a red hand print on his face. Cho sat beside me and I looked at the old man was he pulled out pliers, my eyes went wide as Cho pried my mouth open he leaned in a pulled out one of my fangs. Cho moved her hands quickly as I tried to bite Totosai.

The man scurried out on the room leaving my one fang short and somewhat ticked off. I looked at Cho who was smiling, and she was also missing a fang. I laid back down sighing as Cho started rubbing my left ear I gave into a content growl. In one quick motion Cho stuck one of her claws through my ear piercing it, I yelped and swung my hand covering my damaged ear. "OKA-SAN!" I growled.

"Sorry Koinu but it had to be done." she moved my hand away and started to clean the wound. The old man return 20 minutes later and tossed the earring at Cho, catching it with no trouble she went into the process of putting it in my ear.

Once she finished she scratched my ear and left the room to get something to eat. I got up and leaned against the wall. Cho came back into the room and handed me a bowl of stew. "Thanks Oka-san" She sat beside my and pulled me into a one armed hug.

"No problem Koinu" Smiling we ate our stew and relaxed everyone came into the room at one point to see the earring. When they heard a growl escape my throat they back off and went off to work on others things. I looked out the window and watched the clouds float by. Things were always changing. A little while later Inuyasha stuck his head into the room. "We leave at dawn."