Chapter 2

A Demon?

She was surprised that no one had noticed her fangs yet. She thought that Kagome might be suspicious of her because she accidentally retracted a claw while Kagome was staring at her hands. 'I can't let them know about who I really am, they might make me fight,' she thought. 'I must keep my cover. I'm a cat, why shouldn't I be able to? A clan leader has certain duties, and I must fulfil them.' Elli kept thinking and wasn't paying attention when the group stopped. She ran right into Inuyasha. She smiled nervously at him but he just stood there, not noticing her, staring ahead. Elli peeked around Inuyasha. Ahead of them stood a man with long silver hair and fur all over him. He must've been a demon due to his markings. He had a crescent moon on his forehead and purple slash-looking marks across his face. His eyelids were pinkish-red and even for a demon, he was beautiful.

"Inuyasha, we meet again," the demon called.

"Sesshomaru!" he replied.

Kagome stood next to Elli. "That's Inuyasha's older brother. They hate each other because once in battle Inuyasha chopped Sesshomaru's right arm off. Hmm, he seems to have acquired a new sword..." Elli just looked on. While Kagome was talking to her, the two brothers had engaged in battle. Everyone ducked behind a bush to watch.

"Sesshomaru's new sword is powerful," Miroku said.

Inuyasha tried to strike Sesshomaru, but in doing so, Tetsusaiga flew out of his hands and got stuck in a cliff. "Inuyasha!" Kagome yelled. Sesshomaru made Inuyasha fall and pinned him on the ground, with his new sword at Inuyasha's throat. "INUYASHA!" she yelled again. She began to pull an arrow out to shoot, but Elli pushed it back. Kagome looked at her, with her eyes filled with tears. "Wha... what are you doing, Elli?"

Elli started running in circles at high speed, so fast, you couldn't see her. Kagome, Shippo, Miroku, Sango, and Kirara just stared. Once Elli stopped running, her hair was down, her eyes were very cat-like, she had large saber-like fangs, big cat ears with tufts of fur at the top, and a large bushy tail. She retracted her claws and the group saw that they were iron and about six inches long. "This is my demon form," she said. Using her super speed, she took off towards Inuyasha and picked him up quickly. Still running, she retracted her claws and slashed Sesshomaru in the chest. She dropped Inuyasha by his sword and stood by him.

Inuyasha stared at Elli. They had been traveling together for about three weeks now, and Elli hadn't shown any signs of being able to transform, being that strong, or being able to run that fast. All she had done was flirt with him and make Kagome mad. "Elli?"

"I'm assuming that you can handle it from here?" she asked.

"I could've handled it back there!"

"Of course."

"Inuyasha!" Kagome yelled. A demon was taking off with her.

"Kagome!" he replied. "I have to finish with Sesshomaru, Koga won't hurt her."

"I can take care of him!" she sped off to find the demon they called Koga.

"Elli!" Inuyasha called, but it was too late. She was already gone. He looked down at his half brother. He was laying on the ground, bleeding. "I didn't even realize she had cut him," Inuyasha said to himself. He picked up Tetsusaiga and walked over to Sesshomaru.

"Inuyasha, till we meet again," Sesshomaru said. And he was gone, just like that.

"The idiot retreated..."

Meanwhile, Elli was running faster than Koga. 'He's nearby, I can his jewel shards,' she thought. She finally ran by him and stopped in front of him, causing him to stop quickly. "Unhand Kagome."

"Why should I?"

"Because I'll kill you if you don't." She retracted her claws and stuck them under his neck. "Put her down."

Koga put Kagome down. Elli brought her claws back in. "Kagome, go back!"

"But..."

"Just go!" Elli yelled.

Kagome started walking back. 'She saved me? I thought she didn't like me...' she thought. About half-way back, Inuyasha and everyone else ran into Kagome.

"Where's Elli?" Sango asked.

"Getting ready ro beat up Koga."

"Well let's go!" Inuyasha said to her. He grabbed Kagome and put her on his back and they set off to find Elli and Koga.