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Three days have passed and Kagome had made it deep into the ocean. Well, deep enough to be able to say that she was lost. That didn't matter though, what mattered was that she could sense that she was getting closer. And she was ready to be close. It had been way to long without Inuyasha. Every second passed by like minutes. Did he feel the same way? Even if, would he tell her?

Kagome drifted along, her mind stuck in her thoughts, when she crashed right into something. "Oh!" something shrieked. "I knew someone else was out here! Who are you?"

It was another mermaid. The mermaid had a blue-purple flipper and a purple bikini top. Her hair was brown and came only a little past her chin. She had soft red lips and rosy red cheeks. Her eyes were ice blue, that almost resembled Koga's. Her skin was a pale color, probably since mermaids spent all their time in the water they couldn't get much tan from the sun.

"I don't recognize you, and I know everyone. Where are you from? Why are you here? What do you want? How did you find me?" Kagome blinked stupidly a few times. "Um, I'm Kagome, who are you?" she said and reached her hand out to shake. The mermaid looked at her hand and then back at Kagome in confusion. "If you wanted to hit me, you missed," she said sourly.

"What?" Kagome drew back. "I just wanted to shake hands." The mermaid raised her eye brow. "Why would you shake my hand?" "In a greeting," she said in a confused tone. "You must not be from here," said the mermaid in a gruff tone. "Well, not exactly."

"I'm Toki," she laughed. "So why are you here?" she asked again, this time in a nicer tone. "I, um, need a song." "A song? Why?" Toki asked. "I have to have one for a friend," Kagome replied simply, so the subject would drop. Toki nodded. "So, are you traveling alone? Where are your parents?" She looked around, expecting someone else to appear.

"I"m traveling alone," she said. "It seems if you are too," Kagome smiled, kinda relieved that she wouldn't have to meet even more. "I'm just collecting shells for my sister," she said and rolled her eyes. "No one ever travels alone on a long journey. You don't smell familiar. Why are you alone?" Toki questioned. "I'm an orphan," Kagome thought up quickly. Toki gasped. "That's so awful," she said softly. "I should have never asked. Please forgive me." Kagome nodded. "It's ok," she smiled. "I'm not alone."

Toki looked around again. "You look alone," she said. "I have someone waiting for me at the shore. He's an old friend," she smiled. "I'm going to the shore!" exclaimed Toki. "That's where I get shells!" "But first I need to get the silk of a sea dragon's cocoon." "A s-sea d-dragon!" she stuttered. "They'll eat you alive!" she yelled.

"Will you help me? I don't even know what they are," Kagome said sheepishly. Toki was stunned for a moment, but the nodded blankly. "I guess I can't let you kill yourself," she said, her mood slowly becoming normal again. "Besides, you know what that stuff is worth! I'm not exactly rich, my family needs whatever we can get." "So you're in?" Kagome asked hopefully.

"Of course!"

"Do know where we could find one?" Kagome asked, as they started to swim along. "It's not where, it's when," Toki said factually. "Sea dragons only make cocoons when they are having baby sea dragons. It doesn't matter when during the year, but they can be pretty hard to find." "Is there any idea of a location?" she asked, hoping that she wasn't pestering Toki with to many questions. "Deep waters I suppose."

"Aren't we deep enough? I swam for days getting here!" Kagome said in a flustered tone. "Don't worry," she said in a soft tone. "We're built for long distance swimming. It's good to swim. Or else you'll turn into my fat uncle," she giggled. Kagome couldn't help but laugh as well, besides Toki was right. It would only make it feel longer if she was depressed the whole time. It was nice to have someone lighten the mood.

"Fine then I'll race you!" said Kagome and took off with one thrash of her flipper. "Hey no fair!" Toki yelled and sprinted to catch up. Kagome swam up to the surface and jumped high out of the water, landing gracefully. "Ha, well watch this!" said Toki. Toki lept out and did a flip, landing almost silently. "Wow!" gasped Kagome. "That was amazing!" "Well it didn't take long to perfect," smiled Toki.

"Now come on we have a long way to go."

!#$&()+

"The bear is looking for someone."

"What are you saying?" asked the villager. "The demon is provoking us. It's goal is to find one specific person, but who we do not know," said Miroku. "That's impossible, it has injured or killed all the villagers, at least once. Sometimes more!" "Then it is mearly waiting. It is who it is waiting for that we should be concerned with."

"Why do you say it, instead of them?"

"We have fought the demons numerous times," said Sango. "Each time we fight the bear it has the same wounds as the last one. They attack one by one because there is only one."

!#$&()+

"Dammit. I hate my human night."

With another passing week, Kagome was still gone and it was the moonless night. Inuyasha sat leaning up against the tree trunk close to shore. There had been no sign of kagome, but more than enough bear demons.

Kagome where are you?

!#$&()+

"Are you sure that's it." "Unmistakable. I've seen only so few, but I know one when I see one."

Kagome swam closer to it. "It just looks like a cave." Toki swam up next to her. "It was probably an old mermaid cave. She either murdered them or it was abandoned from the start. My guess it was abandoned, if you were about to give birth would you really want to start a fight?" Kagome shook her head. "That's what I thought. If we're in luck she'll be out gathering food. But be on your toes, well flipper. If she gathering food, you're the food."

Kagome nodded silently, her face turned pale. Is this worth the risk? Of course! What am I thinking! Being alone for so long is making me crazy. Toki seems nice enough though.

Kagome swam inside the dark cave, stirring up a few bubbles behind her. The entire cave was in darkness. Kagome could just make out a few eggs in the back. The floor and walls of the cave were lined in a deep blue colored silk. The eggs were also nesting on top of a few sheets of silk. She swam over to one of the walls and tried to pull off some of the silk, but to no avail.

The silk was stuck. Toki swam in next to her. "It's stuck," she whispered. "If you want silk you have to take it from one of the eggs." That seems so wrong. What will the eggs do? Kagome pushed aside her pitiful feelings, she had to do this. Hastily, she darted over to one of the eggs. She grasped one of the sheets and tugged. It would not budge. She tugged harder. Nothing. Again. Again. Again. Then finally eggs rolled away and she got one of the sheets.

But, the egg kept rolling until it hit the wall and cracked. "Oh no," whispered Toki, who also had a sheet. Kagome quickly put the sheet inside her bag, that was around her neck, and went to swim away as fast as she could. But a cracking noise made her freeze. She slowly turned around the see a huge crack on the egg get bigger and bigger. Then a small head popped out and it fixed its eyes on Kagome. "Not good," she whispered. "Run!" yelled Toki.

At first Kagome could not see why. A baby dragon was no big deal. But then she saw it. The mother loomed darkly over them. A growl grumbled in its throat. The dragon opened its massive jaws, revealing its huge teeth. It went to take a bite out of Kagome, but Toki jerked her away just in time to see the fangs snap shut where Kagome had been only a moment ago.

The chase was on. The dragon roared and swam after them. Toki and Kagome pounded threw the water, faster than they have ever swam before. "Quick, Toki panted, "we have to loose her, we'll never be able to out swim her." Kagome nodded. "You go left and I'll go right." The both swam faster. Toki grabbed her hand for a moment and squeezed it tightly. "Shore is east. That's where you need to go. I'm going there too, but just incase we never see each other again I'll never forget you." "Me too. I'll think of you every day," Kagome said with tears welling up in her eyes.

Then they broke away. Kagome turned sharply left and Toki went right. The dragon raced after Toki and Kagome came to a halt. "Good bye," Kagome said softly.

Kagome yelped as she felt something brush up against her fin. She looked down to see the baby sea dragon. It rubbed up against her flipper, purring. Oh no! It saw me first, it must think I'm its mother.

The dragon was the size of a normal dog, coming up to her hip in height. Its scales were a tortoise color. It had purple eyes and four legs. The toes on the legs were webbed, a fast swimmer. It had a long tail, but no spikes. It had a few whiskers on its cheeks and already its teeth were massive. Its talons were razor sharp, a born killer.

All the same it looked sweet and innocent. Kagome couldn't help feel sorry for him. It was her fault in the first place that this happened. But this would never work out. She couldn't keep a dragon! Besides she wouldn't be a mermaid forever. So Kagome swam off quickly to loose it. After a while she slowed down to rest.

The dragon was still there, not even a bit tired. "I guess you can stay with me. But only for a little while."

Right now we need to head east. I need to find Toki and get the song. I need Kikyo's soul and I have to talk to Inuyasha. Kagome sighed. This was going to end out badly. Somehow.