Disclaimer: second verse same as the first. Also every time you flame Koga steals a Kagome, please think of the sad InuYasha.

Chapter 2

Familiar Face

"To tell you the truth, Hana I have a younger brother who is a half demon." Suzuka told Hana, who has been sticking to her side all day after she scared away the kids.

"Really." She said

"Yep." She smiled at her, "His name is Jinenji. He may not have looks like some half demons are lucky to have but, he does have a good heart."

"Hana! Hana!" a man yelled at them.

"Daddy!" Hana turned to face the man running over to them.

"Hana are you ok I was so worried about you." He grabbed her shoulders and stared at her.

"I'm ok daddy. I've been with Lady Suzuka all day."

"Oh," he looked at Suzuka, "I thank you for looking after my daughter."

"No no the pleasure is mine." Suzuka said shaking her head, "It was nice to have your daughter around."

"Time to go Hana."

"Bye Lady Suzuka." Hana said as she and her father headed towards their hut.

That night Suzuka couldn't get any sleep. She was tossing and turning. Finally she got up to go for a walk. Apparently lots of others were restless. Fires were all over the village. She noticed a fire in front of her family's mansion also. There were demons talking to her parents. They were talking in a low whisper so she didn't here much of what they were saying.

"…the children said they saw someone in the village they didn't recognize." Said an old fire demon. "They said they saw him in the great tree."(The great tree has leaves on branches the size of platforms. Which are strong enough to be stood on)

"You are blaming my daughter for this." Suzuka's father calmly said.

"You know what she is capable of. How do you know she didn't just invite this stranger in?"

"How do you know the stranger wasn't Lord Sesshomaru? He is allowed to come here whenever he likes."

"The children say the man was dressed in a white baboon pelt."

Suzuka was in shock. She had hopped the stranger was gone but she was wrong. He somehow followed her inside the village. Suzuka quickly went back to her room and quickly fell asleep, hoping that the conversation was all a dream.

Suzuka awoke in the morning and found she had a visitor. She left her room and found Hana waiting for her. She looked so happy to see Suzuka. It must be because Suzuka became her one and only friend. Suzuka told Hana stories of things she did outside of the village and the history of why the village resides so close to Sesshomaru's home. Suzuka noticed it was noon. She remembered how worried Ryu gets when she doesn't come to see him. She bid Hana farewell and told her she would be back soon. Suzuka ran through the forest to the waterfall. She saw Ryu pacing back and forth. He ran up and hugged her. Then he inspected every inch of her body. Suzuka slapped him.

"What on earth are you doing!" she said with a look of rage on her face.

"I was making sure you went harmed." He said rubbing his cheek, "You were really scared last night."

"Oh…well I'm better now. So, bye."

"Hey wait…" but it was too late she was already heading to her village, "what about me."

Hana was waiting for Suzuka near the tree Mio was in yesterday. Hana ran over to her. Happily saying "Lady Suzuka! Lady Suzuka!". Another person was walking a distance away from Hana. Suzuka noticed it was Mio, who was glaring at Hana. Suzuka walked over to Mio and Hana followed her.

"I didn't know you degraded yourself to hanging out with half-breeds." Mio said giving Suzuka a malevolent smile. Mio was famous for this smile because she gave it to at least one person a day.

"Do you have a point or do you just like hearing yourself talk." Suzuka smiled at her. Mio gave an annoyed humph.

"Well I came here to remind you that tonight is the festival."

"Oh yeah, I forgot." She said hitting her head

"That's what I thought." Mio started walking away, "Don't forget…again" When Mio left Hana stopped hiding behind Suzuka.

"Lady Suzuka what festival?"

"It's a festival to celebrate the barrier given to us by the great tree."

"What do you do?"

"Well all the women dance around the tree and the men play instruments. I am supposed to lead the dance. I think the dance is really pretty."

"I can't wait."

That night was the festival, and everyone was enjoying themselves. This was Suzuka's favorite day every year, because this time of the year nobody cared about who she was. Hana was even allowed to come, though she was a half-demon. Before the festivities were over, Suzuka thought she saw a man in a baboon pelt up in the tree. It slipped her mind, and then she just didn't care anymore. It was probably because of the atmosphere. It was all too cheerful.

Suzuka was surprised to find Hana wasn't waiting for her in the morning. So, she decided to see Ryu, who was happy to see her. She greeted him and went into the tree she usually sits in. She used her powers of nature to make flowers bloom in the tree and began creating a flower crown. She and Ryu started to fall into an unearthly sleep, as there was a spell being put on them. Before she knew it she was out cold.

She woke a few hours later with a headache. Clouds were forming overhead, as it started to pour rain.

"That's weird the sky was perfectly clear a while a go." She said to herself, "It only rains like this if someone from my village…" her eyes grew wide "Ryu fly me to the village now! I don't care if your seen!"

Present

Suzuka was asleep in her favorite tree. She awoke remembering she now had no home to go to. It has been one day since the attack on her village and now she couldn't bring herself to leave the waterfall.

"My Lady." Ryu said to her holding in his hand two shards of the sacred jewel. Suzuka jumped from the tree and grabbed them. She held her arm in the air as if she was going to destroy the shards. She started crying and drops of blood left her hand and landed on her face. Suzuka put down her arm and opened her hand. She started laughing.

"This all happened because of these stupid things." She said after she stopped laughing "I'm going to keep them. In hopes that I will find that man again and exact my revenge. And you will help me Ryu."

"How exactly am I going to do that?" he said asked taking a few steps away from her.

"You are going to become a cute wittle horsy with the help of these." She walked up to him and put a jewel shard in his right arm and one in his left. "Now turn into a horse."

Surprisingly it worked. He turned into a horse with his normal colors.

"Now don't you look cute?" Suzuka smiled at him "Now you need a new name so nobody knows who you are." She thought for a minute and jumped up "I got it! Nightmare is your new name because it will be a nightmare for you having to carry me around all the time."

"What makes you think I'll do that!" he, uh, thought at her.

"Because you have no anger bone in your body towards me. Now we are off!" she said with a determined look and pointed in a random direction.

Later On

"How long have we been traveling." Sighed Suzuka, laying on Ryu's back.

"I believe about ten or twelve days." Answered Ryu. Apparently that didn't make Suzuka happy as she hit him on the head.

"I was hoping you were going to say two. Uh, why did you stop?"

"Shh someone is ahead of us." Suzuka got off Ryu and crawled towards the way they were headed. She looked through the bushes and saw something white. She looked at what it was more closely and saw someone very familiar.

"Sesshomaru!" she whispered

Hoped you liked the chapter R&R accept for you JUstsayingthetruth or who ever you are. You can't rule my life and I can live it how I want. I hope you burn in Hell .