Okay…I think some people may be a little confused on a couple points.

First: No, there is not royalty in modern Japan, as far as I know, but there was about 150 years ago when Inuyasha was born, ok? Are you getting this now?

Second: Inuyasha did not sleep for 50 years, coma or not. In the third movie, it says his father died 200 years ago, on the night Inuyasha was born. I figure, like many other fanfic writers, that Inuyasha was aging one youkai year for every ten human years, and that the fifty years he was on the tree he spent in suspended animation; not aging or anything.

Now that that's cleared up…

Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha, but according to the Weird Al song I'm listening to right now, my love life will run into trouble when my fiancé hurls a javelin through my chest…Good thing I don't have a fiancé…or a love life, for that matter.

Last Time: And Inuyasha came bursting through the wall just in time to intercept the bullet. Wearing the bright red jacket Kagome had become so accustomed to seeing, he looked to her like a beacon in the gloom of the storehouse.

"Inuyasha!"

This Time:

Inuyasha whirled on the Boss, the same yellow energy trailing from his fingertips as the encounter with Mistress Centipede.

"Pathetic," he announced, seemingly to the man's chest, "Couldn't even get yourself anything better than this piece of shit? And you can't even control him properly," he gestured to the wavering stance and uneven aim of the gun, "You're a poor excuse for a youkai," draw back for the strike, "you filthy crow!"

Inuyasha's hand went clean through the Boss's chest where his heart should have been, and a large crow with three eyes flew out of his back at the same point. The Boss froze in place, then slowly collapsed as his flesh dissolved away.

His large skeleton fell to the floor with a thump. Kagome clasped her hands to her mouth to hold back the scream building in her throat. Her eyes were large and disbelieving, unable to comprehend what had just happened. Inuyasha shook her out of her stupor.

"Stop doing this," he demanded, "Everything's ok now, got it? That thug is dead, you and the Shikon are safe, and, without a host, the crow is harmless."

He did a double take at the spot where the Shikon should have been around her neck.

"Where the hell is the fucking Jewel!"

Kagome's eyes watered up with tears. She had been away from home for two days now, she was apparently in the future, where everything she had known was long since dead and gone, and now this jerk had the gall to yell at her over a stupid little bead that had almost cost Kagome her life?

"You know what, Inuyasha?" she reached into her pocket, "I am sick and tired of everything that I've been through in the past two days," fist closed around the desired object, "so you can shut up," pulled it out of the pocket, "and just…just…," necklace slammed roughly over his head "Osuwari!"

The beads glowed bright purple for a moment, and then Inuyasha was forced face-first into the wooden floor of the storehouse. The gang members, having only just started recovering from shock, cowered further into the corner they were in. No one else really wanted to do a face-plant. Inuyasha swore heavily from his position spread-eagle in an indent on the floor in every language he knew how. Kagome turned on her heel and stormed off.

As soon as he regained his freedom of movement, Inuyasha grabbed a gun off of a gang member and took off after Kagome. She was going to get herself killed out there, now that the crow most likely had the Jewel.

Kagome ran back towards what she thought was the general direction of the house, tears leaking out of her eyes.

'Inuyasha no baka!' she thought furiously.

She slowed to a stop by the arches that marked the front entrance to the shrine and looked down the steps to the street below. A small boy and his mother were passing by, when a sudden dark shape swooped in and snatched the boy from his mother's grasp. Kagome gasped as she recognized the shape. It was the crow.

'Only now,' she thought angrily to herself, 'it's bigger and stronger because I let it have the Shikon.'

"Oi!"

Kagome turned at the familiar voice to see Inuyasha land right next to her. She glared coldly at him before her gaze dropped to the item clutched in his hand.

"We have to help the boy," She stated, leaving no question, "It's my fault he was snatched away, and I'm going to fix it. But just how is that…thing," Kagome gestured impatiently to the gun Inuyasha had been holding out to her, "going to help me?"

Without warning, Inuyasha pulled her up onto his back and handed her the gun. He was in the air before she quite realized it.

"Kaede Baba says that Kikyou was your reincarnation, so you can't be that bad with a gun."

They leapt across several buildings, trying to eliminate some of the distance between them and the crow. The crow took a sharp right and headed for a park with a large pond and Inuyasha took to the trees. Kagome saw a chance when the crow flew above the trees and fired twice.

Both shots missed horribly.

Inuyasha dropped to the ground with a disgusted huff and deposited Kagome roughly on the path.

"Ite! What was that for, you jerk?" Kagome shrieked, rubbing her abused tailbone.

Inuyasha scowled back at her. "I should have know you would be useless."

He turned on his heel and leapt after the crow once more.

"Inuyasha!" Kagome yelled after him, "Don't hurt the boy!"

She stood up with a wince and ran after them, determined to save the little boy. As she caught up by the edge of the lake, Kagome saw Inuyasha slash the crow to pieces, leaving the boy to fall into the water below. Her eyes widened in horror, and she leapt into the water after him without a second thought. The child, no more than four or five, Kagome noticed, was struggling to stay above the surface of the water and failing. With the practiced ease of one who has been swimming their entire life, she made her way over to boy and started slowly pulling him back to shore, as she had done when her own brother had been this age. They were greeted at the pond's edge by several bystanders and the child's own mother. Kagome stood awkwardly as the woman cried hysterically and thanked her repeatedly through her tears.

Inuyasha's cursing caught her attention, and she turned to see the reforming crow starting to fly off. The little boy whimpered as he was jerked up a little by the foot of the crow still attached to his shirt. Inuyasha peered curiously as she fumbled with the foot for a moment, and the gun before she stood and aimed again. The foot gave up on the boy and released him in favor of returning to the body.

Inuyasha scowled at her, "My ass she's gonna hit it," he muttered himself as Kagome squeezed the trigger.

His eyes widened as he noticed something odd about the bullet.

'She's shooting a claw!'

Kagome watched determinedly as her bullet sped towards it's intended target.

'It can't help but be drawn back to the rest of the body, so there's no way I can miss.'

The claw glowed the same eerie blue light as Kagome's hands had with Mistress Centipede before colliding with the crow.

"Got it!"

A small cracking sound was heard, as a pink light engulfed the crow before exploding into shards that scattered in all directions.

Both Inuyasha and Kagome looked on in horror.

'I really hope that's not what I think it is…'

Ha. Ha. Ha. There, it's broken now. I have completed my evilness for the day. Muaha.

Review and tell me what you think, and others, if you like it!

Much love,

Miji