Well here it is finally, the anticipated chapter six! Or at least anticipated by the few people who actually read this one. I can't believe I'm on to chapter six and only gotten a little over twenty reviews . . . But I guess no one really wants to read a western huh? I can understand if someone skips over my fic for the sole purpose of it being a western . . . But my friends seem to think I'm pulling it off. I hope other people think so too. This fic's having a hard time getting noticed, so if you have friends that like to read good fan fiction, please tell them about me! I would appreciate it very, very, very much! Words couldn't express it!

Also, I always like to hear what people think about my original characters! I know I told you that I used them in another story already, but hey, CLAMP fools around and puts their characters in different stories, so why can't I? Seiya is my favorite made-up . . . Well, him and Moyuru both since they're brother and sister. I didn't really get to show much of his character in Sorrowful Soul, so I put him in this one so I could show off more of his personality. My friend was the one that suggested to me that I make him a carpenter, and that worked out pretty darn well, or at least I think so!

So, think you've figured who's on the wanted poster yet? Here's the moment of truth to figure out if you got it right or not. Here it is, chapter 6! Read, Review, and Enjoy!

Mayu Kitsune

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Chapter 6: Wanted Dead or Alive

So far it was dark out already, and the sheriff still had yet to come by Kaede's place to pick up Rin. Moyuru waited patiently, knowing that Seiya would be by any moment now to get her and go "home." It seemed as though she would have to explain to him that this watching-the-little-girl thing had turned into an overnight thing.

She wasn't complaining though; Rin hadn't given her any problems and her two dollars was an easy two dollars to earn, but she didn't want to take Rin back to her and Seiya's place. How would she explain to the sheriff that he had left the little girl to someone that didn't even have a house to live in? She had already run it by Kaede to stay at her house overnight and had gotten permission.

Sure enough, it wasn't much longer before Seiya came knocking on the door. Moyuru gave him a bit of an odd look as he walked in. His lip was busted and a bruise was already pretty dark on his face. He hadn't gotten into that bar fight earlier in the day had he? What would he have been doing in there? Not spending their hard-earned money on drinks she hoped.

Seiya said a polite hello to Kaede before finding Moyuru. "Are you ready to go?" he questioned her.

"No, I'm going to have to stay here for the night. I still have to look after Rin and I don't think we can take care of her where we're at." Moyuru answered. Her eyebrows furrowed, "What happened to you?"

"What?"

"Your face."

"Oh." Seiya said, seeming to get it. "Don't worry about it. Just had a little accident on a job, that's all."

"Yeah right, did you just happen to fall on someone's fist?" Moyuru questioned.

Seiya looked a little indignant. "It's not a big problem, so I got into a fight."

"It wouldn't happen to have been that bar fight earlier would it?"

The carpenter stayed silent. Moyuru was fifteen and not stupid at all. It didn't look like he could really hide the fact from her. "Everything's fine, nothing much happened."

Moyuru scowled at him, taking him out of the room where Rin was playing around with a fan that Kagura had gotten for her earlier in the day. "Yeah right!" Moyuru exclaimed in a whisper once they were in the hallway, "What the hell were you doing in there? You know we don't have the money for you to start drinking!"

"I wasn't going to start drinking. If I had I would be drunk right about now wouldn't I?"

Now Moyuru was the one without much to say. She knew he was right. Her mind wandered over something else that she had temporarily forgotten about and she spoke up again. "We can't exactly afford to draw too much attention to ourselves now either."

Seiya looked puzzled. "What?" he questioned. What was she talking about, "couldn't afford to draw attention"?

She reached into her pocket to pull out something, but paused when she couldn't find it. Where was it? That wadded up piece of paper! She lost it! Panicked, she turned her pocket inside out, but found nothing. "Oh sh-" she caught herself before she could complete the word.

"What is it?"

"The posters, they've made it all the way here already!"

Seiya paled, "What? Damn!" he muttered quietly, his fist clenching.

"The wanted posters with your picture on it! Now they're offering a thousand dollars! I found one today on the side of the inn, but I snatched it and crumpled it up. I put it in my pocket so I could burn it later but it must've fallen out!" she cried, tears beginning to form in her eyes. "They're onto us. It won't be long before people around here come looking for you."

Seiya sighed, hugging her. "It's alright. You know what to do if something happens to me."

"But I don't want anything to happen to you."

"We both knew it would come to this sometime. We can't do anything to change it." Seiya replied, releasing her after a moment and deciding to change the subject, "It doesn't look like the sheriff'll be back here for a while. I'm just going to go home; I'll come by and see you in the morning."

Seiya's eyebrows furrowed when Moyuru didn't answer. "Don't worry, everything'll be fine. Just don't act like there's something wrong and I'll try to stay a little more in the shadows alright?"

"Okay . . . Just stay out of trouble."

"I'll see you later."

With that Seiya left, going back to their "home" at the campsite.

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"Help! Help me! He's crazy I tell you! Insane!" A voice could be heard shouting outside.

Sango looked confused as she came out of the sheriff's office where she had occupied herself with petting her feline friend Kirara and dealing with any problems that the townspeople may have come to her with. She had been hoping that Sesshomaru would be back soon. Some of the people had begun acting up when they figured that he wasn't around. So what was someone up to this time?

She stared a little when she noticed Sesshomaru riding back. So he had finally decided to return, but who was doing all the yelling and what about? In the dark it took her a moment to make out the rope that was attached to Sesshomaru's horse, apparently tied to someone who was doing all the shouting.

The sheriff stopped his horse in front of his office. "Well, I see that my town is still intact." he commented.

"You're welcome." Sango replied sarcastically, knowing good and well that Sesshomaru would never say a "thank you" and his comment was about as close as she was getting to one.

"Thank God! He stopped!" the man tied up exclaimed. He looked dirty and banged up pretty badly. His feet had been tied so that he couldn't stand, and his hands were tied as well.

Sango gave the man a questioning look. "One of the train robbers?"

Sesshomaru nodded.

"Where are the others?"

"They ran."

"Why are you dragging this one?" Sango questioned, that being what she wanted to ask all along. She had seen the sheriff do plenty of odd things as a form of punishment, but this was new.

"He complained that he was tired, so I didn't make him walk the rest of the way." Sesshomaru replied simply. "I trust that you can take care of matters here; I have to go get Rin."

Sango nodded slowly, "Alright."

Sesshomaru didn't even bother getting off the horse, cutting the rope tied to the man before putting the horse into a laid back trot. He didn't even seem bothered that he had probably just traumatized the man he had been dragging. He didn't care about that anyway; he was just interested in picking up Rin, sure that by now her babysitter was getting tired.

It didn't take long at all before he had stopped by Kaede's, picked the little girl up, and paid her babysitter. Rin seemed content enough, playing with a fan that Moyuru had told him that that Kagura woman had gotten for her. It seemed as thought Kagura had also bought them dinner as well, at least according to Moyuru.

What was Kagura's sudden interest in Rin all of a sudden? To Sesshomaru, who had seen all kinds of people, she didn't seem like the type to be interested in children. He decided that he wouldn't lose any sleep over it. It was probably nothing any more important than another woman trying to win him over, and failing miserably.

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"Are you sure about this? He just doesn't seem like that much of a threat." Miroku stated as he and Inuyasha sat in wait at the saloon the next morning.

Inuyasha rolled his eyes, "Didn't you read the poster? That's the guy and he's wanted for murder."

"He's a carpenter; he doesn't even carry a gun on him."

"But the poster said he didn't even use a gun, he killed the man with his bare hands! That fight yesterday only proves that he could do it."

Miroku sighed, "I guess you've got a point."

"Besides, the nice guy act's perfect for a murderer that wants to lie low." the bounty hunter pointed out, trying to make his argument even stronger.

It didn't look as though Inuyasha had had to go very far to find his next target. A thousand dollars was a lot of money and that kind of price on someone's head was hard to ignore. It had come as a bit of a shock for the person wanted in this case to be the carpenter who seemed to be harmless enough. Of course, there were plenty of people that put on an act, and he was sure that this was what he was looking at this time around.

It wasn't too much longer before Seiya came walking in the door of the saloon. He quickly located the girl that Sam had been harassing the day before, not taking long at all for him to start a conversation with her. From the sounds of it, it seemed as though she had gotten some work for him to do for the owner of the place.

"There he is, now we just gotta wait for him to leave to catch him." Inuyasha said quietly.

Miroku looked to him in question, "And how do you plan on catching him if he's really supposed to be like you say he is?"

"You saw the poster, it said dead or alive. It would be safer just to bring him in dead."

Miroku's eyebrows furrowed a bit, "Are you sure about this?"

"Of course I am. We've dealt with people like this before remember? Like that one guy we brought down, he was posing as a nice doctor."

"I guess so." Miroku mused, thinking about that particular manhunt. Again, Inuyasha had another point. That guy had been one of the hardest to bring down. He had even used one of his own patients as a hostage . . . A little kid no less. It was possible that Seiya was the same way . . . Maybe.

Seiya sat down on one of the stools as Hannah asked him to wait. He patiently waited for her to come back with the owner. It looked like he was going to be there for a while and to Inuyasha, him sitting there was a thousand dollars just waiting to be collected, and he didn't feel like waiting any longer.

The bounty hunter got to his feet, getting up and beginning over to the bar. The look on his face alone spelt out trouble. He was tired of sitting around already and he was going to confront this guy here and now.

"Inuyasha, what're you doing?" Miroku questioned.

"Getting down to business." Inuyasha answered as he approached the carpenter, who didn't even notice him as he stopped about a foot away. Seiya was too deep in thought to really care who was near him at the moment. Besides that, Inuyasha had stopped on his blind side.

"Hey, you." Inuyasha said, trying to get his attention.

Seiya nearly jumped but kept himself from doing so. "Yeah?" he prompted, turning to look at the bounty hunter. He seemed to falter for a moment, but it didn't show much.

"You're the new guy right?"

"Right, I just got here last week."

"So, what brings you out this way? I heard this town's full of outlaws, wouldn't happen to be one of them would you?" Inuyasha demanded, giving him a pointed look.

Seiya seemed a little uneasy, shifting around in his chair. "What makes you think that?" he questioned.

"Oh come on, you took down that guy last night way too easy. You weren't even scared of him."

"Should I have been?"

"Hey Inuyasha, what're you doing? Don't tell me you're still bothering him. Are you trying to scare him off or something?" Kagome demanded as she approached.

Inuyasha looked a little peeved, "You would be tryin' to scare him off if you knew what he did."

Seiya seemed to go a little pale. "Honestly, I don't know what you're talking about. I haven't done anything. All I'm doing here is looking for work." he stated in his defense, staying seated even though it nearly looked as though it was taking everything he had not to get up and run.

"Would you just leave him alone? He hasn't done anything to you; I don't get why you're giving him the third degree all of a sudden." Kagome stated.

Inuyasha didn't say much else, taking out the wanted poster and handing it to her, "Read it."

Kagome looked to him a bit skeptically before she unfolded the piece of paper. Her eyes went wide as she read it. What? Seiya? No way, this can't be right! He wouldn't do something like that . . . Would he? Her thoughts were interrupted by the sound of a stool falling over and hitting the floor.

"Hey wait! Stop!" Inuyasha shouted as Seiya made a mad dash for the door.

"I knew that wasn't such a good idea Inuyasha, you didn't make this any easier on yourself!" Miroku called after the bounty hunter as he started out after him.

Inuyasha ignored him, pulling out his revolver once he made it outside. "Stop right there or I'll let you have a taste of hot lead!"

"Inuyasha! Are you sure about this? What if it's false?" Kagome questioned loudly, making it out the door right after them. It didn't seem to be doing any good; Inuyasha just wasn't hearing any of it. He kept his gun aimed.

The carpenter paused, muttering a curse and turning to face him upon hearing his threat. Could this really be the end of the road? There didn't seem to be any way out of this . . . He had been found after so long. There wouldn't be any getting anywhere after this anyway. People outside were staring at the scene, they would surely figure everything out from the looks of the situation. His past had caught up with him.

"You can either come quietly, or I'll take you in dead. Either way's fine with me, I'll still get paid." Inuyasha stated.

Seiya sent him somewhat of a glare, "I'm not just going to let you take me to be strung up like some kind of morbid tree ornament for something that wasn't supposed to happen."

"If you wanna get shot all you've got to do is make a move." the bounty hunter shot back, pulling back the hammer on his revolver despite protests from Kagome and the waitress that Seiya had been talking to before.

Miroku held the two girls back. He didn't much like it when Inuyasha got into a mood like this. He knew that Inuyasha had a tendency to get violent, to shoot first and ask questions later. Especially when it came to murderers; he had a deep hatred of them, that being the reason for his job. It just seemed like sometimes his hate could cloud his judgment. If Kagome or Hannah were to rush in now they could get hurt by either one of the two men in the standoff.

"Inuyasha! Slow down and think! Something about this just doesn't seem right!" Miroku shouted

"Shut up Miroku, that's my call!" Inuyasha growled back.

Miroku nearly cursed. He knew things could get worse if he got in the way. It looked like the only thing he could do was keep the ladies out of danger.

Seiya looked tense as his situation seemed more and more hopeless. He seemed to be searching for a way out, his face obviously showing his deep thought. He didn't seem to be ready to give up just yet. He was beginning to make a break for it again, turning to begin running.

Inuyasha's finger tightened on the trigger as he began to fire. This man was just another murderer that had made the same mistake as plenty of others. It didn't look like this one was going to be hurting anyone else. It would all be over quickly. No one should have been beaten to death . . . This man wouldn't live to do it again.

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Moyuru made her way through the town, studying the list that Kaede had given her. This seemed to be her first job of the day. Kaede had given her a list of things to get at one of the shops and she had hurried on her way. She shoved the list in a pocket and continued on until she noticed a commotion.

Curious, she wandered that way. What was going on over there? It wasn't another fight was it? She knew that Kaede had told her to be quick about this, but she could wait a little bit. She would probably just be on her way again once her curiosity had been satisfied.

"If you wanna get shot all you've got to do is make a move." she heard a voice say.

Her eyes widened as she caught sight of her brother being held at gunpoint. Who was the man with the gun? It couldn't have been Inuyasha! She had heard of him, one of the most well-known bounty hunters around! This couldn't be good; she had to do something!

She ran forward, shoving her way through a small crowd that had gathered. "No! Wait!" she shouted, not seeming to have been heard as Seiya began to dart off again and Inuyasha seemed to be about to open fire.

She ran harder. "STOP!"

A gunshot rang out, echoing through the town. There was silence as people couldn't seem to help but stare. Moyuru had run in and shoved Inuyasha's arm, throwing his shot off and sparing her brother's life for now.

"What the hell do you think you're doing?" Inuyasha exclaimed.

Moyuru sent him a glare, "Saving you from killing an innocent person."

Seiya had stopped now, going back to his sister. This wasn't something that he wanted either. On one of the posters he had seen, it had asked for them both to be brought in, naming her his accomplice of sorts. He would have rather been killed than to let her be taken too. "Moyuru, get away!" he shouted.

"And just let someone shoot you? No way!"

Inuyasha seemed a little indignant as Moyuru continued to keep his aim off. He really still only had one arm to do anything with. "Let go! You're protecting a murderer!"

"No I'm not!" Moyuru growled, "He's my brother! Those posters are wrong about him!"

Inuyasha glared back at her a bit, but Miroku's usual voice of reason finally made it to him. "Maybe you should hear the pretty little lady out, there's always two sides to a story." the gambler stated, causing his white haired friend to back off and put his revolver back in its place on his belt.

"Fine." he grumbled, "But if this turns out to be true and he is what they say he is, then he's a dead man."

Kagome and a few others seemed a little relieved that the tension was mostly over. I knew there had to be some other side to this. That Inuyasha is so stubborn! He almost shot him! She thought in disbelief. She breathed a sigh, her hand on her heart, At least he didn't though.

Not too much time passed before things calmed down and Moyuru was sharing her side of the story. Inuyasha, Miroku, Seiya, and herself were all sitting at a somewhat secluded table in the saloon. Inuyasha had seemed a little irritated that this was turning out to be such a hassle, but if everyone was insisting on it then he would listen, or half-way listen as the case may be.

"All this really started a long time ago." Moyuru began, "When our 'father' adopted us."

"If you could even call him that." Seiya muttered darkly.

Miroku blinked, "The poster said that that was who you killed. Why would you kill someone that took you in?"

"Took us in? That's what everyone says, they don't know what he was really like or what his intentions really were." Seiya retorted coolly.

Inuyasha scoffed, "How do we know you're not lying? Are you going to try saying that you weren't the one that killed him now? I'm used to that. Murderers are liars."

"I'm not denying that . . . I . . . I killed him." Seiya stammered, his gaze focusing elsewhere. "Because I did."

"There, even you admitted it, now are you coming quietly or not?"

"It's not like he didn't have a reason." Moyuru said firmly.

Miroku, unlike Inuyasha seemed more interested. He was giving Moyuru his full attention. He had had a feeling all along that there was something wrong with the idea that her brother would kill someone without good reason. After all, he had gotten into that fight earlier for a good reason. "Go on, we're listening." Miroku urged before giving a pointed look to Inuyasha, "Aren't we, Inuyasha?"

"Right." the bounty hunter replied flatly.

"The man that adopted us didn't turn out to be who we thought he was. . ." Moyuru began quietly, "Sure, it was all good to begin with. We were orphans, so getting adopted was a dream come true."

"Then what?" Miroku prompted.

"Then Seiya got old enough to move out, but I wasn't, so I stayed. After he got out on his own our adoptive father started acting so strange around me."

"Strange?"

Moyuru nodded slowly, seeming a little detached from reality as she recalled her experiences. "He started looking at me weird. . . Then later he started touching me, sticking too close, it made me feel uncomfortable." she said, "And then . . ."

"Then?" Miroku questioned, his eyebrows furrowing a bit. He didn't particularly like where this was going. By the way she had fallen silent all of a sudden, he could only guess at what happened. Despite all of this, he was still somewhat satisfied to see that even Inuyasha seemed to be paying attention now. He had noticed that the mistreatment of a lady seemed to get the bounty hunter's attention just as fast as the mention of a murderer on the loose. He didn't know why, but at least the guy had a heart.

Moyuru stumbled over words a bit, but fell silent as her brother gently rubbed her back. It was almost like he had told her that she didn't have to say anymore. He even looked troubled as he took over for her, "I walked in on him while he was trying to force himself on her." he said, his tone barely controlled. The hand he still had resting on the table in front of him clenched into a fist as he struggled to keep his cool. "There wasn't much thinking after that."

"I see. I couldn't blame you." Miroku commented, "What do you think Inuyasha?"

Inuyasha sighed, still trying to admit it to himself that he had jumped the gun and was wrong about the carpenter all along. He even understood where Seiya was coming from in killing the man; he had been down that road himself with Kikyou . . . He had hunted those men down. He wasn't quite ready to admit that all of this was truthful yet. "I guess you're right." he managed finally, though it was quiet and didn't sound like that was what he really wanted to say.

"What was that? I didn't hear you."

Inuyasha sent Miroku a glare but said nothing more.

Moyuru spoke up again, though very quietly. She didn't think that Inuyasha was quite convinced yet. "Seiya fought him even though he had a knife. That's how he lost his eye . . . And I got this." she continued, holding up her right arm to reveal some nasty scarring there. Her palm also seemed to be scarred up as well. "I tried fighting him off myself."

Inuyasha seemed to think for a moment before he looked to Seiya, "So you beat the guy to death?"

Seiya nodded, "Yeah." he said nearly inaudibly. "I didn't even mean to, but by the time I stopped myself he was already as good as dead."

There were a few tense moments of silence as everyone seemed to be thinking. This was troubling to hear of, and from the looks of it, it certainly didn't look like the two had made all of that up. Inuyasha decided to break the silence after a moment, "Sounds like the bastard got what was coming to 'im." he said nonchalantly.

"So you're not going to try and take us in anymore?" Moyuru questioned.

"No. I quit." Inuyasha mumbled in reply, getting up and wandering toward the bar.

"Does he mean it?" Moyuru asked once Inuyasha was out of earshot.

Miroku sent her one of his dazzling smiles, "It seems like it. And that comment he made earlier is just about as close to an 'I'm sorry' as you're going to get out of him." He reached his hand out to her, "It was very nice to meet you Miss Moyuru."

Moyuru blinked, taking his hand to shake it and blushing when he took it and kissed it instead. What was with the chivalry all of a sudden? She was a little taken aback.

"By the way, might I say that you are a very beautiful girl. You shouldn't let the scars bother you because they certainly don't take away from your appearance at all." he added.

Moyuru blushed a shade deeper, "I'll remember that."

Miroku was beginning to ask her the same as she did all the women he ran into, the action being just about second nature to him, but his sentence died when he noticed her brother watching him like a hawk. There was just something about that one-eyed stare that made him back off, releasing her with a nervous smile. "Well, uh, it was nice meeting you too, Seiya. I'll just be . . . Leaving you both alone now." he said, hurrying off. Maybe he could start another game of cards and get money . . . Or hang out with the showgirls. Maybe the deputy wouldn't mind him proposing to take her out to dinner.

Seiya watched the gambler leave before letting out a heavy sigh. So, it seemed like he wasn't going in or didn't have to move again after all. He blinked, nearly falling over when Moyuru latched herself onto him.

"Finally! We can settle down!" she exclaimed.

"I guess so, somewhat anyway. He's not the only one looking for us."

"I know, but so long as we don't cause a fuss here we'll be fine. You think we could even have our own house?"

"Why not? It looks like we might actually be staying here for a while. . ."

Seiya's sentence was cut off as Moyuru seemed to remember something. "Oh crap!" she exclaimed, "Kaede's ingredients! I forgot all about them!"

"Well then go get them, and I'll see you later." Seiya offered.

It didn't take long at all before Moyuru had bolted, saying a quick goodbye. She didn't need to lose her apprenticeship! And after she had been working so hard too! She wasn't aware of someone who seemed to be watching her as she ran out to carry on her duties.

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Inuyasha was seated at the bar, actually having ordered a drink this time, though it wasn't a very strong one. He let out a heavy sigh. Why did things have to be so complicated? This was definitely the first time he had ever let a target go, but neither one of the two had seemed to be lying and Seiya's motive for the killing seemed to be justified enough. This wouldn't mean that he would stop watching the carpenter for the remainder of his stay; it just meant that he was actually thinking first for once.

"So, is he really so horrible?" Kagome prompted as she came back with his order. The bartender had been out sick and whoever was the closest to the bar seemed to just take over his job. This time it had been her.

Inuyasha just gave her a look and a humph.

"You know, you shouldn't jump to conclusions so fast. What if you actually shot him?"

"I didn't alright, just leave me alone about it."

Kagome let out a heavy sigh, but didn't protest. She had more work to do anyway and he sounded even more irritable than usual. It was kind of understandable though. He had just about made a pretty big mistake and was probably cursing himself for it on the inside. She went on about her business as usual. She had other customers to tend to.

Inuyasha didn't even seem to notice as a man dressed completely in black approached him. "So this is the day hell freezes over isn't it? I'm sure that's what you told yourself about the day you ever let anyone off the hook." the man stated.

"What do you want? Didn't you just hear me tell someone to leave me alone?" Inuyasha snapped, not looking to the man.

"Yes, I heard you."

"Then get lost."

"You really have a way of showing that girl that you have a liking for her don't you? Always so gruff when it comes to women."

Inuyasha made his best effort to ignore the man, not even looking to him and only taking a sip of his drink.

"Could that have anything to do with that nice woman you fell in love with a while back?"

Inuyasha's eyes widened a bit before narrowing. He sent a glare to the man beside him.

"The one that died?" The man prompted.

"Who the hell are you and what do you want?" Inuyasha growled back

The man smiled a bit, a twisted smile. "I would like to test my skill against the best of the best. You are the great bounty hunter, Inuyasha, aren't you?"

"Test your skill? How?"

"In a showdown of course. So do you accept my challenge?"

Showdown? Inuyasha mused, Is he sure he wants to do this? He's done pissed me off and he expects to win?

"Of course I'm sure I want to take you on. You don't think I can win do you?" the man prompted, a slight smirk crossing his face.

Inuyasha looked surprised to say the least. It was like he had read his thoughts! It had to be some mind trick he knew, but how did he know about Kikyou? He had never seen this guy in his entire life yet he seemed to know so much about him. He could just be one of those psychopaths that go through hell to find out everything about a person. . . Inuyasha reasoned with himself.

"So, how about noon tomorrow?"

"Fine."

The man smirked again, "See you then, Inuyasha."

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So, ready for a showdown? I was in Gatlinburg, Tennessee when I realized that, hey, this is a western and I haven't had a showdown yet! What kind of western doesn't have a showdown? I'm pretty sure you know who the mystery man is that challenged Inuyasha, and just incase you forgot, he makes a short appearance in chapter four. . . I think . . . Yeah. I really hope that I didn't get Inuyasha out of character too badly. I know that it doesn't seem like him to get cocky and jump the gun, but I wasn't sure if I made him a little too much so or not. It's hard to think when you've got writer's block. I figured that he wouldn't like murderers much because of what happened to Kikyou and all, as well as a few other things in his past, but I'm not so sure how things went down for all the readers. So I hope you liked this chapter and if you did I sure as heck would like to know! So review people! And thanks for reading.

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Chapter 7: Showdown at High Noon

So it seems that Inuyasha has gotten a challenge, and of course this hot-headed bounty hunter is more than willing to take it. But what about this newcomer? Does he play fair, or will he play dirty and get rid of Inuyasha once and for all? And what of Kagura? Her time is ticking away by the hour and she is not about to give up on her mission yet. What will her next plan of action be to get the icy sheriff's interest?

Well, you'll just have to find out in the next chapter! Thanks to all of you who read and I hope that you continue to enjoy this, my first ever AU fic!

Mayu Kitsune

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