Sorry about the long waiting folks, I've been a bit busy so I haven't even had much time to even write. I know that the last couple of posts that I made were a bit longer than usual, so it made for longer reading, but this chapter isn't quite as large as the previous. Here's my friday post! Enjoy!

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InuYasha looked around quickly and found both his sword, and Kaede's sword and ran to grab them both. As he did this Kaede ran through the demon like she, herself, was a weapon, and her spiritual powers diminished the demon down to a puddle, and the fog cleared from the courtyards. Kaede turned and looked at the group with her newly transformed face. She was soaked in the moisture of the demon as if she had been standing in a rainstorm. The girl walked forward a little and then bent down to the ground and picked up the jewel shard that the demon had possessed, and placed it within the inner lining of her kimono top.

"What do we do? She probably doesn't recognize us right now!" Shippo asked sadly.

"InuYasha! Since Kagome can't "sit" her like she can you, you'll have to get Kaede to touch the Tetsusaiga!" Miroku shouted from across the courtyards.

"That shouldn't be too hard!" InuYasha said as he sprinted forward at Kaede holding her Tetsusaiga in front of him.

Just before InuYasha could touch the sword to Kaede, she jumped out of the way quickly. She jumped so quickly that InuYasha couldn't track her scent as to where she had gone and before he knew it, he had been kicked in the back and skidded into a nearby hut, destroying it.

"InuYasha!" Kagome yelled, wanting to run to his side.

"...Stay away... from me!" Kaede shouted in a deadly tone of voice.

InuYasha managed to climb out of the wreckage, still holding Kaede's Tetsusaiga.

"Damn! Because she's full demon she's faster and more powerful than me! How the hell am I going to do this?!" InuYasha thought to himself.

"InuYasha! Kaede may have the same knowledge that you do as a full demon! She may know who you are but may not be able to control herself!" Miroku yelled from the hut.

InuYasha looked to the girl who seemed to be shivering.

"Her human side is trying to fight the demon side! She's trying to change back!"

InuYasha pulled himself completely from the wreckage and jumped to Kaede, landing within feet from her.

"I know you understand me... I need you to overcome this feeling of hatred... I need you to take control of yourself..." InuYasha tried to reach to Kaede's human side.

"What's he doing?" Shippo asked.

"I think he's trying to talk to her human side... He's trying to help her overcome her demon blood!" Kagome realized.

"Let's hope it works..." Sango added.

"Come on! You can hear me! I know you can! And I know how hard it is to do this, but you have to fight!" InuYasha continued, hoping that he was getting through to her.

Kaede was in constant struggle. Her body was pumping full demon blood through her veins, and her heart beat like a drum against her chest. The hatred in her heart was still overpowering the love that she had left over. Her mind was racing with, what seemed to be, two different people's thoughts. One side was telling her to attack and finish off everyone there, but her human side was able to fend it off just enough to keep from killing everyone.

"Come on Kaede, pull it together! These people are your friends and family! You can't possibly want them dead! You can do this!" One side of Kaede's mind was trying to fight against the other.

"They mean nothing! Kill them now! Just imagine their blood between your fingers! Feel the power coursing through your veins and kill them!" The demon side spoke up.

Kaede's arms and legs were trying to move on their own accord. They were wanting to strike forward at InuYasha. Kaede felt like she was going to lose herself in the battle. All that she could do was get a short message out.

"Kill...kill..." She forced out of her mouth.

"What did she say?" Kagome asked.

"What is it?" InuYasha asked confused.

"Kill...me..." Kaede squeaked out.

"What?!" The group said together.

Kaede fell to her knees. She didn't know how much longer she could hold on to her human side's mind.

"Kill...me..." She hissed again.

"What the hell are you talking about?! I'm not going to kill you! Forget it! No, you have to take the pain of fighting this! You have to be stronger than that!" InuYasha scolded her.

Kaede was starting to lose her human side and she stood back up. Looking up at InuYasha, her eyes started shifting back and forth from her amber colored eyes to her red and blue demon eyes. One tear shed from her eyes as they shifted to the amber color. The amber eyes didn't last long, as they shifted over to the demon red eyes. Her demon self lunged forward at InuYasha.

"Then this is what it will be, huh?" InuYasha said silently.

As the girl approached InuYasha and began to swing her claws, InuYasha saw an opportunity to attack and took it.

"InuYasha... NO!" Kagome yelled, fearing that he was actually about to kill her.

"Here I come!" InuYasha yelled as he kicked the girl in the stomach and she flew to the ground.

As InuYasha landed he ran at her and touched the Tetsusaiga to her hand. As soon as he did this, he could see her tense muscles begin to relax, and her eyes closed. She fell unconscious as the power drained from her body.

"InuYasha!" Kagome yelled as she noticed a small cloud of moisture coming at the hut.

The boy turned and saw the cloud of fog going at them as it destroyed one, and then two huts in the process of going after the one that the five were inhabiting.

"Kagome!!!" InuYasha ran forward as fast as he possibly could to try and get to their aid.

The fog was mere inches away from the shelter and InuYasha realized that he wouldn't make it in time.

"No! This can't happen!" InuYasha thought frantically.

Just as the boy realized that his friends' fates were sealed, he saw a flash of something pass him by and caught him off guard. The fog hit the hut just before the group could manage to escape and destroyed it completely.

InuYasha stopped dead in his tracks with his eyes as wide as moons.

"Ka-KAGOME!" InuYasha yelled, now knowing that his new wife was dead, along with all of his friends.

He looked back quickly to see if Kaede was still where she was lying unconscious on the ground. He thought that maybe if she were still alive, that Kagome hadn't died and the others would have still have had a chance to live as well. Looking frantically, he saw that she was, indeed, gone. He looked back to the wreckage of the small shack and watched as the dust began to settle. His eyes began to blur with tears.

"InuYasha!" he heard Kagome's voice cut through the deafening silence.

"Kagome?" InuYasha asked, wondering if it could have possibly been true.

The dust settled and InuYasha saw the light of a spiritual barrier. The barrier had managed to destroy the remaining amount of the demon and protected his friends. He then saw Kaede knelt down in front of his five friends. Her head had been lowered but she looked up at him from brown eyes and all black hair and smiled.

InuYasha sighed a great sigh of relief.

It was late in the evening and the seven had gathered around a fire in front of one of the bigger huts in the village.

"Kaede, what were you saying earlier about the fact that you had never seen one of those demons in this era before?" Kagome asked.

"That's right... That same kind of demon was introduced into my era by one of Naraku's incarnation experiments. It soon flourished across the land and it took a little while for me to discover how to destroy them. After that, I didn't see too many more of them."

"So then this is just another work of Naraku, and somehow I'm not at all surprised," Miroku stated.

"So you are full human now?" Shippo asked.

"Yes, I'm afraid so... I'm sorry that I might have been in a bad mood earlier, but I could feel my demon powers starting to ebb away. It always kind of upsets me when I know that I'm about to lose my demon side because, like I said, I lose them for about a week. And even though I still have my spiritual powers, I still feel a little helpless without my demon skills," Kaede explained.

"Why the hell didn't you just tell us that you were about to change anyway? Or even tell us about your full demon transformation time? Things could have gone a lot worse than what they did you know!" InuYasha scolded the, now human, girl.

"Wait a minute InuYasha, I don't remember you ever telling me when it was your time to transform into a human until we were attacked by those spider demons and we had to run from the temple..." Kagome brought up a sore subject.

"Well uh... that was different! She's our daughter! I hardly knew you back then! Don't try and change the subject!" InuYasha tried to save himself.

"You must still have some great strength as a human alone, because you were able to get to us before the demon managed to destroy us," Miroku said gratefully.

"No, I was still mostly demon but when I saw dad running after the demon to get to you guys my human side realized what was going on. So at the last moments of my transformation I used the rest of my strength to get there before he could. That was only luck," Kaede explained.

"Well that luck saved us. But I have to ask as well, why didn't you just tell us that you were going to change?" Miroku asked.

"I didn't know that I was going to transform into a full demon until the demon knocked the Tetsusaiga out of my hands. I don't normally change into a full demon unless I'm not carrying the Tetsusaiga and it's just about time for me to change into a full human... and I just... I just hate changing! And I didn't like believing that it was happening again so I guess I just got moody about it and didn't think to say anything."

"You couldn't have forgotten... I asked you what was wrong earlier and you said nothing, remember?!" Kagome accused her.

"I... I just don't like talking about it..." Kaede said in a low growl..

"Don't you like us yet Kaede?" young Shippo asked sadly

Kaede looked down at Shippo's glassy, green eyes and picked him up gently.

"If I didn't like you guys, I would have left by now..." Kaede said firmly.

"So it's... not that you don't trust us then?" Kagome asked in a sad tone.

Kaede looked up and saw that everyone was looking at her with half-hearted looks.

"Of course not! Some of you guys are family and rest of you are practically family! I could never distrust you! Really!" Kaede tried to convince the others that she was telling the truth.

"At any rate, your transformation leaves us at a loss..." Miroku broke the silence.

"How's that?" Kaede asked.

"Well, Kagome and yourself have the power over a strand of prayer beads around InuYasha's neck, as you know. When InuYasha transforms, all either of you need to do is "sit" him and he's pulled out of the transformation, with you, we don't have that kind of control, and we may not be able to catch up to you if you run, or keep you from hurting any of us," he finished.

"Well, I do have those extra beads for the just in case InuYasha's beads break, maybe I should cast them on Kaede?" Kagome asked.

"Huh?!" Kaede didn't like that idea at all.

"Well it would keep her from transforming again," Sango agreed.

"No! No way! Forget about it! You're not putting those things on me!" Kaede insisted.

"Hey! Wait a minute!" InuYasha broke through the conversation.

Kaede had a twinkle of hope in her eye as she realized that her father was going to stand against this idea as well.

"Can you make it so that I can be the one to do the "sit" thing?" InuYasha asked with an evil grin.

"WHAT?!" Kaede's twinkle of hope turned into despair.

"Don't worry! We can use it to stop your full demon transformation!" Shippo said happily.

Kaede turned to the fox demon child with fire in her eyes and said, "Yeah?! Well just wait until they're wanting to put one on you!!"

Shippo's happy face turned into a worried one, "Do you think that they're really going to do that?!"

Kaede looked back at Kagome and saw that she was rummaging through her own backpack.

"Here they are!" she said as she pulled out a small white cloth in which the beads were wrapped in.

"Did anyone hear what I was saying?!" she yelled.

"If we don't do this you could hurt someone else or yourself, and we just want to prevent that from happening," Miroku said as he, Sango, and InuYasha closed in on Kaede.

The young girl knew that because she had lost her demon powers she had been weakened and wouldn't be any match in speed against her father, but she did have one defense! She put up a spiritual barrier and blocked out anyone from getting a hold of her.

"Come on guys! Cut it out!" Kagome broke up the battle as they all stopped their squabbling and looked to her.

"If she doesn't want the beads, then I can't force them on her..." Kagome said as she put them away.

"HA!" Kaede said as she lowered her spiritual barrier.

InuYasha stood with his mouth agape, "What the hell do you mean by that?! You put them on me even though I don't want them! Why does she not have to wear them?!"

Kagome smiled at the boy and said, "Well, she said that she only transforms once a year, right before she changes into a human right? Well the threat is basically over, so until we're sure when she's going to change again, I don't see what good it'll do to have them on her now."

"She's right. Kaede said that she only transforms once a year and since it's already happened, we really don't need to worry about it anymore!" Sango agreed with Kagome.

The three sat back down and InuYasha still moped saying, "And I really wanted to be the one to "sit" someone for once!"

The group finally settled in for the night and slept.

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For the Next Chapter!

"My... My Master and I were traveling through the forest when a demon attacked us! My Master told me to run and he stayed to fight the demon! Please help him!" The boy said with dirt all over his face.

"Is that what I think it is?" Kagome asked suddenly.

The group turned to her and Kaede answered saying, "Yes, I sense a jewel shard in the direction of the forest!"

"I'm on it! Come on Miroku!" InuYasha said as he sprinted off towards the forest.

"Sango, stay here with Kagome and Kaede!" Miroku ordered before he also sprinted towards the forest.

"What sort of demon was it?" Kagome asked the boy.

He sat up and said, "It... It was a Python demon! I am sure of it!"

"A Python demon?" Sango asked.

"What is it Sango?" Kagome started to worry at the tone of Sango's voice.

"Python demons are extremely venomous! One bite from it could probably even kill InuYasha! And if what you say is true, this demon may posess a jewel shard and be even more powerful!" Sango explained.

Kagome looked back towards the forest and thought, "InuYasha..."