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Disclaimer: I don't Inuyasha, just the OC, Kaede.

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The group had been traveling for a couple of hours, and they were following a new lead about a demon terrorizing a village, possibly using a jewel shard to strengthen it's power.

"So what kind of demon was it supposed to be?" InuYasha asked.

"I think they said that it was some sort of insect demon but they weren't sure exactly," Kagome replied wondering as well.

"Well it doesn't sound like to big of a threat... Still any demon with a jewel shard will be of interest to us," Miroku commented.

"Is that the village?" Sango asked as they walked over a hill and saw the village from where they stood.

There didn't seem to be anyone who acted frantic or scared of any threat and this confused the travelers.

"Everyone seems rather calm," Kaede said looking around the village as they entered it.

"Yeah, you'd think that if there was a demon threat that they would at least be bunkered down in their houses or grouped together at a shrine," Sango added.

"Excuse me, sir," Kagome started as she approached an elder man, "Are there any demons threatening your village?" she asked in a surprisingly happy tone for such a question.

"Demons? Well yes, we had the threat of demons, but that was weeks ago, we haven't had a demon in the village in quite some time!" The man answered.

"Oh, I see. Thanks," Kagome turned back to the others.

"So what now?" Miroku asked.

"I guess we just continue on our way through the village and keep searching," InuYasha said frustrated.

Kaede was looking around the village and noticed something strange hanging off of the roof of a house.

"What's that?" she said as she walked over to it and looked up.

"What is it Kaede?" Kagome asked.

The girl smelt the substance and said, "It sort of smells like spider demons."

"I thought I recognized that odor!" InuYasha snapped into realization.

"Spiders?! Oh great, those things are so creepy!" Kagome said with a shiver.

"A spider demon isn't much of a threat, but one with a jewel shard would be a little more challenging," Miroku thought aloud.

"Maybe we better take a look around the inside of this village and around the outside of it. We could find more clues that way," Sango suggested.

"Fine with me, you guys stay here in the village and I'll go look around the area," InuYasha ordered.

"No way! I'd like to get a chance to spread out and look too!" Kaede interrupted.

"We may need your nose here, Kaede. You would probably be able to smell the scent of a spider demon faster than we could sense one," Miroku tried to reason with the girl.

"But-" the girl began.

"Just stay here!" InuYasha said as he jumped away.

Kaede grumbled but complied as she followed the others throughout the village.

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"Three days?!" older Shippo complained.

"Well most of my tools and things were at another safe house of ours and we were forced out of there a few days ago. I don't have everything I need, here, to get the job done quickly," Sota said as he looked over some of his tools and materials.

"Well, what if I went and got them for you?" Shippo asked.

"I went back for them after the attacks and didn't find much. I'm sorry Shippo, but there's not much I can do about it. I'll have to make one from scratch," Sota said as he turned to his workstation and began construction.

"What's this about anyway? Why do you need to get to the past so badly?" Sota asked.

"Well, I'm not sure yet, but I'm afraid that everyone there could be in trouble," Shippo said with a frown.

Sota turned back around to Shippo and asked, "What do you mean? Is Kaede in trouble?" he asked with a worried look.

"Not so much Kaede as Kagome and InuYasha. I don't have time to explain it all, I just need you to make that remote as fast as you can!" Shippo demanded.

Trusting the fox, Sota turned back to his work and started on it as fast as he could go.

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InuYasha had traveled all around within a couple of miles of the village and still hadn't seen one sign of a demon or even a scent of a spider.

"This is all just a big waste of time... Why did I even bother?!"

About to turn back to the village, InuYasha finally caught a small scent.

"Huh? What was that? Was that the scent of a spider demon?"

He then turned towards the scent and went after it.

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"This is stupid, we're not going to find anything here..." Kaede remarked.

"Calm down, Kaede. You found a small piece of the web here in the village and it is something that we need to investigate. If we don't we could lose key information about the demons that once attacked this village," Miroku explained.

"Yeah, whatever... I don't smell a demon anymore..." Kaede scoffed.

-I guess there's no need to ask whether or not she's inherited her father's impatience or not…- Miroku thought to himself.

"Did you speak of the demons?" a man intervened in the conversation.

The group turned to him and Miroku spoke for them saying, "Yes, actually. We are in search of the demon that once plagued this village. Do you know anything of it?"

The man looked at them with an almost angry expression and said, "The villagers wish to believe that it never had once existed and that it would never again attack... Please, come inside and I will explain everything."

The group sat down inside the man's hut where he sat as well and looked to the ground as he began to explain.

"You see, for many months, this village had once been plagued by many different demons, but they all had stopped once the spider demons attacked as well," he began.

"So Kaede was correct! It was a spider's web that she had picked up on," Miroku said astonished.

"The nose on my face isn't the same as the one on yours monk..." Kaede scoffed again.

"Yes, well after the spider demons attacked, this village had lost many people. Either they had packed what little items they could carry and left in between attacks, or they were killed trying to leave. Then, about a month ago, some strange monk entered the village.

-Flashback-

"What ails you, my good people?" A monk entered the village and gave an old man some fresh water.

As he did this many of the other villagers gathered around him.

One of the villagers spoke as the old man drank the water down.

"Please, monk! Our town is plagued by spider demons! One of which possesses a shard of the sacred jewel and has become even more frightening!"

"Is that so? Then I shall vanquish these demons for you, but in return, you must pay me all of the riches of this village. Every piece of gold, to scraps of silver. Only then will I destroy the demons for you..."

-Flashback-

"We gave him everything that we had. Our crops, our riches and spoils. Even our medicines! We were left with nothing! And if anyone refused to give up their belongings to this monk, then the guards of the village would hassle them until they felt threatened enough to do so! For if anyone refused, then he would not help us..."

"What a scam artist! I bet he was using the spider demons as a way of getting this village to give everything up!" Kagome said angrily.

"Yes, I knew this, as well as many others, but we were forced to give everything up or the other villagers threatened death upon us. We had no choice!"

"Well, I guess the demons have moved on. The monk kept his word, even if he did take all of their things," Sango thought aloud.

"The demons may have gone, but the threat still exists..." the man continued.

"What do you mean?" Kagome asked.

"This is not an uncommon story around this area. There have been many villages with the same plagues as this one, and all have ended up the same. Left without any food, or money. Some villages were then overrun by armies of bandits and many people have been killed! It is almost as if, it was supposed to happen in that way. I'm sure of it!"

"But what does all of this have to do with the spider demons still being a threat?" Kagome asked again.

"I believe that they nest near here. But I am too terrified to investigate on my own... They will return... and soon. I just know it!" the old man claimed.

"This is, indeed, a terrible fate. We must not allow this village to be plundered anymore," Miroku spoke.

"You're right... We must find the demons and destroy them, otherwise they will continue these terrible deeds," Sango agreed.

Kaede looked to the entrance of the hut quickly and suddenly.

"What is it Kaede?" Kagome asked.

"It's strange... Just for a moment I could smell a spider demon..." The girl jumped up from sitting and rushed outside and the others followed.

Kaede looked around outside and even smelt some of the villagers.

"What is this?! Who are you?!" the villagers became frightened by the demon girl's approach.

"I can smell it like it's right here but... I can't... smell it here!" Kaede said frustrated.

She then turned to a nearby forest and looked at it carefully. Then the girl turned back to the group and said, "I can sense the demon! I'll go after it, you guys stay here just in case the village is attacked!"

"Kaede! Wait!" Sango yelled.

Kaede managed to stop herself from roaming off and turned back to them, "What is it?"

"InuYasha is already out there, remember? We should all just wait here until he returns!" Kagome yelled.

Kaede sighed and said, "Look, I can't smell him anywhere near here, so I'm not going to wait until he gets back. If the demons move on before he gets back, then we won't find them again."

"Just give InuYasha some time to get back! We'll find the demons eventually!" Kagome tried to reason.

"Kaede... InuYasha would not be happy with you," Miroku pointed out.

Kaede was really fighting not just going out on her own. It's what she was used to doing. She wasn't used to people holding her back from going after any demon, and she didn't want to start being held back.

Kaede turned back towards the group and said, "Yeah, I know. I'll be right back, I promise!" and she took off.

"She's going to be a handful as a child..." Sango commented.

"Yeah, I'm starting to realize that," Kagome said as she sighed.

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InuYasha had followed the scent of the spider demons for sometime but lost it.

"Damn! I could have sworn that it was right here! They keep moving and I can't tell exactly where they went!" he growled.

The smell suddenly appeared again in another direction and InuYasha turned to smell it.

"Damn! If they keep moving around like this, I'll never be able to keep up! I'm getting tired of chasing these things around!"

He took out his Tetsusaiga and yelled, "WIND SCAR!"

Some of the nearby forest was torn apart and destroyed, and as everything cleared, InuYasha saw several spider demons, fleeing the scene.

"Ha! Don't think that you're getting away now!" he said as he sheathed the Tetsusaiga and ran off after them.

The scent moved away and the dog demon chased after it, running full speed.

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Kaede stopped following the scent of the demons and looked around.

"Did I just feel the ground shake? Something of that proportion could only have been caused by..."

As Kaede was thinking a very strong scent struck her nose and she forgot what it was that she was thinking about and turned back towards it.

"I've got to keep going otherwise I'll lose the scent and lose a shard of the jewel!" she said as she sprinted towards it.

The girl followed the scent until it became very strong, and after that she stopped outside of a wall of webbing.

"This must be their nest! If I can get through this web, then I can destroy them!"

She took out the Tetsusaiga and pointed it at the web. "ADAMANT BARRAGE!" she yelled as she swung the sword, Crystal shard shooting through the web, destroying the thick wall.

As soon as the wall was destroyed, Kaede looked through and saw spider demons everywhere!

"There must be thousands of them!" Kaede said aloud.

"More than you'll be able to count, I'm afraid!" a voice said shrewdly.

Spider demons began to attack the girl from behind her as they managed to knock the Tetsusaiga out of her hand and to the ground. Several of them grabbed a hold of her arms and legs as she struggled against them. Breaking the hold on the demons, Kaede tried to reach her sword but she was grabbed once more. More and more of the demons appeared.

"What the hell is going on here?! Why can't I break free from them?! And why can't I smell them anymore?!" Kaede was confused.

"So this is the famous demon that he spoke of!" the voice came out of nowhere again and the demons turned the girl towards a shadowy figure.

"Who's there?!" Kaede shouted.

A very large demon appeared from the shadows. It must have been the leader of this group of spiders! Kaede suddenly sensed the jewel shard.

"So you're the one with the jewel shard!" Kaede yelled with a smirk.

"You can sense the jewels just as the demon told us you could," the demon smirked as well.

"What demon?!" Kaede yelled.

"A few days ago, a demon approached us and told us a few thing about you... The demon was quite knowledgeable it seems..." it continued.

"What demon already?!" Kaede's frustration grew.

"He didn't say much about himself. Just that he was wanting to rid himself of you and his name... Naraku!" the demon continued.

"What?! Naraku set this up?! Damn! I should have known that this was a trap!" Kaede said as she began to struggle against the grip of the demons that had a hold on her.

"Yes, he said that if we caught you, that we could absorb your powers and become even stronger!" the demon said with great anticipation.

Kaede smiled up at the demon evilly and said, "You're not absorbing anything from me!"

The girl broke free of all of the demon's grasps all at once and got down to the ground to grab the sword. She picked it up and turned to the demons, yelling, "WIND SCAR!"

Some of the demons were destroyed, but many more began to attack after the girl.

"I can't do this alone!" Kaede thought aloud as she swung her sword several more times, destroying one demon after another, as she quickly began to run back towards the village, the spiders on her heels.

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The spider demon chuckled and said, "Of course, you know the other one, he smells very similar to you!"

"You mean Inuyasha?" Kaede asked, now worried.

"Yes, I got word from some of my underlings, not long ago, they he had started to wage battle with them, and wasn't doing very well," the demon taunted.

Kaede held up her sword at the demon and then said with a smirk, "Well then I guess I'll just kill you, get your shard and go and help him won't I?!"