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Chapter 8: The Deal

"Inuyasha!"

"What do you want!?!"

Inuyasha snaped back at her angerly. Kagome's legs gave way and she fell to the ground.

'This... It can't be! It has to be another Inuyasha! But I really haven't hear of anyone else named Inuyasha and I've been here for three years! But what's he doing here? The groop of demons that man told me about... No it can't be. Inuyasha isn't that mean. He would never hurt a human... Even... though humans... have hurt him too many times...'

Thoughts swam through her head like a bad movie, each one painful to remember, the final one, taking place almost three years ago, was the most painful.

"I-Inuyasha! Koga! I wanna go now... Let's leave!"

Kagome looked up at Shippo, who was closer to her then the rest. He was a bit slower then the others (in speed!) and had arived last at Kagome's side. Kagome didn't realize that Shippo was with Inuyasha even though he had just plainly stated it. (That kind of thing happens when your mind is all swimmy like) She erached over and grabbed Shippo and pulled him into a hug.

"Shippo! I thought that we'd lost you when you ran away! I was so worried about you!"

"AAAAGGGGHHH!!! GET OFF OF ME!!!"

Kagome had stood up and was hugging Shippo tightly to her, but before she could even figgure out what was going on, Shippo had jumped away using her stomach and Inuyasha and Koga had ran up to her. Koga grabbed Shippo from the air and Inuyasha had pushed her roughly to the ground. With a scream she was sent skidding across the ground a few feet and ended up roughly bruised and scraped.

A shadow came over Kagome and she looked up. Inuyasha stood over her, his eyes shining slightly red.

"Don't you ever touch him again. I'll kill you if you do."

Sango and Miroku had been working togther in the same area. They had set up something similar to a hospital in the flattest area that they could find in the ruins. They had both heard of the demonic trio that had plagued the village. But if could have been, of course, anything and anyone.

Miroku and Sango looked up at the same time. They felt a great demonic aura coming at the village.

"Miroku, do you feal that?"

"I did. It feals like a groop of demonic auras. But still... a power that great is going to be a difficult foe to defeat."

"We better go and check it out. We can let the village girls handel it for a little while."

Sango called to the girls and they grabbed their weapons and headed off. The village was quite large and Kilala was needed, so they didn't make it to the demons untill the aura had stopped. Then there was a suddon blast of demonic energy and Kagome's cry. They hurried even more then before.

Inuyasha stood over Kagome angerly. He could feal the demon blood in him boiling and bursting to be released. He managed to control it, bairly, when Koga come over and put a hand on his sholder.

"Shippo's fine Inuyasha, let it go."

Kagome got a hopeful look in her eye, but it was small and forsed back by a darkness that was in her soul. Koga saw it too and shot her a look almost identical to Inuyasha's. Even Shippo, who was sitting on Koga's sholder, was glairing at her. The small light in Kagome's eyes faded and they became dark.

"Come on Inuyasha, there's nothing here for us, let's go and leave these humans to themselves."

"No... Not yet Koga. I bet they have jewel shards. RIGHT Kagome?"

"N-no..."

Her voice had become weak and dull.

Inuyasha swore with a few choice words, Koga had put his hands over Shippo's ears, despite his willed protest.

"Let's just go then!!!"

Inuyasha had finally stoped swearing long enough to shout at them. They turned and started to leave.

"W-Wait!!!"

Kagome's voice came to them, this time with a little more life in it.

"W-we... that is I... could... show you where the next jewel shards are... I-If you listen to what happened that night."

Inuyasha, Koga, and Shippo turned and looked at her.

"I'll show you where the next 5 shards are IF you listen to our story!"

Inuyasha looked over to Koga.

"Listen to some whining humans babble..."

"Get the next 5 shards!"

"Sounds like a pretty good deal to me"

"But we'll have to take them allong."

They looked at Shippo, as usual, he was right. They would have to take the whining humans allong with them.

"Yeah, but we can deal with 3 humans for a few months for 5 shards right?"

They all three smiled (not the nice kind of smile mind you) and turned to Kagome. Inuyasha put a hand out. Kagome hesitantly took it. He griped roughly, like the was children do to purpously hurt one another.

"You've got a deal."