Those yellow eyes smirked as the blue-eyed onna shivered, as if sensing a demon there. Katashi smirk froze when the fighter onna pelted a rock straight towards him screaming "Hentai!"

The rock sailed towards as time slowed to him. It pelted him in the head as he howled his outrage. We froze as the howl erupted from the bush where we presumed Miroku was hiding. We rushed out wiping once with a towel and pulled on their spare set of clothes.

Sango pulled out her hidden katana as she carefully approached the bush. Curious of the howling body, she kicked it to see its face.

"Demon, be gone!" as she lowered her katana towards his quivering body.

"No, Sango!" But my cry was too late as she ran her blade through his heart, with a sickening crunch twisted it. His yellow eyes stared at me with faint recognition for the last brutal moment of his life when Hiei arrived.

"Hn. It looks like they can take care of themselves, baka kitsune. So why'd you drag me out here?" Kurama entered the clearing as Kuwabara's inept legs refused to stop as he ran away from the rabid squirrel that chased him and crashed into the hot springs. We laughed as the squirrel threw its nuts and acorns at the blundering idiot with his head under water. Keiko pushed his legs over as he straightened himself out of the water. The squirrel threw one last nut and jumped on Kuwabara's head to reach the oak branch above his head.

"Stupid squirrel, get back here!" The youth vented as we laughed at his folly. We looked back at the body that flashed a memory threw my head.

'Kagome come back with me!' cried the clueless ookami clutching her dainty hands. 'My love for you is like the moon's love to glow and it's sorrow when it can't, same as I when I can't be with you, my dear.' I stared into his loving eyes and sighed. 'Koga, I don't love you the way you do me. My heart is loves you like a brother but you are making this difficult.' I smiled forlornly at his crestfallen face.

A merciless laughing emerged from ht e bush as another ookami emerged. His pee-yellow eyes gazed at her body, red with lust. 'She's denied you because her heart desires another. A strong maybe dominating male with good looks and ways to satisfy her that you couldn't even imagine, pup.' He grabbed my resisting form and licked my neck affectionately. I raised my arm to slap him as he caught and groped me before I turned red with embarrassment. He threw me other his rock hard shoulder with a gasp I searched for my dagger as I pulled up my shirt grabbing it. With a fist, I pulled it out and stabbed his hard shoulder. He smirks dissipated as pain clutched him. 'You will be mine bitch.' As he fled licking his shoulder as he did so.

"I know him! He tried to kidnap me once. He's a bastard. Hiei, could you burn his body, please?" I turned my gaze to the slightly shorter man. He grunted as Katashi's body burst into blue flames.

2 WEEKS LATER

Ayame snuggled into a furry body after a long chase threw through the fortnight. The wind bite her bare body as she rolled over and released who she was sitting next to as she studied his rock-hard muscles and black hair. His icy blue eyes shut as he slept exhausted to wake. She started to stretch out her cramped muscles until a whimper escaped from her mouth as she groped her collarbone in fear. She felt two sharp indents in her neck.

Anxiety pumped as the blood pounded in her ears when she studied Koga's neck and saw the same. Thoughts buzzed through her bleary mind as she pondered 'Why did Koga chose me as his mate?' Happiness rushed into her as she roused Koga. 'He chose me! He chose me! He…'

These thoughts were cut off as darkness choked her as her spirit slowly faded and Naraku's shard took over. She rolled over to the lust filled Koga pulled her over. Her kisses turned to bites and her tickles turned to gouges as she slowly killed her lust filled lover. His eyes glazed over as she laughed at his mutilated remains. Hideki smelt the blood first and acme with his pouch. Ayame stabbed the man she had come to look at like a father. His surprised expression caused her stoic face to sneer and spit on his dead body.

She rummaged through the pouch and found those irresistible shards. Naraku smirked as Kagura picked up their new little accomplice. They together should be strong enough to take Kagome. His brother had done a surprise visit in which they teamed up for. Karasu only wished for one thing and that was a choice out of the men and women. Naraku could rule for all of Karasu cared. He laughed as he thought of all the things he wished to do with the world. 'Hn. It would probably look good in red and black.' He laughed his crazy, twisted, and deformed mind off. This would be all too much fun.

Inuyasha wasn't at the village so Kurama and I went to look for him. I spotted some of Kikyo's soul catchers. With a sick feeling in my stomach, we followed them to a small clearing in the middle of the forest. Quickly ducking behind a tree, I peeked out and watched as the man I loved dallied with the undead Kikyo. It was his words though that broke the my young heart for a final time and turned my thoughts to sorrow.

"Inuyasha, why do you stay with my reincarnation? Do you love her as you say you love me?" Kikyo asked softly. She knew that I was nearby, listening and watching. This was her chance to be rid of the me once and for all.

"No Kikyo, I don't love her at all. The only reason I stay with her is because she can sense the fragments of the Shikon jewel. Once the jewel is complete, I will have no more use for that weak little girl," Inuyasha growled. I listened in horror at the thoughts they made pop into my head.

I ducked back behind the tree, tears pouring down from my devastated blue eyes. Kurama reached out to comfort me. He knew that Inuyasha had a place in my life and that place was dissolving quickly. I had known that Inuyasha didn't love me, but to hear that he was only using me as a shard detector was more than I could bear. Moving quietly, I quickly left the clearing and continued to walk on through the woods, moving away from the direction of the village where my friends waited for us.

My thoughts were bitter, consumed with the rage and pain of a woman badly hurt. Kurama called to my but his voice fell on deaf ears. I would not put up with another heartbreak. I ran from Kurama and cried as I tripped and fell to the ground sobbing.

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Inuyasha was returning to Kaede's village after his tryst with Kikyo. He finished straightening his rumpled clothing before he entered the small hut.

"Where the hell is Kagome?" he yelled after he walked into the small hut and found that I wasn't there. The others just looked at him strangely then went back to what they were doing. In this case, Sango was threatening Miroku if he even thought about trying to grope her and Shippo was chasing Kirara around. The new group talking to each other.

In other words, everybody ignored the fuming hanyou who reeked of clay and grave dirt. They all knew where he had been and what he had been doing. They could only hope that I hadn't come upon the disgusting duo.

"Isn't anyone in this damn place going to answer me?" the annoyed hanyou growled. Sango sighed and turned to him, keeping a close eye on a certain perverted monk at the same time.

"She hasn't returned from her time yet. And I would suggest you go and wash that nauseating smell off of you before she returns," the demon exterminator said coldly. Inuyasha felt his mouth drop open in surprise. One, he didn't realize that they had known who he had been with. Two, Sango had NEVER spoken to him like that! Even as the small group argued, they had no way of knowing that their friend was headed towards the one place they wouldn't think to look for her at.

'What is wrong with me?' I thought sadly as I lay beside the small fire. I felt fresh tears trickling down my cheeks as Inuyasha's cold and heartless words replayed in my mind.

'All I want is to be loved. Is there something wrong with that?' I thought as I sobbed quietly. I knew that Sango and Miroku loved me like a sister and Shippo was me adopted son in all ways. But still, the only person who I wanted love from the most thought that I was nothing but a silly weak schoolgirl! Well, I would show him! With that bitter thought circling through my mind, I eventually fell into a restless sleep, tears still trickling down my face.
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While the exhausted young girl cried herself to sleep next to the fire, a pair of strange emotion filled golden eyes watched her from the woods. Youko had shoved Shuichi out of control to watch over the girl who had brought old memories and feelings to rise. 'Inuyasha, what did you do to her? I swear that I will kill you for all the pain that you have inflicted on her soul!' Yoko thought in a deadly rage. He had given up trying to fight his feelings for the young woman. He brushed her tear-stricken cheek affectionately and as he took watch in a tree above her, he secretly vowed to make Kagome his mate and make up for the way that her idiotic shit-head of a friend had crushed her spirit. Once they were mated, no one would ever dare to harm the fragile spirited young woman again!

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"Damn it! Where the hell could she have gone?" Inu-Yasha snarled as he leaped out of the well. After a frustrating visit to Kagome's time, Inu-Yasha discovered that Kagome had left sometime the day before to return here. But where have they disappeared to in between here and Kaede's village?

"When did she leave to return here Inuyasha?" Miroku asked in a serious voice. He was worried about his friend. She should have returned to them by now to continue the hunt for Naraku and the jewel shards. Botan and Keiko sighed as they returned from the forest. No luck in finding even a trace of the runaway miko or the red head.

"Do you think she saw you and your…undead slut together?" Sango asked in a furious tone of voice. Inuyasha glared at the demon exterminator but said nothing. He had a horrible feeling that she had and that she had also overheard what he had said about her.

"Feh, whatever. She'll come back when she realizes that she can't defend herself," was all he said before disappearing into the forest, leaving three extremely angry female humans and two angry demons behind.

"Okay, now I'm really worried about Kagome," Sango said two days later. She had been missing for at least four days and everyone except Inuyasha seemed worried about her. Even Hiei worried about the girl. Yoko had told him he had a hunch that Kurama was falling for the lovable miko along with himself. Inuyasha was his usual cold and uncaring self, running off to dally with his undead whore whenever she beckoned. Miroku and Sango had been discussing the possibility of sneaking off with Shippo and Kirara and looking for Kagome themselves.

"Feh, we don't need her. I can always have…" Inuyasha didn't get a chance to finish that statement before he was knocked senseless by Sango's boomerang. Miroku's staff added another knot to his head as well.

"Now that we have that settled, what are we going to do?" Miroku asked, ignoring the swirly-eyed hanyou on the ground. Kuwabara, Yusuke, and Hiei looked at him in disgust. They couldn't leave because Kurama had left to watch over her or that's what they guessed. A faint cry from Shippo swiftly caught their attention. Yoko carried a sleeping Kagome towards the village as his hair swayed sensually in the wind. Kagome roused from her sleep and walked as they approached Kaede's hut. Before anyone could say anything though, a red blur shot in between Kagome and Yoko. Inuyasha turned to her and was startled to find her watching him with something close to hate written on her face.

"K-Kagome, what's going on?" he asked in a hurt voice. But deep inside he knew. She had overheard his conversation with Kikyo.

Kagome stared at the silver haired hanyou she had once loved with all of her heart. All she felt now was bitterness and pain as she recalled his words to Kikyo. The memory alone gave her the strength to go on with her plan.

"Did you lose the jewel or did you realize that you can't survive on your own?" he yelled. Kagome felt another pang in her heart at the fact that he was more concerned about the jewel than whatever might have happened to her. She sucked in a deep breath, her sapphire blue eyes blazing with anger. Inuyasha's ears flattened against his skull, for he knew what was coming next.

"SIT! SIT! SIT! SIT! SIT!" with each sit the hole in the ground underneath the helpless hanyou became bigger. Finally, Kagome stepped over the groaning half demon and made her way towards an empty hut, Kurama and the others following close behind her. They would leave early the next morning to finish collecting the jewel shards and battle Karasu and Naraku once and for all.