Chapter 11

"Um...Inuyasha?" I knew I was whining, but I didn't care. I was bummed and tired of walking. I had been with the gang for almost about ten weeks. I didn't mind much, because I need to get a little bit stronger. Right now, I didn't like walking with a passion. For some reason, I felt so much better, than usual. I had managed to lose a little weight and I almost felt tiny in Kagome's clothes. It was like the two of us had the same size body or something. I don't know if that made me happy, or whether it irked me. I was able to talk to Kagome, Sango, Miroku, Shippo, and even Kirara, without any sort of problem. In all my time with the group the person I had finally became closest to, oddly enough, was Inuyasha. He would always come and talk to me, whenever I'm alone somewhere. He had become my best friend.

"What?" Inuyasha snapped back at me.

"Um...It's almost close to dark and I don't think we're going to find anything, untill tomorrow. So can we take a rest somewhere?"

"Keh. Why should I let you take a break? You know, we'll only waste more time, tracking down the jewel shards, if we did?" he growled, slightly.

"Please, Inuyasha?" I asked, looking like an innocent little puppy. He glared down at me, his eyes slowly softening, until he closed his eyes and sighed.

"Fine." He ground out between his teeth.

I squealed in pure delight. "Thank you." I nodded, standing on my tippy toes to reach his face and pecked him on the cheek. I quickly shranked back at what I just did and felt my cheeks burn right away. I looked back to see Kagome and Sango smirking at me.

"And I thought that she and Inuyasha had nothing going on." Kagome whispered to Sango, who nodded in agreement.

I let out a sigh, deciding to let it go, for now.

We set up camp in the middle of a meadow not far from the path we had been on. In a matter of minutes, Shippo was eating candy that Kagome had given him. By that time the sky was purple in color, and stars were appearing in the skies everywhere.

Me and Kagome giggled quietly to each other as I picked up Shippo with me. I walked around and sat dow next to Inuyasha beside the fire. Shippo snuggled into my chest and mumbled something I didn't quite catch. "What was that, sweetie?" Shippo raised his head and blinked up at me.

"Would you tell me a story, Moka?" he asked, looking up at me with innocent eyes. "My mother always use to tell me stories, before I go to sleep." My eyes softened a bit at what he said.

I gave soft giggle. "I'm afraid I don't know any stories...but I'll try at least." I got up again and walked around the fire, snuggling into Kirara's side. Shippo snuggled further into me. Shippo just loves to spoil me everyday and I find it really adorable. I took a deep breath and tried to ignore the fact that everyone else was watching me too, not just Shippo. Even Kirara seemed to be watching me. Here goes nothing. "I'll tell you a story, my mother used to tell to me, when I was little and couldn't get to sleep. It's nothing special." I took another deep breath, before starting the story.

"Once upon a time, there was a prince who wanted to marry a princess; but she would have to be a real princess. He travelled all over the world to find one, but nowhere could he get what he wanted. There were princesses enough, but it was difficult to find out whether they were real ones. There was always something about them that was not as it should be. So he came home again and was sad, for he would have liked very much to have a real princess. One evening, a terrible storm came on; there was thunder and lightning, and the rain poured down in torrents. Suddenly a knocking was heard at the city gate, and the old king went to open it. It was a princess standing out there in front of the gate. But, good gracious! What a sight the rain and the wind had made her look. The water ran down from her hair and clothes; it ran down into the toes of her shoes and out again at the heels. And yet she said that she was a real princess. "Well, we'll soon find that out", thought the old queen. But she said nothing, went into the bed-room, took all the bedding off the bedstead, and laid a pea on the bottom; then she took twenty mattresses and laid them on the pea, and then twenty eider-down beds on top of the mattresses. On this the princess had to lie all night. In the morning she was asked how she had slept. "Oh, very badly!" said she. "I have scarcely closed my eyes all night. Heaven only knows what was in the bed, but I was lying on something hard, so that I am black and blue all over my body. It's horrible!" Now they knew that she was a real princess, because she had felt the pea right through the twenty mattresses and the twenty eider-down beds. Nobody but a real princess could be as sensitive as that. So the prince took her for his wife, for now he knew that he had a real princess." I finished.

"Wow, Moka! You have such a pretty voice! Will you read me another story?" Shippo exclaimed, not long ago, after I was done telling him the story.

Soon Shippo was begging me to tell him another story. "I'm afraid not, little one. You're a growing boy and you're going to have to get all the sleep you need for tomorrow. So you'll have to get some sleep." I told him, with a warm smile. Shippo pouted at me, with sad eyes. "I'll read you another story tomorrow, just get some rest." He continued to pout once more, but just fell asleep.

"Not only the face and figure of an angel, but also an angelic voice! You'll make a fine wife and a mother one day, Moka." Miroku said. I instantly turned red at what he said. The thought of being a mother and a wife of a man, never crossed my mind one bit. My face turned in confusion, when Miroku took my hands in his, with a serious filled look on his face. "Moka, will you do me the honors of bearing me a beautiful son?"

My face turned instantly hot at what he asked me. I was too young to have children...not that I don't want children. I can tell that Sango was probably ready to destroy Miroku for his actions. Not really sure what answer to give him, I gave him a nervous laugh.

"Monk," growled an all too familiar voice. I followed the voice and saw that it belonged to Inuyasha. An ominous aura was forming off of him. Like, if you ticked him off any further, you're dead meat. His bangs were shadowing darkly over his eyes. "that had better be a joke. 'Cuz, if not, you're gonna wish you'd never asked her that." he growled darkly, flexing his fingers.

Miroku gave a nervous laugh in response, with a sweat drop.

I shot awake, when a loud rumble made its noise. I followed from where it came from, only to find out it was coming from the forest. "W-What's happening?" I ask, suddenly scared. I look around for the others and saw that they were huddled together as a group. I was about to run over to Inuyasha and the others, when a person dressed in a white baboon cloak, his tentacles digging into the ground. His attention didn't seemed to be on anyone else, but me. I immediately shranked back, when his tentacles came at me, like a sharp knife. I stood there like a paralyzed rabbit, expecting it to penetrate me, but thought wrong, when I was pushed out of harm's way of it. I looked to see who my savior was and saw it was Inuyasha...holding me protectively in his arms. "Inuyasha...you..."

"Are you hurt?" he asked, cutting me short. I shook my head. "Good, as long as you're okay, that's all that matters." he told me, removing himself from me. He stood in front of my, his tetsusaiga held protectively in front of him.

I was about to say something to him, until I felt something extremely warm and weird forming on the inside of my chest. I saw a shimmer of pink light come from my chest. I glanced down to see my chest glowing dark pink, a ominous aura growing in my chest. "W-What's going on?" It took me a short-lived time, to figure out what and why this was happening. The only thing that sealed away my powers...was gone. The rosary! It's gone! Before I can register anything else, I fell into a world of darkness.

Inuyasha's P.O.V

"Inuyasha, wait!" Miroku shouted out to me, interrupting my battle with me and the demon puppet. I glared over to him, and was about to ask what the hell he wanted. "Something is happening to Moka!"

Taking in what he told me, I glanced over at Moka and almost jumped out of my skin, when I saw what was going on with her. Her entire body was glowing brightly, the sky that was once a lighter shade of blue, turned dark red. The sun that was once in the skies, was strangely replaced with a moon, that was also the color of red. And out of nowhere, bats flew out and swarmed around Moka. While the bats were dancing with one another around her, a flash of white pulsed in side her body, giving her a bigger backside, chest and strangely...pure white hair and beautiful, blood-red eyes. I watched in shock, as the bats attached themselves to Moka for a good while, before they flew themselves into the sky. I looked at her, shocked and surprisingly scared of how much power she had. She gave off a serious amount of energy, an ominous aura filling the air. I felt myself immediately cower back, when she looked over at me. What the hell's wrong with me? Why am I scared of her suddenly? I knew it was Moka, but it wasn't the same Moka, we all knew. It's like she's a whole different person, all of a sudden. She wasn't the same, sweet and loving Moka, anymore. Her eyes were filled with coldness, instead of warmth. I almost fell over in fear, when she walked towards me, a cold, emotionless, expression on her face.

"Step aside, half-demon." she said to me, brushing passed me, towards the puppet of Naraku. What the hell? Even her voice was deeper, than usual! She looked up towards the demon, not looking too fazed at all. She seemed calmed and relaxed, for some reason. I watched her do a couple of stretches, before charging off towards the demon. Damn! She's even faster, than Naraku and even me, combined! She practically dodged every single tentacle, that was being thrown at her. She advanced in the air towards Naraku. And with one swift move, she kicked his head off...like it was nothing. I stared at her, shocked at how strong she is. She was practically like Sesshomaru and almost Kikyo.

Somewhere, Naraku was sitting at his castle, glaring into the mirror, Kanna was holding in her hands. He kept his eyes through the mirror, his poisonous insects following Inuyasha and the others. He then noticed a new body in the group. "Hmm... I wonder who that could be." then it answered his question, there he saw a beautiful woman with blood-red eyes, long silver hair following behind her. Naraku put on a sinister smile, thinking he hit the 'jack pot' now that he found what he was looking for. "Oh my. What a collectable, looking woman." he said smiling darkly. Naraku turned his to his left direction. "Kagura." he called as his incarnation stepped out of the shadows.

"Hmm? What is it?" she asked looking down at Naraku, with a bored expression.

"I want you to follow Inuyasha and the group to see what they're up to."

"Why do you want me to do that?",

"Because they might be plotting something to destroy us. If they try anything strange, I want you to kill them on the spot, no matter what happens." he said darkly.

"Whatever." she replied as she turned around and began walking away.

"Oh, and one more thing." Naraku quickly remarked, stopping Kagura from doing what she was ordered to do. "Find out any information on the young woman, that's traveling with Inuyasha and the others." Kagura didn't ask why, but just gave a nod and then disappeared from his sight. Naraku then turned back to the mirror watching the white-haired woman once again. "One day, I'll have you as my puppet. Just watch, because you will never escape me. Never." he vowed, followed by a sinister chuckle.

There's chapter 11. I know it wasn't the best way for Inner Moka to appear, but I tried my best to make it work. I had people reviewing to me, that I should make inner Moka appear in the story. I couldn't say no to that. Where will the fun be, if there's no Inner Moka in the story? I hope I get response for this, because if I don't, I just wasted all that time for nothing, writing this chapter. Luv ya! :)