Tora-chan: I would like to apologize for how late this chapter is. I know everyone is hearing this right now, but school work is piling up along with the Christmas season coming into swing for those of us that work retail. That just means more chances for insanity and fewer chances for writing. So I'm sorry if it takes awhile between chapters. I also have major writer's block right now and that is not helping. Now Hiroshi if you would please.

Hiroshi: Tora-chan would like to thank inuyashaswife12 and Sango-the-yokai-slayer for their reviews in the last chapter. Also she does not own Inuyasha.

Tora-chan: Thank you Hiroshi. Now on with the story.

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Last time: They meet Vitanie's dad and found out that Sora was going to join their group before she past out.

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"Sora!" Vitanie yelled running to the young woman's side.

"What happened? Why did she pass out like that?" Inuyasha asked looking over at Sora confused. Kagome was at the woman's side not two seconds after Vitanie.

"Do you know what's wrong with her?" she asked Vitanie quietly.

"Not really, but my dad did say it wasn't easy for Sora to hold the connection open for so long, so she might have worn herself out," Vitanie shrugged as she picked Sora up. "Come on we should get inside the house and let her rest."

Everyone followed Vitanie into the house, or what was left of the house, and sat down to rest. Yuki was the last to enter and he set Vitanie's bag and staffs by the door since she had forgotten them when Sora collapsed.

Inuyasha was mumbling something about weak humans slowing them down as he leaned against the wall. Yuki heard him and glared at him but didn't argue. He had a feeling it was mainly Sora he was complaining about and he agreed, though he wouldn't voice it in fear that Vitanie would hear him.

Hiroshi went out the front door with Kohaku to see if there was still water in the village well. Sango went over to help Vitanie and Kagome with Sora but was mainly making sure that Miroku kept his distance.

Shippo and Mari looked around the room and decided it was boring so they decided to search the rest of the house with Kirara following silently behind them.

Once everyone was settled Hiroshi came back in with a bucket of fresh water.

"Is she okay?" he asked setting the bucket down next to Kagome, who immediately wet some cloth and placed it over Sora's forehead.

"She seems to just be asleep, but we won't know for sure until she wakes up," Kagome answered quietly.

"I saw we leave her here and pick her up when we head back to Fujigawa," Inuyasha snapped. "We can't just sit around and wait for some weak human to. . ."

"Inuyasha," Kagome said softly anger clearly lacing her voice, "SIT!"

Inuyasha immediately ended up face planted in the floor in front of him.

Vitanie looked up when the floor shook from the impact and shook her head. "No matter how funny I find that, I would appreciate it if you wouldn't demolish what is left of my home," she chuckled.

Kagome faced turned a little pink but smiled none the less, "Sorry about that."

Right after she finished that a scream came from one of the other rooms followed quickly by a roar from Kirara. Vitanie was immediately up and running towards the room the screams came from.

When she reached the source she saw Mari hiding behind Shippo who in turn was hiding behind Kirara. Kirara was in her larger form with fire licking her feet and tails but she didn't seem to be in a hurry to fight. Lying on the ground was a large tiger stretched out where a bed used to be. Vitanie shifted her hands slightly before realizing that she had left both of her staffs behind. She swore quietly under her breath and she slowly moved forward to come up next to Kirara's head.

Both, Inuyasha and Yuki then burst into the room, one brandishing his large dog fang of a sword and the other had his claws ready to tear apart whatever was threatening his friends. Sango was behind him with hirakotsu in hand while Kohaku ran in front of Mari and Shippo his chained sickle at the ready to defend.

"That's no ordinary tiger," Yuki growled moving slowly forward.

Vitanie stuck her arm back trying to motion Yuki to stay back but he just moved away from her to get in a good position to attack from. Vitanie's gold eyes glared into Yuki's causing an uncontrolled shiver to pass through him. He turned his brown eyes toward her and glared.

"Don't attack unless you need to defend yourself," she told him as she started to move closer to the tiger. "We aren't going to hurt you, we just want to know why you're here," Vitanie spoke softly toward the large cat.

The stripped ears moved forward, but the eyes were dull until Hiroshi walked in with a lamp in hand. The light gleamed off of Vitanie's white and black hair and caused her to twitch her ears in irritation at the sudden light.

The tigers head snapped up as Vitanie's features came into full light. Her twin tails caused a low growl to escape from the cat's throat until a soft glow started to come from the demon cat. Inuyasha raised his sword slightly and Yuki growled and flexed his claws on his left hand while his right landed on the hilt of his sword.

When the light subsided a young looking women stood in front of them. She was sickly thin from lack of food, but her chin length hair gleamed a tawny color with darker brown strips. She glared at Vitanie with such hatred that the room seemed to grow colder with her stare.

"How dare you ask me questions? You are in my home and you dared to ask why I'm here? How dare you," she shrieked as she swayed slightly almost ready to fall.

"We didn't mean any disrespect but this can't be your home. It belong to my father and thus belongs to me," Vitanie replied getting slightly annoyed. How many annoying women am I going to meet today? If Sora still acts all high and might when she wakes I might scream, but I promised father. But this girl looks ready to pass out from lack of food and she dares to get mad at me, she thought her anger rising slowly to the surface.

"Impossible the Tijian's are dead thus you cannot be an ancestor to this village," the women proclaimed as tears started to form in her eyes. If it wasn't for Vitanie's excellent hearing she wouldn't have heard the next sentence. "And I didn't even get my revenge on them."

"What are you mumbling about, cat!" Yuki spat the last word out forgetting that two of his closest friends happened to be felines. "What revenge would you want on a race that does no harm?" he finished as he finally drew his sword and leveled in at the demons throat. She growled in response causing Hiroshi to jump back a little in fright, while everyone else remained in their fighting stances.

"Yuki put that sword away," Vitanie sighed getting really tired of all the tension and drama that seemed to surround them. "If I could take a stab in the dark, did the Tijian's exile you from the village at a very young age because you are a half Tijian?" she asked.

The tan tiger stripped girl stepped back in shock at how easily this other cat demon found her out. "How did you know that? Just how old are you?" she asked her eyes narrowing thinking that maybe this was one of the demons that had thrown her out of her home.

"I would guess younger then you," Vitanie relied as she leaned back against Kirara. "I was born about eight months after the destruction on this village. If you remember being forced out that means that you remember this place before it was destroyed. Why don't we move into the other room where we could get you some food? I'm sure you're hungry and we don't mind sharing for the night. Besides it's nice to know that I'm not the only one with Tijian blood left," she finished with a smile.

The other girl swayed a little as she moved a step forward still growling at Vitanie. She made a swipe with one clawed hand but started to fall. Vitanie reached forward and grabbed her arm before she hit the floor and kept her standing.

"Come on a hot meal would do you well," she calmly said keeping the other girl on her feet.

"Why are you trying to help me? Isn't in obvious I want to hurt you? You should be trying to kill me instead of help me," she asked completely confused.

"How about this, when you're strong enough to not need my help you can try to kill me, but until then I can't walk away and leave you here to suffer," she sighed helping the other women to the room where Kagome and Miroku waited keeping watch over Sora.

"You shouldn't be helping someone who wants you dead. That's one of the stupidest things I've ever heard of. That would be like me helping Sesshomaru so that he could turn around and kill me," Inuyasha exclaimed his sword still out even though there wasn't room for him to swing it in the narrow hall wall that lead to the main room of the house.

"Let me just kill her, Vee. It would be better for all of us if you just let her die," Yuki growled his eyes boring into the back of the tan tiger demon.

"Yuki, you even try to hurt her and I'll personally skin you alive," Vitanie snapped throwing a glare over her shoulder at the wolf demon.

"You're friends are right. You should kill me and get over with it because I will betray you," she whispered as they entered the main room.

"What happened?" Kagome asked anxiously coming forward grabbing the cat demons other arm giving support. "Who's this?"

"That's a good question. We're not really sure," Vitanie answered after giving it a little thought and a nervous chuckle.

"Vitanie! You didn't get her name? What were you thinking?" Kagome asked in shocked.

"She wasn't thinking. That girl wants to kill her yet her she is acting like a stupid cat and taking care of her," Inuyasha glowered as he kept an eye on the demon Kagome was helping.

"Inuyasha, relax. She's too weak to attack at the moment," Sango said coming in behind them. "Besides if she tries anything we can handle it," she whispered as she walked by the aggravated dog demon.

Yuki was standing just inside the room ready to attack at any moment. He was now the one that was muttering instead of Inuyasha. Instead of complaining about humans slowing them down, he was complaining about stubborn and dangerous cats.

Vitanie was to busy taking care of Sora to care about the comments as Kagome got some stew that she had been cooking for there new companion. The cat demon sat in a corner watching everyone closely not exactly sure what to do. She had let herself be brought in to the room with them because she was too weak to resist.

Why is she willing to help me? I told her I wanted revenge on all Tijians and that I would kill her yet both her and her friends are helping me. True most are doing it to not make her mad and don't trust me, but still they are helping. Why would she do that? She wondered to herself.

"Well since my friends seem to have forgotten their manners, maybe I should introduce you to everyone, Miss - -" Miroku started letting the sentence trail off waiting for her to insert her name. When no answer was forth coming he cleared his throat and continued where he left off.

"I'm Miroku, the rude dog demon in Inuyasha, the fox is Shippo and then there is Sango and her brother Kohaku, and Kagome," he said pointing out each person in turn. "The others are Vitanie, who helped you in here, then there is Yuki, the wolf demon, Hiroshi is over there playing the lyre, and then there is Mari the little cat demon and Sora over there being cared for by Vitanie. Might we have your name as well?" he asked trying to get a reaction from her.

Should I tell them my name? No! I can't do that, I will not let myself get attached to the one I'm going to kill, she thought before turning to the monk in front of her.

"My name isn't important, to those I'm going to kill later," she hissed as she turned and downed the stew that she had been given.

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Tora-chan: I am now totally confused. This new character came out of no where, not only for you readers but for me as well. I'm going to have to change my original story now. I'm going to try to fit her in some how.

Yuki: You enjoy surrounding me by cats don't you?

Tora-chan: Will you chill. It's not that big of a deal. Besides I had no intention to add another character I'm having a big enough problem keeping tract of the ones in this story. I mean seriously I almost forgot to add Kohaku to Miroku's introduction list.

Kohaku: Yeah, thanks a lot (sarcastically)

Tora-chan: I remembered didn't?! Now I would like to greatly apologize for the lateness of this chapter and any that will follow. With full time work, school and a devastating amount of writer's block. I'm slowly coming back from that and I'm going to go and start the next chapter right now. If anyone has any ideas please review and let me know what they are. I'm open to suggestions.

Hiroshi: Are you done now Tora-chan?

Tora-chan: Yep (collapses onto bed next to laptop)

Hiroshi: Thank you for reading and please review. Have an nice day (bows)