Ami closed her eyes and felt the soft breeze traveling in the air towards the setting sun as Kirara road on towards the rising moon. A mixture of the rainbow filled the sky. It looked like a painting that someone made. A warm painting that would be known and wanted by everyone. Ami slowly opens her eyes and watches the sunlight's rays shine past her and reach out towards the moon. She turns her head and looks down at the land below her. A river glittered as it ran through a village surrounded by a forest. A small gust of smoke came from the village, quickly disappearing from the wind.
Ami turns her head and looks at the direction of the destination. A huge clove of mountains formed a solid line in the land. From far away they looked like a dusky purple color with some bits of snow on top. But Ami has never seen snow before nor a mountain. She wouldn't know that the mountain was really brown with dirt and dust and green from the trees. She wouldn't know that snow was a form of water.
--With the rest of the gang.--
Everyone was bored out of there minds as they waited. As they waited for Sango and Kirara to come. Inuyasha was hitting his sword against a rock that stuck up from the ground. Kagome was sitting on a small rock, rampaging through her bag, trying to find something to do. Shippo was drawing circles in the dirt as he licked his lollipop. Miroku was leaning against a rock, hitting his staff in the ground as her pondered about Sango.
Miroku sighs deeply shutting his eyes. "I wonder how much longer it will be before Sango comes…"
Shippo stops drawing circles in the dirt and looks up at the monk, licking his lollipop a few times. "Never have I seen you so depressed, Miroku," he says, blinking his teal eyes. He moves closer to Miroku with a small, evil grin on his face as he whispers, "about Sango."
Miroku blushes and looks around to make sure no one was looking at him. They seemed to be doing their own thing and must haven't heard Shippo. "You're lucky no one heard you little fox," Miroku mutters to the demon hitting him on his head with his fist.
"Whaa!" Shippo cries and starts sobbering, tears following out of his eyes. "Miroku hit me!" he cries, sitting on the ground, hands over his eyes.
Kagome and Inuyasha look towards the two, wondering what happened. Miroku looks like he is still pondering on about Sango and Shippo is there crying his eyes out. "Miroku, did you hit Shippo?" Kagome asks, concerned for the fox-demon.
"Hm?" Miroku questions as he pretends to get interrupted from his pondering. "I didn't hit Shippo at all! Why would I want to hit this little guy?" Miroku asks, holding the crying fox next to his head. Shippo glares at him and stops crying as he gets picked up. Shippo crosses his arms and looks away after he pops the lollipop inside his mouth.
Inuyasha just looks away and stares up into the dark sky. The moon was shining down on them as the sun disappeared behind the trees in the horizon. He puts his sword away, leaving one hand on the handle as he sniffs the air. "I smell Sango and Kirara," he announces to the other three. "I also smell another demon coming his way…it seems to be with them," Inuyasha adds, looking out for the flying cat-demon, Kirara.
Miroku jumps off the ground and puts his hand over his eyes, as if he were covering them from the sun, trying to be the first to spot the group. Shippo looks up and licks his lollipop. Kagome turns her head towards the direction Inuyasha was looking as an object came into view. Flames glowed as the came closer and closer. They stood out from everything else as it was shrouded in darkness.
After several heartbeats, outlines of the Kirara were visible through the thick night mist. Kirara turns and heads down towards the mountains, landing on the dust. Sango and Ami both hop off her as she shakes herself. Flames engulf Kirara as she turns back to her normal, regular-sized self.
"I sense jewel shards…" Kagome whispers into Inuyasha's ear. He nods as he watches Kirara land onto the ground.
"Hello Sango," Shippo greets her as he licks his lollipop. His eyes showed warmth and welcome to Ami, even though he didn't know her.
"Hello Shippo," Sango smiles in return of the greeting. "Everyone," she addresses, "this is Ami."
"Sango, can I talk to you for a second?" asks Inuyasha, as everyone else went over to greet Ami, and started to walk towards the edge of the mountain.
"Sure, Inuyasha," replies Sango, confused, as she follows the half-demon. "What is it?" she asks, catching up to him.
"Where did you find her?" Inuyasha asks, casting a glance at the newcomer, as she watches Kagome hit a rock on Miroku's head.
"I found her by a lake while I was chasing Naraku. He tried to kill her it seems when I got out of the forest. She is of no harm, so don't worry," Sango says, looking at Inuyasha, concern in her eyes for the girl.
"I don't think it's safe with her around…" Inuyasha murmurs. "Kagome can sense jewel shards coming from her and I sense another demon nearby and it might be her…I don't think she should stay with us."
"Inuyasha," Sango states, staring him down. "She was helpless and lost when I found her. Naraku tried to kill her! What harm could she do? She didn't even know her own name!" she whispers, in a yelling-like way so no one else hears their conversation.
"Feh!" Inuyasha growls sourly, crossing his arms. "Think that, but I'll show you that you are wrong! Don't forget!" He walks away towards the rest of the group. He stands in front of Ami, looking down at her. "Ami, I have a simple question for you." He says.
"Hm?" questions Ami, tilting her head to her side as if she was a confuzed puppy questioning what someone or something did.
"Do you know if you are a demon?" Inuyasha asks blankly. Sango glares at him, flames burning within her eyes. 'How can he judge someone so quickly…?' she asks herself.
Ami looks up at the half-demon, confusion flooding her eyes. "A demon?" she questions. "I do not know…" Her voice sounded lost like before. "I do not know…" she repeats, sadness in her eyes and voice.
Inuyasha falls onto the ground and twitches. "Can't you tell if you're a demon or not!" he yells at her, standing back up. Ami slowly backs away, the lost emotion taken over by fear.
"You don't have to be mean to her, Inuyasha!" Kagome says, giving him a nasty look.
Inuyasha turns his head towards her and stared at her like she was an adult asking 'What color is the sky?' "Kagome, tell me where you sense the jewels shards," he asks, speaking words quickly.
"I don't know," Kagome tells Inuyasha. "There is an aura around her...all I know she has two..." she murmurs to herself, continuing onward as Inuyasha glaced back at Ami and didn't pay attention to the jewel-shard seeker.
"Jewel shards?" Ami asks, confused. It was to her as if they were partly speaking in some other language, as if they didn't know the translation and that was their former language.
Everyone is frozen as if time has stopped around Ami itself. She looked around, from face to face, confusion overflowing in her eyes. "They are-" Kagome starts, hoping that she might know what they are, but just forgot, or just never knew they were the scattered peices of the Shikon no Tama.
"You're lying aren't you," Inuyasha says, stepping in front of Kagome and stopping her in the what she was saying. His voice was normal, like a normal person. It showed nothing, but it was dull and lost. It was if he suddenly turned serious in a matter of seconds, if he ever was serious. His sword showed it's full form in front of him as he held in, pointing at Ami as she slowly backed away, closer and closer to the edge of the mountain.
"Inuyasha..." Kagome sighs, shaking her hand.
"What are you doing?" Sango asks at the same time, hoping she isn't thinking what he is planning to do.
"What do you think?" Inuyasha asks back with a cold tone, knowing they knew the answer, and starts running towards Ami, ready to strike with his sword. Ami just stands there, her eyes flooding with fear and confusion as she slowly, stumpled backwards.
When Inuyasha was just a few feet away, he raised his sword high into the air. As it was coming down, an over-sized boomerang blocked it from the ground. Sango stood in front of it and held back Inuyasha as long as she could.
Ami continued moving slowly, but she was moving backwards, away from the half-demon. She felt the edge of the cliff with the bottom of her foot as a peice of it fell off and make a splash in the waves below. Inuyasha striked his sword, causing Sango to fly away from him, not wanting to hurt his companion. Mirokue ran up to her, making sure she was alright, as well as Kagome, Kirara, and Shippo. He started walked slowly towards you, sword dangling in his hand. He smiled, a grin on his face, for he knew you were trapped.
She turns her head and looks down at the ocean waves hitting against rocks, trying to block it from the mountain side. When Ami looked back at the half-demon, his sword was lifted high into the air, ready to strike. "Wind Scar!" he yells as he strikes the ground with his sword. Golden scars of lighted wind came rushing towards Ami. She closed her eyes and held her hands together as she started to fall backwards. She could feel the attack fly over her, rushing past and not falling.
Inuyasha rushes over to the edge of the cliff, dragging his sword with him, "Where are the jewel shards?!" Inuyasha yells, franicly looking about the place.
"Inuyasha..." Kagome started, her hand looking at the ground.
"I don't want to hear it!" he yells, trying to sniff the ground to see where the jewel shards went.
Sango stood up with some help from Miroku. She walked over to Inuyasha and glared at him, flames in her eyes. "I've had it with this," she says, grabbing the sword from him and plunging it off the cliff.
"Hey, Sango!" Inuyasha says, looking right up at the demon-slayer. "What was that for?!"
Sango didn't reply as she walked away and headed down the path of the moutain. Kirara looked at Inuyasha once and then followed.
"Sit boy!" Kagome yells. As she yelled the command, Inuyasha falls face first to the ground. "You don't have any respect for anyone!" she yells at the half-demon before taking off after Sango and Kirara. Shippo stands up from the ground and licks his lollipop as Miroku and him follow everyone else.
"It's going to be awhile before we are friends again," Miroku sighs, looking at Shippo whom had jumped onto his shoulder. Shippo nods as he pops the lollipop into his mouth.
After severeal minutes, while the gang was far down the trail, Inuyasha slowly gets off the groupd. "So they just leave me here! Feh!" Inuyasha says to himself, sitting on the ground. He looks around and blinked, standing up and running off after them. "Get back here!"