Chapter 4

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I don't know what made me think that I could catch up with a wolf demon that had two jewel shards in his legs. Let alone in this huge forest. I slowed my frantic running to a jog before I finally collapsed onto my knees.

I was still tired from my little episode this morning and I hadn't eaten much besides that fish earlier. I was just about to give up and turn around when I felt a shiver run down my spine. I quickly stood up and looked around.

I didn't see anybody and I couldn't hear anybody else's breathing other than my labored one. That's when I felt another shiver go down my spine, but this time it was accompanied by loud buzzing sound. Looking up, I saw what I guessed to be a horde of wasps.

'Wait a sec, didn't Naraku have a horde of wasps? Or something else like that?' I thought as I furrowed my eyebrows.

Hoping that they would lead me to the castle, and maybe even Koga, I decide to follow them.

'I better have lost some weight after all this,' I thought bitterly as I began running after the wasps.

I got to the castle not a moment too soon, because as soon as I exited the trees Inuyasha had blown down the front doors.

"Holy shit," I breathed out in awe at both the sheer strength Inuyasha had shown and also at Inuyasha himself.

I didn't get a chance to properly ogle him though seeing that as soon as I said that the whole group turned their heads to look at me. Inuyasha looked like he was about to yell at me when I remembered just why I had ran all the way there. Sucking in a deep breath, I picked up my running again, despite my legs' protests, and ran past the group and inside the castle grounds.

"Hey stop!" A female voice called, either Kagome or Sango, I wasn't sure.

I did stop, but not because they told me to. It was because of what lay in front of me. After the dust that had risen from the doors being knocked down had cleared, I could properly see all the dead bodies scattered across the ground. The worst part was that they looked like they were wolf demons from Koga's tribe.

'Has Koga already seen this? Where is he?' I thought as I looked around.

"What's all this?" I heard Inuyasha asked from behind me.

"Koga's men," I replied without thinking.

"Koga's men? Wait, you know him?" Kagome asked.

I turned around to face them.

"Well yea, shouldn't my choice of clothing be obvious?" I asked pointing at myself.

Inuyasha took a sniff in the air before saying, "You don't smell completely like a demon. You smell human."

"That's because I am, but that isn't important right now. What's important is that I find Koga," I stated before turning back around to walk through the dead bodies.

"Wait a sec!" Kagome called.

"What!" I groaned in annoyance.

"If you're human then that means you're in danger. Don't you know this is Naraku's castle?" Miroku asked me.

"I suspected as much. Which is why I have to find Koga," I said before turning back around.

"Then we'll help you! We're also friends with Koga so it wouldn't be a problem," Kagome offered.

"Speak for yourself," Inuyasha muttered.

"Inuyasha, stop being such a jerk!" Kagome exclaimed.

"Only after you stop fawning over that stupid wolf!" Inuyasha argued.

"Shut up! We don't have time for this!" I screeched at them, successfully shutting the two of them up.

"Now, come on or else it might be too late," I said before walking forward.

"Do you know what the demon wolf tribe was doing here?" Sango asked me as we walked across the grounds at a leisurely pace, much to my annoyance.

"Not really, my guess is that they were trying to get jewel shards seeing as one of them came back with one. He died though, but before he did he said that Koga had to come here or else the rest of the tribe would be slaughtered," I replied as I side stepped a man whose eyes were opened wide in terror.

I shivered and swallowed thickly, hoping to keep the fish down. Note to self: Fish and dead bodies do not go together. Before anyone could ask anything else, a wave of white smoke slowly seeped out of the opened doors of the building in front of us. We all tensed up, watching as it ghosted down the porch steps and over the bodies of the dead men. With a groan, the previously dead men all sat up and grabbed their weapons.

"Fuck," I breathed out.

'Two words. Zombie Apocalypse,' I thought as I felt my heart rate speed up.