Tari here. I've worked really hard on this chapter so I hope you like it. I was recently reading a book that gave me some new ideas that I tried out. I came to really like this one. You'll see what I mean. (This sentence may be a spoiler if you have in fact read the book: The book that gave me the idea was called All Around The Town.)

Becca now sat in the center of the group, being watched all the time. Nobody would let her go anywhere.

Kagome was afraid she would go to her father and be killed.

Shippou didn't want her to go.

Songo said she didn't care but there was concern in her eyes when she thought no one was looking.

Inuyasha cared because Kagome cared.

Miroku of course didn't want her to go be killed because he loved her.

"Let me go," Becca spoke quite calmly.

"We're not going to let you go get yourself killed," Kagome replied, anxious.

Becca shook her head. "That is not your choice to make. My life is my own and I will do with it what I will. I have nothing left to live for anyways."

Miroku remember Becca saying something in the past and said, "Aren't you afraid of dying? What will you say to Jack when you see him?"

Silence.

Looking up, Becca sighed, "I will have to face him eventually. I can only hope that he will forgive me. Please. Let me go. Jack is gone and so the only people I have left are my master and my sister. I must help them if I can. It's the least I can do for leaving them."

Miroku's face turned red. He couldn't believe that Becca wanted to help them. They were monsters, like Becca's other side. "So you'll just go commit suicide before we find and kill Naraku? Before you get your full revenge?"

"I will make my choices on my own. My master will die if I don't go now." She sounded vehement but some of the fire was gone from her eyes. She was inner turmoil, trying to decide whether her father dying or Jack's revenge was more important.

"If you love Jack so much, then why would you let yourself die before finishing your mission? That's very half-hearted. Did you ever truly love him?" Miroku prodded.

Suddenly, Becca jumped up, screaming in his face, "I loved Jack more than I could ever love any of you. Jack kept me sane. He would be happy if I stopped killing and saved someone for a change. Leave me to my own devices."

She started to run away but Inuyasha got in front of her, holding her back.

"You're not going anywhere," Inuyasha snapped.

Becca growled deeply, a rumble starting in the base of her stomach until it ripped its way out of her throat. "You don't have the right to hold me here," she hissed, menacingly low. Her hands were balled into fists, knuckles turning white. She was dangerously close to the edge.

"Oh relax, Becca. You're not the only person on the world with a decision to make. Here we are doing our best to find and kill Naraku and we finally find someone with the initiative and ability to do just that and suddenly you decide not to help us?" Songo looked angry as she said this. "Get over yourself. We need help too."

Becca looked back at her and roared, "Since when have you ever cared what I do? Since when did you want my help? You've been trying to get rid of me since I got here!"

Steam started to seep out of Becca. At first it was unnoticeable, but Inuyasha, standing closest to her, noticed.

"What is that?" Inuyasha instantly asked.

Becca's eyes widened slightly as each person in turn noticed the smoke. It started to swirl around her, faster.

"Get away from me!" Becca shouted, backing into Inuyasha. "Get away!"

"Naughty naughty!" a familiar voice called out.

Then, an unfamiliar voice, "I agree. Quite naughty."

The original voice then replied, "Oh hello. I haven't talked to you in a while. Are the rest of you also awake?"

"Most of us." the second voice.

"Who's speaking?" Kagome asked nervously.

The first voice said, "Oh! You don't recognize my voice? It's me. The demon side of Becca. Technically, my name is Becca too, because we were put into the same body and named Becca at that time. But because I do not want to be associated with a weak human such as her, I shall name myself Shi."

The second voice then laughed, "Shi? How silly."

"Don't laugh at me. You are a child compared to me." Shi sounded more exasperated rather than angry.

"Who are you?" Kagome asked of the second voice.

Becca was now surrounded by smoke. No one could see her.

The second voice chuckled, "My name is Ulla."

"And who are you, Ulla?" Miroku now asked.

The smoke started to condense. It became the shape of a body. It crossed it arms and said, "Don't look at me. I'm not Ulla. I'm Shi. I would never control Becca the way Ulla does because I would be thought of as a personality rather than an individual being."

Control Becca?

Everyone looked at Becca's form. She had pulled her hair back into a ponytail and had somehow changed into tight fitting, black clothes. "I am Ulla," Becca said.

"Becca?" Kagome questioned.

"No. Ulla. I am one of her personalities." Becca, or Ulla, smiled sweetly and brushed a stray hair out of her face. That's when Miroku realized her eyes had changed color. They were now a bright pink.

"Personalities? How many does she have? And why does she need extra?" Shippou asked innocently.

Ulla leaned forward, placing a finger to her lips, and answered, "She has quite a few. Only a couple of us come out to talk. You'll meet them soon enough." She then placed her hands on her hips and giggled, "And she needs us because she'd go insane without us. We're protecting her from blowing up like she did when Jack died. From injuring herself again? Haha!"

No one understood why she found that funny.

"Wait! She injured herself?" Miroku asked.

Ulla turned to him and said, "Why yes. It was quite bad too. She didn't stop bleeding for a week. She was going to do it again too, but that was when Kate and I appeared. We were among the first, but more and more started to come all too soon. It's quite crowded in here again."

Miroku was shocked. He thought that Becca had directed her anger from Jack dying at his killers, not herself.

Ulla suddenly winked at him and said, "Don't worry my dear. You're probably just shocked from the lies she told you. She didn't know she was lying of course. When another personality takes over you forget about time until you wake up again. She doesn't remember an entire 200 years of her life on this planet. I do though. It was only after those 200 years that she went after Jack's killers. She thought it was immediately after he died, but it wasn't."

"200 years? How old IS Becca?" Songo asked.

Ulla waggled a finger at Songo and said, "If I knew I would tell you, but I don't. I only know her age from that first year when I appeared."

"Don't you have all of Becca's memories?" Kagome asked.

"Oh no. I only get to see the memories that are important to her, which leaves a lot of years out of my reach." Ulla placed her hands on her hips once more and said, "Of course, you wouldn't know this but every single memory of you guys is very important to her. I know you guys just about as well as she knows you."

Miroku looked at her more closely. She was rolling something in one of her hands. "What are you holding?" Miroku asked.

Smiling, Ulla held up a small ball. "This? Just a little something to wake up the rest of us. I hate it when my friends sleep without me. So I'll wake them all up."

"How many of them are there?" Shippou asked again, seeming to understand what she was saying.

Ulla's gin widened considerably before she swallowed the ball, saying, "Hundreds."

I really wanted to continue writing this chapter but there's so much more to say and do so I'll save it all for the next chapter. If you read this all the way through then thank you. Please review. Tari out.