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Disclaimer: Still don't own InuYasha, no matter how much I wish I did...

Chapter 01- Explosive

"No."

"Come on!"

"I said no."

The seventeen year old glared up at her father. His golden eyes left no room for discussion, but Salem refused to back down.

"If I was a boy you would let me! Why did you even keep me alive? You sure don't want me! I don't think you even know my name! It's always half-breed! Or maybe if you're in a good mood, you'll call me girl. What is my name father?"

He just watched her coldly.

"Sesshomaru! What's my name?!"

His silence was starting to piss her off. She turned on her heel and left her father's study. No, he wasn't her real father…what was she thinking…he never loved her. There was nothing that she could do to change him.

Salem sighed sadly and looked around her room. She grabbed her favorite pack, a black bag with a single, thin shoulder strap. It had a howling wolf and a larger howling dog stitched onto the front of it in silver silhouettes. The two canines were howling together. She quickly scrawled out a messy note to Sesshomaru and left it on her bed before jumping out her window and darting into the forest. She was gone.

Father,

Well, now you have you wish. I'm out of here, for good. I doubt you'll miss me. Maybe you can find someone who you will accept and love as your own child. Hopefully they will love you back. You need it. I know you won't change and I know you won't come after me. It's better that way.

Best of luck to you and all my love,
Half-Breed

It had been a good three months since Salem left her father and the only home she had ever known. Just as she figured, Sesshomaru didn't come after her.

"InuYasha! SIT BOY!" a shrill voice reached Salem's delicate ears, causing her to flinch in pain.

Salem jumped up in the tree closest to her and watched a group of travelers pass below her. She counted the group in her head: there were two demons, three humans, and a half demon. Salem mentally slapped herself when the half demon turned his nose toward her. He was a half DOG demon…he could smell her. She would just have to cross her fingers and hope against the odds that the boy wouldn't be paying attention.

"Hey InuYasha!" the strangely clad girl started.

"Huh, that name sounds familiar," Salem muttered softly.

"What?"

"I think that there is someone in that tree! They have a powerful spiritual aura."

Salem sighed; she was caught, and by a human no less. She dropped to the ground gracefully and straightened up. What was the point of hiding if they would just search for her anyway?

"Didn't think the dog would catch me, let alone a human girl," Salem said to the girl.

The girl was dressed oddly, but that was not what caught Salem's attention. This human had a huge outpouring of aura similar to that of a miko's.

"Who are you?" the demon slayer asked, interrupting Salem's thoughts. The demon slayer gripped her weapon subconsciously.

"Just a lone traveler. My name is Salem. And you are?"

After the group went around and introduced themselves, Kagome asked, "Salem, I have a question for you. Are you a priestess? You have a miko's aura, but it seems warped."

"She's a half-demon, of course her aura is warped. She's not a miko," InuYasha argued.

"She has a miko's aura InuYasha!" Kagome snapped.

"It's a demon aura! She's half wolf demon Kagome!"

"Actually…" Salem started.

"Don't even try," Miroku warned.

Salem's eye twitched as she watched the argument escalate. Finally, she took a deep breath a flared out her aura, causing the two to cease their quarrel.

"As I was saying," Salem said smoothly, "My biological father was a wolf demon, my mother was a priestess. So you are both right."

The two exchanged sheepish looks and returned their attention to the conversation Sango had struck up with their odd intruder.

"So you're just out here alone?"

Salem nodded with a shrug, "It doesn't really bother me."

"Oh, now it does not do for a fair young woman such as yourself to be wandering alone in the woods at this time. I have a suggestion," Miroku stated, grabbing her hand in his, "Please bear my children."

Before Sango could get to him, the poor monk went flying into the nearest tree. The group's stares went from Miroku to an irritated wolf demon that was cracking her knuckles.

"Where are your parents Salem?" Kagome asked in an attempt to move the conversation away from the dazed monk.

"My real dad disappeared before I was born and my mother died when I was six. I use to live with my adoptive father I guess you could call him," Salem said.

She casted a glance at InuYasha, but it was so quick that he believed he just imagined it.

"Why are you alone?" Sango asked in concern.

"It was time for me to…ah, get away," Salem explained vaguely.

Sango nodded and replied, "Well, you are welcome to come along with us until you want to go back to your father."

"I really don't want to intrude," Salem declined.

"It's not a problem! Right InuYasha?" Kagome said cheerfully.

"Hmph."

"Doggy really doesn't want me here," Salem said with a shrug, "I'll be fine by myself."

"Really, it's ok," Sango said.

"InuYasha's opinion doesn't matter anyway," Shippo added.

Thirty seconds later left Shippo nursing a bump on the head, InuYasha eating a mouthful of dirt, and Salem holding back laughter.

The group smiled at her encouragingly. Well, except for InuYasha who was glaring up at her from his hole in the ground.

"I suppose it won't do any harm for a month or so…" Salem finally agreed.

"Excellent!" Kagome said, clapping her hands together, "We were just about to set up camp for the night!"

How she got herself into these things, she would never know. Salem groaned as she stooped to pick up another piece of firewood all while keeping an eye on Shippo who was 'helping' her. He was sweet, but he really couldn't tell which pieces of bark were ideal for burning.

"No Shippo, they can't be wet. You're going to have to dig under the brush for some dry twigs since it rained the other day."

Shippo nodded enthusiastically and ran off in an attempt to help her.

Salem made sure he was range for her to still be able to hear and smell danger if it came upon him before she went back to the task at hand.

"I hate this job," Salem muttered, adding a few colorful words after she got a large splinter from a rather large piece of firewood.

She yanked the offending splinter out of her hand irritably and growled. Salem paused momentarily and sniffed the air cautiously. Her eyes narrowed dangerously as she tried to decipher the scent. Surely HE wouldn't come after her with others nearby.

Salem took off in the direction Shippo disappeared towards. She just hoped she could defeat HIM without the help of her father. Otherwise…

Author's Notes: Oh the drama! What's going to happen to Salem and who is HE? Find out next time on 'Kids: Another Kind of Demon'! Sorry, couldn't resist! Please don't forget to review! It'd be AWESOME!