Sorry for the long wait everybody. I get side tracked very easily and forget to update a lot of times and also because of schoolwork and all. I hope this will all make it up to you. I don't know who are the pairings might be in this chapter in case some of you are wondering. There might be in some scenes that somebody might have a crush on another, but not like a love thing. Anyways, like I said, I hope this will make up for all the time you guys have been waiting.

Chapter 6: A new Friend or Foe?

Tifa, Yuffie, and Barret continued their journey through the thick forest. It's been a long time since they ever did some traveling on foot, mostly because they could never afford a ride. All they were able to do was catch a wild chocobo, ride it, get off it, set the wild chocobo off, and then start all over again. But soon, they were able to afford vehicles and then, The Highwind. The Highwind was their important transformation out of the rest, knowing it could fly and take them absolutely anywhere on the planet, but was soon destroyed in the Jenova War three years ago when Meteor was falling from the sky. Two years after that, The Highwind II was rebuilt, but mostly known as, The Shera, was used as their transportation again. A year after that, it was used as a war aircraft against Deepground, but was destroyed when the huge creature, OMEGA WEAPON, was released from the earth, ready to carry the lifestream of the planet to a whole new world. Though The Shera was destroyed, not all was completely lost. It took a few months to rebuild The Shera and once it was finished, it was now known as The Phoenix or The Shera II.

"How much longer Tifa," complained Yuffie as she followed the young female fighter.

"We just started walking and yar already complainin'," yelled Barret as he stayed behind the two females.

"Knock it off you two," giggled Tifa softly as he led the team through the forest.

Soon, the team reached a small village. Many people were walking around, talking about things they mostly talked about, men and women working on plantations, children laughing and running around, old villagers strolling around the village for fun, and all that. But once the team reached the village and gave themselves a tour, the villagers stopped what they were doing and soon were focused on the three stranger travelers. Tifa managed to keep a smile, Yuffie was giving a confusing look, and Barret was giving a small glare towards the villagers.

"I wonder why everyone is staring at us," whispered Yuffie as she hit behind the huge dark skin Barret, "I don't like the way they are looking at us…"

"Relax Yuffie. Remember, were in a different world and I'm sure these people won't hurt us," replied Tifa as she gave the team an approving thumbs-up sign.

Soon, a small group of children walked up towards the huge dark skin male and placed their fingers in their mouths, lost in their own thoughts as they stared at Barret. Barret gave a small sweat dropped and gave a small growl as he saw the small group of children staring at him.

"What's wrong? Something on my face," growled Barret softly as he glared at the small group of young ones.

"Why are you dark," asked a very small young girl as she stared at the strange colored visitor that stood in front of her.

"What? Never seen a black man before," growled Barret.

"A black man? That sounds like a demon," whispered one of the adult villagers.

"Whoa! Whoa! Are you saying that I'm a demon because I'm black?! Why you-"

"Relax Barret," growled Tifa as she blocked Barret's path. Tifa faced the villagers and slowly bowed her head down at the villagers, "I'm sorry about my friend. He has small anger problems…"

"I see…anyways…you people look strange…where are you from," asked one of the villagers.

"Were from a very far away place and were trying to find a way home," explained Tifa as she raised her head from bowing position, "Any ideas were we can find some kind of powerful force that can take us home?"

"A powerful force," asked another villager.

"Yes. You see, were not really from around here and we like to go home. Do you know any wizards or priests or something that can take us home," asked Tifa.

"We do not know anyone with that kind of power to take you home, but we know a great priestess," said a female villager, "Her name is Kaede. She is the sister of a great powerful priestess named Kikyo, but she died a long time ago. Kaede can probably help you…"

"Thank you so much. Will be leaving now and were sorry if we disturbed your beloved village," smiled Tifa as she turned around with the gang following her.

However, before the team could leave the village, a huge horde of demons appeared from the forest, growling in hunger. The villagers soon began to scream in fear as they tried to run away from the demons.

"AVALANCHE! Roll out," yelled Tifa as she got ready to attack.

"Aw' right! This is my kind of fight," laughed Barret as his metal arm transformed into a five barrel cannon, his main cannon in the center and his other four cannons surrounding it.

Barret began firing at the huge horde of demons with his cannon weapon, releasing a huge blast and wiping out a lot of demons. Yuffie, using her amazing shinobi skills, was jumping high in the air and throwing her giant ninja star, cutting of the necks of the demons while they were chasing her. Tifa wa surrounded by mulitple demons and gave a small grin. She dug into her right pocket and pulled out a black glove and placed it on her right hand. She dug again into her left pocket and pulled out another black glove and placed it on her left hand.

"Look at the human girl," growled one demon.

"She thinks she's tough," growled another demon.

"Don't underestimate me," smiled Tifa.

The huge horde of demons soon dashed towards Tifa and Tifa easily managed to dodge one attack from the demons. She soon jumped into the air and landed on top of a village hut and saw one demon dashing towards her from the ground. Tifa pulled her right fist back and yelled out her attack.

"Final Heaven!"

Tifa's fist soon began to give a bright yellow glow and quickly brought her fist in front of her and released a huge like flare attack and soon hit the demon. The demon instantly vanished as it was swallowed by the attack and as well the other demons that were behind it. Once Tifa's blast disappeared, there was a huge crater that stood in front of her that was filled with some demon bones, buried under the dirt.

"Told you not to underestimate me," smiled Tifa. She quickly turned around and yelled out Barret's name, "Barret! You almost done yet?"

"Almost Tifa! I still got probably maybe around 15 of these little suckers," yelled Barret as he continued firing at the demons, "Hold on! Make that 10! Wait, 7…6!"

"I'm almost done Tifa," yelled Yuffie, "Barret! Think we should end this with style?"

"You bet," laughed Barret.

Barret stopped firing his weapon and jumped up in the air on top of a shrine. Yuffie jump from place to place until she reached the shrine where Barret was standing at and both gave a small grin. Barret clicked his gun and cocked it, soon aiming towards the demons flying towards them. Yuffie began to mumble an ancient Japan technique as she raised her ninja star up in the air and placing it flat and making all the sides go from left to right instead of pointing it towards the demons. A small blue light appeared in the center of Yuffie's star while a bright yellow glow appeared from Barret's gun arm.

"All Creation," yelled Yuffie as a huge blue blast of energy came out of her ninja star.

Along with her attack, Barret unleashed his attack with a huge grin on his face as he fired his most powerful attack towards the demons, "Catastrophe! Eat plasma flare jackasses!"

Both of their attacks joined together and wiped out all of the demons together. All that could be heard was the screams from the people, the cries of pain from the demons as they were obliterated, and the loud explosion. Soon, everything became quiet and the people of village saw no huge horde of demons anywhere in their village. Tifa brushed the dirt off of her, Barret made his metal weapon become an arm again, and Yuffie was jumping up and down in victory as if she was a cheerleader.

"Incredible," said one of the villagers in awe, "They defeated all the demons as if they were nothing…"

"This is nothing compared to what we've been through," mumbled Barret as he tried to clean off the dirt off from his metal arm.

"Anyways," said Tifa trying to get some information, "You said this person could help us, Kaede right?"

"Yes…," replied one of the villagers.

"Do have any idea where she is," asked Tifa, hoping where this lady lives, she doesn't live to far away.

"She lives pretty close to this village. Just follow this path and eventually you'll reach her village in no time," said the villager pointing to a path heading towards west. The team looked at each other and nodded together.

"Great. Will be off now," smiled Tifa as she bowed her head to the villagers and started walking on the path heading to Lady Kaede's village in the west.

Before they could begin their journey, there was a huge explosion coming from a nearby mountain. All the villagers were screaming, thinking it was another demon attacking them, but when they saw nothing was attacking them, they all began to calm down. The gang looked at each other and nodded in agreement to head towards the explosion to find out what caused it. Tifa was hoping maybe it was maybe Cloud over there and maybe he needed help. Yuffie, Barret, and Tifa waved good-bye towards the villagers and ran off.

"That explosion was pretty big," yelled Barret.

"What happens if its another demon," whimpered Yuffie, "I hate demons!"

"Who knows, that could be Cloud for all we know," replied Tifa.

"Lord Sesshomaru," yelled Jaken, trying to wake up his demon master, "Lord Sesshomaru!"

"Please Lord Sesshomaru. Please don't die," cried Rin. She looked towards Jaken with tears in her eyes, "What are we going to do Jaken?"

"Lord Sesshomaru can never die! But with these kind of wounds, I don't know what'll happen to him," mumbled Jaken.

Soon, they saw three figures in front of them and both were getting scared. They didn't know if they were human or demon, but Jaken and Rin stood in front of them, protecting the unconscious demon lord.

"Don't come any closer," yelled Jaken as he held his staff tightly, "Or you will suffer dearly!"

"Relax green dude," yelled Barret, "We come in peace!"

"You do," asked Rin.

"Don't listen to them Rin! They are probably here to kill Lord Sesshomaru," yelled Jaken.

"Lord sissy show mom," asked Yuffie in total confusion.

"Lord Sesshomaru," yelled Jaken correcting the young ninja.

"Maybe we can help. I can heal his injuries," said Tifa trying to offer some help towards them.

"I think she is telling the truth Jaken," said Rin, "We have no one to go to…"

"Fine. But don't you dare do anything funny," yelled Jaken pointing his staff towards Tifa.

Tifa gave a small smile and all three slowly walked up towards the blue haired figure. His had serious injuries all over his body and Tifa knew what she had to do. She extended her right hand very close to Sesshomaru's chest and closed her eyes. A shiny bright green orb appeared inside Tifa's wrist and some kind of rainbow-like-powder surrounded Sesshomaru all over his body. Jaken and Rin gazed upon the shiny light and couldn't believe what was happening. Tifa opened her eyes and began treating Sesshomaru's wounds as she called out the spell.

"Cure 3, Curaga," yelled Tifa.

There was a bright light that quickly died out instantly and soon, Lord Sesshomaru's wounds were quickly healed, as if he hasn't been touch. When the treatment was done, Tifa backed her hand away from him and gave a small smile towards the two figures.

"He'll be fine now. His wounds were serious, but I fixed everything up," smiled Tifa.

"What was that anyways," asked Rin.

"That was magic," explained Tifa.

"Magic," asked Jaken.

"Special Material. It's a small orb that can do different kinds of magic. Like summon lighting, fire, ice, and all that," explained Yuffie.

"Really? Where can we find this material you speak," asked Jaken.

"I don't think they exist in your world," said Barret, "We came from a different world, similar to yours in a way, but a little more into the future."

"Wow! So your not from here," asked Rin.

"That's right and were trying to go home," smiled Tifa as she patted Rin's small head.

"Look Tifa! He's waking up," yelled Yuffie as she pointed her finger to Sesshomaru.

Everyone turned to see Sesshomaru slowly opening his eyes, groaning a little. He slowly got up and saw three unknown figures. He quickly removed his sword and aimed it towards the three figures, but Jaken and Rin quickly stopped him.

"Lord Sesshomaru! Wait. They are ok! They healed you from your injuries," yelled Rin.

"Um, yes, uh, Lord Sesshomaru. They seem not to pose a treat to us," said Jaken nervously.

Lord Sesshomaru soon placed his sword back in his hilt and observed each of them one by one. He noticed the way they were dressed and how they looked, knowing they weren't from here, or at least, in this time.

"Who are you," demanded Sesshomaru in a calm voice.

"My name is Tifa. These are my two friends, Yuffie and Barret," said Tifa explaining towards the blue haired male, "We came from a different world and were trying to head back home."

"Do you know Kagome," asked Sesshomaru.

"Who," asked Barret raising an eyebrow.

"Then I guess you're not from her time as well," mumbled Sesshomaru, "Anyways, why did you help me?"

"You kidding right? We help people whoever are in danger," explained Yuffie in a annoyed tone, "DUH."

"Well then, I must go. I have no interest with you three," said Sesshomaru.

"Fine by me! Come on Tifa, we have to head to that place anyways," yelled Barret.

"By the way, have you seen a friend of ours," asked Tifa.

"A friend," asked Sesshomaru.

Just then, Sesshomaru had a huge surprised expression in his face. It was when he meant that man earlier. He remembered losing to him and not being killed by him, but it wasn't that. It was the same question he asked earlier.

"I am the darkness of a certain someone. Have you seen him," grinned Sephiroth, "I just want to know if you have seen friend of mine…that's all…"

Sesshomaru made his hand to a fist, gripping it tightly, and giving a small growl. The three gave a small figure wondering what he was being mad over. Sesshomaru soon began to calm down as he was about to ask a question to them.

"Tell me, is this friend you are speaking of is, Sephiroth," asked Sesshomaru, demanding an answer.

When he said that name, Tifa, Yuffie, and Barret gave a shocked and terrified look on their faces. Rin and Jaken noticed it and looked at each other in confusion. Sesshomaru as well noticed they had a frighten look on their faces, but could guess he was not their friend.

"It's impossible," said Yuffie, trembling in fear as she fear onto her knees, "It's just impossible."

"How in the hell Sephiroth is here," yelled Barret, "I mean, he died, twice!"

"If he is here, then were in serious trouble," said Tifa.

"What are you three talking about," asked Sesshomaru.

"Listen, do you know where Sephiroth went," asked Tifa.

"If I knew, I would be chasing after him," said Sesshomaru in a annoyed tone.

"Right, sorry. We have to call the others," explained Tifa.

"Wait, there's more of you," asked Jaken.

"You bet," yelled Barret.

"We have to head back over there and tell everyone the news before its too late," yelled Yuffie.

"Sesshomaru, I would like to ask you a question," said Tifa.

"What do you want from me," asked Sesshomaru.

"We need your help. You probably know more about this area than any other. Plus, we have to stop Sephiroth at any cost. He is a very, very dangerous man," explained Tifa.

"Yeah. We saw him defeat Lord Sesshomaru," said Rin in a frighten tone.

"Very well. I will help, but only because I want my revenge. Also, you will tell me everything you know about him," explained Sesshomaru, "One more thing. You stay out of my way and I'll stay out of you way."

"Fine by me pretty boy," yelled Barret getting annoyed.

As the new team started to head back towards to fallen airship and base, Tifa looked up in the sky, holding her hands together as if she was praying and closed her eyes shut.

"Please be safe Cloud," whispered Tifa.

End of Chapter 6

Sorry again for the long wait folks. Hope this will make it up to you.