Meyame

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Chapter two: crimson eyes.

"So where do we start?" Kagome asked with excitement.

Inu-Yasha raised his brows to her. "What do you mean "where do we start" it was your idea to go back to the village and slay the demon."

"Well, yeah. You were gonna let her be left on her own. We had to at least try and do something for her."

"I say we leave her here and whatever happens, happens."

"Inu-Yasha! How can you be so cruel!" Kagome screeched at him. Watching Inu-yasha flinch at the high pitched noise Meyame was listening to everything while lying on InuNaya's back on the ground blowing dirt into the air.

"What about you Meyame, we have to help you out so why don't you get off your mongrel an point us in the right direction!" Inu-Yasha yelled at her. She got up off the ground dusting off her knees before gesturing to the woods.

"As you command master." She said nonchalantly which didn't make Inu-yasha too happy offering a "keh" in response before leading the way into the forest.

"Where exactly are we going?" Inu-yasha howled with impatience.

"Just be patient Inu-yasha would ya." Kagome sighed in return.

"We're going offly far from the village. Maybe the villagers were all right and Meyame is the demon attacking them. Heh." Meyame who had started leading the way looked at inu-yasha out of the corner of her eye. Turning around she held her arms out like she was going to take flight.

"If you truly believe that, then here. You can kill me now save the trouble of me devouring your flesh and bones and destroy me now." She stood there for only a moment in silence. "Didn't think so, now shall we?" She turned and led the way once again.

Becoming impatient again Inu-yasha became engrossed in his thoughts, so deep he almost tripped right over Meyame who had come to a halting stop.

"What is it?" Surprised and confused Inu-yasha looked over her head. There was a hole in a very large tree that looked to be heading farther into the ground.

"That's scary.." Kagome leaned close to Inu-yasha clutching his arm.

"Well let's check it out."

"What! Inu-yasha you're crazy!" Kagome flinched showing the obvious fear in her face as her lip quivered.

"It's just a hole in the ground Kagome." She shook her head. "I don't smell any demon's actually I don't smell anything at all..." Inu-Yasha thought to himself.

"Wait a minute. I don't sense any demon aura, none at all." Kagome said.

"This is where the demon last came out. Before he attacked the village. InuNaya and I had been out here picking cherry's from the cherry trees when it jumped out, knocking me to the ground. He stared at me with his crimson eyes... I'll never forget those eyes..." she shook.

Flash Back

Reaching up to pick a cherry from the tree the dark haired girl heard a strange noise to her left. She turned to face the direction. "That sounded like a moan..." dark eyes appeared deep in the darkness sparkling once. She fell backwards when it came towards her knocking the girl off her feet. Standing over her, glaring down.

She cringed in fear the sound of her dog barking fell on deaf ears. The only thing she heard was his sand paper scrapping voice. "Your life will be in my hands…" Then he jumped over her and ran towards the village...

Flash Back end

"The only thing I heard after that was the sound of the villagers screaming, when I came back the village was destroyed and a lot of people were dead. They must have saw me come out of the forest because they pointed their fingers at me. It was Hakaku that convinced the village to let me stay because they had no proof. He insisted that because I came out of the same place the demon meant nothing." Kagome rubbed her back sympathetically. "Poor Meyame... getting blamed for something she didn't do must be horrible... especially when the village she has been in her entire life hates her for it…"

"There's no demon here." Inu-Yasha scrunched his nose in disgust.

"Huh? How is there not?" Kagome questioned with interest.

"Something is masking the scent, if there had even been an animal run through here, I can't smell it. There is no point in going down there. This is no ordinary demon. Going into its home unknowing is suicide"

"So what should we do then?"

"The only thing we can do, go back to the village until it decides to come out again." Inu-yasha smirked.

Back at the village they made their beds in one of the headmasters quest rooms while Meyame sat outside with InuNaya kicking her feet off the edge of the porch while villagers walked by an glared. she paid them no mind. Kagome came out and sat beside her. "Why aren't you making a bed for yourself?"

"I'm use to not sleeping very much at night." Came her response.

"Can I ask you a question?"

"Sure" Meyame responded without so much as a glace in Kagomes direction.

"What happened to your parents?" Inu-yasha perked up from his cot behind the sliding doors that led outside where Kagome and Meyame were talking. Sighing Meyame looked down to her dog who was lying on the ground appearing to be asleep.

"The demon killed them..."

"…how?" Kagome hesitantly pressed.

"Well... "InuNaya had lifted an eye in her direction then she sighed again. "I don't really want to talk about it..."

"Ok well, what's with that Hakaku boy, do you like him?"

Meyame choked on what appeared to be her own spit at the question. InuNaya looked at her in what looked like interest and concern. "NO NO NO. NOT AT ALL."

"Well he very obviously likes you." She smiled at Meyame. Giving Kagome a you're-probably-the-craziest-person-EVER look she looked to the ground as she flushed.

"He's just a boy who has an over interest in somebody who will never be interested in him." She spat the words as if in disgust.

Kagome sighed with a 'if you say so' before saying goodnight and sweet dreams then heading back into the hut with Inu-yasha.

Meyame looked at InuNaya not surprised to see the amused look on his face. "You think it's funny don't you?" InuNaya stuck his nose in the air looking back at her out of the corner of his eye. She leaned over and collapsed on the oversized dog nuzzling her face in the soft fur of his neck. "You're a pain."

Hearing a noise outside Inu-yasha shot up from his seat. 'That sounded like sticks breaking under someone's feet.' He thought to himself peeking out of the door way to see Meyame rolling over her dog obviously unaware of the aura forming around them like dark clouds. In a flash something jumped out of the forest landing in front of Meyame who had gotten knocked over by InuNaya who had jumped up in a defensive position barking and snarling incredibly loud. Inu-yasha jumped out in front of the dog. "Well, well look who's finally here." Flexing his claws he noticed something. 'I still don't smell anything, this demon smells like... nothing' squinting he realized he could barely see the demon either, all he saw was darkness.

The only thing Inu-yasha saw was a flash of two crimson orbs before it slashed at him Meyame ran into the forest InuNaya following fast behind her. "Go with them Kagome!" Inu-yasha shouted holding his arm.

"O-okay…" Kagome glancing at the blood dripping from inuyasha's forarm, she followed after them.

Inu-yasha looked down at the demons hand that was holding his arm and smirked. "Well, you're real enough to touch me. BLADES OF BLOOD!" Grabbing the demons hand over his forarm he grasping his own blood, throwing crimson blades at the demon with a flick of his hand. It leaped out of the way back into the trees where it had came from. He smirked at Inu-yasha before fading back into the trees. "What a coward." 'It's running... I can hear it. Its running towards Kagome and Meyame!' with an 'arrugh' he took strides running as fast as he could into the direction the demon was heading hoping to make it to the girls before the demon did. 'What's with this thing?'

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"Meyame... where'd you go..?" Whispering Kagome was hoping the girl could hear her. She had lost track of her and the white dog when they stepped into the forest. She gasped seeing a shadow she clutched her chest realizing it was her own. She blew out the breath she was holding in. 'I can't believe I lost them...'

Glancing up she saw a dark figure coming down from the sky between the trees. Confused she watched when it suddenly got within inches of her face. The only thing Kagome saw before closing her eye was thirsty crimson eyes looking dead at her. Flinching back expecting it to be the end after a few seconds of nothing she opened her eyes. The demon was pinned against the ground by a big white dog. InuNaya had caught hold of his wrist and was biting down as hard as he could. Hearing the demon snarl back at the dog Kagome pulled an arrow out of her quiver. The demon looked to Kagome. She gulped. 'Those eyes... I've seen them before...' She drew back and the demon jumped in the air kicking the dog to the ground with a loud thud.

"InuNaya!" Meyame screamed running over to the dog who stood back up shakily back to his feet.

"hehehe" Was heard in the trees Kagome scanned the trees when she saw a sparkle of light that reflected the demons teeth she shot her arrow at it to no avail as it leaped out of the way into another tree. She shot another one. Missed again.

"Come on we have to go!" Kagome shouted. Meyame and InuNaya ran ducking as Kagome aimed and shot another arrow at the demon who had moved out of the way just in time. 'Inu-yasha where are you…' losing sight of the demon while running aimlessly through the forest Meyame slowed her strides to a slight jog before stopping. Kagome and InuNaya did the same.

"Where'd he...-"Meyame was cut off when the demon landed on the ground in front of her.

"Kagome!" Inu-yasha shouted finally catching up to them.

"Inu-yasha!" Kagome shouted back in fear and relief. Inu-yasha saw the demon, running as fast as he could, but he knew he was already too late when the demon lifted his hand going down fast on Meyame, she screamed. Her scream mixed with the demons agonizing scream of pain. Inu-yasha and Kagome had frozen not believing what they saw. A boy about their age with white hair and a white kimono stood above the demon. His hands were covered in dirt. Kagome an Inu-yasha blinked at the same time still speechless. The boy stepped on the demons head and it turned to dust. He turned around to face them, his eyes golden, he had a hard expression like something was bothering him but his face was soft with relief. Kagome opened her mouth to speak but before she could get a sound out Meyame tackled the boy wrapping her arms around his neck.

"InuNaya! Oh my god thank you! I thought I was a goner!" Even more confused than before Inu-yasha and Kagome walked up to them slowly.

"Meyame, what's going on?"

A/N: First off, I'd like to thank Sangoscourage for inspiring me to make this next chapter thank you so much for reading.

Secondly, how'd you like? I bet you weren't expecting that. (: sorry about the fighting scenes I'm only good at them sometimes other times… not so much. Haha tell me what you thought, please review. If you have any questions feel free to ask.