"This it, Suikotsu?" Inuyasha said as he turned to look at me. I looked at him, still afraid to speak, so I nodded instead. He just smirked, and continued walking. He slowed down and gave me a shove in the back, making me lead us. I could feel his stare burning into my back. As we entered the village, everyone stopped and looked at Inuyasha. Not surprising, why wouldn't a bunch of humans stare at a Demon who walked calmly into their village. He looked at them, and then took a single step forward. All of them backed up and the children ran to hide behind their mothers. Inuyasha just laughed. He didn't pulled out his sword, or bare his teeth or even raise his claws. He just smirked, and after a long moment, he spoke.

"I've been told somebody in this village knows the location of a Shard from the Jewel of four souls." He said. "I want it and I want to be directed to the person who knows this information, or you're whole village will be burnt the ground." He ended his threat with a devilish grin. The people immediately pointed to a small hut just down the path, Bankotsu was right when he said this was a small village. Inuyasha made his way to the small hut, I followed after a second of hesitation. Inuyasha grabbed the cloth that hung over the entrance, and violently ripped it off, and threw it aside. Inside the hut was an old man, painting a vase. He looked at Inuyasha startled, and dropped his brush as Inuyasha walked in and grabbed him by the neck, pulling him up and forward. "Where is the Shard!" Inuyasha demanded. The man stuttered in his sentence, clearly scared out of his wits.

"I don't know what your talking about!" The man said crying.

"If you don't tell us, you die, and your whole village goes with you." I said. I knew Inuyasha had it handled, but I was almost bored of sitting and watching. At that the man gave in,

"That vase! Over there! The blue one!" He screamed with his hands to his eyes.

"I keep them in there!" He whispered, through his tears. Inuyasha smiled at his success. Apparently he enjoyed being evil more than he thought he would.

"Suikotsu, You may retrieve the shards from the vase. Give them to me when we are done here." Inuyasha said.

"Done here? We were ordered to get the shards nothing else." I said confused. Inuyasha looked at me, smirking.

"Bankotsu said, it didn't matter what we do to get them. He also didn't say anything about how I dispose of evidence." He paused,

"Evidence?" I said

"As I'm sure you know, I can't let my former group know about this as of now.

I need to rid of the scum that will tell of my work with The Band of Seven. Is this a clear enough Picture for you Suikotsu?" He said. I understood, and demonstrated that with a nod. It would definitely be troublesome if Kagome and the others found out. So we would slaughter the village.

It wasn't anything new. This is what the The Band of Seven did for a living almost daily. And we rather liked it. So this wasn't much at all for me. I got to the vase and smash the old man's precious work. Among the broken pieces of vase I found three shards! I picked them up, and then turned looking in silence as Inuyasha pushed the old man were his heart was. So hard, infact that blood exploded from his mouth. His eyes when dull. I had seen people, cut to bits, burned in raging flames, and poisoned. Inuyasha still wasn't using his sword, so this is why he had killed the man this way, but it was an odd killing style that set him apart from the rest of us. I calmly walked towards the door. People were screaming, and running away. It was easy to outrun them, so It didn't take very long to kill everyone in the village. By the time we finished, both me and Inuyasha were covered in blood. It didn't seem to bother him much, and of course I was also used to this. There were no more screams and everything was quiet, except for Inuyasha stepping on corpses. I had enjoyed myself, but he had seemed utterly bored with all of his kills.

He turned to look at me smiling a friendly smile. Which looked strange as he was covered in blood.

"It was nice working with you Suikotsu." Before I could smile back and feel good about him, he opened his eyes, again, the white in his eyes had turned red, his iris was ice blue and his pupils had turned white. A single thin stripe, the color of a light blueish-purple, marked each side of his face on his upper cheeks. "If you say anything to Bankotsu about what happened at the stream earlier. . . Need I continue?" I shook my head, all the fear returning to me in an instant.

"I see so that's what happened," Izayoi said looking very upset. The Miko they called Kagome had painfully explained to us the events of the previous month or so. Constant searching and yelling had attracted Demons and had left them weary and injured. They had rested here, only to be woken up the next morning by Izayoi and I. It's not like we meant to wake them up, and we did definitely give our apologies. They must have become accustomed to waking up to the slightest things in case of danger. I watched them talk more, Izayoi asked a few questions, most to which I already knew the answer to. I watched her long, beautiful, jet black hair flow in the cool wind. She was truly a beauty, Her lovely, pleasant expressions. It made me sad to see her so. . . Concerned. I looked up, Spring. A perfect time to "wake up". The cherry blossoms were so pretty, I mostly loved their scent. Izayoi always smelled like them, another reason why I loved her. I took a short sniff, to bring back a familiar feeling of calm. And that's when I smelled it. How foolish of me to space off into daydreams, and ignore my surroundings, This was the sort of thing that would get me killed again. I stood up, I knew that at that moment everyone was looking at me, but I sniffed again. 'Sesshomaru!' I thought.

"Sesshomaru is on his way." I stated.

"Huh? Why!" Izayoi said.

"My eldest son has never taken a liking to me." I said. " He must sense my sudden presence, and is coming to find me. I do not believe this will end pretty."

"I had an idea that that was the case." Kagome said. She looked as though she didn't want us to fight. Why though, what reason would this Human Miko have to not want us to fight. Just then, Sesshomaru, emerged from the forest, pushing away all branches that blocked his path. He stopped, and glared at me. He hadn't changed one bit, and I was sad to know that. Nobody came from behind him. It was just him.

"Father." He said with a glare. He combed his brilliant silver hair with his perfect fingers, showing off Maroon stripes on his wrist, and cheeks, and a light blue Crescent moon on his forehead. Damn, I wished my son wasn't so pretty, but, he was and that was that. There was absolutely nothing I could say to ruin that image he had of himself. He was too goddamn prideful, and that might have just been the cause for the way he acts, how he grew up like this, despite my attempts. I felt a tug on my sleeve, Izayoi wanted me to avoid fighting him, but Sesshomaru was smarter than that. And If a human wanted him to do something, He would do the exact opposite. In this case, he wasn't going to let me get away without a fight. I saw him pull out his sword. This was not Tensaiga, the sword I had left for him. In fact, I didn't even see Tensaiga at his side.

"I see you've acquired yourself a new sword, and what have you done with Tensaiga?" I asked. He didn't look pleased with my dumb act, then again he never looked pleased at all.

"I disposed of the worthless, Father." He said simply. I raised an eyebrow. I recalled this trick. My son really did take me for a fool. That was a line to cross, but making me mad into fighting him, wasn't something I was going to fall for. I was aware that I was clearly expressing my displeasure with him, but I was the one who taught him this trick. The question in my mind became, rather 'Was he stupid?'

"Begone Sesshomaru. You are not wanted here." I said with a growl.

"This Sesshomaru does not care," He replied. I shot him another glare. It didn't change anything, and I had known it wouldn't.

"I have no desire to fight you, son." I said with a strict tone. Sesshomaru glared at me. Still, he wasn't taking no for an answer. Was I really going to have no other choice? I didn't know what else to say at this point. How was I going to get him to leave.

"If you won't leave." I said "Then we will." And with that I turned and left, Izayoi, Kagome and all the others followed after me. Sesshomaru turned and left in the opposite direction, I was glad for that.