"Another village slaughtered?" The Inu no Taisho said as he bend down next to the nearest body, sniffing it.

"Is it Inuyasha again?" Izayoi asked him. He sighed,

"I can't tell, I don't have a good enough idea of what he smells like." Taisho looked at Shippo who was cradled like a baby in Kagome's arms, with his fox tail, dangling below him. "Can you tell." He asked. Kagome silently set Shippo down. He ran over to Taisho's side next to the body.

"I do smell Inuyasha around here, but I don't think it was done by him." Shippo said.

Kagome looked down, as she sighed, "He's gone insane." She whispered.

"We don't know that for sure, Let's have hope, Okay Kagome?" Miroku said putting a hand on her shoulder. Kagome just brushed it off, She seemed to be feeling worse about this situation every day.

"Don't bother," She said, a very depressed tone in her voice.

"This isn't your fault, dear. Nobody blames you for this, this is a result of Inuyasha's own selfish actions." Izayoi said, but Kagome didn't react, she just sighed and looked away.

I looked at Kagome, she knew that it was indeed her fault, and that Inuyasha would come after her eventually. She might end up staying in Kaede's Village, just out of fear, but even that, made her less safe, than she was with us. I couldn't help think that she wanted to go so that the rest of us didn't have to witness Inuyasha like this.

"Let's just pass this village for now, we need to go find a place to sleep for the night, It's sunset already, and will soon be night." I said. They all nodded, and we walked together out of the terrible sight.

Finally we had found a large enough water source to bath in. Jakotsu undressed in plain sight, in front of all of us, but in the perfect spot so that I had full view. A hand covered my eyes before I saw anything.

"Thank you," I whispered. It was Renkotsu who responded.

"It would have been cruel of me not to do so," He said. I let him lead me, with his hand still covering my eyes, behind a bush. Then he uncovered my eyes, and gave me some kind of cloth. You can change here, we don't expect you to already be comfortable undressing in front of us. I nodded. Use the cloth to cover yourself up, we all do it when we have to bath with Jakotsu. Again I nodded, and He turned and left.

"Akikotsu~! When's dinner gonna be done! I'm starving!" Jakotsu whined. Bathing with him had gone surprisingly well, I hadn't expected him to be so... calm about it. I looked at Akikotsu.

"Well we got back so late you can't expect me to have dinner done already!" He said, then he sighed, "I'm making something simple tonight though so it shouldn't be too long, just because it's simple, doesn't mean there's not gonna be a lot, so I expect you to eat everything that the others don't eat, got that Jakotsu?" He said smiling.

"Whattt~? Why do I have to eat all of the extra's!" Jakotsu whined. "Because you complained that you were starving. If you're going to complain that you're starving then you will eat all of the left overs even if you vomit in the process." He said.

"Why! That's so cruel!"

"Because all you do is complain, if you ask me, a little correction won't hurt once in awhile." He said.

"Not fair! Not Fair!" Jakotsu whined, "Help me any of you, Brother Bankotsu? Com'mon at least you have to help me?" Jakotsu said hopefully, but Bankotsu just laughed, and so Jakotsu just looked at the rest of us expecting someone to help him, while an amused Inuyasha finished cooking our meal.

"I think Inuyasha's right on this one Jakotsu," I said, chuckling.

"What!? How could you Mukotsu! You've always been mean to me but this?" Jakotsu said.

"Since when am I mean to you?" I said confused.

"Don't play dumb! Jakotsu said, "You tried to poison me before!" Jakotsu whined to me.

"I didn't, I knew you were smart enough to get out of the way, Besides, It was my attempt to get rid of Inuyasha." I said glancing at him as I said it. He smiled,

"No worries! Inuyasha is a boy of the past, I am Akikotsu now remember? Inuyasha might as well be said dead." He said. I was was shocked as was the rest of us, to hear him just say something like that. Taking 8 bowls and handing one to each of us, He said, "Oh, and by the way, Dinner's done.". He took the large pot of food away from the fire where it had cooked. Brown rice with small vegetables pieces like corn, peas and carrot, was our meal for today. We were all hungry, so each of us had seconds, a few even thirds, but there was still a lot more for Jakotsu to eat. By the time he was done eating all that we didn't, he was so full that he stuck his tongue out, laying on his side, holding his stomach, muttering groans and that he felt sick. The all of us felt bad for laughing at him, but Inuyasha did have a solid point about him whining all the time, he at least probably won't whine at all for a while, so now we might have some peace and quiet when we needed, without Jakotsu complaining that he was bored. I watched as Suikotsu helped Jakotsu get to his mat. They were actually somewhat comfy mats made of vines and leafs, that Akikotsu had made for us. Bankotsu looked at Akikotsu. His long hair seemed to illuminate in the moonlight.

"About what you said earlier," Bankotsu said, looking at Akikotsu as he cleaned up our meal. Akikotsu looked up at Bankotsu.

"Yes?" He asked. We all focused on Akikotsu, except for Jakotsu who had literally passed out. Bankotsu looked at Inuyasha for a few seconds, uncertain of him.

"Is that what you really think?" Bankotsu asked, "About….'Inuyasha,' ….I mean." He had hesitated when he called Inuyasha a different person than Akikotsu. But when thinking about it, it was no different than saying that, the old Suikotsu, who had been a villages doctor, was a different person than Suikotsu now. Inuyasha looked at Bankotsu, a look of seriousness, that none of us had ever seen before, was in his eyes.

"Yes. " He said simply. Bankotsu clearly hadn't known how to respond, he nodded, and walked to his own mat. After we changed into our other cloth, Akikotsu took our cloth and dishes all in one to the lake. I needed to make some more poison after that huge slaughter, so, I stayed up while the others slept. Using my own Suribachi and Surikogi, just like the ones Akikotsu used to cook, I crushed, and mixed, until I had restocked all my poisons, and the late night Cicadas chirped loudly. I looked up as I heard Akikotsu's footsteps. He put the dried, cleaned bowls in the bags he had gotten a few villages back. Bankotsu had bought a couple when Akikotsu asked about them, saying that he needed something to help transport the bowls and cooking materials, and his washing board, which he used to wash our cloths. He looked at me, I looked at him. He walked over to me and sat down.

"Ya' gotta moment?" He asked, whispering so that the others wouldn't wake up.

"Sure," I said, whispering as well.

"You ever heard of a poison called, 'Tenma Yukanan'?" He asked. I looked at him surprised, I had thought myself to be the master of poisons. I had believed that I knew all types names, and recipes down to the smallest ingredients and details, but, It seems I was wrong. I looked at him with great interest.

"I can't say I have, Fill me in on this poison." I said. He smiled, he seemed proud to know something that a master of poison didn't.

"It's a demon poison, their are only a few poisons that are used by demons, Four to be exact. Only two of them were actually made by demons, but Tenma Yukanan was one. It's supposed to mean Demon Misfortune, or something like that. It is said that it is the only poison in all of Asia that could kill a yokai in mere seconds, and badly poison and sicken a Daiyokai. Other than that knowledge, The guy who made it is dead. He wasn't taking proper precautions. I've heard the recipe before, but I've never tried it, because of course It could kill me too." He said.

"Then why suddenly bring it up," I asked.

"Because, Your a master at this stuff right? I wanna try!" He said excitedly. I gave him a look,

"Hold on now." I said strictly, "Curiosity will kill the cat, or In this case the dog. It sounds dangerous even for someone of my skill." I said, "It's best not to mess around unless we know all we can about it.".

"I doesn't affect humans I know that too." He said.

"And how would that be possible?" I asked, there's no way that could be true.

"It's made from stuff demons are allergic too. And most of that stuff humans aren't affected by. Just like how a regular bee, will sting a human, for some they get the normal reaction, others will swell up with hives, but a demon won't be affected by a regular bee no matter what." He said. That actually made sense. "Demons share many things in common with one another, including allergies. Stuff like, certain berries and flowers, the venom of the Saimyosho, and other stuff are used to make that poison" He said. I hesitated for a moment.

"What if it poisons you?" I asked him.

"I've already thought about that, since I'm a half demon I'm Immune to most of the ingredients, The poison is no more effective on me than any other of your poison." He said, "Besides that I have a fellow half-demon friend who's good with medicine." He said.

"Ok, then we'll start collecting the ingredients as we fulfill orders from Bankotsu and travel with the group." I said, "For now though I'm tired, so let's go to bed now.". Akikotsu smiled and nodded in agreement, getting up and walking over to his mat. I cleaned up, after myself and then did the same.