Me: And we are BACK!

Inuyasha: NO, you CAN'T be back.

Me: And that's supposed to mean?

Inuyasha: NOTHING, it means absolutely NOTHING.

Me: Fine. Be that way. ANYWAY, WE ARE BACK! Welcome to the Awesome Show. I, akuma, am here today with Inuyasha, my costar. He is, of course, my WAY LESS costar because he has no right to be here, but because of-

Inuyasha: When did we turn this damn thing into a T.V show? Just post the story, already. Hey, wait- where's Kagome?

Me: WE-LL... Kagome decided to leave for this introduction.

Inuyasha: Why would that be? And how come you didn't tell me?

Me: Because you'd leave.

Inuyasha: Of course I'm leaving. Where is she? Akuma? AKUMA! Where is she- WHY'S HE HERE?

Kouga: Kagome left? What? Oh, hey, Akuma. Wait- why am I here?

Me: Yeah. She's gone. BOTH OF YOU, STOP FIGHTING. Anyway, I need you, as our guest speaker, to say the disclaimer.

Kouga: Fine, whatever. Akumaokami does not own any of Inuyasha, it's plot or it's characters. Yeah. Okay. Now can I see the story?

Me: Yeah, fine. THANK YOU.

Inuyasha: Wait, how come you always fight me when I ask you to just put up the story?

Me: Because you always argue back.

Inuyasha: What-

Me: HERE WE GO.

Kagome was worried, cooking lunch for Miroku, Sango and Shippo. She felt another pang of pain. She didn't need to cook for Inuyasha anymore. Inuyasha had left. And this time, as Miroku had said, he probably wasn't going to come back.

Why had he left? Why did he have to go? I mean, she thought, cutting the omelet she had just made and slipping it into another box. There were a lot of other times that he was probably better off leaving- why did he choose now? Tying everything together, she waved good bye to her mother and brother and dashed out to the well. Jumping in, she couldn't even feel the fall down for the first time. She was just thinking about why he had left. Finally climbing out of the well, she hopped on her bike and sighed. Who needs him? Now I don't have to deal with his complaining.

She knew that it was a total lie.

--

"Yuki, why are you here? Tell me already!" Inuyasha refused to let up on asking her. He had plagued the girl for the past day and a half and all she did was laugh it off, just like she did when they were younger.

Inuyasha's ear twitched. He had had a horrible childhood. He wasn't about to deny that. But he knew that she had had a hard time, too.

Yuki, like Kouga was obviously a wolf demon. But, unlike Kouga, she came from a line even higher up. Much more primitive. His heart skipped a beat. He had tried explaining their line to Kagome, not such a long time ago.

"Inuyasha, you're just jealous because Kouga is higher up than you are. Highest wolf demon, right?"

"Please. He's not even the highest wolf demon out there."

Kagome looked up at Inuyasha curiously. "What do you mean? There's someone higher up than he is?"

Inuyasha looked at her over his food, his mouth full. "Yeah. There's a line that's higher than he is. They don't have a guy next in line, though. A girl. Girl named Yuki. They can go pure wolf. On certain ceremonial nights, they have no choice, though."

He could still remember how she'd drilled him about the line. He'd denied knowing anything, though. He'd had a good reason to. 'I mean,' he thought to himself, 'Yuki's just... Yuki. She'd get the wrong impression of their line, for sure.' Because, unlike Kouga, Yuki didn't really use any type of wolf to attack people. She had always been more of a mischievous person.

He scowled. He had been her target for more than enough time to know that.

"Why do you care that I'm here?" She asked, amusement far from hidden in her voice. "And why are you scarfing down my lunch like there's no tomorrow?" Inuyasha stopped in mid chew while she stole back her lunch.

"I was eating that!"

Yuki rolled her eyes at him, but pulled something else out. Handing the box to him, she picked up her own food again and brushed back her hair. "There, now let me eat."

Inuyasha opened the box and tilted his head. It looked like a bunch of herbs fancied up and made into a sort of cake. Sniffing it carefully, he looked at it from all possible ways. "Okay, it looks good to me..." All he could smell was mint. Taking a bite, he sprayed it out, just after Yuki had started rocking back and forth with laughter. Throwing everything into the fire, he glared at her and scraped his tongue off with his hands. "What the hell was THAT, Yuyu?"

"That... was... a perfectly... good... cake..." she was still laughing beyond control. "I believe... that... I made you... one before..."

Inuyasha started to scrape the stuff off his tongue even harder. He remembered that. She had come out to play and because she was the only one who would play with him, her and Shesshomaru, he had asked her to play. Then, to his delight, she had said she had something for him. Handing him the cake, it was covered in leaves and different herbs- all of which smelt exactly like mint. Once he'd taken a bite, he found out what it was. "First I swallow DIRT because of you, and now you make me eat MUD?"

Yuki, once she had stopped laughing, smiled and stood up. Just like when they were kids, she patted him on the back and smirked. "It's fine... I know that you love me." Inuyasha rolled his eyes and looked at her again.

"TELL ME WHY YOU'RE HERE."

Sighing, Yuki rolled her eyes. "Fine, fine. But then you have to stop ACTING like that. It's so... predictable."

--

Shesshomaru looked through the forest, his eyes searching. "Lord Shesshomaru!" Rin called behind him. "Lord Shasshomaru, wait!" Shesshomaru turned to see the little girl running toward him. He almost smiled. He had gotten so closed to her. A human girl. So odd.

Pushing back the trees and beckoning Rin, he twitched his nose. He knew there was something here...

And then he heard them talking.

"Yeah... lost the pack... I've been searching for my mama ever since... I've even been to different time periods... so weird..." Shesshomaru hissed out a breath. He knew that voice. He hadn't heard that voice in years.

Pushing trees apart, he looked around the dying fire at his little brother, then at his old friend. "Yuki? Is that you?"

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Inuyasha: YOU MADE ME EAT MUD THIS TIME?!

Kouga: -cannot talk due to his near death of lack of oxygen. He'll be alright; we think.-

Me: Yes, and I told you that I would. DO NOT DENY IT. And as for the readers, SEE YOU NEXT TIME!