Sango snorted as she heard Miroku trying to persuade InuYasha to stay with them again. For the last six years, they have given up hope of Kagome ever coming back, and built a house in Kaede's village to help protect from demon attacks.

InuYasha however, came and went each time, grimmer and more depressing than ever.

Miroku and her were seriously beginning to think of sealing the damn well up just to stop his childish antics. Yet she still could sympathize with him. It must have been hard to not only lose one, but two women he loved.

"Gahh!" She jerked to attention at the sudden noise.

She spun around to find its source. It almost…almost sounded like it came from the well. Grabbing her boomerang she ran for the well, her heart pounding.

Kawayou's world spun for a whole minute, and the next thing he was aware of was a hard surface beneath his back. He yelped at the jolt of pain in his spine and sat up. The silver web still draped around him and before he realized it pulled him again. The spider crawled up the well, a laughter shrieking from it.

"I have dinner now!" It called.

Sango jumped back as the spider youkai crawled out of the well. Gritting her teeth, she forced the boomerang out of her hands. The youkai screamed, trying to spring back but the boomerang smashed into it, sending into trees.

Its web fell loose and Kawayou nearly cried as he pulled free of it.

Sango ran after the spider, ready to go in for the kill. Kawayou climbed out, just in time to see her bring the boomerang down over its belly. He gasped and the exterminator spun around to see him.

"Another demon?"

Kawayou blanched, falling back onto the grass.

"No! Don't hurt me!" He raised his hands as the woman walked over to him. "Please don't hurt me!"

Sango slowed, taking the scene in with expert analysis.

"You're just a child." She fell out of her defensive stance and looked him over. "Who are you kid?"

"My name is Kawayou. I don't want any trouble, I just want to go home." He stood up shakily, pulling the web out of his hair.

"Where is your home?" She asked feeling a reluctant bit of sympathy tug at her.

Kawayou sucked in a breath and puffed up his chest. "Well," He said for a moment. In a spilt second decision, he turned and ran to the faint silhouette of building half a mile away. A laugh ripped through is lungs as his legs spun under his a mile a minute.

He just twisted around to grin at the exterminator he was living in his dust when he saw her throw her boomerang. All the color drained from his face.

~*~

"Wow he sure is small." Miroku commented to Sango about the tied up Kawayou in the corner of Kaede's hut.

Kawayou growled dangerously, but couldn't say anything due to the gag in his mouth. He'd already tried biting off the ropes that held his arms.

'What did I do to deserve this?' Kawayou thought miserably as he clawed hoping to get the rope off. Unsuccessfully he couldn't, but was clawing up his own hands. He let out a whimper a second later, relaxing his body enough to stare at the ceiling. He wondered where his mother was. A knot formed in the middle of his abdomen as he continued to think about what trouble he would get into. He was supposed to stay inside and now he's tied up by strangers in the middle of nowhere.

Sango cranked her head back to look at the child as he whimpered. She pursed her lips a second before reluctantly standing and marching over to remove his gag.

"We'll let you out if you don't cause any more trouble." She said watching his pleading expression. Her eyes trailed down to his bloody wrists and she inwardly cringed.

"Didn't someone teach you to use your claws kid? Your mother? Your father?"

Kawayou shifted his eyes away.

"My mom doesn't have claws."

"And your dad?" Miroku joined the questioning as he stacked fire wood for a meal later.

"I don't have a dad." He stated as if it were the easiest thing to say in the world.

Sango gave Miroku a sadden look for Kawayou, and patted him on the shoulder.

"Well, then we'll bring you to your mother. You can't go around racking up trouble."

Miroku grinned at Sango's back, but chose to say nothing.

Kawayou gave her a blank expression, and never quit cutting himself while he tried to escape.

Sango frowned down at him. "You really should be taught by someone who can actually use his or her claws."

Miroku titled his head to the side.

'A boy hanyou, and the only other good dog demon.....' His thoughts drifted off, and a smile came on his face.

"Sango, I think we just found someone to teach him. Someone that it would help the both of them."

*~*~

It took Kagome a few minutes to move from her dumbfounded spot. It took every rational thought in her mind not to just spring in after him. Her thoughts ran to her other children. And to the inevitable fact, if she returned she would probably attract a much more bad situation than they had now.

Kawayou was strong, which she knew, but she was a mother who swore to a life of protecting her children so Kagome stood up. She was going to have to get him. But first she'd need to take care of the girls.

She looked at what she pulled together from the house. There was an old bow with only one arrow. It had been painted with care but now looked worn and tarnished.

She bit her lip as she thought about it, thought about the well, thought about returning.

"Inu-yasha." She whispered.

`*~*~*~

"A hanyou? Alone? Bullshit, he wouldn't be alive if he were separated from his pack." Inu-Yasha jerked his head to the side, looking away from Miroku.

"Everyone despises half breeds, and a kid who can't even use his claws...." Inu-Yasha left it at that.

"Sango said she found him at the well InuYasha."

"Then he probably was one of the village kids."

Miroku sighed at InuYasha's stubbornness. He still couldn't be affected by Kagome's leaving right? He might have been feeling guilty, because it was his fault she ran away from him, and ran into trouble, but guilt DOES fade with years. It had at least been six years.

"Inu-Yasha! You can't still be upset about Kagome!!!" With an ill-tempered hanyou, that was not the right button to press.

"What did you just say monk?" Inu-Yasha raged, standing up.

Miroku held his staff, preparing himself in case just as he stepped back.

Inu-Yasha didn't have time to say anything however, when a shouts came over.

"You'll never catch me at that speed old lady!" Kawayou cackled insanely running away at high speeds from the infuriated demon huntress.

Seeing two people ahead of him, he speed up, and hopped off the ground to jump off Miroku's head, and was planning to do the same to Inu-Yasha.

Before Kawayou could react his world twirled and the boy suddenly realized he was upside down.

Inuyasha had yanked Kawayou's foot without thought and held the child by his ankle.

Kawayou froze, and looked up, realizing he'd been caught by something more than human.