Ok, forget, its obvious that probably nobody is reading this and I might never get a comment but I don't care anymore. I'll just keep writing this and hope somebody is reading.

Ch. 4

Inuyasha laughed hysterically and slashed his claws through the webs surrounding him, causing Kameko to fall to the ground in the process. He jumped high into the air and cut through the spider demon. It lay on the ground seconds later, cut up and twitching.

Kameko got up and ran over to Kaede, who told her to look for the glow of the sacred jewel. She searched the pieces of flesh and finally saw it. She ran over and plucked it out of the body. The flesh evaporated with a hiss and all that was left of the spider demon was a pile of bones.

"Kaede! Over here, I got it!" she shouted as she waved it in the air.

"Kameko, look out!" Kaede warned.

Kameko turned around in time to see Inuyasha coming towards her. He sliced his claws at her with a yellow light.

Kameko felt the claws pierce threw her arm and fell back into the dirt. Pain instantly hit her and she clutched her left arm with her right hand, where three long thin gashes had formed. She sat there on her knees, shaking.

"Ha! You scared? You gonna cry to your mommy?" Inuyasha taunted down at her.

Kameko snapped.

"You JERK!" she screamed into the night air as she flew up and punched Inuyasha smack dab in the face.

Inuyasha stumbled back in shock, staring at Kameko. Her punching hand had resumed its place on her injured arm and she stood there seething, her eyes on fire.

"Please, it's going to take more than that to defeat me!" Inuyasha proclaimed as he got over the shock of being punched in the face by a girl. He cut his claws through the air once more, but this time she ducked. It mid ducking she swung her right foot up straight into his stomach, pushing him back. Even so, it didn't push him back much more than a few steps. Kameko was used to fighting normal humans, Inuyasha was stronger, and therefore much harder opponent. Kameko didn't know how much longer she could keep this going. She grabbed a large branch and swung it under his legs as he aimed his claws at her once more. Inuyasha tripped but stopped himself midfall. He growled and lunged at the running girl, shouting for her to hand over the jewel.

Kaede surveyed this and sighed, pulling a necklace out of her sleeve, "I hoped that I would never have to use this, but I guess I have no choice now," she said as she held up the necklace and started mumbling a spell. The beads started to glow and flew straight through the air, reforming once more around Inuyasha's neck.

"Huh? What's this?" he questioned as he tugged at it, unable to remove it.

"Quick Kameko, the word of subjugation!" Kaede ordered.

"Huh? What word?" she asked desperately as she dodged another flash on yellow light from her opponent's claws.

"It matters not, any word."

Kameko looked around desperately in search of something to say. All that came to mind was her annoying neighbor's old dog. He was dead now, but she could remember how he had always barked endlessly, and the only way to make him stop was to shout-

"SIT BOY!"

Inuyasha screamed in surprise as he was forced to fall headfirst into the ground. He picked himself up, "Why you..." he seethed through his teeth as jumped up to strike.

"SIT!"

Again he fell face first into the dirt.

"Ready to admit defeat?" Kameko asked triumphantly.

Inuyasha started off with a never, but after a few more sits he finally stood up and admitted defeat.

"You just got lucky," he said in protest, "I surely would have won if not for that hoodoo magic from you old coot of a friend over there."

Kameko didn't answer. Inuyasha popped open an eye just in time to see her forehead rest on his shoulder. He immediately screamed and started jittering.

"Hey girl! What's your problem?! Get offa me!!" he bellowed in a shakey voice. He could feel his cheeks turning a light red.

Kaede walked up to Kameko and put her hand on her shoulder. Kameko rose her head, her eyes all hazy and barely open.

"Oh dear, ye poor thing. Ye've been through so much in one night, and ye've lost so much blood too," Kaede added as she surveyed Kameko's injuries, "Here, I'll take ye back to the village so ye can rest up a bit."

Kameko gave a light nod and slowly started to follow Kaede back in the direction of the village. Her feet had never felt so heavy before.

"Hey! This isn't over you know! I will get that jewel from you!" Inuyasha hollered after her.

"SIT BOY!"

"Gah!" Inuyasha was once more thrust face first into the dirt. He looked up and saw Kameko glance back at him.

"Heh." she smirked meekly. Then she turned around with a loud yawn and continued to follow Kaede.

Ok, sorry this chapter was a bit shorter. I don't really know where to go from here at the moment. I'm trying to think of a way for the jewel to break into a bajillion pieces, cause using the whole crow incident would be way to similar, and I'm trying to make the story go in a different direction.

Ok, comment if you care!