Told you I would take too long wih the next chapter.

"Inuyasha?" I stood up, slowly backing away. "Inuyasha, what's wrong with you?"

"He got his wish."

I spun around. A pale woman, clad in white, appeared through the snow. Or maybe she was there all along, for she was practically invisible away. The only way you knew she was there was by her long raven black hair, which flowed beautifully around her.

"Who are you?" I asked, keeping one eye on her and another on the red-eyed Inuyasha. My hand gripped tightly on hilt of my sword.

"I am Kazue, demon of the snow," she paused for a second. "Why weren't you affected? Why do you still have free will?" the lady questioned herself as she examined me. "Skinny little twit aren't you? I guess you wouldn't be of much use to me anyway. Still...the more the merrier right?" With a pull from the air a wooden flute appeared in her hand. She put it up to her mouth and gracefully moved her fingers along the top of it, playing a beautiful tune.

I was quickly caught up in the tunes beauty, but knew that listening to it must have had something to do with Inuyasha's transformation. With some struggle, my left hand reached into my pocket and pulled out my headphones. I finally got the headphones in my ear and quickly pressed play on my favorite rock song. Immediately my body stopped feeling stiff and my mind cleared, once again fully mine. That must be why I wasn't in Inuyasha's predicament, I had fallen asleep with my iPod after all. And grandfather called it useless junk, boy did I have news for him.

The lady looked at me and stopped playing. I pressed pause on my iPod, keeping it in my pocket so that she wouldn't find my secret weapon.

"Why won't it work?" She questioned herself, examining her flute to see if something was wrong with it.

"What did you do to Inuyasha and the rest of my friends? Why won't he recognize me?" I asked sternly, demanding an answer.

"Oh he can't even see you right now honey. In a way you could say he's dreaming. If he sees what's right in front of him than he might resist, and I don't like resisters," she glared at me with that statement. "Besides, as I told you before, I granted his wish. Didn't he want to use the jewel to become a full-blooded demon? Well look at him now. He couldn't be happier."

I looked at Inuyasha. He was baring his teeth, his eyes full of thirst. Yearning for bloodshed. It killed me to see him like this. He was turning into a monster.

"He doesn't look happy one bit! Change him back!" I ordered her.

"You think I'm going to listen to you? Why would I listen to a useless little twit like you?"she put her flute up to her mouth and began to play.

I pressed play once more on my iPod and started to pull out my swor-WHAM!

An enormous pain errupted in my back. I fell to my knees. Black spots flashed before my eyes. I picked up some snow and pressed it to my face, the icy cold quickly woke me up, putting me on full alert. Behind me I saw a smirking Sango, her eyes clouded over with hatred. She held her boomerang up next to her. Man, that thing packed quite a punch.

I scrambled back up, grunting in pain. That's going to leave a bruise, I thought. At least she only whacked me, I knew I couldn't survive if she threw it at me. If it killed demons that way then I didn't stand a chance.

"If I can't control you, then I'm going to play a game. Let's see how long you can survive fighting against your friends. Will you kill them to survive, or will you die at their hands?" Kazue was laughing with pleasure at the thought.

"They wouldn't kill me, they're my friends! They'll resist you!"

"They probably would, but they don't know they're fighting against you. They each think they're fighting against the person they hate most. The monk is fighting against the one who gave him that black hole in his right hand, the demon slayer against the destroyer of her village, the pipsqueak is fighting against the ones who killed his father, and the half-demon is just being a demon, he's blind to everything right now, his mind is clouded with the thirst for blood."

"You're wrong, Inuyasha's not like that!" I protested, more to myself than her.

Kazue just smirked, then brought the instrument to her mouth and began to play once more.

I ducked just in time to avoid Inuyasha's claws. That was close. Why hadn't I seen that coming?

Rock music blasted through my ears. Darn it! Avoiding the power of Kazue's flute deprived me of my ability to hear oncoming attacks. I'll have to never let them get behind me.

I pulled out my sword, holding it with both hands front of me, slightly shaking as I faced Inuyasha and Sango. I knew I couldn't possibly hurt either of them.

They both stood confidently before me, as if they knew who the winner was before this even started. Shippo and Miroku were still somewhere hiding in the woods and I already had two very strong opponents in front of me.

I was doomed.

Ok, sorry that this chapter is so short, but I had to stop it there or else the next scene wouldn't have been put in smoothly.

Till next time! Relish the suspense! Muahahahahaha!!