Guys? Guess what? Seems like I've passed the 10'000 words-line! Am I good or what? And just in time for my birthday the 17 to.
Actually, I never thought I could bring myself to do this, but here I am! Thanks for reading with me so far \(^w^)/
I don't own any InuYasha characters (except my snake Otoko!). Those are all Rumiko Takahashis.

Just as InuYasha was about to jump down at the disgusting creature, it turned toward the village as if listening to something. The hanyou tensed and slid back into the safety of the huge trees leafs. He peaked down and saw how it crawled out into a spot of light and there he saw it: a leaf-green colored snake demon. 'That was why I couldn't make it out until it came out into the direct sunlight,' he thought.
The snakes pink tongue flipped out as it tasted the air.

"Thossse foolsss! I told them not to attack until we had found the nasssty bonehead!" it hissed before the corners of its mouth turned up, mimicking a ghastly smile. "Either way, it can be a good opportunity to ssseizzze that miko for massster…" the snake chuckled before it slinked away into the surrounding greenness.

InuYasha stood there petrified for a moment before the words sank in. 'Miko, the bonehead, master, attack' all the words the snake had said whirled around in his head. But all of them melted together into one conclusion…

"Kagome!"

Kagome blinked away tears caused by the wind as she was swishing through the air with a pair of strong arms protectively around her. While InuYasha used to hold her on his back, she thought with a pang in her heart, Kouga held her bridal style. Not that she minded really, but it felt a bit under her dignity to have passerby's staring at her butt.

"Are you sure the villagers have all gotten out?" she asked for the millionth time.

"Yes, we took care of that while you two were all lovey-dovey in lady Kaedes hut," Sango snorted for the millionth-one time.

Kouga glanced at his burden before he turned his attention back to the track he where running on. "Don't worry, Kagome, "he said with a smirk, "we can always return to that later."

She ignored him and glanced over at Miroku on Kirara. "Do you think InuYasha knows?"

"Well," the monk started, "if he hasn't already heard the snakes roaming through the village, I suppose he should have smelled them by now. Especially since we got quite a lot of opportunities to slay a few of them, so the demon blood should make him react one way or another.

"That dog-turd should be either way, Kagome. He may be a damned hanyou, but he still has demon blood in him," Kouga said while grunting his dislike for the other male. "He should be able to smell that much at least. Or not, since he himself smells so bad he probably doesn't notice."

"Kouga…"

"What? He's a damn dog hanyou – of course he smells," he said before shooting a stunning grin at her. "As you may have noticed, I don't. I always rush through forests and baths in our waterfall so I'm always fresh for you."

Now when he mentioned it, she could smell the faint sniff of leaves and pine on him. Which were inevitable since her face was pretty much pressed against his muscular chest. 'Wait, since when has Kouga been muscular?'

She felt a blush come creeping upward her throat and burning her cheeks as she noticed how those muscles tightened and stretched under and around her as he ran. Kagome clutched her face in her hands and leaned into Kouga's shoulder so that he wouldn't notice her heart racing with his speed.

Soon, however, they stopped and the wolf demon let Kagome down on her own two legs.

"Kagome, are you alright? Maybe you should lie down for a bit, it looks like you have a fever?" Shippo, who had been clutching onto Kagome's arm and not letting go of her mama, asked with worry written all over his face.

"No… I'm all right," she smiled weakly. All the while hiding her flustered face in her bangs and staring down at her feet. 'I know he is good looking and all; with those electric blue eyes and tanned skin and his dark, thick demon-hair, no woman should be able to resist him for too long.'

"What cha' thinking about?"

"…demon hair."

"Huh?" one pair of twinkling blue eyes asked, now staring through her bangs, right into her own orbs.

"N-nothing! Nothing at all! Just wondering how… how… how the heck Sesshomaru gets his fluffy thing to stay on his shoulder!" she practically shouted into his face.

"NOW I'm hurt; are you thinking about other men besides me?" Kouga said, hand to his heart.

"… right. Either way," Kagome said once she got her normal speaking back and trying to quickly change the subject "does anyone have a bow?" 'Seriously,' she thought quietly and mentally slapped herself, 'I couldn't come up with anything other than Sesshomaru? Where did that come from?'

"Yes, but do you really think you need it here?" Sango waved around them, motioning to the surrounding forest and the chirping of birds. "I don't think we need it just quite yet."

"You never know," Kagome extended her hand, and wiggled her fingers. "Now, do you have a bow or not?"

IT watched the group of humans and demons as they sat down in the clearing. The older of the girls yelped and cursed as the monk had done something to her behind. IT couldn't understand clearly what, but by the way the girl now were hitting and screaming at him it couldn't have been something too enjoyable. But what confused IT was the silly smile the monk had on his face, all the while being punched and smacked.

IT turned it's gaze to the demon – the wolf. He were laughing happily at the quarreling couple, but IT noticed the way his eyes always slide to rest at the other girl which were holding a kitsune child in her arms.
IT narrowed its eyes as it stared at the girl. Her dark midnight colored hair was flowing down her back and her face were lit up and laughing whit the wolf demon, but her eyes never seemed to warm up. As if something had blown out whatever had been in them before. It was only when she looked at either of the demons that something in them lightened.
However, that was not what IT was concentrating on. No, IT was fully occupied with admiring her aura; thousands of colors mixed together, blending beautifully in with each other.

"Ah-Un," ITs owner's ward said, as she happily started decorating ITs mane once again with flowers. "Sesshomaru-sama will soon be back, so why don't we dress up nicely for him?" ITs ears perked as IT heard ITs owner's name. The girl laughed happily and hugged one of ITs heads. "I love him too, as much as I love you."

IT huffed in approval and pressed ITs other head against her spine, until the girl released its head and grinned.

"We have to find Jaken-sama. Are you coming?"

IT let itself be led away from its spot by its beloved owner's ward.

Naaaw... cute little Ah-Un got to be in it to, and he's surprisingly a really awesome thinker. Who knew?
When I walked through this chapter and had only 150 words left to pass 1000 I wondered what to do. To write on 150 words more about Kagome felt... well, boring, to say the least. Not a good sign, I know. Then I thought, 'Maybe InuYasha would fit here..? Neeh...'
And then I thought of Sesshomaru a.k.a Lord of Fluff. It was at that moment I remembered one of my non-fanfiction novels called "Så Som Smaragder" in Swedish. I guess it's something like "As Emeralds" in English... either way, I'm changing topic here. In As Emeralds I wrote about a creature called "It" or "Den/Det" in Swedish, and I thought maybe I could use that, and, ya' know, maybe let it be one of these snake demons. But it felt so much cuter with Ah-Un and... that means Fluffy isn't that far behind *wink*

Thank you for reading this far, and please do rewiev ^^