p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;"She hadn't been walking for long before a large swell of youki pushed at her from behind. It was emweird/em actually, to feel such a huge power without the jewel on her. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;"She turned around, taking in the silver figure leaning against the tree, tail idly swinging back and forth./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"emspan style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;"C'mon Kagome, just because you don't have the jewel, it doesn't mean you're powerless. /span/emspan style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;"She rolled her shoulders. "Hey there!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;"The demon shot her a look that made her think her knew exactly what she was thinking. "You have returned."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;""Yup! I had to. You've been following us for emdays/em."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;"He grinned, pleased. Kagome bristled. "I have. However, my forest does eventually emend/em little priestess."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;"That…made sense. Kagome changed the topic. "You know, something about this whole emmy forest/em thing has been bugging me. How can you just claim land? Where I'm from you have to pay for things like that…and I mean, you can't buy emjust /emthe forest bit. I don't think."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;"He sidestepped her babbling…my stepping emtowards/em her. "You're an odd thing, even for a human."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;"She bit her tongue as get closer, until his nose was nearly at her neck. She didn't emthink/em he wanted to hurt her./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;""Hmm," he leaned back, just enough to meet her eyes, "something has changed about you."/span/p