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It had been days since Inuyasha's little adventure, the girl still in a steady slumber, and the only thing that could be done was wait. When he first brought her through the door the random people laying about his little house were completely baffled.

"Uh...Inuyasha, I know women are nice and everything, but this really isn't a way to bring one home, taking them by force I thought was even beyond you." Miroku, Inuyasha's right hand man arched his back and began scratching his head as he spoke to his friend just inside the front door.

"Shut up, she got in the way today..." there was a long pause, and Miroku couldn't help but feel sorry for what he said, the look of utter disgust, and guilt was spread across his friends face. "She...she almost died,....because of me....I waited to long to get in there, and save her. Miroku I was on the other side of the door, I could have saved her, been in and out in just seconds, but I waited, I was selfish, and she almost paid for it, no she did pay for it." Inuyasha hung his head low, and pushed past his friend, and walked up the old stairs to put the girl to rest.

The house wasn't much, it was his home ever since he was a boy, he lived alone with his mother, and when she died he just couldn't leave, and soon he became involved in little illegal activities, started a group, and became well known, and rather rich, but he didn't want to show it, why flaunt it when you aren't worthy of it? He just recently discovered his right to the Shikon Jewel, he was rummaging in the attick mostly looking to clean it out of old useless things, when he came upon scrolls from the past, scrolls telling him what was his by legal right, and family right. When he caught wind Naraku was looking for the Jewel as well he decided to defend his right, not really knowing what he was getting himself into. Dangerous he may be, but when making judgement he could be off sometimes.

He knew practically nothing about the Jewel, just that it should be his. But since the girl came into the picture, and what Naraku wanted with her, he became even more confused. ' how could this girl have the Jewel' Inuyasha didn't understand, and the only thing he could do was wait for her to wake up so he could ask her more.

A week had past and there was still no sign of the girl waking up, worried Inuyasha called the only person he knew, and could trust at the same time to help with such a secret as this.
"Listen here Baba this is a serious matter, I wouldn't ask for your help if it were anything less." His voice was harsh, if the old lady were to show up it would be a miracle. "Yeah yeah, thanks Ba...Kaede, just hurry up." he barked out the last bit.

"You know Yash, she would a lot more willing to help you out more if you were a bit nicer..." Miroku earned the death glare from his Hanyou friend causing him to sweat drop and back away slowly

"You Know Monk I would be a lot more willing to stop beating you if you kept your mouth shut" At that Miroku high tailed his ass out off the room. Sighing Inuyasha made his way up stairs to check on the slumbering girl 'Why hasn't she woken up yet? Did Naraku hurt her that bad? If she doesn't wake up soon, people are going to come looking for her, surely she has a family, friends, a boyfriend, they will all want her back. But what about the Shikon Jewel, she has it, or so that bastard says.' Inuyasha began to growl out frustration ' damn you girl wake your ass up'

I looked down at the girl in the dimly lit room, it wasn't exactly the best decorated room in the house, in fact the house was poorly decorated itself. Dull wooden floors, and cheesy wall paper, yeap this was definitely the hippest hide out for one of the most feared men in the country. Sitting in the beat up chair next to the bed Inuyasha began to wait for Kaede, and watch over the fragile creature before him.
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"Where is the sour dog?" Kaede asked letting herself in the house. She had helped the Hanyou out since she was a boy, finding him battered and broken she nursed him, and gained his trust. As he got old her became more bitter, and even with the love she showed him he never changed. Never really opening up he kept to himself, and he suffered greatly for it.

"Ah Mistress Kaede, you look gorgeous as always..."

"Just tell me where the boy is Miroku, I have no young women with me today, so you can lay off the complements." The look of disappointment on the young monks face brought a smile and a chuckle out of the old woman. Miroku was another that suffered from the loss of family at a young age, and he just as Inuyasha did, looked to her as a grandmother.

"He is upstairs, the girl is in his room." Her brow raised, but she didn't question the monk and headed for the stairs.

Making it to the familiar room where she had dressed and cared for Inuyasha on many occasions she once again let herself in. She looked through the room and set her eyes on two figures, one was Inuyasha, 'ah the boy is asleep, and this time he truly seems at peace.'
Looking from him she laid her eyes on the girl Miroku was talking about, her breath audibly hitched causing the hanyou to wake 'it...it can't be, she is the exact replica, oh dear kami what has Inuyasha done?' Inuyasha looked at the shocked kaede, she looked as if she was seeing a ghost, an all too familiar ghost.

"Yo Baba, haven't you seen a sleeping girl before?...Kaede?.....HELLO!!!!" His last shout brought kaede out of her shocked state. She took one look at Inuyasha and rushed to the girls side. "What the hell has gotten into you?...This is the girl I need help with, you see when I went to Naraku's she was there, and...." He could tell she wasn't listening to him, angering him further. "Hey I'm talking to you, it would be great if you would listen..."

"Inuyasha how did this girl come to be in your care?"

"Well if you would have listened the first time you would have known, but NOOOO, you rush over and you stare at the her like you have known her since birth." Crossing his arms he put a smug look on his face after officially annoying the old woman. "Just fix her and then I will tell you everything, I just want to make sure is ok first." His voice softened to guilt 'because if she isn't...I don't even want to think of it.'

"Alright I will take a look, but you must tell me everything directly after, it is of great importance." He nodded his head and took a few steps back and watched as Kaede checked the girl over. Her face remained calm, and professional, but her eyes held great worry. 'This girl I can feel the aura of the jewel, I doubt she even knows she has it.' Backing away she gave Inuyasha the diagnosis. "She is in a small coma, her body is healing itself from the shock of whatever happened to her, and its healing any internal damage that might have been done. Please tell me how these horrible makes came to be on her neck."

Instructing the old woman to have a seat Inuyasha began his tale. "Naraku that bastard kept saying she had something he wanted, and I was foolish, I waited to see what he had to say, and I was too late getting in there, he had his filthy bastard hands around her neck and she had already passed out when I came through the door." He hung his head low. "What got to me the most is he let me go nobody was after us after I shot him in the arm, I could have taken the elevator and walked out the front door and nothing would have happened. He is planning something Kaede, and this girl is in it whether she likes it or not." Inuyasha let out the breath he was holding throughout his story, and rested his head in the palms of his had, he was baffled, something was going to happen, it was just a matter of when.

"Well Inuyasha you seem have gotten yourself in deep with this little shin dig of yours, but I can tell you why he wanted this girl." Inuyasha lifted his head holding a confused look in his eyes. "When I first laid eyes on the poor creature she looked like the priestess Kikyou in the old stories of the Shikon No Tama, and when I was checking her over I could sense the Aura of the Jewel....but..within her."

"In her? How can that be?"

"They say when she died the only way to protect the jewel was to burn it with her body, I suppose it came back, but in this girl, she must be her reincarnation, it is the only way."

Now it was freaky, how was he supposed to get the jewel if it was inside the girl, then it hit him, 'If I wouldn't have been there Naraku would have....' he couldn't even finish the thought "Bastard"