(Y/N) POV

"Gramps! Mom! Sota! Buyo!" Kagome called out hopping for a response, but none came.

It had been a few minutes since we exited the well. After we made sure that put to a considerable amount of distance in case the õmukade came back. Once we made sure that we were far enough away Kagome began to call for her family, hoping that they would hear her and come for us.

I however was more focused on where the well had taken us.

I thought of two distinct possibilities on where we are.

The one thing that they both had incommon was that we were still in Japan, as I recognized the flora and fauna from whenever I visted the Imperial Palace East Gardens with Grandpa when I was younger. 

Which brings me to the first and more realistic possibility. That the well brought us to another part of Japan. There were quiet a few dry wells like the one at the Higurashi Shrine, though from what I can tell not as famous. So hopefully we weren't all that far from a roadway or any kind of human settlement. That way wr could find transportation back to Tokyo and return home as soon as possible.

The other possibility was more outlandishand if proven correct, then our chances of getting home were almost non existent...

"Hey Y/N!" Kagome said, getting my attention. "I can see the Sacred Tree from here, so we must be not that far from the shrine!"

Following here gaze and far into the treetops I recongnized the familar canopy of the Sacred Tree. As I have seen that tree for nearly all my life, I could recognise it from a mile away. Still why was it here in the middle of these woods?

I'll figure it out later, but first we need to get there. Judging by how far it was from us and it's location, then it was a straight walk there without going near the well yet it will take us a few minutes to get there.

So we decided to start walking towards the tree, I decided to ask Kagome a simple yet powerful question.

"What would you like to know first?"

Kagome seemed suprised for a second before she regained her composure.

"Alright then, why were you at the shrine and were did you get that sword? I thought that you were already on your way to school. I tried to call you on both your home and cell phones but you didn't answer them." Kagome said.

"I was at the shrine to hide your birthday gift in the storehouse. As to why my cellphone didn't pick up your call, truthfully I don't know." I said without fudging any details. As I have been around Kagome nearly all my life so she could tell when I wasn't being honest to her. 

"By the way happy birthday Kagome." I added.

Although technically being dragged into a well by an õmukade into who knows where wouldn't account as a happy birthday for anyone. Still it was the thought that counts and it seemed to brighten up her spirit a bit.

"Thank you Y/N." Kagome said. "But that still doesn't explain how you got in the well with me or where you got that sword."

"The sword I found in the storehouse. It wasn't there when I was doing inventory with  Grandpa yesterday. I was planing on asking him about it after I would help Sota look for Buyo. However by the time I got there, I heard Sota screamimg and found that you had vanished into the well and that it was closing up. So I jumped in and the rest is history." I said simply.

 "I see Y/N, but how were able to freeze that leg?" Kagome said, causing me to sigh.

Well here goes nothing.

"Actually Kagome that was something I wanted to tell you today. Something that I've wanted to tell you for awhile now."  I said, a little weary of my friend's reaction will be.

"And what would that be?" Kagome asked curiously.

"That I'm not entirly human, but actually a hanyõ." I said.

"You're a half demon!" Kagome shouted. "Why disn't you tell me this before Y/N!"

I flinched a little at her tone. She was upset and she had a good reason too. After a swcond I composed myself and began to speak.

"It was because I was nervious on how you react Kagome." As I was speaking I saw that she was beginning to calm down, so I continued. " Dad always told me that hanyõ usually treated well by both humans and yokai. So he asked that me to keep my heritage a secret from anyone till I was ready enough. For awhile I though I wasn't really worried about that and focused on just being human. But all that changed shortly after I turned 13."

"What do you mean by that?" Kagome asked.

"I truly became a hanýo then."

Upon seeing her confused expression I elaberated.

"My mother was a yuki-onna and usually their children are regular humans, hanýo, or incase of their daughters a full yuki-onna. For their sons however, they mostly live as humans and it is extreamly rare for any of them to become a hanýo. In fact according to dad if my powers awakened I'd be the first known one born in over 60 years. I never really bothered worrying about it to much until my powers woke up." I explained, getting Kagome to nod. "Speaking of which, do you remember the time I was absent for 3 days?"

"Of course, I thought you were out sick. So instead your powets awakened, but  why were you gone for so long." She questioned.

"Honestly after they emerged I couldn't touch anything without it being covered by a layer of frost. It took me 3 days to gain complete control over my powers." I said, a little embartassed about what happened. The fact that Kagome giggled at that didn't help either.

"I have to say that I'm glad that you finally admitted that Y/N." Kagome said after she stopped giggling. "But know this, hanýo or human you have and always will be the same Y/N to me. Just promise me that you'll tell everyone back at home about this, okay?"

"I promise, besides I was planimg to tell them along with you. But thank you Kagome, that means so much to me." I said gratfully.

Honestly I should have seen that she would except me for who I was, but I guess I let my fears on the matter to blind my judgement.

I'm glad to have gotten that off my chest. Now if only I got finally talk about how I truly feel about her.

I didn't have time to dwell on those thoughts as we have arrived at our destination. But not as how we expected it.

We were at the Sacred Tree as I would recognize it from anywhere. But there was two major problems.

The first was that it was surronded by more woodland and no shrine in site. Making the second possibility more likely and that wasn't good.

As for the second problem only one thought came to mind.

'Beautiful.'

Embedded into the tree was a woman who looked around our age except that she was more developed then Kagome in just about...well everywhere.

However from what I can tell she was either a yokai or less likely a hanýo, because she had dog ears at the top of her head, she was still breathing with an arrow through her heart, and the fact she looked like she was there for quite a while. Since it would take years for those roots to surrond her.

From the looks of it she was asleep for quite some time and probably will not wake up anytime soon.

I broke my gaze from her to see Kagome climbing to roots and approaching the sleeping woman. When she was about a foot way from the woman, she just stared at her for a few moments and began to slowly move her hands towards the woman's head.

"Kagome what are you doing?"

"I can't resist." She mumbled out. She then began to play with the sleeping woman's ears.

'Cute.' I thought as Kagome spent the next minute playing with her ears before turning to face me.

"I probalbly shouldn't have done that." She said while blushing.

"You two there! What are ylu doing over here!" Somone shouted at us from the distance.

I turned to see it was a group of men armed with bows and arrows and all of them were trained on us. But what really filled me with dread was their attire and the fact they all had topknots.

They fired a volley of warning shots at us that barly missed there mark. I promptly put my hands up in surrender.

Considering that we were out numbered amd these guys were great shots, it was the best option to stay alive for now.

(Later)

Both me and Kahome were lead back to a nearby village and had our hands and feet bound. We were left in the center of the village with one of the mem left to bring a Lady Kaede to use. Considering our current surrondings, they were bring a miko.

Speaking of the surrondings, the villagers began to gather around us as Kagome was struggling to get herself out of her bonds. 

However I could easy get myself out of my own, but with Kagome not so much. They were still 3 men ready to fire on us incase we cause a comotion. Plus with the whole village watching us, if they notice any sort of ice, they will probly think we're both yokai and begin shooting at us. At that point I wasn't 100% sure I could protect Kagome if we had a mob break out.

So for now I just sat there and listening to the villagers comments.

"A young man and a young woman with strange clothing."

"Are they both foreigners?"

"Will there be war again?"

"Just before rice-planting season? We're already so short handed as it is!"

"Perhaps they are kitsune in disguise?"

"Better they are shape-changers then another war."

"Hey Y/N." I heard Kagome whispering to me. After making sure the villagers weren't watching us, I replied back.

"What is Kagome?" I asked.

"Do you have any idea where we are Y/N? Every guy here has topknots! I thought most people stopped doing that a long time ago." She said.

I could only sigh at that. She was not going to like the answer.

However before I could spoke some shouted out.

"Make way for High Priestess Kaede!" A villager shouted leading an old woman with an eyepatch and in miko clothing towards us.

She had a bow in her hand which she handed to a nearby villager, who I guess was her assitant and proqured an urn. She began to shower us with it's contents, something I recognised from the stories used to tell. A ritual that is often used to reveal the true form of some yokai. While it would have no effect on Kagome and would irritate her, it felt like bugs were crawling over me.

Eventually Kagome had enough.

"Hey! What're you doing?!" She snapped at the priestess, who stopped the ritual.

"They told me a pair of yokai were found in the Inuko forest." Kaede said. "I thought some ritual purification was in order."

"Then could they both be foreign spies." Her assitant said.

"Yes but spies for what? We can barely feed ourselves in this village." Kaede said before her eye widened in shock. Following her gaze I found that she was focused on Kagome, who tried to slowly back away. Well as best as someone could with their hands and feet bound.

"You there. Let me get a good look at your face." The old miko said as she aproached Kagome anf moved her face said to said. "Look clever, girl!"

This caused Kagome to only glare at the old woman. Aftet that she let go of Kagome and spoke some words that filled me with dread.

"Such a likeness...to my sister Kikyo."

'Well shit' I thought.

If this was the same Kikyo that had herself creamated with the Shikon Jewel, then we were stuck somewhere during the Sengoku jidai. With our current location being where Tokyo would be now, hundreds of years into the future.

"You there, boy." Kaede said breaking me out of my thoughts. "You could have broken from your bonds at anytime, so why didn't you."

So she figured it out, well no use in hiding it anymore, but first.

"If I cut myself free, I couldn't have guaranteed Kagome's safety with everyone here, with bows and arrows aimed at us, and with absolutly no clue where we are." I replied earnestly.

She stared at me for a moment before turning to Kagome.

"Do you trust this boy?" Kaede asked her.

"Yes." Kagome said without any hesitation what so ever, causing the old miko to face the villagers.

"Cut them lose, they mean us no harm." Kaede said, with some of the men following her request immedieatly. Before they could do that however, Kagome leaned towards me and whisphered.

"Y/N are we stuck in the past?" She questioned.

It seemed like that she had also figured it out, along with that so far that we have no way back to our time.

"Sadly that is our current situation, Kagome." I said, conferming her fears and for her to become creastfallen.

(Later)

It was late at night and we were in Kaede's house with her cooking a large pot of stew over a fire. As she was cooking she was keeping an eye on us.

"Thanks Y/N my wrist is a lot better now." Kagome said as she rubbed her wrist.

"It was no problem." I said simply as I dispeled the ice surrounding my hand.

"But seriously when did you figure out how to do that? There isn't even a mark on my wrist." She asked.

"I figured out how to do this when I tripped inside my own home a few monthes back. But it only works on minor stuff like this." I replied, causing her to nod.

After we were cut lose, Kagome had a minor rope burn on her wrist and later I offered to heal it. After my powers awoke I had no need for ice packs anymore, but I had discovered how to heal by complete accident a few months back. With a few trials and errors I found that I could only heal bruses and minor burns, but still that was more then enough to get rid of the burn.

"So you are a yuki-onna hanýo, then you are certainly a rareity among yokai. In fact in all of my life I have only heard of another." Kaede said with her attention back in the stew. But now ours's was focused entirly on her. With the both of us curious about the other any info of another hanýo like myself.

"Do you mind if you can tell us Lady Kaede?" I asked.

"I don't have a problem telling you, but I only know a little about him. All I know about that hanýo was a bandit up in Hokkaido. His powers awakened in his later years and terrorized isolated villages for a few months, before being shot down by a lone archer that was deffending her village. That was over 130 years ago." She said to us.

Well I was a little disappointed to hear that, I was still glad to have learned that bit of info.

"Thank you." I said to her. After getting a nod in return, she checked the stew and handed us two wooden bowls.

"Here." Kaede said as she poured in the stew into our bowls.

It looked absolutly delicious, also considering the fact we haven't eaten all day. Though I don't like stew and soup that much, I couldn't afford to be picky at the moment.

"Thank you!" The both of us choursed as we started to eat. It was the best thing I have had to eat insome time.

"Forgive us." Kaede said as I was about half done with my bowl. Both me and Kagome put ohr food down as we continued to listen to the old miko.

"With so many wars these days, our young ones have become rash. Even if I tell them we've no buisness in wars they refuse to listen and only give me more to worry about." Kaede said as she started to tend the fire.

Well I can agree with her reasoning, it was still partly our fault as were trespassing on their land.

"Do you know where Tokyo is from here?" Kagome asked.

"Toyko?" Kaede said before shaking her head. "Never heard of such a place. Is that the name of both of your homeland?"

"Yes well...I would like for the both of us to go home soon." Kagome said. After that ahe looked creastfallen again and resumed eating her soup.

Since I couldn't think of anything to reassure her, I just went back to finishing my stew.

(Meanwhile)

??? POV

Finally I have escaped that accursed well and have picked up that scent of that human and hanýo.

The girl was plain and would amount for nothing more then a quick snack. The only remarkable thing about here was that she had the Shikon Jewel.

The hanýo on the other had look absolutly delightful!

It was a shame he froze my leg off, then I could have had the best time before I ate him.

Oh well, I suppose I could play with him a little then eat him.

Either way the Shikon Jewel is mine!

(Y/N) POV

I had just finished my bowl when a village came in and handed Kaede something before he left.

"I believe this belongs to you. The men have tried try pry it open, but it refuses to come out of it's steath." She said as she handed me the sword.

It was confiscated from me before we entered the village, so I was glad to get it back. I have actually grown to like it. Maybe I could ask Grandpa for it as an early birthy day gift, after all it was a little over two weeks away.

My train of thought was broken again by the sound of a loud crash.

Soon it was followed by even more crashes and the sound of a bell ringing.

We exited Kaede's house to massive columns of dust, villagers runningin panic and men loading their bows.

"What is going on!" Kaede demanded.

"It's a yokai!" One of the men said and the next thing I saw gilled me with dread.

It was the ômukade and she was coming our way with a live horse on her fangs.

Some brave villagers sent a volly of flaming arrows at her, but missed. Out of anoyance she battered them away with her body and flung the horse towards us. It let out a loud neigh as it flew into the air, before being silenced by land in front of us. The horse was dead the second it touched the ground. Kagome quickly hid behind us as the õmukade moved towards us.

"Not again." She said from behind us.

"Hand me the Shikon Jewel!" The õmukade demanded before lunging toward us. I pushed Kagome down and Kaede rolled to the left to avoid her attack. A moment later Kagome tried to get up, but I pushed her down again to avoid another pass from the massive yokai.

"The Shikon no Tama?" Kaede said in shock before she faced us. "Do you two have it?"

"I don't know! I don't know anything about the Shikon Jewel!" Kagome shouted from behind me. "Do you know anything Y/N?!"

"I have an guess about it and if I'm correct about it then we need to get you as farway from her as possible." I said as I helped Kagome up.

"Why?"

"Because she is after you."

After I said that I saw two men took aim and miss the õmukade.

"Give it to me! Give it to me!" The centipeade woman yelled. Suddenly she began to rotate her body like a tornado and began to flail her body around, hiting the men and sending them flying. They would not be getting up anytime soon.

"Lady Kaede our spears and arrows have no effect!" A villager shouted.

"Then we must throw her into the Dry Well!" She yelled out.

That sounds like the a great idea, and sadly the only one at the moment. But in order to do that would mean to get her away from the village.

Before I can ask Kagome about it, I saw the light in her eyes and immediatly knew what she was going to do next.

I then fished my hand into my pocket and summoned an icecicle. Then I began to mess with the object in my hand, that could prove to be helpful later.

"Which way is the well?" Kagome asked Kaede.

"It's in Inuko Forest." Kaede said to her.

"Then which way is the forest?" She queationed. The both of them looked around for a minute, before Kagome found something. "Where that light is shining?"

I put the object back in my pocket and ran past Kaede along with Kagome. The miko tryed to say something but we were to busy runing away from the õmukade. I took a second to look back and saw her and several villagers blown away by the passing centipeade.

After that I just kept my gaze forward, running like hell was at our heels. Through the fields and water as the õmukade was rapidly catching up with us. I could only hope that we reached the well before she could get us.

(Meanwhile in Inuko Forest)

??? POV

I felt something pulsing through me and I woke up. I let lose my claws to help get ride of the numbness I felt through my whole body. After a second I sniffed the air and let lose a feral grin.

"I can smell you from here Kikyo, you are going to pay for killing me." I said whist promising pain for her. She killed me and had left me strung up in this tree for who knows how long.

So when I get my claws on her I will return the favor and then I will finally become a full yokai!

But something else caught my scent.

It smelled like snow, ice, and wintergreen not far from her.

It looked like it was still spring, so why does something smell like winter at this time of year.

It could only be a yuki-onna. I have only heard about them, but why would one be this far south in the spring. There was another explination I heard about yet it was near impossible.

"Whatever. They're approaching and I can deal with what that second scent is. After I've shreaded Kikyo into ribbons!" I said gleefully. I grabbed onto the arrow and it emitted a purple glow. I pulled my hand back and saw that it was enchanted to stop me from pulling it out.

"Damn it!!!"

(Y/N) POV

I think I heard someone shouting, but I can worry about that later.

For now I will worry about the õmukade literaly snaping at my heels!

We kept running toward the forest and reached a bend in the road. We turned at the last second and the centipeade woman overshot us before corecting herself and resumed the chase.

We had reached the edge of the forest when Kagome tripped and the õmukade was directly behind us.

"Give the the Shikon Jewel!"

"I don't have it!" Kagome shouted. The õmukade didn't care in the sligthest and was intent on finishing her off.

"But I do!"

Until I got her attention.

The õmukade stoped in her tracks and marveled what was in my hand. While Kagome took this chance to slip past here and run behind me.

"The Shikon Jewel..." The õmukade marveled.

She had a good reason to anyways. For in my hands was the legendary Shikon no Tama!

"Hand it to me hanýo and I'll let you live!" She demanded.

I couldn't help but grin at what was going to happen. If it worked anyway.

"Then go get it!" I said while throw the jewel into the water. 

The õmukade began to shift through the murky water as we began to slip away.

"Come on, that won't keep her busy for long." I said to Kagome as we ran up the hill.

"That was one of Gramps's keychains, wasn't it?" She questioned.

"Yup."

"Then how did she fall for that?"

"Simple, I repainted it."

"Well that makes sense."

"Give me the real Shikon Jewel!" The õmukade bellowed.

Looks like she figured it out. I made the mistake of looking back to see that she was pissed off and that she was hot on our trails. We soon cleared the top of the hill, but the õmukade crashed into the hill and sent us flying through the canopy. As we were about to hit the ground I caught Kagome and landed on my back.

"Oww."

"Y/N! Are you alright!" Kagome asked.

"I'm alright, but can you please get off Kagome. You are kneeling into my spleen." I groaned out, causeing Kagome to immediatly get off me.

"Sorry Y/N!" She apologized.

"It's alright."

"Hey Kikyo!" A voice called out not far from us. Looking for the source we found that we had landed in front of the Sacred Tree. With the dog eared woman now awake. "While I do find this situation humorous, why are you wasting time with Mukade Jõrõ? I thought that she was alread dead?"

While it was nice to know the name of the õmukade that was chasing us, I was more curious on how she was alive at this point. The arrow was lovated right through the heart, so she shouldn't be able to breath at this point. Unless it was magic, that always screws with logic in anyway possible.

"How are you alive?" Kagome questioned, also having simular thoughts.

"Kill her with one strike, Kikyo." The woman said, completely ignoring Kagome's question. "Just like the time that you killed me."

Kagome just sat there processing what the woman was saying.

"Huh? Don't look so dumb! Have you lost your mind already, Kikyo?" The woman said before she grinned and pointed at me. "Or did he screw it into oblivion!"

Me and Kagome could have been mistaken for tomatos with how hard we were blushing.

"What no!" Kagome shouted, flailing her arms. "We're too young to do anything like that! Besides he is only 14!"

"Eh?" The woman blinked. "He's 14! He's too handsome to be 14." She muttered with a small blush, before shaking it off. "I can see why you would keep him around for another year, Kikyo."

At that point our blushes had faded and teplacebwith rage on Kagome's face.

"Kikyo? Kikyo? Who's this Kikyo?!" She said. "You listen here, my name is-"

"She's coming." The woman said blandly, cuting Kagome off.

Understanding her words I quickly pull Kagome back as Mukade Jõrõ came at us from the treetop. We backed a few steps as the centipeade woman drew near us, when I saw two arrows with ropes tied to them embedded into her side. I looked to see a group of villagers with bows and horses as another arrow hit it's mark.

"All right! Heave!" One of the archers shouted.

"Right."

The villagers began to tug on the ropes, pulling Mudake Jõrõ away from us with great effort.

"I think we're save for now." I told Kagome.

"So hopeless, Kikyo." The woman shouted at her.

"Hey you!" Kagome shouted as she got up. "Don't mistake me. I said I'm not Kikyo!"

"Shut up!" The woman yelled as Kagome approached her. "Who else would give off a scent like you?" Now she was face to face with Kagome she appeared uncertain.

"Or...maybe not." The woman looked away in embarissment.

"Finally! My name is Kagome! Ka-go-me!" My friend said, annoying the woman.

"Well Kikyo seemed smarter, was a beauty, and had a larger chest then you." The woman said, causing Kagome to let out an inhumane growl from her throat. I started to back up if things started to get ugly.

The second afterwards Mukade Jõrõ broke free from her restraints and grabbed Kagome with four of her arms.

"Let go of me!" She screamed while holding on to the woman's bang.

"You let go of me!" The woman yelled in pain.

Seeing that the õmukade was distracted I drew my sword and cut off her free arm. She kept her grip on Kagome, but sent me flying with a sweep of her body.

"Y/N!"I heard Kagome cryed out.

Thankfully I was saved from crashing into ground again by a group of villagers.

"Thank you." I said, getting a few nods in return.

"Lady Kaede! It's Inuko!" I heard one if the villagers said. I turned to see that Kaede had just arrived and that the man was pointing at the woman in the tree.

'Inuko, that's a nice name.' I thought. I should have guessed that was the woman's name as the forest was named after her. I had other things on my mind. 

Speaking of which. 

"Give me the Shikon Jewel!"

"Let me go!"

I immediatly ran to Kagome as Mukade Jõrõ elongated her jaws and fangs, showing off her true face.

'I know that it is disrespectful to think this about a woman I can make an exception, because damn she is ugly!' I thought while running. She tried to take a bite out of Kagome, but shot her hand forward and shouted.

"Stop!"

A familuar glow emeniated from her hand and blew the õmukade back and cutting her remaining arms off, landing in a charing heap next to Kagome.

"Kagome are you alright?" I asked.

"Yes, but..." She said in a daze, looking at her hand. "How was I able to do that." Suddenly there was a glow coming from within her and I immediatly knew what it was.

The Shikon Jewel and the cause of our current problem.

Hoeever we couldn't get a moment's rest as Mukade Jõrõ bite into Kagome rigbt beforw my eyes anf carried her up beyond the tree canopy. I grabbed onto one of her legs as she countinued to ascend and let go of Kagome. Blood erupted from a wound in her side along with the Shikon Jewel. When she was halfway to the ground, I let go of the leg and caught her mid air. Using the body of the õmukade to slow our fall, and I landed not far from Inuko and the Shikon Jewel and laid Kagome down onto the grass. She was still bleeding and worried about her condition I placed my arm near her face.

"Bite down on this when it starts to hurt." She gives me a vonfused expression as mist starts to surrond my free hand. I gently placed it onto her open wound and began to seal it shut. Thepain started immediatly as Kagome bit into my arm, hard. I held through it and after a few more seconds I removed my hand and dispelled the mist. It'll leave a mark for a few days, but she should be alright.

Kagome let go of my arm and felt where I sealed for wound. For my efforts I was rewarded by her sluging me in the arm.

"Thank you Y/N, but next time warn me first!" She shouted at me.

"I will."

"While I found this interesting, give me the Jewel!" Inuko called from here tree, before widening her eyes. "Hurry!"

The õmukade loomed over us anf the tree before it wrapped itself around it, trapping Kagome along with Inuko.

I went to free them, but Mukade Jõro was ready and quickly wrapped around me.

"Now why would I allow such a perfect speciman like yourself to mingle with those lowly girls when you have a woman like myself that you could please." She said while caressing my face with her tounge.

Before I could protest, she wraped herself around me even more and covered my mouth.

"Don't speak your are only going to ruin the moment." She said sweetly. Well as sweet as a delusional õmukade who is about to possibly go to rape somene can be.

To get rid if that fought I turned to see both Inuko and Kagome glaring at Mukade Jõrõ whist also blushing. Sewing this the õmukade could only chuckle.

"Sorry dearies, he is mine and you both will soon be just a distant memory." She said, causing both girls to blush even more.

"Are you crazy, he is nowhere near my leauge!" Inuko shouted furiously.

"Then that must be a pretty low leauge, even if he is a hanýo like yourself." Mukade Jõrõ said as she laughed at Inuko's reaction. "Yes that's right I have heard abut you, a hanýo brat who is after the Shikon Jewel. From the looks of it you failed." She continued.

However I was more focused on trying to escape. Though finding out that Inuko was hanýo was intersting I had already guessed that. It was that or an inugami by her ears. Still asI was struggling to get out she seemed to squeeze tighter.

"Don't underestimate me Mukade Jõrõ! Who have already lost the jewel before and I killed you once, so I can do it again!" The silverette shouted before looking at the arrow. "As soon as I get out anyway."

"Your awefully arrogant you know!" Kagome said from below her. "Bit are you strong enough to prove it?"

"Huh?"

"Well can you?"

"So you were the one who killed me, then I will gladly enjoy what I will do next!" The õmukade said before turning to Kagome. "Human she can't do anything, strapped down like that? She's under a powerful spell."

I was still struggling when I let out q muffled scream of pain. She had impaled me with some of her legs. She removed them and despite bleeding all over I continue to struggle.

"Y/N!"

"Don't worry about him human, I only pierced him a little. He'll be fine in fact I quite like that we is still struggling. It only makes me want him more!" She moaned out.

'Great, she's a sadist.' I thought out. I have a plan to get out of here grasp, but I need some more time.

Mukade Jõrõ moved towards the Shikon Jewel.

"Just stay where you and watch!" She said as her tounge wrapped around the jewel and pulled it back into her mouth, swallowing the Shikon Jewel .

"Damn you!" Inuko shouted.

"It swallowed the jewel!" A villager said

"No!"

"What will happen, Priestess!"

While the villagers were clamoured across the clearing, the seaverd arms gained a reddish hue and popped back into place. Like they weren't ever removed in the first place. Well except for the one Kagome blew off in the void. Soon however a new arm took it's place and the õmukade began to shake and convulse until she the skin on her human half shedded away, revealing a more monstrous form.

"Rejoyce! My power is being restored!" She said as she coiled around the tree tighter, pulling Kagome down the trunk.

Hold on Kagime, I just need a few more seconds for this to work.

Inuko POV

Damn it all!

 Not only does has that bitch swallowed the Shikon Jewel, but now I'm also going to die with this girl who looks like Kikyo!

The hanýo with her, Y/N if I remember was currently bound by that centipeade bitch and was bleeding out. If what I smell from him is correct then he is a yuki-onna hanýo, which I only thought was just a myth. He looks like he has a plan to get out, but it would only serve to distract her.

'I can't believe I'm even considering this, but I got no choice.' I thought to myself.

In order to make it out of this alive, I'm going to need that girl's help.

I'm so going to hate myself for this later.

I looked down to see her struggling to get back up.

Hopefully she still has enough strength left to pull this acursed arrow out or I'm going to die in this tree.

"Hey, can you pull this arrow out?" I asked her.

"Huh?" Was all I got back. I just rolled my eyes at her and gestured to the arrow sticking out of my chest.

"I'm asking if you can pull this arrow out!" I shouted at her.

By some miracle, this girl manages to slip out of Mukade Jõrõ's grip and brushes her fingers against the arrow.

"This the one?" She asked. As I had no time to be impatient, I just nodded. Before she could pull however, the õmukade tightened her grip on the tree. This caused the girl to let go of the arrow and to cry out in pain.

"Do not remove it!" An old woman in miko cllthing said as she got off her horse. "The arrow secures the spell on Inuko! You must not free Inuko!"

"You old hag, wake up!" I yelled at her. "Do you want to become fodder the centipeade! Once she completly absorbs the Shikon Jewel it'll be the end of us all!" I then turned to face the girl. "If you want to survive and prevent your man from being raped by that centipeade bitch over thete then free me!"

The girl just blished at that.

"He's not-" "I could care less about that right now, but if you want to live just free me!" I interupted her.

Suddenly the air was filled with cries of anguish from Mukade Jõrõ, and I couldn't help but smirk at what I saw.

The part of her body wrapped Y/N had red crystaline spikes going straight through her. Thay lookd like it had to have hurt alot. But what was even better was that one of the spikes had dislodged the Shikon Jewel from her!

However she immediatly pushed the jewel back into her body as Y/N slipped out of her grasp. His wierd clothes torn and blood soaked. With any open wounds covered with mist.

Once that big bitch was done pulling those spikes out she will be out to kill him. Shame too, it must've have took some serious guts pull something like that off. But it won't be that much of a loss for me if he died though.

I felt something in my chest and saw that the girl had a hold of the arrow with a fire in her eyes.

"I don't have any idea of what why your're stuck here in this tree, but I could care less right now! All I know is that if me and Y/N want to live, then I must set you free!" She shouted.

While she tried to pull the arrow out, but all the something I was surrounded by this purple glow and the arrow vanished. I felt like I was out of my own body, unable to hear, touch, or feel anything. I felt like it that I was stuck in some kind of void until everything stopped and I was back in my body.

But with no arrow through my heart.

"Inuko..." I heard that girl say.

After a second I started to chuckle which with each passing moment grew until it was full blown laughter.

I was finally free! And the first thing I was going to do was slice Mukade Jõrõ apart and then take what was mine!

(Y/N) POV

'I have a bad feeling about this.' I thougjt once I saw Inuko laughing. As much as I like the idea of her helping us, I need to be careful after we deal with Mukade Jõrõ. 

Speaking of which, the õmukade in question decided to finally crush Kagome and Inuko with the majority of her body. However that failed when there was a light coming from where the two had been and chunks of her body had started to rain down. Both Inuko and Kagome landed not far from me.

"You guys ok?"

"I'm fine."

"I'm alright, but what about you. It looked like you used your own blood to get away from her!"

"Technically it was blood, sweat, tears, and ice. But that was the only way I could get out at the time. I couldn't reach the sword with my arms pinned." I said before Kagome slugged me in the arm.

Damn it, that hurts!"

"Next time don't do anything like that again! I was really worried about you when I saw that and- why are you bleeding?! I didn't mean to hit you that hard!" Kagome shouted as she soon removed the torn sleeve to see that she had hit one of the puncture wounds, which I had sealed with ice. She had hit it and shattered the ice.

"It's alright Kagome you didn't know." I said while trying to calm her down.

It did the trick and I soon mist covered the spot. When it dispelled all that was left was ice covering the wound

I'm going to need a ton of bandages after this.

"If you two aredone with your lover's querrel there is still an overgrown pest to deal with." Inuko said annoyed and causing us to blush.

Still she was right as Mukade Jõrõ was charging right at us, with Inuko being her prime target.

"You bitch!"

"Shut up you old hag!"

The õmukade went to take a bit out of her, but Inuko pulled her claws back.

"Sankon Tesso!"

Inuko then pushed then foward, slicing Mukade Jõrõ's jaws into slivers! She continued onward, slashing through the õmukade like a knife through butter. Inuko eventually reached the end and bits of centipeade went flying everywhere.

Mukade Jõrõ could only watch in horror as pieced began to fly from her until her head exploded into pieces, killing her.

I could only watch in amazment as it started to rain bits of centipeade.

"Wow...she really is strong." Kagome said in amazment.

"She sure is." I replied back.

I heard a twitching noise and saw that the legs on a section next to us were starting to move freaking out Kagome. I then noticed that other pieces were starting to pull themselves together.

This must have been something caused the Shikon Jewel, it was the only explenation.

"Why is it moving?" Kagome questioned.

"I believe that this is an abililty Mukade Jõrõ has due to the Shikon Jewel." I explained getting a confhsed look from her. "Inuko did say she killed her once before and that she was found dragged you through a well disgned to dispose of yokai remains, so the Shikon Jewel must have given her the ability to cheat death while near it. So she was revived from nothing but remains when the the jewel was in your body." She shook her head in understanding. 

We heard the villagers approach from behind us.I turned to face Kaede and asked her.

"Do you have an idea on qere the Shikon Jewel is right now?"

"I'm afraid I do not know." Kaede said while shaking her head. "But look for the flesh that shines, the jewel will be embedded there." 

With that everybody splitted up ti look for the jewel.

"It's over here!" Kagome called out a few moments later.

It was stuck in a section with four legs that was slowly trying to crawl away. Kaede tried to remove the piece, but it was embedded inbetween two plates of the õmukade's exoskeleton. I created a small icicle and she uses it to remove the Shikon Jewel. The flesh immediatly disintergrated with thw only trace of Mukade Jõrõ was ever here was smoking bones steewn amoung the clearing.

Kaede walked up to Kagome and handed her the jewel.

"Only you can possess the Shikon Jewel." She said.

Kagome was silent for a moment with her expression unreadable.

"Why?" She asked. "Why was in my body? This jewel which could enhance a yokai like that?"

Well a have a theory about that, there is a much more pressing matter to deal with. One who was more then capable to kilk us all if she wanted to.

"Kagome I think those questions will have to wait for now." I said.

"Why Y/N?" She asked.

"Simple it is because of her." I said while pointing at Inuko as she began to walk towards us, smashing several bones underneath.

"Your pretty clever for figuring out what I was going to do, I'll give you that." She said with a feral grin. "So let me just make this simple." She extend her claws and walked towards us menacingly, with the grin never leaving her face. "If you don't want to feel the pain of my claws, just hand me the jewel and I'll get this over with."

It's one thing after the other. Instead of dealing with a large õmukade, now we are dealing with a hanýo who killed said centipeade with little effort while she was empowered by the Shikon Jewel.

Things don't look well for us right now.

(Chapter 2 end)

Mukuro7 here and I hoped you enjoyed this chapter. Now before I will move on I would to say that there are a few more additions to the harem. And they are.

Abi

Hari

Kanna

And that is it. So remember if you have anymore suggestions, anything that could be added, or just what you thought just let me know and I'll try to get back to you as soon as I can.

So until next time, Ciao!