By morning Mayumi left. "Where is she!?" Miyuki pased outside of the hut. "Don't worry, she'll be back soon.....I think...." "Your really not much help, are you, Inuyasha?" Miyuki looked at him on the roof. "I'm just trying to-" "Well stop! I'm tired of her running off! Do you know how hard it is to just get a clue where she might be!?" Miyuki inturupted. Then she started to pase again. Inuyasha sighed. Kagome ran to them, "I couldn't find her anywhere! I'm sorry, Miyuki..." "UHHH! I told you!" She stomped her foot and looked at Inuyasha. "Hey! What'd I do!?" He blurted. Miyuki pased again. Then she stoped and looked around. "What's wroung?" Kagome asked. "Where's Koga?" Miyuki asked. "I dunno. Miroku, Sango, Shippo, and Keate[(sorry for spelling)] are inside." Kagome said. Miyuki grasped her hair and shook hr head in frustration, "UUUUHHHHAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!! MAYUMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GAAA! I'm SOOOOO sick of her running off! She does this ALL the time! She'll dissapear for days at a time, not tell me where she went. I'll worry and worry and worry and when she finally returns, she acts like nothing ever happened!" "Come on, I don't think she'd be that irrisponsible." Kagome said. "WELL SHE IS!!! SHE does this just to tick me off!" Miyuki had a pulse mark on her head, and it was THROBING! "PHALEASE! She's probably just trying to find some peace once in a while. Especilly if your always on her back like that!" Inuyasha argued. Miyuki jumped up to him and put her face right in his with angery bug eyes with tiny puplis, "You, know, n-o-t-h-i-n-g a-b-o-u-t h-e-r." She said, looking evily at him and his eye twitched and he shrunk down. Then she jumped down and Kagome sighed. "This is turning out to be a perfect day...." She said sarcasticly.

Mayumi deeply sighed and looked out at the purplish mountains and vallies from the cliff where she sat. "I'll just spend a few days to myself....Miyuki won't mind.......I just need some more r&r......." She lied back on the grass. But apparently she had put on a different outfit. A more, wolf demon sutible one. She had a purple tub top on with red triming and a blue skirt with gold accscents. She wore a white wolf pent as a cape-like thing and anklets and wristbands. She wore her hair in two ponytails. For shoes she wore white high-healed boots. Finally she wore her jewel shard necklace.

After a bit she got up and just wandered around the forest untill she reached the top cliff of a waterfall. She looked down into the pouring water with one eye slightly colsed, and an eyebrow cocked and a slight frown.

Unbenounced to her, Kagura was flying by over head, "The jewel shard has to be around here-Ahhh, there." She spotted Mayumi and her shard. She swooped down and flicked out her fan. "Dancing Blades!" She used her attack tword Mayumi as Mayumi turned, but was too late to dodge and ta blade ht her on her shoulder, cutting her and her neacklace. She fell back into the rushing water and down the waterfall.
Kagura picked up the jewel, "Another jewel shard....at last." She took out her feather and flew off.

Koga looked up and saw the wind demon, "Wha-That's Kagura. What's that wentch doing here!?" He ran off tword her. But he lost her when he reached the falls. "Great! Were'd she go now!?" He looked up, then sniffed the air and growled, "blood......" he looked down and saw it. He knelt down and sniffed the pool of blood, he gasped, "MAYUMI!?" So then he stood, "MAYUMI! WHERE ARE YOU!?" His voice echoed down the vally. He jumped down the cliff to look for her. "If that wentch did anything to her, then I'll make sure she dies!" He thoght to himself, but very angry.

Meanwhile, Mayumi had washed up on the bank of a river in a meadow that bordered the woods, miles away from him. She coughed up water as she lied on her back with her eyes closed. She slowly turned her head and opened her eyes to look at the yellow, dried, high, grass of the meadow. She rolled over slowly and tried hard to at get herself to sit up on her knees. She didn't look wounded too much, except for the deep gash in her back from Kagura. She stood with a limp and started to walk.
Koga sped down the hills in his tornado blaze, franticly searching for her.

Back at the village, Miyuki was getting very, very impatient,

"GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHERE DID SHE GO NOW!?!?!?!?!"

"Calm down, Miyuki. She came back last time, she'll come back again." Sango assured her. Miyuki sighed, "Sorry....I'm just SO SICK AND TIRED, of her running off........................." "Sango's right Miyuki, she'll come back. Promise!" Shippo said and Miyuki smiled a bit. "Well I hope so...She always does anyway. I just get a bad feeling everytime she runs off." "What kind of bad feeling?" Miroku asked. "I dunno, like she might get hurt or something." Miyuki said. "So what, I'm sure it's nothing to be afrade of." Inuyasha said and Kagome scowled at him, "Well maybe it could be, Inuyasha. After all they are best friends, right?" She smiled at Miyuki, "Right." Miyuki nodded, "We can sense when something might happen to each other. So we try touse that ability to protect and watch out for each other." Kagome smiled and nodded. Inuyasha blew it off.

Meanwhile, Mayumi had made it to the edge of the wide meadow when she looked up to see Koga. He looked rather shocked. Unfortunetly, Mayumi couldn't stand the pressure and pain any longer and collapsed, unconcious, but before she fell, Koga rushed over and caught her, "MAYUMI! MAYUMI!!" He thought the worst for her, but felt her breathing and he slightly smiled with relife. Then something soft fell on his foot. "Huh?" He knelt down, carefully with Mayumi, and picked up a feather that Mayumi was carrying. He sniffed it and growled, "Kagura." Then he slightly blushed as Mayumi kinda fell more on him. Asleep, she seemed to...glow. In beauty that is. He gazed at her for a few moments, then realized, It was getting late! It would be a snap to run back to the village before sunset with his speed. But then he thought that he shouldn't move Mayumi, at least, not untill she wakes. So, he found a spot next to the river with no grass, and an ideal spot to make a fire.

Night fell and Mayumi hadn't awaken yet. Koga covered her with some wolf pelts of his. He also tended to her wounds. He staired at the fire, keeping it going. Then Mayumi stirred and looked at him. "Good! Your awake. It's about time." Koga said. Mayumi's head pounded, her wounds burned, and her energy was completely drained. With what little strenth she had, she reached up and grabed him by his arm, "Kagura..." "What....did you say?" Koga stared. "Kagura did this...She took my jewel shard.......The one...that links Miyuki....Kiyomi...and me together." Mayumi then let go of her grip and blacked out again. "MAYUMI!" Koga called. His eyes widened as he gazed upon her. She looked a little pale and flushed. He put his hand to her forhead, she had a feaver.

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