Later at the village Kyoka tended to Kazuki's bandages. Kazuki flinched, Kyoka finished and proceeded to stand to walk to the fire. Kazuki looked down at the Sacred Jewel, "I never thought I'd see that again" Kyoka said. "This is only the beginning of demons coming after the Jewel" Kyoka said placing wood in the fire. "What?! Why do I have something demons want? What does this do?!" Kazuki snapped, what about him going home to his mom and grandpa... and Rin? He knew they were worried sick about him. "It can make the weakest demon ten times stronger and it can make the strongest demon invincible." Kyoka said. Kazuki looked back at the jewel this thing could do all of that?
Kazuki glanced at Inu "what are you still doing here?" Kazuki asked "isn't it obvious? I want the jewel" Inu snapped. "Why do you need the jewel? You seem pretty strong to me" Kazuki said thinking about the way she slaughtered the centipede. "But the thing is Inu is only half demon" Kyoka said. "Half demon?" Kazuki said with question. "Inu is also half human" Kyoka said. "Grrrr!" She exclaimed jumping to her feet. "I don't need some old windbag to tell about my business as if he knows me or something" Inu snapped. "Oh you really don't remember do you?" Kyoka said. "Then again fifty years have passed. I am Kyoka, Kaoru's younger brother." Kyoka said simply. "Whoa... if you look like this Kaoru has got to be pushing a hundred or something" Inu said. Inu scratched her nose. "I'm glad I don't have to worry about being old" Inu said.
Kyoka put more firewood into the fire. "Kaoru didn't worry either... he died fifty years ago" Kyoka said. The hut filled with silence. Inu's ears flickered and suddenly her face changed. "However Kazuki, you are the reincarnation of my brother" Kyoka said. "Who me?" Kazuki said with disbelief. "I wasn't sure at first but watching as the Sacred Jewel came out of your out of you I knew it was so." Kyoka said.
Kazuki walked out of the hut thinking about what Kyoka said. He wanted nothing to do with any of this. He wanted to get back home. "There he goes" one of the villagers muttered. "Kaoru has come back to us" "That's Lord Kaoru to you" One of the villagers said. Kazuki turned to see the villagers bowing to him. "I really have to get out of here" Kazuki said rushing away.
Kaoru died and I never knew, Inu thought sadly. "Well it's one less thing for me to worry about" she said scratching her nose and flickering her ears. And Inu reached behind her and caught a pear. She looked back to see Kaoru's reincarnation. "Yo!" He exclaimed walking towards the tree. He had a bag of food, "the villagers sort of gave me all of this stuff... You should come down and help me eat it." He said, "tch" Inu snapped. The boy sat down under the tree.
Inu watched him with suspicion as she sat far away from him. "Why are you looking at me like that? Is it because of this Kaoru person?" The boy snapped, Inu growled and jumped back into the tree. "Can we at least try to get along" Kazuki said. "You are just trying to lure me into a false sense of security!" Inu exclaimed. Kazuki shrugged "all I would say to have you get down here is Sit..." Kazuki suddenly heard a thump behind him. He turned to see Inu lying face down on the ground. "Sorry" Kazuki said but not really meaning it.
Later that night Inu watched from the tree looking around for anything suspicious. Her ears flickered and she sniffed out a demon crow. Inu with lightning speed scared the crow away. "Stinkin' crow probably trying to steal the sacred jewel" Inu growled as the crow flew away.
The next morning Kazuki walked through the woods and found the well. The Bone Eater's Well, it was where he came out of. Kazuki wondered if he could ever go back. He knew his family was worried sick about him. Kazuki turned around but was suddenly pounded on by a group of thieves. "Hey! Hey! Let me go!" Kazuki snapped trying to hit at them. They quickly tied him up and drug him away. "Let me go!" Kazuki exclaimed one of the thieves punched him in the head "shut up" he snapped.
"Has anyone seen Kazuki?" Kyoka asked one of the villagers. "I saw him going into the forest" one of the villagers said. "Alone?" Kyoka asked, Inu's ears flickered "that can't be good" he said.
"That stupid boy" Inu grumbled as she jumped from tree to tree. "He ran off with my sacred jewel, he probably got kidnapped or something." Inu snapped as she jumped on the ground and began to smell for him.
"Hey boss, look we found this pretty boy!" The men called out as they brought Kazuki in. "Let me go or I'll..." they heard footsteps, Kazuki looked to see a huge man. He wasn't a man he looked more like a troll. "Hey boss what should we do with him?" another thief asked. "Give me the Sacred Jewel" he said. Something was wrong with this guy. He stumbled forward and pulled out his sword. "What should we do with him boss?" one the thieves said as he and another one held on to Kazuki's arms. The troll walked closer and cut down one of his own men. "H...hey boss... wrong way..." the other one stuttered. The troll swung his sword again, "get down you idiot" Kazuki snapped shoving him on the ground and dodging it.
"Give me the sacred jewel" the troll said sluggishly swinging at him with his sword. Kazuki and the troll's lackeys quickly ran to the other side of the room. "Boss its him you want" one of them said pushing Kazuki forward. "You idiots can't you see something is wrong with your boss" Kazuki snapped slapping theirs hands away.
The troll hit at them once again, this is just what I need being chased around by an eight foot troll. Kazuki thought bitterly "give me the sacred jewel" he said. The jewel, Kazuki said remembering what Kyoka said. "What do we do boss?" One of the men asked him. He snapped out of his thoughts. The troll charged at them, "first off get the heck out the way" Kazuki snapped. They all ran to the other side of the room. "And second of all, I am not your boss" Kazuki added. Kazuki knew what to do, "hey! You want this thing go get it!" Kazuki exclaimed throwing the jewel out the window.
