A lone man stumbled out of the tree line and rushed across a dirt road. Behind him the sound of swords and rushing feet could be heard. The man continued to run, ducking branches and avoiding trees as he went. His features were very clean considering where he came from. His face was clean shaven, and his brown hair was neatly trimmed. His clothes constituted of a light brown tunic and pants, with a heavy fur coat covering him.

"Come on, he went this way!" A man yelled, he quickly ducked behind a tree and watched as they ran past. Sighing he wandered back onto the road. That was a close one. But I'm not out of the woods yet. When he arrived, he noticed several other people walking down the road. Yet this group was very different from the one chasing him.

"I told you already, we need to be hunting jewel shards. We can't have you just jumping back to your time ever other day!" He watched a young man yell. Wait a second, are those dog ears? He thought to himself.

"Every other day? I haven't been back to my own time in ages. Do you know how many tests I've missed?" A young woman yelled back. Hmm, whoever that woman is she sure is beautiful. They sure don't come that way back home. He thought after noticing her stunning features.

They continued to bicker and he watched, until he suddenly loosed his footing and fell onto the dirt road. Startled, the young man unsheathed a giant sword from what appeared to be nowhere and looked left to right trying to find the disturbance.

"Calm down Inuyasha, it's just a human." Miroku reassured him. He walked forward and helped him up.

"What are you doing out here kind sir?" the monk asked him.

"I uh-" He began to say before three armor clad warriors burst from the trees beside them.

"Ah ha! We finial found you coward!" One of them raised his sword. "And what's this? Collaborating with demons?" He asked noticing Inuyasha and a small fox behind him. "We'll take their heads along with yours." He snickered.

"Just try it buddy!" Inuyasha leapt over them and slashed his sword easily disarming all three men. After seeing themselves disarmed so quickly they fled back into the tree line.

"Well that was just pathetic." He shook his head then turned back to the group.

The man stood in disbelief having seen his chasers beaten so easily. Whoever this half-demon was he was strong beyond belief.

"So who were those men and what did they want with you?" The dark haired girl asked.

He thought for a moment before answering, "Well, it's kind of a long story."

"Come with us then, we were just going to set up camp for the night. You can tell us later." The man who had helped him up replied. The group continued on and an hour or so later they set up camp.

He and the others sat around a fire in a relative silence. All that could be heard in the night was the crackle of their fire. Beside them a small stream flowed, its dark waters reflecting the moon and stars from above.

"This food is amazing!" He said, draining a bowl of instant noodles.

"Oh yeah, Kagome's ninja food is great!" Inuyasha remarked, "Wait a second, you gave him the last one!" he yelled at Kagome after reaching into her bag to find it empty.

"Inuyasha don't be so rude! Anyway it's just noodles…" Out of the corner of his mouth her snickered at Inuyasha while Kagome was busy yelling at him. He growled back.

"Anyway… My name is Sento Kumatako. Nice to meet you all."

"My name is Kagome, and this is Inuyasha, Shippo, Miroku and Sango." Kagome motioned to everyone as she said their name.

"So who were those weaklings that were chasing you?" Inuyasha questioned.

"Those…would be the other members of my tribe."

"Tribe? Like the barbarian tribes I've read about?"

"I guess you could call it that. But anyway we've been at war with another tribe for awhile now; I was leading a group of men when we raided a village of theirs. We were told to kill everyone, including civilians. Let's just say that I think civilians should be kept out of all military affairs, so I refused to kill them. After the tribe found out they weren't too happy, they've been hunting me every since. They would have caught me if it wasn't for you guys." Sento finished.

"Oh, that's so sweet! You gave up your own life to save theirs; I wish everyone was like you." Kagome said, glaring at Inuyasha.

"What was that supposed to mean?" He shouted at her.

"I mean that some people are just stupid jerks who only care about themselves!"

"Oh yeah? Well-"

"Those two really don't get along, do they?" Sento whispered to Miroku.

"Nope, their always at each other's necks about something."

This is looking pretty good… He smiled to himself.

"Well, thanks for the food. I think I'll go to bed now." Sento stated, Inuyasha and Kagome stopped fighting.

"It was our pleasure, and please excuses Inuyasha's behavior; he's kind of an idiot." The fox demon snickered.

"I'll go to bed too; the rest of you should do the same. We've got a long day tomorrow. And Sento, you can just leave whenever you want." He glared at him. He really didn't like him, especially the way he kept looking at Kagome.

"Inuyasha! Don't be so rude."

"Fine fine! But he's leaving tomorrow…" The half demon leaped up into a tree and tried to get to sleep.

Later that night while everyone was curled up sleeping, Sento sat at the edge of the stream. Kagome had tried offering him her sleeping bag but he refused, he was use to sleeping on the ground. Well, I think I'll have to lay low with these guys for awhile. That Inuyasha guy sure is annoying, but I've never seen someone as strong as him. He just better not get in the way of me and Kagome… He took one last look of her silken face curled up in her sleeping bag before drifting off to sleep.

Overlooking their small camp was a fairly short hill. Perched on top of it was a large man, he wore several furs and animal skins around himself. He scratched the dark stubble around his chin as another smaller man rushed over to him.

"Sir, the men say that their sure Sento is down at that camp. Several soldiers were nearly killed a few hours ago by a half demon; he was with them at the time."

"So, we've finally found the traitor. Ready the men, we attack in 10 minutes!" He barked in his deep voice. He grabbed the sword from his side, it had been a long time since he had a decent fight hopefully this half demon wouldn't disappoint.