Sesshomaru spotted a nearby stream. A perfect place to get a drink. As he brought his hands filled of water to his mouth to drink, he saw in the corner of his eye, someone drinking from the stream too. Sesshomaru decided to ignore the stranger for awhile.

Sesshomaru finished his refreshing drink and looked back over to the stranger to find him starring back at him with cold red eyes. He wore an oversized black cloak with the hood up.

"Oh! Forgive me. I did not mean to stare." Sesshomaru was surprised to hear a woman's voice.

"Who are you," Sesshomaru demanded.

"Not important, Lord Sesshomaru. But what is important is the Tetsuiga, right?"

"How do you know about the Tetsuiga?"

"My lord,…I know everything," the elegant voice whispered. "Now, you wish to posses the Tetsuiga, correct? Well, I can help."

"How? Inuyasha's more powerful than you think and I seriously doubt that you can take from him."

"Tsk Tsk Tsk You miss understood me, my lord. I do not tend to take it by force. All we will need… is this" The strange woman pulled a glass, blue bottle out of her black, wool cloak. She held it in her clawed-hand, for Sesshomaru to take.

"What is that?"

"A potion. A potion that will grant it's consumer's dearest wish. In your case,… the Tetsuiga. All you have to do is think about want the most… then drink, drink it all."

"How do I know you're telling the truth?"

"How do you know I'm not," the woman responded slyly.

"I don't trust you."

"Well, you should."

"Well, I don't."

"Believe Me, Dammit!!"

"FINE! JUST SHUTUP!" Sesshomaru made up his mind, he would take the potion. He slowly started to reach for the potion, but just as he got close to it, the woman snatched back and stashed it back in her cloak.

"You don't think I am going to hand it over so freely, do you? Well, I am not. You may have this potion for a price."

"What do you desire?"

"That fluffy boa that hangs on your shoulder!"

Sesshomaru immediately unwrapped his boa from his shoulder and handed it to the woman.

"Are you satisfied," Sesshomaru said hurriedly. He didn't want this to take long. He had places to go, people to see.

"YES! OH, THANK YOU," squealed the stranger as she put her hood down and put her new boa around her shoulders and danced around happily.

"And I thought she strange before…," Sesshomaru thought as he watched the young woman dance.

With the woman's hood down, Sesshomaru spotted that she was actually very beautiful. She had long, golden hair that hung loosely down to her waist. The red eyes Sesshomaru was looking at, hadn't seem so threatening as before. Now she looked very happy and even childishly cheerful.

Sesshomaru spoke in order to break her joyful trance, "The potion?"

The happy young woman stopped dancing and walked over to the youkai she was trading with. She spoke with a cheerful smile, "Okay! Here you go!" She handed him the blue bottle.

"Hm. And to think I thought you were threatening."

"Me? Threatening? HA! That's a laugh. I'm totally harmless! Well, Sesshomaru, hope it goes well. See ya!" She turned and started to run off, but stopped at the sound of Sesshomaru's voice.

"You never told me your name."

"My apologies," she spoke quietly, "I am only known as Sakaki."

"Sakaki," Sesshomaru repeated. " Well for sake, this potion better work."

Sakaki secretly smirked, "Do not worry. It is… fail proof." Sakaki then disappeared into the dark, deep forest.