Maiyu sat on Kaede's roof, eating rice balls, staring up at the sky happily. Her cat ears twitched and her tail swayed happily. She closed her eyes for a moment, enjoying the food, "So good~!" She exclaimed with pure joy before taking a big bite into another. She was easily pleased, but this was one of the first times she'd smiled since Lady Kaede salvaged her from the forest. She kept eating until she noticed something strange in the sky. There were several beams of light, far more than she could count. She stood up, "P-pretty..." Then it finally clicked in her head. Her ears perked up, almost alarmingly high. S-shikon jewels! I think I saw where one landed! She jumped from the roof excitedly, "Be back soon, Grandma Kaede!" She grinned, running off at full speed.
"M-Maiyu! Get back here! You're too young to run off on your own! You can't fight the demons in those woods!" The old woman shouted. She wasn't the same Kaede as Inuyasha and Kagome once knew, but actually Kagome's daughter. She named her after Kaede, and she took over Keade's hut after her mother and the old woman died.
"HELP ME!"
Maiyu paid her no mind and was jumping tree to tree in a matter of seconds. However as she heard shouting she came to a halt, placing her fingers over her mouth to silence herself. She noticed another demon below, but she could tell that the girl was a Hanyo, not another Yokai like herself. She was shaking what appeared to be a human boy, but Maiyu refused to reveal herself. She wasn't good at fighting demons... She was better at running away. Though she thought a Jewel dropped somewhere nearby.
"Shut up, don't alert the whole forest, you idiot!"
She could hear other people talking nearby too, her ears twitching a bit. Her eyes flickered over to two men, soldiers from the looks of it.. and also both appeared to be Hanyou. This was a bad situation, and she had other business. She assumed they were all looking for the same thing... she had to act quickly if she wanted the nearby shard...
Maiyu quietly jumped to the next tree, doing her best to not be too loud. She didn't want to alert any of their ears. Somehow she didn't even notice Minami below her.. but she kept moving closer to where she saw the Jewel drop, attempting to leave the scene and pursue it. She slowly started to shimmy down the tree, but fell rather harshly into a bush, emitting a loud feminine scream as she did. If they weren't aware of her presence before, they were now.
"Okay, stop right there, missy! Just relax and put that boy down, miss. We don't want any trouble."
O-Ow... They're going to find me now.. She rubbed the back of her head as she sat up in the bush. Small multiple cuts adorned her entire body, seeing as it was a rose bush, but she didn't cry. She wasn't a baby! She was a lot older than she looked! Then she heard one of the two men address the female Hanyo. Are they the good guys? Or just friends of the boy..? Maiyu thought to herself curiously, leaves adorning her hair after the fall. Since she didn't have her usual hairbows, it -almost- looked suiting to her white Kimono, as if she meant the leaves for decoration.. just not quite.