"Argh…" Shippo moaned, clutching his head in agony. It was…too much! He felt like tearing his hair out. Or perhaps his ears. Maybe that would dull the noise.

The voices rose louder.

No, even without ears he'd probably hear the racket they were making.

Everyone was back at Kaede-Baa's village, fresh from a battle with Naraku. It had certainly been a close call, and it was only Kikyou's purifying arrow that had saved all of their lives.

But, as always, the presence of Kikyou disrupted normal life. After all, she was dead. Not that Shippo had anything against that. Kikyou was very pretty. It was just that Kagome was prettier.

And Shippo just couldn't understand why Inuyasha couldn't see that. He was always taking care of Kagome, bowing to her smallest wishes (though he would never admit it) but the second there was a whiff of Kikyou, everything else, everyone else, simply 'slipped' from his mind.

Shippo shook his head in disgust. Well, what could you expect from a stupid hanyou? It was obvious who was really leading the group. Without Shippo, they would be completely lost. After all, how many times had he had to save their sorry butts?

"Sit, sit, SIT!!" He heard Kagome yell. She was getting ready to go back to her world, as was becoming customary after a meeting with Kikyou. Unfortunately, Inuyasha was being his normal, thick self, wondering why she wanted to go back so badly.

As if he couldn't see that Kagome was in love with him.

Then again, it was Inuyasha they were talking about.

"You b--! What'd you do that for?" Inuyasha shouted, trying to raise himself up off the ground. "What'd I do to you, huh?"

Kagome folded her arms and looked away, huffing. "SIT!"

He thumped back on the ground. "A-Argh…" He groaned.

Then, of course, there was the other problem. They had barely been in the village for two hours and already Miroku was trying to woo the girls that randomly appeared.

And, of course, Miroku + Girls A Very Pissed Off Sango. She was standing over him with her deadly boomerang poised to kill.

"Eh heh heh…Sango!" Miroku fumbled. "Didn't see you there!" He hastily took his arm off of one girl's shoulder.

Shippo noticed that the other hand was mysteriously missing.

Sango simply stared at him, her face showing no expression. This was the scariest expression that Sango could do. And it was obviously working because Miroku's other hand magically appeared.

And then she started shouting. The group of girls around Miroku scattered laughing, loving the tension they had caused between the so-called couple.

"Sit!...how can I trust you…so insensitive!...but you know the only one…what'd I do to…such a horrible…sit!...eh heh heh…"

Shippo was going insane. He looked over to Kaede-Baa's house. The old woman simply looked at him pleadingly through her one eye.

The baby kitsune puffed up a bit. It was obvious that he was the only one who could save them from this agony.

He reached into his tunic, rummaging around for a minute as the voices got louder and louder around him. Then his fingers closed around two hard objects.

He quickly tossed them into the air, shouting "Kitsune!" and both acorns poofed up to a huge size and enclosed Inuyasha and Kagome in one, and Sango and Miroku in another.

They barely seemed to notice. The acorns were made of a thin enough film that Shippo could see through to what they were doing. Kagome was still shouting "Sit! Sit!!"; and Sango was still yelling at Miroku for being a "…totally unfaithful…completely unreasonable…such a lecherous…" monk.

But Shippo couldn't hear.

"Aaaah." Shippo sighed. He leaned against a tree trunk happily.

"Finally, some peace."

AWWWW!! I LOVE Shippo!! He's so cute!! And I was just wondering how he would feel, having to put up with all the stuff that get's thrown at him…and this story just popped out!! Anyway, this is my first Inuyasha fanfic, but I'm thinking about writing more…hmm…

R&R!!