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Chapther 2: Shippo's News
"And that, my dear children, is why Inuyasha's Forest is always protected." Spoke the very old monk who sat in the hut with the children from his village. "They say Inuyasha disappeared after the young preistess was pinned and will return once a year to see if his fair lady has awaken"
"That's so romantic!" A little girl cried out, making everyone laugh.
"Aye, I suppose so." The monk agreed.
"Forgive me sir, but how do we know any of it is actually true?" An older boy asked.
Pausing and smirking, the monk turned to them.
"Do you not believe in my words?" He asked, his voice radiating with kindness.
Some of the children agreed and did not. The monk quieted the children down and smiled.
"Well children, I believe you're old enough now to know this much: the stories are true because I was there."The monk stated. "For I was once called Miroku"
All of the children gasped and then started to gossip again.
"But, sir, how is that? Did the story not take place hundreds of years ago as you have explained to us each time you've told us this tale?" Another child asked, a young boy who had only his mother and twin sister since his father had died in the plauqe like so many of the people had. "And what about Sango?" Alittle girl asked, the boy's twin sister.
"Calm my children. All will be answered with paitence but it shall be saved for another time and you must leave." Miroku said getting up and leading all of the pleading children out of the hut as a demon, quite common to the tirbe, walked up and helped the old man.
"Man Miroku, it's a wonder how you're still alive after a lively bunch like that. It's a living hell if you ask me." The demon said.
"Dear Shippo, you start sounding like Inuyasha and I'll be forced to place prayer beads around your neck!" Miroku threatened. Shippo immediantly shut his mouth and helped the old monk into the hut.
Miroku busied himself cooking some riceballs that he had once learned from Kagome nearly two hundred years ago.
Right after Kagome was cursed, Kouga and Inuyasha disappeared returning once or twice in a decade. Sesshomaru, being the "kind" demon he was, had stayed in contact with them and had given Miroku and Sango a potion for extended lives. The only way they would die was by sword.
But Sango went into the was while Miroku was unable because of a wound on kis leg that was later proved permenant. Sango was killed in war and Miroku asked that his extended life potion be ended. But because he had taken the potion for over a hundred years, Miroku was able to live much longer than most humans.
Shippo had been raised by Sesshomaru and Kagura but as they began to lose contact with Miroku, Shippo visited once in a while with notes from Sesshomaru about "signs" from Inuyasha.
"So, Shippo, what news from my okd friend these days?" Miroku asked, handing the fox demon a riceball, and with much sarcasism in his voice.
Shippo took a bite out of the ricball and sighed heavily. "There was another sign from Inuyasha recently." Shippo mumbled.
"What? That makes his second sighting in the past year." Miroku said curiously.
"Well, Kirara showed up and you know that she was sent off with Inuyasha all those years ago. Anyway, she bore some kind of note that had only three words: IT IS TIME." Shippo stated.
"Kagome." Miroku said as he immediantly left the hut with the fow demon, feeling a burst of energy rush into the hut.