"You know your in love, when your heart is making more sense then your head is." -unknown
Chapter 4
They stared at the mountain range before them.
With steep towers that lead to vastly rugged peaks, the group seemed very small in comparison.
High, grey mountains that stretched as far as the eye could see.
At the foot of one of the mountains stood a small group of odd-looking people.
'I've read about these mountains.' Kagome said.
Everyone turned and looked at her, waiting.
'According to my geography books, these mountains are very dangerous to set foot on and even harder to cross it.'
The group took a few apprehensive, cautious steps forward, only to have one of them vanish with a whump and a puff dirt.
'Miroku!' Sango exclaimed.
'I'm okay!' came the reply from a small hole about a meter wide.
Once the dust had settled, Everyone could see the monk's staff laying across the hole, and the monk himself clinging to it.
InuYasha helped him out, and then peered down into the little hole.
'That is why it's hard.' Kagome said.
InuYasha kicked a pebble into the hole, waiting for it to hit the bottom.
'This place is riddled with them.'
There was a long pause, and the final clatter of the rock hitting the bottom.
'It sounds very deep.' Shippo said.
'Well we'd better start searching.' InuYasha said.
'Should we split up?' Miroku asked. 'We would cover more ground that way.'
'Yes,' Kagome agreed.
'We'll meet back here at sundown.' InuYasha stated.
'Right.' Sango said. 'Come on Kirara.'
Kirara mewed, jumping up onto her shoulder.
The group split up, all being cautious of where they stepped.
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'So,' InuYasha started, growing uncomfortable at the silence. 'You never did say why your test was cancelled.'
'Oh, that.' Kagome said, stepping over a large boulder. 'Well the teacher we had wasn't there, and apparently her hadn't been there for a while, so it was cancelled.' She shrugged.
'Do you like doing these tests?'
'No, but I have to, so that I can pass school.'
'Why do you have to? I don't really see the point.'
'Well,' Kagome said, searching for a comparison. 'I guess it's sort of like becoming a priestess.'
'A priestess?'
'Or a monk or whatever. I mean if you want to be a priest, then you can't just go around saying that your a priest. Does it?'
'No...'
Kagome shook her head. 'You would have to do lots of training, and study hard so that one day you would become one.'
'But you never did any training.' Shippo stated.
'I guess.' Kagome replied.
Shippo jumped down off her shoulder and walked.
'Boy, life in your world must be hard.' he stated.
'Well it certainly is easier here. Simpler.' Kagome replied.
InuYasha stepped around a large rock, careful to keep Kagome in sight.
They soon came to a very narrow section between two sheer cliffs.
Kagome got to it first, and as she stepped through the crevice, the ground crumbled.
InuYasha, a second too late, clutched at empty air.
Kagome shrieked as she fell, clawing at the walls.
Without a second thought, InuYasha jumped, not realizing the consequences until it was too late.
He quickly caught up with her, her desperate grips slowing her down.
He grabbed at her, making a cushion of protection as they fell.
after a long moment of the wind whistling past them, they hit the ground.
'Are you alright?' InuYasha asked.
'Yes,' Kagome replied, flushing at the way he held her. 'Are you?'
'Sure.'
They both looked up at the small disc of blue far above them.
'That's a long way up.' he stated.
'Or rather, we are a long way down.' Kagome replied.
InuYasha put her down, but there wasn't enough room to shift around after that.
The hole was so confiding that the two's chests touched.
InuYasha flushed at that.
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Shippo had watched the whole spectical from behind, he watched them fall.
He turned and beat a hand to his chest.
'I've got to keep it together!' He stated.
And he proceeded to go and find the others.
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Sango flushed angrily.
'You perverted monk!'
'My dearest Sango, how you wrongly judge my intentions!'
Miroku was replied with a defiant slap.
He stepped forward, forcing Sango back.
The ground crumbled beneath her feet, and it was Miroku's swift actions that caught her just in time.
'Watch where you step, Sango.' Miroku said, pulling her by the arm to safer ground.
'Thanks.'
There was a small cry in the distance.
'Did you hear that?'
'Yeah.'
The two spun in the source of the noise, anticipating an attack.
Another sound was heard, this time closer and more distinguishable.
'Help!'
Wordlessly, the two followed the noise to discover a low-class demon attacking a woman.
'Hirikotsu!' Sango shouted, swinging the massive weapon and letting it fly, which cut the large demon cleanly in half.
The girl stared at the dead demon, and the Hirikotsu as it curved gracefully around and was caught again by its owner.
She ran up to her.
'Thank you for saving me!' She said, clasping Sango's hands.
'Well, I, it was nothing.' Sango replied.
'How could I ever repay you?'
'Well,' Miroku started, but he caught the glare Sango sent him and changed course. 'We are searching for a demon or a demonic aura that may have passed over this region. Have you seen anything?' Miroku asked.
'Well, there was a demonic aura, a very large one, that flew over in,' she looked around, appearing to orientate herself using the surrounding mountains, 'that direction.' she finished, pointing in the direction she came from.
'Be careful.' The gril stated, and turned to continue her journey. 'And thank you for saving me!' She added over her shoulder.
'Do you think that demonic aura was Naraku?' Sango asked.
'I think so.' Miroku glanced at the positioning of the sun. 'But I think it's time we started off back.'
Something caught Sango's eye in the blue, cloudless sky.
'Look out!' She said, throwing her Hiraikotsu.
It curved up and around, missing the unknown creature by a hairsbreadth.
The creature flew down next to the massive weapon, which when nearing the ground, transformed into a familiar figure.
'Shippo!' Mroku exclaimed.
'You guys! Its an emergency! its real bad!' Shippo said.
'What's happened? Didn't you go with InuYasha and Kagome?'
'It's them! They're-'
'Slow down, Shippo.' Miroku said. 'And tell us from the begining.'
'Well, Kagome fell down one of those hole things and InuYasha didn't reach her in time, and him being InuYasha, he jumped down after her!'
'What?'
'Thats what I said!'
'Well I suppose that means that we have to go and find them.'
