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Song featured: Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite from Across the Universe

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Onward march!

Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kai

When Inuyasha and Kagome returned through the well Kagome was already feeling much better.

"Ahhh! It feels so good to be able to breathe normally again!" Kagome exclaimed and danced around the clearing.

"ACHOO!" Inuyasha sneezed again. "I don't get it how come you're feeling better and I'm still miserable?"

"Hmm…not sure…come on let's go, the others are waiting." Kagome ran ahead happily basking in the beautiful weather as a healthy girl.

Inuyasha grimaced and sneezed as he followed Kagome.

The two of them returned to Kaede's hut to find their friends already there and eating snacks. They smiled when they entered.

"Hey Kagome!" Miroku said with a stuffed mouth.

"Feeling any better?" Sango asked with concern.

"I am…Inuyasha on the other hand, well look at him…" Kagome pointed to poor, sick Inuyasha

Inuyasha did look very sick. Actually he looked quite pathetic. His normally lively golden eyes were droopy and red. His face was work and his nose was pink. Ever other minute the poor half-demon sneezed or coughed.

"Wow…Inuyasha, you look awful!" Shippou exclaimed going face to face with him.

Inuyasha hit Shippou and sniffled.

"Owi!! Kagome Inuyasha hit me!" Shippou pouted.

"Oh come on Shippou…don't be such a…" He paused to sneeze. "Don't be such a baby…"

"Inuyasha! He's just a kid!" Kagome picked Shippou up.

"So what? The little brat needs to grow up." He crossed his arms defiantly.

Of course that didn't make Kagome any calmer.

"Inuyasha! SIT!" She shrieked.

"Ah!" He yelled as he fell.

He got up a minute later. "Kagome! What the hell is the matter with you! Dammit! Why I oughtta…ah…ah…ah…ACHOO!"

Kagome giggled. "Oh Inuyasha…"

"Don't 'oh Inuyasha' me! This isn't funny dammit! I'm miserable!"

Kagome ignored him and continued to chuckle.

"Stop laughing at my pain…" He cried out.

"Says the guy who gets fatally injured almost daily." Kagome muttered.

Inuyasha growled.

"How come Inuyasha didn't get any medicine for his illness?" Miroku asked.

"He did…it just didn't work." Kagome shrugged. "I don't know why, we took the same medicine at the same time. It makes no sense."

"Of course it does…Inuyasha is a half demon." Shippou piped up.

"Huh?" The group snapped their heads in Shippou's direction.

The little demon sighed and took out his paper and crayons. Right away he started doodling an explanation. Meanwhile the group crowded around him.

After a few minutes Shippou produced a series of cute little pictures.

"Inuyasha is a half demon see!" Shippou showed them a colorful drawing depicting a goofy, cartoonish version of Inuyasha.

"That looks nothing like me!" Inuyasha cried.

Shippou ignored him and continued.

"Kagome's medicine is meant for humans, not half-demons." He showed of picture of Inuyasha and Kagome drinking a spoonful of medicine.

"So the medicine may work wonders for Kagome." He showed a picture of a smiling, happy Kagome. "But will hardly affect a half-demon like Inuyasha." He showed the picture of Inuyasha again, but added more sickly features to it.

"SO CUTE!" Kagome squealed.

"Wow Shippou…you have very marketable skills." Miroku admired the drawings.

"Thanks guys!" Shippou grinned from ear to ear.

"So that means I should take extra medicine?" He took out the bottle of medicine and eyed it.

"No way! If too much of that stuff is taken it could be dangerous!" Kagome pulled away the bottle from Inuyasha.

"Oh come on Kagome…you heard Shippou! I can handle it!"

"I'm not going to rule out scientific fact over Shippou's cute little drawings!" Kagome crossed her arms. She knew Inuyasha was stubborn, but so was she…she wouldn't let him take too much medicine.

"Hmph! Fine…let me suffer!" Inuyasha crossed his arms and turned away from Kagome.

"Fine!"

"ACHOO!" Inuyasha sneezed again. "Damn you Kagome!"

Later that afternoon Kagome and Sango decided to go for a swim and Miroku and Shippou decided to take an afternoon nap.

Inuyasha decided it was the perfect chance to sneak a little medicine for himself.

He saw Kagome's bag in the hut and saw Miroku and Shippou napping right next to it.

Inuyasha would have to be quiet.

Tiptoeing into the room felt the incredible urge to sneeze again. It was unbearable, difficult! Unable to bring on the sweet relief of a sneeze Inuyasha held his nose as tightly as possible.

He quickly rummaged through Kagome's large, yellow bag and found an extra large bottle of medicine.

I wonder how much I'm supposed to take…

Not really knowing Inuyasha decided to hell with it and swallowed the whole bottle down. After drinking it he gagged as he had done before.

"I wish I had a spoonful of sugar." He said quietly to himself, then ran back outside when the two 'watchmen' started to stir.

"Well I'm done, I'm gonna head back. You coming?" Sango got up.

"No you go ahead with out me." Kagome looked up into the sky in deep thought.

Sango emerged from the river and began dressing.

"Kagome you should get out too…if you stay in there any longer your skin will get all wrinkly."

"I know…I just want to stay a little longer. K?"

"Ok…I'll let the others know…just don't be too long ok."

"I'll be fine Sango."

"I know, but just in case."

"Ok…bye Sango!"

"Bye!" Sango walked off.

Kagome sighed and splashed around a bit more.

"Hey Kagome!" Two voices called together.

Kagome turned around and saw Atsuo and Mizuko.

"Oh hey guys." She smiled. "What's going on? Any updates?"

"Not really…we decided to go back into the sea after sunset." Atsuo said.

"Yeah…we wanted to stick around a bit…I love the breeze up on the surface."

"Ok…"

"So I see you like to swim Kagome." Mizuko observed.

"Oh yeah! It's so much fun…"

"Ever wonder what it would be like to swim…like a fish?" The mermaid grinned.

"What are you getting at?"

"I can give you one of these." She patted her tail. "For a limited time of course."

"Hmm…I don't know…I should be getting back."

"Come on, there's an hour until sunset…it'll be fun!"

Kagome sighed. It would be an interesting experience.

"I know you want to." Mizuko sang.

"Ok!" Kagome smiled wide. "Make me a mermaid!"

Mizuko clapped her hands excitedly. "Yay!"

Meanwhile Inuyasha had decided Kagome was right about the medicine. Inuyasha felt woozy and intoxicated. He started seeing things!

As he walked through the forest he passed what looked to be a traveling circus.

Suddenly a wildly dressed human-like demon, with a very pale face, dark red hair and a scraggily matching beard jumped out at him.

"Well hello there child! I am Mr. Kai!" He said in a strange accent.

"Child? I'm a man you idiot!"

The bizarre man laughed. "A MAN CHILD! HAHAHA!"

Inuyasha gave the man a baffled look, then rolled his eyes.

"Whatever old man, move out of the way." Inuyasha tried to push him out of the way, but fell over himself.

Man…I feel so drunk and woozy. It's like I have no control of my body!! Damn Kagome was right!

Inuyasha looked up at the man and his equally outlandish troupe of colorful demons in a complete daze. Then once again out of nowhere music started to play.

It was definitely the strangest music Inuyasha ever heard. As the music played on swirls of light surrounded the confused half-demon.

Then the very strange Mr. Kai began to sing.

"For the benefit of Mr. Kite
There will be a show tonight on trampoline."

A few of the demons starting jumping up and down on what Inuyasha guessed was the trampoline.


"The Hamada's will all be there
Late of that other strange demon Fair - what a scene."

Inuyasha watched as a wildly decorated tent appeared out of nowhere. Mr. Kai grinned as he opened the tent and even more colorful and outlandish demons filed out.


"Over men and horses hoops and garters
Lastly through a hogshead of real fire!"

A demon jumped through a hoop of fire. The demons backside lit up in flames, Inuyasha was just about ready to go and help when another demon splashed a bucket of water him.

Inuyasha sighed in relief and looked back at Mr. Kai who carried on with the song.

"In this way Mr. K. Will challenge the world!
With the blue people! They're great! They're just... chilled out!"

Very tall, blue demons emerged from behind Mr. Kai. Inuyasha observed these 'blue people'. They did have a certain calm demeanor and danced with grace. Inuyasha felt 'chilled out' just by watching them.

"Performs his feat on Saturday and Bishopsgate"

When's Saturday? Where's Bishopsgate? Inuyasha thought to himself. He hated it when he didn't know what the hell was going on.

"The Hamadas will dance and sing
As Mr. Kai flies through the ring don't be late
Messrs. K. And H. Assure the public"

Mr. Kai and a small crowd of orange and blue demons who Inuyasha guessed to be the Hamada's danced around the sickly half-demon.

"Their production will be second to none baby!
And of course Hiroki the Horse dances the waltz!"

"Hiroki, but that's a girl…" Inuyasha looked at a demon that had the upper body of a beautiful woman, but the lower body of a horse.

Inuyasha pondered this as Mr. Kai started speaking about Hiroki.

"Oh you gotta see it, it's genius! I mean she's ready, she's got the stuff and movement and waltz. Horses how do they do that stuff? You gotta give her sugar, you know, and shes called Hiroki and it's a lot of explanation but don't worry about it kid. Ok? Just tune in, turn off, drop out, drop in, switch off, switch on, and explode."

Mr. Kai make an outward hand gesture toward the sky and grinned.

Suddenly an explosion of lights and fireworks appeared in the sky. Inuyasha looked up, wide-eyed with wonder.

"The band begins at ten to six
When Mr. K. Performs his tricks without a sound"

The music stopped for a moment. Then started played again slowly, building up.

"And Mr. H. will demonstrate
Ten somersets he'll undertake on solid ground. Whatever they are!"

Inuyasha watched as another demon, probably 'Mr. H' did ten somersaults. That guy isn't kidding!

"Having been some days in preparation
a splendid time is guaranteed for all
and tonight Mr. Kite is topping the bill baby! Across the universe!"

Mr. Kai and the other demons then climbed onto a green and purple dragon demon. Once they were all n the dragon Mr. Kai and his strange circus troupe lifted off into the air and began to fly away. Inuyasha ran trying to follow them and wound up by the river.

"It's me! I'm on top of the bill! I spent years getting to this point!

I'm bloody brilliant. This is golden, you gotta see what I do man.

I got horses, and dogs, and cats, and monekys, and blue people.

Its just , its such a collection.

I spent years putting it together.

You gotta watch it.

You gotta see it. It's me.

In the thing!"

Inuyasha blinked.

"Yeah!"

The bizarre group soon flew out of sight and the music began to fade as well. Inuyasha didn't really understand what had just happened, but it definitely entertained him for a while.

"I forgot how sick I was…this medicine really is working! Finally!" He breathed in and out with no issues of sneezing and sighed with relief.

Then he passed out by the riverbank.

Haha…Inuyasha got high!

I know this was kind of different from the movie version, but that's so hard to explain in word form…man was that scene trippy! I love Across the Universe!

I hope you enjoyed! Please review!