Kokoa was trying her best to climb that endless hill the way she was used to try. But when she was running towards the top after reaching the base of the hill, for what she thought were many meters, she saw disappointed that she was in a similar point on the hill where she was just the day before. In other words, she had not advanced much, despite all her efforts.

Ichigo was looking at her, standing a little behind. Kokoa was gasping and kneeling in front of him, but looking at the supposedly unreachable top. Her fists were clenched, and Ichigo saw that she was trembling a little, even after he lifted the pressure of his Reiatsu over her.

"Kokoa…"

Ichigo was ready for a burst of anger, disappointment, and even tears. But when Kokoa turned to face him, she was smiling brightly.

"I should have listened to you, Ichigo," she said, smiling. "You were right."

"Kokoa…"

"What's with that face? Gross…"

As a vein was popping on his head, Ichigo could felt the relief to see her fine. He had feared that she would be upset by her failure, but it looked like if she was expecting that from that night after all of what she said before. And besides, she was being as unpredictable as Inuyasha.

"Well? Should we ended it here tonight?" asked Kokoa, still gasping for air.

"I guess so," replied Ichigo, still watching for some show of inconformity on her, but nothing was shown.

So they walked down the hill towards the red light which was shining a few hundreds of meters on their way back.

"Well done," greeted Necropolis, when Kokoa and Ichigo got to his light coming out from the depths of earth.

"Yeah," said Kokoa, pressing the fabric of her pants with her hands. "I will do better in the next days."

"I am sure you will," interceded Ichigo, sure of that.

"So, little kids," said Necropolis, after an uncomfortable break. "What have you to tell me tonight?"

"Nothing, really," replied Ichigo, sitting on his rock with Kokoa. "Actually, I want you to tell us more of your stories."

"Really? I am not a taleteller, you know."

"But you lived more than us," observed Kokoa. "And you said you could hear and see many things, even being locked here."

"Quite right, but…"

"About the times when you were locked here," said Ichigo, getting more comfortable on his rock. "I was wanting you to…"

"First," interrupted Necropolis. "I've told you my story already. Now I want to know yours."

Ichigo thought that he was talking about a fast review of his and Kokoa's life.

"What? That will not be…"

"Necessary? I think otherwise, Shinigami brat. Your mere existence is some kind of unprecedented event. Isn't it?"

"Maybe the suit fits on you, Ichigo," smiled Kokoa, mockingly. She was sure as well that Ichigo was some kind of abnormality of nature, and she was willing to know more of him too.

"Shut up."

"Then? Aren't you giving me a little tale about why a Shinigami is here, of all places?"

Ichigo sighed. That was not his idea to pass that night, but it looked like he had not choice, since Kokoa was looking anxious at him as well.

"Okay…."


Inuyasha was sitting on the roof of the bus, with the wind hitting him right on his face more and more while the bus was gaining speed. It was not a bad feeling, though.

Soon he noticed that the sky disappeared, and covering it was a long and dark tunnel, the same which Ichigo and he went through the first time they arrived to the school. Many days passed since that day, and excluding certain things, nothing worth to mention happened to him yet.

"Inuyasha, you have to get in! People will notice you!"

Ruby was showing her head by one of the windows of the bus, and the wind was messing her hair. She was asking him to get inside, to where all of the team of Tsukune was sitting.

"Why would I care?"

"But we do care. Get in, please," asked Ruby, patiently.

"Damn it."

Inuyasha grabbed the cold metal of the roof, and with a movement he got inside of the bus by one of the windows, kneeling as he landed, to be welcomed by the look of the crossed legs of Kurumu in front of him.

"Wow."

"Nice, aren't they?" questioned Kurumu, full of herself, and balancing one of her legs when she guessed his surprise and maybe his amusement.

"Yeah. But if they are as strong as you proved to be, I am not sure of their effectiveness."

Inuyasha did not moved yet. He just looked at her in the eyes. Mizore was sitting next to her and she looked curious.

"What are you talking about?" asked Kurumu, confused.

"You are a weak girl. You couldn't even hold me before. Do you remember?"

Then Kurumu remembered the reason why she was biting him a while ago. He scared her that moment. A vein popped on her head and a creepy smile appeared on her face. But she remained calm.

"I am sure your legs are not as strong as that girl's." Inuyasha pointed to Moka with a gesture. "Her kicks are another thing."

"Hoh. You can recognize a prodigy when you see one," praised Moka, mockingly, from her seat in the back of the bus. "And I am not girl!"

"What are you, then?" asked Inuyasha, sitting on the corridor in the middle of the seats.

"I am Moka! You have to learn that already!"

Inuyasha laughed, and his laugh infected with smiles to everyone there.

"A weird helper you find, Ruby," observed the driver while the bus was running towards the light in the end of the tunnel. "Why are you even taking him with you?"

"It was Tsukune-san's idea," responded Ruby. "He said it would help to know Inuyasha more."

"I can't believe the almighty Inuyasha is spending his time with little kids," said the driver, driving fast on the road and turning a corner. They were heading to a populated street.

"Is just the name," said Ruby. She had heard many stories about the InuYasha before. But due to time matters, it was impossible to have that Youkai with them.

"You think so? Have you checked on that?" asked the driver.

"I think he is Inuyasha," said Mizore, now sitting a pair of seats behind the driver, and watching how Inuyasha, Kurumu and Moka were still arguing.

"What makes you think that-desuka?" asked Yukari, who was sitting with Tsukune in the same row of seats of Mizore, and like her, they were watching at Inuyasha.

"The way he talks. What he showed us until this point," replied Mizore, looking out the window, lethargically. "I don't know how, though."

"Then is not just a weird cosplayer?" asked Ruby, who until that point believed that Inuyasha was the helper of Ichigo.

"Not at all."

"We will see that." The driver was sure about the temper of Inuyasha. "He will show himself sooner or later."

"So you better call me by my name, stupid dog!" was saying Moka, closing her eyes and crossing her arms and legs.

"Yeah. Your name sounds sweeter than your attitude, anyway."

"What?"

"She is not sweet," interceded Kurumu. "Can't you see yet that she is…?"

"I am what?" smiled Moka, dangerously.

"See?" asked Kurumu, as if she proved her point.

"Maybe you are right," said Inuyasha, looking thoughtful. "You are very aggressive," he added, looking at Moka.

"Be happy I am even showing that part to you," replied Moka, prideful, after a killing glare to Kurumu.

"Where are we now?" asked Inuyasha, looking by a window outside. They were going by a concurred and illuminated street.

"We still have a long way to go," said the driver. "The Ministry of Defence headquarters are is still far from here."

"Where?"

Inuyasha approached to the driver to see ahead. Inuyasha saw the city of Tokyo in the nights many times. Some times with Kagome, and others with Ichigo and the other friends he had. That night, like all nights, Tokyo was full of people coming and going from here to there, and dressed strikingly. The smells were many, and of different kinds. It was not that bad. Inuyasha was enjoying that trip, somehow.

"What do you think?" asked Mizore, who had moved from her seat and was standing with him, looking ahead. She was holding his red tunic just in case the movement of the bus made her lose her balance.

"All of this is very flashy," said Inuyasha.

"You don't like it?"

"I don't care, actually."

Mizore chuckled.

"What?"

"How carefree can you be?"

"Leave me alone."

Moka had not moved from her seat, and like everyone, she was looking at Inuyasha. What was really thinking that mysterious Hanyou?

"You better close your mouth," said Gin, who had not said a word until that moment and pointed that fact to her.

"Shut up."


"Your life has been an adventurous one, hasn't it, Ichigo?" said Necropolis, after Ichigo ended his talking.

Kokoa was incredulous. Since the moment when Ichigo told them how he obtained his Shinigami powers with the help of his friend Rukia; how he and his friends rescued her of the Soul Society; the rapt of her other friend, and her rescue as well; the defeat of the man called Aizen and whom Ichigo was pursuing now and the loss of his Shinigami powers; how he recovered them, thanks to his friends again; and the war with the Quincies were amazing stories. Ichigo lived an amazing life, just if only the adventures were been taking into account.

And for Kokoa it was enough to admire him even more.

"For all I heard, you are like a hybrid of many kinds of souls, Ichigo," observed Necropolis. "Only the presences of your two swords can tell me about you now. Unbelievable that with all of your powers you can't catch the ones you are pursuing."

"The problem is" said Ichigo patiently, "that they are tricky, sneaky, and maybe more skilful and powerful than me."

"I doubt that," said Necropolis. "I don't need to have my age to tell that you are hiding big powers. I can tell how hard for you is to restrain them."

"Ichigo. Are you restraining yourself?"

By far, with that simple words, the moment that Ichigo was living was the most awkward of his stay there. The face of Kokoa was of pure surprise, and a hint of deception. Ichigo was feeling so bad, suddenly.

"Yeah." In the end, he decided to let it go. "It's kind of hard to restrain my Reiatsu, to not affect the people around me."

"Then, all of what you showed to me so far…"

"It was just a very little part of his powers, Kokoa," said Necropolis with a bored voice. "If he let go his full power on you to test your resistance, maybe you would end up crushed."

Maybe it was just his imagination, but Ichigo thought that the words of Necropolis were affecting bad to Kokoa.

"But I never thought you were restraining all that power," said Kokoa, sincerely.

"Sorry," apologized Ichigo, bowing his head. "I just did not wanted to hurt you. In any way."

"Don't worry, you never hurt me," said Kokoa, smiling. "It's a bit disappointing, but then, if one day I can survive to your full Reiatsu, I would be stronger than anyone!"

The drop of sweat on Ichigo's head was saying it all, and Necropolis laughed.

"Now I feel I can't live without you, Kokoa," joked Necropolis, still laughing. "Certainly you are the best."

"It's not like you met another people beside us, did you?" replied Kokoa.

Ichigo was happy. At first it looked like Kokoa was disappointed about him hiding his true powers, but it was a relief to see that she was not paying so much attention to it.

"What's with that face?" asked Kokoa again, when she noticed the face of Ichigo.

"Yup. It's nothing."

With a smile he looked at the sky and the stars. He was feeling so alive then.


"Here we are," announced Ruby, standing next to the driver. "The headquarters of the ministry of defence."

To get to that point of the big city, among all of its districts, it took to them many time even on a Youkai bus. But at last they reached their destination, or so it looked.

"Aren't we somewhere in Shinjuku?" asked Kurumu, looking out the window.

They were running by a street with long buildings on the right side, and a wall covered with plants on the left. When they reached a fork where were the traffic lights, the bus stopped, letting them see on the left side, were Ruby was pointing.

There was an entrance, big and with a roof. Passing some kind of reception, full of guards dressed in white and blue, behind it were four different shaped buildings, but painted the same way. That was noticeable by the many lights coming from outside. The buildings had many of their windows illuminated. Between the buildings and the entrance was a huge courtyard and the gardens.

"What are you waiting for?" asked Ruby, suddenly impatient. "Why aren't you getting out?"

"Are we getting out of the bus?" asked Fanfan.

"Of course," replied the driver, apologizing with gestures to the humans in their vehicles behind the bus, and who were honking at them. "I can't get inside."

"We would got here faster on foot," said Inuyasha, walking lazily to the door of the bus. He went out and with his arms behind his head he headed towards the entrance of the ministry.

"Someone stop that idiot!" begged Ruby.

"Hey, wait!" said Kurumu, getting out of the bus by a window and almost flying behind him.

"What?"

"You just can't get in like that?" explained Kurumu, seeing that the guards were suddenly nervous, after seeing her literally flying and the weird boy walking towards them.

"Why not?"

"You just can't!"

"That man has not common sense," said Moka, getting off the bus, followed by her friends.

"I will park somewhere near," said the driver, after they all were down.

"We will search for you," replied Ruby, bowing and walking with Tsukune and the others to where Inuyasha and Kurumu were still arguing.

"What are your business here?" asked a guard, while the bus was moving again on the street, and the people on other cars were watching at them.

"We came to see the minister," said Ruby, walking ahead, after noticing that Inuyasha had not liked the guard's tone.

"You? All of you?" asked another guard, getting close to them, while his comrades were all seeing to them.

"Yeah. That's what she said. Can't you hear or what?"

"Watch your mouth, young boy!" yelled another, more old but more experienced, or so it looked. He was annoyed by the arrogance of Inuyasha. ""What is with that appearance of you? That's a real sword?"

Moka and none of her friends could blame the guard and his noticing about Inuyasha's clothes and appearance.

"What's wrong with them?" asked Inuyasha, clueless, extending his arms and seeing himself.

"This is not a place to come and play, boy," said the man. "You all should be dressed properly."

"Besides, this is not a moment for touristic visits," added the first guard.

"We did not came here just for tourism," said Tsukune, kindly. "Nakatani-san called us."

"That's a lie," sentenced the second guard."

"Why would we lie?" asked Kurumu, crossing her arms, and calling the attention by her attributes.

"Just shut the hell up and move from our way," said Inuyasha firmly, and he pushed the old guard away.

"What do you think you are doing?" exclaimed Ruby and the guards. They stepped towards Inuyasha.

"Let them pass," said another guard, before Inuyasha could push anyone else. "Nakatani-sama wants them to get in."

"There you have it," smiled Inuyasha, mockingly.

He walked decided to the entrance and walked in proudly.

"I think I could end up liking him," said Gin, walking with the others behind Inuyasha, not bothering on the mess and the attention they called on the passengers.

"It would have been worst if we brought Ichigo-kun with us," said Tsukune, walking in as well. "He seems calmer than Inuyasha, but I bet he could be even more hot-headed."

"Hopefully he is not like Inuyasha-desu," wished Yukari, getting a bit little as she and the others walked among the soldiers. Soldiers appeared out of nowhere and, despite being just humans, they looked frightening with their guns.

Inuyasha was leading the way. He was being followed by Moka and the others closely, and they did not knew how on earth Inuyasha could know where to go, but they not dared to ask. After the entrance were the gardens, and then Inuyasha headed to the first and nearby building, entering by the door immediately.

"Well, if we would not be who we are, maybe they would tried to reduce Inuyasha," observed Kurumu, terrified by the thought.

"I can't blame them," said Mizore, talking at last. "He was so reckless, and he did not even change his clothes."

"That idiot never changes his clothes," remembered Moka, and another fact came to her mind. "By the way, Ruby. Why he and Kurosaki don't use our uniform?"

"Kurosaki-san and Inuyasha… requested me… to not wear the uniform."

"And you just let them?" asked Gin, angered, as they walked inside the building and behind Inuyasha, towards a stairs in front of them.

"What else could I did?" asked Ruby, helpless, seeing the form of Inuyasha walking to the stairs.

"Stop there."

Inuyasha heard that voice like the others, strong and loud. And the feeling of distrust was growing on his mind. He had been following the scent of that arrogant human all the way from the entrance of that place.

"But this is unexpected," said Nakatani, Minister of Defence, standing in the top of the stairs and looking down, very down, at them. "What could you be doing here, freak?"

For a moment Tsukune and his friends did not knew to whom could be he talking, until a sneer from Inuyasha told them the answer.

"Thinking seriously about making you eat your own liver."

Nakatani felt the menace, but remained there, standing against whom he knew stronger than anyone he could met.

"After doing that, you would be nothing but a destroyed mass of blood, freak. Are you sure you want to risk everything when you know you have lost already?"

"I haven't lost a thing," said Inuyasha, crossing his arms. "Nor I would after killing you, you arrogant arse."

Before things go out of control, Tsukune decided to remember those two about his and his friend's presences there. So Tsukune cleared his throat, after he felt that Moka, Kurumu and Mizore were eager to jump and kill the man talking upstairs.

"You wanted to see us, Nakatani-san?" asked Tsukune, after the attention was on him.

"You came, Aono," said Nakatani, surprising everyone there, except Inuyasha.

"We decided to attend your call as soon as possible," said Tsukune, not mentioning the respectful tone which Nakatani was using with him now.

"Good to hear," replied Nakatani, walking down the stairs and reaching the place where Inuyasha was standing. "We have a new matter, beside attacks on civilian people, destroyed buildings, old monsters, and venomous clouds on our skies."

"Cut the crap," said Inuyasha. "Tell your business already."

"Since you all came here this quickly," kept saying Nakatani, not bothering to change his attitude towards Inuyasha, very different to Tsukune. "What could you be doing here, my freaky… acquaintance?"

"We brought him with us," said Ruby, bowing a little. "He is in our academy now."

"Hoh? Now he is with you?" asked Nakatani. "For all I knew the location of that place is hidden. How the hell did you found them?"

"Who do you think I am?" replied Inuyasha. "As I said, spit your fucking reasons to call them now."

Nakatani raised a hand, and Tsukune and his friends adopted a defensive position, but Inuyasha remained calm. Just after they understood that the movement Nakatani did was to calm down his men, pointing all of their guns to Inuyasha and posted on several places of the room.

"As you can see, just a movement of my hand and you could die," alleged Nakatani. "I will repeat it. You must learn to behave."

"Keh! Just a movement of my arm, and you and all of this building can be reduced to ashes."

The coldness of his voice was scary. Even when Inuyasha had not spiritual pressure, the atmosphere there was heavy.

And to Moka and her friends it was the first time they saw how serious Inuyasha could be or pretend. What he said was a statement, as hard to believe as it sounded. It was impossible for a simple Hanyou to destroy that building with a movement of his arm. Especially a cosplayer Hanyou, with the name and the manners of the ancient Inuyasha, unless he was actually…

"I have not time to lose with you, freak," said Nakatani, turning and walking towards Tsukune. Inuyasha snorted.

"What do you need from us?" asked Tsukune, cautiously.

"The place you left, after your… battle with that giant thing… is affecting my men."

"What?" asked Tsukune, not understanding what Nakatani said.

"After that thing collapsed, the place where it landed was used as a researching site," explained Nakatani, under the incredulous gaze of Moka and the others. "We disposed many staff of our laboratories, scientists, army, and the Youkai crew you gave us, and their explanation to what is happening to my men is that they are being exposed to a certain…"

"Youki?" asked Ruby. After all she was informed about that.

"Yeah." Nakatani was bored. "My human team is not dying nor something as bad, but it's a problem, and I want you to resolve it."

"What makes you think we have to resolve that for you?" asked Moka, sharply, and gaining a smile from Inuyasha. "After you decided on your own to arrange investigations there without telling us."

"Let me think… since you and all of the weirdos behind you provoked that, I was thinking you can resolve it. I was planning to oblige you, actually."

An uncomfortable silence followed his words.

"Okay, Nakatani-san. We will go there and see what is happening," said Tsukune, resigned.

"Good. Now, if you please, I will return to my office. Unlike you I have many things to worry about."

Nakatani said that and walked up the stairs again, making sure to avoid Inuyasha and his killing glare on him, and gesturing to his men to retreat of that room.

"Piece of shit," sneered Inuyasha, walking down the stairs and approaching to Tsukune and his friends." "And? Are you going there or what?"

"We got no choice." Tsukune was helpless. But if that place was exuding that Youki he could not ignore that dangerous fact.

Meanwhile Inuyasha was walking around of that room. When he entered there the first time he did not put enough attention to what was inside. It was illuminated by a white light, it had sofas and chairs, and the walls were covered with portraits. In the middle of the room were the stairs, and many doors on the sides.

"This place creeps me out," said Inuyasha.

"What?" asked Moka, smiling mockingly. "Are you afraid of something, Inuyasha?"

Inuyasha laughed.

"Give a few seconds, and I will show you what fear is."

"Interesting…"

"Stop it," said Ruby, raising a hand. "We must go now, if you don't remember why we came here."

Moka and Inuyasha just looked another way with their eyes closed.

"Despite you are a crazy dog," said Kurumu, while they were walking out the room, towards the exit of the headquarters, "I like your humour sense."

"Humour sense?"

"Yeah! I've never seen someone who can angry Moka the way you can."

"It's an innate skill," said Mizore, pulling her lollipop out of her mouth. "You are an expert."

"I don't know if I should feel flattered or mocked," recognized Inuyasha, seeing the proud figure of Moka walking in front of him.

"Feel like an idiot," said Moka, not turning to look at them.

"See?" smiled Kurumu.

Inuyasha chuckled. Seeing the place around, he saw that they were in Tokyo. The place he and Ichigo left some days ago and he still could felt the danger on it. Like if Naraku was still hanging above them, threatening with his schemes.

And above all, in the very skies, were it should been the clouds, there was a huge cloud with a strange colour, illuminated by the lights of the big city. Inuyasha could remember that cloud painfully well, since he saw how it was created.

"Terrible, huh?" said Tsukune, noticing the stare of Inuyasha on the sky. "Many people was terribly scared about it."

"I can't blame them," replied Inuyasha. "Humans were always easy to scare."

"Don't say that," said Tsukune, kindly. "It should have been hard for them to see how the sky was covered like that, like if the end of the world itself had just arrived."

"Nah," said Inuyasha. "It's not the end of the world. All of that shit will end when the culprits are dead for good. I will make sure of that."

"Really?" interceded Moka, lowering her pace to walk with Inuyasha and Tsukune. "And what can do a Hanyou like you?"

"You would be surprised," Inuyasha just closed his eyes and put his arms behind his head. "A simple Hanyou like me can surprise in more than one way."

They were now on the entrance to the ministry. Outside the cars and the people were still coming and going in that night, still young.

"Now, where the Driver parked the bus?" wondered Ruby, looking to both sides of the street and to the street in front of them.

"He is that way," said Inuyasha, pointing to the left and ignoring the gaze of the guards and the soldiers on him, while he and the others were walking out of the entrance.

"How can you be that sure?" asked Mizore.

"I can felt the smell of that yellow car," replied Inuyasha. "Want to go after him?"

"What do you think?" replied Kurumu, impressed. "Your nose is very sharp."

"Of course, silly," said Inuyasha, proudly. "But in places full of smells like this is harder to find a thing."

It was true. Inuyasha could feel the smell of food, just crossing the street in the corner of the block of the front. The smoke of the cars, the smell of people, and the smell of his companions behind him.

"Let's find him, then," offered Ruby, walking to the left side.

"But it would have been more kind of the minister if he had lend us one of his helicopters or something," complained Fanfan, dragging his foot.

"Yeah," said Yukari, agreeing with Fanfan. "Nakatani-san had always been so mean to us-desu."

"Where did you met him, Inuyasha?" asked Kurumu, walking behind him and bowing a little to look him at his face.

"He visited the house of the Nura Clan," explained Inuyasha. "Some days ago he went there since he found out about me and Ichigo."

"You were in the House of the Nura Clan?" asked Moka, surprised.

"Yeah. Do you know them?"

"Of course!" replied Moka, as a matter of fact. "Nurarihyon-san is a good friend of my father."

"Of Issa-san?" asked Tsukune, when the topic brought his new mentor matter into it.

"Yes. I've met Nura-san when I was little," explained Moka, while they were turning a corner into another street. "He was an old and short man, but he was so funny. How is he doing?"

Moka asked that to Inuyasha, who was still walking with his eyes closed.

"He is doing fine," was the answer of Inuyasha. "After all, her beloved wife is with him again."

They all, except Tsukune and Inuyasha, stopped after hearing those words.

"What?"

"Do you mean… Youhime?"

"It must be another wife or something."

"Nope," said Inuyasha, many steps ahead of them. Tsukune was looking at his friends, confused by their reaction. "His long time dead wife, returned with him."

"How is that even possible?" asked Moka, amazed.

"What do you think?" interceded Gin, taking some of his hair out of his face. "It's false of course."

"What is it, Inuyasha?" asked Mizore. "It's true that Youhime is alive?"

Inuyasha stopped and turned, and all saw the seriousness on his face when he talked.

"She is alive," said Inuyasha, simply as always. "Don't ask me why nor how, I don't know."

As he turned again to keep following the scent of the bus, he thought about that. It was true. Inuyasha did not knew how that woman returned to life. Nor how Naraku used her as a bait to lure Nurarihyon into a trap to kill him. A cruel trap, as Inuyasha remembered with anger.

"How do you all know about that?" asked Inuyasha, noticing that fact at last.

"They are so well-known people in the Youkai world," explained Ruby. "It's of common sense to know about them."

"Really?" asked Tsukune. "I did not know a thing about that Nurarihyon-san."

"That's obvious, since you were raised in the human world," said Gin. "You never heard anything about them. All of what you must heard of them were legends, right?"

"Kind of," replied Tsukune, agreeing with Gin.

"Until where did went the driver?" asked Kurumu, feeling bored of walking that much.

"Almost there," said Inuyasha, and then he smiled. "What? Want me to carry you there?"

Kurumu stopped and looked at his mocking face. He stopped as well.

"Yeah, why not?"

"No need to do that," interceded Moka, walking in the middle of Kurumu and Inuyasha. "The bus is right there."

She was pointing to the other side of the street, where they all could see the yellow bus.

"Did you wait so much?" asked Ruby, when the driver opened the door of the bus and she and the others went inside.

"Nah. It's my job, after all."

The driver was looking at Inuyasha while he was getting inside like the others.

"What?"

"I was worried about how would you react with the minister's temper," said the driver. "But it seems like you didn't murdered him."

"He was asking for that," said Inuyasha. "But taking away the fact that he is a little bastard, he really cares about his land."

"I'm glad you can see that, Inuyasha," said Tsukune, smiling and sitting on the first seat of the bus with Gin.

"Keh!"

"You have to restrain more your attitude-desu, Inuyasha," said Yukari, sitting behind the driver.

"You think so?" asked Inuyasha, playfully.

"Seems like he is in a very good mood now," observed Mizore, sitting with Kurumu on the seats of behind, with Moka sitting a little behind of them.

"Good thing we brought him with us," said Kurumu. "Don't you think, Moka?"

"I really don't care."

"Anything you say."

The bus started to move towards their next destination that night. Inuyasha was looking out the window as the bus was moving by the street, full of cars and illuminated by those poles of light.

"Where are we going now?" asked he, without taking his gaze from the window.

"I would like to know that too," said the driver.

"We are going to the place where Alucard fell, that time," said Tsukune, distractedly.

"No kidding."

On his mind he only had Naraku and what could be he scheming. Several days passed since the last time Inuyasha knew something about Naraku, and now that cloud of weird colour on the skies of Tokyo reminded him about that fact.

But for this time, he just let the things went by as they came, and travel with those kids was not bad. Not bad at all.