Alright! Catch up chapter! Woot! Ok, fine not for me. But it'll be fun for you readers. Theres more stupidity then chapter summary in this chapter.

There is actually an advancement in the story plot (there was a plot?) this chapter. I can't say much cause that will ruin it, so I'll say more at the below A/N.

Chapter nine:

"Alright... so let me get this straight... This person named Your a... fat ass..."

"Wha? NO, you dumbass. It's Urasue. Your- A- Sue- A... Alright? URASUE! Where the hell did you get 'your a fat ass'?"

Miroku shrugged. "So, anyway, This Your-a fat load..."

"URASUE dammit! What's with you and these fat jokes? I should take offense to that!"

Miroku rolled his eyes. "Anyway, This Ura..."

"You do that again, and I'm gonna pop your head off." Inuyasha threatened, his fist in front of him in striking pose.

"Alright, alright! So this Are you sure..."

"Urasue!"

"WHATEVER! Urasue took Kikyo's shards-"

Inuyasha jerked as if he was prodded with a really sharp stick. "Ashes! I would have so been pissed if she had any shards..."

"Of course you would. So then she took the ashes and turned them into a puppet so she could COLLECT the shards."

"Right..."

"But she couldn't get the soul of Kikyo because Kagome was the reincarnation of Kikyo and had the soul of Kikyo-"

"Yeah..."

"So she kidnapped Kagome so she could get her hands on her soul. And she was successful, and you were an idiot and had to help the operation..."

Inuyasha winced. "You could say that."

"And then when Kikyo was on the verge of killing you, Kagome started to call back her soul, she ran away, you chased her, now that you tell me this, I don't know why. But then she tries to kill you again then falls to her "death" in a deep ditch."

"Pretty much."

"Why?"

"Why what?"

"Why would you go back to a girl who continues to hurt you?"

"Doesn't that sound familiar?"

"What do you mean?"

"Uhhh... I dunno, maybe Sango?"

"Ah, I know she doesn't mean it." Miroku said happily, waving it away. Now it was Inuyasha's turn to roll his eyes.

Miroku grinned and picked up the diary again, and flipped to the dog-eared (no pun intended)page he had bookmarked.

Inuyasha says that Kikyo had betrayed him, where as Kikyo claims it was the other way around. How can two versions of the same story be so different?

"Naraku!" Inuyasha declares punching his leg, glaring at the ground with obvious fury.

"Yes. You've explained that. MANY times." Miroku replied.

So anyway, later on today, we found a hot-spring, which was totally awesome seeing as I haven't been home in days. I undress and go in. It felt so good.

Miroku leans to the side as if remembering. Inuyasha gives him a suspicious look. "Wait, where you there?"

"Eh... what makes you say that?" Miroku leans further to the side, trying to get away from Inuyasha if he happened to get smart.

"I vaguely remember an unfamiliar scent that is now very familiar."

"Ah, but... I go to hot-springs all the time! Yeah. How do you know that wasn't my scent from earlier?"

Inuyasha narrowed his eyes at him, still suspicious. Miroku coughed uncomfortably.

I told Inuyasha not to peek, and he said not to flatter myself, and that he had no interest in looking.

"How could you say that? Even if you had no interest in Kagome's beauty, you could have at least taken the jewel that was hanging around her neck."

"Of course I had no interest in her. Besides, if I had even entered to try and steal... the... wait- WAIT! How did you know that she had a big ass jewel shard?"

Miroku stopped. "Oops."

"Oops?" Inuyasha repeated. "Oops? You WERE frickin there! And you were SPYING ON KAGOME!"

"You make it seem worse then it really is..."

"So you WERE there!"

Miroku flinched. "Damn..."

"You WERE spying on Kagome! Dammit, don't you ever learn!"

"Uhhh... well... You like her!" Miroku tried to change the subject.

"No, I don't! YOU like Sango!"

"Yep! She is the beauty among beauties." Miroku chided.

Inuyasha growled. How do you embarrass a guy with relationship problems if it doesn't bug him? Inuyasha perked up. "Well... she doesn't like you back!"

"Well, she'll come around." Miroku shrugged. Inuyasha growled again. There had to be something. So Inuyasha went with backup; say something totally random and untrue. ( ; )

"There's... there's... You have a GAP between your teeth."

"Huh?" Miroku was caught off-guard with a hand clamped over his mouth.

"How do you like THEM apples?" Inuyasha laughed triumphantly.

"Yeah, well..." Time for a bit of his own medicine... I guess. "You..." He looked around for an idea. "Go around barefoot all the time!"

Inuyasha growled. "Yeah? Well, Your hair is all ugly! Ugly and in a crappy ponytail!"

Miroku said the first thing that came to mind, "Well, YOU haven't brushed your hair in years! Its uglier then the ugliest ogre's hair."

"Ogre's don't even have hair!"

A couple minutes and lame insults later... they were back to reading the book. They had gone so random, it turned to something they chose to forget and never mention again.

While I was relaxing, I was thinking about Inuyasha and Kikyo. True, I am not the beauty that Kikyo was, but, he didn't have to be that mean about it. There was something behind me and I scream as a reaction. Inuyasha comes running and sees me naked. So I bonk him on the head with a rock. I was just fine. It was only monkeys.

Miroku and Inuyasha were in such an awkward position because of what had happened five minutes ago that Miroku didn't even laugh at this. And even if he did, Inuyasha was in such a state of shock that he probably would have only blushed a little.

The next day, I tell him that it was a pretty fair trade. He saw me naked and I bonk him on the head. Nothing more even then that. He said that he saw nothing. I ask Shippo for a witness, and Shippo said that he had his eyes closed and didn't see anything.

That brought Inuyasha out of shock. "What! The little... last night he stripped down and wanted to go in with her! In fact, he even asked why me and Kagome don't bathe together! And he acts like he's all innocent..." Inuyasha ranted.

"Ah yes, innocence. Nothing more pure then innocent questions..." Miroku preached.

"I wonder if you've ever been innocent, you perv." Inuyasha asked dryly.

"Actually, yes, yes I have. When I was a lad, my mom would take me to bathe in hot-springs, only she brought me into the female section for I could not bathe myself, and she would not go into the male part." Inuyasha looked at him sceptically.

"Now I see where they went wrong." Inuyasha commented.

All of a sudden, a large boulder... demon, thing comes down on us and attacked Inuyasha, knocking him over the cliff.

"Ah, Hachi." Miroku commented.

"So YOU sent that thing? God, that thing could have killed me!"

"Well... that was kind of the point at the time."

"Why you..."

Then this guy came from behind and kidnapped me on my bike. He told me not to worry, for he was only a simple monk and he was getting the jewel shards. So, I was like some sort of consolation prize! I hate people who have no respect for the female gender.

Miroku gave a puppy-dog look seeking forgiveness and Inuyasha rolled his eyes.

"She ain't here dumbass. If she was, we wouldn't be alive." Inuyasha said dryly.

"Well, actually, I was seeking forgiveness from you." Miroku said.

"Alllright. Why?"

"Now that I think about it, I don't know why." Miroku scratched his head. Inuyasha rolled his eyes AGAIN for the thirtieth time today.

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Out in the distance, out far enough so that even Inuyasha couldn't hear it, there was a stable. Horses were grazing outside it. There was a something that shrieked from inside. It was high-pitched and didn't sound like any normal bark. The horses outside raised their heads, startled.

The stable started to brim with evil aura. The horses could sense it, and they were frightened. There was another high-pitched screech and this one was followed by a deep crash that could have broken the stable, but it didn't. It held. But there was a flush of cold air that covered the air surrounding it, and the herd around it shuddered in the sudden cold. One stallion bucked and high-tailed it out of there. The others followed his example, creating a stampede.

Alright, someone guess what's going on. If you have been paying attention to the finer details, you should know... but eh. Anyways, I know this chapter is kinda short. But someone brought it to my attention that Kagome's tales were really confusing, so I thought I'd do a catch up chapter. This one sucked for me cause I normally wanna get through at least three episodes each one, but I didn't even get through one! Gawd!

Nonetheless I'm ahead with episodes I suppose.

As always, please read and review, but please be gentle, I have a small ego.

Alena Rio.