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Disclaimer: Don't own Inuyasha. Period. Case Closed.


So… Inuyasha and company are just wandering. Inuyasha preferred to say that they were hot on Naraku's trail but they all knew that they were closer to finding a bubbly toxic hot spring than finding Naraku. Dusk was settling in and the mosquitoes were starting to come out. Kagome was sore all over and very tired.

"Inuyasha! There's a village up ahead! Let's rest there tonight!" Kagome yelled to Inuyasha who had turned to Kagome with that 'whatever it is I've already decided no.'

"We just rested at a village 10 days ago!" Inuyasha protested. Everyone just looked at him like he was completely crazy.

"Well we're resting at that village whether you like it or not. If you really hate it so much, go somewhere else." Kagome huffed. God, he is such a pain at times…

"How're you going to get them to let you stay? It's such a small village." Inuyasha said in his best reasoning voice which is as good as his charming voice is. Sango was the one to speak this time.

"You're forgetting that we have the world's best scammer with us." Sango glanced over at Miroku who had that 'you can't be talking about me... I'm just an innocent honest-to-goodness monk" look. And so it was decided that they would go try to stay at the village that night. It was a good decision because it was March and it would be cool during the night.

-when they got to the village-

It turns out that they were lucky because that night was the night the villagers were kind to everyone and tried to be perfect. The group were settled in a hut with the elder of the village.

"Why is it that everyone here seems to be especially kind to each other but yet they also seem so edgy?" Shippo asked with curiosity. In every village there were always people who didn't like another. The elder hesitated.

"You see, today is an anniversary of the village. Many years ago, when I was still young,"

"Well that's gotta be a long time ago…" Inuyasha snickered. He was being sour about resting at the village. Kagome just threw a glare at him and urged the elder to continue.

"Right…uh…Where was I? Yes. There was an incident in the village." The elder continued. He still seemed hesitant whether or not to tell a group of strangers about their village secret. Yet he seemed propelled to tell this group of youngsters who seemed so intrigued. Well except for that half-demon who seemed to only be half-listening.

"That morning, a couple died. They just suddenly fell ill and died. That night, their child disappeared. Their child had looked nothing like the couple or like any of their relatives. The child also had changing hair and eye colours. She was different from anything anyone had ever seen. Anyway, the hut where she had lived in looked like no one had ever been in there. There was only an eerie presence and a gemstone. It looked very exotic and expensive. It was to be buried with the couple. But nobody could touch the thing without being paralyzed for a couple hours. The bodies also looked like the illness it had borne was not of this world. For safety, the bodies were cremated. Everyone was afraid that the village would be plagued by evil spirits and disease so every year,"

"You would be especially nice and hoped that the heavens or something would protect you." Inuyasha broke in. The elder nodded. Miroku saw this as a chance to earn money.

"Would you allow me the honour of purifying this village?" Inuyasha shot a death glare at Miroku. However, Ame spoke for the first time that evening.

"Could I see the hut?" Everyone turned and stared at her. Miroku spoke up.

"Yes, and purify it?" The elder paused…well, more like sat there and thought for a really long time.

"That would be a blessing for this village." He finally said. "And we would of course pay you and you can rest here for the night." Miroku broke into his mental happy dance reserved for victorious scamming. Sango got up and started heading for the door.

"And by any chance do you have any young ladies in this village that would be willing to serve us?" Miroku whispered (which by the way, he sucks at). If you were looking, you could see Sango's whole body tense up very quickly. Miroku went very silent as he realized that Sango had not left. (ha ha, idiot)

WHAM!!!

"I'm so sorry Miroku! My hand just 'slipped'." Sango said, pulling out her Hiraikotsu from Miroku's head. Miroku was on the ground with spirals for eyes.

"If you want, I could show you the hut now…" The elder said while staring at the group, Miroku and Sango standing at the door. He really doubted their abilities…


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