After a while, InuYasha, Kagome and the others returned to the shrine for Sango and Miroku to change back into their feudal era garb. Shippo simply removed the backpack he had. Kagome got out and opened the trunk of the car. She then joined Sango in food gathering. InuYasha gets with Miroku to fetch sunscreen. However, InuYasha asks him "what the heck is the matter with you?" smacking Miroku in the back of the head while doing so. As Kagome rolled her eyes from one floor below them, Miroku asks "what?" InuYasha said "you know." Then, mimicking the monk, InuYasha said "I have a request for you." Miroku said "I was being honest." InuYasha barked back "this is not the era to do that in! You don't go around and ask other ladies if they'd like to bear a child for you!" Miroku said "I can't help it. I go after a lot of--." "SIT, MONK!" Kagome yelled from down below. After slamming face-first into the floor, Miroku yelled "would you knock off those sit commands, Kagome."


Later on, Kagome and Sango headed back out to the car with the supplies, only to stop in their tracks when they saw Shippo on the roof of the car. He was holding what appeared to be pieces of cardboard with aluminum foil on one side, reflecting sunlight up onto him. Sango didn't think much of it, but Kagome held back the demon slayer. "Shippo, what are you doing up there?" Shippo replied "just taking it easy." Sango asked "that's how you take it easy in your time, Kagome?" Kagome replied "yeah, but not everyone does it like that." "How would you relax, Kagome?" Sango asked. Just then, the conversation was interrupted by Miroku and InuYasha coming out of the house in the midst of a physical fight. InuYasha then body-slams Miroku to the ground. They're both yelling at one another. Shippo started chanting "fight, fight, fight, fight, fight…" Sango, hearing this, joined in with "fight, fight, fight, fight, fight…" Kagome, not too happy, said "InuYasha, Miroku, knock it off!" The fight still persisted, so Kagome pulled the two of them apart. As Shippo and Sango gave looks of disappointment, Kagome barked "what is the matter with you two?" InuYasha said "Kagome, this has got nothing to do with you." Miroku agreed with "yeah, it's between just us two." Kagome, giving them a dirty look, simply turned the two of them face-to-face, got the necklace on both their necks, and said "sit, guys!"

Sango and Shippo, inspired by the effects of this, started chanting "sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit…" Kagome turned to them and said "you're not exactly helping here." Sango said "sorry, Kagome." Miroku and InuYasha had both been slammed into the ground. They were moaning in pain. After getting up, both InuYasha and Miroku simultaneously said "please remove this necklace." Hearing one another, they turned to one another and simultaneously said "would you let me do the talking?" Kagome, holding a roll of duct tape, got between them and said "okay, guys. I'll do the talking, here." InuYasha and Miroku stood in a gaze of amazement. Kagome says "okay. InuYasha, tell me what this is all about." InuYasha was about to blurt out something rude, when Kagome removed the one half of the necklace from Miroku, giving InuYasha a stern look afterwards. Miroku started to laugh a little, when Kagome turned to the monk. Holding up the roll of tape, she said "ahh-ahh-ahh-bup-bup-bup-bup-bup-bup-bup-bup! I've got tape and I'm not afraid to use it." Miroku stood in silence, when InuYasha snickers. Kagome turns to InuYasha, saying "siiiii…." InuYasha instantly shut up.

Sango and Shippo, meanwhile, were in the car with the doors open. Sango held out a packet of stove-top, non-microwavable popcorn. Shippo, understanding the silent request, made a small ball of fox fire under the popcorn as Kirara played with the air freshener. They closed the car doors to keep Kagome from hearing the popping.


InuYasha said "it's Miroku's lechery. He blabbed that usual request to that friend of yours." Miroku said "I can't help that." Kagome calmly said "that's more like it. InuYasha, while I do agree with you on Miroku's behavior, I'll ask that you let me handle it. There's no need to get physical with him." Miroku said "thanks, Kagome. At least you understand." With that, his hand reached out to a certain area. InuYasha, feeling something strange on him, said "you've got one second to get your hand off of me, monk!" Miroku recoiled with a yelp as though having touched a hot pan.

In the car, Shippo said "Sango, look." Sango was drinking something when she noticed what Miroku had been doing. Instantly, a mouthful of Dr. Pepper was sprayed on the dashboard as Sango gagged on it. Sango asked "what is he thinking?" Shippo suggested "maybe he's turning gay." Sango asked "could you just pass the popcorn, please?" "Sure" Shippo replied, handing the popcorn pan to her.

Back outside, Miroku said "dude, I'm so sorry. I thought that was Kagome." InuYasha was about to retort back, when he thought of something better. He said "you don't know how long I've wanted to do this." With that, he cleared his throat and said, in near-perfect mimicry of Shippo, "Kagome, Miroku's being mean to you!" Kagome, holding back a little laughter with a lot of difficulty, turned to Miroku. "Why were you doing that, Miroku?" Miroku replied "I'm a lecher. What do you expect?" InuYasha retorted "touch me like that again, monk, and I'll shove that staff so far up your--." "Sit, boy" Kagome interrupted. InuYasha was instantly flung face-first in the ground.


Later, they were ready to get going. InuYasha asked "Shippo, Sango, you ready?" Shippo replied "we are." Kagome noticed Sango with something. "Sango, quit eating the popcorn. That's for later." Sango, through a mouthful of popcorn, said "I'm not." Kagome replied "okay, then whistle." Sango glanced away for a moment and then swallowed. "Okay, I was, but it was only one pan" she said. Kagome replied "well, that's good." Shippo then let out a huge belch. InuYasha said "man, Shippo, you want to do that again? I think there were two or three people downtown who couldn't quite hear that." Kagome, ignoring InuYasha's remark, asked "how many sodas did you have?" Shippo replied "only two; they were caffeine free." Kagome said "okay. Guys, let's head on in." She leaned on the dashboard as Miroku and InuYasha got in. When she went to turn around, she felt something sticky on the dashboard. She got in the driver's seat and asked "what's all over the dashboard?" Sango said "oh, crap." Turning to Kagome, she said "that only happened because of what Miroku did earlier." Miroku said "oh, crap, here we go." Shippo said "I thought the monk was turning--." Instantly, Sango's hand covered Shippo's mouth. As Kagome started the engine, InuYasha got hold of Shippo and removed Sango's hand from the fox demon's mouth. "Now, what was it you were going to say?" Shippo simply writes it down and has InuYasha read it. "You've got to be kidding me, Shippo" he said.


Back in the feudal era, the sun was roasting on a very hot day. Sesshomaru was sweating buckets. Rin and Jaken weren't fairing so well either. Rin then got an idea. "Lord Sesshomaru" she asked, "perhaps we could swim in that lake over there." Instantly, Sesshomaru got up. "No need to ask me twice" he said. They all darted for the pond that Rin had pointed out.

Up in a tree, Hachi was not taking the heat too well, despite the shade. "This heat is killing me" he said. He then heard a small crack a short distance behind him. The branch he was on shifted down a little bit. Hachi thought "I should stay still." A purple glow flashed in the nearby well, and suddenly, the branch gave out. Hachi fell to the ground in front of the speeding car. Kagome slammed on the brakes and managed to get the car stopped just in time. "DON'T HURT ME, DEMON!" Hachi yelled.

Opening his eyes, he saw that the car was in front of him. Kagome exits the vehicle saying "you okay, Hachi?" Hachi replied "I'm okay, Kagome. However, I have no idea what this metal demon has in mind." Kagome said "it's not a demon. What you see here is another artifact from my time; called a car." It was then, that Hachi noticed the license plate on the car, which read "KAGOME." Upon noticing that, Hachi said "oh, it's like a self-propelled cart." He then heard a small short-lived hum noise from one side. He looked and saw a glass partition lowering into an armored area on the side. The lowering panel revealed InuYasha and a rather comfy-looking interior. "Hi, Hachi" he said. Hachi went up to InuYasha and said "hi. Can I come in? It's hot out here." InuYasha said "okay" and pulled a handle. Instantly, a section of the side swung open in a way Hachi had never seen a door do before. As the half-demon stepped out, Hachi said "that's amazing." He looked in and saw a seating area in back taken up by Shippo, Sango, and Miroku. "Hi, Hachi" Miroku said, "I'll gladly step out so you can get in. Besides, I'm freezing my buns off in here." Miroku got out and Hachi dove in. "How hot could it possibly be?" Miroku asked.


After 30 seconds, Miroku said "man, Hachi, you weren't kidding: it is hot out here!" Kagome, now back in the driver's seat, looked at the panel for the climate control. The display showed the outside temperature at 108 degrees. "Holy crap" she said, "that's very hot." Shippo, having no practice in reading a digital readout, asked "that's what those numbers on that thing mean?" InuYasha said "excellent, Sherlock." Kagome said "InuYasha…" He then whimpered a little. Kagome finished with "…sit, boy." Instantly, he was flung face-first into Sango's Dr. Pepper. The sticky beverage was sent all over the car as a result. Sighing, Kagome muttered "me and my big mouth." She then jerked up. "I'm sensing another jewel shard" she said.

InuYasha asked "where at?" A dashboard light came on. The light depicted a purple car-viewed-from-above symbol and a purple arrow pointing diagonally to the right and forward. Indicating the light, Kagome said "that direction." Miroku, still outside the car, was practically drenched in sweat. "Well, we can't all fit in there" he said. Sango spoke up with "I'll fly on Kirara." Kirara had to be pried off the air freshener, but soon joined Sango outside. Before the kitty's transformation, however, Sango asked "Kagome, could you pop the trunk? I need two towels." Miroku, not knowing how this would turn out, simply laid back and dozed off. Kagome popped the trunk and asked "what do you need the towels for?" Sango replied "I'm baking out here." With that, she got the two towels and disappeared behind some foliage.

Later, she came back out from the foliage. She was holding her neatly-folded regular clothes and her shoes in her hand as she returned. Kagome looked and noticed what Sango's need for the towels meant, as Sango was now clad in nothing except those two towels; one tied up around her chest, and the other tied around her waist. Shippo looked out the window. Upon gazing out, he asked "Kagome, what's up with Sango?" Hachi, hearing this, looked. "What the heck is Sango doing?" InuYasha looked, only to slowly look away and roll his eyes. "Whatever" he said. Kagome replied "do you want the truth or something made-up?" She was answered by the sleeping monk's snoring. Kagome said "it's just hot out there, and Sango wanted to beat the heat." Shippo said "okay" and got off the window. Hachi, on the other hand, had his eyes glued. "Wow, and to think of what Miroku is missing" he said. Outside, Kirara transformed and growled a little. Kagome started the car as Sango mounted Kirara with a large leather water pouch. Kirara was then growling to mimic a revving engine. Kagome then revved the actual engine a little. Sango and InuYasha were simultaneously rolling their eyes. "COULD WE JUST GET GOING?" they both simultaneously barked. With that, the car took off like a shot. Kirara soared upwards to follow the car. After a few minutes, InuYasha asked "I wonder when Miroku is going to wake up and see Sango." Kagome replied "who knows, but he'll eventually wake up, see Sango like that, and go berserk."


Meanwhile, at the lake, Rin, Jaken, and Sesshomaru (clad only in the fluff wad wound around his waist), were having a good time. Rin then said "how about a breath-holding contest?" Jaken and Sesshomaru said "okay." With that, they all went underwater. Then, a flash of red light flew past the pond with a most unusual sound. Instantly, the three came back up. "What was that?" Sesshomaru asked. They looked and only saw a cloud from dust kicked up by the car, slowly revealing two mysterious ruts in the ground. Rin said "shall I go see what's on the ground over there?" Sesshomaru said "how do you do that? How do you know what I'm about to ask?" Rin replied "I just guess." Upon inspection, Sesshomaru asked "what's over there?" He then started teetering a little, and fell back. Rin replied "there's a pair of some strange snake demon trails." She turned to Sesshomaru, only to yelp at what she saw. "Gross, cover up" she screamed.

In the car, InuYasha had the window down and his head sticking out puppy-style. Kagome turns to see this and starts to giggle. Hearing this, he turned to her (head still outside) asking "what are you laughing at?" Kagome's response was "well, it's so cute, InuYasha." Then Inuyasha puts his head back in and said "Well Kagome it isn't cute." As he said that, Kagome puts her hand on Inuyasha's head saying "good boy." Inuyasha grabs Kagome's hand and said "STOP TREATING ME LIKE A DOG, KAGOME!" After that, InuYasha puts his head back out the window with tongue hanging out. Shippo turns to Hachi and said, while laughing, " check out what InuYasha is doing." Hachi looks and laughs so loud that Miroku wakes up and Inuyasha overhears Hachi's laughing. InuYasha turns and said "SHUT UP, YOU TWO!" Miroku rubs his eyes and said "what's so funny guys." InuYasha turns to Miroku and said "you don't need to know, Miroku."


At the pond, Sesshomaru got some decent covering on and inspected the ruts. "These snake demons must have jewel shards" he said, "what do you think, Jaken?" Jaken replied "I'm not sure, me lord." Turning to Rin, he asked "what do you think?" Rin said "if it's jewel shards, we should follow. But which way should we go?" Sesshomaru sniffed the ground around the ruts. "Me lord" Jaken said, "you're acting like your brother." Sesshomaru replied "well, we're trying to find him, yet we have no clue of his whereabouts. However, we have two snake demons with jewel shards. I figure if we follow these snake demons, the mortal girl my brother consorts with will pick up their shards. This would lead them to the snake demons and, subsequently, us. With no clues on direction to go on, I, as a dog demon, may need to pull out all the stops for tracking." With that, he sniffed again. That way" he said, pointing down the stretch of two ruts. "Ah-Un" Rin called. A surge of water came up as the massive dual-headed beast resurfaced, drenching the other three in the process. With that, they were off.