Miroku:

It just looks so tempting; he thought as he stared at the package, I'm sure a quick peek wouldn't hurt. He reached out with one hand and was just about to open the package when….

"Miroku? Hey you in there? It's me Kagome, I've got some questions for you" he sighed, he'd been so close, so very close, oh well it was probably for the best anyway, Kagome already disliked him enough already, without him searching through her stuff.

Kagome:

Maybe hes not in? She thought as she waited patiently for the monk to come to the door.

The door opened and she came face to face with Miroku.

"What great pleasure do I owe you my dear kagome?" he asked smiling sincerely

"I told you a long time ago not to call me that" his face fell

"of course kagome, I won't forget, though I have been hoping you'd show up soon"

"why?" she asked curiously

"I'll tell you once we're inside" he said as he opened the door for her, "lady's first" he said before quickly following behind, closing the door quietly behind him.

"so why were you hoping to see me?"

"well your sister called round…"

"And you didn't think to tell me?!" she shouted angrily "you known I've been looking for her and you didn't even think to tell me that you saw her?! What is wrong with you?!"

"Calm down kagome, she didn't tell me her location, she just wanted me to you something to help you with your demon troubles, she came just to give you this gift doesn't that make you happy?" he asked hopefully.

"no it doesn't, but please show me the package" he got up and moved to the other room before quickly returning with a parcel wrapped in brown paper.

"here it is" he said as he handed it to her. She stared at it suspiciously for a moment,

"Miroku you haven't been looking at this having you, at bit of paper over here is ripped" he looked at the package, a bit of the paper was ripped, trust kagome to notice something like that.

"no, I've barely touched the thing" he said, like innocence it's self.

"well, if you say so…." She said, though she still carried on eyeing him suspiciously "well if that's it I'm gonna take this home, so I can have a proper look" he stared at her in horror, there was no way she could be so cruel, he needed to know what was inside the package, he absolutely had to know!

"sure you don't wanna look at that right now? You know take a quick peek inside before heading off?" he asked desperately.

"no, I'll wait till I get home, bye Miroku" she said as she opened the door and headed out.

Later….

What a long day, she thought as she put down her bow and arrow. Now to look at his package, poor Miroku she thought, he really had wanted to know what was inside of here, I was lucky really just a few moments later and he might have seen what was inside. She almost giggled when she remembered that hopeless look that had been on his face when she said she was going home, but quickly stopped herself.

She turned her attention back to the package, she wondered what was inside, maybe a new kind of demon weapon? No, that wasn't kikyo's style; she was far more subtle than that. What was she doing anyway? Instead of just sitting around wondering what was in the damn thing she should just open it. But she didn't want to, it had been so long since she had received any gift from Kikyo, she wanted to make it special somehow…NO she was being stupid, it was just a gift from a person, no one important.

She let these thoughts comfort her as she unwrapped the package, once it was all unwrapped she stared at the contents in surprise.

"this must be some kind of joke" she said aloud as she looked at the items before her, it looked like a bunch of arts and crafts equipment. She stared at the little box labelled art's and craft's for a moment longer before she noticed a letter on the floor, she reached down and picked it up.

Kagome,

Below is a list of instructions, for the use of this 'art's and craft's kit'. They will tell you exactly what you have to do to make this 'project', but first I will give a brief description as to what it does. I heard from Miroku that you were having trouble with a demon and I thought that the beads would be the best way to slow him down, once you have made the beads you will need to get them around the demons neck. Once that is done you will be able to use a certain command word to slow him down, (explains in more detail below)the word will be of your choosing.

How to make the beads:

First gather all the beads together, then concentrate on your spiritual power, use your spiritual powers to thread together the beads by….

This look's really difficult, she thought as she stared at the list of instructions, it would take a long time to make is it would involve a lot of effort, just to generate the spirit energy, without concentrating it on an object that wasn't even compatible….and then there would be the actual ritual afterwards, which would delegate the word, now that would take a lot of effort. The word would have to be quite short, and very simple, so she would remember it.

After she had gone through the instructions several times she decided to get to work , the beads would be useful once she got them working, so the sooner she was finished the better…

Inuyasha:

A lot of things had been troubling him lately , and two things had been on his mind constantly, one was the thing with Sesshomaru being alive, and the other was Kagome…he really didn't know what it was he was doing with that girl. Fighting with her one moment in supposedly life or death combat and a moment later pretending to be her friend. Why did he go and see that girl? It wasn't like there was any real reason for it. He just liked being around her. Though if she ever found out she'd be, he shuddered at the thought, terrifying.

Kagome:

"Hey kagome, you in? it's me Sango" Sango? What she doing here, she thought as she managed to create yet another tiny thread made out of spirit energy.

"Come in" she shouted hoping sango could hear her, she didn't want to stop work just yet, ever since she had got the package earlier in the night, she had been working on creating threads for the necklace , it was hard work, but she was managing and she was sure that she could keep going for at least an hour more before it got to be to much for her.

Sango stared at Kagome looking surprised, for a moment "I'm using my spirit energy, to create an object that may be able to slow down a certain demon." She explained, as she had noticed the look of confusion on Sango's face.

"figure's, even at home all you do is work"

"yeah…hey why are you here anyway, Sango?" she asked

"well, I thought that maybe , well that maybe we could talk, I never ever see you much, except for when we patrol, thought maybe we could talk or something" Sango mumbled

"about what?" kagome asked

"dunno, you could tell me who that necklace is for"

"oh you don't want to know about that, it's a far to long story" Sangos face fell,

"well I have a lot of time…"

"not enough for this story" kagome said smiling "hey how about this, why don't we watch a movie? I've had enough of working on this anyway, I just get back to it tomorrow" she said kindly

"You have movies?" she stared at kagome long and hard, no on had made any new movies for years, and all the old one's had slowly disappeared to believe that Kagome had a movie…

"well just two, here's your choice, Scary movie 4 or The last movie of lord of the rings?"

"You have the last movie? Can we watch it please, please , I never got to finish watching the movies since at the time when it came out, I couldn't afford to go-"

"it's okay , we'll watch it, don't worry about it" she said smiling In amusement at Sangos apparent concern.

She put the DVD into the ancient TV and they began to watch. They both had a great time, with Kagome giving hints the whole way through and Sango screaming for her to shut up.

In the end Sango ended up falling asleep on Kagome's couch, though kagome stayed awake , it had been such a strange day, seeing Inuyasha, Miroku and the Hanyou, as well as Sango. She'd also seen her family earlier in the day. It was all so strange she wasn't used to seeing so many different people. The thing with Sango concerned her most though, Sango had never made social call's before now, unless, no that wasn't fair of her , Sango wasn't like that. Though as she lay on her bed she couldn't help but wonder, what if Sango had only come to check up on her? Sango and her had never been particularly close , so maybe she had decided to make sure I wasn't doing anything stupid… and she did seem nervous when she first came in. Nah she was just being Paranoid.

Sango:

She had regulated her breathing to make it seem as though she was sleeping, and now was her chance, Kagome had finally fallen asleep. This must be done for Kohaku, I need to save him, she thought as she took a small dagger, that had been strapped to her leg, as long as she did this one thing, Naraku would give her brother back , nothing else mattered, once she had done this Kohaku will be safe. One did one life mean compared to her little brothers? Nothing , nothing at all.

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Cliff hanger!!!!!! Longest Chapter ever !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I better get a lot of reviews for this otherwise I'll go back to my usual short chapters, so be warned….