Now Midori is traveling with Inuyasha & Crew. She got a little taste for our favorite characters, but it's too late to run now! Mwahaha =]

Disclaimer: I'm laughing at the fact that someone on FanFic can get busted for claiming something is theirs. I don't know about you guys, but if I'm a writer, I wouldn't be making fanfics of my own stuff. Well Maybe I would, but that defeats the purpose of the statement I just made….So I don't own Inuyasha.

Chapter 13: First Night

I sat with Sango and Kagome inside a home while the boys helped carry firewood in for the night. The village let us stay in this abandoned home for the night but they weren't going to provide heat or food since they're suffering from hard times here. You can't blame them, it's not like you can walk out into the field and grab something to eat quick, it's months into the winter.

This is one of those villages that don't think that women should work besides taking care of children and making meals, so we just got to sit there. I flipped my fan back and forth, bored out of my mind. Sango pet Kirara and Kagome set out this odd food we were supposed to eat once we get a fire going.

Coming from a village where women work just as hard as the men do, I was a little impatient. "Can we do anything to help them?" I asked.

"Not unless you're helping children or making food," Sango replied with a yawn. "So good luck with that."

"Would it count if I helped Shippo?"

"He's a demon child, doesn't count."

I fell onto my back. "What if I do it really quickly?"

"If you get caught, we could get kicked out of the village."

I rolled onto my stomach. "Could I dress up like a boy?"

"With what clothes do you plan to do this with? Are you seriously that desperate to help them out?" she asked.

"I just want to do something." I sighed and rolled back onto my back. I guess it's better to be in a village that's against women working then a village that hates hanyous. "It's a good thing we found this village. It was starting to get a little cold out there," I commented, just trying to make conversation. Probably wasn't the best one I could have picked. Mental face palm.

"No kidding," Kagome agreed. "Hopefully we get a fire going quick or else we're all going to freeze during the night. But, Midori?"

I glanced at her. "Yeah?"

"So I heard that Inuyasha and you use to be friends, back when he was a kid, living in a village."

"Uh huh."

"…What was that like?"

"Believe it or not, he hasn't really changed that much."

"I can only imagine," Sango snickered.

"He was a good kid though," I assured them, smiling at the ceiling. "I can't say too much since I could be killed."

"That makes me want to know," Kagome chuckled. "Did you know Izayoi too? Or was she already…"

"I got to meet her and talk with her a few times before she got sick and…well you know. She was so nice though and so beautiful. It was really sad when she passed on." I lowered my voice and leaned in closer to them. "You didn't hear it from me, but-."

The door slid opened and Miroku walked in with an arm full of fire wood. "Hello ladies, what were you talking about?"

"Goats," I replied. "Have you ever had goat milk Miroku?"

Oh sure, when I try and come up with a subject I talk about the weather but when I have to lie I come up with the most genius thing ever? I amaze myself.

"Uh…I can't say I have."

"That's a shame, it's pretty good when you're able to milk the goat without getting a hoof in the eye," I smiled sweetly.

Kagome and Sango burst out laughing and I just sat there smiling. Miroku put down the wood and stared at us confused.

"I feel like I'm missing something here."

"It's nothing Miroku," Sango chuckled, calming down. "Where are Shippo and Inuyasha?"

"They're coming up behind me with more wood. All the wood we found was frozen so we had to cut down a tree and cut that up."

"I doubt it was that difficult with the tetsuaiga," Kagome mentioned. "Hopefully he didn't freak the villagers out."

"Well there's been a lot of demon attacks in the area apparently, so just seeing a hanyou cut down a tree wasn't that traumatizing to them."

I furrowed my eyebrows. "Demon attacks?"

"Probably has to do with a loose jewel shard somewhere. Do you sense any Kagome?" Sango asked.

She shook her head. "I don't think so."

Then Shippo jumped inside and Inuyasha followed behind him. "Jeez Shippo, would it kill you to take more than one log?" he complained, up to his ears with the logs he was carrying.

"Instead of giving Shippo a hard time Inuyasha, let's get the fire started so we can eat," Kagome advised.

He sighed and set down his pile by the fire pit. He threw a few logs in and worked on starting up a fire.

"Inuyasha, did you smell any demons around here?" Sango inquired.

"Just the ones from the attacks."

"They're not coming here are they?" Shippo squeaked. He cleared his voice and tried again. "I mean, for the villagers' safety."

"I'll let you know if I notice anything," Inuyasha scoffed, "for 'the villagers' safety'."

I shuddered at the thought of those demons coming here. I still have nightmares about that night.

Once the fire started, he sat down next to me and the food started to get passed around. I'd never seen anything like it before, bags of these weird looking round things. Bottles of water too? It was the weirdest things I've ever seen in my whole entire life, and I spent some months in the future. I never once saw food like this, but that's probably because Mama gave me food that I recognized.

"Midori you have to try these," Inuyasha enthused, handing me the bag of the round things. "They're called chips."

I reached my hand in and pulled one out. I examined it for a second then stuck it in my mouth. My eyes grew in surprise. "Whoa, 'chips' are good!" I grabbed a bunch more and so did Inuyasha. We ended up eating the whole bag, it's a good thing no one else wanted it. We also had these cups called 'instant ramen' it was magic, I swear.

My worries about the demon attacks melted away and I easily slept through the night while Inuyasha watched over us. During dinner I had noticed that Kagome kept glancing at us. I knew she liked Inuyasha, and Inuyasha liked her, so she was probably a little concerned that he decided to sit by me, instead of her. I'm not trying to take him from her, but she has to understand that this is the first time he's got to see me in fifty years when he thought I was dead. So I didn't take any mind to her.

Soon enough I'm sure he'll be back to doing whatever he usually does around her. Whatever the hell that is. Not sure I want to know.