"Meaning?" led Miroku since Kagome had suddenly gone into a trance and not finished her sentence.
"What?" Kagome asked, looking around. "Oh right! I wanted to do something civilized so I decided to take you all fox hunting without even thinking about anything while I made the reservations!! HEHEHEHE!!"
"Um…Kagome…did it ever occur to you that…?" Sango tried but she lacked the words.
"How is HUNTING at all CIVILIZED?!" demanded Inu-Yasha rudely.
"Shippo is…" started Miroku.
"BUT I'M A FOX!!!" wailed Shippo. "WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!"
"Oh right!" said Kagome, slapping her cheeks but then remembering that she had to drive so she put her hands back on the wheel. "Well, then I guess we could just go to a grand mall…"
"How come we always do what YOU want to do?!" asked Inu-Yasha. "It's always 'Kagome wants us to go here!' Can't we have a say in what we're going to do next?!"
"Well then where do you want to go?" Kagome asked, not expecting an answer because obviously he wouldn't know where to go.
Inu-Yasha paused and looked around, refusing to admit that he actually didn't have anywhere to go. At that moment, they passed a little sign that said 'Come to the Greatest Bug Ranch in All of Missouri!!' "I wanna go there." Inu-Yasha said like some kind of crazy five year old.
"No you don't." Kagome said, looking annoyed.
"Yes I do." Inu-Yasha replied as he crossed his arms stubbornly.
"Trust me, you don't." Kagome assured him.
"Lady Kagome, I think I want to go there too." Miroku said with a wistful sigh.
"I'm kind of curious…" Sango admitted.
"SNIFFLE!!!" cried Shippo since he was still yearning attention.
"But that mall looks so grand…" Kagome complained as they went passed a mall that was bouncing around with musical notes flying out of it and stuff.
"Don't make me start chanting 'Bug Ranch'." Inu-Yasha warned.
"FINE!!" yelled Kagome. "You guys have to promise that if I go to this stupid Bug Ranch then none of these bugs or the guys WATCHING the bugs will die or have any harm inflicted on them."
"Fine." Said Inu-Yasha.
"You REALLY have to promise!" Kagome continued.
"Come on!" said Inu-Yasha, sounding a bit frustrated. "When have I EVER broken a promise, hurt someone or lied?!" Then he smiled and his teeth went PING!!
Kagome stared at him and then looked forward at the road again. "Maybe we shouldn't go." She said as she pulled into the rest area.
"NO!!!" screamed Shippo. "BUG RANCH!!!!!!!"
"DON'T WORRY!!!" Kagome yelled back. "We're just going to rest a little while in the rest area and stretch and stuff!"
"WEE!!" said Miroku as he jumped out the car without even opening the door and then started frolicking around the car. "It's a rest area!! There are none of these remarkable inventions in our world!! I think I shall introduce them for when we get back and go down in history for inventing rest areas!! But first, yonder I see what your world calls a 'Port-a-Pottie', the grotesque little portable facility in which you relieve yourself! I, unfortunately, must experience the horror of this invention that I will make sure never to introduce to our world!" Then he skipped off whistling Dixie.
"The first sign that we have been in this car far too long." Said Kagome. "But nature calls so I need to use the Port-a-Pottie too!" Then she frolicked off but not quite as happily as Miroku.
Inu-Yasha, Shippo and Sango got retarded little drops and sat there in the car looking in the direction of the Port-a-Pottie.
"Oh, don't mind if I do!" came Miroku's voice. They all turned around just in time to see Miroku vaulting over the door and landing the driver's seat. "Buckle up for safety everyone!" Then he buckled his seatbelt and whipped out a driver's manual.
"What do you think you're doing?" asked Sango.
"Fear not." Said Miroku, putting his hand up. "I simply created a diversion so that Kagome would be distracted and now I will just drive around the Rest Area. Nothing harmful. Now let's open this driver's manual…ahh…Driving For Dummies!!"
"Where did you get that?" Inu-Yasha asked, reaching for the book.
Miroku spun around. "They were so available in the police station!" he replied protectively. "By putting them there, they were simply BEGGING to be taken by random bystanders such as myself!"
"Well, if you're going to be driving then I'm getting out." Inu-Yasha said as he opened the door.
"Fine then!" Miroku said, turning a few pages.
"Um…I'm getting out too." Sango said as she stepped out as well. "Just make sure you don't…um…kill anyone."
"Me?!" Miroku said as if he were offended. "PLEASE!! I am a monk."
"I wanna ride in the car!!" yelled Shippo as he jumped up front. "Can I turn on Sugar Beats?"
"NEVER!!" Miroku yelled as he grabbed the two CDs, scratched them viciously, snapped them in half, tossed them into the air and then released his air void and sucked them up. "Mwa ha ha ha ha. Ask me again, Shippo."
"Sniff!" said Shippo as he wiped his eyes.
Miroku let out a big ol' sigh. "That wasn't very nice of me." He concluded. "Please forgive me, Shippo. My blinding desire to drive has clouded my judgment resulting in foolish acts such as the one I just did." Then he picked up the case and handed it to Shippo. "But that CD really annoys me. You can keep the case though. I have no qualms about you clutching onto the case as if it were your teddy bear."
"YAY!!!" said Shippo as he caressed the CD case.
"Do you think we should go and inform Kagome on what Miroku is doing?" Sango whispered to Inu-Yasha.
"No, I want to see what happens." Inu-Yasha replied. "Besides, if we do then Kagome will come out, get in the driver's seat and then take us to a mall."
"But what if he gets hurt?"
"He's wearing a seatbelt! What could happen?!"
"I guess you're right." Sango replied. "But in any case…I'm taking a few steps backwards from the car…" And that's exactly what she did!! Inu-Yasha did it too because he didn't want to be flattened.
"All right…" Miroku said, flipping through the pages of Driving For Dummies. "Take out keys, insert keys in ignition, turn key, put car in drive, step on the gas, drive…it's so simple!" Then he hit his own forehead to express his feeling of stupidity. "A CHILD could do it!"
"Can I do it?" asked Shippo.
"No." Miroku said as he pulled out the keys and stuffed them in the ignition after the third or forth try. After pressing a few buttons and pulling a few levers, he finally put it in drive. "And now…to make it MOVE!!"
At that exact point, Kagome came out of the bathroom and noticed that… MIROKU WAS SITTING IN THE DRIVER'S SEAT!!! "STOP!!!" she yelled, waving her arms around as she made her way over to the car while making her way over to the car. She nearly collapsed from exhaustion as she finally made her way over to car as Miroku only kind of stared at her.
"I guess I'm not in very good shape…" she gasped. "Miroku, the next time you get in the driver's seat, I will kill you."
"I was just looking." Miroku said, hanging his head low.
"Then how did it get ON?!" Kagome yelled, swinging the door open and gesturing for him to get out.
"I wanted to see what it looked like when it was ON!" he explained.
"You've seen it before!!!" Kagome pointed out. "NOW EVERYONE GET IN BECAUSE WE'RE GOING TO A MALL!!!!!"
"BUT YOU SAID WE COULD GO TO THE BUG FARM!!!" yelled everyone.
"Oh right!" Kagome said with a laugh as she chuckled warmly. Everyone pondered about Kagome's current mental health as they got in the car without any further protest. "My, it's quiet in here! Let's turn on the radio!!" Then she turned on the radio and listened to all the stations but there was nothing on.
"That's all right, we didn't NEED to listen to music." Said Inu-Yasha in the feh tone.
"Fine, we'll just listen to Sugar Beats!!" said Kagome as she started looking around on the dashboard for the CD. After a few seconds of looking, she stopped and paused. "All right! Whose caressing my Sugar Beats CD! Shippo?"
"It wasn't me!" Shippo cried. "It was Miroku!"
"Miroku!" Kagome said with a smile. "So you decided you like Sugar Beats now? I knew you'd come around if you listened to it long enough!"
"Um…yeah…" Miroku said slowly.
"So…can I have it now?" Kagome asked.
"I lost it." Miroku replied.
"You lost it?"
"Yes."
"He lost it." Inu-Yasha assured her.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!" yelled Kagome dramatically as she swerved over to the breakdown lane and stopped the car. She started searching frantically around on the floor of the car as everyone slapped their foreheads.
"It must have fallen down a crack…or a hole…" Miroku said. "Um…in between two seats…"
"I MUST FIND IT!!" Kagome said as tears streamed down her face. "I LOVE that CD with all my heart!"
"I'm sorry, Lady Kagome." Miroku said, hanging his head low. "I didn't mean to lose it. I must have just misplaced it."
"Do you remember where you misplaced it?" asked Kagome desperately.
"Um…no…"
"He lies!!" yelled Shippo.
"Why you…!" Miroku said as a black aura appeared around him.
"So you DO remember where it is?"
"Yes…but…we can't go back because otherwise I will just have to suck you all in the void within me." Miroku threatened.
"Um…okay." Said Kagome since she didn't want that to happen and since Miroku was acting kind of weird, there's no telling WHAT he would do! HAW HAW HAW!! Then they kept driving for a little while until they came across another sign.
"Look at the size of those bugs!!" said Shippo excitedly since the sign said 'The Bug Ranch is REEEEEEEEEALLY Close!!' and there was a picture of a cowboy riding a gigantic bug. "Oh surah!! I can't wait to ride a bug!!"
Kagome paused and decided not to be the one to puncture his bubble.
"I want to see these giant demonic bugs and perhaps smite them." Said Inu-Yasha as he started cracking his knuckles.
"No, you promised that you wouldn't do any smiting!" Kagome reminded him.
"Oh right." Sighed Inu-Yasha as he slumped back in his seat.
"Of course, just to be safe, perhaps I should bring my idiotically large boomerang." Said Sango.
"No, you shouldn't." Kagome said firmly as if talking to her children.
Then they pulled into a parking lot of a ranch looking place. "Then I guess I should put it back then…" Sango said, holding up her boomerang. Kagome's eye twitched as she turned around and glared at Sango.
"Do you think that perhaps I could take the car for a little spin while you indulge yourself with the large bugs?" Miroku asked as Kagome started to open the door.
"I'M not going in!!" she HOLL-ered. "I'm going to be looking for my Sugar Beats CD!!"
"Why are you so obsessed over finding it?" Miroku said, shaking his head.
"The whole reason she's missing it is because YOU 'lost' it!" Sango said angrily as she hoisted her gigantic boomerang over her head and then hit Miroku on the head with it, fully expecting him to just say 'Ow!' and have a stupid looking lump on his head but she only ended up knocking him unconscious!!! "MY GRACIOUS!!! HOSH-SAMA!!!" yelled Sango as she tossed her boomerang behind her and started caring for him in his state of unconsciousness.
"I'll wait for you, Kagome!" said Shippo as she jumped onto Kagome's head.
"I think we might just leave, after all, we're all very traumatized…" started Kagome but Inu-Yasha interrupted her.
"No way!!" he yelled. "We always go places where YOU want to go and when we finally stop at some place that may be mildly interesting and WE wanted to go there then you decided that it's time to leave!! I WON'T STAND FOR IT!! I'M GOING IN THE BUG FARM!!!"
"Fine!" said Kagome, taking a few steps backwards. "We'll wait for you in the car, okay?"
"Feh." Said Inu-Yasha as he crossed his arms and then walked towards the Bug Farm with that walk that was all like 'You can tell by the way I use my walk, I'm a woman's man, no time to talk,' but actually, no, his walk was more like he was saying 'I'm going here just to prove something' since I don't think Inu-Yasha would ever walk as if he's a woman man and has no time to talk. HAW HAW HAW!
"I HAVE to find that Sugar Beats CD!" said Kagome as she started lifting up the seats and shifting around the piles of tissues on the floor.
Shippo decided to let her continue this because if he had told her what had REALLY happened to her Sugar Beats CD, she would start hyperventilating, have a heart attack and then DIE.
Sango was far too busy to tell Kagome what had really happened to her Sugar Beats CD. After all, when you knock out a guy, that's bad but when you knock out a MONK…WOW.
And as for Miroku, he didn't tell Kagome what really happened to her Sugar Beats CD because well…he's unconscious.
AND INU-YASHA ISN'T THERE SO HE DIDN'T TELL HER EITHER!!! YAY!!
Seconds, minutes and hours passed and Kagome was STILL looking for her Sugar Beats CD. At about that time, Inu-Yasha returned from his little excursion at the Bug Ranch with a little flag and wearing a hat and t-shirt that had the logo on them all.
He approached the car and sat down in the front seat. "You guys don't know WHAT you missed." He said as he picked up a bug stuffed animal. "That was just about the most fun I've ever had in my entire life."
"Look, you're the one who demanded on coming so you don't have to make fun of me…" started Kagome.
"What?" said Inu-Yasha, confused. "I'm SERIOUS! It was fun!"
"Yeah right." Kagome said as she started the car.
"But really!" said Inu-Yasha, starting to get frustrated. "I was just wondering if we could maybe go to another one when we don't have anything to do in a certain state!"
"All right! I get it! You don't have to drag it out so long!" Kagome yelled.
Inu-Yasha crossed his arms as Kagome pulled out of the parking lot and passed over the state border to Arkansas without even having to stop to fill up their gas tank.