Chapter 21: The Plan
Inuyasha heads back to Kaede's village after leaving the hospital. He sees Miroku and Sango talking to Shippo, more like whispering. "How are you guys doing?" He asks them as he approaches them. "We just came up with something." Miroku responds to him. "Like what?" Inuyasha asks the monk. "They want me to sneak up on Kimi. We think she might be the enemy." Shippo hops onto Inuyasha's shoulder.
That made Inuyasha crossed his arms. "So you finally realized that I was right all this time." He grins at them. "Not yet. We have to find proof. If we do then you're right." Sango replies as she stands up. "And how is it that Shippo is going to sneak up on Kimi. When she disappears, she doesn't leave a trace." Inuyasha reminds them about the little soul.
Miroku chuckles. "Not anymore." He pulls a few scrolls out of his robe. "What are those?" Inuyasha ask him. "These scrolls how scents that Shippo can leave on them. Ever if Kimi disappears, the scrolls will leave the scent behind no matter how faint it is." Inuyasha takes one and rubs his other hand on it. "Take a whiff." He shoves it in Shippo's face.
Shippo sniffs it too quickly and jumps off Inuyasha's shoulder. "Ugh, Inuyasha what is that stench?" He coughs in the end. "What you're smelling are the random scents of the hospital that Kagome is recovering." He laughs at him. That's when Shippo jumps into the river. "No way I'm going to smell this." He shouts as he comes to the surface, trying his best to get rid of the smell.
"How long do you think that smell is going to last?" Miroku asks him. "I'd say about an hour. Now if you excuse me, I have some things to gather." Inuyasha is about to leave until Sango comes up to him. "Gather what?" She asks him curiously. "Back at the hospital Kagome kind wrote that I'd have a better way to get her voice to heal faster." Inuyasha turns to her. "Did she mean it or sarcastically?" Sango asks him as she raised her eyebrow. "I think she meant it sarcastically. That's why I'm gonna proof her wrong that even though her time has great doctors, she has no idea that I have a few remedies of my own to pull it off." He grins as he runs off.
When he was out of sight, Miroku walks up to her, "I think he might have an idea. Let him do his thing." He advices her before turning around.
Inuyasha rushes out to a meadow. "Now where is it?" He looks around. Just grazing the area isn't what he's here for. He's looking for something in particular. The wind picks up, waving the tops of the tall grass into a nice scene. That's when a scent gets his immediate attention. "There." He grins before leaping up and land to the spot where the scent is coming from. It was a herb. He picks it up and puts it in his kimono.
Back at Kaede's village, everyone is relaxing around Kaede's hut. All but a missing person; Kimi. "I wonder Kimi is?" Kaede asks the group as she strokes the fire. "We haven't seen her in a while." Miroku responds to her. "So, is everything ready?" Kaede asks them as she sits down. "Yeah, pretty much, all we need is her not to know what we're doing." Sango replies this time as she strokes Kirara's back as she herself is trying her best to stay calm.
That's when Kaede digs in her kimono sleeve. What she pulls out made the group gasp. "What is that?" Sango asks her. All she does is hand it to Shippo. "Why don't you tell them, Shippo." She suggests to the fox kid. Shippo looks at it. "Oh, I know that this is. It's a mini video camera." He smiles up to them. Sango and Miroku look confused. "What does it do?" Sango asks him. Shippo smiles, "This let you videotape anything. And it can show it to other people to a device that has a screen so you see and hear what you caught on it." He tells them as he passes it over to her.
"But it's so small." Miroku comments the item's miniature size. "It's meant not to be noticed. According to Kagome, it's a spy item. We don't want Kimi to see it." Shippo explains it to him. Miroku hmms as he pulls out the scrolls that he showed Inuyasha earlier. "We should be able to conceal it so Kimi won't notice." He gives his idea. "And now we have to wait until Kimi shows up." As such they waited.
It did take long for Kimi to reappear in the hut. "What's going on?" She asks them. Everyone else had to stick to the plan. "Inuyasha came back." Miroku answers her. "Really? Where is he? I need to speak with him." Kimi comes to him pleadingly. Not a single person saw this coming. "He had to go get a few things for Kagome." Sango tells her nicely. That made Kimi frown. "Oh. Do you know when he'll come back?" She asks as she turns around. "We don't know." She puts her hand onto her shoulder. All Kimi could do is nod, and sits down by Shippo. Not just that, she falls asleep. Shippo motions Miroku to hand over the scrolls. Miroku digs into his robe and passes it over to him. Ever so carefully, Shippo presses the scroll onto Kimi's back.
A few hours later, Inuyasha comes back into the hut. Everyone looks up to see him with a sack over his shoulder. "Finally." He spoke as he sets the sack onto the floor, leaving a small thud on the ground. "What's in there?" Miroku asks him. Inuyasha stretches his shoulder, hearing few cracks in it. "It's the stuff I have to make the medicine so she can get her voice back." He answers the question as he is about to grab the pot over the fire.
"What do you think ye're doing with that?" Kaede stands back up in annoyance. "What else? I need it to make my medicine." He easily picks it up. "Ye will do no such thing." She tries to stop, but Inuyasha raises it up to get it out of the old priestess's reach. "Inuyasha, quit fooling around. Kimi needs to tell you something." Sango calls out to him. Inuyasha does as he was told. He should be lucky that Kagome isn't here to sit him for his foolishness. "Ok. So, what is it that you want to tell me?" He asks her. All she does is take his hand and disappears. "Ok. Go after them, Shippo." Miroku tells him. Shippo nods and grabs a leaf to make himself disappear and follow the trail where that Kimi unnoticedly left behind.