Hachi: your leg looks like it has seen better days.
Inuyasha: There's nothing wrong with it.
Hachi: what ever. (goes with them through the bone eater's well and then once more goes into this transport form and looks at Artemis) where to? (and yes Kirara went back to sango that happend long before they even reached Koga's mountain)
Artemis: Fly east. over the ocean.
Hachi: ok. (turns himself around and heads east)
Artemis: *after several hours* There, that island.
Hachi: ok miss we are going down. (begins landing pattern as he actually flies over Zeus' head and even over Hera's head)
Hachi: (Lands right where he needed to land) whoa I tell you what that was not one of my better landings.
Artemis: Well, we're here. I'll have Hera show you to Miroku.
Hachi: how would Hera know where master miroku is?
(he knows all about Greek gods and goddesses)
Artemis: Hera's adopted Miroku.
Hachi: Oh. I see.
Artemis: *walking up to Hera.* Hera, where's Miroku?
Hera: Miroku is off training with the other children, Artemis where else would my son be?
Artemis: Just making sure. I also have a friend for him to see.
Hachi: (Having gone back to his proper shape and walks over to where Hera is standing)
Artemis: Hera, this is Hachi, an old friend of Miroku's.
Hera: I see (miroku had filled his "mother" in on the parts of his life she had missed out on since he believed she was his biological mother who had just left when his father told her to save herself.)
Artemis: Well, if you don't mind, I'll show Hachi Miroku now.
Hera: Alright but be careful Chiron has been teaching my son how to use a bow and arrow.
Artemis: Alright, I'll be careful.
Annabeth: (races over to the Athena Cabin) Hello mother (sees her mother sitting there)
Athena: Yes, Annabeth?
Annabeth: that trip was amazing (tells her mother everything about the trip including about their stay in the village inuyasha had grown up in during the night of the new moon)
Athena: I'm glad you had a good time, it sounds interesting.
Annabeth: yeah though I wish the people of the village would have treated Inuyasha better. (remembers watching them try to drown him)
Athena: I know what you mean. But they are prejudiced.
Kagome: (is sitting with her father as is inuyasha who is trying his hardest to hid his injured leg from Zeus)
Dad that was a wonderful trip.
Zeus: *smiles* I'm glad. Inuyasha, what are you so edgy about?
Inuyasha: (is sitting on his injured leg) Nothing at all.
Kagome: His leg is hurt. He got it stuck in a trap that Kaede had set for the wolves.
Inuyasha: it really is not that bad.
Kagome: Just thought I'd tell the truth.
Inuyasha: (gets off of his injured foot to let Kagome's father that his foot was just fine. figuring Zeus might take his side in this argument)
See it is perfectly fine
Zeus: It's only a bit scratched, it looks okay.
Kagome: Artemis wasn't to sure about it when we were leaving Kaede's village.
Zeus: It looks almost healed.
Inuyasha: (smiles at Zeus) yeah all in all it was a fun trip. when we reached my friend Jinenji's home I had a chance to some what annoy Artemis. (explains how the villagers had been getting all over Jinenji's case again and how he had left Artemis behind at Jinenji's home while he went searching for the real people killer on his own.)
Zeus: I cannot believe that it worked. Normally, you'd be a jackalope. *laughs*
Inuyasha: may be it worked because she got to see the action of the fight all the same for just as I left the demon I was hunting after found them.
Zeus: Maybe. It's entirely possible
Inuyasha: (tells the story of the Demon larva mother) she was seriously pissed this time (then tells of how Jinenji had ripped the demon apart with his hand after telling Artemis to get somewhere safe and to stay there because if he were to let her and the rest of Inuyasha's friends get hurt he wouldn't deserve to be half human) (then tells of how just as Jinenji ripped the demon apart how the head that still had the acid like saliva coming out almost crashed landed on Artemis and how he (inuyasha) had acted on his instinct to protect and pushed Artemis out of the way and let the whole thing land on him)
Kagome: yeah but Inuyasha showed his true heroism before we ever arrived at Jinenji's house though. On our way there we ran into a traveling circus I guess you could call it and one of their Ring masters wanted more women in the circus and offered to purchase Artemis, Thalia, and Clarisse for exorbitant amounts of money. but Inuyasha Looked the man right in his face and told him every time that none of his companions were for sale.
Zeus: Yes, very heroic. I appreciate it. And I think she really did too.
Kagome: yeah and even when the ring master wouldn't listen and kept trying to make him sell us Inuyasha only drew out his sword to frighten him and did not use it. those circuses are mostly made up of young girls we saw several of them and it was hideous.
Zeus: That's horrid.. I remember those, I'd seen a few.
Inuyasha: let me guess you and my father went to see some of the shows or maybe you two went there to stop their business?
Zeus: We were wandering, and came across them. Yes, we did try to stop it.
Kagome: (smiles at her father and then continues the story knowing her father knows the tale of Satsuki) you remember when I told you about Shippo's friend Satsuki? well we ran into her on our trip too.
Zeus: Oh, and what has she been up to?
Inuyasha: she had been sold to one of those circuses we passed as we left Jinenji's place. apparently the village she was living in was attacked by night robbers and she was the only survivor and she ran until she met a strange man who said he would take her to the next town and then he sold her.
Kagome: yeah Inuyasha cut the lock off the cage she was in and we got her out and introduced her to our travel party. I guess you could say Artemis took a keen interest in her.
Zeus: I assume we have a new huntress?
Kagome: yeah. I would say that would be a safe assumtion.
Inuyasha: I just hope Artemis knows what she is getting herself into Satsuki is well due to how young and small she is it can be relatively easy to uh shall we say to lose track of .
Kagome: yeah
Inuyasha: then we arrived at the village I used to live at and several of the men from the village that had been kids around the same time as me. went at their old game of drown the half demon.
Zeus: Drown you? Why didn't you stop him?
Inuyasha: I only wish it was only one there were like two of them and I guess you could say I have gotten used to it.
I didn't really get to upset by it until they tried to drown Kagome along with me. then I managed to get her and me out from under them and got her onto the shore of the river where Percy was standing along with Clarisse and Annabeth.
Zeus: Well, I'm glad you got her out of there.
Kagome: yeah and then they went back to trying to drown inuyasha and Clarisse decided to pick a fight with one of the men who were picking on inuyasha.
Inuyasha: not that I really minded it I was used to being treated like dirt.
Zeus: Still, you could have gotten out of it...
Inuyasha: there were two of them to one me. and you think I could have taken them on?
Zeus: Wasn't Clarisse fighting? And you've fought a number of things, and the worst that you cannot beat are a couple of bullying humans?
Kagome: yeah but even as Clarisse was fighting one of the humans actually held her under water.
and there were more than what Inuyasha just told you. but he didn't want to scare you.(of course inuyasha made the number smaller than it actually was. again so that Zeus wouldn't panic)
Zeus: Why doesn't that surprise me?
Kagome yeah it wasn't until Thalia and Artemis got there along with Satsuki that the bullies started to back down. in fact they even Called Inuyasha's grandmother nothing more than a human. (doesn't realise Athena was in earshot)
Athena: Who called me human?
Inuyasha: No one important just some bullies we ran into who still lived at the village where my mom and I used to live in.
(knows about them calling his grandmother that because Kagome and Thalia had told him after they had gotten him out of the river.)
Kagome: yeah they said that as they held Inuyasha's head and much of the rest of him under the water of the little river that flowed through that village.
Athena: Rotten humans. They probably never pay any attention.
Inuyasha: yeah well by the time they had let me up from the river I think I could say I had inhaled quite a large amount. of water.
Athena: I see. Well, you're alright, now, right?
Inuyasha: yeah I am fine now. (smiles)
Kagome: yeah all is well now.
Athena: Good, I'm glad to hear it.
Kagome: yeah except that Artemis got the shock of her life when she got her chance to see Inuyasha's human form since the night we stayed in the village was the night of the new moon.
Inuyasha: (chuckles) yeah it was kind of funny and then when I told her I don't sleep at all on that particular night. and she just decides she is going to get me to sleep dispite it all.
Kagome: And she finally did it. Shows how much determination that woman has.
Artemis: (comes back from dropping Hachi by the Archery field) yeah I finally got him to sleep. and it was funny the way I did it too.
Zeus: How was that?
Artemis: I used a one of those eye masks and some rope and a makeshift bed that Satsuki and I made out of linens she had found while helping Inuyasha and the others clean the house up. While I and Thalia were out shopping with Kagome.
Kagome: oh you had to remind me of the shopping fiasco. (remembers their run in with Tsubaki)
Artemis: Yeah, that was bad. Sorry, kagome.
Kagome: no problem Artemis.
Zeus: (looks at Artemis) I don't know if I would call the way you got inuyasha to sleep funny. I mean from what Kagome had told me of two of their first battles that occured on those moonless nights I should think it probably scared Inuyasha pretty badly.
I don't know that for sure though.
Inuyasha: It was comfortable, they did defeat another spider head, and her determination made me laugh, I knew she didn't mean any harm
Artemis: it is true. Thalia and I defeated a Spider head demon that wanted to make Inuyasha it's meal.
Zeus: oh you had a run in with those wicked creatures did you?
Kagome: Yes, it was crawling right next to Inuyasha.
Athena: (had not left the area) well Artemis I am glad you so bravely protected my grandson. from the spider head demon I know you are not used to protecting men but I am glad you saw fit to look out for him all the same.
Artemis: What's family for?
Athena: true enough.
Thalia: (comes out of the Artemis Cabin having just gotten Satsuki settled with the other huntresses) yeah and then on our last night there some Human a monk named master Ungai tried to attack us and then Insulted Lady Artemis' Integrity by saying she wasn't who she claimed to be and saying that he was going to return me and Satsuki to our families from whom we had been stolen from. trying to make Artemis look like a bad guy. (can tell she is still pissed off at Ungai.)
Zeus: have you all eaten today?
Thalia: not really.
Zeus: Maybe you should eat something
(meanwhile Hachi who had finished catching up with miroku and sees clarisse walk into a strange cabin)
Hachi: I wonder if this is were Inuyasha's friend Clarisse lives.
Miroku: Yes, she lives in her father's cabin.
Hachi: I see.
Miroku: Is there something wrong, Hachi?
Hachi: not at all miroku. I just can't believe that Inuyasha's most recent traveling companion who seems like such a nice girl lives in a house that seems to be more interested in Slaughter.
Miroku: Yes, well, that is her father's choosing of decoration. He is very much represented in that cabin.
Hachi: geez I kind of wonder what her father's like. I guess I would guess he would be sort of like a male version of Sesshomaru's mother from what stories my parents had told me of her. and what I had seen of her with my own eyes.
Miroku: I wouldn't know. I've never really heard much about his mother.
Hachi: yeah well my parents told me many stories about her. both my parents and their parent's before them had lived in one of the three villages that Inutaisho surrendered to her as part of her divorce statement She was ruthless and cruel beyond reason killing children and adults that dared to stand up for their rights to live with dignity (tells miroku all he had heard of Sesshomaru's mother)
(not realising that Ares had come out of his cabin)
Miroku: That's horrid. I'd hate to be under her rule.
Hachi: yeah so did most people who lived under her rule my parents decided before I was born that instead of standing up to her and just ending up dead for their troubles they would flee and try to live like outlaws as much as they could so that perhaps one day they might set an example for others.
Miroku: And I'm assuming you made it? That's extremely lucky I presume.
Hachi: yeah I was born while they were on the run. so yeah I was extremely lucky.
Miroku: So you have never known anything but running?
Hachi: never I guess you could say I have been running since the day I was born. (Laughs still not noticing that Ares is standing there and has been listening to everything they have been saying)
Sesshomaru's mother will never catch me. And that is for certain Racoon dogs are to clever for those of her type.
Miroku: *laughs* Yeah, you're sneaky, alright.
Hachi: yeah and that is how I will remain for the rest of my life.
I am so glad to find that Koga and his pack were lying about you being dead.
Miroku: Me too, to be honest. I have more hope. The gods have waged war on Naraku.
Hachi: why would they do that what is their big grudge against him? what has Naraku done to any of them that they would side with you and Inuyasha. (doesn't know about Inuyasha's bloodline save about his demon father and his supposed human mother.
Miroku: Hera is my mother, and Inuyasha's grandmother is Athena.
Hachi: you mean to tell me that your mother is the queen of the gods? (as you can see he has read up on his Greek mythology) man as far as the gene pool went you landed on your feet and no mistake.
Miroku: Yes, I'm quite fortunate.
Hachi: but who could have guessed that Inuyash born of a demon and a human would end up being the grandson of the goddess of wisdom.
Miroku: His mother was a demigod herself.
Hachi: well I never would have guess that.
Miroku: No, we found out after we came here.
Hachi: Inuyasha must have been in complete and utter shock.
Miroku: He was a little, I think. I don't remember his reaction much. Athena pulled him aside and told him.
Hachi: (just keeps on walking with Miroku as they talk not paying Ares any mind as if he was not there at all)
Miroku: Oh, did you want to meet Clarisse's father?
Hachi: uh sure not a problem.
Miroku: *backtracks* Ares, meet, Hachi, a friend of mine.
Hachi: Hello sir.
Ares: Hey. So I'm like Sesshomaru's mom, huh?
Hachi: you heard that?
Ares: Yeah, but don't worry about it, there's probably some truth to that. Wow, I've been hanging around Athena too much, I'm actually thinking.
Hachi: yeah well who says that is a bad thing it has kept me alive. sure it isn't much of a life but it is still a life. (is talking about living as an outlaw.)
Ares: Yeah, I'm just not known for my thought processes.
Hachi: yeah well you have a real treasure of a child (is talking about Clarisse) (had actually been following Inuyasha's party since their stay in the village where Inuyasha and Izayoi had lived at one time) Her bravery is something I would love to see any demon or human stand up against the way she jumped right in when those 10 men were trying to drown inuyasha (doesn't realise it would not be wise to tell so much to this guy but seems to think of him as being as much Inuyasha's friend as any of the other gods) and then when two of the tried to drown her for protecting Inuyasha. she was amazing.
Ares: She was huh? Saving Athena's grandson? Huh...
Hachi: yeah I watched the battle from a safe hiding spot Racoon dogs are not the bravest souls on earth. though we are better than some fleas.
All ten men had Inuyasha completely overpowered one of them even tried to drown Kagome as well. I was horrified. but your daughter she took acouple of them down but two of the ones she took down got back up and grabbed her arms knocking the weapon out of her hand and then dragged her to the water and began holding her under while the other eight kept trying to keep inuyasha submerged after he had thrown them off and gotten Kagome safely to land.
Ares: Huh. Clarisse! Come out here!
Clarisse: (comes out to her father's side frightened of what she might have done wrong now.)
yes father?
Ares: You were held underwater?
Clarisse: (finishes the story ) Only because they said they would kill inuyasha if I didn't behave. and since he is family I thought you might have wanted him to come back here alive.
Ares: Alright, go on in Clarisse. Thank you.
Clarisse: (nodds her head and heads inside)
Hachi: your daughter seems to have great fear of you.
Ares: I know that. It's because of her first quest. I was still really mean to her back then.
Hachi: that kind of fear can lead to parent and child difficulties later on. especially in the area of trust. back in the feudal era most parents try to keep their children from being overly afraid of them mainly because of many of the dangers the children will face that may end up being to much for them to handle on their own.
everyday problems like strangers who might want to hurt the child that the child may be to weak to handle on their own.
Ares: Yeah, yeah. I understand. But with fear, comes strength in desperation.
Hachi: no doubt about that. but just as a curious on looker would you say that if some day some one tried to hurt your child or tried to Abduct her and even though she got a way she had mental scarring from it would she see you as being safe enough that she would trust you to still love and care for her despite whatever the bad person had tried to do to her?
Ares: I never thought about it. Maybe.
Hachi: Danger comes in all forms your daughter is strong enough to handle some forms but for some that at this point in her life she is not strong against she still needs her dad to be the person to protect her and show her how to stand. after all that is what my father used to tell me was a parent's responsibility.
Ares: you know what, little man, I don't need lectures on my parenting. It's the way I've done thing for thousands of years.
Miroku: Hachi is not trying to lecture you Ares he is merely making some suggestions.
Ares: Maybe, Miroku, but I'm tired of hearing him tell me to change. It's not like I'm eager
Miroku: yeah I can understand. though from what he told me he isn't staying here with us. he is heading back to the feudal era tonight he told me after meeting many of the gods and goddesses he feels it would be only half as dangerous going back to my mentor Mushin as it would to stay here.
Ares: Would it, now?
Miroku: yeah Hachi feels uncomfortable in areas with humans.
Ares: Oh, I see. So he feels threatened.
Miroku: yeah and when he feels threatened he keeps talking as if to avoid people realising how threatened he feels. and then he stumbles all over himself.
Ares: Right. Well, shouldn't you have something better to do?
Miroku: yeah I will see you later. (heads off)
Hachi: (follows miroku) yeah I will let Mushin know you are well when I go home tonight miroku. (as they head for Hera's cabin)
Miroku: Thank you, Hachi. I'd rather the old drunkard knows I'm alive.
Hachi: yeah well before any more of your extended family sees me I think I will bid you farewell and that I hope to see you soon my friend. (sees Hera and Zeus coming their direction just before he is about ot head out)
Miroku: Very well. Take care, Hachi.
Hera: (sees Miroku and Hachi) Miroku is your friend leaving us so soon? he only arrived a few hours ago?
Miroku: Yes, well, he feels obliged to see master Mushin.
Zeus: I see I had hoped that a friend of our children would stay at least for the night with us. after all with fiends like that Naraku hanging about I wouldn't feel happy letting him leave camp. (inuyasha had bought Zeus something he figured he would like a lot better than the Racoon dog and had already given it to him) (namely a picture that some crazy artist had done of Inuyasha's father)
Hera: Yes, why don't you at least stay the night, and return in the morning?
Hachi: (sighs mainly because he remembered what usually happened to people who argued with gods or goddesses so he decides that he will spare himself the strain plus he is not interested in running into master Ungai and his monks tonight since he knows full well that the way to Miroku's mentor's home goes right through Ungai patrol borders.) Alright I will stay for the night at least.
Hera: Thank you, Hachi.
Hachi: not a problem I don't mind staying I would rather pass Ungai's territory during the day rather than the night anyway. that man is ruthless with demons every time he sees them.
Hera: Yes, it's much safer here. I wouldn't wish harm onto you.
Miroku: did you have any run in's with Ungai before you arrived here?
Hachi: As a matter of fact, we did.
Zeus: (had already been told about it from Artemis and Thalia) from what Artemis told me and my own daughter Thalia Ungai came upon their group at night and was about to destroy Inuyasha and young Hachi and then had the nerve to call Artemis a fraud and then to accuse her of kidnapping.
Miroku: Really? And what happened to Ungai? No one tried to hurt him did they? That would have been bad.
Zeus: no Artemis let him go. but told him to leave Inuyasha and Hachi alone. and they just left according to what Thalia told me.
Miroku: Good. I don't think that a fight with him at night would have been a good thing at all.
Zeus: From what Artemis told me she was the only one awake when the monks came by she had convinced Inuyasha to get some sleep for they had come around the hour of midnight.
Miroku: She convinced him to sleep? How?
Zeus: I don't know exactly you can see if you can get some info out of her.
Miroku: I just might have to. That's some feat.
Zeus: is it really that hard?
Miroku: Yes. He refuses to sleep for fear of being attacked.
Zeus: I knew that much was true during the night of the new moon but during that night they were in Inuyasha's original home village the one he and his mother had lived in when he was a child.
Miroku: Yes, normally, he's watching from a tree. or from the wall opposite the door. He can't be persuaded by any of us normally.
Zeus: I can tell you how she convinced him to sleep during the new moon but his adventure with Ungai happened just last night from what Artemis told me. which is about three nights from the night of the new moon.
Miroku: How did she manage the night of the new moon?
Zeus: She placed him on a make shift bed and then placed one of those sleep eye masks over his eyes and bound his hands and feet. making it so that he had to basically place his safety and even the safety of his other companion completely in her capable hands.
and from what Inuyasha told me that unlike the times he had been in similar situations where he was in danger and couldn't defend himself this time actually felt comfortable and that Artemis' determination made him laugh and he understood after she had defeated a Spider head demon that had gotten into the house that had been his and his mother's former home he found himself realising that Artemis did not mean any harm to him. and so found himself allowing himself to drift into a comfortable sleep.
Miroku: Wow. I had never thought of that.
Zeus: (smiles) I think Inuyasha trusts his family and friends to stand by him no matter but while he feels he must protect everyone he has trouble allowing his friends to protect him.
though how Artemis got him to give up guard duty last night I am not certain about.
Hachi: probably used some form of trickery. or something of the like. (doesn't know much about the goddess Artemis)
Hera: She wouldn't do that. She's very forward, unless talking to an enemy.
Hachi: I wouldn't know I have never read any of the stories that refer to her.
Hera: No, she probably just told him to, and he knew that she would resort to anything, like the night of the new moon.
Miroku: the Inuyasha I always travelled with usually would have just told her to lie down and go back to sleep at least that is what he usually did with Kagome and me when we would try to take a turn at guarding through the night.
Hera: Well, I guess that she's just good at getting what she wants.
Miroku: I guess so.
Zeus: I also think Inuyasha just learned that arguing with a goddess might not be so good for his health.
Miroku: *Chuckles quietly* Maybe.
Zeus: yes well enough about that for now we will head to the dinning Pavillion and have dinner and celebrate our adventurers safe return.
Miroku: Yes, let's go. *heads down to the pavilion*
(Inuyasha and everyone else are already getting food and talking Satsuki is talking and conversing with the other girls at the Artemis table)
Kagura: (reappears) you foolish mortals and Immortals. how stupid all of you are to interfere with Naraku. Why should you want him as your enemy?
Zeus: Kagura! We want him as our enemy as he has attacked our family!
Kagura: and you have ruined his plans Especially the foolish goddess of the hunt. (points her finger at Artemis.) Inuyasha would have died many times on that trip he took if you had not interfered.
Artemis: Well, then. I'm glad to have thwarted him. If you ever want to play again, just ask. (has figured out from her statement that she was behind all of the attacks.)
Kagura: oh you aren't the only one who I am mad with there was a certain daughter of Ares that played a dangerous game. with Naraku's plans as well why do you think the men that attacked Inuyasha were strong enough to hold him down and to capture her even once and hold her under the water. many of them where the same people Inuyasha had known as children but their strength had been amplified.
but if you wonder who sold Satsuki to the circus it was me. and I sent the Spider head to where Inuyasha and the rest of you were staying for the night of the new moon.
I then gave you trouble with the lizard demon.
Artemis: Just as I figured. Every bit of strife that we had encountered was you working for Naraku.
Kagura: yes and It was I who told Tsubaki where she could find Kagome and destroy her. and yes (looks at Ares) Your daughter has made a dangerous enemy out of Naraku my master says the next time she goes to the feudal era will be the end of her. since she has decided to ally herself to Inuyasha.
Clarisse: (looks at her father's face hoping he is not about to punish her for doing what she believed was right)
Ares: Well then, if she were to go back, she would fight and she would win!
*stands up*
Kagura: you think your baby of a girl would be able to defeat me when she couldn't defeat any of my Lackeys that had been strengthen artificially?
after all the fight was ten men against two. your Daughter and Inuyasha.
Ares: Hey, Kagura? Ever heard of training?
Kagura: have you ever heard of a mercy killing if I were to kill her now it would be more merciful to her than to let you keep her alive. your hash abusive fathering skills would be enough to kill anyone. (uh oh Kagura just pissed Clarisse off)
Clarisse: He's not abusive! What the hell? He pushed us and pushes us so that we might not like him, but it pays off! You have no right, Kagura!
Kagura: Oh is daddy's whittle girl going to stand up to the big mean lady who is right.
Clarisse: You have no idea what you're talking about!
Kagura: and let's not forget Zeus the king of the gods. I sent Tsubaki to destroy Kagome and even that failed due to your other Daughter Thalia and also due to Artemis. Tsubaki almost had Kagome ready to purchase a lotion that was going to really mess her up but no she failed because Artemis just couldn't keep her opinions to herself
Thalia: Hey, that's what happens when you try to poison our sister!
Kagura: Thalia don't you mean your sister? as far as I know Artemis is of no relation to Kagome at all.
Thalia: Artemis is Zeus' daughter as well.
Kagura: Even so I wouldn't rest on your laurels so easily because now I don't need to use spider heads to kill inuyasha I can do it myself and there is nothing any of you can do to stop me not that I really expect a repeat performance from the goddess of maidens and hunting. she has more of her own trouble now. she took on a much, much younger maiden. and so she probably has stopped carring about Male half demons. like Inuyasha.
(turns towards Inuyasha) Dance of Blades!
Inuyasha: *tries to dodge*
Kagura: (watches as one of her blades cuts into his leg causing a gash) Ha you are slower since you started trusting your friends. you should have learned that you should trust no one but yourself.
Inuyasha: They've proved that I can trust them.
Kagura: I don't see any of your friends coming to help you.
Inuyasha: no because they know that at this moment I am at my peak of strength that I can hold my own against you despite what you believe. they know that I know that if and when I need them they will be there for me. (unsheathes the Tetsusaiga)
Kagura: I doubt that...
Inuyasha: (Swings the Tetsusaiga) Windscar! (almost hits Kagura but once more she flies away on her feather)
Kagura: (calls out before she is out of ear shot) oh and if you want at Naraku you will have to find your way to his castle he is not foolish enough to come to this pathetic excuse for a camp.
Zeus: So we won't have any luck... That's new.
Inuyasha: Naraku never fights his own battles. if we want to battle him one on one we have to take the fight to him.
Chiron: (trots over to Zeus' table and looks at Inuyasha) I hope you don't think even for a minute that it means that Zeus and them will retract from insisting on fighting along side of you Inuyasha.
Poseidon: Brother it would be feeble to turn our back on Inuyasha now. just because this plan failed. (is looking at Zeus)
Zeus: I will not turn my back on him! I will accompany him to the Feudal era as need be!
Athena: Artemis you may choose what you and your huntresses do but as for me. I will go with my grandchild and my father. If Naraku wants Inuyasha dead he shall do it only over my dead body.
Artemis: Of course I'll go with you. I said that I'd help as much as I can.
(the other gods soon agree that no matter what they are sticking with Inuyasha and going to help against Naraku)
Inuyasha: woah wait a minute you are all still determined to back me up? (had learned to trust his family but is still alittle surprised) aren't any of you afraid of what this battle might mean?
Zeus: We're not afraid. Why would we be?
Kagome: Inuyasha keeps forgetting that nothing Naraku does can really do any real damage to you or the other gods. (smiles at her father) he is learning to trust but it can be somewhat hard to grasp.
Zeus: I understand, but yes, we'll be there.
Chiron: then if we are all going to go to battle together I would suggest setting the Barrier up again and then after the campfire and sing-along tonight we all get to bed early and start training even harder so that we can stand a chance against Naraku.
Zeus: You're right, Chiron. We'll start training in the morning.
Hachi: (looks at Zeus and Hera) I want to say thank you to you both for caring for Miroku. and I wish you all the best of luck in all your endeavors. (isn't leaving until the next morning. but if they were planning on training in the morning did not wish to interupt to say thanks then)
Hera: You're not leaving now?
Hachi: no I am leaving in the morning. but if you are all planning on training early I might not get the chance to say thanks before I leave.
Hera: Don't be silly. We do eat first of course.
Aphrodite: Hachi are you sure you won't change your mind and stay here. and then maybe go back with Miroku and the rest of us when we go to battle Naraku?
Hachi: Oh no, I really couldn't impose...
Miroku: besides Hachi needs to give news to my old trainer Mushin that I am alive and well.
Aphrodite: Oh, alright. If you insist. Just stay for breakfast in the morning, okay?
Hachi: ok I will.
Aphrodite: *smiles* Thank you.
Kagome: (smiles and finishes dinner)
Inuyasha: Are you finished?
Kagome: yes Inuyasha and man I am happy to have had a meal that did not include grilled fish for once.
Inuyasha: *laughs* Me too.
Zeus: that must have hard having nothing but grilled fish to eat every day and every night.
Kagome: Yeah, it gets boring and bland.
Inuyasha: yeah If I never see another grilled fish again it will be too soon. (looks very green around the gills.)
Kagome: I hear ya! (looks the same way!)
Zeus: (smiles) well now it is time for you to go to bed we have work to do in the morning and I am going to see to it we get the barrier back up right away.
Kagome: yes, father. Goodnight. *stands up*
Inuyasha: I will see you in the morning (yawns) this week away from here has made me realise how much I missed this place. (follows Kagome and having accustomed himself to sleeping on the floor again falls asleep in the middle of the cabin)
Kagome: Honestly? I thought he'd at least go for the bed. Oh well. *yawns, and falls asleep before her head hits the pillow*