Chapter 26: They Return
Inuyasha, Miroku, Shippo, Koga, Ginta, and Hakkaku were all ready to go build Shippo, and Rin's home. Inuyasha showed everyone to where all of the material for the hut was, and everyone started to pick up some, to carry to the building site; everyone that is, except for Shippo, who was still standing by Rin.
"Well Rin, I guess I'll see you later, we'll be back here by sunset." Shippo told her, holding on to her hand.
"Yeah, I'll see you then." Rin replied. She wrapped her arms around him, and gave him a long, gratifying kiss on his lips, in which he immediatly responded to.
"Come on lovebird...fox, let's go build this thing already! We're not all here to watch you kiss your mate!" Inuyasha shouted from a distance, causing both Rin, and Shippo to slightly blush. Shippo give a quick kiss to Rin on the lips, and started walking away.
"See you tonight Rin." Shippo waved at her.
Rin waved back, "Bye..." she said softly, but just enough for her fox demon to hear. Shippo grabbed any of the remaining material for their home, and started walking off into Inuyasha Forest.
"A day without Shippo..." she sighed, "...well, it's only an afternoon. I guess I can get to know everyone better maybe." she walked back inside the hut, and saw that everyone was either talking, or playing, as usual. She sat down in the usual corner that she sat with Shippo in, and sat up against the wall, and layed her head to the perpendicular wall.
"Sister Rin!" one of the children yelled, and ran over to her. the child jumped right into her lap, and gave her a hug.
"Kumiko, you probably shouldn't do that again." Rin told the pup.
"Sorry." Kumiko apoligized, and Rin weakly hugged the pup back.
"Are you staying here while brother Shippo, and daddy is out?" Kumiko asked.
"Yes, I'll be here the whole day." Rin told her, and patted her on the head.
"Yay!" Kumiko exclaimed.
"Why do you ask?" Rin asked her.
"Well...I got no one to play with." Kumiko said.
"Yes you do, you have Maru, Akio, and your brother Kyuso." Rin told her.
"Yeah, but none of them are playing with me, probably because they're all boys..." Kumiko said.
"Then how about your mother? or Sango? or Ayame?" Rin kept asking.
"They're in their own conversation..." Kumiko said.
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"Hey, sister Rin's here." Kyuso said. Akio, and Maru looked over to the human girl, with Kumiko in her lap.
"She's human." Akio said.
"And?" Maru remarked.
"How is she your sister?" Akio looked baffled.
"She's brother Shippo's mate." Kyuso said.
"And how come Shippo is your brother? He's a fox demon." Akio stated.
"When he was smaller, mommy, and daddy took care of brother Shippo, and they always thought of him as their son. Daddy would always protect bother Shippo, and mommy would always take care of him like he was her son." Kyuso explained.
"Don't you ever get jealous?" Akio asked.
"Of course not, mommy loves all of us the same." Kyuso said.
"And besides, brother Shippo started to live on his own for a few years after they had defeated Naraku seven years ago." Maru explained
"Where did he go?" Akio asked, showing a little curiousity.
"Where ever he could." Kyuso said
"He wanted to do what he did when he traveled with mommy, and daddy. He also wanted to train, and become a strong demon." Maru said.
"Then when he came back for a visit, he brought Rin back." Kyuso said.
"He fell in love with a human?" Akio raised a brow.
"So? There's nothing wrong with that!" Kyuso protested, showing signs of anger in his face.
"I never said there was! I just found it a bit suprising that all, geez, calm down." Akio said folding his arms, and leaning against the wall.
"What's going on here?" Kumiko said, walking over to the three boys, holding onto Rin's hand as she followed.
"Nothing." Akio said, looking away from her.
"Well aren't you the rude one." Kumiko said, putting her free hand on her hip.
"So what?" Akio said, still not facing Kumiko.
"Quit trying to act tough, cub." Kumiko said with a bit of irritation in her voice. This is when Akio stood up, and went right infront of her. He was only about an inch taller than her.
"Quit acting like your so smart, puppy." he fought back. They both started to glare at each other with dagger eyes.
"Alright you two stop fighting." Rin commanded.
"I don't have to listen to you!" Akio shouted. And then, Akio felt something hold on to his tail, and he was rising from the ground.
"Akio, are you causing trouble again?" Ayame asked, "You do what Rin tells you, alright?" Akio just crossed his arms, and very slightly nodded. Ayame set down Akio, and went back to where Kagome, and Sango were.
"Looks like you do now." Kumiko said with a smirk.
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Everyone made it to the field, and set down all of the supplies. The field still looked destroyed, from the battle with Takatoshi.
"Are you sure you want a hut in a wrecked up field like this?" Koga asked.
"It wasn't a destroyed field until we fought stupid Takatoshi." Shippo told him, "This place used to be full of flowers, and the grass had the most perfect shade of green, with was wonderful, and it's where I first played with Rin when I was smaller. We plan on replanting all of the flowers when our hut is built, and make sure this field is back to a field of flowers."
"So Shippo, where do you want us to build the hut?" Miroku asked.
"I want the hut to be near the forest, so we can have all the room to fix this field." Shippo answered.
"Let's just get started then." Inuyasha said. Inuyasha, Miroku, Shippo, Koga, Hakkaku, and Ginta all started to carve out all of the wood into even long peices.
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After around three hours, they had all of their wood carved all as even as possible. They layed out all of the wood in a large square, as the floor for the hut.
"Alright...that took awhile." Shippo sighed.
"No one ever said huts were built in a day." Miroku said.
"Alright we got the stupid floor done for the main room...now where with the floor to your room be Shippo?" Inuyasha asked.
"Right here." Shippo went to the northern area of the floor. Inuyasha, Miroku, and Koga all started grabbing more wood to start on that floor.
"Why am I helping them build this again...?" Koga thought to himself. Inuyasha gave Shippo a piece of wood, and he placed it next to the main floor. Shippo then jerked his head up, and looked around the field.
"Shippo, what is the problem?" Miroku asked.
"Don't you feel something...different?" Shippo asked. Inuyasha also started to look around the field.
"A demonic ora...but it's not that strong at all...it's familiar." Inuyasha said. Shippo pulled out his crystalized sword, and swung it toward the forest, send shards of adamant flying. The shadowy figures jumped right out of the forest and in distance of the six hut builders.
"I knew it was them, demon ninja." Shippo said, going in a fighting stance.
"I thought Takatoshi was their leader, why are they still after us?" Inuyasha yelled, and unsheathed Tessaiga.
"We do not know of this Takatoshi you speak of." One of the demon ninja said.
"You've fought them before, Inuyasha?" Miroku asked.
"They're after the Shikon Jewel." Shippo told him.
"Oh no, Kagome!" Inuyasha exclaimed.
"You are too late, half-breed." Another demon ninja said, "We already sent waves of demon ninja after them."
"Kagome, Kumiko, Kyuso, Maru, Ayame, Sango, Rin! I have to get to them!" Shippo thought, and immediatly started to run to the forest. As he was running, we saw a wave of fire come right at him. He pulled out one of his green leaves, "Transform!" and he speedity flew in the air as a giant pink balloon.
"Shippo get to them quickly!" Miroku yelled. Shippo quickly tranformed again as another wave of fire came at him. This time he was a bird, and he flew faster, out of the area.
"Go after that fox and wolf demon..." a voice said from the forest, and the demon ninja were gone in a flash.
"What the...where's that wolf?" Inuyasha yelled.
"He went to help out Shippo." Ginta replied.
"Where did that voice come from?" Miroku asked.
"Who are you? Show yourself!" Inuyasha demanded. A weird kind of demon came out, in a human form. She had long pure red hair, with braclets that had dancing flames, and she held a staff that was also surrounded in flames.
"I am the fire sister." she introduced herself, "I am one of the three who command the ninja."
"...Three?" Inuyasha questioned.
Another battle breaks out, yep. I had to settle the fight between the demon ninja's after the Jewel, and all that. Their home will be built...eventually. See yaz.