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Yeah...I'm going to Chicago till thursday! So...I'm going to try and spit out a couple chappies to make up for it when i get back! Or before...but I don't know how much time I'll have. I have to pack you know. So sorry for the inconvenience! I'm trying so hard to update for you every day! blows nose sniff I've failed you!

oh ho ho I'm such a drama queen.


InuYasha- Chapter 384- A Good Cause

"Shippou was kidnapped by a youkai?" a confused Miroku asked.

Sango stood next to him, "What…?"

"InuYasha blew apart the den with his Tetsusaiga though…" Kagome informed. She looked down into the pit where the tree once stood, staring at the half demon below. InuYasha was trying to sniff out the direction that Mujina took Shippou, his nose plastered to the ground. He stood up, kicking a random skull.

"Damn," he cursed, "it fucking got away."

Just then, a crying noise came from the other side of the rocky wall. InuYasha's brow rose to it. He and the rest of the group followed the noise outside, where they found a trail of little dancing mushrooms.

"A signal from Shippou-chan!" Kagome observed, tightening the grip on her bow.

InuYasha broke out into a run, "He's close! This place is covered in the damn scent of youkai!" He caught something out of the corner of his eye. "Over there?!" he asked his suspect as he drew Tetsusaiga. "I'll slice you apart!"

The ground caved beneath his feet, causing him to fall into a small dug out pit. The look on his face was priceless as a dummy hit his head, transforming into a melon-like object. Kagome called out his name in worry as he stood up again.

"Planning on trapping us, eh?!" he swung Tetsusaiga angrily. He released his wind scar, but was surprised when it didn't go as planned. The energy from Tetsusaiga's Wind Scar flew up into the air, then over to a nearby bush, turning at a ninety degree angle.

The rest of the group stared on in amazement as Miroku explained, "Something is drawing out Tetsusaiga's youkai energy?!"

Behind the bush, Shippou ran after Mujina, her sword outstretched. A long trail of demonic jyaki-like youki trained after it.

"There! Now let's get out of here!" Shippou begged, trying to keep up. Once they were farther away, Shippou leaned over a tree root to rest. That InuYasha…. I'll get back at him for always treating me so badly!

Mujina thrust her sword back into its sheath with a click, looking back at Shippou. "The youkai energy was drawn out of that violent hanyou's sword quite nicely. Shippou, you're smart, aren't you?"

"You see?! I'm seven times smarter than InuYasha!" Shippou claimed, getting up in her face.

"Although I still haven't absorbed enough power…" she continued, in her own little world.

Shippou smiled. "I see. Then leave that to me."

"So you'll help me I see."

"But tell me Mujina," Shippou's face took on a more serious tone. "How come you want to make your sword stronger? Is it because you're alone? What happened to your father?"

This caught Mujina's attention, "Why do you want to know about my father?"

"I could smell his scent from your den," Shippou explained.

Mujina hesitated before answering, "I see…. Shippou, you have a good sense of smell, too. My father…is dead. He was killed by an evil youkai."

"S-So…you're making your sword stronger so that you can avenge your father…. Is that it?!"

"…That's why," she admitted. "Shippou…" She looked back at him, surprised to see him close to tears.

Mujina…is in the same situation as me….

"This fight isn't a personal grudge anymore! It's for a good cause!"

Meanwhile, Kagome and InuYasha continued their search for Shippou. Kagome trailed slightly behind him, picking up her feet carefully.

"Be careful InuYasha. I have a feeling it wasn't the only trap."

InuYasha scoffed. "Don't think I'm stupid! Would I get tangled up in the same thing again?" he looked down at the mushrooms, following them to another bush. A dark figure loomed over them. Thinking fast, InuYasha ran at it, declaring the scent of a youkai. It just so happened that it was in fact another doll, therefore another trap. The doll exploded in his face, causing him to jump back in surprise, that same retarded expression on his face.

Once he landed, he saw a shadow forming at his feet. He looked up to see one of Shippou's enormous statues or Buddha, falling down upon him head first.

"You annoying little creep!" he shouted, cutting it in half with Tetsusaiga. It fell in tow pieces on either side of him.

"Rather than a youkai it's…" Sango started.

Miroku finished, "It's definitely a trap set by Shippou."

But something was up with Tetsusaiga. More of that strange, youki-absorbing energy was swirling around it. The energy sucked out more of Tetsusaiga's power, pulling it over to another part of the woods.

"You idiot!" InuYasha declared. "It's obvious where you are!" He ran at it, anger upon his face. Suddenly, InuYasha's senses perked up. But it was too late. Shippou had laid out webs of sticky rice between the trees, catching InuYasha in a net of glue.

"Sticky stuff?! This is ridiculous!" He sent another Wind Scar into the air. It meekly crashed into a tree, barely bringing the bark off its trunk.

Sango and Miroku gasped. "Kaze no Kizu is…."

"Its strength weakened!" Kagome observed. "It's because its energy was drawn out!"

InuYasha followed the trail of his own power to a break in a branch. Mujina stood, smiling at him maliciously. She giggled as she held her youkai-absorbing sword up proudly.

"A girl?!" Kagome gasped.

InuYasha glared. "Come out Shippou. I know you're there."

Shippou too, laughed maniacally, "So, you really figured it out, InuYasha."

"Hold on now," InuYasha stopped him before he became the next Naraku. "How could you think we wouldn't figure it out?"

"Shippou, were you the one fooling us?" Sango scolded with a motherly tone.

"It's because you like that girl, isn't it?" Miroku asked, suspicious of Shippou's manly doings.

Shippou's eyes widened. "That's not it! It's not for some petty reason like that! It's for a greater cause!"

Mujina stepped forward, cutting him off. "Stand back, Shippou. You have no idea how much youki has been absorbed. I'll test it out on that hanyou."

InuYasha and Mujina glared at each other. Shippou stared up at her in disbelief. "Mu-Mu-Mujina!"

She raised her sword, ready to strike.

InuYasha turned to them all and shouted, "All of you, stay back!"

Suddenly, Mujina's own Wind Scar blast out from her sword. After the blast, nothing was left.

"I…InuYasha…." Shippou stared at the spot were the half demon once hung, a sad expression on his face.

Mujina stared at her sword, laughing. "Powerful indeed. My thanks to you, Shippou. Because of you, I've taken all the youkai energy I need."

Mu…Mujina?