I didn't put in a writer's comment at the end of the last chapter because I didn't want to ruin the mood. Anyways, am I good or what? When it comes to sexy romances, I can go there without actually GOING there! ^_^

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Chapter 8: Living A Dream





Namida dropped the large bundle wrapped in spider webs and it failed madly like a fish out of water. 'This is no good,' she thought 'If I'm going to get revenge and kill her, I want her to see it's me doing it!'

She ripped a hole on top of the buddle and a head of long black human hair poked out. Inu Onna glared at her with brown eyes and shouted, "Hey! What are you trying to do?! Suffocate me?!?"

"That would be nice too, but-" Namida suddenly realized Inu Onna's state. Inu Onna stared back with the same wonder, 'She looks like me!' She smelled the air around her and noticed two VERY familiar smells right away. "Naraku! Kikyo!" she growled at Namida, "So that's who you are! You're the hellspawn of those two demons!"

Namida kicked Inu Onna in the side. She yelped in pain and tried to free herself from the web. Namida smiled evilly at her, "Kukukuku, struggle if you want, the demon web is too strong for a demon, let alone a human!" then she got an idea, she kneeled next to Inu Onna and put both hands on her head. Inu Onna looked at her like she was crazy. The hands glowed for a second then Namida got up and took a step back. "What was that?" Inu Onna asked.

Suddenly a warm cloud circled Namida and when it disappeared, she was dressed like Inu Onna and if you had seen them then, they would have looked as similar as Kikyo and Kagome. The only difference was Namida's unusually white skin and her Naraku-like hair.

Inu Onna gasped at her. "I'm going to borrow you're life for a while." Namida said.



Kagome looked at the map, "When we find Inu Onna, we'll only have another mile before we make it to Ichiba's Domain."

"I-Ichiba's Domain?" Botan suddenly appeared in front of her, Inu Yasha and Kouga. "B-but t-t-that's were I u-used t-to live."

"We're sorry, Botan," Kagome said. "We were planning on going there and investigating."

"That's just what we do." Sango said.

"N-n-n-no!" Botan stuttered and backed away. "I c-can't go-back there!"

Miroku came up to him. "How about this, Botan. You stay here and watch for Inu Onna and we'll come back when we are done in the village."

Botan looked away and thought about it. "Okay." He said. They both did a one handed prayer thing and nodded to each other. So Botan stayed there. They left him some things like food and one of the tents, Kagome left him her portable CD player and showed him how to use it. "So you won't get bored." She said.



"Look at all of this." Kagome said. The village wasn't even a village anymore, building and hut were in shambles, corpses everywhere and there was a light cloud of poison floating around the village so they all had to wear face masks before going in.

They went up to the temple, which miraculously had no misma around it at all. They went inside and took off their masks. There was a pile of lilacs in the center of the main hall, other then that the place was very clean. No one was in it. They looked out back and there were a number of graves, the nuns and Priest of the church, and on each grave was a bouquet of lilacs.

"It must've been Botan." Miroku said. "He probably did it before he left."

Then they heard a sound from the stairs-footsteps. "Who-?" everyone said.

Suddenly they all saw Inu Onna in human form come down the stairs. She had a slightly expressionless look on her face. Then when she saw then she smiled and said, "Hi!"

"Inu Onna, how did you get here?" Kagome asked.

"I just went onto the village, I knew you would be coming soon." She said.

"Well, have you found anything about the demon who attacked here?" Inu Yasha asked.

Namida looked away then back at them and said, "It's long gone, probably off to terrorize some other village. It left no trail."

"You gotta be kidding me!" Inu Yasha said.

"Well, let's stay here a couple of days." Sango said, "Maybe we'll find a clue."

"Okay, and you no what else?" Kagome said. "I haven't done anything yet for my spring break."

"Then we'll just have to do something, won't we?" Honey said.

They started to put there masks back on to leave, Kagome glanced over at Musuko and was surprised at the look he was giving Inu Onna. He has watching her, but not with his normal charming monk smile, trying to think of a way to grope her. But he looked on with a suspicious, unbelieving look. Kagome looked over at Inu Onna who was about to walk out into the misma without a mask. "Wait!" she shouted and ran over to her.

"You forgot your mask!" she said.

"Mask?" Namida thought. "Oh right! How stupid of me!" she said. And put on a filter mask like everyone else.



They walked outside of the misma and took off the masks. Miroku looked out into the forest and thought about his cousin, 'Maybe we should go get Botan. If we stay here for a while then he'll probably get tired of waiting and just come over to us.'

Namida sat petting Shippou and Kirara and they both sat on her lap purring. She smiled and giggled like a girl. Musuko, Honey, and Inu Yasha watched her in confusion.

"What is up with her?" Honey said. She didn't like watching her act so innocent and decided to get up and push her over. And that's exactly what she did. Namida fell over surprised. Shippou and Kirara jumped out of her lap and looked at her.

Everyone waited for Inu Onna to get up and start cussing at her. Namida pulled herself up with a groan and looked at Honey with a surprised look, "What do you want?" she asked meakly.

"You know, you become a real wimp when you're a human." She said and kicked Inu Onna again. Namida rubbed her arm and fought back tears of pain. Inu Yasha and Kagome jumped up and went over to the wolf demoness.

"Hey there!" Inu Yasha said angrily.

"Hachimitsu, that was a little too rough, now apologize to your sister." Kagome said.

Honey looked down at Inu Onna with a scrunched up nose and said, "I'd rather eat my tail." She walked away with her tail swishing angrily. (An: Oh, I'm sorry, did I forget to mention she had a tail?)

'I don't understand,' Namida thought, looking down at the ground, 'I cloned her to be my best friend.'

Kagome came over and offered Namida a hand. She helped her up and said, "Come on, let's go find a hot spring."

Namida smiled and said, "Okay!"

Kagome went and grabbed a bunch of towels and shampoo and the group of girls were off.



Honey jumped into the air and did a cannonball into the springs, splashing water on everyone.

"Hey!" Sango shouted. Kagome laughed and Sango jumped in.

"My splash was bigger!" Honey said.

Sango splashed her and Kagome climbed in and joined their water fight.

Namida stuck her bare foot in and pulled it out quick, "YAH! OWIE!" she sat on the grass and blew on her steaming toes.

"Wuss." Honey mumbled.

Kagome waded over to her. "If it's too hot for you, just get in a little at a time. It's not that hot after a while."

Namida gulped. She turned around and started to ease herself in. Suddenly, Kagome notice something. Inu Onna's back, there was no scar!





The boys sat in a circle of silence around the campfire. There were some sticks pointed into the flames with little lizards and snakes stuck on the end of them. Musuko broke the silence, "I think they're done." He picked up his stick and poked at the roasted reptile, then took a large bite out of it. But some of the men's minds were wandering to somewhere else.

Shippou grabbed his lizard on a stick and took a bite.

"Why don't we go erm, check on the girls." Miroku said getting up. Inu Yasha grabbed the back of his shirt and sat him back down.

"What?!" the priest said.

"You are sick." Inu Yasha said.

Miroku leaned over toward Musuko and Kouga, "Sometimes I wonder if he's a man or not."

Inu Yasha's ear twitched, "Excuse me, little man?"

"Oh nothing," Miroku winked at the other guys, "It's just that sometimes you try a little to hard to keep us away from the girls, in fact you just push yourself away from girls and I'm just wondering why-"

"Reverse psychology won't work on me, Monk." Inu Yasha said.

"NANCY!" Miroku sang in a high-pitched voice.

"WHAT?!" Inu Yasha jumped up and shouted. "Who are you calling a Nancy!"

"Then you'll let us go to the hot spring?" Musuko said.

"Go ahead." Sango said as the group of girls walked back into camp. "We're all done."

"Nevermind." Miroku said and he and Musuko sat with disappointed looks on their faces."



Dawn had come, sooner then Namida wanted. She had played cards with Inu Onna's friends, played Truth or dare, listened to their arguments and got to sleep in a sleepingbag. Everyone sat and watched as the sun started to rise.

'Oh well,' she sighed and thought sadly, 'It was fun while it lasted.'

Inu Yasha's hair started to turn white, his claws and fangs grew in and his ears popped up on his head. Kagome's scent came back too but it would be easier to control himself, for a while...

"Hey," Honey said. "Why aren't you a demon again." She poked Namida in the arm. Namida just stared on with flat sadness, looking like she didn't even notice.

"I know why." Musuko said standing up. "Because she's not Inu Onna."

Everyone looked at Musuko then to Namida.

"What are you talking about, Musuko?" Miroku asked.

"I know her better then anyone else. And I can see it in everything she does, like a sixth sense. She probably doesn't even have the scar from Naraku."

'Of course.' Kagome thought and looked at Inu Onna, "Who are you?"

Suddenly her scent changed, Inu Yasha and the other dognosed demons in the group noticed.

"Naraku!" Kouga said with a growl.

"And Kikyo!" Inu Yasha cracked his knuckles.

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