Chapter V: A Magical Cure
Sango now had the dolls in her hands and was running to a building in the center of the village.
"Are you sure these people can help, Sango?"
Shippou looked uneasily up at her.
"I'm sure. If anyone can do it, they can."
Sango jogged into the building, up the stairs, and into the second door to the left and continued twisting and turning around corners.
She sure knows where she's going. Shippou thought. Then finally up one spiral staircase, they came to a great oak door in the center of a very long hallway. Sango opened the great oak door.
"Master Sehashi! Please, I now need your help more than ever! You said years ago you could counter any curse. Please help my friends."
"Lady Sango, calm down. Help is given when it is asked of."
Master Sehashi was aged, maybe seventy or eighty years old. He was short, with silvery gray hair that poured onto the wooden floor boards below him like silk. He had bright blue eyes, and a young woman by his side.
"Lady Sango and company, I'd like to introduce you to my maid, Sesshami. Sesshami, this is Lady Sango, the demon exterminator and- what is your name, son?"
"Shippou." Shippou replied.
"Ah yes. Well, I hope you can all become friends. Sesshami, would you lead Lady Sango and er...Sir Shipoo to their bedrooms?"
"Yes, sir." Sesshami replied cheerfully.
"And sir," Shippou said as he started to follow Sesshami and Sango.
"Yes?"
"With all due respect, my name's Shippou, not Shipoo."
"I'll have to remember that. Thank you, Shippou."
Shippou nodded in agreement and followed the two women out the oak doors.
Sesshami had shoulder-length light brown hair, almost a rust color, and bright green, cheery eyes. She was shorter than Sango and seemed to be young indeed. Sesshami was maybe eleven, possibly twelve.
"Here is your room." she said as she pointed into a scarlet lamp-lit room with one large bed and the other a bit smaller.
"There is food in the cabinets and emergency weapons and supplies under the loose floorboard under your bed. You may find some of them very interesting and of use."
With that, Sesshami walked out of the doorway, leaving Sango and Shippou gazing at the spot she'd been in awe.
"Wow, she must really know this place, room by room." Sango said quietly.
"Yeah..." Shippou replied.
At ten o'clock, Master Sehashi came into the room quietly.
"Pssst! Lady Sango! Wake up!" he whispered loudly in Sango's ear.
"What? Oh, Master Sehashi! I had no idea-"
Sehashi held up a hand to silence her.
"It is quite alright. I was just wondering if you wanted me to take the dolls now and I could have them back to their human form by tomorrow morning. Would you like me to?"
"Oh," Sango said monotonously. She dug into the pockets of her skirt and pulled out three little dolls. "Here you go, sir."
"I will have them fixed by morning," Sehashi said in a happy voice. "Good night, Lady Sango."
"Good night, Master Sehashi." she replied.
As Sehashi was walking back to his room, he was examining the dolls very care fully.
"Hmm...This is no ordinary curse. It takes a great sorcerer to conjure this kind of magic...hmm...."
For many hours, Sehashi sat in his room, staring blankly into the InuYasha doll's black, beady eyes. Then when he started to doze of, he heard a small voice come from somewhere.
"Hey, what's the deal, you old wind bag?!"
Sehashi looked down to see that the little InuYasha doll had sprung to life. He smiled and started to laugh as he pulled on InuYasha's ears and made him do a funny dance.
"Hey stop that, you creepy old man! Lemme go! Let go of me, NOW!"
But as hard as InuYasha tried, he could not escape Sehashi's hands.
"InuYasha! Stop being so disrespectful!"
Another microscopic voice came from inside the drawer. Sehashi opened the drawer and out popped the Kagome doll. Kagome looked up at him pleadingly and said "I'm very sorry for InuYasha vile behavior. He is one would say...an untrained dog."
At those last three words, InuYasha stopped biting and struggling from Sehashi's hands.
"UNTRAINED DOG?!?! WHO ARE YOU TO CALL ME AN 'UNTRAINED' DOG?!"
InuYasha was furious at the cunning grin on Kagome's face. Miroku then arose from what seemed to be the dead.
"My ..." he said, rubbing his head slowly. "What happened? I'm so small! And so are you! And that elderly man is indeed abnormally large! What's going on?"
"Don't worry, Miroku," Kagome assured. "He'll break the spell."
"I'm confused." sighed Miroku, now scratching the back of his head.
"Welcome to my world!"
InuYasha had finally escaped Sehashi's grasp and limped over to the center of his desk towards Kagome and Miroku.
"I'm going to need you all to go over to the round rug in the center of the room." Sehashi said shortly.
"Why, you old geezer?" InuYasha snapped.
"So I can turn you back to normal, of course."
"Oh," said InuYasha quietly. "Okay then."
They all jumped down off the desk and crawled to the middle of the floor.
"Magnifiso Sizeo Repairo!" Sehashi shouted.
There was a flash of green light and a high-pitched note that sounded like someone was screaming bloody murder. But in a matter of seconds, it was gone.
InuYasha, Kagome, and Miroku stand stupefied in the middle of the room. Since their clothes had been so small when they grew back to normal size, they had been torn. InuYasha stared at Kagome blankly.
"Stop looking, you pervert! OSUWARI!"
When InuYasha fell to the ground, it gave Sehashi a startle.
"Sorry you had to see that, sir." Kagome said in a soft voice.
"Um..that's quite all right."
Senashi got some blankets and gave them to Kagome, Miroku, and InuYasha. The three started to head to the door when they heard a small bell and stopped.
"You don't know where their room is?" Senashi asked.
"No," Miroku replied. "but we'll find it."
"That's okay, I'll just get Sesshami."
He rang the bell once more. Sesshami was in her room, asleep on her mat. She heard the bell faintly and tried to get up. Momentarily, she walked into the room.
"Ah, there you are, Sesshami! I thought something happened to you when you didn't come."
"I'm quite all right, thank you, Master. So, shall I lead these people to Lady Sango's and Sir Shippou's room?"
"Would you kindly?" Senashi asked in a weak voice.
"With pleasure." Sesshami said with a small bow. "This way, please."
Miroku, InuYasha, and Kagome followed silently behind her. Sesshami soon stopped at the doorway of a scarlet lamp-lit room .
"Lady Sango, I've brought your friends, if you want to see them."
Sango emerged to the doorway.
"Thank you, Sesshami."
"Your welcome. If you need anything, just ring that bell over there on the night table. Goodnight."
Sesshami started back down the hall.
"She's nice..." Miroku thought to himself as he watched Sesshami continue down the dark hallway.
"There are beds over there, guys. It's really comfy!" Sango said cheerfully.
"Get a good night's sleep, because we're leaving first thing in the morning!" InuYasha yawned as he climbed into one of the beds.
A few hours later, Sesshami came to their door and cracked it a little bit. She saw that none of them were awake, and entered the scarlet lit room. She had a bundle of clothing, which was a powder blue kimono, and two sets of robes. These clothes were for Kagome, Miroku, and InuYasha. She set the clothes on the night table. Sesshami also dug into her pocket, obviously looking for something. Then she pulled something out, something large and shiny. It was a chunk of the Shikon jewel.
Sango now had the dolls in her hands and was running to a building in the center of the village.
"Are you sure these people can help, Sango?"
Shippou looked uneasily up at her.
"I'm sure. If anyone can do it, they can."
Sango jogged into the building, up the stairs, and into the second door to the left and continued twisting and turning around corners.
She sure knows where she's going. Shippou thought. Then finally up one spiral staircase, they came to a great oak door in the center of a very long hallway. Sango opened the great oak door.
"Master Sehashi! Please, I now need your help more than ever! You said years ago you could counter any curse. Please help my friends."
"Lady Sango, calm down. Help is given when it is asked of."
Master Sehashi was aged, maybe seventy or eighty years old. He was short, with silvery gray hair that poured onto the wooden floor boards below him like silk. He had bright blue eyes, and a young woman by his side.
"Lady Sango and company, I'd like to introduce you to my maid, Sesshami. Sesshami, this is Lady Sango, the demon exterminator and- what is your name, son?"
"Shippou." Shippou replied.
"Ah yes. Well, I hope you can all become friends. Sesshami, would you lead Lady Sango and er...Sir Shipoo to their bedrooms?"
"Yes, sir." Sesshami replied cheerfully.
"And sir," Shippou said as he started to follow Sesshami and Sango.
"Yes?"
"With all due respect, my name's Shippou, not Shipoo."
"I'll have to remember that. Thank you, Shippou."
Shippou nodded in agreement and followed the two women out the oak doors.
Sesshami had shoulder-length light brown hair, almost a rust color, and bright green, cheery eyes. She was shorter than Sango and seemed to be young indeed. Sesshami was maybe eleven, possibly twelve.
"Here is your room." she said as she pointed into a scarlet lamp-lit room with one large bed and the other a bit smaller.
"There is food in the cabinets and emergency weapons and supplies under the loose floorboard under your bed. You may find some of them very interesting and of use."
With that, Sesshami walked out of the doorway, leaving Sango and Shippou gazing at the spot she'd been in awe.
"Wow, she must really know this place, room by room." Sango said quietly.
"Yeah..." Shippou replied.
At ten o'clock, Master Sehashi came into the room quietly.
"Pssst! Lady Sango! Wake up!" he whispered loudly in Sango's ear.
"What? Oh, Master Sehashi! I had no idea-"
Sehashi held up a hand to silence her.
"It is quite alright. I was just wondering if you wanted me to take the dolls now and I could have them back to their human form by tomorrow morning. Would you like me to?"
"Oh," Sango said monotonously. She dug into the pockets of her skirt and pulled out three little dolls. "Here you go, sir."
"I will have them fixed by morning," Sehashi said in a happy voice. "Good night, Lady Sango."
"Good night, Master Sehashi." she replied.
As Sehashi was walking back to his room, he was examining the dolls very care fully.
"Hmm...This is no ordinary curse. It takes a great sorcerer to conjure this kind of magic...hmm...."
For many hours, Sehashi sat in his room, staring blankly into the InuYasha doll's black, beady eyes. Then when he started to doze of, he heard a small voice come from somewhere.
"Hey, what's the deal, you old wind bag?!"
Sehashi looked down to see that the little InuYasha doll had sprung to life. He smiled and started to laugh as he pulled on InuYasha's ears and made him do a funny dance.
"Hey stop that, you creepy old man! Lemme go! Let go of me, NOW!"
But as hard as InuYasha tried, he could not escape Sehashi's hands.
"InuYasha! Stop being so disrespectful!"
Another microscopic voice came from inside the drawer. Sehashi opened the drawer and out popped the Kagome doll. Kagome looked up at him pleadingly and said "I'm very sorry for InuYasha vile behavior. He is one would say...an untrained dog."
At those last three words, InuYasha stopped biting and struggling from Sehashi's hands.
"UNTRAINED DOG?!?! WHO ARE YOU TO CALL ME AN 'UNTRAINED' DOG?!"
InuYasha was furious at the cunning grin on Kagome's face. Miroku then arose from what seemed to be the dead.
"My ..." he said, rubbing his head slowly. "What happened? I'm so small! And so are you! And that elderly man is indeed abnormally large! What's going on?"
"Don't worry, Miroku," Kagome assured. "He'll break the spell."
"I'm confused." sighed Miroku, now scratching the back of his head.
"Welcome to my world!"
InuYasha had finally escaped Sehashi's grasp and limped over to the center of his desk towards Kagome and Miroku.
"I'm going to need you all to go over to the round rug in the center of the room." Sehashi said shortly.
"Why, you old geezer?" InuYasha snapped.
"So I can turn you back to normal, of course."
"Oh," said InuYasha quietly. "Okay then."
They all jumped down off the desk and crawled to the middle of the floor.
"Magnifiso Sizeo Repairo!" Sehashi shouted.
There was a flash of green light and a high-pitched note that sounded like someone was screaming bloody murder. But in a matter of seconds, it was gone.
InuYasha, Kagome, and Miroku stand stupefied in the middle of the room. Since their clothes had been so small when they grew back to normal size, they had been torn. InuYasha stared at Kagome blankly.
"Stop looking, you pervert! OSUWARI!"
When InuYasha fell to the ground, it gave Sehashi a startle.
"Sorry you had to see that, sir." Kagome said in a soft voice.
"Um..that's quite all right."
Senashi got some blankets and gave them to Kagome, Miroku, and InuYasha. The three started to head to the door when they heard a small bell and stopped.
"You don't know where their room is?" Senashi asked.
"No," Miroku replied. "but we'll find it."
"That's okay, I'll just get Sesshami."
He rang the bell once more. Sesshami was in her room, asleep on her mat. She heard the bell faintly and tried to get up. Momentarily, she walked into the room.
"Ah, there you are, Sesshami! I thought something happened to you when you didn't come."
"I'm quite all right, thank you, Master. So, shall I lead these people to Lady Sango's and Sir Shippou's room?"
"Would you kindly?" Senashi asked in a weak voice.
"With pleasure." Sesshami said with a small bow. "This way, please."
Miroku, InuYasha, and Kagome followed silently behind her. Sesshami soon stopped at the doorway of a scarlet lamp-lit room .
"Lady Sango, I've brought your friends, if you want to see them."
Sango emerged to the doorway.
"Thank you, Sesshami."
"Your welcome. If you need anything, just ring that bell over there on the night table. Goodnight."
Sesshami started back down the hall.
"She's nice..." Miroku thought to himself as he watched Sesshami continue down the dark hallway.
"There are beds over there, guys. It's really comfy!" Sango said cheerfully.
"Get a good night's sleep, because we're leaving first thing in the morning!" InuYasha yawned as he climbed into one of the beds.
A few hours later, Sesshami came to their door and cracked it a little bit. She saw that none of them were awake, and entered the scarlet lit room. She had a bundle of clothing, which was a powder blue kimono, and two sets of robes. These clothes were for Kagome, Miroku, and InuYasha. She set the clothes on the night table. Sesshami also dug into her pocket, obviously looking for something. Then she pulled something out, something large and shiny. It was a chunk of the Shikon jewel.