What Two Little Kids Can Do,



Chapter Four:

Caught Two Ways...





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"Onii-chan, what do you think they're doing in there?" Masako asked her brother as they waited for Inuyasha and Kagome to come back in the Goshinboku.



"I don't know, Okaa-chan's probably doing 'it' to Otou-san, or wait... she might call it 'playing the osawari game' now, ne?" He asked sarcastilly glaring at her.



"Hey, I said I'm sorry." She defended.



"Yeah, well 'sorry' ain't going to make Okaa-chan or Otou-san forget what happened, is it." He told her sneering as he crossed his arms over his chest.



"Well, it's the best I can do." She told him huffily. "I forgot, I mean, it doesn't seem like, we're not in the right time, Okaa-chan and Otou-san look the same as they do in our time, and Okaa-chan acts the same too, I just forgot." She said now losing her temper.



"Well you can't, Okaa-chan may be dense, but Otou-san is figuring it out. Have you forgotten that just like us he can smell blood? It's only a matter of time before he smells his blood in us, and Okaa-chan's too." He answered angrily.



"Oh... I forgot about that." She answered quietly.



"Yeah, obviously." He answered now glaring up at the moon, which was almost full.



"Great." He muttered, "By tomorrow night the moon will be full."



"No it won't, it won't be full for at least seven days, you know that." Masako responded with out looking at the moon.



"Oh yeah, look at it." He told her pointing at it.



She looked upward she saw the sun slowly setting in the west, and the moon slowly rising in the east, she also saw that the moon was about 15/16 full. "Oh, well I guess it's a different time of the month here than in our time, sorry." She apologized half defensively, half sincerely.



"Yeah, this is great, so what are we going to do, disappear for a night, or show them?" Kawainu asked looking at his sister questioningly.



"Well, we could just show them, I don't understand why not, I mean, it's not like we can't trust them." She reasoned looking at her brother for his approval.



"No we couldn't don't you remember when we were three Okaa-chan saying that you look like her like that?" He asked putting his hands in his lap and dropping his tough act for now.



"Yeah, but what's wrong with that?" Masako asked putting her finger to her chin and looking up thinking hard.



"You baka, I already look enough like Otou-san, the only reason that you don't look more like Okaa-chan is because of your demon blood, but tomorrow you'll look just like her, and I'll look just like Otou-san does when he goes full demon, you know that." Kawainu responded rolling his eyes, but his face and voice were serious.



"Yeah, but I still think that we should tell them." Masako said answered quietly.



"I should have known not to ask you." Kawainu responded rolling his eyes once again.



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"Inuyasha, we should go back now, Sango, Miroku and Shippou will probably be back by now, and Kawainu and Masako might come looking for us." Kagome said softly as she looked up at Inuyasha with a sweet smile on her lips.



"Feh, but I don't wanna." He told her whining like a little boy.



"Yeah, I don't want to either, but some times you have to do things that you don't want to, that's the way life is." She responded putting on a mock serious face.



"I hate it when you make sense." He muttered just loud enough for her to hear from her position in his arms.



Inuyasha was sitting down on the ground at the base of a tree, and Kagome was sitting on his lap with his arms wrapped around her. They had both fallen asleep like that, and had just woken up a few minutes ago to a rising moon.



"That would make two of us." Kagome said smiling happily.



"What, you hate it when you make sense too?" He asked looking down at her with curiosity in his amber eyes, which held a warm caring expression that he would only ever show for her.



"No, silly, I hate it when you make sense." She told him laughing, but she stopped when she caught the look in his golden eyes.



"Inuyasha..." She said softly as she slowly started losing herself in his golden orbs.



He was looking directly into her eyes too, letting himself get lost in her gray-blue pools. She noticed his look, it made part of her feel scared, part of her feel safe, but mostly it made her happy. Unconsciously she slowly started to twist her self around in his lap as he leaned down closer to her and she leaned into him further, slowly bringing her face up to meet his.



**BANG** **CRASH**



Kagome and Inuyasha suddenly broke apart, both turning a very bright shade of red when they realized the position they were in. They quickly untangled them selves but Inuyasha still held onto Kagome protectively.



"Shit." Inuyasha whispered under his breath thinking that Kagome couldn't hear, but she did.



"Um... Inuyasha shouldn't we go see what that was." Kagome asked trying to control her blushing.



"Huh, yeah." Inuyasha responded grabbing lower back with one hand and putting the other under her knees and jumping up into the trees and leaping three to them until he found the area that the sound had come from.



"Yeap." Kagome squeaked both because of Inuyasha's sudden movement, and because of whom she found had been spying on them.



"YOU TWO!!!" Inuyasha yelled at the to people he saw had been up in the tree. He wasn't yelling as much because they were spying as he was because they had stopped him from kissing ~his~ Kagome.



"Inuyasha, don't yell at them, give them a chance to explain." Kagome said wiggling a little bit to get back on her feet, but keeping her eyes on the two four year olds.



"Feh." Was his only response. He let her out of his grip but didn't hesitate in putting his arms around her waist and pulling her against him as he continued to glare at the two small children in front of him.



"Okay, so Masako-chan, Kawainu-kun why were you to up in the trees." Kagome asked softly smiling at them gently, not wanting them to feel intimidated.



"Well, we were coming to find you Kagome-mama." Masako answered smiling up at her with stars in her eyes.



"Kagome-... mama?" Kagome asked slowly starring at Masako with a questioning glance.



"Oops." Masako whispered looking in the direction of her brother pleadingly. He glared back harshly.



"What she means is um, she was um, well see, we were um talking, about... about... about, we were talking about our Okaa-chan, and she looks kind of like you, and Masako is always mixing up her thoughts with names, yeah, that's all." Kawainu answered looking at Kagome nervously, hoping that she would buy it.



"Oh, well, okay." Kagome said not entirely believing it, but she didn't want to question them about it. Inuyasha didn't by it at all, and unlike Kagome he hadn't forgotten Masako's 'osawari.'



"Feh, whatever." Inuyasha responded, but sent the twins a look that said he would put them through intense questioning later from where his head was resting on Kagome's shoulder.





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"Ah, we have arrived back at the village." Miroku said as he and Sango walked towards Kaeda's hut smiling cheerfully.



"Yeah," She answered absent-mindedly as she begun to run towards Kaeda.



"Kaeda-sama how is Kirira?" Sango asked her quickly.



"She's do- Oh." Kaeda started but was interrupted by a happy meow.



"Kirira!" Sango exclaimed happily as she dropped to her knees to hug her little fire kitten.



"Ah, how sweet, but really Sango I'm hurt when I was ill you didn't give me a hug." Miroku said putting on a mock said face that looked, but wasn't, very sincere.



"That's because you're a lecher." Sango answered with indifference deciding not to hit him because she was too happy that Kirira was well.



"Mmm, whatever could you mean, my small touches are none but friendly affection toward my lovely friend, who would happen to be you." He said in a cheerful manner with a smile on his face.



"Yeah, if you weren't a lecher, I might believe that." She stated indifferently.



'Oh, those two will never change..." Kaeda thought as she tried to hide a small smile.



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"Where are they?" Asked a man with long black stringy hair and cold red garnet eyes.



"We don't know, their presence has disappeared." A young youkai woman wearing a kimono that contrasted her ruby eyes answered.



"WHAT!" The man yelled outraged. "They're crucial to the plan unless you find them than we could be destroyed, the priestess' powers are growing as we speak." He hissed angrily, his eyes bulging as he abruptly stood up in his chair.



"I know that, but we can't find them, we can't sense them their presence disappeared last night, and part of the Shikon no Tama did too." The woman replied in an exasperated voice, the frustration showing in her eyes.



"I don't care, find them or else..." He responded trailing off dangerously.



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"Sango-chan!" Kagome yelled happily as she began to remove herself form her position on Inuyasha's back. After she had slid off she ran toward her best friend happily.



"Kagome-chan, how are you guys, was Inuyasha mean while we were gone?" Sango asked with a concerned glance.



"Actually, he was rather... nice." She said hesitating slightly as she remembered what had almost happened in the forest, and how extra possessive Inuyasha had been since then.



"Mmm, okay." Sango answered but sent her a glance that said they were going to the hot springs later, A.K.A. 'Girl talk'.



"Hey, Kagome-chan, what are you and Sango-obaa talking about?" Masako asked as she pulled on the hem of Kagome's green skirt.



"What did you just say?" Sango asked the little girl as she dropped to her knees to be eye-too-eye with her.



"I said Sango-chan, yes, Sango-chan." Masako hurriedly corrected her self, sweat dropping.



"Okay," Sango answered quietly, but she than seemed to remember the other questions she had before she had mistaken what the small girl had called her.



"Hi, I'm Sango, but I guess you already know that, what's your name?" Sango asked putting on a warm bright smile.



"I'm Masako, it's nice to meet you Sango; can I call you Sango-chan because you're really nice?" Masako asked her smiling sweetly at her.



"Of course you can, and you're so polite, did your mother teach you to be?" Sango asked very curious by this little girl who had managed to make her flush for a simple complement, she was like Kagome.



"Yes she did, she is very polite too." Masako answered, her smile slightly faltered but not too much to notice.



"Where is your mother?" Sango asked still smiling.



"Well, she gave me and my brother Kawainu these wei-" She started but was cut of abruptly by Kawainu who bounded over and covered her mouth quickly with his hand.



"Huh, Inuyasha, how did you turn into a little kid?" Sango asked starring at Kawainu curiously, she now forgotten her previous question.



"WHAT! DON'T EVER CONFUSE ME WITH THAT IMMATURE, LOUD, RUDE, SELF-CENTERED, BAKA!" Kawainu yelled loud enough to shake the whole village which caused several stares from the villagers; who would have normally shot arrows toward the two demon pups but by know were used to their strange protectors having equally, if not more, strange guests.



"Um, some how I take it that he doesn't like Inuyasha." Sango whispered to Kagome as she glanced curiously down at Kawainu.



"They don't get along well." Kagome whispered back, but knew it was useless because she had already found out that both twins could here very well.



"You know I can hear that right." Kawainu asked folding his arms over his chest and glaring up at them.



"Well, yes, but it's a bit of a forcing habit." Kagome answered quietly a little embarrassed.



"Whatever." He huffed as his ears flicked in the direction that Inuyasha was running toward him from.



"Oi, brat, what did you just call me?" Inuyasha asked as he stopped running and stood glaring at Kawainu.



"He acts like Inuyasha too." Sango whispered to Kagome even though she new that they could hear.



"Yeah," Kagome answered nodding her head as she stared at the exchange between them.



"HEY, DON'T COMPARE ME TO HIM!" Both Kawainu and Inuyasha yelled at the same time pointing at each other, but turning to glare at Kagome and Sango.



"Gees, sorry." Answered Sango, but they had gone back to yelling insults at each other.



"Hey, Kagome-chan, can I go take a bath in the hot springs?" Masako asked Kagome tugging on her skirt to get her attention



"Well, I don't know if you should go by your self, the forest is kind of dangerous especially at night." Kagome answered slowly.



"Well than can you come with me?" She asked her looking up at her with big puppy dog eyes.



"Um, what do you think Sango?" She asked her best friend, hopping that if Masako went with their would be no questioning and because they went than their would be no excuse to go to the hot springs again.



"Okay, I don't see why not." Sango answered glancing between Kawainu and Inuyasha, Kagome and Masako, and Miroku and deciding that out of these people she would rather be taking a relaxing bath and talking with Kagome instead of listing to the two inu-youkai fight or being stuck with the lecherous Miroku.



"YAY!" Masako yelled happily with a big smile on her face as she began to race in the direction of the hot springs.



"Hey, Onee-chan, if you smell that lecher smiling on you tell me so that I can tear him to shreds." Kawainu yelled after his sister, but was still glaring at Inuyasha fiercely.



"OKAY!" Masako yelled over her shoulder to him, to happy to pay any attention to what he had said.



"Kagome-chan, are you sure that Inuyasha and that little boy aren't related?" Sango asked skeptically.



"I don't know, he could be his little brother but I think Inuyasha would know, and Kawainu's his name." Kagome told her as they started to walk off in the direction of the hot springs.



'I wonder, who are those two? I'm going to find out.' Sango vowed to her self.





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Konnichiwa Minna-san,

I hope everyone liked this chapter, I know it's been awhile since I updated, but tests are killers. I would like to thank reviewers, they inspire me so much. Oh, I've decided that I will do 'shout outs' every other chapter, but I would like to give a special thanks to Princess Sapphire, who has reviewed every chapter for all of my stories, your too nice. Thank you.



Next Chapter: In the Hot Springs...