Author's note- Sorry about the cliffhanger ^_^. I couldn't think of how to word the chapter. Anyway, thank you to all of the reviewers!

Disclaimer- I do not own Inuyasha.

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Nobody's Listening


Chapter 2

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"Die... pitiful human!" The scorpion-youkai said, raising its clawed tail to hit Miroku. Miroku put his staff in front of him to block the blow as the velocity of the attack sent him flying into a building's wall (ouch). Miroku was stunned for a minute, before he got back up and glared at the scorpion-youkai.

The scorpion-youkai felt the sharp pain that felt like a purified sword went through its body. He looked down to see the houshi's staff embedded in the youkai's fleshy chest. He roared in pain, before pulling it out.

"Heh. I knew you'd be able to do that," Miroku said. "But what you didn't know is that the very tip of my staff is covered in a special taiji-ya's poison." The scorpion-youkai looked down at Miroku, as his vision got blurry. "And I added more than she usually uses."

"The Shikon no... Tama shall... be... mine..." The youkai said, before it collapsed. Miroku wiped the dirt from his robes.

"Well... that was unusually easy," Miroku said. "Wait, didn't they say two youkai?" He looked around, and walked around the village. It was slightly quiet, but he did see a few eyes peek out from the buildings. So some villagers didn't leave, did they?


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Sango growled as she undressed from her kimono to put on her taiji-ya hunting suit. That last suitor was really annoying. It frankly reminded her of Jaken. She shivered at the thought as she pulled her hair into the high ponytail she usually sported.

"Sango? Where are ye going?" Kaede asked, as she walked in.

"Out," Sango answered, curtly, walking out of the hut. She, herself, didn't know where she was going, but Sango didn't care. She just wanted to be away from this village for awhile. Waiting for Miroku had made her slightly vulnerable. She was going to train some more.


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"That monk..." Miroku heard from around him. "I've heard of him... isn't he the thief?" Miroku sighed, and continued to walk.

"Excuse me, but I will not steal your belongings," Miroku announced. "I would just like to know where the second youkai is hiding in your village so I may cleanse the impure spirit looming over."

No answer. Well, he tried, that's all he could say. He turned in the opposite direction, before he felt a tug on his robes. He turned, and saw a small girl, about the size of Rin when he last saw her (ie - when he was at Sesshoumaru's fortress in Betrayal), except her eyes were a bright gray.

"Help us! Please!" She said. "Follow me to the youkai, sir Priest!" Miroku followed the little girl to a fountain. "He's in there!" Miroku, on the other hand, couldn't feel anything coming from the fountain.

"I..."

"It's in there, I swear!" The girl yelled. "Please! The youkai took my Mama!" Miroku walked up to the fountain.

"Come out," He said, "Or I shall force you out." Nothing. Miroku looked back at the girl, and said, "There's nothing in there!" Well, he almost said it, until he felt himself being pulled up. He turned, as well as he could, to see that he was in another scorpion-youkai's grasp. "Uh oh..."

He was thrown into another building, and, like the last time, he got out. 'Is that all they do?! THROW MEN INTO WALLS?!!' Miroku asked himself, as he got his staff ready to attack.


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"Sango-sama!" She heard behind her. She turned to see Toramaru, a child from the village, run up to her.

"What is it, Toramaru?" Sango asked, putting Hiraikotsu down. "What's wrong?"
"It's... Kaede-sama! She... fainted!" Toramaru said, as he tried to take in air. "She can't move!"

Sango followed the child through the forest until she ran into Kaede's hut. Sure enough, there was Kaede on the floor, unconscious. Sango knelt down, and, placing her forefingers by the miko's throat, she tried to find Kaede's heartbeat. She found it, but it was very shallow.

Sango continued to look around Kaede for some obvious reason why she fell, but she couldn't find any.

"Toramaru, get some of Kaede-sama's herbs, and bring them to me," Sango said. "Go, Now!"

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"You... killed... my child..." The youkai said. It had a slight female accent to its voice. 'Oh no, it's the mother.' Miroku thought. Suddenly, he had a painful urge to have his Kaza Ana back on his hand.

"And I'll do the very same to you," Miroku answered, readying himself for an attack. SLAM! Right into another wall went our favorite monk.

"Foolish monk. And to think you are the one that has the Shikon no Tama..." The youkai said. Miroku got up (a/n- all of those beatings Sango gave him protected his cranium from damage), and looked at the youkai.

"As I told your child. I do not have the Shikon no Tama!" Miroku yelled. "It's been purified!" The youkai stopped in its movements, which were to hit Miroku again.

"You lie..." The youkai told him, and, running up to him, raised her claws up to slice Miroku in half, when our monk used his staff to impale the youkai.

"A monk will never lie," Miroku said, twisting the staff, and then pulling it out, painfully. He watched as the youkai collapsed on the ground. "That was easy... too easy..."


What he didn't notice was two familiar emerald eyes watching him.


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A/n Here's an Easter present for you readers! ^_^ Hope you enjoy, and sorry about the wait!