Inuwhat: I don't GIVE UP on my stories okay???? It just...bores be sometimes...but I end up interested once more with different ideas for my stories.

So don't get grumpy at me okay?

I said no disclaimers right???

...Hm....maybe it was a different story... Oh well...

Chapter 3:

New Recruits.

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"Oof." Kagome said as the dog boy dumped her onto the floor.

"You could've at least dropped me closer to the ground..." Kagome said to the dog boy.

She had dropped from about five and a half feet in the air.

How would your bottom feel huh???

Well the dog boy didn't really care about her. He just left the room that he dumped her in.

So Kagome just sat there for a moment until a little boy with a poofy tale came up to her. Kagome stared for a moment. Then she smiled.

You could tell that this was a demon. But such a cute demon! How could one like this be so bad?

So Kagome took her chances and beckoned toward the little demon boy to come towards her.

The boy searched her with his eyes to make sure that there were no tricks. Then he took small steps toward her. Even for a demon, he was just as shy as anyone else.

"Don't be scared. I'm not going to hurt you. C'mon over here." Kagome said with a smile.

He took smaller steps.

'He's really shy...I wonder why...I'm not going to hurt him...' Kagome thought.

Just then, the red-eyed cat came in and saw Kagome. It leaped into her arms and purred lovingly. The little demon boy watched and then walked up a bit faster towards Kagome as well. Then he leaped onto her lap and stared into her eyes with his own-, which were actually really big if you compared them.

Kagome smiled and then the boy smiled back.

"Hi! My name is Shippou. She's Kirara."

"What's yours?" Shippou said.

"My name's Kagome. I don't want to seem rude or anything...But WHY AM I HERE?" Kagome said with the friendly, yet creepy tone.

"InuYasha brought you here!" Shippou said as he started playing tag with the cat on Kagome's lap.

"InuYasha?" Kagome said with curiosity. "Is that the name of that dog boy? InuYasha?"

"Yep!" Shippou said as he sat on Kirara's back and played rodeo.

Kagome suddenly looked around and noticed that she was in a bedroom in what looked like part of a rich castle.

She looked around for a window. There was one. Wide open. But did she need to escape? Wouldn't they let her go? This wasn't a hostage problem right? RIGHT?

"Hey Kagome...Kirara and I found some blood on your shirt. Want us to help you wash it off?" Shippou said, eyeing the red blot of blood on her shirt.

Then she remembered the cut she had on her stomach. And the even larger cut was on that dog-InuYasha.

But her cut still did sting a whole damn lot.

Kagome winced every time her shirt touched her stomach's cut skin.

"Um..." Kagome finally said.

"Have any band-aids around here?"

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"And WE have to be your recruits because?" a girl with long hair and a very large boomerang said with lowered eyes.

"Well, Kagome's your friends and you guys want to save her don't you? Sango, you're a demon exterminator too! Why-"

And Kouga was cut off.

"Jeez, I was kidding! We will okay? I can't imagine why some demon would even want Kagome for too! Unless he fell in love with her...Well, that would change a lot actually..." Sango trailed off.

"So we getting paid or what? Cause 'free' isn't the best word to fit myself." the guy said.

"Shut up. Miroku and Sango. You two are my recruits got that?" Kouga said angrily.

"Oh...I SEE...I always did know that you were in love with Kagome." Miroku said with mischievous eyes.

"SHUT THE HELL UP YOU GUYS!!! YOU'RE MY RECRUITS GOT THAT??? NOW EITHER YOU'RE HELPING ME SAVE KAGOME OR GO AWAY!" Kouga yelled loudly.

Birds flew out of the trees and the people around the hut stopped and stared.

"Fine, fine, we never get any fun now, do we now Sango?" Miroku said with a bit of humor in his voice.

"Yea--erk." Sango said with an edgy tone. Her head turned to Miroku's hand.

"HENTAI!!!!" She yelled.

"When I get my hands on you...." Sango said.

"Hug me to death?" Miroku suggested.

"You...!" Sango yelled as she hit his head with her boomerang.

"So you guys accept it? Okay? Okay. See you tomorrow!" Kouga said as he ran off to give them no chance to argue.

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Kagome was being bandaged and the stingy stuff that Shippou had brought back to the room was KILLING her.

"I don't want any more of that weird-Ite!!!!" Kagome yelled as she screamed ouch every time he put more on.

"That's all I want. Okay. That's all. (More on) EeeEe.... Go 'way..." Kagome said as she backed away.

"Oh fine." Shippou said.

"Here Kirara." Shippou said ass he handed her an end of the roll of bandages.

"Put your hands up in the air."

"Okay..." Kagome said.

Kirara started running around Kagome with the bandage in her mouth.

When Kirara stopped, Shippou tied it up.

"Thanks guys...um...Shippou? How long am I going to be here? I mean... I'm not going to stay here forever right?" Kagome asked.

"You don't like it here?" Shippou asked as he stared at her with a sad frown.

"N-no I like it here...I just want to know why I'm here..." Kagome said sheepishly.

(A/N: what kind of a word is SHEEPISHLY?)

"InuYasha just brought you here so you could be safe from the other demons!" Shippou said happily.

"I see..." Kagome said

"...But we all know that InuYasha has a thing for you." Shippou said as Kirara nodded.

"W-What? B-but we just met! H-he can't!" Kagome said with a rosy face.

"Kirara! If Kagome falls in love with him too, the curse will be over and we can finally be normal again!" Shippou exclaimed quietly but loud enough for Kagome to hear.

"What do you mean, 'be normal'?" Kagome asked suspiciously.

"This all happened because of some curse put onto this forest and castle. We never grow older, but we're stuck in the form as demons... This whole forest is enchanted..." Shippou said, looking down.

"So you guys aren't all demon naturally? It's all just a curse?" Kagome asked with a :/ face.

"Though most everyone and everything that was cursed became demon infested or demonized, there's a way out of it. If InuYasha falls in love with someone. The whole 'true love' thing." Shippou said.

Then he looked at Kagome.

"Will you fall in love with InuYasha?" he asked nicely.

"You can't force someone to fall in love with someone Shippou." Kagome said with a kind smile.

"But if I somehow do...I'll let you know."

Shippou smiled nicely but knew that was a 'no, I will not.' answer.

After a while of talking about it and explaining the curse and such, Shippou said that he was hungry and that they should go down for dinner.

Kagome smiled a bit and then said that she would come down, but she would like to do some exploring first.

Shippou nodded, and then he and Kirara left Kagome all alone in a gigantic room in a gigantic castle, it which she would have to explore.

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"When do we go?" Sango asked Kouga while hitting Miroku's head over and over again.

"Tomorrow night. We should sneak up on them first. If we can't do that...we just attack front wise." Kouga said determined.

"F-Ine." Miroku said, his head banginging like rubber at the boomerang. He scooted away and rubbed his head.

'Kagome...we're coming for you...' Kouga thought as in the background, Miroku had touched another woman from somewhere else's butt and Sango was now chasing him with more items.

A/N: Thanks for reviewing! I hope this chapter wasn't too short for you guys!

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