Summary: A/U It's the middle of the school year, yet there's alot of new faces around Kagome's school, but they are all connected somehow. What it is, or if it's good or bad, Kagome has yet to figure out, as she sorts out her feelings, and learn that their greatest secret lies not only in their identity, but in her backyard. The question, why they are here, lies in her, and the and the greatest evil of them all. I/K M/S
Once Upon a Time
by Kumori Ryuuzaki
Last Time: Inuyasha and Kouga paid no heed to them, and continue to beat the lights out of each other.
Until Kagome felt something. The same presence she felt back before the "muggers" attacked. Only the presence was slightly larger. Not to mention she felt something, it was twisted, and she had impression whatever that was giving off the engergy was pure evil. And it made her feel slightly woozy.
About the same time Kagome felt this, Sesshoumaru, Miroku, and Sango were staring up ahead in the direction of the strange presence, looking slightly ticked.. Inuyasha and Kouga stopped fighting, and said simultaneously, "Shit."
Chapter Three: The Fan and the Mirror
Kagome looked at the clearly ticked off group curiously. Why were they looking like they could rip someone's head off?
Abruptly, Sesshoumaru, Inuyasha, and Kouga seemlingly disappeared into thin air, and several blurs streaked past her. Miroku and Sango took off after them. Kagome was about to follow out of curiousity, when someone put their hand on her shoulder. Kagome turned and squeaked when she saw who it was.
It was the goddamn principal.
And she noticed a notebook on the ground with Sango's name on it.
And then she noticed that only she and the principal were in the front yard.
And she was twenty minutes late.
Joy.
~*~
Kagome was pissed. She had gotten detention for the rest of the week! And then her mind went back to when Miroku, Sango, Sesshoumaru, Kouga, and Inuyasha took off--it was as if they could sense the principal deciding to go on a walk! The nerve!
Kagome was snapped out of her thoughts, when she saw Miroku and Sango frantically run out into a pharmacy and into some other random store, carrying a plastic bags.
What were they up to, and why did they seem so scared?
She was gonna pay them a visit.
And Sango's notebook was the perfect excuse.
~*~
Kagome had made it up to the fifth floor and was now standing outside their door. She discovered that if she put her ear to the door, she could hear talking.
"Sesshoumaru, can you smell anything?" came Sango's voice.
"Besides blood and that revolting herb stuff? No, it's clogging up my nose," Sesshoumaru had answered.
"Inuyasha, hold still!" came a voice of an old woman, who sounded eerily similar to Kaede-sensei.
"Itai!! Damnit, baba!" Inuyasha cursed. "Damn, that fucking stings!"
"Inuyasha!" Miroku scolded. "Don't curse in front of Rin!"
"What does fucking mean?" came a little girl's voice.
"Don't say that word," Sesshoumaru replied. "It's a bad word."
"Okay, Sesshoumaru-sama!"
Kagome took her ear off the door and inhaled and exhaled deeply. She lifted a hand to knock, but the door was swung open and Sango ran into her.
"K..k..kagome...?" Sango stuttered, before hurriedly turning around and slamming the dor shut. SHe turned back. "It's...um...nice to see you..." Sango said nervously. "So, umm...what are you doing here?"
Yup, she was definately hiding something. Why else would she be so nervous sounding?
"I thought I visit," Kagome answered. SHe pulled out Sango's notebook. "This is yours, right?"
"Err...right!" Sango took the notebook. "Is there anything you--um...want?"
"No, I'd just thought I'd come by," Kagome shrugged. "Why, is everyone busy or something?"
Sango nodded furiously. "Everyone's busy, but umm...in a few days, we should all be free for whatever."
Kagome raised an eyebrow. Sango wasn't that bad at lying, was she?
"Family buisness," she said quickly. "Yes...family stuff..."
Kagome blinked. "Why, are you all related some how?"
"No...er...all our family is in Canada," Sango said quickly. She looked back at the door, and there was a loud thud. "I gotta go, see ya!" she ran back inside, slamming the door shut.
Yes, she was hiding something. She'd bet her shrine Sango was. And beleive it, she didn't really want to lose the shrine anytime soon.
Her grandpa would kill her.
And that shrine had her damn house.
~*~
In the next few days, Inuyasha, Sesshoumaru, Sango, Miroku, and Kouga came back to school. Miroku got a broken arm, and Inuyasha just looked like he had a fever. Kagome had mentioned this to Inuyasha, but it only ended up in an argument and them pissed at each other. Needless to say, it was pointless.
She was getting way too suspicious. Occasionly they be in a small group whispering. Whatever they were trying to hide, they weren't doing a very good job on it.
It was lunch time, and Kagome, and Inuyasha were sharing a table, waiting for Sango and Miroku. Kagome nearly jumped when Sango decided to sneak up on her, while Inuyasha seemed unfazed, still devouring his lunch.
"Big news Kagome!" Sango said, a bit nervous. "Well, we've got something to tell you after school at our apartment..."
Inuyasha nearly choked on his lunch. "TODAY????"
"It was agreed yesterday, Inuyasha," Miroku said calmly. "Weren't you listening?"
Inuyasha let out a "keh" and started to devour the rest of his lunch.
"Sure," Kagome said. "I'll be there after I finish detention."
"Great!" Sango and Miroku took a seat, and started a conversation with Inuyasha like nothing had happened at all.
Maybe they had practice...?
~*~
Kagome was anxiously jogging to the apartment Inuyasha and co. shared, eager to know what the heck was happening.
When she got to the door however, she saw Sango patiently waiting at the door. When Sango spotted her, she opened the door and motioned her to follow her. When Kagome got inside, she noticed six people sitting all around the apartment and a green toad. They were all wearing old fashion type of clothes, the type that came from the Sengoku Jidai, and even noticed Sango was also wearing a kimono for the first time. Inuyasha was hatless and had cute furry dog ears, while Sesshoumaru looked the same except for the markings on his face. There was a kawaii little boy with red hair, pointed ears, and a fluffly fox tail. Kouga also had a tail.
"Ummm..." Kagome started slowly. "...okay...Does anyone want to explain?"
The whole group stayed silent for awhile, until Miroku cleared his throat and stood up. "Just look at us. You'll get a good idea what we are and what we do for a living."
Kagome looked around. Nothing seemed to out of place, until she noticed the monk robes Miroku was wearing. "You've got to be kidding."
Miroku blinked. "Kidding? What makes you think I am kidding?"
"YOu can't be a monk!" Kagome shouted.
Miroku frowned, and he could very well hear the snickering from his friends. "I am too!" he said, clearly insulted.
"But since when were monks perverts?" Kagome asked.
"I'll have you know I am no diffrent than my forefathers," Miroku said stiffly.
"In other words," Inuyasha said coolly, "he comes from a long line of perverted monks."
Nearly everyone started laughing, Miroku never looked more insulted.
Kagome noticed it and said inbetween giggles, "Sorry, Miroku."
Miroku scowled and pouted, Sango giggled and patted him in the back. "She does have a point, Houshi-sama."
Miroku just pouted some more. Sango sighed and smiled at him.
"Come on Miroku, cheer up!" Sango demanded, but Miroku seemed to ignore her.
Inuyasha smirked and whispered to Kagome, "I know what'll cheer him up."
Kagome looked at him, and whispered back, "What?"
Inuyasha cleared his throat and glared at Miroku. "If you're just gonna sit there and pout all day, we'll never go to Sennyo!"
Miroku perked up. "Really?"
Inuyasha nodded.
Miroku just smiled and hummed happily to himself, before Sango whacked him with an oversized boomerang, and muttered, "Pervert..."
"Sennyo?" Kagome asked, blinking. What the heck was a 'sennyo'?
"A village full of women," Sesshoumaru answered coolly. "It's the bozou's dream come true."
Kagome looked at Miroku, who had a dreamy look on his face, and Sango seemed beyond pissed at Miroku and Inuyasha. She'd understand Miroku, but Inuyasha? Oh yeah, for promising to drop off Miroku at that Sennyo place.
A cute little girl wearing a checkered kimono went up to Sesshoumaru and tugged on a red and white sleeve. "Sesshoumaru-sama, why would Miro-chan want to go to a village full of girls?"
Sesshoumaru cleared his throat. "You'll know when you're older, Rin."
Rin nodded, a bit disappointed, but still happy. Weird huh? "Okay."
"Don't speak that way to Sesshoumaru-sama!" a green thing shouted at Rin.
"Sesshoumaru-sama!" Rin wailed. "Jaken-sama's being mean again!"
Sesshoumaru just nodded and squished Jaken with his foot.
Kagome sweatdropped. They were an odd bunch.
"Oh yeah," Miroku said, snapping his fingers. "I forgot!" He grabbed Kagome's hands. "Lady Kagome, would you please bar--"
Before Miroku could continue, Inuyasha and Sango were smacking and kicking him silly.
"DAMN BOZOU!" Inuyasha shouted, kicking him in the stomach. "WHAT KIND OF IDIOT ARE YOU??"
"THIS IS NOT THE TIME TO ASK SUCH QUESTIONS!" Sango snapped, slapping him. "OF ALL TIMES--!!"
"Umm...what was he gonna ask me?" Kagome asked, watching silently as Miroku got beaten up.
That's when she noticed that Kaede-sensei was dressed in miko robes--when she walked up to Kagome.
"Don't worry," Kaede said simply. "He was gonna ask you to bare his child, anyways."
Kagome glared at Miroku. "He can't be a monk."
~*~
After introductions, and explaining who they are and what they do, they came to the point they had to tell her why they were here.
"You see," Miroku said, "we come from the Sengoku Jidai."
Kagome nodded. Afterall, they were demons, and the green thing was real, why not come from several hundred years into the past?
"We have came here to find the peices of the Shikon no Tama," Sango continued. "We found the jewel one day inside the Bone-Eater's Well, and one of us went to retreive it. He disappeared along with the jewel and we followed."
"Somehow the jewel broke," the little boy, who happened to be Shippou said. "It broke into a bunch of peices and was scattered all over Japan!"
"An evil hanyou named Naraku wanted the jewel," Kouga said. "He wanted to get rid of his human side so he could be more powerful. Naturally, we want to stop him, so we all ended up teaming up with each other."
"Naraku's horrible," Kaede continued. "He's evil and twisted, and very powerful, not to mention sly. He's a coward, and has people do his dirty work--he doesn't actually show up, he uses puppets instead. He's the cause of many things bad that had happened."
"We need someone who could sense shards," Inuyasha spoke up. "The only way to keep the jewel away from him and complete it ourselves was get someone who could sense these shards. And the only one we know of who could sense shards," he looked at Kagome with a soft expression, "was you."
Kagome stared at him blankly, ignoring Kouga's growl, and Miroku putting an ofuda on the wolf demon to shut him up. "You mean I can sense shards?"
Sesshoumaru nodded. "I was told you felt something was on the mantle when you were first over here. That item was a Shikon no Tama shard."
"Remember that story about muggers?" Sango asked. "It really was a the Mistress Centipede, and that's where we got that shard."
"Those shards give demons power!" Rin piped up.
"You know the lame excuse about going to Canada?" Sango said. "That's not true. We actually stayed here so our injuries could heal from our fight with Naraku."
"You fought with him?" Kagome questioned.
Miroku nodded. "Yes. We didn't do much except get maimed. You should've seen Inuyasha! He had a hole straight through his stomach!"
Kagome gaped at him. "You are kidding." No way in hell could he survive that. And be sitting crossed legged at one corner looking like he didn't have a hole through his stomach. That was impossible.
"Nope," Miroku grinned. "It's almost healed. You can still see where the hole used to be."
Inuyasha threw a TV remote at Miroku. "Shut up, stupid monk!"
"It's true!" Miroku insisted.
Kouga had managed to peel the ofuda off of his face. "Damn you monk! Wha'cha do that for?"
Miroku sighed. "Why is everyone picking on me today?"
"We wouldn't if you weren't perverted, shut up, and stop being all around annoying!" Inuyasha hissed.
Miroku put a friendly arm around Inuyasha's shoulder. "I know! You're my best bud too!" he said brightly.
"I need a replacement for you," Inuyasha said flatly.
"Great!" Miroku removed his arm. "First I'm getting picked on, and then my best friend wants to replace me! Who has luck like that?"
"Right," Sango said in a dry tone. "Anyways, back to the story." She looked at Kagome. "We need you to help us in our search for the shards--in modern day Tokyo!"
"Isn't it dangerous?" Kagome asked, looking slightly worried. "Won't I be killed? I can only have so many injuries till I die!"
Everyone but Kagome looked at Inuyasha.
Inuyasha back up against the wall. He looked like he didn't like the stares he was getting. "What?"
"Think," Sesshoumaru replied boredly.
"You're going to be the bodyguard of my woman until I am ready," Kouga answered.
"YOUR WOMAN????" Inuyasha and Kagome shouted simultaneously.
Miroku did the only thing he could do to break up fights--grope lovely young women.
"HENTAI!!!" Sango shouted, slapping him.
That broke the soon to be fight between Inuyasha and Kouga.
The apartment door suddenly flew open to reveal a lovely young woman, wearing a kimono and fan, with crimson eyes. And out from the dark hallway, a small white haired girl holding a mirror walked out.
"And here's our intended targets," the woman with the fan said.
"Naraku wants you dead," the white haired girl stated.
"No really?" Inuyasha muttered sarcastically. "I thought he wanted to invite us to a tea party."
"Shut up!" the woman hissed, holding up her fan, and the small girl's mirror glowed slightly.
To be Continued...
AN: Sucky ending for a chapter, I am well aware, anyhow...Review please! And tell me what you think! ^_^
Kagome-Chan14, Douteki Dyou: Thanks!
Trinity Kirara: Thank you for reviewing! And yes, I have a bit of a writer's block on Hardly There. But once I finish the eighth chapter, I should be updating more regularly--well, as regularly as I can with school.
~Kumori Ryuuzaki
Once Upon a Time
by Kumori Ryuuzaki
Last Time: Inuyasha and Kouga paid no heed to them, and continue to beat the lights out of each other.
Until Kagome felt something. The same presence she felt back before the "muggers" attacked. Only the presence was slightly larger. Not to mention she felt something, it was twisted, and she had impression whatever that was giving off the engergy was pure evil. And it made her feel slightly woozy.
About the same time Kagome felt this, Sesshoumaru, Miroku, and Sango were staring up ahead in the direction of the strange presence, looking slightly ticked.. Inuyasha and Kouga stopped fighting, and said simultaneously, "Shit."
Chapter Three: The Fan and the Mirror
Kagome looked at the clearly ticked off group curiously. Why were they looking like they could rip someone's head off?
Abruptly, Sesshoumaru, Inuyasha, and Kouga seemlingly disappeared into thin air, and several blurs streaked past her. Miroku and Sango took off after them. Kagome was about to follow out of curiousity, when someone put their hand on her shoulder. Kagome turned and squeaked when she saw who it was.
It was the goddamn principal.
And she noticed a notebook on the ground with Sango's name on it.
And then she noticed that only she and the principal were in the front yard.
And she was twenty minutes late.
Joy.
~*~
Kagome was pissed. She had gotten detention for the rest of the week! And then her mind went back to when Miroku, Sango, Sesshoumaru, Kouga, and Inuyasha took off--it was as if they could sense the principal deciding to go on a walk! The nerve!
Kagome was snapped out of her thoughts, when she saw Miroku and Sango frantically run out into a pharmacy and into some other random store, carrying a plastic bags.
What were they up to, and why did they seem so scared?
She was gonna pay them a visit.
And Sango's notebook was the perfect excuse.
~*~
Kagome had made it up to the fifth floor and was now standing outside their door. She discovered that if she put her ear to the door, she could hear talking.
"Sesshoumaru, can you smell anything?" came Sango's voice.
"Besides blood and that revolting herb stuff? No, it's clogging up my nose," Sesshoumaru had answered.
"Inuyasha, hold still!" came a voice of an old woman, who sounded eerily similar to Kaede-sensei.
"Itai!! Damnit, baba!" Inuyasha cursed. "Damn, that fucking stings!"
"Inuyasha!" Miroku scolded. "Don't curse in front of Rin!"
"What does fucking mean?" came a little girl's voice.
"Don't say that word," Sesshoumaru replied. "It's a bad word."
"Okay, Sesshoumaru-sama!"
Kagome took her ear off the door and inhaled and exhaled deeply. She lifted a hand to knock, but the door was swung open and Sango ran into her.
"K..k..kagome...?" Sango stuttered, before hurriedly turning around and slamming the dor shut. SHe turned back. "It's...um...nice to see you..." Sango said nervously. "So, umm...what are you doing here?"
Yup, she was definately hiding something. Why else would she be so nervous sounding?
"I thought I visit," Kagome answered. SHe pulled out Sango's notebook. "This is yours, right?"
"Err...right!" Sango took the notebook. "Is there anything you--um...want?"
"No, I'd just thought I'd come by," Kagome shrugged. "Why, is everyone busy or something?"
Sango nodded furiously. "Everyone's busy, but umm...in a few days, we should all be free for whatever."
Kagome raised an eyebrow. Sango wasn't that bad at lying, was she?
"Family buisness," she said quickly. "Yes...family stuff..."
Kagome blinked. "Why, are you all related some how?"
"No...er...all our family is in Canada," Sango said quickly. She looked back at the door, and there was a loud thud. "I gotta go, see ya!" she ran back inside, slamming the door shut.
Yes, she was hiding something. She'd bet her shrine Sango was. And beleive it, she didn't really want to lose the shrine anytime soon.
Her grandpa would kill her.
And that shrine had her damn house.
~*~
In the next few days, Inuyasha, Sesshoumaru, Sango, Miroku, and Kouga came back to school. Miroku got a broken arm, and Inuyasha just looked like he had a fever. Kagome had mentioned this to Inuyasha, but it only ended up in an argument and them pissed at each other. Needless to say, it was pointless.
She was getting way too suspicious. Occasionly they be in a small group whispering. Whatever they were trying to hide, they weren't doing a very good job on it.
It was lunch time, and Kagome, and Inuyasha were sharing a table, waiting for Sango and Miroku. Kagome nearly jumped when Sango decided to sneak up on her, while Inuyasha seemed unfazed, still devouring his lunch.
"Big news Kagome!" Sango said, a bit nervous. "Well, we've got something to tell you after school at our apartment..."
Inuyasha nearly choked on his lunch. "TODAY????"
"It was agreed yesterday, Inuyasha," Miroku said calmly. "Weren't you listening?"
Inuyasha let out a "keh" and started to devour the rest of his lunch.
"Sure," Kagome said. "I'll be there after I finish detention."
"Great!" Sango and Miroku took a seat, and started a conversation with Inuyasha like nothing had happened at all.
Maybe they had practice...?
~*~
Kagome was anxiously jogging to the apartment Inuyasha and co. shared, eager to know what the heck was happening.
When she got to the door however, she saw Sango patiently waiting at the door. When Sango spotted her, she opened the door and motioned her to follow her. When Kagome got inside, she noticed six people sitting all around the apartment and a green toad. They were all wearing old fashion type of clothes, the type that came from the Sengoku Jidai, and even noticed Sango was also wearing a kimono for the first time. Inuyasha was hatless and had cute furry dog ears, while Sesshoumaru looked the same except for the markings on his face. There was a kawaii little boy with red hair, pointed ears, and a fluffly fox tail. Kouga also had a tail.
"Ummm..." Kagome started slowly. "...okay...Does anyone want to explain?"
The whole group stayed silent for awhile, until Miroku cleared his throat and stood up. "Just look at us. You'll get a good idea what we are and what we do for a living."
Kagome looked around. Nothing seemed to out of place, until she noticed the monk robes Miroku was wearing. "You've got to be kidding."
Miroku blinked. "Kidding? What makes you think I am kidding?"
"YOu can't be a monk!" Kagome shouted.
Miroku frowned, and he could very well hear the snickering from his friends. "I am too!" he said, clearly insulted.
"But since when were monks perverts?" Kagome asked.
"I'll have you know I am no diffrent than my forefathers," Miroku said stiffly.
"In other words," Inuyasha said coolly, "he comes from a long line of perverted monks."
Nearly everyone started laughing, Miroku never looked more insulted.
Kagome noticed it and said inbetween giggles, "Sorry, Miroku."
Miroku scowled and pouted, Sango giggled and patted him in the back. "She does have a point, Houshi-sama."
Miroku just pouted some more. Sango sighed and smiled at him.
"Come on Miroku, cheer up!" Sango demanded, but Miroku seemed to ignore her.
Inuyasha smirked and whispered to Kagome, "I know what'll cheer him up."
Kagome looked at him, and whispered back, "What?"
Inuyasha cleared his throat and glared at Miroku. "If you're just gonna sit there and pout all day, we'll never go to Sennyo!"
Miroku perked up. "Really?"
Inuyasha nodded.
Miroku just smiled and hummed happily to himself, before Sango whacked him with an oversized boomerang, and muttered, "Pervert..."
"Sennyo?" Kagome asked, blinking. What the heck was a 'sennyo'?
"A village full of women," Sesshoumaru answered coolly. "It's the bozou's dream come true."
Kagome looked at Miroku, who had a dreamy look on his face, and Sango seemed beyond pissed at Miroku and Inuyasha. She'd understand Miroku, but Inuyasha? Oh yeah, for promising to drop off Miroku at that Sennyo place.
A cute little girl wearing a checkered kimono went up to Sesshoumaru and tugged on a red and white sleeve. "Sesshoumaru-sama, why would Miro-chan want to go to a village full of girls?"
Sesshoumaru cleared his throat. "You'll know when you're older, Rin."
Rin nodded, a bit disappointed, but still happy. Weird huh? "Okay."
"Don't speak that way to Sesshoumaru-sama!" a green thing shouted at Rin.
"Sesshoumaru-sama!" Rin wailed. "Jaken-sama's being mean again!"
Sesshoumaru just nodded and squished Jaken with his foot.
Kagome sweatdropped. They were an odd bunch.
"Oh yeah," Miroku said, snapping his fingers. "I forgot!" He grabbed Kagome's hands. "Lady Kagome, would you please bar--"
Before Miroku could continue, Inuyasha and Sango were smacking and kicking him silly.
"DAMN BOZOU!" Inuyasha shouted, kicking him in the stomach. "WHAT KIND OF IDIOT ARE YOU??"
"THIS IS NOT THE TIME TO ASK SUCH QUESTIONS!" Sango snapped, slapping him. "OF ALL TIMES--!!"
"Umm...what was he gonna ask me?" Kagome asked, watching silently as Miroku got beaten up.
That's when she noticed that Kaede-sensei was dressed in miko robes--when she walked up to Kagome.
"Don't worry," Kaede said simply. "He was gonna ask you to bare his child, anyways."
Kagome glared at Miroku. "He can't be a monk."
~*~
After introductions, and explaining who they are and what they do, they came to the point they had to tell her why they were here.
"You see," Miroku said, "we come from the Sengoku Jidai."
Kagome nodded. Afterall, they were demons, and the green thing was real, why not come from several hundred years into the past?
"We have came here to find the peices of the Shikon no Tama," Sango continued. "We found the jewel one day inside the Bone-Eater's Well, and one of us went to retreive it. He disappeared along with the jewel and we followed."
"Somehow the jewel broke," the little boy, who happened to be Shippou said. "It broke into a bunch of peices and was scattered all over Japan!"
"An evil hanyou named Naraku wanted the jewel," Kouga said. "He wanted to get rid of his human side so he could be more powerful. Naturally, we want to stop him, so we all ended up teaming up with each other."
"Naraku's horrible," Kaede continued. "He's evil and twisted, and very powerful, not to mention sly. He's a coward, and has people do his dirty work--he doesn't actually show up, he uses puppets instead. He's the cause of many things bad that had happened."
"We need someone who could sense shards," Inuyasha spoke up. "The only way to keep the jewel away from him and complete it ourselves was get someone who could sense these shards. And the only one we know of who could sense shards," he looked at Kagome with a soft expression, "was you."
Kagome stared at him blankly, ignoring Kouga's growl, and Miroku putting an ofuda on the wolf demon to shut him up. "You mean I can sense shards?"
Sesshoumaru nodded. "I was told you felt something was on the mantle when you were first over here. That item was a Shikon no Tama shard."
"Remember that story about muggers?" Sango asked. "It really was a the Mistress Centipede, and that's where we got that shard."
"Those shards give demons power!" Rin piped up.
"You know the lame excuse about going to Canada?" Sango said. "That's not true. We actually stayed here so our injuries could heal from our fight with Naraku."
"You fought with him?" Kagome questioned.
Miroku nodded. "Yes. We didn't do much except get maimed. You should've seen Inuyasha! He had a hole straight through his stomach!"
Kagome gaped at him. "You are kidding." No way in hell could he survive that. And be sitting crossed legged at one corner looking like he didn't have a hole through his stomach. That was impossible.
"Nope," Miroku grinned. "It's almost healed. You can still see where the hole used to be."
Inuyasha threw a TV remote at Miroku. "Shut up, stupid monk!"
"It's true!" Miroku insisted.
Kouga had managed to peel the ofuda off of his face. "Damn you monk! Wha'cha do that for?"
Miroku sighed. "Why is everyone picking on me today?"
"We wouldn't if you weren't perverted, shut up, and stop being all around annoying!" Inuyasha hissed.
Miroku put a friendly arm around Inuyasha's shoulder. "I know! You're my best bud too!" he said brightly.
"I need a replacement for you," Inuyasha said flatly.
"Great!" Miroku removed his arm. "First I'm getting picked on, and then my best friend wants to replace me! Who has luck like that?"
"Right," Sango said in a dry tone. "Anyways, back to the story." She looked at Kagome. "We need you to help us in our search for the shards--in modern day Tokyo!"
"Isn't it dangerous?" Kagome asked, looking slightly worried. "Won't I be killed? I can only have so many injuries till I die!"
Everyone but Kagome looked at Inuyasha.
Inuyasha back up against the wall. He looked like he didn't like the stares he was getting. "What?"
"Think," Sesshoumaru replied boredly.
"You're going to be the bodyguard of my woman until I am ready," Kouga answered.
"YOUR WOMAN????" Inuyasha and Kagome shouted simultaneously.
Miroku did the only thing he could do to break up fights--grope lovely young women.
"HENTAI!!!" Sango shouted, slapping him.
That broke the soon to be fight between Inuyasha and Kouga.
The apartment door suddenly flew open to reveal a lovely young woman, wearing a kimono and fan, with crimson eyes. And out from the dark hallway, a small white haired girl holding a mirror walked out.
"And here's our intended targets," the woman with the fan said.
"Naraku wants you dead," the white haired girl stated.
"No really?" Inuyasha muttered sarcastically. "I thought he wanted to invite us to a tea party."
"Shut up!" the woman hissed, holding up her fan, and the small girl's mirror glowed slightly.
To be Continued...
AN: Sucky ending for a chapter, I am well aware, anyhow...Review please! And tell me what you think! ^_^
Kagome-Chan14, Douteki Dyou: Thanks!
Trinity Kirara: Thank you for reviewing! And yes, I have a bit of a writer's block on Hardly There. But once I finish the eighth chapter, I should be updating more regularly--well, as regularly as I can with school.
~Kumori Ryuuzaki