Cheesecake!

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"Families are like brownies; sweet with a few nuts."

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Chapter 11: Well That Was Basic

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"Okay, watch!" Kikase held up a coin between her middle and index finger. She put it inside her hand, then held out her hand and the coin was gone.

"Cool!" Kohaku said looking at her hand. "Where did it go?"

Kikase smiled and patted her pockets. "Gee, I don't know, where could that old coin be?" then looked at him and said, "Oh! There it is!" she reached behind his ear and pretended to pull it out from there.

Kohaku laughed and she flipped the coin to him. She pushed some of her blond hair back behind her ear then looked down at his cute young face. "So how did you get wrapped up with Naraku, huh? Where's your family?"

Kohaku looked down at the coin in his hand and answered, "I don't know."

Kikase gave him a funny look. "You don't remember? How could you not remember your own parents?"

Kohaku still looked down at the coin. He felt the prints on it. "I don't remember."

Kikase didn't understand what was wrong with him. "Well, if you think about it. You're sort of part of a family now."

He looked up at her and she went into detail. "I don't know if it's a great family, but you have Naraku and the rest of his minions, it's kinda like a family, a twisted, morbid, mentally disturbing family but what family isn't twisted, morbid and disturbing?"

Kohaku thought about it, and Kikase went to go look for Shitai.

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Kagome stopped in the middle of the path. Everyone looked back at her. "What is it, Kagome?" Sango asked.

"I sense a shikon shard nearby." She replied.

"Where is it??" Inu Yasha asked.

"That way!" she pointed.

Sango, Miroku, and Shippou got on Kirara and took to the air. Kagome climbed on Inu Yasha's back and he leapt off. Shio was about to start running when Sumiko grabbed the back of his belt and he almost fell over. He looked back at her and she was smiling. "Kitty wanna race?" she asked.

He looked at her for a few seconds then grinned competitively. "Sure! I'll race! But I'm warning you, I'm faster then Inu Yasha and almost as fast as his brother!"

"Yay! Race!" Sumiko cheered. They stood in runners stance then Shio said, "Count down!"

"One........two...................."

Shio looked at her. "Well?"

She looked at him. "What comes after two?"

"THREE!!" He shouted and sprinted forward with a head start.

Sumiko stood there watching him then called, "Hey!"

"Eat my dust!" Shio shouted behind him.

"Wait for me, Kitty!" Sumiko shouted then sprinted forward.

Have you ever seen the way a kid runs compared to what a marathon runner looks like? The kid is just giving it everything they have, not caring how much their arms flop around. That's the way Sumiko looked while she ran.

Shio speed past the group and they watched in charge ahead of everyone.

"Whoa! He's fast!" Sango said.

Then all of a sudden, a missle of bright light whooshed past them all. It passed Shio and threw forward off of his feet and into the ground.

The green blur of light stopped, and became Sumiko. She ran back over to where Shio was lying in the mud. "Kitty okay?!" she asked in deep concern.

He pulled his face out of the ground and coughed with dirt on his pretty face. "Now I know how Inu Yasha feels." He said. He glared up at Sumiko and she looked taken aback by his angry looks.

Inu Yasha and co came running over.

"Did you catch the number of that comet?" Kagome asked. But know one got it.

Inu Yasha helped Shio up. "Thanks man." Shio said and dusted his fur and kimono off.

Sumiko went over, hugged Inu Yasha's arm and looked at Shio sadly. Inu Yasha looked down at her with a sweatdrop as she sighed, not noticing that she was violating his personal space.

"It's coming!" Kagome said nervously, looking toward a group of trees. "Really fast!"

A giant monkey demon came out of the trees, big as a mountain with the power of three shikon fragments implanted in his forehead.

Sango jumped on Kirara and took off. Inu Yasha unsheathed tetsaiga and looked back at Kagome. "Kagome, take Sumiko and hide!"

Kagome grabbed Sumiko's hand and ran to the side. Shio waved at the fighters and said, "Okay! I'll just be over here protecting the ladies!" and he started to sprint over to where the girls where.

"GUH!" Shio felt a sharp tug on the back of his shirt, automatically stopping him in his tracks. He turned his head to see Inu Yasha not happy. "Come on man! What help and I?!"

"Shio!" Inu Yasha said.

"Okay! Okay!" Shio drew a double bladed sword and ran over to the battle. He was going to help, but he wasn't going to like it.

The girls and Shippou stood and watched.

Inu Yasha jumped at the monkey thing with his sword raised. The monkey smacked his sword away and blew fire at him through his mouth. Inu Yasha jumped aside and charged again.

Sumiko cheered, "You can do it, Daddy! Right! Left! Go for the guts!"

Shippou shouted, "Go Inu Yasha! You'd better not mess up!"

Shio stopped trying and looked back at them. "Hey! No one's cheering for me!"

"You can do it, Kitty!" Sumiko shouted.

"My name isn't kitty!" Shio shouted, and almost didn't notice that the monkey was getting ready to step on him.

Shio screamed and jumped out of the way in time.

Sango and Kagome watched Sumiko and Shippou shout like they where watching the WWF wrestling match on pay-per-view. Sango leaned in toward Kagome and whispered, "Hey, did you notice when Inu Yasha was about to go into battle, he specifically asked you to take care of Sumiko?"

Kagome recalled his quote and looked over at Sumiko interestedly.

"Use the force, Luke!" Sumiko shouted at the match.

Kagome smiled and whispered back to Sango, "You know what? He bet he actually likes her like she really was his daughter!" ^_^

When Miroku got knocked out of the fight, and Shio was injured, ("I'M MAIMED! MY NOSE IS BLEEDING!!!!!!") Sango stepped in to help.

But unfortunately, the monkey was some how able to survive. Sango and Inu Yasha tried to think of something they hadn't already tried on the beast, because so far, nothing worked.

Then all of a sudden, Sumiko came skipping into the middle of the fight.

"Sumiko, come back!" Kagome shouted.

Sumiko stood in front of the giant monkey demon with her hands behind her back, making little swaying motions with her body like a child would and she looked up at him with a big innocent smile.

The monkey looked down at her, baring razor sharp teeth and it roared.

Sumiko cleared her throat and said, "Excuse me, Mr. Monkey, but you have jewel thingies, yes?" ^_^

The monkey roared again.

"Well," she said with a cute little smile. "We're kind of collecting them right now, we're off to find some guy who hurts my friends, so - um - we were wondering if you could just, well, let us have the shards. Pretty please, with sugar and a cherry on top?"

The monkey looked down at her and blinked.

Inu Yasha readied his sword for when the ape was going to attack her. Sango got ready as well.

All of a sudden, the monkey reached behind it's back and pulled out the three shards. He held them out and dropped them into Sumiko's hands. Then he walked off.

Sumiko looked down at the jewels then waved to the monkey, "Okay, I luv ya, buh-bye!" she blew a kiss and skipped over to Kagome. Everyone gaped at Sumiko with a dumbfounded look on their faces, yet she took no notice. She dumped the shards into Kagome's hands then smiled at her and said, "Groove is in the heart!" and she walked over to hug Shippou.

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^___^ Yep! I have actually taken the time to plan future chapters. Uh-huh.

I know whut yur think'n - where is the fluff she promised us???

I promise there will be fluffy stuff! ^_^

In the meantime, you can read from two of my best pals:

Me and Moomoo-chan wrote this story called, "Learning to....WHAT?!" It also has Shio in it, and it's really funny! ^_^

And if you are one who loves juicy sour lemony stories, Houtsuma - san is a freaking genius in that field. ^-^