"So… Kitty has met them… Well, then, let's watch and see what she does."

            "Yes. That's a good plan."

            "Tell me, does seeing Sango play like that remind you of anything?"

            "Yes. I can remember… when I was very little… we used to go and play in the fields…"

            "Where?"

            "They were… outside a village… I can't remember."

            "Hmm… well, then, let us continue to watch in the shadows."

            "Yes."

~~

            Kagome blinked at the creature. "Excuse me?" She asked.

            "Am I 'it?'" The voice in her head asked.

            "Who are you?" She stuttered, trying to scoot away.

            "Can't you tell?" The voice said with a laugh. "Cute, blue, furry, standing right in front of you. Take a guess."

            Kagome gasped, and glanced sharply into the beast's eyes. "You."

            "Yep."  The beast said, it's 'voice' suddenly sounding very feminine. "Am I 'it?'"

            "Umm." Kagome said, a little overwhelmed. "I guess so…"

            The beast showed her a very toothy grin. "I like tag."  Suddenly, the thing was gone, just a ruffle in the grass was left.

            Kagome blinked, then snapped into action. "InuYasha!" She yelled at the top of her lungs. "Careful! There's something here!"

~~

            InuYasha 's easy twitched slightly as Kagome's cry reached him. "Naturally!" He turned and started to head for the source of the cry, but was cut of as something blue dashed across his path, and disappeared into the grass to his right.

            "What the hell?" The hanyou demanded, and turned onto the thing's path. What was going on?

            "HEY!" a voice suddenly erupted in his head, causing him to trip and fall flat on his face. "I'm it right now! I'm supposed to chase you!"

            Suddenly, something leapt on his back, then off again. He looked up to see a blue, winged wolf sitting right in front of him.

            "Okay… now you're it!"  With that, the thing disappeared again.

            InuYasha stumbled to his feet. "What the hell?"

            Another call from Kagome pierced his ears. HE shook his head, and launched himself into the air, looking for the young miko. The girl was lying about a hundred yards away, in a patch of flattened grass.

            The hayou dropped down, and dashed over to the miko as fast as possible. "Are you okay?" He demanded.

            The girl looked up. "I'm fine… but there's some sort of thing running around."

            "Blue wolf?" InuYasha asked dryly.

            Kagome blinked. "You saw it?" She asked.

            InuYasha nodded, and squatted down next to her. "It doesn't seem very nasty, although it pounces hard."

            "EXCUSE ME?" The voice said in his head suddenly. "I am a 'she' mister, not an 'it!'"

            InuYasha blinked. "Did you just…?"

            Kagome nodded, and stood up. "What do you mean it pounces hard."

            "She!"  The voice insisted.

InuYasha sighed, and pulled her down. "I mean, she pounced on me, and told me I was 'it.'"

Kagome cocked an eyebrow at him. "You mean that she's just playing?" She asked.

InuYasha sighed. "I guess so."

Kagome thought about that for a moment. The wolf was playing, and InuYasha was it. She looked down at her feet, then at InuYasha, then left and right. "Well…" She said, "In that case…" She suddenly disappeared, dashing off strait past InuYasha.

"Wha?" The hanyou said, blinking. Suddenly it dawned on him. "Oh hell no!" HE yelled, and dashed after her, following her trail.

~~

            Sango and Miroku stood back to back, weapons drawn.

            "What do you think it is?" Sango asked. "This isn't really a spot most youkai would hang out in.

            Miroku nodded. "I don't know."

            Suddenly, a clawed hand touched Sango's shoulder. She whipped around, and swung her boomerang low.

            InuYasha jumped over the blow, his hand still on her shoulder, and laughed. "You're it!" He declared.

            "It?" Sango demanded. "What about whatever is in the field with us?"

            InuYasha shrugged. "It's playing too." He said, and disappeared into the grass again.

            Sango sighed, and shook her head. Nothing happened. Sango sighed again, then poked Miroku in the head. "You're it." She said, and ran off.

            Miroku rolled his eyes and shook his head. "It's good to act like a kid once in a while." He said philosophically, and dashed off after her.

~~

            Kagome ran as fast as her injuries would let her, which wasn't very fast, comparatively. Calls of "You're it!" rung out left and right, telling her where to run. Finally, she broke out of the grass, and onto the shore of the pond. "Can't catch me!" She called.

            As if on queue, the blue wolf leapt out of the bush, and landed with a paw on each shoulder. Overbalanced, Kagome screamed, and toppled backwards, plunging into the cool water of the pond. She came up, sputtering and laughing at the same time, and wiped the water from her eyes. She turned, and ended up face to face with a large, wet, blue wolf.

            "Well, that was fun"  She said enthusiastically.

            Kagome grinned at the wolf. She grinned back, then down at her wings. Kagome looked at the wings. The wolf looked up. Kagome looked up. The wolf flapped the wings once, sending a spray of water over Kagome.

            Laughing, the miko covered her face, and splashed wildly back.

            Soon, the water was flying back and forth at a frenzied pace, until InuYasha burst into the clearing.

            "What's going on?" He said, looking at the two wet fighters.

            Kagome laughed slightly. "I fell." She said.

            InuYasha sighed, and waded in. "Well get out already! You don't need to be playing any harder than this!"

            Kagome almost scoffed at how fatherly he sounded.

            InuYasha quickly turned his gaze to the wolf. "And what's the deal with you! Why are you here?"

            The wolf suddenly looked up at the sun. "Oh, well, look at the time!" She said, "Can't stay!"  Suddenly, she dashed out of the water, and shook herself off.

            "Hey!" InuYasha demanded. "Not so fast!"

            The wolf rolled its eyes. "Fine!" She said. "The name's Kitty, (don't ask) and I just wanted to have some fun!"

            InuYasha scoffed. "Right!" He said, dropping down and looking the wolf in the eyes. "You expect me to believe that?"

            "Not really."  The wolf said sweetly. "But you really don't get to know the truth yet, so that's all your gettin'"  Suddenly, like a lightning bolt, she dashed away into the grass. "You've still got quite a trip ahead of you!"  Her voice echoed in their heads. "But don't forget to stop and have some fun every once in a while. Fun is very important."

            InuYasha blinked at the furrow, and sighed. "That was so very weird." He said.

            Kagome climbed out of the pool, and nodded.

            InuYasha sighed. "Well, unpack you're stuff." He said.

            Kagome looked at him inquisitively. "What?"

            InuYasha smiled at her. "We'll stay here tonight."

            Kagome blinked at him, then smiled back. "Thank you." She said, then wandered off to find the rest.

**

            Well, after all the happy review I got saying that people love tag, I guess my faith in humanity is restored.

            Just a few notes on these last two chapters:

            First of all, they were supposed to be one chapter, but my schedule got messed up due to finals.

            Also, "Kitty" is a character commissioned by one of my friends… under pain of death. I tried to integrate her fairly well with my story, and she's given me a few spiffy Ideas.

            Just so you know, the two who were talking at  the beginning are both people you know. One is fairly obvious, but if you guess the other one, then you get a cookie!

            Anywho, after this chapter, things pick up again. I just felt that the group (And me) needed a break from all that has been happening to them.