(Stands up in front of group of animae fans.) "Hello my name is lilhillbillie"

"Hello lilhillbillie"

"and I do not own Inuyasha. Wow that was harder that I thought. Group applauds as I walk off stage.

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Deep within the bordering forest, Kagome, who will have to be called (shudder) Kikkyo from now on, was busying herself by having a war of words with Jaken.

"Dirty filthy human!"

"Revolting toad!"

"Disgusting mortal!"

"Ass-kissing frog face!"

Finally running low on insults the two resorted to actual conversation.

"Why do you and Kikkyo want to keep me? I mean alive and everything?"

"We have further need of you, pathetic being," Jaken simply explained, loathing himself for needing an average human.

"What further need?"

"Silence nauseating creature!"

"Despicable reptile!"

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Back at the village, Inuyasha and 'Kagome' had finally arrived. The attention however was not on the arriving couple but rather at the small, motionless kitsune. Collectively the group, excluding 'Kagome' thought // he must be ill. Why else wouldn't he greet Kagome? //

'Kagome' on the other hand was wondering about what everyone else was wondering about. //Why are they all looking at my slave oddly? I wish I had had more time to collect more information on the behavior of this clan. //

After of ten boring minutes of staring at Shippo, Kiadae finally voiced the question burning in the majority of the group's collective thoughts. "Shippo be ye ill child?"

Shippo looked at Kiadae with a very baffled expression. //Master did not tell me how to address anyone except herself and Inuyasha. How should I respond? //

At the same moment 'Kagome' was pondering the same dilemma. /~/ Call her grandmother./~/ She psychically commanded Shippo.

Hearing his master's decree, Shippo answered, "Yes grandmother. Thank you for your concern."

Stifling a grin Kiadae curtly nodded and headed for her hut. //I've never been called grandmother by the kitsune before, but it felt right somehow. It almost makes me wish I had had children when I was young. I would have several small ones at my feet by now.// the old woman wistfully thought.

After watching Kiadae stumble into her hut with a the look of an expecting mother, 'Kagome' tried her hardest to sweetly command Shippo to follow her. Unfortunately the undead bitch didn't have much practice sweet- talking people. "Shippo come here immediately!"

Jumping slightly Shippo instantaneously answered "Yes ma.Kagome.

"Shippo you know you can call 'Kagome' mama, we all see you two as mother and child anyway." Sango assured the young one, misinterpreting his slip of the tongue.

//So the kitsune and slut are like mother and child. I will have to carefully command my slave on how to behave towards me with this new information.// 'Kagome' thought with a grin, as she prepared herself for bed.

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And that's how day one ended. Yeah only three more days to go! Oh wait a sec. What will I do when I'm done with this? (Walks off to ponder options.)