Chapter 11-Uh oh....

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"Right, Sango, here's your boomerang bone. Miroku, your staff, what's it made out of? Anyway, you are to travel to Kyoto, to the famous Miko shrine. What?! You haven't heard of it? Uncultured kids. There, you should find the Priestess Himitsu. She should be able to help you. You got that?"

The gang looked at Kaede like she was crazy. They stood there in silence until Inuyasha coughed loudly.

"You're expecting us to go from Tokyo to Kyoto. Are you mad?!"

Kaede rolled her eyes and began rummaging in her store cupboard again.

"You're a powerful Hanyou, you've got Kikyou's reincarnation with you, Sango is a demon exterminator and Miroku has that..sucky thing in his hand."

"It's called a kazaana." Miroku mumbled half-heartedly.

"And...." Kaede continued, not listening to Miroku. "This is for you Kagome."

She handed Kagome a bow and a pack full of arrows. The bow looked a little worn and was a dark red, the arrows all looked pretty much new with shiny grey arrowheads.

"Uh..I don't even know HOW to use this. How's this gonna me?" Kagome asked timidly.

"Oh Kamisama. You children! Kikyou was a master of the bow, you're her reincarnation. You'll learn! No go! There isn't much time!" And with that, Kaede shoved the group of humans, monks and demons out the door and slammed it shut, leaving them on a pile on the street.

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"We've been walking for AGES! I'm hungry!" Inuyasha whined, his hands on the back on his head. He started tugging at Kagome's sleeve.

"Kagome, can we eat? Kagome? Kagome, I'm hungry. Kagome? Kagome!"

"SHUT UP!"

"What? What'd I say? Kagome?" Kagome was getting more and more stressed. She was hungry too but where were they gonna eat? And Inuyasha moaning every second didn't help...

"Kagome? I'm starving. Can we eat?"

"OOOOOOHHHHH SIT YOU ANNOYING DOG!"

Suddenly, Inuyasha smashed into the ground. The group stopped and looked at Kagome in amazement. Kagome stood there, her eyes wide open. Miroku stepped up to Kagome and shook his head.

"I guess she forgot to tell you." He said.

"T.tell me what?" Kagome asked.

As Miroku rolled Inuyasha onto his back, Kagome could see that Inuyasha was wearing a beaded necklace almost exactly like the one her Grandpa had made, except this one had little stones shaped like fangs on it after every few beads.

"What the?" Inuyasha said jumping up and attempting to take the beads off. When it didn't work, he began biting them, only to hurt his tooth and run around in circles howling.

"Lady Kaede put them on him last night when he was asleep." Miroku shouted over the whining. "Said that things were gonna get dangerous from here on out and that he might need 'taming'."

Inuyasha stopped running around and glared at Miroku.

"What did you say?" He growled, taking a step toward Miroku.

"Well.er.if Kagome utters a subduing word, then you, er, subdue. I'm actually surprised it took you this long to notice them on you."

"And she put them on me when I was sleeping?!"

"Yeah man, I was with her, you snore sooooooo loudly! We had to put cotton wool in our ears."

Inuyasha turn bright red and Shippou had a massive laughing fit. The kitsune laughed so much that he fell out of Kagome's arms and rolled around the floor. Inuyasha leapt at him but Kagome shouted 'Sit!' and he crashed inches from Shippou.

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Stepping barefoot onto the scorching pavement didn't even make her flinch. She carried on, smoke rising every time she put her foot down. In the distance, she could see the heat waves, making the skyscrapers and houses appear to be wiggling about.

She knew where she was going. It was instinct. She just followed her feelings. There weren't many of those in her now. Just one foot forward and the other. Like a song stuck on repeat, one foot forward then the other.

She carried on walking until late into the night. She didn't even feel sleepy. All she knew was that she had a goal. And she was getting closer and closer to it.

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Inuyasha awoke with a start. He felt something was watching him. Peering around in the pitch black, he saw nothing. 'Must be losing it.' He thought. Now he'd woken up, it would be impossible for him to go back to sleep again, so he jumped down from his tree and walked into the house opposite.

The gang had found an abandoned house near the outskirts of Tokyo. It was quite a big house; someone with a lot of money would've lived in it. The decorating was smart and clean, everything was neat. The people obviously hadn't left in a hurry.

Creeping up the stairs, Inuyasha sniffed the air. Nothing. When he got to the top, he looked around. A long hallway with about three or four rooms. Treading carefully, he went to the last room at the end of the hallway and stood at the door. Using his index finger, he gently poked the door. It creaked loudly and Inuyasha grabbed it immediately. Gripping the edge of the door, he half pushed it into the doorframe and slowly opened the door. It opened silently.

He stepped into the room and walked across to the bed. Lying in it was Kagome. One of her hands was dangling off the bed; the other was under her head. Inuyasha leaned in closer.

'She's a dead ringer for Kikyou.' He thought. 'But she's nothing like Kikyou. How can two people be the same..and different?'

Gently, Inuyasha picked up her dangling hand and put it under the covers. He turned to leave when he heard something move. Turning around, he saw Kagome sitting upright in bed.

"Do you always watch people sleep Inu?" She asked sweetly.

Inuyasha blushed and sat on the floor. "Something woke me up so I..I wanted to make sure the Shikon No Tama was OK." He said quickly.

"Oh." Was that disappointment in her voice?

"So...what are YOU doing awake eh?" He asked, trying to make some conversation.

Kagome shrugged her shoulders. "I couldn't sleep. And I was just about to fall asleep when YOU came in and made the door creak!"

"Oh? Heh, sorry 'bout that."

"S'no problem." Kagome said as she slid off the bed and sat next to Inuyasha.

A few minutes of awkward silence passed.

"So," Inuyasha began. "Why couldn't you sleep?"

Kagome gave him a sad sort of smile and grabbed a pillow. "Just thinkin' too much."

"Care to share?"

"I dunno." Silence. "Inuyasha, remember when I first met you on the God tree?"

"Yeeeeeeeaaaah.."

"You called me Kikyou right?"

"Hmmm.."

+"Hello Priestess Kikyou."+

"I think I remember."

"Well, how come after all this time, you didn't tell me about her? Or that I looked like her?"

"I dunno, guess I never really thought about it until now." That was a lie. He'd been contemplating this 'likeliness' to Kikyou since Kagome had freed him from the tree. He looked at Kagome. Yep, he'd thought about it every single day. And Kagome knew it.

"Well." Kagome clicked her tongue. "Now would be a good time to fill me in."

Inuyasha scoffed. "There really is nothing to tell. She was the Guardian of the Shikon No Tama, I tried to steal it, she pinned me to a tree with a magic arrow and I fell asleep."

Kagome shook her head lightly and squeezed her pillow. "There has to be more to it than THAT."

"What do you mean by that?" Inuyasha asked accusingly.

"Well, the fact that I'm her 'reincarnation' and that I could wake you and that you haven't torn me to shreds and that Miroku and Sango were sent her to protect me..." She checked them off on her fingers as she went.

Inuyasha could see that he was loose the argument of whether it was fate or not, and if he got really into the conversation, he might end up saying more that he wanted. So he stood up, yawned and scratched his side. He looked directly at Kagome. "There's no point trying to figure out whether destiny made this all happen. At least, not now anyway. Just think about getting to Kyoto and who knows, maybe you'll figure it all out as you go along." He gave he a reassuring smile, she smiled back.

"Now get some sleep. We gotta go further tomorrow than we did today 'kay?"

"Okay! Oyasumi nasai!"

"Oyasumi."

Inuyasha walked out the bedroom, down the stairs and into the living room. He spread out on the sofa and looked up at the ceiling. Before long he was snoring loudly.

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"Wake up! Wake up! We're on the move!" Shippou ran through the house yelling and banging a saucepan with a metal spoon. He managed the bedrooms and halfway down the stairs when Inuyasha grabbed him and forcefully took the objects away from the child.

Sango and Kagome made breakfast while Inuyasha and Miroku sat around looking 'manly', until Kagome forced Inuyasha to lay the table. He and Miroku had to do the washing up afterwards.

"It was lucky there was still food!" Miroku said, grabbing his staff and following Inuyasha to the front door.

"Yes, but maybe next time we might not be so lucky." Sango said quietly.

"Oh Sango!" Inuyasha moaned. "You keep on talking like that." He opened the front door. "And we'll all be.."

Standing on the doorstep was a girl. She was wearing a traditional looking miko kimono, her hair was tied loosely behind her back and her eyes were cold and menacing. She looked almost exactly like Kagome.

"Inuyasha." She said, her voice showing no emotion.

"Doomed." Inuyasha finished his sentenced.

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It's really late! I guess I haven't updated in a while eh? I've been soooooooo busy. I finally got my lazy but up to the gym! Okay, I've only been twice. And I got Final Fantasy 10! It's kinda weird. And okay, I printed off a walkthrough the second day I got it but it's HARD! And I've got the SWEETEST CCS t-shirt! It's sleeveless and it's got Sakura and Kero on it! And on the back, it has Cardcaptor Sakura written in Japanese! Oh, I've also got Ah! My Goddess The movie! Cool ne? I've been spending. Heh heh.

Oh yeah! Do you know how many reviews I got for the last chapter? ONE! ONE! I'm a highly paid author! So you people better review! If I don't get at least three, I get discouraged. -sniff- so THANKS to Keyta who reviewed! The rest of you. I'm extremely disappointed in you all! Lol! Joking!

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