Chapter 14-The Peach Man (part 1)

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It was bright and early when Kagome woke up. Looking around at the other sleeping forms she noticed that Kaede had gone.

'Must've started her travels early.' She thought. Inuyasha was also nowhere to be seen.

Slowly, Kagome got up and stretched, put on her backpack and looked over her shoulder, everyone was still sleeping peacefully. Smiling, she walked into the forest to try and find some food.

After walking for about ten minutes, she came upon a stream. Sitting down on the water's edge, Kagome took out a bottle from her backpack and began to fill it up.

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Inuyasha walked into the clearing where the gang was. Miroku was slumped against Sango and Shippou was snoozing on a tree branch. Kagome wasn't there and neither was her backpack. He could also smell Kaede's scent. She must've arrived after he stormed off.

Sitting down crossed legged and with his head in his hands, Inuyasha began to ponder. Even though he'd been thinking all night, he wasn't about to stop now.

'Why did Kikyou come back? And what was all that stuff about me lying to her? What did she mean? And Kagome...the look on her face...'

"YIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"

Jumping up from his spot on the floor, Inuyasha raced to the spot where he heard the scream. Sango woke immediately out of her sleep and ran after Inuyasha while Miroku and Shippou groggily woke up and slowly made their way towards the noise.

When Inuyasha got there he found Kagome hunched up against a tree, her water bottle on the floor and a head floating in and out of the water. He walked over to the head and picked it up.

"Don't touch it!" Kagome yelled. "It's dead and mangled and probably diseased!"

"Oh please," Inuyasha sighed. "It's just a head!"

"Yeah! A dead one! AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!"

"What now?"

"There's more coming this way!"

Inuyasha threw the head back into the river just as Sango, Shippou and Miroku appeared.

"-Huff- what's -huff- going on?" Miroku asked. Inuyasha pointed towards the floating heads.

Miroku straightened up and walked over to the river. "A battle upstream maybe?" He asked Inuyasha.

"No, there are no cuts or marks on these heads. Something else is happening."

Sango knelt down next to Kagome.

"They were all icky and horrible and I was DRINKING that water!" Kagome whined.

"I know I know." Sango said comfortingly, she stood up and looked at Inuyasha. "I once heard that in ancient times, a hermit lived somewhere near here, on a mountain. Do you think he's responsible for the heads?"

"Hmmm, a cannibal? Well, there's only one way to find out."

"LET'S GO!"

Everyone turned to look at Kagome; she had stood up and was walking towards the river.

"But, just now you were terrified!" Inuyasha protested.

"I got over it didn't I?" She replied, taking off her shoes and socks and began walking across the river.

Shrugging, Inuyasha followed Kagome's lead and soon everyone was across the river and heading for the mountain.

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The man ran across the hard ground of the mountain.

" 'Tis a trick! He is no hermit! I must escape." He ran down a few more steps before a round, whale of a man with beady eyes and spaghetti hair stopped him.

"Where do you think you're going?"

The runaway stepped back in fright.

"Do you not wish to become my student?"

The man trembled. "I...I won't tell anyone what I've seen here!" He stuttered.

The whale man stepped closer to the runaway and grabbed him. Before the runaway could even make a sound, the whale man had stuffed him in his mouth and chewed. The bones made a horrible crunching sound as he swallowed the legs of the runaway.

Burping, the whale man took a peach out of his robes and began to eat that.

"Whew," He said. "Without some fruit now and then, I get heartburn."

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Ahhhhhhhhh! Ok, that was even shorted than the last one! I REALLY can't be bothered to write. I'm sorry! I also don't get my reviews emailed to me cos I have an outblaze email account (curse it!) And I STILL haven't updated my CCS one either. I'm terrible!!!!!!!! Oh well, at least I updated!

I've got Spirited Away! It's so good! Ahh, Haku...Ok, his hair needs cutting but he's so nice. -Smile- And I also saw the Cowboy Bebop movie! Ed is sooooo cool!

Hee hee it's my Birrrrrrthday tomorrow. But I'm not that excited. Perhaps it's cos I got my presents real early. Oh well. -Sniff- I'm gonna be older! Nooooooo I want to be young like Peter Pan! I don't wanna grow up!!!!!!!!!!!

See ya!

Sakura Clover