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Lilanimegirl2007: No, that'd sorta sink the ship. Not good for them.
Winged Knight: It depends on which three you're talking about. These three tend to help. Hmmm…I didn't think of the Kagome-Battosai thing…that has possibilities…thanks!
A/N: Yes, this chapter is rather short. This would be on account of the fact that I wrote it at about midnight.
Chapter 10: In Which Spirits Abound
Kagome's jaw dropped. The sudden and random appearance of Sano was unbelievable enough, but the sudden and random appearance of the three 'Spirits' was even more so.
"I can see that we missed rather a lot, by the looks of things," Miroku continued as he ducked into the narrow corridor of space that ran in front of the cells.
"I thought you were just getting a Shikon shard, not getting captured by pirates. If I had known, I would have come along too," Sango followed Miroku.
"Mrew!" Kirara agreed as she jumped into Sango's arms.
"So…the Three Spirits of the Insane Fanfics, eh?" Inuyasha said sarcastically, "Which one of you is which?"
"I'm Dramatic Convention…" Miroku began.
"And Kirara is Plot Device," Sango continued, "And I…am the All Powerful Muse of This-Makes-Absolutely-No-Sense-And-Defies-The-Laws-Of-Everything-But-I'm-Going-To-Do-It-Anyway."
"Since when have you three been Spirits of the Insane Fanfics?" Kagome's mind was reeling. Perhaps this was just a strange dream. A very realistic strange dream. For the second time, she pinched herself. And then a third and fourth time, just to make sure. Nope, this wasn't a dream. Not cool.
"I don't know; perhaps we've always been Spirits of the Insane Fanfics and just didn't know it. Or maybe the Spirits have just temporarily manifested themselves within us. Either way, we were suddenly and unexpectedly on a remote island with him and two little girls and a bunch of spell-casting stuff. And we suddenly knew that you were in trouble. We also knew your exact location. It was really weird," Miroku trailed off thoughtfully.
"So we got on Kirara, and he wanted to come too; he said something about someone named Kenshin making some oath not to go anywhere without him. Is one of you named Kenshin?"
"I am, de gozaru," Kenshin said, "Sano, who is watching Ayame and Suzume if you're here?"
"Well…ummm…I also summoned the Two Spirits of Random Insertion…so they're watching Ayame and Suzume…and…yeah…" Sano trailed off as well, but not thoughtfully. More like uncomfortably, as he was being ferociously glared at by Kaoru, Kagome, and Shura.
"And who, pray tell, are the Two Spirits of Random Insertion?" Kagome said slowly, deliberately, and scarily.
"Would I get yelled at if I said that the Two Spirits of Random Insertion were a small toad youkai carrying a staff that's twice his size and a little girl with black hair who smiles a lot?" Sano said nervously.
"Rin?" Sesshomaru became attentive all of a sudden.
"Huh?" Sano looked confused.
"Was the little girl's name Rin?!"
"Yeah…I think that was what she said her name was…"
"So the other one must have been Jaken."
"Yeah, I remember his name, because he kept yelling about always having to watch little human girls…in the third person."
"So you left Jaken and Rin to watch Ayame and Suzume?" Kagome's head was in her hands.
"Yeah."
"And you two let him?" this comment was directed at Miroku and Sango, who were looking rather sheepish.
"Well, being Spirits of the Insane Fanfics apparently causes lapses of common sense…" Miroku was saying, but Kagome wasn't listening. She was far too busy banging her forehead repeatedly on the side of the ship.
