Artistic, Aggressive and Attractive

They found Miroku outside of the nearest big house, with a couple girls, and also drunk as hell. What made this obvious was the fact that a couple bottles of sake lay empty before him, and the girls weren't all that nice to look at, but he seemed to think they were the best in the whole village. Even Shippou was able to tell this. Kira looked at him and thought "ugh, this is quite the character, I hope Shippou gets this done and over with. Maybe I should just get us out of here and tell him I can read after all...meh."

Shippou walked cautiously up to Miroku, then, realizing that Miroku had no idea what was going on around him, Shippou ran the rest of the way across the yard and smacked him upside the head. He then went on to grab him by the front of his robes and hit him again.

"YOU BASTARD!!! You have Sango and a child yet you come all the way over here and make a damned fool of yourself! I'm ashamed FOR you! And in front of a lady too, no, you idiots, not you, I'm talking about Kira!" he shouted at the girls with Miroku, who blushed and giggled when he said the word 'lady', thinking he was talking of them. Shippou kept shouting at Miroku and Kira gazed in wonder at this fox demon reprimanding the man as if he were a child, and was actually excited by his shouting.

Shippou then grabbed Miroku by the back of his robes and dragged him across the yard with surprising strength, still fuming, and Miroku merely giggled and said to the girls, "I'll shee you latersh, buh byesh!" he waved and with a blank look, he passed out somewhere along the gates. Shippou looked down at him and thought about going off to find Inuyasha, or even Kagome or Sango, but thought better of it. He still wanted to know what the box said. But first, he thought, Miroku needs to be woken up. He dragged him to the creek, and threw him in. He decided to let him float downstream for awhile, but then he started to sink because he wasn't swimming, for he was still unconscious. Shippou sighed and took off his vest and shirt and jumped in and dragged Miroku back out, then tried slapping him a couple more times. This didn't work in awakening him, but instead Miroku muttered something which sounded remarkably like, "I looooove you Sango, you have such a sweet ass" and Shippou gave this up, since it seemed that Miroku was trying to reach behind him and he got up very quickly, leaving Miroku there. He kicked him once and then wondered where Kira was.

He found her somewhere behind, since he had nearly ran all the way there. She was bending over a nearby bush and picking some kind of purple berries, and gathering them in the front of her shirt. She looked up and saw Shippou standing there, still wet from his swim, and still shirtless. She gasped and dropped her collection of berries, and her eyes widened. Under her breath she said, "Tummy!" for she had never known Shippou to wield a near six-pack.

Shippou stared at her expression for a moment, before asking her what was the matter. She shook her head and averted her eyes, so as not to be drawn in by the sightly body of Shippou, and laughed. "Nothing," she replied, and went again to picking up her berries.

Still, without looking at him, Kira said to Shippou, "These berries are a really nice way of tricking drunk people, I always do this to one of my uncles whenever he passes out, it's really great when they wake up and look at themselves, but even better when they have no idea its on them."

Shippou watched her mash up the berries onto a big leaf and take them over to Miroku. She smeared it all over his face in big patterns and gave some of a type of bluish green flower to Shippou. She told him to rub it on his face too, since it would be very hard to come off. Shippou was thinking that Miroku deserved it, for being such a stupid head and nearly cheating on Sango. He had always been quite the artist, so he then drew a great big water imp, one to resemble Sesshomuru's old bitch, Jaken. He then finished and looked at the end result. It appeared to look like a water imp was looking into a pink and blue sky with a face in it, which was Miroku's.

Kira was amazed at his artistic skills and asked where he had learned to draw like that. He replied it was nothing, and that he had been drawing since he was younger and had never thought it to be very good.

Kira then looked at him again, and immediately regretted doing so, since he had still never retrieved his shirt from the side of the creek. She couldn't stop staring, so Shippou poked her in the head and asked if he can stare too.

She blushed and said, "I wasn't staring! I was uuuh...thinking. Umm yah I was thinking, I was thinking....I should take a nap, I'm kinda tired..." she gave a huge fake yawn, and Shippou knew this, but left it there. "Fine, go sleep, I'll go get my shirt and I guess I can leave you here until you wake up, I'll know when you're awake, don't worrys." He got up and went towards the creek.

Kira, not wanting him to put his shirt back on, yelled the first thing that came to her mind.

"TUMMY!!!"

Shippou turned around and raised his eyebrow, which then drew Kira in even more, since he looked so great when he did that, and he asked, "what was that?"

"Ummm....YUMMY I said YUMMY cause uuuh....berries!" she picked up a nearby berry from the ground, "Berries are yummy!" she popped it in her mouth and nearly spat it out again, since it was very bitter and mushy.

"Err...okaaay....yes, berries are yummy, good to know that, but see you later! Have a nice sleep." he then turned to go and Kira smacked her in the head and threw her on the ground, for being stupid and lay there for a little while, until realizing that she actually was tired and went to sleep.

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Shippou walked towards the creek, and walked a ways down alongside it too, but couldn't seem to find his shirt anywhere, or his vest. Giving up on it, and thinking he can just find another one somewhere, Shippou went back to see Miroku and found that he had left his shirt there, where he was. However, Miroku had curled himself around it and was mumbling, "Nice kitty, nice kitty," while petting the shirt and vest and he then rolled over onto it, making it inaccessible to Shippou.

He shrugged and decided to go sit with Kira for a while, since it was becoming dark and there might be something running around the forest at this time. He had absolutely no confidence that he would be able to handle anything bigger than a large cat, but still, he was going to be there for her and protect her no matter what.