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Chapter 10: A Mother's Concern

Back at the Higurashi Shrine, everyone is now home. "Where is Kagome and Inuyasha?" Mrs. Higurashi asks. "Have you checked her room?" Ji-chan asks. "No, but I sent Souta up there. Souta, did you go up there?" "Yes, and I found this note." Souta gives his mom the note. "Go ahead, read it aloud." Ji-chan insists. "Okay, it says: Mom, went out with Inuyasha to Sengoku Jidai. Please don't follow. Be back soon. Love, Kagome." "Well, if it says that, then we know that Kagome wouldn't lie to us" Ji-chan confirms. "Humm...I am not so sure." Mrs. Higurashi thinks as she looks down at the note, "And this isn't even Kagome's handwriting. And I don't think Inuyasha's handwriting is this perfect. Something must be wrong, I can just feel it." "So you two aren't worried about them at all?" Mrs. Higurashi asks. "Nope" Souta says. And Ji-chan shakes his head in agreement, "Like I said before, Kagome would never lie to us." "Well, okay...umm..I am just going to be outside." she says as Mrs. Higurashi steps outside. The confused two stay inside, sitting down at the table. "So what are we having for dinner, Ji-chan?" Souta asks.

Mrs. Higurashi walks out to the hokora, hoping to find Kagome and Inuyasha returning, but there is no one there. She has a flashback: "Mom, I just wanna warn you about the well, I suppose since the jewel is gone, or something like that, then anything can pass through, or if you are strong enough. But anyway, I am warning you to never go down there for any reason, it's dangerous. There are many many demons and they could get you like...well, just trust me, don't go there." Kagome warned her. She comes back to the present and weighs the options, "I know that Kagome warned me, but how can I not worry about them. I have to investigate, I have to go to Sengoku Jidai." She gathers courage and jumps in the well. When the room stopped spinning, Mrs. Higurashi looks around, she gets out of the well. She looks around, and cannot believe that it actually worked. Without a plan or anything, she starts to wander around the forest.

Meanwhile, after being "sitted" about a hundred times from starting a fight with Kouga, Inuyasha and the others walk on. "Kagome, why do we need his help, we can handle Naraku by ourselves?!" Inuyasha says again for the hundredth and one time. Kagome gives him another dirty look, and Inuyasha finally gets the message. "So where exactly are we going, Shippou, do you still have Naraku's trace?" Miroku asks. "Umm...I really lost it after we found Kouga.....heehee..." Shippou innocently replies. "SO YOU HAVE BEEN LEADING UP TO NOWHERE, EVER SINCE WE FOUND THAT FLEA-BAG? IDOIT!!" Inuyasha yells as he smacks Shippou on the head a few times. "Kagome help!" Shippou cries. "Inuyasha......" Kagome warns. Inuyasha quickly stops and hides behind Miroku. "You seem to change your tune when Kagome warns you, eh, Inuyasha?" Sango says as she giggles. Inuyasha just sighs.

Suddenly, Shippou points infront of them, "What is that?!" Everyone looks ahead and spots a figure walking towards them. "Don't worry, I'll protect you!" Kouga says as he jumps infront of Kagome. "Uh...Mom?!?!" Kagome says shocked. She pushes Kouga out of her way and runs to her mother, "Mom, what are you doing here?!?!" Inuyasha sees Mrs. Higurashi and comes from behind Miroku and walks to her too. "Oh thank goodness you two are safe!" Mrs. Higurashi says as she hugs both of them, pulling Kagome and Inuyasha so close that they could lean over a kiss, they both blush. Kagome pushes away, "Yeah, we're okay, but why are you here and how did you get here?!" Inuyasha backs away as well, but just stands there for an explanation. "Well, when we found you weren't home, we began to worry. But when Souta found your note, they didn't worry, but I wasn't sure. So I came looking for you here, and I actually got through." Her mother explains. "Wait, what note? I didn't write that note!" Kagome exclaimed. "That is exactly what I thought, that wasn't even your handwriting, so I then thought that something was wrong. And I knew that Inuyasha couldn't write that perfect." Mrs. Higurashi said. Everyone looked at Inuyasha, he shrunk down to an ant.

"So what are you two doing here?" Mrs. Higurashi asked. "Well, you see it all happened when...." Kagome was forced to tell her mother the whole story, "So, you see mom, we have to stay here and defeat Naraku once again." "Well, I understand, but I thank god that you two are safe..." Mrs. Higurashi's words fall off as she spots Kouga. "Hum?" Kagome wonders what her mother's doing. Mrs.Higurashi wonders over to Kouga, getting in his face and stares at him. She then walks around him, everyone is just standing back, and Kouga is worried. As Mrs. Higurashi gets to his backside, she spots his tail, she pulls on it and plays with it, "What is this, a tail, but where are your ears? Inuyasha had ears, but he didn't have a cute tail" she smiles as she tugs on his tail more. Kouga is getting angry, Inuyasha is laughing, and Kagome runs over to her mother, "Okay mom, I know it was cute with Inuyasha, but I dun think you should do this to Kouga..." then she mumbles, "he is a bit more protective and may kill you, heehee." She pulls her mom away and just in time too, Kouga was about to pull out a WWF move on her.

Inuyasha finally says something, "You should go home, its very dangerous here, you could be killed." "That's right, lady, you need to get outta here, before something happens." Shippou says. "But if I go, you two must come back with me, I will not leave here without you two!" Mrs. Higurashi exclaims. Miroku is standing beside Sango and is just staring at Kagome's mother, he slips away from Sango and walks towards Kagome and her mom. He nudges Kagome aside a little to get to her mother. (((((I think you know what is going to happen next, if you dun, you need to go back to Miroku school^^))))) He grabs her hands, "Miss, I can't overlook your tremendous beauty and grace, so may I ask you a question?..." Sango finally realizes what he is doing, "HENTAI, WHAT ABOUT ME, WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING, I AM YOUR WIFE!!!" she yells as she slaps him so hard that he goes flying. Shippou walks over to Miroku, whose foot is twitching, "Wow, you shouldn't keep asking that question, Miroku, you know that you are with Sango now."

"Right, mom dun worry about what just happened, he does that all the time, but you have to go!" Mrs. Higurashi was flattered at the compliments of the monk, "Not unless you two come with me!" Inuyasha gets mad and walks over to Mrs. Higurashi and grabs her arm, "You're going back now! Me and Kagome have to destroy Naraku and when we succeed we will come back, so dun worry about us." "Inuyasha's right mom, we will return after we kill off Naraku, but you have to go back now." Mrs. Higurashi frowns, "Fine, I will leave and wait for you two, but you better not get killed!" Kagome smiled, "We won't."

Inuyasha helped Mrs. Higurashi into the well. "Be careful you two, I love you!" Mrs. Higurashi says as she jumps down the well, back to modern Tokyo. Inuyasha blushes. Kouga sees this and laughs, "Ha, you blush from that?!" "Shut up, at least I have someone who loves me! Unlike some wolf cub I can name..." Inuyasha teases. Kagome steps in front of Kouga and Inuyasha before they start. She turns to Inuyasha, "Inuyasha...we need to close up the well.... for good..." Everyone was shocked to hear her words, Sango speaks first, "But...if we close up the well, you or Inuyasha won't be able to go back home." Kagome turns to everyone, "I know that, but I don't want anything getting to my family. They mean so much to me, more than anything and I don't know what I would do if they were hurt." Inuyasha just stands there, shocked, but finally speaks, "Kagome, I agree..." Kagome turns to Inuyasha and gives him a smile.

All of a sudden, we hear a voice. "Sango...Sango..." Everyone looked to the bushes, they couldn't believe who they saw standing in the bushes...