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Author: alright I was looking at this good IY site that had about all of the episode and Manga summaries (see profile). Well....in episode 140....well I'll let you read it for yourselves.....^_~
Episode 140
Eien no omoi kenkon no naginata
As the sacred Furai Temple is sucked into a demonic vortex, Hoshioni barters Kagome's life for possession of the Kenkon Naginata (the Halberd of Heaven and Earth). The Younin has been possessed by Kaijinbo's evil weapon and will stop at nothing to keep the blade. Recognizing Hoshioni's demonic threat, Inu-Yasha, Sango and Miroku attack with their remaining resources but are violently repelled by the powerful demon. When force fails, Akitoki pleads with the Younin for Kagome's return, but is ignored. The boy only succeeds in enraging the Younin, stirring memories of betrayal at the hands of his human partner, Sukione. As Hoshioni prepares to unleash the destructive power of the complete naginata at Akitoki, he is thwarted by a huge swell of energy emanating from Kagome. As Kagome and Hoshioni separate in mid-air, the void in the sky shrinks and closes. Now afloat inside a globe of spirit energy, Kagome is possessed, taking on the Miko Sukione's form and presence. Speaking thru her host, Sukione tries to reason with Hoshioni. We learn that once they were a couple: a human and Younin who fought evil yokai with their combined powers. Because they needed more power, Hoshioni commissioned the naginata from Kaijinbo. A regrettable decision which cost Hoshioni his relationship with Sukione and Sukione her life! Kaijinbo's weapon drove Hoshioni mad with it's evil, tapping into his yokai spirit, bringing forth the demonic side to his personality. Sukione sacrificed her life to seal Hoshioni and destroy the naginata by separating it, sealing half at Hakureizan and the other half at Mt. Fuji (near the Hojo clan). But Sukione's death released Hoshioni from the sealing spell. Angered by her betrayal, Hoshioni searched to find and reunite the weapon. Sukione's spirit presses him to surrender the evil weapon and destroy it before it's too late. But Hoshioni refuses, slashing through Sukione's barrier, breaking the spell and sending Kagome plunging helplessly earthward! Inu-Yasha catches Kagome and brings her safely to the ground. Holding Kagome, he tries frantically to revive her and, slowly, Kagome's eyes open. Kagome attempts to negotiate with the Younin one last time, but Hoshioni's reason has been stolen by the strong energy of the naginata. Hoshioni charges Kagome, poised to run her through with the naginata, but Inu-Yasha blocks him with Tetsusaiga, which has suddenly regained its power. While Akitoki tries to fight Hoshioni, Inu-Yasha and Kagome unite forces. Observing his two young opponents, Hoshioni sees himself and Sukione in Inu-Yasha and Kagome. Hoshioni strikes, but is defeated by a their joint attack -- Inu-Yasha's Bakuryuuha and Kagome's arrows. Dying, Hoshioni regains his sanity as Sukione returns to guide him to the spirit world. On the ground, the battle is over and an exhausted Kagome collapses. Inu-Yasha rushes to her, taking her in his arms as Akitoki watches, disappointed. He hasn't got a chance with Kagome. Later, Inu-Yasha is depressed about the nature of human/demon relations. Although he doesn't come out and say it, he's afraid of his feelings towards Kagome, consumed by doubt and afraid of rejection because of what he is. The threat of Akitoki's (human) rivalry and Hoshioni/Sukione's painfully familiar story gnaws agonizingly at Inu-Yasha. Guessing the problem, Miroku, Sango and Shippo reassure him, pointing out Kagome has always been there for him, no matter what. Embarrassed, Kagome over-reacts and a lively round of arguments lift's the mood! Akitoki sadly watches from a distance, and then quietly departs. On the lonesome road home, Akitoki encounters a lovely young lady of good family bearing a strong resemblance to Kagome, traveling with her chaperone. Akitoki turns on his charm, earning the young lady's immediate interest. Meanwhile, back in modern Tokyo, Hojo sips a drink at "WacDonald's", pining over his family's genealogy scroll. Eri, Ayumi and Yuka pop up, teasing Hojo about winning "his" Kagome. During the banter, Hojo's soft drink spills onto the ancient scroll, blurring the ink and erasing the name of "Hojo Kagome" forever!
Tee hee hee so I guess InuYasha isn't so dense ne?
InuYasha: who said I was dense?!?!?!?!
Author: ::sigh:: InuYasha.......everyone but you and Kagome get it....even Shippo
Kagome: get what?!
Author: well...maybe not you Kagome
InuYasha: ::steady growl::
Author: and it seems you are seeing the light InuYasha! ^_^*
Ok enough blabbering for this chapter..... here are your responses!!!
*~*~*
*=receives cookie and a Valentines day chocolate heart
Inugurl13: oh wow ::blush:: I hope you and your friend like this one ::blush:: enjoy!*
Kittycatkitkat: noooo not the puppy do eyes!!!!!!!!!!!1 lolz of course I update ever4y Friday ^_^ thanks for thinking that this is great! ::blush::*
Dark_Inuyasha: really? I didn't mean to leave a cliff hanger.....thanks for your review!!!*
Priestessmykala: thanks...my friend appreciates it ^_^ yea unfortunately the rumors are duds ::sad sigh:: still waiting though ^_~ lolz thanks soooo much for your review!!!*
Crazyyoukaihaka: I didn't mean to leave a cliffy....^_^ but thanks so much for your review and have a cookie with an extra special holiday treat ^_~*
darkrose2006: thanks....she really appreciates it ^_^ well....its gonna be interesting ^_~ thanks for your review!!!*
bakuruyhaa: yes.....ummmm about that......i can't find it any more....the site of which I found it on took it down and I can't find it anywhere else but I promise to e-m you a very cute picture that I found!!!!!*
JoJo10: lolz ^_~ something is gonna happen......^_________~* ((note: this story is remaining PG-13 lolz so no worries about that))
Salior Sayian: Erica thanks you and loves the cookies! ^_^ well......as for Kagome finding out too soon....gonna have to wait ^_~*
*~*~* Author: oh WOW! Thanks sooooooo much for the 9!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Reviews much of an uplift if I do say so myself!!!!!!! Thanks so much you guys and I personally thank those who feel sorry for my friend....she's been really down in the dumps and I think you guys helped her feel better....thanks sooooooo much!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Kagome entered the village InuYasha at her side constantly giving her glances and sniffing a little bit loudly every now and then. Kagome sighed while smirking and walking normally throughout town, she smiled at the little kids running around with a ball woven out of reeds bouncing it up and down and chasing it when is slipped their little grasps. It once hit InuYasha in the leg and Kagome saw his eyebrow twitch before he leaned down and handed it to the little boy.
"Thank-you Mister!" the little boy said happily immediately throwing it at one of his friends who caught it. InuYasha straightened and turned to a smiling Kagome.
"What?!" he asked folding his arms within his haori.
"Nothing" Kagome said sweetly approaching him and shifted the trunk to one of her arms and entwining her free arm with his own.
InuYasha blushed a light pink before taking his hand out of his sleeve and finding hers; he gently squeezed it and blushed a little more. They approached Kaede's hut with an amusing sight, Miroku was outside a big, red, handprint on his face, eyebrow twitching.
"God monk what did you do this time?!" InuYasha said smirking at the monks red handprint.
Miroku sighed "I swear I didn't do anything!" he exclaimed. Suddenly a ball of red fluff jumped out of the hut and rammed into Kagome chest causing her to stagger a couple of feet back and the trunk to fly into the air.
"H-Hello S-Shippo" she said seeing the little fox demon hugging her to death.
"KAGOME YOU'RE BACK! What's that?" he said noticing the wooden trunk that was on its side because of Shippo's collision.
"Yes I'm back and if you would get off of me I will show you" Kagome said gently. Shippo jumped off of her and went over to the trunk, InuYasha helped Kagome up and she patted her clothes to shake off of the dirt before picking the trunk up and having Shippo jump onto her shoulder.
"You shouldn't be doing that anymore runt, you going to seriously hurt her!" InuYasha said bonking the poor Kitsune (little fox demon) on the head. Shippo glared at InuYasha and pouted on Kagome's shoulder.
"Cut it out you two or else I'll have to s-i-t you InuYasha" Kagome said walking up to the entrance of the High Priestess's hut.
"What did I do?!" he exclaimed at her glaring silently at her back.
She sighed and felt her eye twitch; Miroku stood up and held the reed mat open for Kagome.
"Thank-you Miroku" she said while entering the hut with Miroku close behind. She sat down and slid her backpack off her back and the trunk in front of her knees close-but not to close-to the fire.
InuYasha practically ripped the reed door down as he entered and sat huffily next to Kagome.
Kaede eyed the trunk in curiosity before speaking, her lone eye taking it in. "What is that piece of furniture that ye have there child?" she asked.
Kagome smiled at the old woman secretively, "my mother found this in my home and gave it to me....its important to our family" she said quietly but happily.
"Well open it Kagome!" Sango said cheerfully. She was sitting next to Miroku, she had her boomerang in-between them in a familiar warning sign to the perverted monk.
Kagome blushed and nodded briefly before letting her hands open the lock and creak it open. InuYasha wrinkled his nose a bit from the scent that the dust was giving off and wit curiosity. He smelt something so....natural....to him but he couldn't place his finger on it.
Kagome slowly and carefully took out the old kitchen supplies and the stand and laid the jewel over the pegs.
"Kagome....how did that get in that trunk of yours?" Kaede asked observing the stand with extreme recognition.
"I seriously don't know how all of this was in here" Kagome replied truthfully.
"Its just.....that is the same exact stand that held the Jewel before my sister died for the first time"
Kagome stared at Kaede and then glimpsed the Jewel on the stand, watching it innocently glimmer in the firelight.
Kagome glanced quickly at InuYasha who was staring at the stand with sadness tingeing his usually grumpy face.
Kagome interrupted the uncomfortable silence before reaching into the trunk. She saw the scroll lying on top of the wrapped dark blue and white priestess robes. She touched it gently with her finger tips contemplating on showing it to them. She stopped and gently hid it under the robes before taking out the fire rat haori and the prayer beads.
She smiled gently as she pulled it out.
"What the hell?" InuYasha asked his eyebrows arching, his nose sniffing madly. "How in the seven hells did my robe get in that trunk of yours?!" InuYasha asked madly taking it from Kagome, growling at the red fabric.
"How Kagome?" Kaede asked, her own interests on what this trunk was hiding.
"That's not all" Kagome said softly, uncertainty in her eyes.
She finally pulled out the priestess robes and quickly closed the trunk. "Kaede.....im curious about this" she said handing the robes to the elder priestess.
Kaede murmured while taking the robes from Kagome's hands and observed them with her peering solitary eye.
Shippo sat behind Kagome observing under her elbow and was very bored not realizing the importance of spare clothes, kitchen supplies, and a wooden thing-a-ma-bob. He knew or more or less smell something else in there but it was weird, its smelt of old wet paper and a lot of Kagome and he wanted to see it.
Shippo snuck past Kagome and leaped into the trunk when she and everyone else was distracted and saw a weird beige paper roll. He felt a weird weight added to the end of his tail and felt himself lifted out of the trunk and looking into very mad amber eyes.
"You stupid runt! What do you think your doing?!" InuYasha yelled while banging poor Shippo up and down on the wooden floor of Kaede's hut.
"InuYasha SIT!" Kagome yelled while InuYasha was beating the pulp out of Shippo against the floor. The beads around InuYasha's glowed a bright purple and he hit the floor hard.
Shippo jumped out of InuYasha's curled fist that was around his tail and leapt into Kagome's lap before InuYasha surfaced leaning over a weird dent in Kaede's hut floor.
"What's this Kagome?" Shippo asked in his all cute little kid voice and showed the parchment to Kagome.
Miroku quickly reached over and grabbed the scroll from Shippo before Kagome had time to react.
"It seems to be a scroll" he said undoing the rope wrapping the roll and read it. He almost dropped it when he read a couple of words, Sango quickly scooped it up before it entered the fire and brought the paper up VERY close to her face as if not believing on what she was reading.
Kagome sat starting at the back of the parchment blushing and subconsciously stroking Shippo's red hair, Miroku staring at her in disbelief and a confused, pissed, InuYasha sitting next to her.
Sango finally resurfaced her face and rolled up the parchment and sealed it with the string that kept it from springing open. She had a red tinge to her face and secretly smiling and handed it back to Kagome "like to go for a bath Kagome?"
"Yes I would" Kagome said looking up relief clearly written on her face while accepting the scroll back.
*~*~*
Kagome sunk into the hot spring; she felt the calming hot water cover her body in pure warmth and relaxation. She sighed and leaned her head back on the bank; all of her hair was piled on top of her head so that it wouldn't get dirty.
"Interesting scroll if I do say so myself" Sango said as she sunk in the water herself.
Kagome blushed and reached into her backpack to pull out some soap for her and Sango along with two wash cloths.
"So...." Sango said smirking gently.
"Well......when I was home my mother decided it was time for me to see the trunk" Kagome said and she rubbed the soap onto her washcloth and stroked her arms with the soft square of fabric.
"She's known about it?" Sango said and she mimicked Kagome.
"Yes, at least that's what I think, her and my grandfather had a fight over whether I was supposed to see it or not" Kagome replied dunking her arm into the water.
Sango smiled "at least you know what to expect".
"But that's the thing! I wasn't supposed to do know at all and for the fact that my mother let me know puts my entire family at risk!" Kagome exclaimed splashing some water on her face to calm her down.
Sango looked at the stressed out girl and scooted over next to her. "Have you thought about telling InuYasha?"
Kagome sighed and watched the current in the water "ever since I knew of what I am" she said quietly.
"If you tell him...I can not predict the outcome" Sango replied to the quiet confession.
"I don't want to scare him though" Kagome replied.
Sango smirked and put her arm around the poor girl "when I started traveling with you and InuYasha and that accursed monk" Sango smiled widely at the girl "I saw love and when you two quarreled I saw the secret kindness and loving in both your eyes.....it was truly beautiful being able to see that bloom".
Kagome smiled at Sango's kind words "I think I should tell him.....I'm just scared of the outcome".
"I would be too" Sango said truthfully.
Kagome smiled at her spiritual sister and grabbed a towel. "I think I'm going to get out" she said as she lifted herself from the hot spring and dressed. She sat down and lay against her backpack watching the setting sun, waiting for Sango to get out and dressed.
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Author: well......may not be my best chapter but I hope it was good....this one I typed over five times before I finally found the correct way to type it...I hope.
InuYasha: Keh!
Author: well anywho next chapter Kagome is going to tell InuYasha about the scroll......good luck Kagome!!!!
^_^
Author: alright I was looking at this good IY site that had about all of the episode and Manga summaries (see profile). Well....in episode 140....well I'll let you read it for yourselves.....^_~
Episode 140
Eien no omoi kenkon no naginata
As the sacred Furai Temple is sucked into a demonic vortex, Hoshioni barters Kagome's life for possession of the Kenkon Naginata (the Halberd of Heaven and Earth). The Younin has been possessed by Kaijinbo's evil weapon and will stop at nothing to keep the blade. Recognizing Hoshioni's demonic threat, Inu-Yasha, Sango and Miroku attack with their remaining resources but are violently repelled by the powerful demon. When force fails, Akitoki pleads with the Younin for Kagome's return, but is ignored. The boy only succeeds in enraging the Younin, stirring memories of betrayal at the hands of his human partner, Sukione. As Hoshioni prepares to unleash the destructive power of the complete naginata at Akitoki, he is thwarted by a huge swell of energy emanating from Kagome. As Kagome and Hoshioni separate in mid-air, the void in the sky shrinks and closes. Now afloat inside a globe of spirit energy, Kagome is possessed, taking on the Miko Sukione's form and presence. Speaking thru her host, Sukione tries to reason with Hoshioni. We learn that once they were a couple: a human and Younin who fought evil yokai with their combined powers. Because they needed more power, Hoshioni commissioned the naginata from Kaijinbo. A regrettable decision which cost Hoshioni his relationship with Sukione and Sukione her life! Kaijinbo's weapon drove Hoshioni mad with it's evil, tapping into his yokai spirit, bringing forth the demonic side to his personality. Sukione sacrificed her life to seal Hoshioni and destroy the naginata by separating it, sealing half at Hakureizan and the other half at Mt. Fuji (near the Hojo clan). But Sukione's death released Hoshioni from the sealing spell. Angered by her betrayal, Hoshioni searched to find and reunite the weapon. Sukione's spirit presses him to surrender the evil weapon and destroy it before it's too late. But Hoshioni refuses, slashing through Sukione's barrier, breaking the spell and sending Kagome plunging helplessly earthward! Inu-Yasha catches Kagome and brings her safely to the ground. Holding Kagome, he tries frantically to revive her and, slowly, Kagome's eyes open. Kagome attempts to negotiate with the Younin one last time, but Hoshioni's reason has been stolen by the strong energy of the naginata. Hoshioni charges Kagome, poised to run her through with the naginata, but Inu-Yasha blocks him with Tetsusaiga, which has suddenly regained its power. While Akitoki tries to fight Hoshioni, Inu-Yasha and Kagome unite forces. Observing his two young opponents, Hoshioni sees himself and Sukione in Inu-Yasha and Kagome. Hoshioni strikes, but is defeated by a their joint attack -- Inu-Yasha's Bakuryuuha and Kagome's arrows. Dying, Hoshioni regains his sanity as Sukione returns to guide him to the spirit world. On the ground, the battle is over and an exhausted Kagome collapses. Inu-Yasha rushes to her, taking her in his arms as Akitoki watches, disappointed. He hasn't got a chance with Kagome. Later, Inu-Yasha is depressed about the nature of human/demon relations. Although he doesn't come out and say it, he's afraid of his feelings towards Kagome, consumed by doubt and afraid of rejection because of what he is. The threat of Akitoki's (human) rivalry and Hoshioni/Sukione's painfully familiar story gnaws agonizingly at Inu-Yasha. Guessing the problem, Miroku, Sango and Shippo reassure him, pointing out Kagome has always been there for him, no matter what. Embarrassed, Kagome over-reacts and a lively round of arguments lift's the mood! Akitoki sadly watches from a distance, and then quietly departs. On the lonesome road home, Akitoki encounters a lovely young lady of good family bearing a strong resemblance to Kagome, traveling with her chaperone. Akitoki turns on his charm, earning the young lady's immediate interest. Meanwhile, back in modern Tokyo, Hojo sips a drink at "WacDonald's", pining over his family's genealogy scroll. Eri, Ayumi and Yuka pop up, teasing Hojo about winning "his" Kagome. During the banter, Hojo's soft drink spills onto the ancient scroll, blurring the ink and erasing the name of "Hojo Kagome" forever!
Tee hee hee so I guess InuYasha isn't so dense ne?
InuYasha: who said I was dense?!?!?!?!
Author: ::sigh:: InuYasha.......everyone but you and Kagome get it....even Shippo
Kagome: get what?!
Author: well...maybe not you Kagome
InuYasha: ::steady growl::
Author: and it seems you are seeing the light InuYasha! ^_^*
Ok enough blabbering for this chapter..... here are your responses!!!
*~*~*
*=receives cookie and a Valentines day chocolate heart
Inugurl13: oh wow ::blush:: I hope you and your friend like this one ::blush:: enjoy!*
Kittycatkitkat: noooo not the puppy do eyes!!!!!!!!!!!1 lolz of course I update ever4y Friday ^_^ thanks for thinking that this is great! ::blush::*
Dark_Inuyasha: really? I didn't mean to leave a cliff hanger.....thanks for your review!!!*
Priestessmykala: thanks...my friend appreciates it ^_^ yea unfortunately the rumors are duds ::sad sigh:: still waiting though ^_~ lolz thanks soooo much for your review!!!*
Crazyyoukaihaka: I didn't mean to leave a cliffy....^_^ but thanks so much for your review and have a cookie with an extra special holiday treat ^_~*
darkrose2006: thanks....she really appreciates it ^_^ well....its gonna be interesting ^_~ thanks for your review!!!*
bakuruyhaa: yes.....ummmm about that......i can't find it any more....the site of which I found it on took it down and I can't find it anywhere else but I promise to e-m you a very cute picture that I found!!!!!*
JoJo10: lolz ^_~ something is gonna happen......^_________~* ((note: this story is remaining PG-13 lolz so no worries about that))
Salior Sayian: Erica thanks you and loves the cookies! ^_^ well......as for Kagome finding out too soon....gonna have to wait ^_~*
*~*~* Author: oh WOW! Thanks sooooooo much for the 9!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Reviews much of an uplift if I do say so myself!!!!!!! Thanks so much you guys and I personally thank those who feel sorry for my friend....she's been really down in the dumps and I think you guys helped her feel better....thanks sooooooo much!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Kagome entered the village InuYasha at her side constantly giving her glances and sniffing a little bit loudly every now and then. Kagome sighed while smirking and walking normally throughout town, she smiled at the little kids running around with a ball woven out of reeds bouncing it up and down and chasing it when is slipped their little grasps. It once hit InuYasha in the leg and Kagome saw his eyebrow twitch before he leaned down and handed it to the little boy.
"Thank-you Mister!" the little boy said happily immediately throwing it at one of his friends who caught it. InuYasha straightened and turned to a smiling Kagome.
"What?!" he asked folding his arms within his haori.
"Nothing" Kagome said sweetly approaching him and shifted the trunk to one of her arms and entwining her free arm with his own.
InuYasha blushed a light pink before taking his hand out of his sleeve and finding hers; he gently squeezed it and blushed a little more. They approached Kaede's hut with an amusing sight, Miroku was outside a big, red, handprint on his face, eyebrow twitching.
"God monk what did you do this time?!" InuYasha said smirking at the monks red handprint.
Miroku sighed "I swear I didn't do anything!" he exclaimed. Suddenly a ball of red fluff jumped out of the hut and rammed into Kagome chest causing her to stagger a couple of feet back and the trunk to fly into the air.
"H-Hello S-Shippo" she said seeing the little fox demon hugging her to death.
"KAGOME YOU'RE BACK! What's that?" he said noticing the wooden trunk that was on its side because of Shippo's collision.
"Yes I'm back and if you would get off of me I will show you" Kagome said gently. Shippo jumped off of her and went over to the trunk, InuYasha helped Kagome up and she patted her clothes to shake off of the dirt before picking the trunk up and having Shippo jump onto her shoulder.
"You shouldn't be doing that anymore runt, you going to seriously hurt her!" InuYasha said bonking the poor Kitsune (little fox demon) on the head. Shippo glared at InuYasha and pouted on Kagome's shoulder.
"Cut it out you two or else I'll have to s-i-t you InuYasha" Kagome said walking up to the entrance of the High Priestess's hut.
"What did I do?!" he exclaimed at her glaring silently at her back.
She sighed and felt her eye twitch; Miroku stood up and held the reed mat open for Kagome.
"Thank-you Miroku" she said while entering the hut with Miroku close behind. She sat down and slid her backpack off her back and the trunk in front of her knees close-but not to close-to the fire.
InuYasha practically ripped the reed door down as he entered and sat huffily next to Kagome.
Kaede eyed the trunk in curiosity before speaking, her lone eye taking it in. "What is that piece of furniture that ye have there child?" she asked.
Kagome smiled at the old woman secretively, "my mother found this in my home and gave it to me....its important to our family" she said quietly but happily.
"Well open it Kagome!" Sango said cheerfully. She was sitting next to Miroku, she had her boomerang in-between them in a familiar warning sign to the perverted monk.
Kagome blushed and nodded briefly before letting her hands open the lock and creak it open. InuYasha wrinkled his nose a bit from the scent that the dust was giving off and wit curiosity. He smelt something so....natural....to him but he couldn't place his finger on it.
Kagome slowly and carefully took out the old kitchen supplies and the stand and laid the jewel over the pegs.
"Kagome....how did that get in that trunk of yours?" Kaede asked observing the stand with extreme recognition.
"I seriously don't know how all of this was in here" Kagome replied truthfully.
"Its just.....that is the same exact stand that held the Jewel before my sister died for the first time"
Kagome stared at Kaede and then glimpsed the Jewel on the stand, watching it innocently glimmer in the firelight.
Kagome glanced quickly at InuYasha who was staring at the stand with sadness tingeing his usually grumpy face.
Kagome interrupted the uncomfortable silence before reaching into the trunk. She saw the scroll lying on top of the wrapped dark blue and white priestess robes. She touched it gently with her finger tips contemplating on showing it to them. She stopped and gently hid it under the robes before taking out the fire rat haori and the prayer beads.
She smiled gently as she pulled it out.
"What the hell?" InuYasha asked his eyebrows arching, his nose sniffing madly. "How in the seven hells did my robe get in that trunk of yours?!" InuYasha asked madly taking it from Kagome, growling at the red fabric.
"How Kagome?" Kaede asked, her own interests on what this trunk was hiding.
"That's not all" Kagome said softly, uncertainty in her eyes.
She finally pulled out the priestess robes and quickly closed the trunk. "Kaede.....im curious about this" she said handing the robes to the elder priestess.
Kaede murmured while taking the robes from Kagome's hands and observed them with her peering solitary eye.
Shippo sat behind Kagome observing under her elbow and was very bored not realizing the importance of spare clothes, kitchen supplies, and a wooden thing-a-ma-bob. He knew or more or less smell something else in there but it was weird, its smelt of old wet paper and a lot of Kagome and he wanted to see it.
Shippo snuck past Kagome and leaped into the trunk when she and everyone else was distracted and saw a weird beige paper roll. He felt a weird weight added to the end of his tail and felt himself lifted out of the trunk and looking into very mad amber eyes.
"You stupid runt! What do you think your doing?!" InuYasha yelled while banging poor Shippo up and down on the wooden floor of Kaede's hut.
"InuYasha SIT!" Kagome yelled while InuYasha was beating the pulp out of Shippo against the floor. The beads around InuYasha's glowed a bright purple and he hit the floor hard.
Shippo jumped out of InuYasha's curled fist that was around his tail and leapt into Kagome's lap before InuYasha surfaced leaning over a weird dent in Kaede's hut floor.
"What's this Kagome?" Shippo asked in his all cute little kid voice and showed the parchment to Kagome.
Miroku quickly reached over and grabbed the scroll from Shippo before Kagome had time to react.
"It seems to be a scroll" he said undoing the rope wrapping the roll and read it. He almost dropped it when he read a couple of words, Sango quickly scooped it up before it entered the fire and brought the paper up VERY close to her face as if not believing on what she was reading.
Kagome sat starting at the back of the parchment blushing and subconsciously stroking Shippo's red hair, Miroku staring at her in disbelief and a confused, pissed, InuYasha sitting next to her.
Sango finally resurfaced her face and rolled up the parchment and sealed it with the string that kept it from springing open. She had a red tinge to her face and secretly smiling and handed it back to Kagome "like to go for a bath Kagome?"
"Yes I would" Kagome said looking up relief clearly written on her face while accepting the scroll back.
*~*~*
Kagome sunk into the hot spring; she felt the calming hot water cover her body in pure warmth and relaxation. She sighed and leaned her head back on the bank; all of her hair was piled on top of her head so that it wouldn't get dirty.
"Interesting scroll if I do say so myself" Sango said as she sunk in the water herself.
Kagome blushed and reached into her backpack to pull out some soap for her and Sango along with two wash cloths.
"So...." Sango said smirking gently.
"Well......when I was home my mother decided it was time for me to see the trunk" Kagome said and she rubbed the soap onto her washcloth and stroked her arms with the soft square of fabric.
"She's known about it?" Sango said and she mimicked Kagome.
"Yes, at least that's what I think, her and my grandfather had a fight over whether I was supposed to see it or not" Kagome replied dunking her arm into the water.
Sango smiled "at least you know what to expect".
"But that's the thing! I wasn't supposed to do know at all and for the fact that my mother let me know puts my entire family at risk!" Kagome exclaimed splashing some water on her face to calm her down.
Sango looked at the stressed out girl and scooted over next to her. "Have you thought about telling InuYasha?"
Kagome sighed and watched the current in the water "ever since I knew of what I am" she said quietly.
"If you tell him...I can not predict the outcome" Sango replied to the quiet confession.
"I don't want to scare him though" Kagome replied.
Sango smirked and put her arm around the poor girl "when I started traveling with you and InuYasha and that accursed monk" Sango smiled widely at the girl "I saw love and when you two quarreled I saw the secret kindness and loving in both your eyes.....it was truly beautiful being able to see that bloom".
Kagome smiled at Sango's kind words "I think I should tell him.....I'm just scared of the outcome".
"I would be too" Sango said truthfully.
Kagome smiled at her spiritual sister and grabbed a towel. "I think I'm going to get out" she said as she lifted herself from the hot spring and dressed. She sat down and lay against her backpack watching the setting sun, waiting for Sango to get out and dressed.
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Author: well......may not be my best chapter but I hope it was good....this one I typed over five times before I finally found the correct way to type it...I hope.
InuYasha: Keh!
Author: well anywho next chapter Kagome is going to tell InuYasha about the scroll......good luck Kagome!!!!
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