****hey! I updated the last couple chapters (several times...argh!), so you might wanna go look at the changes. 'aight?

Chapter 4: Goodbye

(Inuyasha enters the scene after Miroku as a wolf and Shippou leave.)

Inuyasha: Is harm to come to that little boy...in the red cap? (an: Inu- chan's not real quick on the uptake...)

(Kaede enters)

Kaede: Forget the little boy and get the cap!

(her voice makes Inuyasha jump about 4 feet into the air)

Inuyasha: You frightened me.

Kaede: That's the cap. Get it. Get it. Get it!

Inuyasha: How am I supposed to get it?

Kaede: You go up to the little thing and you take it.

Inuyasha: I can't just take a hat from a little kid. Why don't you take it!(an: just a little ooc-ness...ne?)

Kaede: If I could, I would! But I...

(Yura of the hair starts singing wordless. Kaede listens enraptured)

Kaede: Ahhh, my Yura...listen to her beautiful music... (she starts yelling)) Get me what I need. Get me what I need!

(Kaede disappears once again)

Inuyasha: This is ridiculous. I'll never get that red cap, nor find a golden cow, or a black slipper--or was it a golden slipper and a black cow? Oh, no...

(Sango appears from behind a tree)

Sango: The cow as white as milk, the cap as red as blood, the hair as black as night, the slipper as pure as...

Inuyasha: What are you doing here?

(Sango pulls a scarf out of her pocket and attempts to put it around Inuyasha's throat.)

Sango: You forgot your scarf—

(Inuyasha promptly takes off scarf)

Inuyasha: You have no business being alone in the wood. And you have no idea what I've come upon here. You would be frightened for your life. Now go home immediately!

Sango: I wish to help.

Inuyasha: No! The spell is on my house...

Sango: our house.

(Rin enters dragging Milky-White by a rope on its neck)

Inuyasha: Only I can lift the spell, The spell is on my house...!

Sango: We must lift the spell together the spell is on...

(She puts her hand across Inuyasha's mouth, we see Rin at other side of stage)

Sango: a cow as white as...

(Inuyasha pushes Sango's hand away)

Inuyasha: ...milk.

(Sango pushes Inuyasha in Rin's direction, and follows.)

Inuyasha: Hello there, young lady.

(Rin looks up scared...she has just noticed the couple.)

Rin: Hello, sir.

Inuyasha: What might you be doing with a cow in the middle of the forest?

Rin: I was heading to market--but I seem to have lost my way.

(Sango gestures towards Inuyasha, who seems at quite a loss as to what to do)

Sango: And what are you planning to do there--?

Inuyasha: And what are you planning to do there?

Rin: Sell my cow, sir. No less than five pounds.

Inuyasha: Five pounds! Where am I to get five pounds?

Sango: She must be generous of milk to fetch five pounds?

(Rin hesitates a sec; she doesn't like telling lies.)

Rin: Yes Ma'am.

Sango: And if you can't fetch that sum? Then what are you to do?

Rin: I hadn't thought of that. I suppose my father and I will have no food to eat.

(Inuyasha has emptied his pockets. There are a few coins, and the six shards.)

Inuyasha: This is the sum total.

Sango: (loudly) SHARDS! We mustn't give up our shards! Well...if you feel we must.

Inuyasha: Huh?

Sango: Shards will bring you luck, dear.

Rin: Shards in exchange for my cow?

Sango: Oh, these are no ordinary shards, dear. These shards carry magic.

Rin: Magic? What kind of magic?

(Sango, nonplussed, motions to Inuyasha.)

Sango: Tell her.

(Sesshoumaru appears behind a tree, in his rags; as the "mysterious man".)

Inuyasha: um...magic that defies description.

Rin: My dad would...

Sesshoumaru: ...you'd be lucky to exchange her for a bucket of glass shards

(Inuyasha and Sango cling, frightened by Sesshoumaru's voice. Sesshoumaru leaves.)

Rin: How many shards?

Inuyasha: Six.

Sango: Five! We can't part with all of them. We must leave one for ourselves. Besides I'd say they're worth a pound each, at the very least.

Rin: Could I buy my cow back someday?

Inuyasha: uh...

(Inuyasha hands Rin the shards, putting the last in his pocket. Sango takes the cow's rope)

Sango: Good luck there, young lady.

(Rin is now in tears, saying goodbye to her "friend".)

Rin: I guess this is goodbye old pal; you've been a perfect friend. I hate to see us part old pal, someday I'll buy you back. I'll see you soon again. I hope that when I do, it won't be on a plate.

(Overcome with her emotion, Rin exits, leaving Inuyasha and Sango standing there; with a cow and the last shard.)

******ok...that's that for this chapter. Yes...I know that inuyasha is being a wuss; but I warned of much ooc-ness.