Chapter #8: The First Village

The two boys, Shippo And Inuyasha, after a days walking, were getting tired.

"Inuyasha, isn't there supposed to be a village around here somewhere? I can smell one." Shippo, who was thinking about Kagome all day, suddenly smelt the villages scent.

"Yeah, I smell it too, but I don't smell any demons."

"Same here, I don't know whether to take that as a good thing, or a bad thing....... ya know?"

"Feh."

Shippo rolled his eyes. As they entered the village, a familiar scent caught his nose, and when he looked up at Inuyasha, he too, had gotten the scent.

"Hey, that smells like.....MIROKU!" Shippo was a little happy to be able to say that, but Inuyasha wasn't happy to hear that.

"Oh great, now we'll run into that Monk. Perfect."

"Oh Inuyasha, must you be so bold?" Miroku came from the inside of a hut, and Inuyasha said it loud enough for him to hear that comment. "Where is Kagome, did she stay behind?"

"No, she got taken away."

"BY WHO!?!"

"I jerk demon, that's who!" Shippo didn't want to explain, he just wanted to eat and rest.

"Why don't we go over to Kikea's hut, he is the owner of this village, maybe he can give you a hut to use, and some food too."

They followed Miroku to Kikea's hut, and when they got there, he was surprised to se Inuyasha again.

"Oh, Inuyasha, it's so nice to see you-who's this?" He said, tipping his head towards Shippo, who was on Miroku's shoulder.

"I am Shippo!" Shippo puffed out his chest very proudly. The girl you met, Kagome, was taken by some demons, and we are looking for her, also-"

"-Can it runt." Inuyasha interrupted. "I will do the talking if anyone is going to explain things."

Shippo jumped off of Miroku's shoulder, onto the ground, bit Inuyasha's ankle, and stormed out of the hut.

While Kikea went to get some herbs for Inuyasha's bite mark, which was deep, and bled rapidly, Inuyasha explained what had happened in Keade's village to Miroku.

"Well Inuyasha, I am done will all exorcism's, and I was going to leave tomorrow. I guess I could accompany you."

"That would be fine...but one ONE condition.......NO GIRLS you perverted Monk!"

"Very well." Miroku was red in the face, and his eyebrow was twitching.

When Shippo came back, everyone ate, and Miroku was forced to sit between Inuyasha and Shippo, because they started fighting again.