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Inuyasha caught her right when he realized she wouldn't be able to stand up. He wasn't too incredibly anxious, as Kagome was given to this kind of behavior, but he was still uneasy.
"Kagome!!" Inuyasha worriedly said, leaning down over her and looking down at her face. Her eyes fluttered open slowly to see Inuyasha's face a few inches from hers.
"Gaaah! Hentai!" Kagome yelled, stumbling up and out of his grasp, a blush obviously creeping over her face.
Inuyasha didn't know what to say. He settled for his most commonly used word... "Feh."
Miroku spoke out softly, almost stuttering at first, "Kagome, do all people in your time have floating oars and flying children?" He was staring fixedly at the source of what had cause Kagome's brief unconsciousness [a/n: hmm... did that make sense?].
The other four people who the Inuyasha gang did not know had gathered into a tight circle, two of them sniggered [the boy's Kagome presumed were human], but the two others were stuck thinking on when the priest had said "in your time."
"Kagome," Inuyasha growled softly,"that's the other person that I sensed before. I don't think she's human."
Kagome looked at Inuyasha, then to the floating girl. Obviously, floating wasn't a normal thing, but she looked human enough, despite her blue hair [she presumed it to be dyed]. Perhaps, Kagome thought, she was a witch. After all, witches were supposed to ride on broom sticks, and that oar looked close enough to be a broom.
"Ah, Yusuke, I see you have found the location of the portal. Of course, you will have found out that it is no longer here," The young, floating toddler paused to take a breath, which proved to be a not very smart thing, as Yusuke immediately started yelling.
"You stupid toddler - you sent us on this mission when you KNEW that we wouldn't find anything and we walked around for three hours and had this stupid fight and now we are totally confused and...." He stopped talking to inhale [his face had been steadily turning into a bluish color...], and this time he was interrupted.
"Yusuke, we didn't know it was going to disappear, and you did find it's former location. Perhaps we can find all the information we need here," Koenma stated properly.
Inuyasha and Kagome looked confused, but not as confused as Sango and Miroku. They were absolutely baffled as to whether or not everything they were talking about was in modern terms or if they really were talking about portals and missions. They weren't familiar with moving portals either. The only one that they did know of, in fact, was the bone eaters well.
"Well," Kagome hesitantly spoke up,"I wish we could help, but we really can't, so..." She was soon interrupted.
"Nonsense. I'm sure you could help us with something. Like for instance, what is that special aura that surrounds you? You are obviously not a demon." Koenma stated.
"Well... er..." Kagome had no idea whether she should answer or not.
Hiei saw that she was unlikely to respond with an answer other then 'um' or 'er', so he calmly replied, "She is a miko."
"Ah, another miko,"Botan responded. "There have been a lot of those recently, it seems to be connected with the increase of the dem-"
"Botan!" Koenma silenced her.
The two groups looked around apprehensively. They all knew they were hiding valuable information from each other, but none of them really trusted the others at all. Especially not after that fight.
Their attentions focused again on the blue haired girl as a beeping rang through the still air.
She pulled a little communicator thing out of her pocket, and beamed when it came on. "Shippo! Glad to hear from you!"
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"WHAT!" Miroku, Sango, and Kagome yelled in unison.
"Well of course," Inuyasha said with an arrogant tone,"He -is- a demon, so he would definitely have an expanded life time." A smug settled on his face [not exactly the best replacement for his usual scowl].
"It's Shippo! Let me see that!" Kagome demanded, swiftly snatching the communicator from Botan's hands She looked down into it, and sure enough, a kawaii [and older looking] kitsune with fox ears and shocking green eyes named Shippo was looking back up.
"KAGOME!" He was overjoyed, and it was hard to see him because he was bouncing up and down. "I didn't think you were still alive! I waited forever, but I couldn't find you!"
"Where are you?" Kagome frantically questioned. Miroku and Sango curiously poked their head into view. Later they would be very interested in the pocket-sized communication thing, but at the moment they were very happy about the news that Shippo was alive and well.
"I'm in America - we've been looking for recruits for the Spirit Detectives. I didn't know you worked for them, otherwise I would've gone looking for you - I'm so sorry!"
"Shippo!" This time it was Botan's turn to rebuke someone. "She DOESN'T work for them, if you catch my drift!"
He stared with a blank look on his face, and then a look of understanding came over him. "Oh...oops. Well, I'm not having any luck, so I might as well come back and... er... work," He stated, looking for an excuse to see Kagome.
"Oh, and by the way," Koenma added before Botan shut off the hand-held machine,"You'll have to travel by public services, meaning you'll need to purchase airline tickets. We'll send you the money." Some groans and shouts of protest were heard from the other line before Botan closed the case and returned it to it's spot.
"Shippo..." Kagome said, her eyebrows creasing. What did he mean by the Spirit Detectives?
Meanwhile, Miroku and Sango were itching to ask questions about the technology. They talked with themselves, asking things like,"I wonder if there was a time delay?" and answering with,"But they answered so quickly." And then "Maybe they hop into the little box and become tiny and..."
During that time, Inuyasha was... Sulking. And then it hit him.
He would never see Kikyou again.
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The people seemed very eager to see that kitsune teen.
Hiei couldn't understand why. He hadn't seemed all that special on the other line. No, he seemed like a slacker. Perhaps the miko girl was also a slacker, and that's why she liked him so much, , but she seemed too pure, like his sister, for him to even think of her that disrespectfully. For a human girl without any training, she had a substantial amount of spirit energy, and with that to back up her arrows, she could be lethal to low level youkai. However, she was nothing compared to him.
Anyway, Kurama seemed to like that boy called Shippo. Probably because he was another kitsune who lived through roughly the same era and had a lot to relate to. Normally Kurama didn't associate very much with slackers. Then again, Kuwabaka was a slacker in just about everything. And even when he tried, he still looked like one.
The group in front of him was a strange one. He pondered the reason of why two of them were wearing very old style clothes. He didn't even consider the possibility of time travel. They were all loud and outspoken, one of them being preverted, one being rude, another that was far to serious with no control over her temper, and the other being.... Strange, but he still respected her.
That girl might not have been the coolest under pressure, but she handled it well, not to mention her potential fighting ability... -and beautiful eyes- he thought, but then scolded himself. The only person he'd ever truly felt for in one way or another were Yukina and Kurama [a/n: as friends, peeps, remember, I'm a no yaoi author, sorry to disappoint -not really, cough-]. He couldn't afford to feel anything else. He might lose his cool in battle.
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Kurama looked at all of the people dressed to out of place for the time. One had intricate battle armor on, with a huge bone boomering [and she was quite beautiful], while the other had on dark priest clothes. This did not include the hanyou with the bright red kimono on, for it actually seemed quite fitting to his angry personality that he wear that.
He was impressed with all of their abilities, from the monk to the young miko [who was also quite stunning]. The miko pressed his curiosity the most however, as she did not seem to be the serious, motivated type that most priestesses seemed to be. She also released a great amount of power [by miko standards, which were more frequently much less than most true fighters] by exerting a small amount of effort.
He was extremely suprised, however, when they all jumped up in delight at the sound of his friend Shippo's name. Kurama had trouble figuring out what connection they could posses with his young companion. He would ask later. Right now he was having fun listening to the two strangely dressed humans come up with inconceivable ways that Botan's communicator worked [such as little mice in the box area dressed up as people that ran back and forth between the two....]
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Kuwabara was embarrassed. He had been trying to save the [*pretty....* he thought] girls, when they had just totally turned on him and beat up on him. Now he seemed even more like a wimp, cowering in the corner with a bloody nose [when he hadn't even gotten to fight]. He would have to find a way to redeem himself, once he tells Yukina how he saved the day....
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Yusuke wasn't thining.
Okay, he was thinking. But he was thinking about KFC. So let's just skip his thoughts.
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Yeah, so, longest chapter I've ever written, a lot of words, hope you enjoyed it. Right now, leaning towards Hiei/kag, but you guys can still vote. I'll be adding more peeps as I go [like Sess, Jin, Touya, some other peeps, but it's a surprise, haha!]. So please review! Tell me what you liked and I'll put more of that up. Please don't tell me my grammar errors though, as I already know there are many but I'm going to load this before I can totally edit it... but I'm sure you're all smart enough to get what I'm saying ;] unless I say something really stupid, which I can definitely gaurantee can happen.... Lol. REVIEW PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!! Wanna get lotsa reviews [waves little flag] yaay reviews!
Inuyasha caught her right when he realized she wouldn't be able to stand up. He wasn't too incredibly anxious, as Kagome was given to this kind of behavior, but he was still uneasy.
"Kagome!!" Inuyasha worriedly said, leaning down over her and looking down at her face. Her eyes fluttered open slowly to see Inuyasha's face a few inches from hers.
"Gaaah! Hentai!" Kagome yelled, stumbling up and out of his grasp, a blush obviously creeping over her face.
Inuyasha didn't know what to say. He settled for his most commonly used word... "Feh."
Miroku spoke out softly, almost stuttering at first, "Kagome, do all people in your time have floating oars and flying children?" He was staring fixedly at the source of what had cause Kagome's brief unconsciousness [a/n: hmm... did that make sense?].
The other four people who the Inuyasha gang did not know had gathered into a tight circle, two of them sniggered [the boy's Kagome presumed were human], but the two others were stuck thinking on when the priest had said "in your time."
"Kagome," Inuyasha growled softly,"that's the other person that I sensed before. I don't think she's human."
Kagome looked at Inuyasha, then to the floating girl. Obviously, floating wasn't a normal thing, but she looked human enough, despite her blue hair [she presumed it to be dyed]. Perhaps, Kagome thought, she was a witch. After all, witches were supposed to ride on broom sticks, and that oar looked close enough to be a broom.
"Ah, Yusuke, I see you have found the location of the portal. Of course, you will have found out that it is no longer here," The young, floating toddler paused to take a breath, which proved to be a not very smart thing, as Yusuke immediately started yelling.
"You stupid toddler - you sent us on this mission when you KNEW that we wouldn't find anything and we walked around for three hours and had this stupid fight and now we are totally confused and...." He stopped talking to inhale [his face had been steadily turning into a bluish color...], and this time he was interrupted.
"Yusuke, we didn't know it was going to disappear, and you did find it's former location. Perhaps we can find all the information we need here," Koenma stated properly.
Inuyasha and Kagome looked confused, but not as confused as Sango and Miroku. They were absolutely baffled as to whether or not everything they were talking about was in modern terms or if they really were talking about portals and missions. They weren't familiar with moving portals either. The only one that they did know of, in fact, was the bone eaters well.
"Well," Kagome hesitantly spoke up,"I wish we could help, but we really can't, so..." She was soon interrupted.
"Nonsense. I'm sure you could help us with something. Like for instance, what is that special aura that surrounds you? You are obviously not a demon." Koenma stated.
"Well... er..." Kagome had no idea whether she should answer or not.
Hiei saw that she was unlikely to respond with an answer other then 'um' or 'er', so he calmly replied, "She is a miko."
"Ah, another miko,"Botan responded. "There have been a lot of those recently, it seems to be connected with the increase of the dem-"
"Botan!" Koenma silenced her.
The two groups looked around apprehensively. They all knew they were hiding valuable information from each other, but none of them really trusted the others at all. Especially not after that fight.
Their attentions focused again on the blue haired girl as a beeping rang through the still air.
She pulled a little communicator thing out of her pocket, and beamed when it came on. "Shippo! Glad to hear from you!"
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"WHAT!" Miroku, Sango, and Kagome yelled in unison.
"Well of course," Inuyasha said with an arrogant tone,"He -is- a demon, so he would definitely have an expanded life time." A smug settled on his face [not exactly the best replacement for his usual scowl].
"It's Shippo! Let me see that!" Kagome demanded, swiftly snatching the communicator from Botan's hands She looked down into it, and sure enough, a kawaii [and older looking] kitsune with fox ears and shocking green eyes named Shippo was looking back up.
"KAGOME!" He was overjoyed, and it was hard to see him because he was bouncing up and down. "I didn't think you were still alive! I waited forever, but I couldn't find you!"
"Where are you?" Kagome frantically questioned. Miroku and Sango curiously poked their head into view. Later they would be very interested in the pocket-sized communication thing, but at the moment they were very happy about the news that Shippo was alive and well.
"I'm in America - we've been looking for recruits for the Spirit Detectives. I didn't know you worked for them, otherwise I would've gone looking for you - I'm so sorry!"
"Shippo!" This time it was Botan's turn to rebuke someone. "She DOESN'T work for them, if you catch my drift!"
He stared with a blank look on his face, and then a look of understanding came over him. "Oh...oops. Well, I'm not having any luck, so I might as well come back and... er... work," He stated, looking for an excuse to see Kagome.
"Oh, and by the way," Koenma added before Botan shut off the hand-held machine,"You'll have to travel by public services, meaning you'll need to purchase airline tickets. We'll send you the money." Some groans and shouts of protest were heard from the other line before Botan closed the case and returned it to it's spot.
"Shippo..." Kagome said, her eyebrows creasing. What did he mean by the Spirit Detectives?
Meanwhile, Miroku and Sango were itching to ask questions about the technology. They talked with themselves, asking things like,"I wonder if there was a time delay?" and answering with,"But they answered so quickly." And then "Maybe they hop into the little box and become tiny and..."
During that time, Inuyasha was... Sulking. And then it hit him.
He would never see Kikyou again.
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The people seemed very eager to see that kitsune teen.
Hiei couldn't understand why. He hadn't seemed all that special on the other line. No, he seemed like a slacker. Perhaps the miko girl was also a slacker, and that's why she liked him so much, , but she seemed too pure, like his sister, for him to even think of her that disrespectfully. For a human girl without any training, she had a substantial amount of spirit energy, and with that to back up her arrows, she could be lethal to low level youkai. However, she was nothing compared to him.
Anyway, Kurama seemed to like that boy called Shippo. Probably because he was another kitsune who lived through roughly the same era and had a lot to relate to. Normally Kurama didn't associate very much with slackers. Then again, Kuwabaka was a slacker in just about everything. And even when he tried, he still looked like one.
The group in front of him was a strange one. He pondered the reason of why two of them were wearing very old style clothes. He didn't even consider the possibility of time travel. They were all loud and outspoken, one of them being preverted, one being rude, another that was far to serious with no control over her temper, and the other being.... Strange, but he still respected her.
That girl might not have been the coolest under pressure, but she handled it well, not to mention her potential fighting ability... -and beautiful eyes- he thought, but then scolded himself. The only person he'd ever truly felt for in one way or another were Yukina and Kurama [a/n: as friends, peeps, remember, I'm a no yaoi author, sorry to disappoint -not really, cough-]. He couldn't afford to feel anything else. He might lose his cool in battle.
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Kurama looked at all of the people dressed to out of place for the time. One had intricate battle armor on, with a huge bone boomering [and she was quite beautiful], while the other had on dark priest clothes. This did not include the hanyou with the bright red kimono on, for it actually seemed quite fitting to his angry personality that he wear that.
He was impressed with all of their abilities, from the monk to the young miko [who was also quite stunning]. The miko pressed his curiosity the most however, as she did not seem to be the serious, motivated type that most priestesses seemed to be. She also released a great amount of power [by miko standards, which were more frequently much less than most true fighters] by exerting a small amount of effort.
He was extremely suprised, however, when they all jumped up in delight at the sound of his friend Shippo's name. Kurama had trouble figuring out what connection they could posses with his young companion. He would ask later. Right now he was having fun listening to the two strangely dressed humans come up with inconceivable ways that Botan's communicator worked [such as little mice in the box area dressed up as people that ran back and forth between the two....]
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Kuwabara was embarrassed. He had been trying to save the [*pretty....* he thought] girls, when they had just totally turned on him and beat up on him. Now he seemed even more like a wimp, cowering in the corner with a bloody nose [when he hadn't even gotten to fight]. He would have to find a way to redeem himself, once he tells Yukina how he saved the day....
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Yusuke wasn't thining.
Okay, he was thinking. But he was thinking about KFC. So let's just skip his thoughts.
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Yeah, so, longest chapter I've ever written, a lot of words, hope you enjoyed it. Right now, leaning towards Hiei/kag, but you guys can still vote. I'll be adding more peeps as I go [like Sess, Jin, Touya, some other peeps, but it's a surprise, haha!]. So please review! Tell me what you liked and I'll put more of that up. Please don't tell me my grammar errors though, as I already know there are many but I'm going to load this before I can totally edit it... but I'm sure you're all smart enough to get what I'm saying ;] unless I say something really stupid, which I can definitely gaurantee can happen.... Lol. REVIEW PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!! Wanna get lotsa reviews [waves little flag] yaay reviews!