Chapter 9

Kagome, Sango, Shippo, and Inuyasha walked to the hot springs while Kirara watched over Miroku at near the hut.

Sango got undressed and got into the water first. Shippo then literally threw off his clothes and jumped in near Sango. Kagome laughed at Shippo as she was getting undressed. When Kagome got into the water she notice the Inuyasha had his back turned to them and wasn't in the water.

"Inuyasha, don't you want to take a bath?" Kagome asked as she tickled the poor kit.
"But won't you yell at me?" He asked in a curious voice as he turned his head very little to see part of Kagome.
"Why would I yell at you?" Kagome was confused.
"Because I'm a boy, and you're a girl." He said as he stopped looking at her and started to blush a little.
"It's okay Inuyasha." She said cheerfully.
"Your young enough to have a bath with us, besides, Shippo is technically older than you, and even he's having a bath with us." She explained to him.
"Kagome's right, its okay that you bathe with us because of your age, but when you get older you won't be aloud to." Sango added.
"Come on Inuyasha! Don't be scared!" Shippo added to make Inuyasha go in, even though Shippo was on Kagome's lap getting his hair washed by her.
"Feh, I'm not scared." He turned around and removed his clothes to take a bath with them.

He jumped in the water near the deeper area. Kagome remembered that the older Inuyasha couldn't swim very well still so she knew that this Inuyasha probably couldn't even swim yet.

"Sango, hold Shippo!" She said passing Sango the little kit and jumping in the deeper area. She easily grabbed Inuyasha; it was only estimated to 7feet deep where he was. When she got to the point to where she could touch the flooring and theirs heads were above water she walked to the shallow end of the springs near Shippo and Sango.

"Inuyasha, what were you thinking!" Kagome shouted but not to scare him. Inuyasha just moaned a little because he almost drowned but flattened his ears from Kagome's worried yet angered voice. Kagome made him look at her. "Are you okay?" She asked him a lot softer as he took two steps away from her and sat in the water with his back to her.

"I'm sorry Kagome; I didn't mean to make you mad." He said in a low voice.
"Inuyasha, I'm not mad." She plainly said to him, he looked over his head and gave her a confused look.
"But… you sounded… angry." He stammered. "I wasn't, I was just afraid. Don't worry about this though; it happened before, right Shippo?" She looked to Shippo who was now on an inner tube.
"Yup! You saved me too Kagome!" He jumped on her shoulder and hugged her.

Inuyasha felt a little better knowing that she wasn't angry at him. Then felt an even more better knowing that it happened to Shippo before, so he didn't feel like a little idiot.

"Come here Inuyasha, I'll wash your hair since I'm done with Shippo's." She cheerfully yelled to him.
"It feels good to because she's gentle!" Shippo recalled
"It'll make your hair feel better too Inuyasha" Sango explained
"Okay" Inuyasha said as he walked toward Kagome.
"Just come here on my lap and I'll wash your hair." She said to him. Inuyasha started to blush as he was sitting on Kagome's lap without having his clothes on.

'Shippo was right, she is gentle, she's not even hurting my ears. That stuff she's putting on my head smells good, it smells almost like Kagome's hair!' He said to himself. He didn't even notice that he was purring. It made Kagome even laugh softly.

When she was done she covered his eyes and tilted his head forward so she could let the water rinse his hair without going into his ears. He enjoyed it very much. Kagome was smile to see Inuyasha's hair being so shiny. She was finished with Shippo and Inuyasha, Sango did her own hair, and now Kagome did hers. When Kagome was done they all got out and dried off. Kagome and Sango dried of their hair and put their clothes on. Kagome went to Shippo and dried off his hair and his tail so he would get his clothes yet. Then she dried of Inuyasha's hair, it took a little longer because of his sensitive ears and long hair, and then put on his clothes. Inuyasha didn't know how to tie the string on his side so Kagome went over and tied it for him.

"That was fun, can we take a bath every day!" Inuyasha shouted as he jumped around with his good smelling, shiny long hair.
"How about every two days? We travel a lot sometimes." Sango answered Inuyasha.
"Aww, okay. Where do we travel?" he asked.
"Where ever Kagome…" Kagome covered Shippo's mouth.
"We travel to villages for amusement." She cheerfully said.

'Inuyasha doesn't need to know about the Jewel Shards, it's too risky now. I'll tell the others not to mention it to him also. We could use a year to relax anyhow, beside. Everyone one will just come to us, even Naraku.' She frowned for the moment thinking of what might happen. She grew a tense; both Shippo and Inuyasha felt it on her body while Sango saw it.

"Kagome… Are you okay?" Sango wondered.

Kagome broke out her tenseness and froze and nodded. They looked at her strangely for a moment. Shippo jumped onto Sango's shoulder and Inuyasha removed his hand from hers and tugged a little on her shirt.

"Are you sure Kagome? You seem tense." He looked up at her with caring eyes. Kagome sensed concernedness and gently patted his head and walked forwards on a hilltop and looked around. The others followed her and saw the forest that belonged to Inuyasha, they all gazed at it. From that hilltop, it seemed like you could see everything there. Kagome loved to stand up there, especially with Inuyasha in the past. She didn't mind the young Inuyasha, but she had a feeling it might eventually bug her.

"Shippo, Inuyasha, how about you guys run over to the hut where Miroku is okay? Will watch you from here, don't' worry." She smiled at them.
"Okay! Come on Inuyasha, let's go!" Shippo excitedly said grabbing Inuyasha's wrist and started running. Inuyasha wasn't given a chance to protest to her request.

Kagome was watching them as they were down the hill and running to the hut to Miroku and Kirara. Sango touched Kagome on her shoulder to get her attention but didn't look away till the two little ones were at the hut.

"What's up Kagome?" Sango said with a humble tone.
"Inuyasha will not know about are shard hunt. I think we should relax for the time being." She calmly as she looked to Sango in the eyes.
"But then Naraku…" She was cut off.
"I know, but I can't risk Inuyasha. He never risked me, at least not on purpose. If he was ten we would shard hunt, but not at the age of 5." She smiled at Kagome hoping she understood.
"Okay Kagome, I suppose we'll just visit villages? Be wonderers and have fun?" She gave a happy smile back.
"Well… I wanted to go back to the village where the woman gave me some clothing for Inuyasha; I wanted to see if her or her village needed any help."
"Sure that sounds great. It sounds nice to actually be able to relax after awhile."
"I know… it's been so long." Kagome replied. The winds picked up a little, blowing Kagome and Sango's hair back and off their shoulders.

They had an estimation of a 3 minute silence then Sango wanted to ask a question.

"Do you miss the old Inuyasha? Or do you like the new and young one?" She asked, but didn't know if Kagome would reply.
"I don't know… I miss the older Inuyasha that I hug into… But now, he has me to hug into." She smiled as she looked towards the hut, seeing Inuyasha chasing Kirara.
"Hmm… Seems that he thinks of you as a mother in ways, doesn't it?" She questioned.
"He does… the first night when he was little, he called me mommy." Kagome as she started to turn around.
"Would you want him to stay like this?" Sango asked as she turned in the same direction Kagome was.

Kagome started to walk down the hill then answered…

"I don't know... he seems so happy to have a type of person that can be similar to a mother… But I don't know how long you'll last with him being around during bath time since I saw you blush a lot. I hope you weren't checking him out, he's just a little boy!" Kagome said as she ran down the hill. Sango was turning a little red from fun-anger and embarrassment.
"I'm not the on who put his bare butt on my lap!" She shouted and ran after her.
"Mothers never care about it! Besides, you never saw me blush now did you?" She was still running then finally stopped at the hut to only be tackled by Sango.

2x Rubbing

Screams "PERVERT!" They both said at once

2x Slaps and 2x pain

"Nice to see you ladies are back." He said as he fell unconscious.

They laughed then ignored him. Shippo and Inuyasha got some sticks and started to poke him. They were having fun. When they poked him, he twitched a lot.

"Guys I'm going to take a nap and then head out to the village… that is… if Miroku is conscious when I wake up!" She said and headed inside.
"Kay!" They all said cheerfully.