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Protecting Sango SmilingKitsune Chapter 3
Last Time
Yusuke growled. "We'll camp out here the night and head out. I doubt she's gonna leave that village to soon. That cat was pretty badly injured and my bets are she's gonna make sure it's perfectly fine before she goes off for awhile." Yusuke said as he picked up a blanket wrapping it around himself as he sat before the fire poking at it.
Kurama agreed with him and tried to rest a bit before they left even though he had just gotten up.
This Time
Kurama woke again to find that Yusuke was already awake and taking care of everything surprisingly. "Morning." Yusuke muttered as he fit some things in a bag. "Food by the fire if you're hungry." "Compliments from last nights rescuer?" Kurama asked quirking a brow up at him.
"Actually yea. Some dried deer meat and fresh rabbit. She left it for me to skin and gut though. That's harder then I thought it would be." Kurama chuckled as he looked around the small area. "Where is Hiei?" "I think he went to scout ahead and make sure that girl was actually in the village we're going to." Yusuke said as he finally fit everything into the bag. "Speak of the devil here he comes." "Hn." Hiei said as he stopped in a tree above them.
"Find her?" "She's there." "Looks like our rescuer is very good at giving directions." Kurama said a bit impressed. "Hn. I met her on the way to the village." "Did ya? I thought she had to go to a different village." Yusuke said thoughtfully.
"She finished her work during the night and left to make it to the one she told you about." Hiei replied.
"Did you get any information out of her?" Kurama asked. Hiei seemed as though he knew something and wasn't sure if he should say it or not.
"No." "Did something happen?" "Hn maybe." "What?" "The girl is able to block out my jagan eye I wasn't able to get a thing out of her." Hiei finally said.
Yusuke whistled surprised. "Damn she must have some power at least to do that. Most people couldn't do that in a million years." Kurama to was surprised. "Anything else?" "For all I know the girl could be dead. I couldn't find a trace of life energy in her at all nor does she have a scent." "Did she talk to you?" "Hn." "I'll take that as a yes. What did she say?" "Said to walk carefully around the demon exterminator. We're walking on a frozen pond and about to fall through the ice and drown." "She seems to be a bit informed. Yusuke did you tell her anything about the exterminator?" "Nope not in the least." Yusuke said holding his hands in front of him as though to say I'm totally innocent on this account.
This didn't surprise Kurama all that much. After so many years of working Yusuke was finally getting his job down right and was much more careful then he used to be when trying to get information though he still did run into battle blindly a lot of the time. The problem was though if Yusuke didn't tell her anything how did she find out about it?
Something didn't seem right.
"Well we should probably get going. The girl may be a pain in the butt but she is our case and I want to get back home as soon as possible." Yusuke said stretching as he shouldered his bag. "Ready to go." he asked as he put out the fire.
Kurama looked at Hiei who just ignored him. "Sure." he replied.
With a shrug Yusuke began to walk off in the direction the mysterious person had told him to go last night. Hiei was above him in the trees and Kurama walked along side him. The three traveled in a companionable silence throughout the day. Around late noon they finally reached the village.
Yusuke looked ahead uncertainly. The air around the place felt weird as though warning him off. "Kurama, Hiei do you feel that?" he asked.
"It would seem that we're not exactly welcome." Kurama replied as several men appeared around them with weapons. "What is your business here demons?" one of the men demanded to know.
"We wish to stay the night in the village to rest up before we travel more. We're very tired and promise no problems." Kurama replied glaring at Hiei who appeared to be ready to attack and kill them.
"Let them pass." a soft musical voice said.
The villagers and the three friends whirled around to see a robed figure by the forest.
"They mean no harm. If they cause any problems within the village then go ahead and kill them if you can but I think you should allow them in." "Who are you to order us?" a man said angrily.
"I'm not ordering you but must I remind you of the law decreed by the lords of these lands? You have no reason to cast them out. Now if they were bandits yes you could tell them no yet they have given you no reason to say no." "Who are you?" "A human." the person said with a shrug walking away. "By the way a visitor comes from the West. Let your village miko know and it would be in your best advantage that you don't turn him away." she chuckled as she walked off.
The villagers looked at each other in almost horror. "If he finds out about this..." one of them murmured quietly to the others.
"You can stay." one of the men said darkly. "You get two nights then we want you out." "Wasn't planning on staying longer then that." Yusuke said. "OK?" he asked Kurama who just shrugged his shoulder.
"Follow us. Where did your friend go?" "He'll be back soon." Kurama replied with a thoughtful frown on his face following the men.
"Do you know where he went?" Yusuke asked Kurama quietly.
"I can't be positive but I think he went after the girl. I think it's the same girl as our rescuer the other day." Kurama said just as quietly. "There is something very mysterious about her and she seems to know a lot." "You're telling me but I'm quite thankful to her this is the second time she's saved our butt." "So you noticed it as well?" "Oh yea those guys had some pretty strong magic with them. I really didn't want to try and find out if they knew how to use it or not." Kurama chuckled. "You probably wouldn't have wanted to find out because they did know very well how to use them. It would seem they must get attacked a lot by demons or they wouldn't be as jumpy as this." They heard a rustle above them and saw Hiei up there looking thoughtful as he followed them from up above. "Get anything from her?" "She's hiding something, but what I don't know. She was gone when I caught up with her. No trace of her or anything." he said annoyed.
"Well this keeps getting interesting." Yusuke said.
"Quite." Kurama said agreeing. The villagers led them up to a hut stopping respectfully outside of it.
"Lady Kaede we bring guests from outside the village." a man called.
"Aye I hear ya." an old voice replied from inside. "Let them in, let them in." Glancing at each other carefully the villagers turned their attention to the three. "Watch your step. Lady Kaede is a miko. She is old yet still is quite powerful." Nodding Kurama went in first, Yusuke and then Hiei last. They looked through the gloom of the room to find an old lady by a fire crushing herbs and making medicines.
"What can this old one do for you?" she asked not looking up.
"We search for the last of the demon exterminators." Hiei said.
"Aye you do, you do. Yet what is your reason for finding her?" "We have been sent to protect her and help her fight her enemy Naraku." Kurama said.
The old woman looked up then her eyes searching as she looked at them. "You are from the future." she stated. "You prove that demons still exist their. We all should have believed her and not thought there was just the one." she said saying that more to herself then them.
"That's the second person who knows we're from the future. How is that possible?" Yusuke grumbled.
"Calm yourself child." Kaede said looking sharply at him. "There was a girl we knew once who came here from the future. She was a beautiful child who was kind to everyone and everything. She taught us and told us about the future. Many people will recognize you are not from around here." "You speak of her in past tense. What happened to her?" Kurama asked curiously.
"I don't know. No one does. She just disappeared after her friends battled Naraku a few months ago. She was there and then she wasn't. Sango is the remaining one alive from the group of Shard Collectors." "Shard Collectors?" "That was once their name for they went in search of the shards of the Shikon No Tama that our friend from the future accidentally broke protecting someone." "That is but legend." Kurama said reasonably.
"Do you truly think it is? You're only lying to yourself though. It is real and now it is very whole." "Then wouldn't Naraku be dead?" "One would think so yet he continues to thrive. We think he absorbed some of the powers of the Shikon no Tama for he held them for a long time." "Where is the jewel?" "With the girl which is why we think she is dead. With it she will catch the attention of many demons. Even if she didn't have it she would still catch their attention. She is after all the reincarnation of Midoriko and is very powerful. That and the fact that a bunch of demons Sango came across had some of the girls belongings. Her bow and arrows as well as her traveling pack." "OK then if the jewel isn't legend then the people that were collecting it they weren't legend either were they? The monk, kitsune and hanyou were also part of it. Where are they now?" Yusuke asked then seeing his friends questioning looks shrugged his shoulders. "It was my favorite story as a kid and the only time my mom actually spent with me." "Aye those three were once part of the group but they long since died. Actually to make it easier for you to understand when the girl from the future disappeared it was just her and Sango because the other three had died before that." "What were they doing by themselves?" "A village had been attacked and hearing about it those two just grabbed horses and raced off to it to help all I know is when Sango got back she said Naraku had showed up and her imouto had disappeared. It was very hard on all of us." Kaede said sadly. "Mew?" a small cat said rubbing against the miko. "Yes Kirara I know you miss her as well." Kaede said to the bandaged up fire cat.
"Lady Kaede." an urgent voice yelled from outside the small hut.
"Come in child." Kaede called.
Into the room stepped Sango dressed up and ready for battle. She opened her mouth to speak but then caught sight of the three. Her features darkened. "I thought I left you to die." she muttered.
"I owe you for that." Yusuke said as he punched at her face, stopping in surprise when she caught it and glared at him coldly. She dropped his fist eyes narrowed on the three. "I don't have time for you fools. Lady Kaede did the villagers tell you? Someone told them earlier we have a visitor coming from the west. She says it's an important person." "You don't say." the old lady said reflectively. "You plan to talk to him do you not?" "I do." "Go meet him at the front of the village I can sense him coming now. He should be here shortly. How someone could sense him from so far off is amazing." she said. "That was something only she could do." she said the last part quietly to herself.
"Kirara how are you doing?" Sango asked the cat.
With a small meow the cat turned into a huge ready to battle fire cat. "All right then let's go." she said climbing gently onto the cat.
After she was gone from sight Kaede turned her attention back to the three. "You did not tell me that you have already met her." "Yea it wasn't exactly the best of experience. I don't take to defeat that great." Yusuke muttered.
"I suggest you watch your step around her. She's a like a frozen pond..." "and we're about to fall through and drown. Yes so we've been told." Kurama said with a smile.
Hiei just did a hn.
"Feel free to stay here. She should return in a bit with our visitor." Kaede said turning back to her medicine making.
Shrugging his shoulder Yusuke took a seat along the wall and Kurama went to help her and Hiei looked around bored leaning against the wall.
A couple minutes of this and the door flew open to show the demon exterminator talking to a tall silver haired man both their heads bent downwards as they talked.
"I see you returned with him finally." Kaede said not even looking up again.
"Sorry Lady Kaede. We were just exchanging news." Sango said standing up straight and tall.
The man next to her did too showing the demon lord in all his glory with his sharp golden gaze that pierced through the dark hut and purple crescent moon on his face and two stripes on each cheek. Sesshomaru.
"Where is she? I demand to know where that stupid wretch is." he growled out.
Kaede looked up at him a bit surprised at his show of emotions. "Lord Sesshomaru you must of course understand we don't know where she is. For all we know she is dead." "She isn't dead. She's to damn stubborn to die." Sango muttered.
Sesshomaru nodded his head in agreement with her.
"Sango you know as well as I do that she is most likely dead. You found her belongings.
She never would leave that behind. The stuff in there meant the world to her." Sango dropped her face to the ground. "I want to believe that she is still alive very much." "She's alive and I'll find her." Sesshomaru said as he turned to leave before he stopped.
"Sango what are these three doing here?" "Evidently staying in the village since I already told them I won't allow them to help me or protect me as their employer is most likely having them do." she growled out darkly.
"Look Lady Sango you must understand we can't go back home until we finish this mission. Our boss won't let us have a portal back nor do we have our usual teammate Botan with us who can do that for us." Kurama said politely to her.
Sango glared at him about to retort something when Sesshomaru stepped up behind her and placed a hand on her shoulder calming her down.
"Let's talk Sango." he said leading her outside.
The girl looked like she wanted to lash out at him then but underneath his stern gaze she followed him sullenly. Kaede gave a small exasperated sigh. "Those two will never grow up. Without their sister around I'm surprised they get along at all. It was only because of her that he finally made peace with his hanyou brother." "Who exactly was this girl from the future?" Yusuke asked curiously.
"Kagome Higurashi." Kaede said.
"Hn isn't that the one that is said to always be sick with incurable diseases." "Yea that's right. She's known as the living miracle." Yusuke said. "Hey Shrimp I didn't know you read the paper." "Hn." The girl walked back into the hut with Sesshomaru not far behind her. She looked down at the floor as she began to speak. "I will allow you to protect me as you call it until your mission is over and I can have you off my back. Happy Sesshomaru?" "Take care of her." was all he said as he walked out.
"Where do you think you're going?" Sango cried chasing after him the three not far behind her.
"Leaving demon exterminator. I have lands to take care of. The title Lord of the West does hold me to a degree of responsibilities. I only stopped by because Rin was anxious for news on her sisters." he replied.
"You can't just leave like that." she growled.
"I am doing that right now." he said as his cloud thing appeared under him and took him off.
"Jerk." she yelled after him as he disappeared from view. "Next time he visits I'm gonna strangle him with that fluffy thing of his that I still have no idea what it is." she muttered darkly as she turned back to the hut. Looking back at them she paused for a bit. "I suggest that you rest. Tomorrow will be a long day." she walked into the hut leaving them behind.
"Now what?" Yusuke asked.
"Follow me." a small boy said appearing by them. "There is an empty hut that has been arranged for your stay since you'll be traveling with the lady you will have a home here that you can return to." he said as he led them to the hut.
"Here it is. You will find two beds and a cot inside. Enjoy your stay. Be prepared for an early morning. She is an early bird." he said leaving them to check out the hut.
"Ok I'm whipped." Yusuke said plopping on one of the beds. "Hungry?" he asked pulling into his bag pulling out some meat.
Kurama shrugged and Yusuke threw him some and Hiei just snorted. Yusuke just shrugged. "More for me." he said eating.
Kurama sat on the other bed looking out into the darkening sky. "I guess we should call it an early night." he said turning to look at them to find Yusuke already asleep.
"Hiei are you going to sleep tonight?" he asked his friend.
"Not this night." was all he said turning his attention to the window. Nodding his head Kurama lay down and fell asleep.
End chappy
So how am I doing so far? All stories I've ever worked on before were not mine but others that I was helping with. Like ForestSprite and MoonLightning not that I minded but I felt like doing something of my own for once. Hope you guys all enjoyed. This is so much fun I tell ya. Pleez r&r.
Thanx much SmilingKitsune
Protecting Sango SmilingKitsune Chapter 3
Last Time
Yusuke growled. "We'll camp out here the night and head out. I doubt she's gonna leave that village to soon. That cat was pretty badly injured and my bets are she's gonna make sure it's perfectly fine before she goes off for awhile." Yusuke said as he picked up a blanket wrapping it around himself as he sat before the fire poking at it.
Kurama agreed with him and tried to rest a bit before they left even though he had just gotten up.
This Time
Kurama woke again to find that Yusuke was already awake and taking care of everything surprisingly. "Morning." Yusuke muttered as he fit some things in a bag. "Food by the fire if you're hungry." "Compliments from last nights rescuer?" Kurama asked quirking a brow up at him.
"Actually yea. Some dried deer meat and fresh rabbit. She left it for me to skin and gut though. That's harder then I thought it would be." Kurama chuckled as he looked around the small area. "Where is Hiei?" "I think he went to scout ahead and make sure that girl was actually in the village we're going to." Yusuke said as he finally fit everything into the bag. "Speak of the devil here he comes." "Hn." Hiei said as he stopped in a tree above them.
"Find her?" "She's there." "Looks like our rescuer is very good at giving directions." Kurama said a bit impressed. "Hn. I met her on the way to the village." "Did ya? I thought she had to go to a different village." Yusuke said thoughtfully.
"She finished her work during the night and left to make it to the one she told you about." Hiei replied.
"Did you get any information out of her?" Kurama asked. Hiei seemed as though he knew something and wasn't sure if he should say it or not.
"No." "Did something happen?" "Hn maybe." "What?" "The girl is able to block out my jagan eye I wasn't able to get a thing out of her." Hiei finally said.
Yusuke whistled surprised. "Damn she must have some power at least to do that. Most people couldn't do that in a million years." Kurama to was surprised. "Anything else?" "For all I know the girl could be dead. I couldn't find a trace of life energy in her at all nor does she have a scent." "Did she talk to you?" "Hn." "I'll take that as a yes. What did she say?" "Said to walk carefully around the demon exterminator. We're walking on a frozen pond and about to fall through the ice and drown." "She seems to be a bit informed. Yusuke did you tell her anything about the exterminator?" "Nope not in the least." Yusuke said holding his hands in front of him as though to say I'm totally innocent on this account.
This didn't surprise Kurama all that much. After so many years of working Yusuke was finally getting his job down right and was much more careful then he used to be when trying to get information though he still did run into battle blindly a lot of the time. The problem was though if Yusuke didn't tell her anything how did she find out about it?
Something didn't seem right.
"Well we should probably get going. The girl may be a pain in the butt but she is our case and I want to get back home as soon as possible." Yusuke said stretching as he shouldered his bag. "Ready to go." he asked as he put out the fire.
Kurama looked at Hiei who just ignored him. "Sure." he replied.
With a shrug Yusuke began to walk off in the direction the mysterious person had told him to go last night. Hiei was above him in the trees and Kurama walked along side him. The three traveled in a companionable silence throughout the day. Around late noon they finally reached the village.
Yusuke looked ahead uncertainly. The air around the place felt weird as though warning him off. "Kurama, Hiei do you feel that?" he asked.
"It would seem that we're not exactly welcome." Kurama replied as several men appeared around them with weapons. "What is your business here demons?" one of the men demanded to know.
"We wish to stay the night in the village to rest up before we travel more. We're very tired and promise no problems." Kurama replied glaring at Hiei who appeared to be ready to attack and kill them.
"Let them pass." a soft musical voice said.
The villagers and the three friends whirled around to see a robed figure by the forest.
"They mean no harm. If they cause any problems within the village then go ahead and kill them if you can but I think you should allow them in." "Who are you to order us?" a man said angrily.
"I'm not ordering you but must I remind you of the law decreed by the lords of these lands? You have no reason to cast them out. Now if they were bandits yes you could tell them no yet they have given you no reason to say no." "Who are you?" "A human." the person said with a shrug walking away. "By the way a visitor comes from the West. Let your village miko know and it would be in your best advantage that you don't turn him away." she chuckled as she walked off.
The villagers looked at each other in almost horror. "If he finds out about this..." one of them murmured quietly to the others.
"You can stay." one of the men said darkly. "You get two nights then we want you out." "Wasn't planning on staying longer then that." Yusuke said. "OK?" he asked Kurama who just shrugged his shoulder.
"Follow us. Where did your friend go?" "He'll be back soon." Kurama replied with a thoughtful frown on his face following the men.
"Do you know where he went?" Yusuke asked Kurama quietly.
"I can't be positive but I think he went after the girl. I think it's the same girl as our rescuer the other day." Kurama said just as quietly. "There is something very mysterious about her and she seems to know a lot." "You're telling me but I'm quite thankful to her this is the second time she's saved our butt." "So you noticed it as well?" "Oh yea those guys had some pretty strong magic with them. I really didn't want to try and find out if they knew how to use it or not." Kurama chuckled. "You probably wouldn't have wanted to find out because they did know very well how to use them. It would seem they must get attacked a lot by demons or they wouldn't be as jumpy as this." They heard a rustle above them and saw Hiei up there looking thoughtful as he followed them from up above. "Get anything from her?" "She's hiding something, but what I don't know. She was gone when I caught up with her. No trace of her or anything." he said annoyed.
"Well this keeps getting interesting." Yusuke said.
"Quite." Kurama said agreeing. The villagers led them up to a hut stopping respectfully outside of it.
"Lady Kaede we bring guests from outside the village." a man called.
"Aye I hear ya." an old voice replied from inside. "Let them in, let them in." Glancing at each other carefully the villagers turned their attention to the three. "Watch your step. Lady Kaede is a miko. She is old yet still is quite powerful." Nodding Kurama went in first, Yusuke and then Hiei last. They looked through the gloom of the room to find an old lady by a fire crushing herbs and making medicines.
"What can this old one do for you?" she asked not looking up.
"We search for the last of the demon exterminators." Hiei said.
"Aye you do, you do. Yet what is your reason for finding her?" "We have been sent to protect her and help her fight her enemy Naraku." Kurama said.
The old woman looked up then her eyes searching as she looked at them. "You are from the future." she stated. "You prove that demons still exist their. We all should have believed her and not thought there was just the one." she said saying that more to herself then them.
"That's the second person who knows we're from the future. How is that possible?" Yusuke grumbled.
"Calm yourself child." Kaede said looking sharply at him. "There was a girl we knew once who came here from the future. She was a beautiful child who was kind to everyone and everything. She taught us and told us about the future. Many people will recognize you are not from around here." "You speak of her in past tense. What happened to her?" Kurama asked curiously.
"I don't know. No one does. She just disappeared after her friends battled Naraku a few months ago. She was there and then she wasn't. Sango is the remaining one alive from the group of Shard Collectors." "Shard Collectors?" "That was once their name for they went in search of the shards of the Shikon No Tama that our friend from the future accidentally broke protecting someone." "That is but legend." Kurama said reasonably.
"Do you truly think it is? You're only lying to yourself though. It is real and now it is very whole." "Then wouldn't Naraku be dead?" "One would think so yet he continues to thrive. We think he absorbed some of the powers of the Shikon no Tama for he held them for a long time." "Where is the jewel?" "With the girl which is why we think she is dead. With it she will catch the attention of many demons. Even if she didn't have it she would still catch their attention. She is after all the reincarnation of Midoriko and is very powerful. That and the fact that a bunch of demons Sango came across had some of the girls belongings. Her bow and arrows as well as her traveling pack." "OK then if the jewel isn't legend then the people that were collecting it they weren't legend either were they? The monk, kitsune and hanyou were also part of it. Where are they now?" Yusuke asked then seeing his friends questioning looks shrugged his shoulders. "It was my favorite story as a kid and the only time my mom actually spent with me." "Aye those three were once part of the group but they long since died. Actually to make it easier for you to understand when the girl from the future disappeared it was just her and Sango because the other three had died before that." "What were they doing by themselves?" "A village had been attacked and hearing about it those two just grabbed horses and raced off to it to help all I know is when Sango got back she said Naraku had showed up and her imouto had disappeared. It was very hard on all of us." Kaede said sadly. "Mew?" a small cat said rubbing against the miko. "Yes Kirara I know you miss her as well." Kaede said to the bandaged up fire cat.
"Lady Kaede." an urgent voice yelled from outside the small hut.
"Come in child." Kaede called.
Into the room stepped Sango dressed up and ready for battle. She opened her mouth to speak but then caught sight of the three. Her features darkened. "I thought I left you to die." she muttered.
"I owe you for that." Yusuke said as he punched at her face, stopping in surprise when she caught it and glared at him coldly. She dropped his fist eyes narrowed on the three. "I don't have time for you fools. Lady Kaede did the villagers tell you? Someone told them earlier we have a visitor coming from the west. She says it's an important person." "You don't say." the old lady said reflectively. "You plan to talk to him do you not?" "I do." "Go meet him at the front of the village I can sense him coming now. He should be here shortly. How someone could sense him from so far off is amazing." she said. "That was something only she could do." she said the last part quietly to herself.
"Kirara how are you doing?" Sango asked the cat.
With a small meow the cat turned into a huge ready to battle fire cat. "All right then let's go." she said climbing gently onto the cat.
After she was gone from sight Kaede turned her attention back to the three. "You did not tell me that you have already met her." "Yea it wasn't exactly the best of experience. I don't take to defeat that great." Yusuke muttered.
"I suggest you watch your step around her. She's a like a frozen pond..." "and we're about to fall through and drown. Yes so we've been told." Kurama said with a smile.
Hiei just did a hn.
"Feel free to stay here. She should return in a bit with our visitor." Kaede said turning back to her medicine making.
Shrugging his shoulder Yusuke took a seat along the wall and Kurama went to help her and Hiei looked around bored leaning against the wall.
A couple minutes of this and the door flew open to show the demon exterminator talking to a tall silver haired man both their heads bent downwards as they talked.
"I see you returned with him finally." Kaede said not even looking up again.
"Sorry Lady Kaede. We were just exchanging news." Sango said standing up straight and tall.
The man next to her did too showing the demon lord in all his glory with his sharp golden gaze that pierced through the dark hut and purple crescent moon on his face and two stripes on each cheek. Sesshomaru.
"Where is she? I demand to know where that stupid wretch is." he growled out.
Kaede looked up at him a bit surprised at his show of emotions. "Lord Sesshomaru you must of course understand we don't know where she is. For all we know she is dead." "She isn't dead. She's to damn stubborn to die." Sango muttered.
Sesshomaru nodded his head in agreement with her.
"Sango you know as well as I do that she is most likely dead. You found her belongings.
She never would leave that behind. The stuff in there meant the world to her." Sango dropped her face to the ground. "I want to believe that she is still alive very much." "She's alive and I'll find her." Sesshomaru said as he turned to leave before he stopped.
"Sango what are these three doing here?" "Evidently staying in the village since I already told them I won't allow them to help me or protect me as their employer is most likely having them do." she growled out darkly.
"Look Lady Sango you must understand we can't go back home until we finish this mission. Our boss won't let us have a portal back nor do we have our usual teammate Botan with us who can do that for us." Kurama said politely to her.
Sango glared at him about to retort something when Sesshomaru stepped up behind her and placed a hand on her shoulder calming her down.
"Let's talk Sango." he said leading her outside.
The girl looked like she wanted to lash out at him then but underneath his stern gaze she followed him sullenly. Kaede gave a small exasperated sigh. "Those two will never grow up. Without their sister around I'm surprised they get along at all. It was only because of her that he finally made peace with his hanyou brother." "Who exactly was this girl from the future?" Yusuke asked curiously.
"Kagome Higurashi." Kaede said.
"Hn isn't that the one that is said to always be sick with incurable diseases." "Yea that's right. She's known as the living miracle." Yusuke said. "Hey Shrimp I didn't know you read the paper." "Hn." The girl walked back into the hut with Sesshomaru not far behind her. She looked down at the floor as she began to speak. "I will allow you to protect me as you call it until your mission is over and I can have you off my back. Happy Sesshomaru?" "Take care of her." was all he said as he walked out.
"Where do you think you're going?" Sango cried chasing after him the three not far behind her.
"Leaving demon exterminator. I have lands to take care of. The title Lord of the West does hold me to a degree of responsibilities. I only stopped by because Rin was anxious for news on her sisters." he replied.
"You can't just leave like that." she growled.
"I am doing that right now." he said as his cloud thing appeared under him and took him off.
"Jerk." she yelled after him as he disappeared from view. "Next time he visits I'm gonna strangle him with that fluffy thing of his that I still have no idea what it is." she muttered darkly as she turned back to the hut. Looking back at them she paused for a bit. "I suggest that you rest. Tomorrow will be a long day." she walked into the hut leaving them behind.
"Now what?" Yusuke asked.
"Follow me." a small boy said appearing by them. "There is an empty hut that has been arranged for your stay since you'll be traveling with the lady you will have a home here that you can return to." he said as he led them to the hut.
"Here it is. You will find two beds and a cot inside. Enjoy your stay. Be prepared for an early morning. She is an early bird." he said leaving them to check out the hut.
"Ok I'm whipped." Yusuke said plopping on one of the beds. "Hungry?" he asked pulling into his bag pulling out some meat.
Kurama shrugged and Yusuke threw him some and Hiei just snorted. Yusuke just shrugged. "More for me." he said eating.
Kurama sat on the other bed looking out into the darkening sky. "I guess we should call it an early night." he said turning to look at them to find Yusuke already asleep.
"Hiei are you going to sleep tonight?" he asked his friend.
"Not this night." was all he said turning his attention to the window. Nodding his head Kurama lay down and fell asleep.
End chappy
So how am I doing so far? All stories I've ever worked on before were not mine but others that I was helping with. Like ForestSprite and MoonLightning not that I minded but I felt like doing something of my own for once. Hope you guys all enjoyed. This is so much fun I tell ya. Pleez r&r.
Thanx much SmilingKitsune