Chapter 2

The day was calm,crisp,normally a perfect day.Miroku was laying up aganst a tree,holding Shippo in his lap. Normally,Shippo would have chosen Sango,but she was gone.She wasn't far,just at the hot springs,unlike Kagome.Kagome was gone forever.Not nessecarialy far away,her body had been laid to rest besides the well.They had decided that that would be the best place for her.It was close to her home,while still by theirs.

Inuyasha was mopeing in the same tree.He was leaning up aganst the trunk in an offley similar way to Miroku's,but he was much higher up,with one leg lazely dangling over the side.

It had been two months since Kagome had left them,but it still felt as if it was yesterday.Everyone was sad,mopey,and yet brought together somehow.They had all had to face that fact,even Inuyasha.The loss of Kagome had revealed a lot.It had revealed that besides what he may think,Sango and the others didn't stay with him mearly for Kagome.They were his friends too,though the thought gave him only a little comfert.He still missed Kagome more that anything,they all did.

"Ye all",Keade announced,walking out herself into the crisp,October air,"I have something to tell you".Dazed a bit,from the swarm of thoughts that had been clouding each of their minds,they peeled themselves from their posistions and joined her in the hut.Except for Sango though,who was still batheing.

"Well,what is it?",Inuyasha asked,trying desprately to hide the sadness in his tone.His mask of anger though was very tansparent and left Keada feeling nothing but sorry for him.

"Well,it's just a small theory,a tall tale if ye will,but hopefullness never killed anyone I suppose",Keada began. "Are you realy sure this is the time for story telling m'lady",Miroku asked.He looked a little solem,but was regaining more of his perverted nature.

"Yes,well this is more of a tall tale I tol ye',it is about the day of the dead,or haloween,or whatever ye wish to call it.The point is,is it is a holiday for the dead and dead only.Now here is the part that I think ye will find the most interesting,is the legand part of my tale".

they all lisnted quite contently.Though they were not at all crazy about the mention of death,but were anxious to hear what she had to say.Sango walked in,looked around and sat down by Miroku.Shippo quickly scurried to Sango's lap,feeling Miroku feeling slightly rejected.He shook the feeling away and scooted next to an un-suspecting Sango.With his current sorrowful mood,he hadn't groped her in quite a while.

"HENTI!!!!!",she yelled as Miroku's possesed hand,took a feel at her ass.

Miroku soon felt the painfull blows of Sango's well trained hand.

"As I was saying",Keade continued,"The legand is,that on this day,the unsettled spirits return to the world of the living,but only if they are un-able to find true happiness in the gates of Hevan or Hell".

"You meen Kagome could come back to us",Shippo exclaimed,now fully awake and egar to get his facts straight."Yes",Keade agreed,"But as I stated before,only if the spirit is unsettled,if she has been put to rest,than she now resides in Hevan,as I suspect such a kind soul as hers would belong,she will stay there forever".

"What if her soul is un-settled?",Inuyasha asked,"Then where is it?".

"A good question,the un-settled souls reside among the living,wishing to contact them in their own ways,with powers of both after-relms".

"What do you meen their own ways?",Sango piped up,looking to Keade hopefully for answers.

"The spirits hold the powers of Hevan and Hell,if they wish to contact you,they do it in un-obvoius ways,but have you ever noticed,how when you are sad,the sun shines brighter,or how when you are loking for a lost item,something will natrually lead you to it?".

"I notice that!",Shippo exclaimed,"I was looking for my wooden horse so that I could practice my magic,but it was lost,and a leak fell right onto the exact same bush it was lost in!".

"I think that was nothing more that a coincidence Shippo"Miroku replied,"I meen a leaf,there are plenty in the forest"."Ha",Shippo grunted,"The first red leaf of the fall?",he asked in a smart-alicky voice.

"Have ye heard anything in the wind?",Keada asked."sorta",Inuyasha replied quietly,"Why?".Keada chuckled softly."It seems Keada has been useing her spirit privlages to their extremes",She chuckled.

"Spirit privlages?",Sango asked questioningly."Spirit privlages are what allows her to contact you in such ways,and what might allow her to return,tomorrow night".

With that