Chibi Okami ~ OMG! I am soooo sorry! I really meant to get this done earlier! Seriously, I did! I was gone like all of June! So I couldn't work on it! They wouldn't let me take my laptop! Out of all the terrible things they wouldn't let me take my laptop! I love my laptop! I didn't wanna let it go! Especially since I was going to be gone so long! We went to the lake then I went with the Girl Scouts on a trip and then, I am not kidding, the day after, yes the day RIGHT after I came back, I didn't even have time to recooperate from my last two trips before we left on once another trip! We went outta state to go kayaking! Yeah, it was fun, but it was all camping, hiking, and tons and tons of paddling! It was a three day thing, and we didn't get to shower once during the whole thing! We smelt soooooo bad! Then we came back and stayed with my aunt for a while, we also went to China Town! It was soooooo fun! I bought a kimono! But anyways, I just got bak a day or so ago, so I really didn't have time to write all last month, so PLEASE FORGIVE ME! Please . . .? *tear*

Disclaimer ~ What do you think I am? Japanese or just a wannabe? No . . . I am not Japanese . . . there for I could never own Inu-Yasha . . . baka

Angel?

Chapter Twenty-four (crud! That's a lot of chaps! I have written all that? WOW! ^.^So what if they are short chappies?) ~ Idealistic Wishes

Miroku held his staff in both hands and squinted his eyes shut as he felt the collision of the Tetsusiaga and his staff. He was going to die, he just knew he was going to die, he could never match up to Inu-Yasha or come close, so why the hell had he offered to be the decoy? Okay, there was his answer, he hadn't offered, he had been forced by Sango, he just couldn't refuse when she was in exterminator clothes. Damn that body tight outfit.

He looked up to see Inu-Yasha/Hiroshi attacking him with everything that he had. Miroku had to swing the staff back and forth as fast as his arms would allow to avoid being marred by the claws or struck by the Tetsusiaga. He felt something shaking his shoulder. He was about to reach up and grab whatever it was and toss it to the ground in fear it would attack him, until, that is, he realized, it was only Shippo. He nearly let out a sigh, and would have if he wasn't being attacked at the moment.

A claw shot through his defenses and nearly reached his face, but it was pulled back quickly. Hiroshi's hand shot up to his head where he had been hit with and oversized boomerang, it had enough force to push him to the ground where he took a moment before standing up again.

"Hiroshi!" Cho cried out as she ran up to her boyfriend. She turned around and faced Sango on Kirara. "I won't allow you to hurt him! You coward! You just turn around and attack from behind! You're fighting dirty!" She reached up to the quiver of arrows on her back and drew one. She held the wood in her hand and shot a fierce look at the exterminator who was just receiving her boomerang back. Sango watched in horror as the body that once belonged to her friend was aiming an arrow straight at her. She gasped in horror as the pink glowing arrow was drawn back and flew straight at her. Kirara couldn't move in time and she squinted her eyes and waited for the arrow to hit her, it never came. She looked down at the ground to see Kagome/Cho cursing out loud. Sango turned around to see the arrow point stuck in the tree behind her. She guessed what had happened, Cho had Kagome's physical power, but she didn't have the aim Kagome had worked so hard to perfect.

Sango smiled as she swooped down on Kirara and saw Miroku once again blocking attacks from Hoshi, who had apparently gotten over the blow to his head pretty fast. She knew Miroku could not keep his defenses up, he was tiring and fast. Shippo, she also noted, was not helping one bit. She could see him whispering in Miroku's ear and from what she could tell he was mutter 'Please don't let me die.' Over and over again. She ignored Cho who kept calling her back to fight her, Sango knew she couldn't hit her, so she didn't bother fighting her yet, Miroku needed her help more.

She grabbed something around her waist. She loosened it and held a small pouch in her hand. She opened it and looked at the contents. She didn't take the time to examine it thoroughly because she was in a hurry to help Miroku. She just grabbed a handful of the power that was kept in the pouch and threw it down at the ground. Hiroshi turned around to see what was going on as the power hit the ground and formed a cloud around them. His nose went up into the air and he sniffed, as soon as he did so his hand flew to his nose and he tried to cover up the smoke that was filling his lungs, but he was to late. His eyes drooped and he hit the ground, unconscious. Sango saw that Miroku, too, was covering his nose, Shippo was shaking to much to do the same.

"Don't worry, Miroku!" Sango called down to him. "The powder isn't strong enough to hurt humans."

"You . . . You . . . BITCH! What the hell did you do to him?" Cho cried out furiously, quickly running to her fallen boyfriend. "Hiroshi, wake up, Hiroshi."

"Don't bother, he'll be out for another few hours at least." Sango told her as she and Kirara landed. She slipped off of Kirara who de- transformed back into the cute little cat Kirara. Sango went over to Inu- Yasha's body. Cho tried to push her to the side, but Sango just nudged her away from him and knelt down by his side. She ignored Cho's protests not to touch him and she sighed as she motioned to Kirara.

"I am sorry, but you'll have to transform again. I can't carry him all the way to Keade's." Sango whispered to her loyal pet as she transformed into the giant saber toothed kitty. She bent down and waited paitently as Sango and Miroku hoisted him onto her back. Shippo might have helped if he wasn't still in a state of shock from being attacked by Hiroshi, truth be told, he was amazed he survived at all, considering he only had Miroku to protect him.

"You can't just take him! I won't let you!" Cho cried out.

"Oh, and what do you plan on doing to us?" Miroku asked her, an eyebrow raised. He stepped forward and her act fell. She stepped back, trying to stay out of his reach, obviously, she was very afraid. Miroku chucked and turned to Sango. "What should we do with her, we have to take her, too, after all." He threw a glance over his shoulder to the girl behind him.

"I really like Kagome better, I want her back, so let's get going already!" Shippo called out to his friends. "Knock her out or something!"

"Why you -." Cho started but didn't get to finish.

"I like the idea!" Miroku called out. "You have something for that, right Sango?" He watched as Sango lifted another pouch and pulled out a jar this time. She walked up to Cho, who cowered at her being so close. Sango held it under her nose and Cho didn't have time to stop breathing in the stuff before she, too, fell the the ground like her boyfriend had minuets before.

"Okay, now that she's out, I guess that I have to carry her to Keade's . . ." Miroku told everybody, but Sango shot him a death glare.

"No you won't!" She waved Kiara over and added another person to her load. She then turned to Miroku and Shippo. "Come one, we have to hurry before they wake up." She turned to start walking into the forest and the others followed her, and they were on their way to Keade's.

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"Okay, I think that we have a way for you to get back into your bodies." Death cried out happily. She stared at the computer screen intently and smiled. But then her smile faded. "We'll need someone on earth to help out, though, someone who knows about us, this, the ways of the reapers, and the ways of the Gods."

"Sango and Miroku know what's going on!" Kagome chimed

"No, they won't work." Silence noted.

"Why the hell not?" Inu-Yasha asked.

"They don't know about us or the ways of the reapers or the Gods. They only know what is going on down on earth." Grim said solemnly.

"Miroku's a monk, of course he knows the ways of the Gods!" Kagome said defensively.

"No." Silence said sharply. "Humans only believe what they want. They want God to want wars and hate because they want it, they use the words 'I am doing this in the name of God' as an excuse for their hatred or love. Some humans want love and peace, they also say that this is what God wants. It all depends on the person. If they want war, they believe that their God does, too. And they try to get other people to believe that, when in truth, they have no idea what their God wants, be it the God of Life or Death. Humans only have idealistic wishes, none actually understand what God wants or his ways. People act as though they know exactally what he does and why he does it, but truly, they don't know and they never will. Humans are not meant to understand everything about the Gods. The Gods are meant to be showered in mystery and humans refuse to accept that."

Kagome and Inu-Yasha said nothing. Instead Grim piped up. "I know someone who knows everything."

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"ACHOOOOO!" Myoga wiped his nose and he mentally noted 'someone must be talking about me.'

The End of chap 24

Chibi Okami ~ hey, like I said, sorry this took so long! I'll try to update really soon for the lack of updates! And ya, well, I predict very few chapters in this story's future . . . NO! I am not discontinuing BAKA! I mean it is ending VERY soon!