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"…Blazing in the Night Sky." –Chapter Four: Reunion

The morning after the intrusion, Miroku came over from his little hut, hidden deep within the thick forestry of Kagome's and Inuyasha's land, for a visit. "Kagome, its Miroku, let me in! It's pouring out hear," He yelled, pounding on the back door. At hearing this, Kagome sat up in bed and stretched, rubbing the sleep from her eyes as she yawned. "Kagome, make it go away," Inuyasha whined, unknowingly curling around their still sleeping children in a protective stance.
Smiling softly, she slipped through the closed drapes that kept the light of morning from disrupting their sleep, and stood in the dim light of early morning, pulling a robe over her light pink pajamas. 'Hm, that's odd,' She thought to herself, hearing rain on the roof as she made her way down stairs to the back door where Miroku was still pounding, 'It was supposed to be sunny all week…'
Opening the door she gazed upon a grouchy, soaking Miroku and covered her mouth as she tried to hold be the laughter that was threatening to explode from her mouth. "It's not funny, Kagome," Miroku grumbled, brushing past her to stand on the wooden floor, the water dripping from his clothes to land on the planks.
Gasping as she saw this, Kagome grabbed him by the ear and pulled him onto a rug as she closed the back door behind her. "Miroku! You will not drip water on my newly polished floor!" Sighing, Miroku waited on the small rug while Kagome took his coat and got him a towel.
"Thanks," he said in a dark tone before stomping to a recliner and sitting down. "No problem," Kagome answered back simply, "So what brings you here this time in the morning?" "Well," Miroku explained, "I had a bad feeling that something had happened last night, but I wasn't sure. So I made up my mind that I would come check on you and the kids as soon as it was morning."
Clasping her hands together, Kagome bit down on her bottom lip as she looked down at her feet. "Something did happen, didn't it," Miroku asked, seeing her as he leaned forward. "Yes, something did," Inuyasha said, standing at the top of the stairwell in a pair of crimson pajamas Kagome had bought for him, and a robe that matched.
Jumping, Miroku placed a hand over his heart and took a deep breath. "Holy shit, Inuyasha, you scared me half to death, I didn't know you were home." Yawning, Inuyasha made his way down the stairs and answered back, "Well, I am." Miroku chuckled then took on a more serious face. "So what happened last night?"
Shaking his head, Inuyasha took a seat, motioning for Kagome to do the same. As she cuddled up beside him, Inuyasha began, "Someone came to our house in the middle of the night and attacked out children's room." Miroku's face paled and he leaned forward once more. "Are they ok," He asked softly. "Mhm, they're fine," Inuyasha said back.
"But something strange happened," Kagome piped up after a moment. Giving her a questioning look, she went on, "Anata said something about Hidama emitting some sort of light that made them go away and when we asked him what happened, he said he couldn't remember." "What were they," Miroku asked, "The things that came into their room?" Shaking their heads, Inuyasha replied, "Hidama only told us that they were shadows."
Wrinkling his brows, Miroku murmured softly, "Shadows?" Kagome and Inuyasha nodded and stood up, heading towards the children's room. "Come see, they broke through one of the east windows to get in.
As they opened the door, Kagome and Inuyasha gasped, for on the middle of the floor was something they hadn't been able to spot the night before. Where they had found Hidama standing when they came in was a huge scorch mark. "What is it, what's wrong," Miroku asked, confused. Inuyasha walked to the spot and kneeled down, touching the ground. "It must've been too dark for me to see this last night…"
Walking over as well, they left Kagome to stand in the doorway, light headed and leaning against the frame. "I wonder where it could've come from," Miroku pondered, kneeling down beside Inuyasha to touch the spot where the scorch marks were as well. "This is where Hidama was standing when we came in last night," Inuyasha said quietly, looking up at his friend.
"It couldn't have been him," Kagome said from behind them. "This is where we found him, this is exactly where he was standing," Inuyasha said back, standing and turning towards her as he pointed to the floor, "Who else could it have been?" "I don't know," Kagome snapped back, "Maybe it was one of those shadow things he said he saw, but it absolutely could not have been him!"
Walking over to her, Inuyasha growled softly, "Listen, I don't want to believe it either. All I wanted was for all of us to live peacefully but that isn't going to happen now that Naraku's running around somewhere. We know something is out for us now too, Kagome, something is actually making a move and it could be connected to Naraku. If we can get the little things out of the way, then maybe we can start working on the big things!"
"What, and this isn't a big thing," Kagome asked in an accusing tone. "No, I mean yes! Stop trying to turn the tables on my, you stubborn wench!"

"Idiot bastard!"
"Damn bitch!"

Growling, the two stared at each other, electricity filling the air between them as they tried to stare one another down. "Guys, guys, calm down," Miroku said nervously, coming up to stand next to them. Turning their attention to the interruption, they snapped together in response, "We are calm!" Then looked at each other before turning in opposite directions and crossing their arms over their chests with a "Humph."
Sighing, Miroku raised a hand to rub his temples. 'Married with children and they still have times when they act less mature then their own kids.' Just then, the door bell rang and the three looked up to stare, puzzled at the door. Walking over to it, Inuyasha carefully pulled it open, only to jump back in surprise as a beach ball came bouncing into sight, aiming straight for him.
As the ball rolled inside it shimmered then turned into a very grown up, mature looking fire fox youkai. "Tada," He exclaimed with a goofy grin on his face. "Shippo," Kagome cried, running over to her adopted son to give him a hug. Laughing, Shippo grinned at his "father" and said in a proud tone as he hugged his "mother" back, "I scared you, didn't I?"
Growling, Inuyasha snapped back, "Did not," before coming over to shake his adopted son's hand. "Welcome back." Shippo smiled and looked at Miroku. "Hey, lookin' a little grey there, old man." Sputtering, Miroku dashed into the bathroom to look in the mirror. Shippo roared with laughter at that then looked at his parents.
"Shippo, did you have fun," Kagome asked, smiling in joy that the last part of her family had returned home. Nodding, Shippo extended his arms to show them his tan. "OH yes."
The fox youkai had grown a lot and learned much over the last years he'd lived with them. As he'd matured though, so had his powers and he'd accomplished in learning how to make himself look fully human.
Grinning, Miroku came out of the bathroom and stood beside him, nudging him in the ribs. "So Shippo, bring anyone back for your dear old "Uncle"?" The only response was a good smack on the head as Sango appeared out of no where, slipping in quietly through the still open door. "Miroku…I hate you…," She muttered quietly in an agitated voice.
Turning toward her, Miroku gave her an innocent look, "Ah, Sango, I didn't know you were he, if I had, I would've asked the boy if he'd happened to drop by your house on the way home." Everyone gave an exasperated sigh to that and shook their heads disapprovingly before taking seats on the couches on recliners in the living room.
"Welcome back, Inuyasha," Sango said, as she took a seat in one of the recliners and put her feet up. "Smirking, Inuyasha nodded, taking a seat beside Kagome on the couch, "Thanks, so what'd been up with you?" Sighing, Sango looked up at the ceiling. "Well, Kirara finally had her kittens, so now I have all these little fluff balls running around my cause causing havoc. Catching fire to things, tearing up things, I almost wish I had a regular house kitten compared to what these things are doing."
Giggling, Kagome said softly, "Well when they're old enough to give away I'll come over and take a look at them…Maybe I want one." Sango sighed again, only this time in relief. "Oh Kagome, you can have as many as you want…You can have all of them and I'm sure Kirara wouldn't mind, she's just as annoyed as I am."
They all laughed at that and when things quieted down a little bit, Sango asked, "So Kagome, Inuyasha, what's new with you?" Looking down, Inuyasha murmured back, "Well, we're having a little crisis of our own right now as well," And began telling her about what had happened.
When he'd finished the story, Sango said softly, "Well at least everyone's ok, no one got hurt or anything." Shippo, who had heard the story for the first time as well, nodded and said, "Yea, at least nothing happened to the kids."
After that, they sat in silence for a while, brooding over their own thoughts, listening to the rain as it fell outside. "Oh my god," Kagome then exclaimed all of a sudden, standing up. Alarmed, everyone turned their attention to look at her, confused.
"The window, it's broken! And it's raining outside!" Grinning, Inuyasha stood and forced her back down onto the couch. "Don't worry I'll take care of it," He said, disappearing into the kitchen then reappearing with a plastic garbage bag and some strapping tape as he walked into the children's room.
Sighing, Kagome sat back then looked at the stairs as she heard her bedroom door open. The children, rubbing sleep from their eyes, stumbled down a couple of steps before they spotted the company below. Smiling as they say Shippo, they squealed excitedly and dashed down the rest of the stairs to run to him.
Laughing as they watched the kids climb into the fox youkai's lap, they listened as they began to chatter to him loudly. "Shippo! We're so glad you're back," Anata said happily. "Yea, did you have a good time," Hidama said, just as happy.
Sighing in contentment, Kagome leaned back in her spot as Inuyasha came back and sat down beside her again, kissing her cheek. 'My whole family and my best friends, together again…'

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Unbeknownst to them, lurked a figured cloaked in darkness who stood concealed within the trees as he watched with sharpened eyes the little reunion that went on inside the house before him. Laughing darkly, he turned and began to walk away from the scene, disappearing into the underbrush. 'Yes, a happy reunion indeed…'

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There, I'm hoping that makes up for the shortness of the last couple chapters. Though I know this one didn't really have a purpose except to join everyone up again, hey, it works, right? Please review =)