Chaos Ringing

Disclaimer: I own me, and my ring, and my bag, and everything in the bag, and my drawings, and a super sexy new leather Detroit Redwings jacket that is a men's XXL, so my mother and I and probably four of our eight cats could all fit in at the same time. And Miroku's staff, cuz he never found where I hid it.

Miroku: Possibly, but I own your cell phone.

Kitty: WHAT?! YOU TOOK MY CELL PHONE?!?!

Miokru: evil smirk

Kitty: Oh well, have fun paying my bill!

Miroku: Huh?

Kitty: Muwahahahahahahahahahahacoughhahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahhaha!

A/N: I noticed that in the first chapter that I put an asterisk, but no explination, but then realized that I answered it in the A/N in the last chapter. Then I noticed that I didn't answer the asterisk in the last chapter, so here it is:

Salt box: If you've seen the Extended Version of The Two Towers, Sam has a small wooden box that he kept salt in. For my birthday, I got a small, rectangular, wooden box with stars on the lid from my gramma. I keep my rings in it, but it's called my salt box. Thus, the salt box has been brought into the light!

Coming in this chapter: Kirara making a new friend, Miroku's attempts at getting his staff back, Inuyasha attempts at getting rid of Katie, Kagome's attempts at making peace among the rest of us, Shippo's attempts at finagling a soda from Katie, Sango's attempts at keeping Miroku away from Katie, and Kikyo. Being made fun of. In an author's note! n.n Hey, at least she didn't make an attempt at something!

Chapter Three (aka The Chapter of Attempts both successful and failed)

"COME BACK HERE!" Inuyasha growled, roughly grabbing my arm and dragging me back to the group. I winced as pain continued to shoot through my left leg, and Kagome noticed it.

"Inuyasha! She's hurt! leave her alone!" But a furious fire was burning in Inuyasha's eyes, and he just tightened his grip on my arm. He opened his mouth to say something, but Kagome kept talking. "You don't have to hurt her just because she happened to say something about that night! It could be purely coincidental! You have no clue that it has anything to do with you! You're such a hot-headed jerk!" If it had been me Kagome was yelling at, I would have curled into the fetal position crying. But Inuyasha didn't. I felt him flinch slightly, but he just kept tightening his grip on my arm, his claws now drawing blood.

"If it was just pure coincidence, how come she started to walk away after stating that she was going with us? Why was the statement directed at me when she made it? I think she's a demon, and she needs to be destroyed before she destroys us!" I was honestly scared. In my mind, I was curled up in the fetal position and crying. Kagome glared at him.

"Inuyasha! SIT!" And so he sat. Still holding onto my arm. With the spell, we both went down, and since we were all standing on the bridge again, well, you know what they say, when it rains, it pours. So, I was in a considerable amount of pain, and all six of us were sitting in the stream amongst the broken pieces of the bridge. I blinked, and grabbed Miroku's staff before it floated away in the suprisingly strong current of the stream. Using it to stand up, I crawled out of the water with the rest of them, inwardly wishing I had asked Sesshomaru if I could baby-sit Rin. I started to shiver again, and sat down on the ground and fished out another outfit and my towel. Using Miroku's staff as a support, I hobbled over to a dense group of trees.

Making dead sure that no one could see me, I changed out of the damp clothes and changed into the dry ones. Grimacing as I found the five wounds on my upper left arm, I went back to the group of five and dug through my bag again, found the bandages and did my best to bandage them. Seeming to forget the fact that I had shoved him in a river and stolen his staff, Miroku came over to me and took the bandage from me. He wrapped it around my arm tightly, but not enough to kill me. Sighing, I thanked him and zipped up my bag.

"Sooo...what are we going to do now?" I asked, looking around the group. When no one answered I shrugged and dug out a soda and opened it up. The sudden sound made everyone start, but no one said anything.

After awhile I finished the soda and really didn't want to continue sitting among the brooding silence, so I got up and walked away with Miroku's staff, leaving my bag behind. I didn't go very far, jut out of view of the group. For some odd reason, I decided to practice my old flag line routine, using Miroku's staff. So I did my routine, pausing only momentarily as I tried to remember how to do the butterfly thingy. I did the whole routine over and over again, humming a tune vaguely recognizable as the one we last marched too, not realizing I was being hunted.

After awhile my arms were tired so I sat down in the clearing, thinking.

'How did I get here? Fell through a freaky hole. Why did I fall? Oh, smacked into a tree. Why did that lady in Classic Stop talk to me? Umm..lack of nothing better to do. Why is Jaken related to Yoda? Because he can be. Oh. Why can I suddenly speak Japanese? Musta hit that tree harder than I thought. Why is Kirara rubbing her head against my leg? No clue.' So much for my thinking roll.

"Hi Kirara. Whatcha doin?" I rubbed her fur absentmindedly, and she mewed happily. I stood up after awhile, and started to limp back to the stream, hoping that they hadn't left me. Kirara followed after me, and then, apparently feeling sorry for my limp, she grew to her large size and somehow managed to get me on her back without me noticing. I blinked when I realized that I wasn't walking anymore, but riding Kirara, and sighed, wondering why my nonexistant god had decided to put me here. It didn't take her long to take me back to the group, certainly was quicker than when I limped away. I slid off of her back and she shrunk down again and jumped to my shoulder. I blinked, and she mewed.

"Oh, you came back? I thought you had left us for good. So much for wishful thinking," Inuyasha said, not looking at me.

"Why should I make your damn wishes come true? I can't even make my own come true," I said turning to where I had left my bag. I blinked again when I saw Miroku, in a lounged position, leaning against my bag. "Uh, Miroku? Can I have my bag, please?"

"Yes." I moved towards it, but his grin stopped me. "When you give me my staff back." Frowning slightly, I thought of something to say in retaliation.

"Fine, you get to carry it then. You want it so bad, you can cart it across the country. No bother to me, in fact, I thank you for it."

"And if we just leave and it happens to stay here?"

"Then I stay with it. Either way you look at it, I win." Grinning, I picked Kirara off of my shoulder and set her on the ground. She mewed and jumped back up to her former perch, purring and rubbing against my head.

"Um, Miss Katie? What did you do to Kirara? I've never seen her act like this before, to anyone," Sango said, sounding rather confused and jealous. I picked Kirara up again and held her out to Sango, who took her in her arms, petting her. Kirara growled softly and jumped out of her arms, coming back over to me.

"Uh, I think Kirara found a new friend, yet I'm not sure why." I took a step back wards, and Kirara followed me, sitting at my feet and looking up at me with big red eyes. Shaking my head in confusion, I turned to Kagome.

"Hey, Kagome? Where were you guys headed before I fell over?" I asked, starting to favor my left foot more and more.

"Well, we were going to a village where we heard that a demon was killing people using a Shard of the Shikon Jewel. You see, we are-" But I stopped listening as she explained to me what the Shikon Jewel was, and why they needed to get it, and so on and so forth. I must have gotten a glazed look on my face, because when I noticed that Kagome had stopped talking, her, Sango, and Miroku were looking at me worriedly.

"What? Haven't you ever seen a person sleep with their eyes open before?" They continued to stare at me. And so I stared back. I can literally go for a long time without blinking (like say, a half an hour?) and they soon broke their gazes.

"Were you not listening at all to what Lady Kagome was just telling you about our quest?" Miroku asked.

"Um. No, not really. I'm not one to listen to things I already know. Make copies of information in my brain, which takes up hard drive space." I think I broke Miroku's brain momentarily with that, but Sango apparently wasn't paying much attention.

"You mean, you already know all of that? How do you know that?" Sango asked, and Kagome nodded. I sighed, and turned my face to the sky, where rain clouds were already formed.

"As much as I would love to share my tale with you, I really don't feel like getting wet again today. So, is there anywhere we can stay so we don't get rained upon?" Kagome nodded.

"Yes, we can stay at the inn in the next village. Come on Inuyasha, let's go!" They picked up all of their stuff, and I limped over to my bag, which Miroku had left alone. I tried to pick it up without falling over, but failed in trying not to fall over.

"God dammit! Stupid fucking splinter!" I continued to rant until Shippo came over and slapped my face lightly. Blinking, I stopped. "Thanks, Shippo. Look in the small pocket on the front of my bag. I should have a sucker or two. Take one if you want." He scurried over to my bag without a word and dug out some Jolly Rancher suckers. He took a Blue Raspberry one and immediately started to eat it, mumbling a thanks around the candy. I smiled, but the smile soon turned to a grimace of pain as the splinter attempted to rip my leg off. Tears sprung to my eyes, and I sat, hugging my leg and trying to ignore the pain. Kagome, Sango, and Miroku gathered around me, worried expressions on their faces.

"Katie, what's wrong with your foot? I saw you wincing and limping earlier, but didn't think about it!" I was in too much pain to reply, and so Kagome literally took my leg out of my grasp and unwrapped the bandage I had put on my foot earlier. She gasped at the size of the splinter.

"My lady! We need to get that out of your foot or it'll become infected!" Miroku said, also looking at my foot. I groaned at all the fuss I was getting over it, but I really didn't want to get an infection. But I didn't want to go through with extreme pain.

"It's worked its way out enough that I can a hold of it and pull it out. Are you ready?" I jumped back about two feet when he touched my heel. Kagome and Sango grabbed my arms to try to hold me in place, and Shippo sat on my stomach. Miroku grabbed my foot again, and pain shot through my leg, and I kicked out. Miroku narrowly missed a kick in the gut, and Shippo got knocked off my stomach. Tears streamed down my face as my entire left leg was being eaten away by pain.

"Inuyasha! Come over here and help, will you?" Kagome yelled, trying to keep a hold on my arm and get a clean handkerchief out of her pocket. She succeeded and started to wipe my face with it. Inuyasha groaned and came and held my legs so I couldn't move. Miroku again took my left foot, and, taking a deep breath, grabbed the splinter and pulled it out. I screamed, and passed out.

I woke up in an unfamiliar room. It took me awhile to remember where in the hell I was, and what had happened. It was quiet with the exception of the thunder and rain outside. I sat up and looked at the bottom of my foot. No splinter, but it was red and swollen. I looked around the room and saw Sango and Kirara sleeping to my left, with Kagome and Shippo on her left. I sighed and wondered what time it was. To my right was a screen, seperating the large room in half. Peeking my head around the corner, I grinned when I saw that Miroku's staff was laying only two feet away. Miroku was sleeping on his side, facing away from me, so I reached out and slowly slid the staff towards me, careful not to let the rings jingle. There must have been enough noise to wake Inuyasha, because he turned his head to me and stared. Putting a finger to my lips to keep him quiet, I continued to slide Miroku's staff towards me, until I safely had it with me. With a cheerful wave to Inuyasha, I went back to bed, hugging the staff close to me.

I woke in the morning staring into Shippo's face. Blinking the sleep from my eyes, I sat up, Shippo continuing to stare at me. I picked up the staff from where it had rolled from me in the night.

"Yes, Shippo? Is there any reason in particular that you woke me?" I had now pulled a hair brush from my bag and was combing my hair.

"You have something sweet in you bag."

"Yes, suckers. I gave you one yesterday. You can have another one later."

"No, there's something else. You were drinking some yesterday. Can I have one?" I stared. Being raised as an only child without many friends by my grandmother, I wasn't big on sharing. Not that I'm greedy by any stretch of the imagination, but sharing food is a problem of mine.

"Ummmm....no. Not right now." He stared at me with a shocked expression.

"Please? I promise not to bug you! Really!"

"No! Go give Miroku another bath! Or better yet, go give Inuyasha a bath! My soda!" I hugged my bag possevively and growled. Shippo sulked off, and I did feel sorry for him. But then I pondered the outcome of giving Shippo caffine, and decided that not giving him the soda was a good thing.

Just then, Inuyasha came in with Miroku. Seeing Miroku's eyes lingering on me and his staff, I suddenly wished that Shippo hadn't wandered off. At least if he were there he could run off with the staff and Miroku wouldn't get it back. Apparently, Inuyasha decided not to be nice to me, and instead of staying there to protect me, he complained loudly that he was hungry, and walked right back out.

I meeped quietly as Miroku walked up to me, a friendly smile on his face. He sat down next to me and continued smiling. I hugged the staff closer to me and watched him.

"Good morning, Katie. How is your foot doing today?"

I arched an eyebrow suspiciosly. "Morning, Miroku. My foot is fine. Thanks for helping me yesterday. And sorry for nearly kicking you in the stomach." 'Not,' I added in thought.

"No bother. And you're welcome, I'm glad I could help." He just kept smiling, and I started to wonder what he was up to. I held the staff a bit tighter, ready to smack him with it if he tried anything.

"Ummm...Where are we?" I asked, anxious to get away as soon as possible; the monk was starting to make me nervous.

"In Kasasagi Town. We're here to listen for rumors of Shards of the Shikon Jewel," he said, turning himself so he was facing towards me.

"Ummm...okay. Where are Kagome and Sango?" I asked. Miroku kept that smile on his face.

"Oh, they went walking. And I think I heard Lady Kagome talking about going shopping later today." It was then that I remember the brush I was holding in my hand still, and I continued to brush through my hair. Miroku sat for awhile, watching me without speaking. It didn't surprise me, I had once been told that a person could be hypnotized watching me brush my hair. My temporary purple had come out in the numerous times I had gotten wet yesterday, so my hair was a bit duller than it was normally. My hair reaches down nearly to my waist, and it usually surprised people at how well brushed it always was. Whenever I did wear my hair down, everyone wanted to touch it because it was so soft. It was the one thing I got complimented on regularly, and it was the envy of many girls at school. I was then that I realized that Kagome and Sango were standing in the doorway, watching me as well. I stopped brushing and hastily shoved the brush into my bag. That seemed to snap everyone out of their trance.

"Hey, Miroku, why don't you leave the poor girl alone so she can get changed! Go find out what Inuyasha and Shippo are up to!" The girls shooed him out of the room. I heaved a sigh of relief and promptly dug through my bag for a change of clothes. I dug out a pair of nearly black jeans, a black Evanescence shirt, a black hoodie, and black underclothes. The only things that weren't black were my socks, and my gray shoes.

"Ummm...I'm guessing you like black..." Kagome said, looking over my outfit for the day. I blinked and shrugged. I took my clothes and went behind a changing screen and changed quickly. I folded up my outfit from the day before and shoved them into my bag. I pulled out a bag and unzipped it. In it was a small bottle of hairspray, some hair bands, and a can of temporary purple hair color. I took out two hair bands and wound my surprisingly thin hair into a bun. I shoved everything back into my bag and took out a can of soda before closing it.

The three of us picked up the room from our night and left, thanking the innkeeper and his wife. We wandered the streets of the town, talking about random stuff, oohing and ahhing over cute little trinkets we saw at vendors along the way. Kagome eventually asked me how I did know about the new moon, which was now only three nights away. I explained about the anime and stuff back home, and she and Sango seemed a little confused, but they seemed to accept it fine. We continued walking and talking. We had been wandering the town for about two hours when I suddenly realized that I was famished. Sango bought the three of us some fruit and some buns and we enjoyed them beneath a large tree in a little park thing. We continued to walk along, pausing every so often to listen to the gossip going around.

We never heard much, except that the next village was having problems with a demon. Apparently it wasn't killing anyone, just irritating the hell out of everyone and pulling pranks and stuff. Kagome and Sango decided that we would check it out, and went off in search of Shippo, Miroku, and Inuyasha. We found them on the outskirts of town, Miroku looking a little somber.

"Hey ya'll! What's up? What's wrong, Miroku? You look like my puppy when he got yelled at for pissing on Mommy's bed," I said, plopping down on the ground next to Shippo.

"He tried to ask a bunch of country girls to have his children, and got smacked. Without his staff they didn't believe he was a monk," Shippo said, eating a plum. I grinned happily.

"Which just proves that me taking your staff was probably good for you," I said, poking Miroku in the knee with the end of his staff. He made a feeble attempt at snatching it back, but I pulled it out of his reach before he could.

"So, any rumors about the Jewel?" Kagome asked, sitting down next to Inuyasha. Miroku seemed to perk up a bit more when Sango sat down next to him, but I glared at him and he sombered once again.

"Yeah, apparently the demon that's been causing chaos in the next village has a Shard, but he's not using it for power. We'll have to get to the next town quickly," Inuyasha said, standing up. I had leaned back against the tree and had dozed off. I was woken by Sango pulling my hand and getting me on my feet.

Blinking away my former sleep, I said, "Thanks, Sango. So..what's the name of our destination?"

"Minamo Village. Why?" Sango had picked up my bag and handed it to me.

"Just wondering...So, does anyone know what kind of demon it is that we're going after?" I asked, stretching before we headed off.

"We've heard several different stories, some say he's a dog demon, some a cat demon. I think I heard some old men saying he was a transformed snake demon earlier," Kagome said, picking a dozing Shippo up.

We walked for the rest of the day. It was nearly night when we entered the village, and, since there appeared to be no sign of a demon at that point in time, we went to the inn and got two rooms. I went to sleep roughly the moment I laid down, and woke up early in the morning to find that Kirara was curled up on the staff I had put next to me. I smiled, realizing that I now had a watch kitty. I looked out the window and saw that it was early, for it was still dark out. The sun was just turning the dark sky a pinkish blue color, and I just pulled out my hair brush and redid my hair. I heard movement in the room, and saw that Kagome had woken up.

"Morning! Very early morning, but morning all the same!" I was very chipper for the time of day. Kagome groaned and went back to sleep. I shrugged, moved Kirara off of the staff, and went outside, deciding to take a walk. I walked for a while, smiled at the few villagers who were awake and working already, and managed to get a travelling monk to give me a roll he had with him.

After awhile I heard a commotion back in the village square, and I rushed back. There, I saw the demon we had come to meet, and I nearly choked on the last of my roll with recognition.

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Oooooooh, who is the demon? I wonder -.- Anyways!

Kasasagi Town, Minamo Village: I'm using names of towns from the PS2 game. Why? Because I can, and it makes my whole life a lot easier.

This was a long chapter. It took me awhile to write it, and in the middle I got a bit of writer's block. Had to go back and reread my Inuyasha books 1-7 to get my ambition back. I'm starting to realize that I can't fit in everything I put in my "Coming in the next chapter." Sorry. I think too much.

medlii: Wow! I can read minds! That makes me happy! n.n Thanks for your review, and I think if you read the second chapter, Miroku didn't quite get beaten, but he met a fair match. And Inuyasha didn't get anything thrown at him, but he did get hit in the head with Miroku's staff! n.n Just to let you know, I love your story! I have to write a long answer to your review, 'cuz you were my only reviewer, and I love your story! n.n You get...a copy of Miroku's staff and....a clone of Shippo for reviewing.

Oh...must remember my promise. Kikyo is fat and ugly! There, she was made fun of in an author's note. Hahaha...

Coming in the next chapter (possibly): New nicknames for everyone, Katie losing the rest of her sanity, Miroku actually getting jealous because of Katie, Sango smacking random villagers, and a new use for Miroku's staff. GET YOUR MINDS OUT OF THE GUTTERS, PEOPLE..O.O twitch

Please review! It's the likkle purply blue silver button! It says review! n.n