Ms. Mysterious: Thanks to kagome1312, LoveMeFred, Mikkasura, crazy-writer-girl, Ashley, and Satsuki-Noriko for reviewing. It was very nice of all of you to take the time to give me some feedback. Anyways here's chapter 2, and I promise you it's longer and more interesting than the first!

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A twisted truth

"I said no Inuyasha!" Kagome yelled shrilly at the hanyou, as she attempted to wrestle the piece of candy out of his iron-clad grip. The dog demon growled menacingly in response, refusing to give it up. The school girl then knew she would just have to use her final resort.

"O-SU-WA-RI!" screamed an angry voice. Inuyasha suddenly found himself suddenly engaged in eating dirt. Shippou laughed his little, furry ass off. And Kagome, the champion of justice' stood victorious, holding the piece of chocolate in her hand. "Sorry, Inu but I had to, chocolate isn't good for dogs, and you could die if you eat it, who knows." She apologized sincerely as she popped the Hershey's kiss into her mouth.

"Feh, as if some stupid chucalata could hurt me." he responded arrogantly as he lifted himself off the ground slowly and painfully.

Kagome snorted, licking the last of the chocolate off her lips "Gomen, but you know me, being the stupid human I am, I somehow must have forgotten you were invincible."

Inuyasha flashed a brief smile "I'm glad you finally understand! Maybe someday you'll even realize your place, you know you being the bitch and me being the leader." The miko's eyes narrowed dangerously at that comment, her raven hair blowing violently with the wind that seemed to have just picked up. "I was being sarcastic, you baka, so you know what…." She paused to smile sweetly at him "OSUWARI!"

Sango flinched when she heard the irate sit-command. The demon hunter was officially very, very glad she and Miroko had decided to stay a distance away when her friends began grappling for some piece of candy. 'Those two are always fighting…' she thought frivolously, as she adjusted Kiara who was perched on her shoulder in her kitten form.

"Well at least I can say Kagome is just as hopeless as me when it comes to the subject of the men and love…." mumbled a quiet voice.

It was then Sango noticed the weird look she was getting from a certain perverted monk.

"Shit, I said that aloud, didn't I?" Miroku's only response was a small smile, and a butt-grab. Then….SLAP! All was normal again.

A couple hours later in the late afternoon and the group was still walking. The only difference was now they were complaining too. Especially a certain dog-eared person.

"I'm hungry, Kagome don't you got any food!" Shippou whined.

"No." was the exhausted reply.

"I could use a bath, any hot springs around?" chipped in the supposedly disciplined demon-slayer.

"Later, Sango." She said, grinding her teeth in annoyance.

"I could use some love, but that can be easily solved…are you up to it, Sango, darling?" added Miroku. This complaint was eradicated as soon as it was posed, with a nice SLAP.

And of course… "Bitch, where the hell are the jewel shards? What are your senses not working or something?"

The blue-eyed beauty felt her aggravation building up and was about to blow up, when suddenly…she felt something. "I feel something!" she exclaimed breathlessly. Inuyasha turned to face her "Is it a shard?" he inquired excitedly.

"I don't know." She responded, looking a bit confused.

"You don't know…" He reiterated disbelievingly. "How can you-"

"It doesn't matter, Inuyasha, we'll just have to check it out anyways." Miroku interrupted, walking towards Kagome. Sango and the hanyou quickly followed.

"Lead the way."

Kagome headed towards the power hesitantly, cuddling Shippou for support. She couldn't explain why but she really didn't want to find this thing…even if it was a shard. It just made her feel funny. Nevertheless she ambled along slowly, glad for once that she took and left her bike at home.

But time did not seem to tick on slowly enough, when not even 20 minutes later they arrived at a deserted, dusty town.

Inuyasha held his nose remorsefully "It stinks here! In fact, it just plain reeks of shit!"

The rest of group ignored him, except for Shippou who seemed to be afflicted as well. Sango looked around warily "Hey, Kagome do you know where this demon is? I really don't want to have to linger in or search this town."

"Kagome?"

She didn't get a response. Finally she turned around to face a frozen, staring Kagome…

And the most hideous, old hag she had ever seen.

"Oh my god, what the hell is that, it's disgusting and it smells too." Inuyasha remarked rudely but truthfully.

The old, hag glared furiously at Inuyasha, revealing its whole face. It truly was a ghastly sight, with bald spots and patches of curly gray hair, then there were two glowing pee-colored yellow eyes, and it also was missing a nose. This elderly woman also appeared to be the wrinkliest thing they had ever seen and its lips were dark purple and looked like sand-paper. Her body was in better shape, she was missing a foot, and terribly over-weight.

"I admit I am ugly…." A scratchy voice drawled "but aren't all witches?"

At this comment, Inuyasha stepped in front of Kagome protectively, who in turn clutched Shippou tighter, and Miroku grabbed Sango and took a step back.

"Come now, don't be silly, my pretties, My name is Hitomi and I am a kind soul… in fact, all I want to do is ask a question to each of you…" the eerie witch spoke again.

"Why?" Sango asked cautiously.

"I'm bored, lonely, and this town is now empty now that I've worked my magic over the people that were once in it. I want some fun, and you're it, why do you think I drew the miko here!" Hitomi replied honestly but nastily. "Now enough with your useless questions, and let me ask mine."

"Fine, go ahead, we have nothing to hide." Inuyasha declared boldly.

"We'll see…" The witch turned to Miroku, and chuckled menacingly, "You're first, dear, now tell me why do you really hit on women so much?"

Miroku clenched his fist together, anyone would think his response would just be that he's just a pervert, but that would be a lie…a lie he let his friends believe, but one does not lie to a witch, and live to tell about it. Even if it meant humiliating himself by letting his friends know the truth.

"I was molested…by an older man when I was 9 years old…I couldn't stop him…and even though justice eventually was carried out, I never felt like a man, let alone a boy again…now to make up for that insecurity, I constantly hit on attractive women. Even if there's only one person I really do love…" Miroku stated quietly, his face was burning as he stared straight at the ground. He was either unwillingly or unable to look up.

The old, hag cackled delightedly as she looked at all the distressed faces. Oh, yes, this was great fun for her.

"A complete an utterly true answer. Consider yourself scotch free, so all you'll have to deal with is the pain of embarrassment for a couple years."

She stopped to smile viciously at Inuyasha, who wanted to draw his sword but knew better. His mother taught him not to be a complete idiot after all, magick at full power was practically impossible to go against. "Your turn, gorgeous."

The hanyou suddenly felt a terrible urge to vomit, even though Kagome was clutching him tightly.

God life sucked, the girl of his dreams was finally holding him but he was about to be made a total fool of. How ironic.

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Miss Mysterious: Poor Miroku, you didn't think I was going to punish all the characters, did you? Well, heh, now you do. Anyways Kagome is the only one that doesn't know not to lie to a witch….poor, poor girl. I hope you enjoyed. Please review, I don't want to be demanding or anything but I like to get to at least 15 reviews…this way I can know if I should continue with this idea or not. Thanks guys, bye!