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Chapter Twenty Nine: The Needless Scream from Shippo
Inuyasha jumped down from the tree, claws out, ready to fight whoever dared to attack their camp. Sango and Miroku were both standing too, looking around the camp.
"What's going on?" Sango asked when she saw that nobody was there.
All eyes fell onto Shippo. He was sitting by the base of a tree rubbing his head. "Shippo, why'd you scream?" Miroku asked.
"Yeah, why'd you wake us up!" Inuyasha added in, followed by a punch in the gut from Sango.
"I didn't mean too!" Shippo responded angrily "I was sleeping on Kagome's stomach, having a really good dream, then the next thing I knew, I was flying though the air."
"Did you hit your head on the tree?" Sango asked when she noticed a small bump forming. Shippo merely nodded.
"Why'd you go flying through the air?" Miroku asked.
"I don't know, but I did see Kagome running off when I landed."
Inuyasha looked down at the spot where Kagome had been sleeping. "She's probably sick again," he sighed, "I'll go see if she's alright."
"Poor Kagome," Miroku said once Inuyasha was gone, "I'm sure this can't be easy for her."
Sango turned her attention back to Shippo. "So. What did you dream about?" She wanted everyone to start getting in better moods.
"I-I dreamed that I had a mom again."
"Really." Sango and Miroku glanced at each other, neither of them knowing exactly how to respond.
"Guess who it was!" Shippo jumped up excitedly.
"Who?"
"Kagome." He answered as if it was the easiest and most obvious answer in the entire world.
"She has been like a second mom to you, hasn't she." Sango said.
Shippo nodded, "But soon she'll have a baby of her own so I don't think she'd want me as a kid."
"Kagome loves you like her own kin. Trust me, nothing will change that." Sango gave him a little hug, "Do you want to help me cook breakfast Shippo?"
Inuyasha walked away from the campsite and started following Kagome's scent. "Kagome!" he called out when he could tell he was getting closer. She didn't answer him, but he easily found her sitting in some tall grass.
"Are you alright?" he asked, sitting down next to her.
"Yeah." Her voice was a little raspy. "Just a little morning sickness, that's all."
Inuyasha lifted her into his lap and started to rub her back, "Did you take the stuff that Kaede gave you?"
"How did you know about that stuff?"
"She told me about it before we started off. Did you take it?"
"No, I forgot it." She rested her head on his chest, listening to his steady heartbeat. Man, I love that sound she thought.
"Remember to take some at night before you fall asleep. That way, you won't be sick in the morning."
Kagome nodded, letting him know that she understood him. Inuyasha wrapped his arms around her, "I love you." He mumbled.
Kagome lifted her head up and looked up at Inuyasha, "How do you do that?"
Inuyasha gave her a confused look, "D-Do what?"
"Every time you say I love you' my heart skips a beat. You'd think I'd be used to hearing it by now, but I still act like a school girl with a crush."
Inuyasha still didn't know what she was talking about, so he leaned down and kissed her, hoping that would answer whatever question she was trying to ask. "Come on, we should be getting back." He said once they broke apart.
Kagome merely nodded. On their way back Inuyasha insisted on carrying her on his back. She would have argued with him, saying that she was a big girl who could walk on her own, but she still wasn't feeling 100% better.
"Did I wake you up this morning?" she asked when she realized that it was still pretty early in the morning.
"No. Shippo did."
"What do you mean?"
"Shippo screamed and woke us all up."
"Scream Oh no!" she buried her face in Inuyasha's hair, "I probably tossed him when I ran off, didn't I."
"Yeah."
"Oh, he's probably really mad at me."
"Don't worry he's not hurt, in fact, it was a little funny."
Kagome lightly punched him in the shoulder, "Is not."
What is it with women hitting me? Inuyasha asked himself.
"Kagome!" Sango and Shippo screamed when the two of them walked into camp. Without thinking their plan fully through, the two of them jumped onto Inuyasha's back so they could get to Kagome quicker.
"Hey!" Inuyasha yelled out from the sudden weight change, but it was too late. They all fell to the ground.
"Are you ok?" Sango helped Kagome to her feet.
"I'm fine."
Sango gave a relived smile then picked up Shippo and walked over to Miroku, whom was laughing so hard at the whole event that he could hardly eat the food in front of him.
"That's right," Inuyasha said sarcastically, "nobody pay any attention to they guy who was at the bottom of the pile."
Kagome laughed a little bit then sat down next to Inuyasha. He rolled over a little bit. "Are you hurt anywhere?" she asked while running her fingers through his hair.
Inuyasha shifted a little bit on the ground, "Umm my chin hurts a little bit." Kagome leaned down to kiss it, but at the last second he moved his head and captured her lips with his own.
"Hey you two!" Miroku yelled out. "Stop playing in the dirt and eat your food, we need to get moving."
Kagome laughed at the way Miroku spoke to them. Like a parent scolding their kids. Inuyasha faintly growled at being interrupted, but Kagome just patted his shoulder and helped him off the ground.
Inuyasha was right when he said it wouldn't take long to get to the next village. They actually arrived not long after they finished breakfast. Some people eyed Kagome and Inuyasha suspiciously. It wasn't everyday that they saw a hanyou carrying a human girl on his back.
"I think you should put me down now." Kagome whispered in his ear.
He nodded and set her gently down on the ground. He wasn't really bothered by people starring, he was used to it, but he didn't want Kagome to feel uncomfortable. "Where should we start looking?" he asked.
Kagome reached inside her backpack and pulled out two pieces of paper. The one she drew when Sango asked her too and the other one that she made on her own. She handed one to Sango and Miroku then kept one for herself.
"You two go that way," she said pointing in one direction, "Inuyasha and I will go this way. We'll be able to ask more people if we're separated."
"When should we join up again?" Sango asked.
"This village isn't very big," Inuyasha said, "Why don't we meet up for lunch."
"Ok."
"Who am I going with?" Shippo asked.
Kagome bent down, "Do you want to come with me and Inuyasha."
Shippo jumped up on her shoulder. "Yeah." He was hoping he would get to go with Kagome, but he didn't want to say so and hurt Sango or Miroku's feelings.
"Ok, buy guys." Kagome said before starting off in the direction that she picked earlier.
"Do you think they'll find anyone who knows Kohaku?" Sango asked as she watched Kagome walk away with Inuyasha and Shippo.
"They'll probably have a harder time with it then us."
"What? Why?"
Miroku pointed at all the eyes that were following Inuyasha. "These people don't seem to like demons, they might not even give Kagome the time of day just because she's with one child demon and a half demon."
"Who should we ask first?" Shippo asked while looking around.
Inuyasha glared at the people who were starting at him. "I don't think-" but Kagome didn't listen to him. She ran up to the first person she saw.
It was and elderly man who was walking towards the market. "I'm sorry to bother you sir, but we're looking for someone. Do you think you could help us?"
The man looked down at Kagome, the smile he had on his face disappeared quickly when he noticed the small fox demon sitting on her shoulder. "Miss, we don't appreciate you bringing demons into our village."
"What?"
The man didn't bother repeating himself, he just ignored Kagome and continued walking. "Hey you!" Inuyasha grabbed the man's arms and held him tightly. "I believe that young lady just asked you a question."
"Get your hand off me, half breed."
Inuyasha gripped his arm tighter. "Inuyasha stop!" Kagome yelled out. When he didn't let go Kagome blew her dog whistle till Inuyasha couldn't take it anymore.
"I was just defending you honor." He defended himself.
"Don't worry about my honor. Sango will be really sad if we can't find her brother just because you had to act like a knight."
"A what?"
"Nothing."
"H-How did you do that?" Inuyasha and Kagome turned to see that the elderly man was still watching them.
"How did I do what?" Kagome rested her hands on her hips. She wasn't going to treat this man any better then he treated her.
"When you blew on that thing it made now sound, but he acted like it did." The man glanced between Inuyasha and Kagome.
Kagome touched one hand to the metal object around her neck. "It's not that easy to explain."
"Are you some kind of witch?" someone else asked. Kagome looked around. A small crowed had formed without her even noticing. Most likely around the time Inuyasha grabbed the man's arm.
"Yeah." Inuyasha said instantly to the man, "She a powerful and deadly witch, and because you didn't offer your help when she needed it, we're gonna leave and put a curse on your village."
The village people gasped and Kagome gave Inuyasha the meanest look she could come up with.
"I'm sorry I treated you so harshly," the man walked over and grabbed Kagome's hand, "What do you need help with?"
Kagome sighed, This is probably wrong on so many levels she thought, "I'm looking for this boy." She held out the drawing.
The elderly man, along with others from the village took a good long look at it. "I'm sorry, but I haven't see anyone like this in our village. Please don't curse us."
"I won't." Kagome mumbled before walking away with Inuyasha.
"So what do you want to do now?" Inuyasha asked.
"Inuyasha." Kagome spoke in a whisper that sounded just as demanding as a scream "You are in so much trouble when we leave this village."
"What did I do?"
"You told those people that I was a witch."
"So."
"I'M NOT."
"Well, they weren't going to help us unless they were afraid of us."
"Inuyasha, that's not the point."
Shippo didn't want Kagome and Inuyasha to fight, "Can we get something to eat?"
"You just ate breakfast."
"I know, but I'm hungry again."
Inuyasha sighed, "Fine, we'll have something really quick before we start asking people again."
Sango and Miroku were starting to get tired. They had asked, what seemed like, a hundred people if they had ever seen or heard of Kohaku, but none of them did. "Can we rest for a little while?" Sango asked.
"Yeah." Miroku pulled her over to a spot that had some shade and sat down.
"I wonder if Kagome and Inuyasha are having any luck." Sango leaned against him.
"I don't think they will, it doesn't seem like anyone in this village has any idea who Kohaku is."
"I guess we'll go to the next village."
"Yeah. It's not too far."
Sango looked up when one young, teenage looking, girl ran up to another one standing a short distance away from them. "Did you hear what just happened near the market?" the first girl started to say.
Sango remembered when she was younger and used to gossip, without even realizing it she started to listen in on what they were saying.
"What happened?"
"A girl came into our village with one child demon sitting on her shoulder and another half demon following her."
"Really?"
Sango nudged Miroku in the stomach to make sure he was listening too, she could tell they were talking about Kagome.
"Yeah. It seems they were looking for a small boy."
"So."
"Well, she went to one of our elders and asked him for help. He naturally turned her down, you know how we aren't supposed to help demons or people who befriend demons"
"What happened."
"When the elder turned her down, the half demon grabbed his arm like he was gonna attack him."
"Did he?"
"No. The girl did some kind of magic."
Sango made a face.
"Magic?"
"Yeah. She blew on something that made no sound, but the half demon grabbed his ears, like she was hurting him."
"How did she do that?"
Sango and Miroku tried not to laugh, they knew that Kagome had simply used the dog whistle.
"It turns out that she's a witch!"
"No."
"Yeah. And the half breed said that she would curse our village if the elder man didn't help her."
"Did he?"
"He had no choice. Come on, let's go to the market and see if anything knew happened."
The two girls ran off. Miroku looked down at Sango; "Do you want to go find Kagome."
"Yeah." She laughed. She couldn't wait to talk to Kagome and get her side of the story.
The two of them saw Inuyasha, Kagome, and Shippo sitting in some grass with a pile a food in front of them. They didn't notice Sango and Miroku walking towards them because they were busy debating something. "Inuyasha, it was rude to take all this food."
"I didn't take it, they gave it to me."
"We should have paid."
"Hey, if they want to give us free food for our journey then they can go right ahead. You won't find me complaining."
"Inuyasha! They're giving us free food because they think I'll put a curse on their village."
Inuyasha shrugged. "If they're stupid enough to believe it then -"
"Inuyasha!"
"Hey guys." Sango called out. "I thought we were going to meet for lunch." She said when she reached them.
"We were going too, but Shippo got hungry." Inuyasha said.
Miroku sat down and grabbed a red apple from the pile of food. "How did you get all this."
"I went to go buy something, and the villagers kept handing me food." Inuyasha said.
Sango turned towards Kagome; "Miroku and I heard the funniest rumor about you being a witch."
Kagome rolled her eyes. "Yeah, Inuyasha can get carried away sometimes."
They all ate their fill and stored the rest of the food in silence until Sango decided to speak. "I don't think anyone here knows Kohaku, we should get moving to the next village."
"Alright." Kagome stood up and brushed some dirt off of her skirt. "I don't want to hang around here anyways." She referred to the group of people that kept staring at her with big eyes. Like they were waiting for her to make one of them burst into flames. They had been following her around since the little scene earlier that day.
I don't have the energy to leave a cliffhanger sorry (though most of you are probably grateful). I want 10 reviews.
ALERT: Ok, I've picked the name for the baby. Thanks for all the suggestions. Can't say what the name is, but I'll give you a hint... it has the letter 'I' in it. Oh yeah, and Lizzy p.r. is the godmother (just to let y'all know).
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