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Chapter Thirty One: Swallowing Some Pride

Sango sat up a little straighter, "Y-You know him. Was he here?" she was trying desperately to hide the excitement in her voice, but failing.

"He stayed at our house for a little while." The woman said, handing the drawing back over to Kagome. "It was a rather strange visit, though."

"What do you mean?" Kagome asked.

"He stayed for a few days, helping around the house. But he would never tell us where he came from."

"Why?"

"He said he couldn't remember. Then on day he just left, saying something about finding his sister you wouldn't be her would you?" the woman asked Kagome.

"No. I'm his sister." Sango said, "Please, do you have any idea where he went."

"I can point you all in the right direction tomorrow morning. For now, you should all make yourselves comfortable. A good days rest will do anyone good."

"Thanks." Kagome said. She was happy to have their first lead on Kohaku.

The woman glanced up at Inuyasha and Miroku, "So what are all of your names."

Kagome blushed, "Oh! Sorry that was rude of me. I'm Kagome, this is Sango," while pointing "and that's Inuyasha and Miroku."

"And who is this little one?" the man asked, picking up Shippo.

"I'm Shippo." He responded trying not to squirm too much.

"I guess," the woman started to say, "we should figure out the sleeping arrangements."

"Yes." The man agreed.

"We have two extra rooms. You two girls could take one, while -"

"Well" Sango started to say.

The woman looked at her, "Is something wrong?"

Kagome answered for her. "Miroku and Sango are going to be married in a little while, I think they'd prefer to share a room."

Sango nodded, so they lady paused for a few seconds to rethink her ideas. "Ok. Sango and Miroku can share one of the rooms. Kagome, you can take the other one and share it with Shippo. That just leaves you Inuyasha."

"I can sleep outside." He said. He didn't know how these people would react to Kagome and Inuyasha sharing a room.

"If that's alright with you."

"I sleep outside all the time." He shrugged.

"It's very nice of you to let us stay. Is there anything I could do for you?" Kagome asked. She wanted to repay the favor.

"Well," the lady brought her hand up to her chin, "I guess you could help me with dinner if you want too, but that's not for a while. Why don't you guys just rest for a little while."

Inuyasha sat next to Kagome. He wasn't really sure how to act around these people. It wasn't very often that complete stranger were nice to them just for the hell of it. "Ummis there anything to do in this town? It seems a little boring to me."

"Inuyasha." Kagome frowned at him.

"Hey, I'm just being honest."

The little girl from earlier walked up to Inuyasha and pulled on his sleeve. "I can take you someplace fun." She said quietly.

"What's your name?" Inuyasha asked.

"Mai."

Inuyasha sighed What could I lose he thought. He stood up, "You coming Kagome?"

"Sure." Inuyasha helped her to her feet and they both followed Mai out the door.

"Those two seem" the woman watched them walk away, "involved. Are they a couple?"

"Yeah." Sango said. "They're even going to have a baby soon."

"Really!" the woman smiled. "How sweet."

"Is it smart for her to be traveling around?" the man asked.

Miroku laughed a little bit. "We asked her that same thing, but she said she'll be fine."

"So, when are you two getting married?"

"When we get home?" Sango said. According to Kagome's plan, that wasn't completely untrue. Mainly she didn't want to bring up the subject of the jewel.

"Oh."

Sango looked over at Shippo. He was sitting on the floor looking down at his feet. "Shippo, are you bored?" she asked.

"Yeah."

"Why don't you go with Inuyasha and Kagome."

Shippo ran out of the house like he had been waiting for one of them to say that.

Inuyasha grabbed onto Kagome's hand while they both followed Mai. She seemed to know really well where they were going. "Have you thought about boy names yet?"

"Some. I still don't know why you're letting me pick the name. Isn't it like important to a woman to choose the name of her baby."

"It's your baby too, you should get some say in the name. Besides, if I don't like the name I'll just say no."

Inuyasha laughed then turned around. "Shippo's calling your name."

"Really?" Kagome turned around too, off in the distance she could just make out Shippo running in their direction. It still impressed her, how good Inuyasha's ears were. All three of them waited for Shippo to catch up.

When he reached them, he immediately jumped on Kagome's shoulder. "Hi Shippo." She laughed.

"Sango told me that I could go with you guys."

"Did she? You'll have to ask Mai."

Shippo blushed a little bit. He didn't like the idea of asking a girl that was younger then for permission. But he sucked up his pride and jumped down to the spot Mai was standing.

"Mai"

"Yes?"

"Can I go with you?" he didn't really look her straight in the eyes.

"Sure."

Shippo sighed from relief and jumped back onto Kagome's shoulder.

"That wasn't so bad was it?" Kagome whispered into his ear.

Inuyasha reached over and pinched Kagome's arm causing her to scream. "Why'd you do that?"

"You were starting to sound like and old lady."

"Was I really?"

Shippo and Inuyasha both nodded. "Oh. I guess I should be thanking you then."

"Anytime."

Mai pulled on Inuyasha's sleeve a little bit. "It's not very far away." Then she ran a short distance ahead of them, but stayed with in their eyesight.

"I wonder where she's taking us?" Inuyasha said out loud.

"I don't know," Kagome responded "but we'll find out soon."

Wow. I've been dealing with a lot of stressful stuff the last few weeks, but don't pity me. I just wanted to know if you guys to pack your reviews full of magical energizing waves again. If you did, the next chapter would probably be better and longer, plus it would be greatly appreciated.

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