cherryblosomz: It was nope, you didn't review for chapter 6, yep, it's good to see Naomi getting along, yep, it was an evil cliffie, and yep, it was kind of my sis. Thanx for reviewing!

Starfire77: Thanx!

Hurricane Ivan struck Lagrange yesterday(Thursday). It didn't do much damage around where I am, but I'm not sure about other parts of town. Anyway, there was no school again yesterday(YAY!!) so I worked on my story. There's also not gonna be any school today, either. There's a bad thing, though. I'm not sure where Ivan will be located today, but I do know that me and my sis have to drive for about an hour going north, so we'll probably be heading straight through Ivan.

As far as the story goes, here's another chapter! Umm...I said I was gonna have Naomi meet someone new....Does Kaedae count? I was having writers' block and I couldn't figure out when and where to have Naomi meet the other person(It was gonna be Kikyou). Anyway, there's a little Inu/Kag fluff in this one, and I'll try to put in a little Mir/San fluff in later chapters. You're probably getting tired of my rambling, so I'll just go ahead and let you read the story!

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Naomi lay on the roof of Kaedae's(sp?) hut. It had been three days since the she had seen Sesshoumaru and four since she had seen Kouga.(She met Sesshoumaru the day after she met Kouga. Since you probably don't wanna do any math, I'll just go ahead and tell you that Naomi's been with the Inuyasha group for exactly 11 days, or 1 week and 4 days.) They had gotten to Kaedae's village the night before. Everyone was surprised at first, for most of them had heard about the half demon assassin(Naomi was an assassin-for-hire), but then they welcomed her, seeing as how she was Inuyasha's friend. Kagome had gone back to her own time that morning. Since they weren't traveling, Naomi had decided to try something. She waited to see if her little "experiment" had worked...

"SHIPPOU!!!!"

"AAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!"

Naomi sat up and stifled a yawn. She looked down to see that a small, reddish blur was being chased around the hut by a very enraged half demon.

"I'M GONNA KILL YOU!!!" Inuyasha yelled. He had several doodles on his face, apparently left by a black marker.

"What's going on?" Naomi asked in a surprisingly calm voice.

Shippou instantly changed direction and jumped straight into Naomi's arms from the ground. Inuyasha immediately came to a halt and glared at Shipou, who hid behind Naomi for protection.

"Well? What's going on?" Naomi repeated.

"THAT LITTLE RODENT DREW ON MY FACE WHEN I WAS ASLEEP!!!" Inuyasha yelled, pointing angrily at Shippou.

"I-I didn't!" Shippou said, looking at Naomi for help.

Naomi simply sighed. "Inuyasha, perhaps you're mistaken," she said. "After all, what makes you think that a cute little fox demon like Shippou would do something like that to you?"

"If he didn't do it, then who did?" Inuyasha asked. Though his vioce had lowered, he sounded more threatening than when he had been yelling.

"I don't know," Naomi said, shrugging.

"Then why don't you just hand over the brat and I'll pound a confession out of him," Inuyasha growled.

"Inuyasha, calm down," Naomi said. "Why don't you just go wash it off and forget about it?"

Inuyasha walked off towards the river, grumbling about stupid little fox demons. As soon as he was out of sight and hearing range, Naomi looked at Shippou.

"Can you keep a secret?" she asked. Shippou nodded and Naomi, somehow keeping a straight face, brought out from her pocket the black marker that she had used to draw on Inuyasha's face.

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"Just go get her already!" Naomi shouted, frustrated. She leapt into the tree that Inuyasha was sitting in. "You've been moping around since she left two days ago!"

"I haven't been moping around!" Inuyasha shouted back. "Actually, I'm glad she's gone!"

Naomi looked him straight in the eyes. He fidgeted a little. "You're lying."

"Am not!"

"Are too!"

"Am not!"

"Are too!"

"Am not!"

"Are not!"

"Am too!"

"Ah-hah!" Naomi said triumphantly.

Realizatin of what he said dawned on him. "YOU TRICKED ME!!!!"

"I only got you to tell the truth," Naomi said smugly. "Now, got get her!"

"No way!" Inuyasha said, crossing his arms.

An idea suddenly popped into Naomi's head. "That's probably for the best, actually," she said, pretending to consider something.

"Huh? What're you talking about?"

'He's playing right into my hands...' "Oh, it's nothing," Noami said, shaking the pretend thoughts away. "I should probably be going now." She hopped out of the tree and started walking away. '3...2...1...'

"Wait!" Inuyasha called. "Tell me what you're talking about!"

Naomi hid her grin beneath a nonchalant expression as she casually glanced back at him. "Kagome just said something about going on a....what did she call it? Oh yeah... going on a date with some guy named... Hobo? No... Hoko? No..." She looked up as she pretended to think.

"Hojo?"

"That's the one!" she said. Then a look of pretend horror crossed her face. "Kagome told me not to tell! Inuyasha, don't tell her I told you!"

Inuyasha growled low and deep. "Keh," he mumbled. "I won't tell." Exactly the response Naomi had been planning on. Kagome hadn't really said that she was going on a date with him, of course. She had said the he had asked her a lot of times and that he couldn't take a hint.

"Thanks!" Naomi said and started walking away. She heard a rustle in the leaves of the tree and turned to see that Inuyasha had taken off. She grinned. She absolutely loved tricking people, whether it was for good or bad. Luckily, this time it was for good.

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Inuyasha came back with Kagome later that day.

"Kagome!" Shippou shrieked, flying into her arms. "You came back a day earlier than usual!"

"Yeah, well, Inuyasha came and got me," Kagome said, hugging Shippou.

"Keh," Inuyasha said, crossing his arms. He saw Naomi, sitting cross-legged on the floor of Kaedae's hut. She had no expression on her face, but inside she was laughing hysterically. "Naomi, I gotta talk to you."

"What is it?" she asked, looking at him with pretend curiousness.

"Come outside for a minute."

Naomi shrugged, stood up, and followed Inuyasha outside. He stopped right under the tree, then turned and looked at her.

"Kagome never said that she had a date with Hojo!"

"She didn't?" Naomi asked, pretending to be very surprised. She then pretended to think about it. "Hm... Maybe she said that he just asked her a lot..." She looked back at Inuyasha, smiling brightly. "Sorry about that! It must've been a mistake!"

Inuyasha didn't believe her, but he had no evidence to support it.

Both were interrupted from their thoughts as two very familiar sounds were heard from inside the hut.

"PERVERT!!!"

WHACK

"Idiot..." both half demons said at the same time, shaking their heads.

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There you go! In the next chapter, I'll probably bring in Kikyou. Or maybe I should tell that little secret about Sesshoumaru.... Review plz and tell me which one you think I should do!(As well as maybe a suggestion about how I should do it!)