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CHAPTER 14 - Elemental Secrets

'Oh Kami... I can't help it...' Kagome thought, desperately trying to get a grip on herself. Literally. She was mere millimeters from Inuyasha's lips when,

BOOOOOOOM!

"WHAT THE HELL?!" Inuyasha yelped, completely unaware of the fact that he just knocked poor Kagome in the face with his elbow.

"Inuyasha..." She said menacingly (twitch twitch) . He turned to see the love of his life, glaring chainsaws at him while being ablaze. She now had a black eye. "SIT, SIT, SIT, SIT, SIT, SIT, SIT, SIT, SIT BEYOND ALL REASON YOU BAKA!" she screamed, awakening the remaining sleeping people. Well, it would have if anyone else was asleep.

There was now a Hanyou shaped hole in her floor.

"Oops, I guess that wasn't right." The burnt black Shippou said, pulling off the chemistry safety glasses. "I don't think the red powder likes that blue, foamy stuff."

"I agree." The equally burnt Miroku said. Then he heard something. Miroku whipped around to see Sango's hand coming towards him.

SLAP!

Miroku went flying across Kagome's broken chemistry set, and slammed into the back of the sofa.

"Ugh." Kagome said, resting her hand on her temple. 'How am I ever going to get any closer to Inuyasha, or keep my sanity for that matter, with this happening all of the time?... Oh well... I better get dressed so I can go to Home Depot.' she thought, throwing a blanket over the Inuyasha hole and locking her door.

- - Place change - -

"Ituchi!" Miss Higurashi yelled, throwing her arms around her husband. The one that Kagome could never learn about. "Yanayi..." he said, firming his hold on his loved one. "I've missed you so much. And Kagome and Sota too." he said sadly, sitting down in the café booth. "I know... This visit has long been overdue... Oh, here are their pictures, just like I always do."

"I don't need to see Kagome's, I have seen her in person."

"WHAT!?"

"Don't worry Yiyi, she had no clue of who I was, only the person who saved her and her hanyou boyfriend during the earthquake several days ago."

"Oh, you met Inuyasha?"

"Technically speaking. He certainly doesn't want it to show, but he loves her quite a bit."

"No really, think I haven't figured that one out?" (A/N - are you confused yet?)

"So..." Yanayi took a sip of her soda. "I'm guessing you delivered the package?"

" Do I really need to answer that?"

"True."

"I wonder what she is going to do, when she discovers the rest of the soul orb and other orb bits in there."

"I have no clue. She, and my father, still think that it is the Shikon no Tamah."

"Well, your father can live with that thought, but Kagome will need to learn the truth eventually."

"I know..." Kagome's mother looked down at the pale orange table in front of her. "Hey, it's okay, Yiyi..." he said lifting her chin up from its slump. Mrs. Higurashi sighed subconsciously, wishing so bad that she could have her love back with her to the shrine. But she couldn't, not yet. But then it hit her. "Have you contacted Hoshido and Yoshima in Nagoya yet?"

"Yes, they'll be into town on a plane in two weeks. And they are bring others."

"Oh?"

"Yep. Others including Akutsuo, Osoane, and Naeno."

"More teens under one roof... I thing I might have to add onto the shrine. Either that, or turn it into a hotel, so I can at least get some money for it."

"That's the Yanayi I know and love. Now about those pictures..." she smiled.

(How weird-ed out are you at this point? BWHAHAHAHA!)

- - Place change, back to house - -

"HOLD IT!" Kagome suddenly yelled, startling everyone, who were working on patching the hanyou hole. 'Did I just feel... no, it can't be... but it is! It is the shikon je- I mean, Orb of souls' aura!' she ran out of the room, accidentally knocking over the ladder Morobuku had been standing on. "AAAAAAAAACK!" Thud.

"Where is it?" she said to herself, looking around franticly in the living room. "Kagome, what are you doing?" Sango and Sangarouka said in unison. This was instantly followed by an awkward silence, and then awkward laughter. "It's here!"

"What is?"

'That's it!' she thought, looking at the large package that Inuyasha had brought in earlier. 'I can see... no, it can't be... THE ENTIRE SHIKON E- uh, ORB OF SOULS! Wow, this is going to be hard to adjust...'

"Oi, wench what are you doing?" Inuyasha said, annoyed that she was not in there helping the others work on the hole. "THE ENTIRE ORB OF SOULS IS IN THIS PACKAGE! AND I CAN FEEL OTHER POWERFUL AURAS COMING FROM IT!" she snapped back. Everyone dropped what they had, and came rushing into the room.

Inuyasha came over and tried to open it. The cardboard panels didn't budge. When he tried to stick his nails into between the crack between cardboard panel 1 and 2, a surge of energy zapped him into dropping it the box. "What in the seven hells?..."

Kagome put her finger near the box, and the panels shot open. The room grew dark, as what was left of the orb of souls came floating out of the box, along with other shards of different color. The bits of jewels flew over to each one of the people, excluding Kagome, who had the rest of the orb souls coming to her. The air turned humid, and all everyone's clothing melted away into silk kimonos. Not just silk kimonos, but a weapon arming each and every one of them.

(It goes like this.

Miroku Deep blue kimono with purple, spooked, rings every here and there, and his monk staff had come sailing out of Sota's room, landed straight before him, and the wood of the staff turned somewhat metallic.

Sango A dark fuchsia kimono, with white, tri-circles every here and there, and her Hirikotsu also came sailing down from her and Kagome's room, landed in front of her, and turned the same color as her kimono, and grew a small scythe at each end.

Shippou A normal brown kimono with black diamonds every here and there, and eskrima sticks popped out from his belt like thingy underneath his outer kimono.

Morobuku Light green kimono with square outlines every here and there, and a triple nunchuktu underneath his outer kimono.

Sangarouka mustard yellow kimono with red tri-circle swirls every here-and-there, and mace tip whip attached to her obi cloth.

Inuyasha lots of fun Red, full-length kimono with black triangles here and there. His Tetsusaiga had sprung from it's locked place unsheathed itself, and stabbed the ground in front of him. The only APPARENT change was that a red jewel formed at the bottom of the handle.

Kagome Pure whit kimono with pink sakura every here and there, and a quiver of white arrows appeared on her back, along with a white bow in her hand.

Wow, that took long enough.)

The shards topped near everyone's neck, and a golden thread burst from each one, tying itself a necklace around all of them. In all of their minds, they simultaneously heard. "Use your shard well..."

The light returned to the house, the kimonos and weapons evaporated, and all that was left of something even occurring in the room besides the box that was now a pile of ash was the fact that they all had a shard around their neck.

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Ya, I know, cliffhanger. But now you're confused as well, so....

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Don't kill me; it's still illegal... unless you're a cop.... or clinically insane...

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