Pure Breed: Chapter 13

Kagome woke up to the buzzing of her alarm clock. She bad temperedly brought her fist down upon the clock, breaking it beyond repair. She forgot why she had even bothered to set her alarm clock in the first place, for she never did so in the feudal era before. She tried to go back to sleep, but to no avail, so she decided to wake Inuyasha and the others.

"Inuyasha." she said softly, shaking him lightly. No response. She shook him a little harder. "Inuyasha, it's time to wake up." Still nothing. She shook him vigorously this time, and spoke in a normal volume voice. "Wake up! It's day lazy!" Inuyasha kept snoring away. "Sit boy." Inuyasha left a small crater in the floor.

"Ouch! What was that for?" Inuyasha asked angrily.

"Good morning to you too sunshine!" Koga joked from across the room. Kagome's attempts to wake up Inuyasha had awoken the wolf demons. Kagome lightly shook Kohaku to awaken him as well. Only Sango and Miroku were left, but all soon noticed they weren't in the same room.

"Oy, kid. Go find your sister and Miroku will you?" Inuyasha asked. Kohaku got up to find the couple. Luckily, the residents of the house they were staying in had already been awake for some time, so Kohaku wouldn't have to worry about waking up anyone unintentionally. He checked two rooms and found no one. But in the third room he checked, there were Sango and Miroku. The sight, however, was quite traumatizing to Kohaku. Sango and Miroku were in the same bed, the garments of both strewn randomly about the room. Luckily, both were covered by the blankets, but knowing what the two had been doing was bad enough. Kohaku slammed the door, and walked back to where the rest of the team was; hoping the sound of the door slamming had woken Sango and Miroku up.

"I'm just going to forget I saw any of that." Kohaku said to himself. A few minutes later Sango and Miroku joined the remainder of the gang. Miroku smacked Inuyasha upside the head, for he had fallen asleep again.

"Wake up you bum." Miroku advised Inuyasha, who resisted the temptation to attack the monk.

"Not that he couldn't use some beauty sleep." Shippo chimed in impudently. Inuyasha didn't get the same luxury Inuyasha had given Miroku however. Shippo began to cry. "Wahhhh! Help me!" the poor demon-child wailed as he ran to Kagome for protection.

"Inuyasha, shame on you! Why did you strike Shippo for? He's only a child after all!" Kagome scolded him. Inuyasha responded with his ever-so-famous 'feh'. "He definitely does not show the makings of a good father." Kagome thought with a sigh as the group thanked their host and left.

"Where are we going exactly?" Ayame asked. "I've noticed ever since Koga and I joined, we usually don't have any destination in mind."

"You talk as if we were an item or something." Koga complained. Ayame rolled her eyes and continued.

"Why aren't we ever headed for any location in particular?" the red-headed demoness questioned.

"Don't know. We usually have the convenience of other shikon shard possessors coming to us, in order to take our own shards." Miroku explained.

"I haven't noticed any lately." Koga cut in.

"Same here. The only explanation that makes sense is Naraku is the only one with shikon shards besides us." Inuyasha deduced logically.

"That can't be it though." Miroku objected. "If that were the case he would've come after us by now."

"Feh. That or he's waiting for us to come to him. I say we find his castle and attack!" Inuyasha suggested.

"And how, dear pup, do you propose we go about finding his castle? We don't have any leads, you fool." Koga said, making a valid point.

"We have the kid, tick resort! He can tell us where Naraku's castle is, can't you?" Inuyasha asked Kohaku.

"Nope, sorry." Kohaku simply replied.

"What? You little…" Inuyasha made a move to try and beat the information out of Kohaku, but Sango stopped him.

"He wouldn't have even known he was at Naraku's fortress if we hadn't told him so. Our only option is to wait for someone or something that lead us to Naraku." Miroku explained, once again showing his mental superiority over Inuyasha. However at that moment, as if on cue, Kagura appeared overhead and descended upon the group. Everyone took a fighting stance, but Kagura tossed her fan at the feet of Inuyasha.

"Oh, spare me the formalities. I'm not here to kill you. I want to help you out." Kagura said, obviously annoyed that Inuyasha and the others saw her as Naraku's lap dog.

"Why should we trust you to help us? So you can slit our throats when our guard is down?" Inuyasha said, drawing the Tetsiuga.

"As tempting as that sounds, I'll pass. You have my weapon, what could I possibly do to you?" Kagura responded.

"Whatever Naraku ordered you to do. It seems to be a bad trend." Inuyasha said, raising the Tetsiuga to strike.

"SIT!" Inuyasha flew to the floor before he could make his move.

"What the hell Kagome? Why are you defending her?" Inuyasha asked, hating his collar now more than ever.

"She's willing to help, and we could use it. Just stay down and keep your mouth shut!" Kagome yelled commandingly.

"Who do you think you're ordering around wench?"

"Sit, sit, sit!" Kagome gave her command, leaving another hole where Inuyasha lay.

"Oh, he's a keeper alright." Kagura said sarcastically.

"That's not the topic under discussion right now. Speak your piece, I'm listening." Kagome said impatiently.

"Here's what I'm willing to do."