Two years later.
"Get back here!" a very disgruntled young woman yelled.
The young man she was chasing looked over his shoulder and scowled. "What do you want? I ain't got nothing of yours!"
The woman fumed and threw a rock at him. It hit him right in the middle of his head and she heard a satisfying 'THUNK.'
"Inuchien, get back here before I come up there and carry you back!"
Inuchien turned around, crossed his arms and snorted. "Keh! Whatever Miyako!"
Miyako scowled. "Come over here and give me my hairbrush!"
A figure hiding in the shadow of the forest watched the exchange with a small smile. "They will find each other soon enough. Then the fun will begin!"
It faded into the shadows as Miyako finally retrieved her brush.
"I don't know why you have such a liking for my brush. I mean, you have a lot of hair, but you never needed one before!" Miyako smacked Inuchien over the head.
Inuchien growled. "Watch the ears! Don't you know by now that I don't need your stupid human hair device!"
Miyako smiled playfully. "Oh, I know! You just like the color! I figured the purple was you color!"
The red blush forming on Inuchien's cheeks was a dead giveaway.
"Ha! I knew it!" Miyako finished with her hairbrush and placed it back in her bag.
Inuchien got up and brushed of his blue kimono. "In case you haven't noticed, my kimono is all blue. So obviously, blue is my color. Not that girly purple shit."
Miyako rolled her eyes. "Whatever!"
Inuchien scowled and walked off.
"Hey! Wait for me!" Miyako yelled as she ran to catch up to the hanyou.
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"Ah! Kagome!" wailed a small kitsune cub.
The eighteen year-old girl looked up from her math book and watched a mad hanyou hit the small cub on the head.
"Inuyasha . . ." she began a little too calmly. The hanyou looked up and the smile was wiped off his face.
He began pleading and trying to pacify the angry miko.
"SIT!"
"Gah! &&!" Inuyasha yelled out. His words were slightly muffled by the hanyou shaped hole that Inuyasha now lay in.
Kagome stood up and stretched. "Don't say that in front of Shippo, although, I couldn't really hear what you said!" she teased.
Miroku looked up from his meditating and smiled. "Ah. Everything is as it should be."
Sango looked up also. She shook her head and muttered, "When will he ever learn?"
Sango suddenly stiffened as she felt the familiar weight of Miroku's hand on her rear.
"PERVERT!" 'SLAP.'
Miroku rubbed his cheek. "Now Sango, was that really necessary?"
"Yes!" she replied and stalked off.
The spell released Inuyasha and he stood up. "Is that enough of a break for you pathetic humans? We need to get moving in order to get the shards."
Kagome sighed. "Yes doggy. Let me finish packing my bag and we can go."
"Don't call me 'doggy!'" Inuyasha yelled.
"Yes doggy!" Kagome giggled.
"Ah! Pervert!" 'SLAP.'
Inuyasha looked over his shoulder. "Hey Miroku, don't get yourself too beat up. We might need your help when we find the demon with the jewel shards!"
Miroku rubbed his cheek, which now matched the other red cheek. "Right Inuyasha! Or should I say 'doggy!'" Miroku laughed at the disgruntled hanyou.
"Alright! I'm ready! Let's go doggy!" Kagome said as she hopped onto Inuyasha's back. Inuyasha grunted and quickly grabbed onto her legs.
"Wench! If you do that when I am not ready, I might drop you!" Inuyasha growled as he leaped off.
Kagome squeezed his shoulders. "I know that you, the mighty Inuyasha, would never let a pathetic human fall on her butt." She laughed and tweaked one of Inuyasha's ears.
Inuyasha growled, but it lost all of the irritation. Kirara roared and appeared above Kagome and Inuyasha.
"Took ya long enough! I could have left you all in the dust!" Inuyasha yelled.
Miroku peeked over the side of the fire cat. "Right. We all know that you would have gladly left us to do more intimate things with Kagome! I guess we should all thank you for keeping your hormones in order doggy!"
Inuyasha blushed and growled threateningly. "Fucking pervert!"
Kagome just mumbled and buried her face in Inuyasha's hair.
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"That village look like a nice place to stop." Kagome tugged on Inuyasha's hair. "Pull over doggy!"
Inuyasha snorted. "Unless you stop calling me that, we aren't going nowhere!"
Kagome frowned. "I'll say 'it.'"
"No you won't." Inuyasha growled. "If you say it, you'll go down with me."
Sango looked down from her position on Kirara's back. "Hey, Inuyasha! Stop for a minute!"
"No! We still have two hours of sunlight left!"
"Inuyasha, if we keep traveling until we hit that village, then we will have and hour and a half of sunlight. It looks like a quiet place to rest," Miroku piped up.
With four people yelling at him, Inuyasha finally gave in and redirected his course. "They stopped by the outskirts of the village so Kirara could transform into her small form.
Inuyasha sniffed the air and a puzzled look came over his face.
"What's wrong Inuyasha?" Kagome asked when she noticed his face.
"That can't be right!" Inuyasha murmured to himself. "I have never been here before! Why does this place reek of me."
Meanwhile, Kagome was watching Inuyasha worriedly. Sango came up to stand beside her.
"What's with Inuyasha?" she whispered.
Kagome shook her head as Inuyasha sniffed again. "I don't know. He is mumbling something about this village smelling of him."
Just then a bell sounded in the village and shouts went up. A group of angry villagers came up to the band of travelers and started yelling at Inuyasha to 'get away' and to 'get his filthy hands away from their food.'
Kagome stepped up to the villagers and calmly asked them why they were yelling at them.
The head elder came forward and stood up tall. "Your filthy hanyou came and took all of our food! He may have changed his clothes but his hair and ears are hard to forget! He is not welcome here!"
Kagome turned to Inuyasha. "Is this true Inuyasha?"
Inuyasha blinked and brought himself out of his stupor. "Of course not wench! I have been with you for the past week and I have never been to this part of the country before! There is no way that I could have had time to steal their food!"
Kagome faced the villagers again. "I am sorry, but you must have the wrong hanyou. My friend here has never been to your village before."
The head elder spat and harshly said, "Has he brainwashed you to girl! That other girl he had with him helped him to steal all of our food! He must have killed her once he was done using her! Those demons are all the same!"
Inuyasha growled. "Do not compare me to some rouge demon you . . ."
"Inuyasha," Miroku interrupted his tirade. "Maybe we should find another place to rest tonight. The villagers do not seem to be in a compromising mood.
Inuyasha crossed his arms. "Keh! Whatever!"
Kagome shook her head. "I am sorry for your troubles. We will be off now."
The villagers yelled their agreement and nearly ran them out of the village.
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Inuchien and Miyako sat in the forest laughing and eating all the food that they stole from the unsuspecting village.
"That was so much fun! We haven't done that in, what, two months?" Inuchien asked.
Miyako smiled. "Seems like it. Although, I wish that we didn't have to steal food from those poor villagers."
Inuchien groaned. "Not this again! Don't send us on another guilt trip Miyako! Last time we actually gave back all the food! Do you remember how hungry we were?"
Miyako sighed. "Yes, yes. I know. I just feel bad for them, that's all."
Inuchien rolled his eyes. "Keh! Whatever!"
He paused and quickly shushed Miyako as his ears picked up a sound coming from the other side of their camp. "Something's coming! Get behind me!"
Miyako nodded, grabbed her walking stick and scurried behind Inuchien.
Inuchien listened closely to try and determine what kind of demon it was.
"What are you talking about? It wasn't my fault we got kicked out! I have never been there before! Those villagers had to much sake to drink if you ask my opinion!" a male voice said.
"No one asked your opinion!" a woman answered him.
The man scoffed at her and said, "There is a clearing up ahead. We can camp there for tonight."
Inuchien paused. "Where have I heard that voice before?" He tried to sniff out the intruders, but the wind was blowing the wrong way.
Miyako frowned. "Who are they? Do you know them?"
Inuchien shook his head. "I feel like I should know that voice, but I can't remember."
Another male voice, deeper than the other reached their ears. "Now, now. Stop fighting about it! There is nothing we can do now but set up camp and get some rest!"
Miyako balked at that voice. Inuchien noticed this and asked her what was wrong.
"I recognize that voice, but . . . it can't be him! He's dead!" she shook her head.
They had no more time to talk about it though, because the intruders broke through the forest. Inuchien and Miyako froze as the group froze.
"Fuck . . ." Inuchien said. He was looking at a face from the past that he never thought he would see again.
Miyako was just as affected, peering on the face of the young man dressed in monk robes. "Miroku . . ."
A/N: Read and review that's the name of the game! Push that little button down there, no it won't bite!
Miyako: Shinto shrine child
Miya- Shinto shrine
Ko-child
