Author's Note: Sorry for the wait…Lots of stuff going on and I've been very busy.


"We're going to the beach?" Inuyasha yelled in Melissa's room.

"Yep." She replied, flashing him a smile.

"I'll have to go pack my things."

"What kind of things do you need to pack?"

"Stuff."

"I've got to go to school now, but we'll be leaving whenever we get picked up, so be in the suitcase." She told him, than ran out to catch up with Ai.


On the way to school

"It's so nice of your dad to take us to the beach with him." Melissa told Ai.

"He's only doing it because you're here. He does things like this to show the media that he's 'nice'." The boy replied.

"It's still really nice."


After school

"By Reika!" Melissa waved to her friend before she climbed into a limousine with Ai.

The limousine was set up with a three-person seat facing the front, and one facing the back. Ai was sitting on the one facing the front and Melissa climbed into the one facing the back.

"Here." He said, tossing her Inuyasha.

"I'm like a monkey!" The toy said when he landed in Mel's lap.

"You're more like a stuffed toy with no brain." Kagome said from Ai's lap.

"You got a problem with me?" He asked, standing up.

"Sit boy!" And just like in the anime and manga, Inuyasha fell down into Melissa's legs.

"Have some ramen." Melissa said to Inuyasha, offering him some of the ramen noodles she had gotten out of the microwave. Somebody had prepared it for them.

"Don't mind if I do." He stuck his hand into the container and pulled out some noodles and stuffed them into his mouth.

"How can a plush toy eat?" Ai asked, staring at Inuyasha.

"Like this." And he scooped up more noodles.

"I think they just eat it and somehow it goes nowhere." Melissa smiled.

"Actually, it's pretty complicated." Kagome was about to start explaining. "We eat it, and it turns into fluff, or stuffing, whichever you want to call it."

"Then how do you release the stuffing you don't need?" Mel asked.

"Well," Inuyasha said, started to cough. After a few moments of coughing, out of his mouth came a slimy ball of stuffing.

"Eww. You pick it up right now!" Mel ordered.

"You didn't have to show us!" Ai yelled.

"Say it, not spit it!" It was Kagome's turn.


At the beach

"How come your father's not here yet?" Melissa asked as they sat their things down inside of the hotel room they would be staying in.

"He probably had some unfinished business and most likely won't come." Ai replied.

"Why?"

"He never comes." Then he went silent.

"Ramen!" Inuyasha was working on a new tub of fresh noodles.

"You eat too much." Kagome said, sighing.


On the beach

"Get it Shippo!" A young boy's voice called out to the fox demon.

"Almost got it!" Shippo replied, chasing after a crab.

"Hurry!" The boy ran after them. His black hair bounced on his head as he ran, and his brown eyes squinted as he ran in the sunlight.

"Got it!" Shippo put the crab in the bucket the boy was carrying.

"Yay!" The boy laughed.


With Ai and Melissa

"Hurry! It's going to get dark soon!" Melissa pulled Ai towards the beach, now dressed in a dark blue one-piece bathing suit. Ai was dressed in the same color trunks.

"You might have to go ahead, carrying towels and a picnic basket it heavy." He replied, smiling for the first time that day.

"We're going swimming together, you promised." She huffed.

As soon as they had found a place to set their things down they jumped into the water just as the sky was turning red.

It's like we have the whole ocean to ourselves!" She exclaimed.


Inuyasha and Kagome at that moment

"You give me my ramen!" Inuyasha yelled, tugging on one end of the cardboard tub.

"I want some too! They said we had to share!" Kagome was tugging at the other end.

"Who cares?! Give it back!"

"I want some!"

"You can't have any!"

"I'm hungry!"

"We don't get hungry!"

"Sit boy!"


Back with Ai and Melissa

"Look! There's a boy!" Melissa pointed to a boy carrying a bucket. Behind him was a Shippo, walking and talking with him.

"I think we've found Shippo and his partner…" Ai sighed, then walked back up to the sand. "Hey kid!" He yelled.

"Huh?" The boy looked up.

"You're Shippo's partner, aren't you?"

"Yeah, but how'd you know?"

"He is walking behind you, and I'm Kagome's partner."

"You're Kagome's partner?"

"Yeah."

Melissa walked up to them.

"And this is Inuyasha's partner."

"You're Inuyasha's partner?"

Then at that moment, three serpent heads rose up from beneath the waves.

"It's a serpent demon!" Melissa cried.

"I got it covered." Inuyasha's transformed voice said. (A.K.A. Richard Cox's voice)

"Inu-kun!" Melissa turned toward him.

"Let's take him down with a blade of blood." He told her.

"Uh-huh." She then realized something. "But, I don't have anything to cut myself with."

"Here." Then Inuyasha cut her with his nail.

"Why would you cut her?" Asked the little boy.

"Don't worry." Melissa smiled in spite of the pain. "Here." She let the blood drip onto Inuyasha fingers.

"Blades of Blood!" He didn't aim for the demon's three heads, but from where they had come from.

All three of the head screeched then fell into the water. Inuyasha jumped in to retrieve the stone.

"So, what's your name?" Melissa asked the little boy.

"Genichi."

"Genichi's a nice name." She smiled. "Where do you live?"

"In Tokyo."

"That's where Ai lives. Maybe we'll run into you sometime." She then patted his head. "Time for you to go back to you hotel room, it's getting late."

And so he went.

"Looks like we've made another friend." Ai said, sighing.

"I got it!" Inuyasha yelled, waving the demon stone from shallow part.

"We better get going, we can have more fun tomorrow." Melissa smiled.

"Yeah." So they headed in, leaving a soaked Inuyasha to chase after them.