Chapter 3

Sango awoke with a start. Darkness surrounded her. She rubbed the back of her head, "Ouch, what happened?" Suddenly she realized that her Hiraikotsu was nowhere to be found, neither was her katana sword. Slowly she stood up, the, gently placing one foot in front of the other, she went to find a wall. While shuffling along, her foot fit something solid.

"Oh good," she thought, "I've finally found my Hiraikotsu, now I can feel a little bit safer."

Bending down she grabbed what she thought to be her weapon. Her scream could be heard for miles.

In another spot

Miroku awoke to Sango's screech. He also found himself on the floor in some strange, dark room. Remembering Sango's cry, the monk stood up and followed the sound. As he was walking, Miroku heard some giggles; they seemed to be the kind of giggles that a high school girl would make. (He knew what Kagome's giggle sounded like so he assumed these were Kagome's age giggles.) While confused as to where the giggles were coming from, he continued his search for Sango.

Miroku came into a giant room; the only illumination was four torches situated above four doorways. Miroku had come out of the far right one. So he headed for the one that was on the far left, before he could walk into it, Sango burst out of the doorway. When she saw who was the other person in the room, she ran to him and hugged him as if her life depended on it, all the while sobbing incoherently. Suddenly Miroku started hearing different female voices, all at once, they all seemed to be talking about someone by the name of Shigure.

With a flash all of the torches on the walls of the cavern lit up. To the surprise of both Sango and Miroku, Shippo and Kirara emerged sleepy-eyed from the two remaining doorways.

It was after seeing the startled look on Shippo's face that Sango realized that she was clinging to the lecherous monk, and that his hands were making a slow but steady trek down her spine towards . . .. (We all know where his hands were heading ;)) She quickly stepped back blushing furiously. She thought in her mind wishing that Miroku would just stop and leave her alone. As soon as she finished the thought, Miroku suddenly turned around and was heading toward the doorway from which he had emerged muttering something about needing to do something he just remembered.

"So nice for the little ones to join us." A voice boomed from which seemed like all directions. "Now the real fun can begin!"

All four members of the little group looked to the back of the room just in time to see a strange man in an equally strange pose. (You know, the Superman pose where he has his hands on his hips with his chest puffed out and he is looking to the left.) As soon as the newcomer found he had everyone's attention he hopped down to floor level.

"Hello insignificant others, I am Shigure, Center of the Universe, bask in my glory!" He then put up a finger of caution, "But don't bask too much, I don't want you to die of hyperventilation!"

Sango took a long, hard look at the strange, very strange man, "Shigure, huh?" She said, "Well, 'Center of the Universe', can we leave now?"

"Very well," Shigure answered pleasantly, yet again striking the Superman pose. Sango and Miroku stood stunned; he was letting them go free?

"BASK AWAY!"

All four of the travelers fell down in disbelief of how a person could be so stupid.

YAWN, Shippo curled up to Kirara, "Okay, Sango, wake me when Inuyasha and Kagome get here. It should only be about an hour or so." With that the two small demons fell asleep.

He is so cute! I wonder if his tail is as soft as it looks? Miroku looked around, no one else seemed to have heard it, but he knew for a fact that one of the many girls surrounding Shigure had just said something about Shippo. He looked up towards the gaggle of girls. One of the more scantily clad girl's eyes were on Shippo.

"Would you like to touch it and see?" Miroku addressed the girl.

Everyone turned to look at Miroku; each pair of eyes seemed to be more confused than the first. "What?" The monk replied, "She wants to see if Shippo's tail is as soft as it looks! Its not like she didn't say it out loud."

"HA!" The giant laugh caught everyone off guard. "I have discovered that your newfound power is to read minds. PRAISE ME!" Miroku and Sango were so lost that a compass couldn't have helped.

"Oh you don't know do you? Well gather around my turtledoves and I will tell you a story. Come along my little demon hunter beauty, I won't leave you out." As soon as he was sure that he had every last person's attention, (except the two little sleeping demon's) he started. "Long ago the Great God was having a feast, he invited all the animals to it, but the rat didn't want the cat to come so . . ."

"Shigure!" The entire adoring harem called out in one voice, "that's not even the right ANIME!"

"Oops sorry, I forgot, we are in an Inuyasha Fanfic not a Fruits Basket one! Let me start over." (A/N: Now you all know that it is in fact the Shigure from Fruba, I know it's a little out of the ordinary, but its funny so who cares!)

"Ahem, when this labyrinth was built a curse was placed upon it, you see any demon who enters, will lose their powers,"

"Not our Shigure though," one of the girls piped in, "It only took about a fourth of his powers and he is still more powerful than before!"

"Thank you for explaining that, but any mortal that enters will gain an extraordinary power. So therefore my dear monk, you being human gained the power to read minds! OOOOOHHHH! READ MINE!"

About 30 seconds later-

Why are we even doing this? It is pointless. Sango muttered in her head.

"Yeah, I agree with Sango." Miroku was speaking aloud, earning a very strange look from everyone, more so from Sango, "I just can't read your mind Shigure."

"No need," said one of the girls to Shigure's right, "we all know that he is just thinking that dumb song about High School Girls."

"AAHHHAHAHAHA! Now I've got it. You can read women's minds! Tee Hee, I am so brilliant." Apparently Shigure was tickled pink at this new development.

"So all the giggling and talking that I thought I heard in my ears but was really in my mind, was from all you ladies? In that case would any of you be willing to bear my children?"

Sango was too confused at the idea that Miroku could read her mind to even react to the question. "Then what is my power?" she asked Shigure.

"Well my dear that remains to be seen," Shigure had suddenly gotten very seductive looking and was headed towards Sango, "maybe we can go . . . I just remembered that I forgot to floss my teeth this morning! YUCK!" He immediately went to his throne, opened a small compartment, pulled out some floss and got to work.

"I know what your power is." The scantily clad teen who had wanted to touch Shippo's tail answered, "You have what is called an 'Unwanted Affection's Barrier', any man that makes an advance on you that you don't want will suddenly remember something that will take them away from you. I wish that I had that power. By the way, my name is Sarusha, I am Shigure's second-in-command of the HSG (high school girls), you can call me Aru. Follow me.

Sango quickly bent down to retrieve the two sleeping demons to follow the girl, all the while thinking, what if Miroku is reading my mind right now? How deep can he get, can he tell that I . . . Nope I won't think that one just in case he is listening, and he will find out if I think that, I wonder if he knows already . . .

"Astonishing!" Miroku gasped in awe at Sango.

"What is astonishing?"

"All the thoughts that go through your head, especially the ones about . . ." WHACK!

"HEY!" Miroku bellowed, "You could have just used that diversion barrier!"

"And miss the fun in hitting you?" Sango smirked, "I think not."

Chapter three is done!

A/N: Finally! My now co-author (I've been promoted from editor/poster to co-author, poster, final editor girl!  Yay!) says that we can only post once a week :'( Sorry this one took so long! I've been trying to graduate and my mom is using the computer all the time to write papers. Enjoy I'll try to keep more up to date!