Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha or any of the characters.

I do own the characters from the story Fending Souls and the land in which they wander.

Hey again! I'd like to introduce the sixth chapter to my story, not including the profiles anyway. I worked for quite a while on this one, and this chappy is a lil longer than the the others so far. I'm hoping to attract more readers soon heheh, but for now my friends can enjoy my stories . . A person I might suggest reading the stories of is Sango0808, she's an excellent writer and has quite a few awesome stories. She's also got a couple awesome one-shot stories that most would like. Anyway, Ima shut up now and let ya read the story :P -waves-

After a fierce battle with the ferocious Gorujimo, everybody finally received some well-earned rest. All but the mysterious Sazuka slept soundly that night, as much was running through her head. She rested very little when only through sheer exhaustion did she finally fall to sleep. The next morning, tired of traveling for so long, Inuyasha and gang along with Koraq and his friends decide to take the day off and just enjoy the weather.

Tageshi sat up and stretched, then yawned quite loudly. Tageshi's yawn awoke everybody else in the room, some weren't too happy about being woken up though.

"Why must you be so loud when you wake up? You've successfully awaken everybody in the room with your big mouth." Koraq said agitated from being wakened earlier than he wished.

"I didn't want to get up yet, why'd ya have to go and wake me up stupid?" Inuyasha said clearly just as annoyed as Koraq.

Coming to Tageshi's defense, Miroku said "Don't be too harsh with him, we shouldn't oversleep if we want to get a head start on the road today."

Tageshi rubbed the sleep from his eyes, oblivious to the conversation going on around him. He then smiled and said "Let's take today off. After that battle I wanna have some fun today!" he finished by jumping into the air with a huge smile on his face.

"We can't rest today, we need to get back on the move. Satsugai and Sakkidatta aren't going to stop killing just because we took the day off." Koraq said with, much to Tageshi's surprise, a small hint of sadness in his voice.

As he stood up, Miroku thought about the idea of just having a day of fun and agreed that it was a good idea. "Taking a day off wouldn't be such a bad idea, we could loosen up a little, stock up on supplies, and maybe meet some of the residents in this town. Besides, the two you just mentioned probably wouldn't stop killing even if we did stay on the road. What harm could come from a little fun today?"

"You just want to go flirt with girls all day Miroku." Inuyasha stated.

"I'm hurt by your words Inuyasha, what would make you say such a thing?" Miroku said insincerely.

After shutting his eyes for a short time and thinking, Koraq decided that taking a day off would help everybody loosen up a little. Maybe even he could enjoy himself here today. "I don't see a problem with it. Maybe I may even enjoy myself today."

Tageshi's mouth just about hit the floor. Did Koraq just agree with me about taking the day off to have fun! Tageshi picked his jaw up off of the floor and then with much shock asked Koraq "Are you feeling okay? You just agreed with me, and what's more about having fun!"

"Normally I wouldn't, but Miroku helped prove a good point. You're lucky he's here, you two could become good friends." Koraq said before standing up and walking out the door. After coming outside Koraq was tackled by Kyogue, Kagome, Shippo, Kirara, and even Sango.

Koraq shut his eyes and hit the ground with a large thump. He then opened up his eyes to see all of the girls smiling; even Kyogue was smiling.

"We heard all of you talking inside and we heard you say we're gonna take the day off for some fun!" Kagome said happily.

"A day with no stress will do all of us some good, I can't wait to look around in this town. It's so much larger than any I have seen before in our world!" Sango said. Kirara mewed happily in agreement.

"Yeah, we'll be taking the day off. Why is it you had to stampede me though?" Koraq said as he struggled to get up to his feet.

"Well, we haven't gotten to take a break for quite some time so a day of fun is really exciting news!" Kagome said happily.

"Guess we're all just in a really good mood!" Shippo added happily.

"I guessed that much." Koraq said, this time shocking Kyogue by smiling slightly.

Kyogue looked at Koraq strangely then put her hand to his forehead.

"What are you doing Kyogue?" Koraq asked at his friend's apparent loss of sanity.

"You smiled, so I was checking your temperature to see if you felt warm… You feel normal, well, normal for you anyway. Are you feeling okay?" Kyogue responded.

"I'm perfectly fine. I smiled, big deal. Not like I haven't done it before."

Kyogue looked at her friend and asked, "Are you kidding? People who are at a funeral would more likely smile than you!"

"In my opinion, he should smile more often! It's not like he committed a crime or anything." Kagome said.

Kyogue shrugged and then smiled as she said, "I'd prefer he smile more often too, because this was the first time I've ever seen him smile. That and he hasn't really showed any emotion since the loss of our village, to see him smile is great! Looks like the day off has already put Koraq into a cheerier mood than he's ever been in before!"

Inuyasha at this point came out of the room with his eye twitching and his fists clenched. He then looked at Koraq and asked, "HOW do you put up with that! That little monster in there is going to drive me insane! And I'm not talking about Miroku, it's that little pest Tageshi, I swear I'll kill em if he keeps up at this rate!"

Kyogue sighed loudly and then muttered "Tageshi you idiot… I have no idea how we can be related in any way at all."

At this point Miroku came out with his eye twitching as well. "That annoying brat is going to drive me mad…"

Kagome, Shippo, Sango, and Kirara looked at Miroku strangely. Even Miroku is going to be driven crazy by Tageshi! They all thought to themselves. But he's the one who always has his head together; he's the calm collected one!

Tageshi then walked out mimicking Miroku and humming as if he were meditating. "I am one with the neba-neba suru trees. Hummmmmm… I am one with the dancing flowers. Hummmmmm… I am one with-"

WHAP

"Ow!" Tageshi yelled. "What was that for! I was only kidding around!"

"This staff is for more than just looks, and if you keep mocking me I will continue to show you one of its purposes. Inflicting pain upon those who deserve it. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to take a look around town" With that Miroku walked away.

"Hey Sango, I think you're rubbing off on Miroku, heheh" Inuyasha joked.

"Let's go enjoy the day and stop beating each other up for now!" Kyogue said as Tageshi started to mockingly mimic Inuyasha. "Because at this rate my brother is going to get himself killed…" she finished with a sigh.

"Hey Kyogue, can you show us where we can go shop for some clothes?" Kagome inquired.

Kyogue responded happily with "Sure! Let's go shopping!" and ran off with Kagome and Sango, Shippo and Kirara fallowed close behind.

Koraq pondered over what to do, then decided he would train for a little while before resting and finding something that would be fun. "I'm going off to the nearby field to train a little."

Tageshi nodded and said "I don't like the idea of seeing a healer anytime soon so I'll just go walk around and have some fun joking around with people."

Inuyasha looked outside and said, "I think I'll sleep a little longer."

The three of them walked off into their separate directions and did what they wanted to enjoy the day. As they all walked away, Kiome and Lamisa walked out of their room and stretched. "Looks like everybody already woke up. I wonder how they're doing this morning after that battle yesterday?"

Kiome shrugged and said, "They're fine no doubt. Lets go shopping for a little while, maybe we will see run into some of them."

Lamisa smiled happily and agreed to go, so the two of them left. As the two of them came upon the marketplace, they saw Sango, Kagome, Kyogue, and Shippo.

"Hey there!" Kiome shouted.

"Hello again Kiome." Kyogue said briefly looking up before going back to looking at the shoes available.

"This world has such beautiful jewelry!" Kagome said happily looking at a pure blue gem necklace.

"That's made from crystallized water energy. It's very hard to find, and even harder to make. True masters of their element can make gems, and the more skill they have the better condition the gem will be. That gem was found; nobody in the surrounding area knows how to crystallize his or her element. Me and Kiome have been working on it though, it's a great way to make money, which most guardians usually don't have much of unless they hunt demons for their hides in their spare time." Lamisa said also looking at the necklace with awe.

"I could see if Koraq would buy you two a necklace, he only spends his money on necessities like healing herbs, which we don't get used very often. So he has quite a bit of money." Kyogue said as she motioned to start walking towards the hill where Koraq would probably be. It was a good distance from the village, and it was a wide-open area, perfect for Koraq to train.

"Oh no! I couldn't possibly take money from him, it just wouldn't be right. We're supposed to be making you feel at home here, not begging you for money!" Lamisa said. No matter how nice the necklace was she wouldn't be able to take money from anybody.

"I'm sure he'll be fine with it!" Kyogue shouted before running off to find her friend. "I'll be right back!"

Kyogue stopped as she came over the hill to find every tree still in tact, and not one burn mark on the ground. She looked and saw Koraq asleep under the tree, but from the looks of it, he wasn't having a pleasant dream. She had never seen him sleeping before, and as she inspected his face she realized just how bad the dream he was in must have been. His face was in a scowl and he appeared to be growling as he moved his arms every so often as if trying to fight an imaginary foe, but with his arms weighted down. She decided to wake him to save him from whatever nightmare it was that appeared to be torturing his mind. She shook his shoulder and said "Koraq, wake up," trying to get him to come back to reality. He jumped up startling Kyogue and looked around with his fists aflame before his feet even touched the ground looking for the beast he had just been fighting. As he realized he had been dreaming he took on his normal stance and looked down as he muttered, "It was only a dream… a nightmare. Should be used to that one by now…"

Kyogue did have keen hearing, but what Koraq had muttered she didn't hear. "Sorry to wake you Koraq, but I was wondering if ya had any money? They're selling crystallized energy gems here and everybody wants one. Well, all of the girls anyway. Do ya think you could afford it? Please?"

Koraq turned around to face her before responding as he pulled out his gold bag. "Here. That should cover it." Koraq said while looking to be lost in his thoughts.

Kyogue was in awe at how much money he had and at how willing he was to give it up. "Wow… that was easier than I thought it'd be!" she said happily as she took the bag from his outstretched hand.

"If need be I can get more. Demons are abundant here, plenty of hides to trade for spare coin." Koraq stated still appearing to be in deep thought.

Kyogue noticed his expression, but knew better than to try to pry open what Koraq was thinking, there would be no way to get him to say what was on his mind. He had never been the chatty type. She walked back to the village separating the money into piles for Lamisa, Kiome, Kagome, Sango, and herself. They all bought a crystallized energy necklace according to their favorite colors, and all still had money to spare amazingly. They all happily put on their necklaces and then went back to the hotel to talk for a while. Tageshi saw them walking down the street as he dropped a hallow shadow ball filled with water on someone. "They seem to have befriended each other pretty fast!" he said to himself laughing a little as he turned his attention back to the now soaking man.

Koraq sat up by the tree wondering why he had been having that nightmare. It was a vision of Satsugai and Sakkidatta killing villagers at random while they all attempted to flee in horror. Koraq would be unable to do anything, seeming to be stuck in midair to flail around unable to help the many innocent people who were left at the mercy of Satsugai and Sakkidatta. For almost three weeks now he had been having this nightmare repeat itself in his head as he slept. He sighed and then walked back to the village as he decided to stop pondering over this, as night had fallen much earlier. He went back to the inn and found everybody had gone to sleep, so he lay down on his bed and fell into another hellish nightmare.