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"Oh, hell no!" Kagome growled and grabbed the bow and arrows on the door. "I'll kill it!" she aimed and it hit.
In an instant a light engulfed the sky, a bright, pink light, and scattered everywhere.
Miroku looked at Sango, "This can't be what I think it is."
Sango looked down and picked up a small shard, "I think it can."
Inuyasha came up behind them, "Oh, hell no! You broke the jewel!" He turned to
Kagome who was still shocked she even hit the crow that wasdripping off the house.
"……….Ooops?"
Chapter 6: The beginning of a long road
Kagome sighed for the seventh consecutive time. She was facing the wall of Satori's home. She glanced at the angry looking Inuyasha, who was glaring at her while picking his teeth with a squirrel bone. It's interesting what you notice when you've been sent to a time out. "Can I come eat now?" Kagome whined, looking pathetic.
Inuyasha snorted and glared harder. "No. You broke the jewel and now you have to sit there and think about what you've done."
"But I don't wanna think!" Kagome whimpered pathetically, looking to Sango for support.
"Oh no you don't, the last time I helped you I ended up getting tied to a tree by Mr. Sunshine over there." Sango jerked a thumb to the irate bandit.
"I promise it won't happen again!"
Inuyasha threw a certain dirty bone at her. "Shut up and be miserable."
Kagome sighed and turned around. 'I haven't been punished like this since the time Mom found me putting leeches in Souta's bedding. Even then I got out of it by pulling my cute face. Wait the cute face!' Kagome turned back to Inuyasha and jutted out her bottom lip while batting her eyelashes and the clincher, crying.
Inuyasha eyes widened as he saw the tears collect in the bottom of her eyes. 'Oh god, what do I do?' He waved his hands vigorously. "Don't cry! You can come eat, but just don't cry!"
Kagome grinned and skipped to sit next to Sango and Shippo. "I love the cute face!"
Shippo grinned, "Ah, the cute face, I know it well. I remember when I used to pull it on my parents before they…" His face grew solemn and a silence took over the room.
Kagome looked at the little boy with pity before asking the question that was on everyone's mind. "Shippo……how did your parents die, if you don't mind me asking?"
Shippo looked down and whispered. "I remember coming home from playing in the field and I heard a scream in the kitchen but when I got there I saw a man in a baboon pelt standing over there dead bodies. I sort of stood there before I ran out, afraid, I feel like such a coward."
Everyone stayed silent, not knowing what to say to comfort the boy. But Satori, who had remained quiet, spoke up. "Wait, did you say a man in a baboon pelt. I remember a flash of a man in a pelt before I was knocked out!"
Inuyasha seemed to perk up before looking at them both. "You did?"
"You seem to be really interested in this, why?" Kagome said giving him a suspicious look.
Inuyasha looked nervous. "Well, before all of this I was after a man who was always seen in a baboon pelt."
"Why, is it the same guy who sent those other guys after you?" Sango asked.
"No, that was someone else." Inuyasha gained a blissful smile like remembering the first time he shot someone. (A/N: You'll just have to guess who!)
"Yeah, so who is this guy?" Miroku asked after Kagome and Sango were freaked out into silence.
"Well, he is a thief who happened to steal something very important from me. He has a reputation of stealing things of power and killing those who oppose him."
Kagome frowned, "So the guy we are probably gonna be fighting with to find the shards is a murderer?"
Inuyasha nodded, "So, we are going to have to find those shards before him. We don't need him getting anymore powerful. So, we will leave tomorrow to find them."
Satori nodded at them and smiled. "If you're going to leave I want you to leave with protection." She reached into a small closet-like room and pulled out a staff. "Miroku, this is a monk's staff. I'm sure you'll put it to good use." She then pulled out a large boomerang. "Sango, this is the Hirakotsu (A/N: Spelling?). It'll serve you well. Also I want you to take a friend of mine." A cat they hadn't seen before popped up. "Her names Kirara, she isn't your normal cat. And Kagome, well, since you seem to like my arrows so much you can have them." She handed her the bow and arrows. "I'm afraid I don't have anything for Inuyasha."
"Feh, I don't need anything." The boy snorted.
Kagome smiled at her. "Thanks, we really appreciate it!" She reached over and hugged her.
Satori smiled, "I'll miss you." Then the group fell asleep, all taking comfort in their dreams to prepare themselves for tomorrow.
The next morning the group set off through the village until Kagome stopped. Sango looked at her. "What's wrong?"
Kagome just shook her head. "Nothing, hey wait, where exactly are we going to go?" She turned to Inuyasha who shrugged and turned to Miroku.
"What, I thought Shippo was our navigator." Miroku said.
Shippo sweatdropped, "Me, what do I know about navigating?"
"I don't know, more then me?"
"Hey, guys look!" Kagome interrupted them to point to an injured looking man heading towards them.
"Help the village..." The man wheezed.
"What village?" Sango asked.
"The village in a few miles from here, a demon….suddenly stronger…jewel shard." The man gasped before hitting the ground.
Kagome picked him up and checked his pulse. Her eyes grew dark and she shook her head. Then a thought hit her. "Isn't that the village with that crazy old woman, Kaede?"
"Yeah and why hasn't anybody noticed the man lying in the road?" Shippo looked around for the people in the village only to see them walk around the man.
"Didn't he say something about a village with a jewel shard?" Shippo asked.
Inuyasha nodded, "Then we're going there…after we lay this man to rest."
Kagome sighed and watched as Miroku shoveled a hole outside the village and Inuyasha placed this man in it. 'I wonder how word got out of the jewel so fast. But most of all I wonder how many people will kill or die to get it.'
When they were ready to get going Kagome straightened and swiped at the tears she held for the man. 'He might have had a family. He'll never get to see them again. I kinda miss my family.' Kagome must have looked sad because Inuyasha poked her. "You better not look so sad every time we bury someone."
Sango hit him on the head with her newly acquired Hiraikotsu. "Shut up! It's horrible to see a man die!"
Inuyasha growled and turned away from them, "Whatever, as long as she keeps the waterworks to herself." Besides he hated to see a woman cry.
Kagome sighed, "You know Inuyasha, you" She was cut off by the horrid sight in front of her. Body parts were everywhere, some of children and some unrecognizable. She was immediately blocked by Inuyasha. She looked at him quizzically. "Why"
"Because the demon is still here," Inuyasha said, looking out into the ruins if the village. All of a sudden a demon, long and slimy, appeared and attacked. "You have a Shikon shard!" It hissed, heading to Kagome.
"I don't think so!" Inuyasha grunted and jumped at him. He readied his claws and sliced through the demon in one strike. "That was easy."
Miroku walked up to the carcass and moved to get the shard but hissed and pushed back. "I can't touch it!"
Kagome blinked at him and stepped up beside him. "You mean this little thing?" She picked it up with such ease it shocked Miroku into silence. The shard glowed a healthy pink.
Sango rubbed her eyes, "Did everybody see what I just saw?"
"Looks like you are going to be useful." Inuyasha smirked.
Kagome shrugged and put the shard in the jar she kept the other one in. She turned to the bodies of the villagers. "We are going to have to lay these people to rest."
Shippo sighed as he jumped on Kagome's shoulder. "How many people are we going to have to bury?"
Sango was the one who answered. "The jewel can bring great power but also great sadness and death." The group began rounding up the bodies and burying them, a sad task, but a necessary one.
Kagome straightened herself, "So, where are we going now?" Nobody got a chance to answer because a pile of rubble shook and a hand grasped at the ground, a human hand. "Ahhh! Oh my god," Kagome pulled back the rubble and Inuyasha helped pull her out. It was Kaede.
The old woman coughed, "Ah, blessed be! I was stuck under there for quite some time!" She brought herself up and looked at the stunned group. "Well, I didn't think I'd see you for a while." She looked at Kagome.
"And I hoped I wouldn't see you ever. What of it?" Kagome said, a little of her old attitude resurfacing.
"Easy, easy, I was just saying that you would- or should've- been dead." Kaede said with ease.
Inuyasha took offence in this. "What! You old hag, we made out better then you!" He made to hit her and Kaede ducked his hand. (Old lady beater!)
Kaede glared at him and pulled something like a necklace out. She threw it in the air and it attached itself to Inuyasha. "You girl, say the subduing command!"
Kagome stammered, "Uh, uh..." She watched as Inuyasha attacked the woman and as she dodged. She couldn't do this forever. "Sit!"
Just as Inuyasha was about to hit the old woman a light engulfed him and he plummeted to the ground. "ARGH!"
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