I AM DANCING TO RANDOM MUSIC!!! WEEEEE! REVIEWS, SO MANY, SO PRETTY, SO SHINY!!! I WANT TO TOUCH 'EM!!!

I thank all who have reviewed my story ALREADY. Seriously, I mean after about three months of waiting on wind child, I got like 22 reviews (like 11 chappies : ) ) Now, I have two up, and I have like 26. Tis beautiful. (tear)

Now, as I said before, three people are dieing in this fic, and one person is moving away. That second part is tied into the whole thing about one person dieing, so at the end of this story, we shall loose four characters. Yep… and no, I'm not going to kill off Inuyasha and/or Kagome. What else would there be to write about. I also know that many of you are starting to call for romance, well, this is NOT the chapter. This is the chappie that the bad guy gets revealed… and intro to romance. I should be quiet and start writing now.

Now, what you all have been desperately waiting for… drum roll please, felix…

Disclaimer - (You flatter me. Now then, if I recall correctly, Felix was destroying…something and a small group of the lot were headed towards baggage claim. Well, let's say a couple hours have gone by since then, shall we?)

Shard- INUYASHA, GET YOUR BIG BUTT DOWN HERE RIGHT NOW!!!!!

Inuyasha- (is climbing a structure that only exists in the city their in, I'll tell you where at the end) NEVER!!!! MUST CLIMB!!!!

Kagome- Should I s-i-t him?

Stalking Chicken- If you want to destroy the damn thing.

Kagura- (to Sango via her new-found best friend, a cell phone) He still ignoring you?

Sango-(is flying around building on Kilala) Yup, nothin's changin'.

Shippou- (sigh) I suppose we all know what this means

Everyone- (sigh)

Miroku- Are you sure we wouldn't rather just use my wind tunnel?

Inuyasha- ALMOST THERE!!!!! BWA HAHAHA HA!

Morobuku and Sangarouka- Me no thinks so.

Kamiko-Zephuru- Very well. C'mon KungPowKitty, let's get this over with

KPK- Yeah, alright. (starts to help Felix put on rocket pack)

Felix- hehehe…BWA HA HAHAH-

BAM!

Felix- OW!!!

KPK- No insanity, or else I'll hit you with the frying pan again! All you have to do is fly up there, grab the mutt, and come back down. Okay? Okay, goodbye! (presses button on rocket pack)

Felix- AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!! Hey this is fun!!! (strikes dramatic flying pose, starts singing like someone from an opera house)

Kaede- This was a bad idea wasn't it?

Everyone else- (nods)

Felix-WHEEEEEE!!!! Huh? (starts flying around like a giant fly) AAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!! HELP!!!

Kouga- WE FORGOT TO TEACH HIM HOW TO STEER IT!!

All- (slap foreheads)

Inuyasha- BWA HAHA HA!!! I've reached the top of the world!! All hail mighty Inuyasha!!!! Huh?

Felix- AAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!! LOOK OUT!!!! (is flying straight for Inuyasha)

Inuyasha- Uh oh

BAM!!!!

KPK- OH CRAP!!!

KZ- HE FLEW INTO IT!!! (building starts breaking)

All (including Sango, Inuyasha, and Felix)- We're in trouble

Felix and Inuyasha (he got attached to the rocket pack)- (continue to fly randomly, although they are headed towards the ground, given the fact that the building is now falling)

BOOM!

Ayame- They broke it…They broke the Arch (THAT'S RIGHT!!! LET'S HERE IT FOR ST. LOUIS!!!!)

Kagome- SIT BOY!!!!

Thud.

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CHAPTER 3 - The Interrupting Monk

Mr. Higurashi (grandpa) looked up from his newspaper, watching Inuyasha dump his daughter on the couch. "What in the-?!"

"Don't loose it, old man. She was just knocked out by Miroku's sutras."

"But why?!"

"Simple," Shippou said, walking over and jumping onto a big chair. "She drank some Starbucks and went completely insane. In order to save ourselves and the ice cream vendor, we had to knock her out."

Kagome plopped down into her big fluffy chair. "Shippou, the whole avoiding the ice cream vendor ordeal was when she was knocked out and I was trying to drive a speeding car down the street in the passenger seat."

Her grandfather chuckled. "It was good practice for when you have to learn how to drive in later years. You show great progress! HAHAHA-"

WHAM!

"Ow…" Kagome hit him straight on the head. Quite a violent bunch, eh?

"Hehe… he has a point, Kagome. You suck at driving." Inuyasha said, raising an eyebrow.

The miko growled silently. "Ugh, I'm just going to go upstairs and do my homework…"

Kagome stomped up the stairs, and shut her door. (not slam, just close loudly) "Erg…"

- -change p.o.v.- -

Inuyasha stared in the direction the miko stormed off. 'Why has Kagome been getting so ticked off recently?… hmm… guess I'll have to investigate…'

Ding-Dong!

"Hey Inuyasha, could you get that?"

'Just my luck…' The hanyou stalked down the foyer to the front door and opened it. Before him stood a young monk with a bowl in hand. The monk bowed deeply. "I beg for shelter from the cold and food."

"Keh, go away."

"INUYASHA, WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING?!" Miroku yelled, running up and dumb slapping our little puppy-dog.

Inuyasha fell to the ground, being trampled by the houshi from the past. "Sorry for his stupidity. Of course you may come in."

The begging monk sighed with relief. "Thank you very much. Buddha shines down on you with Nirvana."

Miroku scratched his head. "Uh, hehe, thank you…" ' Sheesh, he must not be that great of a monk if can't see the fact that I'M one… hmm?…' As the monk from the door came into the shrine, Miroku noticed a sweet smell. He then saw a small bamboo pack on the monks back, with a small stick of incense burning on the inside.

Inuyasha, having the sensitive nose that he does, also smelled the incense. After grabbing his hat off of the coat rack nearby, "Hey, what's that smell?"

"Inuyasha, this monk is training in the arts of the healing incense. It is very rare to be able to master it, and not much of the original ceremonial traditions are still left intact. Not only that, but this monk is one that stoops to begging for shelter and food to reduce self-attachment to anything. Buddha must indeed see highly of him for taking on such noble tasks."

The incense monk turned around and smiled. "Oh, thank you very much. You certainly do know quite a bit about of the monk's practices."

Inuyasha rolled his eyes. 'I can't imagine why…'

"My name is Miroku, and this is Inuyasha. I guess you'll meet everyone else later… And you are?"

"Oh, please forgive me. I was so stunned that you did not turn me away (unlike the forty-six other people I have asked) that I completely forgot to introduce myself. I am Senko, the Incense monk in training."

"Well then Senko, welcome to the Higurashi Shrine."

Senko gleamed. 'I can't believe it! I have actually gotten to the Higurashi Shrine, the place where it is said that many spells of incense are!' "Tell me, where might I speak to the Shrine master?"

Miroku walked down the front hallway, and pointed to Mr. Higurashi reading the newspaper. "Right there."

Senko bolted over and grabbed onto the old man's hands. "What the-?"

The monk got down on the ground, and kneeled so his face was touching the floor. "My name is Senko, the Incense monk in training, and I have walked from the soil of Hiroshima in search for the Higurashi Shrine where it is told that many teachings in monk incenses are held! Is this the place I have been looking for, great shrine master?"

A glimmer was instantly seen in Mr. Higurashi's eyes. "Why yes it is! Here, this way!" The old man grabbed hold of the young monk, and ran to the shrine store house, with Senko being dragged/flown right behind him. Inuyasha rolled his eyes.

Morobuku poked his head out of the kitchen. "What was that?"

"Just some weird monk and the old man running out to the shrine store-house. Go back to your sissy cookin'."

"What's with you, Inuyasha?" Morobuku asked before sticking his head back into the kitchen and sliding the door shut.

The hanyou scowered and crossed his arms. 'Man, Kagome really is getting to me… At least now I can go up and talk to her…'

At that moment, Ms. Higurashi woke up. "Ugh… my head…"

"Argh… crap…" Inuyasha said under his breath.

"Hmm? Everything okay Inuyasha?" Ms. Higurashi asked.

"Why the hell is every one asking what's with me?! Will you guys just leave me alone?!"

"Oh yeah, something's wrong. Is it Kagome?"

"It-"

Mr. Higurashi and Senko burst in through the door, each holding stacks of parchments, sachets, and wooden containers of incense. "Inuyasha, Yanayai, could you two come over here and help us?"

'I'm never gonna be able to talk to Kagome. I keep on getting damn interrupted!!…' "Fine. Just make it quick."

"You can not just make the mastery of monk-hood quick." Gramps put in before getting to work with Senko. Miroku had already at this time told Morobuku, Sangarouka and Sango about the visitor, as well as telling Shippou he had better hide. After all, he is a demon, and Senko is a monk.

Inuyasha angrily sat down at the table, beginning to sort through different stuff, careful not to touch any of the exorcism incenses. 'Great. Instead of talking to the one I'm in love with, I'm playing for my life… Just peachy…"

- -P.O.V. change- -

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Kagome heard a slight knock at her door. "Go away, Inuyasha."

Miroku stepped inside her room. "I'm a monk, not a half demon."

"Oh, sorry Miroku… I just thought-"

"That Inuyasha would be coming up here to try and figure out what he did wrong which would eventually end up with an indentation of him in the tatami?"

"Precisely."

Miroku quietly shut the door, and sat down on the miko's bed. "You know, I don't think he was planning on coming up here to do that."

"Hm?"

The houshi repositioned himself on the pink bedspread. "From the way that he is starting to lash out at people who keep on forcing him from coming up here to do something else, I would say that he was coming up here to apologize."

"What?" Kagome couldn't believe what she was hearing. "Inuyasha, apologize? You have to be joking. We're talking about the all great, super powerful, 'I'm too good to apologize.' Inuyasha, here."

Miroku frowned. "Kagome, what is it?"

"Huh?"

"I mean that for a while now, you have been becoming rather bitter."

"No I haven't!"

The houshi just stared at her, showing her that the remark she just did was a perfect example of her recent mood change. "Oh…"

"Exactly. Inuyasha thinks that it's something that he has done wrong, and hasn't been sleeping for several days now, trying to figure it out."

"How do you know?"

"Uh, heeeello? I sleep in the same room as him. When I wake up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom, he hasn't moved from his position at Sota's desk. It's really affecting him."

Kagome was starting to feel her eyes water. 'I've… I've been making Inuyasha suffer?…' " I didn't think he cared about me that much to get all worked up like (sniff) that."

"If that was the case, why did he spend all of that money on that bracelet you're wearing?"

By now, the miko was fully turned around in her chair, and completely forgot the English (as a foreign language) homework she had been working on. Kagome looked down at the purple jewels, each one just as dazzling as when she first opened that box on the beach earlier that day. She had completely forgotten about it.

The more she thought back, Kagome realized more and more that for the past week, it had been turning her into a bitch. Tears gently rolled down her cheeks. "I'm sorry, Miroku…"

He walked over and leaned on the side of her desk. "So… Wanna tell me what has been getting you out of your happy fest recently?"

The miko wiped away one the tears falling down her cheek. "I… Well, it is Inuyasha…"

"Oh, so he did do something?"

"Well, technically speaking."

"Huh?"

"I mean… it's that… I keep on thinking that the moment that the well pops back up, he's just going to go running through it, running to Kikyo…"

Miroku felt his heart strings get tight. "Oh, you mean you think he still is in love with Kikyo?"

She nodded her head. "Yeah…"

Miroku got up and turned around and faced her. "Kagome, I don't think he is that thick headed any more. This time that we have been spending in your time (which rocks, by the way), he has been getting a lot closer. If I am correct, I believe that now, every time he sees you, he completely forgets that Kikyo has ever existed. Inuyasha, as I have EASILY figured out, thinks that showing emotion and stuff is a weakness. Perhaps he thinks that someone will try to kill you in attempt to hinder his judgment. Of course, with that around your neck," he fingered to the orb of souls. "I don't think any of us have to worry about your life."

Kagome ended her tears, and smiled sweetly like the Kagome we all know and love. "Thanks, Miroku."

"No prob."

"Seriously. You're a really good friend. A really perverted friend, but still a good friend when need be."

Miroku took a bow. "Any time, ma'am." He walked out of the room.

Kagome looked down at her homework, then back to the door. Homework, door, homework, door, homework, and back to the door. Smiling, she stood up, and walked out of her room.

- -P.O.V. Change.

Inuyasha was just about to slice all of the scriptures Mr. Higurashi was reading and showing to the ecstatic Senko, when Kagome came down the stairs. She ran down to the T.V., switched it to X-Box, and picked up a controller. "Hey Sota, bet you can't beat me at Bond!"

"Huh?" her little brother looked at Kagome like she was nuts. "Since when do you like video games?"

"Since now. Get your butt over here so I can cream you!"

"You're on!"

Inuyasha's jaw dropped straight open. 'What the hell?!'

Senko suddenly smelt smoke. He took off his bamboo pack, and was answered by the remnants of the incense stick turning into ash. "Oh, I need another incense stick!"

Mr. Higurashi looked up from his parchment. "Which one did you have in there to begin with?"

"The Incense of Friendship. Do you have another stick? I seem to be out of that one…" Kagome heard the name of the incense. Even though she had been upstairs while the meeting of Senko happened, she still heard all of the conversation and such. The walls and floors weren't all that good at keeping out sound. It had been all she could do from not sitting Inuyasha after hearing that he had almost shut out a begging monk from their house.

"Um… yes, here you are."

"Thank you very much."

'Well, I guess those incenses actually DO work…'

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AWWWWWWWW!!! I really liked writing this chapter. The next one will have some more romance and stuff in it.

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