"What in the hell are you doing!" Inuyasha shouted at the top of his lungs as he ran over behind KoKo to stop her from choking Miroku. When KoKo finally let go, Miroku rubbed his neck gently. "Inuyasha, hold her back," Miroku ordered as he pulled out a spirit paper and held it between her index and middle finger. "Inuyasha, guard your self as well as you can," Miroku added as he tossed the spirit paper at KoKo's forehead. A great shock ran through KoKo's whole body as a spirit flew out. KoKo fell down the ground and passed out. "You feeling ok, KoKo?" Miroku asked, smiling. "I'm fine." KoKo looked around, she was confused at what had just happened. "What… what happened?""Your body was possessed by a demon spirit and you tried to kill me.""Miroku… I… I remember,… but I was trying to tell you to run… to save your self,… but you could not hear me.""I know. It is not your fault, just try to get some rest- you're probably exhausted from all of this.""How long ago did I pass out?""Only an hour ago, so you need your rest." Miroku pulled a blanket over KoKo. "What is this?" KoKo had no idea what Miroku had just put over her. "It's a blanket- from Kogeme's time. It's supposed to keep you warm." KoKo weakly smiled with all of her strength and then fell asleep. "Is she feeling ok?" Inuyasha walked over to Miroku. "Yes. She is very exhausted from all of this- plus she still has a wound on her stomach.""Oh yeah, I forgot about that. I hope when I pulled her away I didn't hurt her.""She will be fine. She's a strong girl." Inuyasha shook his head, but he was not fully satisfied. Inuyasha walked over to KoKo, sat next to her with his feet touching each other, and stayed there for the rest of the night while everyone else lied only a few feet from them.KoKo woke up to see that she was the last one to wake up from the nap. "You feel like traveling some more today?" Inuyasha asked as he walked over to KoKo. Inuyasha's hair was wet, so anyone with good eyesight could tell that the others went swimming while KoKo was sleeping. "So are you going to answer my question or not?" Inuyasha turned back into his normal, grumpy self. KoKo smiled at Inuyasha then answered, "Yeah, I feel a lot better after taking a nap. How is Miroku feeling?""Well he's back to his regular self…" Inuyasha and Kogeme watched Miroku as he slipped his hand behind Sango. "PERVERTED MONK!" Sango gave Miroku a redder mark on his face than usual. "Yeah. I'd say he's feeling a lot better," KoKo reassured Inuyasha. "Come on you guys. We need to get back to looking for the shards," Kogeme told Miroku and Sango. "Hey, has anybody seen Shippo anywhere?" Kogeme questioned as she looked around for him. "Nope, I haven't seen the little runt since we took a nap," Inuyasha said in a tone that he did not care about Shippo. "Shippo," Kogeme called out for Shippo, but she could not find him anywhere. "Kilala, fly up and check to see if you can find him," Sango ordered in her usual concerning tone. "Hold on, Kilala…" KoKo said as she stood in front of Kilala, not facing her. "What's that little orange ball over there?" KoKo pointed out into a field of flowers. KoKo walked over to the orange ball to get a better look and picked it up. "Shippo?" KoKo found that it was Shippo, so she started to shake him to wake him up. Shippo moaned and peaked open his eyes to see KoKo's relieved face. "Oh Shippo. We were so worried that something might have happened to you," KoKo said in weary tone, but she was so happy that Shippo was ok. KoKo hugged Shippo close to her tightly as if he would disappear if she loosened her grip. "I'm so glad that you are ok." KoKo started to cry as she held Shippo even tighter. "I'm sorry. I did not mean to worry ya'll, Inuyasha was just kicking me while he was asleep, so I decided to move," Shippo was trying to make KoKo stop crying. "I am just so happy that you're ok.""Then why are you crying?""I was just so worried that something bad happened to you, and that I would never see you again. I don't want anything else bad happening to me." Shippo stared back up at KoKo as he sat in her arms and held he hugged her to let her know that he would always be there. KoKo wiped her tears away from her eyes as she sat down Shippo. "Well we should get going. We have missed almost a whole day of traveling," KoKo said to the group, now very happy that everyone was present and ok. Sango and Kogeme looked at KoKo, because they did not know that KoKo cared so much about Shippo. KoKo looked up at all of them and put a big, bright smile on her face and reassured them, "I'm fine now that I know Shippo is ok." Sango and Kogeme also put a big smile on their faces, but Inuyasha and Miroku did not- they were confused at what the girls were up to. "Would you guys take that dumb look off your faces and come on!" KoKo hollered to them as all the others went on ahead. "Hey! Wait up!" Inuyasha and Miroku yelled at the same time as they ran after the group, trying to catch up.
