Disclaimer: We don't own Inuyasha, but we do own…er…Ai. And the pickle too. Yay ancient pickle!
Chapter 3
"So…how am I supposed to get home?" Ai asked for the millionth time.
Miroku sighed. "We've told you, do what Kagome-sama always did and jump back down the well."
But Ai didn't like that answer. It all seemed too simple. Surely finding her way home must be harder than that!
With a quick change of topic, Ai started babbling again.
"So, congratulations on your first child, you two!" She said happily.
"Well, actually, this is our third." Miroku explained.
"Really? Where are the other two?" Ai questioned.
"They're probably inside with Kaede." Miroku said. As if on queue, two children came running out of a hut. They appeared to be twins, though one was rather fat compared to the other.
"Wow, that kid is fat." Ai said cheerfully.
There was an awkward silence.
The aforementioned twin began to bawl his eyes out.
"Aww, don't worry! If we get you on the Jazzercise program, you'll lose that weight in no time!"
"The what program?" Sango asked.
"Oh yeah, I forgot how clueless people here are." Ai muttered.
"Well, we're here," Miroku said after a long pause in the conversation.
Ai glanced up towards a small hut in front of what seemed to be a village. Sango, Shippou and Miroku had already made their way up the hill before Ai noticed their absence. She charged up the hill too, all while screaming at them for leaving her in such a dangerous place.
All four of them entered the dimly lit hut and found a very old person sitting by the fire. Ai blinked a few times before finally registering the fact that this was indeed a woman.
"Kagome?" The woman said weakly.
"Eh? Me? No I'm her daughter, Ai." Why does everyone love my mom so much? I mean, they obviously don't know that she beats her child with ancient pickles, do they? Ai thought miserably.
"I see…" The large and rather old woman stopped talking.
Ai bit her lip and forced herself to look elsewhere. But as soon as she began occupying herself by playing with Shippou's tail, she heard Miroku and Sango call out simultaneously, "KAEDE-SAMA!"
Shippou and Ai jumped. Shippou took this as an opportunity to escape from Ai's hands, which had been pulling on his beloved tail for quite some time now.
Ai finally took a look at the old woman who she now knew as Kaede. She gasped at what she saw. There in Sango's arms, Kaede lay…apparently dead.
"W…well then. I wonder how that happened?" Ai said.
A few minutes later, after Miroku and Sango had hauled the large antique-like miko out of the hut, they buried her body and began a memorial service for Kaede. Ai shook her head sadly.
"If only poor Kaede had joined your fat kid in the Jazzercise program to lose weight…" Ai said to Sango. The rest of the group stared at her.
"That's it." Sango said unexpectedly. She turned and headed towards the forest.
"Wait, Sango where are you going?" Miroku called after her.
Sango didn't answer Miroku. Instead, she headed straight for the well. She needed to find Kagome so she could take her daughter back. Ai was just…so…so…ANNOYING! Sango couldn't take much more of that child.
The taijiya placed both hands on the edge of the well, holding her breath and preparing to do a famous Kagome dive into the well. Lucky for her, she didn't have to, since Kagome happened to be at the bottom of the well anyway.
"Kagome-chan!" Sango shouted down to her. "I was about to come look for you. I'm glad you're here! I wanted to talk to you about something."
Kagome glanced up after hearing such a familiar voice.
"Sango-chan! Well at least the well isn't broken anymore…"
"Broken?"
"Never mind," Kagome sighed. "You know what?"
Kagome climbed up the old well yet again and embraced her friend waiting at the top.
"So, you were saying?" Sango said.
"Let me give you something so you can talk to me whenever you want." Kagome reached into her purse, (which had finally replaced that ridiculously large yellow backpack of hers) and pulled out a foreign object. It was silver, and very pretty. Sango was instantly intrigued.
Kagome handed over the shiny silver object to Sango, who looked at it questionably.
"What's this?" she said.
"A cell phone." Kagome answered.
"A cell…phone?"
"Yes, a cell phone."
"Oh. What does it do?" Sango said, fingering the antenna. She pulled on it and gasped when the antenna came out.
"I think I broke the cell phone, Kagome-chan!" Sango cried out.
"No, no it's all right. It's supposed to do that."
"So…what does this thing do?" Sango wondered.
"You can call people with it." Kagome explained. She tilted her head and smiled a bit.
"You call people?"
Kagome grit her teeth. The many questions being thrown at her were getting rather annoying. It reminded her oddly of her daughter, Ai.
"Yes, Sango-chan, you call them. Like on a regular phone."
"And what's a phone?"
Kagome sighed and sat at the base of the well. This would take a whole lot of explaining.
After Kagome's long speech involving cell phones, regular phones, radio waves and electricity-
"What's electricity?"
Kagome slapped her head in frustration. "It makes things work."
"Oh, so…it would make hiraikotsu work better then?" Sango asked innocently.
"No, not at all." Kagome said.
"…Oh. I got all excited for a minute."
"Sorry about that, Sango-chan. But…I'm afraid it won't do a thing for hiraikotsu."
"No, you're not sorry. You lied to me! KIRARA GET HER!"
Um…-ROAR!- Kirara charged from out of nowhere.
Kagome's eyes widened to unbelievable proportions as she screamed and ran wildly away like a little girl.
Sango smiled. Hah, that'll teach her never to get me excited over nothing.
Why'd I just sic Kagome? Kirara wondered, transforming into her smaller form once again. She sat there, pleasantly scratching her ear.
Meanwhile, Kagome was wondering the same exact thing. Why'd Kirara just sic me?
Amazingly, Kagome heard a high-pitched voice in her head.
I don't know.
Who's voice did that belong to?
Kagome thought back to the mysterious voice in her head.
You don't know?
The voice transmitted something back to the rather confused miko.
Yeah. I don't know.
Kagome panicked, realizing she must be going insane. How else would she be having a conversation with a mere voice in her head? Unless this was…telepathy. But, who was she being telepathic with?
Will this help?
Will what help? Kagome answered back in her mind.
-MEOW-
Kagome gasped, finally realizing who she had been talking to in her mind.
"KIRARAAA!"
A/N: Kirara…is telepathic. No one saw that one coming! Not even me (Vikki) actually. And I'm the one who wrote this chapter! Bob gave me most of the ideas for it though. So…since Bob is becoming depressed, PLEASE REVIEW! And Mandaz doesn't count. Somehow I don't think she'll end up reviewing anytime soon ANYWAY since she's NEVER ONLINE ANYMORE! EHEM.