Inuyasha: Heritage

Chapter 14: Money Talks

Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha! that belongs to Romiko Takahashi.

Koji had back most of his strength after a full nights rest, he could easily stand on his own. His wounds were completely healed over, with the exception to a few thin scars that would disappear in a few days time. He had been stubborn enough to start moving around without Kayori's consent. She had already made it clear that she wanted him to stay put, but he hadn't listened much though and besides his sister was still asleep next to the little wolf girl Tamiko.

"What are you up for?"

Koji turned around to see the fox boy called Shippo (he was still getting used to knowing everyone's names)

"You know your sister's gonna have a fit if she sees you up like that," Shippo said. He laughed a little. "She was raised by two very stubborn people, not only that she's used to being obeyed, just like Inuyasha was."

Koji laughed, "That's what lots of people tell me," he said. He looked back at Kayori. Myouga was right, she had welcome Koji into her heart with open arms. For that he was very grateful.

"You know, Kayori's eyes aren't as warm as they used to be," Shippo sighed, "She saw a lot of death in her own village the day it was massacured. We were the only ones that escaped."

"That would turn anyone hard," Koji said looking down. He had endured lots of pain and yet, Kayori had endured worse, everyone that she had cared about had been lost in a single day. He had lost Meanae, but he had been able to get other that, and his real parents he had never met, Kayori had. And she had to find away to get over that and the deaths of all her friends. 'She must be really brave, but from now on any pain that we have we'll get through together.'

"Come on Kayori! Wake up! We should get moving now!" Shippo yelled down at Kayori who just rolled over. Ryku sighed.

"I guess I'm just going to have to grope her out of bed," Ryku said, acting like it was a hassle, but he only received Kayori's bag in his face.

"You PERV!" Kayori yelled jumping out of her futon. Koji who was sitting under a nearby tree raised his eyebrows. Taimiko was awoken by the scream and began yelling at everyone, even Koji who was pretending to be a pacifist.

Quickly they were all on their way Taimiko, who was cranky road on Shippo's shoulders, Ryku was nursing what looked like a black eye from Kayori, and Koji stayed behind the group not wanting to cause trouble.

But Kayori, who liked to but loud and stubborn wasn't going to let any of them go in peace. She'd chewed him out already for getting up and moving around and taking off his bandages without her permission.

She fell back to speak with him. "Is something wrong?"

"No, I'm fine," Koji said smiling.

"I'm sorry that I yelled at you this morning," she said.

"What? You've got nothing to apoligize for!"

Kayori stared at him for a moment, and then laughed! "Now you're acting like dad!" she said in between giggles. Koji didn't really know what to say, he was acting like his dad?

"Hey guess what! We'll reach Totosai's mountain as soon as we pass through this village," Shippo called.

"Totosai?" Koji said slightly confused.

"Yea he created this," Kayori said pulling a battered sword out of her belt. "This belonged to dad, although I haven't been able to get it to work for me and it's real heavy."

Koji took the sword in his own hands, he had no clue why anyone would want to use it in battle. It looked as though it had been through a lot. He could see Kayori keeping it for sentimental value, but nothing more than that. He slowly drew it, and a glowing light appeared and within a blink of an eye it was a huge 'kick ass' sword. "Damn!" Koji said in shock. "Did I do that?"

"Hell yea!" Kayori said excitedly jumping around. "Maybe you can make it work better than I can!" she said. "Is it heavy?"

"No," Koji said honestly.

"I think it would be a good idea to put it away before any villagers see it. They might think were trying to pillage they're town," Shippo said. "By the way, does anyone have any money on them?"

Everyone stared at Shippo like he was crazy. "Where do we get money? It's not like any of us had money to even start with!" Ryku said.

"Yea!" Kayori chimed.

"What would we use it for anyway?" Taimiko said she was now fully awake.

"We need food, and we need some new clothes," Shippo said eyeing all of them. Ryku and Taimiko were filthy no matter how much they tried to take care of their clothes, Koji's clothes were in shreds that hung over his shoulders, Kayori was still in her bed things.

"Well we don't have any money for food but we can hunt it if we need to, or mooch off of Totosai, but we're gonna have to go naked when it comes to the clothing problem," Ryku said. Kayori had to throw a rock at his head to keep his mind out of the gutter.

"Well he's right, we have nothing," Shippo said with a sigh.

"You know this village is filled with merchants from all over. Maybe we can seek a few things away," Ryku said rubbing his head.

"We can do that," Koji said, after all he had to steal a lot of things.

No body seemed to mind, merchants were rich, and they had other things to sell anyway it was busy today, no one would notice. "Here's the plan everyone. We go into the village and poke around, take only what you need, and avoid stealing anything that's really valuable got it?" Shippo said after some thinking.

Everyone nodded and went into the village alone.

Ryku found himself a blue hakama and a white gi. He could live with the sandals he had for a while longer.

Taimiko hated being alone but she bit her lip and found a simple short kimono with long sleeves. It was a greenish color and it fit her pretty well.

Koji spent hardly any time at all, he found a black hakama and a black gi. 'Simple'

Kayori took the longest but ended up with a red hakama and a pink gi that had flowers embroidered along the sleeves.

Shippo liked his clothes and didn't feel like changing. Eventually he found them all in their new outfits, he felt a little better that he wasn't walking around with their clothes all bet up, or in Kayori case just her sleep wear.

"Is everyone happy?" he asked, they all nodded. "Good, because we are not having anymore interruptions and were going to Totosai's," he said sounding like a mother to her misbehaving children. They all nodded again.

Tesse: I know it was boring, anyway that's all. and thanks to anyone who reviewed even if you didn't have to

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