Chapter 5: Traffic

Jack waited around outside as everyone was getting ready in Kagome's house for a day of shopping at the mall and whatever else came to mind. Jack was glad that he was being accepted as part of the gang, but he knew that InuYasha wasn't really happy about accepting him. Jack just sighed and stared at the building which he came out of not but a couple of hours earlier.

"Who is this Naraku that they are really desperate to catch? Why am I involved with him? Why does this Naraku act like I am such a threat to him?" he asked himself out loud. "I can't help you there but I can tell you how to get some beautiful women," Miroku said, coming out of the house.

Jack turned and looked at him and he wondered who picked out Miroku's clothes. He was wearing a blue, short sleeved t-shirt with brown shorts on that were a little small for him. Miroku was wearing some kind of black shoes without socks as well. "Uh, Miroku? Not to be mean or anything but, who dressed you?" Jack asked. "I did it alone, no one helped me," Miroku said proudly.

"Alright, I am going to help you get dressed," Jack said. "Why?" Miroku said, looking at Jack as if nothing was wrong with his outfit. "Trust me, you don't want to go out looking like that," he said. Miroku just looked at Jack as they went into the house and went into the room where Miroku got dressed in.

About two hours and five trips to a clothing store later, Miroku was finally dressed in something appropriate to be seen in. "I don't see why you told me not to leave this room," Miroku said, standing up after Jack arrived from the clothing store for the fifth time. Kagome knocked on the door. "Will you two hurry up and get dressed?" she said. She left down the hallway saying, "And boys say girls take a long time getting ready."

Ten minutes later, Jack and Miroku came out. Miroku had on a short sleeved black t-shirt which fit him just right and some blue jean pants which also was the right size. Jack also bought some white tennis shoes for Miroku to wear which Miroku was with white socks on his feet.

"What took you two so long?" Kagome asked, looking at them suspiciously. "Nothing, Miroku had a little trouble getting a good outfit on," Jack said to her and then looked around at Sango. 'Wow!' Jack thought, seeing Sango in a beautiful red dress, her hair was not tied up as it sometimes was. Miroku and Jack just kept staring at Sango.

"What is wrong, is this dress to loose?" Sango asked, looking down. "No, Sango. They are just staring at how good you look," Kagome said to her. "Feh," came the all too familiar response from InuYasha as he came down the stairs. "InuYasha, do you have a thing with red or something?" Jack asked, seeing InuYasha. InuYasha was wearing a long sleeved red shirt with red, slightly tight pants on as well. His white hair was tied up together with some of Kagome's elastics (a/n: I hope that is right...that is what my sister calls them). Kagome sighed and told InuYasha to turn around. When he did, Kagome took InuYasha's long, tied up hair and tucked it down his shirt.

"Why are you doing that?" InuYasha asked. "So we don't attract attention with all of that long white hair at the mall," Kagome said to him. "Why do you care? I always walked around with all of my hair showing," InuYasha said in his usual angry tone. "That was around the streets, we are going to the mall where a lot of people are usually gathered," Kagome said, starting to get slightly angry as well. "Well, why do you care?" InuYasha asked again. "So that we aren't going to get a lot of attention. And if someone looks at you, it will seem if you have short white hair," Kagome said.

"Why don't we all just get going?" Jack asked. "We will, we just have to wait for Shippo now. He is finishing getting ready," Kagome said when she heard soft steps coming down the stairs. There was trouble trying to find him some clothes to wear because of his size. Kagome just decided to let him wear his usual clothes but without the fur thing that he wears on his shoulders. "Not much trouble getting him ready?" Jack asked. "Well, we just decided to let him wear that, no use trying to find clothes small enough to fit him," Kagome said.

Jack just sighed. "Can we go now?" he asked. "Impatient aren't you? What are you doing? Expecting Naraku to give you something to hurt us with at the mall?" InuYasha sneered at Jack. "I told you, I don't work for him, don't you ever accuse me of that," Jack said, a look of hurt and anger showing on his face. InuYasha just grunted and looked at Kagome. Sango looked around, she felt how tense everyone was at the situation. "Well, I say that we are ready to go, I can't wait to see what stuff people have in these modern shops," Sango said. Everyone nodded and they left with Kagome happily chattering with Sango. "They have all sorts of clothes, lotions," Kagome kept going on and on.

They stopped on the sidewalk. The mall was just across the street. Then, it happened. Miroku started to walk across the street without looking. A car screeched to a halt and started the driver started to honk his horn. Kagome hadn't told Miroku or Sango about cars yet. Miroku pulled out Sutra (a/n: I hope I spelled that right, correct me if I am wrong.) charms that he had hidden and put some on the car. "Be gone evil spirit," he said. Sango than rushed out to the street next to Miroku. "I'll help too," she said. Jack, Kagome, InuYasha, and Shippo just sighed and shook their heads, Kirara mewed.

The driver of the car moved the car a little closer to Miroku and honked some more. "Hang on, I will use my wind tunnel," Miroku said and started to take off the cloth covering his wind tunnel in his right hand. InuYasha, Kagome, and Shippo then dived at Miroku knocking him to the ground. They grabbed him by his arms and dragged him to the mall across the street. Jack took Sango's hand and led her across the street with Kirara on her shoulder.

"Why did you stop me?" Miroku asked angrily when they were all in the mall. "Miroku, you see...," and Kagome explained to Miroku, Sango, and Shippo about cars.

A couple of minutes and a few smackings for touching Sango's butt later...

Jack and Miroku were walking around the mall. The agreement was that at least one person from the modern era was to be in a group. Jack and Miroku were paired together along with Shippo, but Shippo went along with Kagome and her group instead. "So, what do we do now?" Miroku asked. "Just look around and have fun I guess," Jack said to him and they continued on their journey through the mall.

With Kagome's group...

Sango stared in awe at the amazing things in the mall. InuYasha just kept an eye on everything in front of him. Shippo was amazed at a couple of shops that sold candy. Kagome just smiled at how different each of their reactions were. Sango and Kagome stopped and the boys turned around and looked at them. "So much to see," Sango said. "So much to do," Kagome said. "Let's go shopping!" Sango and Kagome said excitedly. Shippo and InuYasha gave a groan. This was going to be a long day...

A/N: So, how did you like it? I know this isn't really a chapter full of adventure, but I couldn't help but put this when I imagined what Sango and Miroku would do in the present time. So, review and give suggestions on things you would like to see in this story. I.E., humors situations, problems, etc..., I also want to thank the one person who reviewed ShangXiang10. Your review inspired me and in thanks for your review, I followed your comment and made this chapter longer and I now plan on updating at least once or day or twice every day...I should hopefully be able to get two or three chapters up tomorrow. Thanks again for the review and I hope everyone else who reads this story will review.