Chapter Eleven

Her green hair would've tickled his nose if only he was able to acknowledge her presence. Actually she refused to let him do so, or anybody else that was within the area. They all walked by nonchalantly and unaware of the soul switching demon's existence. It was always more fun this way, seeing people do things when they believe they are alone. But today, that was not her objective.

Hokaje was waiting for Inu Yasha and his friends to walk by the unpaved road below her. She was hanging upside down from a tree branch, her hair weaving itself down to the pull of gravity. She was playing with a rubber band she had salvaged, or better yet stolen, from Kagome's backpack, looping it between her fingers in the same way she had seen Kagome teach Shippo.

"Aha!" she cried in victory, a giggle escaping her lips as she gazed at the tangled rubber band between her fingers. "I have finally done it! What was it called again...? Ah, yes Batman...uh...something...mobile...?"

She jumped down to the path below her, the rubber band undisturbed. "Now how do I get it off...?" she began wiggling her fingers to loosen them but her method seemed to have the opposite effect.

She gasped. "That wench! Did she actually- OUCH!"

The rubber band snapped and whipped her eye. Hokaje cried in pain, bringing a hand to her wounded eye. "Ow! Owie! That hurt!" she glared at the rubber band with her other eye and pointed at it with her available arm. "You..!" Her rod suddenly appeared in her outstretched hand. "You shall perish for what you did to my eye!"

"Hokaje, what are you doing?" a voice interrupted her rubber band murder. It sounded tired as if nothing mattered, almost annoyed but there was also an carefree tone in it. Recognizing the voice, she froze in her spot.

'He found me! It's all that stupid rubbery thing's fault. It disconcentrated me with it's captive fun-ness!'

"Hokaje...?"

She slowly turned around to face her brother. He stood with his arms crossed around his chest. His attire was similar to her own, except that he wore no shirt, his pants stopping short below what Kagome would call in her future slang a 'sexy six pack'. His arms were not bare though, his right had a tattooed dragon replicating the one that circles Hokaje's shirt. It traveled downward, opposite to Hokaje's that traveled upward, it's head landing on his right hand and tail on his chest. His left arm consisted of nothing more than a thin almost thread-like white bracelet fastened around his wrist. Also opposite to Hokaje was his hair and eyes, while she has green hair and light brown eyes, he had brown hair and green eyes which were partly hidden under his hair's usual spiky craze.

"Uh...Bruh-Brother..." Hokaje gulped, her rod dropping to the floor.

He uncrossed his arms and smiled. Suddenly, with the flick of his left hand, Hokaje's rod was in midair and returned to her.

Hokaje put her rod away and scowled at her brother who was a head taller than her. "Don't scare me like that!"

He laughed, his voice overcome with the carefree tone that was only barely detectable a few seconds ago. He advanced on his sister and hugged her, his crushing force turning her face blue.

"Hokaje! Why did you keep running away from me?"

"Because...you always crush me...when you see me...!" she managed to spit out. He released her and left her gasping for air.

Finally regaining herslef, Hokaje dusted herself off. "Listen up, Brother, I've got something going on here, so don't bug me!"

"Did you switch someone's souls again? How many did you do this time?"

"A couple...ten...ish..."

"TEN?"

"There's only four now. But it's so fun! You would under-"

Hokaje stopped in mid sentence when she felt it. Her brother sensed it too. He turned towards her and glared at her with a look that made her shrink.

"Hokaje..." He spoke, his voice now filled with silent rage. "You do know what you did, right? This is why I don't like losing sight of you!"

She meekly looked up at her brother. "This can be fixed...I just have to..." she trailed off.

"You better tell them now. They're walking right up to us as we speak."

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They had arrived in Naraku's castle and even so, Kagura couldn't piece together what had happened.

'I'm sure I aimed for Naraku's soul...but it came out exactly like he planned!'

Naraku stepped out from Kagura's feather as it soon returned to it's travel size. Kanna greeted them.

"Well done, Kagura," Naraku said his back towards her. The troubled Kagura glanced up in disbelief and amazement.

'A compliment...?'

Naraku was then gone. Kanna came up to her sister, her mirror shining before Kagura. She saw it and understood. Kanna then turned away and began walking towards the direction Naraku had disappeared.

"Nuh-" the words froze within Kagura's throat.

Kanna stopped. "Don't worry." She continued walking and disappeared as well.

Kagura blinked, shell-shocked for a while. Regaining herself, she humped and grasping the same feather she had arrived with, Kagura left.

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The five figures walked closer to Hokaje and her brother, unaware that they stood before their path.

"You're going to have to tell them, Hokaje," her brother said.

"I know Hojake!" she yelled. He recoiled at the use of his name.

She sighed. "I'll make myself visible...huh?"

A small but vicious looking tornado was seen heading straight for what was Kagome's body.

Hokaje laughed her childish carefree snickers, the tension and guilt sliding off her as she saw an opportunity for further entertainment.

"The wolf demon is here!"

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Kagome stopped, her nostrils burning with an odor that sent needles of hatred though her. "What the...?"

"Kagome?" the rest questioned, also halting.

She looked at them in confusement. "I don't know, there's just this scent that I'm smelling that is making me want to...kill someone."

Inu Yasha's eyes went wide. "No...he came back..."

The whirlwind stopped before him. Kouga again oblivious to the soul switching ordeal that the Inu Yasha crew went through, grasped the hand of who he thought was the 100 being that made up Kagome.

"Ah, Kagome, I am glad that mutt face kept you safe. Now if you will just relax..."

Before anyone could protest, Kouga hosted up Kagome's body and left in his tornado trade mark.

"Uh..." Kagome stood speechless. Finally realizing what happened she began to run after the tornado's trail. "Hey! Get back here with my body! HEY!"

Shippo, Sango, and Miroku remained rooted to the spot, silence as thick as their confusement. Suddenly the muteness was broken when Miroku broke out in a laughing hysteria that soon brought him into a squished ball on the ground.

Shippo and Sango looked at the monk and then at each other. The sound of a ringed staff meeting with a skull was heard.

"Ow! You do know this is your body, right Sango?"

WHACK!

"Ow stop hitting me!"

Whew...I wanted to put this chapter earlier but I got an eye infection and couldn't do much...I was like this .o the little dot being my infected eye...that sucked well what I wanted to do was THANK YOU guys of course for reading and leaving reviews. Oh and answering a question about the last chapter: Inu Yasha, Kagome, Miroku, and Sango did not switch bodies in the previous chapter. They only saw each other as if everything was normal. (Put it in bold just to catch your attention!)You know that whole love thing making everything seem alright for that moment. Yeah, I'm really glad you guys enjoyed that last chappie...yeah I like that word! I've never heard it before... o.o I'm such a loser! T.T

NEXT CHAPTER: Kagome, Miroku, and Sango must get Kagome's body back before Kouga marries who he thinks it Kagome. And just what is this important detail that Hokaje refused to reveal?

Okay just because I want to put it... KOUGA IS GONNA MARRY INU YASHA! (or is he...? read to find out!)