AUTHOR'S NOTES
Happy Birthday to me! I'm fifteen, WAHOO! So far I haven't come across any sacred shrines containing wells to Feudal Japan, but my dog hasn't exactly ran away and led me to one, and it might only work on extremely fat cats… (I'm sorry, Kagome's cat looks extremely fat!). So maybe Kagome just had all the luck on her fifteenth birthday…. But it's still March 1st, so something still could happen! Looks out window hopefully Anyways, I'm bored, Ravyn's not online so I can't talk to her, and so I'm posting more! It's your basic average Shippo post… they always had a filler episode or two about him so let's have a chapter about him in our fanfic! Pokèmon is mentioned a lot, so sorry if that annoys you… I'm actually not into Pokèmon, I just know a lot about it because me, like everyone else my age, was really into it about 4th-5th grade, but whatever… I don't think you have to play the game or anything to understand it. Whatever, just read the damn thing!
REVIEWS
Hmm… I'm bored (duh) so I'm replying to all the reviewers I've gotten so far because I'm sure I'm missing a few…
BlackTearsOfDarkness: My computer says your name is spelled wrong… stupid computer! You haven't replied in a while, but that's okay. However, you DO need to update your fan fic! And if you ever do write an InuYasha one you'll have to tell me! I'm sure it'd be really good! (And if you liked Tamika and Keitaro then I guess you just can't wait for chapter twenty…. Too bad you can't read it for a while. I have to post the others first… and edit them…).
ICYGIRL: "PLEASE DON'T GIVE UP ON YOUR STORY." Why would I? I have nothing better to do with my life (well, I could do my homework… I always end up doing it in the morning… while watching InuYasha. See, I tape it off adult swim and watch it in the morning… oh, whatever). "I LOVE THIS ONE WITH ORGIONAL CHARACTERS AND ORIGINAL PAIRING; there are too many fanfics with Kagome and InuYasha paring I'm fed up with it." Thanks… I don't think Sueko's very original though. She's too much like me! And Tamika's too much like a very exaggerated version of my friend that's way more ditisery and more feminine… (What makes that creepier is that I came up with Tamika BEFORE I met my friend… But my friend is more of a tomboy, not as stupid, and she doesn't look like some model like Tamika. And she's obsessed with InuYasha, where's Tamika isn't because she doesn't watch that show! I wonder why…). And you know what, Keitaro has always seemed really familiar to me… then Ravyn pointed out that he's like some weird version of Remus (from Harry Potter). Whatever. Oh, and ditto Kagome/InuYasha because Kagome's annoying. I don't feel guilty at all about killing her off (technically Ravyn did… but I came up with the idea!). After all, InuYasha got Sueko so that's okay! "A LITTLE CHANGE IS WELCOME; you are writing a wonderful one with characters full of emotions. It's rare to see characters which have personalities and feelings well developed. SO I HOPE YOU 4LL TRY TO UPDATE SOON; good luck." Um… thank you! Actually, I thought I wrote too much emotion, but this changed my mind with that. And in a recent review you said, "we could make a serie with this one" and I found that really nice because we have been trying to make it realistic, and like the series… without coping any episodes (which that's actually easy… it's more like we're trying not to copy demons that have been there before…). It'd be awesome if we could watch our fan fic on TV, but alas, the screenwriters have yet to stumble across our fan fic and ask for the Copyrights. But we'll keep on dreaming!
element hanyou: Well, I don't know about your reading skills but, yeah, this is sorta a long fan fic… and it won't be ending any time soon! Why would it be the end! Like I said before, I'd have nothing else to do! And Sueko and InuYasha have yet to get together, they're so stubborn, and Sesshomaru and Yoshiko haven't even begun to get together, and Miroku has yet to learn that touching girl's butts is a big no-no, and we have yet to even figure out more about Sueko's spiritual power (because there's a tone to it… even if I haven't thought it all through yet!) and we have yet to defeat Kamatari… Plus we have another bad guy showing up… ((HINT/SPOILER: Technically, they've already showed up, they just have yet to reveal themselves… Wink, wink! Think Sesshomaru-Yoshiko!)) So… not ending yet! You'll definitely know when it ends, because it will take several chapters to summarize the damn thing… I mean, you can tell on the TV show when it's about to end, so ditto with the fan fic. The ending won't come at a total surprise… hopefully. And we have no plans to stop any time soon… Whatever, moving on…
faithful taijiya: Yeah, I'm surprised it doesn't have that many reviews either. And thanks for saying that my story is original and my characters are well done. Oh, and that it was awesome. Seriously, it was appreciated. It's nice to know we have well done characters since most books seem to have pretty bland ones, if you know what I mean.
Anyways, that's all the reviewers I have. (If I'm wrong blame my computer, not me!) I know, kinda sad since a ton of other fan fics have like sixty, but I'm fine with the amount I have… well, Ravyn is too but whatever… Anyways, read and reply! And don't forget to enjoy it!
DISCLAIMER
I don't own InuYasha... unless I do stumble across a well on my fifteenth birthday, but I'm not that lucky so I doubt it… I have a cold on my Birthday! How sick and twisted is that! Anyways, all we own are (in this post) Sueko, Yoshiko, Shippo's new girlie friend ;) and…. Um… that's it! Oh, and I guess the random village people we came up with… oh, and the plot! We own that! But we don't own Pokèmon. I don't know who that belongs to besides Nintendo, so whatever. Let's just be clear that we don't own it so you can't sue us! Hmm… I think that's it… Oh, wait! You know how Sueko's last name is Kimochi? Yeah, erm… turns out that's Japanese for feeling, and I misread the credits, and BoA sang "Every Heart," not something Kimochi… Kimochi is part of the song title…. Yeah, I feel really stupid now… Whatever, I'm not changing the last name because Sueko Kimochi sounds cool, but it's not a last name and technically I sort of do own it now… Unlike Keitaro's name, I stole that… but I needed a guy name! But he has nothing in common with Love Hina Keitaro, so that's okay! And, just warning you, Sueko's really weird in this post. I don't know why, she just is. She's extremely loopy and weird… Whatever, sorry if she annoys you…
NOTE
Kitsune is fox in Japanese. I wasn't in the mood to say "fox demon" all the time so I just settled for "kistune" like other InuYasha fan fic's usually do. And sakura is Japanese for flower (or maybe cherry blossom, I'm not sure) but it's also a name, so whatever!
Chapter Seventeen: Shippo, the Pokèmon Master!
Two weeks later Yoshiko had already gotten over her cold and the snow had melted enough for the group to be able to travel again. Though Shippo couldn't walk in it because the snow went to his neck, so he was forced to sit on Sueko's shoulder until she got annoyed by him and then he went to Sango's shoulder (he didn't bother trying Yoshiko's shoulder… she'd probably kill him, anyways).
Sitting on Sueko's shoulder on a breezy winter day, Shippo played away with the Pokèmon game he was borrowing from her as the others talked about… well, stuff. It all really confused him and his game was much more interesting. It was just a bunch of grown up stuff about the stones, whatever… He had already gotten all eight badges and all he needed to do was catch all two hundred Pokèmon and beat the Elite Four in order to complete the game! Though when he explained his excitement to Sueko she seemed very uninterested… Kagome would probably have been happy about such exciting news!
Eventually InuYasha took the GameBoy away from Shippo in annoyance. He found this extremely unfair but when he expressed his feelings all InuYasha did was hit him aside the head! And then he hit him again when Shippo tried to steal InuYasha's music thingy. And then Sueko hit Shippo on the head also for, "Being a big brat!" How could these two treat him so cruelly? How would he ever become the Pokèmon Master if he couldn't play his game?
Shippo was in a fowl mood all the way to the village, which the group was visiting because their food supply was low and Sueko complained that there was no way she was living off wild animals and since it was winter they lacked of any anyways.
Once they were at the village and Miroku had reserved a room (with Sango keeping an eye on him), Sueko had starting fretting over the whole hitting-Shippo-over-the-head-thing.
"I'm really, really, really sorry about it, Shippo! Please stop being mad about it! You being upset makes me upset and I'd rather be happy! Even if I'm cold and hungry…"
"Oh, shut up about wanting food already," said InuYasha crankily.
"You're the one who ate all the ramón in three days!" snapped Sueko.
"Why are you asking for your sorry, anyways? The brat totally deserved it!" complained InuYasha.
"I'm not a brat!" cried Shippo, crossing his arms.
"Ha! If your not a spoiled brat then I don't have dog ears!" cried InuYasha.
"Then it must be the new moon!" Shippo shouted.
"Will you all act your age?" Yoshiko muttered tiredly.
"But Shippo is acting his age," said Sueko.
"Then maybe he should grow up about twenty years then," sighed Yoshiko.
To Yoshiko's delight (for she felt as though her head was splitting in two) Miroku and Sango showed up a few minutes later with the rooms.
"Yay! I get to sleep in a bed again!" cried out Sueko, jumping up from her sitting position when she had heard the news.
"Who do you think you are, Kagome?" snapped InuYasha.
"Wha?" said Sueko, frowning with confusion.
"Nothing…" mumbled InuYasha, looking away.
"Uh…" said Sueko, still confused.
"I'm glad that we got a place to stay and all but somehow I'm not sure…" said Sango mostly to herself as the group headed to the building at which they were staying.
"What do you mean?" asked Yoshiko.
"They didn't charge us anything," said Sango.
"So? With Miroku around we usually get away with not paying anything," muttered InuYasha.
"It's not that… it's why they didn't make us pay," said Sango.
"Huh?" said Sueko. "I'm lost…"
"Well," said Sango slowly, "They figured out that Miroku was a monk and that I was a demon slayer and they were all of a sudden extremely courteous to us. It was like they were honored that we were in their village."
"Um… okay, whatever. As long as I get a comfy mat to sleep on for once I'm fine with it!" said Sueko.
"Would you stop complaining, already!" snapped InuYasha.
"I'm not complaining, though," said Sueko.
"Are too!" cried InuYasha.
"I am not!"
"Are too!"
"Oh, shut up and SIT!"
"Enough of that!" cried Miroku as InuYasha started muttering curse words on the ground.
Shippo looked around on Sango's shoulder; Sueko and InuYasha's bickering had attracted quite a crowd and after the whole sit thing the villagers started whispering to each other.
"Now look what you two have done. I'm surprised I can go out in public with you all," said Yoshiko, rolling her eyes.
It was then that a brave looking little boy walked over to Yoshiko with his big brown eyes opened wide in wonder.
She had a little smile on her face as she kneeled down to the boy's level and she made her eyes look wide with her hands on her hips. "What?" she asked tonelessly.
"Are you—are you really a demon?" the boy asked in a small, shy sort of voice that made Sueko put her hands together and cry out, "Oh, he's so adorable!" This of course made InuYasha roll his eyes and scowl as he was able to get up from the sitting thing. And as he stood up more whispers were heard from the villagers.
"Um… does it matter?" asked Yoshiko, looking a bit taken aback.
"I've never seen a real demon before!" the boy cried out. "Are your ears real? Can I touch them?"
"I guess…" muttered Yoshiko as she kneeled down again.
"What do you mean you've never seen a demon before?" asked Sueko. "I thought everyone hated demons. Though I don't understand why anyone could hate a half dog demon," she added with a grin at InuYasha.
"What are you up to?" InuYasha muttered.
"Please? Just for a few seconds?" begged Sueko.
"What are you talking about!" cried InuYasha.
"You're ears…"
"No."
"Please?"
"I'm not a pet!"
"So?"
"Shut up!"
"Actually, Sueko did point out an interesting question," said Miroku.
"What did I do?" asked Sueko, who had completely forgotten about what had happened ten seconds ago.
A young woman stepped up from the crowd to say, "We realize that almost all demons are evil and want us dead, but we still respect their powers."
"Huh?" said Sueko, still confused.
"Our village practices the martial arts so we can become more stronger. But we realize that as humans our powers are still much weaker compared to demons."
"I still don't get it…" said Sueko.
"I don't think you ever will," muttered InuYasha, rolling his eyes with a scowl.
"Are you saying you respect all of us for our strength and that's why you're being so polite?" Miroku asked.
The little boy still petting Yoshiko's ears cried out, "Uh huh!" very eagerly.
"I give up!" cried Sueko, sitting down on the ground while hugging her knees to her stomach.
"What on earth are you doing?" InuYasha muttered.
"What? Can't a girl sit down when she wants to?" said Sueko innocently. InuYasha just sighed and crossed his arms grumpily.
Shippo, bored with the festivities at hand, jumped off Sango's shoulder just as another villager asked her about what it was like to be a demon slayer. Being so small, it was easy to shift through the many people standing around, and Shippo was left looking around the village wondering what he should do now. Being a little kid bored out of his mind, Shippo still didn't see anything remotely interesting in a village that appeared to be so large.
"What are you doing?" cried a voice behind Shippo.
'Oh crap! I'm in trouble now!' thought Shippo guiltily as he turned around to face the person. But it wasn't Yoshiko or Sueko like he thought it would be. Instead what faced him was a young girl (maybe about eight or ten years old) with chest-length dark brown hair put up in a half ponytail with narrow brown eyes. She was wearing a plain white kimono that actually looked quite elegant.
"Who are you?" asked Shippo curiously.
"What are you doing?" repeated the girl. She had a really bossy sort of voice that gave Shippo the impression that this wasn't the type of person to mess around with. A lot like InuYasha… except for this girl was just more annoying.
"Um… I'm looking around your village…" said Shippo nervously. What was he supposed to say?
"You look awfully suspicious to me!" scoffed the girl, crossing her arms and looking quite arrogant.
"Do you think I want to harm your village?" asked Shippo. "Why would I want to? Everyone here is so nice…"
"Humph!" said the girl.
'Well, if she's going to act that way…' thought Shippo to himself as he decided it would be best to just ignore a girl as rude as her as he turned and started walking away.
"Wait!" he heard the girl cry behind him.
"What?" asked Shippo, turning around.
"You have a tail…" the girl muttered, pointing to the fuzzy thing behind Shippo with a shocked expression on her face.
"Well, yeah! I'm a kitsune demon, after all!" said Shippo proudly, pointing to himself.
A rude laughing one replaced the girl's stunned expression as she cried out, "You so are not a demon!"
Shippo frowned and put down the hand. "I am too!"
"How could a puny little brat like you be a demon?" retorted the girl, laughing so hard she had to hold her stomach.
"Hey!" How could she call him a puny little brat when she first met him!
"I could so beat you a thousand times!" cried the girl, who had eventually calmed down enough to not laugh.
"You could not! Demons are a lot stronger than humans!" cried Shippo.
"But you're not a demon!" said the girl in triumph.
"I am too!" cried Shippo.
"No, you aren't."
Shippo sighed in anger. "What do I have to do in order to prove I'm a demon, then?"
The girl was silent, looking quite thoughtful for a moment before saying, "I challenge you to a duel!"
"A duel? I'll so beat you, though!" cried Shippo.
"No you won't. I'm a professional martial artist." Then the girl grinned. "Meet you by that tree tomorrow at sunset. See yeah!" She gave a quick wave before running off.
"A duel? With a martial artist? Shippo, what did you get yourself into?" Shippo cried to himself miserably. "There's no way I'll get myself out of this one!"
The next day came by way too quickly for Shippo. He had no clue what he'd do that evening. There was only so many powers a young kitsune such as himself had. And he didn't exactly want to hurt her… He didn't even know what sort of duel this was!
Why did it all have to be so complicated?
Shippo sat under a tree surrounded by all the snow pondering what on earth he'd do. There was one idea he had, but it probably wouldn't work…
The sky was filled with purples, pinks and oranges as Shippo stood underneath the tree, patiently waiting for the girl to show up. A few minutes later she showed up with the same plain white outfit and the same half ponytail.
"Ready?" the girl asked slyly, raising up one arm at a time to stretch.
"Yep!" said Shippo, crossing his arms with a clever sort of expression on his face.
"Then let's get this duel started!" cried the girl, getting into a tricky sort of martial arts stance.
Just as she started to kick Shippo in the face everything went in slow motion as Shippo coolly reached over to his belt that had just suddenly appeared and pulled out a red and white round ball. Pressing the button, he threw the ball out and cried out, "Go, PIKACHU!" as the girl continued to kick in slow motion.
The small yellow mouse-like creature charged a lighting bolt towards the girl as her leg continued to go towards Shippo's head in slow motion. But then she stopped trying to kick Shippo and returned to normal speed as the lighting bolt made her hair all spiky and her clothes and face dirty.
"What was that!" she cried.
"A Pokèmon!" said Shippo slyly.
The girl looked nervous and taken aback for a moment before crying out, "I forfeit this duel!" and ran away.
"Go Shippo!" cried Sueko, who had suddenly appeared behind Shippo. She started jumping up and down with her arms in the air going, "Hooray!"
"Sheesh, Shippo, you're so strong! I could never fight like that!" cried InuYasha. "Maybe I should let you borrow my music thingy!"
"Shippo, you're my hero!" cried Yoshiko, who picked up Shippo to hug him. Sango and Miroku started throwing out confetti and the whole village cheered Shippo on.
'Nope! That so would never happen! I need a better idea, quick!' thought Shippo desperately.
A girl in plain white robes with her hair in a half-ponytail sighed as she leaned against the tree exasperatedly, crossing her arms and tapping her foot. "He's late," she muttered to herself as she squinted past the setting sun in search of that short kitsune she was about to duel. If he showed up, that is… She couldn't help laughing at the thought of the kitsune chickening out and forfeiting the duel.
Actually, a few minutes later the girl found out that the kitsune hadn't chickened out as he walked over from behind the tree and stood a few feet in front of the girl with his arms crossed. She couldn't believe that a kid that short could call himself stronger then her! But he did sort of look cute…
'What am I thinking!' the girl thought, shaking away the thought. 'I'm going to duel the weak-willed little kid and win victoriously! And then I'll turn my back never to see the pathetic kid ever again! Nothing too it! But I can't be strong if I start wanting to become friends with the weakling!'
"Ready?" she cried out, stepping away from the tree and putting her hands on her hips.
"Uh huh," said the kitsune, who backed away a few feet and got ready for a fight. She tired to not laugh at the expression on his face—you could so tell he was totally nervous and not prepared at all! 'This'll be a piece of cake!' the girl thought, plastering a smug grin on her face and getting into her fighting pose, which looked a lot more professional then the kitsunes one.
"Okay, then! One, two, three…"
Without waiting for the kitsune to do anything, the girl immediately started attacking, watching as the kitsune dodged her blows. When the kitsune almost got hit on the head by the girl's foot, she could tell that an idea was stirring in his head judging by the small smile that appeared on the boy's face.
A poof of smoke appeared, making the girl cover her mouth as she coughed. When the fog cleared a few seconds later her eyes widened by the sight of about twenty kitsune clones, all grinning at her.
When she scowled at the many faces they laughed. "I beat you can't figure out which one of us is the real Shippo!" they all cried out.
The girl clenched her teeth and glared. She knew there was a trick to figuring out who the real demon was but she couldn't remember what her father had told her.
With a sigh she decided to just pick a target and if that didn't work go to the next target. A weak plan but it was the only thing she had at the moment.
Kicking at nothing but air the many Shippo's—well, that's what she guessed the kitsunes name was—the girl cried out in anger at she used her arm to hit another one—only to discover that that too was only air. This went on for several minutes until a voice stopped the girl's hitting and stopped Shippo's laughing as he became only one Shippo.
"What on earth is going on here?" cried a girl in a strange black shirt and blue pants with messy brown hair.
"Uh…" started Shippo, but was interrupted by the white haired boy accompanying the girl, who walked over to Shippo in his red clothing and whacked him aside the head.
"Ow…" muttered Shippo. "What was that for!"
"For being a brat who gets into stupid fights every two seconds!" complained the white haired boy. The girl noticed he had what looked like dog-ears on top of his head. They looked really soft…
"Since when does Shippo get into fights?" the brown haired girl wanted to know. "Well, besides with you…"
"What are you two arguing about now?" complained yet another person—this one had bright orange hair and what seemed like dog-ears too, except judging by their color the girl guessed this lady was a tiger demon. Or a half tiger demon, just like the white haired boy was a half dog demon. Though she could be wrong…. Not that that was likely, but whatever…
"Shippo was fighting with this girl over here," explained the brown haired girl. "Hey, what's your name, anyways?" she added, turning over to the girl and smiling kindly at her.
"Sakura," the girl muttered, crossing her arms.
"Oh, what a pretty name! And you just look so cute…"
Sakura noticed out of the corner of her eye the white haired boy rolling his eyes exasperatedly.
"Shippo, why would you go fighting with some random village girl for?" asked the half tiger demon tiredly. "Don't you have better things to do? What about that game thing you're always staring at?"
"She's the one who wanted to duel me!" Shippo cried innocently, pointing at Sakura. She just rolled her eyes at the kitsune.
"Why would you want to duel him for?" asked the white haired boy.
"Because I was bored," said Sakura simply. "And also just to prove that I'm way stronger then him, even if he is a kitsune like he says he is…"
"Now I've seen everything," muttered the brown haired girl.
"Whatever," said the white haired boy. "Look, Shippo, we're leaving the village now, so get your stuff and say good-bye to your little girly friend because I won't be standing around waiting for you."
Shippo's face turned pink. "She's NOT my girly friend!"
The brown haired girl laughed. "Denying your feelings just only proves they're true," she teased.
"Shut up!"
"Hmm, should I get involved or not?" joked the tiger demon.
"SHUT UP!"
"Not that I can blame Shippo or anything," said the brown haired girl suddenly, looking thoughtful. "The girl is so cute with her hair up like that…"
Sakura could feel her cheeks burning in embarrassment but she choose to ignore it as she cried out above the brown haired girl's giggling, "Look, I'm not a cute and adorable little kid and I'm not Shippo's 'girly friend'… whatever that is. And if Shippo has to leave why can't he just forfeit the duel already!" she added, turning to Shippo with her hand on her hips and one eyebrow raised.
"Forfeit the duel?" repeated Shippo, looking a bit confused.
"He forfeits! Come on, Shippo!" cried InuYasha.
"But then I'd lose!" cried Shippo miserably.
"Well," said Sakura comfortingly, "you weren't ever strong enough to beat me in the first place!"
"Hey! I am too! Come back!" cried Shippo but Sakura didn't say another word as she walked away, putting her hand up to wave good-bye.
She could hear in the background the half tiger demon say, "Shippo, calm down! So what if you're a weak, pathetic little thing? If you actually practiced and trained you'd be stronger!"
'Ha! I doubt he'll ever be as strong as me!'
"That has got to be the weirdest village I have ever been too," said Sango a few hours later as the group headed west.
"I don't know… there'll a lot of freak-people out there," muttered InuYasha.
"And what's that supposed to mean?" asked Sueko.
"That you humans are very, very strange," said InuYasha.
"Those half dog demons are stranger," muttered Sueko.
"And what's that supposed to mean!" growled InuYasha.
"Oh… nothing…" chimed Sueko, smiling.
It was quiet after that. The only sound you could hear was the sounds of nature and the beeping of Shippo's Pokèmon game. Okay, it was actually Sueko's, but Shippo was just borrowing it, so whatever! Yoshiko was finally enjoying the silence that lingered afterwards (everyone's bickering had been giving her a splitting headache lately), which was probably why she moaned so loudly when Shippo jumped off Sueko's shoulder and started crying out in joy.
"What is your problem now?" muttered InuYasha.
"I won! I won! Go Shippo! Go Shippo!" cried Shippo as he spun on the spot.
"Have you been smoking those mushrooms of yours?" Sueko muttered. She looked down at Shippo and noticed that he was still holding the GameBoy. "Oh. You won the game…"
"I'm the best Pokèmon Master of them all!" cried Shippo.
"If it took you five months to beat the game then no, you aren't," muttered Sueko. "I won that thing in a month… okay, a month and a half."
"Can you take the thing away from him now?" asked InuYasha.
"I'll do it," muttered Yoshiko, who jerked the thing out of Shippo's head only to whack him on the head with the GameBoy.
"OW! What was THAT for?" whined Shippo.
"For being loud and annoying and giving me a headache!" cried Yoshiko. "Here: keep this as far away from him as humanly possible," she muttered, tossing the thing to Sueko. She fumbled with it in the air before finally catching it, and with it in her hands she took out the game cartage and started fumbling around in her book bag.
"What are you doing?" asked InuYasha.
"Well, now that I get the dang thing back I want to play with my new Zelda game that I got for Christmas," said Sueko simply, finding her Zelda game cartage and popping it into her GameBoy before turning it on and starting to play with it herself.
Shippo sighed. "I wish I could borrow it…"
"Screw you!" cried Sueko, not taking her eyes away from the GameBoy screen.
InuYasha looked over Sueko's shoulder at the game. "That looks a lot more interesting then the other game…"
"I get to use a sword!" agreed Sueko.
"Ha. Mines better," muttered InuYasha.
"But mine glows," said Sueko.
"So? Mine transforms!"
"Um… mine does stuff! Stuff I don't even understand!"
"At least I can use the Backlash Wave!"
"Oh, shut up!" cried Yoshiko. "You two could argue about anything, couldn't you?" When InuYasha and Sueko just blinked at Yoshiko she sighed and muttered, "Never mind…" before starting to walk again towards their destination (which was no where in particular).
Shrugging, Sueko and InuYasha followed her, along with Miroku and Sango who shook their heads and a Shippo that was trying to run as fast as he could with his short little legs.