Hehehe. Way too much time inactive. Um kay. Now is time for reading:)

Disclaimer: Sadly, I don't own InuYasha, which would be awesome. But I do own my own characters which should be easy to spot out. (wink, wink)

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A girl sighed as she looked at her "new" home. Yeah, it was new alright, new to erosion. It had to be built way before her time, right? She looked up at the Higurashi Shrine building with distaste. This was 2150 after all. Why couldn't they live in a normal home? The girl scowled at the building and made a face at it. Her brother giggled at her and walked on inside.

Her mother noted her daughter's distaste and walked over to put an arm around her .

"Come now, Ariel. It's not all that bad. It came for free," the girl's mother said, trying to lay out bait for Ariel. The girl scowled and pulled herself out of her mother's embrace.

"Mom! 1..I don't like being called Ariel. It's a horrible name. I like Art better. 2…This house is over like, a hundred years old! It's not fit to be called a house!" Ariel, or Art, crossed her arms and refused to put one foot closer to the building. Her mother sighed and shook her head as her two younger children, twins, came running past her with their stuffed toys.

"Ariel, we don't have much money, you know that. We moved from America because it was too expensive. Either way, this house was inherited to me, and will be to you. So quit fussing and come in." She walked off in a dignified manner before Art could argue with her.

"Grah, whatever," Art said as she crossed her arms and made the slow march up to the house. She grimaced as she placed a hand on the door. She knew that cleaners had come and cleaned it up, that was the way it was in the will of her father's grandfather or something like that. She wasn't sure about the exact details.

All of the sudden the door handle was ripped from her fingers as her brother opened it up. He stared at her with his goldish brown eyes. She stared right back at him with her hazel ones. Art spoke first.

"Little Bro?" she asked, pulling out each syllable as long as she could.

"Whaaaat?" he asked, doing the same.

"Can I come in?" she asked raising an eyebrow. He still had his hand on the door and was blocking the way in.

"I thought you didn't want to come in. You said this was old fashioned and you never wanted to be seen in this house." He stared at her then added as an after thought, "Ever."

Art sighed in exasperation.

"Whatever! Just let me in Yukkie!" she said, glaring at him. He smiled devilishly, and said, "Nuh-huh. You hafta have the password!"

"Yuuukie…" Art said threateningly eyeing her brother.

Yukkie merely smiled mischievously, causing him to almost look like, (yup that's right folks!) Inuyasha. But, since none of them knew Inuyasha existed (at the moment) it wasn't paid attention too. His older sister growled and tacked him and began tickling him with no mercy.

"S, Stop! I-I- Can't –giggle- B-breathe!" Yukkie shouted as he was tickled to tears by Art. She laughed and said, "HAHA! I DON'T NEED NO DAMN PASSWORD TO BEAT YOU!"

Yukkie finally gasped, "Enough!" and his older sibling got off of him to look at her new surroundings. She had to admit, it was bigger than her old home. She started to wander around, her eyes darting from here, to there, and back again. That is, until a wall met her face.

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" shouted the twins as Art met the floor for the first time. She looked up and glared at the twins.

"OH, you two just wait until I get up!"

The twins in response gasped and ran to their mother. Art sighed and sat up crossed-legged. Yukkie came and kneeled beside her.

"There's a wall there," Yukkie pointed out. His face was rather serious, his eyes twinkling with mirth. Art scowled and stood up saying, "Thanks for pointing that out Mr. Obvious!" Yukkie stood up and pointed through the doorway a little ways from where Art's head had hit and said, "We have a backyard. With a well."

Art lost all sarcasm in her face. In fact, she looked surprised.

"Really? A well? A real well! I wanna see!" she said as she raced off, leaving Yukkie to follow along behind her. Art suddenly stopped, causing Yukkie to run into her. He growled almost dog like in discomfort as his sister scoffed.

"That's not a well. It's just a little shed, thing. You said there was a well," she said, turning on Yukkie. Yukkie glared at her and shook his head, walking over to the shed.

"The shed was built to protect the well you twit. And quit yelling at me. I'm gonna go pick my room out." He walked past her, sulking. Art rolled her eyes and walked over to the well. It was kinda pretty if you looked at it close enough, she decided. She touched a side and felt an eerie shock go through her arm. She quickly removed her hand and stared at the well suspiciously. It was like, the well was willing her to go in. More like asking her to go. She warily peered into its black depths, trying to see something.

"ARIEL! GET YOUR BODY IN HERE AND UNPACK YOUR STUFF!" broke through the icy silence that had filled the well's shed. Art shuddered and ran back into the house, giving the shed a second look before she went inside.

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Kagome sighed as she slipped farther down into the hot springs. This was great. No Miroku to spy on her and Sango because Inuyasha was too busy sparing with him. Kagome's eyelids flittered shut as she slid down into the water even further. But, Sango shoving her disrupted it.

"What is it Sango?" Kagome asked, slightly annoyed. Sango merely shushed her and hid under a large rock. Kagome followed her as they heard a man's voice.

"Stupid Neko! Why does she think she can do every thing? I mean, come on!"

A young man came into view almost looking exactly like Miroku. Sango began to growl in anger, fists trembling. She stayed on the side of the water's edge to avoid being seen.

"Hey Miroku! What do you think you're doing! You perverted monk!"

The man whipped around and his eyes became as big as dinner plates.

"What! I am not Miroku! And I am not a hentai! I am a monk though, and I am on a mission. So if you will excuse me ladies…"

Kagome screamed for dear life. Miroku and Inuyasha came running, only to miss the other monk. Inuyasha looked around then at Kagome's face bubbling above the water.

"Why the hell did you scream! I almost had him beat!" His dog-ears flicked in annoyance.

Sango glared at Kagome before saying, "If you two will go and let us get dressed, we will tell you everything. That means you too Miroku!"

Miroku looked hurt. "A simple monk like me means no harm to you ladies…"

Everybody snorted in disbelief.

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"And that's pretty much how it went," Kagome said, finishing her story of what just happened. Inuyasha was sitting cross-legged, obviously thinking. Miroku still looked hurt, but with curiosity. Sango was sitting next to Kagome, nodding her head to verify the story was true.

"But what monk in his honest mind would want to act like Miroku?" Inuyasha said, looking at the said person. Miroku looked back annoyed.

"He said he didn't know who I was, thus, he didn't mean to act or dress like me. Problem solved."

"He may have lied!" Inuyasha replied back.

"Kami help us if he did," Sango said looking up towards the sky. Shippou glanced a look across the dieing fire to see a flash of light blue move across from them.

"Over there! In the trees!" the little kitsune demon shouted running in that direction. Inuyasha stared after him and said, "Keh." Kagome and Sango on the other hand took off after him.

"HEY! YOU! Get back here!" Kagome shouted as she saw the monk again. He in turn whipped around, saw the three of them and began to run. Unfortunately for him, Sango had been running while he was looking. She nearly tackled him. Inuyasha and Miroku were soon behind the girls chasing the monk.

"Hey, Miroku!" Inuyasha panted.

"What?" the monk shouted back trying to catch up with the impersonator.

"He does look like you!" Inuyasha said laughing, then sped up to catch up to him. He was a simple mortal monk, right? No problem.

"I got you mon..WHAT THE FLIPPING HELL!" Inuyasha shouted as he was barely a breath's away from the monk as water suddenly enveloped around his legs and he shot off faster than Inuyasha could comprehend.

"INUYASHA! What's wrong!" Kagome panted as she ran up next to the inu hanyu. He in turned growled and said, "That's no ordinary monk."

He looked along the ground where the monk ran off. It wasn't wet. Inuyasha bent down to look closer. Not a single drop of water was on the path the monk ran off. He scratched his head, put on a scowl and started to run off, but Kagome's hand stopped him.

"Let him be, he did nothing to us. Did he?" she said looking at him, still panting slightly. Inuyasha pulled away from her and said, "Whatever. I am telling you, that is no ordinary monk. He didn't smell like a demon, only a mortal."

"So that means he maybe able to use magic, am I right?" Miroku asked, caught up with the other two after helping Sango up. Inuyasha shrugged.

"I don't know."

Inuyasha scowled, then looked at Kagome.

"Wait a minute, first you are yelling at the strange monk, then you are saying to leave him alone! Your brain must be broken or somethin'." He eyed Kagome warily as she stared at him in disbelief. He continued, "I mean, at first you wanted to kill the guy, now you don't want me to go after him? What the hell! Can you make up your mind or is it so broken it can't even do that!"

The two stared at each other.

"SIT BOY!"

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The monk on the other hand was speeding along faster than Inuyasha himself. The water was still around his legs, speeding him forward. He would look back once in a while to make sure that no one was following him. Finally, he reached a rock wall that faced a small lake. He stopped there, and the water surrounding his legs bubbled over to the lake. He smiled at it, then went up the rock wall on a hidden path to a cave.

"Did you find it?" a cold voice asked from the back of the cave. The monk couldn't see the speaker, but then he didn't care. He slid down the side of the cave to rest and replied, "No, Neko. I didn't. And if you would like to know, I met up with a certain inu hanyu." He looked toward the back of the cave where two gleaming eyes were looking at him.

"Oh really? Well, we should pay him a visit. Tonight."

The monk rolled his eyes.

"Kami, why! He doesn't have it, so why should we worry? I mean, if he did have it, he wouldn't know what to do with it…"

"Because, he may have it and you didn't see it because you were too busy running away from them!" the voiced hissed back.

The monk glared at the narrowed eyes and said in turn, "I didn't have my staff. If I did, I would have stayed to see if I had it."

"And you didn't take your staff why?"

"Because, you said it would slow me down," the monk grumbled.

The eyes blinked then disappeared. When the person talked again, they sounded farther in the cave than before.

"Well, when I tell you to leave your weapon next time, Dairoshi, take it."

Dairoshi sighed and stood up, brushing off his robes before heading back into the cave with the eyes.

"Come now Neko. We should stop hunting for them until we can figure out how to detect them. We are getting plenty of scars battling demons that you said had shards and didn't."

The eyes pulled around to look at him and glared. Neko walked forward partially so the light would hit her face. She blinked most catlike and said with a hiss, "We will find someone. If those shards get in the wrong hands…" She railed off to look at the ceiling, her pupils going wider. Dairoshi walked over to her and kneeled down to look at her eye-to-eye. He smirked.

"What?" Neko said, her eyes darting back to him, pupils thinning like a cat's.

"It surprises me that you are older than me, but smaller than me."

"Oh, shut up," Neko said, going back into the cave.

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Artster: YAY!

Neko: --;

Dairoshi: Why do I hafta look like Mirkou!

Artster:….(thinks) Cause…it's funny?

Mirkou: (hits Artster)