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-Randall Flagg2000

(1)

"Kagome!" Shippo whispered to the young miko who was busily pouring over a large, hardcover book that said "Biology" on the front cover. "Kagome!"

Kagome looked up from her textbook. "You need something Shippo?"

Shippo gave the dust in the ground a light kick as if nervous. "Well Kagome, it's something I've wanted to tell you for a little while now. You see…"

"Hey Kagome, something up?" came the voice of a familiar demon hunter.

"Oh, good timing Sango!" Shippo said quickly. He was growing more and more anxious by the second. "I needed to tell you something too! It's about… well it's about something!"

"And what would that something be?"

Shippo began to break out into a cold sweat. He didn't know what would happen once they knew. He only prayed they wouldn't be too angry at him for helping Miroku perform such a task.

"Well… it's something!" he said again, not quite finding the words he was hoping for. This was going to be harder then he thought.

"Something? Shippo, don't play games. We have things to do you know!" Kagome said, a tad impatiently.

"Well, you see, sometimes a person can do something that's really bad, but they don't know it at first. But when they do realize it, they feel sorry for it and wish they hadn't ever done it, but it's too late to take it back and then they-"

"Shippo," Sango interrupted "please stop beating around the bush and tell us what you want to say!"

"Sango, don't be impatient! Let him finish!" Kagome said. "Go on Shippo."

"Well I think I should have told you this earlier before Miroku got me to…" He couldn't go any further. He just couldn't let them know. Even Kagome wouldn't be able to sympathize with his plight after she learned about this. He had really gone too far this time, and all just for a lousy bar of chocolate.

"Um, maybe I should tell you some other time! Bye bye!" The little kitsune turned to make a break for it, and he would have made it too, had his tail not been snatched by Kagome.

"Shippo, what are you hiding from us?" Shippo realized he had just made a big mistake in mentioning Miroku. It wasn't much, but it was enough to heighten her suspicions.

"I'm not hiding anything Kagome! Would I lie to you?" He was trying to sound innocent, but wasn't doing very good.

"Maybe if that something was severe enough yes, now what is it you wish to tell us?" Kagome was beginning to tire of Shippo's childish banter.

Shippo was beginning to become frantic. Why had he even bothered to tell them in the first place? "It's nothing really! Now let me go!"

Sango stepped towards him. "Shippo, you have something to tell us and you are going too. It doesn't matter what it is, but if it's something bad you should tell us. Maybe we could help you out of it, whatever it is."

Shippo began to protest when Kagome interrupted him. "Shippo, I know that whatever this thing is it's bothering you, but you should tell us anyway. Sango is right in what she says. We won't get mad and we will help you solve your problem.

Shippo's mind told his mouth to stay shut, but his mouth apparently had decided not to listen. Before he even knew what he was doing, he began to speak rapidly.

"Miroku made me do this Kagome, you see he wanted me to help him find a way to touch women so he wouldn't be caught and I didn't want to so he bribed me with a piece of chocolate and I agreed to turn him into something really, really small so he wouldn't be seen and he's been making me do this for a little bit now and I turned him into a virus so he could go into women's clothes and bodies and-" Shippo was babbling, but he couldn't stop. His words continued to get faster and faster. His terror built as he reached the end of it all.

"-look around inside them and he made me turn him into a virus for you first Kagome and then he wanted me to do it for Sango and he said if I didn't do it he'd melt the chocolate and- and-!" Shippo burst into tears, both from shame of his deeds, and from terror of what the girls would do to him. Oh why hadn't he just let the damn candy melt and wait for Kagome to get him another? He should have been thinking with his brain instead of his stomach.

Shippo leaned forward with his hands outstretched in the traditional Japanese "forgive me" position. "Oh please forgive me, I didn't know he could go this far, I just wanted that chocolate so badly that I-"

Shippo looked up and the cries locked in his throat as he saw the looks of terrifying anger on both the schoolgirl and the hunter.

(2)

Shippo opened his mouth to continue his apology, but he was suddenly lifted up by the nape of his neck and brought up to face the merciless glare of Kagome Higurashi.

"Would you care to repeat what you said?" Kagome whispered through clenched teeth. "Do you want to say what you said again, or do you just want us to tell Inuyasha about this?"

Shippo's terror became supreme at the thought of Inuyasha learning of this. "But it wasn't my fault Kagome! I didn't mean too! I just wasn't thinking!"

"Darn right you weren't!" Sango scolded. "You were actually willing to help Miroku practice his lechery just so you could have a few moments of bliss in your mouth? Have you no shame?"

Shippo began to cry harder. "I'm sorry I helped him! I knew I shouldn't have! Please, don't tell Inuyasha, I don't want him to hurt me! It's Miroku's fault, not mine!"

Kagome was tempted to just drag the boy to Inuyasha and let him deal with the fox child, but her sympathetic side won out. Shippo was after all only a child. He did deserve punishment for this, but then Miroku's influence had brought him to it. Shippo's punishment would come in due time. For now, they had to deal with a lecherous monk who apparently didn't know when to quit.

Kagome set Shippo down and turned to Sango. "Sango, I think we should let Shippo go for now. Miroku tricked him into doing this, so I think we should deal with him instead."

Sango nodded assent. Miroku needed more then a slap in face this time. Heck even a beating would not suffice.

After some talk, a course of action was decided. The trio set off to go back to Kaede's village. She would know what to do.

(3)

"Indeed child. I understand your plight." The old woman nodded her head in understanding. She had been listening intently to Kagomeand was now ready to help the younger ones.

"We need to get him now Lady Kaede! If Miroku keeps this up, no woman will have any privacy!" Sango said. "Is there anything we could use on him that wouldn't actually hurt him? I want to get back at Miroku, but I don't want to hurt him."

"Don't worry. I have something to help ye get the man." Kaede went to the back of her hut and came back with a thick book. She opened it and began to flip through the pages until she found what she was seeking. She set the book down on a stool for the rest to see.

"Take a look at this potion, young ones. I believe this should help you with your problem." She pointed to the page.

Sango looked over the page and smiled. "Oh thank you so much Lady Kaede! Now we can teach Miroku a lesson he'll never forget!"

"This is going to be so much fun!" Kagome exclaimed. "Nothing could go wrong!"

"Why the hell didn't you tell me you were going back to the village you stupid girl!" roared the voice of Inuyasha. He had followed their scent back after coming back andseeing no trace of them."Anything could have happened to you without me! Next time tell me!"

"Inuyasha…" Kagome said slowly.

"Uh oh…"

"Sit boy!"

BAM!

END OF CHAPTER FIVE

What is it that this potion does? You'll just have to find out. Keep your eyes peeled for the next chapter.
-Randall Flagg2000