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A/N: Ok, I'm having fun with this story. So, after I answer my reviews, I will write. Also: in case I confuzzled anyone, this IS going to have moments of Hiei/Kurama. Not a full blown relationship, per say, but moments. Just like the show, only fluffier! All flames will be used for aforementioned bonfire. Please, review!
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Apri-Chan: Well, yeah. She glomped him. And pissed off Inu. And I agree. Youko is so freaking good looking… sorta like Kirara. You want to hug him but he'd kill you. Very hot, though. Beautifully deadly fits too, I guess.
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Chapter Three: There'll Be Hell To Pay
InuYasha growled quietly throughout the whole meal. It was obvious that he'd disliked watching Kagome glomp Kurama. Because he had respect for the fox demon (who had, after all, been around during the feudal age), he refrained from beating him up (he also refrained cause he knew he'd get whipped). However, he was still sullen about Kagome not telling him she was going to have a bunch of demons staying in her house.
After dinner, the guys picked out a movie to watch, and everyone settled down in the living room. Of course, no movie night would be complete without popcorn, so Kagome missed the opening previews while she popped some. When she arrived triumphantly in the living room with two big bowls of popcorn, she realized there was nowhere to sit. Kurama and Boton were sitting on the loveseat with Hiei perched on the arm next to Kurama. Yusuke was sitting in the armchair and had somehow managed to convince Keiko to sit on his lap. Kuwabara and Yukina were propped against the sideboard with a blanket. InuYasha was sitting cross-legged on the floor next to Botan's side of the couch.
"Ummm… Hey, Boton, could you move over a little?" Boton scooted over towards the arm of the couch, leaving a tiny amount of room for Kagome next to Kurama. InuYasha frowned. Putting up with an incredibly powerful demon was one thing. Letting Kagome anywhere near him, however, was a different matter.
"Here." Kagome gasped when she was suddenly jerked towards the floor. InuYasha settled her on his lap like he did sometimes when they had to sleep in trees, wrapping his coat around her. Kagome blushed, keeping her eyes down to avoid the amused looks Boton and Kurama were shooting her way.
"Eh, thanks, Inuyasha."
"Keh. There was nowhere else to sit, wench." That was the wrong thing to say. All the girls (minus Yukina), as well as Yusuke, winced.
"IDIOT! There's room on the couch." Kagome jerked out of InuYasha's grip. "SIT! Kurama, is there room enough for me?" At Kurama's nod, she stepped over the now prone InuYasha and settled in between Kurama and Boton with a bowl of popcorn on her lap.
By the time the movie ended (although many people were lost, having missed the first several minutes due to the fighting), Keiko, Yukina, and Kagome had all fallen asleep. Kuwabara and Yusuke looked like they didn't quite know what to do with the girls leaning against them. Hiei and Kurama had already gone back to the shrine house, which left three guys and a girl to get all the others into bed.
InuYasha snorted. "Feh. Give me the other one staying in Kagome's room. I can carry them both."
Yusuke bristled. "Let you carry Keiko? How do I know you aren't going to kill her?"
"Because, idiot, do you see Kagome letting me anywhere near anyone she thought I'd kill?"
Yusuke blushed. "Well, no… Ok. Take her." InuYasha stood, carefully plucking (A/N: I love that verb. Sounds like she's a chicken!) Kagome off of the couch and hoisting up Keiko as well.
"Do you think that you three can get the other one back to her room?"
Boton nodded cheerfully. "Yup! See you tomorrow!"
InuYasha climbed the stairs to Kagome's room, put both girls in their respective beds, and then curled up in the open window. There was no way he was not keeping watch over Kagome when there were this many strange demons in the house.
"LET GO OF ME!"
"NOT UNTIL YOU TELL ME WHAT YOU'RE DOING HERE!"
Kagome was awakened from pleasant dreams by shouting outside her window. She stumbled across her room and leaned out to see… InuYasha holding a toddler?
"Kagome!" She looked down. The exchange students had gathered below the fight (InuYasha was on a tree branch) and Kurama was trying to get her attention.
"Yeah?" She yawned as she said it. It was too early for InuYasha's paranoia.
"Get your friend to release Koenma. If he doesn't, there will be hell to pay…"
"Sure. INUYASHA!" InuYasha turned and looked at Kagome, loosening his grip on the child.
"What, wench?"
"Sit." Yawning, Kagome made her way down the stairs and out onto her lawn. She knelt down by InuYasha, who was still on the ground. "Sorry. I think that thing gets more powerful every time I use it."
"Then maybe stop using it so much?" InuYasha muttered under his breath as he pushed himself up into a sitting position. Meanwhile, the guests had gathered around Koenma. Kagome tuned back in on the conversation and heard something slightly surprising.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU HAVE NEVER HEARD OF THE SHIKON JEWEL?"
Hiei grunted. "Of course we have heard of it. The jewel gives the bearer almost unimaginable power."
Kagome, who had sort of inched her way into the little group, spoke up. "So, what kind of power would a quarter of the jewel bring?"
"No demon has ever had that much. Not since it was broken, at least. Why?" Suddenly, all eyes were on Kagome.
"Maybe no demon has had that much, but, um…" She pulled the shard-necklace out from under her pjs. "I collected that many."
You could have heard a pin drop. It was almost spooky how quiet it had gotten.
Koenma started spluttering unintelligibly, and this continued until Botan clapped her hand over his mouth. Kurama took over.
"What Koenma means is, how did you get those?"
Kagome, very red in the face, mumbled something. When she realized that nobody could hear her, she sighed and repeated herself. "I shattered it, alright? I was trying to get it back from a demon crow and my arrow broke it into a whole lot of pieces, and so now I'm trying to find them all. And you were wrong. Naraku has pretty much the rest of it, and he's a half demon."
Koenma had stopped mouthing things. He popped into teenager form and tilted his head. "Well, that explains a lot. Yes, that explains everything!"
Yusuke ran a hand through his already messy hair, voicing the thought they were all thinking. "What are you talking about?"
Koenma smiled. "Be politer, Yusuke. You're going to have to work with this girl."
"What?"
"Team, say hello to the Feudal Era's spirit detective."
A/N: Cliffy! Well, sorta. It's going to get fascinating later. I promise, one more before midnight Xmas day. It'll be my gift to you. And yes, I wanted this chapter to be longer, but I have a HUGE chapter planned for the next one, and it'll work better if it all goes in one chapter.