Last time: A strange pair of eyes were spying on the group during the night, and leaves the group a little shook up. What was that creature looking at them?
Chapter 4: Ruthless Bear Demon
"Kanna! Come here," said a dark voice, belonging to none other than Naraku. At his call, a young girl walked into the castle room. Her hair was white and she showed no emotion, no nothing.
"Yes, Naraku..." said Kanna in a dull voice.
Naraku smirked, his matted hair moving slightly from a sudden draft. "Kagura. I know you're watching. It's not that hard to tell if you're watching. Come out here," Naraku said, watching his other reincarnation come out. She walked out, her red eyes almost glowing as much as the eyes watching InuYasha and the others. She walked in, looking angry, like usual, and walked over to Naraku.
"Kanna, show me InuYasha," Naraku said, looking into her mirror.
"Yes, Naraku..." Kanna answered, turning her mirror slightly. Then it showed the group, sleeping soundly.
"Who are those girls, and that dog?" Kagura asked, staring into the mirror.
"Those are the girls I summoned here. They will be very important for my plans," Naraku said, smirking and looking into the mirror.
In the mirror, Kay woke up, and turned to see red eyes looking at her. She stared right at the poison insect watching them, and then shouted something that they could not hear though Kanna's mirror.
Naraku called his insect back to him, and it left, leaving the group wondering what had happened. Naraku smirked.
"What is your plan?" Kagura asked Naraku.
He shook his head and answered, "You'll have to wait and see."
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Kay glared at the trees, trying to figure out what it was that had watched them. She sighed, closing her eyes and put her hand on her head, looking rather tired.
"I'm going to go to bed..." Kay said, laying down again, Kirara coming close to her and snuggling next to her. But Kay didn't fall asleep until an hour later, when she was sure that whatever was there before was gone now.
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When Kay woke up, she had a heavy dog on her legs and she could hear a new fire in front of her, and she could tell that InuYasha was already up. How? She just knew. One of those things. Those things that you know, but you don't know how you know about it... Yeah...
She growled and said, "Charlie, get off my legs. You're so heavy!" She pulled her legs out from under him and got up, waking Charlie and Kirara. She looked towards InuYasha and sighed.
"I guess you're up. I'm waiting for Kagome to get up to make us some ramen. I really want some. Do you like ramen?" InuYasha asked Kay.
"Um... Yeah. I do. Ramen is good," Kay answered, looking at InuYasha like he was crazy.
InuYasha looked at the fire, probably thinking about ramen. Then Kagome woke up, and InuYasha went over to her.
"Get me some ramen, woman!" InuYasha yelled, grabbing her shoulders.
"Sit."
InuYasha fell to the ground and growled. "Damn you."
Kagome sighed and went to her backpack, getting some instant ramen out, and then getting ready to cook it over the fire. She fixed the ramen and then put it in three bowls, leaving the rest of the ramen in a large bowl for the others. She gave a bowl to InuYasha and Kay, and one to herself, and then gave them chopsticks.
Kay knew how to use chopsticks, but wasn't very good at it... especially with slippery noodles. The others were up by the time Kay had eaten only half her bowl. When Michelle got her ramen, she wasn't doing any better.
"Why are you guys so bad with chopsticks?" Shippo asked.
Kay took her face out from the bowl, having drunk some of the juice and tried to get some more noodles easier, and said, "We aren't from Japan, so we don't eat with chopsticks. We eat with forks, and even when we use those, ramen isn't easy to eat..."
"What are forks like?" Shippo asked.
"You can kill people with them easily," answered Michelle, casually eating some more ramen. "I tried it with my brother, but he was too fat to stick the fork through his heart."
"Michelle... Shut up," Kay said, managing to get quite a bit of ramen in her mouth.
Once Kay and Michelle FINALLY got finished with their ramen, they headed off to find more Shikon Jewel shards.
"I was hoping we could fly, but I don't think Kirara can hold us all," Sango said, looking at Kirara carefully.
"She doesn't have to. Charlie can fly too. Kirara can carry you, Miroku and Shippo. Charlie can carry me, Michelle, Kagome and InuYasha. He's big enough. Are you up to it, Charlie?" Kay asked her dog. Charlie nodded and she got on top of him, followed by the others.
OK, Charlie, get going, Kay told him with her mind. Charlie started to run, Kirara following, and he jumped, and moved his legs in the air a couple times, making him get higher up. He saw Kirara near him, flying much like he was.
After a while, Kagome looked down and said, "I sense a Jewel Shard! We should go down there."
Almost immediately after she said that, Charlie and Kirara made their decent, and landed softly on the ground. A low growl came from behind some trees, and then a bear demon came out from behind the trees, growling and slashing its claws against the ground and rocks. It roared at the sight of the group, and InuYasha automatically took out his sword and smirked.
"You're dead!" InuYasha yelled as he jumped up and then brought down his sword towards the bear.
The bear dodged just in time, narrowly missing InuYasha's attack.
"InuYasha! There's a Jewel Shard in his chest!" Kagome yelled.
The bear roared and ran towards Charlie, Kay, Michelle and Kagome, and they gasped at the same time, like people in animes usually do. The bear took a swipe at them, and then they blacked out... Except for Charlie who dodged it by ducking.
Next time: Kay and Michelle realize some new powers that they can use, which will make them less useless in battle.
Michelle: Hey! I'm not useless.
Kay: And the sky is green.
Michelle: Let's bug InuYasha!
Kay: These new powers rock! Find out what they are in the next chapter, A New Way to Make InuYasha Angry! Yeah, the title's long. I didn't name it!
Michelle: Technically, you did. You are the author of this story.
Kay: o.o' Oh.