A/N – I do not own any sort of manga or at least not anything mentioned in here….yet….Sorry bout the wait!

Chapter 5: And the group begins to form

"What….sort…of cure?" Kagome asked slowly, almost cautiously, as if she was afraid to ask.

"My cure." Ranma said. "The cure that will make me a boy – permanently."

"You sure you don't wana stay like that?" Inuyasha asked in a sarcastic, quizzical tone. "Then you can get guys like Miroku hitting on you!"

Miroku and Ranma blushed and glared at Inuyasha. Sango shook her head and Akane looked about ready to kill Inuyasha for his sarcasm and Kagome well…Kagome got mad at him.

"Inuyasha…" she said, drawing out his name. Inuyasha cringed. "Sit boy!" Inuyasha slammed hard into the ground, causing the group to laugh, breaking the tension. Kagome smiled, content with herself.

Then Akane brought the group back to what they were talking about. "So…do you know of any cure?"

Kagome walked over to the girl and put her arms around her, "I'm sorry Akane, but we don't."

Akane and Ranma's faces fell, as though they were sure this strange group would have known about what Ranma needed.

"I'm sure you can stay here though with us," Sango piped up.

"Yea!" Shippo said. "Someone else to annoy Miroku and Inuyasha!" He started dancing around at the thought of might come from that.

"Thank you very much for your generosity ," Akane said slowly but was cut of by Ranma.

"But we don't…"

"Please, just think about it?" Sango said.

"What about us?" Miroku screamed at her. "Don't you care what we think?"

"Not necessarily no," Sango said, glaring at him. "You wouldn't feel like that if you hadn't had the urge to propose to any girl you see."

Miroku glared at her and slumped down against the tree. "Are you sure you aren't gay?" Shippo asked, jumping on top of his head. The next noise heard from the two of them was an "Ow! Watcha do that for!" From Shippo, as a large lump grew on his head.

Kagome shook her head and said, "I think I'm going to go wash up," and walked away. Soon they were all in their little groups. Ranma and Akane were fighting together a little ways away, talking about whether they should or shouldn't stay. Miroku and Sango were, surprisingly, sitting together underneath of another tree, with Shippo curled up in Sango's lap, talking about what would happen if the two joined the group. Kagome was obviously in a near by hot spring, and Inuyasha was up in a big, thick, tree brooding on things.

"Maybe they can find the cure somewhere along the way," Akane was saying, throwing a low sweeping kick at Ranma.

"Maybe," Ranma said, jumping over it and throwing a jump side kick aimed at Akane's chest. Akane backed up away from it. "But, for starters you know I don't like a lot of people knowing my secret."

"Yea and what else?" Akane said, not seeing the point. She jumped up as Ranma aimed a kick at her knees. While in the air, she threw a punch to his face.

Barely missing her punch, Ranma threw a reverse spinning kick trying to catch Akane. "I don't want to be around that…that guy." He shivered.

Akane started to catch his foot, but he hooked it around, hitting her forearm at a good strength. She let out some breath but that was all of the input that said she was hit. "You're going to have to be more specific," she said, throwing two kicks. One looped out to get Ranma's hands away from his body. Then she twisted her hip, and with the same leg – not having hit the ground yet – she threw a perfect side kick at Ranma.

Ranma fell to the ground and thrust a kick up, then, jumping up, threw a punch at Akane's head. "Miroku."

Akane ducked carefully and threw a palm strike at Ranma's face. "Ah, but he has his eye on someone." Her punch landed and Ranma was thrown to the ground. Apon contact, he took his right leg and swiped Akane's left, right at the knee, brining her down next to him.

"Oh yea? Who?"

"Sango."

"Well, here's a plus," Sango said. "We'll have more people on our side."

"And Naraku wont know their strengths until we're right on top of him."

"Exactly. We could have Ranma surprise him too…" Sango left her thought unfinished knowing Miroku knew what she meant. He shuddered.

"Yea. And Lady Kagome will have someone else to talk to besides you Sango." Sango glared at him. "Not to say that she doesn't love talking to you!" He said nervously under Sango's glare.

"And we can see if Miroku is really gay!" Shippo said, then scuttled to the deep protection of Sango's lap, where he was sure if Miroku went to hit him, he would get severely hurt himself.

"What about Inuyasha's secret," Sango said in a low whisper, staring out into space.

"I guess…I guess we'll just keep them occupied for the whole night. We could slip something in their food."

"You mean to kill them?" Shippo asked.

"No Shippo," Sango said laughing. "Why don't you go play with Kirara?"

"Alright come on Kirara!" Shippo said. Kirara mewed and followed him happily.

"I guess it would be fine if they stayed here," Miroku said, almost reluctantly. "But what if our Ranma develops a crush on Lady Kagome?"

"I doubt that would happen, but Inuyasha would be furious…"

"Yes," Miroku said laughing. "That he would."

Inuyasha sat in a tree, glaring at Miroku and Sango. When will Sango realize he only has eyes for her? Feh.

He turned his gaze back out to space. I wonder where Kikyou is now. She told me my life is hers, and I said that then hers was mine, but do I want that? No, I don't, I'd rather have Kagome.

His eyes softened. I wonder where she is now? I'm going to go see if she's all right. With that he jumped off through the trees to a new tree near the hot spring.

Kagome sat in the hot spring, neck deep, enjoying the warmth of the water.

I wonder what this cure is, She thought. I wonder if…no, that couldn't be it. Or could it?

She sighed and listened all around her. Suddenly, she felt like eyes were on the back of her neck. Inuyasha. She looked behind her slowly, and saw the leaves twitch.

"Inuyasha, I know you're there, why don't you come out now?"

Inuyasha, in his tree, pulled himself back farther, How does she know I'm here! He hissed to himself inwardly. I'll just say here and not get in trouble.

"Inuyasha if you don't come out…"

Oh no, she has that tone, He thought, and leapt out of the tree, to prepare not to face the consequences.

"Sit!" She screamed, turning around. It was then that she saw that he was already coming out of the trees and she watched as he belly flopped into the water.

"Oh I'm sorry!" she said, not moving any closer though.

Inuyasha's eyes were dazed as he perched on a rock in the water. "Why'd ya do that!"

"Because we have to talk…"

"While your bathing? You've never let me do that before!"

Kagome blushed and muttered, thinking he wouldn't hear, "Well I trust you more now."

Inuyasha's ears twitched. Did she just say what I thought she said? "What did you want to uhm, talk about?" He asked, a little nervously.

"I think I know a cure for Ranma….it's…"

She never finished, for then, the half finished jewel around her neck shone brightly in a light that enveloped both her and Inuyasha. Kagome gave a slight shriek.

Ok! I need your help now. I was wondering, and I REALLY NEED YOU TO ANSWER THIS ALRIGHT? I was wondering if I should have Kagome become pregnant with…literally…Inuyasha's puppies. Like…little puppies. I'm not sure if I can write it that well, or if it'll be good or not. So you tell me okay?

Now review thanks….:

IY4ever: THANK YOU FOR ANSWERING THE POLL NOW IF YOU WOULD ANSWER THIS TOO THAT WOULD MEAN SOOOOOOOOO MUCH TO ME! Glad you still like the story

Animeluvur: glad you like the miniseries -.- what about my story? Hehe just kidding!

Cristal-shian: Was this chapter long enough is panting from work of writing chapter glad you like the mini series.

Yami-Yugi-Girl: Hope you liked this chapter

MINI SERIES TIME sorry if I missed anyone up there

Mini Series-Ways to Irritate Members of the InuYasha Gang

#3-Way to irritatate Miroku

Put Miroku in a house of mirrors. Put a girl in there too so that her reflection shows off of all the mirrors in the house. Conceal her in a hard to find corner. Miroku will enter the house of mirrors and see himself standing in front of a beautiful girl. He will then drop to one knee and try to ask her to bear his children. But to his dismay…he cant…now he has to find the real girl.

what if it turns out to be Sango in disguise?

ok before I go, and before you review, here's an idea. Since a lot of you love these mini seires' I would like to see what you think of them as a story. So go out there, and write a story involving one of my 3 mini series so far and tell me you added it, its title and so on, in a review. Then I'll go out and read and review it for you!

Hope you'll do that, I wana see what people think!

Till Next Time
Aria