Chapter Ten: Home Away from Home
New Reviewers! They just keep coming! Welcome to the fold, Mizuumi13, and 16animefan. Mizuumi, thanks for the names, and Animefan, I will continue to wit my story. Good to have you. I recently received an email from the aforementioned Basilioboy. It left me wondering, "What the hell's the fourth wall?" And to answerto "why I don't just go back and change it", my reply is this: "I'm too lazy." Anyway, happy tenth anniversary! Or birthday! Whatever! Anyway, the point is, it's my tenth chapter, and I'm happy. I'M HAPPY! Well, since I ended the last chapter saying that the group'strip to Kaede'swas uneventful, I guess I'll just say that they're allthere already. Enjoy.
The twelve of them were at Kaede2's sitting scattered about the hut. They had relayed the information to Kaede. Before that, however, they nearly gave the poor sexagenarian a stroke, which, at her age, is really bad. Kaede2's diagnosis was this, at some point when Kagome and Inuyasha were visiting Kagome's family, (well, Kagome visited, Inuyasha was just there to drag her back),Naraku took a splinter of wood from the well, and gutted the magic, altered it, and contained with in an orb. Because of Naraku's alterations, it sent them ahead a mere year, instead of the usual five hundred. His reason being that if they were trapped in the future, they couldn't destroy him the past. Miroku argued that if that were so, then the future they were in would be altered by the group's being there, meaning that they eventually got home at some point, and destroyed Naraku. How this happened, however, they did not know. "If my hunch is correct, then I should be able to do the same thing that Naraku did." Kaede had said. "To do so, I require a piece of the well. I shall return shortly." With that, Kaede had left, to do as she said she would, leaving the rest of them to think things over. "Perhaps we should retire to the house." suggested Miroku2. "House?" said the four from the first universe. "Didn't I mention?" asked Miroku2. "Soon after Sango and I married," Sango twitched, "the six of us built a house to stay in. With Naraku gone, we no longer had to move around, so we settled down." explained Miroku2. "Can we see it?" asked Kagome. "Of course." said Sango2, "Just help me a little with me." "Oh, right." said Kagome, helping her dazed friend to her feet.
AT THE HOUSE!
The house was not too far from Kaede's hut. They wanted to build it close to the well for convenience. It was a fairlybig house, bigger than most houses in that time anyway. It was a one-story, because they were afraid that, since none of them were professionals, it wasbest not to take the risk of a collapsible upper story. Entering through the front door, one could go three ways. To the left was theliving room, where the group congregated to marvel over the plethora of modern-day items Kagome2 brought back, and attached was the dining room, where the five of them ate the ninja food Kagome2 and Inuyasha2 stuffed the cabinets and pantry with. To the right was the kitchen, where there was basically a fire pit for cooking, the necessary utensils, a hot pot, and about three quarter dozen cabinets and a pantry, which are all, as I said, crammed full of ninja food. Going straight, one would be in a hallway, lined with pictures Kaede2 had taken for them, and Kagome2 had blown up, telling the person who did that, the reason her friends were dressed oddly, was because all the pictures were "theme pictures." I figured you'd be curious. Well, I figured whoever was smart enough to notice would be curious. The only gap of pictures was a door to the bathroom, full of toiletries Kagome2 had brought from her time. The hallway branched out at the end, on theleft side was another bathroom, and Shippo2's room, which hada little cat bed for Kirara2 in it, was at the far end, so they wouldn't have to worry about him being woken up by the grown-ups various night-time activities. The twins' room was on that side as well, plus an extra room for when Kagome2 and Inuyasha2eventually had children. On the right, was Kagome2's and Inuyasha2's room, and further down the hall, Sango2's and Miroku2's. As soon as they were in those two hallways, the members of the first group were extremely uncomfortable. This was because the rooms on the right had kind size beds, and the rooms on the left had children in them. Here, it was explained that Kagome2 and Inuyasha2 had eventually adopted Shippo2 as their first son, knowing that Shippo2 looked at Kagome2 as a mother anyway. Sango's condition had grown worse. Inside she was having a mental battle, and the "Fear of Miroku" side seemed to be winning over the "It Might Not be That Bad" side. The "It'll be Great" side was... well, you don't wanna know.
A FEW MINUTES LATER! I DON'T KNOW EXACTLY HOW MANY, BUT ENOUGH TO SHOW THE FIRST GROUP THE WHOLE HOUSE!
Kaede2 soon returned with a small piece of wood, whichhad an extremely noticeable blue aura surrounding it. Kaede2 told them that she could easily duplicate Naraku's spell, but this time, she'd look harder than she apparently had before, so that this time, they wouldn't lose their memories on the way back, as they apparently had last time. (A/N: Listen guys, I'm sure there are plenty of plot holes here, but I'm way too lazy to think about that, so you're just going to have to deal with it.) Kaede2 also said that it would take about a week or so to perfect the spell, so the second group could stay in the house with their others. Yeah, they were gonna stay in thehouse. Shippo and Kirara left and went into just about everyroom out of curiousity. The others sat down in the living room and talked about things that had happened to thw hole group over the year, dwellin more on the twins than anything else. That is, until Shippo ran in with a bpard game from Kagome's time he had found in the closet. It was sson dark, and they were faced with a problem. Where were they gonna sleep?
There ya go, chapter 10. Sorry it took so long, but school's been killing me dead. I also took the SAT's which killed me deader. Oy. Well, there it is you crazy little munchkins. Happy Channukah, Kwanzaa, Ramadan, Christmas, and any other ethnic December-time holiday I may have accidentally missed.
Chapter 10 Random Fact: More people get hurt in biking than in any other known sport. You don't even have to own a bike. I was running down a hill once, and got run over by someone on a bike. I landed on a sewer grate. Yeesh.