Tami: Hey everyone! I really like this chapter. I'll tell you my favorite
part at the end. I hope you like it.
Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha.
Last time:
"I don't know what it is about you and kids."
"What do you mean?"
"You have a young female ward who is about Shippou's age in human years. She's a human, which was an odd sight when we first saw her with you."
"Why?"
"Well," Miroku hesitated, not sure how much he should say. "you don't exactly like humans all that much." Sesshoumaru went silent, contemplating his dream. No, it definitely didn't seem like he liked humans all that much. So why had he taken on a human ward?
Now:
Shippou woke up in the early morning, finding himself wrapped up in Sesshoumaru's tail. When Sesshoumaru had fallen back asleep, he had unconsciously tightened his tail's hold on Shippou so he wouldn't fall or get taken away. Shippou wriggled out of Sesshoumaru's lap, careful not to wake him up. He walked around the clearing, making sure everyone was all right. Kirara woke up as he passed her and joined him in his rounds. Together, they walked a little ways into the forest. Kirara mewed softly at Shippou. He nodded, understanding Kirara's mews as easily as he understood anyone else. "Well, we could go look for them." Kirara mewed her answer. "Well, we should be okay by ourselves for a little while. I mean, we can take care of ourselves enough to escape any danger." Kirara mewed again, a little more hesitantly than before. "Yeah, but we'll be back soon hopefully. We should do whatever we can to help." Pause for Kirara. (I'm not exactly sure what Kirara sounds like. How would you describe it? Give me some ideas and I'll use them.) "Inuyasha wouldn't help. He just wants to find shards and already considers himself hampered enough as it is. Come on, Kirara. We can go look for a week. If we don't find them, we can come back. Yeah, they'll probably be worried and angry, but if we do find them, they'll be happy we did something to help." Kirara hesitated before finally relenting. She transformed into her bigger self and Shippou climbed up onto her back. She jumped up out of the trees and into the air, moving off towards the west.
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Sesshoumaru woke up in the morning to find Shippou gone. He looked quickly around the clearing, but didn't see him. The small fire cat wasn't there either. He took a deep breath. Their scents were fading out into the forest. He got up and followed it for a few minutes. No other smells mixed, so they weren't forced away. But why would they leave? "Sesshoumaru?" he heard Kagome call. He turned back around and started back towards her. She had followed him into the forest a little ways.
"Right here. What do you want?" he asked.
"Where's Shippou?"
"I don't know. His and the fire cat's scents go off that way into the forest. They've been gone for awhile." A hand went to her mouth.
"Were they taken by anyone?" Sesshoumaru shook his head and Kagome breathed a sigh of relief. "We have to go find them. It's dangerous out there for them. Especially my Shippou." She started back towards the camp, then stopped, biting her lip. "Inuyasha's going to be so mad at Shippou for this."
"Why? Maybe they just wanted to get away."
"He'll be angry because Sango and I will follow them and he can't find shards without me and Sango is a valuable asset because of her fighting skills."
"How do you know?" She gave him a sideways look.
"He reminds us of where we stand in the group constantly."
"Why don't you leave?" Kagome shifted uncomfortably. "Anyway, Inuyasha should care about Shippou, shouldn't he? Shippou is his adoptive kit, right?" Kagome shook her head slowly.
"He doesn't care about Shippou. Besides, I think Shippou's taken a liking to you." She smiled. "You two looked really cute sleeping together." She blushed when she realized what she said. Sesshoumaru smirked.
"Cute? Really? I fancy myself more as handsome, but, I suppose cute will do." Kagome reached out and slapped him on the arm.
"Shut up, you know what I meant." She laughed and tried to force her blush away. "Come on, we've got to go tell the others and start looking for them." She started heading back towards camp. Sesshoumaru followed, a smile on his face. When they got back to camp, everyone else was awake.
"Have you guys seen Kirara? She wasn't here when I woke up." Sango asked, a little worry in her voice. Kagome shook her head.
"She and Shippou went off somewhere together." Sesshoumaru answered. "I followed their scent, but it disappeared into the air." Sango's eyes widened.
"We have to go find them." She took off her outer kimono and placed it in Kagome's bag before swinging the Hiraikotsu onto her back. Inuyasha jumped down from his tree, an angry look on his face. Kagome's worry was starting to worry her as well. Shippou had become really important to her. He was like her own kid, and he was gone. He might be in trouble.
"We're not going to look for them. They'll come running back at the first sign of trouble." Inuyasha said. Kagome and Sango turned on him. Kagome yelled the word and Sango helped him down with a swing of the Hiraikotsu.
"WE ARE GOING AND YOU ARE NOT GOING TO STOP US!" Kagome yelled. She hurriedly picked up her pack and started off in the direction she and Sesshoumaru had come from. Sango and Miroku followed her without hesitation. Inuyasha moaned from his hole. There was a large lump on his head and his back hurt a whole lot. Sesshoumaru reached down and helped him up. Inuyasha's vision spun and he had to lean heavily on Sesshoumaru to stand. Together they made their way after the group. A few minutes later, Inuyasha yanked away from Sesshoumaru.
"Don't touch me," he growled softly. He fell to the ground as his head spun again. Sesshoumaru gave him an exasperated glance and knelt down beside him.
"Why don't you let me help you just this once. No one will know." Sesshoumaru said, reaching a hand out. Inuyasha smacked it away.
"Not on your life." He pressed his hands on the ground and tried to stand. He made it up and staggered off after the others, casting a glare over his shoulder. Sesshoumaru straightened with a sigh. So much for that idea.
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A small girl sat huddled behind the leg of the two-headed Ah-Uhn. (What is Ah-Uhn anyway?) Ah-Uhn glared down at Jaken, one of his heads lowered protectively near Rin. "Get out of my way, Ah." Ah growled at Jaken, baring his teeth. The muzzles they wore had been taken off by Rin a few days earlier. Rin whimpered.
"Jaken won't go find Sesshoumaru-sama. I want to go find him, Uhn," she whispered to the head lowered near her.
"Sesshoumaru is dead, you little fool!" Jaken yelled. Rin stood and walked a little ways forward. Anger burned in her eyes.
"Nothing could kill Sesshoumaru-sama. Nothing." Jaken tapped the Staff of Heads against the ground and fire shot towards Rin. Uhn snatched her up by the back of her kimono and they leapt into the air. Ah shot green flames at Jaken. The toad dodged them and ran off into the woods. "Thank you, Uhn." Uhn set her down and both Ah and Uhn nuzzled her carefully. She laughed and petted them. They kneeled down for her and she scrambled up onto their back. "Let's go find Sesshoumaru-sama ourselves." Ah-Uhn nodded and jumped into the air, heading in the direction of the last place they saw him.
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The group made it to where Shippou's and Kirara's scents disappeared into the sky. "We have to find them, but how when we can't track them?" Kagome asked.
"I can track them, if you want." Sesshoumaru said.
"How?" Sango asked.
"One of you needs to climb on my back, I can hold another, and someone needs to climb on Inuyasha's back." Kagome immediately jumped on Inuyasha's back and Sango on Sesshoumaru's. Miroku sighed.
"This is very degrading," he muttered as Sesshoumaru picked him up. Sango looked over Sesshoumaru's shoulder at him.
"We'll make it up to you," she said. A red cloud began to form under their feet and it lifted them off the ground.
"This is so cool!" Kagome said, her eyes wide with excitement. Sesshoumaru smiled and directed the could after their scent.
"When did you remember you could do this?" Miroku asked.
"Just now." Sesshoumaru answered frankly.
"Ah."
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Tami: My favorite part was with Ah-Uhn. Not many people feature them in their stories, I guess cuz they don't show up often, but they intrigued me the first time I saw them, so I had to put them somewhere. And if people do feature them, it's just a passing thing of oh, Rin's riding Ah-Uhn. So I figured I'd try it and see what happened with it.
Review responses: (Reviews have been dropping lately. I don't know if it's because people are losing interest, or just don't feel like reviewing. I'm starting to miss all of them though. Don't get me wrong, I love the reviews I get, it's just, I was getting a while bunch more. If you read, please review, even if you don't like the story. Give me a little constructive criticism, I like getting that to help me make my story better. Sorry for that little rant, folks.)
Soli: I'll check out your story as soon as I can. (right after I post this. ^_^) That is the perfect song for Miroku. I love finding songs for characters, cuz everytime you here that song, you think of them. This one songfic I read comes back to me in detail whenever I hear the song. It's a cute one too. ^_^ If you want, e-mail me and I'll tell you if you're right or not. You probably are.
Ranmagirl7: You'll find out about the creepy evil lady somewhere towards the end, which I already have planned out. ^_^ She'll appear some more though. Not sure exactly when. I'm glad to hear you like my story so much. It makes me feel very special.
sesshomarulover1: Yeah, I thought that was a particularly nice touch to show how pissed she was at him.
disturbed-demon-gurl: A crazy Sesshoumaru. O.o Scary.
Midnight-Fire: I feel very sorry for you. I would like, totally kill my computer if it kept me away for that long. I have seriously become addicted to this place. I swear my computer hates me. I never thought it possible for an inanimate object to hate, but my computer does. It plots against me.
Also thanks to:
Saria
Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha.
Last time:
"I don't know what it is about you and kids."
"What do you mean?"
"You have a young female ward who is about Shippou's age in human years. She's a human, which was an odd sight when we first saw her with you."
"Why?"
"Well," Miroku hesitated, not sure how much he should say. "you don't exactly like humans all that much." Sesshoumaru went silent, contemplating his dream. No, it definitely didn't seem like he liked humans all that much. So why had he taken on a human ward?
Now:
Shippou woke up in the early morning, finding himself wrapped up in Sesshoumaru's tail. When Sesshoumaru had fallen back asleep, he had unconsciously tightened his tail's hold on Shippou so he wouldn't fall or get taken away. Shippou wriggled out of Sesshoumaru's lap, careful not to wake him up. He walked around the clearing, making sure everyone was all right. Kirara woke up as he passed her and joined him in his rounds. Together, they walked a little ways into the forest. Kirara mewed softly at Shippou. He nodded, understanding Kirara's mews as easily as he understood anyone else. "Well, we could go look for them." Kirara mewed her answer. "Well, we should be okay by ourselves for a little while. I mean, we can take care of ourselves enough to escape any danger." Kirara mewed again, a little more hesitantly than before. "Yeah, but we'll be back soon hopefully. We should do whatever we can to help." Pause for Kirara. (I'm not exactly sure what Kirara sounds like. How would you describe it? Give me some ideas and I'll use them.) "Inuyasha wouldn't help. He just wants to find shards and already considers himself hampered enough as it is. Come on, Kirara. We can go look for a week. If we don't find them, we can come back. Yeah, they'll probably be worried and angry, but if we do find them, they'll be happy we did something to help." Kirara hesitated before finally relenting. She transformed into her bigger self and Shippou climbed up onto her back. She jumped up out of the trees and into the air, moving off towards the west.
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Sesshoumaru woke up in the morning to find Shippou gone. He looked quickly around the clearing, but didn't see him. The small fire cat wasn't there either. He took a deep breath. Their scents were fading out into the forest. He got up and followed it for a few minutes. No other smells mixed, so they weren't forced away. But why would they leave? "Sesshoumaru?" he heard Kagome call. He turned back around and started back towards her. She had followed him into the forest a little ways.
"Right here. What do you want?" he asked.
"Where's Shippou?"
"I don't know. His and the fire cat's scents go off that way into the forest. They've been gone for awhile." A hand went to her mouth.
"Were they taken by anyone?" Sesshoumaru shook his head and Kagome breathed a sigh of relief. "We have to go find them. It's dangerous out there for them. Especially my Shippou." She started back towards the camp, then stopped, biting her lip. "Inuyasha's going to be so mad at Shippou for this."
"Why? Maybe they just wanted to get away."
"He'll be angry because Sango and I will follow them and he can't find shards without me and Sango is a valuable asset because of her fighting skills."
"How do you know?" She gave him a sideways look.
"He reminds us of where we stand in the group constantly."
"Why don't you leave?" Kagome shifted uncomfortably. "Anyway, Inuyasha should care about Shippou, shouldn't he? Shippou is his adoptive kit, right?" Kagome shook her head slowly.
"He doesn't care about Shippou. Besides, I think Shippou's taken a liking to you." She smiled. "You two looked really cute sleeping together." She blushed when she realized what she said. Sesshoumaru smirked.
"Cute? Really? I fancy myself more as handsome, but, I suppose cute will do." Kagome reached out and slapped him on the arm.
"Shut up, you know what I meant." She laughed and tried to force her blush away. "Come on, we've got to go tell the others and start looking for them." She started heading back towards camp. Sesshoumaru followed, a smile on his face. When they got back to camp, everyone else was awake.
"Have you guys seen Kirara? She wasn't here when I woke up." Sango asked, a little worry in her voice. Kagome shook her head.
"She and Shippou went off somewhere together." Sesshoumaru answered. "I followed their scent, but it disappeared into the air." Sango's eyes widened.
"We have to go find them." She took off her outer kimono and placed it in Kagome's bag before swinging the Hiraikotsu onto her back. Inuyasha jumped down from his tree, an angry look on his face. Kagome's worry was starting to worry her as well. Shippou had become really important to her. He was like her own kid, and he was gone. He might be in trouble.
"We're not going to look for them. They'll come running back at the first sign of trouble." Inuyasha said. Kagome and Sango turned on him. Kagome yelled the word and Sango helped him down with a swing of the Hiraikotsu.
"WE ARE GOING AND YOU ARE NOT GOING TO STOP US!" Kagome yelled. She hurriedly picked up her pack and started off in the direction she and Sesshoumaru had come from. Sango and Miroku followed her without hesitation. Inuyasha moaned from his hole. There was a large lump on his head and his back hurt a whole lot. Sesshoumaru reached down and helped him up. Inuyasha's vision spun and he had to lean heavily on Sesshoumaru to stand. Together they made their way after the group. A few minutes later, Inuyasha yanked away from Sesshoumaru.
"Don't touch me," he growled softly. He fell to the ground as his head spun again. Sesshoumaru gave him an exasperated glance and knelt down beside him.
"Why don't you let me help you just this once. No one will know." Sesshoumaru said, reaching a hand out. Inuyasha smacked it away.
"Not on your life." He pressed his hands on the ground and tried to stand. He made it up and staggered off after the others, casting a glare over his shoulder. Sesshoumaru straightened with a sigh. So much for that idea.
~^~^~^~^~^~^~
A small girl sat huddled behind the leg of the two-headed Ah-Uhn. (What is Ah-Uhn anyway?) Ah-Uhn glared down at Jaken, one of his heads lowered protectively near Rin. "Get out of my way, Ah." Ah growled at Jaken, baring his teeth. The muzzles they wore had been taken off by Rin a few days earlier. Rin whimpered.
"Jaken won't go find Sesshoumaru-sama. I want to go find him, Uhn," she whispered to the head lowered near her.
"Sesshoumaru is dead, you little fool!" Jaken yelled. Rin stood and walked a little ways forward. Anger burned in her eyes.
"Nothing could kill Sesshoumaru-sama. Nothing." Jaken tapped the Staff of Heads against the ground and fire shot towards Rin. Uhn snatched her up by the back of her kimono and they leapt into the air. Ah shot green flames at Jaken. The toad dodged them and ran off into the woods. "Thank you, Uhn." Uhn set her down and both Ah and Uhn nuzzled her carefully. She laughed and petted them. They kneeled down for her and she scrambled up onto their back. "Let's go find Sesshoumaru-sama ourselves." Ah-Uhn nodded and jumped into the air, heading in the direction of the last place they saw him.
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The group made it to where Shippou's and Kirara's scents disappeared into the sky. "We have to find them, but how when we can't track them?" Kagome asked.
"I can track them, if you want." Sesshoumaru said.
"How?" Sango asked.
"One of you needs to climb on my back, I can hold another, and someone needs to climb on Inuyasha's back." Kagome immediately jumped on Inuyasha's back and Sango on Sesshoumaru's. Miroku sighed.
"This is very degrading," he muttered as Sesshoumaru picked him up. Sango looked over Sesshoumaru's shoulder at him.
"We'll make it up to you," she said. A red cloud began to form under their feet and it lifted them off the ground.
"This is so cool!" Kagome said, her eyes wide with excitement. Sesshoumaru smiled and directed the could after their scent.
"When did you remember you could do this?" Miroku asked.
"Just now." Sesshoumaru answered frankly.
"Ah."
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Tami: My favorite part was with Ah-Uhn. Not many people feature them in their stories, I guess cuz they don't show up often, but they intrigued me the first time I saw them, so I had to put them somewhere. And if people do feature them, it's just a passing thing of oh, Rin's riding Ah-Uhn. So I figured I'd try it and see what happened with it.
Review responses: (Reviews have been dropping lately. I don't know if it's because people are losing interest, or just don't feel like reviewing. I'm starting to miss all of them though. Don't get me wrong, I love the reviews I get, it's just, I was getting a while bunch more. If you read, please review, even if you don't like the story. Give me a little constructive criticism, I like getting that to help me make my story better. Sorry for that little rant, folks.)
Soli: I'll check out your story as soon as I can. (right after I post this. ^_^) That is the perfect song for Miroku. I love finding songs for characters, cuz everytime you here that song, you think of them. This one songfic I read comes back to me in detail whenever I hear the song. It's a cute one too. ^_^ If you want, e-mail me and I'll tell you if you're right or not. You probably are.
Ranmagirl7: You'll find out about the creepy evil lady somewhere towards the end, which I already have planned out. ^_^ She'll appear some more though. Not sure exactly when. I'm glad to hear you like my story so much. It makes me feel very special.
sesshomarulover1: Yeah, I thought that was a particularly nice touch to show how pissed she was at him.
disturbed-demon-gurl: A crazy Sesshoumaru. O.o Scary.
Midnight-Fire: I feel very sorry for you. I would like, totally kill my computer if it kept me away for that long. I have seriously become addicted to this place. I swear my computer hates me. I never thought it possible for an inanimate object to hate, but my computer does. It plots against me.
Also thanks to:
Saria