A/N: Here is chapter five, guys! Please review:D

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Where You Are
Chapter Five: Oops...

"How do I know it's you?" Inuyasha's eyebrow shot up in suspicion.

Kagome seemed to think about this for a moment. "When we fought the Seven Man Army, one of your biggest motivations for getting rid of Jakotsu was the fact that he had the hots for you." Kagome paused. "You weren't too happy when Mukotsu tried to marry me, either..." she added, almost as an afterthought.

Inuyasha growled lightly. "All right, all right! Let's not revisit that memory, please?"

Kagome took a deep breath. "I won't..." she promised. "I'm so sleepy..."

Inuyasha laughed. "Well, I think you've been through quite a bit today..."

There was a knock at the door, and Sango and Miroku entered with Shippo at their heels.

Shippo looked up expectantly. "Inuyasha, is mommy back?" he whispered, almost afraid that asking would somehow jinx it.

Inuyasha smiled. "Yes, Shippo...she's back, but she's a little tired now...so I think we should all give her a little bit of room..."

"Don't you think that was just a little too easy?" frowned Miroku, glancing around the room with worry. "I mean, I definitely understood the concept behind it and everything...but I thought that there would be just a little more to it all than that..."

Inuyasha seemed to think on this a moment. "I don't know. How am I supposed to know? I haven't exactly been through this kind of situation before..." he admitted.

"But I feel fine..." Kagome smiled. "I really do. Besides, since the new moon is tonight, we can head back to the feudal era tomorrow and start looking for the jewel again."

"Kagome...I'm not too sure about that..." Sango frowned. "Maybe we should take a few days off?"

Kagome waved her hand. "Sango...I'm serious. We don't have to take any time off."

Miroku cleared his throat.

Kagome and Sango looked over. "What, monk?" Sango demanded in annoyance.

"Inuyasha had to tell Kagome he loved her in order to get her back, didn't he?" he realized, a smart smirk playing across his lips. "Isn't that interesting?"

"Monk, keep your mouth shut or I will rip it off your face!" Inuyasha threatened.

Miroku backed away slowly. "I'm shutting up now, Inuyasha..." he promised.

Kagome ran her fingers through Inuyasha's hair and smiled. "Lighten up, Inuyasha. He was just joking around with you. He didn't really mean anything bad by it...did you, Miroku?" Kagome glared at him.

"Right!" he agreed quickly with a nervous laugh.

"It's your own fault..." Sango whispered. "You are the one who repeatedly lets yourself get into these situations!"

Miroku cleared his throat. "My dear Sango...now that Inuyasha and Kagome have seemed to rectify their little situation..."

Sango blushed.

"Miroku, I don't know about that..."

"What?" asked Kagome curiously.

Inuyasha shrugged. "Miroku told Sango he loved her and asked her to bear his children..." he said in a nonchalant sort of voice, and Kagome squealed in surprise.

Miroku coughed. "Ahem...so who's turn is it to keep their mouths shut, Inuyasha?" he groaned in embarrassment.

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"I'm sorry, momma. Sango and Miroku had to lie to you. We didn't want you to get hurt if something went wrong. They had to make sure that you thought the exact same thing as Manami did so that you didn't scare her...She had to think that Inuyasha really was Koji in order for everything to work right...and so did you..."

The click of the door could be heard, and Kagome turned her head to the side. "Who could that be at this time of the night?" she wondered out loud. "Mom? Do you know who it is?"

Her mother shrugged. "I don't know, Kagome."

"Who is it?" Souta called into the hallway.

"Who do you think it is?" Came the reply, and Kagome visibly shook and paled.

Inuyasha blinked. "Kagome, what is wrong?"

"Inuyasha..." Kagome whispered. "It's my grandfather..."

"Your...grandfather?" Inuyasha repeated uncertainly. He blinked. Suddenly he remembered Kagome's mother's story...and everything she said had transpired between Kagome and him. "Oh, no..." he frowned.

The old man was standing in front of them now. "What is he doing here?" he yelled at Kagome. "I thought that you and I already had our talk about this, didn't we? This is nonsense!"

"Stop it, gramps." Kagome's mother snapped. "I won't have it anymore..."

"But she..." he stammered.

"...Has already told you how she feels about her arrangements you made for her. Now it's your turn to leave her alone." she finished for him.

The old man reddened in anger. "I am the man of this house!" he snapped.

"I don't care." Her mother answered back. "As I've said, Kagome can make her own decisions. It may be true that you two already had this conversation, but that also means that Kagome has already told you how she feels..." At this, she pointed to Kagome and Inuyasha, who stood behind her, hand in hand. "Need I say more?"

Kagome's grandfather coughed loudly. "I...well..."

"We're going back to the feudal era tomorrow, momma..." Kagome whispered when a short silence fell over the room.

"All right, Kagome, dear..." she nodded, effectively ignoring the old man standing in front of her.

"But she just...!" he yelped.

"Had you not stormed out of the house so long ago, you may have known what has been happening to Kagome for the past couple days...but since you haven't been around and you don't know, I don't think it's a good idea that you worry about why or when she wants to go back to the feudal era." She paused. "Especially considering the fact that you are the one who wants to keep her here so much..."

"Thanks, mom..." Kagome whispered cautiously. She paused. "Inuyasha, Sango, Miroku...come on. We're going on a trip!"

"Where to?" asked Sango and Miroku, a little over-curiously. The two didn't really know what was going on with Kagome and her grandfather, but they were grateful for any type of distraction that would keep them from further wondering about the problem...

"Ramen?" Inuyasha looked up expectantly.

Kagome giggled and nodded. "Actually, yes, Inuyasha. We can go get some ramen." she promised.

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"Feeling better today, Inuyasha?" Kagome smiled, taking his hand in her own.

He seemed to think about this a moment before he nodded. "Yes, actually, I am. I'm just glad that you are finally back to yourself." he told her. "It was really weird to have you hanging all over me and everything knowing that it wasn't even really you..."

"She was kind of clingy, wasn't she?" Kagome noticed.

Inuyasha chuckled lightly. "Yeah...the only other type of clingy behavior I have ever seen like this before is in demon mates...but that's to be expected..." he said under his breath. He paused a moment. "Oh...no..."

"'Oh...no...' what?" Kagome demanded, stopping in her tracks. "What's wrong, Inuyasha?"

"She wasn't human..." he stammered.

"Who wasn't human?" Kagome frowned. Sango and Miroku were now staring at the new couple oddly.

Miroku blinked. "What's wrong back there, you two?" he asked them.

Kagome shrugged.

"She wasn't human..." Inuyasha repeated. "I didn't see it..."

"Didn't see what?" yelped Kagome in frustration. "Toss me a clue here, Inuyasha! What are you so worried about all of a sudden?"

"Manami..." he whispered in reply. "I don't think that she was human...and I never actually saw her spirit leave your body for that matter..." he added. "That would explain why she was so clingy, and why...oh no..." Inuyasha shook his head.

"Inuyasha...something is wrong, isn't it?" Miroku questioned.

Inuyasha had paled slightly, and his mouth hung open somewhat, so that the tips of his fangs were visible.

"Yes..." he answered finally. "I think something is very wrong. I don't think that Manami and Koji were actually human, and that means that Kagome and I are not rid of our ghost friends yet." He told them all. "We were tricked. It was all too easy. It doesn't make any sense at all..."

Kagome frowned, annoyed. "Inuyasha...how much stuff have we seen that actually makes sense?"

Inuyasha cleared his throat. "Look, Kagome, I'm serious! Where's the old woman?" he demanded of his four friends. Kirara chirped and transformed.

Sango nodded. "I'll go get her."

"No..." Inuyasha shook his head. "I don't think it would be a very good idea to leave Kagome and I alone now that I am half demon again. I don't know what might happen..."

"Inuyasha..." Kagome gasped. "I trust you. There is nothing to worry about..."

"Yes, Kagome...you trust me...but I don't trust him..." Inuyasha sighed deeply.

"Him?" Kagome repeated.

"Koji." Inuyasha whispered.

"Koji?"

Inuyasha nodded. "Yeah...when I came up to your room last night...she was talking to me as if I was Koji...and she said something...but I didn't really think about it until now...she said...hmm..." he put his hand to his chin in thought. "She said, 'So...you finally overtook the stubborn hanyou's spirit? I have been waiting for you to return to me for days now...'" He repeated her words.

"So that means..." Sango gasped in sudden realization.

Miroku nodded his head slowly. "I knew this would not be that simple..." he frowned. "Come. We will all go find old Lady Kaede..." he announced. "Maybe she will be able to help us with this problem...?" he suggested.

"How can she help us when we don't even really know what is going on with ourselves?" Kagome worried.

Sango coughed. "Well...Miroku and I are all right..." she nodded. "We can keep an eye on you and Inuyasha if Kaede can not help you..."

"No one should have to keep an eye on us..." snarled Inuyasha.

Suddenly Sango smiled as if she had realized something important. "You guys! They aren't ghosts!" she jumped.

"We've established that already, my dear Sango..." Miroku laughed.

"No, monk! They are leecher demons!" She yelped. "You know? Leaches? They are parasites!"

"What about the old man's story? And Kagome's nightmares before Manami took over?" Shippo whined. "I am so confused!"

"No..." Sango shook her head. "The entire village. The entire village was leecher demons..."

"Why couldn't I...?" Inuyasha began.

"The new moon," Shippo said simply. "Your senses weaken around that time, right?"

"What about your senses, runt?" he growled.

"I'm only a kid!" he whined.

Kagome paled. "So...Inuyasha and I are infected with leecher demons?" She waited, and Sango nodded. "Demons..." she whispered. "You don't think we would hurt you guys, do you? We have to go back to that village right now!"

"But Lady Kagome, we were going to find Lady Kagome and..." began Miroku, but Kagome stopped him flat.

"No, Miroku!" she stomped her foot. "If there are demons inside our bodies, Inuyasha is right. It isn't safe for us to be alone, and I don't think it is safe for us to be with you guys either. We have to go back to the village. Maybe we can find the root of the problem and rid ourselves of this parasite..." she said, more to herself than to anyone. She shivered. "I'm...scared..."

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A/N: Yeah, shorter than the other ones, but I had a point to this one. Please review and let me know what you think! Hope you all liked it!