Author's Note: I'm really sorry for the long awaited update…I got sidetracked…a lot…
Summary: When a fight with Naraku goes wrong, Sango and Miroku find themselves stuck with little, kid versions of everyone! Now, it's up to them to find the cure, avoid Naraku, and protect the children. Did I mention that they have to turn the kids back to normal by a month's time, or they stay like that forever?
DISCLAIMER: If I owned Inuyasha, the seas would all dry up and the poor fishes would die.
WARNINGS: Not for Kikyo fans.
Chapter Five: One Month
Thump. Thump. Thump.
Groaning, Sango rolled over in her sleep, to see what that disturbing noise was. Eyes widening in shock, she saw that Inuyasha was, viciously, kicking Koga wake, with all the other children watching with, either, amused or worried looks.
"Inuyasha, stop that!" Sango cried, leaping to her feet and rushed over to pick Koga up. At the very least, she was surprised to find him still asleep.
Inuyasha pouted. And he was such a fun time, too! Kagome was looking really worried and rushed over to Sango and Koga.
"OK?" she questioned, looking at Sango with huge eyes. The dog-eared boy behind her held a very sour expression on his face.
"Yes, Kagome, I think he's going to be fine," she assured the little girl. Kagome smiled up at her.
"Humph," Inuyasha mumbled, then leapt off into the forest. The demon slayer sighed, deciding he was impossible.
"Hoshi-sama?" Sango poked the sleeping monk, "Wake up, hoshi-sama."
"Uh…" he groaned, rolling over, "Just…five more minutes…"
Sango resisted the urge to slap him. After all, the pervert didn't actually do anything this time.
'When has that ever stopped you?' her inner voice asked. Sango shook her head and turned to the little children.
"Are you hungry?"
The kids blinked back at her. Then started running around in some crazy game or another. Sango gave a long-suffering sigh. The start of very, very, very long day.
"Kagome, please, just eat this!" the demon slayer pleaded, "I know I'm not the best cook, but…"
'Oh, why didn't I take those stupid cooking classes with those idiotic village girls? Instead, I was learning how to use a sword…'
"Kagome…"
SPLAT!
"Koga! Stop playing with your food!" she scolded, wiping away the mush that was now splattered on the still sleeping Miroku. The demon smirked, smugly. Kagura looked especially annoyed, so as a result, mush was now flying through the air, carried on the wings of the wind. Literally.
SPLAT! SPLAT! SPLAT! Food covered everything. In fact, the only one who managed to remain clean was Sesshoumaru, by some miraculous reason. Even Kagura was covered in the slop.
Sango lost her temper. "THAT'S IT! EVERYONE, STOP!" Breathing heavily, the girl watched as the mini versions of the people she knew froze in mid-motion.
Unfortunately, Miroku chose that time to wake up. "Wha? What happened?"
"Hey, you hear that?"some random villagerasked, "it sounded like someone screaming for help."
"Would you stop imagining things and get back to work!"
"My dearest Sango, that was completely unnecessary…"
"Shut up, monk, if you know what's good for you," Sango growled. Miroku sighed. What did he do to deserve this?
"Okay, we agreed that we would see Kaede, right? Let's go, then!" herding the kids before her, Sango started off in the direction of the small village.
"Inuyasha, stop whining!"
"NO!"
"Shut up!"
"NO!"
"ARGH!"
"NO!"
Sango picked a random tree on the side of the path and started to bang her head on it. Hard.
"My dearest Sango, you really shouldn't do that-"
"I don't care," she replied, ticked off, "They're driving me insane!"
"Patience is very-" he began.
"To hel-" Sango looked at the little children, and changed her sentence, "heck with patience! When has it ever helped?"
"Err…" Miroku thought about it and couldn't come up with an answer.
"Exactly," Sango stated, then sighed, "There's Kaede's hut, we need to ask her about our current problem."
Stepping in, Miroku called out, "Hello, is anyone home?"
A faint voice answered, "What is it that you want?"
"Kaede…we came to…ask for your help," Sango said, hesitantly, "Err…there's something you got to see…"
An old woman walked out from behind the hut. One of her eyes had an eye patch covering it. "Yes?"
"NO!" Inuyasha, happily, cried.
Kaede couldn't help, but stare. "Is that…?"
"Yep," Sango sighed.
Kaede started stammering. "B-but, he's…he's…he's…"
"Little? We know. Naraku did something to all of them to change them into their younger selves," Miroku explained.
"All of them?" Kaede asked, faintly, "As in…"
Sango sighed and brought forth the rest of the little gang. Kaede stared at them and they stared right back.
"Oh, my…" the priestess said.
"We were hoping that you could find a cure?" Miroku asked.
Kaede recovered. "Well, that depends. Can I borrow one of them? I need to test a few things."
Sango grumbled, "You can borrow all of them, for all I care." Still, she handed Kagome over.
"Thank you." With that, the aged woman walked into her hut.
A few hours later…
Kaede, slowly, walked over to them, carrying little Kagome in her arms. Her face held a very grave expression.
"Don't tell me," Sango groaned, "We can't change them back, can we?"
"You can, with the right cure."
"Then, tell us," Miroku inquired, "What is the cure?"
"You need to feed them the combination of a snake demon's venom, a hair of a toad demon, flesh of a cursed fish, and mushrooms of moonlight," Kaede sounded depressed.
"Well, at least there is a cure," Sango said, with relief, "I have heard of where to find those items, one of them is in the North, another the South, another the East, and the last, the West."
Miroku frowned. "Is there something that troubles you, Lady Kaede?"
"…" the miko thought about it, "Let's put it this way, I have good news and I have bad new."
"What's the good news?"
"You have until the next full moon to find the cure, otherwise, they are stuck like this forever."
Together, all of the adults looked at the darkening sky, and at the glowing, full orb that hung in the center of the darkness, casting out its pure, white rays.
"About a month, then," Miroku breathed. Sango frowned.
"Only a month? Well, if this is the good news, then what's the bad news?" she demanded.
"Err…that was the bad news…"
"Okay, then what' s the good news?" veins were popping on her head.
"…there isn't any…"
"ARGH!"
Author's Note: Just wondering, am I making Sango to OOC? I really wouldn't hope for any updates anytime soon, after it took, like 3 weeks to write this chapter. Please read and review!
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