I'm finally done typing chapter 5! Sorry for the wait!
Chapter 5: On the Way
Along the way, everybody got to know each other a little better.
"I live in Kiri, you know," Inuyasha said.
"Really? I always thought you lived in Konoha with Neji!" Sango said, surprised.
"Nope! But that's okay, anyone would think that, right Neji?" Inuyasha said, hugging Neji.
"Right…" Neji said.
Sango turned to Koga and Gaara. "You guys live in Suna, right?"
Koga nodded. "Hai."
"That's what I thought!" Sango said, smiling. "But why did you come to Konoha? I knew Inuyasha came for Neji, but what reason did you have?"
"We were getting bored of Suna," Gaara said.
"And Kankurou and Temari can get annoying…" Koga said.
"Yeah, and all Kankurou says is 'I love butter on my popcorn!' and he eats it all the time!" Gaara laughed.
"And Temari… I just don't like her!" Koga laughed along with Gaara. Sango sweatdropped.
Inuyasha walked up beside Sango. "You seem to know a lot about demons… you and me are going to get along just fine!"
Koga walked on the other side of Sango. "Heh… you might not be as weak as you looked when we first met…"
"Kora!" Sango exclaimed, glaring at Koga with her hands on her hips. Koga laughed.
"Take it easy, I was only kidding! I didn't think it would offend you that much…"
"Oh… don't joke like that!"
"Alright, already…"
Sango smiled and continued on.
The girls walked side by side leading the way and the boys did the same a few yards behind them.
"They sure are getting along more," Lee said, watching the girls talking and laughing.
"Yeah, Inuyasha doesn't get along with many other people besides me…" Neji said.
"Same for Koga…" Gaara said.
Lee smiled. "Even though I haven't known Sango that long, I can tell that she's a friendly person, and will get along with someone as long as they're willing to do the same."
"I'm glad they're friends," Neji said. Lee and Gaara nodded in agreement.
Suddenly, Inuyasha stopped walking. "I just realized… why don't we teleport to Kiri?"
Koga smirked. "I was wondering when you would realize that, baka."
"Kora! Don't make fun of me!"
"I can if I want to! Don't tell me what I can and can't do!"
"Hey, hey, cool it you two, we're all friends here," Sango intervened.
"That doesn't mean all of us are friendly…" Inuyasha mumbled.
Sango sighed. "Anyway, about what you said, Inu… I knew we could teleport, but I like traveling this way!" She put her hands behind her head. "But now that we're out here, and we've traveled a bit, I guess we could teleport the rest of the way."
"All right, then," Inuyasha said. "I can teleport me, Neji, you, Lee, and Sanyu with my water, and Koga and Gaara can teleport themselves with their sand."
"Fine by me," Sango said. She looked at the others. They all nodded.
"Good, we're all set and ready to go, then!"
"Okay, Sango, Lee, come over here," Inuyasha said. When they came over, she pointed at Sanyu. "You might want to hold on to him."
Sango took Sanyu off of her shoulder and held him in her hands.
"Ready?" Inuyasha asked. Sango nodded and held Sanyu closer. One moment they were in between Konoha and Kiri, and then, in a rush of water, they were out side of the Kiri gates. There was mist all around in the air and everyone could only see a few yards in front of them.
"You can do better than that!" came a male voice from close by.
"I'm doing the best I can!" a female voice yelled.
Suddenly, several senbon came shooting out of the mist towards the group. A few flew towards Koga and Gaara, which they blocked with their sand shields. Most of the rest of the group dodged the senbon without injury, but when Sango dodged one aimed straight at her, another one cut across the back of the right hand.
"Sango!" Lee shouted, turning around to find Sango sitting on the ground, her hand covered in blood. He kneeled down next to her. "Daijoubu?"
"Hai, I'm fine… it's nothing," she replied.
"Huh? Who's out there?" the female voice from in the mist said.
The girl walked towards them. She had long black hair mostly tied in a ponytail, but some of it hung down in her face and partly covered her left eye. Her eyes were light blue. She was wearing a blood-red short-sleeved shirt and light blue shorts.
She looked at Sango and her eyes got wide.
"OH MY GOD WAS THAT MY FAULT!" she shouted.
"Not so loud, Kiara, it can't be that bad," came the other voice as a boy walked out of the mist. He had long black hair, some tied in a bun at the back of his head and some tied in the front. He wore a dark greenish shirt, with cream-colored white colored linings on the edges. Under that shirt was a brown colored long-sleeved shirt. His shorts were the same as his brown shirt.
"Sango, we need to get that bandaged now!" Lee exclaimed.
Sango looked at her hand, which was still bleeding. "It's not that bad, it's just a cut…"
"You're bleeding!"
She looked at it again. "It's not that much…"
Lee looked at her with a serious face. Sango sighed.
"Fine, I have some first aid equipment in my bag."
She slipped her small blue bag off of her back and handed it to Lee. He took out everything he needed and started wiping the blood off of Sango's hand and cleaning her wound. Then he tightly wrapped bandages around it. When this was done, the strangers introduced themselves.
"My name is Adachi Kiara, and I'm really, really sorry about what happened," the girl said.
"It's fine, it was an accident," Sango said.
"I'm Haku. Like Kiara said, sorry about that. We didn't think anyone would be out here, that's why we're training here." The boy said.
"I got a bit frustrated, and I didn't aim my senbon," Kiara said.
"Good thing we weren't using poison senbon!" Haku said, laughing.
Kiara glared at him. "Haku! She's hurt!"
But Sango started laughing. Everyone looked at her.
"Sorry, it was kinda funny," she said. "So…" She stood up. "… Will you be joining us?"
"We have nothing else to do," Haku said. He looked at Kiara. "Do we?"
"Not at the moment, no," she replied. "Sure, we'll come with you."
"Good!" Sango said. "Saa, to do what we came here for! Into Kiri! Ikusei!"
"Yahoo!" Inuyasha shouted. "Let's go to my house!"
"Hai!" Sango said. Everyone else nodded. They all walked as one big group into Kiri.
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As promised, here are the translations of the Japanese words in this chapter:
Kora- Hey
Baka- Fool, jerk, moron, dope
Hai- Yes
Daijoubu?- Are you okay?
Saa- Now
Ikusei- Let's go
I'm warning you now, I'll use Japanese as much as possible, so don't be surprised if they pop up a lot!
Oh yeah, and the "I love butter on my popcorn" idea came from narakus demon of Fanart-Central!