Diclaimer: No Inuyasha for me, and none for you.

A/N: Yes I know, such an interesting storyline. But whatever, just read about the road trip. FUNESS! Oh, and today's special guest is…drum roll KIKYOU! Cause she doesn't appear in the story until MUCH later. And her schedule is so tight; I'm surprised she's saying little comments in between scenes for me.

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Ch. 2- The Road to Cracker Barrel and Shippo the Janitor

The brothers were on the road again. The white jeep drove on the roads to Arizona, the state of nothingness. All there was, was sun and sky and desert. Yes dirt and sand. But, it was a beautiful day. A beautiful day to go on a 72-hour trip to a house made of freakin' wood and shingles. All the way from California to Florida. A trip with two bickering policemen in the backseat, who were fighting about flirting. At this rate, it will take about a year.

"Listen Miroku, you shouldn't even be on this trip ANYWAY!" screamed Sango who made Inuyasha twinge and roll his eyes.

"I have every right. I'm your partner." Said Miroku folding his arms.

"I asked Hojou to come with me but you had to PUNCH the poor guy and make him blind!" Sesshomaru tried to block out the nagging voice behind him by trying to play 'I Spy' with himself.

"The prick is NOT blind. He just doesn't have the ability to see in his right eye…"

'I spy something…white.'

"See what I mean!"

'Is it the car?' Sesshomaru asked himself.

"Well we wouldn't be in this car in the first place if you and your 'brothers' didn't have a crazy childhood reunion."

'Wow Sesshomaru, you ARE the greatest at 'I Spy'' He thought again.

"How many times to I have to tell you? I had to save their asses from being sent to jail!"

'Yes I know. I play it all the time. Let's give it another go!'

"You didn't HAVE too Sango! They're murderers."

Inuyasha, who was trying to get the broken radio to work, turned his head.

"We are NOT murderers Miroku!"

"Oh sure, and I'm a pervert!"

Sango coughed and Sesshomaru took time out of his game to smirk and look at him.

'I spy…a dork who is as jealous and perverted as they come, sitting next to a women who growls at every word he says. Hmm. I wonder who THAT could be?'

Inuyasha went back to fixing his radio when he felt a breeze next to him.

"Hey Sesshomaru, put the window back up will ya? I'm getting cold."

"I never put it down dear brother of mine, who most likely pushed the button stupidly with his elbow, making the glass go away."

Inuaysha 'feh'ed and went back to work feeling more chills everytime he turned around to look at Sango who was beginning to kick his chair when she was throwing a fit.

Miroku sighed again.

"Why are you sitting next to me right now, when Hojou is waiting back at the precinct?" he said quietly.

Sesshomaru and Inuyasha both listened carefully pretending to do 'more important things'.

"Because…you FOLLOWED me."

"I didn't follow you! I have no choice to stay with you unless given precise orders!"

"You don't want to be with me?"

"Well it doesn't seem like YOU want to stay with ME, Sango."

"Of course I do! We're partners!"

"Alas, it seems you want another partner instead."

"Miroku, I was ASIGNED to help him."

"And I was ASIGNED to go on this alone."

"Wh-what?"

"The Captain gave me orders to do it alone because he wanted you to stay behind with Hojou."

"Why didn't you-"

"Because I knew you'd choose him over me ok?"

"How do you know?"

"Because I just do!"

"No you don't."

"Yes I do Sango. And you know what? Maybe I should've let you stay behind because all you seem to do is GET IN MY WAY!"

Inuyasha cringed and Sesshomaru quietly said

"Sango got OWNED."

Sesshomaru would never say that. But, because of Miroku's comment, I guess I would say that too. (No you wouldn't, you're just covering up for his OOC-ness) SHUT UP!

Kagome hovered in the backseat of the Jeep, examining the group. She had been watching this 'Inuyasha' or so they call him.

"Why doesn't he go by Naraku? It has to be him, it just had to! Or someone is lying to me and I'm gonna find out." thought the dead girl swooping over to Inuyasha who had been fixing he radio.

"Hey. Inuwawa! Hello? Can you hear me?" she asked the half demon, trying to get his attention by spinning around his head in circles.

"Hey Sesshomaru, put the window back up will ya? I'm getting cold."

"How DARE you ignore me! LISTEN TO ME INUYASHA OR YOU'LL BE-"

"I never put it down dear brother of mine, who most likely pushed the button stupidly with his elbow, making the glass go away."

"And YOU Mr. Sarcasm," she said turning to the driver. "Stop tying to be SMART when you're not because it wasn't his elbow, IT WAS ME! THE FREAKIN' WINDOW WAS NEVER DOWN IN THE FIRST PLACE! You hear me Sessho? I like that name…Sessho. SESSHOOOOOOO! Forget you both, I'm going to hover near Sango, at least she's TALKING!" so the spirit sat next to Sango glaring at the boys every few seconds. She even began to try and get Inuyasha's attention by taking Sango's leg and thumping it against his chair.

"Maybe I should've let you stay behind because all you seem to do is GET IN MY WAY!"

"Oooooh poor Sango. She's real upset now. If only she could hear me, cause I'd give her some advice on boys." Kagome said, talking to herself out loud as she heard Sesshomaru say his famous 'You got owned' line. Sango turned to look out the window, but it was a definite that she had tears in her eyes.

Kagome was getting pissed. Sango was officially the closest thing to a friend at the moment.

"I know you can't see me do this Sango, but I wish you could."

And she glared at Miroku and saw him huff a bit and turn the other way.

"He's gonna fall to his knees and BEG for forgiveness." She said charging for Miroku's head. "Here goes nothing!"

What is she gonna do? Give him a ghostly BJ? (Kikyou you're sick!) I know…(And I like the way you think) So you're going to do it? (OF COURSE NOT! This is SAN/MIR! GAWRSH!)

Miroku looked at the brothers who were staring at him.

"What're you starin' at?"

"Just an idiot." Replied Inuyasha as they turned around. Sesshomru decided to put in his iPod since Inuyaha gave up on the radio and tried to sleep.

Miroku knew he should say sorry, but Sango wouldn't listen. The only way to get her attention is to be as perverted as possible. He grinned slyly as his hand slowly began to make its way to her butt. But something stopped it mid-way; something stopped his whole body from moving. His blood seemed to run cold and he had no control over anything. "Don't worry, I'm going to fix things. Even though you don't deserve it."

"Sango." He heard himself say as Sango replied with a snort.

"I know you like that Hojou guy, but I just didn't want you getting close to him."

"And why is that?" she said finally turning around. "I don't even LIKE him. He's just a rookie I was assigned to."

"I misunderstood. Can you forgive me?" said Miroku's body. "Please, I beg you!" Sango smiled.

"Why wouldn't I?" she said as Miroku embraced her and he began to get the feeling back into his lips. He grinned. Now that she's ok, he can still proceed with his plan.

"MIROKU!"

SLAP

Inuyasha woke up to the sound of a loud smack.

"What'd I miss?"

"I have no clue. My iPod was on full blast the entire time."

"Damnit. Can we go to the next rest stop? I wanna go to Cracker Barrel."

"Why? So you can steal all the candy buttons and eat them in the boys bathroom like you do everytime we go there?"

"Hey, at least I don't take a trilliongazillion years to order food!"

"Hey! I'm not that picky! And besides, trilliongazillion isn't even a number."

"Yes it is! Look it up!"

"Fine, when we go to Cracker Barrel, we'll ask for a dictionary and look it up."

"How about a bet you can't refuse?" Inuyasha said with a devilish grin.

"…proceed." Sesshomaru said with a glare in his brother's direction.

"I bet you can't take more than 20 seconds to order food."

"And I bet you can't live without buying OR eating candy."

"50 bucks?"

"100."

"75?"

"You're on."

What's Cracker Barrel? (It's this really cool rest stop. It's a shop and a restaurant in one place!) Really? This seems to have perked my interest. I wish to go there. (Oh you will very soon!)

Sesshomaru had been driving for a half an hour, looking for the nearest Cracker Barrel. They WERE headed to Florida after all. Driving from California to Florida was a BITCH!

Sesshomaru was getting pissed at Inuyasha because he was giving Sesshomaru false directions in search of a Cracker Barrel. Suddenly the map he was using ripped in half mysteriously. Kagome was actually the culprit. She was getting fed up with their fights and decided to rip it as punishment.

"Now what?" Inuyasha said with a huff.

"I wish I knew." Sesshomaru said putting on the headlights as the sky began to darken.

"How about we keep driving until we see the next rest stop?" suggested the hanyou.

"We're still in Arizona. I want to get to Texas by nightfall so I can exchange this car for an RV."

"Dad had his car company in Texas too?"

"It goes nationwide dimwit. And if you hadn't noticed, Texas IS a state." Inuyasha growled at the statement and silence came upon them. It had gone quiet since Miroku and Sango had fallen asleep in the back. Inuyasha scoffed.

"Some policemen they are. If I were a murderer I could kill them right now!"

"True."

"They seem ok, right Sessho?"

"They seem ok when their mouths are shut. And Sessho? Where'd that come from?"

"Yeah, I like that. I heard it somewhere before, I just can't put my finger on it."

Kagome's head perked up from her seat in between Inuyasha and Sesshomaru. She had said Sessho before in the car. Maybe he finally heard her.

"I remember now. One of the maids called you Sessho and you fired her! She was one of my favorites too! She gave me the good pillows. What was her name again?"

Kagome's head fell.

"Oh that women. She was Ayame. And I didn't fire her because she called me Sessho, I found her kissing Kouga, the butler, in my room. So I fired both of them."

"So?"

"It was my room. NO ONE except Jane entered my room."

"Oh yeah, Jane was our nanny when mom wasn't around to care for us."

"Mhm."

"She perished in the fire along with mom and dad, didn't she Sesshomaru?"

"Yes Inuyasha."

They stopped talking, but even as they did, they couldn't hear poor Kagome sob over the maid who perished in the fire. Jane was Kagome's mother.

OMG! YOU CAN'T END HERE! If you do I'll kill you…(Ok ok fine. But it's such a good cliffie!) aims bow and arrow at RinzASin (OK OK I WON'T END IT GOD!)

As I was saying before Kikyou interrupted..:

The silence was growing more eerie as the temperature rose. They were in the middle of New Mexico and they were getting close to their destination. And yes…still no Cracker Barrel. They'll just have to look for one after they get the RV.

"Thinking about that girl?"

"Kagome? Yeah."

"The girl misunderstood you for someone else correct?"

"Yeah, for this Naraku guy, who supposedly killed her sister, looked like me, AND is a hanyou!"

"Maybe he was trying to frame you."

"I don't care right now. I care about the girl. I want to know who killed her and why she hated me."

"We can't always get what we want."

"Isn't that a song?"

"Maybe."

Sango's yawn could be heard from the backseat as she stretched her arms above her head punching Miroku in the process.

"Sorry Miroku."

But Miroku didn't answer he was still asleep.

"Hey Sesshomaru, we there yet?" she asked rubbing her eyes.

"I wouldn't be driving if we were there, would I?" Sango glared.

"Are we almost there?"

"Another four hours or so."

"That's great. Because I need to use the restroom." She said wiggling around. "We need to stop."

"Inuyasha and Sesshomaru whipped their heads around.

"WHHAT?" they exclaimed.

"Really REALLY badly!" she said doing 'the' dance.

"FUCK!" yelled Inuyasha looking for a cup. Sesshomaru was accelerating like crazy and practically jumped at the next exit. It was 24 hour McDonalds.

"Thank the LORD!" yelled Inuyasha.

"No problem." Sesshomaru replied driving into the parking lot.

Sango leaped out of the car leaving Miroku alone in the back.

"We might as well wake him up." Inuyasha suggested. "I'm hungry anyway."

There was a rumble from the backseat.

"I'm pretty sure Miroku is too."

This is the never-ending chapter! (Yes I know. Deal with it.) Don't leave an evil cliffie because I WILL kill you. (Uh-huh. You're just a GUEST. You actually will appear…eventually.) Thank you very much.

Kagome couldn't wait to get out of the car either. If Inuyasha chose to stay in the car, she'd have to MAKE him get out. It was practically 100 degrees outside and she could tell everyone was getting overheated. Ok, it was official.

Inuyasha didn't kill her or her sister. But she still wanted DEFINATE proof. He could be faking, right?

"Miroku you moron, WAKEUP!" Inuyasha yelled in the policeman's ear. Miroku didn't move a muscle.

"Is he dead?" Sesshomaru asked poking him with his foot. Miroku snored. "Nope. Not yet."

"Hey, Sango's been in there for awhile." Inuyasha pointed out and Sesshomaru got an idea.

"Hey Inuyasha, is Sango really flirting with the janitor? Or are my eyes deceiving me?"

Inuyasha caught on and pretended to gasp.

"Is she really? Sessho! Look! She's kissing him!"

Miroku eyes opened robotically, pushed the boys aside, and stormed off into the McDonalds.

"Well, that was easy."

"Um, not for the janitor." Sesshomaru explained pointing at the window where Miroku started chasing the janitor with a mop.

"Oh. Fuckit ALL!"

They ran into the McDonalds just in time to see Sango attack Miroku. More like JUMP him and body slam him to the floor. The janitor who had JUST mopped the floor slipped trying to run away and flopped on top of Miroku and Sango. Inuyasha ran to help and well, you can guess where he ended up.

Yep, you guessed it. At the counter ordering a number 2 with no cheese, large fry, and a large Coke.

Sesshomaru rolled his eyes and sat down at a booth waiting until he could steal Inuyasha's fries.

The janitor got off the couple and they all took a good look at him.

He was a short little red head with two fangs and large green eyes. His hair was pulled back into a loose ponytail with a blue janitor hat atop his head. His uniform had a small nametag that read 'Shippo'. He looked about 16.

"I'm sorry sir." The boy said walking over to Miroku.

"You don't have to be sorry Mr…"

"Just call me Shippo, thanks." He said, flashing a grin at Sango.

"The man who attacked you was my partner, Miroku. He has a temper when it comes to jealousy." She added getting up.

"Oh I understand completely." Shippo said smiling. "My sister Rin, had boyfriends that had terrible tempers. I had to deal with ALL of them."

Inuyasha, who was overhearing the conversation practically dropped his tray on his way to the table.

"Did you say Rin? Rin Kodokawa?"

"Yeah! You know her?"

"She's my grandma's caretaker!"

"Ms. Kaede, right?"

"Yeah! That's sick. What're you doing here at a McDonalds in New Mexico while your sister is in Florida?" Inuyasha asked as everyone made their way to a big table so they could talk.

"Yeah." Miroku agreed, forgetting the attack scene he had made earlier. "You aren't in a family feud or something right?"

"Nope. Just that I need some extra money since our parents died last year."

"Really? How?" Sango questioned while Sesshomaru gobbled ten French fries at once.

Shippo's face fell.

"They were murdered by a man named Naraku."

YOU'RE DEAD! (No. You're dead. I'm alive.) YOU CAN'T END IT HERE! (Tough. I have to go to a show.) AHHHHH! goes in a frenzy (I think it's time we say goodbye to Kikyou before I'm restricted for using guest stars as scene borders.)

A/N: This was pretty long. It might've even be longer if I didn't have a show this weekend. OH WELL! Press the button.