"But, you can't possibly be Kagome! What have you done with Kagome?" InuYasha demanded, rooting his feet into the ground so that he wouldn't take off suddenly and attack this "Kamatari" person. Kamatari brushed a strand of hair out of her eyes and traced her finger along her cheek-line.
"But Kagome is me. Has always been me. The faucet that is Kagome has just been dominant all these years," Kamatari explained slowly and coolly, licking away some more of the blood from the top of her hand. The whole shard gang was there, InuYasha, Miroku, Sango, Shippo and Kilala. Yet, try as they might, none of them could make sense of what was going on and what was happening to Kagome.
As her eyes lingered upon all of Kagome's friends, Kamatari's eyes went from cool, calm and uninterested to slight shock and lust as her eyes went to InuYasha. Floating slowly over to the red-cloaked half-demon, Kamatari stretched out her arms and was about to caress the face of InuYasha, had he not flinched and instinctively went to the Tetsusaiga.
"Do not be afraid," Kamatari spoke as gently as Kagome would to Shippo or a small child, "I will not hurt you. In fact, you remind me of someone that…I knew." And with a small smile, Kamatari brought her hands to InuYasha's jaw line and his chin, and was nearing his face by the second. InuYasha was not only too stunned, but also too scared as to what to do. His heart racing, InuYasha stood still, waiting for the worst to pass.
Kamatari slowly advanced towards InuYasha's lips and prepared for a kiss. But before she closed her eyes, her head snapped to the left, where a certain wolf demon was now standing boldly with his legs a shoulder length apart and his arms crossed, his face stone cold and serious
Kagome brought her hand in front of her, her hand limp. In an instant, Kamatari snapped her wrist upwards and the tree of which Kouga had been leaning on had no exploded into millions of splinters and boards of wood. But, thanks to the shards in Kouga's legs, he remained unaffected.
"You must be one of the wolves," Kamatari said accusingly, her eyes crashing downwards as she spat out the word wolves.
'Kouga…' InuYasha mentally gasped in astonishment. Kouga moved slowly towards Kamatari, his pace slow and his stride full of anger. Kamatari's eyes narrowed, her eyebrows still knotted together in a downward arc.
"I must destroy the Eastern Wolves, even if it makes you an enemy. Will you still side with them?" Kamatari asked in a strict and venomous tone of voice. Kouga closed his eyes and gave a cocky smirk.
"Yeah," Kouga started, his smirk still plastered to his face. Raising his head, he finished "I would prefer bringing Kagome back alive."
"I see…Then I shall bestow the gift upon you…of Eternal Bliss!" Kamatari cried out as she tucked in her legs to her chest, her arms crossed into an X shape. Then, like the ripple one would see in pond water when a stone has been tossed into the pond, flames of moderately dark yellow and orange energy surrounded her body and had a rippling effect as new flames appeared around her body in a rotary motion, pushing the last ring of flames outwards for the newer flames to surround her.
If anyone was actually capable of looking at Kamatari's face, they would have seen her lips move and would have noticed that the flames leapt higher and higher the faster she moved her lips. And if anyone had actually paying attention to what she was saying, they would have heard:
"Chisato Moritaka." Being said over and over again starting off slowly, but then quickening. Snapping her arms away from one another to stay by her side, all of the moderately dark yellow and orange flames that had been previously surrounding her were now shot towards Kouga quicker then the eye could follow.
But Kouga was also much swifter then the eye could follow, so he easily dodged the attack. But Kamatari wasn't concerned. In fact, if anything, Kamatari was pleased. And Kouga would soon see why.
Directly behind Kouga were trees –or at least, there were trees. Flames of yellow and orange were boomeranging their way back to where Kouga was and they were gaining speed dramatically. Kouga was completely caught off guard and was hit by the flames. All seven ripples hit Kouga dead on and the ripples then formed around him, the flames not only burning at his flesh, but sucking him into a hole atop the ground.
.o0O0o. Chapter Eighteen
Answers Revealed .o0O0o.
.o0O0o. With Hiim .o0O0o.
Brushing off his hands onto his pants to remove all loose dirt, Hiim walked leisurely into the nearest village, completely dismissing the bloody battlefield of which he had just come from.
Not exactly caring that he reeked of blood at the moment, Hiim leisurely strode into the village, his head and his chest high, his bosom full of pride. The women talked about him with hushed voices and the children were scurried back into their houses. Two guards stepped forward, swords in hand and ready to strike if necessary.
"What is it that you want with us and our village?" One of the guards asked, his sword now touching the other sword and forming an X. Hiim seemed quite taken back by the abruptness of the soldiers and their accusing words.
"I wish nothing of you or your lovely village other then safe refuge for the night. Is that too much to ask?" Hiim still had his ever-so-nasal voice, but had a kind smile upon his face, that of an innocent child. His eyes glazed over and if he were stoned, Hiim looked quite harmless and appeared nothing more than a wandering minstrel, for he had a small zither strapped around him back.
Taking two glances at the peasant, the guards lowered their defence as they saw the rather large bag of gold coins that Hiim drew from his inner pocket of his light blue kimono.
"I have plenty to pay for anything that I might need. I can assure you it is real," Hiim reassured in a coaxing voice as he pulled out a gold coin and bit it, proving that the coin was real as he could not bend it. He then pulled out a gold nugget and did the same.
"Beggin our pardons, Sir." The second guard apologized with the utmost respect, seeing as how this mistral could have easily been a wealthy man. Hiim cocked his head to one side and then brought it back, showing that he understood and that the apology was accepted.
Once Hiim was out of sight, the first guard leaned over and whispered:
"Hey, I heard somewhere that there was a Lord that was going around dressed as a commoner so that he could spy on other nations so that he could beat them in war. Do you think that's him?" The two guards turned their heads over to look at the back of the mistral that has hobbling along quite contently.
"It could very well be. But I also heard that it was just the Eastern Lord and that he was running away. He was trying to hide as a commoner so that he wouldn't be suspected as anything else."
"Yeah, but look at the wallet size! Surely a man with that much gold must be of immense power!"
"Could be. We'd better keep our eyes out on that one," the second guard advised, resuming his post. But, unbeknownst to both of the simple-minded guards that heard nothing but idle gossip, the man of which they had just let past was a man of not only great power, but also of great destruction.
.o0O0o. With Kamatari .o0O0o
"W-wait!" InuYasha cried, but stuttered. "You can't go after Kouga like that! This is you're -I mean Kagome's wolf!" But Kamatari wouldn't listen. Instead, she floated towards InuYasha, the smile she had shown before full of tenderness and innocence.
"Please stand back. I don't want you hurt…InuYasha."
Frozen in a state of shock, InuYasha could do nothing but watch as Kamatari stopped caressing his face and floated back to the place where Kouga had previously been standing. She then sank down into the hole; her hair sticking straight up for the speed she was entering was quite rapid indeed.
"AAh!" InuYasha cried, his hands how at the side of his head, trying to get a grip on reality. "That's not KAGOME! Kagome's rude and obnoxious, not to mention not a bit gentle or good-looking or sexy at all!" InuYasha couldn't believe it. There was no other explanation, this "Kamatari" character must be the real deal.
.o0O0o. With Kouga .o0O0o.
Now that he had been sucked into this land unknown of Kamatari, Kouga tried to get a sense of his surroundings. Though his brow was sweating quite profusely, Kouga ignored all factors of fatigue and shook veered his hot gaze in all directions.
"This isn't a big place by the look of it," Kouga started as his eyes finally settled in front of him, where a black and white hallway was waving back and forth in front of him. Large doors increased and decreased in size by the second and nothing was standing still at all. Kouga could not even place a hand or lean on the wall for support, for the size of the walls and floors were forever shifting and changing.
"Where am I? Have I slipped into…a different dimension maybe…?" the words had hardly left Kouga's mouth as a yellow ball floated down ever so slowly to the not-so-stable ground.
"A ball…?" Kouga asked cautiously as he took slow steps toward the ball. Once the ball had settled onto the ground, Kouga stopped in his tracks and eyed the ball thoroughly, then sniffed.
A bright light flashed from the ball, and Kouga's face was overcome with shock.
"Don't think I'll let you get away," Kamatari said, her head rising from the ball as a dark ripple surrounded her from her neck down, so her body from the neck down was invisible. There was a rather large thump as the rest of Kamatari's body floated up slowly out of the ripple of dimensions and made her way up into the corridor that she was higher than Kouga and floated, suspended in the air.
"I can not return home without my robes," Kamatari stated, her voice full of anger and accusation. "Which living thing, immortal or not, knows where they are?"
"I couldn't say," Kouga strongly and a tad quickly. "I don't even know anything about myself." And with this, Kamatari's eyes opened wide in realization. Though she did not fear this mangy wolf, she feared that just for a split second, that she would be unable to return to heaven.
"In that case…" Kamatari spoke quietly and softly, raising her arms like wings rather forcefully. But before she could finish raising them to execute her attack, something cloaked in red jumped onto her back, wrapping his right arm around Kamatari's neck while his left arm restrained her waist.
"STOP IT!" InuYasha cried out his grip getting tighter by the second. He was half-choking Kamatari by the neck and was hoping that he could knock the wind out of her if he squeezed her waist hard enough. Kamatari was quite surprised by the hanyou's actions, but her angry mask was still all over her face and no surprise could wipe it off.
"What are you doing!" She demanded. "Let me go!"
"You're Kagome! Not this 'Ten'nyo!'"
"If you interfere I will make no exception of you!" Kamatari cried out forcefully, trying to free herself from InuYasha's grasp. "You will be wiped out along with ALL the wolves!" Kamatari cried out in fury. She let her emotions get the better of her and her actions were nothing but rage and hatred. "The man who took my robes and violated me is of that bloodline!" InuYasha was sweating, his brow no exception. Knowing that this Ten'nyo could easily rip him to shreds if he didn't do something fast, InuYasha held Kamtari as tightly as he could.
'If I don't do something soon, Kagome's life will be in danger!' InuYasha had to plan out mentally his next move. 'I don't have any time left! This is all that I've got!' InuYasha cried in desperation. Certainly, he would enjoy it, but he knew that Kagome would near-kill him.
Turning her face to meet his InuYasha –in a completely desperate attempt to bring Kagome back –let his lips crash down onto hers into a forceful, yet heated kiss. Kamatari's eyes resembled that of frying pans, for they were widened out of shock that this half-demon would force himself down on her, one of the legendary Ten'nyo's!
'Lips,' Kamtari gasped mentally, for she could not gasp physically, due to InuYasha who currently owned her mouth. Scenes of Kouga and Kagome kissing flew by Kamtari's eyes, as if viewing a slide show of Kagome's personal love life with Kouga.
'InuYasha!' Kagome screamed mentally as she returned into her proper body, letting Kamatari fall back. Once InuYasha had realized that it was Kagome, and that his lips were still entangled with hers, he went wide eyed with embarrassment.
SLAP! The sound that resembled so much that of a bullet being shot could easily be heard for miles around. The sound of Kagome's soft palm colliding with InuYasha's rough face emitted such a sound, that it was even louder then the slap of Sango's palm into Miroku's cheek.
"What do you think you're DOING, you perv?" Kagome screamed, a single tear slipped down her face unnoticed by everyone. Kagome's hand was still in the air, high above her face.
"K-Kagome!" InuYasha exclaimed, completely flabbergasted that the real Kagome was back. "Holy Geez, it worked!" InuYasha added quickly, his left hand up against his cheek bone where Kagome had hit rather brutally.
"What are you talking about?" Kagome demanded, a vein in her forehead pulsing and threatening to pop. "What he hell's going on with you?" She exploded as she realized that InuYasha had just kissed her. A small "Oh," escaped her lips as she turned around, for she had absolutely no idea where she was. Her eyes then widened with shock, for there was Kouga, standing perfectly still, hit with as much shock as much as Kagome had been.
'Kouga!' "Wh-Why!" Kagome gasped. But Kouga's shocked expression was then replaced by a poker face, as his eyes shifted directions, not being able to look at Kagome.
"K-Kouga…" Kagome started, nerves behind her eyes snapped and the tear dam had just opened leaving Kagome as a poor little civilian with no way to stop the water rush. "Oh Kouga!" Kagome sobbed as she lunged for his chest, her arms wrapping about both his waist and his chest, Knocking him onto the flat forest ground with Kagome directly on top of him. Her chokes and sobs making it nearly impossible to understand as she was saying, "Kouga," repeating the name over and over again.
Closing his eyes, Kouga let the weight of Kagome come on top of him, and raised his left arm. Kouga then placed the arm on top of Kagome's back and with his hand, he gripped Kagome's side with such an embrace, that Kagome couldn't help but cry harder.
Watching from a distance was all of the little InuYasha group. Sango was smiling a very weak smile, a small tear of happiness trickled down her cheek while Miroku had his arm draped around her back and his hand had a firm but comforting grip on the demon-slayer's hip. Shippo was leaning up against Kilala whom had her tail up in the air, but her attention was directed mostly at the kitten next to her.
Koruna, now in the kitten form, was sniffing madly at the air as if waiting for some kind of cue that he had to take off. Taking one last sniff, Koruna ducked his head as if avoiding an invisible branch. He then took off as fast as he could, both of his hind paws being thrown in front of his front paws as he ran.
Kagome didn't notice the disappearance of her little kitten due to the fact that she was so wrapped in with Kouga at the moment, receiving some much needed comfort. In fact, no one would have even noticed that Koruna had taken off so suddenly had it not been for Kilala.
"K-Kilala!" Sango cried out, wondering where her demonic friend was going as soon as she heard the hissing of the fire that had surrounded her feline-friend. But Kilala did not answer to her master's cry, for she was too wrapped up in the scent that Koruna had also smelled.
"Kagome!" Sango cried out, getting her friends attention. Kagome lifted her head at the mention of her name and sat up straight, doing her best to get off of Kouga. "We have to follow them. If Kilala took off like that, then it must be pretty bad." 'She never goes without me,' Sango thought, extremely saddened by this.
"Right," Kagome added quickly, now completely standing and her backpack being hoisted onto her back. Kagome looks hopefully towards Kouga, who had risen at the same time as his girlfriend. Leaning on the pine tree with his arms crossed with his eyes closed and face staring at the ground. Kagome smiled, secretly knowing things that the rest of her friends didn't know about this ruffian. Though Kagome knew that Kouga could be more tender and compassionate than any boy that she had ever met when the wolf-demon felt like it, she also knew that it would deeply would Kouga's pride had anyone else figured it out.
"Hey Kouga," Kagome asked flirtingly, knowing that with just a few feminine ways, she could have Kouga doing whatever she wanted. Kouga's eyes slowly opened but his face stayed emotionless. Kagome sighed dramatically and started walking towards Miroku. Both Sango and Miroku were then on their toes, not knowing what Kagome would do or say.
"Oh Miroku! Would you please give me a piggyback to wherever we're going?" Kagome asked going on her toes, her fingers entwined and in the position as if she was about to say a prayer. Though Kagome's voice was completely sweet and innocent and totally convincing, both Miroku and Sango were taken back, their eyes blanks. "And I'm willing to bear you a child now!" Inside of Kagome's head, she was laughing like a maniac, and the only way to stop herself from laughing out loud was to hold her breath but make sure that the smile was still on her face. Hearing these magical words and in less then a second, Miroku regained his bearings and took Kagome's hands in his, and smiled warmly with the same face that he would go to a woman and ask her to bare him a child.
"Kagome, both friend and loyal companion of mine, I would be glad to give you a piggyback!" But, due to the current situation, Miroku's words were some of the worst that he could say. In less then two seconds, the fist of Kouga and the palm of Sango were now firmly planted against both sides of his face. Had it not been for the two hands, Miroku surely would have collapsed on the floor of the forest.
"Smart thing to say, Monk," Sango stated simply, both her arms crossed on her bosom, obviously displeased. Kouga was sending Miroku the deadliest of all death stares as Kagome climbed up onto his back.
.o0O0o. With Koruna and Kilala .o0O0o.
'Do you smell it?' Koruna asked Kilala in tongue of the two-tailed. Licking his lips with his rough tongue, he continued his train of thought. 'It is the exact same as that of the battle field.'
'Yes I know that,' Kilala responded with a hint of irony. 'But what I can't figure out is that the Ten'nyo called herself Kamatari, correct?' Koruna nodded, his eyes now meeting those of Kilala.
'Just what are you getting at?' Koruna asked impatiently. The current conversation was about Kagome, Koruna's Mistress, and if this Kamatari person was taking over Kagome, Koruna wished nothing more but to get Kagome back.
'Well you saw how Kagome reacted as soon as she realised that InuYasha was on top of her. How do you think that Kamatari disappeared like that? And what –or rather, who is Kamatari? What does she have to do with Kagome?' Kilala did a cat sigh. Kilala's eyes closed for a bit while she continued to run. Kilala opened her eyes a few seconds later, her eyes peeled and on the lookout for something.
'I don't know who this Kamatari creature is,' Koruna hissed, 'But the point is, Kagome doesn't like it and can't handle it.' Both of their eyes peeled, Koruna and Kamatari hissed loudly and both of their ears twisted forward, alert as ever.
'Over there!' The two flaming felines cried in unison, both speeding up as fast as they could. Both panting from running so fast, Kilala was finding it hard to keep up with Koruna.
'You're too slow,' Koruna said between pants. 'Get on!' Kilala gladly accepted the invitation for a ride, and sped forward as fast as she could to jump onto the furry back of Koruna.
.o0O0o. With Hiim .o0O0o.
"Oh my! How expensive looking!" Hiim nearly squeeled, shivers running up and down his spine. After he had checked out the finest dojo and had received the finest guards money could buy, he decided to go on what people nowadays would call "a shopping spree!"
Now dressed in an attire much more royal and expensive then the light blue kimono shirt and khaki kimono shorts and old, falling apart sandals, Hiim was strolling through the little village, buying whatever he wished for a price that made the merchants cry with happiness.
"I'll give you 42 yen!" Hiim exclaimed; his voice and body as excited as a young child who had just received his first spinning top. The woman who was holding a golden hair pin/comb gasped. For such a man to even come to her shop! And then he insisted on buying some of her accessories! She was flattered.
"No? Well then. I'll give you 48 yen, but not a coin higher!" Hiim cried out, his thick red jacket with golden embroidery shaking. The woman, who's hair was tied up as high as it could as a sign of importance, was now shaking and was flabbergasted.
"Sir." The woman said, bowing and extending her arms, palms right side up, golden hair pin/comb in plain sight. Giggling ecstatically, Hiim gently took the golden hair accessory from the young woman.
"Now all I need is a princess to give this too!" Hiim said, dreaming. But before Hiim could finish imagining this perfect princess of his, something with an extremely large shadow covered a two block radius, completely blocking out the sun.
"SCREECH!" all of the villagers screamed. Hiim whipped his body around to see what was happening. His eyes opened way, WAY wide. Crashing towards him was a giant two-tailed cat, larger then anything Hiim had ever seen.
Koruna snarled, having to restrain himself to not bight the head off of the little imp. Kilala jumped off of Koruna's back and lunged towards Hiim, but was then intercepted by the hired guards of Hiim.
Kilala roared in pain as one of the spears went straight through her ear, causing her to attack all of the guards in a blind fury. Koruna let out an earth-shattering roar, forcing all of the villagers to cover their ears as hard as they could with their hands.
Kilala let out a hiss as she pounced on top of Hiim, who was currently trembling in fear for his life.
"Oh please! Please! Spare me!" Hiim pleaded on his knees, his eyes shut closed and his hands over his head. Kilala gave a slight growl escape from her throat as she picked up the urchin, completely dismissing the fact that the clothes he was wearing cost more money than she had ever seen.
Shaking her head to the left, Kilala signalled to start moving. The rest of the guards and soldiers and men would be there in mere moments, prepared with all the weapons that demon slayers could afford. Koruna gave a quick growl, signalling that he understood.
Jumping onto Koruna's back, Kilala pinned her ears back onto her head, trying her best to ignore the little imp that she was carrying. Koruna rolled his eyes the best he could as he took off, drawing energy from the single jewel shard that was in between his neck and his shoulders.
Minutes later, Koruna, Kilala and Hiim met up to the rest of the shard hunting group. Kilala gave a cry of happiness as she saw Sango, and jumped off the back of her male friend and raced towards Sango.
"Kilala!" Sango cried out happily, jogging towards her friend with her Hiraikotsu dragging behind her. But Sango's gaze was averted to the small, wealthy-looking man quivering in fear on Kilala's back.
"Who's this Kilala?" Sango asked flatly, using the same tone of voice that she would use as if talking to Miroku. Hiim flinched as Sango went to touch him.
Both Kagome and Kouga gasped as they saw Hiim, though neither of them even knew who or what he was. "Miroku get him!" Kagome cried out, not being able to move. Miroku obliged and took Hiim by the collar and lifted him off of Kilala. He then took both of his arms and linked them, restraining the little man.
Walking slowly up to the man who was barely shorter then Kagome herself, Kagome asked the little man's name.
"H-Hiim," Hiim stuttered, slightly fearful of this girl in strange clothes whom had so much confidence to be such a stray among a demon slayer, a monk, a fox child, two flames, and a…wolf!
"Y-You're a wolf!" Hiim cried out in his extremely nasal voice. Shock was clearly written completely over his face. And just as clearly shock was written over Hiim's face, displeasure was written over Kouga's face.
"Yeah? You got a problem with that?" Kouga barked, grabbing Hiim from Miroku and holding him by the back of his coat, dangling him in front of Kouga's face.
"Kouga," Kagome said in a combination of slight disapproval, slightly hope and slight pleading that Kouga wouldn't hurt this "Hiim" character. Kagome was going to ask Kouga to flip over the man's wrists to acquire the two jewel shards from his grimy little wrists, but thought better of it, knowing how Kouga would react while in a bad mood.
Kagome sighed. She knew that this would be a situation where she would have to use better judgement and timing if she wanted to get the man back from Kouga's grasp unharmed.
"Kogua," Kagome started with a sigh, her eyes closed and her face staring towards the ground. "He's got two of the jewel shards with him." THAT was enough to get the attention of both InuYasha and that of Kouga and enough distraction for Kouga to loosen his grip on Hiim and drop him to the ground. Both of Kagome's male friends went wide eyed with stupidity for a while before InuYasha finally came to his senses and butted in.
"So you've got two of the jewel shards, eh?" InuYasha asked, rolling up the sleeve of his Fire Rat Haori. "Then I'll tell you what. You hand over the jewel shards and we won't have to kill you."
'Oh no. Not this again!' Shippo mentally gagged in disgust. How many times InuYasha had threatened some mortal half to death just to get what he wanted –the jewel shards. 'This stupid human's just gunna…wait' Shippo stopped his train of thought dead in it's tracks.
"Kouga, is he really…?" Shippo asked, straining his head back as far as possible to look Kouga properly in the eyes. Kouga nodded grimly, his eyes stone cold.
"Uh…InuYasha?" Shippo piped in, slightly nervous. Without even turning around, InuYasha bonked Shippo square in the head, giving Shippo a, rather large bruise in a matter of seconds.
"Ow! Whadja do that for!" Shippo cried out, his little hands rubbing the rather large lump slowly and tenderly. InuYasha gave no response other then s small huff.
"O come on dog breath," Kouga scoffed. "It has to be obvious. Even the brat realized it before you did," Kouga made his words as hurting as possible. When InuYasha still hadn't clued in after much thinking (my gosh, I didn't know Inu WAS capable of thinking) Kouga thought that he would explode due to InuYasha's stupidity and blindness of all obvious things.
"HE'S A HALF DEMON DOG TURD!" Kouga finally snapped, throwing his arms dramatically to the side making him look like an arrow. All eyes snapped open, not believing what they had just heard. InuYasha's head whipped around, bewilderment and unbelieving written all over his face.
After a second or two, InuYasha's face whipped back to meet the trembling little body of Hiim, and then finally clued in. Being so startled by this information, InuYasha's head recoiled back before he decided to go up and get close to Hiim.
"Um, excuse me, kind sir," Hiim said, his voice trembling as much as he was, "what are you doing?"
"What do you think, Idiot!" InuYasha barked, sniffing Hiim from a distance. 'But how can this be? I didn't smell any demon on him before. Why is it just showing up now?' "That's it!" InuYasha gasped. "You…You're half wolf aren't you?"
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A/N: SO! How was this chapter for all of you 123 reviewers! –squeels- O I had wished so hard for fifty reviews, so once I got that I was blown away. Once I got 70, I was ecstatic. Once I got 100, I was just blown over. But now, 123! Oh my gawd! I know, there are so many better stories out there that have only half of my chapters and yet they have about double this. But that doesn't matter! I officially have 123 reviews! –hands out InuYasha manga to all reviewers-
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Kagome: wow. Don't you think you're being a teeny bit dramatic here?
Jassy: What are you talking about?
Shippo: Oh you know, "oh my gawd! I know, there are so many better stories out there," blah blah blah.
Jassy: O hush you! –gets out Bandana and covers Shippo's mouth- Kouga, had it not been for you and Rumiko Takahashi's decision to put you in the story line, I would never have this! –runs up towards Kouga and gives a super big bear hug-
Kouga –turning blue- Can't….breathe….
.o0O0o. Reviews .o0O0o.
Kagomente: Well I updated, and I got PAST what I wanted! Oh I'm so happy! Thank YOU for being reviewer 123! –passes out super-sugar-filled candy-
DreamBeamz: Okay! Okay! I admit. My writing style has completely changed! And here, I got Kouga in the story. I REALLY apologize for the Inu/Kag kissing thing, but I had to make it work SOMEHOW! I mean, I can't have I unno, someone like Shippo or Miroku kissin Kagome, now could I? and I'm sorry I didn't update soon enough. And u finally caught up! I congratulate you!
tori007otaku: Hooray! All of my chapters are amazing! Oh hush! Nobody else has noticed how much the story has changed! If you tell everyone that it's still the same fic., I'll give you Inu plushies for life!
KougaLover: Just for you, I brought Kouga back into the story! LoL. No, I had originally planned on bringing him back, don't fret. I think I could have used Kouga a little more in this chapter, huh?
Miko Kagome Archer: Oh my gosh! A WHOLE PARAGRAPH! And from you! I didn't know it was possible! LoL. Don't I feel special! Oh no! I hope Hojo doesn't turn into a demon and eat me! I don't taste very good. Gymnasts and Horseback riders don't taste very good at all. Too much muscle.
Michie: MICHIE! Aah, yes how I have longed for your review! And I know how much you have nagged me on msn for this chapter. Yes, now I have new self-confidence in myself, and I no longer feel like a pathetic writer. I'm TOO good? Is that even possible? Well about the trying to make it feel like TV, I do my best. I TRY and get in a chapter either every Monday, or every Friday. And oh yes, this Cliffhanger was the funnest to do, for now I have an idea for chapter 19!