Brother's Keeper

Chapter 8

"In The Eyes of the Idolizer"

Everyone just sat in there semi-circle, pondering what Kaede said and sipping his or her tea. Shippo kept panting because his tea was too hot to handle and kept burning his tongue. But the one person who was in the deepest trance about all of this was Sota. He had the deepest hypnotized look on his face. Kagome tried to snap him out of his current state. "Sota? So-o-o-ta? Anyone in there?"
"Huh?" Sota gasped.
"Sota, what's on your mind? What are you thinking right now?"
"That would be a first," Inuyasha retorted.
Everyone at once said, "OSUWARI!" almost as if they knew it was coming. As usual, it was followed a massive thud.
"I honestly don't know. I guess I'm still shocked by all this. There's just so much confusion going through my head, I don't know what to do," Sota answered.
"I can see why," Miroku said. "You have it written all over your face."
"What do you suggest we do now, Kaede?" Kagome asked.
"I'm not sure myself," she replied. "On the one hand, he is a very young boy and ye should avoid putting him in danger. However, his powers could be helpful to ye journey. It is certainly a predicament ye are in."
Kagome pondered hard about this before finally deciding that it was time to leave. "Well, thanks for the help," Kagome said. Everyone stood up, and Miroku bowed toward the high priestess.

Meanwhile, back in the modern era, Grandpa Higurashi was trying to come up with another bogus excuse for her granddaughter's absence to Eri, Yuka, and Ayumi.
"She has a case of the Bird flu," he explained."Oh, my God!" "Is it serious?" "How could this happen?" they said.
"Dad, what are you doing?" Mom said, "I'm sorry girls he's a little loopy today. Kagome's is out of town for the weekend. I'm so sorry." She took her father and closed the door. Still though, I'm worried about Sota. Why isn't he home yet? she thought.

The girls had confusion all over their faces. "Kagome's mom said that Grandpa was crazy, but I wonder if he's like that all the time," Eri said.
"You don't actually think he's been lying to us all this time, do you?" Ayumi asked.
"If only we had paid more attention in health, we might actually know what he's talking about," Yuka replied.
"That's true," Eri said.

Back in the feudal era, camp for the night had been set up, and everyone was situated around the campfire. Above it was a pot of water being heated do it can be used for making the ramen. Once Kagome added the noodles, Inuyasha stared at it and started drooling into the fire. "Be sure you don't fall in," Shippo yelled as he hopped on Inuyasha's head. Innuyasha lost his balance and hit his head on the pot. He regained his balance, but half the ramen spilled out. "Well, I don't know about you, but I think someone's going hungry tonight," Kagome said. "I'm open to all suggestions."
"I nominate Inuyasha," Shippo said.
"I second that," Kagome replied. "All in favor?" Everyone but Inuyasha and Sota raised his or her hand. "And, all those opposed?" Only Inuyasha raised his right hand, doing so with the most evil glare in his eyes.
"Then it's settled. Sorry, Inuyasha, but that's what you get for ruining our meal. I'm sure you can find something around here to eat," Kagome said with a snicker across her face. Inuyasha started growling as Kagome served everyone a bowl.

Sota felt sorry for his idol as he started walking off to find something. "Inuyasha, wait!" he screamed. Inuyasha stopped dead in his tracks.
"Inuyasha, I know how much you love ramen, so I'm letting you have my bowl." Everyone stopped eating as they were surprised by what Sota was doing, but at the same time, they were also touched by his generosity. Inuyasha kept on walking, however, leaving Sota very disheartened. Everyone around him could feel his pain. They almost didn't want to eat anymore.
"It must be frustrating, to admire someone as much as he does, and then to be treated that way, it just breaks your heart to see that," Sango said.
Shippo came over to try and console his new friend, but it was to no avail. Sota set his bowl down, walked over to Kagome's backpack, grabbed a blanket, and went to sleep.

Kagome saw all this and took a bite of her meal. Pity was written all over her face as she thought, It's certainly doesn't help him to end his day here on such a sad note. Poor thing.

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