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Koga: Hey...when do I show up?

Sango: I don't know...but i'm in this chapter! D

Me:...yea...you are...anyways...don't own them.

Chapter 3

"Welcome back Kagome, it's good to see you again." Sango was the first one to welcome Kagome back with a light hug.

"Yes, it was a bit of a longer trip you took back home this time." Miroku stated as he walked over to her and Sango.

"YAY KAGOME! I missed you!" Shippo said as he crawled up her body and sat upon her shoulder.

"Thank you Sango, it's nice to see you too, and I'm sorry it took so long to get back Miroku I had a lot of things to catch up on. I missed you too Shippo." She said as she returned the hug on Sango and patted Shippo's head and pet Kirara's head with her index finger.

"Can we get going now? Sheesh you can all talk while we travel." Inuyasha said as he began to walk down a dirt road away from the group.

"Come on guys I guess we should go now." Kagome said as she began mumbling something to Sango about making Inuyasha 'sit' back in her time. Sango laughed lightly at this and told Kagome that he deserved it.

Inuyasha growled a bit to himself as he knew what they were talking about. His ears twitched as he listened to the two girl's converse about him. He sighed and closed his eyes as he continued walking. When he opened his eyes after a few minutes a tree was about 2 inches in front of him. Suddenly everyone heard a loud bang and looked over to see Inuyasha on the ground beside a tree and Shippo standing over him looking with a blank stare.

"What happened here?" Miroku asked as he looked down at Inuyasha whose eyes were two black swirls.

"He had is eyes closed and ran into a tree." Shippo answered as he looked up to Miroku.

"Well, I suppose we wait until he is conscious again." Sango said as she leaned against the tree he had ran into.

"Yea, I suppose so." Miroku said as he extended his hand and began to rub Sango's butt.

"Miroku……YOU PERVERTED MONK!" Sango screamed as she brought up her Hiraikotsu above Miroku's head.

"NOW SANGO DON'T DO ANYTHING TOO RASH!" Miroku screamed back as he waved his hands at her hoping to convince her not to hit him.

"OH THIS ISN'T RASH!" Sango said as she hit Miroku on the top of the head.

"UGH!" Miroku fell backwards in the grass and his eyes formed the same black swirls that were in Inuyasha's eyes.

"Well, looks like we have to wait on both of them now." Kagome said as she sat down beside one of the trees and began handing some food to Shippo and Sango.

After a long while of sitting down and eating many different forms of food that Kagome's mother had made for them. Kirara meowed when she saw movement coming from Inuyasha to inform the others that he was coming back to the world. Sango and Kagome were the first to make there way over to Inuyasha as Shippo had fallen asleep beside the tree. Inuyasha sat up and looked towards Kagome and Sango while rubbing his head.

"What happened?" He asked curious to know why he was lying on the ground and his head was hurting.

"Well, you ran into a tree." Kagome said bluntly to answer Inuyasha's question.

"What happened to him?" Inuyasha asked as he pointed at Miroku who was still lying on the ground unconscious.

"Well, um…he touched Sango's butt and…" Kagome began as she knew that would be enough for Inuyasha to know what happened.

"Oh, ok, never mind I know what happened." Inuyasha said as he stood up and looked down at Miroku. "So, I guess we're waiting on him then." Inuyasha said as he walked over to the tree Shippo was sleeping against and sat down crossing his arms.

Kagome and Sango followed Inuyasha and stood up beside the tree as Sango sighed and awaited Miroku to come back to the real world. Sango looked over and soon found that Inuyasha had joined Shippo and had fallen asleep. She herself was feeling quite sleepy as she was there, she was unsure why, but she could have sworn she smelled something in the air that was not normal.

After another long time of waiting Miroku had finally woken up and made his way slowly over to the others. He held his head where Sango had hit him and stayed somewhat a distance away from her not wanting to be hit again. He looked down at Inuyasha and Shippo seeing they were asleep.

"Should we wake them up?" Miroku asked as he looked up to Sango playing with Kirara.

"Yeah, I guess so." Kagome answered as she saw Sango somewhat not paying attention to either of them.

"Inuyasha, come on, wake up, we need to get going." Miroku said hoping to wake up Inuyasha but unable to get him awake.

"Inuyasha, sit boy." Kagome said as she knew it would be the only way to get him awake. Suddenly he plunged to the ground loud enough that Shippo woke up along with him.

"What happe…oh." Shippo began to ask, but stopped as soon as he saw Inuyasha on the ground.

"WHAT WAS THAT FOR KAGOME!" Inuyasha yelled as he sat up and looked up to her.

"Well, if you weren't such a heavy sleeper I wouldn't have to do it." Kagome said with a smile on her face as she walked over and picked up Shippo placing him on her shoulder.

"Come on you guys, lets go." Sango stated as their sitting there was not doing anything towards there mission of finding and killing Naraku.

"Yes, Sango's right, we should get going." Miroku said as he walked up beside her and smiled.

Sango blushed and turned her head the other way with a bit of a small giggle before beginning to walk with Kirara in her arms. Miroku walked with her without noticing that the others were not yet following.

"Aww, they're so cut together." Kagome said as she put her hands together and her eyes glistened and seemed to get bigger.

"Feh, he's still a pervert no matter what you say. Now come on let's go." Inuyasha said as he took off after them.

"Sheesh Inuyasha, sometimes you can be so heartless." Kagome said as she walked beside him after Sango and Miroku.

"Inuyasha doesn't even have a heart." Shippo started. "So he's always going to be heartless." He finished looking back forward only to see Inuyasha glaring at him.

"You better keep your mouth shut before you get yourself in trouble." Inuyasha said knowing that if he did anything Kagome would sit him and he would be hurt.

"Is something burning?" Kagome asked as she sniffed the air and picked up the scent of what smelled like burning wood. "Inuyasha...do you smell that?"

"Yeah, actually I do." Inuyasha stopped walking and began to sniff the air. "It's coming in that direction." Inuyasha pointed a bit west from where they were going.

"Inuyasha! Are you smelling what I'm smelling?" Miroku and Sango were making their over back to Inuyasha, Kagome, and Shippo sniffing the air.

"Yeah, it's coming from over there." Inuyasha yet again pointed in the direction that he had before. He continued to sniff for a moment before beginning to walk down the path. "Wait, there's a familiar scent behind that burning smell." Inuyasha said angrily as he stopped and growled lightly.

"I sense a jewel shard in that direction also." Kagome said as she looked towards Inuyasha and then back in the direction of the jewel shard. "Come on, let's go check it out." Kagome said as she began walking off towards the shard with Shippo still on her shoulder.

"Well, this is going to be interesting." Sango said as she and Miroku began walking after Kagome.

Inuyasha growled a bit before following the others knowing who it was near the flames. "I don't want to see that stupid wolf." Inuyasha said as he crossed his arms and continued walking after the others.